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MONDAY
May 30, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 147 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas A&Msince 1895”
Briefs Two arrested in murder investigation
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Bowen confirmed
as A&M president
Dr. Ray Bowen was official-
appointed as Texas A&M’s
st president by the A&M
Systerr, Board of Regents
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owen, who has been in
terim president of Oklahoma
State University, will succeed
.William H Mobley begin
ning June 1. Dr. E. Dean
Gage has served as interim
president of the University.
Bowen earned bachelor’s
and Ph.D. degrees in me
chanical engineering from
Texas A&M. He was named
Oklahoma State’s interim
president in September 1992.
West to chair
Board of Regents
Third-year regent Mary Nan
West was elected on May 12
to chair the Texas A&M Board
of Regents until Feb. 1, 1995.
West is the first woman to
serve as board chair.
“I wasn’t looking for this job,
jbut I feel humbled that my fel-
jlow regents have confidence
jin me," she said.
West replaces former board
chairman Ross D. Margraves
Jr., who resigned in April.
Stronger controls
on gifts to A&M
Texas A&M Interim Presi
dent E. Dean Gage estab-
fehed a task force on May 23
implement new internal
procedures and stronger con
trols on gifts, grants and con
tracts for the University.
Gage’s action is in re
sponse to three investigations
involving both a contract and
a $200,000 research donation
jiven to A&M chemistry pro-
essor Dr. John Bockris.
Bockris was cleared of scien
tific misconduct charges in
February.
The committee will remain
in place until changes are
made including:
clearer language in the
University’s policy manual to
distinguish between grants
and contracts,
revising the gift informa-
form to certify the nature
of gifts and their intended use,
and
requiring approval of gifts
from both the department
head and dean of the college.
Board fires ME prof
A tenured Texas A&M as
sociate professor of mechani
cal engineering was fired May
27 for “professional incompe
tence” by the Texas A&M
Board of Regents.
Dr. Ronald Holmes was
fired on the recommendations
of the Department of Mechani
cal Engineering, the University
Tenure Mediation Committee,
the University Committee on
Academic Freedom, Respon
sibility and Tenure, Interim
President E. Dean Gage and
Chancellor William H. Mobley.
Holmes requested that he
be returned to the classroom
in February 1991. He had
been on sick leave because of
a stroke.
Statue of Rudder
goes up in October
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
DeSoto police arrested two suspects
Friday for an apparent robbery that re
sulted in the murder of two Texas A&M
University seniors on May 23.
Broderick La von Hardy, 20, and a 15-
year-old juvenile, both of Dallas, were
arrested based on evidence recovered
from the victim’s car and investigative
leads, police said.
Hardy was charged with capital mur
der, and the teen-ager, whose name the
police would not release, will face a juve
nile charge of capital murder.
The bodies of Reginald Broadus of
Dallas and Crystal Miller of Carrollton
were found partially clothed behind a
warehouse in the Red Bird Mall area of
Dallas last Monday morning. Police offi
cials say there is no indication either of
Dallas man and youth charged with May
23 murder of two Texas A&M students
the two were sexually assaulted.
Sgt. J. C. Burch, a DeSoto police in
vestigator, said the students were last
seen at a party in an Oak Cliff apart
ment complex Monday evening about
four miles from where they were found.
“We’re looking at it as a robbery be
cause the vehicle was missing,” he said.
“It could have been a car jacking, but
we’re looking at everything.”
Broadus’ 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier was
found abandoned only a few blocks from
Broadus’ home late Tuesday afternoon.
Burch said the two were discovered
lying behind the McGraw-Hill publish
ing distribution warehouse. A McGraw-
Hill employee found the two bodies near
a road where deliveries are made.
“There were no witnesses,” Burch
said. “There was one trucker in the
vicinity, but he was asleep all night and
saw nothing.”
One of Broadus’ friends told the Asso
ciated Press that it seemed the two had
been abducted from a parking lot after
the party, but Burch said that did not
appear to be the case.
“There are still a lot of scenarios, and
you can make any of them fit,” he said.
“But I’m pretty sure the case will come
to a successful conclusion.”
Burch said the two were apparently
killed at the scene and were robbed of
their identification and valuables.
Kevin Carreathers, director of multi
cultural services, said both students'
were active student leaders and had
bright futures ahead of them.
“They were very personable, friendly
and outgoing,” he said. “I think their
peers thoroughly enjoyed being in their
company.”
Broadus, a psychology major, was
president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
last year and received the Buck Weirus
Spirit Award in April. He also won the
Outstanding African-American Male
Award, presented by Alpha Kappa Al
pha sorority, and was to be chair of the
Black Awareness Committee for the
1994-1995 school year.
Miller, an accounting major, was trea
surer for Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
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Regents appoint
first black dean
Stew Milne/THE Battalion
Reflections of a Harley
Local bikers gathered this weekend in Bryan
for the Brazos Biker Bash. They entered their
motorcycles in competitions such as best
street bike, best antique, filthiest bike, best
trike, and people’s choice. Bikers also com
peted in games including slow races, keg roll,
tire drag and tattoo contest. Part of the pro
ceeds went to “Free Legal AID for Bikers” fund.
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Dr. Woodrow Jones Jr. was
named dean of Texas A&M
University’s College of Liberal
Arts May 27 by the Texas
A&M Board of Regents after
serving in the position on an
interim basis since last June.
Jones, the
University’s
first African-
American
dean in its
118-year his
tory, replaced
Dr. Daniel
Fallon after
he an
nounced he
was leaving
A&M to be
come the vice
president of academic affairs
and provost at the University
of Maryland.
Jones officially becomes the
dean of liberal arts June 1.
Interim president Dr. E.
Dean Gage said he was pleased
to be able to recognize one of
A&M’s own administrators
with this important promotion.
“We are confident that he
will provide excellent leader
ship to move the College of
Jones
Liberal Arts toward the 21st
century,” Gage said.
Dr. William L. Perry, dean
of faculties and associate
provost, chaired the search
committee that submitted its
finalists to Dr. Benton Co-
canougher, interim senior vice
president and provost, after its
year-long search.
Perry said despite the large
number of qualified candi
dates, Jones had strong sup
port from the committee and
experience from serving as in
terim dean.
“He had a desire to build a
community within the college
and build strength in scholar
ship,” he said. “He also ap
peared to work well with con
stituents.”
Jones, a professor of politi
cal science, served as associate
dean for academic services and
undergraduate affairs for the
college before becoming inter
im dean of the college. He has
been with the University for
the last seven years.
The College of Liberal Arts,
the University’s second-
largest, enrolls more than
6,000 humanities and social
sciences majors and includes
11 departments and six re
search centers.
Faculty Senate targets recruitment, AIDS awareness
$2 million pushed to increase faculty diversity
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Texas A&M officials say the number of mi
nority faculty at the University is not high
enough to accurately represent Texas’ diverse
population.
The Texas A&M Faculty Senate recently ap
proved a proposal that dedicates $2 million each
year for the next five years to the recruitment of
minorities and women.
Dr. Marco Portales, co-chair of the Faculty
Senate Committee on Minority Conditions, said
the number of minority faculty, recently com
piled for the committee’s report, is a far cry
from what a land grant institution in Texas
should be.
“I could understand these numbers if we
were in Vermont, but we’re in Texas,” Portales
said. “We need to prepare to educate minori
ties. If you’re the land grant college of a state,
you need to think of the needs of the state.”
Dr. William L. Perry, associate provost and
dean of faculties, said the number of minority
faculty members should be comparable to the
number of minority students at Texas A&M.
“If our minority student population continues
to increase as it has been, our minority faculty
Please see Minorities/Page 2
88.2%
Ethnicity percentages of
Texas faculty —1993
Source : TAMU Office of Planning and Institutional Research
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male
6.7%
82.1%
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female
3.3%
17.8%
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white black Hispanic Asian American Indian
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Senate accepts five-year plan to aid ‘shameful’ lack of women and minorities
A bronze statue of the late
Gen. James Earl Rudder, for
mer president of Texas A&M
University, will be unveiled in
October. It will be placed near
Rudder Tower and the Memo-
rial Student Center.
The University grew in size
and changed substantially
during Rudder’s term as pres
ident, from 1959 until his
death in 1970.
Rudder oversaw several
major changes, including op
tional participation in the
Corps of Cadets and opening
the University to women.
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University-
Faculty Senate recently ap
proved a report which recom
mends the University embark
on a five-year plan for recruit
ing minority and female faculty.
The report, submitted by the
Committee on Minority Condi
tions, suggests the school work
to recruit minorities, especially
blacks and Hispanics, for
tenure and tenure track posi
tions on the associate and full
professor levels.
The recommendations include
$2 million in funding for minori
ty recruitment in 1994-95.
Meeting recommends mandatory HIV/AIDS health issues course
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University Faculty
Senate is recommending a proposal to
implement a core curriculum require
ment to educate undergraduate students
about HIV/AIDS and other health-related
issues.
According to the proposal, the course
will either be added as a one-credit or
three-credit health issues course or it will
replace one of the four required hours of
kinesiology with a one-credit health is
sues course.
The recommendation for the course
came in a report from the Senate’s
HIV/AIDS Awareness Subcommittee and
was approved at the May 9 Senate meet-
Please see AIDS/Page 4
The report also called for a
faculty committee to be ap
pointed by the University pres
ident to review annual depart
mental progress and to sum
marize problem areas.
The report, presented to the
Senate on May 9, included
numbers of different minority
groups at A&M and a break
down by colleges and depart
ments.
Dr. Steve Murdock, a mem
ber of the subcommittee on mi
nority conditions, said the re
port is meant to increase the
number of minority faculty
members at Texas A&M.
“We have about 1% black and
about 3% Hispanic in a state
where 35% are black or Hispan
ic,” Murdock said. “What we’re
Please see Faculty/Page 2
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