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Tuesday, September 6, 1988AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local federal grant will enable KAMU-TV acquire new technical equipment f fort By Alan Sembera Staff Writer ne Texas A&M’s Educational Broad- 11 asa lt ist|Services, which includes public ‘ ere eswfision station KAMU, soon will lient a Bible to upgrade its equipment Wthe awarding of a $238,000 f'ed- ralf^rant. nploye, AfcM will match the funds given >rarv W* 16 National Telecommunica- ‘t 7^ l '>S an< ^ Information Administra- on e, ■ which provides funding to en- nat the^Knon-commercial broadcasters to ( f SCI uyitechnical equipment. ‘ that money will be used to buy •tu sudiiT is defiinl KAMU-FM three new television cameras, two vi deotape machines, new routing switches and monitors, Dr. Rod Zent, director of the broadcast serv ice, said. The new equipment will be used for teaching educational technology and journalism classes, producing University projects and programs, and broadcasting locally on KAMU- TV, Zent said. The new equipment will not ex pand EBS’s capabilities, but will up grade old equipment. “All of the equipment that we now have in there is about 15 years old,” he said, “and this . . . makes our pictures as good as anybody else’s.” The grant and matching funds, which total $476,000, represent a significant benefit for EBS because extra money for new equipment rar ely is available, Zent said. KAMU-TV’s annual budget is about $950,000. A&M last received a similar grant in 1970, when the station first went on the air, he said. EBS competed against several hundred other non-commercial tele vision stations across the state for the federal funds, Zent said. A total of 125 stations received grants. Zent said he submitted the request for funding in January. United States Rep. Joe Barton, and Sen. Phil Gramm supported the spending project, he said. ■ e il off| adminT ve our jit tudy will gauge minority recruiting ents vjJlwj By Richard Tijerina ' 3 P ari Staff Writer ••I'd tk:U Texas A&M sociology professor £ \ I illldirect a nationwide study de- I nivei gned to determine why some major ev are oiytTsities across the nation enroll idretain more minority students in ■uate programs than others. immi Thomas received a dts/i ,T5l,900 grant last May from the " raduate Record Examination Hd to evaluate several institutions Hs the country in the area of re- nilingand retaining black and His- ———«ank graduate students. cent work shows clear patterns of re gression in higher education in mi nority recruitment and retention. “The work I’ve done shows that the clock is slowly turning backwards in terms of black and Hispanic en rollment and retainment, partic ularly in the graduate level,” she said. “That is what we’re finding and we’re not seeing any real changes in these patterns. Institutions are in creasing their own standards.” The two-year project will examine each school individually, emphasiz ing its environment as well as the policies and practices that aid or in hibit minority recruitment at the graduate level. Such policies and practices in clude financial aid requirements, ad missions policies, and programs con- cerning recruitment and retainment. At the end of the study, the final report will be submitted to the Grad uate Record Examination Board and distributed to the participating schools and other interested institu tions. The results of the study will have extensive practical use, Thomas said. “What we’re doing should be of interest to educational policymakers at the state and federal levels,” she said. “Employers who are constantly seeking ‘talented’ minorities with higher education credentials should also be interested.” Thomas said she anticipates an even larger amount of similar future research. mrm 4 Dallas teens held for murder From Associated Press Four teen-agers were being held in connection with the slay ing of a 23-year-old restaurant manager who was working to earn money for nursing school, police said. The four, who identified them selves as students at Dallas Spruce High School, were arrested on in vestigative charges of capital murder in the death of Steve Morgan of DeSoto, who was shot to death Friday night during a robbery at a Captain D’s seafood restaurant. Police say one of the four shot Morgan without provocation. Family members said Morgan had been managing the restau rant to help support his wife, Fran, and 6-year-old son, Chris. Morgan’s father, Leonard, and brother Michael are physicians and Morgan had been planning to continue the family’s involve ment in medicine by studying nursing at the University of Texas at Arlingotn, family mem bers said. “He wanted to be independent, he felt that everyone alive should work,” Morgan’s mother Ruth said. The parents said they brought up Steve and their other three children to believe that no one has the right to hurt another per son. “Steven never hurt anybody, not even with words,” Morgan said. “He never felt he had a right to take anything from anybody. He was just too good for this world.” The victim’s father, a professor at the University of Texas South western Medical School who di rects a residency program at Methodist Medical Center, says his faith in God has kept him from being bitter toward the man who shot his son. “That man who shot Steven, I have prayed for him,” Morgan said. “He took my son’s life, but there is no way I can tell you his life should be taken. “You don’t deal with evil through retribution, you deal with it through empathy,” the fa ther said. The teen-agers were arrested following another robbery of a Pizza Inn restaurant and are sus pected of being involved in at least two other fast food establish ment robberies during the week end, police said. All four have previously been arrested on charges involving robbery, Dallas County sheriffs department spokesman Jim Ewell said. Thomas said the study would fo- Kn six nationally-known schools ■could be viewed as role models l higher education because of their Hern for the status of blacks and lispanics in graduate education. I he tail issing.fi liscouiK e else.'? nvirorri Hiomas, who specializes in the so- silence education and equity re- • faux ii on the educational and status ttainment of minorities, said her re- o hase-r The names of the schools will re tain confidential, however, to en- aurage full and open participation ■to protect the rights and privacy fall individuals involved. FBI agents search for missing 7-year-old STAMFORD (AP) — FBI agents have joined the search for a 7-year-old Stamford girl who was last seen Friday night buying a soda at a convenience store less than a block from her home. “We have no reason to believe she would have run away," Jones County Sheriff Mike Middleton said of Cortney Lynn Clayton. After searching house by house and from the air, authorities said they suspect the child was taken from the Stamford area. The girl’s father, Stan Clayton, said he also believes someone probably abducted the girl. “She’s an extremely friendly child, and she could hold a conversation with someone, but she would not have gotten into a vehicle with someone else or gone with someone else,” Clayton said Sunday afternoon. “That’s why I feel that someone has taken her against her will.” He said his daughter often walked to the M System store near her house, and the cashier has confirmed she was in the store Friday night. “That night she didn’t even have enough money to pay for the soda, and the cashier was going to let her bring the money back the next day,” he said. A passing motorist from Lueders also saw the child leaving the store going north, in the direction of the Clayton house. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents from Abilene, south of Stamford, also have been called in to assist the local police and sheriffs departments. The girl is about 4 feet tall with shoulder- length blond hair and brown eyes. Authori ties say she was last seen wearing a white T- shirt with a print on the front, maroon terry cloth shorts and blue tennis shoes with white laces. She has freckles, a scar on her right in dex finger and pierced ears. Clayton said he and his wife, Candy, are re lying on their faith and the support of the community during their ordeal. iceston t of the hip, and )lite)to enaterJ nent.Btl ecial I )st taxp.l II wortij t thesel ft letttn' 'must id not to: people : the chi al go' f Post Get a grip on your homework. 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