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A&M ranked fourth largest U.S. universip
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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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If you can't make these dates, send a representative
with your letter and a list of preferred times.
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