Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 2000)
vided covering fire,; "All that could out (by air) weretai Arun said. The rescue coni] turned Sunday h Daru. A U.N. number of Indian drivers, who h Kc among the detains ; H) ^ with the convoy The rescue car months after up- ?d a : ire, 1 20 Idy bu, ob- 1 ill wn 200 ear eed ith ent om ips wn de- by ro- reignited Sierra Leoit year civil war by lam tacks and capturing hostages. Those were disarmed, and after several weeks, Four peacekeepers jured Saturday no known U.N. cast Sunday's fighting,Am The rebels si merous casualties in day's fighting, ao U.N. officials Maj. Gen. Vijayleii commander of Sierra U.N. force, praised tit mission as a success that the peacekeepersf further "robust"open secure Sierra Leone threatened by the retd] legents to receive growth proposal &M plans to expand Wehner Cooling off Maureen Kane The Battalion A proposal recommending a 48,400- loss-square-foot expansion of the'Wehn- | College of Business Building on West ampus will be sent to the Board of Re- pts July 28. If it is accepted, construction [ill begin in Fall 2001. Philip Haas, architectural project lanager for facilities and planning at xas A&M, said the the budget must ; approved before the expansion Con- ruction can begin. "The Board of Regents has to approve le amount that we are going to spend - ley have to approve the money for the esign," Haas said. "Once we get that ap- roval we can go ahead with the design, nd we arrive at a fee." Haas said that, if the program is ap- The decision, made ate: (roved, a construction contract will be News in Brief CANN to asslj lew Web suffic YOKOHAMA, Japan he private corporation ng changes on the Inti iroved the creation Si he first new top-level ames on the computernett ince the 1980s. arence in Japan by the Intel :orporation for AssignedNi nd Numbers, will bringadi egotiated in early September 2001. Construction is tentatively scheduled to existing Web site suffixessi ’ e g' no >' 1 Nyv. 1, 2001, and conclude in s ’’.com” and ".org." nany more suffixes or to'I 'ill be used remains to 'orked out. Jigerian pipel explosion kills2i LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)-« ays after an explosion insmi! rn Nigeria killed 200 peopled nging fuel, an unrelated pipe! last Sunday .left dozens dead esses and reporters said, jpring 2003. Benton Cocanougher, dean of busi ness administration, said the growth of tire business college makes expansion [necessary. "Asa college, we've had significant growth," Cocanougher said. "There was a wing built into the original plans. We knew there was going to be a need for additional space. We are a big college and had a lot of problematic growth, so his is a necessary expansion." Cocanougher said the expansion will The latest explosionOtf >enefit students, faculty and staff. He i the early morning on arte veen the villages of aid the addition will include class- ooms, a networking lab ala, 3 miles south oftheoilf 1 ind a trading center, f Warn, a reporter forlaf inguard newspaper said. Many of the victims were aved to be vandals histicated pumps to lel from the pipeline ii aats, witnesses saidonco' an of anonymity. It was unclear what spa ie blaze, which caused el drums to explode aread a slick of fire across ieed of space," Griffin ater surface. A numbei aats were destroyed. in. We teach one-third of our classes in oth er buildings. We are hoping to be able to teach all of our classes in our building." Griffin said the new computer capa bilities provided by the additional wing will help the college keep up with oth er universities. "One of the things that is an integral part of a business college is a trading cen ter for students to experience simulated market trading," Griffin said. "They will have access to the same kind of informa-- tion a stockbroker has access to. Most ma jor business schools (including the busi ness school at the University of Texas) either have a trading center or are in the process of building one. This is going to benefit students, faculty and the whole college. It will be easier for students be-' cause all of the classes will be centrally lo cated, with new state-of-the-art facilities for students." Haas said the facilities planning divi sion will oversee the design activity of the architectural team. "Our job is to make sure they follow the rules and stay within the budget and schedule that have been established," Haas said. "The selected team maintains ultimate responsibility for the plans." The architectural team will be selected if the proposal is accepted. The total budget for the Wehner build ing is $11 million, $8.7 million of which will be spent on construction. Griffin said the other $2.3 million will be spent on furniture. He said one-third of the money will come from external donors and two- thirds will come from the University. Steve Stravinsky, a junior landscape architecture major, and Byron Whisnant, a sophomore at Blinn College, try to beat the heat with a waterhose after working in the flower beds. Conferences welcome freshmen Ricky Griffin, execu te associate dean of msiness administra- ion, said that five new ving will provide the drums loaded on sei msiness school with leeded space, as well as improved technological esources. "We are in desperate aid. "We had outgrown Vehner before we moved Plans to expand Wehner Building include additional classrooms, a trading center and a networking lab. Joseph Pleasant The Battalion Koby West, a freshman computer science major, recently visited Texas A&M for his new student conference and was overwhelmed. "I was pretty confused until the second day when they started to get more individual- based," West said. West is one of the estimated 6,700 incoming freshmen who will be attending new student conferences this summer. Vanessa Clark, coordinator for Student Life Orientation, said the purpose of new student conferences is to tell students what will be re quired of them when school begins in the fall. "The goal is to give students the information they need to get started at A&M," Clark said. During new student conferences, incoming freshmen and their parents participate in op tional on-campus activities, as well as required sessions such as placement testing and regis tering for classes. Clark said the process can be confusing for students if they need to ac complish many things be fore the conference ends. "Depending on the stu dents' required activities, the student conference can be very hectic," Clark said. West said his required activities left little time for the other things he needed to do. "The schedule did not allow for much free time to do some of the things I needed to do, such as get my student ID made," West said. One of the activities available to students is campus tours led by stu dent orientation leaders. See Conferences on Page 4. Tom Meriwether, a senior mechanical engineering major, and Chris Farnie, a junior marketing major, lead a group of incoming freshmen past the southside residence hall on a campus tour >ensioi eprimam, ope remains for apartment searchers News in Brief Anna Bishop The Battalion Little more than a month Before the fall semester be- on of Mubarak for a fourtl gins, transfer student and for a piece critical of fornieifsophomore business m'ajor lister Kamal el-Ganzoury Jana Thompson breathes a Vfubarak "is more tolera» : ligh of relief as she signs a ministers," Fahmy said [lease, ensuring her an apart- ilsters behave as if theu| ment t0 call home for the ; their mother's farm." |j, ext \2 months, iince the passing of a was getling a mtle wor _ 7 .!??T £ !!L CTa !j°l m ,fJ ied 'would not have a place jo live this fall," Thompson aid. "Leases were falling rough and my roommates jhanged. I can take a deep breath now that my room- nates and I have found an a barred from writing for' ods. At least six have bes'i ibel charges. Three indep r spapers have been shut do'] Tafez Abu Saada, secretarq f the Egyptian Organiza'j nan Rights, was orderedii' t | ebruary after a newspaperf : a P ar f men f complex we like he accepted a $25,000 chff a nd the stress of looking is itish parliamentary con#W e hind us." m for writing a report that® Students like Thompson ce of abusing some 400 l Bhould consider themselves [ortunate to have found a place is late in the summer, said as- iistant coordinator of off-cam- us services Jennifer Ford. "Students are still scurrying Iround the Bryan-College Sta- istians in southern Egypt i 1 ] Jnder pressure from local- ational activists, the g dually accepted that received the money for a " V S I aid project. The trial wasU tion area frantically searching for a place to live," Ford said. Nevertheless, Ford said students should not worry yet about finding a place to live this fall. "Believe it or not, students who have 'pro crastinated this far into the sum mer are not alone, and many complexes are understanding and ready to help out," Ford said. The Texas A&M Depart ment of Student Life publishes an Off-Campus Survival Manu al, which can be picked up in the John J. Koldus Student Ser vices Building. The manual lists apartment complexes in the B-CS area and offers ad vice for students in need of housing for the fall semester. Students can refer to the student life Web page at stu- dentlif e .tamu.edu/occs and Apartment complexes will continue ac cepting leases until all apartments are full. access "AggieSearch" for addi tional help with finding room mates and apartments still leasing for the fall semester. Walden Pond Apartments recruiter and sophomore bio medical science major Jaime LaFont said apartments in the complex she represents have filled quickly. "This summer alone, 1 sus pect Walden Pond Apartments has turned down over 100 stu dents due to filled-up leases," LaFont said. "We have to turn down students daily. "Most of these students are incoming freshmen or stu dents from out of state who don't know how quickly leas es fill up in the B-CS area," La Font said. She said that when she has to turn students away, she refers them to other apartment complexes in the area. LaFont said there is also a list of available apartments in the Department of Student Life, and the list is updated frequently. PITS implements new parking permit design, maps When students receive their parking permits information for Fall 2000, they may be surprised to discover and where the new design of the permits will now include games. For parking information catl 979>8S2PARK or visit our web page at www-ptts tamu.edu. tf you no longer need to park on campus, please return your permit to PITS to receive a pro-rated refund. The permit has no refund value during the last month for which it is valid. if you park m a designated 12"' Man parking area, please remember to move your vehicte before 6:30 p.m. the evening before the game Piease see our website for the 12” Man tot locations and Srtsrncitfc paring srsss. MU PARKING about the 2000 football schedule cars can be parked during the Key chains with the 2000 football schedule and parking information will also be dis tributed to red lot parking per mit holders this fall. Along with the redesigned permits, the department of Parking,Traffic and Trans portation Services (PTTS) will issue new parking maps to display areas where stu dents can park. Thomas Williams, director of PTTS, said the parking lots around Kyle Field will become resi dent parking in.the fall to ac comodate students who feel unsafe walking to their dorms late at night from West Campus parking lots. Williams said the transfor mation of these lots from commuter to resident park ing is also intended to re duce traffic on Wellborn Road in preparation for the construction of the West Campus parking garage, slat ed to begin in November. PTTS also plans to work with Aggie Mom’s clubs to re mind students to move their cars on game days.