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THURSDAY
September 24, 1998
Volume 105 • Issue 20 • 12 Pages
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A&M forfeits win over Louisiana Tech Armenia
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rsity declares A&M senior running back
jmarrlneligible for this season.
BY JEFF WEBB
The Battalion
Texas A&M has forfeited its 28-7 victory over
Louisiana Tech University because senior A&M
running back D’Andre “Tiki” Hardeman has
been declared ineligible by the University. /
Hardeman was cleared for competition after
grades were posted by the registrar’s office, but
A&M officials discovered a clerical error.
The error was not discovered until Harde
man had played in the first two games of the
season.
Louisiana Tech Athletics Director Jim Oakes
confirmed he received a call from A&M Athlet
ics Director Wally Groff notifying him of the for-
eit following the Aggie win over Louisiana Tech
on Sept. 12 in which Hardeman scored three
touchdowns.
“I told him [Groff] that this is something we
don’t take any delight in,” Oakes said. “It could
happen at any school. We have the highest re
spect for the Texas A&M athletics program, and
this is something we don’t enjoy.”
If Hardeman regains his academic eligibility
before next season, he can apply to the NCAA
for a “redshirt” season and, therefore, gain an
extra year of eligibility.
“I’m disappointed to learn that Tiki
Hardeman will be ineligible for this season,”
A&M Football coach R.C. Slocum said in a
news release. “This is a loss for our team,
and a big disappointment for this young
man. Hopefully, he can turn this into a pos
itive by rededicating himself in the class
room and regaining his eligibility for next
season.”
With the win over Louisiana Tech nullified.
the Aggies will need six more wins against Di
vision I opponents to be eligible for a bowl
berth.
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learn that Tiki
Hardeman will be
ineligible for
this season!
- R.C. SLOCUM
A&M FOOTBALL COACHX
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man rushed 24 times for 105 yards and four
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tiild n J 0 f Architecture is nearing
thisgj; don.
lid, [ search began when former
LeagU' / a it er Wendler stepped down
ie ma) ng a position on President Ray
/en’s Vision 20/20 project. It
1 is 6' 1 ' dally end on Friday when the
er his an f s announced.
orni? n Ron Douglas, executive vice
.iliforfl mt anc } provost, began the
iftheh; forThe dean last year,
i-foot/, p llt together a selection
i McC' ttee last fall,” Douglas said,
I Johns 1 2 Conoley, Dean of Educa-
ne, it " r as chosen to head the selec-
Ic’Gwin mmittee.
est hm ? received around 70 nomina-
insoit )r the position,” Conoley said.
>diip a ursued those by letters and
ie. calls, and finally whittled it
'd for 0 o about half a dozen people.”
ydist 011 toley said the applicants had a
coufltjdnge of skills and experience.
“I th 11 the finalists we had two nom-
; \iys "with doctorates,” Conoley said,
t fasti 10 he test had master’s degrees,
g on a cere from many different fields,
r main goal was to find some-
e r thstith administrative experience.
r gunt^e were also looking for some-
)7 (mF ith international experience,
h),” tat also had people skills. We
-yalothd someone that would be able
keaftlf'the college to work towards a
iqb^ion vision.”
hoh^uglas said it was a very diffi-
ire.
Regents focus on land improyements
cult to find a new dean for the Col
lege of Architecture because it is dif
ferent from other colleges.
“In the College of Architecture,
“In the College of
Architecture, we put
a lot of emphasis on
architecture as a
profession/'
— Ron Douglas
Executive vice president
and provost
we put a lot of emphasis on archi
tecture as a profession,” Douglas
said. “It is a constant balancing act
between the academics and the pro
fessional portions. We also have
many research facilities, and we
need a dean that is able to handle all
of that. The dean also needs to be
able to get input from the staff, fac
ulty and other groups, and form a
common goal to work towards.”
“It was a tough decision,” Cono
ley said. “We had a very strong
group to choose from, we even had
candidates from Hong Kong and
Australia, and we brought more
people back for the second inter
view than we usually do.”
BY AMANDA STIRPE
The Battalion
Texas A&M Board of Regents
meeting will convene today at
1:30 p.m. and continue Friday at
8:30 a.m. in open session to dis
cuss the 24 schools in the Texas
A&M University System.
The Board will hear motions on
land improvements in
Stephenville, Texas, parking lot de
signs at the International Universi
ty and it will choose design teams
for the University Apartments
Community Center and Easter-
wood Airport improvements.
The board will also decide if the
Student Family Apartments System
Program
offers
electronic
library
BY MEGAN WRIGHT
The Battalion
The Texas Text Exchange is a
program which offers students
with disabilities an online digi
tal library of electronic texts at
no charge.
TTE is managed by Adaptive
Technology Services, and mater
ial used in the system is selected
by student requests. David
Sweeney, the coordinator of
Adaptive Technology Services, is
the founder of TTE.
According to the program
mission statement, the basic
objectives of TTE include creat
ing, administering and main
taining an online digital library
for students with disabilities;
educating service providers for
students with disabilities in the
use of e-text; providing infor
mation and training in the cre
ation of e-text.
see Texas Text on Page 6.
Revenue Fund will receive an ap
propriation of $2.5 million to re
design the married-student housing
apartments originally built in 1947.
The plans may include the con
struction of a community center.
The Board will discuss the East-
erwood Airport improvements
that include increased lighting on
the runway and improvements to
the storm sewer, and other safety
improvements to the runway and
an extension of Taxi way H.
The board is considering appropri
ating $330,000 for the improvements.
The regents will also review im
provement plans to be made to oth
er schools in the system and fall en
rollment and admission
requirements.
Before the board convenes
again at 5:30 p.m. the group will
meet in a closed session about lit
igation issues.
The Committee on Finance will
discuss appropriations for de
ferred maintenance projects at
Texas A&M and the report of ap
propriations and go oyer a five-
year fiscal plan for 1998-2002.
The Committee on Academic
and Student Affairs will meet Fri
day to approve admission re
quirements for the 1999-2000 aca
demic year and rename the
Microcirculation Research Insti
tute at Texas A&M the Cardiovas
cular Research Institute.
Speech to encourage
health communication
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
Dr. Richard Street, director of Pro
grams in Leadership and Health Care
policy at the Bush School of Covern-
ment and Public Service and head of
the speech communications depart
ment, will present a lecture titled “The
(Mis) Use of Interactive Media to Pro
vide Health Services” at 7:30 tonight at
the Clayton Williams Alumni Center.
Street’s presentation will focus on
how to take advantage of interactive
media in health care and how health
services can more effectively use
media outlets.
“Health clinics generally are there
just to provide medical services for tlieir
patients but are not used to providing
health care promotion,” Street said.
“This lecture is designed to get people
involved in their health care by im
proving health communication by us
ing all the available media resources. ”
The presentation will be divided
into three different subtopics: the
different types of applications,
such as multimedia patient educa
tion and telemedical consultation,
that are available; why interactive
media is not widely used in the
health care industry; and the de
velopment and implementation of
health care promotion.
Texas A&M College of Medicine
and College of Rural Public Health
have begun to incorporate this new
technology.
David Zawieja, associate professor
in the College of Medicine, said the
use of interactive media services is al
most absolutely necessary to the Col
lege of Medicine.
“Students generally spend their
first two years of medical school
down here in class, and the last two
years they usually go up to one of the
clinics in Temple such as Scott &
White,” Zawieja said. “So many times
we have speakers down here [in Col
lege Station] giving lectures or semi
nars which are transmitted through
the Trans Texas Video Network
(TTVN) so those students and doctors
up there can see the speaker and also
ask questions at the same time.”
The College of Rural Public Health
is also using these technologies to aid
its outreach programs.
see Interactive on Page 6.
passes
Senate
approval
BY MEREDITH HIGHT
The Battalion
The Student Senate passed
a resolution by secret ballot
Wednesday night approving
the appointment of Ben Ar
menia, a sophomore elemen
tary education major, to the
position of vice president of
Minority Student Affairs.
It was the second time Ar
menia had been through the
approval process. Armenia
applied for the position
shortly after Student Body
President Laurie Nickel was
elected and Executive Vice
President Brian Minyard was
appointed in the spring.
Armenia’s appointment
was initially not approved.
All other vice presidents
that Minyard and Nickel ap
pointed went before the
nine member Appointment
Approval Board and passed
the required Senate two-
thirds majority.
“There was a 50/50 split
on it. I continued to do the
job even without the title. I
worked all summer in Austin
on it,” he said.
Armenia was presented
for approval again this fall.
After a lengthy debate,
the resolution was approved
by 27 senators and disap
proved by 13. Three senators
abstained from the vote.
Scott Davison, a junior
biomedical science major,
wrote the minority opinion
of the Appointment Ap
proval Board, and spoke at
the meeting.
“Armenia came into the in
terview with an attitude of in
difference and with the lack of
a proactive stance,” he said.
“The minority felt as
though Mr. Armenia lacked
factual support and true
knowledge of minority con
cerns and the efforts that
Texas A&M has already tak
en to increase diversity, ” the
minority opinion stated.
In other business, the
Fish Aides for 1998-1999
were presented at the meet
ing. The Fish Aides are as
sistants to the Student Gov
ernment Association.
The Lupe Medina Bill
passed with several changes.
The bill’s goal is to reduce stu
dent deaths resulting from
drowsy driving by encourag
ing hotels to offer discounts to
students who are traveling late
at night. A provision in the bill
was changed so the minimum
distance from the student’s
home was reduced from a 75-
mile radius to a 50-mile radius.
A&M top feeder for Texas medical, dental schools
BY BETH MILLER
The Battalion
Texas A&M does not of
fer pre-medical, pre-law or
pre-dental programs, but
Aggies constitute a signif
icant percentage of the
students enrolled in Texas
medical, law and dental
schools.
Anne Blum, director of
the Office of Professional
School Advising, said
Texas A&M students have
obtained a consistently
high number of the limited
enrollment positions avail
able at these types of pro
fessional schools this year
and in recent years.
A&M is the top feeder
university for Texas dental
and medical schools, and it
is one of the top two feeders
for law schools, she said.
Blum said in order to en
ter one of these types of
professional schools, stu
dents do not necessarily
have to receive a degree
from a pre-med, pre-law or
pre-dental program. They
must meet the course pre
requisites, do well on the
admissions tests, have a
good grade-point ratio and
do well in interviews.
Blum said two of A&M’s
academic strengths are the
math and science programs
offered. She said the pro
fessional school advising
office offers assistance to
students wishing to pursue
a career in medicine or law.
Blum said she thinks
A&M students have an ad
vantage over students from
other universities because
of A&M’s emphasis on
“the other education.”
“I think now where Ag
gies are striking the medi
um is in ‘the other educa
tion,”’ Blum said. “Schools
are looking much more
closely at volunteer work,
community service (and)
leadership in student orga
nizations. Medical schools
and dental schools are
looking for people who re
ally care about other peo
ple.”
She said two medical
schools in Texas have
changed their interview
processes to focus only on
extracurricular activities,
rather than dividing the
emphasis between grades
and activities.
see School on Page 6.