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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
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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.
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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
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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. Mr. Chepin has
been previously honored for his excellent performance as a teaching
assistant by being awarded a Complementary Student Membership in the
American Association of Physics Teacher for 1991.
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