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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.”
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