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Matt Byerley, 10, and Mathew Shaw, 7, of Seabrook play football at
Kyle Field Monday afternoon. The children had no school because of
President’s Day so they
mother, Vickie Shaw.
Photo by Jay Janner
were visiting the campus with Mathew’s
&M scientists
ound beached
dissect dolphin
on Texas coast
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By Mercedes Salinas
Reporter
\ 9-foot-4-inch Risso’s dolphin
g!)ing686 pounds was brought to
Tekas Vetei inary Medical Diag-
■stit Laboratory at Texas A&M
lulv Saturday for a necropsy to de-
■mine, if possible, why the dolphin
■A necropsy is the equivalent of an
aitopsy.
■The dolphin was found on San
pc Island, a private ranch north of
■rpus Christi. Mark New, a ranch-
Hnd on the island, reported the
ached dolphin Thursday, said
pnographer Anthony Amos of
University of Texas Marine Sci-
Jce Institute in Port Aransas. This
Ihe first reported stranding of this
pies on the T exas coast.
I he dolphin was towed four miles
■ a small UT research vessel to
“Nothing definitive as to why it beached itself has been
reached. . . This is unique, being the first (Risso’s dol
phin) to be found on a Texas beach. ”
— Dr. Larry Jones, Diagnostic Pathology department
head
Mustang Island where Rob Weeks
and Greg Schwab, two A&M grad
uate students working for the Texas
Marine Mammal Stranding Net
work, loaded the dolphin in to a
pickup truck and' brought it to the
diagnostic laboratory.
Dr. Raymond Tarpley, research
associate of the Department of Vet
erinary Anatomy at A&M and coor
dinator of the Network said, “It is
basically a species that lives ir* tropi
cal and temperate waters.”
Since the Risso’s dolphin has not
been a major fishery target, it has
not been studied in detail.
The necropsy was preformed by
Dr. Larry Jones, Tarpley, Schwab
and Elsa Haubold, a junior wildlife
and fisheries major.
Jones, who is head of the Diagnos
tic , Pathology department, said,
“Nothing definitive as to why it
rntzen take over positions
as deputy chancellor, dean
By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
lideS A&M officials are expected
Jatinounce a new deputy chan-
■Joi and agriculture dean today.
lt(|6,i®hancellor Perry Adkisson and
lOrginlMsidcnt Frank Vandiver are going
to ppoint Dr. Charles J. Arntzen as
■ deputy chancellor of agriculture
A the agriculture dean, according
1 *' ! f today’s issue of Fortnightly, a pub-
■tion of the A&M Of f ice of Public
formation.
londay night Arntzen’s wife,
thy, confirmed that Arntzen
r edlitz gets
issistant post
from Vandiver
Lie"'
Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, associate dean
tr research in the Texas A&M Col-
Ige of Liberal Arts, was appointed
londay as an assistant to President
|iankE. Vandiver.
Vedlitz will be Vandiver’s assistant
)r external affairs and also will con-
nuein his position as dean.
The president’s assistant for ex-
j.jjjj trnal affairs coordinates A&M’s re-
' lions with the Texas Legislature
nd state officials.
Vedlitz, a professor of political sci-
iice, has been at A&M for 15 years.
|e directs the technology and so-
ety division of the Texas Engi-
eering Experiment Station, and he
'as the founding director of A&M’s
ubljc Policy Resources Laboratory.
would be appointed to the two posi
tions.
In a Battalion phone interview,
she said the decision on the job had
been made “very recently.”
Arntzen’s wife said he was not at
his Delaware home or in Texas.
She said he would not be home
again until late Wednesday.
The article reports that Arntzen
will assume the two positions on
March 1.
The two positions Arntzen will be
appointed to are now held by two in
dividuals.
Arntzen will fill the positions of
both Dr. H. O. Kunkel, agriculture
dean and Dr. Neville P. Clarke, in
terim deputy chancellor for agricul
ture.
Clarke is also the director of the
Texas Agriculture Experiment Sta
tion.
The article says Kunkel, who is
stepping down after 20 years as agri
culture dean, will continue to serve
as a professor at A&M. Kunkel had
announced in August he would step
down and the University has been
searching for a successor since that
time.
Clarke, Kunkel and Vandiver
were out of their offices and could
not be immediately reached for com
ment.
Adkisson’s secretary said Adkis
son was in a meeting and at press
time he had not returned The Bat
talion’s call.
The article says Arntzen, 46, is
head of Du Font’s biotechnology re
search for the Agricultural Products
Department and was elected as one
of the youngest members of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences in
1983.
The article also says Arntzen:
• was director of the Department
of Energy Research Laboratory at
Michigan State University.
• served as a plant physiologist
for four years with the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
• is the author or co-author of
over 150 scientific papers and other
publications.
• has twice served as a visiting re
search scientist in France.
• is a member of the board of di
rectors for the International Plant
Molecular Biology Society. -
• is chairman of the Applied Bi
ology Section of the National Aca
demy of Sciences.
Adkisson is quoted as saying “We
are fortunate indeed to be able to at
tract Dr. Arntzen to Texas since he
was obviously well situated and
happy at Du Pont.”
Arntzen’s background makes him
“the ideal choice for this crucial posi
tion that can have a major impact on
agriculture, both in Texas and else
where,” Adkisson is quoted as say-
in g-
Vandiver is quoted as saying Arnt
zen “comes to us with a splendid
blend of academic, governmental
and industrial experience, and that
is a combination that will put him
and the institution in exceptionally
good stead in the community, in
Austin and Washington, throughout
the academic and scientific worlds
and in agricultural circles through
out the country.
“It is very much our good fortune
that he accepted our invitation to
join Texas A&M.”
Primary draws
final forecasts
from hopefuls
beached itself has been reached.
Maybe on the microscopic level we’ll
see something — so far nothing.
This is unique, being the first (Risso’s
dolphin) to be found on a Texas
beach, i hdt makes it interesting and
even more fascinating, compared to
the Bottlenose dolphin commonly
brought to the lab.”
The Risso’s dolphin had a 5.5
pound brain, which Amos described
as “very peculiar” because of its large
size. It is not known whether this is
significant or not. The histology (mi
croscopic study of tissues) has not
been performed but will be done
soon. The results could reveal the
cause of death or discoveries about
the species.
The exterior body of the dolphin
had extensive scarring. The re
searchers believe this was caused by
other male dolphins who are aggres
sive because of competition for fe
male mates and parasitism of other
marine life, including sharks, Amos
said. A kidney stone and round-
worms were found in the dolphin
but are not thought to be the cause
of its death.
The Network, coordinated at
A&M by Tarpley and Schwab, is a
volunteer organization dedicated to
the understanding and conservation
of marine mammals. It keeps re
cords of all reported strandings of
marine mammals found on the
Texas coast. The data collected by
the Network can help fill the absence
of basic information about the life
and biology of cetaceans and partic
ularly about dolphins. Since its for
mation in 1980, the Network has re
sponded to 529 strandings of
various dolphins, porpoises and
whales.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vice
President George Bush forecast a
win but Sen. Bob Dole showed confi
dence Monday as the GOP presi
dential field sprinted for the finish
line in a tight New Hampshire pri
mary race. Democrat Michael Duka
kis said his expected win might be
smaller than predicted.
Bush campaigned side by side
with former Sen. Barry Goldwater,
patron saint of conservatives, as he
threw all his campaign could muster
into a bid to arrest Dole’s week-long
surge and regain his own political
footing.
One candidate after another
posted hopeful predictions of a sur
prise when New Hampshire voters
render their verdict in the nation’s
lead-off primary on Tuesday.
“I don’t know where all those po
litical pundits are today but they ran
for cover four years ago and they’re
likely to run for cover tomorrow,”
said former Delaware Cov. Pete du
Pont, back in the pack in the COP
race.
Rep. Jack Kemp, his GOP candi
dacy on the line, held out the hope
of a second-place finish that would
confound the pollsters. “I’m going to
finish in a good competitive third or
higher,” he said.
Democratic Sen. Paul Simon, also
facing tough times if he falters, said
he was sure he’d defeat Rep. Rich
ard Gephardt for second place. Ref
erring to Dukakis’ commanding lead
in the polls, he said, “I think there is
a possibility of a real surprise coming
tomorrow.”
Fellow Democrat Bruce Babbitt,
far off the pace in the polls, said,
“I’m anticipating a strong showing
and a surprise but I can’t put a num
ber on it.”
Former television evangelist Pat
Robertson bid to deal with a tempest
that arose over his claim that the So
viet Union has offensive nujeear
missiles in Cuba. The Reagan ad
ministration denied the claim, but
the COP hopeful said, “The least we
can do is remove those nuclear missi
les.”
Democrat Dukakis’ lead seemed
secure, to judge by the polls, but he
and his aides worried that they
would be held to an impossible stan
dard when the New Hampshire re
sults are analyzed. Thus, he noted
that his rivals have been attacking
him regularly, adding,. “I assume
that’s going to take its toll.”
No two polls were alike. But they
all showed a Republican race as close
as the Democratic campaign was not.
Dukakis, governor in next-door
Massachusetts, held a commanding
lead among the Democrats with sup
port of roughly 40 percent of the
voters. Gephardt and Simon, who
finished a close one-two in Iowa’s
caucuses last week, are in a duel for
second place. Jesse Jackson, Babbitt,
Gary Hart and Sen. Albert Gore Jr.
are far afield in the polls.
Among the Republicans, the sur
veys said that Dole has wiped out all
of Bush’s once-commanding lead in
the eight days since the Kansas sen
ator won the Iowa caucuses and the
vice president slipped to third place
behind Pat Robertson. Robertson,
Kemp and former du Pont are in a
close fight for third place in the
same surveys.
What the polls couldn’t say was
whether Dole’s momentum would
carry him past a struggling Bush to
first place.
Bush attacked Dole’s call for a
spending freeze as a “copout” that
avoids making tough decisions, and
forecast a victory for himself in the
lead-off primary.
“I’m going to win tomorrow. Be
lieve me,” he told a cheering crowd
at Daniel Webster Colleger in Na
shua.
Dole and his senior aides sounded
confident. “I think it’s that close,”
said Dole, who said a victory in New
Hampshire might carry him all the
way to the GOP nomination.
Among the Democrats, Simon
urged New Hampshire’s voters “to
assert their independence” from Du
kakis.
Dukakis had a speech prepared
taking aim at Gephardt and Simon,
but he chose not to deliver it when
he faced a high school audience in
Claremont.
“This campaign is not about the
past, it is about creating a future in
which all of you can work,” he said.
Robertson:
Soviet arms
are in Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Rob
ertson said Monday he wouldn’t
“back off’ his assertion that there
are Soviet missiles in Cuba, drawing
an emphatic denial from the White
House and skepticism from a man
identified as his source. Campaign
rivals blasted the assertion as “outra
geous” and “rash.”
Robertson told a GOP candidate’s
forum in Dover, N.H., that “the least
we can do in this is get those nuclear
weapons out of Cuba,” a reiteration
of statements he had made Sunday
during a debate.
On Monday in California, White
House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater
said SS-4 and SS-5 missile sites estab
lished in Cuba in 1962 “were con
firmed as having been destroyed in
that year. We also are confident that
the missiles were removed from
Cuba at that time.”
“We have had extensive intelli
gence collection directed at Cuba
since 1962 and have no evidence
that SS-4, SS-5 or other strategic
missiles have been deployed there,”
Fitzwater said.
Asked whether he was denying
any offensive nuclear weapons are
deployed in Cuba, Fitzwater said,
“Exactly.”
Vice President George Bush said
in an interview Monday that “I’m
confident this (Robertson assertion)
is not true.”
“This is a very serious allegation,”
Bush said in the interview on a Man
chester, N.H., radio station. “You
keep hearing these outrageous
charges from people which are de
signed to scare the American peo
ple.”
Another GOP presidential candi
date, Rep. Jack Kemp of New York,
also criticized Robertson for saying
there are Soviet missiles in Cuba. He
called it “a rather rash and unsup-
portable charge,” and said if Rob
ertson had evidence of such missiles,
he should share it.with the American
people.
Library may be fixed soon
By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
Texas A&M and Dow Chemical
Company are close to reaching a set
tlement on how the faulty brickwork
on the Sterling C. Evans Library will
be repaired, the vice chancellor of
facilities planning and construction
said Friday.
“I would hope we would have it
within three weeks,” Ed Peel said.
“That would be a reasonable expec
tation.”
Peel said he met with Dow officials
Feb. 5 to discuss problems with the
brickwork on the library.
The brickwork on the overhang
ing sections of the library was con
structed using Sarabond, a Dow
product. Sarabond was used to make
the mortar on the overhangs
stronger.
The Sarabond caused the steel
supports in the brickwork to ex
pand. The expanding supports have
caused some of the brickwork to fall
from the building. In August a sec
tion of brickwork fell from the li
brary, but no one was hurt. Since
that time areas under the overhangs
have been sectioned off to prevent
anyone from walking under them.
Peel said those areas w'ill remain sec
tioned off until the repairs have
been made.
The work probably will be com
pleted this summer because there
will be fewer people on campus, he
said.
The final cost of the project is not
known yet because “we haven’t made
a reasonably good estimate yet”’ Peel
said. However, he said the cost
should be between $750,000 and $1
million. The negotiations concern
how the repair bills will be paid.
Peel said the library is the only
building on campus to use Sara
bond, and it was only used on the
overhanging areas.
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
A section of bricks fell from the
northwest corner of Sterling C.
Evans Library Aug. 10.