The Battalion
.92 No. 183 (6 pages)
1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993
Monday, August 2,1993
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HUNTSVILLE — Danny Har
ris, who was convicted of joining
his teen-age brother in the brutal
slaying or a helpful motorist 15
years ago, was executed at 12:18
a.m. Friday.
Harris, whose brother Curtis
was executed July 1 for his part
in the crime, died six minutes af
ter receiving the lethal injection.
Harris made a final statement,
during which he expressed love
for his family and for the family
of his victim.
"I'd like to plead with teen
agers and children to stop the vio
lence and focus on Christ," he said.
Harris is the 62nd inmate to
be put to death in Texas since
the state resumed capital punish
ment in 1982 and the eighth this
year. Both totals are the highest
in the nation.
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STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The Texas A&M University Board of
Regents will soon bump President
William Mobley up to the office of chan
cellor of the A&M Sys
tem, according to news
reports released over
the weekend, but sys
tem officials have de
clined to comment on
the reports.
According to re
ports, Herbert Richard
son, current chancellor
of the A&M System,
will step down as early
as this week, making
room for Mobley.
Sources told the As
sociated Press that E. Dean Gage, senior
vice president and provost, will replace
Mobley as University president.
The Battalion was unable to reach
Gage, Mobley or Richardson for comment
over the weekend.
It is likely that Robert Smith, vice pres
ident for finance and administration, will
Gage
go with Mobley to the chancellor's office
and become his second in command as
executive deputy chancellor.
Ed Davis, current executive deputy
chancellor, has been offered the job of ex
ecutive director of the Texas A&M Uni
versity Development Foundation.
Penny Beaumont, vice chancellor for
communications for the A&M System,
said she has been told to refer all ques
tions regarding the proposed moves to
Ross Margraves, chairman of the Board,
and she expects the System to make an
official announcement early this week.
Margraves declined to comment on the
reports because he said, "It's premature
for me to comment on any changes with
in the A&M System."
However, he said an announcement
would be forthcoming.
In news reports released Saturday, Rer
gent Royce Wisenbaker said he opposes
the decision to remove Richardson from
the chancellor's office and reassign him to
a teaching position.
"Obviously, I think it's a tragic situa
tion because I hired Herb Richardson," he
said, referring to Richardson's appoint
ment to chancellor in 1991. "I don't know
why they did it that way."
Wisenbaker said the Board decided
during its July 22-23 meetings to replace
Richardson and put him into an engineer
ing teaching position Sept. 1.
Richardson leaves as chancellor after
holding posts in the System as deputy
chancellor for engineering, director of the
Texas Engineering Experiment Station,
and vice chancellor for engineering.
Richardson also served as dean of the
College of Engineering.
Mobley became Texas A&M's 20th
president in August 1988 after serving as
executive deputy chancellor of the A&M
System from 1986-88.
Shortly after Mobley's arrival in 1988,
the football program became embroiled in
controversy under head coach Jackie Sher
rill, who eventually resigned amidst claims
that a player had been illegally paid.
The player later recanted his claims and
the school was never connected to any
wrongdoing. Mobley drew widespread
praise for his handling of the situation.
Mobley first came to Texas A&M
University as the head of the Depart
ment of Management in 1980, and in
1983 became dean of the College of
A Senate vote Friday ended
the Republican filibuster on
President Bill Clinton's nation
al service bill that will allow
college students to trade com
munity service for tuition.
The Senate passed the act
with a 59-41 vote after the
House's Wednesday vote of
| Brain cancer kills
U.s. Rep. Henry I By STEPHANIE pattillo
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - ‘ The Battalion
U.S. Rep. Paul Henry, a rising
Republican star who was elected
to a fifth term weeks after doc
tors removed a malignant tumor
from his brain, died Saturday.
He was 51.
Henry was diagnosed with
brain cancer in October after
complaining of headaches.
Doctors initially were opti
mistic about his chances for re
covery, but by mid-summer his
staff said he couldn't communi
cate and they weren't sure if he
recognized friends.
"We had all been hoping for a
miracle," Republican Cov. John
Engler said Saturday.
"It's tragic when such a pro
ductive and promising life is cut
short before its time," President
Clinton said. "His personal
courage and bravery will be an
inspiration for us."
Senate passes college service plan
275-152. The National Service
Trust Act is part of President
Bill Clinton's National Service
Initiative. The act will allow
students to pay back loans
with community service.
In a statement by the presi
dent Friday, Clinton thanked
Republicans who supported
his service legislation.
"National Service will be
America at its best-energizing
our youth, meeting our nation's
needs and reuniting all of us in
the common work of citizen
ship," he said. "This legislation
joins our nation's finest tradi
tions of building community,
rewarding responsibility and
offering opportunity."
Clinton's plan would pro
vide a $5,000 education award
to any student agreeing to per
form 1,700 hours of approved
national service. The students
would also be paid a $7,200
stipend, as well as be provided
health and child care if neces
sary. The estimated total cost
to the federal government is
$15,000 to $20,000 per student.
The House measure would
authorize $389 million for the
1994 fiscal year to help 25,000
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Belgian king dies
of heart failure
MOTRIL, Spain — King Bau-
douin of Belgium died of heart
failure Saturday while vacation
ing in Spain, a government
spokesman said.
The king, 62, died in Motril, a
town in southern Spain on the
Mediterranean coast, a
spokesman for Spain's Ministry
of the Presidency said. The king
and his wife. Queen Fabiola, had
been vacationing in Motril since
July 22.
The Belgian news agency Bel-
ga quoted Prime Minister Jean-
Luc Dehaene as saying the king
died about 9:30 p.m. after a car
diac arrest at Motril.
King Baudouin had been in ill
health in recent years. Last year,
he underwent heart surgery to
repair a mitral valve.
Mobley
Business Administration.
The Texas A&M System includes six
institutions other than A&M and several
agencies.
E.C. officials
work to halt
impending
money crisis
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Senior Euro
pean Community officials struggled for a
second day Sunday to find a way to end
the currency turmoil that threatens the
collapse of their 14-year-old monetary
system.
They were working against a deadline
of Monday morning, when the money
markets reopen and the EC's weak cur
rencies could again come under attack
from speculators.
Several EC currencies, including the
usually strong French franc, plunged last
week as traders sold them off i-n huge
quantities, expecting that the currencies
would soon be devalued.
At stake is not only the value of the in
dividual currencies, but the EC's Euro
pean Monetary System, under which cur
rencies are allowed to fluctuate within
only a narrow range. The system is key to
the EC's hopes of establishing monetary
ujiiqn by the end of the decade to go
along'with the bloc countries' closer'
trade and political ties.
Greenwood faces
probation terms
Sherron Dante Greenwood found out
Friday he will be under house arrest for
10 years and wear an electronic monitor
ing device to make sure he complies with
the terms of his probation.
Greenwood's house arrest prohibits
him from leaving his house during non
working or non-school hours, except
when he participates in approved com
munity programs.
A jury convicted Greenwood last
week of murdering Billy C. Williams in
Bryan High School's Lamar ninth-grade
campus and sentenced him to 10 years
probation.
District Judge John Delaney also said
Greenwood must attend high school and
obtain a diploma or a General Education
al Development certificate within the
span of three yecu’s, cannot associate with
any gang and cannot possess any type of
knife or firearm.
Researchers: home education growing
Brazos Valley group hosts home schooling workshop
By JANET HOLDER
-The Associated Press
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Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series
dealing with home schooling.
Brazos Valley residents choosing to teach
their children at home rather than send them to
traditional public or private schools are part of a
growing trend, according to home school re
searchers.
More than 90 people attended a workshop
Saturday on the hows and whys of home school
ing presented by the Brazos Valley Christian
Home Educators Association (BVCHEA) at the
Clayton Williams Alumni Center.
The all-day workshop was conducted by
Hank Tate, the executive director of Educational
Support Foundation (ESF).
About 50 percent of those attending the work
shop said they were interested in home school
ing their children, but had not yet begun to
home school.
The number of people choosing to educate
their children at home is increasing at a rate of 10
percent per year, according to research done by
Patricia Lines. More than 300,000 children,
kindergarten to 12th grade, were home schooled
in the fall of 1990, indicating an increase from
183,000 children in 1985.
In some states the growth rate may be as high
as 20 to 40 percent, Tate said. In Texas the rate of
increase is between 30 to 40 percent every year,
he said.
Based upon Texas support group counts by
Home Oriented Private Education (HOPE), there
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Opinion
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►Monday: partly cloudy
with isolated afternoon
showers, highs near 100
►Forecast for Tuesday:
partly cloudy, widely
scattered afternoon rain
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