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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
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Israeli, Arab, American students to discuss Mideast conflicts
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-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
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violent," he said. "Russians:
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is the real problem, The:
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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."
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not degenerate to this I;
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will go any further thant:
public level," he said. "The:
to be a limit somewhere. piled
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was by no means a condor: c /
regional-ethnic independer
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