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WEDNESDAY
June 30, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 161 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
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I of Angelina College at the Texas A&M Baseball Coach. The camp at Olsen Field hosts 133 campers, ages 13-18.
A&M student dies
in boating accident
BY VERONICA SERRANO AND NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
Texas A&M senior agricultural systems man
agement major Arend Gabro Higgs of Bastrop was
killed in a water-skiing accident at Lake Bastrop
Sunday.
Higgs, known to friends and family as “Bo,” died
of his injuries Monday.
His father, Lt. Col. Stephan Higgs, Class of ’73,
said Bo collided with a boat that was stationary in
the water while water-skiing, injuring his head and
chest.
Higgs’ father said his son was taken to an Austin
hospital where doctors told him his son was alive
but clinically brain dead and heart failure was im
minent.
“Bo had told his mom if anything ever happened
to him, he wanted his organs donated,” Higgs’ fa
ther said.
“It was a tragic accident,” he said. “It was just a
boy being a boy. ”
Higgs’ father said because he is in the Air Force,
the family has lived all over the world and was very
happy everywhere, but the family’s roots were in
Bastrop.
He said his son had a steadfast belief in God and
was very involved at the Ridgeway Baptist Church
in Paige.
“I had a perfect son,” he said. “He never drank
or did drugs. He was a positive influence on so
many of his friends.”
Anthony Matocha, a senior kinesiology major
SPECIAL TO THE BATTALION
Senior agricultural systems management major
Arend “Bo” Higgs was killed in a water-skiing
accident Sunday at Lake Bastrop.
who had been best friends with Higgs since the sixth
grade, said Higgs’ favorite activities were outdoor ac
tivities such as hunting, fishing and water skiing.
see Student on Page 2.
Change causes budget error
BY STUART HUTSON
The Battalion
Texas A&M University will
not be made to repay an extra
$1.7 million in state revenue it
received as a result of a budget
miscalculation by A&M finance
officials.
William Krumm, vice presi
dent for finance, said finance of
ficials at A&M weighed class
hours according to the classifica
tion of the student taking the
class instead of weighing the
hours with respect to student’s
classification and the class level.
Krumm said this resulted in
A&M reporting 33,000 extra cred
it hours, which added up to the
extra $1.7 million A&M received
for the 1998-1999 budget cycle
ending Aug 31.
In the past, the Legislature ap
propriated each public universi
ty in Texas an amount of the
state’s money for each two-year
budget cycle based upon the to
tal of weighted credit hours. The
weighted credit hours are based
on the number of credit hours
taken by the students at the re
spective university during the
previous two years.
However, under new legisla
tion, which began with the 1998-
1999 budget cycle, the credit
see Funds on Page 2.
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Visiting professor
Kscusses Japanese
j5 irchitecture styles
BY RYAN WEST
The Battalion
NT Dr. Yasushi Nagasawa, head of the Department of Archi-
y^gi cture at the University of Tokyo, discussed the past, present
s ' id future of Japanese architecture at a lecture yesterday,
xas d Nagasawa, who is undertaking his research at Texas A&M
is summer, originally had planned to speak about his spe-
I jtlty, health-care facilities design, but decided to focus on
^Ipan for several reasons.
m " , “I didn’t know what kind of audience I would have, but I
£ •iS^ought not very many of them would be specialists in health-
re design,” he said.
- /• “Also, I thought I would take the opportunity to introduce
■ O panese architecture, which would be a starting point [for
an d Japanese architects] to understand each other.”
* Nagasawa said 120 years ago the University of Tokyo in-
^-gited a young British architect to demonstrate Western style
jW^mses and buildings as part of the an introductory class' in
Department of Architecture. This visit subsequently in-
lenced modern-day Japanese design.
“Before Western culture was introduced, we used one room
r everything,” Nagasawa said. “Nowadays, we have differ-
it rooms in each of the homes.”
i Bagasawa said because of the high humidity, Japanese
crease space between the hard floors and wood finish-
:, creating a gap between the foundation and the floor
ithin the homes to provide ventilation throughout the
tme..
“This is not considered as acceptable today because it caus-
• problems for people in wheelchairs — especially in public
hidings where a number of steps are used,” he said.
Nagasawa also showed slides of the architecture styles used
BRADLEY ATCHISON/The Battalion
Professor Yasushi Nagasawa discusses Japanese architecture
Tuesday at the Langford Architecture Center.
throughout the 14th century in celebration of the tea ceremo
ny . He said at that time, the Japanese ceremony differed great
ly from the Chinese one, though many similarities exist be
tween the two even today.
“The tea ceremony was not only about drinking tea,” Na
gasawa said. “It was a time when every lord and high-ranking
see Japan on Page 2.
Performing-arts classes
redefined for Fall 1999
BY RYAN WEST
The Battalion
On the 12th day of the fall semester, the vi
sual and performing arts classes now listed as
Kinesiology 199, will be changed to Special
Topics 289.
A student currently enrolled in one of these
classes will then have the choice to use the
class to fulfill a kinesiology requirement or a
visual arts requirement. Beginning with the
Class of ’03, students will be required to take
three hours of visual arts courses in addition
to any kinesiology requirement.
In addition, all incoming freshmen and
transfer students will be required to take a
health and fitness course as part of their ki
nesiology requirements. These courses will
offer formal instruction and nutritional in
formation during one class meeting a week,
and use the other class meeting for physical
activity.
Frank Thomas, chair of the Physical Edu
cation Activity Program, said the changes in
kinesiology are in line with A&M’s Vision
2020 to become one of the top-10 public uni
versities.
“The amount of nutritional information
available to us is growing at an incredible
rate,” Thomas said. “Through the lectures
and activities, we hope to show them how to
become physically fit.”
Thomas also said they hope to create a last
ing willingness to get in shape on the stu-
see Dance on Page 2.
BRADLEY ATCHISON/Tut Battalion
Senior finance and accounting major Holly
Davis and senior psychology major Roman
Garcia De Alba dance during a country-and-
western dance class Tuesday.