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I Page 6 • Thursday, June 3, 1999 News I Dinner time MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Ann Marie Prazak, a food science and technology graduate student, bottle-feeds a Holstein calf Wednesday evening at the Dairy Center. The calves are bottle-fed twice a week so the mothers can produce milk for market. Regents approve renovatio $8.1 million plan will improve safety, increase availablesfi BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion The Texas A&M Board of Regents approved $8.1 million out of its spe cial construction fund to facilitate renovation of the first two floors of the Sterling C. Evans Library. Acklam Construction Company was awarded the contract when it presented to the board presented the lowest bid of $5,855,584. The re maining funds will be spent on ar chitectural fees and other expenses. Charlene Clark, public relations of ficer for Evans library, said that since the bid already has been approved, construction will likely begin within the next 30 days. The project is esti mated to conclude in August 2000. Charles Gilreath, associate uni versity librarian said there are two main goals in renovating the library. “One [is] to bring the building up to current standards for life safety,” he said. “Two, to relocate space and make the first two floors more at tractive and usable.” Gilreath said with the Dorm 9 fire last fall, the library realized they needed to increase the number of sprinkler systems in the facility. “Obviously, with a danger of de stroying numerous books if they (the sprinklers) were to go off, the sys tems will have higher security on them than normal,” he said. Clark said students should not be affected by the construction because most of the study areas are in the Evans Library Annex. Signs and no tices will be posted as changes are made. She said the main entrance to the library will remain open to al low access to the third through sixth floors, but more than likely the main entrance area will be tunneled off. As part of making the library more accessible, the University is up dating the study areas to comply with new Americans With Disabili ty Act regulations. The library’s goal is to have one handicap-accessible study room on each floor. The li brary hopes to aid all students by up dating the service units. Relocated resowt During constru Annex: • reference materials (5tli •government documents and 3rd floors) 3rd floor Evans: •inter-library loan service •current periodicals After renovation 1st floor Evans: •Main service point • Large reading room •general, humanitiesancM sciences references •controlled access are; that frequently turn up 2nd floor Evans: •conference & classroom • administration offices 5th floor Annex: •Will house the sciences engineering references Envoys deliver peace plan to Milosev BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Russian and Euro pean envoys hand-delivered a peace plan to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic late Wednesday in hopes of ending the Kosovo crisis and nearly 2 1/2 months of NATO airstrikes. But differences persisted among Moscow and the Washington-London axis on how to police any peace for the troubled province. After two hours of face-to-face meetings, the talks adjourned until Thursday. The Interfax news agency quoted Russian spokesperson Valentin Sergeyev as describing the meeting as “pretty productive.” The talks took place amid indications that Russia — Yugoslavia’s main ally — was solidly behind the West in wanting agreement on the newest plan. “It is riecessary for the Yugoslav leadership to accept this document," Sergeyev, a spokesperson for Russian en- MILOSEVIC voy Viktor Chernomyrdin, was quoted as tellingtai Comments from senior Russian, European Unit! U.S. officials all indicated the thi< e powersbacb plan were closer than ever to agreement on si would take to establish peace in Kosovo, a prove Serbia, the main republic in Yugoslavia. “We think the areas of agreement are suite large to justify a joint trip,” State Depan spokesperson James Rubin said of the mission; grade by Chernomyrdin and Finnish President' Ahtisaari, the EU envoy. Ahtisaari said two days of talks in Bonn, Gen with Chernomyrdin and U.S. envoy StrobeTak ended in a “largely common position.” Beforedep; for Belgrade, Chernomyrdin spoke of a “realisticdf that the war will end.” The envoys attained a “very far-reaching meat agreement,” Michael Steiner, foreign policyadv German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, said. “No have to see how Belgrade reacts.” LONG DISTANCE 6.9i|; MINUTE For Information Call : 821-2901 Summer Work & Business Opportunities Available Just scraping by? Save 10% with your student ID. At Half Price Books we are offering you a 10% discount on new and used books, videos, software & more when you present your valid student ID. Nop HALF PRICE B00I$ RECORDS* MAGAZINES /\ Lof 3828 Texas Ave. S. • 846-2738 10am-9pm Mon.-Sat. • 12pm-9pm Sun. • www.halfpricebooks.com We buy books, CDs, cassettes, LPs, videos, software & more, all day, every day. \ f When it comes to cho / no one stacks up like FIRSTCARE Some like vanilla. 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