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February 22, 2001 • Volume 161 * Number 5
The following events are part of
Black
Tarleton's Black History Month celebration:
^History
Black History Month Banquet
A Month
Monday, February 26,2001
SDC Ballrooms 6:30 pm
Featuring a fashion show, readings and music.
For ticket information please contact the
Office of Student Activities at 968-9490.
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INSIDE
FREE MONEY
Slephenville Bank & Trust
giving away $100.
Pace 2
WHAT'S UP WITH
PARKING?
Triple threat commentaries.
Page 3
MUSIC FANS
Clay Walker gets loud at the
rodeo in "San Antone."
Page 4
SGA
One-Card System passes.
Page 5
TARLETON
BASKETBALL
Teams struggle for playoff
spots.
Pace 6
MARCH ON THE •
CAPITAL
Killeen students go to
Ails tin.
Page 7
Rain or
shine the
gameshow
goes on
By DeAnne Young
Staff Writer
A rainy and cold night, peo-
ple debated about whether or
not to attend the second annual
"You Don't Know Black" game
show or stay inside. When the
crowd poured in a few minutes
after 7:30 pm the game show
had already begun. Hostess
Claudia Greene briefly
explained the rules.
There would be four rounds
with approximately ten ques-
tions each. Each question
would be worth either twenty,
fifty, one hundred, or five hun-
dred dollars. The contestant
that had the most money at the
end of each round would
advance to the final round.
With the game show under-
way, the contestants began by
first giving door prizes to ran-
dom audience members. The
first round began with the con-
testants sitting in front of a well
lit sign that read 'Game Show.'
The show began while the
first three contestants answered
questions such as "What
woman led slaves to freedom
and was compared to a biblical
character," "Benjamin Banneker
helped developed what city,"
and "Who was the first black
female to become a multimil-
lionaire?"
As the rounds continued, the
questions began to get harder
and the crowd grew larger, By
the fourth round, the crowd's
intensity had grown and the
participation of the audience
GAMESHOW See Page 8
ROTC climbs to new heights
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By Alyson Henigan
Staff Writer
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Photos By Anov Duncan - The l-TAC
Freshman, Richie Patronis maneuvers the one rope bridge during an ROTC training
exercise. Senior, Mark Leach (top right) demonstrates a low crawl later that afternoon.
any students are not aware of the
various career opportunities that are
available through the Reserve Officer Training
Corp or ROTC program. The program is
designed to train students to have the disci-
pline and leadership skills to become an army
officer, a leader for Americas soldiers. Unlike
people who enlist in the army after high
school, an officer has to have a Bachelor's
degree and must, be commissioned by the
president and the Senate. Being commis-
sioned means that you earn the right to give
orders, and that your orders are basically like
laws, A person can also become an officer in
the army by attending a service academy like
MILITARY See Page 8
Part Three:
Parking for new science building
By Keri Pritchard
Staff Writer
With the opening of the new ,
science building, the imminent
question of parking arises.
While there are no final plans
for the parking situation, there
are proposals.
Two lots will be available for
parking, according to Mike
Moser, associate vice president
of business affairs. A proposal
has been made to open visitor
and timed parking spaces in the
existing lot on which the new
science building was erected.
"I would like to have spaces
available for students and visi-
Rec center still in limbo
tors who need to go to the
Student Development Center to
buy a book or conduct busi-
-ness," Haid.Mose'r., - '
The Ogcar "P" parking lot
should remain virtually the i
same. If changes are made, j
some spaces may become
reserved parking for science fac-
ulty and staff. If science faculty
and staff parking are moved to
these spaces, then lot P-15, locat-
ed near the old science building,
will have available parking
spaces for students. If these
spaces become free, they may be j
used for white-zone commuter j
parking. j
By Rebecca Gutz
Staff Writer
Tarleton State yniy.ersity^ i.s
currently in limbo about the
new Recreational Center. The
students passed the proposal for
the new facility in the spring of
2000. Yet, many students have
not heard anything since then.
The proposal has now gone to
the state legislature.
Students last year voted for a
$50 increase in fees for the new
rec center. The fees will not start
until the semester that the facili-
ty opens. Tarleton is petitioning
the state legislature for money
because the student fees will
only pay for half of the new other items totaling $8 million
facility. The new building will because the legislature gets
be called the Health and funding requests across the state
Facility, because it will have the
capacity to hold physical educa-
tion classes as well as rec sports
facilities.
Tarleton has two viable
options; one mechanism for
funding the buildings is
requesting Tuition ' Revenue
Bonds. Dermis McCabe, presi-
dent of the University, is work-
ing with the legislature this
Spring to try to obtain the
bonds. The new center is not
the only item tfiat the legislature
is voting on; there are three
The University will not know
until May, when the legislature
votes, whether monies will be
granted.
The second option is if a gener-
ous donation were made to
Tarleton.
If the legislature votes for the
proposal, the center will contain
an aerobic room, indoor jogging
track, weight room, three bas-
ketball and volleyball courts,
CENTER See Page 8
Tax breaks for higher education
By Mark-Schwanhausser
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
There's no cure for the ulcer
brought ort by college-tuition
bills. But there is a broad menu
of tax breaks for higher educa-
tion, whether you're a parent
with a kid on the path to college
or one already chasing a diplo-
ma, a graduate whittling down
student loans or an adult return-
ing for an MBA.
The problem is, they some-
times overlap and negate one
another. For instance, you gen-
erally must pick just one break
per student among the Hope
Credit, the Lifetime Credit or a
withdrawal from an Education
IRA. So, take care to craft the
best deal in your case.
The Hope Credit is worth up
to $1,500 per student, the
Lifetime Learning Credit up to
$1,000. But they use different
formulas to get there. The Hope
gives you a dollar-for-dollar
refund on the first $1,000 you
spend on qualifying expenses
and 50 cents per dollar on the
next $1,000. The Lifetime gives
you a refund of only 20 cents on
the dqllar, but it covers the first
$5,000 you spend.
Credit window: The Hope
applies only to freshman and
sophomore years; the Lifetime is
available for an unlimited num-
ber of years.
One complication with the
Hope is that a student who
enters school in the fall will typ-
ically have qualifying expenses
that can straddle three tax years,
but you may claim it only twice.
That forces you to either guess
or amend in order to maximize
the credits.
In some cases it might be bet-
ter to take the Lifetime credit the
first year, the Hope credit the
second and third years, then go
back to the Lifetime credit, said
TAX See Page 8
Theatre portrays tragedy
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Alex Nieto The j-TAC
Chris Guthrie as King Agamemnon enters stage left on
the chariot, being pulled by Ronny Luedke as the horse.
Federal appeals court drops bomb on Napster
By Billy O'Keefe
TMS Campus
In what company officials are
saying could be a fatal blow, the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals has ordered music-
swapping service Napster to
discontinue facilitating the.
trade of copyrighted music.
The three-judge panel ruled
that Napster must prevent its
more than 53 million members
from accessing and trading
copyrighted music, and in its
ruling said that the company
may be liable for "vicarious
copyright infringement."
"Napster, by its conduct,
knowingly encourages and
assists the infringement of
plaintiffs' copyrights," read part
of the 58-page ruling.
Additionally, the court ruled
that District Court Judge
Marilyn Patel would need a
July injunction, in which she
ordered the service to cease
operation. The court ruled that
the injunction should apply
only to the file-trading portion
of Napster's application and not
to the chat or other services.
In a statement, the company
expressed its dissatisfaction
over what it felt was an incom-
plete ruling.
"The Court today ruled on the
basis of what it recognized was
an incomplete record before it,"
read the statement. "We look
forward to getting more facts
into the record. While we
respect the Court's decision, we
believe, contrary to the Court's
ruling today, that Napster users
are not copyright infringers and
we will pursue every legal
avenue to keep Napster operat-
ing."
Members of the recording
industry naturally approved of
the decision.
"This is a clear victory," Hilary
Rosen, president and CEO of
the Recording Industry
Association of America, said in
a public statement. "The court
of appeals found that the
injunction is not only warrant-
ed, but required. And it ruled in
our favor on every legal issue
presented."
"From day one our fight has
always been to protect the
rights of artists who chose not
to have their music exploited
without consent," began a state-
ment released by Metallica, one
of Napster's most active critics.
"The court's decision validates
this right and confirms that
Napster was wrong in taking
not only Metallica's music but
other artists who do not want to
be a part of the Napster system
and exploiting it without their
approval."
Users flooded Napster's
servers this weekend in a last-
ditch effort to download music
from the service.
No mention has yet been
made aboutship with German
publishing conglomerate
Bertelsmann, which owns BMG
Music, and a pay-only service,
which was scheduled to replace
NAPSTER See Page 8
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