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Accounting department gets chair
The Houston office of the national accounting firm of
Ernst and Whinney has turned over the first installment of a
gift to endow a prestigious academic chair in accounting at
Texas A&M.
During the 1983 Granada Gala in Houston, Ernst and
Whinney successfully bid $39,000 for a cow and then offered
the cow for resale, with the entire proceeds being donated to
the Department of Accounting. The $42,000 gift from the
resale represents the first installment in the pledge by the
company to establish an endowed faculty position in the
department. The pledged gift, for a minimum of $75,000
and a maximum of $ 150,000, will be provided in total by the
end of 1987.
The purpose of the endowment is to support scholarly
pursuits and teaching enrichment activities in accounting.
The principal sum of the endowment will be maintained in
perpetuity and the income will be used to support designated
faculty members.
Free University gets its new name
MSC Free University, long known as Free U, has been
renamed After Hours. The After Hours Committee will
continue to offer short courses in subjects ranging from
bartending to foreign languages to students and faculty of
IcM.
Texas A&I
Professor named to endowed chair
Dr. Peter S. Rose, professor of finance and a Graduate
Faculty Research Fellow, has been named the first holder of
the Jeanne and John Blocker Chair in Business Adminis
tration.
Rose earned an international reputation for his work in
banking and other financial institutions, money and capital
markets, financial forecasting and energy economic re
search. He is an active bank consultant and frequent lecturer
at various professional schools of banking.
Rose earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in econo
mics from Arizona State University and his doctorate in
economics from the University of Arizona. He was formerly
a financial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.
He joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1971, and in 1973
was a Ayre’s Faculty Fellow at the Stonier Graduate School of
Banking at Rutgers University.
From 1975 to 1978 he served as resident scholar in the
Center for Energy and Mineral Resources at Texas A&M.
He also has served as Alumni Professor of Business Adminis
tration at Texas A&M.
Blocker is a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M and president
of the Blocker Energy Corp., Houston. He served on the
Texas A&M University Board of Regents from 1977 to 1983,
including a term as vice chairman.
The academic chair, named for Blocker and his wife, was
the second in less than four months which was established
with two endowments by Blocker. The first was the Blocker
Chair of Finance.
University Press holds book sale
More than 150 new and backlist titles published by the
Texas A&M University Press will be sold at a discount of 20
percent to 80 percent at the Press’ Christmas Warehouse
Sale through Saturday. Damaged copies also will be available
at greater reductions.
Sale hours will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Saturday. The sale will be held at the Press’ new
location on Lewis Street, adjacent to the bonfire site.
To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald.
UTEP solar project curtailed
United Press International
EL PASO — A solar experi
ment with the potential to solve
West Texas’ water problems will
have to be scaled down because
the Legislature shut down a state
agency, officials said Thursday.
The discontinuation of the
Texas Energy and Natural Re
sources Advisory Council will
leave University of Texas at El
Paso researchers $80,000 short
of the funds needed to complete
the five-year study ofithe feasi
bility of solar salt ponds for pro
viding heat, electricity, and
fresh water.
Project Coordinator Robert
L. Reid said part of the experi
ment deals with converting salt
water to fresh water — and
could help provide a long-term
solution to impending water
shortage problems.
“This (TENRAC’s demise) is
not going to kill the project but
we’ve had to reduce the scope
somewhat,” Reid said.
The project got under way in
ith the h"
July with the help of a $23,659
grant from TENRAC.
Reid, chairman of UTEP’s
mechanical and industrial en
gineering department, said he
had expected TENRAC to con
tribute more than $100,000 to
the project through 1988.
TENRAC is being phased out
because the Texas Legislature
didn’t fund its operation in this
year’s budget. Many lawmakers
had been critical of the agency,
contending it merely duplicated
the efforts of other energy-
related agencies.
As originally conceived, the
research project was a joint
effort between UTEP, TEN
RAC, the U.S. Department of
Interior’s Bureau of Reclama
tion, El Paso Electric Co., and
Bruce Foods Corp.
Reid is setting up a salt gra
dient solar pond for the experi
ments, using an existing pond at
the Bruce Foods cannery.
The first phase of the project
— which produces energy when
the sun heats the salt water in the
pond — will provide heat to the
cannery. -K
The second phase will pro
duce electricity to help run the
cannery and the third phase will
use both thermal and electrical
energy to run a desalination unit
to produce fresh water from
nearby salty groundwater sup
plies.
Riots in Juarez spark crackdown
United Press International
JUAREZ, Mexico — Com
munity leaders will be asked
their opinions on a plan to con
trol violent street demonstations
that have resulted in thousands
of dollars in damage to private
businesses and public property.
Mayor Francisco Barrio Terra
zas said Thursday.
The mayor wants all protes
ters to notify City Hall in adv
ance if they intend to demons
trate. Members of the new con
servative city council voted
unanimously to conduct a public
forum on the issue.
But a city spokesman said the
members of the Juarez City
Council are expected to pass the
new regulations at their Dec. 15
meeting regardless of the lead
ers’ opinions.
“We are not trying to prohibit
demonstrations, which are
guaranteed by the constitution,”
Barrio said. “Every Mexican has
a right to demonstrate peaceful
ly, without arms. We are merely
trying to get the demonstrators
to advise us beforehand.”
The border city has been pla-
_ gued with street demonstrations
by groups opposing the govern
ment.
The mayor, a member of the
conservative opposition, Partido
Accion Nacional, which swept to
victory in municipalities
throughout the state of Chi
huahua, told members of the
council he was not trying to sup
press liberty.
tactic of the opposition party to
remain in power.”
But opposition to the mayor’s
plan has been expressed by offi
cials of the ruling party, the gov
ernment-backed Partido Re-
volucionario Institucional, as
well as leftwing groups.
“There is a precedent for this
proposal,” Barrio said. “This
idea was adopted in 1943 by the
city administration of Antonio
Bermudez so no one can say that
regulating demonstrations is a
The mayor did not single out
any specific demonstrators
when he presented his plan to
the city council. But officials at
City Hall indicated the measure
was aimed at curbing vandalism
by the Comite de la Defensa
Popular, an organization of
squatters who have been labeled
by police as the most radical
group on the border.
About 1,000 members of the
CDP vandalized the offices of
the federal secretariat of educa
tion Wednesday night and have
announced a massive public de
monstration for Dec. 10.
Brown trial
gets okay
by judge
United Press International
AUSTIN — A federal court
judge refused Thursday to
block the state’s efforts to try
Eroy Brown for murder for the
third time.
U.S. District Judge James
Nowlin of Austin said in a three-
page order that it would be im
proper for a federal judge to in
terfere in the criminal prosecu
tion of an ongoing state pro
ceeding.
Brown’s attorneys asked
Nowlin to prevent the state from
giving financial aid to the pro
secution. Brown is charged with
killing a prison warden.
Nowlin said the issue might
be more properly addressed in a
state court.
“An order by this court would
have a substantially disruptive
effect upon the contemporary
state criminal proceedings,” he
said.
Nowlin also noted that a state
court had postponed Brown’s
trial until next year. Brown had
originally been scheduled to go
on trial Monday in Edinburg for
the 1981 slaying in Walker
County of Billy Max Moore, a
farm manager for the Ellis Unit
prison.
Earlier, Nowlin had granted
a temporary restraining order
against the state, preventing it
from awarding a $45,000 grant
to the prosecution. But his order
Thursday dissolved that injunc
tion.
State Sen. Craig Washington,
D-Houston, one of two lawyers
appointed to defend Brown,
had argued the state grant was
unfair since the defense was
owed more than $184,000 in
fees from Brown’s two earlier
trials.
Washington contended the
state grant denied Brown his
constitutional right to full legal
representation.
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