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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, July 11, 1989
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Passin’ grass!
George Basquez, an employee of Bluebonnet Turf and Seeding
from Giddings, throws a square of turf down to fellcpw workers.
Photo by Fred D. Joe
They are contracted by the state to plant grass along University
Ave. The project is scheduled to be completed today.
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\SSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Faculty Senate withdrew seven courses
fonday from the social-sciences category of the
ore curriculum that were double-listed as both
Cultural Heritage and Social Science courses.
Dr. David Anderson, the Liberal Arts rep-
esentative of the Core Curriculum Oversight
Committee, said that because the core curric-
ilum includes only six hours of social science,
hese hours should provide an “intense” study of
ocial sciences. The seven courses, six of which
ire philosophy courses, do not meet that require
ment, he said.
Dr. Stephen Daniel, chairman of the Academic
Affairs Committee, said that withdrawing the
courses would send a message to students that a
“classical education” is not available here.
“The topic (of the courses) is not the crucial
point,” Daniel said. “It’s the contrasting proce
dures in decision-making.”
The courses eliminated from the Social Sci
ences category were:
®f Agricultural Economics 316, Agricultural
Ethics. (3-0)
• Philosophy 205, Technology and Human
Values. (3-0)
• Philosophy 208, Philosophy of Education.
(3-0)
• Philosophy 315, Military Ethics. (3-0)
• Philosophy 316, Agricultural Ethics. (3-0)
• Philosophy 480, Medical Ethics. (3-0)
NSF continues
to help finance
Chinese at A&M
By Kelly S. Brown
ore curriculum course listing altered
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Philosophy 483, Professional Ethics. (3-0)
These courses will remain in the Cultural Her
itage, or Humanities, category.
The Senate approved the following nine new
courses to add to the curriculum:
• Animal Science 201, Introductory Equine
Care and Use. (2-0)
• Animal Science 242, Livestock and Meats
Evaluation. (1-4)
• Animal Science 302, Basic Beef Cattle Pro
duction. (3-0)
• History 325, Texas Cultural History. (3-0)
• History 365, History of Religion in America
to 1860. (3-0)
• History 366, History of Religion in America
See Curriculum/Page 6
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Financial relief continued for
Texas A&M Chinese students and
researchers Monday when they were
offered supplemental grants by the
National Science Foundation.
The NSF offered the supplements
to Chinese nationals who have taken
President Bush’s offer of a one-year
delayed departure and who curently
are supported by NSF grants.
In order for students and re
searchers from China to receive sup
plemental grant, they must make a
Corrupt officials ousted /Page 4
request in the form of a brief letter
signed by the principal investigator
and Duwayne Anderson, A&M asso
ciate provost for research and grad
uate studies, then submit the letter
directly to the appropriate NSF pro
gram official.
In the letter it should be clearly
stated that it is a supplemental re
quest to provide continued support
for a Chinese student or researcher.
The individual must identify himself
and fully explain his circumstances
in the letter.
While financial aid filters in to the
Chinese students from an academic
corner, policy help from the political
corner may be on its way.
A bill introduced in the Senate by
Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Washington,
and co-sponsored by 10 senators, in
cluding former A&M economics
professor Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, would allow Chinese students
to immediately apply for permanent
resident status in the United States.
Meanwhile, the House signed on
to a companion bill with 151 co
sponsors.
Although Rep. Joe Barton, R-En-
nis, was not a co-sponsor of the bill, a
legislative aid from his office said
Barton plans to support the bill and
perhaps look into additional legis
lation this week concerning the im
migration situaton.
Some officials at A&M who work
daily with the Chinese students
agree the situation is not getting any
easier and efforts to keep them here
have to be written in stone.
Kathy Sands, immigration serv
ices coordinator in the personnel de
partment, said trying to help
Chinese students find a way to stay
in the United States has been the
most challenging and emotional situ
ation she’s had to deal with in the
nine years of working in personnel.
“I know of some people in China
who had already gotten a passport
before the massacre,” Sands said,
“and they now have to go back and
get another certification saying they
had no part in the demonstration be
fore they can get a visa — they’re
making it harder on the Chinese stu
dents. The laws need to be clearer
and it has to be done soon ”
Tina Wadkins, the International
Students Association adviser, said
the immigration process for Chinese
students has become complicated
“El
E-veryone is leery of it
because it puts the student
in limbo ... No one has
said what’s going to
happen — if they’ll be able
to stay or told to leave.”
— Kathy Sands,
immigration services
coordinator
and needs to be straightened out for
the sake of the Chinese students’
sanity.
The most common visa among the
206 Chinese students at A&M is a “J-
1” visa, which is an exchange visitor
visa.
Sands said with a J-l visa, a stu
dent is supposed to come to the
United States, then return to China
and continue to work there. While a
J-l visa is generally maintained by a
sponsored student, a professor or a
visiting researcher can possess one as
well.
“The Chinese government has en
couraged the use of the J-l visa to
help the students come back home,”
Sands said. “It’s a two-year home
See Chinese/Page 7
ils,
Two explosions
in Mecca injure
Moslem pilgrims
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) —
Two explosions rocked Mecca
Monday, injuring an unspecified
number of Moslems in Islam’s ho
liest city for an annual pilgrim
age, the official Saudi Arabian
Press agency said. The agency
made no mention of fatalities.
The blasts occurred at 10 p.m.
One was on the main road lead
ing to the Grand Mosque of
Kaaba, the agency said quoting an
unidentified security official in
Mecca.
The second explosion was near
an overpass, the agency said.
The agency indicated the blasts
were caused by bombs, but gave
no details.
An estimated 1.8 million Mos
lems from more than 80 coun
tries are in Mecca as part of an
annual pilgrimage to the city, the
birthplace of the prophet Mo
hammed.
During the pilgrimage, known
as hajj, Moslems also travel to Me
dina to visit the tomb of the 7th
century founder of Islam.
“This criminal perpetration at
a sacred spot is regrettable,” the
Saudi news agency quoted the se
curity official as saying. “An in
vestigation is under way and de
tails will be released as soon as
available.”
It was not immediately clear
who was responsible for the ex
plosions.
Iranian extremists have in the
past clashed with security forces
in Mecca, near the Red Sea in
western Saudi Arabia.
Iran Monday branded Saudi
government officials terrorists,
according to Tehran’s official Is
lamic Republic News Agency.
In response, Saudi Arabia’s
King Fahd heightened security in
Mecca and Medina.
Last year, Saudi Arabia began
limiting the number of pilgrims
to Mecca and Medina based on a
country’s population.
Senate passes resolution protecting U.S., state flags
AUSTIN (AP) — Trying to cover all bases,
the Texas Seriate on Monday adopted two
proposals against burning the United States
flag.
One proposal expressed legislative senti
ment, the other would make law.
A resolution petitioning Congress to pass a
constitutional amendment to exempt dese
cration of the ILS. and Texas flags from pro
tection of freedom of expression was ap
proved after the threat of a filibuster
evaporated.
The bill waS sent to the House as a faster
method of accomplishing what legislators
seem to want, protection of the flag.
Both measures were approved on voice
vote, and the only recorded test vote — on the
resolution — was 25-2.
Sen. Craig Washington, who temporarily
blocked approval of the resolution with a 12-
hour filibuster last week, gave in Monday,
saying Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby had persuaded
him that “I had made the point that needed
to be made, especially from the outpouring
that I received all over the state.”
Washington, D-Houston, maintained in his
** What this bill does is, per se,
makes it illegal to burn or mutilate
or deface the flag. It doesn’t
matter whether you’re doing it to
communicate something to
somebody.”
— Sen. Hugh Parmer
D-Fort Worth
filibuster that he opposed flag burning but
did not want to tamper with the Constitution.
“I think not by what I’ve done, but what the
people have done in responding . . . poli
ticians are going to be a little bit more careful
about jumping on the bandwagon, because
this demonstrates that there is not unanimity
that it’s all right to trample on the Constitu
tion, because this is a hot, juicy, nice-sounding
political issue,” Washington told reporters.
The bill by Sen. Hugh Parmer, D-Fort
Worth, would make it a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by up to one year in jail, to mutilate,
destroy, deface or burn the United States
flag.
Parmer said a recent Supreme Court deci
sion in a Texas case did not declare the state
law unconstitutional but said the statute was
unconstitutionally applied.
“What this bill does is, per se, makes it ille
gal to burn or mutilate or deface the flag,” he
said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re doing
it to communicate something to somebody. It
doesn’t matter whether you’re doing it pub
licly or whether you’re doing it in your back
yard.”
He added that “nobody can guarantee that
this or any other statute would meet the con
stitutional muster but this will provide a
Texas statute which can be enforced and
upon which future court tests can be made.”
Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown, R-Lake Jackson,
said he doubted “the ability to draw up a bill
that will pass muster with this constitutional
decision.”
Washington offered, then withdrew, nine
amendments to Brown’s flag resolution “to
show the folly of attempting to legislate on
what the Supreme Court does or doesn’t do,
depending on whether we like it or don’t like
it.”
One would petition Congress to propose to
the states an amendment to permit abortion if
a woman chooses.
Bush offers Poland modest funding
to help in stride towards democracy
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Bush, in a day
of high symbolism and support for Poland’s strides to
ward democracy, offered on Monday a modest eco
nomic aid package intended to help “redeem the prom
ise of a free Polish republic.”
A key element is a $100 million U.S. fund — pro
vided Congress approves — to support the Polish pri
vate sector as the Soviet bloc country moves away from
its Marxist economy.
But the dimensions of the U.S. offer could fall short
of Lech Walesa’s aspirations. The leader of the Solidar
ity trade union movement is expected to ask Bush on
Tuesday wh^n they meet in Gdansk to back a $10 bil
lion program of international help for Poland.
Even so, a clearly exhilirated Bush assured the Polish
parliament, where Solidarity holds 260 of 560 seats,
that “the Western democracies will stand with the Polish
people, and other peoples of this region.”
Although interrupted by applause five times and
given a standing ovation at the end of his speech, Bush
encountered little more than a correct response from
the parliament and a tepid reception on the streets of
Warsaw.
The 4,000 or so people who watched Bush’s 12-car
motorcade drive through the streets of this sweltering
city waved small paper American flags listlessly. Occa
sionally, there were shouts of “Long life. Long life.”
The president wound up his busy day as guest at a
state dinner hosted by the Communist Party leader,
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Striking much the same tone
as in his speech to parliament, Bush said in a toast that
Poland was entering a new era and was “beginning,
once again, to command its own destiny.”
Bush also squeezed in a short pitching session with
Polish Little Leaguers.
Handing his dark suit jacket to his wife, Barbara, the
president put an orange fielder’s glove on his right
hand and powered a baseball to a 12-year-old Polish
pitching star on the back lawn of U.S. Ambassador John
Davis’s residence.
“Make sure, he doesn’t throw it wild and wipe my
wife out,” Bush, the captain of the 1948 Yale University
baseball team, told his security guard as Adam
Szczepanski returned the president’s offering with
equal force.
The well-attended session was designed to support
the development of America’s national pastime in this
European country.
As for the offer of financial assistance, Bush:
•Pledged to ask Congress for a $100 million “enter
prise fund” to support Polish entrepreneurs. Moreover,
he said he will ask other industrialized democracies to
undertake similar initiatives at this weekend’s western
economic summit meeting in Paris.
•Said he would also ask Congress to approve $15
million to fight air and water pollution in Krakow, once
the royal capital.
•Promised to open a U.S. educational and cultural
center in Warsaw. Poland, he added, should do the
same in the United States.
Health experts say Texas
neglects AIDS studies
DALLAS (AP) — Medical re
searchers in Texas have ne
glected AIDS studies despite
readily available funds and the
state’s ranking of fourth in the
nation for reported cases of the
fatal disease, health experts said.
“It’s quite sad about Texas,”
said Dr. Mathilde Krim, co
founder of the American Foun
dation for AIDS Research.
“There are hundreds of people
with AIDS in Texas who are wait
ing for the drugs.”
Studies released at a recent
gathering of AIDS researchers
and government officials at Co
lumbia University in New York
showed a lack of acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome drug
research in Texas.
In the past three years, 7,316
Americans have been involved in
major drug studies at the 45 fed
erally funded AIDS research cen
ters. Only 40 participants were
Texans.
“Clinical investigators in Texas
will have to get their act together.
and you can quote me on that,”
Dr. Daniel Hoth, director of
AIDS research programs for the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases in Bethesda,
Md., told the Dallas Morning
News.
Texas, which has had 6,714 di
agnosed cases of AIDS since
1981, ranks fourth nationally in
the number of cases, according to
the U.S. Centers for Disease Con
trol in Atlant^. Only New York,
California and Florida have more
cases.
In the last two years, the fed
eral government has pumped
more than $50 million into AIDS
clinical studies — none of them in
Dallas. But federal officials say
they cannot be blamed.
“We can’t go into a community
and tell them what to do,” Hoth
said. “We’ve been scratching our
heads over the problem in Texas
for two years. If Texans can come
up with something good, then
we’ll fund it, because we want to
put something in Texas.”