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about the Rangers' upcoming season.
Tarleton
State
University
Weekly
inside
HEALTH CENTER HAS
THE ANSWER
■" Are midterms bringing on
•• test anxiety?
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,.FREEDOM OF SPEECH
-. Reparations ad creates
.controversy across college
i, campuses.
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CULTURAL
AWARENESS FESTIVAL
> Association for Student
Unity hosts first event.
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BOOMERS
Celebration of the evolution
- of music.
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CONFERENCE OPENER
TexAnns start the
"season 1-1,
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BASEBALL FANS
Preview for Texas Rangers
fans.
Beasley
benefit
raises over
$10,000
By Keri Pritchard
Senior Staff Writer
KCUB, KSTV, The Waterhole
Club, Impact Sound and City
Limits sponsored a benefit con-
cert on Tuesday night, March 27
at City Limits to celebrate
Ashley Beasley's life and raise
money for the college education
->f her sister, Kathryn.
Over ten thousand dollars
were earned for Kathryn's edu-
ction. Money was collected
from the ten-dollar admission
and through the sale of Ashley
Beasley benefit concert T-shirts
that were donated by Coyote
Designs. Raffle tickets were
sold four for one dollar, and
winners received items from
local merchants such as. Impact
Sound, Pulido's, and Wal-Mart.
A silent auction was held for
items such as autographed
CDs, jewelry and gift certifi-
cates.
"It's sad that we had to come
out for a tragedy like this, but
we've all been given a gift, and
it's nice to be able to come out
as songwriters and try to give
something back to the family,"
said Mike McClure of The Great
Divide.
"As musicians, you go out
and you take a lot from every-
body, so when something
comes along that you can give
back you say, 'yeah, let's do it,"
said Larry Joe Taylor.
"It's a kind of healing process—
a celebration-of-a-life kind of
event, Come out, let's listen to
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On Tuesday, the annual spring show performance by theTexan Stars dance team brought various dance styles to I he Tarleton
campus. Stephanie Shipman (front) gets the crowd involved while (L) Mandy Litchfield and (R) Shantae Douglas back her up.
Tarleton
gears up
for annua!
Big Event
By Rebecca Gutz
Staff Writer
On Saturday, March 31, 2001
the Tarleton Association for
Student Leadership (TASL) is
sponsoring The Big Event. This
annual event is a chance for
Tarleton students to come
together and help the commu-
nity. Residents of Stephenville
call the TASL office requesting
various jobs to be completed,
and groups of students com-
plete the jobs on the day of the
Big Event.
"It is a great way for the
Tarleton community to give
back to the Stephenville com-
munity," said Ricky Coppedge,
one of the student coordinators
of this event.
The Big Event has been at
Tarleton for three years now.
Corrie giebman and Kisty
Hoffman first brought it to ..
Tarleton in 1999. Last year,
Wade Siebman and Justin
EVENT See Page 9
Beasley to receive posthumous degree | Phi Mu hosts memorial
Senior Staff Writer
Dennis McCabe, president of
Tarleton State University,
approved a recommendation
from B.J. Alexander, provost
and vice president of academic
affairs, to grant Ashley Beasley
a posthumous degree at
Tarleton's Commencement
Services in May.
Although there is no current
posthumous degree policy on
file with the . Texas A&M
University System, each institu-
tion within the system has their
own rules concerning the
awarding of a posthumous
Accordirig to the provisional
rules that Tarleton is currently
operating under, in order for a
student to be awarded a posthu-
mous degree, the student has to
have completed all academic
requirements for the degree, but
prior to certification of degree
completion the student passes
away, or the student has been
enrolled in courses, which upon
successful completion would
have culminated in the award-
ing of a degree.
According to Alexander,
Beasley's record was such that
the administration was able to
grant her a Bachelor of Science
"It is my privilege to
announce that I have approved
for Ashley to receive a posthu-
mous degree/' said McCabe at
Beasley's memorial service.
"We hope that awarding this
degree provides some measure
of closure to her family about
her work here at Tarleton as a
student," said Alexander.
"We are pleased for Ashley's
family that we're able to award
Ashley this degree not only
because she earned it, but
because she was a third genera-
tion Tarleton student," said
Wanda Mercer, vice president of
student services.
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Concerned students lobby for state money
By Vanessa Fox
Editor in chief
On Wednesday,
March 21 • and
Thursday, March 22 a
group of concerned
students went to the
state capital to lobby
for the passing of the
bill that would provide
money for the new
Health Kinesiology
and Recreational
Sports Facility. Last
spring, Tarleton held a
referendum for the
recreational sports
facility fee, which
passed with an over-
whelming response of
86 percent to increase
fees for the new center.
The legislature asked
that each Texas A&M
University System
school rank projects by
priority. For Tarleton,
these include expand-
ing the library, renovat-
ing the old science
building, creating a
state-of-the-art dairy
for the University farm
and building the recre-
ational center.
Currently, the library
and science buildings
fall as top priority, and
the recreational center
and University farm
are considered part of
the "wish list."
capital was to get the
recreational center off
of the "wish list," The
group of students lob-
bying for the recre-
ational center included:
Special to The j-TAC
Students traveled to Austin to lobby for the new recre-
ational facility, (Pictured from left to right) Trisha
jacoba, Barry Tooley, Ashley Niklas, Sid Miller, Ross t ,
Dillard, Juanita Markle, Jackie Ruess and Kane Urban, enterprises or functions
such as athletics or
and House
Appropriations com-
mittees create a list of
Tuition Revenue Bond
(TRB) projects for the
entire state of Texas
and submit the list
to a conference com-
mittee. TRB monies,
which are a source of
funds for support of
Education and
General functions,
can only be used for
educational purpos-
es. The four projects
are part of E&G
functions.
The state does not
support auxiliary
Dane Beasley, Ashley's father
the Memorial hosted by her
By Keri Pritchard
Senior Staff Writer
Phi Mu Fraternity hosted a
memorial service for Tarleton
student Ashley Beasley on
Tuesday, March 27 in student
Development Center ballroom
A,
The ladies of Phi Mu read
verses from the Bible, said
prayers and read poetry in
honor of Beasley. A rose colored
carnation was placed in a vase
with white carnations to sym-
bolize Beasley's joining other
members of the fraternity who
have passed away. Beasley's
favorite song, "If I had a million"
by Pat Green, Was then played
Barbara Gouinez-Akias - The j-TAC
thanks friends at Tarleton during
sisters of the Phi Mu fraternity.
for those who attended.
After members of Phi Mu
described how Beasley would
be missed and thanked her for
allowing them to be a part of her
circle of friends, the audience
members were invited to make
remarks of their own,
'The Tarleton family mourns
the death of Ashley, We must be
strong. We must go on. That is
what she would have wanted,"
said Dennis McCabe, president
of Tarleton State University.
"We are here to celebrate her
life, and it was a good life. She
will be in our hearts forever, and
we are lucky to have had her for
almost twenty-five years," said
Dane Beasley, Ashley's father.
Iowa students caught with bomb
"We have a need for
the expansion of stu-
dent study areas in the
library. During the
Southern Association
of Colleges and
Universities' visit, it
was suggested to main-
tain our accreditation,
This is very important,"
said Jerry Graham, vice
president of finance
and administration.
The main purpose for
the students' trip to the
Trisha Jacoba, Barry
Tooley, Ashley Niklas,
Ross Dillard, Juanita
Markle,. Jackie Ruess
and Kane Urban.
According to Urban,
senior business man-
agement major, their
focus was to convince
the senators and repre-
sentatives that the stu-
dents of Tarleton need
and desire a recreation-
al center.
The Senate Finance
housing and food ser-
vices; these are self-
supporting industries.
The conference com-
mittee will meet within
the next month to dis-
cuss bill proposals and
how $500 million dol-
lars in TRB's will be
spent. There is current-
ly a $1.2 billion need
across the state for TRB
monies.
CAPITAL See Page 9
By Matthew McCuire
tms Campus
Three University of Iowa students who were caught with home-
made pipe bombs in their dorm room told authorities they intend-
ed to use them fcjr fishing, not mass destruction.
The students intent was to drop the bombs in a river to kill or
stun fish, said Charles Green, director of the University's public
safety office.
University police evacuated the dorm rooms about 90 minutes
after students reported seeing the bombs at just after 7 pm on
Thursday, March 22. police and state bomb squads toured the
building and removed three pipe bombs without incident.
Adam Fisher, Nathaniel Krotz and Andrew Ritchie were charged
IOWA See Page 9
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