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merous casualties in
day's fighting, ao
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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
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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.