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    Page 10 • The Battalion
Local
Monday • March 4,1996
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Parking
Continued from Page 1
for some, it’s a pretty big incon
venience because they were
moved to lots across campus.
“We would like to be closer in,
but we understand that construc
tion will inevitably take place.”
Jackson said although some
spaces will be lost because of
the construction, many spaces
on campus are not yet fully uti
lized. Parking area 110 on
Agronomy Road and the com
muter lot between the Recre
ational Sports Center and
Olsen Field, he said, seldom ex-
Mediation
Continued from Page 1
Creek resident, said she and
members of Residents Opposed
to Pigs and Livestock are disap
pointed with the outcome of the
mediation, but they will contin
ue their attempts to keep the
center out of their neighborhood.
The residents are concerned
that ASTREC will bring water
contamination and noise pollu
tion to their community.
“We were saddened, but we
tried our best to reach an agree
ment,” Schaffer said. “The medi
ator, Jerome Levy, was excellent
and was very understanding.”
Schaffer said the community
members are weary from trying
to work out a compromise with
Rent
Continued from Page 1
“At first I was kind of upset,”
Burrell said. “What about the
people who don’t have TVs or
computers? But now I under
stand better. If new stuff (cable
and ethernet) is what everyone
in general wants, then every
one has to pay.”
Although Residence Life and
Housing has not made official
plans for a new resident hall,
there has been discussion of re
placing Law and Puryear, which
ceed half of their capacity.
Other current or future
changes to campus parking in
clude:
• The A.P. Beutel Health
Center lot is now entirely 24-
hour patient parking, except for
two handicapped and two am
bulance spaces.
• Fire lanes will be added to
parking area 13, behind the
Chemistry Building, to prevent
parking near a liquid nitrogen
tank.
• Fire lanes will be added
behind the Halbouty Geo
sciences Building.
• Parking area 91, the com
muter lot at the end of Joe
Routt Boulevard, will be paved
and lighting will be added dur
ing spring break.
the University.
She said the next step in the
legal process will be determined
by Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. in
tbe coming weeks.
“Presumably the mediator
will go to the judge.” she said.
“He will decide where this goes
next. It may go to trial.”
Dr. Tam Garland, a Brushy
Creek resident and associate pro
fessor of veterinary medicine, said
the community has fought hard to
have their needs addressed
through tedious legal processes.
She said she wishes the Uni
versity had been more agreeable
to residents’ concerns all along.
“It was a very tiring process,
and we are very saddened with
the outcome,” Garland said. “I’m
even more saddened that the Uni
versity has not been community
oriented and has been arrogant
toward this community.”
are scheduled for demolition.
“If I had a choice as director,
that’s what I’d like to do,” Sasse
said in response to students’
questions of whether a new resi
dence hall will be created.
Emily Sloan, a freshmen bio
chemistry major and McFadden
resident, said she understands
only some of the reasons for the
rent increase.
“As far as renovation and
utilities, I understand,” Sloan
said. “I have a problem with
ethernet and cable though. I
don’t have a TV, and we can al
ready get on line without the
ethernet.”
Harassment
Continued from Page 1
two racial harassment incidents at A&M.
He said that though the University has implemented programs
to deal with racial harassment, there is an apathetic attitude
about racial offenses at A&M.
“The University comes up with these cute plans, but when it
comes down to it, they don’t do anything,” Williams said. “This
general apathetic attitude the University has created has most
students prone to sweep instances of racial harassment under the
rug. They don’t feel comfortable turning to the University.”
But not all students think the University is apathetic.
Noah Tsegai, a sophomore general studies major who came to
America in ’84 from Africa, said he does not think the overall at
mosphere at A&M is racially insensitive.
Tsegai, who is also a member of the Corps of Cadets, said he
has not experienced any racial harassment at A&M, but that if it
did occur, he would be angered and would definitely report the in
cident.
Though instances of racial harassment are not reported often to
the Department of Student Life, this does not mean that they are
not happening, said Bridgette Jackson, Student Life coordinator
of negotiation and mediation.
Jackson referred to an incident that occurred two semesters
ago involving a campus organization’s signs posted on campus
that contained racial slurs.
"The University comes up with these cute plans, but
when it come down to it, they don't do anything."
— Shawn Williams
president ofAdrM's chapter of the NAACP
“During that whole scandal no one came to our office,” Jackson
said.
Jackson said Student Life has a mediation and negotiation ser
vice that many students do not realize is available to them.
Sgt. Betty Lemay of the University Police Department said
that though the UPD has received several reports of hate crimes
on campus, only one reported instance has met the criteria for a
racial hate crime .
Lemay and Lt. Bert Kretzschmar, both certified crime preven
tion specialists in UPD’s Crime Prevention Unit, said that once
someone reports an incident involving perceived racial harass
ment, it is turned over to investigating officers and must fit sever
al criteria in order to be classified as a hate crime.
In order to be a hate crime, the FBI specifies that, as well as
being perceived as racially motivated, it “may also cause physical
injury, private property damage, public property damage, emo
tional suffering, and criminal effects.”
Kretzschmar said such cases are usually “pretty cut and dried,”
but that the difficult part is determining if the crime was accu
rately “perceived” as a hate crime.
“Perception itself can be a bias,” Kretzschmar said. “You have
to have all the facts.”
The UPD operates under full Texas Law, and if a reported
racial harassment incident meets the criteria for a hate crime, the
UPD will pursue the case vigorously in accordance with its no-tol-
erance policy, Kretzschmar and Lemay said.
Harassment is classified as a Class A misdemeanor and can re
ceive a fine no greater than $2,000 and 180 days in jail.
Depending on the crime, harassment enhanced by racial
threats can be classified as a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by
$4,000 and a year in jail, or even as a felony.
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