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Friday, August 9,
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Poultry experts flock to A&M Richards may recaU legislate
By Jeff M. Brown
The Battalion
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Timm Doolen
Managing Editor
Todd Stone
City Editor
Sean Frerking
News Editors
Jennifer Jeffus
Callie Wilcher
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Richard James
Lifestyles Editor
Rob Newberry
Sports Editor
Jayme Blaschke
Opinion Editor
Keith Sartin
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The Poultry Science Associa
tion's 80th annual meeting will
take place at Texas A&M next
week, rounding up an interna
tional group of academic and in
dustry members.
Lee Cartwright, an associate
professor of poultry science and
a poultry specialist with the
Texas Agriculture Extension
Service, said the 900 individuals
attending the meeting will come
from as far away as Australia
and Great Britain.
Members will present papers
and participate in symposiums
discussing topics such as im
provement of egg composition,
fat content of poultry products
and decrease of phosphorus in
waste.
"A lot of the research might be
interesting to many different
fields, so all students are encour
aged to attend," Cartwright said.
There will be social events as
well as sessions on pathology,
genetics and nutrition.
Monday night the association
will hold an ice cream social, and
Wednesday evening former Dal
las Cowboy Bob Lilly will appear
at a barbecue hosted by the
Phizer Animal Health Company.
Thursday evening, the associa
tion will hold its annual banquet
and present awards for out
standing work in poultry.
Although people might think
poultry science is a narrow field,
Mary Van Elswyk, a graduate
student in poultry nutrition, said
the subject has wide-ranging
benefits.
"A lot of people have a mis
conception that we just deal with
chickens," she said. "Most of the
research done with poultry can
be transferred to other spe
and even humans."
species
AUSTIN (AP) — Legislative leaders and Gov. Ann Richai;
said Thursday they remain hopeful that lawmakers can write®
fund a state budget before Tuesday's end of the special session.
But with time running out, Richards said she was prepared
immediately call another special session if the Legislature fails.
"My inclination is — if we by any chance do not finish-
we'll continue" on Wednesday, she said.
"We had a long discussion yesterday with the leaderstyj
Richards said. "They really do want to finish, and they're
try hard to do that. But we do not want to finish at the expense!
legislation that is good legislation."
House Speaker Gib Lewis and Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, whop:
sides over the Senate, said they hoped to wrap up by Tuesday,
"We're working 24 hours a day, as you know, to achieve:
goal," said Lewis, D-Fort Worth.
Bullock said meeting the deadline was "a real possibility."
The current state budget expires on Aug. 31.
Lawmakers are struggling with a projected $4.8 billion del
for 1992-93 if all services are continued at present levels.
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Course links geography, literatur
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By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
Two Texas A&M departments offered a
joint course earlier this summer that gave
Texas teachers a chance to learn about the
Southwest's geography and literature.
Dr. Donna Norton with the Educational
Curriculum and Instruction department
said the purpose of the course — the Ad
vanced Summer Geography Institution for
Teachers — is to enable teachers to give
their students new insights on geography
through literature.
"Because geography is an area that stu
dents are behind in, we want to tie it in with
literature and make the subject exciting for
both teachers and students," she said.
"There is a national thrust for literature-
based programs right now."
A group of elementary, high school and
college teachers accompanied by a group of
instructors from A&M, traveled to New
Mexico, Colorado and West Texas and stud
ied the literature of each area.
Before the 11-day trip, each teacher took
two short preparatory classes — a multicul
tural childrens' literature course and a field
geography course.
The course was funded by National Geo
graphic, The Texas Alliance for Geography
and the Hobby Foundation.
Each participant went through an applica
tion process in the spring and explained
how they would combine literature and ge
ography together in their classes.
The teachers chosen were from social
studies and English disciplines.
Dr. Bob Bednarz, an associate geography
professor and co-director of the program,
said people began to realize during the
1980s that there was a lack of geographic
training at all levels.
He said the Texas Alliance for Geographic
Education was created by teachers and col
lege faculty in 1986, and its purposeisto
sure teachers get the proper training.
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back to New Mexico and saw ancient Inc
cave dwellings.
They traveled to Santa Fe to learn;
the cultural clashes between Hispare
American Indians and tourists. Finally,t
went to El Paso and crossed the border:
Mexico to study writings about the Ai
can industries moving to Mexico.
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involving those areas, Norton said, fe with o:
biographies and non-fiction to science
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UT, A&M chairmen suggest mergers, closings, not cutbacks
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Legis
lature should follow the prece
dent set by the military base clo
sures and merge or close schools
instead of impose cutbacks that
would lead to higher education
mediocrity, the chairmen of the
boards of regents of the Univer
sity of Texas and Texas A&M
said.
"There would be some hurt
feelings, of course, but compare
that adverse effect with the over
all positive effect of shutting
down unnecessary schools,"
A&M Board of Regents Chair
man Ross Margraves Jr. said.
"Why can't we follow the
same concept as the U.S. gov
ernment did in shutting down
military bases?"
Margraves and UT Board of
Regents Chairman Louis Bee-
cherl Jr. said the politically un
popular move would be better
than across-the-board cuts.
Margraves and Beecherl didn't
name specific closure or merger
candidates, but in interviews
with the Houston Chronicle
published Wednesday they said
the state's budget problems
should make their idea a more
realistic possibility.
An expected revenue shortfall
of nearly $5 billion has caused
the state to target higher educa
tion for $500 million in cuts. The
House on Monday approved an
appropriations bill requiring UT
and A&M to absorb 84 percent of
senior college and university
budget cuts.
Opposition from school si
porters quickly has doomedi
previous calls to close or mei
schools. Since 1960, only
public universities in the nal
have been closed, according
the Texas Higher Educalii
Coordinating Board.
Closure candidates named
the past included Sul Ross Si;
University at Alpine, East 1;;
State at Commerce and UT-f|
mian Basin at Odessa.
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