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ISA honors outstanding student
Ag engineering major wins $2,000 scholarship
By K. Lee Davis
The Battalion
A 23-year-old masters student from
Madras, India, who proudly wears a T-shirt
saying, "Indian by birth . . . Aggie by the
grace of God" took home the Eppright Out
standing International Student Award last
Friday.
Ranjan Natarajan, an agricultural engi
neering major, currently has a 3.3 grade point
average and is active in student life.
The award, which is a $2,000 scholarship,
first was conceived by Riyad Chakmachi in
1981, but was not endowed until last year by
Colonel George J. Eppright, Class of '26. The
award culminated the festivities surrounding
International Awareness Week.
The scholarship is awarded in recognition
of academic excellence, involvement in non
scholastic community activities and promo
tion of international awareness on campus
and in the community.
Natarajan won the award in the fiercest
competition of the award's ten year history
against a record number of applicants.
Natarajan currently serves as historian for
the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Soci
ety, sergeant-at-arms for the Phi Kappa Sig
ma social fraternity, international service di
rector for the Aggie Rotaract Club and direc
tor of fund raising for Off-Campus Aggies.
He is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Hon
or Society and vice president for programs
for the International Student Association.
Natarajan had the choice to attend several
top American universities after finishing his
undergraduate college work at the PSO Col
lege of Technology in Coimbotore, India, but
decided early in the process to attend a
school in a warm-weather state.
"I really don't like a cold climate too
much," Natarajan said. "I was admitted to
the University of Southern California, A&M,
Hawaii and UT-Arlington, but USC was too
expensive, and Hawaii too far away, so I felt
that A&M would be the best school to go to."
Natarajan said A&M's traditions and spir
it also attracted him to A&M.
"A lot of traditions here are unique. It makes
you identify with the University," he said.
Natarajan's favorite American pastime has
become football, especially A&M games.
"At first, when I saw football on televi
sion, I just saw guys jumping around not
knowing why they wore helmets or any
thing, but a friend took me to a game and ex
plained everything to me," Natarajan said.
"Of course everyone in the whole place is
turning, wondering, 'Who is that guy who
doesn't know how to play football?"'
See Student/page 6
KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion
RanJan Natarajan was the recipient of
the Eppright Outstanding Student Award
last Friday.
Center offers livestock experience to students
By K. Lee Davis
The Battalion
Meat-eating Aggies can satisfy
their appetite and support the
University at the same time by
purchasing their meat and dairy
products from the Rosenthal Meat
Science and Technology Center.
A&M students learn how to
judge livestock, cut them up, ar
range the cuts for sale and then
sell some of them in a small store
at the front of the building.
"We're not trying to train
butchers," said Ray Riley, manag
er of the Rosenthal center.
"We are trying to broaden our
students' knowledge to make
them more complete leaders in the
livestock industry," Riley added.
The center has been a leader in
livestock and meat consumption
research, pioneered electrical
stimulation of carcasses as a way
to tenderize meat and has partici
pated in the 1989 National Con
sumer Beef Study, which showed
consumer demand for leaner
meat.
"We first started experiments
with electric stimulation in 1975,
and it has since spread industry
wide where as much as 90 percent
of consumer meats have been pro
cessed this way," Riley said.
On any given day the store will
have from 70 to 100 types of meat
and dairy products for sale.
The center carries beef, pork,
lamb and a variety of dairy prod
ucts on its shelves, often at lower
prices than can be found in gro
cery stores.
Riley said beef steaks are the
most popular day-to-day item
sold at the store, but demands
change seasonally.
"During the Christmas
See Center/Page 6
A&M colleges prepare
fundraising campaign
Program coordinators plan gala event
to announce money-making strategies
By Tanya Sasser
The Battalion
Texas A&M will be receiving
millions of dollars in donations as
the largest fund-raising effort ever
conducted by a state university is
premiered this evening.
More than 1,000 University
supporters are expected to attend
the gala, which marks the opening
of the public phase of the fund
raising project.
Dennis Prescott, deputy direc
tor of the "Capturing the Spirit"
campaign, said the coordinators
have been looking forward to
publicly announcing the cam
paign's purpose.
"For about a year and a half
now, we have been in what we
call the 'quiet phase' or the 'non
public phase' of this campaign,
which is nothing more than a ma
jor gifts fund-raising effort,"
Prescott said. "We feel like we are
ready now to go public with the
campaign and announce officially
what our goal will be."
A&M has been undergoing au
dits by officials to evaluate which
present programs needed to con
tinue and the amount of funds
necessary to continue these pro
grams.
The campaign is an ongoing ef
fort that is still in its early stages,
Prescott said.
"We have been counting gifts
See University/Page6
American Cancer Society
benefits from annual race
By Tanya Sasser
The Battalion
Students will have the oppor
tunity to run or walk their way
into shape while contributing to
the American Cancer Society in
the Fifth Annual Bill Thomason 5-
K Memorial Run/Walk on Satur
day.
Chris Galindo, an organizer of
the event, said everyone is wel
come to participate.
"We don't turn anybody
down," Galindo said. "It's a
tough course because it goes
through a residential area, but
we've had runners, walkers and
wheelchairs in the past."
The purpose of the race is to
honor Bill Thomason, a cancer vic
tim who passed away in 1988.
Thomason, Galindo and Bill Jen
nings, another organizer of the
event, exercised together.
"When Bill was diagnosed
with cancer, he fought it, and he
never gave up," Galindo said,
"Bill's family asked that we send
donations instead of flowers when
he passed away. They thought
the American Cancer Society
would be the best thing, and Bill
Jennings and I agreed."
The first 5-K run began three
weeks after Thomason died, and
there were more participants than
anyone ever expected, he said.
"One year, we had so many
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