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II be very fun to have id have the power." n to get greeks munity service project r included a project ,lpha Chi Omega and Pi Phi joined together d refurbish a local res Officials: Students still have options Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Journalism Student By Justin Smith THE BATTALION Incoming freshmen and current students enrolled in the journalism department at Texas A&M will receive a quality education despite a recommendation to close the pro gram, said Dr. Edward Walraven, senior lecturer and undergraduate adviser. “A&M has made a commitment to these students and they will honor that commitment,” he said. Even though incoming freshmen and transfer students from other schools will be the last students to enter the program, there will be a n r projects money for many s. 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According to the College of Liberal Arts Web site, the college will be available to aid any current jour nalism students who might choose to pursue a degree outside of journal ism, even if it is not within the College of Liberal Arts. The Web site says no new grad uate assistantships will be award ed, but that as long as a graduate student’s performance has been satisfactory, their assistantships will still be honored. No current journalism faculty or staff member will lose his job and if he chooses to leave the department he will still be employed by the University, although he will be in a different department, Walraven said. Walraven said he was surprised and disappointed by the decision. “Journalism is my first love after my family,” he said. “I was surprised because I expected (the College of Liberal Arts) to just merge us into another department.” Michael Ho-Lung, a senior journalism major, said if the jour nalism program has too many stu dents, there should be a more strict method of screening students who want to get in. “If they don’t have the money to hire faculty, then make journalism more selective and require students to get higher grades in their classes or on the (Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation Test),” he said. Walraven said regardless of the decision, there will not be a degrada tion in the quality of the classes. “As long as journalism is still being taught, we will do the best we can,” he said. For more information, log on to the College of Liberal Arts Web site at http://clla.tamu.edu/joumalism. Students not wishing to remain in journalism will be able to explore other majors Students have varied options if they wish to continue to pursue a journalism-style degree, such as English or history College of Liberal Arts will work with students who want to transfer to other majors, regardless of the number of credit hours RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION SOURCE: COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Claudette closer to reaching land Position: 27.5 N, 93.1 W Sustained winds: 65 mph Movement: NNW 7 mph As of 5 p.m. EOT Monday ■i Potential area of landfall Okla. concern over Claudette shifts o mid-Texas By Mark Rabineck THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEADRIFT, Texas — Texans along a 200- mile stretch of coastline braced for hurricane- force winds, torrential rain and pounding tides as Tropical Storm Claudette plodded toward land, heading north of where forecasters initially anticipated. The National Hurricane Center issued a hurri cane warning from the sparsely populated area around Baffin Bay, 30 miles south of Corpus Christi, to High Island, east of Galveston some 75 miles i of Houston. Forecasters believed Claudette could become a hurricane late Monday and expected to turn to the west before arriving under the cover of darkness Wednesday morning. Coastal residents in low lying areas along Texas’ coast under the hurricane warning were being asked to evacuate Monday evening, emer gency management officials said. “All the way from : Galveston/High and area south everybody is asking people in low-lying areas to leave,” said Rick Perry, Brazoria County’s emergency management coor dinator. “This is a minimal storm but you need to move inland to high ground.” Galveston County emergency management officials asked residents of the west end of the Bolivar Peninsula to consider leaving in anticipa tion of the storm, since anything above 4-foot tides would cut off evacuation routes. “We are a little bit more under the gun,” Galveston Mayor Roger “Bo” Quiroga said. Tropical storm warnings stretched east to Intracostal City, La., anticipating complications the so-called “dirty” side of the storm. The lower Rio Grande Valley, considered the most See Claudette on page 2 Splash into summer Texas Ark. La. Tenn. I Miss j Ala. Houston '%~ wu '$