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A&M official says
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University looking for minority suppliers
By Matt Diedrich
Reporter
Representatives of Texas A&M’s
Purchasing and Stores Department
told a group of local vendors Thurs
day that they would like to do more
business with local, small and mi
nority-owned businesses.
Wes Donaldson, the director of
the department, said during a semi
nar presented by A&M and Bryan-
College Station’s Chamber of Com
merce that the University would pre
fer to buy from local businesses for
“We have a real problem locating
minority suppliers,” he said, “but we
surely are interested in increasing
the percentage of purchases we
make from minorities.”
many reasons.
“It’s easier, quicker and in many
cases cheaper to do business with lo
cal suppliers,” he said.
Donaldson added, however, that
the University cannot legally give
preferential treatment to local busi
nesses because of the State Purchas
ing Act of 1979, which requires pub
lic institutions using state funds to
invite competitive bidding for pur
chases and to choose the low bidder.
The solution, he said, is for the
businesses to make more competitive
bids.
Of the $53 million spent by the
Purchasing and Stores Department
in the last fiscal year, about 20 per
cent went to small businesses and
only 1 percent to minority-owned
businesses, Donaldson said.
Mary Sue Goldwater, a buyer for
the department, said the University
uses several source books and direc
tories to locate minority suppliers,
yet these suppliers are sometimes al
ready out of business when the Uni
versity sends out bid invitations.
Goldwater said the small and mi
nority suppliers are also often not
competitive enough.
“We’re always obligated to order
from the low bidder, and not just
necessarily from a small or minority
business,” she said.
Senior buyer Gwen Singer said to
help local businesses compete, the
department has established its own
list of bidders organized by the
products or services offered. Ven
dors can get their names on the list
by filling out a bidder’s application.
In addition, the Stores Depart
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does not have in stock. The form al
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from local vendors, bypassing the
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Terminally ill patients
can live, die at home
under hospice care
By Shannon Boysen
Reporter
Hospice care allows doctors to
give terminally ill patients the
chance to live and die at home, an
official from the Texas A&M Col
lege of Medicine said Thursday.
Mary Alice Pisani, assistant to the
dean of the college, told an audience
of about 20 in 160 Medical Sciences
Building that specially trained indi
viduals are on hand at the patients’
homes to provide pain control and
emotional support.
Linda Bump, a registered nurse,
and Margie Thompson, a social
worker with the Visiting Nurse Asso
ciation Hospice of Houston, led a
discussion on philosophy, criteria
for admissions, principles of hospice
care and the role of the hospice
team.
Bump said a person usually must
be diagnosed with terminal cancer
and have a life expectancy of six
months or less to be considered for
the program. Bump said only 5 per
cent of the patients in the program
have other terminal illnesses.
“The family as well as the patient
must he aware of the impending
death,” she said, “and the physician
must support the decision of a home
death."
Bump said a registered nurse will
first go to the home of the dying per
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the family.
The nurse will then make up a
home care plan designed exclusively
for that family, Bump said.
Social workers and volunteers will
then visit the home three times a
week and provide the family with
emotional and financial counsel.
They will also instruct the family as
to how best to attend to patients in
their last hours.
Once a patient has died, the pro
gram also provides the family with
post-death bereavement counsel for
a year.
Pisani said she hopes to be able to
start a hospice program in the
Bryan-College Station area. She said
the program does not require certifi
cation of medical competency, al
though, there is some training and
commitment involved. But she says,
“Any caring person will do.”
Texas lawmakers probe
CIA’s link to plane crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
lawmakers are probing reports of
GIA links to the crash of a cargo
plane in San Antonio, while federal
investigators on Thursday contin
ued to pick through the wreckage
searching for the cause.
Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-San
Antonio, charged that the crash of a
cargo plane at Kelly Air Force Base
and that of another cargo plane in
Nicaragua were part of a covert
GIA-backed network to supply anti-
Sandinista Contra rebels.
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ports that supply flights are continu-
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respond to charges of a covert arms
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