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THE BATTALION
Friday, Febmaiy
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Voter
Continued from Page 1
students from voting, but I know for a
fact that I turned in those cards person
ally. [The employee] would not let me
leave until she checked them all.”
Sandlin said she felt concerned
about throwing the applications away,
but did not take action until this se
mester when she was at a College Re
publican meeting and realized the sig
nificance of her mistake.
Sandlin said she and Jeremy Mol-
lenkopf, a member of College Repub
licans and a sophomore business ma
jor, approached Turner about throwing
the voter applications away.
Turner’s office concluded that “the
failure to deliver the 150 cards to the
Voter Registrar was not done with the
intent to deprive any person of their
right to vote, but was rather the result
of a mistake by volunteers who were
trying to register students.” No crimi
nal charges will be filed.
Sandlin was impeached last week
end at the College Republicans meet
ing for throwing the voter registration
applications away.
“They are trying to turn me into a
scapegoat,” Sandlin said, claiming that
College Republicans are trying to lay
all blame on Sandlin.
Rushing saidthe meeting last week
end was the first time he had heard
about the applications being thrown
away. To Rushing’s knowledge, this
was an isolated incident involving only
Sandlin, he said.
“The confession was news to every
one in the College Republicans, and she
has since been removed from both her
position and the club,” Rushing said. “If
we find any more people in the club who
are depriving people of the right to vote,
we will remove them. We are from now
on just going to have to be more careful
about who to put in our positions.”
Buddy Winn, Voter Registrar and
Brazos County Tax Assessor-Collector,
said he knew some voters were unable
to vote but had no knowledge of Turn
er’s investigation until Thursday.
“We had some complaints that were
lodged at us to make us look like we
were throwing votes away,” Winn said.
“But we don’t care how people vote, we
just care that they get to vote.”
Winn, a Democrat, was re-elected
to his post in the Nov. 7 election. He
said there have been three or four pre
vious occasions when his office was
accused of trying to deny people the
right to vote.
“My opponent’s wife came down to
our office after the election last fall and
literally accused my people and my of
fice of throwing votes away,” Winn
said. “In fact, she made two ladies who
work for me cry.”
Last fall, Winn deputized about 2(X)
members of College Republicans to ac
tively seek and register voters for the
Nov. 7 election. Among the students
who registered to vote with the student
deputies were residents of the Call
away House, who later claimed to be
victims of disenfranchisement when
they were not allowed to vote.
Rushing said College Republicans
deputies went to the Callaway House
and registered residents.
Winn said with more than 200 stu
dent deputies, voter registration appli
cations easily can be lost or misplaced.
He suggests that, when students fill out
their voter registration applications, they
should get a receipt and keep it because
his office will always accept the receipt.
Railroad
Continued from Page 1
expires, and we are hoping to have fur
ther information on at least two of the
routes.”
Johnson stressed that this is just a
study and that it has not yet been de
cided whether the railroad will be
moved.
“If they do recommend to move it,
it’s anybody’s guess when it will be
done,” Johnson said.
The study of the alternative railroad
paths has been budgeted to cost ap
proximately $1.1 rhillion. The majori
ty of funding for the study came from
federal and local appropriations. A&M.
the Brazos County Commissioners
Court, the city of College Station, the
city of Bryan and Union Pacific railroad
also helped fund the study.
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to the Bryan-CollegeST
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a house.
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neighborhood norte:
the Barnes & Noble
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to the opening of thelioi;
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Mayor Lynn Mcllhanejsi
Trish Burk, executive I
rector of the Habitatfo'-
manity affiliate, saidfeL ^
Nelson, a widow withf 0,1 an a
sons, will buy the home than 36 t
son works at College Hi!»>000 An
ementary School. !l| e ’ Oie U
Burk said Nelsons island, M
est son will playdefr: loday, M;
end for Midwestern Si Is a sign <
University in Wichita :
this fall.
College Station stubE .
faculty and administe®
raised $30,000 to spcy
the family, Burk said.
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CIS
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and the University of California at Los
Angeles charges 5 to 10 cents per page
without any free-printing allocation.
Students using the West Campus
Library computer lab have experi
enced a much shorter wait as a result
of the printing charges.
“Last year, students frequently
waited two or three hours for a print
job,” said Hugh Simmons, the West
Campus Library computer lab super
visor. “The lab always had a crowd,
and many students would go study
elsewhere and come back. Now, it is
rare for anyone to wait more than 20
minutes for a print job.”
CIS has upgraded some of its
equipment during the last year, using
revenue from the Student Computer
Access Fee, including the addition of
200 new Gateway computers to
open-access labs.
“Our plan is to update and change
the computers every three years,”
Spiller said. “We believe that no lab
should ever contain computers past
three years because we want to keep
our facilities and services up to date.
We’re doing a great job of providing
students and faculty quality re
sources.”
To ensure A&M owns the latest
technology, CIS has an advisory
committee consisting of faculty, staff
and students. The committee meets
frequently to discuss new ideas.
CIS also conducts a survey every
semester to acquire student feedback.
The advisory committee reviews the
surveys and makes any necessary
changes.
“We have a suggestion box placed
in all major access labs where anyone
can give us their comments,” Spiller
said. "We take students’ suggestions
seriously and try to implement the
ideas. We listen and then act.”
Students can now create their own
compact discs using the new CD
burners placed in every major access
lab. A&M has five major open-ac-.
cess computer labs, in addition to
smaller labs in Corps Lounge D and
Cain Hall.
“In a recent survey, students re
quested CD burners, and we re
sponded quickly,” Spiller said. “We
are trying to find ways to inform stu
dents about the burners and provide
instructions, so everyone can use
them.”
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The Tradition, which will be able
to house up to 795 students, markets
itself as an attractive off-campus dor
mitory offering many of the ameni
ties of an apartment complex, plus a
food court and parking garage.
The Tradition offers furnished
one-and-two bedroom apartments,
each with one bathroom. Each apart
ment also comes with a microwave
and refrigerator. Room rates are on a
per-person basis and include utilities,
extended basic cable and high-speed
Internet service.
Other amenities offered by The
Tradition are study rooms, a com
puter lab, on-site tutoring, televi
sion lounges, a theater and confer
ence room, a prayer and meditation
room, fitness center and a gated
swimming pool.
Mandy Walker, marketing assis
tant for The Tradition, said these lux
uries will make the private dorm an
appealing alternative to on-campus
residence halls.
“I think what’s a real positive is
they’ve Liken the dorms and given you
the dorm-style living but yet all the
amenities to go with it,” Walker said.
Students living in TheCa
House, an off-campus liviiis.
munity similar to The Tradite
the lifestyle offered by privat
mitories and think The Trad®
be a success.
“I like living at The Cal
House because you get youror:
room, better fixxl, good-lookiai
and you’re close to the ini
fields,” said Morgan Howard
Callaway House council presi
sophomore political science*
“But 1 would live at TheTradiliij
year because it’s right nexlto
and Northgate, and there'salit
life around the area.”
Mark Wade, general manajj
The Callaway House, said all
The Callaway House may lose*]
residents to The Tradition, he®
University Tower will lose pi
idents because University Toi
an older building than the
old Callaway House.
“The Tradition will impact
number of people who will dec 1
live in Callaway, but, inrealt
think more people will move
on-campus and University li
than from Callaway,” Wadesa :
The manager from the Univ;
Tower was unavailable for com
Thursday night.
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