Season over

Arizona State knocks out Texas A&M softball team. Sports, B1

Gas prices keeping families at home this summer. NATION, A12

Feeling the burn

NASA milestone
Endeavour crew finishes the final spacewalk in U.S. shuttle program. Nation, A12

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IN BRIEF
New A&M coach to make $1M per year
Texas A&Ms new mens basketball coach Billy Kennedy will earn $1 million a year in the five-year contract approved by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday. Kennedy, 47, asked for less salary to be able to afford better assistants, according to athletics director Bill Byrne. Sports, B1

Celebrating graduates

A&M football gets a boost

By JONATHAN RESENDEZ jonathan.resendez@theeagle.com

Air France pilots had many hurdles

Confronted with faulty instrument readings and alarms going off in the cockpit, the pilots of an Air France jetliner struggled to tame the aircraft as it went into an aerodynamic stall, rolled, climbed and finally plunged 38,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean in just 312 minutes. But the passengers on that doomed Rio de Janeiro-toParis flight were probably asleep or nodding off and didnt realize what was going on. News, A7

Donors fund new training center

The Aggie football team will prepare for the 2012 season in a two-story sports performance center that will cost an estimated $6 million. The 18,000-square-foot buildings completion is scheduled for next summer, although ugh a groundug breaking date has not been set. The building will contain weight training and skill development areas, as well as a locker room. The new facility would be adjacent to the Bright Football Complex. Its very necessary to our program, head football coach Mike Sherman said Friday. In order to stay ahead of the curve, or with the curve, you have to have places where players can grow. The Board of Regents approved adding the cost of the building to the universitys budget on

Eagle photos by Stuar Stuart Villanueva Row Mohamed makes the sign of a heart toward ow her friends and family in the crowd during the schools commencement oward ommencement A&M Consolidated graduate Rowana ceremony at Reed Arena on Friday.

Storm shelters: A thing of the past

When storm clouds threatened his childhood home, James Firestones family knew where to go until the menace had passed: a bunker-like hole in the backyard. But when a twister struck the central Arkansas town of Vilonia, Firestone had to seek safety in an ordinary closet because his current home had no storm shelter. News, A7

Consols class of 2011 encouraged to be great

By MAGGIE KIELY maggie.kiely@theeagle.com

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s the procession was ongoing and A&M Consolidated seniors were taking their seats, parents, relatives and friends were doing whatever they could to catch the attention of their soon-to-be eg graduates. There was the occasional blow horn, ,f followed by sharp, high-pitched screams. Many could be seen waving their arms frantically while jumping up and down. Some called out names during the sporadic and brief moments of silence. Others came with large, prepared posters displaying their loved ones names. During the excitement of it all, one family in the

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ating seniors. Taylor Whittlesey, student body president, welcomed the audience and reminisced with her peers about the highs and lows of their high school experiences. Always remember, this is not the end, but rather the beginning, she told her fellow seniors. As Whittlesey introduced the commencement speaker, assistant principal Chris Diem, the students let out a

A&M Consolidated graduates Adryan n Cooper C (left) and Candace Taylor help classmate Jasmine Richardson with her gown before the ceremony. upper deck couldnt find one of the younger relatives they brought with them. Turned out she was with a cousin the whole time. They were among thousands who filled Reed Arena to support and recognize the 635 members of Consols 2011 class of gradu-

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Educational summer plans Clinton tries to Students sent home with reading lists salvage ties on trip to Pakistan
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The first day of summer for College Station students is Saturday, but soon-to-be sixthgrader Evelyn Beesaw has almost finished her summer reading requirement for school. Beesaw, 11, said shes Mi ty by enjoyed Freak the Migh Rodman Philbrick for Jane Long Middle School. Its good because it talks about real-life problems, she said. Getting a head start on finishing school-related materials, she said, will allow for more time to enjoy summer months filled with horseback riding.

Bryan and College Station pre-AP students will read at least one book over the summer at least, theyre supposed to. Both school districts allow teachers to work together to choose a stimulating and age-appropriate novel. Stormy Hickman, English department chair at A&M Consolidated High School, said the school sends students home with letters listing required reading for each class. While some students are going to go home and read all summer long, there are others who may be reluctant readers, she said. The assigned reading just sort of leaves us with a little less to make up

By ANNE GEARAN and NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press

when they get back at the beginning of the year, she added. Hickman and Kristen Beesaw, secondary language arts coordinator for the Bryan school district, agreed that teachers are able to hit the ground running when they return to classes after

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ISLAMABAD The killing of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment for Pakistans confrontation with homegrown terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. She sought to patch relations rocked by knowledge that the terror mastermind lived for years in a country receiving billions in U.S. counter-terror

aid and that the U.S. didnt trust its ally enough to alert Pakistani leaders that the raid was coming. We have reached a tur- CLINTON ning point following the long hunt for bin Laden, Clinton said afte af r intensive meetings in the Pakistani capital under tight

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