PHMH Campus Page 2 The Battalion Tuesday, November 19,: Exxon donates $100,000 grant to A&M By Robin Goodpaster The Battalion Texas A&M received $100,000 in depart mental grants from Exxon Corp. to promote continued study in academic areas such as en gineering and accounting. Dr. Robert Walker, A&M's vice president for development, accepted the gift for the Uni versity on Nov. 12. Robert Walker said Exxon considers A&M an excellent school and wants to help train its students for the job world. Of 100 schools Exxon donates to, A&M re ceived one of the top three grants. The $100,000 will be split up between the depart ments of engineering, business administration, computer science, accounting and geology. Chemical engineering received the largest amount of money, $16,000. Mechanical engi neering received $14,000, petroleum engineer ing $12,000 and electrical engineering $5,000. As for the other departments, geology received $13,500, business administration received $11,500 and accounting received $7,000. Bob Alexander, controller of Exxon compa ny USA, said the reason the company funds di verse areas of study is that in a successful com pany, all its components need to be strong. "We need good lawyers and accountants just as much as we need engineers," Alexander said. Alexander said that the funds may be used for any educational purpose that the depart ment selects. He added that the use of the funds is unre stricted, with previous funds being used for scholarships, field trips and visiting speaker fees. Terry Walker of Exxon USA's Public Af fairs Office explained that more funds were given to the engineering departments because Exxon recruits more students from these de partments. "We want students at A&M to be prepared for the real world, and these funds help them do that," Terry Walker said. Exxon recruits heavily at A&M with more than 800 A&M graduates presently working for the oil corporation. "Exxon's relationship with A&M students is an mutually beneficial," Alexander said. "The better A&M gets, the better our recruits get. The more money we can give to A&M, the better A&M can become." Russian ethnic makeu could slow secessions \ J OS Continued from Page 1 Israeli, Arab, American students to discuss Mideast conflicts Continued from Page 1 -tween the students," he says. "I don't expect any real problems. Arabs and Israelis are very level headed, contrary to what some Americans believe." Rhonda Bolich, president of ISA, says the event marks the first time that the ISA has been able to get Israeli and Arab students to gether in an organized discussion. "Luckily, we've been able to do that for this discussion series," she says. Bolich believes the recent peace conference in Madrid will have an impact on the discussion tonight. "Maybe because of the peace conference people will feel like they can discuss issues now," Bolich says. "I think it (the confer ence) relaxed people's opinions." Mediator will be Dr. Larry Yarak, a history professor at A&M. Killerman says that he and Yarak hope to select members of the audience to be a part of the American panel. Killerman says, in the past, the ISA Discussion Series did not in clude views of Americans when two different countries debated is sues, but this time, several interna tional students requested that American viewpoints be present in the discussion. Hatchett said chances for Tatar independence are slim, however. "There is a major industrial zone in the region," he said. "I don't think the Russians will give that up so easily." Large populations of ethnic Russians within the regions could also impede independence moves, he said. "There is a large population of great Russians in the Tatar repub lic," he said. "The Russian gov ernment will not be happy to see these people become a minority to be dominated by another ethnic group." Discrimination against such Russian minorities might soon cause larger troubles, he said. citizens live outside their homeland. "Half of these people are Russians," he said. "If theco; breaks down, these peop]; not be treated kindly, andni for help from their hometi: lie." Violence at the level oil rent Yugoslavian civil war not be out of the question,he "It could very possiblyh; violent," he said. "Russians: nate the Soviet military, arc is the real problem, The: may not react so nicely if thee claves of Russians are caugh break-away republic would be off." Epic TT an la luiita All: fy es ' slant mg is fill ti "The republics would not al low Russian to remain their legal language," Hatchett said. "Ethnic Russians might also be fired from their positions in the government and in industry. This kind of eth nic friction is not going to work." Hatchett said 70 million Soviet Blow. S l ttle i m n The situation, however, not degenerate to this I; Hatchett said. "I don't believe the splint will go any further thant: public level," he said. "The: to be a limit somewhere. piled " The vote by the legisi: was by no means a condor: c / regional-ethnic independer was a slap to Yeltsin, noli ahead to Chechen-Ingush.” NEED CHEAP BOOKS? Come to the TSEA BOOKFAIR We have K through 12 books at discount prices! 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