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Battalion |Vol. 75 No. 34 12 Pages ■— Serving the Texas A&M University community Monday, October 19, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High 82 High .. .80 Low 60 Low .. .62 Chance of rain. . . . . 20% Chance of rain . 20% enator calls tactics olitical bribery’ United Press International /ASHINGTON — Sen. John D-Ohio, says the White House ising “political bribery” in an effort to President Reagan’s proposed Saudi ideal through a divided Senate. Glenn said there are still enough ^ bilges in the Senate to kill the $8.5 bil- deal, but noted the administration’s l-court campaign has gained plenty of mnd in recent days. The fate of the proposed package is ing up for a conclusive Senate vote \ pet 27 or 28 that is expected to be prided by a razor-thin margin. Unless the Senate follows the House lead and rejects the deal, the sale goes through. The package includes five AWACS radar planes plus other aircraft equipment. “Some of the tactics being used now to switch votes I find deplorable,” Glenn said Sunday on CBS’ “Face The Nation.” He cited “promises not to come in and campaign against a certain senator — which was done not by the president but by high-placed White House people — and when another was promised ‘that U.S. attorney you want will come through if you just go along with us on AWACS.” “I deplore that kind of political horse trading,” Glenn said. “It’s political bribery.” The two incidents involved Sens. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. Reagan and official White House spokesmen have denied improper promises have been made. Glenn’s main concern has been who would control the planes — which have the capability not only to pinpoint any aerial intruder but also to direct a coun terattack by friendly aircraft. bie, wo sources of A&M gifts aise $2 million a month By DENISE RICHTER Battalion StafT IChancellor Frank W.R. Hubert re- ntly dubbed Texas A&M University a pega-buck institute of higher leam- ”but, where do these “mega-bucks” e from? | Two major sources of funds for Texas kM are the Development Office and ^Development Foundation. I During 1980, the University re lived a total of $26.4 million in gifts ind donations. The majority of these bids were soheited through the efforts lithe Development Office and the De- •lopment Foundation, housed on the |h floor of Rudder Tower. I These two groups raise about $2 mil lion a month, said Dr. Robert Walker, [vice president for planning. "Both entities are here to serve Texas AWf and raise money,” he said. TVe're recognized by the Internal Re- f nue Service as a public foundation for le support of Texas A&M. ” .Although all money raised by the two roups goes to Texas A&M, the type of Ms solicited by each differs. Funds solicited by the Office of De- felopment are used primarily for cur- Int operation and are rarely invested, Walker said. But, long-term funds, or funds that ill be invested, are solicited by the tevelopment Foundation. “The Foundation is dedicated to lying to build a permanent endowment where income is available to Texas A&M every year,” Walker said. Seven trustees selected and appointed by the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Students gov ern the Foundation. The trustees must be former students of Texas A&M and serve a 7-year term. But trustees play no role in Universi ty governance, Walker said. They only are responsible for overseeing the money given to Texas A&M and invest ing these funds. Money is invested through professional fund-management organizations, he said. The Development Foundation and Development Office also employ six full-time professional fund raisers. The job of these employees differs somewhat from that of a typical fund raiser, however. “Rarely do we (as fund raisers) have to sell the worth of Texas A&M,” Wal ker said. “We only have to provide the opportunity to invest to people who have the ability to help.” One opportunity is presented through “Advance,” the Development Office’s quarterly newsletter. The newsletter presents gift ideas to former students, Walker said. The Foundation also will provide informa tion to the prospective donor’s financial planners, tax attorneys and accoun tants, he said. In addition, the Foundation presents eight to 10 estate-planning seminars each year. Walker said. “We invite alumni and the friends of Texas A&M to hear how they could do things to benefit Texas A&M,” he said. “We’re presenting these people with the opportunity to invest in the young people at Texas A&M.” Most of the money given through the Foundation is used to fund President’s Endowed Scholarships, and endowed chairs and professorships. Walker said. Endowed chairs may be created by a gift of $500,000 or more. This donation will establish a chair, to be identified as the donor desires, in one of the disci plines offered for study at the Univer sity. “An endowed chair is a type of scho larship to faculty members,” Walker said. “It’s an endowment fund to retain and attract outstanding faculty mem bers to Texas A&M. “The money is given to provide relief time so the professor doesn’t have to teach all the time. It’s not used to sup plement salary per se, but is usually used for travel, research or for hiring graduate assistants.” An endowed professorship may be created with a donation of $150,000. But unlike the endowed chair, this money is used to pay a portion of the recipient’s salary. Two endowed chairs were recently established by John R. Blocker, vice chairman of the Texas A&M System Board of Regents and by the Robert A. Welch Foundation. Hear ye! Hear ye! StafT Photo by Dave Einsel Pulcinella, (Tom Caravello), beats his drum to attract a crowd to a performance at the Seventh Annual Texas Renaissance Festival. The actor is a member of a street performing troupe called Victims of Circus Dance, frorp Blue Lake, Calif. Pulcinella, along with three other members of the troupe, treated the audience to a bawdy comedy about love potions. Professor lectures via television Two Americans, Swede win Nobel Physics Prize By GARY BARKER Battalion Staff Biochemistry 489 may not get the rat- gs'Morkand Mindy” or “Dallas” re wive, but one thing is for sure, this is one television production that holds a captive audience. Captive by choice or not, Texas A&M students enrolled in Biochemistry 489 participate in discussions from Temple via a two-way television transmission system while their instructor, Dr. Ed ward Harris, is more than 65 miles away. The system was installed by the Col lege of Medicine last summer and was designed so students in Temple can watch a College Station professor lec ture from a special classroom, Biome dical Communications Manager Timothy Manning said. Biomedical Communications, which provides audio-visual support for the College of Medicine, operates the mic rowave television transmission system for the college. The medical school has two classrooms, one in the Animal In dustries Building and one in Teague Re search Center, and a conference room in Teague; and all are equipped with video cameras and color television monitors to be used with the system. The professor lectures to the stu dents in his classroom while watching a monitor on which he can see and hear the students in Temple. Sixty-four of the medical school ’s 125 students study in Temple at the Scott and White Hospital and at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital. First and second year medical students study herewith third and fourth year students and interns studying in Temple. Costing about $400,000, the system was completed to improve communica tion between the medical school’s facili ties in College Station and Temple, Dr. Elvin E. Smith, associate dean of the College of Medicine, said. Since mid-summer, lectures and special presentations have been trans mitted from staff in Temple to medical students here. The College of Medicine also uses the system for conferences be-' tween administrators in Temple and College Station. But, Harris’ class, “The Molecular Basis of Nutrition,” is the first course to he transmitted from here. “I think it is a United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two American scientists and a Swede won the 1981 Nobel Physics Prize today for their work in atomic spectroscopy, the study of energy and matter, including the development of the laser. Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, of Harvard University, and Professor Arthur L. Schawlaw, 60, of Stanford University, shared half the $180,000 award for their contributions to the de velopment of laser spectroscopy. Professor Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Up psala University in Sweden, won the other half for his work in developing high-resolution electron spectroscopy. Their work furthers the study of the properties of atoms to a higher preci sion, enabling measurements to be taken and testing chemical reactions of atoms, said a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which decides on the prize winners. The scientists follow in the steps of the renowned Albert Einstein, who in 1917 showed there are three kinds of radiation processes. Absorption and spontaneous emission processes have been known for a long time, but the new laureates brought greater understand ing to the study of spontaneous emis sion, the academy said. The chemistry prize — the last of the 1981 Nobel awards — was to be announced later today. The physics prize brought to five the number of Americans honored thus far in the 1981 series of Nobel awards and to 45 the number of Americans winning the physics prize since the awards were first given in 1901. Siegbahn was the fourth Swede to win in physics. Bloembergen, 61, was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, and was edu cated at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden in the Netherlands and at Har vard. Schawlow, 60, was bom in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and educated at the Uni versity of Toronto and the University of Ghent, Belgium. He became a profes sor at Stanford in 1961. “I am delighted. I only hope it’s true,” said Bloembergen, a Harvard professor of applied physics. “I feel very happy. I am going to en joy it,” he said. Dave Cooper runs the camera for Dr. Edward Harris’ class for the College of Medicine. Harris Staff photo by Dave Einsel teaches the biochemistry class using two-way television to reach students in Temple. unique educational opportunity in being able to unite the two campuses,” Harris said. “Those of us that are using it see some very good prospects.” Dr. Christine Meiners, assistant pro fessor of animal science and director of the graduate dietitians’ program, said about 20 dietitians and dietetic interns in Temple and at>the V.A. Hospital in Waco are participating in Harris’ class in addition to the 26 students taking the course here. However, Manning said the system is mainly used for medical conferences taught by the medical school’s faculty in Temple and transmitted to medical stu dents here. The transmission system is different from a normal television station because it uses microwaves. A regular television signal radiates in a wide pattern, but microwaves are concentrated in a beam which is aimed in the direction of the receiver. Smith said the system is saving the medical school time and money. “Before we had the microwave sys tem our staff was doing a lot of traveling back and forth between Temple and College Station,” he said. The college is just now beginning to get “maximum utilization” out of the system. Smith said. “Usage is increasing every week. We’re also looking at ways to expand the system such as electronic transmission of mail, transmission of data and trans mission of copies of library material. ” And besides contributing to a more efficient operation, television has many unique applications in medicine, he said. “You can’t take 32 students into an intensive care unit to see a patient who has just had a heart attack, but you can take a video camera.” By RANDY CLEMENTS Battalion Staff Joel Aniceto Quintans Friday waived his right to appeal a Sept. 25 voluntary manslaughter conviction and was offi cially sentenced to 15 years in the Texas Department of Corrections by 272nd District Judge Bradley Smith. Quintans, who pleaded self defense throughout his trial, was originally charged with capital murder for the April 20 stabbing death of Frederick Axel Youngberg IV, but a jury found him guilty of the reduced charge. Doug Mulder, Quintans’ attorney, said the appeal was waived because they had already had sufficient opportunity to present their side to the jury. The verdict wasn’t what Quintans had hoped for, he said, but it was fair. “Joel will go to the Department of Corrections, serve his time and begin rebuilding his life,” he said. However, Mulder said Quintans will still face revocation of a probated sent ence he received several months ago in Dallas for the theft of a bicycle. Quintans was on probation when he was arrested in connection with the Youngberg slaying. “He obviously violated the terms of his probation. I expect probation to be revoked and for him to be sentenced accordingly,” Mulder said. He will probably be in Dallas only about two weeks for judgement, the attorney said. Quintans, who already has 45 days credit to his 15-year sentence, will be eligible for parole after he has credit for serving one-third of his time. Quintans waives appeal, officially sentenced