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Page 2 • Monday, June 28, 1999 Campus The 8. Regents approve Wellborn crossing CS council approves landfill agreemeij BY CARRIE BENNETT The Battalion BY CARRIE BENNETT The Battalion The Texas A&M Board of Regents approved the preliminary design for an underground pedestrian passage way which would make travel from West Campus to main Campus easi er and safer for students at the last Board of Regents meeting in May. See Related Column on Page 5. Doug Williams, associate director for Parking Services, said the designs show the passageway, which would provide access from West to main campus via Joe Routt Boulevard, to be wide and well lit. Alice MacFarlane, project man ager for Facilities Planning and Con struction and a Texas A&M Univer sity Systems architect, said the project has been discussed for a cou ple of years. She said the passage way is a project in conjunction with the West Campus Parking Garage project and construction on both will probably begin by the middle of the year 2000. MacFarlane said the increase in traffic on Wellborn Road is one of the reasons for the passageway and the possibility of moving the rail road tracks in the future. “People tend to dodge the aeri al walkway unless a train is cross ing,” MacFarlane said. “The new passageway will be nice for pedes trian crossing.” She said the project includes the removal of the aerial walkway, which currently enables students to cross Wellborn Road. MacFarlane said Wellborn Road is a national defense emergency evacuation route, which would be used if the United States went to war and needed to carry equip ment along the road. She said the aerial walkway is not high enough to allow large mil itary vehicles underneath it but the underground passageway would not pose the same problem. The College Station City Council voted unan imously Thursday to make changes to the process by which residents have a chance to voice their opinions. It also took action on the proposed landfill. The City Council moved the time allotted for community feedback, known as Hear Visitors, from near the end of the Council meeting to 5 p.m. The City Council meeting starts at 6 p.m. Speakers will be limited to 15 minutes, which will allow five citizens who have signed up to speak for three minutes each. If a sixth citizen signs up to speak, the time could be extended. Citizens expressed their disapproval for the change, and said that it may be difficult for peo ple to reach City Hall in time to speak on an is sue because many cannot leave work until 5 p.m. The Council also conditionally approved the good neighbor agreement between the city of College Station and the Peach Creek Develop ment Company for the proposed landfill site, which will be drawn up and brought back to the Council. Mike Carleton, a representative for HDR En gineering Inc., said the company wants to work with the owners of the site and land owners around the proposed site to come up with ways to achieve their goals, of which their main goal is to “protect the environmental qualities of the region. ” Other goals of the good neighbor agreement include providing a vital service to the commu nity, maintaining a long-term commitment to care for the site and establishing trust and a long-term cooperative relationship between cit izens and the development company. Of the total 626 acres of the proposed site, lo cated at Highway 6 and FM 159, more than half will be used to screen the landfill. “The area is large enough to allow for visu al screening and buffer contouring, so we will be adding trees into the design,” Carleton said. Jeff Milburn, a resident of the Nantu: division, said one objection hehadto a posed landfill site is that it will beatrylJ gateway to a new community. Hesaidf ' his worries included trash on the road in the area and a significant amount of Jil truck traffic in the community becaus landfill. Milburn said he was concernedabc effect the landfill would haveonthecc: growth of the city to the south. "We’re talking about putting this totsT^ of town, which has been the primarv 0 ^ mem direction for the citv o! CollegeStzi h the last 22 yean,” he said. "I don’ttMv g j good idea to put a landfill upwind ofyo. ( Council member Dennis Malonev ^|| ^ 1 city will go to great hm ? ;ths to ensure:. ^ en than half the site will be green space r i i >eautify the area. ^ “The fact is you have to get rid ofycv Maloney said. "It behooves ustol let, show leadership and do it.” Diversity conference NEWS IN BRIEF r a • • Tokyo prof to host A&M Physical^ tocuses on training lecture on design seeks apprentic n r V-n o i ir* H i M a TVw-v "TV-vw •'-w* A 0 K J OK*'!/-- ' Reveille BY Continued from Page 1 “Reveille” and some-remarks from the mascot corporals. Johnson also said the ceremony should resemble that held for Reveille IV, but the date the ceremony is being held. Plans are still tentative be cause the cadets would like to get advice from the cadets who were here while Reveille V was at A&M. “This ceremony is of course for Reveille V, but it is also for the older guys because they knew her on a more personal basis, so we want to get their input about the ceremony as well,” Johnson said. Johnson said the Class of ’02 is working on Reveille V’s casket. Kevin Graham, mascot corporal for the ’99-’00 school year and a sophomore business major said Reveille V’s casket will be made out of cherrywood and padded on the inside where it will be lined with white satin. He said it also will have brass handles. Johnson said in the past the senior classes have been Reveille’s “pallbearers,” but it is not yet known whether that will be the case this time or if the former mascot corporals will carry Reveille V onto Kyle Field. SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion Food Continuecffrom Page 1 The sports nutrition booth fea tured an obstacle course and taught visitors how to prevent loss of performance by drinking an ad equate amount of water before, during and after working out. Alice Hejl, a senior nutrition major, said another purpose of the sports nutrition booth was to teach students the proper meth ods for eating before and after exercise, as well as what to eat. She said it is generally recom mended that one wait three to four hours to exercise after a large meal, two to three hours af ter a small meal and one to two hours after snack. The fad diets booth offered al ternatives to current popular diets. Roxanne Sweney, a nutrition graduate student, said the four most popular fad diets are the high-protein diets, liquid diets such as Slim-Fast, the grapefruit diet and thermogenic diets such as Metabolite, which contain ap petite suppressants. Sweney said the goal of her booth was to pro mote healthy alternatives to fad diets, such as eating smaller meals. “Many young people are very susceptible,” she said. “It’s all about thin.” Michelle Davila, a dietician who was visiting the fad diets booth, -said in her practice she sees too many people 1 following these diets. “One very popular diet which I have run into is Dr. Atkins’ high- protein diet,” she said. “The prob lem with these diets is that people are just losing water and not weight. ” At the herbal remedies booth students compared dosages and side effects of herbs and supple ments. Radhika Karle and Amanda Finke, both senior nutrition majors, said the herbs which they found to be safe were ginseng, echinacea, St. John’s Wort, kava kava and green tea. Finke said ginger and garlic have been proven to help cure motion sickness and reduce cho lesterol, and echinacea has been proven to help cure colds and in fluenza. Karle said the main problem people have when using herbs is that they do not read the labels carefully and often take more than the recommended dosage. Students can have a nutrition check-up in the health education office at A.P. Beutel Health Center, during which the students can have their food intake analyzed in order to learn which foods or nu trients may be needed to reach health goals. The fifth annual Diversity Insti tute Conference held at Texas A&M concluded its five-day awareness training conference Sunday. The conference is part of an effort to spread ideas on diversity education to administrators and professors at universities and colleges nationwide Becky Petitt, coordinator for the Diversity Institute, said the confer ence is an incredible learning op portunity for the participants, but the conference staff also learns a great deal from the participants as well. The conference this year ad dressed issues such as sexism, racism, heterosexism and class dis crimination. Dr. Linda Moradle, a business professor at Richland College in Dal las, said she gained valuable infor mation from the conference. “The staff and facilitators did an excellent job of presenting experi mental and theoretical information, which created a very positive expe rience,” she said. “I collected a lot of tangible ideas and information to take back to my college,” she said. Moradle said her daughter grad uated in 1992 from A&M. “Any efforts to make the [A&M] campus more diverse and to reflect the global community will make it more cutting edge,” she said. “It is very critical for every institution to set as a priority a focus on develop ment and training in regards to di versity.” Dianne Hannah-Hill, assistant di rector of the Office of Student Devel opment at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, said this is the first conference she has attended on di versity that has been well organized and provided complete information. “I am going to take back the in formation that I have obtained and discuss with my community and ad ministrators what the best course of action is for our college,” she said. She said talking with students is very important because if people do not listen to how the students want to promote and learn about other cultures, students will not get in volved. “In our global workplace, stu dents have to learn how to commu nicate with other cultures, ” she said. “I see the fact that A&M is hosting this conference as a beginning for the University to building a diverse community.” Petitt said at next year’s Diversity Institute she would like the work shops to be smaller to allow more in teraction. NAGASAWA Dr. Yasushi Nagasawa, head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, will give a lecture tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium, Room 105 of Building C in the Langford Ar chitecture Center. Nagasawa will lecture on the ar chitecture of Japan from the past, pre sent and future. George J. Mann, a professor of health facilities design in the College of Ar chitecture and Nagasawa’s host, said Japan has different designs for its health-care centers. “I think students at A&M need to be exposed to different cultures,” Mann said. He said Nagasawa is a world leader in health care facilities design. Naga sawa will be undertaking research here until Aug. 5, during which time he will be visiting hospitals and architec tural firms in Texas, Ohio and Illinois. Nagasawa has worked with the World Health Organization doing con sultations in Korea, China, Malaysia, the Phillipines and Iran. He is also the first recipient of the STERIS Corpora tion’s Advanced International Re search Fellowship in Health Facilities design. 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