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A&M holds education seminar
By ISSELLE MCALLISTER
Of The Battalion Staff
Leaders in higher education will
receive training in academic admin
istration during Texas A&M’s Col
lege of Education’s 23rd annual
seminar Sunday through Friday.
The seminar, "Effective Lead
ership in Higher Education Admin
istration,” is one week, of intensive
management training for new and/
or prospective academic administra
tors.
Dr. Bryan Cole, associate dean of
the College of Education, said the
seminar is designed to show the 35
selected participants the concepts
and practices relevant to academic
administration, while stressing deci
sion making and management.
Several noted speakers will be fea
tured including Haskell Monroe,
chancellor of the University of Mis-
souri-Columbia, Barry B. Thomp
son, president of Tarleton State Uni
versity, and David Garner, assistant
commissioner and director of plan
ning for the Texas Higher Educa-
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Gail Burner, dean of arts and sci
ences at McLennan Community Col-
lege, Juliet V. Garcia, president of
Texas Southmost College, and D.
Parker Young, a professor at the In
stitute of Higher Education at the
University of Georgia also are guest
speakers.
Several A&M faculty members
also will be among those speaking.
The College of Education has
trained about 600 new administra
tors through this program.
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Federal AIDS panel makes first Texas visit
DALLAS (AP) — Federal AIDS
investigators will meet in Dallas next
week to look into barriers that pre
vent help from reaching people with
AIDS in the South.
The Rev. Scott Allen of Dallas,
chairman of the U.S. commission on
AIDS subcommittee, said the meet
ing will mark the first visit of a fed
eral AIDS commission to Texas. The
panel will meet with regional health
workers on AIDS testing and inter
vention.
The panel will convene its first
fact-finding session at Parkland Me
morial Hospital on Monday and fo
cus on the problems of human im
munodeficiency virus testing and
early intervention.
Two dozen speakers are sched
uled to talk to the panel Tuesday on
problems confronting people with
AIDS who need social and human
services.
The 15-member commission was
created by Congress in August and
charged with advising Congress and
the president on development of a
“consistent national policy concern
ing AIDS” and the HIV epidemic.
The meetings will draw partici
pants mainly from the South, includ
ing officials from Texas, Tennessee,
New Mexico, Florida, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
The chairwoman of the National
Commission on AIDS, Dr. June Os
born of the University of Michigan,
also will attend.
The subcommittee held similar
meetings in Boston in February and
plans another meeting in Seattle late
this month. A report with a list of
recommendations is scheduled to be
presented to the full commission in
September, Allen said.
The regional meetings help the
commission determine how the
country is coping with the AIDS epi
demic and how best to improve serv
ices to the people affected, he said.
The South and Southwest face a
regional problem in preventing dis
crimination against AIDS patients,
Allen said. He said Texas, unlike
other states, does not have any anti-
discrimination measures that would
e rotect the jobs of people who have
een diagnosed with the disease but
are still healthy enough to continue
working.
"If we’re going to stop this epide
mic, we need to treat people with
compassion and respect and dignity
and have safeguards to protect the
individual,” he said.
Houston officials hope
to impress world leaders
City flaunts recovery, employment, wisdom
Christian activists receive
$21,000 from Williams
for campaign propaganda
AUSTIN (AP) — Two Christian
activists campaigning to portray
Democratic gubernatorial nominee
Ann Richards as an “honorary les
bian” have financial ties to her Re
publican opponent Clayton Wil
liams, a newspaper reported.
In addition, the Williams cam
paign was consulted before the two
promoted the issue at last week’s
state GOP convention, the Dallas
Times Herald reported Wednesday.
But a spokesman for the Williams
campaign denied Thursday that
Williams had anything to do with
trying to depict Richards as an “hon
orary lesbian.”
Adrian Van Zelfdan, president of
the Austin-based Texas Grassroots
Coalition, and Rita Davis, a member
of Women for Williams, have held
numerous news conferences re
cently criticizing Richards for her
support of repealing the state’s so
domy law.
Davis declared Richards an “hon
orary lesbian” after learning that
phrase appeared on a sign held by a
supporter of Richards during a Uni
versity of Texas rally.
During the Republican primary,
Van Zelfdan’s coalition received
“X
I o characterize this as
having been orchestrated
by our campaign is
completely false.”
-Gordon Hensley,
spokesman
$21,000 from Williams for campaign
mailings, the Times Herald reported
after reviewing campaign finance re
ports.
Davis has previously worked for
Charles Phillips, president of Coali
tion of Politically Active Christians,
and a political consultant whom Wil
liams paid more than $112,000 dur
ing the primary.
Phillips said Williams’ staff en
couraged a resolution at the Repub
lican Convention that named Rich
ards an “honorary lesbian.”
“To characterize this as having
been orchestrated by our campaign
is completely false,” Gordon
Hensley, Williams’ spokesman said.
HOUSTON (AP) — When world
leaders visit Houston next week,
they’ll find a stunning recovery from
the days of clogged bankruptcy
courts, double-digit unemployment
and vacant offices caused by oil’s
mid-1980s price collapse.
Houston officials hope the heads
of state from Britain, Japan, Ger
many, Italy;, Canada and France at
tending the economic summit take
home an impression that although
America’s fourth-largest city may
not be as wealthy as in the raucous
boom days of pricey oil, it’s healthier
and a little wiser.
“The energy industry comprises
40 percent of the local economy and
is not likely to drop below that level
in the near future,” said Lee Hogan,
president of the Greater Houston
Partnership, a business lobby group.
“However, the expansion of our
economic base has made Houston’s
economy less vulnerable, and the
relatively stable health care and
space sectors will help to buffer
Houston from shifts in the national
business cycle,” he said.
That cycle for Houston noto
riously has been boom and bust,
going all the way back to its found
ing in 1836 by two land-speculating
brothers from New York.
John and Augustus Allen took out
ads to attract settlers by labeling the
area a kind of tropical paradise near
the Gulf of Mexico. Those who came
found a swampy malaria-infested
quagmire, home for every poisonous
snake in North America. Thus came
the first boom and bust.
The swamps have been filled for
the most part. The mosquitoes and
snakes are still common. Officials
hope the wide economic swings are
things of the past.
Oil and gas is the blood of Hous
ton, and when oil prices soared to
ward $40 per barrel in 1981, the city
basked in its glory as the “Golden
Buckle of the Sun Belt.”
By 1986, oil prices had fallen be
low $10 per barrel, leaving about 85
percent of the 4,500 drilling rigs that
had been laying oil pipe five years
earlier rusting in storage yards.
By 1987, unemployment totaled
nearly 13 percent. At federal bank
ruptcy court, clerks were so busy at
one point they refused to answer the
telephone and left only a recorded
message.
Another of the city’s nicknames —
“Space City,” because it’s home to
NASA’s Johnson Space Center —
took on a whole new meaning as
Houston led the nation in the
amount of vacant office buildings.
But the growth of services, elec
tronics, biotechnology and the medi
cal industry, along with space-re
lated businesses and an
improvement in the energy indus
try, has fueled Houston’s renais
sance.
Employment at the end of 1989
was 1.54 million, vs. 1.35 million in
1980. Population in the Houston
area grew by nearly 19 percent in
the decade to 3.23 million, despite
migration elsewhere during the lean
years of the mid-1980s.
Houston also touts 41 percent of
the job growth for all of Texas, with
50,300 new jobs in the year ending
in March.
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general meeting at noon. Call the
C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
COMMUNITY OF SINGLE ADULTS: will have happy hour at 5:30 p.m. at Tip-
pys. Call 774-4355 for more information.
SIERRA CLUB: Dr. Kirk Brown will talk about “Local recycling, where do we go
from here?” at 7:30 p.m. in the College Station Community Center. Call
846-5576 for more information.
Saturday
REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY: will have an annual picnic
at Dairy Queen Park at 4 p.m. Call 846-1510 for reservations or pay at the
gate.
Sunday
BRAZOS VALLEY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP: will
have a program on the use and misuse of medications at 3 p.m. in 160
TAMU Medical Science Bldg. Call 693-1680 for more information.
Monday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Call the
C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
Tuesday
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
BRAZOS COUNTY A&M CLUB: will have a monthly lunch meeting at noon at
the Clayton Williams Alumni Center. Call 774-7080 for reservations.
BRAZOS VALLEY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S CLUB: will
have a speaker at 6:15 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. Call 825-6798 for more
information.
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“Thursday Night Live"
presents
RON SHOCK & THEA VIDALE
Special engagement
2 great shows each night
Fri. & Sat.July 13 &> 14at8 and 10 p»m.
THEA VIDALE 2 other great comedians
Thursday,July 12 at 9 p.m.
Tickets on sale for Thursday; in advance $7.00
at door $8.00
Call for more information about tickets 693-1736
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