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Clark: Rap is nothing to be
afraid of, yet The Show st\W
isn't playing in B-CS.
Aggielife, Page 3
Exciting Season
Editorial: It's football season,
and the Aggies are gearing
up for their gridiron fight.
Opinion, Page 17
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Dennis Allen is
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on the road to a title.
Sports, Page 16
The Battalio
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Revenue will be
I sedto fill a $10
ion budget
ificit and fund a
culty and staff
lary increase.
lames Bernsen
•Battalion
lie Texas A&M Board of Re-
| as increased the general use
I:Thursday, reaching a com-
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of Regents increases general use fee
promise that they hope will fill
the University’s budget deficit
and at the same time, not take
too heavy a toll on students.
The A&M System Board of Re
gents approved an increase in the
fee for all A&M System schools
Thursday, rather than waiting
for the scheduled vote Friday.
See related EDITORIAL, Page 17
The adopted fee increase dif
fers from the original proposal
from Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas
A&M president, ’and will be
phased-in over two semesters.
Bowen’s proposal was to in
crease the fee by SlO per semester
credit hour, to S22 semester credit
hour for fiscal year 1995-1996.
However, the fee will only be
increased by S8, to $20 for this
fall. Next semester, the fee will
be raised another $4 per semes
ter credit hour, to $24. The in
crease will generate the same
amount of revenue for the fiscal
year as the original proposal, but
the some of the money will be
deferred until spring.
Students, for example, taking
15 hours each semester, the old
proposal would cost an addition
al $150 each semester, for a total
of $300 for two semesters.
Under the new proposal, the
students will still pay $300 over
both semesters, but they will
pay $120 this semester and $180
in the spring.
Although fall enrollment is
higher than that of the spring,
Bowen estimates that summer
income added on to spring will
balance them out.
The regents changed the pro
posal after concerns arose that
students were being hit with too
much of an increase at one time.
Toby Boenig, Texas A&M stu
dent body president, told the
See Regents, Page 18
□ The fee will be
raised by $8 per
semester credit hour
this fall.
i By James Bernsen
The Battalion
Texas A&M students will re
ceive another fee statement be
cause of the increased general
use fee, and many of them
don’t like it.
The Texas A&M Board of Re- :
gents on Thursday approved an
increase of $8 per semester cred- ■
it hour in the general use fee for
the fall semester, and another
$4 increase for the spring.
The revenue from the in- ;
creased fee will be used to fill a |
$10 million budget deficit and I
fund a 3 percent faculty and j
staff salary increase. 1
Daniel Applegate, a sopho- |
more chemical engineering ma- j
jor, said he can see the need for j
See Fee, Page 12 j
Louis Craig, T he Battalion
Gearin' up for cut
tyleCowen, a freshman mechanical engineering major, sands his pot for this year's Bonfire activi-
lies. Cut will begin Sept. 30. Center pole will go up Nov. 9, and Bonfire will burn Dec. 1.
A&M System to operate
on $623 million budget
□ Aggieland represents 47.9
percent of the total funds.
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Regents approved a
$1.3 billion budget for the 1996 fiscal
year at its meeting Thursday.
The budget represents an increase
of 8 percent over last year’s figure.
Texas A&M will operate on a
budget of $623 million for the coming
fiscal year, with an additional $19
million for the Galveston campus.
State appropriations increased
slightly over the previous year’s
numbers to $455 million.
A&M represent 47.9 percent of the
overall System budget.
Funding for Debt Service
Requirements includes $193,700 of
PUF Bond Proceeds for Equipment
Allocation.
Funds allocated to the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service do
not include those directly disbursed
by counties.
System Member
FY 1996
System Administrative and General Offices
14,260,240
Debt Service Requirements
79,693,777
Center for Leadership
229,848
System Aircraft
424,459
Trusteed Accounts
36,047,965
Prairie View A&M University
66,845,616
Tarleton State University
41,948,525
Texas A&M International University
17,284,387
Texas A&M University
623,753,694
Texas A&M University-Corpus Chrjsti
38,605,935
Texas A&M University at Galveston
19,333,832
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
41,931,343
West Texas A&M University
39,983,379
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
103,902,926
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
63,452,302
Texas Animal Damage Control Service
4,946,758
Texas Forest Service
19,109,813
Texas Vet Med Diagnostic Lab
7,485,914
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
50,701,344
Texas Engineering Extension Service
45,254,484
Texas Transportation Institute
27,150,000
TOTAL, Texas A&M University System
1,342,346,541
KAMU brings Student Senate
to living room this semester
□ Student Senate meetings will be
aired on KAMU every other
Wednesday.
By Tara Wilkinson
The Battalion
It is no longer necessary to leave the comfort of
home and the remote control in order to stay up
dated on Texas A&M Student Senate activity.
Student Senate meetings will be broadcast four
times a month this semester on KAMU cable
channel 15, an educational broadcasting service.
Senate meetings, held the second and fourth
Wednesday of each month, will be broadcast the
following Monday from 8-11 p.m. and Tuesday
from 3-6 p.m.
The first Senate meeting is scheduled for Sept.
6 at 7 p.m. and will air Sept. 11.
Becky Silloway,
Senate speaker, said
the Television Com
munications Bill
was passed last se
mester because of a
desire to increase
public awareness of
Senate activity, and
television was deter
mined as the appro
priate medium for
reaching that goal.
Jill Newman, Senate press secretary, said the
three-hour TV time slot will probably not always
match the length of Senate meetings.
“The length varies from meeting to meeting,
anywhere from 30 minutes to five hours,” New
man said. “But whenever KAMU can squeeze us
See KAMU, Page 12
Ithletic department dedicates Twelfth Man Plaza
he plaza is part of A&M's
during the Spirit fund
ing campaign. It honors
landing contributors to
Aggie football team.
Swift
Battalion
'Wtly before Texas A&M takes
e Field to battle Louisiana State
'^fsity Saturday, the A&M Athletic
tortment w iU unveil a new team
"dll stand permanently outside
Radium.
ae Twelfth Man Plaza, a new
JUftient to honor outstanding con
dors to the A&M football team,
he dedicated tomorrow at the
; Fth Man Statue before the first
home football game.
The monument’s three granite walls
will surround the E. King Gill statue in
front of Kyle Field and list the 23 posi
tions of a football team.
One wall will have the 11 offensive
positions, and second wall will have the
11 defensive positions. A third wall, be
hind the statue, will represent the head
coach position.
Each position will be accompanied
by the name of the person who en
dowed money for the department.
Only one contributor will be associated
with each position.
A name on the player position wall
requires a contribution of $100,000. The
head coach endowment requires a $3
million donation.
When the plaza is dedicated tomor
row, it will have 13 player positions
filled. Two more slots have been re
served and will be added later.
Wally Groff, athletic director, said
the plaza shows the importance of ath
letics to former students.
“This says it’s not just current A&M
students that care about our program,”
Groff said. “It says that former students
equally support football.”
Groff said that the department has
received an exceptional response from
contributors, especially considering the
lack of publicity.
“All the donations came almost
completely by word of mouth,” Groff
said. “I think its really something that
we’ve had this kind of success with
very little publicity.”
Frank Shannon, executive director
of the 12th Man Foundation, said that
the 13 slots have been filled by indi
viduals or families. No corporations
have contributed.
The $5.4 million generated by the
plaza will be used to cover costs of run
ning the football team. Uniforms,
weight equipment or tutorial services
for the team can be purchased with the
endowment funds. The money cannot be
used for scholarships.
Shannon said the plaza reflects well
on the University because contributors
often don’t limit their contributions to
the athletic department.
“Most people that give to athletics
also give to other parts of the Universi
ty,” he said.
Groff said he would like to use the
plaza as a model for similar monuments
for other sports.
“Depending on the success of the
plaza,” Groff said, “we would like to
maybe endow other sports, both men’s
and women’s.”
The plaza is part of the Capturing
the Spirit fund-raising campaign that
will generate $500 million for all parts
of the University.
Saturday
Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
The Twelfth Man Plaza is located at the
north end of Kyle Field.
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