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1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Tuesday, September 21,1993
encourage students about the future
By Lisa Elliott
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Students at Texas A&M University will have
an opportunity this week to meet a prominent
and controversial figure from American history.
Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North told The Battal
ion on Monday that he “hopes to leave students
with a positive idea about the future" after his
speech Wednesday evening in Rudder Theater.
"What I'd like to do is leave students with a
little bit of encouragement about the future and
get them involved in the public policy process,"
he said.
North is best known for his involvement in
the Iran-Contra affair in 1987 in which he
helped carry out President Reagan's policy of
supporting the Nicaraguan resistance and the
rescue of hostages held in Beirut.
North was cleared of all legal charges stem
ming from the affair.
Texas A&M is one of 10 universities where
North will give a speech in November. North
said although he does give speeches to many
college campuses, he localizes them to each
school.
"I try to make them applicable to the student
body," he said.
North said he doesn't plan to attack the Uni
versity for the proposed multiculturalism class
es currently being debated by the College Re
publicans.
"My purpose is not to attack the curricu
lum," he said. "My purpose is to encourage the
students as well as the faculty to explore the
full range of issues they'll have to conform to
when they graduate."
North hopes to leave the students with a
positive image of himself and the government.
"If I had an image at all. I'd rather the stu
dents wouldn't see so much of a very controver
sial person, but rather a person who is striving
very hard to be a good husband, a good father
and a good businessperson," he said. "Everyone
makes mistakes, and I know I have."
North said he has tentative plans to run for
the U.S. Senate.
"That may be a touchy issue since an old
Texan's son-in-law is the incumbent, Charles S.
Robb," he said. "He's a liberal Democrat and
I'm a conservative Republican, so there's no
contest."
North is a 1968 graduate of the United States
Naval Academy and said he has never had an
opportunity to visit the Texas A&M campus be
cause Navy didn't play A&M when he was
there. He said he is looking forward to touring
the campus and commented on A&M's high
score against Missouri in Saturday's game.
"I wish my Navy team could play half as
good as A&M," he said.
North is co-founder of Guardian Technolo
gies International, Inc. a Virginia-based man
ufacturer of protective equipment for law en
forcement and currently writes a weekly syn
dicated column. He recently completed a
book titled "One More Mission" due out in
November.
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Texas A&M University came in 42nd in Money magazine's list of the
nation's best college buys for 1994.
A&M dropped nine places from last year's rating of 33.
Dr. A. Benton Cocanougher, A&M interim senior vice president and
provost, said the drop came as a surprise to administrators.
"I was disappointed to hear it, and really quite surprised," he said.
"All the evidence that we have available points to Texas A&M as one of
the great buys in American education.
"I see no reason to account for that kind of drop, and I intend to look
at the list and make sure we're communicating the polling factors as
well as we can."
Rankings were based on 15 quality measures combined with tuition
| and fee amounts for non-resident. A&M non-resident undergraduate
students pay' $2,814 per 15-hour semester, and students in the College
oiTngineering pay $3,024.
Dr. Mike Bishop, vice president for university communications and
marketing at Baylor University, said he thinks factors besides tuition
and fee costs played a big part in Baylor's rank of 33 out of the 989 col
leges listed.
"Our tuition is the second lowest of all major private U.S. universi
ties, but we also consciously recruit students from educationally, cul
turally and economically disadvantaged areas," he said.
A high number of national merit scholars and close faculty-student
relationships also played a role in Baylor's ranking. Bishop said.
"I think the fact that we ranked in the top 1 percent of U.S. universi
ties in the number of enrolled national merit scholars also helped us in
the rating," he said. "We also have a low faculty-to-student ratio, which
develops close relationships between our professors and students."
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Colonel Hickle and his assistant from A&R photography photo- Photo shoots for residence halls will continue throughout this week
graph Hobby Hall for the 1993-94 Aggieland Monday afternoon, and into next week.
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WASHINGTON - Counting
down to Wednesday night's un
veiling, President Clinton honed
his health-reform sales pitch before
top doctors and sent his wife to
Capitol Hill Monday to brief law
makers on the radical surgery
planned for the U.S. health system.
Clinton also got a strong boost
from Dr. C. Everett Koop, the sur
geon general under Republican
Presidents Reagan and Bush, who
said Clinton had already' accom
plished more to solve the nation's
health woes "than all of his living
predecessors put together."
Questions remained about the
costs and cuts imbedded in Clin
ton's $700 billion plan to ensure
health coverage for all Americans
while slamming the brakes on
medical inflation.
And Republican party chair
man Haley Barbour exhorted state
GOP leaders to take the offensive
against the Clinton plan. He said
in a memo that Republicans can
not afford to "sit on our hands
while the Clintons try to pull the
wool over the country's eyes."
White House press secretary
Dee Dee Myers left open the pos
sibility Clinton may deliver
Wednesday night's address to a
joint session of Congress without
making final decisions on how to
pay for the program.
She said the president wants to
raise $105 billion by increasing
"sin taxes," but has not deter
mined how much to raise ciga
rette taxes and whether to hit oth
er items such as alcohol.
"We're 98 percent there with
this plan," she said.
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UPD named 'Outstanding Crime Prevention Agency'
By Michele Brinkmann
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The Texas A&M University Police De
partment received an award Monday for
having some of the best crime prevention
programs in Texas.
UPD was named "Outstanding Crime
Prevention Agency" by the Texas Crime
Prevention Association, beating out hun
dreds of other Texas agencies.
Rusty Kohler, the Association's regional
president, presented the award to UPD Di
rector Bob Wiatt and members of A&M's
Crime Prevention Unit.
"I am so proud of this, not only for
the Crime Prevention Unit, but for all the
security officers in the department,"
Wiatt said.
Wiatt said he knew Kohler had a
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University Police Department representatives receive an award for being one of the best crime
prevention units in Texas. Accepting the award from Rusty Kohler are (left to right) Mike
Ragan, CpI. Betty Lemay, Bob Wiatt, Lt. Bert Kretzschmar and |osie Holelscher.
tough time choosing who would receive
the award.
"I'm tickled that the Texas A&M
Crime Prevention Unit came out in this
spot," he said.
"This is the first time any local law en
forcement agency has received this award
and recognition in Texas," Wiatt said.
"This is very significant. I have quite a bit
of pride in this award."
Kohler said the department decreased
property crimes by nearly one-half since
the Crime Prevention Unit began on cam
pus in 1989.
Crime Prevention Officer Cpl. Betty
LeMay said, "Lt. Bert Kretzschmar and I
have been building this crime prevention
program from the beginning. The pro
gram is still in its infant stage."
Wiatt said he plans on keeping all the
programs that Crime Prevention Unit al
ready has in effect.
"Our goal is to make ourselves avail
able to the campus community," he said.
"We are at the beck and call of the people
on campus."
The Texas Crime Prevention Associa
tion has 490 members representing 256
various law enforcement agencies, indi
viduals, and private businesses in Texas.
The organization is dedicated to the en
couragement, promotion, and enhance
ment of all aspects of crime prevention
programs.
Jury indicts professor
on felony theft charges
By Andrea Taormina
The Battalion
Dr. Alexander Parlos, a Texas A&M University nuclear engineering
professor, was indicted by a grand jury Friday on seven charges of
felony theft.
Parlos is charged with billing the University for travel and expens
es incurred between August and October 1990. Parlos had already
been compensated for the costs by the companies for whom he was
consulting.
District Attorney Bill Turner said Parlos billed the University for be
tween $750 and $20,000. The offenses are second-degree felonies for
which Parlos could receive two to 20 years in prison and a fine up to
$10,000 on each count.
In a prepared statement. System Chancellor William Mobley said the
University Police Department and the System Internal Audit Depart
ment are cooperating with Turner's investigation of the allegations
against Parlos.
Mobley said he fully supported Turner in his presentation to the
Brazos County Grand Jury on Friday.
Sgt. Jim Lindholm of the UPD said it had been a long investigation.
He said the next steps would be to issue a warrant for Parlos, arrest
him and put him on trial. Lindholm and Turner were both unable to
comment on many details because of the ongoing investigation.
Inside
Sports
•A&M officials react to
graduation rate statistics
•Clay: Major league baseball
realignment bad for game
Page 7
Opinion
•Editorial: A&M must accept
NCAA ruling
•Column: Magee urges readers
to look on the bright side
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