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Dear Readers:
While we complain about our busy schedules
and never-ending classwork, many of our
professors are making time to do research. In
addition to spending time preparing for lectures,
they devote hours to their own projects. This
week At Ease talked to some of the professors
who dedicate their lives to improving society.
Our main story this week features some of
the major research underway atA&M. The
researchers are working on unique projects
which should bring national recognition upon
completion. Read on to find out how
researchers are reproducing plants in jars and
trying to control the fire ant problem.
Did you know a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a
member of the Royal Society and a Pulitzer
Prize winner are among the distinguished
faculty teaching at A&M? Our second story
covers three winners of prestigious awards and
tells about their accomplishments.
The profile spotlights a journalism professor
who has worked in places as faraway as Korea,
China, the Philippines and Vietnam. He's
continuing his research this semester at A&M.
The submissions for Attention//have finally
started to come in, and we appreciate your
interest. Beginning with this issue, we're
running photos of the students submitting their
works. Remember you can submit artwork,
photographs and articles. This is your page, so
be creative. Keep those submissions coming in
to 216 Reed McDonald and you can see your
name and face in print.
At Ease Staff
Editor
Assistant editor
Staff writers
Music/Movie Reviewer
Leslie Guy
Lawson Reilly
Mandy Mikulencak
Jessica Raffel
Wade See
Shane Hall
Research at Texas «
What do your professors do when they aren’t tea
ching class? Among other things, a lot of them are
involved in extensive research. We investigated a
few of the larger research projects currently under
way at A&M.
Distinguished 10
Maybe A&M isn’t yet a world-class university, but
it certainly has world-class professors and lec
turers. We focused on three of A&M’s distin
guished faculty: a Pulitzer Prize winner, a member
of the Royal society and a Nobel Prize winner.
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Our profile subject worked in the Peace Corps in
Korea, backpacked into Cambodia from Laos
during the Vietnam war, and was in the Phil
ippines when the Ferdinand Marcos regime was
overthrown. But he’d prefer to talk about his jour
nalism research.
Live Music __________________ 4
Shane says Spy Vs. Spy rivals the Killer Bees as
Austin’s best reggae band.
Album4
Bon Jovi has done the impossible, Shane says, by
topping their last album with their new release,
“New Jersey.
Movie Pm/miA/ ^
Shane finds that “Dead Ringers,” a new psycho
logical thriller, doesn’t live up to its suspense po
tential.
Cover photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
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