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Volume 108 • Issue 149 • 6 pages
108 Years Serving Texas A&M University
www.thebatt.com
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Sweet testing
RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
Biomedical engineering graduate student Justin Baba
sets up a laser to test the amount of glucose and blood
sugar levels in a rabbit's eye, which is directly correlat
ed to the body's blood sugar levels. The system's goal
is to develop a way for diabetics to test blood sugar
levels using lasers instead of needles. The research,
which is pioneered by Dr. Cote of the Biomedical engi
neering department, will hopefully replace the painful
methods currently used by diabetics and others to test
blood sugar levels.
Senate condemns
acts of plagiarism
By Don White
THE BATTALION
The Faculty Senate condemned pla
giarism and other acts of academic dis
honesty by University professors in its
meeting Monday in response to the con
troversy and dismissal of Dr. Mary Zey,
professor of agricultural economics.
The decision will potentially allow
for strict consequences to any profes
sors involved in plagiarism, despite
tenure or rank.
Zey was fired in March when a
University Investigation Committee
concluded she published information
belonging to faculty member Harland
Prechel and former faculty member
John Boies.
University president Dr. Ray M.
Bowen fired Zey, then reversed the
decision after the Committee on
Academic Freedom, Responsibility and
Tenure (CAFRT) said Zey’s offense did
not warrant dismissal.
The CAFRT has limitations when
determining whether or not a dismissal
is for a good cause.
The case was placed on the Faculty
Senate’s agenda in May with the intent
to receive faculty response.
The Faculty Senate represents facul
ty interests on campus and decided an
official response to a situation involving
a faculty member was necessary.
Dr. Michael L. Greenwald, a Senate
member and former member of the
Senate’s executive committee, said the
Senate felt the need to reassert the
importance of integrity.
“This certainly expresses the senti
ments of the faculty at Texas A&M,” he
said. “It was basically non-controversial
and passed very easily,” he said.
The lack of debate during this meeting
was in contrast to the original proposal at
the Senate’s meeting in May, which was
met with some resistance. Senators
objected to the lack of information
See Response on page 2
Northside residents
unable to use Sbisa
A&M returns state grant money
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M failed to distribute over
V H$850,0()0 allocated from the state legislature
O hgfor student scholarships through the TEXAS
OUHGrant program this past school year, accord
ing to a report by the Texas Higher Education
_ ^Coordinating Board.
The money was part of the $5.6 million the
"school received to help put highly successful
et economically disadvantaged students
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“Obviously, it is very disappointing that
^ ' this money was not used for what it was orig-
nally intended for,” said State Representative
and Vice-Chairman of the Higher Education
Committee Fred Brown. “I was one of the co
sponsors of that bill and it was designed to
?ive all of Texas’ best and brightest students
the opportunity to attend college, so it is a
shame that every dime of it wasn’t used.”
The TEXAS Grant, also known as the
Toward Excellence, Access, and Success
Cram, was originally established in 1999 and
provided almost $18 million to state schools
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$8.4 million
$1.9 million
LrT-El Paso
$5.8 million
$1.6 million
ITT-San Antonio
$4.3 million
$1.2 million
UT-Ariington
$2.8 million
$1.04 million
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$1.8 million
$884,222
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$5.6 million
$850,105
Texas Southern
$2.2 million
$797,164
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Downtown
$1.8 million
$726,497
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Beaumont
$1.9 million
$700,117
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By Melissa Sullivan
St Christina Hoffman
THE BATTALION
Over 600 students living on campus
this summer can expect a challenge
when trying to find places to eat
because of the closure of Sbisa Dining
Hall to residents. Sbisa will' only be
open Tuesdays and Thursdays for lunch
during new student conferences.
Housing officials say students
attending summer school and living on
campus are required to live in Northside
residence halls because of new student
conferences and other group activities
which are being housed on the south
side of campus.
However, the only dining option
available on the Northside to students is
the Underground Food Court, open
daily from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The only dining facility open all day
to students is the Commons Dining
Center located on Southside.
“We find that students want to eat at
the Underground anyway because of
the number of options available,” said
Cindy Zawieja, associate director of
Food Services.
Joy Hosford, a resident hall adviser
at Lechner Hall and a senior biomed
ical sciences major, said it is helpful
that the Underground is open but she
prefers Sbisa because they provide
healthier food.
Before Sbisa closed for renovations
in the Fall of 2000, Zawieja said they
opened The Underground for dinner dur
ing the summer months, but due to the
amount of customers they received, that
option did not work out this summer.
“If we get business we open, if we
do not, we close,” she said.
Sbisa is open during new student
orientation and is available to anyone
with cash, a meal plan or Aggie Bucks,
not just parents and new students,
Zawieja said.
“In the past we have opened Duncan
Dining Hall during orientation but stu
dents have no idea what an all-you-can
eat experience is like,” Zawieja said.
“We just recently renovated Sbisa and
we feel it is a real showcase which
shows the history of Food Services.”
An estimated record 17,000 students
are attending summer school at A&M,
and roughly 800 students have pur
chased a meal plan. It is these numbers
Food Services uses to determine what
they will open and what they do not,
says Zawieja.
Most students attending summer
school live off campus and usually look
at what is near their class when decid
ing where to eat, and Food Services
tries to accommodate that as much as
possible, Zawieja said.
“We have opened the Memorial
Student Center Cafeteria and 12th Man
International Food Court because new
people usually do not see the
Hullabaloo Food Court located
See Sbisa on page 2
Bush takes on plan for
homeland security agency
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- President
Bush asked congressional Republicans and
Democrats on Tuesday to work together on
expediting creation of his new domestic
security agency. He received noncommittal
Assurances of action “in the not-too-distant
future.”
The president assembled congressional
leaders from both parties in the White
House Cabinet Room to press for biparti
san action on his massive proposal, the
most extensive restructuring of the federal
government in more than 50 years.
“What I’ve heard is there's a commitment
to get this done in a way that takes any parti
sanship out of the issue, and at the same time
strives for a date certain” for approval. Bush
told reporters at the close of the meeting. He
echoed a call by House Minority Leadei
Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.. to pass legislation
creating a Department of Homeland Security
by Sept. I 1.
From the White House, Bush headed to
Kansas City, Mo., where he hoped a visit
to the city's water treatment plant would
show Americans how his plan to improve
the domestic security bureaucracy m
Washington would better protect them in
their everyday lives.
But lawmakers who must approve
Bush’s proposal told him it will undergo
careful and patient scrutiny.
House Speaker Dennis Hasten, a
Republican, and Senate Majority Leader
Tom Daschle, a Democrat, were equally
vague about suggestions that the plan
could be enacted by Sept. 1 1.
“That’s certainly an area that we’d like
to aim to get done,” Hasten said.
Daschle said Bush’s plan leaves a lot of
unanswered questions about the efficiency
of the FBI and CIA — questions that the
Senate must review in detail “so that at
some point in the not-too-distant future
we’re able to answer them with greater
confidence than we can today.”
In Missouri, Bush hoped to address
some of those questions, said White House
spokesman Gordon Johndroe. The presi
dent has proposed having the new depart
ment analyze intelligence from the CIA.
FBI, National Security Agency and others,
but without any direct authority over the
gathering of the information.
Bomber kills 6, hurts 8
in Israeli restaurant
HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — A
Palestinian bomber blew himself up
in a restaurant just north of Tel Aviv
on Tuesday, killing one Israeli
teenager and wounding eight other
people in one in a series of violent
incidents that left six other
Palestinians dead.
The violence erupted as Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in
Washington trying to persuade con
gressional leaders that Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat is not a partner
for peace talks because of persistent
Palestinian violence. Israeli forces
surrounded Arafat’s West Bank
headquarters for a second day.
The bomber blew himself up
inside a small, downtown restaurant
in the city of Herzliya at 7:50 p.m.,
killing himself and the teen-ager
and wounding eight other people,
witnesses and rescue workers said.
David Baker, an official in
Sharon’s office, denounced the
attack, saying, “The Herzliya terror
attack is another example of the
Palestinians’ intention to commit
murder for the sake of murder.”
Herzliya Mayor Yael German
arrived at the scene a few minutes
after the blast.
“It’s horrible when innocent
civilians, men, women and children,
who were just out to get a bite to
eat, are hurt in a despicable terror
attack,” she said.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility. The Palestinian
leadership denounced the attack
because “it gives Israel a reason to
attack the Palestinian people.”
Later Tuesday, a 9-year-old
Palestinian boy was killed and
another 13-year-old boy was
injured when Israeli soldiers shot at
them near the Jewish settlement of
Netzarim in the Gaza Strip,
Palestinian security and hospital
officials said. The army said troops
responded to intense firing at an
army outpost in the area.
Earlier, in the West Bank city of
Hebron, Palestinians killed two fel
low Palestinians suspected of col
laborating with Israel. One body
was dragged to the place where
Marwan Zalloum, local leader of
Bombings continue
A suicide bomber exploded a
bomb in a restaurant in Herzliya,
Israel, Tuesday. Three Israelis
were also injured in an explosion
in the West Bank.
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the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades mili
tia, was killed in an April 22 Israeli
helicopter strike on his car.
The burned-out hulk of the car
was still there, a grisly memorial to
the militia leader blamed by Israel
for directing and carrying out many
attacks. The Al Aqsa group claimed
responsibility for killing the sus
pected collaborators, saying in a
leaflet that the pair helped Israel.