WEDNESDAY
April 19,2000
Volume 106 ~ Issue 131
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BY CYRA GATLING
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The Battalion
Bristen Tarver, a 22-year-
dlenior architecture major,
as shot and killed by Gary
"Boughs, Tuesday on the
rairie View A&M University
Hus.
Burroughs, who was not a
Hnt at Prairie View, com-
ped suicide afterward by
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■Two witnesses to the shoot-
‘ ""tig, August Pro\ ()sl, a fresh-
m architecture major, and
Derek Dawson, a sophomore
ifflninal justice major, said
Burroughs pursued Tarver after
ne shot her in the leg and con
tinued to shoot her as he paced
7around her in a circle.
|| Burroughs then proceeded
to shoot into a crowd of people
'(So began to run and drop to
the ground, Dawson and
Provost said.
Stevens said an officer ar
rived at the scene and tried
to get Burroughs to put his
gun down.
He put the weapon under
neath his chin and shot himself
in the officer’s presence.
Provost and Dawson said
Burroughs pulled the gun’s
trigger four times before it fi
nally fired on the fifth attempt.
Police are still investigating
motives behind this tragedy as
well as the relationship be
tween Tarver and Burroughs,
Stevens said.
According to reports from stu
dent witnesses, Tarver and Bur
roughs may have been dating and
were going through a break-up.
“As.far as I know, there has
not been an incident like this in
the past,” Stevens said.
Currently, the campus cli
mate is in mourning, and stu
dents are gathering to unite and
say prayers for the victims and
their families.
There was a gathering at 5
p.m. at a fountain in the center
of the Prairie View' campus.
The University plans to
meet with students Wednesday
afternoon.
“Kristen was a good student
and a good person,” said Mar
shall Brown, a professor in the
school of architecture.
“The students, faculty and
staff are all sad about [the inci
dent], and hopefully things will
be back to normal soon.”
There are two roses that rest
were Tarver was shot.
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JP BEATO/The Battalion
(L) Samuel Allen, a senior psychology major at Prairie View A&M University, is comforted by Johnny Williams, a senior theater arts major, Tuesday evening at
Prairie View A&M University. A man and a woman were fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide. (Right-
top) Students bow their heads in prayer by the water fountain, (second right top) Shana Miller Comforts Jasmine Organ, a sophomore chemical engineering
major, (third right top) students mourn by the water fountain, (right bottom) a lone bouquet of flowers mark the spot where the man and woman were fatally shot.
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proposal before the Academ-
perations Committee (AOC)
vould end student worker early
egistration but allow other groups
Keep the privilege, said Donald
:er, Texas A&M registrar and
iC member.
barter revealed the terms of the
osal at a forum Wednesday
re an AOC panel explained the
biting behind their decision and
Havered students’ questions,
jn the proposal, which the
|C will consider at its meeting
»C
3t the experiment
today, athletes and students with
disabilities would keep their ear
ly registration status, but honors
students, who are currently in the
first group to register, would only
register before their respective
classes, Carter said.
A grandfather clause will al
low all student workers who reg
istered early this spring to contin
ue doing so.
“This is a question of fairness
and equity to all undergraduate stu
dents,” Carter said.
The AOC subcommittee ap
pointed to study the issue decided
that honors students and athletes
have special needs that justify ear
ly registration, Carter added.
“These athletes are recruited by
the University to play sports, and
for them to schedule their classes so
they can workout and participate as
a team is important,” Carter said.
Carter also dismissed the argu
ment that without early registration,
student workers would have diffi
culty finding classes that fit their
work schedule.
“We had student workers be
fore there was early registration,
and there was no problem then,”
Carter said.
The AOC decided to revisit the
issue after several groups, such as
yell leaders, resident hall advisors,
and the Aggie Dance Team, asked
for early registration status.
“We had to come to some poli
cy for who would be allowed to
register early,’’ Carter said.
“The advantage of preregis
tration disappears as the pool
gets larger.”
Carter added that students who
abuse the system by registering ear
ly and then dropping their job was
not a factor in the committee’s rec
ommendations.
1 lowever, AOC member Kriss
Boyd was quoted in an April 18 ar
ticle of The Battalion that such
abuse was one of the main prob
lems with the current system.
James Mickler, an organizer of
the event and a senior English ma
jor, said he was not convinced by
the AOC’s presentation.
“Students don’t work because
it’s fun; they do it because they
have to make ends meet, and early
registration just levels the playing
field against other students who
don’t have to juggle school and
work,” Mickler said.
Mickler, expressed similar con
cerns as other students who attend
ed the forum, said without early
registration, student workers might
not be able to schedule large blocks
of time during the day to work.
“I don’t understand why ath
letes, who already have it easier
with free tutors and other perks, and
honors students, take precedence
over the needs of working class stu
dents,” Mickler said. “All we have
is this small perk, and they want to
take it away from us.”
Mickler added he was disap
pointed by the low turnout at the
meeting, especially by'the ab
sence of Student Body President
elect Forrest Lane, who was
scheduled to attend.
“I don’t think SGA (Student
Government Association) is effec
tively representing the students on
this issue. I think most students are
opposed to this, except for maybe
a couple student senators,” Mickler
said, referring to two SGA repre
sentatives on the AOC panel.
Carter emphasized that any AOC
recommendations will not become
policy until ratified by the Faculty
Senate and administration, which is
unlikely to happen until next fall.
“This is a long way from being
resolved, and they will be opportu
nities for the students to voice their
opinions,” Carter said.
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BY ANNA BISHOP AND
STUART HUTSON
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■Friday
The men who are
larged with the task of in
juring that the investigation
jhto the cause of the 1999
iM‘ e bonfire collapse is
J-OJIV | r | 0rm e d thoroughly and
Bcurately will arrive in Col
lege Station to-
fax to begin
Jheir work.
■ The six en-
gineers from
around the nation were
eliosen as “peer review
ers.’’ of the Special Com
mission on the 1999 Ag
gie Bonfire report.
|| The reviewers tasks will
be to make certain that the
methods and analysis under
taken by the firms perform
ing the bonfire investigation
Were “rigorous and robust,”
said Leo Linbeck Jr., chair-
|erson of the Special Com-
mission on the 1999 Bonfire.
“Their job is basically to
lake sure that there were no
gaps or holes in our logic,”
Linbeck said. “Sometimes
when you work as closely to
a subject matter as the com
mission has to bonfire, it is
difficult to see some of your
own mistakes.”
Linbeck added that he
foresees no problems which
will arise from the peer re
view process which would
delay the Commission’s
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their final results.
“The final report has not
been assembled and final
ized as of yet, but the re
viewers will be working with
the report in the context of a
work in progress,” Linbeck
said. “They will go right to
work, and we are expecting
them to be finished some
time around Monday.”
The six engineers are
John W. Fowler, an indepen
dent engineering and con
struction consultant; German
Gurfmkel, a professor of civ
il engineering at the Univer
sity of Illinois; Monte L.
Phillips, a professor of civil
engineering at the Universi
ty of North Dakota; and Jim
D. Weithom, John D. Stew
art and David L. Teasdale
from Haag Engineering
Company, a company which
specializes in the analysis of
structural failure
and damage.
Fowler gradu
ated from Clem-
son University in
1948 with a degree in civil
engineering. His profession
al career has encompassed a
wide variety of complex and
diversified projects from
both an engineering and con
struction standpoint.
Fowler was employed by
the Tidewater Construction
Company for 29 years. He
was also assigned a special,
four-year assignment at the
site of the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge Tunnel as Project
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Page 10.
New Website offers Internet
auctions to B-CS community
BY ANNA BISHOP
The Battalion
In the present age of high technolo
gy, one can find most anything accessi
ble through the simple click of a mouse.
Collegiate Trading Company (CTC), an
Aggie-owned and operated Internet
company, wants to take the concept of
convenience one step further.
Aggietrade.com is an Aggie-based
Website which functions much like
other computer auction and trading
sites, such as Ebay.com.
Senior bioenvironmental science
major and Aggietrade.com user Chris
Rial said he would like to see this par
ticular Internet trading site spread
within the Aggie community.
“Aggietrade.com is so easy to use
— it is very accessible and self-ex
planatory. I have already received sev
eral bids on an item which I posted on
the site,” Rial said.
“I am optimistic that others will
leant of the wonders ol Aggietrade and
spread the word.”
Registration to Aggietrade.com is
free of charge and incentives are giv
en to those who choose to register. A
20-percent discount to Inspirations in
Post Oak Mall or a free drink at Zap-
atos Cantina encourages participation
in the Website.
Once registered, users have the op
portunity to sell items at a set price or
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place them on the auction block.
With the closing of the spring se
mester, the operator of the site said that
now is an opportune time for students
to sell textbooks, look for a roommate
or sublease for the summer.
“Selling textbooks on the Website
expedites reuse and cuts expenditures,”
Rial said. “Many times, students lose
money through the traditional method
of reselling texts to a bookstore.”
Junior agriculture business major and
Aggietrade.com user Cory Scott said he
is hooked on the new Aggie-based site.
“I sold a bike on the site last week,”
Scott said. “I likeAggietrade.com be
cause it is all local. If I want to buy a
car, then there is no driving to Dallas
involved.”
The operator of the site said that
shipping and handling costs are mini
mal, due to the locality of its users.
“The best thing about Aggietrade is
that is it free,” said Charlie Sutherland, a
freshman electrical engineering major.
Upon registration, a user agree
ment ensures the appropriateness of
items being auctioned and/or sold.
Users are then sent a password which
ultimately unlocks the door to the
wide world of buying and selling.
“I see the future ofAggietrade.com
as very bright. With a little spreading of
positive, personal experience through
buying and trading, I see it growing
more and more,” Sutherland said.
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