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Friday, October 22,
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Centerpole rolls into Aggieland
Senior Redpots and a senior Centerpole Pot roll half of Cen
terpole off the Gray Ghost on Thursday afternoon at Bonfire
Mary Macmanus/THL Battalion
site. Centerpole will be assembled this weekend and put up
next Thursday. Work on stack will begin soon afterward.
Doctoral students to face
possible tuition increase
By Andrea Taormina
The Battalion
Students who exceed 130 hours be
yond their master's degree while work
ing on their doctoral degree will not pay
the same tuition rates as other doctoral
students beginning in the fall of 1995.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, executive associate
provost, said a perception exists in the
state Legislature that some students were
taking too long to finish their degrees.
"Some students were reported as hav
ing 200 hours, and they did," Gaston said.
The perception is that if the state is giv
ing money to these schools for graduates
with excessive hours, it would be better to
take it back and put it in the big pot for
higher education in Texas, Gaston said.
Gaston said a coordinating commit
tee estimated the amount of money that
A&M would lose to be $463,000. This
figure was based on calculations for
doctoral students with more than 130
hours. The Board of Regents must au
thorize the tuition change, Gaston said,
and there has been no decision made
yet because the policy does not take ef
fect until 1995. The regents ordinarily
act on matters of changes and costs at
their March meeting, he said
The coordinating board calculated
cost that students with hours in exceii)
130 would have to pay based ontht
ition rates of out-of-state residents !
typical non-resident pays $206.85 (oi
first credit hour, and nine creditht:
typically costs $1716.00 per semester.
Dr. Dan Robertson, director of the
of graduate studies, said it usually
about 32-55 hours to complete an MS
M.B.A. at A&M. The typical doctoraly
gram takes about 96 hours to compi
without a master's degree and a mimr,
of 64 hours with a master's degree.
It can take up to 10 years for some
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dents to complete their doctoral de«;
he said.
Doctoral students enroll in resea
classes that do not meet with instr
tors. They look for a topic they wan:
use for their dissertations. The resec:
involved in the dissertations isn::
takes them so lon^ to finish theirl
grees, Robertson said.
The Legislature amended its origrj 1
f josition on the subject by enacting'. 1
egislation, and it reserved the righ!
change its mind again when it reel
venes in two years.
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Execution date set for pickax killer
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Convicted pickax killer Karla Faye
Tucker faces lethal injection Nov. 19, but a prosecu
tor said Thursday the courts likely will delay what
would be the first execution of a woman in Texas
since the Civil War.
State District judge Pat Lykos this week set the ex
ecution date, which falls just one day after Tucker's
34th birthday.
But Tucker still has an appeal pending before the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and there are other
legal avenues available to her should the court refuse
to grant her a stay.
"I would not really look for her to be executed
Nov. 19," Harris County prosecutor Shirley Cor
nelius said.
"It's still got to go through the federal courts. I'm
not going to say that it couldn't happen. But normal
ly the first time through the federal appeals process.
they'll get a stay somewhere," she said.
Since 1982, Texas has executed 69 men, by far the
highest total among states with capital punishment.
But a woman has not been put to death in Texas
since Chipita Rodriquez was hanged in 1863 for the
murder of a horse trader.
Velma Barfield, executed in North Carolina in No
vember 1984, is the only woman who has been put to
death in the nation since the Supreme Court in 1976
allowed the death penalty to resume.
But Cornelius said she believes it's just a matter of
time before Texas executes one of the four women
now on death row.
"I don't think the citizens of Texas really care
about the gender issue when it comes to death row
inmates," she said when asked about public reaction
to putting a woman to death.
"I think the crimes really speak for themselves,"
Cornelius said.
Tucker was convicted of capital murder in the
June 13,1983 slaying of Jerry Lynn Dean, 26.
Post Oak Mall upgrade nears completion
By Jennifer Kiley
The Battalion
After four months of construc
tion, the renovations to Post Oak
Mall will be complete Nov. 1.
Tami Wood, manager of Post
Oak Mall, said the renovations
were done to upgrade the 10-
year-old mall.
"We needed to look brighter
and fresher and offer a pleasing
environment to compete and in
crease our sales," Wood said.
Renovations to Post Oak
Mall include repainting the
mall, adding bands of neon to
the skylights, installing new
plants, ash cans and trash cans
and upgrading the three en
trances and landscaping.
"We are also redesigning the
Food Court," Wood said. "We
have put in new skylights, new
planters and new seats. It will
look totally different when it is
finished."
Scott Thompson, a mall cus
tomer, said the renovations are an
improvement to Post Oak Mall.
"The renovations will im
prove the look of the mall, which
will attract more business and
help the community, " Thomp
son said.
Despite construction through
out the mall. Wood said the num
ber of customers has increased.
"I did a report for Septemk:
and traffic throughout the nr
was up 8 percent," Wood sal:
"We have fared well throughs
dust and dirt."
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make shopping as convenient;
possible for customers dunr:
the renovation period, she sai:
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place at night when custome
are not present.
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DAVE THOMAS, Night News editor ANAS BEN-MUSA, Agg/eZ/feeditor
BELINDA BLANCARTE, Night News editor MICHAEL PLUMER, Sports editor
MACK HARRISON, Opinion editor WILLIAM HARRISON, Sports editor
KYLE BURNETT, Photo editor
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