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The Texas A&M Faculty Sen
ate approved a request Monday to
ange the name of the College
f Business Administration to the
lollege of Business Administra-
lon and Graduate School of
Business.
I Dr. Benton Cocanougher,
««EiJ ean °f t ^ e College of Business
at [he rel ^Administration, said the name
hange would not involve any or
ganizational change but would
Irovide increased visibility to the
aster’s program.
He said the most recent Gour-
an Report, which ranks M.B.A.
rograms across the nation, listed
&M 27th. Twenty-two of the
[chools listed above A&M, how-
ver, included “Graduate School
Ifcf Business” in their names.
“It gives a recognition of the
rowing size and importance of
aaster’s programs,” Coca-
ougher said. “It would give us
creased potential in terms of
fundraising.”
The name change must be ap-
roved by President William
lobley and the Board of Regents
efore it is official.
“It would give increased visi-
ility to all graduate programs,
Imt the primary intent is to in
crease visibility ,of the master’s
Programs,” he said.
In other business, the Senate
approved three resolutions from
he Academic Affairs Committee
[nvolving the General Studies
fogram. The resolutions recom-
ended:
• that the present adviser-to-
tudent ratio within the program
increased to improve the qual
ity of counseling students receive.
• that the provost appoint an
Interdisclipinary faculty advisory
pommittee to assist the provost in
establishing policies for the pro
gram.
• that the general studies pro
gram be included as part of the
•egular University self-evalua-
ion.
The Faculty Senate’s Commit-
ee of the Whole discussed an up-
:oming proposal requiring in-
tructors to provide students with
yllabi.
Committee of the Whole is an
informal discussion where the en
tire Senate forms one committee
to make suggestions, ask ques
tions or express concerns.
The Student Senate passed a
proposal in the spring requiring
nstructors to provide syllabi be
cause there is no such require
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Officials find bodies fromLeland crash
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ties on Tuesday recovered the bodies of all 16
people killed in the crash of a plane carrying
a U.S. congressional delegation headed by
Rep. Mickey Leland.
A helicopter hovered near the face of a
sheer cliff in southwestern Ethiopia as the
bodies were hoisted up one by one from the
rugged mountainside where the twin-engine
plane crashed last week.
They were flown to the nearby town of
Gambela and placed aboard an Ethiopian air
force C-130 cargo plane for the return to Ad
dis Ababa.
“We’ve got them all,” Air Force Capt. Ke
vin Krejarck said upon his return to the capi
tal from Gambela. “The site has now been
cleared.
“The weather gave us a break today,” Kre
jarck said. “It was sunny down there for the
first time in days.”
The effort to retrieve the bodies of Leland,
who headed the House Select Committee on
Hunger, and his companions was stalled
Monday by low clouds, rain and fog that
shrouded the mountain, which is called Tam.
About 50 American and Ethiopian person
nel were able to reach the site Tuesday, said
James Haley, chief spokesman for the U.S.
Embassy in Addis Ababa.
The recovery teams were lowered to the
base of the cliff by helicopters, then had to
scale it to reach the wreckage and bodies,
Krejarck said.
A team of Air Force investigators arrived
from Washington to work with Ethiopian au
thorities to determine the cause of the acci
dent. The team included representatives of
the U.S. Civil Aviation Authority, and the
Boeing and Pratt and Whitney companies,
which made the body and engines of Leland’s
chartered Twin Otter.
Marine Lt. Col. David Titus said the bodies
would be identified in Addis Ababa by a team
of U.S. forensic experts, a process he said
could take up to a week.
In addition to Leland, there were eight
other Americans and seven Ethiopians
aboard the twin-engine plane which disap
peared in bad weather on Aug. 7 en route to
the Fugnido refugee camp, about 350 miles
southwest of the capital, near the Ethiopian-
Sudanese border.
Heavy clouds, rain and low visibility were
believed to have led to the crash of the air
craft, which slammed into the 5,500-foot
mountain about 100 miles from the refugee
camp.
A four-man congressional delegation
planned to fly to Ethiopia to escort the bodies
home but officials have said they will not
leave Washington until the bodies have been
identified.
Leland, a 44-year-old Texas Democrat, was
on his sixth visit to Africa and his second this
year when the plane crashed en route to the
refugee camp, one of four in southwestern
Ethiopia run by the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees that holds more than 300,000
Sudanese fleeing war and famine in their
neighboring country.
Alaska sues
Exxon, others
over oil spill
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska
on Tuesday sued Exxon Corp. and
six other oil companies, alleging
negligence for failing to prevent and
clean up the nation’s worst oil spill.
The lawsuit, filed in state Supe
rior Court at Anchorage, does not
specify the amount of damages
sought for losses from the March 24
tanker disaster, which left nearly 11
million gallons of crude oil in Prince
William Sound.
“If you assume that the damages
haven’t been half mitigated and then
you add in any potential punitive
damages, this is probably in the mul
tiple billions,” said Robert LeResche,
the state oil-spill coordinator who
announced the lawsuit at a news con
ference.
The lawsuit alleges that Exxon
Corp. and Exxon Shipping Co., the
subsidiary that owned the tanker Ex
xon Valdez, are responsible for the
tanker running aground by failing
to staff it adequately and supervise
the crew properly.
The state also says Alyeska Pipe
line Service Co., a consortium of oil
companies that runs the trans-
Alaska oil pipeline, failed to take
prompt and adequate measures to
contain and remove the spilled oil or
prevent it from spreading into envi
ronmentally sensitive areas.
Alyeska was responsible for the
initial response to the spill.
The lawsuit names Alyeska and
each of the consortium companies:
Exxon Pipeline Co., an Exxon Corp.
subsidiary; Arco Pipeline Co.; BP
Alaska Pipelines Inc.; Mobil Alaska
Pipeline Co.; Amerada Hess Pipe
line Corp.; Phillips Alaska Pipeline
Corp.; and Unocal Pipeline Co.
Those companies controlled
Alyeska’s budget to a degree that
makes them responsible for Alyes-
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Moooove over, Elsie
Photo by Kathy Haveman
See Lawsuit/Page 6
A five-month-old Brahman heifer at the A&M Beef Cattle Center Brahmans, herefords, anguses and mixed-breed cattle are raised
playfully scratches her head against her pen’s retaining fence. at the center for teaching purposes.
repare for more traffic changes
roads by MSC complex, coliseum
Lewis, 2 other football players
injured in attack at Bryan park
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UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE
Construction that began Tuesday
as prompted the establishment of
new traffic patterns in the area sur-
"ounding the University Center
omplex and Parking Area 60 on
he Texas A&M campus.
Work on an extension of a storm
ewer-drainage project will close
IHouston Street within the next week
Ifrom just south of the intersection
Ivith Joe Routt Boulevard to just
north of the entrance to Parking
fArea 60 for at least a month, said
Tom Williams, director of parking,
ransit and traffic.
Construction on the same project
has blocked certain portions of Park
ing Area 60 and Joe Routt Boule
vard for most of the summer, Wil
liams said. The project also
mandated earlier street closings in
other areas of campus.
Through-traffic will be main
tained on Joe Routt Boulevard dur
ing the construction period by estab
lishing two-way traffic patterns in
areas that previously have been one
way. In addition, the intersection of
Throckmorton Street and Joe Routt
will be reopened to through-traffic.
Bus routes through the area will
not be affected by the construction
on Houston Street, Williams said.
Individuals parking in Lot 60, the
visitor-conference and faculty-staff
lot south of the University Center
Complex and east of G. Rollie White
Coliseum, will be able to enter that
lot from Houston Street via Jersey
Street only.
Parking Areas 46 and 48, located
south of G. Rollie White, also will be
accessible only via Jersey and Hous
ton Streets.
For more information, please con
tact the department of parking,
transit and traffic at 845-9700.
Three Texas A&M football players suffered minor
injuries during what was apparently an unprovoked at
tack Sunday night in a Bryan park.
Darren Lewis, who is considered the nation’s top re
turning running back, was able to practice Monday af
ter receiving a minor cut on his left hand during the
previous night’s fight in Sadie Thomas Park at Martin
Luther King Jr. and Moss streets.
Quentin Coryatt, a sophomore linebacker, was
treated and released from St. Joseph Hospital after be
ing stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver, and is ex
pected to miss a few days of practice. Linebacker Jason
Medlock, a freshman recruit, was cut in the left arm but
was able to practice Monday.
Albert Jones, a junior defensive end who was with
the other players, came away without physical injury.
However, Jones’ 1987 Mazda had its back window
smashed in with a shovel during the fight.
Sgt. Choya Walling, with the Bryan Police Depart
ment, said the incident will be hard to investigate be
cause they “really have nothing to go On.”
Walling said the football players said they were in the
park when a fight broke out, “and before they knew it
they were involved. They said they didn’t know any of
the attackers, but apparently there was ‘a crowd’ of
them.”
Police said they have no suspects in the case.
“In situations where there are large groups of people
involved in a spontaneous fight such as this one, it’s
hard to get the straight facts from everyone,” Walling
said. “Usually, the witnesses don’t want to get involved.”
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ragehan a billion people on five conti-
lents may see a total lunar eclipse
, Vednesday night when the full
instea 1 !* noon p asses through the Earth’s
hteneu; hadow and for a time takes on the
and (M ppearance of a ghostly disk hang-
ng in the black of space,
gg-shap i n the dark hours after sunset
lovering Wednesday, the full moon will ap-
i midr )ear to be slowly nibbled away, turn-
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The show starts at 8:23 p.m. EDI
>ver the United States and will end
bout 5 hours later. The eastern
Inked States will get the best view
ing. Alaska will miss the eclipse alto
gether.
Eclipse times will vary for the cen
tral and western parts of the country
because of the difference in sunset
and moonrise. In Los Angeles, for
instance, the eclipse will have started
before the sun has set or the moon
has risen. By the time the sky has
darkened completely in California,
the moon will already be in the deep
est part of its eclipse.
For Seattle, the moon will still be
below the horizon at mid-eclipse, but
will rise during the totality phase.
Clouds, of course, could ruin the
viewing at any location.
With clear skies, though, some
phase of the celestial spectacle
should be visible to observers in
North and South America, western
Europe and Africa, and the Ant
arctic. Sailors at sea in the Atlantic
and in the eastern Pacific Ocean also
will be able to see some phase of the
eclipse, weather permitting.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the
moon passes through the shadow
created by the Earth blocking the
sun’s light. The moon, in its orbit of
the Earth, usually passes above or
below this shadow line, but every few
years it follows a path that puts it
completely in shade for a time.
When the whole moon passes
through the shadow, it is called a to
tal eclipse.
The last total lunar eclipse visible
over most of North America oc
curred in December, 1982, and the
next one is not until December,
1992.
Astronomers are forecasting that
Wednesday’s eclipse may be a bright
one.
The moon can appear during an
eclipse to be a bright coppery red if
there is clear, clean air between the
lunar surface and the observer on
Earth. If smoke or dust obscure the
view, the moon will diminish to an
orange color or perhaps even fade
from view altogether.
While a lunar eclipse occurs when
the Earth blocks sunlight from the
moon, a solar eclipse is caused when
the moon blocks sunlight from the
Earth. Because the moon is so much
smaller, only a small swatch of Earth
is darkened during a solar eclipse. A
lunar eclipse, however, can be seen
by the entire half of the Earth in
darkness at the time it occurs.
To experts, a solar eclipse is by far
the more interesting because it per
mits unique measurements of the
sun.
Economics
professor
dies at 43
Dr. Jacquelene M. Browning,
43, associate professor and assis
tant department head in the De
partment of Economics, died Sat
urday in a local hospital.
Browning, who came to Texas
A&M five years ago, received a
bachelor’s degree from Stetson
University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in
economics from the University of
Virginia in 1976.
A staunch supporter of an
honors program in economics,
Browning encouraged the eco
nomics department to become in
volved in the University Honors
Program.