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5309 A2322 v » 105 :r»o 14 ^ i05 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY June 2, 1999 Volume 105 • Issue 145* 6 Pages College Station, Texas sports • The George Bush Museum features a new exhibit on one of America's favorite pastimes — baseball. PAGE 3 today’s issue Toons 5 World .6 Battalion Radio Find out at 1:57 p.m. how an increased number of loose-live stock calls has kept the Brazos County Sheriff s Department busy on 90.9 KAMU-FM. opinion • The talk show world has turned upside down: The “Queen of Nice' is playing it mean, and Jerry has cleaned up his act. PAGE 5 mmed re! 1 srsheaa' * m town c jl peoples f. ng into ft i 1 role models rider makes Bush school separate entity” within University BY VERONICA SERRANO The Battalion Yugosa it the si’ r etiremer! i, it said Ik 1 to •e unlike I i the gro] roops arl ■s comb:] edsofrej uernHaJ I Dr. Ronald Douglas, executive vice president Bid provost of Academic Affairs, said a rider at- tiched to a bill passed by the Texas Legislature has called for the George Bush School of Govern- pent and Public Service to be removed from the G liege of Liberal Arts to become “a separate en- By. ” I “In their budget the Legislature expressed a de sire to have the Bush School become a separate entity when they appropriated the funds,” Dou- gl: said. I Texas A&M University President Dr. Ray M. Bowen said as a result of the legislation, the Bush Bhool will move to an administrative level which fwill report to the provost of academic affairs in- stoad of the College of Liberal Arts. Bowen said 4&M’s political science and economics professors will still teach courses for the Bush School. “ [The change] should not affect undergradu ates,” Bowen said. The Bush School currently offers one degree, the Masters of Public Service and Administration. Douglas said the Bush School is currently modeled after the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton Uni versity, which is part of the College of Liberal Arts. He said the Wilson School is the only presidential school in the country organized in this manner. With the change, the Bush School will be mod eled after most of the presidential schools in the country, including the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Har vard. He said the organization of the Bush School had been planned by faculty in the College of Lib eral Arts and largely by the economic and politi- see Bush on Page 2. •guns,: tot down governti y the ttf ive won; e areas, es said Panel on youth violence Outlines causes, solutions BY STUART HUTSON The Battalion ifPK LvVk ■ Following the recent events in Colorado and Georgia, a town hall meeting was held last night ^■^(in Bryan to discuss how to pre- .vl t vent violence among youths in schools in the future. isinginBf The forum, moderated by kend. Mike Wright, host of “Brazos :ed to nValley This Morning,” discussed ast week topics including the roles par- lectronkefts play in dealing with d inaccaschools, children, religion in • Websitfjplblic schools, warning signs ? Protec exhibited by unstable children itigate cilaid possible solutions for deal ing with and preventing child- tacked ijhiod violence, zed tori-CRonnie Jackson, youth ser- id to be vices coordinator for the city of :ific ha|Bryan, said the recent school p thatbdshootings have made people /bite Hdmore attentive of the situation. ■ “These incidents have served cecuted to wake us up,” he said. “It is in Texai what we do now after we wake into alkjup that will make the differ- n, incidence.” a promi| : The most discussed cause of childhood violence in the forum was parental interaction with schools and children. sflHOne way to improve interac tion was discussed by Dr. Jane Close Conoley, dean for the Col lege of Education at Texas A&M. She said community groups Court concentration TERRY ROBERSON/Tm Battalion Emily Zampello, of Kingwood, returns a serve in match play during the TAMU Tennis Camp at the Varsity Tennis Center yesterday. Zampello is just one of 96 campers, ages 8 to 17, who will be participating'in the six-day camp. New Student Conferences at A&M introduce freshmen to Aggieland BY CARRIE BENNETT The Battalion MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion A panel of community leaders met Tuesday night at First Baptist Church in Bryan to discuss the prevention of childhood violence and the identification of high-risk behavior. 5, froff II should offer parental work shops. Virginia Collier, superinten dent of Brenham Independent School District, said she does not agree workshops are the an swer. “You can offer all the parental workshops you want, but it has been my experience that the only parents that come to these workshops are those that don’t need the help,” she said. Warning signs exhibited by children before they perform vi olent acts were discussed. Df. Tim Cavell, associate professor for the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M, list ed indicators for potential trou ble, including a decrease in open communication, in creased interest in violent movies and video games and involvement in new social groups or gangs. Cavell said these were not al ways indicative of violent be havior for children without vio lent backgrounds. Some members of the com munity said not allowing reli gion in public schools is partial ly responsible for the increase in violence. » Throughout June and July, 10 New Student Conferences will be held for the more than 6,500 freshman attend ing A&M in the fall. The conference for transfer stu dents taking summer classes was held May 27-28. New Student Conferences are rites of passage new Texas A&M students go through whether they are incoming freshmen or transfer students. Activities at the conferences in clude guided campus tours, academic advising, mixers with other students and parents and yell practice. Gary Engelgau, executive director of admissions and records, said the number of freshman attending the conferences is significantly less than the more than 7,000 that attended the conferences last summer. “This decrease was planned since last year’s class was much larger,” Engelgau said. Lisa Rude, administrative secretary for student life orientation, said at least 550 freshman will attend each conference in order to get acquainted with A&M’s traditions and campus; and register for classes for the fall. “The conferences will help students discover what services are available to them” — Lisa Rude Administrative secretary Student Life Orientation “The conferences will help stu dents discover what services are avail able to them,” Rude said. * Rude said less than the estimated 200 students attended the transfer student conference in May. “Usually four to five hundred trans fer students attend the conferences held before the fall and spring semes ters,” Rude said, “and around 200 stu dents attend the conference before summer school.” This year’s transfer students were able to meet with their academic ad visers on the first day of the conference instead of the second day. Rude said the change was benefi cial for both the student’s respective college and the student because the students could begin thinking about the classes they needed to register for. Resource tables representing 26 campus offices offer a wide variety of information on subjects from Fish Camp to parking and even post office boxes during the conference. Rude said many people are not aware of how many of the prografns are de signed to offer information to parents. “Many parents aren’t sure whether they should attend the conferences, but they [the conferences] can be helpful,” Rude said. NEWS IN BRIEF 3T ToWflj ;d Studtf ‘Zooillogicals 5 art exhibit brings wildlife to area children „ ,^Reserved packages available for baseball d JZ S 3m^re are a limited number of re served seat packages available for B NCAA Super Regional tourna- rnm...ia jffilnt June 4-6 at Olsen Field, ur. fHPackages cost $25 each and pan be purchased by calling the Mhletic Ticket Office at 845-2311 Tl-888-89-AGGIE between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ■Individual reserved seats and gen eral admission tickets will go on sale ■Dlsen Field. JA limited number of the general ^rgestne'* 5 acfmission tickets will be available for single sessions and will be sold only n the day of the game on Friday, June it the Olsen Field ticket booth at 8 3 d news c 01 j BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion IVIIKE FUENTES/The Battalion The acrylic painting “Waiting” is featured as part of the “ZooillOgicals” art exhibit on display at the MSC Visual Arts Gallery. The collection; presented by the MSC Visual Arts Committee, is specially tailored for young viewers. The MSC Visual Arts Committee is catering to a younger audience this summer. “Zooillogicals,” an art exhibit by Chica Brunsvold, is on display at the Visual Arts Gallery until June 30, and the paintings are made to t|e seen through the eyes of a child — literally. The acrylic and water paintings are hung about one foot low er than normal for this exhibit. Lalaine Little, adviser to the MSC Visual Arts Com mittee, said that now that there is more parking avail able on campus, the committee has the facilities avail able to cater to off-campus interests, such as children. Little said Brunsvold started painting landscapes but has since added animals to her artwork. She said Brunsvold paints with gloss acrylic medium and transparent paint on watercolor pa per, painting the animals in acrylic around where the landscapes have naturally formed on the paper. Little said the acrylic adds both texture anti de finition to the paintings and as a result some an imals are hidden in the paintings in “ani- malscapes.” She said the animals are also paint ed with human-like characteristics expressing a wide range of emotions. Little said that although Brunsvold paints dis tinct animals, she will not comment on their exact species. She said Brunsvold likes her “readers” to use their imagination to interpret her paintings and their contents. Brunsvold does not offer insight on what the titles of her paintings mean. Jude Schwendenwien, a New York city critic said of Brunsvold’s work,“The whimsy of depict ing unlike species ‘illogically’ coexisting in the same space serves as a metaphor for peace in hu man relationships.” This is where the title of her exhibit comes from, because the way she groups certain animals to gether in her paintings is illogical.” The Gallery is located in 289 MSC and is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday from noon to 4:30 p.m.