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TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY, STEPHEN'VILLE
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October S, 2006
SINCE 1919
VOLUME 172, NO. 7
' Francisco Reyes/ The'J-TAC
The number of minority students has risen by 13 percent,
Accprding to statistics, the largest increase is among His-
panic students, followed by African-American students,
By D'LEESA KEYS
Staff Writer
Minority enrollment at Tarleton
State University is up this fall by 13 :
percent. According to the!Office'of
Planning, Evaluation and Institu-
tional Research, the largest increase
is among Hispanic students/ whose
enrollment increased by 57,1 -percent'
from the fall of 2001 to the fall of
2005. Black enrollment has increased
by 37.6 percent and has risen by 10.7
percent this year. . !
"The Killeen campus has always->
been pretty diverse because of the
Army's presence there/' Dr. Jim Cook/
Dean of Enrollment Management/
said. "Increasing student diversity
on,the Stephenville campus has been'
a priority ever since Dr. Dennis P.
McCabe became president, we've
increased steadily but this year has
shown the biggest jump in diversity
enrollment." \
According to Cook, Tarletojft has a
variety of methods to recruit minority
students.
"One of the main things we do
is target areas . which are minority
heavy, mainly in the Dallas-Ft. Worth
area; the Center for Diversity Initia-
tives and Texan Tours are also instru-
mental in helping these students feel
welcome here," Cook said. "If .minor-
ity students don't feel welcome at Tar-
leton, they're not going to come here
for an education."
Cook also said that having a di-
verse campus is important because it
prepares students to woj;k in a dive^^e
world after college, ' ' v s
"Diversity adds value to the ■dol-
Iegevexperience by exposing students
to different perspectives on the world
and it's wonderful because We are all
so different," Codk said.
"We have a ways to go before1 we
reach the goal set for us by the state of
Texas, our enrollment needs to be lire-
flexive of our service area (the Dallas-
Ft. Worth Metroplex, Waco and the
Interstate 35 corridor)/' Cook said.
"We're getting as strong foothold in
the Tarrant county area, plus people-
are enjoying their experience at Tar-,
leton and word of mouth is spreading
in the university's favor."
See MINORITY, Page 8
Students arrested for
possession of marijuana
■ 3 students to face disciplinary
actions by university officials
By ERIK WALSH
' Associate Managing Editor
• Three, students were ar-
rested Tuesday,, Oct. 3 for
possession of marijuana (un-
der 2 ounces) and drug para-
* phernalia in Ferguson Hall,
v; Tarleton students Johnny
♦ Robinson, 27; Aaron Nuut,
19; and Hafry Alexander 18;
1 were arretted and taken to
the Erath County jail after
'police responded to a call
'reporting the smell of mari-
juana smoke coming from a
residence hajl room.
; "It saddens me when
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an arrest like this has'to be
made/' Detective Sergeant
Randy Dolloff said. "But we
have a job to do and we will
• do it."
The students/ will1 face
disciplinary action from the
university due to 'its Drug-
Free Campus Policy. The j&ue
process began on Tuesday.
According to Dana Moore,
Assistant Dean of Students,
the students will have five
days to ( make an appoint-
ment with her and' receive
disciplinary action.
The code of student con-
duct, section 2.3.20, states
that the unlawful manufac-
ture, distribution, dispens-
ing, possession, use, sale of
controlled substances, iden-
tified in federal and state
laws gnd regulation. . Any
paraphenalia associated with'
the use and or possession of
a drug parqotic or controlled
substance in prohibited.
Seven different disciplin-
ary sanctions are possible for
students breaking the code of
student conduct, according
to section 5.1.1 of the code of
student conduct.
The possibilities include
reprimand, in written 'or
oral form, loss of privileges,
imposition of certain .tasks,
probation, suspension, ex-
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pulsion or revocation of de-Zy
grees.
Landmark apartments heads for landfill
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, Worker from Broken Construction Private, demol-
ish tne Jemaihs/6f Landmark apartments. The apartment .
complex, which was the, subject of a fire in June 2006, is
finally being torn down,
Accprding to Clint Pruitt, the equipment opefafor,
the cre*y needk two days to tear down the building, and
another month to cart off the rubble.
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ABOVE: Clint Pruitt mans a Caterpillar Excavtor.
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LEFT; Joe Oglesby, Jthe owner of Broken Construction Pri-
vate, hands out orders to his crew.
e-mail system to replace current system
New system to go into place in Spring 2007 and designed to improve security
By ERIK WALSH
Associate Managing Editor
problem."
Gray added that graphics and audiq
files take up a lot of space, leaving less
"The new e-mail system is today's technol-
ogy. It will much better than web mail," Gray
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.Tarleton plans on installing.a new e-mail sys- "There's nothing we can do about the amount space for regular e-mails.
' tern' to replace the often problematic web mail of maU that is sent oufc/" Gray saicL ^ way
this spriiig semester. messages are conveyed around
"We've l^een looking for a solu- 'Students' need to
tion since February," Rebecca Gray, routinely clean
. Executive Director of Information OUt their in boxes
Resources said. ^ "We have selected to keep receiving
a different product. Our goal is to e-mails7
'have it running by spring,"
Some of the problems with the
current web mail are the ability to delete only
lone e-mail at a time, students not receiving e-
; mails due to full inboxes and deleted boxes and
-too mucKjunk mail to look through.
campus.
E-mails are sometimes noi' re-
ceived when inboxes and deleted
boxes are full. This is because stu-
dents have a 30 megabyte (MB)
limited hard drive space reserved
to them.
"Students need to routinely clean out their
in-boxes and deleted boxes to keep receivh^ e-
mails," Gray said. "That should take, care of the
Webmail Facts
* Account holders have a quotd. on
the amount of files that can be left on
the e-mail server,
• The quota is not based on the num-
ber of messages, but on the total size
that, the messages take up on the
server.
> Index
- News 2
- . Op-Ed 3
■>' Feature 4
Entertainment 5
Campus Life, 6
Sports 9-10
1 'ifivCi Hi'wWVJ,1
Restaurant Review
Chili's reviewed by our
critic.
Page 4
Football gets first win of the
season ;
the Texajns beat Southwestern
Oklahonaa 21-19.
Page 10
A close look at Rate-a-professor.
com
A valuable resource for students?
See Page 4
Cliff Bramlett/The J-TAC Graphic
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Volleyball win for Tarleton
again.;
TexAmis win in three straight sets,
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