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. 87 No. 90 (JSPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, February 8, 1988
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|An art collection valued between
million and $9 million will be do-
d to Texas A&M, MSC Director
I Reynolds said Friday.
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pement between the A&M Devel-
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Board of Trustees, Reynolds said.
Board members met Friday morn
ing, but declined to comment on any
actions taken.
The collection, which will be
housed in the former Forsyth
Alumni Center, includes works by
Remington, Russell and other early
American impressionists, he said.
Reynolds said the flagship of the
former student’s collection is his as
sembly of cameo glass, an art form
developed in England in the 17th
and 18th centuries that involved the
blowing of glass within glass and car
ving designs in relief.
An extensive collection of what is
called 19th century art glass, includ
ing more than 20 Tiffany lamps, also
will be donated.
The MSC has sponsored some
high quality art shows in the past, but
such shows require a great deal of
expertise and money and are only
temporarily at A&M, Reynolds said.
“What (the former student) be
came interested in was developing
an art collection that would allow us
to have this type of museum quality
art in the environment of the stu
dent every day, not just when we
have a traveling exhibit,” Reynolds
said.
The signed agreement will fi
nalize the commitment of the for
mer student’s artwork to be housed
permanently at A&M and will pro
vide for its administration, he said.
Reynolds said the trust document
stipulates the formation of a com
mittee whose members will include
himself. Vice President for Student
Services John J. Koldus III, a rep
resentative from the MSC Visual
Arts Committee, the MSC Council
President and one other University
official.
This committee will be in charge
of supervising the collection’s ad
ministration through the MSC, he
said.
The MSC will cover the cost of op
erating the facility until a trust fund
is pledged to finance the collection’s
administration, Reynolds said. Nec
essary funds will come from the
MSC’s operating budget, he said.
Reynolds said the trust agreement
also will give the go-ahead for re
modeling to begin on the former
Forsyth Alumni Center, located at
the west end of the MSC near the
post office. Blueprints for the reno
vation were drawn up in anticipation
of this event.
“We’ve been working with an ar
chitect and have created a floor plan
that (the former student) feels com
fortable with to display his collection
in the Forsyth Center,” Reynolds
said.
Instead of a museum atmosphere,
the renovation of the Forsyth center
should create a warm, almost
lounge-like environment that Rey
nolds feels will help attract students,
he said.
See Museum, page 8
enrollment
>f spring term
By Joe Jimenez
Reporter
Blnrollment at Texas A&M for
ber to Fet|P r ' n § 1988 breaks a semester re
lent themBd l° r f l ie second time this year,
ind thep jvith 36,424 students enrolled, A&M
iping the :® strar Don Carter said Friday,
und fnr[Jrhe figure used for the spring se-
|rMster’s enrollment is an official
ll»h-dav figure, Carter said. Al-
Hugh this is an official figure, the
irwarsiidal report probably will not be
It until the end of this month, he
who enroll in the spring do not off
set those who graduate in Decem
ber,” Carter said. “There are about
2,500 students who graduate at the
end of the fall semester each year.”
II.
has got I'With that figure, the enrollment
i my vie |oi this semester is up 7.14 percent
Im this time last year,” he said.
up, the .vl
e this idell his semester’s enrollment sur-
c Arms felses the official 12th-day figure of
lledofftalM — the spring-semester record
it," Rowmlt stood at 34,1 18 students.
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, BSpring-semestei enrollment de*
er testingi®> ase( j j n i,^], 1985 and 1986. En-
be (lepiotsB]] ment increased in spring of
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he 198ds|Although enrollment this semes-
1 threat®®, breaks a record, it is still short of
Reagans ®-iq> s a n_ t j me re(:0 rd of 39,079 stu-
r with ( ,l ij|nts set last semester,
i. Gorbao® [Yaditionally, enrollment in the
â– ring semester is less than the fall
niums Semester, Carter said.
â–  He attributes this to the large
Imber of students involved in the
ihv to fflcember commencement cere-
jjfferedHony and the fact that A&M does
■ thereslw® 1 ^ ave as l ar R e of an influx of stu-
g -temi(l n ts in the spring as they do in the
i damage# semester.
“The number of new students
He also said most new freshmen
and transfer students enroll in the
fall semester — 7,500 new freshmen
enrolled in the fall, compared to less
than 100 this semester.
The overall increases in enroll
ment were caused by a number of
factors, he said.
“A positive attitude toward the
University, due to its world rei-
nowned-faculty, exposure from ath
letics and the spirit at football games
has contributed to these record-
breaking semesters,” Carter said.
Other factors noted by Carter for
the increase in enrollment include
the larger number of students grad
uating from high schools and A&M’s
high student-retention rate.
“We (A&M) do not lose many stu
dents because of grades,” Carter
said.
Carter also mentioned that the
University’s enrollment is inversely
related to the economy.
“When the economy is down, our
enrollment is up,” he said. “During
this time, people return to school to
finish their bachelor’s degrees or to
work on their master’s.”
Carter expects summer enroll
ment to increase also this year.
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Carter said, “Normally, the sum
mer enrollment reflects that of the
spring semester.”
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Photo by Shelly Schluter
More than 900 runners were in the 6th annual Straight Shot 10K
Run, sponsored by St. Joseph Hospital and Health Center. Sunday’s
race had three divisions: the tandem bicycle race, the wheelchair race
and the 10K race.
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By Jamie Russell
Staff Writer
â–  The Texas A&M University Sys
tem will be opening administrative
â– fices in Houston Tuesday, System
â– hancellor Perry L. Adkisson said
Bhursday.
I The Houston Office of the Chan-
cbllor of the Texas A&M University
System, made possible by corporate
donations, is an important step in
AS.M’s Target 2000 plan, which was
developed to increase A&M’s pres
ence in urban areas by the year
[000, Adkisson said.
Houston was named as the office
site primarily because of its conve
nience for system officials and advi-
try and technical groups, with its
location and quality air transporta
tion acting as key factors for the
choice.
The office is on the 30th floor of
InterFirst Plaza at 1100 Louisiana St.
It includes six executive offices, a re
ception area and a conference room.
Formal opening ceremonies and a
reception for city, civic, business and
educational leaders in the Houston
area will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
The 6,000-square-foot Houston
suite was made available by Tenneco
Inc. and furnished by First Republic
Bank.
TAMUS Executive Deputy Chan
cellor William Mobley said Tenneco
is providing the space at a reduced
rate mainly due to the fact that Ten-
neco’s executive vice president, Joe
dedicated former A&M
per
and
Foster, is
student.
A&M will pay Tenneco $1
year for the space, utilities
cleaning services, Mobley said.
James Bond, deputy chancellor
for legal and external affairs, said in
regards to the $ 1 rent there has to be
some consideration for the lease ex
pressed.
“Tenneco didn’t want the office to
be a gift,” Bond said. “It wanted it to
be the next best thing to a gift.”
The recent merge of Republic
Bank and InterFirst Bank left some
excess “nice” furniture, Mobley said,
which First Republic Bank is donat
ing for A&M’s office.
Adkisson offered a second reason
for the free furnishing.
“One of the big stockholders in
First Republic Bank is H.R. “Bum”
Bright, former chairman for the
Board of Regents of the Texas A&M
University System,” he said.
The office will be used by A&M
executives involved in projects, pro
grams and business functions in
Houston, Mobley said.
“Anyone from the A&M system
may use the office facility — people
who need to meet with business lead
ers, various college development
counsels and advisory groups and
any individual who needs to meet
with another individual,” Mobley
said.
Some of the frequent users will in-
See Offices, page 8
ideo yearbook takes new approach
y filming A&M qualities, students
By Christina De Leon
Reporter
The Texas A&M video yearbook
ill have a fresh start this year —
omplete with a new staff, a new ap-
roach and a new name.
The video yearbook is now to be
ailed Aggievision, a name Artistic
director Sean Smith hopes will dis-
inguish the video from the printed
earhook, The Aggieland.
Smith said Aggievision will have a
ifferent approach from a printed
earhook — its focus will be on the
tudent body and on the qualities
hat make A&M unique.
“Our approach is to show A&M
nd the student organizations in vi-
eo format, in the most productive
Smith said.
Joanie Pate, editor of The Aggie
land, explained the different ap
proaches of the video and printed
yearbooks. Because a video has time
limits, Pate said, a video yearbook
must capture high points of events
to create an overall picture, while a
printed yearbook is by nature more
detailed.
“Our goal is to try to cover every
thing on campus,” Pate said.
Greg Keith, editor of Aggievision,
said one unique feature of Aggievi
sion will be a brief section of video
clips by students who have submitted
their videos to the Aggievision office
in 219 Reed McDonald. The Aggie
vision staff will accept videos for re
view until the end of the spring se
mester, he said.
The goal of Aggievision, Smith
said, is to allow students to see them
selves as active members of the stu
dent body. And because the video is
reflective of the students, the staff
always welcomes student input, he
said.
“We would like a lot of ideas,”
Smith said. He said that he and his
staff have distributed suggestion fly
ers on campus that should generate
more and better ideas.
Smith said the reason the former
attempt to create a video yearbook
failed was because of problems with
equipment, scheduling and lead
ership.
According to a Sept. 11, 1986 Bat
talion article, the 1986 producer of
the former Video Aggieland, Ricky
Telg, said that poor equipment sup
plied by the Educational Broadcast
ing Services was the main problem.
Continuing conflicts involving the
EBS and Student Publications even
tually led to the resignation of the
Video Aggieland staff:
See Video, page 8
Hospital officials
don’t tell patients
of tests for AIDS
DALLAS (AP) — Parkland
Hospital’s testing for AIDS with
out patients’ knowledge extended
beyond emergency room patients
to include an unknown number
of other patients in recent
months, officials say.
The tests were conducted as
part of a hospital policy that since
has been changed.
“We don’t encourage wholesale
screening, and we think it’s very
foolish and a waste of money,”
Dr. Ron Anderson, president of
the hospital, said. “But there’s no
question that patients have had
blood drawn and tested without
their consent.”
About 70.0 emergency room
patients at Parkland in December
and January were tested for ex
posure to AIDS without their
knowledge, a violation of Ameri
can Medical Association ethical
guidelines.
Doctors at Parkland also or
dered AIDS tests for some ad
mitted patients, the Dallas Times
Herald reported Sunday.
Dr. Alan Pierce, Parkland’s
medical director, said, “Our pol
icy had been that a physician was
allowed to order HIV tests in any
situation in which the physician
thought it was justified. When
you’re talking about 750 different
physicians who might order such
tests, I would not be surprised if it
(uninformed testing) did not oc
cur now and again.”
Doctors are concerned about
being infected with HIV, Ander
son said.
See related story, Page 5
dents tested for AIDS to be told
unless they are “comatose or
otherwise uncapable.”
The newspaper reported ear
lier about 1 percent of the emer
gency patients tested positively
for exposure to the HIV virus
which can cause AIDS.
Survey says
workers fear
AIDS victims
Beginning this week, Parkland
will adhere to a health depart
ment guideline that requires pa-
ATLANTA (AP) — In spite of
medical assurances, a significant
number of workers are afraid of
catching AIDS from sharing job
equipment, restrooms and cafete
rias with victims of the deadly dis
ease, according to a new survey.
That suggests worries about
AIDS could conflict with legal de
cisions that protect victims’ rights
to keep working, said David He-
rold, director of the Center for
Work Performance at the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
“If a company can expect 35 or
40 percent of its work force to be
afraid of using the cafeteria or to
refuse to share equipment, that
has serious implications,” Herold
said. “If you have a department
with five people and four of them
threaten to walk out if you don’t
fire the fifth, what are you as an
employer going to do?”