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Vol.87 No. 177 8 Pages
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Tuesday, July 19, 1988
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By Stephen Masters
Senior Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents Monday selected Dr. Wil
liam H. Mobley, executive deputy
chancellor of A&M, to succeed
University President Frank Van
diver effective Aug. 1.
As the 20th president of A&M,
Mobley, 46, will be one of the
youngest to hold the office in the
school’s 112-year history.
In a prepared speech, Mobley
told the Board that external mon
etary resources must be devel
oped with decreasing funds com
ing from the state.
“Enhanced external resources
are essential if we are to take full
advantage of the intellectual and
creative human capital rep
resented in the faculty, students
and staff of this University,” he
said. “Only with enhanced re
source development can we fur
ther push back the frontiers of
knowledge and infuse this knowl
edge into the economic, techno
logical, cultural and social fabric
of our state and nation.”
In addition, Mobley offered 10
areas that he would work to pro
mote and improve, including put
ting research and teaching on an
equal level, stessing traditions, a
supportive student environment
and student leadership devel
opment opportunities, expand
ing the University’s emphasis on
minority recruitment and im
proving the quality of the faculty.
David Eller, chairman of the
Board and the Presidential Selec
tion Committee, said Mobley was
selected unanimously by the
seven-member and “fared ex
tremely well” in evaluations by
the Search Advisory Committee,
which compiled the list of candi
dates for the position. Mobley’s
experience with A&M and his
“familiarity with state govern
ment and the business commu
nity in Texas and nationally”
played a large part in his selec
tion, Eller said.
Chancellor Perry Adkisson
said Mobley was a “magnificient”
choice.
“He was the best qualified can
didate for the postition,” he said.
“He brings with him a great deal
of academic experience along
with energy, vigor and an existing
knowledge of how the System
works.”
Vandiver said Mobley is an ex
cellent choice and besides money
for the school, he didn’t foresee
any problems for the new presi
dent.
“This is an interesting time in
A&M’s history because we are at a
crossroads where we have all
types of problems, not the least of
which is money,” he said. “The
Board is already interested in and
moving toward raising money
from the outside. This (raising
outside money) will be one of his
main prerogatives, I’m sure.
“Aside from that, I don’t see
any problems that will wake him
with chills in the night.”
At a post announcement news
conference, Mobley reiterated his
commitment to work to increase
funds for the school and said he
would work to continue pro
grams initiated by Vandiver.
“I look forward to nurturing
the many seeds that he has plan
ted, and to planting new seeds in
the richer intellectual and cultu
ral environment that he has
helped create,” he said.
Mobley was born Nov. 15, 1941
in Akron, Ohio and received
bachelor’s degrees in psychology
and economics from Denison
University in Granville, Ohio in
1963. He later received a Ph.D. in
industrial organizational psychol
ogy from the University of
Maryland in 1971. He worked for
PPG Industries in Pittsburgh
from 1964 to 1967 and 1971 to
1973 after receiving his Ph.D.
From 1973 to 1980 he served in
the College of Business Adminis
tration as an assistant professor,
associate professor and professor.
In 1980, Mobley began his ca
reer at A&M as professor and
head of the department of man
agement. He has since served as
associate dean and dean of the
CBA, founding director of the
Center for International Business
Studies, deputy chancellor and
executive deputy chancellor.
Frank Vandiver shakes hands with William H.
Mobley, the new president of Texas A&M, Mon-
Photo byjayjanner
day at the press conference in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Regents reconsider making Richards: Workers
garage on part of golf course have been forgotten
By Ashley A. Bailey
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents changed their minds Monday
and are again considering the north
west corner of the Texas A&M Golf
Course as a possible site for the pro
posed southside parking garage.
Vice Chairman of the Board Joe
H. Reynolds of Houston is against
building the garage on the golf
course site and regent William A.
j McKenzie of Dallas is in agreement.
I “It was pretty much unanimous
that we wanted to build the parking
garage without infringing on any
green space,” McKenzie said.
Regent Royce Wisenbaker of
Tyler said, however, that A&M is
running out of room for parking
and the golf course is a good solu
tion to the problem.
“It’s true that we have painted
ourselves into a corner, but it wasn’t
intentional and we do have a few
ways out,” Wisenbaker said.
The Board rejected the site earlier
because they preferred to keep new
construction west of Bizzell Street.
Regent Douglas R. DeCluitt of
Waco objects to the golf course site
for the same reason.
“I object to it based on aesthitics,”
DeCluitt said. “I don’t think we
should be building beyond a line
from the System Administration
Building.”
Board member William A. McK
enzie of Dallas said the matter
should not have been brought up
since it was not on the agenda for
this weekend’s meeting and it should
not be approved based on that fact.
The Board did not come to any fi
nal decisions concerning the location
of the southside parking garage.
The golf course site is still under
consideration.
If the golf course site is approved
the garage will be built on the site of
the golf course club house, parking
lot and the first tee, Wisenbaker
said.
As a result, the first tee will be
moved and a new club house will be
built in one corner of the proposed
garage, he said.
The garage will primarily serve
about 1,200 students living in the
new five-dorm complex in Parking
Annex 24.
Iran accepts U.N. resolution
sfor truce to end war with Iraq
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran
aid Monday it accepts a U.N. reso
lution for a truce in the war with
raq, which has cost an estimated 1
nillion lives, but its military com-
nand said soldiers would stay at the
rontjust in case.
Hashemi Rafsanjani, parliament
peaker and acting commander-in-
hief, said the decision was made by
the 88-year-old revolutionary patri-
rch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
ho had set Iran’s original policy of
jecting a truce.
Security Council Resolution 598
|f July 20, 1987, calls for a cease-
ire, withdrawal of military forces to
Recognized, borders, prisoner ex
change and an investigation to de
termine who started the nearly 8-
year-old war.
■ Javier Perez de Cuellar, the U.N.
ftcretary-general, said he was begin
ning consultations with both sides
and a cease-fire could take effect
within a week.
■ Iraq agreed to the Security Coun
cil resolution long ago, on condition
Iran also accepted it, but until Mon
day the Iranians had said there
could be no truce until Iraq was con
demned as the aggressor. The Iraqis
i|vaded Iran in September 1980 af
ter several border skirmishes.
I On Sunday, President Saddam
Hussein of Iraq urged Iranian lead
ers to accept an “honorable” end to
the conflict.
I Rafsanjani said in an interview on
Iranian television Monday: “Since
the people of Iran believe in Imam
Btomeini’s decisions and rely on
him and the people in charge, we
j^ereby announce the decision to ac-
cept U.N. Security Council Resolu
tion 598.
He said the decision was made
“f< r the benefit of the Iranian nation
and there is no sign of weakness in
it.’'
lAs Iran’s acceptance of the resolu
tion was conveyed Monday in a mes
sage to Perez de Cuellar, a statement
by Rafsanjani’s new military General
Command said: “We once again
urge the Iranian people to man the
war fronts to confront the enemies’
aggressive nature and foil their
criminal acts.”
It praised the Khomeini’s “great
leadership” and, in a reference to
the United States, said the “arrogant
worlds” sought to portray Iraq as a
“peace-loving regime” because it had
accepted Resolution 598.
A dispatch carried by Baghdad’s
official Iraqi News Agency said the
Iranian announcement was made
for “tactical reasons” and not from a
desire for “real and just peace.”
The Reagan administration said it
welcomed Iran’s willingness to ac
cept the U.N. resolution.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., Presi
dent Reagan’s spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater also said, “I think we have
to be cautious” because U.S. officials
are unsure what Iran’s intentions
are.
Fitzwater also refused to say how
Iran’s move would affect the Ameri
can military presence in the Persian
Gulf, although he did say the United
States has been prepared to end
tanker escorts if peace came to the
region.
A government spokesman in
Syria, the only major Arab backer of
Iran in the war, said his nation “ex
presses its satisfaction and welcomes
the wise decision of the Iranian lead
ership.”
Iran’s military position has dete
riorated. In three months, Iraq has
recaptured nearly all the territory it
lost to Iran in six years.
ATLANTA (AP) — Texas Trea
surer Ann Richards, in a highly per
sonal keynote address, told the Dem
ocratic National Convention on
Monday night that the Reagan ad
ministration had turned America’s
working class into the forgotten
class. “We can do better,” she said.
Richards recounted a letter from
a Lorena, Tx. mother of three who
said her family income of $50,000 a
year makes life a constant fiscal chal
lenge.
“We’re the people you see every
day in the grocery store,” Richards
said, quoting from the unidentified
woman’s letter. “We obey the laws,
pay our taxes and fly our flag on hol
idays.
“We plod along, trying to make it
better for ourselves and our children
and our parents. We aren’t vocal
anymore. I think maybe we’re too
tired. I believe people like us have
been forgotten in America.”
Richards said the woman was
right.
“Of course you believe you’re for
gotten,” Richards said. “Because you
have been. This Republican admin
istration treats us as if we were pieces
of a puzzle that can’t fit together.
They’ve tried to put us in compart
ments and separate us from each
other. Their political theory is divide
and conquer.
“No wonder we feel isolated, con
fused. We want answers and their
response is that something is wrong
with you. Well nothing’s wrong with
you . . . that you can’t fix in Novem
ber.
“When it comes right down to it,
this election is a contest between
those who are satisfied with what
they have — and those who know we
can do better. That’s what this elec
tion is all about.”
Using her trademark rapier wit,
she singled out Vice President
George Bush, the probable GOP
presidential nominee.
“For eight straight years George
Bush hasn’t displayed the slightest
interest in anything we care about,”
she said. “And now that he is after a
job that he can’t get appointed to,
he’s like Columbus discovering
America. He’s found child care. He’s
found education.
“Poor George, he can’t help it. He
was born with a silver foot in his
mouth.”
She received a big laugh with her
opening line, when she chided
Bush’s claim that he is a Texan. He
claims a Houston hotel suite as his le
gal residence.
“I am delighted to be here with
you this evening because after listen
ing to George Bush all these years, I
figured you needed to know what a
real Texas accent sounds like,” said
the Waco, Tx. native who speaks
with a sure-enough Texas drawl.
“1 want to announce to this nation
that in a little more than 100 days,
the Reagan-Meese-Deaver-Nofziger-
Poindexter-North-Weinberger-Wat-
t-Gorsuch-Lavelle-Stockman-Haig-
Bork-Noriega-Geoge Bush-era will
be over,” she said to sustained ap
plause from the Democrats.
Richards had high praise for Mi
chael Dukakis, to whom she is com
mitted, and for runner-up Jesse
Jackson.
She said Jackson “can open our
hearts and our minds and stir our
very souls. He’s taught us that we are
as good as our capacity for caring.”
She touted Dukakis as a man “who
knows that this country is on the
edge of a great new era.
“Behind his calm there’s an impa
tience to unify this country and get
on with the future,” Richards said.
And she praised Texas Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, Dukakis’ designated run
ning mate, as someone who “under
stands America from the barrio to
the board room.”
Richards also carried through on
her promise to note the importance
of letting a woman make the keynote
address. She noted that former U.S.
Rep. Barbara Jordan, another
Texan, was the keynote speaker in
1976.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin
decreed on Monday that the small
Caucasus Mountain region at the
center of a bilter and sometimes vio
lent ethnic dispute will remain part
of Azerbaijan.
The action is likely to fuel more
unrest among Armenians, who want
the region of Nagorno-Karabakh to
be made part of their republic, since
most of the region’s people are Ar
menians. One Armenian activist said
the decision was “awful.”
The decision by the 30-plus mem
bers of the Presidium of the Su
preme Soviet was unanimous,
according to the Tass news agency.
It was announced after the parlia
ment’s executive body had spent
about eight hours in extraordinary
session.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been part
of the republic of Azerbaijan since
1923, although it had once been part
of neighboring Armenia.
The parliament of the disputed
region voted July 12 for annexation
by Armenia, although they have no
common borders. The Azerbaijan
leadership quickly rejected the deci
sion, setting the stage for Monday’s
resolution of the deadlock by the ex
ecutive body of the national parlia
ment.
“The Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR confirmed today
that Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to
Azerbaijan,” Tass announced after
the special session.
“Vremya,” the national nightly
television news program, read the
four-paragraph Tass report early in
its broadcast, but added no commen
tary. A later film clip from Yerevan,
the Armenian capital, showed work
ers saying that the area was calm, but
the comments were apparently
made before the annexation deci
sion was announced.
Provost: A&M enrollment plan working
By Ashley A. Baiey
Staff Writer
Texas A&M University’s enrollment man
agement plan is working as planned, Provost
Donald McDonald told the Texas A&M
Board of Regents Monday.
Enrollment, however, will still pass the
40,000 mark this fall for the first time, Mc
Donald said.
McDonald anticipated a fall enrollment of
40,280.
The plan, he said, calls for limiting the size
of the incoming freshman class to 6,600.
At this time 14,818 applications have been
received for the fall semester, he said. Of the
14,818 applicants, 8,588 were automatically
admitted based on their high school ranks
and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, he said.
One thousand, eight hundred and seventy-
six of the nearly 15,000 aplicantions are un
der special review' and the 3,320 remaining
applications were either late or denied.
McDonald projected that only 5,140 of the
8,588 applicants that were automatically ad
mitted will actually attend A&M. He also an
ticipated that 1,085 of the special review ap
plicants will be accepted and 345 provisional
applicants will be accepted.
About 30 applications are still being proc
essed, he said.
Total A&M enrollment is expected to peak
at 43,185 in 1991 and then drop back to the
goal of 41,000 by 1993, McDonald said.
A policy giving some kind of preferential
treatment to children of former students was
also briefly discussed and will be considered
at the September board meeting.
The Board also heard an overview of the
Corps of Cadets past and present grades, en
rollment and goals given by Corps Comman
dant Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Darling.
Darling reported that the average corps
grade-point ratio for the last 10 years is 2.35
and the average university for the last 10
years is 2.48. Darling said the variance be-
tweeen the two is insignificant.
He told the Board that 23 of the 35 corps
units have GPR’s above 2.5 and 5 of the 35
units have GPR’s above 2.6.
Darling also told the regents that grades
are taken very seriously in the corps.
“We still consider grades our number one
priority and all other things come after
them,” Darling said.
One problem that Darling mentioned was
the 31 percent loss of the corps’ freshman
class last year. The average is 30 percent.
The 30 percent loss, he said, is comparable
to that at service academies and other ipilitary
schools.
Darling said that the loss of freshman is at
tributed to grade related problems, financial
difficulties, personal problems and adaptabil
ity factors. Most of the freshman that leave
the corps, however, do not leave the univer
sity, he said.
Short-term Corps objectives for 1988-89,
Darling said, are as follows:
• An overall average of 2.4 in the fall and
2.6 in the spring.
• 25 more Sul Ross Scholarships.
• Build the recruiting endowment to
$175,000.
• Reduce loss of freshman to 20 percent.
• Develop professional recruiting pro
gram.
• Provide increased staff presence and
oversight.
• Provide each cadet’s four basic rights of
eating, sleeping, studying and going to class.
Long-term Corps objectives are:
• 2,500 enrollment in the Corps.
• Reduce loss of freshman to 18 percent.