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IN MEMORY OF...
(03/26/56-02/18/90)
DR. PETER M. VANPETEGHEM
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
"The spirit and enthusiasm you have instilled in us stays forever"
Faculty and staff of the Microelectronics Group
His graduate students
Members of Eta Kappa Nu
Simpson closes COSGA
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General: Integrity key
to leadership
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By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
Leadership consists not only of
honesty and integrity, but also a gen
uine concern for the individual,
Gen. O.R. Simpson said in a closing
S eech for the Conference on Stu-
:nt Government Associations.
“No one can tell you what lead
ership is or how to do it,” Simpson
said. “There’s no science and there’s
no formula to follow.”
Simpson, who served as vice presi
dent of student services with Texas
A&M from 1974-85, addressed
more than 200 college students dur
ing a luncheon Tuesday in the MSC.
He said leadership means much
more than just success.
“Success only comes with effort,”
Simpson said. “Integrity is the key to
leadership. As a leader, you take sole
responsibility.”
Simpson outlined attributes that
effective leaders have in some de
gree.
“Leaders must have loyalty, not
only to the people they lead, but also
to their superiors,” Simpson said. He
added moral courage, dependabil
ity, judgement and integrity to the
list.
The most contagious forms of hu
man emotion are depression and
discouragement, Simpson said.
These are two qualities that a leader
must not show, he said.
“Honor is your most precious pos
session,” Simpson said. “It’s yours
alone to spoil and yours alone to
keep.
“Integrity is what you build on, it’s
something solid,” he said. “Without
it, you’re just building on sand.”
Gen. George S. Patton, an Ameri
can hero of World War II, was a
good model of leadership, Simpson
said. Patton had all the attributes an
effective leader should possess, but
he lacked tact.
“He didn’t care what people
thought,” Simpson said. “Tact is one
quality that is not essential ... but it
helps.”
COSGA is an annual four-day
event for members of student gov
ernment programs. More than 80
schools participated, attendin
round-table discussions and lecturi
on such topics as bicameralism, 4
allocation of student fees, and m
dent assault problems on campus,
Simpson retired from A&M i
August 1985, but continues to vis
two or three times a week tokeepi
touch with students. He has pu
sented the closing speeches lot CO!
GA’s last 10 conferences.
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He said that despite the po»t
leadership brings, students shoul
realize there is still time f'orthettu
be a success and that they shouldm
take themselves too seriously.
Williams:
contribution
a mistake
AUSTIN (AP) — Republican gu
bernatorial hopeful Clayton Wil
liams said Tuesday he made a mis
take contributing $1,000 to
Democratic Texas Attorney General
Jim Mattox but denied that it was
improper. v,
Williams said he only wanted a
fair shake in a business venture.
One of Williams’ rivals, Kent
Hance, charged that a Mattox inves
tigation into a state contract awarded
to a competitor of ClayDesta, Wil
liams’ former long-distance tele
phone company, followed the cam
paign contribution.
Mattox, a Democratic contender
for governor, has denied the charge.
Mattox never challenged the con
tract.
Williams, of Midland, said that he
donated the money to Mattox to en
sure fairness.
“When you give money you hope
to have a fair game,” Williams said.
But, he added, that he didn’t believe
his donation was necessary to ensure
an objective consideration of the
contract.
“Why does anybody give money?
You hope for good government,”
Williams said.
Williams took a swipe at Hance,
who is chairman of the Railroad
Commission, saying the commission
ers’ campaigns are bankrolled by oil
and gas interests, the same industry
it regulates. “That’s a fact of life,’’
Williams said.
Hance’s campaign has requested,
under the Texas Open Records Act,
all information regarding Mattox’s
investigation of the state phone con
tract.
“Mattox’s anti-trust division did
conduct an investigation early in the
year and we believe took additional
steps following the August 25, 1988
contribution,’’ Hance spokesman
Mark Sanders said.
DFW receives new equipment,
modernizes air traffic control
On Oct. 19, air traffic had to be slowed after oneo
four computer processors failed to restart after mainK
nance. Tower personnel had to reduce traffic arouni
the airport for most of the day to keep from overloail
ing the others.
Air traffic at DFW has grown by leaps and bounds
Anderson said. In 1988, DFW’s approach control han
died 675,000 takeoffs and landings, he said. The nuU
her had grown to 698,000 by 1989.
The air traffic control equipment allows controller!
to track flights on screen and see the plane’s call signal
size, speed, altitude and destination, Bertelsen said.l
also generates a conflict alert if two aircraft are tooclos!
to each other or if a plane is flying too low.
Dallas-Fort Worth joins New' York as one of theonl)
two sites where the Unisys-designed ARTS Ille equip
ment is in use, Bertelsen said. New systems should la
on-line in Los Angeles and some of the nation’s otlic!
busier airports by mid-year, Bertelsen said.
However, the DFW upgrade is not enough, accord
ing to a Texas congressman.
In testimony before the House Public Works Slid
committee on Aviation Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Mai
tin Frost, D-Dallas, called on the FAA to go evenfui’
ther in its upgrade. -
GRAPEVINE (AP) — For 19 minutes last October,
controllers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
did not know exactly where all the planes were.
The computer glitch that knocked out the computers
and drew congressional scrutiny should be a thing of
the past with the installation of new air traffic control
equipment at the nation’s second-busiest airport.
Tne new software, which upgrades equipment de
signed in the 1960s, went on line at 5 a.m. Tuesday fol
lowing a successful 72-hour test, according to Bob Ber
telsen, DFW’s systems manager for automation.
The upgrade,“which began in December, consists of a
new solid state memory to replace the old system, a new
computer processor to act as a backup to the four al
ready in place and a new time enhancement computer
program, Bertelsen said Tuesday.
The improvements cost an estimated $600,000, said
Bill Anderson, assistant public affairs officer for the
Federal Aviation Administration’s southwest region.
“We have gained about 40 percent of an increase in
our capacity,” Bertelsen said. “That was our problem
before.”
On Oct. 14, Bertelson said, the system overloaded be
cause of heavy traffic, causing flight information to dis
appear from the screen for 19 minutes. Controllers
used voice information and manual plotting to figure
out where the planes were.
Latest polls show
Richards slumping
in bid for primary
AUSTIN (AP) — Democrat
Ann Richards insisted Tuesday
that her slump in the most recent
statewide opinion poll was good
news in her bid for governor be
cause it will kick complacent sup
porters into actionf
“I have been Yeally kind of
bothered that my supporters
were rather complacent in think
ing we had this race won, that the
polls all reflected we were very
far ahead,” Richards said.
The state treasurer, who for
months led in surveys on the
March 13 Democratic primary,
dropped into a statistical tie with
former Gov. Mark White in a Dal
las Morning News-Houston
Chronicle survey published Sun
day.
Richards fell from 36 percent
support in January to 31 percent,
while White rose from 29 percent
to 34 percent. Attorney General
Jim Mattox ran third at 17 per
cent in the new survey, which had
a margin of error of 5.5 points.
Richards said she believes the
poll is accurate.
“That reflection is exactly what
I’ve been telling supporters for a
long time: that this race is very
tight,” she said. “It’s going to be
tight right down to the wire.”
One of her own strategists,
Austin consultant George Ship-
ley, last week was quoted as saying
Richards could “leave the coun
try” and still make the April 10
runoff.
The candidate disagreed Tues
day. “This new poll helps me in
the sense that it tells people just
exactly what I’ve been sayiqg ...
This is going to be a close and
narrow race and we need them
out there working.”
White has said the poll shows
his momentum, while Mattox said
it was wrong and that his own
campaign surveys show him lead-
in S\ . -
Richards said she didn’t know
whether the newspapers' poll re
flected effects of two incidents
which have put her on the de
fensive over the past two weeks.
First, Mattox and White crit
icized her over a comment made
during a televised debate, when
she appeared to say politicians
had no business telling a “white
woman” whether to have an abor
tion.
Richards insists she meant to
say “whether or why a woman"-
and that her heavy drawl con
fused listeners.
Then, she said she might have
written the word “wetback” in a
1976 speech text but denied ever
actually saying the word. She also
accused Mattox of planting an ar
ticle about the speech in a His-
panic-oriented newspaper last
week. Mattox denied it.
Richards said Tuesday that her
long record as a civil rights activ
ist was widely known, and she
noted receiving endorsements
from such minority leaders as
former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan
and former San Antonio Mayor
Henry Cisneros.
“I started with the farm work
ers 22 years ago, their first march
from the (Rio Grande) Valley (to
Austin),” she said. “The first cam
paign I was ever involved in was
Henry B. Gonzalez for governor
and we worked out of the
NAAGP headquarters.
“I have the best hiring record,
the best promotion record, the
best purchasing record for mi
norities of anybody in state gov
ernment. And people know that."