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The Battalion
Vol, 90 No. 167 USPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas "Serving Texas ASM since 1893" Thursday, July 1 l t 1991
General Electric offers grants to promote teaching careers
By Greg Mt.Joy
The Battalion
The General Electric Foundation
hopes to convince more minority stu
dents to consider teaching careers by
awarding Texas A&M with two grants
worth $440,000.
GE will provide $110,000 to A&M's
College or Business Administration
and Graduate School of Business, and
$330,000 to the Colleges of Engineering
and Science during a three-year period
as part of their "Faculty for the Future
Program."
Dr. William Perry, the dean of fac
ulties at A&M, said the funds would be
used to attract students who might
have been lured away from graduate
school by large salaries.
"Why should a student spend four
or five years earning doctoral degrees
when they could be making $36 to
$40,000 right after graduation?" Perry
asked. "You really have to believe in
graduate study and its benefits to pass
up those opportunities."
Perry said the grant money would be
used to bolster several other financial
aid packages available to minority stu
dents attending graduate school.
Dr. Michael Kemp, associate dean of
research in the College of Science, said
the grant awarded to the Colleges of
Science and Engineering would be di
vided into two main funds.
The first fund would be forgivable
loans of up to $7,500 awarded to
women or minority students who pur
sued an academic career.
"Recipients will be forgiven 25 per
cent of these loans for each year they
spend teaching in a four-year college or
university/" Kemp said. "So if the stu
dent ends up teaching for four years,
the loan is basically free money."
The second part of the grant would
be used to encourage undergraduates
and convince them to continue study
ing applied sciences.
"GE emphasizes applied physical
sciences because it has an interest in
future employees in research fields,"
he said.
Kemp said the funds available to stu
dents were flexible in terms of their
amounts and how often they can be
awarded. Making such funds available
to students was a departure from typ
ical grants, he said.
"GE deserves a pat on the back," he
said. "Normally this money would be
set aside for buildings or supplies. This
program is designed to support peo
ple, and some pretty enlightened peo
ple came up with it."
Dr. Dean Wichern, associate dean of
research for the College of Business
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New novel
helps teach
auditing
By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
He's no James Bond, but ac
counting hero Lenny Cramer is
up to saving Coca-Cola's secret
formula and teaching. Texas
A&M students the secrets of au
diting.
"Trap Doors and Trojan
Horses" was written by A&M ac
counting professors Dr. L. Mur
phy Smith and Dr. Larry Crumb-
ley.
"Trap Doors" will be Crumb-
ley's fourth tax-oriented novel
under his pseudonym. Iris Weil
Collett (I.R.S. Will Collect). The
novel is Smith's first fictional
work, though he has written
several textbooks.
In the story, Lenny Cramer
has been hired by the multinatio
nal corporation Coca-Cola to
conduct an operational audit.
As the story unfolds, Cramer
uncovers a plot to steal the com
pany's secret formula for Coca-
Cola.
Cramer and his sidekick Slam
Duncan discover information
missing from computers at one
of the company's divisions; and
in their efforts to solve the mys
tery, they travel from Atlanta to
Washington to Poland.
Crumbley said the book was
named "Trap Doors and Trojan
Horses" because these terms are
computer jargon concerning
ways to cheat people by using
computers.
Though the book was written
mainly to teach auditing, "Trap
Doors" could also be useful in
computer and business classes,
Crumbley said.
"Students enjoy reading the
novels for class," he said. "It is a
change of pace from the text
books."
Smith said he used "Trap
Doors and Trojan Horses" in his
classes while it was being pre
pared.
"Student feedback is very pos
itive," he said. "The story is both
entertaining and educational be
cause textbook-type info is wo
ven into the story.
"We wrote the book to make
learning accounting more en
joyable for the students and to
show that accounting is not a
dull profession."
Crumbley said he and Smith
Worked on the novel for about a
year and a half. Crumbley said
because he does not teach audit
ing, he worked on the plot of the
story and Smith wrote much of
the text concerned directly with
auditing.
Both professors said they have
not seen a finished copy yet, but
the book should be in stores
soon.
Smith said several professors
at A&M and a professor from
Southwest Missouri State have
expressed an interest in the
book.
Crumbley said his previous
Works have been adopted by
>nore than 100 colleges, and he
V'as confident that "Trap Doors
and Trojan Horses" would fol
low suit.
RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
It’s outta there!
Stiawanna Scott of Calvert hits a softball pitched by is a counselor for the National Youth Sports Program
Bob Tolar near Cain Hall Wednesday afternoon. Tolar for underprivileged children. Scott hit a home run.
MTV comes
to The Edge
VJ Martha Quinn will host dance show
By Mack Harrison
The Battalion
MTV is bringing VJ Martha Quinn to a local club on Friday to
tape a dance show to get a better picture of Bryan-College Station
and Texas A&M.
Quinn and her camera crew will be dancing on the edge at The
Edge, 313 S. College St., for a taping of "MTV Street Party" at 9
p.m. Friday. The network will broadcast the show at a later date.
"MTV Street Party" airs on MTV Fridays from 7 to 11 p.m. CDT.
Bryan-College Station residents, however, will be unable to
watch themselves on the cable channel. TCA cancelled its contract
with MTV in response to subscriber complaints about the channel's
explicitness.
Irene Fu of MTV Press said B-CS residents drew the attention of
MTV with their protests against what they see as censorship.
"Our viewers asked us to come," Fu said. "They've been calling
and sending us letters (since TCA cancelled MTV), so we figured
we'd go there live."
John Whittendon, co-owner of The Edge, said the party would
include three bands and start at 8 p.m. in the parking lot before
moving inside.
He added, however, that the event would be "very non-politi
cal."
"There will be no protests or petitions," Whittendon said.
"MTV's just here to have a street party."
Two local radio stations, KTSR (92.1 FM) and KKYS (104.7 FM)
will broadcast live from The Edge before and during the show.
Tom Savage, DJ for KTSR, said the entire on-air staff will make
the party. He stressed that the show is not intended as a protest
forum.
"The letters 'T,' 'C' or 'A' will not emerge from the mouth (of
any DJ)," Savage said. "This is a party to promote MTV, nothing
else."
KKYS DJ John Stevens also said the party was not meant to pro
voke TCA. Stevens will be on the air starting at 7 p.m., along with
the rest of the Kiss Air Force, he said.
Bush ends sanctions
against South Africa
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- African anti-apartheid activist
dent Bush lifted economic sane- Nelson Mandela was also said to
tions against South Africa on have told Bush he was acting
Wednesday, citing clear pro- prematurely,
gress toward racial equality
there. He declared, "We expect The move ended five years of
progress to continue." U.S. sanctions that forced U.S.
Bush said his action was "the businesses out of South Africa,
right thing to do" despite sharp dried up trade and contributed
criticism from civil rights groups to the white-ruled nation's eco-
and leading Democrats. South nomic isolation.
Professor relays teaching experiences from trip to Far East
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
The Philippines and other
Asian nations represent an
extreme contrast to the quiet life
of College Station for a returning
Texas A&M journalism
professor.
Dr. Richard Shafer spent 14
months traveling and instructing
journalism students in the Far
East.
Shafer spent his first 10
months in the Philippines as a
lecturer and researcher. During
the rest of the trip, Shafer
traveled to India, Nepal,
Singapore and Malaysia to
continue teaching and his
research.
Shafer also was in the
Philippines during the country's
revolution about five years ago.
"College Station is very
peaceful and kind of quiet," he
said. "There's no political
turmoil, earthquakes or coups
d'etats; but sometimes it's too
quiet."
Shafer taught journalism
courses at universities in all the
countries he visited except
Nepal.
He said the students were
good but the universities did not
nave the kind of facilities that
A&M students are used to.
"The students work hard to
try to overcome economic
difficulties and political
problems," he said. "We get
pretty
here (a
spoiled
\ere (at
A&M), and
some of the
complaints
students
make here
about the
University
seem petty.
"Foreign
students
sometimes
have to work
harder to get
an education.
Dr. Richard
Shafer spent 14
months in the
Philippines.
he continued.
But it proves you don't need a
lot of fancy stuff to get an
education —just hard work."
Shafer said the universities
were basically good, though
some of the buildings were in
bad shape and did not have air-
conditioning.
"There's a tropical climate,
and it's very hot," Shafer said.
"You teach in the sweltering
heat and lack a lot of comforts."
Shafer said the Philippines is
trying to make an identity for
itself. The nation is moving away
from using English and toward
making Tagalog its national
language, he said.
But the universities still teach
classes in English, and Shafer
said that in some of his classes
almost one-third of the students
had a difficult time
understanding his lectures.
"A lot of the students don't
speak English well," he said. "It
(deciding on the language) is an
on-going debate."
Shafer and his wife, Jill, lived
in a house in Manila during their
first year of the trip. Shafer said
they lived in what would
generally be considered a
middle-class neighborhood in
the Philippines, out there were
still "squatters" camping outside
Shafer's home.
Squatters are poor citizens
who move into neighborhoods
and build huts to live in.
"They're very hard to
displace," Shafer said. "You're
not totally removed from
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