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Vandiver key to alliance
A&M global ties improvt
folic
By Dawn Butz
Staff Writer
Norris said the backbone of the
program is the professors.
When President Frank E. Van
diver came to Texas A&M almost
Five years ago, he made a commit
ment to increase scholarly, scientific
and technical ties with other coun
tries, which he said were stronger
and more lasting than political or
military alliances.
In order to broaden and
strengthen this global character of
the University’s varied programs,
A&M began entering into officially
sanctioned relationships with other
countries in 1979.
Approximately 22 of 36
agreements have come under Van
diver’s direction — 13 in the last year
alone.
John Norris, director of A&M’s
International Coordination, said the
agreements, called Memorandum of
Agreements, recognize two things.
First, the agreements recognize
each university as a center of excel
lence in a particular area. Second,
because of this recognition, the two
universities agree to work together
to collaborate on research and possi
bly to exchange professors and qual
ified students.
Norris said the agreements are ba
sically a way to formalize the
relationships. Each agreement is
signed by Vandiver as well as by the
president of the respective univer
sity .
Agreements are not usually entered
into with other universities, he said,
unless an A&M professor has a col
league at the prospective university.
Without this link, the agreements
would have a poor chance for suc
cess.
Memorandum of Agreements has
even brought countries together
that, due to political conflicts, pre
viously did not speak.
Norris said in 1983 the University
of Haiti joined with A&M and the
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henri-
quez Urenain, a university in the Do
minican Republic, in a three-way
agreement to work on a reforesta
tion project. Before the agreement,
Haiti and the Dominican Republic,
which are located on the same is
land, generally did not speak. Norris
attributed the newfound detente to
hard work by A&M people.
Most agreements involve an ex
change of professors, but Norris
couldn’t specify exactly how many
exchanges are currently in progress.
After the agreements are signed, he
said, it’s up to each department to
carry out the program.
Presently tnere are five students
at A&M from the China National
Offshore Oil Corp. working on their
master’s degrees through the pro
gram.
Funding for visiting
professorships is obtained through
mas
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grants and departmental j,
Norris said these exdiai|g
strength to proposals forgn
that most departments set
travel budget.
Many grants are awards
A&M’s Fulbright Program,4
f unded through annualapp
tions by Congress througl
Information Agency and pm
ing governments and ins
The program is set up to
mutual understandingben a iul
pies of the foreign govencBjT
those of the UnitedStates. pirecto
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gram are made toU.S. rit
nationals of othercoumriet
rational activities suchassj
research and universityteai
Although the entire Hum
involved in the program,\
the colleges of engineering Chiistu
lure, liberal arts, business ;shoppe
cnce are the most active. After tl
Norris said Vandiver's p:|nte<I st
titude contributed heavn non c
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the increasing number ofudents.
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the attitude of Dr. Vandiw'icz, a jun
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good example of increase.,
tional involvement. . .
Hur
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Shoplifting case award upheld coi
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su
preme Court on Wednesday upheld
a lower appeals court’s split decision
in favor of awarding $375,000 to a
woman who was jailed on a charge
that she shoplifted pens.
Jurors decided that Dayton Hud
son, owner of Target Stores, had to
pay the money to Janice Altus to
cover embarrassment and humilia
tion she suffered as a result of the
Jan. 14, 1983, incident at a Target
store in Houston.
A Houston appeals judge had
called for a new trial because he
thought the trial had racial over
tones. The two store security guards
who detained Altus are black. She is
white.
“Awarding a person $15,000 per
hour for false imprisonment is ex
cessive and could only occur as a re
sult of passion, prejudice or im
proper motive on the part of the
jury,” said Kenneth Hoyt, associate
justice on the 1st Court of Appeals in
Houston.
Hoyt, however, was outvoted 2-1
by his colleagues. The Supreme
Court ruled Wednesday there was
no reversible error in the decision
upholding the award.
According to court records, Tar
get security guards saw Altus hand
ling merchandise in a suspicious
manner. They took her to a room
where three pens and a glue pen
were found in her purse. Houston
police were called, and Altus was
jailed for nine to 11 hours before be
ing released on bond.
Jurors later acquitted Altus of the
shoplifdng charge. She then filed
the lawsuit against Dayton Hudson
that resulted in the jury award of
$150,000 for actual damages and
$225,000 in punitive damages.
Altus said the detention caused
embarrassment that forced her to
quit teaching Sunday school. She
also said her children were teased
about the incident by other children.
In the Feb. 20 majority opinion
for the Houston appeals court. Asso
ciate Justice Jack Smith acknowl
edged that the $375,000 in damages
is larger than usual in such cases.
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Ball, an event to collect money to
mount legal fights against drug test
ing, was announced Wednesday by
an Austin man who sells drug-free
urine and a Texas Civil Liberties
Union official.
The fund-raiser is set for Dec. 1 7
in Austin.
“This is . . . showing the absurdity
of making people’s livelihoods de
pendent on urine tests,” said Jim
Harrington, TCLU’s legal director.
Harrington represents an Austin
woman who sued to slop If!
ployer from making wotim
in ine tests.
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