TCU Daily Less is more? Recycling responsibility Major League Baseball voted to eliminate two Recycling may seem like an easy task to teams Tuesday. But the proposal faces do, but convienance and laziness fierce union disapproval. override it on campus. See Sports, page 8. Now in its I OOth year of service to TCU See Opinion, page 3. Wednesday, November 7, 2001 Fort Worth, Texas C-USA might disband, athletics administrators say By Rusty Simmons orado State and Utah) splintered off An athletics administrator from of anonymity, saying they didn't want Memphis, Louisville, Tulane, Al- C-USA consists of 14 basketball SKIFF STAFF and formed the Mountain West Con- Cincinnati said the university and to hamper further conversations about abama-Birmingham. Houston and schools and may include up to 12 foot- TCU was left behind when Texas, ference in 1998. seven other C-USA schools, including a possible separation. South Florida. ball schools by 2003, when South Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech But TCU administrators are taking TCU, are making plans to leave the TCU Athletics Director Eric Hy- Athletics administrators are upset Florida joins as a football member. An bolted from the now-defunct South- part in conversations to assure that the conference within a year. The admin- man said he has not been contacted about C-USA's size (15 teams), the athletics administrator from Louisville west Conference in 1994. university won't be left behind if Con- istration from the sch<x>ls have be- about the move, and he has no knowl- conference's focus on football instead said the league is getting too large to TCU was left behind again when ference USA disbands, athletics ad- come frustrated with the decisions edge of the possible departure. of basketball and the schedules con- manage. the backbone of the Western Athletic ministrators from three C-USA being made in C-USA, the source said. The other six sch<x>ls rumored to be tinually forcing teams to travel to ru- Conference (Brigham Young, Col- schools said. The sources spoke on the condition part of the separating faction are: ral locations. SEE C-USA, PACE 4 CAMPUS BRIKFS BOOK WORMS Drilling proposal SGA to host forum Thursday about parking The House of Student Represen- raises concerns tatives University Affairs commit- tee will host a forum from 11 a.m. By James Zwilling Fullwider said. Fort Worth had STAFF REPORTER to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Addison never had any such requests, and and Randolph Clark statue to gather Mitchell Energy and Develop- therefore had no guidelines. Full- student opinion about parking. ment Corporation has been inun- wider said. Vice Chancellor Don Mills and dated with calls from concerned City officials, oil and gas com- Traffic and Parking Regulations homeowners since an Oct. 11 pany executives and representa- committee chairman Fred roundtable discussion about a pro- tives from both the Texas Railroad posal to drill for oil and gas within Oberkircher will be answering Commission and local neighbor- Fort Worth city limits, said Brian questions and listening to concerns. hood associations gathered for the Engel, director of public affairs for round table discussion which ad- the company. dressed compensation for home- Engel said he expects calls to owners. COLLEGE BRIEFS increase as the City Council be- "Most of the concerns that have gins discussing the guidelines pre- been expressed to us by commu- Med school applications sented in the proposal at its nity members are much the same fall for fifth straight year November meetings. as we fielded at the discussion," BERKELEY, Calif. (U-WIRE) — Mark Whitley, vice president Engel said. "People are concerned Fewer students applied to U.S. medical and general manager of the North about safety, compensation, the schools for the fifth straight year — a Texas region of the Mitchell En- environment and mineral rights. drop with varying effects at some Uni- ergy and Development Corpora- "As far as safety and the envi- versity of California medical schools. tion gave a short presentation ronment goes, we can only tell A report released Friday by the As- explaining the natural gas drilling people that we are using the most sociation of American Medical Col- operations and showed examples state-of-the-art equipment and that leges showed medical school of recent drilling in Denton and we will do everything we can to applications for the 2001-02 school Wise counties at the roundtable educate neighborhoods about year were down 6 percent from the discussion. safety and the environment." previous year. Whitley said the oil and natural Engel said compensation for "Do young people still want to be- gas proposal is important to his homeowners is something the come doctors? Considering the down- company because it would be fi- company is looking into, but it ward trend in the applicant pool, the nancially beneficial. probably will not be an issue. answer could well be 'no,'" Jordan Co- "I'm not going to lie to you," he "The places that we would like hen, president of the association, said said. "There is a lot of money in to drill for oil and natural gas are in a statement released Sunday. this for us. It's the business we're undeveloped land," he said. "This Although officials cannot pin- in. But we are not in the business is land that we would purchase and point the exact causes for the con- of taking what isn't ours. That's drill before anybody lives there. If tinuing decline, some officials why we intend to drill on land that they choose to live there, they are agree schools need to convey more we purchase." going to know that drilling has effectively to prospective appli- Whitely said the proposal is im- been done." cants the holistic approach they portant because it allows these Engel said that in the unlikely take in admissions. companies to use the resources case that they begin drilling in de- Medical schools received 2,230 available. veloped areas, they would con- fewer applications for 2001-02 than "Texas has always been a sider some compensation which last year, making a total of 34,859 ap- Mecca for oil and natural gas could range from monetary com- plicants this year. The number of un- drilling," he said. "But eventually pensation to building a park for derrepresented minority applicants these supplies run out. It's time to community residents. also decreased by 4.5 percent from last look at other locations, like within Engel said many of the resi- year, from 4,284 to 4,091 people. city limits." dents he has talked to are a little There has been an acute decline, The guidelines were proposed confused about the mineral rights particularly among black men, Co- by the City Attorney's office after because they think they may own several oil and gas companies re- them. hen said. David Dunai/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER — Daily Californian John Hart, a junior business major (front) and Courtney Roach, a senior broadcast journalism major study in quested permits to begin drilling. the library Tuesday night. Assistant City Attorney Sarah SEE OIL, PAGE 6 UCC closes parking lot to TCU Assembly focuses on salaries By Kristin Campbell Robbins said people coming to strictly UCC half did not meet the Entry-level wages lower than other area universities STAFF REPORTER UCC for various weekday programs church's parking needs. grounds maintenance and house- Chancellor Michael Ferrari. Concerns about pedestrian safety By Piper Huddleston TCU students, faculty and staff and church construction workers could STAFF REPORTER keeping departments," said Juarez, Julie Graver, a residential services looking for a parking space in the Uni- not find parking in the church-owned also prompted R. Scott Colglazier, Jacobo Juarez, a Physical Plant who has worked at TCU for nine employee, and Pope made sugges- versity Christian Church parking lot lot because cars with frog-shaped senior minister, and Steve Martin, employee, said he would like to spend years. tions for the letter the executive com- on the southwest comer of McPher- parking stickers filled the spaces. minister of operations, to decide last more time with his 2-year-old daugh- Tara Pope, a grounds maintenance mittee of the Assembly will write to son and Rogers Avenues might have Robbins said the lot closure is per- week to close the lot, Robbins said. ter, but can't because he depends on employee, said approximately 65 Ferrari by the end of the month. The to continue their search elsewhere. manent and not a result of construction. "We understand how hard it is for a second job to pay his bills. He said percent of the TCU grounds depart- purpose of the letter is to offer sug- The lot, which has between 170 and The expansion project is scheduled to students to find parking," Robbins he works 40 hours a week at TCU and ment works a second job, based on a gestions to Ferrari and the Chancel- 200 spaces was closed indefinitely to be finished by late April 2002, she said. said. "We certainly open other lots to 35 to 40 hours at his other job. survey she conducted. At Tuesday's lor's Cabinet as they make budget TCU students, faculty and staff Mon- Robbins said a fence splitting the TCU commuters." "1 know TCU is doing a lot of Staff Assembly meeting. Pope asked decisions for next year. day due to overcrowding and increased parking lot was removed last week. She said TCU commuters can still good things to increase salary, but the Assembly to submit raising entry- Pope compiled a fact sheet comparing competition for parking spaces, espe- She said half of the lot was designated park in the lot on the northeast corner they need to do more for the lowest level salaries as a compensation con- cially in the morning, said Jerri Rob- for UCC users and the other half was of University Drive and Cantey Street paid employees in the Physical Plant, cern to be addressed in a letter to SEE SALARY, PAGE 6 bins, UCC director of communications.