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Page 18 The Battalion Monday, August 27, t WiRRD by Scott McCullar e 1990 THE STUDENT X. D. CARD OF DORIAN 6 KAY Spade Phillips, Matt Kowalski ft CITY WHOSE £<onc LoefU-E PROVIDES H "PRIME SPoT FOR ST£7?MV 0UN6LE5, TEEMiNO \WITH VPNCpEROOS Wildlife. OVER TWS MPSESTic iff HD Poles feftTlHMULCH, * Power Fot- tyrput, ^/HosE STREh/bTH PHD PROWESS are Known nRoObHour the News (Continued from page 1) covers alcohol abuse. Employees can be tested if reasonable suspicion ex ists that their job performance has been affected by drug use. Full details of this policy have not yet been ironed out, but each school in the System will handle in its own way students in attendance sus pected of drug use. Each school will develop its policy, later to be ap proved by the System general coun sel. • The Board of Regents ap proved a $984.4 million budget for the System’s 1991 Fiscal year. With the addition of West Texas State University to the System on Sept. 1, the budget will increase to $1.02 bil lion, making it the largest budget ever approved by the Board. A&M alone will spend $550.6 million in 1991. • A&M’s new campus in Ko- riyama, Japan, opened and began classes. Japanese students enrolled at the campus will spend two years studying and then relocate to the main College Station campus. In fu ture years, students from the United States will attend A&M at Koriyama. JUNE • System Chancellor Perry L. Adkisson resigned June 1, but said he would remain chancellor until Jan. 1 or a successor is found. Adkisson, who was chancellor for four years, said he accomplished most of his goals as chancellor and wanted to resume his duties as dis-i tinguished professor of entomology. Board of Regents Chairman Wil liam McKenzie formed a search committee immediately to find a suc cessor for Adkisson. No names have been announced. • A&M opened another overseas campus in June in Castiglion Fioren- tino, Italy, as part of its Study Abroad Programs. The school, named the University Santa Chiara Center, is in a conservatory in a small hill town. Facilities consist of classrooms, art studios, a gallery, music center and theater, student lounge, library and administrative offices. The program offers year-round courses in the lib eral arts and architecture. • Science magazine, a well-known and respected magazine, reported in a June issue that experiments at A&M last year might have been ma nipulated to give results supporting cold fusion. The story in the magazine also said A&M hasn’t conducted a formal investigation though fraud is widely suspected. John Fackler, dean of the College of Science, denied that fraud oc curred during the cold fusion exper iments and said the University had no reason to investigate. • A&M’s Riverside campus con solidated with the Institute of Elec tronic Science in San Antonio be cause of increased enrollment which is taxing the outdated facilities at Riverside. The move to the San Antonio campus will not be complete for an other year. Although the classes will relocate, most of the Texas Agricul tural Extension Service activities will continue at the Riverside campus. • Dr. E. Dean Gage was named provost and vice president for aca demic affairs by the System Board of Regents on June 29. Gage had served in the interim position since Jan. 1 when Dr. Donald McDonald resigned. Gage’s position includes oversee ing undergraduate and graduate teaching, faculty and research en deavors. JULY • A&M leased the MSG Bookstore to Barnes & Noble Bookstores Inc., a private firm which manages more than 200 bookstores across the nation. Uni versity officials decided to lease the bookstore to a private company to improve its operations. Barnes & Noble, which also oper ates bookstores at the University of Houston, University of Oklahoma and University of Michigan, will manage the gift store on the first floor of the MSG, the bookstore in the basement and the Kyle Field gift shop. The company plans to renovate the bookstore by adding 27,000 more square feet and adding an en trance. • The University reached an agreement with the president of Points Plus to begin accepting the Points Plus card at on-campus loca tions. Points Plus cardholders, which have been able to use the card off campus, can now use it at on-campus restaurants, bus stops, and even to pay fines or bills. • The Battalion initiated BAT- TIPS, a phone line for readers to phone in story ideas. With BAT- TIPS, students and faculty and staff members can call 845-3315 24 hours a day and leave story ideas on the an swering machine for The Battalion. • Twenty-seven years after women began enrolling at A&M, a woman will be at the helm of one of its colleges. The Board of Regents appointed Dr. Jane A. Stallings as dean of the College of Education. She becomes the first woman to serve as a dean at A&M. Stallings, who assumes the posi tion Sept. 1, presently is head of the Department of Curriculum and In struction in the University of Hous- Sri Lanka war continues KARADIYANARU, Sri Lanka (AP) — The barefoot rifle-toting guerrillas occupying this eastern village hardly seem a match for the crisply uniformed govern ment soldiers down the road with well-oiled machine guns. But here and elsewhere in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Ti ger rebels —many of them only teen-agers — are eng aging the army in a long and savage civil war. “Step by step we will defeat the army,” said a Tiger commander who uses the name Newton. That seems unlikely, in the view of observers and Western diplo mats. But the army also seems incapable of beating the ragtag guerrillas. In the north, the government launched a major of fensive last week to relieve Jaffna Fort, a 300-year-old colonial outpost besieged by the rebels for 10 weeks. After initial gains, the advance bogged down under heavy rebel mortar fire and machine-gun fusillades from bunkers, the government said. On Sunday, military officials said, troops overran the guerrillas after a three-hour battle on Mandativu Is land, a stepping stone to the star-shaped fortress. But army troops have failed to meet their aim of reaching the trapped 250-man garrison in the fort, the government’s strongest outpost on the rebel-controlled Jaffna Peninsula. On the eastern front, the guerrillas have once again yielded the main towns and most of the roads to the army. They have faded into the jungles and the villages from where they have launched hit-and-run raids and mined roads for the past seven years. Newton, asked about his tactical objectives simple answer. “We are going to kill a large numbero: army,” he said. Newton and two other Tiger commanders, knownai Karikalan and Nithi, spoke in a bare room in thedusi' village of Karadiyanaru, on the main road leadings Batticaloa, 170 miles southeast of Jaffna. Earlier, government officials had claimed all thn had been killed. The rebels were contacted by walkie-talkie from checkpoint manned by a dozen barefoot teen-agerswk wore fatigue shirts and ammunition belts, stuf fed will rifle clips, grenades and a toothbrush —for cleanb; weapons. The civil war erupted in 1983 over Tamil complaint! that they were suppressed by the Sinhalese, who com prise 75 percent of the population and control thegoi ernment. Tamils make up 18 percent of Sri Lanka’s li million people. The Tigers, who demand independence for then ethnic minority, are the only Tamil group continuity the fight. Others gave up in 1987 and agreed tonegm date for an autonomous region in the north and east After a 13-month cease-fire, the Tigers resumedthi war June 11, by storming 30 police and army barrack in the east. Villagers in Karadiyanaru appeared unhappy ovei the presence of the rebels. Food is scarce, comment has stopped and the area is virtually cut off fromtln rest of the region. Army patrols occasionally coitt through, firing into roadside homes. Pi yDOll (The E For tl evin 1 exas jaded c Seldo ss a c rback Ian lea | ffense ccomj teat tr [most |ill. I ss o ,oes a 1 ave u a e r b a ith ower. es ton’s College of Education. AUGUST • A&M opened a lounge, eate- rie and gift shop called “Billy Mac’s” at the McKenzie Terminal of Eas- terwood Airport Aug. 16. The lounge and gift shop, named for Board of Regents Chairman William McKenzie, was in the original plans for the terminal. It is the only bar on the A&M campus. • University administrators asked state budget officials for $160 mil lion more for the 1992-1993 bien nium. Administrators told the bud get planners that A&M needs $70 million more for 1992 and $90 mil lion more for 1993 to keep up with other schools in higher education. Provost Gage said A&M’s major needs for the money were to raise the comparably low faculty and staff salaries and to increase appropria tions for the Sterling C. Evans Li brary. • A&M graduate student Michael Worsham announced his intention to run for the U.S. House of Rep resentatives this fall as a write-in can didate. Worsham, a civil engineering graduate student, said his platform was based primarily on environmen tal issues, which he said Congress is neglecting. Worsham is the founder of the local Texas Environmental Action Coalition. • The most famous of the trans planted MSC trees, the “Rudder Oak,” died and was chopped down after months of intense heat and sev eral transportation problems. The Rudder Oak was one of several trees removed and boxed for transplanta tion earlier this year because of the MSC expansion project. Several of the other trees trans planted also were in trouble as Uni versity officials said some trees were “in shock” from the move and the heat. Bulgarian protesters burn Socialist Party building SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Anti- Communist protesters set fire Sun day to the headquarters of the gov erning Socialist Party, throwing torches through windows and scat tering documents in the street. Police sealed off roads into the capital and announced a national alert. President Zhelyu Zhelev said the country was in danger of “drifting ... into a military dictatorship.” He cut short his holiday in the Black Sea city of Varna to deliver a nationally broadcast radio appeal for law and Last favlas, tichard lietlical [nee it ■gainst I Pavla: order. Several firefighters and bystand ers near the burned building wen apparently injured by fallingdebrii said a doctor on the scene. Onedem onstrator said police were dubbing 8-24 le protesters inside the buildin The eight-story granite buildin: from the 1950s, the largest in ome la< ame. Perha capital of Sofia, was formerly tbt iard-no headquarters of the Communis Party, which changed its nametotk Socialist Party after refonntn ousted hard-line Communist leadti Todor Zhivkov in November. Poll (Continued from page 1) schools, and adding more non-con ference games to attract larger tele vision audiences. “Without these and other changes, the Southwest Conference cannot be a viable organization for excellence both in academic pursuits and in athletic competition,” accord ing to the statement. The Battalion poll is a survey of Texas A&M students intended to measure opinions about campus-re lated issues. The poll, which will be conducted periodically, is taken from a random sample of students attending school. A sample of 400 students was ob tained from telephone interviews, A random sample of 400 yieldsi margin of error of plus or minusfa percentage {joints with 95 perceni confidence. This means that if the total stu dent population were surveyed,tbt results obtained in the present salt- f ile would be within plus or 1 ive percentage points. The poll was conducted exdu sively for The Battalion by Researd Associates, a firm operated by A&M students Alister Miller and Mil Peck. Miller and Peck are graduates dents in the sociology department Cindy McMillian, editor of Tbt Battalion, asks students to call Tbt Battalion office at 845-2647 if dents who participate in the pollen- counter any problems. ige in A md led md a 1 owl. Despi he first ally A& on also ip ovt tckled. Hicha 988 se; ible foi if NCA lown wi He er en Lew earn wit )lay. Howe nan in ating h he Gotti Richa ^Loupors^ BOOKSTORES “I bought lots of used books for you good Ags! 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