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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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