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Monday, April 3, 1989 The Battalion Pages Candidates compete for 35 places in Faculty Senate elections today UNIVERSITY news service The Texas A&M Faculty Senate elections will be today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at polling places across campus. Fifty-five faculty members have been nomi nated for 35 Senate seats. Sixteen races are un contested and one seat has drawn three candi dates. The remaining 18 seats have drawn two contenders each. Write-in votes are allowed. Votes will be tallied at 5:15 p.m. today in the Faculty Senate office, 203 Goodwin Hall. Persons eligible to hold office in the Faculty Senate include A&M employees tenured or on the tenure track who hold the rank of professor, associate professor or assistant professor. Visit ing professors, lecturers and instructors who re ceive full-time salary funds appropriated as tea ching or library salaries also are eligible. Today’s voting will take place at 14 places on campus. The voting places and the number of seats up for election in each college are as fol lows: • Agriculture and Life Sciences: 203 Peter son and the atrium of the Kleberg Center; four- seats, two contested. Place 4: Jane M. Magill, bio chemistry and biophysics; David A. Zuberer, agronomy (incumbent). Place 6: Marvin Harris, entomology. Place 7: Edward Funkhouser, bio chemistry and biophysics (incumbent). Place 11: C. Wayne Smith, agronomy; John Stoll, agricul tural economics. • Architecture: Second-floor lobby of the Langford Architecture Center; two seats, one contested. Place 3: Michael Murphy, landscape architecture. Place 4: Donald Austin, landscape architecture; Richard Maher, construction sci ence. _ • Business Administration: Second floor of the Blocker Building; two seats, none contested. Place 4: Malcolm Richards, finance. Place 6: Samuel Gillespie, marketing (incumbent). • Education: First-floor lobby of the Harring ton Center and 158 Read Building; three seats, two contested. Place 4: John Stansell, education curriculum and instruction; Jim Woosley, health and physical education. Place 5: Victor Willson, educational psychology. Place 7: Carol Ander son, educational psychology; Jan Baldwin, health and physical education. • Engineering: 218 Zachry; five seats, all con tested. Place 2: Donn Edward Hancher, civil en gineering; Ozden Ochoa, mechanical engi neering. Place 6: C.F. Kettleborough, mechanical engineering (incumbent); Calvin Woods, civil en gineering. Place 11: Walter Daugherity, com puter science; James Morgan, civil engineering; A. Ted Watson, chemical engineering. Place 13: C. Eugene Buth, civil engineering. Place 15: Thomas Talk, mechanical engineering; Carroll Messer, civil engineering. • Geosciences: 203 Eller Oceanography and Meterology Building and 109 Halbouty Geosci ences Building; two seats, one contested. Place 1: Peter Hugill, geography (incumbent). Place 3: Phanindramohan Das, meterology; Stefan Gartner, oceanography. • Liberal Arts: first-floor rotunda in the Aca demic Building and second floor of the Blocker Building; eight seats, four contested. Place 1: James Rosenheim, history. Place 5: Stephen Dan iel, philosophy and humanities (incumbent). Place 8: Gary Halter, political science (incum bent). Place 9: Janis Stout, English. Place 13: Claudine Hunting, modern and classical lan guages; Woodrow Jones, political science. Place 14: Howard Kaplan, sociology; Stephen Yar brough, English. Place 15: Robert Ivie, speech communication and theater arts; Douglas Starr, journalism. Place 16: Roy Flemming, political sci ence; Jonathan Kvanvig, philosophy and human ities. • Library: 200 Evans Library; one contested seat. Donald Dyal (incumbent); Jacque Halver son. • Medicine: First-floor lobby of the Medical Sciences Building, Room 100 of the Scott & White Clinic in College Station, sixth floor doc tor’s lounge at Scott Sc White in Temple and 2A129 Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center in Temple: two seats, one contested. Place 2: Alli son Ficht, medical biochemistry and genetics. Place 4: Thomas Huber, medical microbiology and immunology/pathology and laboratory med icine; William Rayburn, obstetrics and gyneco- logy. • Science: 313 Biological Sciences Building West (Office of the Dean); four seats, one con tested. Place 2: Hugh Wilson, biology; Alan Rodgers, chemistry. Place 3: John Hogg, chemis try. Place 5: Charles Gates, statistics. Place 9: John Hiebert, physics. • Veterinary Medicine: 101 Veterinary Medi cine Complex; two seats, one contested. Place 1: Franklin Stein, veterinary anatomy. Place 2: E. Murl Bailey, veterinary physiology and pharma cology; Manuel Thomas, veterinary public health. Jewish students celebrate treaty by giving away ‘piece of peace’ Study: Most freed inmates commit crimes WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 63 percent of the inmates released from state prisons are rearrested for a serious crime within 3 years, according to a Jus tice Department study. The department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics examined the criminal records of more than 16,000 men and women who were among 109,000 offenders released from the prisons of 1 1 states in 1983. It found that by the end of 1986, about 62.5 percent of the former inmates had, been rear rested lor a felony or serious mis demeanor, that 47 percent had been convicted of a new crime and 41 percent had been sent back to prison or jail. Acting Bureau Director Joseph M. Bessette said the report, re leased late Sunday, represented “the most comprehensive and de tailed . . . recidivism study ever conducted.” It tracked the records of peo ple released from prisons in Texas, California, Florida, Illi nois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Caro lina, Ohio and Oregon. According to projections from the sample — with a margin of er ror of plus or minus 1 percent — about 68,000 of the 109,000 peo ple released in those states were rearrested within 3 years and charged with 326,000 new crimes, including 2,300 homi cides, 17,000 robberies, 36,000 burglaries and 46,000 drug of fenses. Before their 1983 release, the inmates averaged more than 12 criminal charges each, and almost (wo-thirds had served previous jail or prison sentences. The bu reau estimated that the prisoners released in the 1 1 states — rep resenting more than.half of those released nationwide — had been charged with a total of 1.7 million serious crimes throughout their 'detunes. About 265,000 of those were violent crimes. Recidivism rates were highest or y° un g prisoners and those with extensive prior records. An estimated 68 percent of those younger than 25 at the time of eii release were rearrested within 3 years. By Holly Beeson REPORTER Jewish students celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Camp David Accord, the first peace treaty be tween Israel and Egypt, by giving away a “piece of peace” cake at cam puses across the United States and Canada. Texas A&M students from the Is rael Club, Jewish Students Network and University Service Department gave cake and information to pass ers-by in the MSC Friday to create awareness and express a crucial point, Beth Morrison, president of the Israel Club, said. “Israel has always searched for peace throughout her existence,” she said. “The fact that no Israeli or Egyptian soldiers have died fighting each other since the peace treaty was signed demonstrates in itself that peace is possible.” The Israel Club, a Jewish student organization, has nearly 20 members at A&M and is a member of the In ternational Student Association. Its purpose is to facilitate programs such as this, Morrison said. The Camp David Accord, signed March 26, 1979 by former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, had two parts. The first was Israel’s formal agreement to surrender Sinai, a buf fer zone three times the size of Is rael. “What we’re doing here today is symbolic,” Morrison said. “We’re giving a piece of peace, just as the Is raelis did with Sinai.” The second part of the treaty de scribed a proposed solution for the Palestinian conflict, which included a five-year transitional period of au tonomy for the Arab residents of Ju dea, Samaria and Gaza. Ultimately, the Camp David Accord called for a mutual agreement, followed by peace nego tiations between Israel and Jordan. “It is important to understand there were great concessions made on both sides for the peace that ex ists today,” Morrison said. Between 1967 and 1982, before Israel gave up Sinai, the desert’s landscape was changed. Israelis built cities and harvested many kinds of crops from an area that previously had yielded nothing. “It was believed worth while to give a piece of Israel for peace with Egypt,” she said. Since the treaty was signed, some trade between the countries has oc curred, Morrison said, but Egyptians are discouraged from entering Is rael. Although the peace that exists now is not perfect, she said, it’s far better than war. “On a few occasions, resolutions that go against the Camp David Accords have been supported by Egypt,” Morrison said. “But the two countries have come a long way to gether and continue to move toward a peaceful coexistence.” Fort Worth industrial airport gets financial push from Ross Perot Jr. FORT WORTH (AP) — Alliance Airport is grand enough a venture to propel this city out of the shadow of Dallas, its giant neighbor to the east. With the world’s first industrial airport slated to open in December, Fort Worth anticipates not only rising to a national level, but to a global one. Built on land donated by Ross Perot Jr., son of the powerful Dallas billionaire, the giant project will be owned by the city 30 miles west of Dallas. But make no doubt about it; Perot is its pilot. Steadily emerging out of a pasture in northern Tar rant County is the $31 million monument to the part nership of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Adminis tration and Perot. But the rare alliance for which the huge effort was named has been tested by increasingly strained rela tions among the partners. Perot, 30, has gone to great lengths to create a super airport dedicated entirely to industry and business. The airport will be the centerpiece of more than 17,000 acres with office parks, international manufac turing complexes and neighborhoods planned by Per ot’s company, The Perot Group. But in his eagerness to shepherd the project through government bureaucracy, Perot has left some battered egos and discarded players in his wake: • A prominent Fort Worth engineering firm se lected by the city to manage the construction was forced to relinquish its $900,000 contract because of a dispute with Perot. • A senior FAA official who repeatedly refused to budge when pressured by the city and Perot was re moved from the project while on vacation. • Another FAA official was called to Washington to explain himself after Perot complained that he was im peding progress. • The chairman of Fort Worth’s aviation advisory board was publicly ridiculed by Perot and City Manager Doug Harman when she bypassed city staff members and questioned the design and control of the airport during a City Council meeting. Perot’s ambitious push for Alliance to become a ma jor player in air commerce also has raised concern among those who run Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, cornerstone of the North Texas economy. DFW officials fear he will lure away cargo carriers. Perot actively has sought the business of United Par cel Service and Federal Express as well as trying to lure a $250 million maintenance facility planned by Ameri can Airlines, likely in Oklahoma City. 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