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® IMPERIAL Chinese Restaurant 16 th Anniversary Celebration Newly Remodeled & Expanded Buffet More Delicious Choices Now over 100 Items Includes Our Famous Meats Buffet 2232 Texas Ave.Sw College Station (409) 764-0466 Aggie Bucks accepted LUNCH & DINNER 7 days a week Lunch: Mon - Fri s 4.95 Sat - Sun s 5.95 Dinner: s 6.95 CAMPUS Page 2 run battalion I uexliv Jan - A&M ranked fourth largest U.S. universip ■nesday. J; BY KENNETH MACDONALD The Battalion Texas A&M University ranks as the fourth largest uni versity in the United States for the second year in a row, according to a survey Fall 1999 enrollment figures. The survey, conducted by Texas A&M, shows the total enrollment for the fall of 1999 as 43,442, a rise of 53 students from the fall 1998 enrollment of 43,489. These figures do not include other campuses under the TAMU system. Brittany Merritt, an incoming transfer psycholog) major from Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC) in Fort Worth, said she w'as nervous about coming to A&M. “I’m nervous about having a class with hundreds of people. My first semester of college was a lot like high school. There were about 30 people in each class,” she said Merritt said that while she is a little scared about the size of A&M, she is optimistic about her first semester. “I am looking forward to all the benefits that a large uni versity can afford. I am looking forward especially to in termural sports and being able to live on campus,” she said. “There is more stuff to do here than at Tarrant Countv." true s. Tt tht Brittany’s father. Clarence Merritt, was with her through the three-day process of new student orientation and registration. “We are very proud of her to be accepted at Mich a highly regarded institution.“ he said. “One would ha\c to feel honored to go here.” “Someone once told me, and it is longer you arc at A&M, the smaller it ally feels like home, and i think it is hccair around here like to get involved.** Collin Poaj class president and a business major, said. Poage, who w ent to First Baptist Academy i graduated with only 55 people in his sertiot ofhis friends wondered how he would get a university and speculated that lie would not heard that despite the si/c. A& M had a repti mg a friendly campus. “When I came here, I knew maybe five ing in the Corps of Cadets and In mg on ca helped (with) meeting people, especially th Poage said. “Many things calculate into the college I have friends who go to other schools an< Pal l.i NROLLMEN cla- loiu : in a tug I Poage ‘n as he- Ol TI*A» 41 Ml jhiU >ia'( 41 Ml saizOMAiTATi 44.119 I l(XA* AkA* UNIViftillY 41.441 Of ItOfclPA 41.1411 RUBEN OCUMATa iTf' . home Ihey arc missing 80 peiwjiS Th esl lie ere. |wc isiitution in the U.S. istheUmj|| stin. with an enrollment totalling io stale and Vn/ona State takcKsfi >rjing to the survey. The Unnenm H itth largest university and had the xj enrollment with l,04o more studetj in 1998. The figures wertt iv« .r,s of the fall 1999 semester. News in Brief Commission Attention enior Graduating in May English 210 & 301 (Tech Writing) Force Dates for Spring 2000 A&M encounters minor Y2K glitches Tuesday, January 18 9:00 a.m. - 2 p.m. Make sure you have the correct prerequisite (English 104 or equivalent). Come to Blocker 224 during the force dates and times listed above. Bring a letter on department stationery from your academic advisor stating that you are graduating in the semester for which you are registering. Y2K has come and gone with no major problems, but Texas A&M Com puting Information Services (CIS) con tinues to watch for lurking problems due to the thousands of returning stu dents accessing University comput ers. CIS is not expecting students to have problems, but the increase in us age may cause some minor glitches. Kim Reverman, Year 2000 Team Leader for CIS, said there were no problems with the e-mail systems. ‘‘We saw small problems like soft ware expiring that wasn’t supposed to,” she said. Reverman said that over the past four years, CIS has spent over $500,000 on operational expenses for Y2K, and ran backups on major systems, servers, mainframes and registrars’ and libraries’ computers. “We’ve done tests, but all we can do is sit and wait,” Reverman said. Continued from Page l “This new company w ill focus on the work force— did they behave in an ex pected manner and were there v anal ions from what was expected to what actual ly occurred,” Linbcck said. “The entire inquiry is divided into two cat egories, pre-collapse and pos t<ol lapse." — Leo E. Linbeck |r. chairman of the Special Commission “The entire inquiry is divided into two categories, pre-collapse and post collapse," Linbeck said. Both deal with the physical structure and behavior of the Bonfire workers. The new firm the commission hopes to add today—investigatory tasks will bring both categories together by enter ing all information from photos, inter views, e-mails. 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