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of the students,” Gates said.
The building, which will be
located next to Haas Hall, will be
two stories and 58,000 square
feet, according to Board docu
ments, a change from the origi
nal plan of three stories and
55,000 square feet.
“If this is the first effort of the
master plan, it’s a good one,” said
Regent Lionel Sosa.
The Board also heard an
update on the 78th Session of the
Texas Legislature from Stanton
Calvert, vice chancellor for gov
ernmental relations.
Calvert said that while a state
budget is not certified yet, System
universities and agencies will see
funding cuts, but the cuts will not
be as large as projections origi
nally showed.
Calvert said Gov. Rick Perry,
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, State
Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, and
Rep. Fred Brown, R-College
Station, made sure that the A&M
University System received equi
table funding treatment from the
Legislature.
The Board of Regents
tabled tuition increases until
deregulation implications are
studied further.
Gates said it is too early to tell
what impact the Texas
Legislature’s recent actions will
have on A&M due to the incom
plete state budget.
Gates said he plans on draft-
Tuition
Continued from page 1
usual $4 in the fall to a combined $96 per semes
ter credit hour, which is far less than deregulation
critics and A&M officials expected.
Gates said that deregulation is necessary in part
because state support has declined during the past
decade.
In 1992, revenue accounted for 45 percent of
A&M’s expenditures. A decade later that number
dropped to 32 percent.
“That is a 13 percent decline in state support,”
Gates said.
During the next two years A&M will lose $3
million to state budgets, which is better than what
was predicted earlier this year.
As the state Legislature pounded out budget
issues the past few months, Gates had said that
some A&M departments could face possible cuts
or elimination.
Gates said the University plans to scrub low-
priority programs, despite the cuts. However, he
said last week that the University will move $20
million from weaker programs to stronger ones.
Gates said his goal to hire 100 more faculty
members during the next year as part of Vision
2020 is a major part of why the University is
going through with budget reallocations.
“You certainly can’t pay a professor in 2001
what you paid them in 1992,” he said.
Gates said the $20 million that will fund the
new faculty is not enough.
A&M also faces a $3 million deficit from the
current fiscal year and the allocated funds will be
used to pay unpaid expenses, such as utility bills
and faculty costs. Gates said.
“People know we take seriously the burden we
are working with to reallocate resources internal
ly,” he said. “We want to keep the burden as light
as we can by hiring new faculty.”
Gates said it will take two or three weeks to
figure out how much A&M will spend during the
next two years.
Leases
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University Commons offers a
specific semester lease only on its
two bedroom, one and a half bath
apartments for $55 extra per
month per person, said leasing
agent Elizabeth Neiford.
Renting out apartments for
only six months leaves a lot of
empty apartments for the
spring semester, which has a
negative impact on the busi
nesses themselves.
Although special arrange
ments have been made, those
graduating in December are con
sidered on a case-by-case basis.
“We’ve made exceptions, and
we’re trying to stop,” said Jamie
Woodall of Scandia apartments.
“We’re trying to close openings
in December, so we’ve allowed
renewals on a month-to-month
basis for a fee.”
Pishner suggested one way to
solve the problem would be to set
up a university service that
matches fall interns with
December graduates and allow
one to sublease from the other.
But a database like this would
be difficult for the off-campus
housing office to set up with such
slim access to the information,
Bierman said.
Off-campus housing currently
provides a service called Aggie
Search, which allows students to
advertise a roommate or sublease
search. This site can be found
under the Off-Campus Students
section of the Student Life page
on Texas A&M’s Web site.
“I’d heard before that it’s a
real hassle trying to find a place
because there are only a few that
do six-month leases,” Fowler
said. “It’s just very difficult
because it’s common to gradu
ate at an off time, and it seems
that they could be more accom
modating to students in a col
lege town.”
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soon as next week regarding what
programs may see funding cuts.
In Thursday’s meeting. Vice
Chancellor of research and feder
al relations Ken Peddicord
updated the Board on the status
of the bovine genome project.
Peddicord said the genome
may be mapped in 20 to 30
months.
He said that researchers at
A&M and the Baylor College of
Medicine are working to com
plete the bovine genome because
of human health and beef produc
tion implications it may have.
Once the bovine genome is
complete, scientists can focus on
improving milk and meat and
curing human diseases,
Peddicord said.
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on the topic of diversity.
Aside from being the vice
provost for undergraduate
affairs, Anderson is a professor
of counselor education at Non!
Carolina State University.
The other two candidates
coming to A&M this weekae
Dr. Sylvia Hurtado from tk
University of Michigan and Dr.
Ronald Rochon from
University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse.
Rodney McClendon, co
chair of the vice president
diversity and associate prov
for institutional diversity sear
committee, said that these three
are not the only possible
tenders for the job.
“We have three scheduled
candidates,” he said. “But
search will continue until will
fill the position,” he said.
Poland
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Slovenia, Malta and Lithuania
have already approved EU mem
bership with referendums. The
Czech Republic votes next wed
followed by Latvia and Estoniair
September. Cyprus is leaving the
decision to parliament.
Polish leaders campaigned
heavily for membership, sayingii
would accelerate modernization
in Poland, still recovering from
40 years of communist rule that
ended in 1989, and end histone
division in Europe.
Outside the EU. Poland, with
a GDP of just 42 percent of the
EU average, would never bridge
the gap with the West, leaden
argued.
They were opposed by a loose
alliance between ultraconsena-
live Catholics worried about a»
erosion of traditional values and
radical farmers who warned that
Poland’s 2 million sustenance
farms would disappear undei
western competition.
Dismay at poor first-da;
turnout of just 18 percent mobi
lized a grass-roots call to voteoa
Sunday, with EU supporters
counting on the Polish habit (if
voting after Mass.
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country reminded people of Ik
importance of voting.
In Warsaw, where turnout
Saturday was the highest nation
ally at 34 percent, people
returned early from weekend
homes to vote, creating a t
jam hours earlier than the
pattern.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Money pox confirmed
in prairie dog owners
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Tests
have confirmed that four people
in Wisconsin contracted the mon
keypox virus after coming into
close contact with pet praitie
dogs, marking the first time the
disease has been discovered in
the Western Hemisphere.
The findings at least partial)
confirm that monkeypox has
caused an outbreak of rashes
fevers and chills in people across
the upper Midwest since May,
Fourteen more people in
Wisconsin are suspected of suffer
ing from the virus. At least three
more cases are suspected in
Illinois and Indiana.
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