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WEDNESDAY
July 13, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 172 (6 pages)
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DuPont and its Conoco subsidiary
tontinued its support of Texas A&M
fe year by presenting University
icials with $199,000.
This latest gift brings the
tompany’s cumulative contributions to
to more than $9.5 million and will
tount toward the "Capturing the Spirit”
tampaign, a university-wide, multi
fear drive to increase private support.
The money will be used to support
science and engineering programs
and provide faculty support and funds
brother areas including business,
amputer and information science and
minority education.
Activists forced out
of Haiti by army
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) —
international human rights observers,
breed out of Haiti by the army-backed
jovemment, pledged Tuesday to return
and predicted their departure signals “a
liming point in the Haitian crisis.”
'With a heavy heart we are leaving
be country,” announced Colin
Granderson, chief of the U.N.-
Organization of American States
nission, as his bosses bowed to the
Dipulsion order by Haiti’s de facto
leaders. The departure of the
stimated 100 observers was
oipected Wednesday.
“We expect to be back here soon,”
lie Trinidadian diplomat told
jurnalists in an emotional address
tside the mission’s hillside
leadquarters.
The government’s expulsion order
Uonday provoked a firestorm of
irnational criticism. All sides, even
cials from the de facto Haitian
ninistration, steeled themselves for
tie prospect of a U.S. invasion.
nvestigators expose
bod stamp scheme
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
wstigators have unraveled lucrative
schemes to illegally convert food
stamps into cash in Maryland, the only
state that uses electronic banking
ichnology to deliver welfare benefits.
The Clinton administration,
seeking to reduce welfare fraud and
tee, wants to expand the paper-
tee electronic benefits transfer, or
IT, to recipients nationwide by the
ifid of the decade.
But federal court records from four
aundering cases in Maryland suggest
sie switch from paper food stamps to an
stectronic card has not deterred some
acipients from selling their benefits to
'scrupulous retailers for cash.
Department officials who oversee
lie program say stores involved in
jtefficking tend to be small grocers, not
arge supermarkets or major chain
i'ore outlets, and are a minority of the
87,000 retailers authorized to accept
ood stamps nationwide.
Strike against regime
spreads in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Business
Ground to a halt and strikers
iireatened Nigeria’s oil exports
luesday in the most dramatic show of
Jpposition yet to Gen. Sani Abacha’s
iitary regime.
Almost all business stopped in
agos, nerve center of the economy
and home to 5 million people. Armed
solice patrolled the city streets.
Workers were reported staying home
in several other cities in southern
Nigeria, where opposition to the
iictatorship is strongest.
The stay-at-home strikes cut
across all sectors in Lagos and were
aven honored by federal employees,
tespite threats from Abacha. Banks
ilosed, buses and ferries stopped
tinning, and people walking to work
bund their offices empty.
The strikes represent the biggest
jafiallenge to the military government
laince similar actions forced out
dacha’s predecessor, Gen. Ibrahim
Gabangida, last August.
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Some of the eight Texas A&M officials
charged June 28 with tampering with gov
ernment documents say the practice of dis
guising alcohol purchases as food and bev
erages has been common at the University
for years.
According to a Texas A&M System in
ternal audit released in May, evidence
shows that some employees within the
Fiscal Department may have been
aware that the terms “food and bever
ages” were being used in falsifying alco
hol purchases on vouchers.
“This evidence further suggests that in
structions were given verbally from the fis
cal office voucher section indicating a
"There was no intended deception. These
purchases came from a gift fund, not from fees,
not from auxiliary funds. This was an
institutional practice."
— Dr. J. Malon Southerland,
vice-president for student ajfairs
method of getting Faculty Club bills con
taining alcohol charges paid through the
fiscal office,” the report said. “The impact
of these instructions contributed to wide
spread acceptance of the practice.”
Dr. Don Hellriegel, a management pro
fessor and one of the eight individuals
charged with tampering, said he knows
the practice has been in place since the
1970s. And he has spoken with one for
mer A&M fiscal employee who can date
the practice back to the 1950s.
“We’ve got something going on here
that has been carried on for five
decades,” Hellriegel said. “It was well-
known that this was going on.”
Hellriegel, a former head of the manage
ment department, said he and some of his
predecessors and successors have tried to
get the practice straightened out.
“There have been a lot of people who
have asked for a policy,” he said.
Hellriegel said each time a question was
raised concerning a policy, the fiscal office
would refer employees to other depart
ments that had already figured out how to
deal with the practice.
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Minority degrees
A&M ranks in top 20 for
awarding minorities Ph.Ds
By Ellie Hudson
The Battalion
Texas A&M is among the top
20 colleges nationwide in
awarding doctoral degrees to
minority students.
In its May issue, Black Issues
in Higher Learning ranked the
University
ings are a positive sign.
“People have been working
hard for a long time to attract
highly qualified minority stu
dents for graduate programs/’
he said.
Southerland said there are
many opportunities for qualified
minorities, and
17th in total
doctoral de
grees awarded
to minorities,
based on U.S.
Department of
Education data
for 1990-91.
Texas A&M
was ranked
12th in doctor
al degrees
awarded to
1990-91 Ph.Ds
awarded to minorities
Black
19(11 M, 8 F)
Hispanic
15 (9 M, 6 F)
Asian
11 (9 M, 2 F)
International
153 (128 M, 25 F)
he hopes they
stay at A&M to
fill administra
tive positions
TOTAL: 198 out of possible
469 doctorate degrees
Key; M=male, F=female
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blacks and ninth in degrees
awarded to Hispanics.
Dr. Robert Kennedy, vice
president for research and asso
ciate provost for graduate stud
ies, said in a press release that
the rankings reflect A&M’s
“firm commitment to enrolling
and graduating under-repre
sented minorities.”
A&M President Ray Bowen
said the University actively re
cruits minority students through
its departments and spends a lot
of money to support minority
graduate students.
“It’s important for our statis
tics to reflect those of the world
we live in,” he said.
Bowen said the rankings are
a result of a lot of hard work
from many people.
Dr. J. Malon Southerland,
vice president for student af
fairs, said he thinks the rank-
Kevin Car-
reathers, direc
tor of multicul
tural services,
said the credit
should go to
Kennedy; Dr.
Dan H. Robert
son, director of the Office of
Graduate Studies; and his assis
tant, Jeri Salyer, for recruiting
minorities for graduate pro
grams.
Carreathers said that al
though the doctoral candidates
are often recruited from other
schools, he hopes they benefit
from the work of his department.
“I would hope the Ph.D. can
didates that come here feel this
environment is safe and welcom
ing (to minorities),” he said.
Although the University does
not seek out international stu
dents, 33 percent of all degrees
awarded in 1990-91 were given
to these minorities.
Bowen attributed this to the
respect that American doctoral
degrees receive in students’
home countries, which moti
vates students to pursue fur
ther education.
State continues testing of
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By Stacey Fehlis
The Battalion
The Advisory Commission on
State Emergency Communica
tions (ACSEC) and the Texas
Department of Transportation
are testing the use of 100 mo
torist aid telephone call boxes
that will affect emergency re
sponse along Texas highways.
These solar-powered cellular
telephones are located along
highways in Fort Worth,
Austin, Hale County and
Cameron County.
The test, which began last
summer, will help state, region
al and local officials evaluate the
need for a permanent program.
Mary Boyd, ACSEC execu
tive director, said the program
was created out of concern for
traveling motorists in emer
gency situations.
“Not everyone is fortunate
enough to have a mobile tele
phone,” she said. “We’re con
cerned about Texans and drivers
passing through our state who
need a way to call for help when
they get into emergency situa
tions on the highway.”
Janet Shannon, public educa
tion manager for ACSEC, said a
number of states already have
this type of system.
“As big as Texas is, and as
many miles as we have, it seems
logical for us to have a similar
system,” she said.
Steve Babre, planner for AC
SEC, said that in California, the
boxes are used in isolated areas
where a motorist may not be
able to reach a phone. However
they are also used urban areas
as traffic control devices.
“There is a high volume of
traffic in California, and if a ve
hicle is stalled, traffic can get
backed up for miles,” he said.
Babre said that because
Texas does not have the high
volume of traffic that California
has, the phones would be used
primarily for long stretches of
isolated roads.
“The call boxes have had a
positive effect on the rural coun
ties,” he said. “Many times
there is not a phone for miles,
and motorists traveling extend
ed distances can get help or con
tact family members in case of
an emergency (with the call box
es).”
Sgt. Dorma Neel, of Hale
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KYLE-TV is coming to town
New television station
begins broadcasting in
B-CS area at end of July
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
A new television station will begin broadcast
ing throughout the Bryan-College Station area
by the end of July.
KYLE-TV, Channel 28, will become the sec
ond commercial TV station in the Brazos Valley.
Ulman McMullen, vice president and general
manager of KYLE, said the station was award
ed its construction in the mid-1980s.
“Shortly after the permit was issued was
when the economy in Texas was so bad that we
held off,” he said.
KYLE will not be affiliated with any television
network, but will show classic movies and syndi
cated programs such as Beverly Hills 90210.
McMullen said the station will stress local
programming.
A one-hour morning program will feature in
terviews and discussions of community affairs.
A 30-minute program will run at 6:30 p.m., pro
filing people in the community.
The station will also produce half-hour spe
cialty shows that will air on weekends.
“We have some other things on the drawing
board that are not finalized as well,” Mc
Mullen said.
Marvin Tate, mayor of Bryan, said the sta
tion will benefit the community.
“I think competition is healthy,” he said. “I
think it shows the growth and prosperity we
have here.”
Larry Lightfoot, executive director of the
Brazos Valley Better Business Bureau, said he
agrees.
“Competition brings success for everybody,”
he said.
Lightfoot said the new station is indicative of
the economic advances of Bryan and College
Station.
“It’s a positive move,” he said. “There is a
tremendous amount of growth, and there may
not be a better time to start than now.”
McMullen said the market was analyzed
carefully before the decision to go on the air
was made.
“We really think the market has grown now
so that it can support another station,” he said.
Rodger Lewis, TV program director of
KAMU, a public broadcasting station affiliated
with Texas A&M, said it will be hard for KYLE
to secure an audience without being affiliated
with a network.
“Most of the independents (television sta
tions) that have been financially successful
have been in the larger markets,” he said.
“I wish them the best, but I do not know what
their plan is,” he said. “I’m sure they have a
plan, otherwise they wouldn’t have started up.”
McMullen said the station will try to focus on
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