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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.
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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
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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-
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