Aggielife: Sweatin' it out at summer school • Page 3
Opinion: Lone Star Showdown • Page 5
I • THE BATTALION
Park. Activities
and pony rides.
rp T T yv yt rp>-p 4 Y T/'Y
1 ilii oAl 1AL1U
Volume 109 • Issue 145 • 6 pages
109 Years Serving Texas A&M University
www.thebatt.com
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Field narrowed in VP for diversity search
By Melissa Sullivan
THE BATTALION
The 26-member committee
appointed by Texas A&M
President Robert M. Gates to fill
newly created position of
Vice President and Associate
Provost for Institutional
Diversity has narrowed the list
of more than 120 candidates.
After several months of exten
sive phone interviews and paper
work, co-chairs of the search
committee Rodney McClendon
and Linda Parrish have invited
three candidates for a campus
visit.
The first scheduled visit is Dr.
James Anderson, who currently
serves as vice provost for under
graduate affairs at North Carolina
State University. He is currently
visiting A&M.
Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, the second
of the three candidates, currently
serves as education and associate
professor at the University of
Michigan, and will be on campus
starting June 8.
On June 11, Dr. Ronald
Rochon, interim director of the
school of education at the
University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse, will visit A&M.
The committee will continue
the search until a successful can
didate is found, McClendon said.
“These individuals have the
highest caliber and have a nation
al reputation in this area,” he said.
“A&M will be fortunate to have
any one of them.”
Parrish said all three candi
dates are familiar with A&M and
have experience in the field of
diversity.
“That is always a plus,” she
said. “We want them to learn
from their experiences in the
field.”
Parrish said presidents at other
universities have told the commit
tee that A&M is conducting the
selection process the right way by
establishing a position in diversi
ty rather than an office.
“This is a bold step at this
level,” she said.
All candidates will interview
extensively with various
University officials and con
stituent groups, including Gates,
Executive Vice President and
Provost Dr. David Prior, faculty,
staff and students, and will give a
30-minute presentation with the
broad topic of “Vision for
Institutional Diversity.”
Following each candidates’
presentations will be a
University reception where stu
dents, faculty and other atten
dees can ask questions.
The committee welcomes the
entire University to participate in
the selection of the new position
by attending each presentation.
Visiting VP and Associate Provost for
Institutional Diversity Candidates
See Diversity on page 2
Ruben Deluna • THE BATTALION
Source: Vice President for Diversity Search Committee
Event Date
June 14
June 15
June 1/
June 20-22
June 28-29
;beard's cruise
i and treasure
June 2nd:
$20/team
$40/team
$20/feam
$2 0/team
FREE
Teens Charge
FREE
@ 7:00 p.m,
'et a great job
FCC eases limits on
i media ownership
JL
nation source.
Student Affairs
VP search
extended
By Natalie Younts
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates
announced last month that he will extend the
search for a. vice president for student affairs
into the fall.
The final four candidates. Dr. William
Kibler, Dr. Leellen Brigman, Dr. Juan Gonzales
and Dr. Charles Fey, were brought to campus for
interviews and described by Gates as more than
qualified. However, after talking with commit
tee members, Gates said in a statement that he
decided to extend the search.
Kibler, associate vice president for student
Airs, will serve as the interim vice president
t forsmdent affairs until a new one is found.
Dr. Jane Conoley, dean of the College of
'Education, and Brandon Hill, a senior agricul
tural business major, headed the search adviso
ry committee during the spring semester.
“We just didn’t find the right match,”
Conoley said.
She said the search has been suspended and a
new committee will be formed sometime in
August.
She did not know if she would head the com
mittee in the fall, but said she would be happy to
do it again.
“(Gates) is considering the composition of a
committee that will begin its work in the fall
when the student body is back,” said Dr. David
Prior, executive vice president and provost. “The
importance of this position to students is obvi
ously great. Therefore, we believe it’s important
to have the student involvement both in terms of
the committee and of the interview process.”
Conoley said there were many characteristics
the committee was looking for.
“We’re looking for people with great leader
ship skills with experience in student affairs,”
she said. “A person who understands the con
nection between student affairs and academic
affairs, and who will commit to moving the
University toward Vision 2020 goals.”
More than 80 people applied for the position,
Conoley said.
See Student Affairs on page 2
A&M projects near completion dates
l?*t
,
:: ■ ■ ■
nw mj ii ii
mm imip
mu mm
iUID! Stilt
Photos By Joshua Hobson • THE BATTALION
Above: Viewed from the
south end of Kyle Field,
the new Athletic
Complex will bring an
athletic academic service
and expanded areas for
football team meetings
and coaches' offices clos
er to the field the ath
letes play on. The com
plex is scheduled to open
Oct. 27.
Left: Students may be
able to walk to West
Campus traffic-free as
soon as August, when
Texas A&M officials
expect the underground
passageway to be
complete.
By Jodi Rogers
THE BATTALION
Two construction projects, the
West Campus Parking Garage along
with the Wellborn Underground
Passageway, and the new Athletic
Complex, located in the South End of
Kyle Field, will be completed by the
fall, officials said.
Transportation Services is now
accepting reservations for parking
spaces in the garage for on and off
campus students.
The new garage will include more
than 3,700 parking spaces, making it
the largest garage on campus.
The passageway will be connected
to the garage and run under Wellborn
to alleviate pedestrian traffic along
Wellborn.
Doug Williams, assistant director
of Transportation Services, said the
passageway and garage cost more
than $31.6 million and should be
completed by August.
“The garage will be especially use
ful to accommodate events that would
normally overwhelm the University
Center Garage,” Williams said. “In
the past, there was no place to direct
guests and visitors to park when the
University Center Garage became
full.”
Williams said the automated park
ing control equipment will accept
Aggie Bucks, have seven elevators,
more than 100 security cameras and
six automated pay machines. The
hourly parking rate will be half of the
regular hourly parking rates for other
garages. Transportation Services
Assistant Director Debbie Hoffman
said the parking spaces will not be
individually assigned and that all cus
tomer groups will be accommodated.
“We’re excited about the grand
opening because we feel the passage
way will be a key element in uniting
both west and main campuses,” she
said. “It will be a significant improve
ment in increasing pedestrian and
See Projects on page 2
Mass media metamorphosis
Tim Fttderai Communicahotts Commission eased awn ;j newsfsoper and television or radio station in
decactes-dd restrictions on media ownership Monday, the same market. Sonre of the largest media
permitting companies to buy more television stations companies who will be affected by these changes
(reaching up to 45 percent of U.S. households) and already own key communication outlets.
A&M, UT geology profs
remembered after deaths
By David Ho
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Federal
regulators voted Monday to
v companies to buy televi-
stations reaching nearly
lialf the nation’s viewers and to
own newspaper-broadcasting
combinations in the same city,
relaxing decades-old rules
against media concentration.
The 3-2 vote by the
Republican-controlled Federal
Communications Commission
brought strong criticism from
opponents, including one law
maker who predicted an “orgy
of mergers and acquisitions”
ng a few giant companies in
control of what most people see,
bear and read.
Many media companies
favored the move, saying cur
rent restrictions hindered their
ability to grow and compete in
a market changed by cable TV,
satellite broadcasts and the
Internet.
Rather than squelching
diverse viewpoints and local
control in news and entertain
ment, the companies say, free
dom from old restrictions will
allow them to provide better
news coverage in more commu
nities. The broadcast networks
say the changes will help keep
free TV alive by helping them
compete with pay services for
quality programming.
FCC Chairman Michael
Powell said the FCC achieved
its goal of “building modern
rules that take proper account of
the explosion of new media out
lets for news, information and
entertainment.”
The commission’s
Democrats, Jonathan Adelstein
and Michael Copps, said the
changes give too much power to
media giants. In the largest mar
kets, a single company will be
Company Matworks
Cable Motion Pictures Magazines
. Newspapers (toUl deity)
Station* owrved
Walt Disney Co. . ABC
: ESPN. Disney Charnel Touiiotooe,
Mirwita*
10 TV
59 Radio
General Electric Co. NBC
MSNBC. CNBC. Bravo :
14 TV
VV*o«<h lne„ CBS, ■
URN
MTV, NicMocteoti. : Paramount
Showtime. SET
: 39 TV
183 Rmto
News Corp FOX
; Fox News Channel. FX. 2Wt Century Fox ; TV Guide
Fox Sports Net
; New York Post
(mom Ilian 175 international)
30 TV
AOL Time Warner WB
CNN. TBS. HBO . Warner Bros.. Time. People.
New Une Cinema Sports BlustRitwt
7 TV (Local news)
Paxson : PAX
Communications Corp.
65 TV
TnSxjne Co
WGN
La* Argotes Tmes.
Chicago Tribune {12)
26 TV
GatrollCo.
: USA Today (100) (17 ki Shlair;)
22 TV
New York Times Co,
New York Times,
Boston Globe 119)
8 TV
2R*fc
Knight Ricidef
Phrlade^phra Inquirer,
Miami Horald (31)
Huarst Corp.
San Franctetxj Chrontei* (12)
! 27 TV
2 Radio
Cox Enterprises Inc. *1#
Atlanta Constitution (17)
; 15TV
79 Radio
Top television
broadcasters
Company
Viacom tiicv.
News Corp.
Genarsf Electric Co.
Cortvnunieatioos Corp.
Triune Co.
Wait Disney Co.
Number of of housetiotd
39 .im
35 37.8%
33.8%
30.9%
30.0%
23.6%
Top radio broadcasters
Number of 2001 revenues
«t»tk>ns <kl TTfiJlK**}
Cicar Channel U238 $3.2654
VUmm tnc.. (infWiy)
Cox Inc.
183
$2,081.1
$431.4
$407.9
Newspaper companies
Number of Circulation'
Company newspapers nailers?
Gaw.ttCo. 100 7.7
Knight HkJder 31 51
ThbunoCo. 12 5f
New Ycrt Titnw Co. 19 3.2
HaarstCorp. 12 2.4
'Larijert c-it«**en
SOURCES: The compsnisa: The Center for Puttfc Integrity: Audit Bureau of Circutstion*; BlA rfner.a* Nefwarft; NUrisan Me jia Research; Assosated P
able to own up to three TV sta
tions, eight radio stations, the
cable TV system, cable TV sta
tions and a daily newspaper.
“This is the most sweeping
and destructive rollback of con
sumer protection rules in the
history of American
broadcasting,” Adelstein said.
See FCC on page 2
By Karen Yancey
THE BATTALION
University of Texas geology
professor Dr. Robert
Goldhammer was killed last
Monday, along with one of his
students, when the van he was
riding in hit the median of a road
and flipped over.
The same tragedy struck the
Texas A&M Department of
Geology six years ago with the
death of Dr. Norman Tilford in
November 1997, who died
after losing control of his air
plane and crashing in central
Texas while en route to meet
his students.
“Both professors were lost in
a transportation-related accident
while leading a geology field
trip,” said Dr. Christopher
Mathewson, a professor of engi
neering geology at A&M.
Tilford spent time working
for Harza Engineering Company
and Ebasco Services Inc., while
Goldhammer worked for Exxon,
Shell, Texaco and Sonat. They
brought international profes
sional experience into the class
room.
“Norman Tilford and Robert
Goldhammer left industry for
the express purpose of being a
teacher,” Mathewson said.
“They both were dedicated
teachers who incorporated their
real world experience into their
teaching and they led popular
field trips that were rated high
ly by the students. This was a
tragic loss of a person who
knew what the real world was
about and could bring it to his
students.”
This is the first death of a
faculty member while on a
field trip that the UT geology
department has experienced.
However, during the past 40
See Geology on page 2