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Thursday, March 23,1989
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Bakker claims dinosaurs
were not really big lizards
Scientist’s theory makes colleagues think again
By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
Although the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard,”
dinosaur scientist Dr. Robert Bakker says birds are the
dinosaurs closest living relatives.
Bakker, whose theories are causing worldwide re
thinking in the Field, spoke to a crowd of about 300
Tuesday night as part of the University Lecture Series
sponsored by the College of Science.
Curator of the paleontology museum at the Univer
sity of Colorado since 1983, Bakker describes dinosaurs
as fleet, colorful, warm-blooded creatures as opposed to
the traditional view of dinosaurs as the slow, gray, cold
blooded monsters of the past.
The era of the dinosaurs lasted about 150 million
years, he said. The average species of dinosaur only
walked the earth one to one-and-a-half million years be
fore it became extinct. During the entire span, there
were as many as 80 to 100 replacements of the same
species. Bakker said many factors previously unstudied
contribute to this rapid rate.
He said the bumps, scales and horns on dinosaurs’
skulls and backs were not only for protection, but were
visual signals for species recognition, gender and social
role of the animal. Because dinosaurs were not color
blind like most mammals are, the creatures probably
were enhanced with color to intimidate one gender and
attract the other gender, he said.
Large resonance chambers also made “singing dino
saurs” possible to attract the opposite sex, he said.
“P:>Ur>ntologist« 'ire r^luct^nt to look at fhe<?>= v'«nal
and auditory signals as seductive or attractive,” Bakker
said.
But rapid reproduction and growth are important to
rapid evolution, he said.
“If you look at the fossil bone record of a dinosaur
and compare it to a cold-blooded tortoise, which takes
40 to 50 years to mature, you will find that a dinosaur
grows and matures much, much faster,” he said. “In the
physiology of growth, dinosaurs have dense vasculari
zation that occurs only in warm-blooded, large mam
mals today.”
Bakker said dinosaurs such as the Tyrannosaurus
Rex had snake-like eating habits, swallowing prey up to
one-fifth of the animal’s 10,000-pound weight. This re
futes the previously held beliefs that the Tyrannosau
rus ripped it’s prey with razor sharp teeth.
“The T-Rex could expand it’s head and jaw like birds
and snakes,” Bakker said. “And snakes are the fastest
evolving creatures on earth.”
Dinosaur footprints show bird-like patterns with
quicker speeds than previously believed, he said. The
fleet-of-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex could reach speeds of
40 miles per hour. Footprints also show adults con
stantly surrounding their young, indicating maternal
investment.
Birds are the only creatures with a separate optimal
canal, present also in the skull fossils of the T-Rex.
“Dinosaurs are in fact not extinct because the birds
are their relatives,” Bakker said.
A scientific lecture, “Suboptimal Evolution,” will be
given by Bakker at noon Thursday in Room 601 Rud-
Continental: Attendant’s strike
not disrupting flight schedules
HOUSTON (AP) — Continental
Airlines officials preparing for
heavy Easter travel dismissed the ef
fects of a flight attendants’ strike
Wednesday, saying the walkout is
not disturbing service despite union
claims of delays and cancellations.
The company also claims the
strike was called at the request of the
Eastern Airlines Machinists, who
went on strike over contract disputes
March 4. Miami-based Eastern,
which has filed for bankruptcy pro
tection, has been virtually shut down
after its pilots and flight attendants
honored the Machinists strike.
Both Eastern and Continental are
owned by Houston-based Texas Air
Corp.
For the second time in three days,
Lewis Jordan, Continental’s chief
operating officer and executive vice
president, called a news conference
to refute claims made by the Union
of Flight Attendants.
“We believe that the traveling
public during this busy holiday sea
son has a right to know the truth,”
said Jordan, who maintained that
the strike which began Monday
morning is not disturbing service.
He provided a chart indicating
the carrier has had an average 27 da
ily cancellations out of 1,400 total
flights system-wide from March 1-19
and an average of 12 cancellations
daily Monday and Tuesday.
“I hasten to add that is for all of
our cancellations whether it be a me-
r or all of our
cancellations. . . not
one of (them) is as a result
of a shortage of a flight
attendant or crew
member.”
— Lewis Jordan,
Continental CEO
chanical cancellation, a weather
cancellation or any other cause,” Jor
dan said. “And not one of those
cancellations is as a result of a short
age of a flight attendant or crew
member.”
Philip Hobbs, a spokesman for the
flight attendants union, however,
contradicted Jordan’s statistics say
ing there have been numerous
cancellations and delays caused by
the walkout.
“Obviously, they’re going ahead
and saying that any flight cancelled
is not because of crews,” he said. “E-
verything is being coded as a me
chanical delay,” said Hobbs, who
could not provide any figures for the
number of delays and cancellations
caused by the three-day strike.
Jordan also boasted the Houston-
based carrier registered a 99.3 per
cent completion rate Monday and
Tuesday on its scheduled flights,
better than their usual goal of 98.3
percent.
But Hobbs, a Continental flight
attendant for six years, questioned
the company’s completion rates.
“It’s hard for me to believe,” he
said. “Under normal operations it
has never been at that rate. 1 can’t
remember us being in the high 90s
in normal situations.”
Continental and union officials
also differed drastically on the num
ber of attendants not reporting to
work.
Hobbs claims 1,200-1,300 atten
dants have walked off the job, while
Continental said only 180 were strik
ing.
Doctors re-evaluate profit-sharing system
EL PASO (AP) — A partnership of about 140 doctors
that owns two El Paso hospitals is re-evaluating the way
it shares profits with doctors for referring privately in
sured patients to the hospitals.
El Paso Healthcare System’s arrangement allows doc
tors to profit directly by referring patients to Sun Tow
ers Hospital, Vista Hills Medical Center, three MedPlus
clinics and two medical laboratories, all of which the
partnership owns.
Under the company’s profit-sharing plan, doctors
could get more money for ordering unnecessary tests at
the medical labs, and they were discouraged financially
from referring non-insured patients to Sun Towers and
Vista Hills.
At a meeting with the doctor-partners last week, El
Paso Healthcare System’s president, Russell Schneider,
discussed altering the profit-sharing plan in light of a
new statement on ethics by the Texas Medical Associa
tion.
“He said we’re going to revise it to conform with the
TMA,” said Lorenzo Monsivais, business manager for
his brother, Dr. Jose Monsivais. “If it’s unethical, I
know there’s a whole bunch of (doctors) who are going
to pull out.”
The Texas Medical Association’s ethics statement
earlier this month was a clarification and did not rep
resent a change in the group’s position, spokesman Lisa
Stark Walsh said Tuesday.
The association added one sentence to its guidelines
on doctors’ ownership of hospitals and clinics, stating
that profit-sharing “should be based on capital invest
ment” and not on referral of patients. The amplifica
tion is a restatment of the American Medical Associa
tion’s position on the ethics of referral fees and
kickbacks.
Donald “Rocky” Wilcox, chief counsel for the Texas
Medical Association, said he has discussed the need for
changes in the profit-distribution system with an attor
ney for Columbia Hospital Corp. of Fort Worth, of
which El Paso Healthcare System is a subsidiary.
“It’s very possible they will attempt to restructure
their arrangement,” Willcox said.
Willcox said he has advised the El Paso County Medi
cal Society to investigate the ethical aspects of the
profit-sharing arrangement, and that the state medical
association will if the county medical society doesn’t.
Robin Weinman, executive director of the society,
said the society’s Board of Censors is studying the issue.
More than 20 percent of El Paso’s 650 doctors are
limited partners in El Paso Healthcare System. Half the
doctors get profit shares based on individual referrals
to the hospitals, labs and clinics.
—
A&M creating
math program
with Costa Rica
By Ashley A. Bailey
STAFF WRITER
Dr. Juan Esquivel, Director of
the Research Institute for the Im
provement of Costa Rican Educa
tion, visited Texas A&M for four
days this week to further the de
velopment of the Costa Rica-
/Texas A&M University Program,
COSTAMU.
Dr. James R. Boone, A&M
mathematics professor and
founder of the COSTAMU pro
gram, said the program will es
tablish ongoing enhancement
and support activities in math
ematics which will involve A&M
and various organizations in
Costa Rica.
“Scholarly visits and research
exchanges of a collaborative na
ture with Costa Rican scholars,in
positions of leadership in educa
tion and research in math, will
constitute the majority of the pro
gram,” Boone said.
Boone said it is essential lor the
economic and political future of
Costa Rica that a mathematical,
scientifically and technologically
literate population be main
tained.
“This program is designed to
assist these efforts by providing
active direct links between leaders
in mathematics from both coun
tries,” he said.
Program activities were se
lected during a needs-assessment
visit to Costa Rica that Boone
made last May. The activities are
in direct response to needs that
were identified by several Costa
Rican mathematics leaders, he
said.
The initial phase of the C0S-
TAMU program, consisting of
the mathematics project, is the
cornerstone project for the exten
sion of this program, Boone said,
because math knowledge is an in
tegral part of the sciences.
Ultimately, the program will
include science and technology
education, scientific collaborative
research projects with short-and
long-term visits and graduate
studies, he said.
Esquivel said three major areas
of mathematics and science edu
cation need improvement.
“We desperately need an inser
vice training program for el
ementary and secondary tea
chers,” Esquivel said. “We need to
make a great effort in that area.
“It is expensive, but the Min
istry of Education just founded a
center for inservice teaching,
which is working with the univer
sities on the inservice effort. We
need to do a lot more, though."
The second area needing im
provement is the collegiate levels
of math and science education, he
said.
“We need to have new young
people come to the United States
or other countries to get graduate
degrees in science and math edu
cation,” Esquivel said.
“These people are the ones
who are going to prepare new
teachers, so the role of Texas
A&M and other universities in
helping Costa Rica is important.’’
The final area of needed im
provement, Esquivel said, is in the
long-term solution for better
math and science research.
“It is in the future of course,”
he said. “It will take a long time to
prepare the people, hut through
the initial projects in the COS
TAMU program it will be possi
ble.”
Boone said, “If we’re (A&:M)
going to be involved in Central
America in a productive way, it’ll
be in Costa Rica because the peo
ple are recept ive, and they have a
progressive and enlightened view
of the world and their own situa
tion.”
Boone will return to Costa Rica
in May to finalize plans for the
COSTAMU program.
Investment
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the Bahamas and $61,500 to share.
A&M’s first place winner, Greg
Van Buskirk, a senior marketing
major, closed at $641,904 and
ranked 358th. He earned a 28 per
cent return, converting to a 112 per
cent annual return.
Van Buskirk said his success came
from targeting two or three stocks
and thoroughly understanding
them.
“At the beginning, I tried to hold
a varied portfolio of stocks,” Van
Buskirk said. “After the first month,
I noticed that some students were
putting all their money in one or two
stocks and getting lucky.
“I ended up keying in on two or
three stocks and getting to know
them well. Most of it (my success)
was in really understanding those
few stocks and not trying to do ev
erything at once. I also looked out
for mergers and acquisitions. I made
most of my money with Reebok.
“During the first few months, I
went down $70,000 in one day. But
once I got on a strategy that worked
with me, it worked out pretty well.”
A&M’s second place winner, Da
vid Leboe, a senior accounting ma
jor, closed at $623,536 and ranked
449th out of the total participants.
He earned a 25 percent return, con
verting to a 99 percent annual re
turn.
Chris Wilkes, an A&M business
graduate student, won third place
among the 50 A&M students partici
pating, closing at $611,625 and
ranking 534th out of the 11,900 stu
dents who played. He said the game
provided a good opportunity for
business students.
“A lot of business students won
der if they can make money through
investments,” Wilkes said. “This
game gives students an opportunity
to perform quite well.
“Some students bombed. One
A&M student lost over half of his
money and some students from
other universities went bankrupt.
However, the top winner earned
more than $2 million.
“If you can earn $ 1 for every $5 in
four months, in just over a year, you
can double your money. The diffi
culty is that we did it for four
months, but could we do it for an
other four? We made some good de
cisions, but a whole lot of it was
luck.”
Wilkes said he earned a 22 per
cent return during the game, which
converts to an 88 percent annual re
turn. His strategy was to invest in
what he saw to be takeover stocks,
meaning if those companies were
managed differently, they would
perform better.
Wilkes said he invested in three
stocks: RJR Nabisco, West Point
Pepperel and Hospital Corporation
of America.
He bought RJR Nabisco stock at
$89 per share and sold it last month
at $109 per share.
Similarly, he bought West Point
Pepperel at $42 per share and sold it
at $57 per share.
Hospital Corporation of America
stock remained virtually the same,
increasing by only 75 cents through
out the four months.
Wilkes said a difference between
playing the game and investing ac
tual money was evident.
“When you’re interested in win
ning this game, you want to gain
quickly,” he said. “It’s a lot of high
risk for short-term gain. However,a
true financial analyst would think
more toward long-term gain at lower
risks.”
Van Buskirk said he enjoyed play
ing the game.
“I’ve always been interested in the
stock market, but this is the first time
I’ve done anything like this,” he said.
“By the time the Challenge was over,
I had graphs of stocks all over my
wall.
“One of the big things I learned
was keying in on stocks that sell for
under $10 because any little
movement, even one-eighth of a
oint, can make $20,000 or
30,000.”
Van Buskirk said participating in
the game provided him with valu
able practical experience.
“I understand the stock market so
much more than I did before,” he
said. “You don’t get that kind of un
derstanding in the classroom.”
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