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Policies
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diverse students.”
Officials are excited about the
chance to reassess admissions
policies, Ashley said. Many
believe the Supreme Court’s rul
ing will give A&M an equal abil
ity to achieve diversity.
A&M has historically had a
reputation of being an institution
that is not racially diverse,
Ashley said. Some minority stu
dents worry that they will have
to battle prejudice and inequality
while attending the University.
Ashley said he believes
A&M’s negative image is largely
due to incidents that may have
harmed the University’s reputa
tion for being open and welcom
ing, such as a student-planned
“ghetto” party on Martin Luther
King Jr. Day this spring. Ashley
said he hopes the University will
be able to use changes in admis
sions policies to create an atmos
phere that is more welcoming to
minority students.
“We are the University of the
masses,” Ashley said. “Diversity
is something that we are work
ing for, but we have a lot of
work to do. The Aggie spirit is
for everyone. No matter what
race, ethnicity or creed; once an
Aggie always an Aggie.”
Bill Kibler, interim vice presi
dent of student affairs at A&M,
declined to comment about the
ruling. He said the University had
not considered making any
NEWS IN BRIEF
changes yet, and the issue was too
premature to speculate on what
kinds of changes will be made.
The Supreme Court upheld a
previous ruling by the Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals that the
University of Michigan Law
School’s admissions policy is
constitutional. The school had
been using race as a factor in
admissions. The Court held that
the Law School’s goal of admit
ting a “critical mass of under
represented minority students”
does not necessarily turn the
program’s admissions process
into a quota system. However,
the Court disagreed with
Michigan’s system of automati
cally distributing 20 points to
students from minority groups
in the admissions process.
Kernan inherits problems
with confidence of lawmakers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Newly sworn-in Indiana
Gov. Joe Kernan declared Sunday a statewide day
of remembrance in honor of the late Gov. Frank
O’Bannon, but remained out of the public eye in
preparation for the week ahead.
Kernan must soon decide whether to extend a
60-day stay of execution O’Bannon ordered in a
death-row case, and how to handle the state’s
$800 million budget deficit.
Leaders of both parties said they were confident
Kernan could corral consensus to address the state’s
biggest problems during next year’s legislative session
and run the state’s business for the next 15 months.
The state Supreme Court formally transferred
power to Kernan, 57, on Wednesday, two days
after O’Bannon was found unconscious in his hotel
room while attending a trade conference.
O’Bannon, 73, died Saturday at a Chicago hospi
tal, and Kernan was sworn in as governor about
six hours later.
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THE BATTALION
Bats
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Pest Management ousted
about 1,200 bats from Evans j
Library by patching up holes i
the building while the bats were]
gone at night for feeding,
Meyer said. The bats that occu
pied the Business Managememl
Services Building were
released into the wilderness
outside of College Station.
After the bats were relocated,!
repairs were made to the previ
ously bat-occupied buildings,
“To the best of our knowl
edge, the bat problem has been I
solved in the library,” said)
Charles Gilreath, executive!
associate dean of Evans
Library. “We have had no fur-j
ther incidents of bats since the |
fall of 2001.”
The bats that remain on the
A&M campus and in the
Bryan-College Station area are
given protected status as the
official flying mammal of
Texas, Meyer said.
If you come into contact with
a bat. especially a downed or
isolated bat, the incident should
he reported to Pest Management
at 845-33S l or Ik
Environmental Health and
Safety Department at 845-2132
Close physical contact with a bat
requires mqdical attention with
in 48 hours, Meyer said.
Proposition 12
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The opponents — trial
lawyers, consumer advocates iv
some anti-crime groups — argiK
that the proposition would restn:
juries’ roles and allow negligent
to escape accountability.
Voters narrowly rejected that
argument.
The amendment changes the
Texas Constitution by allowing
lawmakers to put caps on cer
tain lawsuit awards, such as
pain and suffering in medical
malpractice cases.
Lawmakers in the spring hail
already approved a state law that
capped non-economic damages
in medical malpnfetice lawsuits
at $250,000 for physicians,
$250,000 for hospitals and
$250,000 for other institutions
with a maximum overall cap of
$750,000 per claimant.
The amendment’s passage
Saturday will hedge off constitu
tional challenges that could have
arisen if voters had rejected it.
“Unfortunately, Proposition
12 is going to give politicians
wealthy special interests, like the
insurance industry, the power to
make important legal decisions
that should be in the hands of
Texas courts, judges and juries,’
said Dan Lambe, executive direc
tor of Texas Watch.
Lambe said the groups that
had opposed the amendment
would continue to work to
defend people’s constitutional
rights to access the courts.
Perry, a Republican, had
made medical malpractice
reform a top issue during the
regular legislative session. In his
State of the State address in
February, he pushed for a
$250,000 cap on non-economic
damages, saying patients across
the state were seeing their doc
tors forced out of practice
because of high medical mal
practice rates.
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