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Page 4 The Battalion University faculty member dies ■ What’s Up Wednesday, August 5, DEAI Co-op education director suffered from tumor complications By Robin Roach The Battalion Dr. Steven A. Yates, 48, died Monday due to com plications with a brain tumor. Yates served as execu tive director of Texas A&M University's Career Cen ter since May 1991. Yates was known as a national leader in coopera tive education. He previously served as director of Texas A&M's cooperative education program during which time the program grew to be the third largest cooperative education program in the nation. Wayne Terrell assumed Yates' position as execu tive director when he was diagnosed with the tumor. Terrell had worked with Yates for 12 years. "He was highly regarded nationally among his colleagues in the co-op profession and his death comes as a shock to all of us," Terrell said in a re leased statement. Yates is survived by his wife and three children. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the A&M Church of Christ and graveside services will follow. Donations may be made to the Steve Yates Schol arship Fund for Cooperative Education Students in care of the Texas A&M University Development Foundation, P.O. Box J7, College Station, 77844. Panel recommends federal crime status for parents failing to pay child support WASHINGTON (AP) - Call ing the nation's system of child support enforcement “a dinosaur mired in paper/' a federal panel recommended Tuesday that Con gress make it a federal crime for a parent to willfully fail to pay sup port. The U.S. Commission on Inter state Child Support also recom mended making increased use of the Internal Revenue Service to enforce child-support orders. It called for requiring new em ployees to disclose on IRS W-4 withholding forms whether they've been ordered to pay sup port, and requiring employers to withhold the support payments from their pay checks. It said the IRS “should be required to give high priority" to requests for col lection in delinquent child sup port cases. To target the £ elf-employed, the commission would empower states to suspend professional and occupational licenses, such as a law license or carpenter's permit, for failure to make support pay ments. It also would encourage states to revoke drivers' licenses and car registrations in such cases. “The child-support system is broken," said Margaret Campbell Haynes, a Washington lawyer and chairman of the panel, created by Congress in 1988 to study the sys tem. “Today, millions of children in the United States fail to receive the financial support they are owed,"/he commission said in its bulky report. Panel members contended that the recommendations represent a middle ground in the debate over increasing enforcement of child support payments by divorced or absent parents. It stopped short of calling for establishment of a new federal child-support system. Wednesday ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: General discussion from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more in formation call the Center for Drug Prevention at 845-0280. Thursday ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: General discussion from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call the Cen ter for Drug Prevention at 845- 0280 for meeting location or for more information. TAMU WOMEN’S RUGBY: Practice at the Rugby Field next to the Polo and Soccer Fields from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. All are welcome. No experience neces sary. For more information call Danielle at 846-2746 or Thu at 260-9109. BRAZOS COUNTY RAPE CRI SIS CENTER: Free support group for Adult Survivors of Sex ual Assault every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. For more information call Paula McCune at 268-7273 during office hours. COMMUNITY OF SINGLE ADULTS: Volleyball at Copper- field Park on Canterbury Drive in Bryan at 7 p.m. For more infor mation call Royce at 776-1693. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCO HOLICS: General discussion at 6 p.m. Call the Center for Drug Prevention at 845-0280 for meeting location or for more in formation. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 01S Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only pub lish the name and phone num ber of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battal ion service which lists non-profit events and activities. Submis sions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. II you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3316. Fuel cleanup fund needs money AUSTIN (AP) — A fund that pays for cleaning up after leaking fuel storage tanks needs at least four times as much money — or $240 million a year — to address the problem, the Texas Water Commission said Tuesday. The program now receives about $60 million a year, “but needs four to six times as much for any hope of staying within the reach of the 12,000 or more sites currently undergoing cleanup," according to a statement from the commission. Texas has about 161,000 registered storage tanks above and below the ground. “When this program was set up by the Legisla ture in 1989, no one could have imagined the num ber of storage tanks that leak and therefore require cleanup," said Commission Chairman John Hall. The program was established to protect ground water from contamination caused by the tanks. The legislation set out limits on the fee that pays for the fund. The fee is levied on the bulk delivery of petrole um products. The commission said industry spokesmen sav they will ask the Legislature to increase the fee so the program will have adequate funding. Brooks Smith, president of the Texas Oil Mar keters Association, said the fee now is at six-tenths of a cent per gallon. He said his group supports an in crease, although it has not determined the amount. Rel int< Anas Ben-Mi and histor triguing b( correlate v had to say. I have but only to expose anc in their fin< The mi covered in near the s Near the c Qumran, n posedly w written in languages. In ML Leigh's " r tion," the; lems hinde of informa Journalism Continued from Page 1 funds from private sources to sup port the program." A nationwide search will begin this fall for the permanent ag jour nalism faculty member. During the interim period, temporary in structors will be used. Some say the recent nebulous state of ag journalism may have negative repercussions for stu dents. Some ag journalism majors are concerned they will be "lost in the shuffle" when they return to the journalism department, McDon ald said. Some students felt they received more individual atten tion from the ag education depart ment. "After working out of the ag education, students gained pride in their major, a renewed vigor," McDonald said. "Once they got to ag-ed, they put down roots," she said. "They felt closer to agriculture, and they may feel uprooted." Still, McDonald believes ag journalism students will maintain their new enthusiasm with the journalism department. Doyce Elliot, president of Agri cultural Communicators of To morrow (ACT) and senior ag jour nalism major, said she enjoys "the best of both worlds" because she is getting training in agriculture and journalism. But, she won't feel displaced by returning to the journalism department. "It's not really a problem," she said. "Maybe for some people that were just here one semester before the change. It (working out of ag education) helped* us create some new friendships and bonds." 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That is why the program is shared between journalism and agriculture. Still, Gaston said the College of Agriculture does provide the im portant agricultural aspects to the program. An ag journalism de gree comes from the College of Agriculture. "But the authority for the de gree is within the College of Lib eral Arts," Gaston said. "It's a unique program in that it involves two colleges." Self believes the worst is be hind for ag journalism at A&M. "I expect this program to not only survive, but thrive and grow," he said. " Ag journalism is an example of how journalism has specialized. It can become a mod el for specializing programs in journalism in the future." The program is safe for now, but until state higher education funding improves, he will not promise permanent security, Gas ton said. "It (ag journalism) is consid ered important for the Universi ty," he said. "Everyone cannot be a top priority, but if we didn't consider ag journalism important, we wouldn't have helped the two colleges keep the program." Ag journalism's roots at A&M are older than the journalism de partment itself. It began in 1918 with a rural sociology class that prepared agriculture students with skills to work with rural publics. The Department of Jour nalism was formally established in 1948. "Ag journalism is a program that has a great history and fu ture," Self said, "and Tbelieve the future of journalism is this type of specialization." Court upholds 1991 convictions of white supremacist vandals DALLAS (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of five white su premacists who vandalized a Dallas synagogue and Jewish community center in 1988. The 14 judges in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans were evenly di vided over whether jury selec tion in the case was fair and the convictions should be reversed. The tie means that a 1991 deci sion affirming the convictions will stand. Defense attorneys argued that they should have been al lowed to question jurors about racial bias and to determine whether or not they were Jew ish, Hispanic or black. It was unclear whether any Jewish ju rors served on the all-white panel. In the nine-page opinion handed down Monday, the judges who voted to uphold the convictions said jury selection was proper and that U.S. Dis trict Judge Barefoot Sanders ad equately questioned prospec tive jurors to uncover biases. Defendants Sean Christian Tarrant, Jon Lance Jordan, Christopher Barry Greer, Michael Lewis Lawrence and Daniel Alvis Wood are sewing prison sentences ranging from 43/4 years to 91 /2 years. A&M veterans report for two-a-days From Staff and Wire Reports Texas A&M head football coach R.C. Slocum will welcome the entire Aggie football team to two-a-day workouts today. The first practice was held this morn ing at 7:30 and the afternoon workout will begin at 4:15 p.m. The members of the 1991 Southwest Conference Champi onship squad will be joining the incoming freshmen and walk-on players who reported to practice last week and have been practic ing since Thursday. Slocum said the freshmen have been looking good, and that he was looking forward to having his veterans back to work with the youngsters. "We're anxious to get started," Slocum said. "We will hit it early each morning to avoid conflicts with some of our players' class schedules. We're still in the sec ond summer session of classes." The freshmen only worked out once on Tuesday, and Slocum gave the class the afternoon off as the veterans were fitted with equipment and underwent physi cals. The squad will work out three days in shorts and helmets before putting on the pads for the first time this Saturday. All practices are closed to the public. The Aggies were given permis sion from the NCAA to begin practices earlier than usual be cause they will be competing in the Disneyland Pigskin Classic, the opening game of the college football season, on Aug. 26. A&M will take on Stanford University and new head coach Bill Walsh in that season opener, the first meeting in the history of the two schools. The Aug. 26 date is the earliest start in school history. The Ag gies started on Aug. 27 in 1988 as they took on the University of Ne braska in the Kickoff Classic at the Meadowlands, NJ. Athletics Continued From Page 3 great job, but it just wasn't enough to keep us above water," O'Brien said. "With the budget cuts in the state of California, our situation just got progressively worse over the last three or four years. The university's funds have been cut by $35 million over three years and are supposed to be cut by $15 million more this coming year." O'Brien said he felt if the economy didn't get any better, other schools were going to even tually have to follow Long Beach State's lead. "I think other schools are go ing to have to take a look at their program, and some of the small institutions are going to have to face reality and see that they can't continue to play Division I- A anymore, and some may see that they will have to drop their program completely." Rick Purdy, Associate Athletic Director at the University of Cali- fornia-Los Angeles said small colleges and universities are not the only ones with fiscal prob lems in their athletic depart ments. "I don't think there are many schools in the nation who aren't being forced to handle budget cuts in their department," Purdy said. "The cost of running an athletic department has begun to exceed revenue sources for al most all of us. That is not only because of budget cuts from the state, but also because television income has at best remained con stant over the past few years, and in many cases has dropped." Purdy also said the reduction in funds has forced all parts of his university to raise fees. "Here at UCLA, the mandato ry fees have gone up 84 percent over the past few years, and when fees go up, it is reflected in scholarship prices as well," he said. This is a big problem, and I don't think there is an easy an swer to this. "And, if we do find an an swer, I'm sure it will be quite a while." Plumer Continued From Page 3 coach. And, this year's team gets to play Stanford in crispy California, not drabby New Jersey. A&M started that season with three consecutive losses to Ne braska, LSU, and Oklahoma State. The team never recovered, was rocked by a recruiting scan dal, and Sherrill fled College Sta tion in a cloud of dust. But this year will be different for several reasons. First, the present coaching staff has much better control of the team. The team is disciplined and a testa ment to that is the summer work- out program. Head coach R.C. Slocum should be congratulated. He has not let the inmates run the asy lum as rumors dictated Sherrill did during his tenure at A&M. Secondly, the youth of this team will be a very important characteristic. In 1988, the A&M team was dominated by seniors. After starting 0-3, they appeared to throw in the towel for any na tional recognition. This is not to say they were quitters but the en thusiasm seemed to wane. The 1992 A&M squad is hun gry and energetic. They want re spect; a chance to prove last sea son was no fluke. So if they do, heaven forbid, start the season with a loss or two, do not discard this team as a tragedy. The talent is there for a banner season. The coaching staff is ex cellent. There are no dominant egos from any section that will try to hog the glory. Now that the enthusiasm has been dashed down and ebbed up again, it is time to ponder what could happen between the goal posts. Texas A&M, in all likelihood, will have an awesome season. Can the team go undefeated, though? Yes and no. Yes, because of the over whelming talent that will be put on the field. No, because of the National Football League. What does the NFL have to do with the A&M's success this year? The heart and soul of last year's team is now playing for pay. Kevin Smith has Dallas as his mailing address, Quentin Coryatt, Indi anapolis his, and Bucky Richard son has relocated just a hop and a skip away in Houston. Players of their caliber are not replaced overnight. Linebackers Reggie Graham, Jesse Cox, and Larry Jackson will form a tag team to try and overcome the loss of Coryatt. A trio is also competing for Smith's vacant cornerback position. The toughest spot to fill might be Richardson's empty quarter back position. The names Jeff Granger, Matt Miller, Tommy Preston, and more recently Corey Pullig, have been bantered around as possible replacements. Decisions, decisions. Enough of the fretting. It is time to turn free safety Patrick Bates loose on unsuspecting wide receivers. Running backs Greg Hill and Rodney Thomas are ready to roam opposition's defensive backfields. Marcus Buckley is ready to terrorize quarterbacks into submission. The opportunity is there for A&M to garner some much de served national respect. Carpe diem. Aggies. L From t tional tean translate ; said, creat around thi document; In over scrolls ha\ tional tear release inf Dr. Gc English a said the d suit in mis "There of errors t linguistic go so far 1 about," C (scholars) mind of hi Yet, or ington Li that it wo photogra any intere ternation act, sayii work." Ironic that has c never did hired ma caves. U: many of black ma scholars. 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