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Vol.89 No.62 USPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 29,1989
&M College of Business
anks among top twelve
)f The Battalion Staff
3y Julie Myers
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Texas A&M’s College of Business
\dministration ranks among the top
lozen business schools in the nation,
iccording to a recent study of 32
eading business colleges and their
faculty.
The management department
laced third after Harvard Univer-
iity and the University of Pennsylva
nia’s Wharton School of Business.
The study, conducted by Univer
ity of Maryland faculty members
Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin
Locke, was based on faculty research
productivity, reputation measured
by peer ratings and influence mea
sured by citations in published
works.
Don Hellriegel, head of the man
agement department, said the re
sults of this and other studies do not
surprise him, but said he appreciates
the recognition.
This is not the first time the Col
lege of Business has been ranked na
tionally. Hellriegel said the manage
ment department has been ranked
in the top ten in other various stud
ies. This recent ranking is the fourth
in two years.
Unlike other well-known institu
tions which hire established faculty,
A&M identifies and recruits bright
and talented junior faculty with po
tential and helps them to develop,
Hellriegel said.
“We don’t hire superstars,” he
said. “They’re homegrown.
“The management department
has an attractive faculty to be at
tracted to. These studies demon
strate to potential quality faculty that
we’re recruiting quality faculty.”
Other departments within the col
lege also Tanked in the study with
marketing, seventh; accounting,
13th; business analysis and research,
23rd; and finance, 25th.
The only other nationally ranked
business college in Texas was the
University of Texas College of Busi
ness, which came in ninth overall.
German unity discussed
hancellor Kohl proposes German federation
JONN, West Germany (AP) — Chancellor Helmut
Kohl Tuesday proposed a German federation as part of
sweeping plan to reunite the two countries after four
iecades of post-war division.
East Germany has increasingly discussed the possibil-
ty of a confederation, but the Communist nation’s
eader, Egon Krenz, ruled out any talk of reunification.
We are prepared ... to develop
confederative structures between the
two states in Germany in order to create
a federation, a federal state in Germany.”
— Helmut Kohl,
West German Chancellor
“A unity of Germany isn’t on the agenda,” Krenz told
lU'St Germany’s ARD-TV network in insisting on the
Continued existence of two “sovereign, independent
Terman states.”
There are fears among Europeans in the East and
Jhe West about the political and economic power of a
'reunified Germany with 80 million people.
I Kohl, in a speech to Parliament, Sought to allay those
■ears, saying: “The Germans . . . will be a dividend for a
Europe that is coming together, and never again a
threat.”
The United States favors reunification, and State De
partment spokesman Margaret Tutwiler reiterated that
position in Washington on Tuesday. The Soviet Union
lias said the idea is “dangerous and unrealistic.”
Kohl said he had no timetable in mind to carry out
his ideas and made it clear it could take years to form a
federation. He is expected to discuss his proposals with
East German leaders at a summit next month.
East German government spokesman Wolfgang
Meyer said Kohl’s plan in general provided “interesting
starting points for negotiations.”
But writer Stefan Heym and a number of other East
German artists, clerics and intellectuals rejected reunifi
cation, saying they opposed their country “being pock
eted” by West Germany. The group said it would start a
petition drive in support of its appeal.
Kohl’s proposals were the most thorough delineation
he has made yet of his vision of ending the division of
Germany imposed after World War II.
Earlier, Hans-Jochen Vogel, the leader of the opposi
tion Social Democrats, proposed an eventual confeder
ation as a step toward unity.
In the past, the Social Democrats have cautioned
against hastening toward German reunification; some
in the leftist party have flatly opposed it.
See Germany/Page 4
Tell it to Santa
Photo by Scott D. Weaver
Jessica Salinar, 5, from Bryan ; shares her giver said Batman toys are the preferred present
Christmas wish list with Santa Claus late Tues- among his patrons this year thanks to a summer
day night at Manor East Mall. TheJioliday gift- of publicity for the movie Batman.
I
Senior architecture students design cancer care unit in Houston
By Pam Mooman
Of The Battalion Staff
Despite an intense athletic rivalry, Aggies
and Longhorns can work together when
lives are on the line.
Eight groups of Texas A&M senior ar
chitecture students invested more than 600
hours in creating a “drive-through” cancer
care facility in Houston. The facility was a
design project for a senior-level architec
ture class.
The facility, which will be an expansion
of current facilities at University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will in
crease convenience for cancer patients.
“It’s kind of like a drive-through restau
rant,” Anthony Alvarez, a senior architec
ture major from Brownsville who worked
on the project, said.
Alvarez said M.D. Anderson is pressed
for space.
“All the facilities they have now are cram
med,” he said.
Sean Kirton, a senior architecture major
from Trinidad, also worked on the project
and noticed the crowded conditions.
“They were practicing physical therapy
in the hallways,” Kirton said.
Debbie Eldridge, a registered nurse who,
is getting a master’s degree from A&M in
urban and regional planning, served as a
health consultant for the architecture stu
dents.
“It’s an innovative approach for M.D.
Anderson,” Eldridge said. “They may not
use every aspect of the students’ work, but
(they) will use bits and pieces.”
Eldridge, Alvarez and Kirton have writ
ten an article about the project. Alvarez said
they hope to publish the article in journals.
Some of the services the facility will offer
are physical therapy, dental oncology, labo
ratories, a drive-through pharmacy and
outpatient chemotherapy. There will be 10
total services.
The chemotherapy treatments will take
only 30 minutes to an hour, Eldridge said.
Cancer patients can get chemotherapy
treatments, get blood tests done in the lab,
then go home, Eldridge said.
Eldridge said M.D. Anderson wants to
get patients back in the flow of life sooner,
and outpatient facilities let patients be more
involved in the community because they do
not have to spend time in a hospital.
But increased ! time for community in
volvement is not all the facility will offer
cancer patients, i
“I think it would impact the overall
health of the patients,” she said. Patients
can get early diagnoses, which lead to easier
rehabilitations, she said. Patients’ families
can come and go easier, and the patients
can lead independent lives.
Dr. Robert Hickey, the special assistant to
M.D. Anderson president Dr. Charles Le-
Maistre, said M.D. Anderson had worked
with A&M before and had a very good
relationship.
“I think the architecture students came
See Architecture/Page 4
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Student representatives selected
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Sail! Preston
Two chosen to represent A&M
at Mobil Cotton
By Cindy McMillian
Of The Battalion Staff
The Aggie football team won’t
go to the Mobil Cotton Bowl Clas
sic this year, but two Texas A&M
representatives will.
Salli Preston, a senior econom
ics major from Wills Point, and
her escort Clay Whitaker, a senior
marketing major from Dallas,
have been chosen as A&M’s offi
cial Cotton Bowl representatives.
Preston and Whitaker will spend
the last three days of this year in
Dallas attending receptions and
luncheons with representatives
from other Southwest Confer
ence schools.
Preston said she applied for
the position because sne wanted
to give other school representa
tives a broader view of what A&M
is like.
“I felt it would be the biggest
honor I could ever gain at A&M,”
she said.
At the Cotton Bowl, she will be
a princess in the court of the Cot
ton Bowl Queen, the representa
tive from the Southwest Confer
ence school playing in the game.
She and the other princesses will
ride in a float during the Cotton
Bowl parade on New Year’s Day
and also will be presented at half
time and at a New Year’s Eve ball.
Preston submitted a written ap-
Bowl Classic
plication for the honor this fall,
and was chosen, along with 10
other finalists, for an interview.
The finalists and their chosen
escorts interviewed with a board
comprised of leaders from seve
ral campus organizations. Preston
said that during the interview,
she and Whitaker were asked
about their views on traditions
and controversial campus issues,
including the MSC expansion
and the halftime participation of
the yell leaders at the Texas
A&M-Rice University game.
Although most schools choose
only a female representative and
allow her to pick an escort, Pres
ton said the way she and Whi
taker worked together was im
portant.
“It was a team effort once you
got into the interview,” Preston
said.
Campus involvement was also
an important consideration, she
said. In her years at A&M, Pres^
ton has served as president of Pi
Beta Phi sorority, director of fi
nancial development for MSC
MBA/Law and member of the""
Parents’ Weekend committee.
Whitaker also served on the
Parents’ Weekend committee and
is the public relations officer for
the Corps of Cadets staff, a Col
lege of Business Administration
Fellow and a member of Cap and
Gown Society.
Aggie tailgate crew
wins free excursion
to Hawaii,
By Michael Kelley
| Of The Battalion Staff
i Gone to Hawaii. That’s what eight
| Aggie tailgaters will be saying Feb. 4
_ when they head to the National
Football League Pro Bowl in Hono-
1 lulu on an all-expense paid vacation.
The tailgaters call themselves the
; “Celebrators of Destiny,” or CDs,
and they are the 1989 winners of the
NCNB Texas Tailgate Party Con
test. The CDs were chosen as best of
10 finalist teams, all representing
universities from around Texas, at a
Dallas Cowboys home game against
the Miami Dolphins.
The CDs, representing A&M,
were chosen as finalists on Sept. 30
before A&M’s football game against
the University of Southern Missis
sippi. They were the best of 20 A&M
tailgate teams.
Tailgate party teams were judged
on spirit, food and presentation.
The CDs elaborate tailgate party had
a dual theme — “A&M gets you to
the Cotton Bowl and NCNB gets you
to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.” To ex
press this, the three men wore black
tuxedo jackets and bow ties with Ha-
waiian-style shorts and the five
women wore black tops, leis and
grass skirts.
Two complete meals also rep
resented this theme — a New Year’s
Day-type food on one side of their
main prop, a cotton picker, and Ha
waiian food on the other side. They
Pro Bowl
also played recordings of the theme
songs from “Dallas” and “Hawaii-
Five-0.”
Members of the CDs are John and
Gina Cangelose, Sherylon Carroll,
John Fazzino, Judy Fickey, Sherri
Lawrence, Aimee Pantuso and Rob
ert Restivo.
The cotton picker the CDs used
created some difficulties in getting
to their winning destination in Dal
las. There was no problem using it
Sept. 30, but it was sold the week be
fore the finals.
John Cangelose, A&M Class of
’83, said the team found it at Case
International Harvester in Bryan, a
farm equipment dealership, which
happily loaned the machine to the
CDs. The 180-mile trip to Dallas was
the final barrier, but the manager of
the dealership, Lonnie Painter,
solved this problem by paying to
have the cotton picker hauled on an
18-wheeler.
Second place at the finals was
awarded to a TCU team calling
themselves “The Skate Family,” a
zany combination of hillbilly, the
Marx Brothers and Hawaiian hula
girls. Third place went to a team
representing the University of
Texas, “The Dolphinbusters.”
The Celebrators of Destiny will
not have to set up their tailgate party
once again in Hawaii, because now
it’s NCNB’s turn to hold the party —
a complete Hawaiian luau tailgate
party for the CDs.