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TCU
e-mail service to be disrupted this weekend
Students,
faculty and staff will have limited access to their TCU e-mail accounts
Friday, Saturday and Sunday as Information Services upgrades the
Exchange 5.5 service to Exchange 2000, said Kim Weber, manager ofUser
Services.
Weber
said the updates will take place in shifts according to user last
names. Service interruptions are expected to be approximately four
hours, according to the e-mail login Web page.
Dave
Edmondson, assistant provost for Information Services, said the
upgrade was anticipated in the department’s budget for this
year.
—Kelly
Howard
Legal
issues to blame for A&M bonfire cancellation
COLLEGE
STATION (U-WIRE) — Harsh business and legal realities stemming
from the 1999 Texas A&M University Bonfire collapse that killed
12 Aggies and injured 27 others may have doomed Bonfire 2002 before
planning ever began.
A&M
President Dr. Ray M. Bowen announced Monday Bonfire will not burn
this fall because the safety firm for the project had withdrawn
and because revised cost estimates put the price tag for Bonfire
2002 at $2.5 million, about $1 million more than originally estimated.
Dr.
Bryan Cole, the coordinator of the Bonfire 2002 Steering Committee,
said legal liability and the high-risk nature of the project drove
away most insurance companies from underwriting the project.
Turner
Construction, the New York-based firm contracted as safety consultants
for Bonfire 2002, pulled out of the project Wednesday after it was
unable to obtain liability insurance. Cole said the insurance firms
Turner had worked with in the past dismissed the project without
considering it.
—The Battalion
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