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Vol. 90 No. 150 CJSPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas "Serving Texas A&Msince 1893"
Friday, June 7,1991
Super Collider funding passes; Rep. Barton says project on schedule
By Greg Mt Joy
The Battalion
Congressional supporters of the Su
perconducting Super Collider (SSC) are
calling the passing of an appropriations
bill approving $434 million in funding a
landslide vote.
Congressman Joe Barton, R-Ennis,
said the SSC is on schedule and under
budget, despite challenges to its funding
forme third straight year.
Craig Murphy, spokesperson for Bar
ton, said the May 29 vote was a resound
ing defeat for anti-SSC forces.
"We can hope this vote will put them
torest finally," Murphy said. "Every year
we win, it will be tougher for them. Rea
listically, though, they will be back."
Murphy said the bill should come up
before the Senate within a month, and
should be recieved there more positively
than it was in the House, where it was
cut by $100 million.
"We consider $434 million a floor figu
re," he said. "It should go up in the Sen
ate, because the House was considered
the toughest hurdle. We're 100 percent
sure the figure won't go down."
Murphy said the bill's passage is good
news for A&M research planned at the
SSC.
"A&M certainly has the inside track on
SSC research," he said. "If SSC is on
schedule, A&M's research is on schedu
le."
Murphy said the SSC should be com
pleted by the end of the century, but sur
face work at the facility is underway.
The long-term schedule and the $100
million cut in the project's budget, how
ever, worry some A&M physics officials.
Dr. Peter McIntyre, an A&M physicist
who has worked closely with the SSC,
said the cut was troubling because it
could slow down future construction,
adding needless cost increases.
"As a taxpayer, I don't like to see the
construction stretched out," McIntyre
said. "In construction, time is money.
The longer the project takes, the more in
cidental costs will be incurred."
McIntyre said lengthening the project
also causes problems with graduate stu
dents who would work at the SSC.
"We can't take on a graduate student
in 1991 for a project we can't start until
the turn of the century," he said. "As a
result, future experiments are greatly af
fected by funding cuts."
McIntyre said A&M students and pro
fessors involved in experiments at Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermi-
lab) in Illinois are helping bridge the gap
created by SSC construction.
"Fermilab gives us the ability to pro
vide for the here and now as well as for
the future at SSC," he said.
Barton, however, said Fermilab was
one of the main opponents of the SSC.
"Building the SSC will benefit Fermilab
because millions of dollars of work for
the SSC will be subcontracted to Fermilab
scientists," he said.
Murphy said the opposition by Fermi
lab officials was hard to understand.
"The small group against the SSC
seems to be on a quest," he said. "No
body really understands it, though."
Murphy said the bill probably
wouldn't linger long in the Senate.
"The SSC funding bill was the first out
of the House, and the Senate will proba
bly get to it just as quickly," he said.
Murphy said the bill woqld go to Presi
dent Bush after any differences were
worked out in a House-Senate confer
ence committee.
"The bill will go finally to the President
to sign," he said. "The President regards
the SSC as one of his highest federal sci
ence priorities and is expected to sign the
funding bill into law."
PENNY DELOSSANTOS/The Battalion
Watch the bouncing ball
Linda Arnold shows members of the basketball camp Thursday the technique of ball handling. Arnold is an assistant coach at the First Academy in Dallas.
Fraternity
punished
Alleged hazing injures several pledges
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
A Texas A&M fraternity faces
one year of probation for the al
leged hazing of several pledges by
active members in which some
pledges sustained minor injuries,
including a broken arm.
Phi Delta Theta is also subject to
new restrictions and require
ments, including no alcohol at any
of its sanctioned events and partic
ipation in community service pro
jects.
No charges were filed against
the fraternity by pledges involved
in the alleged hazing.
But Dr. John Koldus, vice presi
dent for student services, said
A&M's judicial office can still take
action against individuals in
volved. He said the investigation
will continue until all specific de
tails are discovered.
Koldus said the injuries were
caused by the students chasing
each other in a field and general
"horseplay."
In an official statement. Dr. Ma-
lon Southerland, associate vice
president for student services,
said the fraternity's good record
and cooperation were factors in
deciding disciplinary action.
The fraternity's national head
quarters placed the A&M chapter
under probation and mandated 12
requirements.
The judicial board of A&M's In-
terfratemity Council (IFC) also re
quested probation for the frater
nity and added five other
requirements.
The IFC requires the fraternity
to pay for a guest speaker and ed
ucational seminar on positive
pledging available to anyone on
campus and for the fraternity's ex
ecutive officers to meet with Dr.
Mike Leese, the Greek adviser,
once a month.
IFC officials could not be
reached for comment.
Southerland said the University
will accept the provision for heav
ily supervised probation, along
with the recommendations and ac-
See Groups/Page 4
Program trains
teachers to add
global curricula
Educators learn to 'internationalize' classrooms
By Tammy Bryson
The Battalion
More than 30 social science edu
cators from Texas will learn how to
internationalize their present
classroom curricula in a two-week
program beginning Monday at
Texas A&M.
The Summer Assembly For
Global Education (SAGE) will take
place beginning Monday until
june21.
The program is designed to help
elementary and secondary teach
ers bring global education into
their classrooms, said Dr. Kerry
Cooper, director of the Center for
International Business Studies
(CIBS), a division of Texas A&M's
College of Business Administra
tion.
Cooper said the goal of SAGE is
to show teachers how to increase
their students' awareness of the
effect that foreign countries have
on the United States.
"The program is useful because
so many students who come to
A&M don't know anything about
international relations, and they
need to be informed in order to do
well here," Cooper said.
Cooper stressed that for stu
dents to learn more about how the
world works, teachers have to
know more about topics such as
international economics and rela
tions.
"This year's program includes
classes focusing on the Pacific
Rim, Mexico's third-world debt
and Canada's recent trade
agreement with the United
States," said Karen Burke, asso
ciate director of CIBS.
Other sessions will cover eco
nomic concepts such as interna
tional trade and financial institu
tions, exchange rates and
problems faced by developing na
tions, Burke said.
Dr. Larry Wolken, a senior lec
turer in finance, developed and
teaches many of the sessions in
the program.
"We also bring in a number of
visiting speakers from different
countries to teach in order to give
the program a strong cultural as
pect," Cooper said.
Educators who attend SAGE are
selected by application from across
See Educators/Page 4
Conferences change to ease
adjustment for new students
By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
Texas A&M freshman and transfer student
conferences are changing the program's format
to make adjusting to life at A&M easier for
incoming students, an official with A&M's
Student Affairs said.
Dub Oliver, a program specialist for Student
Affairs, said that this year University President
William Mobley will greet students and parents
and officially kickoff the conference.
He also said the math assessment test that
helped advisers decide whether students
should take calculus or pre-calculus courses is
no longer required.
"A lot of students would take a credit-by-
examination test the day before and place out of
calculus or pre-calculus," Oliver said. "It didn't
make sense for them to take the math
assessment test, when they had already earned
credit."
A new program called "Aggie Culture, It's
Not Just Maroon and White" also is being
offered to focus on A&M's cultural atmosphere.
Oliver also said a student life program will
have a student speaker's input, along with the
staff speakers.
Even some programs for parents will be
different, Oliver said. The Aggie Parents of the
Year 1990 will give a presentation during the
parents' social in the Clayton Williams Alumni
Center for every conference.
Oliver said many of the social programs will
stay the same, such as the ice cream social on
the first evening and the mixer dance on the last
evening.
lo nelp keep the conferences running
smoothly, 200 student student volunteers, or
orientation leaders, have been selected to assist
conference administration, Oliver said.
Linda Richardson, coordinator for freshman
conferences, said her office takes care of the
administrative tasks of registering the students
for their conferences.
Richardson said around 6,300 freshmen are
expected this summer for orientation, and 5,800
have already registered.
Around 2,500 transfer students are expected,
and 1,500 have registered, she said.
"The number registered changes daily, and,
it seems, hourly," she said.
There are 12 freshmen conferences this
summer: seven in June, four in July and one in
August for out-of-state students and those who
could not attend one of the earlier conferences.
"We try to put 500 students in each
conference," Richardson said. "A huge number
of parents also attend."
Four transfer student conferences are
scheduled this summer. One is in June, two are
in July, and one is in August. Each transfer
student conference lasts two days.
Richardson said students have many chances
to see advisers about courses before they
register.
She said students will be offered "pre
professional" meetings, or advising sessions for
students studying pre-law, medicine and
education.
Another help session offered to freshmen is
led by orientation leaders giving advice about
scheduling, Richardson said.
"What's neat is they get hands-on attention,"
she said. "We could let them register by phone,
but this one time they get help."
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