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Monday, October 12, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 J.S. government re-awards aid to education doctoral program By Karen Lawson Reporter llhe federal government gave, kook back, and then recently re garded a grant for doctoral train ing to the Texas A&M College of Education. ■The U.S. Department of Educa tion awarded the grant for $ 117,190 to the college for the Doctoral Train ing in Special Education/School Psy chology and the Handicapped His- pmic Child program. ■Earlier this year, Texas A&M sub mitted a proposal to the department to renew the three-year grant. A&M Jpginally was approved for the funding, but was later notified that ■cause of internal changes there weren’t enough funds to award the grant. A&M regained its grant approval after the education department re ceived nationwide complaints about funding. “There was enough of a national uproar that the department decided to put money back into the original funding categories,” said Dr. Doug Palmer, associate professor of edu cational psychology. “When that happened, we were notified that we had been approved.” Funding for this program began Sept. 1, and is renewable on a year- to-year basis for three years. “We will now have nine years of support at a time where there has been a reduction in the educational budget,” Palmer said. The funds provide student finan cial assistance and additional re sources for the training program, he said. It has been recognized that the Hispanic race has significant learn ing problems in school because of cultural or linguistic biases, and the drop-out rate for this race is very high, Palmer said. As a result, there is an overrepresentation of Hispanic children in special education pro grams. The American Psychological As sociation approved programs to re cruit students who are proficient in Spanish and have both extensive ex perience and commitment to this population, he said. “We have the largest cohort of Hispanic doctoral students in the country,” Palmer said. A&M’s doctoral program offers training and research activities di rected toward Hispanic children with learning and behavior prob lems. There are 14 students enrolled in the program, most of whom have master’s degrees and have experi ence working with Hispanic children with a variety of learning and behav ior problems. It is a four- to five-year program including 132 semester hours, a one- year internship and a dissertation. Brenham grows by aiding local business I BRENHAM (AP) —- Prevailing wisdom says money is better jpent recruiting new industry lian nurturing existing business, but Brenham is proving other- lise. I It began when city and county ievelopment officials suggested he Industrial Foundation spon sor a dinner for all major busi nesses in the 12,900-population I Iiwn. ■ The plan to feed 250 business i Baders drew strong opposition at / Brst, but it has since drawn local Savor and helped attract new | business, said Brenham’s eco- Bomic development director, Doug Hutchinson. B The efforts apparently have j hoduced inquiries from 10 se- i Bous prospects about locating op erations in Brenham. ■ This compares with only six during the two years previous, Hutchinson said. B And two of those prospects have opened for business. ■ Brenham also is developing pans for a venture capital fund j|hat would tap the resources of wealthy landowners around Burnham for investment in new and existing businesses. ■ Not every rural community in Bexas is blessed with as diverse an [industrial base as Brenham’s. ■ The town has an unusually flrge concentration of manufac- |turers for a town its size. ■ Products range from ice cream to mattresses, and from cotton ■ fabric to business forms. ■ Manufacturing accounts for |oughly 20 percent of all jobs in Washington County, compared iwith only 7 percent in Bryan-Col- jjlege Station — the closest metro politan area, about 40 miles to the north — according to a study by the Brazos Valley Private Indus try Council. ■ Bryan Miller, president of iBrentex Mills, said, “There has to be a blend of several things, but I ■think it was a good idea. i “With the size of Brenham, the ones that are here now really don’t know each other.” II Guidelines for the venture cap- itai fund are being drawn up, but Hutchinson said he already has had several inquiries. Expert: Computer animation helps clients visualize ideas By Anita Anderson Reporter The use of computer animation improves architectu ral presentations by helping prospective clients visualize the architect’s idea, a computer animation expert said to a group of about 150 architecture students Thursday afternoon. David L. Munson, director of Computer Animation at Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum (HOK) in St. Louis, spoke as part of the Computer Media conference spon sored by the College of Architecture and Environmen tal Design. The traditional presentation tools of floor plans and scale models are still in use, he said, but the computer animation enhances the visual concept beyond the usual methods. The videos provide a better perspective of size and space, he said. Munson is the founder of HOK Animation and cre ates the animated videos without help from a staff. His talents generally cost clients $ 1,000 per day. “A presentation tape for a General Motors manufac turing plant required 6 days, 96 man hours and 36,000 pictures to create,” he said. “It’s not the best way, but it is a new way,” Munson said. “If it was the best way and the only way, then every other architect would do it.” HOK Animations, one of the few firms to undertake computer animation, also does three-dimensional drawings. “The clients may not remember the presentation, but they will never forget having to put on those 3-D glass es,” he said. Munson accompanies his videos with contemporary music, mostlyjazz. “The music is important to selling the ideas to the cli ents,” he said. “Trying to sell a contempory building with Beethoveen or Bach might not go over well. Jazz is what I like. HOK Animations has made a very large investment in the video field. The studio is complete with state of the art equip ment. Along with the computers, the HOK Animations department has switchers, editing decks and a synthe sizer — items usually found in television studio. The synthesizer is used to make background noises like rain storms and crashes. Although the making of a very short video is expen sive, there are clients who don’t mind spending the money. HOK was commissioned by the city of Tampa, Fla. to do 15 seconds worth of computer animation depicting the proposed Tampa Convention Center at a cost of $72,000, he said. Kemp: Bush made mistake by not attending oil forum AUSTIN (AP) — Republican president candidate Jack Kemp made a solo appearance before a na tional oil organization Sunday and said Vice President George Bush made a mistake by not attending. Raymond Hefner Jr., chairman of the Independent Petroleum Associa tion of America, said 14 likely presi dential candidates — seven Demo crats and seven Republicans — had been invited to speak at a non-de bate forum on the 1988 presidential election. Only Rep. Kemp, R-N.Y., ac cepted, said Hefner, who is chief ex ecutive officer of Bonray Energy Corp. in Oklahoma City. “I know that that was not meant as an insult by anyone else, but I want you to know I consider this the place to be,” Kemp said at the outset of a' 40-minute speech to representatives of the 7,000-member association. Later, he was asked at a news con ference how his campaign was doing in Texas, the official home state of Bush. “We think we look, ‘A,’ very competitive (and) ‘B,’ the vice presi dent should have been here. I think other candidates should have been here in Austin to address this very important industry.” Bush has picked Houston as the place to officially start his presi dential campaign Monday, and Kerrip said, “I think announcing his campaign in Houston and Chicago without coming to Austin is a mis take. “If I were at the cutting edge of America’s energy industry and the vice president of the United States, who says he’s a former entrepre neur, were not to come and speak to this very important industrial group in America — that represents not only industry in the Sunbelt but also throughout our country — T think that is big mistake. And I think that can only help Jack Kemp. “I’m not going to challenge mo tives. I think it was a mistake not to be here. I’m here. “How is it possible to broaden the base of the Republican Party and not go where the people are?” In an earlier speech to the associa tion, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said he would not compromise in his efforts to repeal the so-called wind fall profits tax. Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, noted that the Senate had voted 58-40 to repeal the windfall profit tax, but he said “the battle is far from over.” “The House version does not have the windfall profits tax repeal,” Bentsen said. “In fact, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Com mittee — Danny Rostenkowski —has always opposed repeal. Survey: Dallas ministers are best-paid clergy DALLAS (AP) — Dallas ministers and South ern Baptist clergy are the best paid in the United States, according to a survey of compensation for people in the ministry or related jobs in 10 Amer ican denominations. I The study finds striking differences among denominations and regions in the average senior pastor’s total compensation. i Heading the list are Southern Baptists, who pay their senior pastors an average annual pack age of $50,458. Presbyterians run a close second at $49,934, and Episcopalians are third, with an average of $46,811. | The highest-paid minister reported in Dallas, a Southern Baptist earning $149,150, was not identified by name in the survey, conducted by the Ministers’ Financial Services Association of Utbbock, Texas. The company gathered infor mation from nearly 1,000 congregations in 10 Christian denominations. . The top pay doesn’t go to Dallas’ most promi nent Baptist preacher, W.A. Criswell, pastor of First Baptist Church. “I wish,” joked Criswell, who earns $50,000 a year, excluding allowances, book revenues and housing. “I would be delighted if it were.” Independent Churches of Christ reported the lowest average — $31,908, with the Nazarenes, at $33,420, and Disciples of Christ at $34,069, sec ond and third from the bottom, respectively. The survey also shows that Baptist provisions for their ministers’ retirements are among the lowest. Denominationally, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Episcopalians pay well above the average re tirement package, at 11 percent of total compen sation. Disciples were just above the 10 percent level recommended in the study. But along with the Baptists, the United Methodists, the Lu theran Church — Missouri Synod, Assemblies of IGod, the Church of Christ and the Nazarenes all (were below 10 percent. ! The association examined the full financial [package for pastors in the Assemblies of God, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Epis copal Church, Independent Churches of Christ, Lutheran, Nazarene, Presbyterian, Roman Cath olic, Southern Baptist and United Methodist churches. The response from Roman Catholics was so small that even though the results were pub lished, they were not considered by those who took the survey to reflect an accurate picture of the compensation received by priests. A&M expands Beaumont rice research center By Mike Walters Reporter t Almost $2.9 million of new con struction and improvements sched uled to begin soon at the Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Ex tension Center at Beaumont will fur ther the center’s internationally-rec ognized rice research, Dr. Jim Stansel, resident director of the cen ter, says. Construction will include three laboratories, a shop, graduate stu dent housing, a state-of-the-art greenhouse and laboratory complex for biotechnology and other re search projects, and a field equip ment storage area, Stansel says. In addition to the construction, seven laboratories will be upgraded, the center’s road and irrigation sys tem will be improved and the head quarters building will be remodeled, he says. The project, which is to be com pleted in 1989, was approved by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents in September. Scientists at the Beaumont center have received international and na tional recognition for rice research. Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng recognized the center with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Su perior Service Award for Group Re search. Neville P. Clarke, interim deputy chancellor for agriculture of the University System and director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, said the construction at the center is necessary. “The Beaumont-center building program was funded because of the importance of rice research to the Texas economy, the high productiv ity of the center’s rice and soybean programs, and the active support the research program receives from the rice industry,” he said . “This funding to upgrade the Beaumont facility will help the re search momentum needed for con tinued regional economic impacts well into the 21st century,” Clarke said. More than $2 billion annually is added to Texas’ Gulf-Coast econ omy through the production of rice and soybeans, he said. These two crops help support one of the world’s largest areas of grain drying, milling, packaging, storing and ship ping facilities, he said. The center, established by the Texas Legislature in 1909, employs 13 scientists, one extension special ist, and 72 support and technical staff. The economic impact along the upper Texas Gulf Coast has in creased by $248 million per year for the past five years because of rice-re search efforts at the center, he said. PICKUPS PLUS Complete service and repair on all pickups, vans and 4WD's. Free Estimates S3 512 W. Carson 775-6708 ^SERVlN^GGIE^N^m^VE^^EAR^^ Dr. K. Ragupathi is happy to announce the opening of his office for the practice of gas trointestinal and liver diseases. 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