WEDNESDAY
October 11,2000
Volume 107 ~ Issue 33
12 pages
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spaces surrounding Reed Arena relocated to Post Oak Mall
lus for the Conference for the Ad
vancement of Science Teaching
(CAST).
Parking lots surrounding Reed
Arena will be reserved for CAST
members Friday and 19 buses will
be pulled out of regular service to
accommodate the conference, said
News in Brief
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BRANDON HENDERSON/The Battauon
Angela Newman, Parking, Traffic
and Transportation Services
(PTTS) communications specialist.
Lot 101, a new lot, will remain
closed to students until next week.
Lot 102S (regularly a student
parking lot) will be closed to student
parking Thursday
and Friday.
In addition, lots
101, 102N, 102W
and 102E will be
closed Friday as
more conference
participants ar
rive.Lots 56, 61,
63, 97, 103, 104
and the Zachry lot
will remain open,
said Doug
Williams, PTTS
associate director.
Friday’s lot clo
sures will be a
“major ordeal” for
students and PTTS
alike, Newman
said.
Students are di
rected to carpool to
campus or park at
Post Oak Mall in the J.C. Penney
parking lot. Nine shuttles from
Coach USA of Houston were char
tered by PTTS and will run non
stop routes between the mall and
three sites on campus from 7. a.m.
to 7 p.m.: Clark Street on the west
side of the Memorial Student Cen
ter (MSC), the Wehrier Building
and the water tower on Asbury
Street.
All off-campus buses will be
free both days, but because of the
conference's use of buses, New
man said, PTTS cannot guarantee
regular operation of the buses, nor
the frequency of the routes.
All lots not closed off will be
functional for blue commuter
parking, Newman said.
A&M President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen invited the conference to
the campus, said PTTS Director
Tom Williams, and A&M stu
dents, faculty and staff must ac
commodate the conference as a
guest.
CAST, which is geared toward
science teachers, hosts more than
600 short courses, including field
See Parking on Page 2.
Judo trip
KEVIN BURNS/The Battalion
Jim Jaggers, a freshman general studies major, gets thrown by Roy
Carniato, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, at the Texas
A&M Judo team practice. The team will compete at the Go Shibata
Memorial Judo competition Saturday at the Student Recreation Center.
Students begin petition to alter Bonfire’s future
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By Rolando Garcia
The Battalion
f Concerned that a hallowed tradi
tion will turn into a hollow gesture, a
roup of students is circulating a pe-
tion urging Texas A&M adminis-
ators to reconsider the limitations
laced on future Aggie Bonfires.
The petition is protesting the elim-
ihation of “cut,” limited student in
volvement and leadership in building
1 Bonfire, and the two-year hiatus of
lie tradition.
According to parameters set by
A&M President Dr. Ray M. Bowen,
when Bonfire resumes in 2002, it
will be built with precut lumber un
der the close supervision of a profes
sional engineer.
“In talking to other students, I
found that most don’t support an
off-campus bonfire, but they don’t
support Bowen’s restrictions ei
ther,” said Becky Bartschmid, a pe
tition organizer and sophomore
journalism major. “But so far, the
administration isn’t listening, and
the Student Senate hasn’t really
spoken for the students.”
The petition was initiated and al
ready has 300 signatures, Bartschmid
said.
What most concerns petition sup
porters is that Bonfire built under the
new restrictions will offer few op-
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port an off-campus bonfire, but they don't
support Bowen's restrictions, either."
— Becky Bartschmid
petition organizer and sophomore journalism major
portunities for student involvement
and leadership. Without cut, the
teamwork and camaraderie that char
acterized past Bonfires will be lost,
they said.
“One person can’t cut down a tree
and carry it out of the woods,” said
Suzanne Hill, a junior meteorology
major. “Everyone has to work to
gether, and when you get worn out,
you rely on each other for motiva
tion. It’s just a great bonding experi
ence, and you make so many
friends.”
Petition supporters also assert that
one year should be sufficient time to
plan a safe Bonfire, and that waiting
until 2002 would threaten the tradL
tion’s future.
“We need to have more supervi
sion, but cut had nothing to do with
why Bonfire fell,” Bartschmid said.
“The restrictions seem intended to let
Bonfire die quietly and gradually, be
cause student enthusiasm for it will
disappear.”
Bowen defended his decision and
said that, while his plan allows for
some flexibility regarding the imple
mentation of the new rules, the basic
tenets the petition is challenging are
unlikely to change.
“I wouldn’t rule it out for any fu
ture Bonfires, but we just can’t go
back to how it used to be. We spent a
lot of time getting'the facts on the
table before reaching this decision,”
Bowen said.
Student Body President Forrest
Lane, a senior political science ma
jor, said that because most of the in
juries and accidents in the history of
Bonfire occurred during cut, its elim
ination is justified. Instead of chal
lenging the decision, students should
try to come up with new ways to par
ticipate in a scaled-back Bonfire,
Lane said.
“But we need to think outside the
box and think of new and creative
ways for students to participate with
out cut,” Lane said.
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Technological advances
ake over college classes
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■ Although some professors still prefer a
er rescued them. He blackboard and chalk, many have moved
no The elderly nPntNl leir classrooms int0 the information a g e
|ypostingasyllabus, class notes, practice
le looks for the Aggie l| xams or grades on the Internet.
i “I put notes and practice exams on the
m he leaned over andfli|Veb because it is an easy way to distribute
I lot of material to individual students,”
s Aggies . Then we Mi. aid Mike Nelson, an economics professor,
dding that Texas A&M provides profes-
ors with space, on the TAMU server to
ve the Aqqie Spirit is o'f ost sll PP* ement ' s ' n tbeir classes.
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and life sciences, business and liberal arts
to use Web Course Tool version 3.0 Test
Server for TAMU (WebCT) for their
classes.
Students in these classes receive a user
name and password to log into WebCT,
where professors have supplements for
their classes, including practice problems,
homework help, grades and classroom
discussions.
“I use the WebCT for my ag leadership
class and it has been pretty helpful,” said
Tara Sherrod, a junior agricultural devel
opment major. “Although they have had a
few problems with the server crashing
See Classroom on Page 6.
KEVIN BURNS/The Battalion
Students are able to use laptops with modems in class. Teachers are now
able to instruct with multimedia presentations, including PowerPoint.
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Smithsonian airplane models will be on display in the
J. Wayne Stark University Center Gallery until Dec. 9.
By Maureen Kane
The Battalion
The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. receives thou
sands of visitors each year, but not many people can say that the
Smithsonian has come to visit them. Residents of Bryan-Col-
lege Station are among the few.
Beginning today, the J. Wayne Stark University Cen
ter Gallery in the Memorial Student
Center (MSC) is hosting “On Minia
ture Wings,” an exhibit about the his
tory of air flight.
■teg. The Smithsonian Museum
|||||l is being renovated, requiring
■JL tkie collection to be moved
and providing this oppor
tunity for the Stark
Gallery.
“This is a permanent
collection in the National
Air and Space Museum in the Smithsonian,” said Beverly Wag
ner, administrative secretary of University Art Collections.
“While work is being done on the Smithsonian, some things that
are not usually shipped are on exhibit.”
“On Miniature Wings” depicts the history of the airplane us
ing replicas. Wagner said replicas are built exactly to scale in
contrast to models that are simply miniatures. The process can
take anywhere from 45 minutes to months.
Cathy Hastdet, curator of the Stark Gallery, said that all sorts
of replicas will be shown in the exhibit.
“All of the replicas are really neat,” she said. “One is a Unit
ed Airlines model used for advertising purposes. We have repli
cas that fly and replicas built just to look at, as well as recogni
tion models, which were used in WWII to teach pilots to identify
planes by silhouette. We also have wind tunnel models that are
used for testing in wind tunnels, and they are all made by hand
by masteT model-makers.” •
See Planes on Page 6.
Tech SGA pres
apologizes for
vandalism
In response to the vandalism on the side of the Jack K.
Williams Administration Building after the Texas A&M-
Texas Tech football game, the Tech Student Government
Association president wrote an apology letter to the stu
dents of A&M.
Dear Texas A&M Students:
It was very disheartening to learn that, following the
Texas A&M victory against Texas Tech University on Sept.
30, some Red Raider fans took it upon themselves to spray
paint a handful of Double Ts on your campus’s buildings.
This type of behavior is certainly not representative of the
great relationship and tremendous respect that exists be
tween Texas Tech and Texas A&M.
On behalf of the Texas Tech student body, I would like
to extend a sincere apology to you and your fellow Aggies
for the actions taken by a few individuals. Their decision to
deface your campus’s buildings following the football
game between Texas A&M and Texas Tech is a gross mis
representation of the students at Texas Tech.
Football contests and other sporting events between two
outstanding universities such as ours are always something
to look forward to. The high level of competition and the
tremendous display of sportsmanship that occur between
the athletes representing our universities are admirable and
should be embraced by athletes and fans alike.
May this be the only time that some individuals decide
to break the bonds of good sportsmanship and fellowship
held between Aggies and Red Raiders.
In the future, we hope to extend to you the same warm
Texas hospitality that you showed us during the Texas
Tech vs. Texas A&M game.
Best wishes,
Andrew Schoppe
SGA President