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Senior economics major, Amanda Smith, lived in Davis-Gary her freshman year and says the ren ovations will be a great change. “I absolutely hated the corridor style dorms,” Smith said. ”1 didn't like having to walk down the hall to go to the bathroom or sharing it with a bunch of other people. I’m sure once Davis- Gary is renovated the other corridor dorms will follow.” In other business. The Board of Regents will also be deciding on changes to the system’s aca demic freedom policy. Some changes would shorten time limits on the processes of denying and stripping tenure, accord ing to documents issued by the Board of Regents. If approved, the changes would take effect at each of the A&M System’s nine universities, eight state agencies and its health science center. Other changes to the policy would give a dean the ability to place a tenured faculty member on administrative leave with pay during an investi gation into misconduct. That change would have to he approved by A&M’s dean of faculties. Confessed murderer executed for killing wife, brother HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A South Texas man who con fessed to killing his common- law wife and brother, whom he suspected of having an affair, was executed Wednesday. Leonard Rojas, 52, was asked by the warden if he had a final statement. Rojas, wearing a white col lared shirt that partially exposed his chest, responded "No." As the lethal drugs began flowing, Rojas' eyes blinked and he pursed his lips. He took two deeps breaths, then his mouth fell open and his eyes shut tightly. He was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. CST, eight minutes after receiving the lethal injection. Three of Rojas' seven surviving brothers watched the execution. Rojas' cousin, Maria Rojas, stood with her left hand pressed against the window that looks into the death chamber. Soon after Rojas took his final gasp, she whispered "He's gone." Leonard Rojas said from death row last month that he had no regrets about shooting Jo Ann NEWS IN BRIEF Reed between the eyes after having one last sexual encounter with her and then turning the gun on his younger brother David Rojas. Companies ordered to pay for secretly videotaping athletes CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge has ordered eight compa nies and three people to pay more than $506 million to 46 college athletes secretly video taped in the buff, with the images sold over the Internet. The athletes had sued over the footage. After the defen dants failed to show up in court since at least 2000, a federal judge granted the students a default judgment. The videotapes were made in locker rooms, rest rooms and showers during athletic compe titions on several campuses and sold through Internet sites advertising "hot younger dudes." "We look at this judgment as the court system sending a sig nal to the sexual predators that they're not going to get away with this," said attorney Cindy Fluxgold, who represents sever al of the athletes. Fire in Amish home kills 5 children PULASKI, Pa. (AP) - A wood- and coal-burning furnace start ed a fire that destroyed an Amish family's wood-frame home and killed five children sleeping inside, authorities said Wednesday. Rudy and Lizzie Wengerd escaped into the bitter cold with their four other children Tuesday night. A family friend said one of the boys leaped from the second floor and then caught his younger brother; the two other children climbed down a ladder put up by their father before the fire became too intense for a rescue. The home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived and a second-story room filled with children crashed into the basement, authorities said. Killed were Katie, 14; Levi, 12; Neil, 11; John, 4; and Jonathon, 2, police said. The coroner said all died of smoke inhalation. Authorities ruled the fire an accident involving the furnace. Of the home, only a wall and a brick chimney remained standing. "These people lost everything they had," said Dave Ryder, 59, owner of a diner and motel who knows the family. THE b AtS| Gates Continued fromp^ t oot bal 1 program at A&\| r lta -d,he team should^ better than it has been 1 iQTQ t ’\ been J al0n ^*l . he said. referrinsKi I last time the Aggies" national championship, Gates takes full respe: t°r the decision rw I Slocum’s firing, sayinghej, alone and without the b edge of the A&M Systems? of Regents. Not a single regent b what my decision would^ w hen I was going to main he said. Gates said he would deis; the Athletic Department ^ coach and players regac;; possible bow l bid this year ’ IPA Continued from page geophysics to travel to lam to participate in cultural b ing experiences, givingsttiE a broader know ledge of intr: tional cultures. Undergraduates willk.; opportunity to conduct mi abroad and experience not cj new research opportunito.a; also a new culture, said Dr. 0? Sulikow ski, chemistry pnfei and representative in Taiwan “A&M students gon;:s into the world and broafc their experiences is truly at steps for making A&M a«i class university,” Herbenc Fails Continued from pagt: told me he had a lung iC- for two to three weeksi- increases the clot original the lung, but the fact ttai complained about (painr. leg after the operation-a about a Catch-22,” Meeasiti How the clot formed ad be important for Fails is Texas A&M sports inform® director Alan Cannon ^ Wednesday that the school^ “practice and play death tef fit” available forfam/fe°'Y dents who die as a sanctioned athletic activity A clot resulting from surge stemming from a football id likely would qualify to su ' benefit, while a clot resiii from a lung infection b: would not. Cannon said the efit is determined by the^ sity’s insurance and nsk ^ agement department. ^ Meece said he plan with knee surgeons*'-; rhose whoperfomioJ^ Fails on Oct. 22 ana charge of the playc s r . tion al A&M before si death certificate. Regardless of where began, though. - - would not warrant a fmJ accidental death. The autopsy also Fails had no drugs Fails was voted CW Defensive Player ot he Associated Press Sports Ev Et An ies m finals misha “I was st “I sat when pie ar was al had tc order Ag up the for th< knowr Mil the las ter am studyi “Tt is eitf Campi apartn quiet c at horr Jan scienci home books “M ly the ing do “Even place disturb the oc stress i Me him fr ing bu “Af same s , up my Ags Helping Ags Move Their Life! Rd MOVING & STORAGE 979-693-6233 Interstate Agent for Atlas.Van Lines \M>rid-Ch« No Suprise Pricing Guaranteed Pick-up and Delivery Dates Licensed & Insured Local, Long Distance & International Moves The Guitar Slow ! 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