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july 9/2001
alume 107 ~ Issue 167
6 pages
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io ill will toward the A&M foot-
■I staff.
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led at ACU Friday.
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■nes last season, while spend-
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^cking up right guard Taylor
litley.
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puned football at ACL) and
ear ' d all-conference honors as
a defensive lineman there.
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ACU's 1977 National Champi-
ship team.
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Police officer killed
in traffic collision
I LUBBOCK (AP) — A Lub
bock motorcycle patrolman in
volved in a traffic collision while
escorting a funeral procession
last week died from his injuries
on Sunday, police said.
, Rodney Kendricks, 33, is the
first Lubbock officer to die in a
ffiotor vehicle accident while
on duty, police spokesman Bill
EARNER BROS'W 1 ^ 0r 9 an sa 'd-
heaters a The officer was injured Mon
day when his motorcycle col
ints here. Perlii[|jh ec ) with a pickup truck and
)0 she got fores-had beep, hospitalized in critical
elf was not cbndition at University Medical
maybe she vac Center for the past week,
e every female 1 Morgan said Kendricks lost
for a Hughpftntrol of the motorcycle as he
tot. (Grade A- ||ied to move ahead of the pro
cession to block traffic, then hit
— BethM the oncoming truck.
B Kendricks suffered a punc-
■red lung, broken ribs and a
■vere head injury, despite
sjBearing a helmet.
1 Kendricks, father of two
(laughters, was a 1 2-year veter
an of the force.
Baylor student wins
Miss Texas crown
FORT WORTH (AP) — Stacy
lames. Miss Lake O' The Pines,
was crowned Saturday night as
Biss Texas 2001.
K James, a recent political sci-
Bice major at Baylor University,
Will compete this fall in the Miss
Bnerica Pageant.
(J Her talent was singing, and
h^r platform was "Alzheimer's
Awareness."
H James, 22, of Texarkana, said
her biggest accomplishment
was graduating from Baylor
with honors and being accept
ed to law school.
>ry
•Texas
Leaguers hold
Texas-sized
dreams
Opinion
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• Conservative
students
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deserve praise
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for protesting
Kyoto Treaty
Battalion News Radio:
1:57 p.m. KAMU 90.9
www.thebatt.com
Football ticket sales leads
to higher hotel room rates
Elizabeth Raines
The Battalion
For the last five years, senior
accounting major Daniel Puls’
grandparents, George Jr. and
Lafern Puls, have been been
making a 50-mile drive for
every A&M home football
game. They are not coming
from home, however, but from
their hotel room in Brenham.
“They stay in Brenham for
two reasons,” Puls said. “One is
that it is much cheaper, and two,
they have a much easier time
getting a room.”
Puls said usually they drive
up for the day and attend the
12 th Man Foundation lunch
and then the game before head
ing back to Brenham.
Other out-of-town season
ticket holders, like the Puls, are
having to travel further to find
available hotel rooms. Now, with
the addition of The Zone, it is
getting harder to find rooms.
As of June 10, the A&M
athletic ticket office said the
qular
Ramada Inn
(College Station)
I lilton
(College Station)
Best Western
(Oilloge Station)
Super 8
Rates
$59 - $70
$119 -$139
$72
general public season ticket
orders reached a record high at
34,179. Last year’s record was
30,337. This means that more
than 3,000 more people are
looking for a place to stay dur
ing football game weekends.
Cuurinq football season
$115: two night minimum
$219 - $239 : two night minimum
$105: two night minimum
$44.95 - $49.95 $64.95 - $69.95 : no mintpium
RUBEN DELUNA/rw Batt*pon
Puls, who is also an employ
ee at the Ramada Inn said that
even before the addition of
The Zone there were not
enough rooms to accommo
date everybody.
J.B. Garza, guest service
agent for the Hilton Hotel and
Conference Center and a senior
agricultural development major,
said that the Hilton has been full
since before The Zone.
“We could sell our hotel
about three times over,” Garza
said. “We have so many people
that want to stay here during
football season that we started
taking reservations for the up
coming football season a month
after last season.”
Because of the high demand
for rooms during the football
Dat Nguyen gives back
Mark Passwaters
The Battalion
Dallas Cowboys linebacker
Dat Nguyen, one of the most
famous alumni of Texas A&M’s
“Wrecking Crew,” returned to
College Station on Saturday
for an appearance benefiting
the Boys and Girls Club of
Bryan-College Station.
“It’s been a while since I’ve
been back (to College Sta
tion),” Nguyen said. “This
year has gone by fast/’
After struggling with in
juries during his first two sea
sons in the NFL, Nguyen is
expected to anchor the Cow-
Cowboys linebacker makes
charity appearance Saturday
boys defense as the team’s
starting middle linebacker.
“It’s a great opportunity,”
Nguyen said. “That’s the great
thing about this. game. If you
go out and really work and
you have a bad year, you don’t
get a second chance ... I’ve
been real lucky.”
Nguyen scoffed at naysay
ers who predict that the Cow
boys are in for a rough season.
“We’re not rebuilding,
we’re reloading. If we stay
healthy, we’ll be okay. We still
have a lot of players that are as
good as anybody,” he said.
Nguyen attributed much of
the Cowboys’ problems from
last year to the injuries that
plagued the team for the en
tire season.
“We never had a chance to
get any chemistry as a team,”
Nguyen said.
“We were never able to
get a feel for each other last
year. What can you do when
you have things happen
ing like losing both of
your wide receivers
(Joey Galloway and
Raghib Ismail) for the
whole season?”
Nguyen said he was
happy to be able to come
back to College Station
and be able to do some
thing for underprivileged
children.
Before signing autographs
for an hour, Nguyen talked to
a group of children from the
Bryan-College Station Boys
and Girls Clubs and gave
each of them a new pair of
tennis shoes.
“It’s special to be able to
give something back,”
Nguyen said.
Nguyen remembers his
days growing up as the son of
Vietnamese refugees in Rock-
port and is glad to be in posi
tion to help others.
“It’s unbelievable to have a
chance to help these kids out
the way I got helped out,” he
said.
“Just patting them on the
back and telling them ‘hi’ can
change some of their lives ...
you’re always watched by
these kids on TV and some of
them idolize you.
“I would have been the hap
piest kid if (former Baylor and
Chicago Bears linebacker)
Mike Singletary had said ‘hi’
to me.”
Left: Nguyen greets fans after arriving in College
Station. Below: Lisa Rowan and her daughter Sybil
get a Dallas Cowboys helmet signed by Cowboys
linebacker Dat Nguyen Saturday.
BERNARDO GARZA/Twe Battalion
Supreme Court will decide if
paper swapping violates rights
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
When Alicia Bata needs quick
results from a quiz in her Span
ish class, she has her students
pass their work to classmates
and then goes over the answers
with them. In a few minutes,
she knows who understood the
lesson and who did not.
“They are paying a lot more
attention when they are cor
recting each others’ (papers) in
the classroom together than if I
were,” said Bata, who teaches in
Cavalier, N.D.
That practice could be in
jeopardy because the Supreme
Court has agreed to decide if
swapping papers to correct
them violates students’ priva
cy rights.
Teachers gathered for the
National Education Association
convention last week were di
vided on the issue. They said
they regularly must balance the
need to give students timely
feedback with the confidential
ity of their grades.
The issue arose in 1998,
when Kristja J. Falvo sued the
Owasso, Okla., school district,
contending that her three chil
dren were embarrassed when
classmates graded each other’s
work and called out grades to
the teacher.
A federal judge rejected her
claim. The 10th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Denver,
however, ruled last year that the
grading practice violated the
federal Family Education
Rights and Privacy Act, which
prohibits schools from releasing
students’ records without par
ents’ written consent.
Officials with Oklahoma
school district and at the NEA
say the case raises doubts about
many other forms of exhibiting
or releasing students’ work.
“I think it can be read to cov
er any work,” said Michael
Simpson, the NEA’s assistant
general counsel.
He said the case could pro
hibit teachers from allowing par
ent volunteers to check papers.
It could also prevent schools
from displaying graded student
artwork and science projects.
See Papers on Page 2.
season, hotels as far as Nava-
sota increase their room rates
and require a two-night stay
minimum.
“My dad knows people who
travel in from as far as Hous
ton to avoid the increased ho
tel price and two-night mini
mum stay,” said Ramada Inn
front desk employee and soph
omore history major Katie
Othold.
Othold said that even though
the Ramada Inn fills up one year
in advance, they still have peo
ple calling for rooms.
“We advise people to go to
Navasota for the football week
ends,” Othold said. “We tell
them good luck and suggest to
See Hotels on Page 6.
Evans'
funeral
Tuesday
Library namesake
dies at age 101
Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
Many students only knew him
by the Main-Campus library
that bears his name. But Sterling
C. Evans, who died 'Thursday
from an infection at the age of
101, will be known to many Ag
gies as a man who changed the
face of the University more than
geographically.
Evans served as a chairman of
the A&M Board of Directors,
rt
The University
has lost a great
champion and
benefactor in
Sterling C. Evans.”
— Dr. Ray M. Bowen
A&M president
the precursor to the Board of Re
gents, in the ’60s, where he was
instrumental to the admission of
women to A&M and the end of
mandatory military training.
“The University has. lost a
great champion and benefactor
in Sterling C. Evans,” said
A&M President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen. “He had vision and de
termination in his quest to
make Texas A&M what it is to
day. We will miss him and his
indomitable spirit.”
Since retiring from the Board
of Directors, Evans and his wife
have donated more than $10
million to the University, much
of which was specifically target
ed at A&M’s library system.
Evans’ last visit to the campus
was last October, when he cut
the ribbon on the newly reno
vated Sterling C. Evans Library.
“He was the heart and soul of
this library,” said Dr. Fred Headi,
dean and director of the A&M li
brary system. “It was a glorious
moment last fall when he cut the
ribbon at the renovated Evans
Library. We were looking for
ward to his 102 nd birthday in Au
gust. We plan to unveil a new
portrait of him this fall for the
University’s 125th anniversary.”
Evans graduated at the top of
his class from A&M in 1921
with a degree in animal hus
bandry. He went on to make his
fortune in real estate. Among
his many estates was his resi
dence — a 20,000-acre ranch
that he donated to A&M.
See Evans on Page 6.