The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 26, 1991, Image 6

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 26, 1991, Image 6

Newspaper Page TextUrinary Tract Infection Do you experience frequent urination, burning, stinging or back pain when you urinate? Pauli Research will perform FREE urinary tract infection testing for those willing to participate in a short investigational research study. $100 incentive for those who qualify. Pauli Research International® Page 6 The Battalion Wednesday, June 26, Blood Pressure Research Study Individuals currently on medication needed to participate in a one week high blood pressure research study. No investigational medication.$100 incentive paid to those choosen to participate upon completion of research study. Pauli Research International® v$ioo 776-0400 Slop V) * STUDENTS OF ALL MAJORS * SPEND SPRING 1992 IN ITALY EARN TAMU CREDIT IN: JOUN 401: Mass Media & Tech. Change (Cr. 3) JOUR 406: International Communications Cr. 3) HIST 101: Western Civilization (Cr. 3) LEAR 331: Renaissance Europe (Cr. 3) ARTS 350: Art History (Cr. 3) PROGRAM FACULTY: Prof. Daniel Bornstcin, 845^7164 Prof. Susanna Hornig, 845-5372 _1V1 s c. D re g S E N T s~ Wednesday, June 26 9:15 p.m. in the rove sot w/TAMU ID $1 w/o TAMU ID Nickel Nite Nickel Bar Drinks Nickel Draft Beer Wed 9-11 p.m. Thirsty Thursday Penny Bar Drinks Penny Draft Beer Thu 9-11 p.m. Open Wed-Sun 846-EDGE Skaggs Center College Station Drink Specials until 11 Nightly r JOCK ITCH AND RINGWORM STUDY A Individuals 12 years of age and older with "jock itch" or "ringworm" are being recruited for a research study of an antifungal medication.$125.00 will be paid to volunteers who complete this study. CALL VOLUNTEERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH®, INC. 776-1417 ATHLETE'S FOOT STUDY Individuals 12 years of age and older with "athletes foot" are being recruited for a research study of an antifungal medication. $150.00 will be paid to volunteers who complete this study. CALL VOLUNTEERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH®, INC. 776-1417 r DEPRESSION STUDY A Individuals are being recruited for a research study on depression. If you have been diagnosed with depression or would like to find out more about this study, call VIP Research. $125.00 will be paid to qualified volunteers who enroll and complete this study. CALL VOLUNTEERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH®, INC. 776-1417 J Soldier recounts Persian Gulf War experience, Continued from page 1 We drove along the only high way that ran north to our posi tions — Japline Road, which was built to be used by oil field work ers going to the field. Coalition forces convoys packed the roadway with thou sands of trucks carrying troops, fuel, ammunition and military vehicles. It was an awesome sight to see all of this firepower and force headed in the same direction, and for the same reason — to de stroy the madman who had brought us together and to oust his army from Kuwait. At the TAA, we made a com pany base camp with 360 degree security. Each of the three pla toons set up cots and heaters in side of large tents. These pro tected us from the heavy rains and cold winds of late January. Being less than 100 kilometers from the Kuwaiti border and Iraqi troops, we did much guard duty. We didn't get our first mail un til the end of the month. They were mostly old Christmas cards. Being well outside of AM/FM radio range, the only news we got about the war came from outdated Stars and Stripes newspapers. Overall, we were clueless as to how the war was going on around us. The only sure thing was that hundreds of bombers and their fighter escorts were roaring overhead daily, heading north. At least we knew the air cam paign was going strong, but there was never a doubt that a ground assault would be nec essary to win decisively the war and push Iraq out of Kuwait. We just trained hard and prayed that an Iraqi anti-tank missile or T-72 tank round didn't come ripping through our turret when we attacked. We prepared ourselves by practicing tank gunnery, desert navigation and attack formation drills. We even did two 100-plus kilometer roadmarch rehearsals to get our men and machines re ady for the long drive into Iraq. We had no idea what we would face across the border, but everybody worked hard and helped each other so we could all go home together. As February rolled around, the rain slowed down, but the sand storms started. They would usually hit right after lunch, cre ating a thick wall of dust that would limit visibility to 25 feet. Sand would get into every thing, so once the storms died down, we would perform long hours of maintenance to clean engine filters, battery cables, crew compartments and weap ons. Surprisingly, there were very few gripes about these cleanup times, because it had to be done to keep our equipment rolling and ready for action. The M1A1 tank handled the harshness of the desert, despite what critics said in media re ports. This was not due to any feat of high technology or the machines themselves. It came from a constant factor that has kept this country free for 114 years now — the Ameri can soldier. Paying particular de tail to good, thorough mainte nance sessions made our huge armored assault upon Iraq a suc cess. You can have the best war ma chines in the world, but it takes good men to make them work. Our proud soldiers deserve the credit for the speedy five-day ground war, because they made it happen. In mid-February, we moved up to our forward assembly area (FAA), which was now b Iraq, in the neutral zone, ju miles from the enemy. Here we did last minute pr t combat inspections — boresigl ing our guns, uploading all at munition, storing tank petr; leum products and packitj necessary uniforms, toiletiif food and water. All gear it; needed for combat was stored: a logbase. During our week at the FAi we received our wartime open tions order, maps and graph: overlay. Each platoon leader it sued the order to his men, at we all waited for the order: move out. Our missia- statement read as follows: Vol. "Charlie Company moves o along the battalion's axis of a: vance at G -F 1 to destroy ener armor and anti-tank units in se tor. On order be prepared seek and destroy Republic; Guards forces command." This was going to be our cw tank divisions versus Husseir crack armor divisions. Our be would go up against Iraq's be; The big question on everyone mind, though, was "Who n better?" Th veye< Report advocates balance of teaching, research versr phen Continued from page 1 "It is now generally acknowl edged, both nationally and lo cally, that teaching programs need more attention if our edu cational goals are to be achie ved," the report reads. "A good teaching program requires continuing nourishment and the same kind of total concern that has been afforded to the devel opment of research." Other recommendations made by the task force include: □ The University should pub lish a comprehensive statement of its missions, which should en compass the identity and scope of each mission and the manner in which missions are seen to in teract; □ The University should en sure all its missions are under stood clearly and widely, both inside and outside the institu tion; □ The University should re view the graduate education ex periences of its students with a view toward emphasizing more creative scholarship and the pre paration of the student as a fu ture member of the academic community; □ The University should ini tiate special efforts to improve the quality of the graduate stu dents who are attracted to and accepted by its programs; □ The University should un dertake a comprehensive revita lization of its Horary resources; □ The University should in crease the number of tenure- track faculty to reduce under graduate class size and should improve its policies on the use and recognition of lecturers as an important part of the teaching resource at the University; □ The University should de velop and adopt creative pro grams and practices that will in crease the sensitivity and understanding of students, staff, faculty and administrators with respect to diversity and plura- Hsm; undergraduate educatioi should encourage greater or to-one contact between faa and students, and should detailed attention to the ir provement of learning and te ching procedures that afle quality; □ The University should take particular steps to increase the multicultural diversity in se lected disciplines that are tradi tionally underrepresented by mi nority and female students; 0 The University should strive to have all faculty mem bers engaged in some aspect of 0 The University should co: solidate or coordinate morefi its programs for student ad\; ing and counseling and tone traditional education; 0 The University should: sider the creation of a Board Visitors or equivalent group provide the president witb continuing assessment of i manner in which the mission the University are responsive the needs of the public. Schultz hopes to bring S. African artists to A&M Continued from page 1 might have been reluctant to al low his trip because of the pro gress made in repealing apart heid legislation. "I certainly was not going to go over there in violation of the sanctions and without the per mission of the organizations," Schultz said. Director Ngema's "Committed Artists" theater company has led the support for Scnultz's trip, but Schultz said now other com panies are looking forward to working with him. "Now that the trip is a reality all the groups want a part of me," he said. "That's kind of flattering and kind of intimida- ting." Schultz said this trip incorpo rates his spiritual, artistic, social and political agendas. "Our purpose on this planet is to make this a better and more harmonious place to live and to serve others," he said. "The only way we can do that is if we understand who we are, where we've been and where we're going, individually and collectively," he continued. "We must strive to bring the world to gether, and the only way we can do that is by working with each other." and political ideas in living form. But most people involved with the theater are white men, which represents less than 4.5 percent of the world population. the groundwork to bring mi South African artists to A&M "If the theater is to be a reflec tion of society it must accurately reflect all of society," Schultz said. This fall Rapulana Seiphir one of South Africa's most pro: ising young actors, will stud; A&M as part of an AAF change program. Schultz said the theater is form of art that expresses cr “~ The "super objective" Schultz has for the Aggie Players and eventually American theater is to have a theater that is "influential in scope and multicultural in fla vor." Dawn Zain, executive dire: of the African Arts Fund, Schultz's trip is a first for: AAF. a social Schultz said he hopes to lay "We're using him as a pilot see whether it works," shesai; Zain said she is sure other; ists have traveled to South rica, but this trip has full supp: from the liberation movement President predicts fall tuition hike Continued from page 1 special session begins July 8. Mobley also reiterated his pre diction that tuition will increase this fall, possibly to $32 per credit hour for Texas residents and $160 per hour for non-resi dents. The most frequently men tioned proposal for tuition is $32 an hour, but former Gov. John Connally's Task Force on Reve nue has recommended a tuition increase to $40 an hour. Tuition already was set to in crease this fall to $20 an hour for residents and $122 for non-resi dents. But Mobley said the probable tuition hike is not as bad as it sounds since Texas is ranked near the bottom of the 50 states in cost of higher education. "It's still a bargain," he said. The president quickly added that he does not support a tu ition increase if all it is used for is to decrease the amount of gen eral revenue from the state. If the Legislature does pass a bill this summer authorizing a sizable tuition increase, about 12 percent more money will be set aside for financial aid. Yugoslav unrest Croatia, Slovenia declare independence agair agair fact. Th Iso a* lour p I dirt 1 filter ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) — The republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia on Tuesday, but the federal parliament issued an urgent appeal for army in tervention to prevent the dismemberment of the country. Unless a compromise can be found, the decla rations threatened to inflame longstanding eth nic tensions, worsen Yugoslavia's grave eco nomic problems and even plunge the nation into a civil war. The proclamations said each republic was no longer part of Yugoslavia, a patchwork of six re publics and 24 ethnic groups that has periodi cally exploded in bloody factional fighting since its founding in 1918. The Marxist-oriented government of Serbia and its allies bitterly oppose the independence of the Croats and Slovenes, who have adopted more market-style economic systems and are more prosperous. About one-third of Yugosla via's 24 minion people live in the two republics. Beils m Zagreb's Catholic churches rang and people uncorked champagne in front of the Par liament building. Inside, legislators roared their approval as Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, a fiery nationalist, defiantly announced seces- of secession it would seize Serbian enclaves r Croatia and other republics. Some 500,000 ethnic Serbs living mainly i r Croatia's Krajina and Slavonia region staunchly oppose an independent Croat; Clashes between Serbian militia and Croat;: police have left 22 dead in recent months. preci deert cherr ons. Krajina Serbs are threatening to break m) from Croatia on Friday and join their territoryf Serbian regions in the rest of the country. Ifit plemented, that union could provoke a Croat; crackdown, which in turn could prompt cent; government or Serbian intervention. In Washington, the State Department said wouldn't recognize the independence declar. tions, and urged both republics to pursue thf goals through negotiations with Yugoslavia central government. Western European nations also have refuse to recognize independence unless all the Yuj? slavian republics agreed to separate. vapo At and ( Mult (MLI enen abou the p Ar briga furth this hire, At causi were hand sion. "We cannot remain within the country due to the continuing threats and aggression and ha tred against anything that is Croatian," Tudj man said. Two hours after Croatia's 6 p.m. secession declaration, neighboring Slovenia, which bor ders Austria, Italy and Hungary, followed suit. The declarations, opposed Dy most Western nations, threatened trouble for Yugoslavia. Ser- bia, the largest republic, has said that in the case Tudjman said Bulgaria had recognized his public, in a telegram he waved at a news conie ence. But a joumaUst from Bulgaria's state ne 1 agency said Sofia's ambassador in Belgrade h; denied the assertion. Immediately after the declarations, the (£ eral Parliament in Belgrade, the Serbian and r- tional capital, urged the army "to underte measures to prevent the division of Yugoslav and changes in its borders." The Parliament traditionally has no contr over the army, with that authority reserved!, the federal presidency, which became a colle five office more than a decade ago. our gathi oner up tc area. Ar thesi pher arms were have so th wate Th form faces agla At until p.m.

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