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April 26, 2000
Volume 106 ~ Issue 136
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he Department of Residence Life-held a
neel ing with the residents of fourth-floor Ep-
irighi on Sunday night to discuss the recent
nurder of Texas A&M sophomore mechan-
ca|engineering major Kerry Jason Kujawa.
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totleen the newspaper,” SueFostenassoci-
ite|lirector of Residence Life, said. “The
jurpi^e was to share that information with
hem and provide them with counseling and
lelp line numbers for students.”
^Iie 20-year-old’s body was discovered
in | ranch near Dripping Springs, 20 miles
west ofAustin, last Wednesday. He had been
shot in the back of the head and left without
shoes or socks.
JEmster said a police officer was present
on the fourth floor of Eppright Residence
Hall, and Kujawa’s room was sealed off
shonly after his body was discovered.
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friends and family he was going to San An
tonio to visit a girl he had met on the Inter
net and communicated with by email.
His car was found later at Easterwood
Airport in College Station where it had
been in long-term parking since Monday,
April 10 — the day he was scheduled to re
turn to A&M.
Texas A&M University Police Director
Bob Wiatt said a review of airport records in
dicates that Kujawa did not take a flight from
the airport during the weekend of April 7-10.
Wiatt said Department of Public Safety
(DPS) crime lab officials examined Ku
jawa "s car and dorm room Monday.
A Texas Department of Public Safety mo
bile crime laboratory was stationed in Mosh
er Circle Monday night.
“We had announced [to the fourth floor
of Eppright] on Sunday night that they [DPS]
would be there sometime Monday or Tues
day,” Foster said.
The truck was parked in Mosher Circle
for several hours. At approximately 2:20
a.m., the DPS investigators returned to their
vehicle with several paper bags and left.
UPD officers were with the DPS officials.
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lartment of Public Safety (DPS) investigators and UPD officers return to the
■S mobile crime laboratory just before 2:20 a.m. Tuesday morning after investi
gating Kerry Kujawa’s room. The vechicle was parked in front of Wells Hall in
sher Circle fo several hours and was guarded by a Texas A&M security guard
Wiatt declined to comment on what was
done in Kujawa’s room or what Was in the
bags. He said the investigation and analysis
is still underway.
“The UPD is working with the Texas
Rangers and DPS that had the crime labora
tory and the Hays County Sheriff’s Office,”
Wiatt said. “We are working diligently on the
case — all the agencies are.”
“We’re assembling the investigators’
notes and trying to get things in a tidy pack
age to figure out where to go from here,”
Wiatt told the Bryan-College Station Eagle.
Foster said events like this make students
more receptive to warnings about safety.
“When we have something that has hap
pened to a student in our community, it is
important to remind students of security
concerns,” Foster said. “I am going to uti
lize any opportunity I have to remind stu
dents of security.”
“People in our communities tend not to
think of those things happening to any of us,”
Foster said. “It is quite a surprise when some
thing like that happens to one of us.”
Kujawa’s mother had a warning to any
one who uses the Internet to meet people.
“You have to be very, very aware that you
don’t know who you are talking to on the In
ternet,” she said.
Days after Kujawa failed to return from
a weekend trip to San Antonio, his parents
received email messages claiming to be from
him, telling them not to worry because he
was still helping a woman named Kelly
whom he had met over the Internet.
The Hays County Sheriffs Department
said the reassuring email messages to Ku
jawa’s parents apparently were sent after he
was killed, from “Kelly’s” email account.
“It’s a bizarre and unusual case — very
bizarre,” Department of Public Safety
spokesperson Tom Vinger told the Houston
Chronicle.
Wiatt said one of the emails ended
with: “I’ll be back.in a few days. Every
thing is okay. Don’t worry, I’m still taking
care of Kelly.”
Funeral services are pending in Rosen
berg, where Kujawa graduated sixth in his
class of more than 500 students at Fort Bend
Austin High School in 1998. Rosenberg is 25
miles southwest of Houston.
BRIAN SMUH/The Battalion
Virginia Smith, a senior biology major, leads Fade to Black during practice at the Student
Recreation Center Monday night for their upcoming show. Fade to Black is a small dance
group that promotes the African-American culture. Their spring show will be held on Sun
day at 6 p.m. in Rudder Theatre.
lass Web use may lead to printing costs hike
BY BROOKE HODGES
The Battalion
Dr. Katherine E. Kelly’s, an associate English
professor, feels her use of the Internet to post es-
: says and class information instead of using print
outs makes students’.work easier, but according
to University officials, students may end up pay
ing for the convenience in the long run.
Dr. Pierce Cantrell, associate provost for In-
f formation Technology, said the Computing and
Information System (CIS) has noticed an increase
in the number of print-outs, and he believes it is
connected to more professors using the Internet
to distribute information.
“As more and more [professors] put class
notes on the Web, it will translate to an increased
number of prints,” Cantrell said.
He said this increase has led to a lack of fund
ing for the printouts which must be corrected.
Cantrell estimated that for the 1999 - 2000
school year, computer labs across campus will use
20 million sheets of paper. Labs include Open-
Access Labs in the Blocker building, the Reed
“As more and more [pro
fessors] put class notes
on the Web, it will trans
late to an increased
number of prints”
— Pierce Cantrell
associate provost for Information Technology
building, the Wisenbaker building and the West
Campus Library.
Tom Putnam, Director of CIS, said students
who are usually pay for printouts at professional
copy facilities may consider the lab printouts
“free,” but students are paying for them through
their Computer Access Fee.
“The estimated cost for September 1999
through August 2000 is close to one million dol
lars,” Cantrell said. “Currently $382,000 peryear
comes from the Computer Access Fees.”
' Cantrell said CIS has proposed a cost recov
ery plan which consists of two options currently
being discussed by the Student Senate.
One option is to give every student a quota,
or a set number of pages they can print out. Once
that quota is reached, a charge will be placed on
the student’s fee statement at the end of the
school year.
The quota has been proposed to be somewhere
near the range of $8.50 to $10.00 per semester,
equivalent to 150 to 200 pages. After the quota is
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to get new TV additions
BY CYRA GATLING “This is an interesting way to music and the other will offer Top
BY CYRA GATLING
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Resident Hall
\ssociation (RHA) passed the Col
lege Television Network (CTN)
bill, which will provide on-campus
tudents with new television chan-
els, Feb. 23,2001.
CTN will offer students a new
medium for receiving current
events and information on Texas
A&M programs and meetings.
“We hope to provide a new ser
vice for students,” said Cameron
Cushman, RHA director of public
relations and a sophomore political
science major.
Students will be able to view
these channels in their dorm rooms
and at other locations on campus.
Cushman said CTN will be an
educational and informational tool
that will expose many students to
news and upcoming events at
Texas A&M.
“I think the No. 1 benefit of
CTN is that it’s educational,” Cush
man said.
“This is an interesting way to
leam so I think students will enjoy it.”
Student organizations will have
the opportunity to post information
about their events on CTN.
There is a small chance that
CTN will be implemented during
the fall semester, Cushman said.
“We hope to install it over the
winter and have it ready for Spring
2001 so we can introduce it at the
beginning of the semester,” Cush
man said.
CTN will consist of three
channels.
The channels will be headline
news, which will be geared to stu
dents, and two music video chan
nels. One of the music video chan
nels will provide rap and hip hop
music and the other will offer Top
40 alternative and pop music.
This new television service will
be free to students.
The RHA plans to work with
AGY-TV, the Memorial Student
Centfer and Dean Endler in the
Department of Contract Admin
istration to develop a contract
with CTN.
KAMU will run CTN and will
provide the equipment. KAMU
will also install satellite dishes, run
wires and install television sets.
The RHA would like to see a
professional from CTN, a profes
sional from Texas A&M and stu
dent representatives work together
to decide on the future on-campus
locations for CTN.
The RHA is dedicated to provid
ing for the needs of on-campus res
idents by enhancing the on-campus
residential learning community.
“We want to provide this service
to students,” Cushman said. “We
hope to broadcast [supplemental in
struction sessions] for students who
See RHA on Page 2.
African-American family
to be topic of lecture series
BY MAUREEN KANE
The Battalion
On Wednesday night, Dr. Albert Brous
sard, a Texas A&M history professor and the
holder of the Elton R Lewis Faculty Fellow
ship, will discuss the hardships of the Stew
arts, an African-American family who strug
gled to lead their community during the
period of American westward expansion.
“It’s a three-generational history of a
black family based on a book that I published
in 1988, involving the principles of leader
ship in a black family,” Broussard said.
Broussard said he will trace the legacy of
the Stewart family through letters and corre
spondence that occurred from generation to
generation.
“They were an elite black family, but every
member of the family was seen as a natural
leader of the community,” Broussard said.
Broussard intends to focus on the final
generation of Stewarts who lived out West,
as well as the types of activism the family
was involved in.
“That was the generation that I inter
viewed, and that got me interested in the
Stewarts’ story,” Broussard said.
Both Broussard and Dr. John Weese, the
chairperson of Texas A&M University Dis
tinguished Lecture Series, said they believe
Wednesday’s lecture will be a success.
The University Distinguished Lecture
Series consists of faculty members from each
college, an undergraduate student, a gradu
ate student, representatives from the Memo
rial Student Center, and Library representa
tives. Their goal is to bring in distinguished
speakers to the University to speak on topics
that interest the University and community
and that are of broad interest to people.
Weese said that in the past, the Distin
guished Lecture Series has asked Dr. Sheila
Widnall, the first woman to serve as the sec
retary of the United States Air Force, to
speak, as well as Dr. Sherwood Rowland,
who spoke on ozone depletion and global
warming.
Broussard said that he has never attended
one of these lectures but looks forward to pre
senting his own lecture, and he expects sev
eral hundred people to attend — including
students, faculty and people from the com
munity. He said he would gladly participate
again and considers the invitation to speak for
the Distinguished Lecture Series an honor.
“I think I’m the first African American
professor to give a lecture for the Distin
guished Lecture Series at this University,
which is also something I’m really proud of,”
Broussard said.
Tickets for “The Stewarts: The Triumph
of an African-American Family” are re
quired to attend the lecture. They are free and
are available at the MSC Box Office from 11
a.m. to 8 p.m. The lecture will take place in
fhe auditorium of the Bush Presidential
School at 7:30 p.m.
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Ags' rally in nint
snap losing ways
• Let the cramming begin
On- and off-campus establish
ments provide longer hours dur
ing finals for students
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Brazos River March of Dimes.
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