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fe President of Diversity and Institutional Assessment, David
Anderson will focus on diversity, globalism and internationalism.
Anderson will take office Nov. 12.
By Esther Robards-Forbes
THE BATTALION
Until this fall, Texas A&M was one of the
only large research universities lacking a diver
sity plan, a major hurdle standing in the way of
the University reaching top-10 status.
Enter the newest member of the Texas
A&M administration, David Anderson, who
will take office Nov. 12 as vice president of
diversity and institutional assessment.
Anderson has a long history with the
University, having served as a consultant under
former President William Mobley, and has
agreed to return to fill the new post. Having
worked with 357 different institutions of high
er learning over the past 16 years, Anderson is
considered an expert in the areas of institution
al assessment and helping schools develop
diversity plans.
The new office will focus primarily on three
areas: diversity, globalism and internationalism.
“A&M really wants to be seen as a national
leader in the area of diversity, especially in the
area of student learning,” Anderson said. “Our
job is making sure that our curriculum here
reflects the kind of things that our students need
to know as they move into the 21st century.”
Students are moving into a global work force,
Anderson said, and will have to work with teams
of people who are different than themselves.
“For an institution not to address that is to
shortchange the students who come here,” he said.
Anderson said it will be difficult to break into the
top 10 public universities, but to do so, an institution
must direct all its energies toward that purpose.
“That’s what the assessment part is about.
It’s going to be my responsibility to work with
different areas of campus and look at how well
they set up their assessment models and plans
and to look at how well they are doing in terms
of Vision 2020,” Anderson said.
To do this Anderson said he will work with
faculty, administration and student leaders to
determine what the faculty and students need
and what challenges they face.
“We have to consider what kind of things
we want to put into the curriculum to make
sure that students get exposed to globalism and
what kind of things we want to do in terms of
faculty training,” Anderson said. “That’s
where the real benefit to students is, because
they spend the bulk of their time in class.”
See Diversity on page 2
niversity develops
new master plan
Wave your hands
By Eric Ambrose
THE BATTALION
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The Texas A&M administra
tion has developed a new master
plan for the University that will
dictate how the campus will
Win the future.
The plan, which is on display
in Rudder until December,
slows where campus growth
at occur and gives a practical
tayof expanding for the next
Dto40 years.
“The plan will result in a
more beautiful campus, but the
nlject is to make the campus
■ logical,” said Mary Miller,
associate vice president for
administration and chair of the
Plan Steering
Committee. “We anticipate that
is a guide of what we should
do when we expand.”
Guidelines laid out in the
ister plan will determine
ich buildings to construct,
where to build them and other
factors that are important in con
struction. The master plan
strives to turn the campus into
of a community. It also
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developed a plan to create a more
beautiful and efficient campus. It
proposes the following:
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and developing buildings closer to
Wellborn Road to unify the campus
|Protecting buildings that are symbolic
to the University, such as the Academic
building
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and where to build them
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encourages the integration of
academic disciplines rather than
isolation.
“The quality of our campus
is very positive, but we need the
coordination of our academic
corridor,” said Thomas Regan,
See Plan on page 8
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hands from the bleachers in the south end of Kyle Field as the Texas
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Salesmen swindle A&M students Texas Senate OKs
redistricting plan,
passes it to Perry
By Eric Ambroso
THE BATTALION
Two students at Texas A&M are speak-
;out in an attempt to catch two men who
swindled them out of $400 in a speaker
selling scam.
The men approached Lacey Gann, a
sophomore biomedical science major, at a
at the intersection of Longmire
Deacon drives and asked her if she
any speakers. Knowing that her
roommate needed speakers, she allowed
:m to follow her home.
The men, who were driving a blue Ford
pickup, told Gann and her roommate that
had just finished a job and had some
extra speakers to sell. While she didn’t
like the idea of buying speakers off the
street, Gann said everything seemed legit
imate and the men even provided instruc
tions and a warranty card. The men also
showed the women their Web site and said
they could e-mail the manufacturer with
any problems.
“They had everything set up perfectly,”
Gann said. “We were so excited that she was
getting such a great deal that we didn’t real
ly think it through.”
The speakers and the sub woofer were
packaged in new boxes with plastic still cov
ering them, Gann said. After they hooked
the speakers up, one of the men gave the
women his number and told them to call if
there were any problems. Then they took the
$400 and left.
Five minutes later, the roommates turned
on the speakers and realized none worked.
They tried to contact the men, but received no
answer from any of the numbers they tried.
Gann said she called an audio dealer in town
who informed her the manufacturer name on
the speakers, Dahlton, did not even exist.
“I called the College Station Police, but
they said we would have to take it to civil
court,” Gann said. “There was nothing we
could do.”
The Web site the men showed Gann was
also fake. It listed details about speakers and
other products, but gave no address or phone
number. The manner in which the men car
ried out their con led Gann ,to believe they
had scammed others.
See Swindle on page 2
TS adds bike racks to buses on Fish Camp route
By Natalie Younts
THE BATTALION
Transportation Services has added bicycle racks to buses on the
;h Camp route this year to determine if additional racks will be
:d on other routes next fall.
“So far, the bike carriers are working really well and are having
le or no impact on the routes, but usage is still relatively low,”
saidTS Director Rodney Weis.
The bike racks have been used 158 times in the six weeks since
school has started, an average of five times per weekday, Weis said.
The major concern about the bike racks was that loading and
unloading bikes would cause long delays for the rest of the passengers.
“We have discovered during the pilot program that this is not the
case and the drivers tell us that it is working well,” Weis said.
Fish Camp route bus driver Clay Caswell, a senior entomology
major, said it takes a maximum of 15 seconds to load or unload a
bicycle as long as it’s not the person’s first time to use the rack.
The carrier is on the exterior of the front of the bus and can hold
) bicycles. The rack remains closed and in an upright position
'vhen empty. The user must pull down the rack before loading a
bicycle, like lowering a tailgate. This means that the bus driver must
aware of the added length when operating the bus.
“I think they’re really cool, but a lot of bus drivers hate
BIKE RACK QUICK FACTS
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INSTALLED BICYCLE RACKS ON FISH CAMP ROUTE BUSES THIS FALL.
The racks have been
used 1 SB times this
semester
The carrier Is on the
exterior of the front
of the bus and can
hoid two bicycles
Racks may be installed
on additional off-campus
routes next year
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GRAPHIC BY: GRACIE ARENAS • THE BATTALION
SOURCE : TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
them,” Caswell said.
Sean Murphy, a graduate architecture and land development stu
dent, said he would take advantage of the bike racks if they were on
See Racks on page 8
By April Castro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A six-month
battle in the Texas Legislature
ended Sunday when the Senate
passed a congressional redis
tricting plan in a third special
legislative session and then
adjourned.
The bill approved by a 17-14
vote now goes to
Republican Gov.
Rick Perry, who
is expected to
sign it into law.
The new map
likely will give
Republicans the
majority in the
Texas
Congressional
delegation that is
now ruled 17-15
by Democrats.
Democrats
have opposed
every attempt by Republicans
to pass a new plan, saying the
current congressional bound
aries drawn by a court in 2001
should remain in place.
Republicans say current voting
trends show Texas should have
more GOP representation in
Washington.
Republicans have said they
could pick up as many as six
additional seats in the delega
tion. Democrats said the map
would add seven Republicans.
a
We don’t think
these lines should be
used for the 2004
election. We don’t
think (they) should
be used at all.
The bill’s passage ends six
months of bizarre events,
including two walkouts by
Democrats, three special ses
sions and harsh GOP infighting.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-
Laredo, said the map would
disenfranchise millions of
minority voters.
“It’s also a sad day because
it was just a clear blatant abuse
of power intend
ed to build the
Republican
party at the
expense of
Democrats,
more specifical
ly the white
incumbent, the
anglo incum
bent, and the
minorities
whom they rep
resent
While the
legislative battle
over congressional redistrict
ing is over, the feud continues.
Democrats have pledged to
take their fight to court.
“We don’t think these lines
should be used for the 2004
election,” said Sen. Royce West,
D-Dallas. “We don’t think
(they) should be used at all.”
Republicans were hoping to
end the redistricting debate last
week, as the House moved
See Pass on page 2
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— Royce West
senator, D-Dallas