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State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Tuesday, June 29,' Tuesday Ag Engineering faculty accepts award By LISA ELLIOTT The Battalion The Texas A&M Department of Engineering received national at tention Thursday when 10 faculty members were honored at the an nual American Society for Engi neering Education (ASEE) Confer ence celebrating the 100th an niversary of engineering educa tion in America. Texas A&M had more recipi ents of the award than any other university. Dr. Kenneth Peddicord, interim dean of the college of engineering, said the faculty of the engineering department is always receiving national recognition for achieve ments in engineering, yet this one is unique because it is the first time this particular award has ever been issued. "We're delighted to have so many of our faculty members honored by such a distinguished award," he said. Peddicord said the recipients of the award have made outstanding efforts in the field of engineering education by serving as officers in engineering organizations and by being active in the educational process. Of 35,000 engineering educa tors across the country, only 175 received specially-designed cen tennial medallions. Robert H. Page, chairman for the centennial recognitions com mittee for the ASEE and a me chanical engineering professor at A&M, said in a press release, the medallions recognize individuals who have had a significant and lasting impact on engineering ed ucation. "These honors recognize the impact our faculty is having on engineering education," he said. Page was one of the recipients of the award along with Dr. John Calhoun, deputy chancellor for engineering emeritus; Dr. Herbert Richardson, Texas A&M Universi ty System chancellor; Dr. Edward Hiler, System deputy chancellor for academic research programs; Dr. Fred Benson, dean of engi neering emeritus; Dr. James Earle, professor of civil engineering; Dr. L.S. Fletcher, professor in mechan ical engineering; Dr. W. Dan Turner, associate dean of engi neering; Dr. John Weese, head of the engineering technology de partment and Dr. James Yao, head of the civil engineering depart ment. The medallions were presented at the conference's centennial cele bration. The five-day conference was held at the University of Illi nois at Urbana-Champaign, which is where engineering education began in 1893 when civil engineer Ira Baker formed the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Ed ucation at the World Colombian Exposition in Chicago. Funding Continued from Page 1 Archer, 60 percent of his con stituents voted to support the su per collider, while 40 percent vot ed against the project, she said. "Mr. Archer believes that the super collider project is not an immediate priority," Mills said. "He believes that if you start cut ting things, that you should cut at home." The super collider is seen as a world project, but "private indus try and foreign investors have not come through," she said. But Dr. George Edwards III, a political science professor and di rector of Presidential Studies, said the U.S. is fortunate to have two world class facilities, and it would be a major loss if the na tion were unable to continue us ing them. Edwards said if the two pro grams would not be funded, it would show the declining power of research in the U.S. "I don't think it's devastating, it's more embarrassing," he said. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, said in a prepared statement Friday the superconducting super col lider is an excellent program. "It has a tremendous record and is vital to maintaining our nation's edge in scientific re- search,"he said. Barton's spokesman, Craig Murphy, said, "We need projects that invest in the future." Murphy said approximately eight or nine thousand people around the U.S. will lose their jobs if the super collider is cut. "It's not a matter of how it will affect Texans, but a matter of how it will affect the country," he said. Larry Neal spokesperson for Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said, "There has been a tough struggle every year to get funding for these two research programs." He cited the two premiere sci ence projects as a "case of politics versus research". Dr. Jon Bond, an A&M politi cal science professor, said the money the U.S. is spending to fund the space station and the super collider could be spent much more effectively by divid ing it up between individual re search groups. According to the Associated Press, President Bill Clinton said he is in favor of continuing the two big research programs, but advocates and non-supporters of these projects are questioning his support. Neal said, "Clinton's support has been lukewarm and his track record for supporting the pro grams are thin." Mills said Archer sees the Pres ident and Congress pulling away from the two major projects. Clinton Continued from Page 1 The U.S. strike on Saddam's intelligence head quarters was in retaliation for an alleged Iraqi plot to assassinate former President Bush during a visit to Kuwait last April. In a series of appearances on morning television shows. Gore said the United States would deal stern ly with terrorism by Saddam or others. "Nobody can predict what Saddam might do," Gore said. "It would be unwise for Saddam to retaliate in any capacity, because that would receive a re sponse," Gore said. Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he had "grave concern" that Congress was not consulted be forehand. Myers said the risk of compromising an operation was "always something that you weigh." Advance information on the attack was closely held, resulting in erroneous information being given to the press. Myers had told reporters on Thursday and Friday that Clinton had not received an FBI report on Iraqi involvement in the alleged assassination plot when in fact he got it Thursday morning. Myers said her statement was incorrect because "I asked people who also did not know. In other words, I asked the question, but I asked the wrong people." "It was an honest mistake ... something that we'll try to change in the future," said Myers. The State Department issued a global travel advi sory in the aftermath of the missile attack and the New York arrests. Campus News Briefs Students receive internship from Imagi-Nations contest Engineering department receives series of donations Two Texas A&M students received a grant and in ternship at Walt Disney Imagineering. Humberto Kam from Panama won first place and Albert Rodriguez from San Antonio won second place in the second annual "Imagi-Nations" competi tion which encourages minority and female college students to develop creative skills in preparation for professional skills. Walt Disney Imagineering is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co. responsible for the creation and ex pansion of the Disney theme parks. Dean of Veterinary Medicine College wins fellowship Dr. John A. Shadduck, dean of Texas A&M Uni versity's College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship for study in Great Britain. Shadduck will travel to Great Britain as part of the United States-United Kingdom College and Universi ty Academic Administration Award program. Shadduck will spend March through July of 1994 consulting with administrators and researchers at the six colleges of veterinary medicine in Great Britain The Texas A&M College of Engineering received a series of gifts last week. Frito-Lay, Inc. donated $20,000 to the Department of Chemical Engineering to establish a scholarship in the department's J.D. Lindsey Scholars Program. Also contributing to the program was Tektronix who donated six Optical Fault Finders valued at ap proximately $36,000 to the Department of Engineer ing Technology, and Raba-Kistner Consultants, Inc. pledged $55,000 to the College of Engineering. A private donation was received from Mason Pilcher, a 1928 graduate of Texas A&M and a resi dent of Tyler, Texas. Pilcher donated $20,000 to an endowed scholarship fund that he established in th« College of Engineering in 1988.- Another private donation of $20,000 was received from W.M. McDonald from Houston to be used in the Fred J. Benson Scholars Program in the Depart ment of Chemical Engineering. Defei TI Undergraduates to partake in Premedical Academy Graduate student awarded Mercury Seven Scholarship Shane Xavire Short, a Texas A&M University elec trical engineering graduate student from Billingsly, Montana, has been named a recipient of a Mercury Seven Scholarship. Short is one of 10 students in the country to re ceive the scholarship, which was established in hon or of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. Four Texas A&M University students have been chosen for the 1993 Honors Premedical Academy at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University. Michael Raoul Coy, a biomedical science major from Dallas, Theronica Gray, a chemistry major from Dallas, Elaine Key, a biomedical science major from Azle, and Wilmer Roberts, a biochemistry' major from Austin, are among 125 undergraduates chosen from across the country. The participants will spend mornings in a medical setting with Baylor Physicians and afternoons in aca demic courses in science, math and communication at Rice. WIM Barbra £ Agassi r< Zonir of Cent swirling ran do\ unread and hit from c court. He pi. the morr Streisar said, ar out killei Krajicek 6 (10-8) £ defense c Krajit pony — ley — a: perb. Ag horse, d( in, attack and blov crowd. Agas: Barbra a have his Pete Sarr terfinals Sampi 6-1, 6-2, and Brita Samp m fol Two students to participate in medical research work Associate dean of Business elected president of FMA to . Two Texas A&M University undergraduates have been chosen to participate in the 1993 Summer Med ical and Research Training Program in ^he graduate school at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. Brian D. Le, a biology major from Houston, and Michelle Pierce, a biochemistry major from King- wood, were among 100 college students chosen to participate in the 10-week program which offers first hand experience through work in laboratory and clinical settings. Dr. Gary Trennepohl, associate dean of adminis tration and external relations in Texas A&M Univer sity's College of Business Administration and Gradu ate School of Business, has been named president elect of the Financial Management Association. The Financial Management Association was estab lished in 1970 to promote a relationship between fi nance practitioners and academicians. > . < ..... Trennepohl will assume the^presidency at the group's October meeting in Toronto. rie: Submarine Continued from Page 1 "We felt it was advisable to remind Americans that they need to be extra concerned at a time of ten sion like this about their own personal safety as they travel," spokesman Mike McCurry said. than the front. Because of time constraints and technical problems, the team was not able to test the vessel in the water before the competition, he said. Lou said, "The submarine sur faced too long during the time tri als, and they were disqualified. The students just weren't able to practice enough with the subma rine before the race." Soliah said it was frustrating not to have placed in the competi tion. "We worked on the submarine for a year and a half," he said. "We could have won if it weren't for the technical problems." Lou said the ocean engineering students are planning to improve on the "Argo" to compete in the next international submarine competition. "Next time we'll try a different strategy," he said. "We'll try to resolve the technical difficulties since we don't have put all our ef forts in the composition of the hull." This year's submarine was con structed with a composite-maten al hull, unlike the wooden subma rine built in 1991. Despite problems encountered with the construction and perfor mance of the submarine, Lou said the students learned how to wori together as a team. "They learned how difficult is to push a project forward in real life," he said. "The students en countered problems they didn't expect and learned a lot of appli cations they don't get from their text books." Ulcer Studies Do you have stomach pain? Indigestion? Heartburn? Perhaps we could help! 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