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third of a series of lectures spon
sored by the Faculty Senate Intel
national Programs Subcommit
tee, the Office of International
Coordination and Phi Beta Delta
International Honor Society.
Mobley, who has made a com
mitment to promote internation
alism during his tenure as presi
dent, chairs the Texas
Commissioner’s Committee on
International issues in Higher
Education. The committee was
created to develop “recommen
dations on policies’, programs and
activities that will help ensure that
higher education in Texas is re
sponding in an effective and effi
cient fashion to international ed
ucation and the international
economic development needs of
Texas."
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liaving international
students on a campus ...
does not make that
institution international.”
— William H. Mobley,
Texas A&M president
In his lecture, Mobley said that
history has made it clear that
many great civilizations that pros
pered for ages ceased to function
effectively when confronted with
international competition and the
realities of interdependency with
other cultures.
He said he does not want to see
what happened to ancient civiliza
tions such as the Egyptians, Ro
mans and Mayans happen to the
United States. And, he said it will
unless measures are taken to in
ternationalize all aspects of peo
ple's lives, especially education.
Education is the key to under
standing globalization and the in
ternationalization of the compet
itive business marketplace, he
said. In order for the United
States to remain competitive in
ternationally, he said institutions
of higher learning need to
strengthen the international
knowledge of their faculty and
students.
“Having international students
on a campus or an international
contract abroad does not make
that institution international,” he
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jj “Having courses on Asia, Eu-
!fope or Latin America and for
eign language courses helps but
does not cause us to he interna
tional.
“What does make an institution
international is the presence of an
obvious institution-wide positive
attitude toward the better umler-
; standing of other cultures and so
cieties,”
In order for the United States
to survive and prosper, it must
See Survival/Page 4
Idaho coach Davis arrives; rumors fly
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
University of Idaho coach Kermit
Davis Jr. flew in to College Station
Tuesday night hours after the Asso
ciated Press reported that Texas
A&M Athletic Director John David
Crow had made a decision on the va
cant A&M men’s basketball coaching
position.
Crow was quoted as telling Hous
ton television station KRIV, “We
have decided on who we would like
to be our new head coach. We’re just
not ready to name him yet.
“I need to notify some people of
some things.”
However, Chow told a group of
reporters at approximately midnight
that Davis was brought in “for just
another visit.”
When asked if it was obvious why
Davis was flown in so secretly, Crow
wouldn’t deny the possibility that an
announcement could be made soon.
He indicated that he and Davis had
talked before.
“I hope it’s obvious (why Davis is
here),” he said. “There’s still a thing
or two that’s got to be done. We
don’t have a coach yet.”
Crow, who has been searching for
a replacement for interim coach
John Thornton, met Davis in Dallas,
and from there flew in on a Univer
sity plane. They arrived at Eas-
terwood Airport at 1 1 p.m., and
then drove to the Memorial Student
Center, where Davis checked into a
room in the MSC Hotel.
Davis and Crow met behind
locked doors for approximately 45
minutes. Crow said no contracts
were discussed, and he wouldn’t
have anything to say until Wednes-
da >- . „
“We’ll know in the morning,
Crow said. “There are some proce
dures we have to go through.” Chow
said that discussions had not reached
the point where it was up to Davis to
accept or reject an offer.
Crow described the visit as an
other interview with a potential can
didate.
“We’ve got to talk,” he said. “I
brought in a coach and I’m going to
talk to him.”
Rumors had been circling
throughout the athletic department
Tuesday that Crow had made a deci
sion, and that an announcement
could be made as soon as Wednes
day.
Three published reports Tuesday
named different candidates for the
head coaching position. Tuesday’s
edition of the Bryan-College Station
Eagle quoted an anonymous source
as saying that the University of Ala-
bama-Birmingham’s Gene Bartow
was Crow’s leading candidate.
But KRIV reported that Davis
had been offered the head coaching
position.
The report, quoting unnamed
sources, said Crow had contacted
Davis by telephone at his in-law’s
home in Helena, Ark., Tuesday af
ternoon and offered him the job.
That reported phone call came
just hours after the Houston Post re
ported that Crow already had de
cided on Bartow.
The Post, also quoting a source
“close to the A&M decision-making”
said that Bartow was looking “good
as gold.” The newspaper reported
that Bartow left Birmingham Mon
day morning and was believed to
have met with Crow late Monday af
ternoon.
A&M Sports Information Direc
tor Alan Cannon said that as far as
he knew, Crow hadn’t made a final
decision on Thornton’s replace
ment.
Photo byjayjanner
A&M Athletic Director John
David Crow (right) arrived in
College Station Tuesday night
with Idaho’s Kermit Davis Jr.,
a possible replacement for
A&M interim basketball coach
John Thornton (above).
“I’m tired of all the ‘unnamed’
sources,” Cannon said Tuesday
night during A&M’s baseball dou
bleheader. “When I left John David
See Davis/Page 7
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Last chance offered for free waste disposal
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Departments on the Texas A&M
campus with unidentified chemicals
will have one last opportunity to
have “unknowns” identified and re
moved without additional cost to
their departments.
Jon Demere, safety coordinator
for A&M’s Safety and Health Office,
said that, to ensure a safer workplace
A&M is in the process of determin
ing the feasability of having an out
side contractor identify and dispose
of unidentified chemical hazardous
waste on campus.
Demere said A&M has had an ef
fective way of disposing identified
chemicals since 1980.
A local chemical disposal com
pany is currently handling normal
chemical waste pick-up and disposal
but, Demere said, this company does
not normally handle chemical un
knowns.
Additionally, government regula
tion prohibits the transportation of
unknown chemicals.
Because the Safety and Health
Office has had a number of requests
for disposal of unknown chemicals,
Demere said, surveys were sent to in
dividual departments in January
Survey results evaluate waste options
Public Service Announcement
The Safety and Health Office is in the process of
determining the feasibility of having an outside con
tractor identify and dispose of unidentified chemical
hazardous waste presently located on the Texas
A&M University campus.
Individual departments on campus have been
provided with a survey sheet to be used to locate, de
termine number of containers and list the size of
each container. Copies of this survey should have
been distributed to individual laboratories within
each department.
If you have unidentified chemicals and have not
received and filled out this survey sheet, or provided
your department with information on unidentified
chemicals in your workplace, please request more in
formation and survey sheets from Jon Demere at
845-2132.
Cooperation in this matter will ensure the success
ful elimination of chemical waste unknowns on cam
pus. It should be understood that this chemical waste
identification and disposal program will not be re
peated; and in the future, unidentified chemical
waste will not be picked up until properly identified
at the expense of the department generating the
chemical waste.
asking for the locations and quanti
ties of unknown chemicals.
By March 15, about 80 percent of
the 40 departments polled had re
sponded.
It is necessary to know the quan
tity of unknown chemicals presently
on campus because this number will
be used to determine the amount of
money needed to properly dispose
of the chemicals.
Requests for bids from chemical
disposal companies will be based on
the number of unknowns reported
on campus.
Demere said it would be cheaper
per analysis for a company to iden
tify and dispose of the chemicals all
at once instead of one by one.
Although it has always been the
responsibility of each department to
identify and label all chemical waste,
Demere said, chemical analysis is ex
pensive and some departments do
not have funds set aside for such
chemical identification. This has cre
ated an accumulation of unknowns
over the past few years.
“We hope to give the University a
clean slate by providing this oppor
tunity at no expense to depart
ments,” Demere said.
Demere said that depending on
what the chemical waste is, disposal
can be incinerated, used for fuel, put
in a land fill, neutralized or recycled.
The University and chemical dis
posal companies must follow gov
ernment regulations on identifica
tion, labeling and disposal of all
chemical waste.
In the summer of 1980, before
current regulations came into effect
concerning identification and label
ing, a grace period was given to de
partments with unknown chemicals.
These departments could turn in
unknown chemicals to the Safety
and Health Office for proper dispo
sal instead of spending departmen
tal money to identify and clispose of
them.
Demere said this grace period was
supposed to be a one-time opportu
nity, but it has become clear that it
was not as effective as hoped.
“In the future, if any department
creates an unknown, cost for chemi
cal analysis for identification will be
at department expense,” Demere
said.
Demere said he does not foresee
the same thing happening to this
grace period.
“People are more aware of chemi
cal hazards now than they were 10
years ago,” Demere said. “There is a
bigger effort to ensure that people
are not exposed to chemicals, espe
cially unknown chemicals. People
would rather not have them
around.”
By Andy Kehoe
Of The Battalion Staff
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Voting for the 1990 Texas A&M Student
Government elections will be Thursday
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Polling sites will be in the MSC Flag
Room, the Academic Plaza, the Blocker
Building and the Kleberg Building. In case
of rain, the voting at the Academic Plaza
will be moved to the covered porch of the
Sterling C. Evans Library.
All students must present A&M identifi
cation to vote.
Election results will be announced at
11:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lawrence Sulli
van Ross statue. If necessary, runoff elec
tions are scheduled for April 3.
Candidates for all offices are:
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT:
• Russell K. Garrett
• Ty Clevenger
• Beth Ammons
• Dan Gattis
• Craig Sandlin
SENIOR YELL LEADER:
• Hunter Shurtleff
• Craig Weynand
• Joe Valentino
• Melissa Martin
• Kevin B. Fitzgerald
• Brandt C. Ince
• Julian Williams
JUNIOR YELL LEADER:
• Wesley Roark
• Kelly Hein
• Kelly Toney
• Charles Phipps
• Kerry Cox
• Drew Davis
• Ashley Fuhrmann
LEGISLATIVE CHAIRS OF
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS:
• Tim King
• Dan Hargrove
• Angie Arrona
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS:
• John Ansbach
FINANCE:
• Chuck Keffer
• Steward Luedke
STUDENT SERVICES:
• David Shasteen
• Meredith A. Brown
• Tiffany Blaschke
CLASS OF ’91 PRESIDENT:
• Eleanor Manson
• Leslie Willingham
• Leslie Frizzell
CLASS OF ’91 VICE PRESIDENT:
• Patrick Foster
• Scott Jones
CLASS OF ’91 SECRETARY:
• Kathleen Ellen Smith
CLASS OF ’91 TREASURER:
• Teri Mozisek
• Mike Freeman
CLASS OF ’91 SOCIAL SECRETARY:
• Darcey Smith
CLASS OF ’91 HISTORIAN:
• Gil Delgado
CLASS OF ’92 PRESIDENT:
• Jennifer A. Collins
• Jason D. Scott
• Bill Van Eman
• Rod Garrett
CLASS OF ’92 VICE PRESIDENT:
• Shawn R. Roberts
• Jeff Shipley
• Brandon Davis
• Heather Casteel
CLASS OF ’92 SECRETARY:
• Amy Jacobson
CLASS OF ’92 TREASURER:
• Jen Darr
CLASS OF ’92 SOCIAL SECRETARY:
• Terri Welch
• Lisa Dowlen
CLASS OF ’92 HISTORIAN:
• Pat Satterwhite
• Tiffany A. Blaschke
CLASS OF ’93 PRESIDENT:
• Bill Benker
• Pat Seiber
• Jim Harlan
• Jerry E. Gonzalez
CLASS OF ’93 VICE PRESIDENT:
• John Sweeney
CLASS OF ’93 SECRETARY:
• Jennifer Cheatham
CLASS OF ’93 TREASURER:
• Eric S. Standlee
• Wayne W. Brown III
• Tim Isgitt
CLASS OF ’93 SOCIAL SECRETARY:
• Melissa Stoesser
CLASS OF ’93 HISTORIAN:Open
COLLEGE SENATE REPRESENTA
TIVES:
AGRICULTURE SOPHOMORE:
• Malcom Rude
AGRICULTURE JUNIOR:
• Stephen Weber
AGRICULTURE SENIOR:
• Ward Miller
ARCHITECTURE AT LARGE:
• Greg Walston
• Brian Wachhaus
• Tim Hagen
• Peter Barnhart
• Mark Shipman
BUSINESS SOPHOMORE:
• Holly Horton
• Jim Harlan
• Keith Kouba
BUSINESS JUNIOR:
• Adam W. Vanek
• Pat Satterwhite
• Robert Wright
BUSINESS SENIOR:
• Erica Murphy
• Kerrie Neck
EDUCATION SOPHOMORE:
• Christina Saladino
• Angela Wiseman
EDUCATION JUNIOR: Open
EDUCATION SENIOR: Open
ENGINEERING SOPHOMORE:
• Kevin W. Liles
• Brant Stephenson
• Glenn A. Taylor, III
ENGINEERING JUNIOR:
• Kevin Byerly
• Shipla Amin
• Steven White
• Ben Mathis
• Jarret McCleskey
• Yvonne An
• Steve Dumaine
ENGINEERING SENIOR:
• John Blanton
• Jeff Ground
• Heather L. Mahaney
• J.J. Jakubik
• Frank J. Janas
ENGINEERING AT LARGE:
• Ray Hernandez
• Jason T. Arbaugh
• David Hawkins
• Mansoor Parvaiz
• Eric S. Standlee
GENERAL STUDIES SOPHOMORE:
• Bill Benker
• Fernando Del Bosque
• John Nilson
GEOSCIENCES AT LARGE: Open
LIBERAL ARTS SOPHOMORE:
• Jimmy Jones
• Scott McClung
• Lisa M. Cash
• David Brooks
• Mike Pinkus
LIBERAL ARTS JUNIOR:
• Kent Lindley
• Steve Beller
• Mike Downs
• Vanessa K. Taylor
• Kendall Brock
LIBERAL ARTS SENIOR:
• Janice Steffes
• Janette Hennekes
• Carl McKnight
• Linda M. Bergeron
SCIENCE AT LARGE:
• Charles Phipps
See Candidates/Page 5