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The Battalion
Tuesday, July 13,1993
Bangkop
Japan suffers strongest quake in 15 years
Summer heat
sends tourists
into the cold
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The summer swelter along the
East Coast has sent people seek
ing the shelter of cooler air, bring
ing more cold cash to tourist busi
ness^ on the beaches and in the
mountains.
“The heat does wonders for
us,” said Cathie Baines, general
manager of the Hampton House,
a hotel on the beach in Hampton,
N.H., where rooms have been
booked solid for the past week.
The heat has been especially
welcome on Cape Cod, which
saw business dampened by cool,
miserable weather last summer.
Business on the Cape normally
dips after the Fourth of July. Not
this year, said Michael Frucci,
head of the Cape Cod Chamber of
Commerce. Frucci said business
activity has held steady, indicat
ing tourists have been sticking
around to enjoy temperatures that
typically are 10 degrees cooler
than inland.
Among them is Patrice Doher
ty, who drove to Cape Cod from
her home in Woodstock, Vt.
“The weather was too unbear
able,” she said Monday while
strolling along West Dennis Beach.
”1 changed my work schedule to
come down to the beach."
In Bar Harbor, Maine, tourists
from Utah, Georgia and other
parts of the nation were checked
in this weekend at the Bar Harbor
Inn, where the mugginess was
moderated by an ocean breeze.
In Pennsylvania's Pocono
Mountains, resorts that normally
thrive on snow basked in the sun
as crowds mobbed their water
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO — A major earthquake
struck northern Japan Monday,
leveling a small hotel, setting hun
dreds of houses ablaze and trig
gering tidal waves that swept
dozens of homes into the sea. At
least nine people were reported
killed and about 40 were missing.
The quake matched the
strongest to hit Japan in 15 years,
measuring 7.8 on the Richter
scale, the Central Meteorological
Agency said.
It was centered 30 miles under
the Sea of Japan and about 50
miles west of Hokkaido, the na
tion's third most populous island
with 5.65 million people.
Okushiri, a small island just 30
miles south of the epicenter, was
devastated by the quake.
Kyodo News Service said the
island's two-story wooden
Yoyoso Hotel collapsed, killing at
least five people and leaving
about 20 missing. The public tele
vision network NHK reported
that six or seven people were res
cued from the burning hotel.
About 300 houses were ablaze
on another part of the island of
4,600 people. A number of houses!
also were washed away by tidal
waves, they said.
Television footage showed fires
burning and residents gathering
anxiously in small groups.
Water, water everywhere...
Great flood of '93 leaves Des Moines residents with dwindling water supply
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa — They can't take
showers. They can't wash clothes. They can't
flush the toilet.
And that's one of the biggest problems fac
ing Ed and Mary Conlow after floods knocked
out the city's water-treatment plant: potty
training for 3-year-old Steve.
“We could go back to diapers, but his train
ing would go backwards," said Ed Conlow.
The taps went dry in Des Moines and most
of its suburbs when the swollen Raccoon River
surged over the 15-foot-high earthen levees
and sandbag dikes protecting the Des Moines
Water Works about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, contami
nating the water filters and pumps.
It was the first time the water plant had
flooded, and Des Moines was the first major
city to suffer such a municipal catastrophe in
the already record-breaking floods of 1993. As
many as 250,000 people in Des Moines, 10 sur
rounding towns and two rural water districts
are without water or will be as soon as free
standing backup tanks run dry.
L.D. McMullen, water works general man
ager, said the water should be running again
by the end of the week, but he guessed it
would be a month before pipes can be disin
fected and the water is safe to drink.
Conlow, a legislative researcher for the
Iowa House of Representatives, played with
Steve and 6-year-old Kate outside his Des
Moines home on Monday because Steve's day
care center was closed. It just couldn't operate
without toilets, Conlow said.
“I feel like we're in a Third World country,"
Conlow said. "We're surviving. That's it."
The Conlows haven't bathed since Saturday
morning, although by Monday several friends
had extended invitations for them to make
shower visits. They are brushing their teeth
with bottled water, and Conlow is fast learn
ing the best way to flush a toilet manually.
Pour the water directly into the bowl, and
the force of the water causes the toilet to flush.
Health officials urged people to put buckets
under downspouts to catch rainwater, which
has been in more than ample supply lately.
One hitch: it stopped raining Sunday morn
ing and no rain was expected before late Mon
day night.
"We don't really have a choice, so I don't
even ask the question, 'What are we going to
do?'" Conlow said. "We both have jobs, so
we'll keep going."
Tenure
Continued from Page 1
In a letter addressed to Perry,
Hursey said, "I feel that I have
not been inactive at research,
and it appears that the tenure
decision was based solely on re
search publications."
"Teaching plays little role in the
process despite University state
ments that teaching is emphasized
and highly valued," he said.
Stock recently criticized the
policy, calling it "Neanderthal
and androcentric."
She also said that the Universi
ty gives lip service to the value of
teaching, but does not carry this
out in its actions.
On March 8, a resolution in the
Faculty Senate found that "some
evidence does support the claim
that non-research accomplish
ments of the faculty have not re
ceived adequate consideration
with respect to tenure decisions in
some academic units."
The Faculty Senate recom
mended that the Provost ask each
academic unit within the Univer
sity to re-double its efforts. How
ever, the resolution did not pass
because it was not explicit enough
in identifying the difference be
tween research and non-research
requirements.
According to A&M's Policy
and Procedures Manual, tenure
allows faculty members to contin
ue in their academic positions un
less dismissed for a good cause.
The tenure process begins when a
faculty member submits their file.
The file is reviewed by several
committees and offices, ending
with the Texas A&M Board of Re
gents. An applicant is evaluated
on their research, teaching and
service. The applicant is advised
of the recommendations at each
level of review.
Cattle
Continued from Page 1
activities around the country to
improve the efficiency of such
work, Adams said.
Texas A&M is in the forefront of
research into the genetic identifica
tion of brucellosis, tuberculosis,
and salmonellosis, the major bacte
rial diseases of cattle, Adams said.
A&M is also conducting re
search into beef carcass traits in
cluding fat content and marbling.
Womack said the federal gov
ernment wiP grant $75,000 to
$100,000 a year lor the five years
of the program.
"A&M stands a really good
chance in terms of receiving such
grants," Womack said.
In addition to cattle, the USDA
program has also established na
tional centers to coordinate map
ping of genomes in pigs, chickens
and sheep, according to a press
release from Texas A&M Univer
sity Relations.
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Ethics
Continued from Page 1
The sub-committee recommended the creation of new policies de
signed to increase the knowledge of faculty, staff and students in re
gard to human research procedures.
After reviewing the final report of the TRB and other material, the
Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR), a branch of the De
partment of Health and Human Services, found the University appro
priately addressed the allegations under investigation.
However, the OPRR went on to state that the University's response
indicated that certain violations did occur that "cannot be considered
minor" and at the very least suggested weaknesses in A&M's institu
tional procedures for protecting human research subjects.
Genevieve Stubbs, first assistant general counsel for Texas A&M,
said Chiou fully cooperated with the investigation. She said no other
allegations have been made against Chiou, and that in reality, the mat
ter was a minor mistake that has been corrected.
Trupin said when an issue like this arises, the most common re
sponse is silence.
"There is a cover-up response, and the response of those who speak
out on ethical matters," he said. "Most don't want to lose their jobs
and keep their mouths shut. People do wrong in all sorts of disci
plines, but when an institution is corrupt, it's more significant that if it
were just the individual."
Vaughn Waters, council for Chiou, declined to comment because of
a pending lawsuit involving his client.
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ing a Certified Professional Sec
retary Orientation in Rudder
Tower, room 707B at 12 noon.
For further information call Jan
Spears at 845-5311.
Cooperative Education: Is hav
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for students interested in learn
ing more about cooperative ed
ucation. It is to be held at 7pm
in the Student Services Building
room 110.
Wednesday
Job Search Strategies Seminar:
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seminar for students interested
in learning how to get started
with their job search. It is to be
held at 2pm in Rudder 308. For
more information call Carrie
Schendel at 845-5139.
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