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WEDNESDAY
September 2, 1998
105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Registering late will cost students
• Choosing classes in
first twelve semester
days assesses $100 fee.
BY AARON MEIER
The Battalion
Students attempting to register for the
fall semester during the first 12 days of
class will be assessed a $100 late fee.
This late fee will be applied to stu
dents that have also failed to pay their
tuition bill on time and subsequently
were dropped from their classes.
Mark Cangelose, the manager of the stu
dent accounts and billing services, said
those students whose scholarships or grant
money has not arrived will not be assessed
this penalty provided that the notification
of the scholarship or grant is on the Student
Information Management System (SIMS).
“The only way they will be charged a
late fee is if they failed to pay their tu
ition, or they didn’t register for any class
es,” Cangelose said.
Students who try to add or drop a
class during the standard add/drop pe
riod can still do so without a fee.
The add/drop period ends Friday.
Students that try to register after the
first 12 days of class will be assessed a
$200 penalty.
Cangelose said the University has to
report enrollment to the State of Texas
by the 12th day of class, so the fee is
meant to discourage late enrollment.
The University policy regarding these
late fees is listed in the fall course sched
ule book and the undergraduate and
graduate catalogs.
“We try to put it in as many as publi
cations as possible,” Cangelose said,
“but we do hold them accountable for
knowing what is in the class schedule.”
Cangelose said students can inquire
into waiving the fee, but the official pol
icy is printed in the class schedule.
“If they have any questions, what we
try to do is get them to refer to the class
schedule,” Cangelose said. “The last
word is what the class schedule says.”
Freshman enrollment at
A&M exceeds past figures
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£ ISC food court reopens
1H th Man International Food Court offers students varied cuisine
BY NON! SRIDHARA
The Battalion
'he former 12th Man
gers and Snacks located
the main floor of the
norial Student Center re-
ned as the 12th Man In-
ational Food Court,
ack Cahill, division manag
er for cash operations at Texas
A&M, said the main reason for
the renovation was because the
space was being underused.
The idea for the Interna
tional Food Court came after
a task force conducted a mar
ket survey which was distrib
uted to students.
The results of this survey
showed that students were
very brand conscious, they
wanted ethnic foods, and they
wanted flavored foods as well.
Renovations on the facility
began this summer and were
completed in time for the fall
semester.
see Food Court on Page 12.
BY AMANDA STIRPE
The Battalion
Enrollment figures for Fall 1998 have
risen, although the exact number will
not be released until after the 12th day
“Undergraduate
enrollment is up and
freshmen enrollment
is also up from
last year”
— Lane B. Stephenson
Deputy Director of
University Relations
of class, said Lane B. Stephenson,
deputy director of university relations.
“Undergraduate enrollment is up and
freshman enrollment is also up from last
year,” Stephenson.
The enrollment for the semester will
be held until all students are accounted
for after classes start.
Enrollment for the 1996-1997 school
year, not including Texas A&M Univer
sity at Galveston, was 41,461 students.
Since Fall 1990, the largest enroll
ment at Texas A&M, excluding Galve
ston, was Fall 1993 with 42,524 stu
dents.
Texas A&M was ranked sixth nation
wide for enrollment last year.
This number was 234 fewer students
than fifth-ranked University of Florida.
Although schoolwide enrollment can
not be published, the Corps of Cadets to
tal is already known.
The number of students joining the
Corps of Cadets has risen to 2,107 cadets
this fall, said Stephenson.
Stephenson said 51 more cadets
joined the Corps this year than last with
a total of 775 freshmen enrolling this
fall.
bisa renovations aim to restore classical architecture
BY JOE SCHUMACHER
The Battalion
bisa Dining Hall has not un-
,one a major renovation since
970s. This all came to an end
GCllU'summer. The 86-year-old din-
Acility is currently in the mid-
of an upgrade that has been
years in the planning,
rchilecture professor Dr. Va-
n Miranda’s 1996 Senior De-
Class had a major role in the
V AmericaPdeling of Sbisa.
V c* stu dents presented their
| for Study's to a Food Services committee
a new design was agreed
t.
Projects like these are impor-
to the students for a number
_ ,' ( , asons,” Miranda said. “They
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understand the problems as a user
of this facility, they are able to con
tribute and they get to see their
ideas being utilized.”
Andy Cronk, facilities manager
of the Department of Food Ser
vices, said that after the Commons
and Duncan Dining Halls were re
modeled in the 1980s, it was
Sbisa’s turn.
“Sbisa is a timeless building
and one of the oldest on campus,”
Cronk said. “The goal of the
changes is to bring the classical ar
chitecture on the outside to the in
side, to bring back some of the tra
dition and nostalgia to Sbisa.”
Joseph Williams, an architect at
the Facilities Planning and Con
struction Department, said he
wanted Sbisa to return to a more
nostalgic and traditional look.
“This is not a remodeling of
Sbisa, this is a restoration,” said
Williams.
Ronald Beard, Director of the
Department of Food Services
said they have received many
compliments on the changes that
have already taken place.
“We have received many fa
vorable compliments as well as
many ‘oohs,’ ‘aahs’ and ‘wows’
from students,” Beard said.
One of the changes is the re
turn of Military Walkway.
Military Walkway was the former
main entrance to Sbisa that the Corps
of Cadets would march through.
Another aesthetic change to the
hall is the installation of a Texas
A&M seal that is 13 feet, five inch
es in diameter.
Deborah Rogers, the faculty
manager of Sbisa, said the seal is
the biggest on campus. The seal
Courtesy of EDI Architects, Inc.
is made of various laser-cut
woods and was installed directly
into the floor.
see Sbisa on Page 12.
All-U Night
to include
Aggie Band,
A&M leaders
BY MEGAN WRIGHT
The Battalion
All University Night, traditionally
held the first evening of classes every
fall semester, will be held tonight at
7:30 p.m.
All-U Night is the first yell practice
of the season, hosted by head yell
leader Brandon Neff.
In addition to the change in date,
this will be the first year that the Ag
gie Band performs on Kyle Field dur
ing All-U night.
Rusty Thompson, assistant direc
tor of the Memorial Student Center
and Yell Leader Advisor, said the rea
son for the change in date is a large
number of the participants, including
yell leaders, the football team and the
band, were at the Kickoff Classic
which was played in New Jersey on
Monday night.
In past years, the Aggie Band has
not had enough time to practice for a
performance at All-U Night, but this
year they have been practicing in ad
vance for the Kickoff Classic.
Thompson said they felt ready to
perform at All-U Night.
Scheduled to speak tonight night
are Texas A&M President Ray Bowen,
Vice President for Student Affairs Dr.
J. Malon Southerland, Student Body
President Laurie Nickel, Senior Asso
ciate Athletic Director Lynn Hickey
and Head Football Coach R.C.
Slocum.
All-U Night coordinators ask stu
dents to avoid the construction area
near Kyle Field and to use the follow
ing entrances to the stadium: South
west (by the tennis courts). South
east (next to the Read building), and
Northeast(near the ticket windows of
G. Rollie White Coliseum).
NEWS IN BRIEF
Library computer annex opens
Evans expands with state-of-the-art computing facilities
ure.
ie Class Councils will host Howdy
:e tonight from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.at
icane Harry’s.
xas ranks low in
ucation spending
?arly $276 billion (31 percent) of
’ state government expenditures
to education and $203 billion (23
mt)were spent on public welfare, ac-
hgtl new data released by the Corn-
Department’s Census Bureau.
|xas had the lowest per capita ex-
(Tures of any other state and ranked
in overall per capita revenues.
BY BRYAN BUCKMAN
The Battalion
The Evans Library annex is
home to a new computer center,
meeting a long-standing need of the
student body for a comprehensive
computing facility.
The new center offers 540 com
puters equipped to handle the lat
est multimedia needs.
These include 499 Pentium IIs
PCs, and 39 Macintosh computers.
There are also two Silicon
Graphics workstations and six Xe
rox 4050 printers available.
Richard Spiller, Computing and
Information Services’ Open Access
Labs Director, said help desk staff
are available to assist students at
the Evans annex.
“The central location should
draw a lot of students,” Spiller said.
“The facility was requested and the
computer access fee increase ap
proved by the Student Senate in
1990.”
A one dollar computer fee increase
per student financed the annex.
The computer center is located
inside the Evans Library annex,
which is attached to Evans Library
by a fourth-floor skywalk.
The annex includes print and
electronic reserve collections, elec
tronic database search facilities, a
group study area and a collection of
educational resources for teachers
and education students.
In spite of this confusion, turnout
at the new facility has been brisk.
“It’s a great center,” said Ken
Webb, an employee of the Evans
Help Desk. “We’ve had a lot of peo
ple find us.”
The center opens at 1 p.m. on
Sundays and stays open 24 hours
during the week.
The facility closes at midnight on
Fridays and operates from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. on Saturdays.
JAMES FRANCIS/Thi-: Battalion
Hong Dan, a sociology graduate student, works on her graduate dis
sertation at the computing center in the Central Library Annex.