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I ► i and do not nec. y or the Boards cement in classes ; our hich are 2 to be i on our list on is the )r the library n in ions. cation/'the aries. The es added, ?eds of a he nation, &M in ident fee to mg to pay the it rac\j 1 Chang inion lent on a daily University Police Officer Jim Suter examines the damage under the ternoon. The accident occured on campus betwen the Psycholgy and Mil- hood of a car that rear-ended a Texas A&M shuttle bus late Thursday af- itary Sciences Buildings. No one was injured. Former WTSU president denies charges CANYON (AP) — A former West Texas State University president said the school broke no laws regarding the invest ment of endowment funds in the wake of a state audit that showed WTSU lost more than $2.5 million through apparent mismanagement. "We contend that there has not been anything done which is unlawful/' Ed Roach said in a prepared statement included in the audit of the school's finances released by the state Wednes day. The state auditor's office said it started investigating West Texas State after receiving infor mation that the university had lost $200,000 on an investment in Mesa Limited Partnership, T. Boone Pickens' oil and gas com pany. The auditor said that charge proved inaccurate. However, the report criticized the way univer sity endowment fund trans actions were handled while Pick ens was chairman of the university board of regents and Roach was president. Roach resigned as president Jan. 1 after being named asso ciate deputy chancellor for aca demic program planning in the Texas A&M University System. West Texas State merged into the A&M System on Sept. 1. "The type of 'arm's length' relationship which should be maintained between a donor and the university did not exist," the audit said. Roach characterized the report as "little more than a witch hunt." Roach said the audit's refer ence to an "arm's length" relationship between a univer sity and donor "reveals an al most total absence of any knowl- edge of the nature of relationships that universities. public or private, attempt to de velop with donors or prospective donors." West Texas State, according to the auditor's report, purchased Mesa stock equal to a $500,000 matching grant from Mesa and a $100,000 personal matching gift from Pickens given in late 1987. The report said that, four days after the university's original stock purchase. Roach and his family bought 20,000 Mesa shares through the same Dallas broker the university had used, paying 50 cents less per share. Foreign student travel cautions Reentry into U.S requires correct documents; International Student Services processes papers By Jay The me Blaschke The Battalion Foreign students traveling outside the United States this summer must have all their pa perwork in order with Interna tional Student Services before leaving the country. Suzanne Droleskey, assistant director of ISS, said many inter national students assume their visas and passports are valid, only to find out otherwise. "It is OK to leave the country without valid paperwork, but when students try to come back into the country, they are re fused entry," Droleskey said. "We've had frantic students stranded everywhere from To kyo to Canada calling us to fax them the appropriate docu ments." Therefore, students should come to the ISS office well in ad vance of their travel date, she said. "Everyone comes in at the end of the semester to get their pa perwork signed, and we get log- jammed," Droleskey said. "It's helpful when students come in a week, or even a month, before they plan to travel." The process is simple but the papers take a day to put in order. Droleskey said students can't walk into the ISS office and have everything in order 15 minutes later. Another problem sometimes faces students with children, Droleskey said. "People with families need pa pers for their children," she said. "Babies born in the U.S. are au tomatically U.S. citizens, but need passports for international travel, and to get back into the country." Droleskey said if a Korean mother and father took their baby to Korea with them, the child wouldn't be allowed into the country without a passport, and the baby couldn't get back into the United States either. "We've received calls from up set parents at airports that have said they (the parents) could board the plane, but must leave their baby behind," she said. For more information about requirements for traveling abroad, contact the ISS office at 845-1824. Scientists identify swarm as 'killer' bees, add 11 southern counties to quarantine zone HARLINGEN (AP) —Eleven South Texas counties were added to an Africanized bee quarantine zone Thursday, fol lowing the discovery of a swarm of the insects in Laredo. The swarm of so-called "killer" bees, trapped Monday in a tree at a Laredo residence. was confirmed Thursday as Afri canized, said John G. Thomas, extension entomologist at Texas A&M University. It was the fifth swarm of what Thomas calls the "honey bee with a personality problem" trapped in South Texas since last week. led, "We lived " This is even videly known sd an "economit The nation's ct has been very steady it that allows locratic ould a citizenry r day" accompli! nd still is) a part [inning of ception of a few itants, all the re immigrants ■oughout history gin. t beautiful isli >ductiveand r voices often worked so hard trough econo®| c stablilityand tthrough a lemocratic rywhereare iture and want 1 ird a more\ tse few radical! j Taiwanese" atf | not live in fear. idmond Chani nine signatures CK on^tcrs ^ <s> MBBIIWWBMBWBaMMWWBWWHWMHMMHBMMMBMBBMWWMMBMWMlIIIIWllMIIIBlII IIHiM McDonalds® Salutes Teaching Excellence McDonald's Restaurants of Bryan/College Station announces their Teaching Assistant's recognition program. Each month a selected number of assistants will be chosen from their departments for providing outstanding services in teaching and research. McDonald's will honoreach assistantby awarding them with a $400 scholarship, along with recognition in the Battalion. McDonald's salutes these individuals for their teaching excellence. Congratulations! John F. Welsh, Jr. was the firstof four children born to John F. and Vera M. Welsh on February 22, 1957. He attended E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, NC where he served as senior class president and graduated with honers in June, 1976. After one year at East Carolina University, he entered die United States Navy and served as an Aviation Machinist Mate in Patrol Squadron Eight. During this assign ment he held the position of Training Petty Officer for the Aircraft Division. Upon discharge, in October, 1980 he assumed a position as Tire Room Shift Supervisor for theKelly-Springfield Tire Company in Fayetteville, NC. In December, 1986 he married the former Sherri Lynn McFarlin of Leavenworth, KS. They now have two children, age 2 and 6 months. Prior to his marraige, John entered Fayetteville Slate University in August, 1986 to pursue a degree in Chemistry. While at Fayetteville State, he was involved in the National Institute of Health Biomedical Research Program. John's research interests include the study of the electrical and magnetic properties of proteins. He was recognized by the North Carolina Institute of Chemists and received the Outstanding Chemistry Student Award in 1990. John graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry in June, 1990. In July, 1990 John came to Texas A&M University to study under the direction of Professor Emile A. Schwcikert. His reseach goals include the developement of a Recoil Nucleus-Neutron Depth-Time of Flight technique for studying the chemical composition of the very near surface of a solid sample. Mahinda Karunaratne was born in Illukowita, a small village in the district of Colombo, Sri Lanka. His father is a small businessman and his mother is a relied teacher. Mahinda received his BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1983 and a MS degree in statistics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas in 1987. He has been a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University since the Spring of 1988. Courses include ST AT 301, STAT 302 and STAT 303. Mahinda's wife,Kumudinie is a graduate student in Entomology and their son, Pathum was born on the third of this month. Mahinda plans to earn his Ph.D in August of this year. After graduation, he hopes to continue his career in Academics as a teacher, and researcher as well. Lisa Regalado Smith is originally from San Benito, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from Texas A&M University in 1988, and completed the State of Texas Teacher's Certification with a science composite in 1989. As an undergraduate, Lisa was recognized by the College of Science as a Distinguished Student in the Department of Biology for five out of nine semesters attended. For one year, she taught 10th, 11th and 12th grade biology to students attending Memorial High School in Houston, Texas. Lisa returned to Texas A&M in the fall semester of 1989 and is currently working on a Master of Science in Biology. Lisa was nominated for the MacDonald Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for her commitment to teaching excellence. It. is clear that Lisa's students value her willingness to help them on an individual basis and respect her for her professionalism, dedication and command of the material. When asked what they liked best about Lisa's teaching, her students often cite Lisa's enthusiasm, clear presentation of the material and the way she relates to the students. As one student said, she interacts on a "one on one basis with the students and encourages a general interest in the course." Other comments include that Lisa "clearly explains con cepts" and that she "showed an interest in the students- not only as students, but as people". Another student cites as her strength that Lisa genuinely likes the students and emphasizes the understanding of con cepts rather than just memorization of facts. James Chepin was born November 11, 1965. He attended New Mexico Tech, and graduated in May, 1987 with a BS in Physics. While at New Mexico Tech he received the Brook Award as an out standing physics student by vote of the physics faculty. In the summers of 1985 and 86 he worked as a technical assistant at the Irving Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research. Mr. Chepin entered the graduate physics program at Texas A&M in the fall of 1987. He is working on a Ph.D. under the research supervision of Dr. Joseph Ross in the area of magnetic resonance studies of condensed matter systems. He has passed the physics department's Ph.D. qualifing exam. His graduate CPA at A&M is 3.50. 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