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Thursday, June 9, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local miJAMUG allotted record budget; ew administrators appointed are soi t they ,ural >y m vale andi ®y Ashley A. Bailey luse We are £ Staff Writer Stic imagehe first budget for Texas A&M it. The nieH vers * t y at Galveston to exceed ttitude ft® million and the appointment of i- ;wo new administrators were ap- • a me, **H ve d by the Texas A&M Board of l u dgemeiRegents late last month. ,( 1 in ourr Jhe budget, effective September u:e in tal l.iepresents a $1.2 million increase ok and ; > vert he 1987-88 budget, an increase , ^ 'Hch is about 8 percent higher than r to try ((■overall Texas A&M University ■em average budget increase of " Hut 6 percent. $ $ r not just an is a reflectii he board a appointed the vice pi Dr. James , HMcCloy as the vice president of idgementa: lcac | eiT1 j c affairs and Dr. William A. Hz as dean of Moody College of secondan - Marine Tec h nology. mist ftfW™ C CI°y sa ' ( ^ t ^ ie ^ oarc ^ B ave such rge amount of money to TA- V1UG so the university could recruit lutstanding researchers. ■The President of TAMUG, Dr. William J. Merrell, has a mandate to striye for excellence in research and iemic programs. “We needed extra funds to do this and because the Board gave them to us I think they have made a commit ment to Dr. MerrelTs mission toward excellence.” McCloy, who has held the position of vice president of academic affairs on an interim basis since February, assumed full duties of the position June 1. McCloy said his job as vice presi dent of academic affairs entails car- Graphic by Jay Janner rying out President MerrelTs “four- year plan.” “All parts of the TAMUS are in volved in a four-year plan to im prove existing standards. “TAMUG plans to improve by de veloping graduate programs, mas ter’s degrees and increasing enroll ment. We also are remodeling our curriculum and implementing new research orientation.” McCloy began his career at TA MUG in 1971 as a visiting assistant professor and has since been an as sistant dean for academic affairs, head of general academics and in terim dean of the Texas Maritime College. Seitz began his career with TA MUG in 1977 as a faculty member and served as head of marine sci ences since 1980. Dr. Thomas G. Schmalz, who is acting department head until Seitz returns from the Texas A&M Sum mer School at Sea in mid-August, said expansion is the major goal of the Moody College of Marine Tech nology. “The college has been expanding fairly rapidly,” Schmalz said. “We’ve already hired two very well-known marine chemists and we hope to make more additions in the near fu ture.” Dr. C.S. Giam of Singapore has been employed by TAMUG since January and Dr. Peter H. Santschi of Switzerland, the newest chemist in the department, has been employed since March. State takes youth from care facility amid controversy NASA expects strong competition to build new boosters for shuttle HtOUSTON (AP) — NASA anticipates strong competition from prospective manufacturers of the next generation of space shuttle boosters de spite a decision by Morton Thiokol, the sole builder of current solid-fuel boosters, to pull out of the running, a spokesman said Tuesday. Morton Thiokol says it will concentrate on the current redesign of the rocket booster used on Challenger, which exploded shortly after takeoff Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard. According to a presidential commission, the fi ery disaster was caused by hot gas that leaked through a joint in a Thiokol-built solid-fuel booster, igniting the shuttle’s main fuel tank. ■Thiokol may have pulled out of the competi tion for the $1.2 billion contract to design and build rocket boosters for the 1990s, but NASA officials believe other companies still will be in terested. “We’re going ahead with this project. We do expect strong competition for the contract,” said Jerry Berg, NASA spokesman at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. — the center that oversees the space agency’s rocket work. “Meanwhile, we look forward to our associa tion with Morton Thiokol on the current booster,” Berg said. NASA plans to use ThiokoTs redesigned mo tor when it resumes shuttle flights —- the first planned for late August. Rocky Raab, a Thiokol spokesman in Utah, said the redesign is nearly complete and a test fir ing is set for next month at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Raab said Monday that United Technologies, a team of Lockheed and Aerojet and another team consisting of Hercules, Atlantic Research Corp. and Martin Marietta have expressed an interest in the $1.2 billion contract. Tom Fitzgerald, spokesman for Aerojet in Sac ramento, Calif., said Tuesday he was surprised by ThiokoTs announcement to pull out, but said the news was good for ThiokoTs competitors. “Any time your field of competitors lessens by one, your chances improve, obviously,” Fitzge rald said. “And yes, we are interested. “It’s going to be a competitive contract. (Thio kol) is a very strong competitor. But as to who is the-best competitor, it's a tough one to say.” AUSTIN (AP) — State officials are removing severely retarded and handicapped children from Littlest Angels Inc., an Arlington facility owned by a woman who refuses to send the children to school, the Department of Hu man Services said Wednesday. Four children who are wards of the state were removed May 19, a DHS official said. Sarah Ful ler, owner and operator of Lit tlest Angels, said a fifth child was removed Wednesday. The eight other state-ward children at Littlest Angels will be moved when suitable facilities can be found, said Joe Papick, DPS program specialist for protective services. The children are younger than 13 and have IQs of about 20, according to state re-, cords. He said the long-running bat tle over schooling of the children was “not the sole factor” in the agency’s decision to move the children. “It is involved with some other issues that are confidential at this time,” he said. Andra Bennett, a DHS public information assistant, said the agency’s regional officials “de cided it was in the best interests of the children to be moved.” Those officials were unavail able for comment Wednesday. State District Judge Scott Moore of Fort Worth said Wednesday he had recently signed an order to remove a child because of “some allegations of abuse.” He would not elaborate on the allegations, and said there had been no determination of whether there had been any ac tual abuse. Fuller said the child is her daughter and the removal has nothing to do with the education fight. “It is a private situation,” she said. “Someone made a com plaint. That has happened to us hundreds of times. Anybody that worked here that gets mad at us makes a complaint.” The battle between Littlest An gels and the state has dragged on for months. Advocacy Inc., a fed erally funded, nonprofit group that works on behalf of the dis abled, complained last year that the 20 children at Littlest Angels, including the 13 who are wards of the state, were not being edu cated in the manner required by law. The Arlington Independent School District reviewed each child and decided nine of the state-ward children could be transported to school for classes. Fuller resisted. “These children cannot withs tand the daily in-and-out trans portation and exposure to viruses or possible other diseases that normal children usually resist,” she said in a letter to the Texas Education Agency. The children began classes in Arlington in October, but Fuller later stopped sending them. She said they became too sick. “They were all sick,” she said. “It became apparent there was no way they could go back and stay alive.” Fuller also questioned whether the children could benefit from a public school education. “If they could learn to be self- sufficient in any way, they should go to public school,” she said. “But the school was not willing to do anything appropriate. They only wanted them to be bussed across town.” Dr. Ray Rhodes, a Fort Worth pediatrician who has worked with the Littlest Angel children, has backed Fuller. At one point, he told Arlington school officials that “most of these children would seem to have very limited educational capabilities and would probably benefit most from occupational and physical therapy provided in a consistent environment.” JO it,” he said vith my e was a troo[' in a lot of pi- ou this way du to have r many ar° l omestop*t nd to motfli tout doubt 1 the only tt( | way. uch. Now- 1 he timeg o: /ndicaK * \ from The Chronicle Whether you’re searching for up-to-the-minute examples to support a Political Science hypothesis or you’re picking a movie for your hot date tonight, The Chronicle has what you need to get you through a torrid summer semester. Late breaking news from around the state, the nation and the world keeps you aware of events that relate to your classes and your life. 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