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Energy equipment
donated to A&M
for sea research
What’s up
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What do public relations people do?
What college coursework is recommended?
How do you land a job in PR?
Ask these questions and more from a panel of six top
professionals from Houston, Dallas and Bryan.
PANELISTS
Sue /Knders
President. Sue Anders Advertising and PR, Dallas
Joe Buser
President, Joe Buser & Associates, Bryan
Robert E. Maine, APR
Manager of Public Relations. Litton Industries, Inc., Houston
President, Houston Chapter of Public Relations Society of America
Cathy Oppel
President. Oppel & Associates, Dallas
Jim Pattillo
District Staff Manager External Atfairs, Southwestern Bell. Dallas
Marilyn Pippin
Principal. Cox Pippin Communications, Dallas
President. Dallas Chapter of Women In Communications, Inc
MODERATOR
Douglas P. Starr, APR
Professor and Head, Department of Journalism. Texas A&M University
Friday, November 7, 1986
212 MSC
Panel Discussion: 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Round Table: 11 a.m. to noon
Sponsored by the Department of Journalism
By Greg Bailey
Reporter
A recent donation by the U.S. De
partment of Energy has made Texas
A&M the recipient of more than
$500,000 in research equipment.
Special assistant to the Chancellor
for Federal Relations Michael Lytle
said the donation could make A&M
more competitive for energy-related
research opportunities in the marine
environment.
The equipment has been used at
A&M for the past eight years in off
shore oceanographic monitoring in
conjunction with the Department of
Energy’s Strategic Petroleum Re
serve program. The department
originally planned to auction off the
equipment as excess government
property.
A&M researcher Dr. Roy Harm,
program manager for the DOE pro
ject, said the project was set up to
monitor the effects of brine materi
als deposited in the Gulf of Mexico
from salt domes on the Texas and
Louisiana coastlines. The brine
materials were removed to allow for
the storage of half a billion barrels of
oil, he said.
Hann said he is hoping the total
donated material will be worth close
to $700,000 and will greatly benefit
both the environmental engineering
and ocean engineering programs
and the marine science program at
A&M.
Hann said A&M plans to use the
equipment to build further research
and educational programs.
“We felt that it was in the best in
terest of the government and A&M
if the equipment stayed here,” he
said.
He added that having the equip
ment will enable students and re
searchers now using the equipment
to stay and continue their work at
A&M. Hann said getting the equip
ment was not easy.
“T he application was getting held
up in the bureacracy,” Hann said. “I
asked our congressional representa
tives to look into it.”
Hann said things were done much
more rapidly with this help.
Hann said the DOE donation con
sists of around 200 pieces of equip
ment and ranges from offshore cur-
rent measuring systems to
centrifuges and microscopes.
A cheerful White says
he’s looking to future
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark
White did not have to stray far from
home Wednesday to find a happy
note on a rough day. He had lost his
job, but found his dog.
Sometime Tuesday, as Texans
were voting the Democrat incum
bent out of office. Willow, the first
family’s cocker spaniel, escaped
from the Governor’s Mansion.
“The good news today is we found
the dog,” White said Wednesday at a
brief news conference in the Senate
chamber.
White, buoyant in defeat, put on a
cheerful face as he refused to offer
any in-depth analysis of his loss or
his future.
“We’re going to have a little party,
Linda Gale and I, just a little cele
bration,” he said.
Asked what he was celebrating,
White said, “The day. I just feel
good. I’m looking at the future.”
Asked how he planned to make a
living, the lawyer and part-owner of
a barbecue company said, “I’ll prob
ably, somewhere between practicing
law and selling barbecue, find some
thing to do.
“I’ve had several offers but I’m
not entertaining those now.”
When asked about future political
races, he declined to make any pre
dictions.
“I’m not going to be worrying
about that or commenting on that
today,” White said.
“I have a couple more months of
work to do,” he said.
White said Republican Bill Clem
ents, in regaining the governor’s job,
set a precedent that could possibly
be followed by other defeated gover-
Clements lost to White in 1982,
but defeated him Tuesday by about
200,000 votes.
“I wouldn’t want to set a practice
of doing that,” White said.
“I think it’s a terrible tradition to
try to come back and do it again,” he
said. “But then again, some have
done it successfully and others
might.”
White attributed his defeat to any
number of factors.
“(It was) a whole host of things, a
variety of things,” he said.
He declined to be more specific.
“(It was) just not nearly enough
votes,” he said.
Will Texans discover they had
made a mistake in returning Bill
Clements to office?
“Oh no,” White said with a smile.
“Texans never make mistakes.”
The lame duck said that, if asked
for it, he would offer Clements ad
vice similar to the advice he offered
lawmakers when he pushed an elec
tion year tax hike that may have con
tributed to his defeat.
“Do right and suffer conse
quences,” White said of his advice
for Clements.
Thursday
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sally Wade will conduci.
writing outreach session, “Writing for a Reader,” at 6:3
p.m. in 153 Blocker.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will meet with Arthur Young to discus
“AY/ASQ: Audit Smarter and Quicker” at 6 p.m. atthefc
mada Inn.
GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: Dr. David Owen will discuj
“Sea Turtles and Their Conservation” at 8:30 p.m. inM
Rudder.
I
TAU BETA PI: actives will meet and have photos taken! j
Aggieland ’87 at 6:30 p.m. in 103 Zachi \
CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 220 MSC.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8jj
p.m. in 401 Rudder.
ASIAN-AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: willcoJ
tinue a Bible study series on “The Christian Life” at 8:11
p.m. in Rudder Tower. Check monitor for room number, I
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon on cau|
pus. For location call 845-5826.
STUDENT Y: will have photos taken for Aggieland ’87i|
6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Zachry Engineering Center, |
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will ha J
photos taken for Aggieland ’87 at 5:45 p.m. in 102Zachni
TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m 1
302 Rudder.
KANM: will I lave a mandatory meeting at 7:30 p.m. in40!|
Rudder.
MEXICAN-AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: RalJ
Gonzales, MAES National President, will speak at 7 p.m.. j
502 Rudder.
STUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: will show the film Z ai 1
p.m. in 153 B1 oc ker.
PEER ADVISERS: will hold a “Pajama Party Reunion"aul
p.m. at K.C. Hall.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold I
campus-wide "Concert of Prayer" at 6 p.m. in Rudd:
T ower. See monitor for room number.
BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: invites student!
!: :l
faculty and any beginners to come at 7 p.m. at CollegeSu
tion Community Center.
Friday
LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: D |
Wouter Van Beck, anthropologist from the Universityi
Texas voter turnout less than 50% for election
AUSTIN (AP) — While Gov.-elect
Bill Clements said Texas’ voter turn
out was just what he had expected,
Gov. Mark White hinted he had
hoped more than 47 percent would
vote.
A total of 3,422,151 Texans voted
Tuesday, according to governor’s
race results reported from all but
eight of the state’s 6,674 precincts.
There are 7,287,173 registered
voters, which means the turnout was
46.96 percent.
“I kept talking about how we were
going to set a historical high for a
Republican in a non-presidential
year,” Clements, who beat White by
about 225,000 votes, said.
“I just want to remind you that we
did,” he said.
Nearly complete returns gave him
1,804,065 votes.
White hinted that he was disap
pointed in the 47 percent turnout,
but said he would not offer any spe
cific analysis about his loss.
“A voter turnout higher than 47
percent might have helped,” he said,
however.
Meanwhile, Texas Democratic
Party Chairman Robert Slagle said
he has run out of ideas on how to
lure more voters to the polls.
“We had phone banks beating on
people, and people going door-to-
door trying to get people to vote,” he
said of the less-than-half turnout.
“It’s rather shocking. And we’ve got
a lot of people eligible to vote who
don’t register because they want to
avoid jury duty.”
In 1982, 3.2 million Texans, 50
percent of the total registered, cast
ballots on a rainy Election Day that
ended with White ousting Clements.
Two years later, 5.3 million Tex
ans, a 68 percent turnout, showed
up for a ballot that included a presi
dential and U.S. Senate race.
Regional reports from Tuesday’s
election showed varied turnouts
around the state.
In the Panhandle, where Clem
ents pulled 63.8 percent of the vote,
total turnout was 50.6 percent ;
In North Central Texas,"]
Clements gathered 56.4 perceHj
tal turnout was 48.8 percent.
Traditionally Democratic
Texas also went for Clements,j
him 51 percent of the voteimf
percent turnout.
In South Texas, where "j
hoped to build a big lead, theOT
bent had 51.7 percent ofthevtl
a 43.1 percent turnout.
Clements edged White inf
Texas, where the turnout was]
percent, and the GOP cli
won big in West Central TeWf
taking 64.2 percent of theyott
52.3 percent turnout.
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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY
707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D
College Station, Texas 77840
1 block South of Texas & University
vvouicT van itcun, aiiiiii 11 vji ii me: ljuivcimij um
Utrecht in Holland, will speak at noon at the Latter-daiH
Saints Institute Building, 100 E. Dexter.
DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM: will sponsor PR Dal
’86” with six public relations professionals giving a pan:lf
discussion at 9:30 a.m. and nolding a round table dis-IJ
cussion at 1 1 a.m. in 212 MSC.
INTERVARSTIY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Dr Sul
Geller will discuss “Biblical Exposition of Covenants”at
p.m. in 308 Rudder.
PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT: will sponsor a workshopfotj
faculty and staff on “Families and Work: Setting Priorities®
/Finding a Balance” from 8:30 a.m. to 1 1:30 a.m. andiron ||
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION: will sponsor a trip to|
Ogilvy 8c Mather and GSD 8c M in Houston. For rnorein |
formation call Karen at 846-5601.
TABLE TENNIS CLUB: will hold practice and competition!
at 6 p.m. in 304 Read.
COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at‘k
p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at'R
p.m. in 160 Blocker.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries closcf
for cross country at 6 p.m. in 159 Read.
A&M LITERARY ARTS CLUB: now is accepting submisl
sions for Litmus.
STUDENT Y: applications for Youth Fun Day Advisers art |
available in the Student Activities Office in the Pavilion. |
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion ,1
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dap K
prior to desired publication date.