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SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY: will discuss “Maintaining
Long-Term Productivity in Southern Pine Forest Soils” at 7 p.m. in 103 Soil and
Crop Sciences.
AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: Representatives from the American Youth Hostel
will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will meet to discuss film programming for Fall 1988 at 7
p.m. in 504 Rudder.
HONORS COUNCIL: will have a general committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 510
Rudder.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: will show a film and have a membership regis
tration at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PSI-CHI/PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will have a general meeting and officer elec
tions at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
LE CLUB FRANCAIS: will meet at 9 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
HART HALL: will have its spring bike auction from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rudder
Fountain.
ALPHA ZETA: Dr. Ron Knutson will present “Agriculture and Election 88" at 7
p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
ENVE: will have a general meeting to elect officers at 6 p.m. in 110 Blocker.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL: will have a general meeting open to any
interested liberal arts majors at 6 p.m. in 503 Harrington.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have a membership drive from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. be
hind the Academic Building.
LEGISLATIVE STUDY GROUP: will have a general meeting at 9 p.m. in the Pa
vilion. The room number will be announced.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: Ira Perry, assistant city editor
of the Houston Post, will speak at 6:30 p.m. in 003 Reed McDonald.
TRAP AND SKEET CLUB: will meet to discuss Nationals at 8:30 p.m. in 510
Rudder.
CBA HONORS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
INTRAMURALS: Superstars and track meet entries open in 159 Read.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have a meeting on studying in the United King
dom and Ireland at 2 p.m. in 704A-B Rudder.
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GRADUATE STUDY OPPORTUNITIES: Dr. Foster of the graduate biology de
partment will speak at 4:30 p.m. in 113 Biological Sciences Building East.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: Mark Johnson, youth minister at First Baptist
Church of Conroe, will speak at Hullabuloo at 7 p.m. in 212 MSC.
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Dr. Seager will present a program at
6p.m. at the Exotic Animal Center on Fand B. Road.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL: Dan Orozco, assistant director of the
placement center, will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 231 MSC on career opportunities for
liberal arts majors.
TAMU SYSTEM ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT STAFF: Jo
Hudson will speak on “Improving Your Interpersonal Communications" at noon in
113 Kleberg.
MSC GREAT ISSUES: Dr. Warren Farrell, author of “Why Men are the Way
They Are” and The Liberated Man," will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: Dr. Steven Vogelsang will speak on em
bryo transplants at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB: will have club yearbook pictures for seniors, ad
visers and judging teams at 5:30 p.m. in the Kleberg lounge. There will be a
meeting at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. \
WATER SKI CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Check the monitor
screen for the room number.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting to discuss the
School for International Training at 3 p.m. in 352 MSC.
TEXAS A&M DEBATE FORUM: will have tryouts for the resolved topic that the
United Nations should create a Palestinian homeland at 7 p.m. in 608M Blocker.
WRITING OUTREACH MINI SESSION: will discuss using government docu
ments in research papers at 6:30 p.m. in 131 Blocker.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have a membership drive and meeting at 8:30 p.m.
in 206 MSC.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry. Non-members are wel
come.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY/PI SIGMA ALPHA: will meet at 7 p.m. in 501
Rudder.
MSC JORDAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS: will meet at
7 p.m. in 206 Rudder to announce the Cleo awards.
INTRAMURALS: Badminton singles, volleyball triples and inner tube water polo
entries close in 159 Read.
CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will discuss housing and registration prob
lems at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Recruiters from MBank in Hous
ton will speak at 7 p.m. in 134 Blocker. All students are welcome and business
attire is requested.
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Department hopes
to attract students
with endowment
By Christina De Leon
Reporter
Texas A&M’s chemical engi
neering department has received a
$75,000 private endowment for a
new graduate fellowship, an amount
that the University will match with
an additional $75,000, says Carl Jae-
dicke, development officer of the
College of Engineering.
The Gas Processors Suppliers As
sociation of Tulsa, a group of several
natural gas processing companies,
has provided the funds to attract
more of the nation’s top chemical
engineering graduate students to
study at A&M, Jaedicke says.
Dr. Ray Flumerfelt, head of the
chemical engineering department,
says the interest from the $150,000
endowment will be used to support
one graduate student each year.
He says most fellowships provide
about $12,000 per year for the stu
dent to pay for tuition and other ex
penses. The actual amount granted
depends on the interest the endow
ment earns, Flumerfelt says.
“The department is trying to
build up more fellowships,” Flumer
felt says, adding that he would like to
see more fellowships added to the
existing three graduate chemical en
gineering fellowships.
Jaedicke says the association has
many contracts with A&M’s Ther
modynamics Research Center and
hopes to hire some of the students
supported by the fellowship.
The Thermodynamics Research
Center is a part of the Engineering
Experiment Station and is staffed
mostly by chemical engineering fac
ulty, Jaedicke says.
Flumerfelt says the new
fellowship will not be awarded for
about a year until interest can be
earned on the endowment.
“All of these will be given on a
competitive basis,” Flumerfelt says,
stressing that a strong academic re
cord and good leadership potential
are necessities when considering the
? [ualifications of a graduate student
or the fellowships.
Although the Gas Processors Sup
pliers Fellowship is given on a one-
year basis, Flumerfelt says the
fellowship could be renewed if the
graduate fellow completes his term
in good standing.
Official wants to help
drug users stop AIDS
AUSTIN (AP) — State drug
abuse officials proposed a new AIDS
prevention program Friday that in
cluded distributing condoms and
bleach to intravenous drug users
and instructing them how to clean
shared needles and engage in safe
sex.
Bob Dickson, executive director
of the Texas Commission on Alcohol
and Drug Abuse, told a legislative
task force that the spread of AIDS
has prompted the agency to make
the radical proposal.
“The commission fully realizes
that the street outreach approach
may be viewed by some as extreme
and not in keeping with an agency
whose philosophy emphasizes drug-
free treatment methodologies,” he
said.
“However, we feel it is important
to stress that this virus can infect
anyone, whether or not they even
tually become alcohol and drug cli
ents,” he said.
Under the program, drug users
would be approached “on their own
turf by street-knowledgeable per
sonnel” who would discuss AIDS
prevention methods and distribute
condoms, bleach and brochures that
emphasize safe sex, Dickson said.
The program would be financed
by the national Centers for Disease
Control through grants provided to
the Texas Department of Health.
Dickson says he is aware that the
plan may be criticized but adds that
the agency’s duty is to prevent
deaths associated with drug abuse.
“This often means doing the diffi
cult, the dirty work if you will, that is
sometimes not popular,” Dickson
said. “And it means a continuum of
services encompassing prevention as
well as treatment — including these
types of outreach programs.”
A similar program in New York
City, on a smaller scale, has sparked
strong criticism from church and law
enforcement leaders.
But drug abuse counselors in
Texas have praised the commission’s
proposals for the state.
Dennis Ciscel, executive director
of Redoubt River Ranch, an alcohol
and drug abuse treatment program,
“The drug abuse community is
going to be the link to put this dis
ease into the heterosexual popula
tion.”
Pilot programs to begin in May
would be in addition to three dem
onstration projects in Houston, Dal
las and El Paso recently approved by
the National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
The commission will try to pro
vide services to other cities by estab
lishing programs in metropolitan
areas such as San Antonio and Lub
bock, which have a high incidence of
drug abuse, he said.
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HOUSTON (AP) — While ar
ranging Pope John Paul II’s trip to
the United States, the anti-abortion
National Conference of Catholic
Bishops relayed materials to govern
ment agents about a pro-choice
Catholic organization planning
peaceful activities during the visit,
published reports said.
A newspaper reported Sunday it
was unclear how or if the U.S. Secret
Service — which was in charge of se
curity for the pope during the Sept.
10-19 trip — used the literature
about Catholics for Free a Choice, a
national group based in Washing
ton, D.C.
But the Secret Service released
the material from its files in re
sponse to questions from the Hous
ton Chronicle, under the Freedom
of Information Act, about monitor
ing of U.S. organizations in connec
tion with the papal trip.
Frances Kissling, president of
Catholics for a Free Choice, which
she said has 8,000 supporters, ex
pressed suiprise at the action of Na
tional Conference of Catholic Bish
ops.
The bishops’ conference is the re
ligious arm of the civil U.S. Catholic
Conference, who sponsored the
pope’s visit.
“I think it is totally inappropriate
for the U.S. Catholic Conference to
be cooperating with government
agencies in the collection of data that
they know has no relevance to the
physical safety of the pope,” Kissling
said. “I don’t think it’s the function
of a religious entity to serve as the in
vestigative arm of a government
agency.
“There has been within the
church an increasing attempt to si
lence and punish individuals who
exercise their rights to disagree with
the bishops on public policy. I think
that represents a kind of McCarth-
yism in the church.”
Kissling said there is no evidence
the Secret Service conducted surveil
lance on her organization.
Richard Doerflinger, assistant di
rector of the bishops’ Office for Pro
life Activities, said his 1985 report
about Catholics for a Free Choice
was sent to the Secret Service along
with several membership letters.
There were also several press re
leases on CFC letterhead that he had
obtained.
Doerflinger said the Secret Serv
ice wanted to be sent any materials
about groups conducting protests so
they would know what to expect and
be ready for whatever may happen.
Secret Service spokesman Richard
Adams said he could not determine
immediately if the agency could dis
cuss its reasons for collecting the
documents or how it may have used
them.
But if such a determination is
made, a new Freedom of Informa
tion Act request would be required to
obtain the explanation, he said. Such
requests usually take months to proc
ess and the information could easilly
take longer to obtain.
Kissling said the group will con
tact its attorney today to discuss fil
ing its own information request in an
effort to discover if other informa
tion was collected about CFC.
Kissling said her group asked to
meet with the Secret Service before
the pope’s arrival but were turned
down.
Proposed airport benefits anonymous investors
HOUSTON (AP) — If it is built,
Houston’s proposed westside airport
will benefit more than 40 investors,
many of them wealthy, who bought
land around the site under arrange
ments that have kept their names
largely secret for more than 18
months, the Houston Post reported
in a copyright story Sunday.
In fact, Mayor Kathy Whitmire
and 13 of 14 city councilmen said
last week they did not know who
owned half the airport site when the
council voted to buy it in 1986 for
$5.7 million.
Major partners in a consortium
that sold the city 1,400 acres of Wal
ler County farmland in 1986 for the
airport insist there are no conflicts of
interest in the sale. They say the site,
about 35 miles west of Houston near
Brookshire, is one of the brightest
spots on Houston’s economic hori
zon.
“We don’t want to sit around and
wait until the year 2000 and think,
‘Oh by God, we need an airport’ . . .
If you wait until you need it, you will
cost the city untold millions,” said
Bruce Cameron Jr., a Houston de
veloper who coordinated the pro
ject. “I know people would like to be
lieve somehow that we’re bad guys . .
. (But) this is succeeding because of a
lot of hard work.
“What we think this will do is be
come a catalyst for further growth.”
Groups opposing the proposed
airport, however, have said the mul-
timillion-dollar sale to the city consti
tuted a “land scam.”
Documents released to the Post
last week show more than 50 inves-
toxs own more than 2,000 acres of
land near the proposed airport.
The opponents’ major complaints
are:
• Property owners and others in
terested in the project donated more
than $73,500 to campaigns of the
mayor and council members in the
last three years. More than $31,000
in contributions came from mem
bers of a joint venture which sold
700 acres of the airport site to the
city.
• The airport site was bought be
fore environmental or feasibility
studies were undertaken — a proc
ess critics of the new airport contend
was backward.
• A majoi'ity of the council and
the mayor said they did not know
who owned the land the city bought.
Virgil Knox, president of Individ
ual Landowners and Homeowners
Inc., a non-profit watchdog group,
said the package of investors that
would profit from the airport shows
“the whole purpose behind the air
port project was to enhance real es
tate values. It’s a builder-developer
pork-barrel project.”
An environmental study of the
airport site is expected to be com
pleted in May, and public hearings
on the study may occur in July,
Houston Aviation Director Paul
Gaines said.
After being questioned by the
Post, several council members sug
gested that city land acquisition proc
esses be changed. The city always
should know who is selling the land,
they said.
“I understand sometimes why
people want some anonymity, but
when it comes to dealing with public
funds I don’t think that should be
followed,” said City Controller
George Creanias, who voted for the
project as a councilman.
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