WEATHER FORECAST j F>U| High 73 Low 58 Chance of House fails morning to make quorum drizzle Business could not be con- ducted during the House of Student Representatives Inside meeting Tuesday when a Women's team wins, WEDNESDAY quorum of three-fifths of all NOVEMBER 26, 1997 House members required to 73-70. conduct business was not Texas Christian University met. See page 5 95th Year • Number 53 Members were unable to introduce any new bills or debate and vote on old busi- ness, which included a bill to purchase eight new printers for three computer labs on campus. The bill was tabled Support for Mac computers may end and will be reintroduced at next week's meeting. By Kelly Melhart important change without any consul- CAMPUS EDITOR House President Andy Koehler says students won't be compromised tation of the (acuity." he said. "There Mitchell said that the House Forty-two faculty and university should be a greater consultation has "failed to make quorum staff members met in Sid Richardson Edmondson said roughly $300,000 how the money will be spent. dean's level, as to what's coming mechanism." for the last few years" at the Lecture Hall 2 on Tuesday afternoon was requested from various depart- "We're not going to disadvantage about," Morgan said. "Forty percent Edmondson said of the 1.600 com- meeting before the to discuss the fate of Macintosh com- ments for technical upgrades of both any students," he said. "There are cer- of the faculty use Macs. I don't think puters on campus. 1.250 are Wintel Thanksgiving holiday. puters on campus. types of systems, but only $150,000 tain departments that rely heavily on (the administration) appreciates this. and 350 are Macs. When the meeting was The Mac users decided to meet was available. He said all these funds the Macintosh environment, but "A lot of misinformation has gone However, according to the called to order, the house after hearing about a statement will be used for Wintel upgrades this (Wintel) is the platform that is most through the system." he said. Macintosh Information Summary was 14 members short of made by Dave Edmondson, assistant year, and Macs would continue to be accepted worldwide." "Without (Mac technical support), compiled by Busbey. most of the quorum. provost for information services, at supported in the areas where they are Ken Morgan, a professor of geolo- teaching classes, research and theses Wintel computers are administrative a Nov. 14 Academic Computing needed by students. He said the deci- gy and chairman of the department, would come to a screeching halt." computers. Nation Committee meeting. Edmondson sion to upgrade Wintel was part of the said he will meet with Koehler on Dave Addis, an associate professor Almost half of the 337 faculty said then that the university will move toward a single platform oper- Monday to voice the concerns of Mac of mathematics and a member of the computers are Macs and 302 of the Sentuplets1 mom speaks continue to provide technical sup- ating system. users. Michael McCracken. the dean committee. said Edmondson's 694 computers in student labs are in NIK] interview port for Windows-based personal But William E. Koehler. provost of the AddRan College of Arts and "bombshell" was the first he had Macintoshes, according to the DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) computers with Intel processors, or and vice chancellor for academic Sciences, will also attend the meeting. heard of the loss of technical support. summary. — Bobbi McCaughey says she Wintel systems. affairs, said he has not yet decided "There is confusion, even at the "The university has made a very Please see COMPUTERS, Page 2 and, her husband wondered if GocTwas punishing them when she learned she was pregnant with seven fetuses. "First, it was just like, 'God, A model community Sorority hall why have you done this to us?' Like it was something that was wrong," Bobbi McCaughey said on a "Dateline NBC" seg- renovations ment scheduled to air Tuesday night. The McCaugheys' four boys and three girls — the only liv- to start soon ing septuplets in the world — continued to show signs of Project part of a 10-year improvement Tuesday. Natalie Sue was removed plan to restore buildings from her ventilator about noon and was upgraded to fair con- By Danielle Daniel dition. Kenneth Robert — the SKIFF STAFF oldest and heaviest — is the All (hree sorority residence halls will undergo prelimi- only other sibling in fair condi- nary roofing and asbestos work next month, beginning the tion and has been breathing estimated 21-week inside-and-out renovations to be fin- without a ventilator since ished before Rush Week. Friday, two days after the chil- The renovations to the sorority buildings are the next step dren were born by Caesarean in a 10-year plan to restore all of the Using facilities on section. campus, excluding Moncrief Hall, the newest residence hall. Brachman and Wiggins Halls were the first to be Cohen warns restored this summer. of weapon-making Rick Barnes, director of Student Organization Services, WASHINGTON (AP) — said the Worth Hills sorority buildings will have the same More than 25 nations have or changes made to them as were made to both Brachman and may be developing nuclear, Wiggins halls. He said new air conditioning, heating and biological and chemical plumbing systems will be installed. Bathrooms also will be weapons and ways to deliver redone and the rooms will receive new furniture. them. Defense Secretary "It's a project to update and bring up to standard the William Cohen said Tuesday, buildings." Barnes said. calling the threat "neither far- Blair PMK» PHOTO EDITOR Kristen Kirst. director of fraternity and sorority life, said fetched nor far off." the $8.1 million project will help find a balance between "The front lines are no A model shows the planned designed for the new apartment-style residence halls that will replace Tom Brown having a facility for residents and one for each sorority. longer overseas." said Cohen, and Pete Wright halls. releasing a report that said Please see HOUSING, Page 2 Americans could fall victim to such an attack because criminal organizations and cults — as well as nation-states — could Four students attend deploy such weapons. Travel Guide These weapons are "the poor man's atomic bomb — cheaper, McNair symposium Corder introduces students to foreign experiences easier to produce and extremely deadly," the defense secretary Roberta Corder said. Program readies students for graduate school "HORNED FROG OF THH WF.EK Cohen said that while head- By Kristina D'Aun Bosquez Conference. lines have been full of the STAFF REPORTER By Beth Welbel The conference allowed about 3(X) STAFF REPORTER United Nations' struggle to fer- McNair scholars from the United Graduate school can be an intense Surfing and treasure hunts may ret out such weapons of mass States and Puerto Rico to deliver experience for students. not sound like typical retirement destruction held by Saddam speeches on their research projects. For four TCU seniors, a year's plans, but these activities will be Hussein, "the threat is not limit- she said. worth of research for a postgraduate on the top of Roberta Corder's list. ed to Iraq." The four students who were cho- program has allowed them to make Corder wants to do both, but in sen — Latonya Cobb, Joseph Ferrara. the dream of graduate school come the meantime, she is known across State Rolando Deluna and Dawn Schult/ one step closer, with the presentation campus for the enthusiasm she — gave presentations in biology, of their work at the national McNair shares with others as the coordina- Man takes hostages nursing, psychology and the Ronald symposium. tor for study abroad and the advis- briefly in Lake Worth E. McNair programs, respectively, Yolanda Hughes, coordinator of er for general studies students. LAKE WORTH (AP) — she said. the Ronald E. McNair program, said "I really want to spend time Police arrested a man who The federally funded McNair pro- the students spent Nov. 7-9 in surfing the 'Net because comput- PMrci PHOTO EDITOR briefly held two hostages Delevan, Wis.. at the Sixth Annual gram is designed to make graduate Roberta Corder, the study abroad coordinator and general studies Tuesday after firing shots in ers fascinate me." Corder said. "I National Ronald E. McNair Research adviser at TCU works, with students planning to study abroad and a women's fitness center. No Please see MCNAIR, Page 2 also want to spend more time at one was injured. garage sales. I really enjoy my general studies majors. The 26-year-old Fort treasure hunts." requires her to be flexible on a degree in English from TCU and Worth man entered the New Corder said she works primarily daily basis. began teaching freshman composi- Woman Fitness Center at Helping students while with students who want to study "On a busy day. I can have tion. In the mid-1980s, she began about 11:48 a.m., when four abroad for a semester or for a full between 10 and 15 appointments, advising students who wanted to people were inside, Lake year. and sometimes students just walk study abroad. Soon after, she Worth city spokeswoman sharing holiday cheer "These students are all self- in, so I have to shift gears quickly stopped teaching and began coor- Dorothy Fraley said. starters and enthusiastic." Corder to adjust to different people's dinating study abroad programs. The gunman sent out a By Danielle Daniel said the fund cuts down on mailing said. "But 1 always emphasize the needs," she said.