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Gunmakers don't pull the trigger.
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Tarleton> get ready for a "Big Event.
Volume 157iNo.3
February 4
TTH@4 in the SDC, Room 219
at 4 p.m.
February^
Friday Night Dance from 8-1.1
p.m. in the SDC Ballrooms.
Organization banner propos-
al/registration forms due in
the Office of Students
Activities.
February 6
Math and Science UIL Practice
at 8 a.m. in the Math, Science,
and Business buildings. •
".February'?. :
IMANI R&B concert at ,8 p.m.
in the SDC Ballrooms.
:r February 8 ,
Alumni Ambassadors Big
Switch registration from 8
a.m.-noon in the library.
Sexual Responsibility Week
from 8 a.m.~5 p.m. in the SDC
Lobby.
February 9
Aliimni Ambassadors Big
Switch registration from 8
a.m.-noon in the library,
Sexual Responsibility Week
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the SDC
Lobby.
f ebruaiy 10
Alumni Ambassadors Big
Switch registration from 8
a.m.-noon in the library.
SexUal Responsibility Week
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the SDC
Lobby',;;
Grief and Loss Group at 3
p.m. in the SDC, Room 212.
Sexual assualt
incident
reported by
Tarleton
student
By Kristi Lloyd
StaffWriter
An 18-year-old female
Tarleton student filed a report
with the Stephenville Police .
Department Jan.24 alleging a
sexual assault. The suspect is
a 21-year-old male Tarleton
student.
The investigation is ongo-
ing; no charges have been
filed and no arrests have been
made. The investigation is
headed by Jason Schipper of
the Criminal Investigation
Department.
TAC
Tarleton State University
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Weekly News
A Member of The Texas A&M University System
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What's in store for 2000?
TexAnns enjoy sweet victory.
February 4, 19$$|
Committee to decide fate
of parking violators
By Steve Gast
StaffWriter
There may be changes made in the areas of parking violations and permits. The
committee proposing these changes met on Monday with Dennis McCabe, Tarleton
president, that included the opinions of students who said the current fines are
viewed as a reasonable expense and do nothing to deter students from
parking where they want. The student members of the Parking •
Committee are Josh Boatwright, a sophomore AS & D major; Jeff
Espinsen, also a sophomore AS & D major; Ryan Rankin, a junior psy-
chology major; Kevin Koenig, a sophomore in liberal arts and Haley
McClung, who is a pre-vet sophomore. The remainder of the committee
is made up of faculty and staff—Seargant First Class Brian Whitecotton,
from the military science department; Joe Cude, department of mathe-
matics and physics; Nancy Easterling, special projects coordinator of
Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research; Monica Day, direc-
tor of housing and residence life; Campus Police Chief Robert Hooper,
director of university police; Ruthie Bradley, senior staff assistant at the
police department and chaired by Mike Moser, associate vice president
for business affairs.
Moser said the proposal to raise the cost of parking permits for facul-
ty and staff is due to the current price being "unfair to the students."
Currently, students pay $20 per semester and $10 per summer session
for parking permits. Faculty and staff pay $40 per year opposed to the
possible $60 students could pay for the same time period. Moser said a student
only has a "hunting license to find a parking place," where a faculty or staff mem-
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ber pays less for a reserved spot. The proposal is to raise the parking permit for fac-
ulty and staff to pay, the proposal being $80. Student parking permits would go up
by $5, which is in line with past increases in 1988 and 1992. These proposed rate
hikes are just that- proposed. McCabe could deny them.
Moser said that total permit sales are around $250,000 each year. This money is
usually used for parking lot upkeep, but will need to be used primarily for the debt
retirement. The $900,000 debt was incurred to pay for the
parking lot on the old Sav-On lot, the parking lot across
from the Student Development Center and for maintenance
of existing parking lots. The increase in permit price would
open up more money for maintenance and ensure the debt
retirement stays on schedule.
Concerning the proposed parking violation increase, Moser
said an increase in revenue is expected and will provide
money for scholarships and other programs.
He hopes it will also create a deterrent in parking viola-
tions, but said students will likely keep parking where they
want. Hooper said the parking violation revenues for '97-
'98 was $138,931.50, slightly higher than the projected
$125,000.
This money is used for various scholarships and programs. ■
Approximately equal amounts go to academic and athletic
scholarships. Other programs that get money are the shuttle
service, the rodeo, presidential leadership courses and PASS,
a program to help ease students into college. The Texan Reps will begin receiving
money in 1999.
Black college
graduates ponder
survival of their
alma maters
By Mark E. McCormick
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services
Lester Reed, recent Tarleton graduate, and Maria Bohm, Spanish instructor, took the privilege
of cutting the ribbon at the ceremony held in honor of the new foreign language classroom
Reed played a key role in bringing the classroom to Tarleton.
By Wyatt Glade
StaffWriter
Thursday evening at 4;45, the foreign languages department celebrated the opening of a new
and improved classroom with a Hbbo^c^tting ceremony.
Cookies, candy and refreshments were served to approximately thirty people as they waited in
the hallway of the Humanities Building for the unveiling of the newly remodeled classroom. The
ceremonial ribbon was cut by Tarleton's Lester Reed, who later led a toast to Tarleton's top notch
Spanish department and also to the new room in hopes that it would better serve foreign language
students and prepare them for life after college. '
The new classroom is a little more spacious than most.classrooms, featuring large, long desks
with four to five chairs per desk. Reed and Maria Bohm,Spanish professor, designed the room to
facilitate the group work and to better encourage the free expression that is necessary to learn a for-
eign language. ■
The creation of this new room was proposed as a senate bill to the SGA by Reed while he was a
student senator in the fall of 1997, ^e bill was unanimously passed by the SGA, then by Dean of
Student Affairs Rusty Jergens, then Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs B.J. Alexander
and eventually was approved by TSU President Denni? :IylcCabe.
The new room is room number 105 in the Hurnardties Building and is open and ready for use.
WICHITA, Kan.—They have a proud tradition that dates to the
years following the Civil War. And they have produced some of
the great thinkers of our time. But black colleges and universities
are at a crossroads, and their future is not just being discussed in
the halls of academia. It is the subject of deep conversation in the
homes, work places and gathering spots of graduates and sup-
porters all over the country.
Black college graduates are particularly sensitive to the wide-
spread perception that alumni have not done enough to keep the
schools healthy.
"That (accusation) has no validity whatsoever; that's a stereo-
type," said Pia Oliver of Wichita, who is president of the Wichita
alumni chapter of Southern University in Louisiana. "We do give
back. We give back in time and in recruiting quality students."
Just last week, the Wichita alumni chapter of Southern
University awarded a $1,000 scholarship to high school graduate
Thaddius Cooper. That was the chapter's first scholarship award,
but members say it will become an annual tradition.
In addition, Eric Wilcoxson, another member of the Southern
chapter, said he is helping graduates of other black schools living
in Kansas start similar scholarship awards.
"They (black college graduates) do give back, but if you look at
just the dollars and cents, you're missing the whole point," said
Anna Chandler, chairwoman of the Minority Studies
Department at Wichita State University and a Howard University
graduate. "We get by on sweat equity."
Still, the perception of a lack of support lingers. It even was
brought up in filmmaker Spike Lee's 1988 film "School Daze," in
which a character pointed out that Jewish people have
Yeshiva University, Catholics have the University of Notre Dame,
Mormons have Brigham Young University, and black people
although not members of one religion need to support
black institutions.
In order to understand the depth of the issue in the black com-
munity, it is important to understand the history and current sta-
tus of black colleges and universities.
The first black schools—and there were about 4,300 of them—
were created by the Freedmen's Bureau shortly after the Civil War.
They were intended to provide technical
training and higher education to peOple shut out of mainstream
institutions.
As they developed and evolved, some became major institu-
tions; others failed to keep up and closed. Those that flourished
became for many people precious caretakers-of a culture,
symbols of black independence and self-determination.
Today, there are a little more than 100 black, four-year schools.
They have produced some of the greatest minds in American his-
tory, among them Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Barbara
Jordan, Julian Bond and Andrew Young.
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