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rent 54 sections.”
Dr. Woodrow Jones Jr., dean
of the College of Liberal Arts,
said the problem is a basic sup-
ply-and-demand situation.
“The budget for liberal arts is
appropriate for a school with
30,000 to 35,000 students,’ and
this University has 43,000,” Jones
said. “The budget doesn’t increase
with the increase in the amount
of students. ... It is simply not ad
equate for a university this size.”
Mitchell said the state legisla
ture should handle available
funds more responsibly.
“The chancellor has said we
would be better putting our mon
ey in higher education than in
our prison systems,” Mitchell
said. “I would have to thoroughly
agree with that.”
Julie Karr, a junior business
analysis major, said she is frus
trated with the lack of available
technical writing classes.
“I tried to get into technical
writing last spring.” Karr said.
“Basically, I couldn’t get in, so I
will have to wait until I’m a se
nior and can get forced in.”
Robert Carpenter, a senior
chemical engineering major, said
he shares Karr’s sentiment
about unavailable courses.
“I tried one semester to get into
either (English) 210 or 310 be
cause I absolutely needed that
class, but it was full,” Carpenter
said. “The next semester, the only
way I got in is by calling every
single day during the holiday
break, and I finally enrolled the
Friday before school started.”
Mitchell said the department is
doing everything possible, includ
ing administering an English
equivalency test for English 104, to
reduce student demand for classes.
“We gave the test to 3,100
students, and about a third of
them passed the test,” Mitchell
said. “That is 1,000 students
that do not have to enroll and
take up seats.”
Dr. Valerie M. Balester, direc
tor of writing programs for the
English department, said the lack
of courses cannot be ignored.
“It is a University-wide prob
lem,” Balester said. “It is not
just the English department’s
dilemma, because we offer tech
nical writing for other majors
that require the course. Very few
English majors take it.”
Mitchell said it is difficult to
correct such an immense prob
lem with the resources the de
partment has available.
“In the seven years I have
been here, I spend more of my
time trying to lessen the demand
for classes than anything else,”
Mitchell said. "By being even-
handed, you inevitably end up
upsetting people because you
have not completely succeeded.”
Jones said in order to main
tain quality classes at A&M,
more funds must be allocated to
higher education.
“If we don’t have an increase in
state funding then we can’t do
anything, and I don’t want to be
forced to put students in 300-peo
ple classrooms,” Jones said. “I
want to give the students today
the same quality their parents
had when they went to college.”
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[ Texas A&M basketball player Gary
ottingham turned himself in to Col-
|ge Station Police Tuesday to face an
rest warrant.
Nottingham, a junior agriculture
Jid life sciences ma-
p, was taken to the
razos County Cour-
kouse where he was
Doked on a charge
theft ($50 to
500), a class B mis-
dfemeanor. Bond was
It at $300. Notting-
|am posted bond
id was released
|st before 4 p.m.
Lt. Scott McCol-
im, public infor-
Jation officer of the College Station
■olice Department, said Notting-
hiam is accused of allegedly taking a
NOTTINGHAM
cellular phone from an apartment
on Holleman Drive.
Texas A&M Head Basketball Coach
Tony Barone was out of town and un
available for comment.
Alan Cannon, A&M sports informa
tion director, said any decision regard
ing Nottingham’s future with the team
will be up to Barone.
“[Nottingham] will get the bene
fit of due process,” Cannon said,
“but the decision ultimately rests
with coach Barone.”
Wally Groff, A&M athletic director,
said while Nottingham’s status with
the team is yet to be determined, the
situation is unfortunate.
“[I feel] disappointment that any of
our boys would be arrested — whether
they are guilty or not,” Groff said.
If convicted, Nottingham could face
a fine of up to $2000 and imprisonment
up to 180 days.
Nottingham could not be reached
for comment.
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lepartment at Texas A&M,
)r. Terry Anderson is a
enured professor and con-
essed hippie.
Anderson said being a hippie
ielped inspire him to author his book,
The Movement and the Sixties.”
“May of 1970 was the most radical
ttionth in the 20th century,” Anderson
said. “There was Kent State. ... More
forces were being sent into Cambodia.
It was overwhelming. ... One day I
bought to myself, somebody’s going
lohave to write about this decade.”
Anderson said his book stresses
the role movements of the era played
•n shaping today’s society.
The legacy of the ’60s opened up
^any doors,” Anderson said. “That
decade yielded opportunities for the
Majority of Americans, women and
minorities alike.”
Anderson said although his book has met
"nth some criticism, it is the first of its kind.
“Everyone attacks my book because I
didn’t say enough about particular
movements; instead, I speak about the
decade as a whole,” Anderson said. “It’s
Unique because I’m the first baby
poomer to write about this generation,
nd I can explain firsthand the reasons
idly we did those things.”
Anderson said he tries to incorpo-
ate topics covered in his book into
is daily history lectures.
“It is important to discuss the ’60s
because students have to understand
where we are today and how we got
there,” Anderson said. “The classroom
is an opportunity to show the direct
relationship between the acts of yes
terday and the results of today.”
Will Matthews, a senior history
major, said Anderson’s teaching style
is very effective.
“He makes you look at all the facts,
but also takes in consideration other
things that shape society,” Matthews
said. “He teaches you how to take all
factors and put them together to de
fend what you think is the reason for
any historical event.”
Matthews said it is not only Ander
son’s classroom behavior that makes
him an effective teacher.
“We could always go by his office,
and he was always available for us,”
Matthews said. “He is the most ap
proachable professor I’ve ever had.”
Julia Kirk Blackwelder, head of
the history department, said Ander
son displays his open attitude in the
workplace as well as in the classroom.
“Dr. Anderson is regarded as a
very lively and animated person in
the office,” Blackwelder said. “He
teaches his convictions, and that is
very important to his students.”
Anderson said his goal is to teach in a
style most beneficial to his students.
“I try to show my students the dy
namics of change,” Anderson said.
“The more you understand the forces
of change, then the farther you will
go in your career and the higher prob
ability you have in being a success.”
By Heather R. Rosenfeld
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Bella Gonzalez, an education administration graduate student, gets a head start on studying for the semester while donating
blood. The blood drive lasts through Friday at the MSC.
Bush library set to open Fall ’97
By Melissa Nunnery
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Construction on the George Bush
Presidential Library Center is
ahead of schedule almost one year
after it began last July.
The Bush Library is expected to
be completed before school starts in
Fall 1997.
Ron Kelley, a staff intern for the
Presidential Library Foundation,
said plans have begun for the open
ing of the Bush Library.
“Discussions have started for ded
ications of the school and the li
brary,” Kelley said.
Dr. Chuck Hermann, director of
the Bush School of Government and
Public Service, said the dedication is
planned for September 1997.
Hermann said he has talked to
former President Bush about the
dedication.
“He’s determined to be actively
involved,” Hermann said.
The Presidential Library Center
consists of three buildings — the mu
seum building, the presidential con
ference center and academic facilities.
Work on exterior walls is under
way on the Bush Library and muse
um building. Inside the library, there
is ongoing mechanical and electrical
work. Construction crews are getting
ready to install a skylight in the ro
tunda of the library building.
Structural steel framework is un
der construction inside the Presi
dential Conference Center, which
will house two main auditoriums.
The Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce Convention and
Visitor Bureau expects between
350,000 and 500,000 visitors at the
library center in its first year of op
eration. After the first year, they es
timate annual attendance will be be
tween 300,000 and 400,000.
At least 25 percent of these visitors
will be elementary- and secondary-
school students on field trips.
Dick Forester, director of the
Convention and Visitor Bureau, said
the Presidential Library Center is
already being used to entice visitors
and conventions to A&M.
“It’s an additional selling point for
conventions because group tours will
be available and the president will be
there sometimes,” Forester said.
The Bush School of Government
and Public Service is also scheduled
to open in Fall 1997.
Hermann said the curriculum
for the master’s degree program is
already in place. It will involve fac
ulty from eight departments and
four colleges.
“We will be recruiting additional
faculty to A&M,” Hermann said. “It
is of real interest to faculty mem
bers to be in on the ground floor.”
Hermann said there will be sev
eral policy-oriented research cen
ters, including presidential studies
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The George Bush Presidential Library and muse
um is scheduled to open Fall 1997.
Political Forum sponsors Hopivood lecture
By Jason Brown
The Battalion
The effects of the Hop wood decision
on Texas A&M will be the focus of a lec
ture today at noon in the MSC Fla-
groom. Dr. William Perry, dean of facul
ties and associate provost, will discuss
how A&M might respond to the
Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Hop-
wood, which outlawed the use of race in
admissions decisions to public universi
ties in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
The MSC Political Forum is sponsoring
the program, whose purpose is to continue
the dialogue between the administration
and the student body on Hopwood.
Deryle Richmond, associate director
of the Memorial Student Center, said
he wanted to discuss the decision with
A&M students as soon as possible.
“We thought the student body would
want to know the ramifications of the
decision now,” Richmond said.
Perry chaired the Admissions Advi
sory Committee, which recently recom
mended changes to A&M’s admissions
policies in light of Hopwood. Richmond
said Perry “is considered the authority
on this campus on this issue.”
Perry will elaborate on the recom
mendations the Admissions Advisory
Committee made to the administra
tion and will discuss ways A&M
might try to comply with the Hop-
wood verdict. He will also take ques
tions from the audience.
Erin Mozola, a senior mathematics
major and member of the Admissions
Advisory Committee, said the commit
tee “recommended some pretty drastic
changes.” The committee looked at
ways to increase diversity and exam
ined issues such as the use of legacy
in admissions decisions. After meet
ing several times from May to July,
the committee issued its recommenda
tions last week.