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The Battalion
Thursday, May 4,1989
BANA
(Continued from page 3)
“I’m looking forward to help
ing a smaller, modest institution
move up the accreditation lad
der,” Rose said. “I’m going to
present a successful blueprint
they can follow and stimulate a
research environment, such as we
have here at Texas A&M.”
Rose credits his award to the
high standards he sets for his stu
dents.
“As a professor, I push my stu
dents pretty hard,” Rose said. “I
would hope they would be more re
flective three to five years down the
road when the lessons I’ve taught
them in the classroom really have
payback in the business environ
ment.”
Rose said he gained a new insight
regarding American students after
visiting Thailand last fall.
“It is amazing how hungry for ed
ucation college-aged kids are over
there,” Rose said. “Over here, we
take it for granted.”
Rose issued a challenge to Ameri
can students.
“Adopt a policy of continuing
searching for knowledge and doing
well,” Rose said.
Rose received a bachelor’s degree
in accounting from the University of
Maryland, a master’s degree in eco
nomics from Northwestern Univer
sity and a doctoral degree in public
policy from University of North Car
olina. He has taught at A&M since
1976.
State SAT sc
dropout rate
above average
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Sister
(Continued from page 3)
Bryan-College Station’s sister city
because it is a major university
center.
“Both cities have large, fine
and famous universities,” John
Epling, a professor in the Con
struction Science Department, said.
Epling, who recently returned
from a trip to Russia as a member of
an American Bar Association dele
gation, said Kazan State University,
founded in 1804, is one of the most
highly regarded universities in the
Soviet Union. Nikolai Lenin and Leo
Tolstoy are recognized as some of
Kazan University’s most distin
guished “former students.”
The association is hoping for a
Kazan University and A&M student
exchange in the future.
Two members of the association
and the mayor of College Station will
travel to Tashkent in the Soviet
Union May 26 to attend a confer
ence where about 50 Soviet-Ameri-
can Sister City Programs will be rep
resented.
The three representatives chosen
by the Sister City executive board to
attend the conference include Col
lege Station Mayor Larry Ringer,
also a professor and assistant depart
ment head of the A&M Department
of Statistics; Dr. Michael Manson,
member of the Sister City executive
board and A&M associate professor
of biology and Cathy Loving, an
A&M international coordinator.
After the conference, the three
hope to travel to Kazan for three or
four days. They will pay the travel
expenses to Moscow and the city of
Kazan will pay for the rest of the
trip.
Thacher said he hopes Bryan-Col
lege Station can reciprocate the hos
pitality if and when officials from
Kazan travel to the United States in
1991 for the American version of
the conference.
He said the program is something
he wants the community to get ex
cited about and support.
“This increasing openness with
the Soviet Union is something diffi
cult to imagine ten years ago,”
Thacher said. “This is an opportu
nity we should take advantage of in
every possible way.”
Epling agreed, saying: “Glasnost
means openness — the window is
open ana if we dgn’t go through and
take advantage of this opportunity,
it might close back up again.”
WASHINGTON (AP)-Hf:
is how Texas ranked in sorl
state-by-state indicators fromi'j
sixth annual “State Educatis
Performance Chart” release:/
Wednesday by the Education Del
partment.
Twenty-eight states wei|
ranked by student test scores^
the American College Tesiir<
program (ACT) and 21, inckl
ing Texas and the District oft*
lumbia, by scores on the SdioM
tic Aptitude Test (SAlf
Washington state was not rank:
because it administers its
test.
The
percentage of sun: t
taking the tests in each state I
ries widely, from as low as 37pel r
cent in Alaska and Arizona to j.
high as 78 percent in Connell
cut.
The SAT is scored onalj
1,600 scale, with the natiorj
mean for 1988 at 904.
Texas was No. 17 among Si
dominated states, with a
score of 879. Rankings forotk
populous SAT states: 4. Cal
nia, Connecticut and Manlax
908; 12. New Jersey, 893; I
Florida, 890; 14. New York,8t
16. Pennsylvania, 886.
The Education Departing
also calculated public high sek
graduation rates and ranks
each state for 1987.
Texas had a 65.1 percentgra
nation rate, ranking 43rd atnos f 0 ]| 0 ,
the states. Among other popuL Wasr
states, Ohio ranked eighth wit!
graduation rate of 82.8; Penns!
vania ranked 15th, with a rate:
D;
78.7; Illinois was 22nd with an;
of 75.7; California ranked date
with a rate of 66.1 and NewYc: rout |
ranked 46th with a rate of621
Fusion
(Continued from page 1)
proper heat calculations.
limited supply of relatively clean, cheap energy.
Appleby performed his experiment with a precis
micro calorimeter during which results were conn
uously recorded on chart paper.
Walraven said the criticism doesn’t bother A&M re
searchers, even as rumors circulated at the meeting in
Baltimore that Dr. Charles Martin, a member of the
first A&M team that announced the fusion duplication
last month, would retract his team’s finding at the Los
Angeles meeting.
But Martin denied the rumor, saying, “There are
plenty of positive results to talk about and they will be
presented at the meeting of the electrochemical so
ciety.”
Nuclear fusion, the melding of two atoms with an ac
companying release of energy, usually requires enor
mously high temperatures. It is the energy source of
the sun and hydrogen bombs, producing neutrons.
For decades, scientists have tried to harness fusion’s
power since it potentially could provide an almost un-
The first A&M team, including Martin and fellow:• Hou
searchers Dr. Kenneth Marsh and Bruce Gammon.ffl
There are plenty of positive resultsto
talk about and they will be presented at
meeting of the electrochemical society.
Dr. Charles Martin,
researchei
ated an electrochemical reaction that produced b Wr '
tween 60 percent and 80 percent more energy lb
required to make the process work.
Shuttle
(Continued from page 1)
chance of rain showers. But of more
concern, he said, was the possibility
of crosswinds of more than 14 mph
started,” John H. Gerpheide, project
manager for Magellan, said.
Shuttle chief Richard Truly
opened an afternoon news confer
ence with, “Here we are again, and
we’re ready to fly again. We’ve fixed
our problems.
“The weather is not going to be as
good as it was last Friday, but it ap
pears it will be good.”
Air Force Capt. Thomas Strange,
the shuttle meteorologist, said “there
is a 40 percent chance of a violation
of weather constraints.”
He said the forecast called for a
ing on a runway near the lam
pad.
On Thursday, the shuttle mull
launched by 2:52 p.m., the ends
64-minute “launch window,”
Here we are again, and
we’re ready to fly again.
We’ve fixed our problems.
der to have Magellan in therighip C: * re
sition for a flight to Venus. Ifitis
launched by May 28, Magellan
have to wait for two years
Earth and Venus are in then:
ac
froi
siren
schoi
learn
were
nigh
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alon
sition again.
- Richard Truly,
shuttle captain
that could be dangerous if the shut
tle had to make an emergency land-
Technicians working around
clock replaced the fuel pumpani
suspect fuel line in half the ttmel
pected, enabling NASA to resell
ule the launch for Thursday, atIsj
a day earlier than officials thoutl
was possible.
Education
(Continued from page 1)
Oil company exec calls for
fair response to Valdez spill
vide,” McIntyre said. “Then there
are other students who are possibly
not thriving in their present envi
ronment.”
Gorden agreed that the “brain
drain” argument is unfounded.
“Our purpose in the school busi
ness is to give the best education we
can to every student — it’s not to re
tain particular students on our
campus,” Gorden said. “If we can do
that in another setting then I think
we should do it.”
A&M’s role will be to assist in
launching the
school and to help in the devel
opment of the school. For example,
some faculty members have ex
pressed interest in allowing the stu
dents to participate in summer re
search at A&M, he said.
“The University is exploring how
to give the students access to the li
brary as well,” McIntyre said.
BISD students have not been sur
veyed to determine their interest in
the school yet, but McIntyre esti
mated that between 400 and 500 stu
dents would attend the magnet
school.
Gorden said until the Department
of Education approves the proposal,
planning for the school is in the pre
liminary stages.
Although the concept of a magnet
school is not new, this is the first col
laboration of a school district and a
university for such a project, Gorden
said.
DALLAS (AP) — The head of the
nation’s 10th largest petroleum com
pany called Wednesday for a bal
anced response to the Alaskan oil
spill, a theme oil company executives
have repeated several times in front
of friendly Texas audiences this
week.
“We have a very real need for en
ergy, for heat, light, transportation
and other essential activities ,” Phil
lips Petroleum Co. Chairman C.J. Si
las said in a speech to a Dallas civic
club. “We also need clean air and
clean water.”
But Silas said the March 24 acci
dent oil spill of more than 10 million
gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s
Prince William Sound “was a terrible
accident. . . . But I think it would be
even a bigger mistake to let this acci
dent keep us from developing the
energy our nation needs, and will
continue to need, even if we do a
much better job of conservation.”
The spill, the worst in U.S. his
tory, has delayed consideration of
legislation opening the Arctic Na
tional Wildlife Refuge to oil explora
tion, with the Bush administration
recommending that the decision be
put on hold until better oil spill re
sponse plans can be formulated.
“Environmental protection is a
worthwhile objective,” Silas said.
“But energy development is also a
worthwhile objective, and in most
cases we can have both.
A
a
p-
“It’s not a question ot choosing-
tween good and bad,” he s|
“We’ve got a much tougher cw
between two goods.”
Noting that Alaska provides!
percent of the country’s oil,
said, “It’s my feeling that AlasL
production is very essential to- i |
nation. And when you’re (kf
something important, you keeps-
it. You don’t quit even if youni$
mistake by doing something iv/
You just try harder to do it right
Silas’ comments echoed sin
statements Tuesday by Ro ;1 </>
Hauptfuhrer, chairman of On*
ergy Co., the nation’s largestk
pendent oil company, and
U.S.A. President William D. Ste'^
Speaking to Oryx sharehoide-
Addison, Hauptfuhrer said oP ^
panics have been pictured asvP
because “it’s satisfying to have* __
lain to blame when somethingf
wrong.”
Hauptfuhrer also
about the delay in ANWR M ^
lation. “We must make a dear* (0
logical case for balanced use off
national resources. . . . Federal^
have a variety of uses ... we ha' f
desire to inhibit these activities'*
though in many instances it’sO»
limited number of people who/
to use the lands for those purpos’
“But are these the only y®!
whose interests should be coif
ered? Hauptfuhrer asked.
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