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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.
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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.
The visualization degree is
available only for graduate
students.
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“It was very intelligent to scale
down,” he said. “Twelve thou
sand-five hundred (seats) is work
able for the basketball team.”
Even, the College Station City
Council passed a resolution sup
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If after all the facts are laid
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whether to approve the center,
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the horse-drawn carriage was to
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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
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son games. People will find a
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cannot survive in big-time college
athletics without it. Barone
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the next level,” he said.
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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.
If the board and various politi
cians are still unsure whether
A&M needs a special events cen
ter, they need to be sent tickets to
a graduation. Or show up for
Muster three hours early. Then
they might understand.
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