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June 20,2000
Volume 106-Issue 155
6 pages
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&M-area parking to change
Parkins changes in the Nerthgate Area
Adrienne Ballare
The Battalion
Different parking changes on campus and in
eNorthgatearea will take effect Fall 2000. The
epartmentof Parking, Traffic and Transporta-
)n Services (PTTS) and the city of College Sta-
tion are working to make Texas A&M Univer-
\ice President for Sti; s j t and College Station a less confusing traffic
lairs Dr. J. Malon Souther a | ea anc j sa f er f or pedestrians and cyclists.
Ihompson will play an actiB Douglas Williams, associate director of
in the determination of thaJA'] 5, ggj^ (j ur j n g the upcoming fall semester
uation of bonfire, butth students with red parking permits will only
has not been made as to fallowed to park on main campus. Students
I hompson will be bonfirwB^yyg permits will only be allowed
tbparkon West Campus, with the exception of
"He will definitely bean tbt , b[ue Zachary Lot
tant part of the process, n Williams said they are making lot changes
land said. Butwewillseeab(M ietot | ie cons t ruc tion of the future 932-space
(the adviser position) when« estCampus parkiri g garage, which will be lo-
comes."
cated between John Kimbrough and the Recre
ation Center and the pedestrian passage way.
"We want to reduce the vehicles and pedes-
trians from crossing Wellborn Road during
construction, because the roadway capacity
will not accommodate the expected demand,"
Williams said.
Williams said in order to complete this pro
ject they will have to close John Kimbrough
from Olsen to Wellborn. During construction
Wellborn Road will reduce its five lanes to two
lanes northbound, one lane southbound and
no turning lanes.
"There will be less options available to en
ter West Campus," Williams said. "A tempo
rary railroad track will be built to accommo
date construction of the passageway."
Williams says there will be more parking
available for off-campus students and, during
the evenings, students with blue parking per
mits will only be allowed to park in staff lots
that are not 24-hour reserved.
"Overall there will be more blue physical
spaces on campus, and during the evenings
students with blue permits will have more op
tions of parking on main campus, because you
will not have red and green permits compet
ing for staff lots," Williams said.
Student Body President Forrest Lane said
student government is working with PITS to
develop a concrete solution for parking.
Lane said to help enhance the options of
parking on main campus in the evenings, stu
dents with blue permits will be allotted free
parking in the University Center Garage.
Kofi Barkoh, a junior biomedical engineer
ing major said he feels the changes being made
on campus are ridiculous.
"Parking and traffic is going to be outra
geous. We're going to have detours around
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going to be a big
horrendous
problem for
those living off-
campus," Barkoh
said. "I don't see
how it's going to
decrease traffic
too much or safe
ty. You have all
those people
commuting off-
campus. You're
going to have a
congested Wellborn and a congested George
Bush," Barkoh said.
Williams said the desired objective is to re
duce the competition for spaces on campus.
"It will reduce the competition for spaces and
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Williams said the benefits of these new lot
changes are less pedestrian and vehicle traffic
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Students to be charged for
excessive copies
Joseph Pleasant
The Battalion
I Students accustomed to
multiple-copy printing in the
student computing labs on
iampus will notice changes
this fall. Beginning Fall 2000,
students printing more than
150 pages per semester wi 11 be
charged for each additional
page they print.
I Thomas Putnam, director
of Computing and Informa
tion Services, said the increase
■suits from the rising volume
of printing on campus.
■ Putnam said printing costs
have risen from $600,000 in
1998 to an estimated $850,000
in fiscal year 2000.
"We are trying to recover
cost of printing," Put-
m said.
Currently, students have
unlimited printing privileges
in the computer labs. Begin
ning this fall, each student
will receive an allocation of
150 black and white pages
per semester to print. The
cost of printing is included in
the student computing fees.
Dnce the number of pages
las exceeded this amount, a
charge of 4.9 cents per page
will be added to the student's
fee statement.
■ Putnam said the charges
will be added at the end of
:he semester, so students will
need to pay the charge to
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PRINTING POLICY
- Chars* 4.9 cent* p#r copy for Black and
Whil# + 8,25% in state tax for each copy
over allotted amount
- Black and White, Color and apadatty
printing billed together
- No need to *at up a separate account for
color or specialty printing
COMPARED TO :
University of Texas at Austin
-10 cents per copy
- no etlocation
Kinko's
- 49 cents per printed page
- 20 cents per minute CPU usage ,
Copy Comer
- 50 centt per printed page
- Pages printed from disk by Copy Corner
avoid being blocked from
registering.
Onedia Sylvest, associate
director of Computing and In
formation Services, said the
new policy is designed to affect
only the students who print ex
cessive amounts of pages.
"Most students will not re
ceive a bill," Sylvest said.
Syl vest also said safeguards
have been added to computers
so students do not accidentally
print more than they want.
"Computers in the labs
around campus are equipped
with pauses that prompt the
student before it continues
printing when the job is in ex
cess of 100 pages," Sylvest said.
"We want to protect stu
dents with the pause from
using their allocation by mis
take," she said.
Student reaction toward
the change is mixed.
Emily Funkhouser, a se
nior recreation, parks and
tourism major, said a type of
printing regulation is neces
sary on campus.
"Some people go crazy
printing out things that have
nothing to do with school,
and that is wasteful," she said.
Michelle Nafegar, a senior
speech communication major,
said the allocation is too low
when considering the amount
of printing students must do
for certain classes.
"Some students have to
print in the labs, and
if they need to get
something off of
reserve and the
professor has eight
chapters, that can
be 100 pages,"
Nafegar said.
Marie Johnson,
a senior agricultur
al development
major, said stu
dents already pay
enough in comput
er fees for printing.
"There is so
much that we
have to print for
class, and I think
our fees cover
that substantial
ly," she said.,
Firing up the pit
Marcel Quintero, a grill and sautee chef at a local restaurant, prepares chicken on the barbie for a customer.
Work hour increase proposed
April Young
The Battalion
Student workers who have been ac
cepted into the college work-study pro
gram through financial aid may be able to
work more hours if a proposal made by
Student Financial Aid Services is passed.
Jim Lane, assistant director of financial
aid, said some student workers on the
work-study program have expressed con
cern because work-study hours are cur
rently limited to 20 hours per week.
Lane said the 20-hour limit was a
problem for students because they were
getting paid less than regular student
workers who have no limit on the
amount of hours they can work.
"Because of the University policy, stu
dents would cancel their work study and
get loans because [the hours] weren't
enough to make it worth their while,"
Lane said.
Nora Cargo, student employment ad
ministrator, said the increase in work-
study hours was also brought on by a
change in federal policy.
"Federal regulations no longer regulate
the number of hours a student can work,"
Cargo said. "It's now defined by the
amount of financial aid the student has
been awarded. For example, if someone is
allotted $1,500 in work study, and they are
making $5.15 per hour, they would be al
lowed to work more hours than someone
making $7 per hour who has been award
ed the same amount."
“If I ever needed to
work more hours, I
would just drop
work study and take
out more loans”
— Layne Bryant
junior computer science major and
work-study employee
Lane said the increase in student work
er hours would offer students on work
study the same opportunities as students
not on work study, as far as the number of
hours they would be able to work.
Cargo said if the proposal is passed,
students will be able to maximize their
work-study privileges.
"The proposal would increase hours
and also increase award, meaning [stu
dents] will have the opportunity to earn
more," she said. "We are hoping this will
make them more attractive to employers
on campus and, instead of taking on more
loans, we are hoping to give them more
work study so they can decrease their
debt. This will be less for [students] to pay
back when they graduate."
But Layne Bryant, a work-study em
ployee and junior computer science ma
jor, said he is unaffected by the hour limit
because he has never worked more than
20 hours per week.
"1 have always been able to meet my
costs, but I can see how if people wanted
to v/ork more, the limit could be prohibi
tive," he said. "If I ever needed to work
more hours, I would just drop work study
and take out more loans."
From Fall 1999 to Fall 2000, approxi
mately 800 students were on the work-
study program and, this summer, more
than 260 students are enrolled in the work-
study program.
Currently, the Office of Financial Aid is
waiting to hear whether the proposal will
be passed from Vice President for Student
Affairs Dr. J. Malon Southerland.
Court
rules on
prayer
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — The U.S.
Supreme Court's decision Monday to
limit student-led prayer at football games
left school board members disappointed,
confused and a little defiant, while oppo
nents of the invocations celebrated.
"We were hoping to get some delin
eation from the Supreme Court, and what
we got was a blurring of what citizens'
free-speech rights are," said John Couch II,
president of the Santa Fe Independent
School District board for the last two years.
He was reacting to the court's 6-3 rul
ing that the high school in this southeast
Texas town improperly sponsored reli
gion by allowing the majority-Baptist
student body to elect someone to give an
invocation before football games.
Two women, whose names have not
been made public, sued the district to
eliminate prayer from pfegame activi
ties. Both still have children in the district
and’ were elated by the decision, said
friend Debbie Mason.
"Thank God, thank God," said Ma
son, an American Baptist who has put
four children through the district.
"This time it was football games, next
it could have been the classroom," Ma
son continued. "It is a slippery slope.
This school district knew what it was do
ing and kept pushing and pushing."
During a news conference Monday in
the school administration building, just a
few yards from the football stadium,
three members of the seven-person board
decried the ruling that student speech in
such a public forum is not protected.
Board member Robin Clayton indi-
, cated that formal pregame prayers might
be a thing of the past, but noted that the
school district cannot control what stu
dents or others say on their own.
"Spontaneous things happen, don't
they," Clayton said. Board members
added that they would address the
now-defunct policy at a future meeting
and did not know what kind of rules
would replace it.
Asked whether a student might be
disciplined for trying to pray over a
loudspeaker at a football game or other
venue. Couch became emotional and
broke down as he spoke.
"There could just be no way I would
be involved in disciplining a student for
their free-speech rights," he said.
A lawsuit filed by Marian Ward, a
graduated senior who won an injunction
last fall to continue delivering pregame
prayers despite a similar appellate court
ruling, remains pending. Neither board
members nor her father, the Rev. Bob
Ward, knew what the Supreme Court
ruling meant for the lawsuit.