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Former Aggie football stars try to
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A forewarning
Last week's cosmic collision on
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MONDAY
July 25, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 178 (6 pages)
“Serving TexasA&Msince 1893"
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Briefs Regents create alcohol policy
&&M student pleads
innocent to charges
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\ Stephanie Moore, a 21-year-old
4&M student, pleaded innocent of
Jiarges that she threw her infant girl
iithe garbage chute of Mosher Hall.
Bill Turner, Brazos County District
Worney, said the woman waived the
irraignment phase of the hearing and
altered her plea.
Moore was released on a $15,000
personal recognizance bond.
The newborn was discovered by
University Police on the morning of
Kerch 25.
A subsequent autopsy determined
tiatthe baby had been born alive and
died of suffocation.
No date for the next phase of
pretrial hearings has been set.
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Killeen officials want
A&M System branch
The Texas A&M System Board of
legents heard a request Friday from
fcials in the Fort Hood-Killeen area
for a branch of the System to
ecreated in the central Texas area.
State Representative Layton Black
d the Board there is a very
nportant need for higher education in
lecentral Texas area.
We have got to have higher
iducation that is accessible and
fordable to those kids in uniform,”
Hack said.
After hearing Black’s request, the
loard went into closed session,
liscussing the possibility of creating
branch school in the area
issociated with Central Texas
diversity, the University of Central
exas and Fort Hood.
No formal decision was made by
le Board.
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State Auditor Dick Dinan told the
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lat the state management control
#dit currently underway will be
impleted by mid-September.
Dinan said the purpose of the
edit is to assure that goals are
eing accomplished and rules are
)t being broken.
The audit originally started out
cussing on the A&M System and
ixas A&M University, but Dinan said
e scope has now shifted to the
niversity.
Dinan said the final report of the
idit, to be released by mid-
ovember, will show areas where
iprovement is needed, but will also
itline areas of achievement at the
niversity.
Mary Nan West, chairman of the
Dard, said Dinan could count on the
II cooperation of the Board and her.
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ipproved for 1995
The Board of Regents Friday
pproi/fd the budget for the Texas
5M|,ystem for fiscal year 1995.
he bujlget will total $1.24 billion.
The approved operating budget
t the System’s seven universities
nd eight research and service
gencies is up 3.5 percent from
seal year 1994.
State appropriations for fiscal year
995 decreased from $439 million to
<36 million System wide, due mainly
• salary increases mandated in prior
jears by the legislature but not
mded. Other funds such as tuition
svenue, research contracts and
•ants and other non-state funds are
(peeled to increase six percent.
Mobley said the legislature did not
wide funds for additional salary
•creases. He said increases
warded on a merit basis will be
poradic across the System,
spending on the availability of funds
Ithe various institutions.
"Clearly, we had an ambiguous
statement which caused some mis
understanding, especially here in
College Station."
— Dr. William Mobley,
outgoing System chancellor
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The Texas A&M System
Board of Regents adopted a poli
cy Friday on the purchase, con
sumption and possession of alco
hol in facilities under the control
of the System or any of its com
ponent universities or agencies.
The policy allows for the pur
chase of alcohol with money from
gift funds or other institutional
funds as permitted by state law,
but prohibits the use of funds un
der the control of an intercolle
giate athletic department.
Dr. William Mobley, outgoing
System chancellor, said he was
pleased with the new policy.
“Clearly, we had an ambigu
ous statement which caused
some misunderstanding, espe
cially here in College Station,”
Mobley said. “This is a good
statement.”
The Board discussed the pos
sibility of drafting a statement
during an executive committee
meeting on Thursday, but sent
the proposal to A&M’s legal
counsel for further recommen
dations. The presidents of each
of the System’s seven universi
ties were also asked for input
on the policy.
Questions were raised about
the first draft of the policy con
cerning the use of alcoholic bev
erages at student functions.
Bill Clayton, a member of the
Board, said he was curious about
the wording concerning students
used in the policy.
“We need to differentiate
events for students and events
in support of students,” Clayton
said.
According to the policy, each
institution and its president will
decide at what events alcohol
will be allowed.
The policy requires that any
possession or use of alcoholic
beverages at any of the campus
es or agencies be reported to the
chief executive officer of each
campus, the System chancellor
and the Board of Regents.
The policy also addressed the
issue of voucher documentation.
“All vouchers and supporting
documentation must clearly and
accurately reflect actual pur
chases of alcoholic beverages,”
the policy said. “Invoices and re
ceipts for all beverage purchases
must be detailed so as to clearly
Please see Policy, Page 6
A&M names new chancellor
Thompson brings
go-get-’em ideal
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The Texas A&M System
Board of Regents named Dr.
Barry Thompson to fill the re
cently vacated position of Sys
tem chancellor.
Thompson, outgoing presi
dent of West Texas A&M Uni
versity, was selected Friday to
serve as interim chancellor, ef
fective Aug. 1. The board also
announced its intention to name
Thompson as permanent chan
cellor after a required 21-day
waiting period.
replacement.
“Dr. Thompson is an experi
enced administrator who knows
Texas education,” he said.
Mobley will be working with
Thompson in the transition peri
od before Mobley leaves office.
Mary Nan West, chairman of
the Board of Regents, said
Thompson has the experience
and record of success to ensure
a smooth transition in the Sys
tem leadership.
“Dr. Thompson has been a
valued leader in the A&M Sys
tem for 12 years and has had a
positive impact on every higher
"I want to be sure we stay connect
ed with the people of Texas. I want
to reach out to those people who
might feel demoralized."
— Dr Barry Thompson,
new System chancellor
Thompson said he is excited
to have the opportunity to give
something back to a state that
has given him so much.
“I want to be sure we stay
connected with the people of
Texas,” he said. “I want to
reach out to those people who
might feel demoralized.
“This will be a positive, let’s
go-get-’em administration.”
He said he intends to create a
program called Operation Lone
Star, a project aimed at recon
necting with the people of Texas.
Thompson had announced his
retirement as president of West
Texas A&M at the May regents
meeting. He was planning to
take on a position with the Sys
tem to help develop a Center for
Leadership in Higher Education.
Thompson will replace Dr.
William Mobley, who announced
his resignation as chancellor
last month. Mobley will be re
turning to A&M’s faculty as a
business professor next spring.
Mobley said he was pleased
with the Board’s selection for his
education institution he has
touched,” West said. “We are
extremely pleased that he has
agreed to postpone his retire
ment plans to take on the awe
some responsibility of leading
this great system.”
Thompson has been credited
with turning West Texas A&M
around during his 3 1/2 years as
president there.
During Thompson’s term as
president, he increased fund bal
ances by 88 percent, external
grant awards by almost $5.5 mil
lion and development foundation
contributions by 135 percent.
The school also experienced in
creases in minority and total en
rollment. A number of academic
programs and several sports were
added to the university while
Thompson served as president.
Thompson said he is confi
dent he can help A&M pull
through its recent problems.
“I’m saddened by some of the
problems,” he said. “I plan to be
briefed on the multitude of prob-
Please see Thompson, Page 4
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Local Caribbeans wary
Frank Stanford/THF Battalion
A push-cart operator struggles to push his way through the garbage
laden streets of Port-Au-Prince. Citizens of the city contend with
the overcrowded streets and lack of a refuse disposal system. The
trash heaps are set on fire nightly and smolder during the day.
of economic sanctions against Haiti
U.S. intervention may fall short of solving political crisis
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
Texas A&M students and fac
ulty from the Caribbean say the
economic sanctions against Haiti
are not enough to solve the polit
ical crisis in that country.
Pierre Catala, a senior lec
turer in engineering technology
at A&M, spent more than six
years in Haiti working for the
International Telecommunica
tions Union, part of a United
Nations mission.
“The military generals have
been making money out of drug
trafficking since Baby Doc’s (for
mer dictator of Haiti) time,” he
said. “It’s greed, I guess, not so
much power.”
Catala said the military lead
ers are not concerned with the
welfare of the people.
“The value of life over there is
limited,” he said.
Catala said world reaction to
the situation in Haiti has been
slow and inadequate.
“Freezing the military lead
ers’ assets was the right thing to
do, but I think they should have
acted sooner,” he said. “By the
time that takes effect, there
won’t be any opposition left.”
Derick Legall, a senior indus
trial engineering major from
Trinidad, said the reasoning be
hind the sanctions is that the
poor will be hit so hard they will
try to revolt.
“I think those sanctions hurt
the poor people too much,” he
said. “The rich can afford to
buy food.
“A lot of those rich people can
afford to get by without most
goods,” he said. “It’s the poor
people that cannot.”
Catala said he agrees sanc
tions hurt the poor, but short of
military action, there is little
else that can be done.
“I think the embargo is unfair
and hurts the poor people, not the
rich ones,” he said. “Do we tight
en the noose until these guys give
up? It’s a very difficult decision.
“I’m not sure; it’s a very tough
situation,” he said. “Even if we
do get in and get these guys to
Please see Haiti, Page 4