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The A&M Volleyball Team
routs Utah State in the 1995
home opener.
Sports, Page 7
Hill: NATO airstrikes may
be the only way to send a
"message" to the Serbs.
Opinion, Page 11
Dunking days
Students bearing their
new Aggie rings head for
local watering holes.
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A&M holds best permit-to-parking space ratio
^Although the number of
larking permits issued is
arger than the number of
student parking spaces,
A&M has the largest ratio of
lermits to spaces of any
niversity in the nation.
f Elizabeth Todd
The Battalion
Texas A&M has the best permit-to-
parking space ratio of any university in
the country, although it may not seem
like it to students, PITS officials said.
The A&M parking system is the
largest of any university in the nation,
with 23,500 student spots and 30,000
parking permits sold every year.
Tom Williams, Parking, Transit and
Traffic Services director, said that even
though 6,500 more permits are sold than
parking spaces, students should still
have enough places to park.
“A student space typical
ly turns over three times a
day,” Williams said. “A
study conducted in the
Zachry lot proved this. One
thousand spots accommo
dated 3,000 students over
the course of the day.”
Williams said 1,500 spots
were recently added when
the Recreational Sports Cen
ter was built, and more are
located near the intramural
fields or; West Campus.
However, some students
said they feel-they are in an
impossible situation.
Amie Sikes, a senior agriculture jour
nalism major, found herself missing a
class when she was unable to find any
parking spot at all.
“It wasn’t that I was being picky,”
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Sikes said. “I got here an hour before
class, and I couldn’t find a single spot.”
Students in this situation often leave
their cars in unauthorized areas at the
risk of receiving a parking citation.
The parking difficulties do not end
with the space problems.
Williams said some stu
dents must wait for a year or
more for a space in one of
the University’s three park
ing garages. Garage avail
ability depends on how many
students have given up their
garage spots from the previ
ous year.
A portion of the revenue
generated by the parking
rates, which were increased
in April, will be used to fi
nance the construction of a
parking garage on Parking
Area 61, Williams said. The garage will
connect to the walkway over Wellborn
Road, providing easy access to West
Campus.
“We’ll probably start construction
on the garage in the Spring of 1997,”
Williams said. “I think we could make
it through that summer without those
spaces.”
In the meantime, there are a few
things students can do to make the situa
tion less stressful on themselves, he said.
The best option is for students to
purchase a bus pass, which also in
cludes a night permit for parking on
campus, he said. A night permit allows
students to park their cars on campus
after 5:30 p.m.
Williams said that if students do not
want to ride the bus, they should arrive
well before their classes start to find a
parking space.
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Amy Browning, The Battalion
Serene sketching
jeremy Ristau, a freshman architecture major, draws Rudder Tower while sitting under a shade tree in Spence Park.
MSC approves Priest
screening despite
student opposition
TRC to move office from
MSC to Bryan location
□ Concerned students will
take their appeal to Dr. J.
Malon Southerland before
considering the MSC
Executive Committee's
offer to hold a forum.
By Michael Landauer
The Battalion
The MSC Council Executive Com
mittee approved a plan Wednesday
that will allow MSC Film Society to
sponsor a screening ol Priest tomor
row night in Rudder Theater. The de
cision was made after the committee
met with concerned members of the
Catholic Student Association who
wanted to prevent the screening.
The movie has been the target of
a national boycott by Catholic
groups and political leaders since its
release in March. Linus Roache
stars in Priest as Father Greg Pilk-
ington, a gay priest who struggles
with the Catholic Church’s doctrine.
Jennifer Below, a senior English
A Humble Hero
major and the Catholic Student As
sociation’s spokeswoman, said the
film directly attacks the Catholic be
lief system and its sacraments.
The committee included provi
sions to meet the students’ concerns.
The film society will coprogram a
panel discussion within two weeks
of the screening.
"We are still heading in
the same direction.
We're not backing down
as of yet."
—Jennifer Below
Catholic Student Associations
spokeswoman
Danny King, chairman of the
film society and a senior mechani
cal engineering major, said he
would like to work closely with the
Catholic Student Association to or
ganize the discussion.
“I am looking forward to
See Priest, Page 12
Ripken wows crowd at game No. 2,131
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j Multicultural services will
expand its offices in the MSC
in October.
8y Michelle Lyons
i The Battalion
\ The Texas Rehabilitation Commission is
moving its office from the MSC to its Bryan
district office to accommodate the expansion
’ of the Department of Multicultural Services.
| The move, which is expected to take place
I 1 at the beginning of October, will give multicul-
. taral services an extra 1,000 square feet for
its growing operations.
1 According to Kevin Carreathers, director
. of multicultural services, the department’s
current office was not big enough to accom-
| modate the staffs needs.
| “Based on our services and programs,
’ studies showed that we were about 1,600
I square feet short,” Carreathers said.
, Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice presi
dent for student affairs, said the Texas
; Rehabilitation Commission was chosen to
move because its contract with Texas
A&M had expired, and it was the only of-
fi fice not associated with the University
boused in the MSC that was not
Paying rent.
Southerland said that after speaking
with staff from other large universities, he
learned that A&M was unusual because it
leased space to an agency not directly con
nected with the campus at no cost.
“Apparently, we (Texas A&M) were
very unique in that we were offering free
space,” Southerland said. “University
space is a premium.”
Southerland said there was a large de
mand from several different departments
for MSC office space.
Although the contract with TRC was
not renewed, he said, they were offered
space on the second floor of the A.P. Beu-
tel Health Center.
“I felt very good about offering whatev
er space they needed in Beutel Health
Center,” he said.
Keith Stanford,- TRC area manager, said
the A&M staff decided not to relocate to the
health center because it would require con
struction to meet Americans with Disabilities
Act specifications.
“I think the staff right now would hate
to move to a temporary situation,” he said.
Stanford said the A&M office is looking
at the move as an opportunity to improve
business operations.
“It seemed like an excellent opportunity
to consolidate both our [A&M and Bryan]
offices with the Texas Commission for the
Blind,” Stanford said.
Stanford said the staff is also disappoint
ed about having to leave the MSC.
“The offices at the MSC are very nice,”
he said. “The MSC is the plum of locations
on campus.”
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AP Photo
Baltimore Orioles' Cal Ripken Jr. signs auto
graphs after the All-Star festivities at the ball
park in Arlington. Last night, he broke Lou
Gehrig's record when he played his 2,131 st
consecutive game.
□ Cal Ripken broke Lou
Gehrirg's record when
he played his 2,131st
consecutive game.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Lou
Gehrig’s seemingly unbreak
able record didn’t even make it
out of the century. Cal Ripken
is now baseball’s Iron Man,
and once again the men who
play the game say the feat will
never be equalled.
Ripken played in his 2,131st
consecutive game Wednesday
night, and there’s no sign that
the amazing streak will end any
time soon. Somehow, some way,
the seemingly invincible short
stop has gone more than 13 sea
sons without suffering an injury
serious enough to put him on
the Baltimore Orioles’ bench.
It was business as usual
Wednesday. Ripken went 2-for-
4 with a homer and played flaw
lessly in the field as the Orioles
beat the California Angels 4-2.
It takes, more than simply
avoiding injuries to compile
such a streak. In Ripken's case,
he’s been lucky and good.
“The players are more into the
streak than the fans are. because
we know what it takes to put it
together,” Baltimore third base-
man Jeff Manto said. “Sure, stay
ing healthy is part of it. But the
most incredible part was that he
was good enough to play every
day. For the past 2,131 games,
the lineup has been better with
Cal Ripken in it.”
Ripken has gone through sev
eral batting slumps during the
streak. He tried several differ
ent stances in 1992, few of
which worked. But manager
Johnny Oates kept Ripken in
the lineup anyway, in part be
cause he still was a threat at
the plate and because he was
the best infielder on the team.
“Cal never took the easy way
out. If he had a slump, he
played through it. If he was
See Ripken, Page 7
Clarification:
In a Wednesday story in
The Battalion on 911 calls
from campus, it was not men
tioned that pushing the red
buttons on the blue-light
phones is the only step needed
to reach emergency dispatch.
To reach the emergency
dispatch from an on-campus
office or residence hail, dial
9-911.