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|Vol. 75 No. 34
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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