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Texas A&M Battalion “She’s my best friend” Follow Reveille and Mas cot Corporal John Draeger through the day See Page 5 Vol. 90 No. 7 USPS 045360 10 Pages Is said the v« J.S. Pacific [ sclining pro ail fields has| such large ta rn West CT everal days,j and provision) Middle East] said. “Thee t firm, butii ance.” pokesman erg said Ci • on board foi| als and gave k. College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 11,1990 extbook publishers sue Kinko’s Corp. nvolving fair use copyright regulations r CHRIS VAUGHN flhe Battalion Staff A copyright infringement case be- [nning today involving Kinko’s jraphics Corp. and eight major itblishers could jeopardize how Bexas A&M and other college stu- ftnts obtain copies of portions of „ textbooks. ■ Eight major publishing compa nies, including McGraw-Hill, larper 8c Row and Prentice-Hall, ■ed a lawsuit in April against two linko’s copy shops in New York City forcopyright infringement. I The trial, set in a federal district Imrt in New York, begins today and Texpected to last two weeks. ] The publishing companies as- |rted that the two shops in New jork “copied substantial portions” copyrighted works without per mission and “reproduced antholo gies containing all or parts of several different works,” then sold the an thologies to university students for profit. But the Kinko’s company, which operates 500 stores nationwide, in cluding one in College Station, maintains it did not violate the Copy right Act by making copies of por tions of textbooks. Kinko’s represen tatives say their copying falls under the fair use exemption of the law. That difference in the law’s inter pretation brought about the lawsuit. The publishing companies believe the two Kinko’s shops, and in fact most Kinko’s shops, copy multiple chapters of books, which they say does not fall under the fair use exemption. “It is prohibited in the Copyright Act to make an anthology,” said Carol Risher, director of copyright at the Association of American Pub lishers. “If the material can be used as a substitute for a textbook, it is il legal. Certains chapters are OK, but not chapter after chapter.” The Association of American Publishers in Washington, D.C., a trade association representing book publishers, is coordinating the law suit on behalf of the named plain tiffs. Kinko’s representatives said an thologies are not defined in the copyright law and publishers are try ing to mislead the public. “We don’t sell anthologies,” Kurt Koenig, a Kinko’s vice president, said from Kinko’s headquarters in Ventura, Calif. “We sell class hand- Photo by Mike C. Mulvey “It’s going to rain for the next 24 hours and con- tion from various weather charts posted on the tinue on into Wednesday,” says Jeff Verosky, a 12th floor of the Eller Building. He checks the senior meteorology major, who gathers informa- charts daily for his METR 452 class. A&M to develop efficient ampus-wide recycling plan By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff I Monday 2:00 p.m- nbers are 2Z at 693- An organized, campus-wide recy- ling program at Texas A&M is not mly feasible, but also necessary, ccording to a report accepted Mon- lay by the Faculty Senate. The report, based on a study con- lucted for the subcommittee on re- yding by civil engineering graduate indent John Potter, stated A&M hould develop an efficient and or- ;anized solid waste recycling pro- ;ram. “We should act now, while we lave the luxury of time to plan and levelop an efficient, effective sys- em, before landfill costs and prob- ems in Texas force us into a crisis eaction,” the report stated. The University, which also has leen studying the feasibility of a re ading program, presently is devel- iping a pilot program to recycle pa ler products in certain campus wildings. Physical Plant director Joe Sugg has worked with faculty members to develop the program, which is ex pected to go before the administra tion for approval later this month. The pilot program reportedly will involve six buildings on campus, in- duding Kleberg, Harrington, Coke and Zachry, and will recycle only white office paper. The pilot program would seek to consolidate the unrelated recycling efforts of organizations and depart ments on campus, such as the Ster ling G. Evans Library, David G. Eller Oceanography and Meteorology Building and some of the College of Medicine buildings. Other campus groups already ac tive in recycling are Grounds Main tenance crews, which collect and "If (recycling) is more than an economic issue — it is a moral issue.” — Dr. Donn Hancher, civil engineering professor compost yard waste, rather than dumping it, and the Purchasing and Stores Division. The Faculty Senate report stated A&M produces about 7,600 tons of solid waste, including 5,700 tons of paper, every year and spends almost $500,000 disposing of it. If that paper and aluminum were recycled, it could save the University almost $100,000 in disposal costs, according to the study. outs and course packets. There is no use of anthologies to describe our materials.” Koenig said the publishers are try ing to change the present copyright laws through a judge’s decision in this lawsuit. “The publishers have filed the suit to change the interpretation of the law,” he said. “Under the present law, the materials were copied as a fair use. The publishers want to change that.” Educational, scientific and re search purposes, criticism, editorial comment and news reporting are among the exceptions to copyright infringement. For example, a professor can run off copies of a magazine article and distribute them to a class without See Kinko’s/Page 10 Mike Fader, a senior psychology major from Mexico City, Mex ico, waits for a printed copy from one of the copying machines at Kinko’s early Monday morning. Kinko’s Graphics Corp. is in volved in a copyright infringment case which begins today. Helping the less fortunate Management professor shapes policy, programs for poor in New York City By STACY ALLEN Of The Battalion Staff Helping less fortunate New York ers work toward economic indepen dence is Dr. Thomas Reed’s goal in his new position at the Human Re sources Administration in New York City. Reed, a professor of management at Texas A&M, was granted a one- year leave of absence to become first deputy administrator for policy and program development at HRA. The new position allows him to put his background in employment issues to work, he says. “I want to create policy that can create economic independence for people through giving them job skills and opportunity,” he says. HRA is New York City’s social service agency, handling all anti poverty programs. The administra tion has a $6.2 billion budget and employs 32,000 people. :puty Reed is responsible for a department employing 50 staff members. The department, he says, concen trates on family and children’s is sues, homelessness and welfare re cipient employment through initiating policy, conducting long term research and studying causes and consequences of poverty and homelessness. Additionally, it evaluates existing programs for effectiveness and de signs new policies to meet critical needs facing New York City. Reed says his goal in his new posi tion is to work toward shrinking the number of welfare recipients through education and job training. The key to eliminating poverty, he says, is through breaking the cy cle of poverty among families. “New York spends more money for welfare than any other state, yet the problem is getting worse and worse,” he says. “We must give wel fare recipients training and educa tion to make it possible for them to get jobs.” Reed says the election of David Dinkins as mayor gives him hope the situation in New York can change. This administration, he believes, is serious about working toward the elimination of poverty. “I would like to work with this ad ministration to create policies and programs that will be supportive of families and children,” he says. “With Dinkins’ administration, there is a chance to relieve some of the misery in New York.” Reed said at the conclusion of his work at HRA, he intends to return to A&M and continue teaching in the management department. If the appropriate administration is elected into the governor’s office in Texas, Reed also would like to uti lize his knowledge and research to create greater opportunity for the poor in Texas. Some of the savings would have to be refunneled into developing the program, including the appointing of a director of recycling, but recy cling goes beyond pure dollars, the recycling subcommittee chairman said. “It’s more than an economic issue —- it is a moral issue,” said Dr. Donn Hancher, a professor of civil engi neering. “While recycling is not an ex tremely simple process guaranteed to generate a lot of revenue, it does offer certain landfill cost avoidance,” the report read. “A large revenue should not be the only deciding cri terion. Rather, recycling is a worth while pursuit for A&M right now from an ecological standpoint.” During Committee of the Whole, Dr. Larry Hickman said the Senate Executive Committee should look into how the MSC Bookstore orders textbooks. Hickman, a professor of philoso phy, said students sometimes have trouble getting textbooks because the MSC Bookstore only orders 60 percent of what the professor re quests. Committee of the Whole, at the conclusion of regular business, is a time for senators to voice concerns about topics unrelated to the agenda. Mobley outlines budget problems, goals in address to Faculty Senate By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff President William Mobley emphasized dollars and cents in Texas A&M’s future in Monday’s address to the Faculty Senate. Mobley keyed on the problems of maintaining and improving University programs under declining appropriations from the Texas Legislature while costs mushroom, and stressed that the private sector must play a larger role in financing these programs in the future. “The costs of carrying out our multiple missions continue to escalate,” Mobley said. “The Available University Fund (AUF) is fully committed. Thus, we will be seeking ever-increasing state, federal and pri vate resources to support our activities.” Mobley outlined some of the requests for in creased funding from the state which A&M will make in January, including more money for faculty and staff salaries and for the Sterling C. Evans Li brary. A&M officials told state budget planners last month that A&M needs $70 million more for 1992 and $90 million more for 1993 to stay competitive with other universities. The university then said it would like a 10.7 per cent salary increase for faculty members in 1992 and a 10.8 percent increase in 1993 just to stay compet itive with other universities. “Quality faculty and staff are essential to the suc cessful attainment of our multiple missions,” Mobley said. “A primary goal of the University is to nurture the intellectual and support environment, reward systems and infrastructure that will facilitate a top quality faculty and staff.” The president also said A&M would like the Leg islature to pick up more of the costs of operating the library, which continue to rise annually. Presently, the Legislature funds the library at less than 50 percent of what it could. “If we could simply encourage the Legislature to fund at least close to full formula, we would have a large infusion of capital,” he said. Among A&M’s major priorities for the next few years, Mobley said, are to develop the library fur ther; support undergraduate programs, especially in “The costs of carrying out our multiple missions continue to escalate.” — President William Mobley, the College of Science and College of Liberal Arts; infuse an international perspective throughout the University; implement tne recommendations of the Committee for a Discrimination-Free Campus; and begin a capital campaign to increase endowment. Increasing the number of minorities and women in the student body and in the faculty is another ma jor priority for A&M, the president said. “There has been a significant increase in the total number and percentage of minorities on this cam pus over the past decade,” he said. “However, the percentage of the total student hotly represented by minorities still is far short of where it needs to be.” Mobley said A&M’s goals and objectives, however, cannot be attained without two ingredients — con tinued accomplishment from the faculty and signifi cant growth in the amount of resources, particularly from private sources. .S. faces dilemma over food aid shipment niversity This is -e TICSL WASHINGTON (AP) — Allow- ng humanitarian food aid into Iraq nay lead to enough illicit trade with he Persian Gulf nation to help Sad- Bam Hussein hang on longer in Ku wait, U.S. analysts said Monday. But it also relieves Iraq’s critics of :ihe moral dilemma of threatening pnocent civilians with starvation in brder to put pressure on Saddam, hey said. President Bush and Soviet Presi dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev agreed at ■heir summit meeting Sunday in ■Helsinki, Finland, that a month-old ll.N. embargo against Iraq permits ■ood shipments “in humanitarian circumstances,” especially to feed children. The U.N. Security Council must define “humanitarian circum stances,” but in the meantime some nations are likely to act on their own, analysts said. “Countries for one reason or an other may use the cover of this hu manitarian aid to break the em bargo,” said Shireen Hunter, a Middle East scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a private research group. “This is indeed a dilemma” for Bush as he seeks to keep a tight eco nomic noose around Iraq in order to compel Saddam to withdraw his oc cupying army from Kuwait, she said. Iraq invaded on Aug. 2 and annexed the tiny kingdom six days later. More than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted to ban trade with Iraq, it is unclear how long it might take for the embargo to cause substantial hardship for Iraq. Judith Kipper, a Middle East ex pert at the Brookings Institution, a research group, said she sees “less than a 50 percent chance” the em bargo will work. But Rep. John Mur- tha, D-Pa., said Sunday after return ing with other lawmakers from a visit to Saudi Arabia that the sanc tions could topple Saddam within two months. Iraq imported about 80 percent of its food last year. Analysts said leakage in the em bargo as a result of a humanitarian “loophole” is likely to be small, but it may be enough to extend Saddam’s grip on power. That, in turn, may mean a longer stay in the Saudi Ara bian desert for the tens of thousands of American troops that Bush dis patched last month. Unconfirmed reports from the Middle East on Monday said some shipments of rice and flour already were flowing into Iraq from Iran. The two countries, which were at war from 1980-88, announced they were restoring diplomatic relations. Bush, apparently worried that Sunday’s summit announcement would be seen as a weakening of U.S. resolve against Iraq, said, “I hope that nobody around the world interprets this as our view that now there should be wholesale food ship ments to Iraq.” Last week, China and Iran indi cated they might begin sending food and medicine to Iraq. Several other countries, including Tunisia, Yugo slavia, Romania and India, have said they might send emergency food to their citizens trapped in Kuwait. Today last day to drop Today is the last day to drop classes at Texas A&M without re cord. Students wishing to drop a class can do so at terminals in the Pavilion. The Q-drop periods are as fol lows: • Undergraduate students — Wednesday until Sept. 28 • Graduate students — Wednesday until Nov. 2 Students planning to graduate in Fall 1990 can file applications for degrees until Friday. Those wishing to file can do so from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. in 105 Heaton Hall.