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Vol.92 No. 172 (6 pages) 1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993 Tuesday, July 13,1993
U.N. attack desttoys Somalian warlord command post
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.N. heli
copters sent missiles and cannon fire into
a renegade warlord's command center
Monday, and angry Somalis turned on
journalists and killed at least two — an
Associated Press photographer and a
Reuters photographer.
Two other foreign journalists were
missing and feared dead. Two more suf
fered stab and bullet wounds.
Supporters of warlord Mohamed Far-
rah Aidid claimed 73 Somalis died and
200 were wounded by the U.N. attack.
But U.N. officials said their troops count
ed 13 dead Somalis and 11 wounded at
Enraged mob kills two journalists, two more missing after assault
the villa after the 17-minute attack by
American helicopters and soldiers.
A U.N. spokeswoman, Maj. Leann
Swieczkowski, said damage was confined
to the villa, which Aidid's fighters were
using as a command center.
Aidid's gunmen have been blamed for
attacks that killed 35 U.N. soldiers and
wounded 137 the last five weeks, plung
ing Mogadishu back into the chaos that
prevailed before a U.S.-led military force
intervened in December. U.N. troops be
gan trying to reassert control a week ago.
In London, a group loyal to Aidid is
sued a statement saying his militiamen
would continue attacks until all U.N.
troops leave Somalia. Aidid has accused
U.N. officials of being biased toward his ri
vals in the civil war that ravaged this im
poverished country in the Horn of Africa.
After the U.N. attack, people claiming
to be Aidid supporters escorted nine or 10
journalists to the scene to inspect the
damage, but the five media cars were
shot at and then swarmed over by more
than 100 angry Somalis armed with guns
and knives. Some of the journalists sped
away under fire, but several were cut off.
Somali interpreters employed by The
Associated Press returned to the area and
reported seeing the body of Hansi Krauss,
a 30-year-old AP photographer from Ger
many. The body of photographer Dan El
don, a U.S.-British citizen who worked for
Reuters out of Kenya, was recovered by
U.N. forces. He appeared to have been
beaten with stones and rifle butts.
Somali employees for foreign news
agencies said they saw the bodies of two
other foreigners in the street outside the
attacked villa. Two other Kenya-based
Reuters employees, photographer Hosea
D. Maina and Anthony Macharia, a
Reuters TV soundman, were missing, but
the agency said it had not confirmed the
bodies were theirs.
Mohamed Shaffi, another Reuters TV
soundman from Kenya, was stabbed, shot
in the leg and stoned but was rescued by
colleagues and taken to a U.S. Army field
hospital. Scott Peterson, an American re
porter for The Daily Telegraph of London,
was treated for a machete cut on his head.
The U.N. special envoy to Somalia, re
tired U.S. Adm. Jonathan Howe, de
scribed the deaths of the journalists as
"an outrageous and barbaric attack on in
nocent people doing their work honestly
and professionally" to bring Somalia's
problems to world attention.
Howe, who has ordered Aidid's arrest,
stepped up the hunt Saturday by an
nouncing a $25,000 reward for informa
tion on his whereabouts. Aidid's support
ers say he remains in southern Mo
gadishu, his stronghold.
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STACY RYAN/The Battalion
Attendees of the Texas A&M Tennis Camp line up particular group is being taught by Leslve Beck
to practice their serves. There are waiting lists for (not pictured), a junior journalism/English major
all four sessions of the week-long camp, which is from College Station,
considered to be one of the best in the nation. This
Agency finds unethical study
A&M professor accused of violating medical laws in Taiwan
By JASON COX
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Scientists Against Research
Fraud (SARF), a university re
search monitoring agency, is al
leging that a Texas A&M Univer
sity professor participated in un
ethical activities while in Taiwan
during the late '80s.
Dr. Gene L. Trupin, coordina
tor of SARF, said Dr. George
Chiou, head of the department of
pharmacology and toxicology at
Texas A&M University's school of
Medicine, bypassed normal proce
dure and assisted in testing exper
imental glucagon eyedrops on
Taiwanese subjects without per
mission from the Taiwanese gov
ernment, or the appropriate A&M
and federal agencies.
"We're not trying to cause
problems, but we thought the lo
cal community should have some
knowledge of what is going on,"
said Trupin. "Public scrutiny can
help bring about justice."
The purpose of the study was
to determine whether diabetic pa
tients suffering from hypo
glycemia could be treated on an
emergency basis with eyedrops,
rather than injection.
Chiou refers to his role in the
matter as a co-investigator, pro
viding animal research data so
that others might coordinate a
plan for experimentation. The ac
tual clinical trials were conducted
by Drs. L. M. Chuang and H. P.
Wu, without Chiou's direct partic
ipation. Chiou stated in a letter to
Texas A&M's Institutional Review
Board (IRB) that all patients were
thoroughly informed by Chuang
as to the nature of the experi
ments and agreed to participate in
the one time trials.
The Taiwan Department of
Health took disciplinary action
against Chuang, Wu and National
Taiwan University, charging them
with a violation of a medical law
that requires advance approval
from the Department of Health.
Chiou was not brought up on
charges in Taiwan.
A sub-committee of the IRB
was established in May 1990 to re
view and evaluate allegations that
Chiou had departed from set poli
cies and procedures for research
involving human subjects. The
committee's final report found
that Chiou was not in compliance
with approved University regula
tions when he participated in a
consulting capacity to Taiwan
University College of Medicine.
See Ethics/Page 6
Tenure policy now stresses teaching
By MICHELE BRINKMANN
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Texas A&M University officials say they are
ahead of other universities throughout the nation in
re-evaluating their tenure policies as a result of the
growing "publish or perish" attitude on campuses.
"We already revised our policy to emphasize
teaching," Senior Vice President and Provost Dr. E.
Dean Gage said.
Associate Provost and Dean of Faculties Dr.
William L. Perry said, "I believe that our policies
are consistent with standard practices of other Uni
versities."
In May 1993, a revised set of guidelines concern
ing the evaluation of teaching in tenure decisions
was added to the Guidelines for Managing, Tenure
and Promotion booklet that was sent by Perry along
with two memorandums to University deans and de
partment heads. The last revision of the tenure poli
cy occurred in May 1992.
Dr. Wendy Wood, professor of psychology, said
she is impressed with how carefully research,
teaching and service are evaluated throughout the
tenure process.
But Speaker of Faculty Senate Dr. James Morgan
said the tenure policy still needs to be improved.
"Our policy is good, but the implementation isn't
carried through," Morgan said. "They do try. The
problem is that it's easier to measure research than it
is to measure teaching."
Dr. Karl G. Hursey and Dr. Wendy Stock recently
left A&M for other positions after they were denied
tenure because they did not meet the research re
quirements within the psychology department.
They criticized the tenure policy for placing too
much emphasis on empirical research and not
enough on teaching.
See Tenure/Page 6
A&M to assist USD A in cattle research
By JAMES BERNSEN
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The U.S. Department of Agri
culture is sponsoring research to
further the knowledge of cattle
genetics, and Texas A&M will
play an important role in the coor
dination of the program.
Dr. James Womack, W.P. Luse
professor of Veterinary Patholo
gy, has been named coordinator
of the USDA's National Animal
Genome Research Program's ef
fort to develop a genetic map of
cattle.
"The purpose of the map is to
locate economically important
traits in cattle," Womack said. "If
a need for a certain trait like a dif
ferent fat content arises, we can
produce animals with the trait in
just one generation instead of sev
eral, as it takes through conven
tional breeding."
A&M will also be used as a
center to coordinate databases
and distribute genetic material,
Womack said.
With the map, breeders will be
able to change the cattle's charac
teristics to produce a better beef
steak, as well as increase resis
tance to disease.
Dr. Gary Adams, professor of
Veterinary Pathology, said the ge
netic map of cattle will be very im
portant in reducing tuberculosis in
cattle, a disease which is increasing
in cattle as well as humans.
"People often get tuberculosis
from cattle as well as other dis
eases," Adams said. "If we can
make cattle genetically resistant
to such diseases, it will reduce
the occurrences in humans of
such diseases."
Adams said approximately two
million cattle are shipped up from
Mexico every year, and some are
smuggled past inspectors who
would identify the animals with
tuberculosis.
"If we can isolate the gene that
controls resistance," Adams said,
"we can distribute material for ar
tificial insemination worldwide to
combat this problem."
Adams, along with Dr. Joe
Templeton, also of Veterinary
Pathology, is currently working
on locating the gene that controls
resistance to brucellosis disease,
which causes abortions in cattle.
"We've never, ever managed
disease by making animals more
resistant, and this is what were
trying to do,"Adams said.
The Animal Genome Project
will coordinate all similar
See Cattle/Page 6
University to participate in nationwide study
By REAGON CLAMON
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Texas A&M faculty and administrators will
have the opportunity to influence federal poli
cy as participants in a nationwide project to
study the problems U.S. universities face jug
gling their mission to educate and their mis
sion to research.
The study is a joint project between the Na
tional Science Board and the Government-Uni-
versity-Industry Research Roundtable
(NSB/GUIRR) to develop new policies that re
search-sponsoring agencies could follow to al
leviate the stress put on universities.
Dr. Roger Ulrich, associate dean of the Col
lege of Architecture, presented the Faculty Sen
ate with the project at their Monday meeting.
Project members are directed by the
NSB/GUIRR guidelines to recommend policy
changes at the federal level to ease the pres
sure put on universities by scientific research.
Ulrich said this part of the project is "un
precedented."
Eleven other universities will join A&M in
the study, including Stanford, Yale, and the
University of Wisconsin.
Ulrich said the focus of the project is re
search, but there are many "teaching related
issues that are to be addressed."
Ulrich said the project mainly focuses on
engineering and the sciences, explicitly ignor
ing the humanities.
Ulrich said the study was a great opportu
nity for Texas A&M, but that the deadline for
presenting A&M's recommendations to the
NSB/GUIRR will be difficult to meet\
"The less good news is that the
(NSC/GUIRR) have imposed a fairly Dracon
ian time frame for this project," Ulrich said.
"The final report from the University has to be
in at Washington by October, and if we're late
we don't contribute."
The Texas A&M project members are
charged by the study to discuss seven topics
and have created seven subcommittees to ex
plore each one.
Some of these topics and subcommittees
include:
•Priorities: To explore how institutions pri
oritize areas of focus in research and educa
tion and the ramifications of these priorities.
•Research and undergraduate education:
To explore what institutions and research
sponsors can do to improve the quality of un
dergraduate education.
•The community of scholars: What should
institutions and research sponsors be doing to
improve the sense of community among schol
ars on campus, including issues of increased
participation of women, minorities and
younger researcher's research at the university.
Inside
Sports
►Baseball: Brian Thomas out of
the action until August
►Football: Aikman back in the
action, throws in practice
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Opinion
•Editorial: U.N. attack in
Somalia a necessary action
•Column: Gay marriages
deserve legal recognition
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