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1/01.89 No.82 USPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, January 29,1990
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Patrolman Donnie Andreski of the College Station Police
Dept, questions the 7-year-old girl who drove a 1977 Buick
Limited through J.J.’s Liquor Store Friday night. The girl’s
babysitter and the babysitter’s boyfriend went into the
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
store and left her unattended with the keys in the ignition.
Joe Ferreri of Bryan, who was in the store when the acci
dent occured, was treated at Humana Hospital in College
Station for bruises and other minor injuries.
Regents authorize
research centers
to help with SSC
By TODD L. CONNELLEY
Of The Battalion Staff
for support of the
>1.5 million, when fully
Texas A&M will play a major role in
high-energy physics well into the 21st cen
tury.
Two new physics research units, the
High Energy Physics Research Center
(HEPRC) and the International Institute
for Theoretical Physics (IITP) were re
viewed and authorized Friday by the A&M
Board of Regents.
Both centers were created to capitalize
on the Superconducting Super Collider
(SSC) to be built near Waxahachie.
“In an effort to play an active role in the
development, design and eventual staging
and operation of the experiments at the
SSC laboratory, we are proposing the estab
lishment of these institutions,” said Presi
dent William H. Mobley.
Mobley added that the HEPRC will be
dedicated to performing an actual research
program at the SSC.
The HEPRC is intended to give A&M re
searchers a highly visible focus for research
at the SSC, said Dr. Duwayne Anderson, as
sociate provost for research and graduate
study. It should help researchers make a
greater impact on the development and re
search of the multi-billion dollar particle ac
celerator.
External funding
HEPRC will exceed !
staffed.
The (IITP) will offer cooperative re
search among scientists from Latin Ameri
can nations aimed at developing their abil
ity to conduct independent physics
research.
It is modeled after the International
I he HEPRC will be dedicated
to performing an actual research
program at the SSC.
Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
Italy.
IITP has the backing of physics lumina
ries such as Nobel laureates Dr. Abdus Sa-
lam, director of the Trieste Institute; Dr.
Steven Weinberg, Regental Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Ben Mot-
tleson of the Neils Bohr Institute in Copen
hagen; and Dr. Phillip Anderson of Prince
ton University.
All four Nobel winners will serve on the
institute’s board of directors.
IITP carries a price tag of nearly $2 mil
lion, coming from international, federal
and state grants, and endowment funds.
Opposition
demands
Iliescu’s
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) —
More than 15,000 people demanding
the ouster of the provisional govern
ment crowded into Bucharest’s Victory
Square on Sunday, the largest anti-gov
ernment demonstration in Romania
since December’s revolt.
Thousands of anti-government pro
testers broke through a line of armed
soldiers, rushing to the doors of the gov
ernment headquarters and scurrying
atop a half-dozen tanks guarding the
building.
The crowd booed interim President
Ion Iliescu when he appeared on an up
per floor of the building and tried to
speak. The protesters chanted “Resign!
Resign'.” ana “Get out, or we’U come get
you out!”
Iliescu later said opposition parties
met with his government and had
agreed to broad talks.
Iliescu was named head of a loose co
alition of disaffected Communists and
intellectuals who assumed power after a
revolt ousted the 24-year regime of Nic-
olae Ceausescu, who was executed with
his wife, Elena, on Dec. 25.
But the governing National Salvation
Front has come under fire recently for
announcing its intention to compete in
free elections against newly formed op
position parties. Critics allege the front
cannot fairly compete in balloting it will
also administer, and some allege it sup
ports a return to one-party rule.
Pro-government demonstrators also
crowded around the building chanting
“Iliescu ... We are with you!” but they
were outnumbered and out-shouted by
the opposition forces.
The two sides booed and hissed at
each other, but there was no violence.
No injuries were reported as the line of
soldiers about 75 yards from the build
ing gave way to the crowd. The soldiers
then reformed their line five men deep
at the building’s entrances.
After nightfall, truckloads of pro-gov
ernment demonstrators were brought to
the square, some shouting that the oppo
sition protesters were “provocateurs”
and “gypsies.”
After the reinforcements arrived,
Iliescu reappeared and shouted over a
microphone that the front had met rep
resentatives of the three parties sponsor
ing the protest.
“All the political parties agreed to co
operate, including the three that spon
sored this demonstration,” Iliescu said.
“Next week we will continue the dia
logue.”
He said all of the more than 20 parties
seeking to run candidates in May elec
tions would meet with front leaders
Thursday. Earlier, a spokesman with the
opposition Peasants Party said that party
leaders met Iliescu to demand that the
front give way to a broader-based in
terim government.
A small crowd held a separate protest
at the headquarters of the state radio
and television building and demanded
access to the media to call for the resig
nation of the provisional government.
Anderson presses minorities forward
By CHUCK SQUATRIGLIA
Of The Battalion Staff
For minorities, getting to the threshold
of excellence, success and leadership is not
nearly so difficult as it is to cross over that
threshold and move beyond, the keynote
speaker for the Southwestern Black Stu
dent Leadership Conference said Friday.
Dr. James Anderson, professor of psy
chology from Indiana University of Penn
sylvania, told the audience that although
many of them were at this threshold, the
real challenge was still to come.
“You will find that the difficulty level
reaches warp five when you cross that
threshold and have to contend with those
who are out to undermine your efforts and
undermine your success,” Anderson said.
Minority students must be ready to con
tend with people who don’t feel they are
qualified to perform in graduate school or
the business world, he said.
To do this and move beyond the thresh
old, one must have an internal standard of
excellence that comes only from a wide
knowledge base, Anderson said.
Because history and reality are the best
teachers, Anderson said, people must look
at the past for this knowledge.
“Why are you wasting time watching tele
vision and engaging in superficial acts when
there are so many books to read?” Ander
son asked. “When there are so many great
people and role models to learn from, why
aren’t you at their feet, gleaning all the in
formation you can from their minds?”
Anderson said that everything - success,
Taylor urges black unity
By KEVIN HAMM
Of The Battalion Staff
The editor of Essence qiagazine urged
those attending the Southwestern Black
Student Leadership Conference Saturday
to unite and fight racism in corporate
America.
Susan Taylor told the audience, consist
ing mostly of college and high school stu
dents, that corporate America doesn’t take
the black community seriously.
“Corporate America thinks we’re a jok-
e,’’Taylor said. “We have got to send an
other message to corporate America. Every
single dime spent is a political message.”
Taylor recounted a memory from her
early days on Essence’s staff. In the early
1970s there was a fragrance popular with
black women, she said, but for some reason
the company had never advertised in Es
sence. So the; executives of Essence went to
the fragrance company’s office to tell them
they had a ready market in Essence’s read
ers.
“The president of that cosmetics com
pany looked our president right in the eye
and said he would never advertise that fra
grance to black women,” Taylor said. “He
said black women, like black people, aspire
to have things beyond their reach. He said
if we promote that fragrance directly to
black women it might lose its esteem.
“This is just an example of how black
spending power is taken for granted. We’ve
got to be conscious consumers,” she said.
A conscious consumer is one who keeps a
“corporate report card,” a personal record
of a company’s attitude toward the African-
American community, Taylor said. If a
See Taylor/Page 8
Photo by Frederick D. Joe
Susan Taylor
excellence and leadership - begins with this
knowledge, and people must be aware of
the history of their cultures in order to con
trol their futures. He also said minority stu
dents should know the histories of those
who went before them, because they laid
the groundwork on which today’s minority
.students can build their futures.
“Who was the first black person to get an
undergraduate degree from your institu
tion?” Anderson asked. “Who was the first
Hispanic to get a degree from your institu
tion? Who was the first returning adult to
get a degree from your institution?
“That person toughed it through with
everything against them, and you don’t
even know who that person is. Find out who
that person is. Do your homework ... be
cause that’s the person who paved the way
for you.”
Year of the Horse
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
The Chinese Student Association celebrated the Chinese is the “Year of the Horse,” members of the CSA performed
New Year with an authentic dinner, a dance party and a a traditional Lion Dance to set the mood for the festivities,
mini-casino in the MSC Saturday night. Even though this In the Chinese calendar, this is the year 4688.
Anderson said it is important for black
students to know the significance of their
cultures.
He said the majority of the sciences be
gan in Egypt and the Nile Valley.
“The first philosophers and academi
cians, the first scholars, the first oceanogra-
See Anderson/Page 8
Society sponsors
free seminar
By BILL HETHCOCK
Of The Battalion Staff
An all-day seminar on “The Future of
Human Resource Management: Meeting
the Needs of a Changing Work Force,” will
be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday in
114 Blocker.
The seminar will be divided intd three
sessions with four speakers in each session.
Each speaker will give a 15-minute presen
tation, followed by a question-and-answer
session with the audience and other guest
panelists.
The first session, from 11 a.m. to 12:15
p.m., will focus on future trends in em
ployee rights. Speakers will include Bob
Fox, of the Texas A&M industrial engi
neering department and Ira Sheppard, an
attorney with Schmeltzer, Aplaker and
Sheppard in Washington, D.C.
The second session will deal with educat
ing and training the workforce of the fu
ture, and will be held from 2 to 3:15 p.m.
Guest panelists will include Dr. Dean Corri
gan, chairman of A&M’s “Commitment to
Education” task force and John Hoyle, pro
fessor of educational administration.
The final session, from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
will be on the changing impact of women in
the work force. George Wharton, director
of affirmative action at A&M and Barbara
Willis, a representative of the Association of
Professional Women, are two of the speak
ers for this session.
The seminar is free and open to the pub
lic. It is being sponsored by the A&M So
ciety for Human Resource Management.
The seminar is part of the College of Busi
ness Administration’s week-long career
fair.
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