TUESDAY
April 13, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 127 • 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
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BY MELISSA JORDAN
The Battalion
Hhe Faculty Senate is at-
embting to deter underage al-
ohol consumption by revising
he 1999-2000 Student Rules
took.
Bhe the new rules would ban
ilcohol at events sponsored by
JniVersity-recognized organiza-
ions, prevent student organiza-
ions from purchasing alcohol
vith organizational funds and
ireyent organizations from co-
ponsoring events with alcohol
Ustributors.
^Organizational events would
tow be restricted to members or
hose invited to attend. Organi-
.ations would be required to
omply with existing state laws
oncerning third-party-vendor
egulations. Agreements be-
ween student organizations
nd alcohol distributors to co-
ponsor events would also be
irohibited.
The restrictions placed on or-
“The emphasis is
on reducing the
availability of
alcohol to minors
at University
functions”
— Dr. Diane Kaplan
Speaker of the Faculty Senate
ganizations, however, would
not apply to graduate student
organizations which presum
ably do not include students un
der the legal drinking age.
Dr. Diane Kaplan, speaker of
the Faculty Senate, said the sen
ate’s revisions to the 1999-2000
Student Rules would decrease
open, unregulated parties.
“The emphasis is on reduc
ing the availability of alcohol to
minors at University organiza
tion functions,” Kaplan said.
One senator said it is impor
tant for Texas A&M to promote
awareness that alcohol is not an
educational tool and is not ben
eficial to students’ educations.
In other business, the senate
approved a program yesterday
to provide a framework for stu
dents who have finished three-
quarters of their course work to
obtain early admission to the
South Texas College of Law.
A&M will be the only school
to enter such an agreement with
South Texas, providing students
with a unique educational op
portunity to complete their
bachelor and law degrees in a
reduced length of time.
The senate also discussed
Texas House of Representatives
Bill 315, a bill that would affect
the tuition, fees, student loan
and some other benefits for cer
tain graduate students em
ployed as teaching assistants
assistant instructors or research
assistants at public institutions
of higher education.
Pie in the eye
SALLIE TURNERAl m Battalion
Ricky Wood, who was elected junior yell leader Thursday, gets a pie in the face Monday from Roscoe
Mapps, a senior political science major, as part of Residence Hall Association Week.
Head yell leader
amed for ’S^-’OO
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BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
leff Bailey, an agricultural sys-
ems management major, was
ihosen as Head Yell Leader yes-
^Hjay for the 1999-2000 school
tear.
®|®Bailey said his responsibilities
Arill include speaking on behalf of
he five yell leaders and making
lelisions in the absence of the
)thcr four. Bailey emphasized
xjlality among the five yell lead
ers.
■‘Just because of the title of
lead veil leader, I am not higher
han any of the other yell leaders,
lesides being a senior,” he said.
'Even though I might have to
BKke individual decisions, they
be based around the team of
ive guys. ”
llpailey said their credibility
wik be the key factor in the
upcoming year.
“It is not an issue of Corps ver
sus non-reg anymore,” he said.
”It is an issue of five guys
[who have been] elected by the
student body and have one goal
which is to work together to rep
resent our school.”
Rusty Thompson, assistant di
rector of student programs and
yell leader adviser, said eight stu
dents and eight staff members in
terviewed each of the three senior
yell leaders into 30-minute ses
sions. One of the students on the
advisory committee was Brandon
Neff, current head yell leader.
Thompson said before making
its recommendation, the panel
discussed each candidate’s
strengths, weaknesses and skills.
The panel made a recommenda
tion to Dr. J. Malon Southerland,
vice president for student affairs,
to make the final decision.
MIKE FUENTES/Tm Batt alion
The candidates for head yell leader (I to r) were Dusty Batsell,
Jeff Bailey and John Bloss. Bailey, an agricultural systems man
agement major was chosen for the position Monday.
Bailey and the yell leaders said
their goal for the upcoming year
is for people to see five yell lead
ers giving it everything they have
got.
Neff said other responsibilities
of the head yell leader include
scheduling what meetings the
yell leaders go.
“There might be three differ
ent places where yell leaders are
needed as representatives, so the
head yell leader decides who has
to go where,” he said.
Thompson said the first ma
jor event for the new yell leaders
will be this weekend at the Par
ents’ Weekend yell practice.
Blood shortage, rivalry
ive fraternities challenge
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
iThe Texas A&M and University of Texas
feapters of Alpha Phi Omega, a national
prvice fraternity, have challenged each
ther to a blood-drive competition to help
Ifcviate U.S. blood shortages.
■Every three seconds a patient in the
’nited States needs blood due to car acci-
ts, operations and organ transplants,
approximately 40,000 units (pints) of
jjbod are used each day.
lood centers constantly face shortages
■types O and B blood, and shortages of
all blood types are common during sum-
Ifer and winter holidays.
■Alpha Phi Omega and Carter Blood
■e of Dallas are sponsoring a blood dri
ve on campus this week from 8 a.m. to 5
p.rn. at the Commons Lobby, Blocker
■ilding. Rudder Tower and Sbisa Dining
* e June i-^ fc l! -
—d for curr ifff^ige Reynolds, one of the blood drive
~ook at 8^' c lairs and a junior poultry science major,
"aid A&M and UT will calculate the total
amount of blood that is donated and de
termine who obtained more.
“If we collect more units of blood than
they do, their chapter has to dress in ma
roon and take a picture and send it to us,”
Reynolds said.
“And if they collect more units of blood
than we do, our chapter has to dress in or
ange and take a picture to send to them.”
To be eligible to donate blood, a person
must be at least 17-years-old and weigh at
least 110 pounds. According to the Ameri
can Blood Centers, 60 percent of the U.S.
population is eligible to donate blood, but
only 5 percent actually donate.
Reynolds said Alpha Phi Omega is ex
pecting to collect 1,000 units this week.
“We will have to turn some people
away because of low iron counts, so we
will actually have more than 1,000 people
attempt to donate, but we will end up
with about 1,000 units total,” Reynolds
said.
The average blood donation process
takes one hour from start to finish, and the
actual donation takes about six to eight
GUY ROGERS/The Battalion
Aaron Cadle, a freshman computer
science major, donates blood Thursday.
minutes. According to the American Blood
Centers, after donating, a person should
drink more liquids than usual, eat a hearty
meal and refrain from smoking for at least
a few minutes after donating.
MSC OPAS unveils
events for 27th season
BY MEGAN E. WRIGHT
The Battalion
Broadway musicals, dance pieces and
an opera are among the features un
veiled to perform for Texas A&M’s MSC
Opera and Performing Arts Society
(OPAS) during its 27th season for 1999-
2000.
Stephannie Oriabure, director of stu
dent development for OPAS and a se
nior history major, said the process of
planning an OPAS season begins near
ly two years before the tentative per
formances.
“It takes a normal school year to get
the final details, but the actual brain
storming can begin as early as the spring
semester two years before the scheduled
season,” Oriabure said. “At the end of
the spring semester two years in ad
vance, everybody responsible for plan
ning gets together and meets fairly reg
ular after that. When they have an idea
of what they want, they report that to the
board of directors of OPAS for final ap
proval.”
Performances for the upcoming sea
son include “The Nutcracker,” featuring
the Moscow City Ballet; “Spirit of the
Dance,” featuring Irish International
Dance Company; “Romeo and Juliet,”
featuring Ballet Theatre de 1’Opera de
■■
Upcoming events for the 1999-
2000 MSC OPAS season include:
•Don Cossacks of Rostav
•Preservation Hall jazz Band
•The King and I
•The Music of Andrew Lloyd
Webber
•The Nutcracker
•Spirit of the Dance
•Romeo and Juliet
•The Barber of Seville
• Annie
Bordeaux; and “Barber of Seville,” fea
turing NYC Opera National Company.
see OPAS on Page 2.
Senator seeks higher salaries
for faculties of universities
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
Senator Gonzalo Barrientos has filed
a rider, an attachment to the General Ap
propriations Bill, calling for a 7 percent
salary increase for all faculty in public
universities throughout Texas.
Charles Zucker, executive director of
the the Texas Faculty Association, said
the purpose of the proposed rider is to
provide faculty members with some de
gree of specificity with regard to the
amount of salary increase they may re
ceive.
According to data from the National
Education Association 1999 Almanac of
Higher Education, the average 1997-
1998 faculty salary in Texas public uni
versities was $3,789 below the national
average, and Texas ranked 29th in the
United States in terms of the average fac
ulty salary.
William Krumm, vice president for fi
nance and controller at Texas A&M, said
A&M lags behind the national average,
but it is hard to compare the University
with other schools.
“We compare ourselves with our
peers on a program-by-program basis,”
he said. “It is very hard to find schools
with our exact same mix of programs.”
Krumm said an example is a compar
ison with the University of Texas.
“We have an agriculture school and
veterinary school, but they have a law
see Salaries on Page 2.