The Battalion Wednesday • June 15,19% H "D< Bowen Continued from Page 1 body president, said she knew the actions of Smith’s office were being questioned. “I know Smith’s office has come under a lot of fire this year, but I don’t know whether this had anything to do with his re-assignment,” Leslie said. “I knew there were a lot of ques tions going around about what would happen to Robert Smith because he’s been ill.” Bowen said he made the deci sion to re-assign Smith before taking office June 1. “Smith had some discussions with Interim President E. Dean Gage about this before I took of fice,” Bowen said. “It has just taken some time to get every thing organized.” Smith’s re-assignment came just one day after A&M System Chancellor William Mobley an nounced his Aug. 31 resignation. Bowen said the two an nouncements were unrelated. Margaret Freeman, former Aggie Mother’s Club president and current head of a watchdog committee to monitor the A&M administration, said she was surprised about the re-assign ment. “Now that Robert Smith has been re-assigned, we will make a concentrated effort to get the three Food Services administra tors who were re-assigned by Smith’s office their jobs back,” Freeman said. Smith was unavailable for comment. He is expected to re turn to work tomorrow in his new position. Imaging Continued from Page 1 Audit Continued from Page 1 the State Auditor, said seven auditors will be on campus and they will be working with the chancellor and the president. They will, however, talk to any body they think is necessary. Smock said the image prob lems A&M has faced because of investigations being conducted by the Texas Rangers and the Brazos County District Attor ney’s office, were a factor in the office deciding to move up the audit. “We had scheduled to audit A&M next year but state Sen. Parker requested that the date be moved up,” she said. Ogden said Parker had re quested the early audit because Parker is defensive of his and others representatives criticism about Lamar University. He said Lamar University had a state audit over a year ago that was highly critical. As a member of appropria tions, Ogden took the state audit and asked Lamar University what they were going to do about problems that were found. “There appeared to be a lack of serious effort to correct prob lems prior to audit,” he said. “Senator Parker, in my opinion, is attempting to retaliate for the criticism that I have levied to ward Lamar University as a re sult of the state audit.” Ogden said Lamar University has made some substantial im provements since the audit and he sees no problem with starting the A&M audit early. “The motive for writing the letter was an attempt to get back at me for poor criticism I said about Lamar,” he said. “I am not particularly impressed with his motive, but I do not ob ject to it (the audit) happening.” Smock said having an early audit was an important deci sion since A&M’s budget in volves a large amount of state money and because of the in vestigations. “That was certainly some thing we considered when mak ing the decision, we considered the total dollars in the budget and these other issues,” he said. “We certainly have con cerns with the control aspects happening here, we have found there are risks in the Universi ty being able to fulfill its mis sion.” Smock said the audit will cov er all aspects of University oper ations. “We will be looking more at the overall programs than indi vidual programs and depart ments,” she said. Parker could not be reached for comment. Charley Clark, director of In ternal Audit for Texas A&M, said the audit is strictly routine and it was anticipated. Mobley’s memo also explained what the management control audit will be used for. He said it will determine whether management controls are in place to measure efficien cy and economy of operations. It will review the results of the management system over a period of time and determine to what extent performance has improved over time in a compar ison of expected and actual per formance. feelings about.” Parrish also said that sci entists can use imaging to cre ate accurate representations of the physical world, such as a faculty researcher who cre ated a growth model for a spe cific type of plant. The researcher defined the plant, set the parameters for the plant’s environment and programmed the computer to develop the dimensions speci fied. The computer generated the plant’s growth from the information. Bill Jenks, director of the visualization laboratory, said the laboratory has strong ties to the technical world. “One of the values that we have to the visualization in dustry is that we solve prob lems in the integration of computing and imaging sys tems that the industry comes across,” he said. Jenks said the department works closely with graphics manufacturers, software de signers, architecture firms, engineering firms, production companies in Hollywood and other visualization firms. Parrish said students have great opportunities to show case their talents. “We have students doing internships at an architectur al firm in Houston,” he said. “We also have lots of people working in Hollywood on movies and television com mercials and we have several people working at Disney.” The tools that students use in the lab are representative of the best in the world, Jenks said, and broad knowledge in this field is an advantage. “Employers are looking for well-rounded graduates,” he said. “These are people who not only can do animation, but also can understand soft ware and computer program ming, a team-oriented per son.” The primary users of the computer imaging are 40 graduate science students, a few students in other disci plines, faculty conducting re search and professionals in the visualization industry. The department admits only 10 students in the pro gram each year following a rigorous application process that takes several weeks. 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If after all the facts are laid out the board is still unsure whether to approve the center, there will be one reply: ARE YOU CRAZY???!!! WE HAVE TO HAVE IT. G Rollie is to the 1990’s what the horse-drawn carriage was to the 1940’s. A has-been, yester day’s news, old and out-dated. When A&M gets a special events center, many good things will happen. A&M will be able to draw big names for concerts, national tour ing attractions, and NBA presea son games. People will find a seat at graduation and Muster. As far as basketball goes, A&M cannot survive in big-time college athletics without it. Barone agrees. “We need the center to move to the next level,” he said. Basketball will feel the impact of the center before the ground breaking. Barone and his staff will be able to use the upcoming center when they are recruiting. Soon Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri are going to replace Texas Christian, Rice and South ern Methodist on A&M’s basket ball court. Those schools have great facilities. 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