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. 199) ^Anjanette Kirkland is the first Lady Aggie to earn s All-America honors in indoor and outdoor competition. rersity » See story on Sports, Page 3 ]Vt CJ isr R f, said ght to npus," •s who Vbi. 101, No. 151 (6 pages) Established in 1893 Monday * June 5, 1995 mimamm re blems iveral has is up, ool for nk the radem lace.’ sees a it he's I whai nista like,’ thins s set- zill eo Serb general refuses A&M readies for study complex :::; r- 1 r-^ nlex. Texas A&M will have the rec- a K,,ii+ to free UN boltap^ ie sees innir.; \m d tha: 3 stats itial to □ Military chief wants a jromise of no more NATO lirstrikes. 250 peacekeepers are still detained. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina AP) — The Bosnian Serb military chief s refusing to free any more of the re naming hundreds of U.N. hostages vithout a solemn promise of no more MATO airstrikes, the United Nations aid Sunday. The demand by hardline Gen. Ratko ladic has created an impasse with the nternational community over more han 250 peacekeepers still detained ince NATO jets bombed rebel weapons epots on May 25-26. Britain, whose forces will participate n a new international rapid reaction orce, warned the Serbs’ strategy of try- ng to bargain for further concessions om the West was a big mistake. There was no firm word for a third | lay about the fate of a U.S. pilot whose > bui:: | P-16 fighter jet was shot down Friday ^ver Bosnian Serb-held territory near anja Luka. Defense Secretary William Perry said !§Sunday that the Pentagon has found no vidence that the pilot managed to eject efore his plane crashed. He said a e arch-and-rescue effort was continuing ttimid a claim from Mladic that the •eatir.; Iso ha. ; Texas e this r,” hi the rt rebels had captured the pilot. “He may be confused, he may be play ing some kind of cruel game/’ Perry said of Mladic as he returned to Washington from weekend talks with Allies in Paris. U.N. spokeswoman Maj. Myriam Sochacki said Mladic told U.N. officials in a late-night phone conversation Sat urday that “he wanted a positive an swer saying that there would be no fur ther use of NATO airpower. ” “Otherwise, he said he would not dis cuss whether the Red Cross can visit those detained, or any other related is sue,” she said from Sarajevo. Bosnian Serbs took several hundred peacekeepers hostage after NATO jets attacked Bosnian Serb ammunition dumps in reaction to repeated rebel bombings in Sarajevo. Sarajevo has been the city most un der siege in the three-year war, which has left about 200,000 people dead or missing since Bosnia-Herzegovina se ceded from Yugoslavia. Under intense pressure, the Bosnian Serbs finally released one hundred twenty one people Friday. Until Mladic’s statement, there had been mixed signals about whether more would be released soon. Some officials had demanded promises of no airstrikes and an end to the Bosnian Serbs’ diplo matic isolation. Serbian President Slo bodan Milosevic’s office had said more hostages could be released soon. □ Renovations will improve library facilities. By Javier Hinojosa The Battaeion Texas A&M students will have ac cess to an overall higher-quality li brary facility, A&M officials said. Bids for construction of the new Li brary, Computing and Study Com plex, the renovation of the Sterling C. Evans Library, construction of a new parking garage and remodeling of the Cushing Library will be made early next month. All of the construction will cost the University $35 million from previously- saved funds. Dr. Jerry Gaston, inter im vice president for fi nance and administration, said that the new Study Complex will add 100 square feet of space for student use and extended hours of operation. “The library has been short of space for student use since the 1980s,” Gas ton said. “The whole plan is to create sufficient library space so we could be close to the nationally-recom mended formula on how large a library complex should be, relative to the student body size.” Gaston said that with the addition of the com plex, Texas A&M will have the rec ommended space for student use for the first time, but will fall short of creating the appropriate space for book storage. Dr. Fred Heath, dean and director of Evans Library, said the Study Complex will include a 24-hour studying facility and will be built on parking lot 34, which is between the Pavilion and the Peterson Building. Heath said that the first floor will provide areas for reading and re served texts, and the upper levels will have a learning center and a multimedia center. A parking garage will be built on the sight of the old creamery, be tween the Heep Building and the Pavilion, facing Spence Street. The creamery will be demolished to allow space for the garage. Other library improvements in clude renovations to the first two floors of Evans Library, Heath said. The floors will still hold the journal, microtext and reference departments, he said. Heath said the third through sixth floors will be equipped with new safety features, such as sprinklers. See Library, Page 2 Nick Rodnicki, The Battalion The above is a model of the projected study complex to be built on parking lot 34, between the Pavilion and the Peterson Building. Bids for construction will be made early next month. tudy program joins sociology and political science faculty □ Participants will research democracies across the globe. I By Wes Swift The Battalion The Program for Democratization, a joint effort between the Texas A&M soci ology and political science faculty, has Upeen formed to study the complex ques- I pions of new and old democracies around the world. Democracy has been sweeping across the globe for the last several years, tak- Jng root in Eastern Europe, Latin ^America and Southeast Asia. Commu nist and dictatorial regimes, like ( Poland and Romania in Eastern Eu rope and Nicaragua in Latin America, have fallen, leaving a political void that has often been filled by democracy. Dr. George C. Edwards, director of the Center for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M, said the growing number of fledg ling democracies across the globe has cre ated a need for answers to democracy’s complicated questions. “It’s one of the most important issues of our day,” Edwards said. “Many coun tries are in some sort of transition to democracy, more than at any other time. It’s one of the most exciting times in history.” Dr. James Burk, co-coordinator for the program, said that scholars need to know why some democracies succeed while others fail. “We need to investigate under what conditions democracy will flourish,” Burk said. “Several countries are trying democracy for the first time. Some will succeed and others won’t. We need to find out why.” Burk pointed to problems that face established democracies like the Unit ed States. “No form of government has persisted over time,” Burk said. “The old democra- racy to persist.” The program will try to discover these answers through research and pass along the information in lectures, workshops and conferences. The faculty will also start a database and case study archive "We need to investigate under what conditions democracy will flourish. Several countries are trying democracy for the first time. Some will succeed and others won't. We need to find out why." — Dr. James Burk Program for Democratization, co-coordinator cies in the West are some of the oldest governments we’ve ever known. The re newal of democracy is a problem which we don’t know much about. We don’t know the conditions needed for a democ- for social and political information con cerning democracy. Burk said the schedule of activities has not been set, but will begin in the fall. He said the impact of culture on democracy, the relationship between democracy and economic development and the relations between democratic and non-democratic nations are probable discussion topics. Edwards said that although the re search will focus on the umbrella of democracy, it will encompass a wide vari ety of projects. “All of the studies will have a common denominator, but there will be quite a di versity,” he said. Burk added that the program will be a vehicle for research. “We want to discuss the research we have done and be able to distribute the results of that research,” Burk said. Edwards said he wants the program to serve as a springboard for research and discussion for the students and faculty. “I want this program to promote quali ty research,” Edwards said. ollege Station road construction o widen streets near A&M campus Internet bookswap eliminates middle man involved in class textbook trading. A shuttle system may be created to reduce traffic around town. ly Katherine Arnold The Battalion Construction to widen three najor College Station streets near campus is scheduled to be gin in mid-September, Texas De partment of Transportation offi cials said. Denise Fischer, public infor mation officer for TxDOT, said contracts for construction on Texas Avenue, George Bush Dri ve and Wellborn Road will go out in July and August. Texas Avenue, between Uni versity Drive and Dominik Dri ve, will be under construction for about three years, Fischer said. “Texas Avenue will be widened to six lanes, with a landscaped median that has left- turn access at key locations,” Fischer said. George Bush Drive, from Well born to FM 2818, the area where the George Bush Presidential Li brary Center will be located, will be widened to four lanes, and it will also have a median. “We anticipate higher amounts of traffic from the con struction of the George Bush Presidential Library Center,” Fischer said. Construction on George Bush Drive will take approximately two years. TxDOT will try to fin ish construction of the road by the time the library opens, Fis cher said. Wellborn Road, between FM 2818 and the town of Wellborn, will be widened and repaved. That project will leave Wellborn Road with two lanes but will add a paved shoulder to the road. To identify and examine prob lems that might be created by the construction, a traffic-man agement task force has been cre ated. The task force is made up of officials from TxDOT, Bryan, College Station and Texas A&M. Elmer Schneider, associate director of security for the Uni versity Police Department and a member of the task force, said the task force is looking for ways to modify the flow of traf fic for special events and day- to-day traffic. “We have to try and antici pate the alternate routes peo ple will have to take to get to work and school,” Schneider said. “We don’t know how the construction will affect those alternate routes.” See Roads, Page 2 □ The program is provided by Stu dent Government with the assis tance of CIS. Jill Saunders The Battalion Texas A&M students can purchase class text books from the 300 A&M textbooks available through Bookswap on the Internet. Sam Fleitman, Go pher administrator for Computing Infor mation Services, CIS, said that using Book- swap is an easier way to sell textbooks. “Bookswap is a way for students to buy and sell books by Internet,” Fleitman said. “It takes the place of having to go across campus and post flyers and then retrieve all of them.” Fleitman said that the program has been a tremendous success. “We cannot tell how many books have been sold so far, but we’ve gotten e-mail and person al comments about Bookswap,” Fleitman said. “We’ve gotten lots of positive comments.” Bookswap is provided by Student Govern ment with the assistance of CIS. Fleitman said there is no charge for A&M students to use Bookswap and that the program was designed to be easily used. “Anyone who can access the Internet can use the bookswap,” he said. “Students can use CIS labs on campus to access the system. A com puter with a modem can also access the Internet.” Keith Marrocco, Oracle database administrator for CIS, said A&M stu dents should have no trou ble using Bookswap. “It is user-friend ly because it uses the inherent na ture of the web,” he said. “You just point and click to choose whatever you wish. You don’t have to think too much about what to do next.” Marrocco said that this was the first time CIS has worked on this type of program. “The program is a success in that we managed to put up an ap plication that uses the Inter net and databases. That has never been done before by CIS.” Fleitman and Marrocco, the main program mers of Bookswap, said their See Bookswap, Page 2