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Friday, January 26,1990 The Battalion Pages W5R.RD THe WRPD HEWS BREAK WITH rtEmn TEN hi IN65 7" ...UM, COOLP y<9t) HOLD UP THE- ^ OPPOSITE. PAGE OF THE dATT THERE FOK P\E FOR. A SECO/UV? by Scott McCullar © 1990 ” K OKAH, LET'S SEE... I "TELELVI5IOM NEVJS IS Ahl, IMPROPER...;^ ^CAA/ YOU HOLT? THAT „ page stil/- rlease?. ' = ^- MEPIU/. TO //W'A TKAhJS-fi&g fez... kmj ‘He. WALDO By KEVIN THOMAS THE STUDENTS IN THESE CLASSES TODAY, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.... THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN AGAIN IF WE DON'T TELL THEM WHAT IT WAS LIRE , BUT THEY DON'T CARE... V SOME THINGS JUST T CAU / AIN'T FAIR'. V MW / Z^\CAVJI SPADE PHILLIPSM KoW<4<-SK| SPAoe,!* A CoMrt FROI His 27 SPERM DoHATlOHS THIS wEfK,&€6lNST« HAVE kI/PHTMA^K, AHHGGl A&M president names Bryan native to external affairs assistant position By KATHERINE COFFEY Of The Battalion Staff A Bryan native has been named as assistant to Texas A&M President William H. Mobley. Ellyn Perrone, who works in Aus tin as assistant to vice chancellor of state affairs for the Texas A&M Uni versity System, begins her new job Feb. 1. Perrone will work on external af fairs with Mobley. She will share re sponsibilities with Sheran Riley, an assistant to Mobley who works with internal affairs. Perrone also will coordinate uni versity legislative affairs and work on special projects assigned by Mob ley. Mobley said Perrone’s job was similar to Dr. E. Dean Gage’s. Gage served as acting provost and vice president for academic affairs and was executive assistant to Mobley. Perrone said she was looking for ward to her new job. “I’ve worked with Mobley for about three years on state legislative affairs and I’m looking forward to working with him, especially when there is a lot of new and exciting things happening at A&M,” she said. Perrone, a native of Bryan, re ceived two undergraduate degrees in psychology and social rehabilita tion service in 1973 from Stephen F. Austin University. She returned to school 11 years later and earned a master’s in public administration at A&M in 1986. While working on her degree she was a teaching assistant and did graduate work in A&M’s political sci ence department. “I look forward to working with President Mobley and his staff in ad dressing the challenges of the 1990s,” she said. WOCE prepares ocean study A&M College of Geosciences leads U.S. role By ANDY KEHOE Of The Battalion Staff Texas A&M’s College of Geosciences is coordinating the United States contribution to the World Ocean Cir culation Experiment, a 40-nation study of the world’s oceans that begins this year. The U.S. WOCE Office was established at A&M in 1984 by Dr. Worth D. Nowlin Jr., associate dean of the College of Geosciences. Nowlin, co-chairman of the U.S. WOCE Science Steering Committee, has spent the past Five years leading the plan for the U.S. role in the experiment. The program is now in the implementa tion stage. “The world’s ocean has a tremendous effect on some long-term climate changes, but the circulation is mostly understudied,” Ann E. Jochens, WOCE project scien tist, said. The goal of WOCE is to learn more about the ocean circulation, with hopes of predicting future circulation and climates. To do this, WOCE will be performing the largest oceanographic experiment in history. Using several sa tellites, ships, floats and thousands of instruments, WOCE will begin a long-term ocean monitoring system. The data gathered from these experiments will be used to make improvements in numerical models of the ocean circulation. The new models will be paired with models of the at mospheric circulation to simulate, and possibly predict how the atmosphere and ocean can together cause global climate change over long periods of time. Campus fires spark search for arsonist In the early morning hours of Sat urday, Nov. 11, four fires were re ported on the northwest section of the Texas A&M campus. The largest of the fires was in A-3 Lounge adja cent to Davis-Cary Hall. Evidence indicates that a suspect entered the unoccupied lounge, doused the trash can and some fur niture with a flammable liquid, and then set fire to the trash can. Before the fire was discovered and extin guished, approximately $30,000 worth of damage was done. The other fires were contained in two dumpsters nearby and in a trash STOPPER 775 _ T | PS can outside Mclnnis Hall. Due to the short time span during which the fires occurred, the close proximity of the fires and the speed of their burning, investigators be lieve that each fire was set by the same person who used a flammable liquid to assist ignition. This week the Texas A&M Police Department and Crime Stoppers need your help in identifying this ar sonist. If you have information that could be helpful, call Crime Stop pers at 775-TIPS. When you call, Crime Stoppers will assign you a spe cial coded number to protect your identity. If your call leads to an ar rest and grand jury indictment, Crime Stoppers will pay you up to $1,000 in cash. Crime Stoppers also pays cash for information on any felony crime or the location of any wanted fugitive. Expert says teachers should learn to meet needs of all cultures, races By DAPHNE MILLER Of The Battalion Staff As students become more multicultural and multira cial, instructors must prepare to meet their needs, a leading expert of multiculturalism and student reten tion said Thursday. Dr. James Anderson, professor of psychology at In diana University of Pennsylvania, spoke at the Texas A&M’s Center for Teaching Excellence at a day-long symposium titled “Multiracial and Multicultural Reten tion: Coming to Grips with Diverse Learning Styles.” Anderson said it is important for the faculty and staff to be aware of cultural and racial diversity and how it affects people at the institutional level. “One of the big problems of opening up institutions to diverse populations is that a myth about the relationship of diversity and quality exists,” Anderson said. People think that opening an institution to diverse populations lowers the quality of that institution, but this isn’t true, he said. “This is one of the big problems with faculty at pre dominantly white institutions,” he said. The faculty must be aware that all students have the same skills and assets, he said. If this doesn’t happen, diversity will not work at any institution. “Clearly, the faculty at many institutions feel that it is all right for diverse students to perform at a mediocre or below mediocre level,” he said. “In fact, it does not faze the faculty when diverse students tend to fail.” Instructors should not be so concerned with their re search but be more concerned with helping diverse stu dents learn, he said. But teachers are not the only ones at fault sometimes, he said. “I have defined two types of diverse students: per- sisters and withdrawers,” Anderson said. Persisters are active in learning, engaged in the sys tem and usually the above-average students. With drawers,however, are passive, very system-disengaged and the below-average students, Anderson said. It is, however, the faculty’s responsibility to assess these withdrawers and help them achieve academically, he said. The faculty usually does not attempt to recog nize these students and, consequently, the students fail, Anderson said. He said instructors should be energetic about what they are teaching, so students will be interested. “An instructor should be concerned with creating an optimal learning environment in their classroom,” he said. Texas AocM University's Video Yearbook Sms . " m | mmmmmm m . - The - i99DAsgteVision Is a professionally pro^iced,; | yne-hour YHS video that captures the sights and sounds of • the present school year at T^xasA&M^n exclusive, '' promotional showing of this year's AggleViston will be /coming to tho;|/|S0;pn and 2^||ro^1Q ■ Come .soe wfiai the excitement's Friday, Jan 26, inema/ Mows© Today's the Last Day! (Ends Friday, January 26) MSC Main Hallway Don't miss the movie, rock, and laser art poster buy of a lifetime!!! Ir STUDY ABROAD OFFICE Be an Exchange 1 Student Study in Mexico, England, Scotland or Germany forTAMU Credit!!! Find out how YOU can be chosen Informational Meetings Tuesday, January 23, 11:00 -12:00 and Friday, January 26, 3:00 - 4:00 251 West Bizzell Hall AGGIE WATCH January 29th - February 5th RESIDENCE HALL ENGRA VE & SA VE 7:00 pm - 9:00pm Aggie Watch workers will be in the residence halls between 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm on the following days to assist you in engraving your valuables (stereos, computers, VCR’s, TV’s, etc.). Monday 29th Aston Mosher Krueger Dunn Underwood A p pelt Tuesday 30th Eppright Wells Hart Spence Law Puryear Rudder Wednesday 31st Crocker Moore DG Mclnnis Schumacher Moses Thursday 1st Walton Hobby Neeley Hotard Haas McFaddden Monday 5 th Keathley Fowler Hughes Clements Legett Lechner Sponsored by the Department of Student Affairs, University Police Department, Alpha Phi Omega, Student Government, Residence Hall Association, and Off Campus Aggies. Zeta Beta T au Super Bowl Party at Mr. Gatti’s (Skaggs Shopping Center) Sunday Jan. 28th Rushilsn’tBier