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TUESDAY
April 18, 2000
Volume 106 ~ Issue 131
14 pages
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Student workers, faculty to meet,
discuss ending early registration
ay price for
andalism
BY RICHARD BRAY
The Battalion
It may not seem like a broken window here or graffitti on a
room stall there would add up to much damage to Texas
M’s campus, but University ofilcials argue it does.
&M charges students an average of about $7,200 each year
H)ay for damages to the campus, said Dan Mizer, assistant di-
Irelor of the Department of Residence Life.
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S 1 ),525.48 for damages. From 1998 to 1999 only, students were
rged $4,140.75.
Moses Hall was charged the most, costing residents a total of
into place, $12,330.68 during the 1990s.
need to Susan Foster, assistant director of dormitories administration,
the total. said students are charged for damage to residence halls when the
be." saidDt®rson who caused the damage cannot be identified.
C arter, reeicp “Group billing is holding the community responsible for the con-
admissions ^h° n oftheir facility,” she said. “Group billing is applied in a case where
records at,^ individual is not identified and does not come forward and accept
A&M((»P ons il , ility when there is reason to believe that it was a resident in
phone reg - the building.”
AlthoVI's Mizer said a majority of the billing was due to broken win-
has I28ac' C Y WS - About 70 residence hall windows are broken on campus
lines for re » c h Y ear > costing about $3,900 annually.
Carter saf. Students are only charged for damages if there is reasonable
are aW •, Su s P' c '°nthat students caused the damage and the damage costs
We than $1 per student in the damaged residence hall.
"Ourrationale has been [that] it is next to impossible to control
[hathappens outside the building, but we expect the students to take
onsibility for damages within the hall,” Mizer said in an email.
Students are charged for different fonns of vandalism.
1[ “The kinds of things we typically group bill for are excessive
fiesses, damaged ceiling tiles, vandalized or stolen interior build-
BY BRANDIE LIFFICK
The Battalion
Students will have a chance to express
their opinion about the proposed end to
early student worker registration at a fo
rum at 7 p.m. in 111 Koldus Student Ser
vice Building.
James Mickler, an organizer of the fo
rum and a senior English major, said mem
bers of the Academic Operations Commit
tee (AOC) and Faculty Senate will present
the reasons behind the proposal to end ear
ly registration for student workers.
A panel composed mostly of students
will be given the same amount of time as
the faculty to express concerns and objec
tions over the proposal.
“This is not a demonstration or a
protest. This is not a debate. Each side
will simply be given a set amount of time
to talk,” Mickler said. “There will be no
back and forth discussion.”
Kriss Boyd, AOC committee mem
ber and the general academic pro
grams director, said faculty will use
the forum as an opportunity to hear
student opinions.
“We are mainly going to be there to
answer questions and listen to student
concerns,” she said.
While Boyd did not express her opin
ion on the early registration issue, she
said that the current system does have
“many problems that desperately need to
be addressed.”
“For example, a student may regis
ter early as a student worker right now.
But who’s to say that the student will
stick with the job next semester?” Boyd
said. “That’s the biggest question mark
right now.”
Mickler said he is hoping for a good
turnout to demonstrate strong student op
position to the proposal.
“The number of students that show
up for this will really express what the
students think. The room holds 150
people. I’m really hoping that we will
overflow the room and let the faculty
know that we do care,” Mickler said.
“I’m asking that all students, whether
workers or not, come out and support
this cause.”
Mickler added that all student work
ers would be affected by the proposal.
“Not many realize that the term ‘stu
dent workers’ covers workers off campus
too,” Mickler said.
“Student who work at off-campus
locations will be just as affected by the
[AOC’s] decision as the on-campus
workers.”
The forum will be followed by a ques
tion and answer session.
“We organized this event in an effort
to open up the lines of communication
between faculty members and students,”
Mickler said
End Early Worker
Registration?
AOC, Faculty Senate, and
a student panel will discuss
ending student worker
registration
Tuesday 7 p.m.
Koldus room 111
Open to the public
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i to be as up-to-date as ['PE buildings after signs have been posted warning of possible
on system. We havetotf’ filings if boxes aren’t removed, and spray paint and chalk re-
the market and thecosi^'Rval,” Mizer said.
, thorough study hastolri’B Sgt. Betty Lemay of the University Police Department (UPD) said
in ine the cost of all thativ ■pt cases of criminal mischief reported to them include destroyed
hanges can he implemetw 18 ’ broken antennas from vehicles in parking lots, attempted auto
r ■. , 1 ' thefts that result in damage to the vehicle and destroyed bicycles.
■ Lemay said the best way to prevent vandalism on campus is to
^)ort any suspicious activity to UPD immediately.
“The biggest thing [students] can do to prevent [vandalism] as
I'hole is reporting suspicious activity,” she said. “That’s anything
if s out of place for the time of day or night it’s occurring. We can
everything we can, but we need the help of the students.”
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Freshman journalism major Sara Wilson reads passages from the Bible to passers by outside the Academic Building as part of Resurrection Week
2000, a week of Christian activities in preparation for Easter. Volunteers will read from the Bible 24 hours a day taking 30 minute shifts.
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“The first day a cross section
of people of different gender, age,
ethnicity, who have not consumed
any alcohol, will be trained how
to do evasive driving maneuvers
and we will determine how well
they perfonn,” Dennis said.
The testing maneuvers will in
clude evaluating how participants
respond to skids, simulations of
blocked roads and simulated ac
cidents. The evaluations test the
participants’ motor skills as well
as their decision-making skills.
“We try to involve as many
decision-making experiments as
possible,” Dennis said.
The second day the same tests
will be administered, but the par
ticipants in the experimental group
will receive alcohol.
“After they’ve consumed al
cohol we’ll give them blood and
breath tests. Then we’ll retest.
They’ll drink, then go drive, drink
then go drive and we’ll plot how
well they do. The control group
will do the same thing without al
cohol,” he said.
Dennis said the experiment is
See Driving on Page 2.
Resurrection Week hopes to unite,
reach Aggies across campus
INSID
BY STUART HUTSON
The Battalion
As Easter bunnies and chocolate cream eggs
hop their way into the minds ofhungry college stu
dents this week, Christian students are jumping
into action to spread understanding of their faith to
the A&M campus during Resurrection Week.
“Our mission is to unite all Aggie Christians
into a single body on campus, and to present the
power and effect Jesus has had on our lives to
those who don’t know the full story,” said Bejan
C4ct1olt1es
Tuesday
9 PM at Reed Arena
- Breakaway Ministries
Wednesday
7 PM at Rudder Auditorium
- Jars of Clay
Thursday
12:30 PM at Rudder Fountain
- Reenactment of Crucifixion
of Jesus Christ
Gabriel Ruenes/The Battalion
Nouri, president of the Resurrection Week
Committee and a senior political science major.
“Basically, we’re not about individual people,
churches or what preachers preach. This is all
about one guy who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
Resurrection week, held every year dur
ing the week prior to Easter Sunday, offi
cially began Sunday night with a “prayer
walk” where students participated in prayer
sessions at different locations on campus like
the bonfire site. Monday night, Dr. Kenneth
Long, a physician, who’s son died in a car ac
cident, spoke in Rudder Auditorium about
his personal journey to Christianity.
Tuesday night, Breakaway Ministries, a
weekly Christian worship service which reg
ularly attracts 3,000 to 4,000 participants,
will meet in Reed Arena.
“The major strength of this ministry is that
it is non-denominational,” said Greg Deitz,
discipleship chairperson of Resurrection
Week and a sophomore psychology major. “It
really strives to tear down the walls that sep
arate the different Christian denominations
and lets us all look towards Jesus Christ as the
unchanging, constant center of our faith.”
The Aggie Men’s Club and the Resurrec
tion Week Committee are co-sponsoring the
popular Christian band, Jars of Clay, who have
had a top-40 hit, “Flood,” and video play on
MTV, in Rudder Auditorium Wednesday night.
“It is an awesome ministry tool for a top
notch band like Jars of Clay to come play and
spread the word,” said Rob Kingsbury, the
concert chairperson for the Aggie Men’s
Club and a sophomore finance major. “They
are a Christian band that can attract a non-
Christian audience, so we hope those who
have not heard about Jesus will walk away
with a little more understanding.”
Money raised by the concert will benefit
Project Unity, a community service organi
zation who sponsors activities like weekend
activities for elementary school students who
do not have a safe area to play.
The week will end with a reenactment of the
crucifixion of Jesus at 12:30 p.m. Thursday near
Rudder Fountain. Nouri said the reenactment
has drawn negative criticism in recent years.
“In past years, people have viewed this as,
in some way, intolerant and as us throwing our
religion onto everyone whether they wanted it
or not,” Nouri said. “We are only trying to open
ourselves and our beliefs to those who don’t
know what the story is really all about.”
Jason Romero, president of the Agnostic
and Atheist Student Organization and a se
nior psychology major, said, as a whole, the
atheist and agnostic students find the reen
actment as neither offensive or unoffensive.
“We don’t necessarily have a particular
view,” Romero said. “We understand that
those putting it on are just expressing their
religion. But to me, it has always just seemed
kind of barbaric. It seems similar to a mi
nority organization coming out and pretend
ing to beat and strike a black person to get
the point across about minority rights.”
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