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\ S.50 an^i'cKl^ TONIGHT! h II $#21 Texas A&M aJmhBm HD vs. ik® SWacek #11 Nebraska Sausage WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5^7 P.M. AGGIE VOLLEYBALL Tickets: 845-2311 www.AggieAthletics. com Tickets: 845-2311 Round 2 TIE company VISIT Wednesday, Nov. 5 5:30-6:30 PM 111 Koldds Meet The Battalion Wednesday, Nov. 5 2-4 p.m. Forsyth Galleries, MSC Meet the writers, photographers, artists and editors who produce your campus newspaper. THE BATTALION 8 Wednesday, November 5, 2003 NE! THE BATTALIA Master Plan Continued from page 1 Gates called the O&M Building “one of the last vestiges of neo-Stalinist architecture,” and said if it were up to him, the building would be one of the first to go. Residence halls Clements Hall and the Fowler- Hughes-Keathley complex, the Pavilion and the Reed McDonald building are designated to be con sidered for demolition within the next 10 years. College of Liberal Arts Dean Charles Johnson will also be speaking at the meeting. Leann South, director of college relations, said Johnson will present an overview of the college to senators. Liberal Arts has recently been grappling with budget cuts due to loss of funding from the state legislature due to a large budget deficit for Texas. In July, Johnson announced his recommenda tion for the Department of Journalism to be shut down after allowing current journalism students to .complete their degree. According to a 2001 jour nalism committee report, the department has been in decline for several years and needs to be merged with the Department of Communications, cut, or completely rehabilitated. After Johnson announced his recommendation, the Former Journalism Students Association and A&M students organized a petition and letter- writing campaign in protest. Since then, a committee has been set up to seek “alternative pathways” for future A&M students interested in journalism. That report has not yet been finalized and sent to the provost. South said. South said the college is also in the process of splitting the Department of Modem Languages into two departments: Hispanic Studies a European Languages and Culture. In other business, senators will considerali that proposes to change the requirements forreri of a student senator, in response to the firsts in SGA's history by SGA Watch President-, junior marketing major Mark McCaig. Sophomore communications major Emi Burden appealed McCaig’s recall of political science major Dustin Teems grounds that Teems had done nothing but her appeal was denied by the Judicial Coe on Oct. 30. Chief Justice and sophomore business mar Daniel Jones found no constitutional lawthatsu; ported her appeal, but he also wrote a concunia opinion that six of the nine justices agreed wi stating that “the basis for this recall electionl! no reasonable justification” and calling Student Senate to reserve the recall for extren circumstances in the future. The three dissenting justices found in the plaintiff, citing as their reason that “it isim sponsible and counterproductive to allow ftm lous recalls of senators, simply because they fail satisfy the w ishes of every constituent.” Despite his win, McCaig has since withdra# the recall petition to focus his efforts elsewhere “It has become obvious that 1 need to world the SGA as a whole, and 1 don't want to foci another month on one guy when there are fish to fry,” he said. The democratic governance bill, designed ensure that legislation passed by the Senate enacted by the student body president and executive council, will be debated at the meetii Wednesday on its second reading. Compound Continued from page 1 On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Ana Palacio said Spain will withdraw 25 of the 29- member Spanish diplomatic staff from Baghdad. Most will be relocated to Amman, Jordan. Spain has about 1,300 soldiers in Iraq and was one of the strongest supporters of the U.S.- led invasion. “We have taken staff out of Baghdad temporarily given that it is a very complicated moment,” Palacio said in Berlin. Spaniards working for the U.S.- led Coalition Provisional Authority will stay, the Spanish Defense Ministry said without giving their number. Spain became the third coali tion member to withdraw diplo mats from Iraq because of stepped-up insurgent Last month, Bulgaria Netherlands moved mats to Jordan, also citing wor- ening security. Those fears increased after dramatic escalation in attach starting with the Oct. 26 missile barrage against the Al- Hotel, where many coalitionani U.S. military officials lived.One U.S. colonel was killed people were wounded. ITS TEA Act E vt w th Martin I dream. 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