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Texas A&M University — Celebrating 125 Years
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Tau Kappa
ipsilon under
Investigation
The Tau Kappa Epsilon fra-
krnity is under investigation,
Ind disciplinary action for
Innamed offenses is pending,
laid Dean of Student Life Dr.
lave Parrott Tuesday night.
Parrott said allegations
Igainst TKE were brought to
jim in September. Parrot
leclined to discuss the con-
ertt of the allegations. He
aid his office has completed
Jn investigation and recom-
nended disciplinary sanc-
lons, but declined to reveal
Ihe decision until an appeals
|rocess has been completed.
\The Battalion
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Inew Website
The Battalion Online intro-
Iduced its new Website
[Tuesday.
Developed by Digital
[Partners of Lincoln, Neb. and
[coordinated by Battalion
Nebmaster Kevin Thurman,
khe new site offers readers
■easier accessibility and navi-
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(matches that of the print ver-
(sion of The Battalion.
Battalion Online stories
[since 1996 will be available
[in the online archives.
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Percent of Aggies
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Health Association
TODAY
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TOMORROW
Web registration not perfected, yet
By Jonathon Kolmetz
THE BATTALION
At 6:30 a.m. Monday, Texas
A&M ended the tradition of
incessant redialing and busy sig
nals when registering for classes
by making registration available
via the Internet.
However, many students had
to use a combination of phone,
Internet or terminal services
because of flaws in program
ming.
One problem occurred when
students were not allowed to regis
ter for electrical engineering 485.
Larry Malota, assistant
director of Student Information
Management Services (SIMS),
said that for about an hour and
a half, from 6:45 a.m. to 8:15
a.m., the Internet registration
was closed to fix the glitch
with the 485 course.
Two other glitches were
encountered on the first day of
Internet registration, both dis
playing program errors.
“The kinesiology 199 page
would only view the first page
of the 415 sections, and chem
istry 102 was shown as not an
option,” Malota said. “Both
problems were fixed on the go
and did not cause the Internet
registration to be stopped.”
Thomas Putnam, director of
Computing and Information
Services (CIS), said A&M is
not the first college to have
problems when implementing
Internet registration.
“Many colleges had dismal
first days and even semesters
with their registration,”
Putnam said. “We were able to
see and use their mistakes to
make our Web registration the
success that it was.”
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Number of
3,401
1,541
of StOifOMtS who
Malota said that the A&M
system was not fully utilizing
the systems’ abilities, with only
3 percent of the CPU maximum
CODY WAGES • THE BATTALION
Fans climb the wall of Jones SBC Stadium at Lubbock Saturday, seconds before Dr. Mike McKinney, center, was hit in the eye by the man
on the right. The Associated Press reported that the fan’s name is Reginald Wallace, a student at Texas A&M.
Fan who hit McKinney
identified, talks to UPD
By Brady Creel
THE BATTALION
The person who hit Dr. Mike
McKinney after Saturday’s Texas Tech
game has been identified as Texas
A&M student Reginald Wallace,
according to a report from The
Associated Press.
McKinney, who serves as chief of
staff for Gov. Rick Perry, is the father
of A&M center Seth McKinney. He
received eight stitches after being hit
while trying to keep Texas Tech fans
with goal posts from climbing into the
A&M section of the stands.
Initial reports and statements by
McKinney indicated that he was hit by
a “kid in a red shirt.” However, state
ments made by Tech officials contra
dicted McKinney’s story, which he later
amended, saying he is now unsure.
Wallace, a senior kinesiology
major, could not be reached for com
ment Tuesday. Wallace’s father said his
son gave a statement to the Texas Tech
University Police Department, but
Tech UPD officials refused to com
ment or release the document.
Cindy Rugeley, vice chancellor for
news and information at Texas Tech,
said Tech’s UPD has taken a statement,
but that the subject’s name has not
been released to her. The statement
will be given to the Lubbock County
District Attorney’s Office today.
“Not because we think there’s
going to be any action, but because
we want fresh, unbiased eyes to
look at it,” she said.
Vice President for Student Affairs
Dr. J. Malon Southerland said Tuesday
that he had communicated security
concerns to Michael Shonrock, Tech’s
vice president for student affairs,
before Saturday’s game.
“I told them,‘We have a level of
concern,’ ” Southerland said.
Tech administrators perceived no
security threat, Southerland said, and
Shonrock noted to Southerland
Saturday that Tech fans were not throw
ing tortillas or batteries as profusely as
they had in previous years.
Rugeley said she was unaware of
communication about security between
A&M and Tech administrators.
“I don’t share everyone’s believe
that there was a security problem,”
Rugeley said. “We didn’t anticipate
this to happen. Frankly, we expected
to beat Texas A&M.”
Family endows leadership program
By Tanya Nading
THE BATTALION
The family of a student killed in
March 2000 has endowed a leadership
program designed to help African-
American students.
The Advanced Leadership Institute
(ALI), a part of the Southwestern Black
Student Leadership Conference
(SBSLC), was endowed by the family of
Charles E. Williams II, who was killed
in a car accident.
Established in 1999, the ALI was
recently changed to the Charles E.
Williams Advanced Leadership Institute.
“We gave the money to the Advanced
Leadership Institute because my son, who
was a leader at Texas A&M, was unable to
complete his steps in life,” said Charles E.
Williams Sr. of Galveston. “By giving this
money, it allows another student the oppor
tunity to follow in the steps that my son was
unable to complete.”
Williams was chairman of the
University Hearing Board and was Judicial
Board Chairman of the Student
Government Association. He also served
as an assistant to Houston City Council
member Carroll G. Robinson in 1999.
“We want to pass on the spirit of his
excitement, motivation and vibrant spiritu
ality,” Williams Sr. said.
The SBSLC was started in 1989 by stu
dents at A&M for African-American stu
dents who needed a forum to address and
discuss issues they faced in their commu
nities, said Karisha Hearns, SBSLC chair
and a senior industrial distributions major.
CHAD MALLAM * THE BATTALION
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dents on the 128 telephone slots
See Registration on page 2.
Have you
picked
your prof?
Pickaprof com
upgrades site
By Emily Peters
THE BATTALION
Pickaprof.com, the Internet
site that offers grade histories
and student-written professor
reviews, is making changes to
accommodate student demands
and professor criticism.
Founders John Cunningham
and Chris Chilek, both Class of
1999, have expanded the site’s
services to include 45 colleges in
22 states since April 2000. Recent
improvements include an upgrad
ed schedule planner and easier
ways to reserve books online.
Cunningham and Chilek said
they hope to add more informa
tion about professors soon.
Chilek said they get all the
information from the A&M-
Jvee PickaProf on page 2.
College
expenses
surging
By Tonya Nading
THE BATTALION
College tuition and fees
have increased as much as 7.7
percent at four-year institu
tions and 5.8 percent at two-
year institutions this year,
according to a recent report
filed by the College Board.
The report was conducted
before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon,
which worsened an already
dwindling economy. After
reports released last week by
the federal government stat
ed that the unemployment
rate rose from July to
September, and the country
experienced negative eco
nomic growth for the first
time since the early 1990s,
economists say the United
States is now in a recession.
In times of economic
slowdown, a college degree
becomes more valuable as
people leave the job market
and go back to school. The
increasing demand for a col
lege degree, in part, results
in the rising cost of educa
tion, said A&M economics
See COSTS on page 2.