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April 28,2000
Volume 106 ~ Issue 138
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BY RICHARD BRAY
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Despite a proposal to cut the
quired number of kinesiology
edits from four to two, the
epartment of Health and Ki-
[esiology does not expect to
re any employees.
Frank Thomas, the chair of
e physical education activity
rogram, said the earliest the
roposal would go into effect
ould be Fall 2001.
Dr. Jack Wilmore, professor
|nd head of the Department of
ealth and Kinesiology, said
udents already enrolled will
ave the choice of staying with
le current curriculum or adopt-
ngthc new requirements.
“All students that are here
llready will have the option
If staying w ith the present
Hequirement or they can go
]o the new requirement. We
trongly suspect that there
be many students who
llectto stay with the present
|equirements,” he said.
Wilmore said he does not
xpect the Department of Kirre-
iology to be affected by the
jroposal for another four years.
“In the meantime we’re
loping that we can build sup-
)ort for an elective program
ivhere there would he a seam-
ess transition without a large
drop in student credit hours,”
ne said.
Thomas said until that time
lomes, they hope to decrease
mployment solely through
ittrition.
Wilmore said the depart
ment will do everything possi-
)le to keep all of the faculty
mployed.
Our commitment is to
maintaining our faculty and
lot laying off anybody,” he
aid. “We have an excellent
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faculty, and they have been
very faithful to the department.
Our goal is to keep these peo
ple employed.”
Thomas said they would try
to maintain student enrollment
in kinesiology courses Jby of
fering more sections of popu
lar classes.
“We’re going to try and of
fer activities that w ill entice the
students to take more than the
required two,” he said. “We’re
going to be looking at a lot of
our most popular classes and
try to keep the number of sec
tions fairly large.”
Thomas said that in the
event of a downsizing, graduate
assistants would be the first to
be fired.
“We have a staff of about 30
full-time lecturers and about 27
graduate assistants,” he said.
“We will lower the number of
graduate assistants first, and
then, if we have to, reduce the
faculty beyond that.”
Julie Barber, a Department
of Health and Kinesiology lec
turer, said she received a memo
from the department allaying
fears about job security.
“From what we’ve heard,
it’s not going to affect people’s
jobs,” she said.
Wilmore said other depart
ments have faced the same
challenge in the past.
“There have been other pro
grams that have gone through
this, and there’s a little bit of a
dip in student credit hour gen
erations for the first three or
four years, and then it starts go
ing up again,” he said.
Wilmore said the depart
ment will continue to offer
quality courses.
“Our goal is to try to contin
ue to stay on the cutting edge of
what’s going on,” he said. "I
think if you were to compare
the variety of cours
es we have here with
any other institution,
you would find that
we would he far
ahead. Our intent is
to maintain that
unique distinction
between us and oth
er programs.”
Wilmore said he
understands why
there is a need to de
crease course re
quirements in cer
tain departments.
“We realize that
what has happened
is that with the
knowledge explo
sion. There has been
a tremendous in
crease in the number
of courses required
for students to grad-
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class at Penberty on Tuesday. to delete courses.”
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1999 Aggie Bonfire Collapse”
> Friday May 5.2000
Kujawa left College Station to
moot "Kelly" a person he
met online and planned to
meet in San Antonio
Murder suspect arrested
Lockwood charged in the death of Kerry Kujawa
Kulawa’s hody found shot in the
back of the head and left
on a ranch outside of Austin
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•Lockwood gives Hays
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Department a full
confession and admits
to posing as "Kelly"
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RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
BY MEREDITH HIGH!
The Battalion
Kenny Wayne Lockwood, a
31-year-old San Antonio man,
was arrested Thursday in the
death of Texas A&M student
Kerry Kujawa.
Kujawa, a junior mechanical
engineering major, was found
dead on a ranch outside of Austin
shot in the back of the head, last
Wednesday, April 19 after being
reported missing April 17.
Authorities said they believe
Kujawa was killed shortly after
he left College Station on April
7 to meet a girl named “Kelly”
from San Antonio, whom he had
met over the Internet.
Lockwood admitted to po
lice that he had been posing as
Kelly in Internet chatrooms
and in email correspondence
with Kujawa.
Kujawa told friends he
would return to College Station
on April 10. After days had
passed and he failed to return,
Kujawa’s parents received
email messages purportedly
from him.
The emails usually ended
with: “I’ll be back in a few
days, everything is okay. Don’t
worry, I’m still taking care of
Kelly.”
Authorities said the emails to
Kujawa’s parents were sent af
ter he was killed.
“Kelly’s” email address was
used to send the email messages
to Kujawa’s parents and friends,
officials said.
Authorities said tracing the
emails from Lockwood were
key in cracking the case.
Bob Wiatt, director of the
University Police Department
(UPD), said Lockwood has
used the email address to corre
spond with at least one other
A&M student.
According to the Associated
See Lockwood on Page 2.
Pie ’R squared
STUART VILLANUEVA/Ti it- Baitai ion
Senior biomedical science major Kathryn Potter smashes a pie in the face of Ken Gassiot, the Lechner Hall Director, in front of the Memorial
Student Center on Thursday. The pieing was a part of Honors Week festivities.
University to improve campus safety
BY KIMBERLY OLSON
The Battalion
Hollie Scott, a sophomore environmental
design major, is reluctant to walk back to her
on-campus residence hall late at night.
“Certain spots of the campus are dark,”
she said. “I get scared after leaving the li
brary after dark.”
Texas A&M’s Security Awareness Com
mittee held a Campus Lighting Tour in order
to alleviate this problem.
Gene Stewart, the Superintendent of Fa
cility Maintenance, believes there is always
room for improvement.
“There are some areas on campus that
could use additional lighting, and there are
some areas that do not,” he said.
According to Elmer E. Schneider, chair
of the security awareness committee and
associate director of the Texas A&M Uni
versity Police Department, the tour suc
ceeded in identifying specific areas which
need enhancement.
Schneider said lighting becomes a
problem in the spring because the increase
in foliage can interfere with the intensity
of the brightness emitted.
“A lollipop light set in the midst of tree
limbs can make the level of light too low,
or a tree’s canopy can lower the level of
light,” Schneider said.
In addition to campus lighting, the
committee also discussed issues involv
ing student safety awareness regarding
the security of residence halls.
Schneider advised residents not to prop
open front doors or allow people to “tail
gate” them inside the hall because this de
feats the purpose of the security system.
“Everyone needs to be security con
scious and aware of his or her surround
ings,” he said.
As a result of student input, 16 addi
tional phones.will be installed around
campus.
The phones will be for emergencies but
will also be accessible for everyday use.
Faculty Senate, SGA support
online format of rule book
RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
BY MATT LOFTIS
The Battalion
In Fall 2000, students may be getting
fewer forms at their freshman orientation.
The Faculty Senate and the Student Govern
ment Association support a plan to discon
tinue the mass-printing of student rule books
for distribution at the beginning of each year.
Texas A&M students seem apathetic
about the new circulation method, though.
Courtney Ferguson, a freshman biomedical
science major, said that if the new plan saved
money and trees then it is a good idea, she
was not sure that a lot of students paid atten
tion to the rules at all, anyway.
“I think it’s a good idea,” said Fergu
son. “Does anybody read those things in
the first place?”
The proposal would drastically reduce
the amount of rule books printed each year
and would focus efforts on advertising the
Website where the rules can be found, said
Dr. Tom Wehrly, speaker for the Faculty Sen
ate. Rule books would still be available upon
request from certain places but they would
not be routinely passed out.
“Looking at something on a screen is a lot
different than looking at something in your
hands,” said Wehrly, a professor in the sta
tistics department.
Dr. Brent Paterson, chair of the rules and
regulations committee and dean of Student
Life, said the rule books are printed through
University Relations and that the idea of
changing the way the books are printed has
been considered for a few years. He said that
"I think being on
the Web is a for
mat that is easier
and, in some cases,
more accessible
than going some
where to get [stu
dent rule books]."
— Dr. Brent Paterson
Chair of the rules and regulations
committee and dean of Student Life
with a Web version, students could search
for the specific sections they needed and
graduate and undergraduate rules could be
easily separated.
“I think being on the Web is a fonnat that is
easier and, in some cases, more accessible than
going somewhere to get one,” said Paterson.
Forrest Lane, student body president and
a senior political science major, said that it
was expensive to print enough copies for
every student and that, provided the decision
is implemented, there will be publicity to en
sure all students are aware of the change and
where they can find the rules. At the moment.
Lane said information is being gathered
about where books should be located on
campus and how many should be there.
Lane said he is in favor of the plan, as long
as it is made accessible to all students.
Most students, however, seem uncon
cerned about the possible changes for the rules
books. Freshman business major Robert
Stevener said that he was in favor of the idea
because of all the wasted paper and extra mon
ey it usually takes to distribute the rules.
“I think it would be a good idea because
most students don’t care to go through it
anyway,” said Stevener. “Now the students
w ho actually care can just get them.”
Other students do not care at all about
how the school circulates the student rules.
Freshman geography major Erin Volny said
that she had never even read the rules and
probably will not in the future.
“It doesn’t even matter to me,” said Vol
ny. “I don’t even think I ever read my school
rules book. I just put it on my shelf.”
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