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Richardson, dean of engineering at Texas A&M, and Dr. Bahram Nassersharif, an assis tant professor of nuclear engi neering at A&M were both recog nized for receiving national awards during the College of Engineering’s general faculty meeting Wednesday. Richardson received the Ded icated Service Award from the American Society of Mechanical En gineers for his years of outstanding volunteer service, said Dr. L.S. Fletcher, associate dean of engi neering at A&M, who presented the award. Nassersharif, 26, was one of 200 scientists and engineers to receive the 1987 Presidential Young Investi gator Awards. He was selected by the National Science Foundation from over 1,100 applicants. “The thing that is important is the pride this brings the University,” Nassersharif said about his award. Nassersharif said the support of A&M, especially the College of Engi neering, had a big impact on his win ning the award. ployed by the Texas Experiment Station. Engineering Seven other Texans received the award this year, but Nassersharif is the first person from A&M to be rec ognized for the award. Four staff members of the College of Engineering also were recognized for their service. The staff members who each re ceived a $500 honorarium were Ka ren Vance, senior secretary in the chemical engineering department; Diane Conway, administrative assis tant in the computer science depart ment; James K. Raatz, manager of graphic services; and Larry Wayne Guidry, master instrument maker. Raatz and Guidry are both em- Nassersharif will collect a mini mum of $25,000 per year for the next live years for his Presidential Young Investigator award, and could receive up to $1 ()(),()()() a year for the next live years in addition to his regular salary. Nassersharif said he likes to make future plans in five-year, intervals, and added that his next five years seem filled. Richardson, who came to A&M in 1984 from the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, has held several leadership positions in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award w,is a tribute many years of Richardson’s ment in the ASME. to the involv- Mattox challenges insurance rate hike AUSTIN (AP) — Calling a 17.7 percent workers’ compensation in surance rate increase “unconsciona ble,” Attorney General Jim Mattox on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seek ing to block the State Board of In surance action. “I cannot sit idly by while the pub lic and our businesses are being raked over the coals with the insur ance companies making their merry way to the bank,” Mattox said. The insurance board last month approved the 17.7 percent hike in workers’ compensation insurance rates paid by Texas businesses. Since state law also allows a 2.2 percent in crease for inflation, the total hike is 19.9 percent, Mattox said. “It is unconscionable that the in surance companies keep asking for more, more and more money when their own figures are showing 625 percent increases in profits over the Coperton ‘ disagrees™ liability repc : AUSTIN (AP) - Sen. Caperton, one of two la»n opposing a committee ren F lt< the liability insurance Wednesday ii the staterea attorneys’ fees it should re; pnv tor real estate and inn- salesmen and lobbyists. “ I hat’s an absurd pro:] Caperton told a news con., about a recommendatioi er ‘^ last year," Mattox said. The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Austin, asks (hat the 17.7 percent increase — granted by the Board of Insurance in Dccembei and taking effect Jan. 1 —set aside. It also asks that the rate case he sent back to the insurance board for further hearings and consideration. |()int Committee on i^a (1 mu .mi r ,i i ic I lent 1 ,iv, . Iran onl\ den> injured pari ( dSi i il; I r I I c i >.u > (c > i (mi t." res l ’ 1 lie cc immnirc's nu arln ' port, signed In eight of I I ic-ml )C 1 s. 1 cc l Mllliu-ucltv 5 on court judgments and a Pl 1 lees on liahilit) insurana 8 et t a)x i icdi. D-hr\,ui e( 4" \\ c c 11 icsi |.i\ 1 >\ l\< j) |.i:: arp" D-C»alveston, in making nority rejxirt. “If we regulate attorn let’s don’t do it halfwav.y ton said. Cajx-rton and Hury c agreed with a majoritycors plan to limit damages pel sonal injurs $250,000 for non-econoi stub as pain, suffering; tal anguish. The minority rep I exas ranks 44th in the tlx* luunher of |>erson lawsuits per 10,000 pc They said personal inj make up only 10 to 12p the civil suits. Report: Classrooms to cost Texas $5.2 billion s c gxi gej Bis lit itas in In AUSTIN (AP) — It will cost $5.4 billion over the next decade to replace worn-out classrooms, build additional rooms for Texas’ rapidly grow ing school population and comply with smaller class sizes required by law, a Senate committee was told Wednesday. The construction estimate was included in a report by the Center for Policy Studies and Re search in Elementary and Secondary Education to the Senate Education Committee. The center, located at East Texas State Uni versity in Commerce, sent questionnaires to all of the state’s 1,063 independent school districts and to 5,726 elementary and secondary school cam- puses. Director Frank Lutz said the center got re sponses from 574 districts, 54 percent of those surveyed, and 1,438 campuses, or 25 percent I le said researchers also made 1 12 on-site visiis. The study estimates that Texas’ school-age population will increase by 33 percent — 1.11 million students — by 1996. That alone would require 37,139 new c lass rooms which, at an estimated cost of $56,000 a room, would require another $2.1 billion. Lutz said dollar estimates in the report look a “conservative view.” at >st of $1.8 “We don’t build school buildings in a fanev fashion (in Texas),” Lutz said. “We build them as well as we need to.” To comply with the 1984 school reform law — mainly a requirement for a 22-to-1 student-tea cher ratio in grades 3-4 — would require 32,903 new c lassroom port said. 1 he 22-to-1 ratio takes eflect in tlrt 1988 but can waived by the Texas Q Agency in individual cases. Sen. Chet Br<x>ks, D-Pasadena, said the Legislature can address that will, doiiing t he goal.’’ Replat ing 27,722 worn-out dassroor cost SI .5 billion, the report said. 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