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Bowen sa'id he would like to have a face-
to-face understanding of any problems
Texas A&M has, and he hopes he can be the
voice the University needs.
He said he considers himself to be an
approachable, open and direct person, wel
coming input from students, faculty and
administration.
Bowen said A&M’s image problems are
not unusual for such a large organization.
“Any big organization is going to have is
sues facing it,” he said. “I’ll deal with those
issues in a straightforward way.
Bowen said he will address recent allega
tions that state funds have been misused.
“I will try to manage state resources in
a way that the state is comfortable with,”
he said.
Because Texas A&M has been criticized
for the low percentage of minority faculty it
has, Bowen said he will do whatever possi
ble to make hiring minorities a priority.
“The real test of Ray Bowen is what he
does, not what he says he’ll do. I’d like to
walk the talk and convert rhetoric into ac
tion,” he said.
Dr. William Mobley, A&M system chan
cellor, said he is pleased to have Bowen as
Texas A&M’s new president.
“I’m very excited. He will be an effective
leader as we head toward the 21st century,”
he said. “Bowen has a quiet, mature
strength about him, and he listens as well as
communicates.”
“I was impressed by his openness and
the importance he attaches to students,”
Bowen, Class of ’58
Mobley said.
He said he hopes Bowen will continue to
implement extracurricular and co-curricular
programs and to carry on research and to
develop infrastructure for the larger organi
zation.
Dr. E. Dean Gage, who served as interim
president for the last nine months, said he
will encourage Bowen to communicate with
all internal and external groups tied to the
University and to keep the lines of commu
nication open.
“He should know that he is inheriting a
quality university which I believe is still on
the rise,” he said. “I will be working with
him on issues that are ongoing, but in no
way looking over his shoulder.”
Bowen previously served as interim
president of Oklahoma State University,
where his duties included academic and
administrative leadership as well as rela
tions with the university’s Board of Re
gents and the Oklahoma State Regents for
Higher Education.
Dr. Marvin Keener, vice president of aca
demic affairs at OSU, said Bowen reminded
the OSU administration and faculty of their
purpose for being at the university.
“He got people to think abut what they
were doing here,” he said. “He reminded
them that they were there for the students.”
Two of the main programs Bowen accom
plished at OSU were the computerization of
the campus and a new commitment to acad
emic standards.
“I encourage everyone to get to know him,
just walk in his office and tell him that
Keener said it was okay,” he said.
Denise Weaver, Bowen’s administrative
assistant at Oklahoma State University,
said he has a calming attitude, and he is
able to think things through and see all
sides of the story.
Prior to being named interim president,
he was provost and vice president for acade
mic affairs for two years.
He received his bachelor’s degree and
Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Texas
A&M and also holds a master’s degree from
the California Institute of Technology.
For six years Bowen served as Dean of
College of Engineering at the University of
Kentucky.
From 1967 to 1983 he was an assistant
professor, associate professor and professor
of mechanical engineering and mathemati
cal sciences at Rice University.
Bowen will have tenure as a professor of
mechanical engineering while he is at
Texas A&M.
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West said she will have an
open-door policy for students
even though she lives out of
town.
“I will make time to see
people who wish to discuss is
sues or just get to know me,”
she said.
She said she is aware of the
principles on which Texas A&M
University was founded, and
she believes in a well rounded
education.
West said she does not want
to micro manage anything and
wants to be sure A&M has the
right people in place to run it.
.Regent Bill Clayton, who
nominated West as chair
woman of the Board, said he
has served on the Board with
West for three years.
“I think she is a very good
lady,” he said. “She has a lot of
experience, and I thought we
just ought to do it.
“She is a very good business
woman and being the head of
the San Antonio Livestock Ex
pedition, she has helped to give
thousands of dollars in scholar
ships to A&M students,” he
said.
Clayton believes West can
bring enthusiasm and experi
ence to the Board.
“It will be refreshing to see
what kind of leadership she
provides,” he said.
He said board members
want to share the good things
going on at A&M with the
state and the nation and not
dwell on the bad publicity it
has received.
With all the changes going
on, he believes West will be the
right one for the job.
She is a third-year regent
and will hold the chair position
until February 1995.
West, a San Antonio native,
is a graduate of St. Mary’s Hall
and attended the University of
Arizona and the University of
Colorado.
She was appointed to the
Board of Regents by Gov. Ann
Richards in 1991. Her appoint
ment expires in 1997.
She was also inducted into
the San Antonio Women’s Hall
of Fame in 1984 and the Texas
Women’s Hall of Fame in 1986
for her commitment to youth ed
ucation and community service.
A game of ‘chicken turns fatal
FIELDALE (AP) — A teen
ager who said he was playing
“chicken” by lying in the middle
of a rural road was struck by two
cars and died.
Robert James Layman, 18,
died at a hospital about two
hours after he was struck late
Sunday, state Trooper D. W. Fer
guson said.
Layman told hospital officials
that he was lying in the middle
of the road as part of a game of
chicken, Ferguson said.
Greed
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gressman. A total of $500,000 was paid over 21 years to 14 ghost
employees, according to the indictment.
Under what prosecutors alleged were phony lease agreements
for official vehicles, Rostenkowski arranged for the government to
pay $73,500 to a Chicago auto dealer for cars that the congressman
and members of his family drove as personal vehicles.
The indictment charges that Rostenkowski put the son of an Illi
nois state senator on his payroll while two of his own daughters
were ghost employees of the legislator. The state senator’s son did
no work but was paid $48,400, the indictment said.
In another episode, a “godson” who was paid $1,500 from the of
fice payroll in the summer of 1976 mowed the lawn at Ros-
tenkowski’s summer home in Wisconsin, the indictment charged.
A woman who received $61,000 in government paychecks from
1971 to 1992 did no official work for Rostenkowski but regularly
kept the books at an insurance company owned by the congress
man and his wife, the indictment charged.
A Chicago Water Department authority employee who was paid
$90,000 over 12 years was said to have regularly cleaned Ros-
tenkowski’s Chicago political and congressional offices and his wife
regularly cleaned the lawmaker’s home.
Guard
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tionally impermissible bases for
discriminatory governmental
policies,” he wrote.
“This was the best ruling we
could ever get,” said Kimberly
Reason of the Northwest Wom
en’s Law Center, which helped
represent Cammermeyer.
“I think you can say that their
own studies and their own testi
mony is what shot them in the
foot,” said another member of
Cammermeyer’s legal team,
Seattle lawyer Michael Himes.
“This is probably the third case
where a district judge has held
these same regulations unconsti
tutional,” he said, referring to the
ban on homosexuals that preced
ed the “don’t ask-don’t tell” com
promise that lets gays serve if
they keep their sexual orientation
to themselves. What is unique, he
said, is Cammermeyer.
“This is the highest - ranking
officer ever discharged, to our
knowledge for acknowledged ho
mosexuality,” Himes said.
Cammermeyer, 52, a mother
of four, was awarded the Bronze
Star for her tours of duty in
Vietnam. In 1985 she was cho
sen from 34,500 Veterans Ad
ministration nurses nationwide
for the Administrator’s Award
for Excellence in Nursing.
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