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TUESDAY
September 8, 1998
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105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
he remembrance of time
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^an Banek, a senior accounting major, browses the Dale Carman exhibit in
MSC Visual Arts Gallery Monday afternoon. The show runs through Oct. 1.
Black, Hispanic
groups to host
Open Houses
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
The Hispanic Open House
and Nu House, which is the
Black Open House, will take
place tonight.
The Hispanic Open
House, which is sponsored
by the Hispanic Presidents’
Council,.will be at held 7:30
PM in 224 MSC.
Nu House, which is spon
sored by the MSC Black Aware
ness Committee, will be held at
6 p.m. in Rudder Forum.
“The purpose of the Open
House is to give students a
closer look at the different His
panic organizations,” said
Yvette Ortega, president of the
Hispanic Presidents Council.
The main goals of the His
panic Open House are to pro
mote unity and awareness
among the different groups,
organize, and present joint
programs of common interest
and serve as a voice for the
Latino student population,
according to the Hispanic
Presidents’ Council.
This year’s event will fea
ture 15 organizations.
“The regular MSC Open
House that took place on Sun
day can be quite overwhelm
ing, especially to freshmen, so
we thought that Hispanic
Open House will offer students
and recruiters an opportunity
to interact on a more personal
basis,” Ortega said.
The Hispanic Open House
will begin with an introduc
tion of the presidents of the
Hispanic organizations repre
sented at the open house, fol
lowed by guest speaker Chris
Alvarado, former chair of the
Committee for the Awareness
of Mexican-American Cul
tures (CAMAC).
Alvarado will discuss the
importance of being involved
and will also talk about his
experiences as a student at
Texas A&M.
Students can visit the dif
ferent booths set up by the
different Hispanic organiza
tions and ask questions.
The MSC Black Awareness
Committee is celebrating
their 30 year anniversary and
will kick it off with the first
ever Nu House.
The format of Nu House
slightly varies in format from
the other open houses.
Joel Garrett, chair of of the
MSC Black Awareness Com
mittee will start off by intro
ducing the organizations.
SEE HOUSES on Page 7.
rA bills push programs for more recycling
BY LESLIE STEBBINS
r The Battalion
; Student Government Associ-
passed two new bills last
to promote campus recycling.
? first bill was to recycle The
on newspapers.
? other bill was to set up bins
dboard recycling during res-
* hall move-in dates.
? cardboard recycling was a
s, said Elizabeth McKee, a sen-
id senior animal science major,
e collected 18,000 pounds of
Student
Governm
cardboard in one week,” McKee
said. “There still needs to be more
bins around cam
pus so students
and staff can re
cycle. ”
The recycling
center, run by the
Physical Plant, is
responsible for
picking up the
trash and having
it baled and
shipped out. The center is a non
profit organization and earns mon-
nt
ey for the bins from the money it
makes from recycling.
There are 150
buildings in the
recycling pro
gram and the re
cycling center
collects materi
als from 80 to
120 buildings
regularly.
“Some of the
bins are donat
ed, but many we have to buy from
the money we bring in,” said Tom
Marshall, a maintenance worker
for the recycling center.
McKee said people’s knowledge
of the recycling program is limited.
“There have been some prob
lems with high paper turnover in
some buildings where workers
may not know about the program,”
McKee said.
Students interested in recycling
can help the effort by recycling
their paper in classrooms in the
cans marked appropriately.
SEE RELATED STORY ON PAGE 6.
Big Mac ties Maris at 61
Mark McGwire pulls even with home-run record with 430-foot blast
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61
home runs
this season
69
projected total
home runs
19
games left
in season
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No. 61 flew off
Mark McGwire’s bat Monday,
matching Roger Maris’ home run
record and leaving just one question:
How soon will it be his alone?
History came quickly. McGwire
launched Mike Morgan’s pitch 430
feet to left field in the first inning,
tying the hallowed mark that has
stood for 37 years.
McGwire immediately threw his
hands in the air after connecting
and then, with a fist thrust high,
began his triumphant trip around
the bases.
Big Mac got a high five from Cubs
first baseman Mark Grace as he
rounded the bag and got another
high five from former St. Louis team
mate Gary Gaetti as he neared third.
The 50,530 fans at Busch Stadi
um stood all the while, except for
those in the wild scramble for the
ball. Chicago’s Sammy Sosa, whose
58 homers have pushed McGwire
down the stretch, joined the cele
bration by applauding McGwire
from right field.
McGwire’s 10-year-old batboy
son, Matt, was waiting at home plate
where the Cardinals slugger ended
his trek with a two-footed hop. McG
wire hoisted his boy in a big hug,
while groundskeepers rushed onto
the field to replace the bases - no
doubt headed to the Hall of Fame.
Matt arrived just in time to see
“/ know he (Maris)
is with me and
thats really all I can
say - thank you to
all the Marises”
— Mark McGwire
Cardinals’ first baseman
his Dad make history.
“I was down there getting my
bat,” McGwire said. “He said, ‘How
you doing?’ I gave him a kiss, told
him him I loved him. The next thing
I knew, I hit a home run.”
The Cardinals spilled out of the
dugout to mob McGwire and it took
him a few moments to make it to the
bench. But he didn’t stay there long,
springing back out to salute Sosa
and the Maris family, watching from
seats on the first-base side.
In a touching tribute to the man
he matched, McGwire acknowl
edged Maris’ children by pointing
his right index finger to the sky, tap
ping his heart three times and blow
ing a kiss.
“He tapped his heart, like Dad
was in his heart,” said Kevin Maris,
a son of the former New York Yan
kees slugger.
Indeed, that was the message: “I
know he’s with me and that’s really
all I can say - thank you to all the
Marises,” McGwire said.
McGwire homered in the Cardi
nals’ 144th game and now has 19
left to become the home run cham
pion. And when he does, certainly
no asterisk will be needed.
Maris hit No. 61 on the last day
of a 162-game schedule in 1961.
Toward the end of that season.
Commissioner Ford Frick declared
that any record would have to car
ry a “distinctive mark” if it did
not beat Babe Ruth’s mark of 60
in 154 games.
Forum discusses
campus crowding
BY AMANDA STIRPE
The Battalion
“Why do we have overassign
ments?”
This was the first question
asked by Mack Thomas, housing
assignments coordinator, at the
overassignment meeting on
Monday in an attempt to answer
questions about financial, furni
ture, and general overassign
ments worries.
“We need to get as many peo
ple into housing as possible,”
Thomas said.
The overassignment situation
this fall is not the worst over
crowding seen at Texas A&M Uni
versity. Fall 1995 was the worst
with 600 overassignments living in
various places around campus.
This year, about 250 students
were assigned to live in study car
rels and lounges, non-aircondi-
tioned halls, and three roommates
were assigned in modular halls.
The assignments are based
on cancellation rates, not the
size of the freshman class. A
number is agreed upon in May
by housing officials. The over
shoot number is the current
cancellation rate compared to
the cancellation rate over the
past five years.
Presently, 22 men are living in
study carrels and lounges, and
77 men are living in non-aircon-
ditioned dorms.
Thomas said men cancel
faster than women, generally af
ter the first group of tests.
Thomas said the most incon
venient thing to deal with is the
53 women living in triples. One-
hundred other women live in
study carrels and lounges.
Thomas said not every
woman in a carrel or lounge will
be in a room by semester’s end.
Molly Wagoner, a freshman
general studies major, said she
does not mind living in a carrel.
“I really like my roommate, so
that helps. I only share the room
with one other person and we
have a bathroom right across the
hall,” Wagoner said.
Ron Sasse, drector of Resi
dence Life, said the options for
an overassigned student are to
stay in their present residence,
find someone on campus who
will agree to take you in for the
rent reduction, cancel and move
off campus for the fall semester
with an option to return for the
spring or move off permanently,
or stay with a friend off campus
until the student is re re-located.
All overassignments will re
ceive priority for spring if they
stay over-assigned all semester.
A&M has never had overas
signments in the spring semester
because of dropout rates and
students graduating.
Tom Murray, manager for
Custodial and Maintenance Ser
vices, said furniture requests
started Thursday.
Murray said their goal is to get
furniture into the dorms within two
days of the request reaching the of
fice. The overassignments will get
any furniture they ask for and feel
they can fit into the space.
Jerry Smith, associate director
of Resident Life, said rent ad
justments will depend on where
the student is living.
“Initial rent adjustments will
start [Tbesday],” Smith said.
Study room and lounge rates
will remain the same throughout
the semester. Triples will receive
a pro-rated refund when the
overassignment is relocated to a
permanent assignment.
After the 11th day of class the
refund rate reaches 25 percent
and remains the same for the se
mester.
An overassignment who
moves off campus within the
four-week University refund pe
riod will be charged a daily rate.
This option is in opposition to
forfeiting their rate as published
in the refund schedule.
Thomas said overassigned-
students should contact him if
they would like to know what
number they are on the list for
permanent housing.
Ceremony to
honor memory
of students
BY MELISSA JORDAN
The Battalion
Campus lights will be dimmed
as Aggies are remembered at
tonight’s Silver Taps ceremony at
10:30 p.m. in front of the Acade
mic Building.
Seven Texas A&M students who
died since Muster on April 21 will be
honored at the ceremony.
Silver Taps is a long-standing
tradition at Texas A&M that oc
curs between September to April,
on the first Tuesday of each
month and honors students who
have died while enrolled at the
University.
At 10:20 p.m., certain buildings
on campus extinguish their lights
as students gather in front of the
Academic Building.
The Ross Volunteer Honor
Corps marches to the plaza area
where its members fire a 21-gun
salute. Buglers then play a special
arrangement of “Taps.”
Chiming of the bells from
Albritton Tower marks the cere
mony’s end.
• Guy M. Altmann (ELEN)
'Lee M. Smith (BUAD)
1 Charles H. Gilman (HIST)
'Manual D. Gonzales (BIMS)
'Nathan C. Hightower (MEEN)
'Guadelaupe A. Medina
(MGMT)
•Joseph B. Thornton (AERO)