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Program gives career options
By Jennifer Palter
Reporter
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High school seniors from around the state are
using Texas A&M resources to examine career
options in the natural sciences as part of a new
nationwide project called the Young Scholars
Program.
The National Science Foundation funded 68
of 355 project proposals from across the nation
that provide an opportunity for outstanding high
school seniors to get a close up view of career
ular science feild.
department,” Adams said. “Within a few days I
had calls from parents.”
Students were chosen from a pool of 66 appli
cants from around the state; participant selection
was based on grades, commitment to the biologi
cal sciences and involvement in school activities,
he said. Because of low minority representation
in natural science-related jobs, gender and eth
nicity were also important criteria, he added.
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A&M’s departments of Wildlife and Fisheries
Sciences and Chemical Engineering received two
of the six proposals approved in Texas.
Dr. Clark Adams, associate professor in the
wildlife and Fisheries department, help arranged
the program.
“In April we sent out 254 applications to stu
dents who had already expressed interest in the
Students’activities include exposure to the re
search environment, problem-solving techniques,
discussion of career directions and consideration
of philosophy and ethics in the natural science
field, Adams said.
Among facilities being used are two on-cam
pus genetics laboratories, one for fish research
and the other for wildlife.
want to be either a wildlife veterinarian ora
life geneticist.”
Tara Barton, from Benavides High Stir
enjoyed the lab work. “I liked the karyotu
(chromosome evaluation) and DNAworknu
she said.
Students have access to the Texas Cooptri
Wildlife Collection beneath Sterling C. Evan
brary, the largest vertebrate spedmen
in Texas. Also available is the Aquaculture
search Center, outside of town on Highwt
with 24 earthen ponds, a several-acre resp
and 150 indoor glass aquarium.
Staci Tucker, from Katy High School, said, “I
was already interested in wildlife ecology, and
the program specified certain opportunities. I
The program’s goals, as specified by the
are four-fold: to build interest in care«ai
able in the natural sciences; to improv"®
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and visits to research facilities; toofierop|
nities for participation in on-going researt
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Vol. 87
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Declined learning capabilities in
American students may be directly
connected to the actual structure of
the school building, according to a
study being conducted by Texas
A&M educators.
“The Interface Project,” orgi-
nated by Dr. H.L. Hawkins, director
of education and administration at
A&M, is designed to determine the
effects that school building struc
tures may have on student learning
capabilities. This research, con
ducted by Hawkins, began with a
consideration of the high academic
record of Japanese students.
presidents are given their own office
space from which they work.”
In addition, the Japanese em
phasize the school’s outer beauty
while the inner appearance often in
cludes only desks, chairs, a chalk
board and plain white walls, accord
ing to observations in the “The
Interface Project.” Hawkins said the
colorless interior allows the students
greater concentration during class
time.
“We observed three Japanese
schools, and found that there are, in
fact, many differences between the
school building structures of Amer
ica and Japan,” Hawkins said. “The
Japanese tend to focus on student
needs by appealing to their sense of
responsibility, and then planning the
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ementary and high schools, the class
“The outer beauty allows the stu
dents to enjoy their time away from
class, so they are more attentive
while learning,” he said. “Many of
the schools are beautiful, landscaped
with fully equipped baseball and soc
cer fields as well as outside basketball
courts.”
Documented on film, “The Inter
face Project’s” observations will be
available for continuous studies.
“These videos will be able to commu
nicate to people that there is value in
this type of study,” Hawkins said.
“The interest level of Americans
may be raised when they realize the
direct correlation between the struc
ture of the Japanese school buildings
and the increased learning abilities
of their students.”
Attorney requests
low forgery penalty
SAN MARCOS (AP) — Attorneys
for a Houston political consultant
and his firm, both convicted of forg
ery on presidential ballot petitions,
asked jurors Thursday for leniency
in sentencing.
But prosecutor Casey O’Brien
called for stiff sentences that would
carry a message of, “We the people
won’t tolerate it. We don’t like dirty
politics.”
The six-member jury on Wednes
day convicted Rocky Mountain and
Southern Political Consulting Inc.,
of Houston on 38 misdemeanor
forgery charges in connection with
phony signatures on the petitions
that put Pete du Pont on the March
8 Texas GOP primary ballot.
Mountain faced a maximum pun
ishment of one year in jail and
$76,000 in fines. The company
faced a maximum fine of $380,000.
The defendants on Thursday
turned down the prosecution’s alter
native offers of a $20,000 fine for
Mountain and $100,000 fine for the
firm, or a $10,000 fine for Mountain
and $200,000 fine for the firm, law
yers in the case said.
Both offers included a one-year,
probated jail term for Mountain.
Company president Kevin Bur
nette testified he earned less than
$18,000 last year. Mountain said he
made $14,000 and lives with his par
ents in Houston.
“I’m terribly sorry about what has
happened,” Mountain testified
Thursday, adding that his future is
uncertain.
“I’ve been on the front page of pa
pers for about six months. With a
name like Rocky Mountain people
don’t forget that too easy,” he told
jurors.
Joe Bailey, Mountain’s lawyer,
said his client should not be jailed.
“Do we continue to destroy the
man?” Bailey asked.
Mountain testified Tuesday that
he ordered the forgeries only be
cause he had been pressured by a du
Pont official. He said he never in
tended for the du Pont campaign to
submit them.
Mountain staged what prosecu
tors called a “forgery party” at his of
fice Dec. 19 after legitimate efforts
to collect signatures for the former
Delaware governor failed.
Fitness center closings
may test spa reform
AUSTIN (AP) — The closing of
two Austin fitness center chains in
recent months may provide the first
major test of a 3-year-old state law
designed to reform the health spa
industry.
proposed fitness center that was
never built.
To cover some of the money owed
to those consumers, Mattox’s office
is laying claim to $40,000 in letters of
credit posted by Dynafit with two fi
nancial institutions.
But the experience of dealing
with the failure of the Supreme
Court Racquet Club and Dynafit
Family Athletic Clubs already has
convinced Attorney General Jim
Mattox that the Health Spa Act of
1985 needs to be strengthened to
protect consumers who join clubs in
good faith, the Austin American-
Statesman reported Thursday.
The posting of letters of credit,
bonds or other insurance is intended
to protect consumers from the clos
ing of a health spa under the new
law.
Thousands of Austin-area resi
dents with memberships are owed
refunds that are likely to total more
than $100,000, but the best they can
hope for is a partial refund, said at-
al s “
“We are assuming the bond is not
going to be sufficient to cover all
memberships, and people are only
going to get a partial refund,” said
Clyde Farrell, chief of the consumer
protection division in the attorney
general’s office.
torney general staff workers.
The health clubs are either closed
or under new ownership, which is
not obligated to honor prior mem
berships sold by previous owners.
“We don’t like that one bit,” Far
rell said, “and that’s why we’re
asking that legislation be tightened
up and strengthened.”
In one case, officials estimate 200
advance memberships —costing
$500 to $ 1,000 each — were sold to a
Mattox’s staff tentatively has pro
posed several changes to the law, in
cluding prohibiting the sale of pre
paid memberships to patrons before
a fitness or health center opens to
the public.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The gov
ernment can’t force the finan
cially ailing LTV Corp. to take
back more than $2 billion in pen
sion obligations simply because a
new labor contract restored pre
viously cut benefits, a federal
judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Robert W.
Sweet said he couldn’t uphold a
decision by the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp., which insures
the pensions of some 30 million
American workers, to restore the
pension plan obligations of LTV’s
steel unit, Cleveland-based LTV
Steel Co.
Sweet said the agency had
done so without an exploration of
all the relevant facts and adequate
procedures for factfinding and
notice.
Since the agency’s decision is
not sustainable on tne administra
tive record, the appropriate rem
edy is to vacate the restoration de-
cision that gave back
responsibility for the pensions to
LTV, Sweet said.
“We’re very pleased,” said Le
wis B. Kaden, an attorney for
LTV Corp, who called the ruling
“a complete victory.”
But Sweet concluded in la
126-page opinion that althoug!
the PBGC didn't provide enoujs
documentation that LTV canal
ford to take hack its pensionolt
gations, the federal agencymijii
l>e able to do so at a trial. TIk
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PBGC for further considerai: Bg in a cr
and told both sides to arrange Kid Towns
conference with him on fimLrl
proceedings.
“While the court recognizsl
PBGCs authority to restoreier
minuted plans, it did not immed-
ately enforce restoration of ils
LTV plans,” said PBGC spote
man Jane Hoden.
“Instead, the court require;
additional fact finding by tk
PBGC on LTV’s ability to
the plans,” she said. “The PBG(|
is pleased that the court recoi
nized our authority to resioi
plans, but we are disappointec
that the court required addition!
proceedings.” Reading from I
prepared statement, she said lit
PBGC is now considering otlw
legal steps to resolve the issues;:
this case and relieve the uncer
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Bank bailouts may drain FDIC fund
WASHINGTON (AP) — T he
fund that insures deposits in com
mercial banks could decline by as
much as 10 percent — the first
drop in its 54-year history — after
the completion of three large
bank bailouts in Texas this year,
the chairman of the Federal De
posit Insurance Corp. says.
L. William Seidman, in the text
of a speech to be delivered Friday
to the Oregon Bankers Associa
tion, said the fund should start
growing again in 1989 after First
RepubhcBank Corp. of Dallas,
Texas American Bancshares and
National Bancshares Corp. are
rescued.
When Seidman announced a
$1 billion infusion into First Re-
publicBank in March, he noted
the fund, which had $18.3 billion
at the end of 1987, could decline
this year for the first time since it
was established in 1934.
In 1987, the fund postedi
small $50 million gain last ytat
despite a post-Depression reconi
of 184 bank failures.
Failures are continuing i
about the same pace thisyearani
the FDIC is dealing with
institutions.
The agency hopes by mid-Sep
tember to find a private invest# 1
to help in its rescue of First Rt
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estimates of the ultimate costofi.L . ,i
the bailout range up to S2 bib mn rl. ive
which would make it the FDIC Cr ' ,Ut
largest ever, but it said the fundi
initial outlay could be evet
greater.
But the Oregon speech was the
tne
first time he said the loss to the
fund, which expects revenue of
more than $3 billion this year,
would likely be limited to 10 per
cent.
Seidman said widespread
weaknesses in the oil-drillinf
states of Texas, Oklahoma and
Alaska will continue to be a signif
icant burden for the FDlC,i!
least for the short run, but tin
FDIC fund is sufficient to dei
with the problems we can fore#
at this time.
Economic growth spurs new forecast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
U.S. economy grew at a 3.6 per
cent rate in the first three months
of 1988, prompting the Reagan
administration on Thursday to
make what was once considered a
too-rosy forecast even rosier.
After the October stock market
collapse, many private economists
expected a slowdown or even a
recession this year. They crit
icized as unrealistic White House
projections saying the economy,
as measured by the gross national
product, would grow at a steady
2.9 percent pace, the same as in
1986 and 1987.
But booming growth in the last
three months of 1987 and contin
ued strength this year sent ana
lysts scrambling to revise their
forecasts upward until the admin
istration estimate began looking
pessimistic.
On Thursday, Beryl Sprinkel,
chairman of the president’s
Council of Economic Advisers,
boosted the administration’s GNP
forecast for all of 1988 to 3.5 per
cent. At the same time, he pre
dicted that consumer price infla
tion would hold steady at 4.3
percent.
The administration is looking
for a sixth straight year of eco
nomic expansion, the longest in
peacetime since the Civil War, to
bolster the chances for a Republi
can presidential victory in No
vember.
Sprinkel said the expansion
gives every indication of continu
ing into next year.
“Our rosy forecast wasn’t rosy
enough,” he said. “The economy
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growth projections now are o*
target, but that his inflation fort
cast should be higher because^
the expected effect of the wide
spread drought on food prices.
“He’s certainly right about!#
ter growth . . . but the restisju*
pie in the sky stuff,” said Michad
K. Evans, head of a private ete
nomic consulting firm in Wait
ington.
“We’re not going to havedW'
ble-digit inflation, hut a reason;
ble private sector forecast of con
sumer inflation would be5to5i
percent,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Commerced
partment reported that an es
port-led manufacturing boo®
and a surge of investment spend
ing by businesses kept the eco®
omy growing at a seasonally ad Bid such i
justecl annual rate of 3.6 pence® |s Bill Pre
in the January-March period. Board
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previous estimate of GNP growl'
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at 3.9 percent. However, in
the initial estimate was a
lower 2.3 percent.
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