The Battalion .92 No. 183 (6 pages) 1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993 Monday, August 2,1993 Administrative shuffle hits A&M w eekend rap-up Reports: Mobley to become System chancellor; Gage to attain presidency Stroui ort W FEET VaJ^V- ^ lii Rosa NAPPED Bt Harris executed Friday for murder 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. iving from 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 See NSI/Page 4 s system' •ohibits the somethin 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 The Battalion 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 See School/Page 4 Inside Sports ►SWC football: Preseason look at SMU, TCU ►Golf: Nick Price wins St. Jude Classic Page 3 Opinion 'Editorial: Clinton's policy on immigration a necessary step ►Guest Column: Losing Mosher Institute a detriment to A&M Page 5 ►Monday: partly cloudy with isolated afternoon showers, highs near 100 ►Forecast for Tuesday: partly cloudy, widely scattered afternoon rain Texas Lotto •Saturday's lotto numbers: 10, 11,20, 28, 35, 46 •Estimated Lotto Texas jackpot: $3 million