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Tuesday • July 25,
Texas changes public
school fund investment
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas is changing
the way it handles its $12.2 billion
public school trust fund by hiring pri
vate companies to invest part of the
money and venturing for the first time
into international markets.
Three companies are expected to re
ceive $8.4 million annually to manage
$3.5 billion of the fund, according to fig
ures obtained by The Associated Press
under the Texas Open Records Act.
The move is touted as a way to
boost the return on the Permanent
School Fund while improving its man
agement by diversifying its portfolio
and tapping into outside expertise.
The private companies will manage
a portion of the $3.5 billion beginning
this year, then more next year, subject
to state oversight.
Prison programs face
cuts in funding
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Leg
islative budget trimming could force
cutbacks at experimental substance-
abuse treatment programs, such as one
Central Texas facility where inmates
are denied TV and other privileges to
make them confront their habits.
Former Gov. Ann Richards, a recov
ering alcoholic, persuaded the Legisla
ture four years ago to begin increasing
what was dubbed the Texas Treatment
Initiative to 14,000 prison beds.
But the Legislature this year, sup
ported by Gov. George W. Bush, cut
the program back to 5,300 beds. Some
lawmakers voiced concern that the
program could coddle criminals.
Lawmakers, pointing to a high
dropout rate in the program's infancy
and questioning whether forced treat
ment works, opted for cutbacks that
would save $379 million over the next
two years.
Agent says superiors
knew Koresh was warned
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con
fronting his former bosses at the wit
ness table, an undercover agent testi
fied Monday that they proceeded with
the Waco raid even after he passion
ately warned them David Koresh had
been tipped off. Then they lied about it
after the deadly results, he asserted.
The story told by Chuck Sarabyn
and Phillip Chojn?»cki also was at
tacked by Lewis C. Merletti, who
helped direct the Treasury Depart
ment's review of what went wrong in
the February 1993 raid that left four
ATF agents and six Branch Davidians
dead. The resulting 51-day standoff
ended with the deaths of Koresh and
80 of his followers.
The Treasury Department review
determined that supervisors allowed
the raid to go forward even though
they were ordered to cancel it if they
lost "the element of surprise."
Clinton vows to stop
GOP budget cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to
get off the sidelines. President Clinton
threatened a veto blitz Monday
against GOP cuts in popular domestic
programs. "I will continue to act,
alone if necessary," he declared.
Clinton castigated Republicans for
not taking his 10-year budget balanc
ing plan more seriously. And he said
appropriations bills now moving
through the GOP-led Congress would
unravel bedrock education, health and
environtnenta! programs.
He used a White Housp speech to
delegates from Boys Nations - a high
school good-government program in
which he once participated — to wield
his latest veto threats.
The president said he didn't want
to create a fiscal crisis this fall. But he
suggested Republicans might give him
little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 ap
propriations bills.
Bomb attack in Israel
kills six on public bus
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A suicide
bomb ripped through a crowded com
muter bus Monday in Tel Aviv's busy
diamond exchange, killing six people
and transforming the gleaming financial
district into a scene of carnage and fury.
The blast, claimed by Palestinian
militants opposed to the Israeli-PLO
peace accord, temporarily halted talks
on expanding Palestinian autonomy in
the West Bank.
The attack, which wounded 33
people, came a day before an Israeli-
PLO deadline for reaching an agree
ment on expanding autonomy in the
West Bank. Both sides had said they
were unlikely to meet the target date.
Television reports said the blast
was caused by about 33 pounds of
TNT stuffed in a metal pipe, a design
favored by Ayash. Police said frag
ments of a body found amid charred
metal and shards of glass may have
been the bomber's.
Serbs move on Bihac as
West focuses on Sarajevo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — Hundreds of British and
French combat troops stole before
dawn onto a mountain high above
Sarajevo on Monday and trained their
guns on Bosnian Serb fighters holding
the city under siege.
But while the West focused its ef
forts on the Bosnian capital and anoth
er eastern "safe area," the Serbs
closed in on the government-con
trolled enclave of Bihac in northwest
Bosnia. Carefully avoiding attacks on
the U.N. "safe area" within Bihac,
they captured 30 square miles of terri
tory and sent thousands of civilians
fleeing, U.N. officials said.
In the northwest, the United Nations
said that rebel Serbs from Bosnia and
neighboring Croatia had gained 30
square miles of territory during a 6-day-
old offensive, the largest in months.
The Serbs avoided targeting the
U.N.-protected zone within the en
clave, suggesting they wanted to gain
ground without risking retaliatory
NATO airstrikes.
Plane
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received special training on cabin pressure, the effects of reduced
air pressure, disorientation and dizziness.
Renzi said program coordinators trained the students in what
could go wrong.
“We learned about the signs of [altitude sickness] and we stud
ied different kinds of dizziness,” Renzi said.
Disorientation was common on the flight.
“I was really disoriented when we first started out,” Morris
said. “You could reach out for something right in front of you and
miss it.”
For two of the A&M students, the KC-135A lived up to its
“Vomit Comet” nickname.
“Yeah, Don [Shatto] and I got sick,” Aaron said, 'hut only once.”
Dizziness and disorientation were too much for several other
students on board, Renzi said.
“One guy from Rice got sick about 13 times,” she said.
This program marked the last flight for the aircraft. A different
plane will fill the position in a few weeks.
Peterson said the program provided a unique process that was
great experience for the students.
“The program is excellent because the students are designing
and creating their experiments, and then they get to do it them
selves,” he said.
Beard
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receive feedback from a student advisory panel and an employee
focus group on changes they would like to see made by the food
services department.
Beard, said he hopes to expand the advisory group to include a
Customer Quality Council made of A&M employees, such as office
personnel and department heads.
A food services career track development program will continue
to be developed. Beard said, because it makes food service experts
out of A&M employees. Several A&M employees have been trained
and certified as cooks and three as chefs, as a result of this pro
gram started in the food services department two years ago.
Beard’s appointment as food services director was the culmina
tion of a seven-month nationwide search.
Robert T. Bisor III, chairman of the search advisory committee,
said a list of the top five candidates was compiled after considering
140 applicants and nominees from private and public sectors.
Bisor said that Beard, as interim director, did not have an auto
matic advantage over other candidates.
Beard’s overall ability to serve as director and familiarity with
the department led to his selection, Bisor said.
“We like him because of his experience leading a department the
Bush to examine
affirmative action
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□ The General Ser
vices Commission
will help look into
gender- and race-
based programs to
see if they are fair.
women and minorities, know
as historically underutilize:
businesses or HUBs.
"If the affirmative actii
programs are meant to be help
ful to start
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George
W. Bush said Monday he will ex
amine affirmative action pro
grams in Texas to see whether
they are fair and inclusive for
the people they aim to help.
“1 think what Texas needs to
do, which I intend to do, is to ad
dress what ... we expect out of a
program that tries to be inclu
sive,” Bush said. “Is it an eco
nomic development device or is
it a preference toward people
who have already benefited from
the system?
“I don’t think people in Texas
like the idea of a few benefiting
at the expense of others or that
there be reverse discrimination,
Bush said. Bush said he would
work with members of the Gen
eral Services Commission to look
into race- and gender-based pro
grams, such as the historically
underutilized business program.
State law requires agencies to
make a "good-faith effort” to
spend 30 percent of purchase
and public works contract bud
gets on businesses owned by
up company
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ought to di|
sign themi
they’re tha:
way,” Bus:’
said. “If
fact there a:- An i
a few peop ..
that are gereoil
Bush
ting all ofth
affirmati’' '
action bu;;i Au
ness at the expense of other;
then I think Texas oughttoa: ^
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dress that.
When asked whether he se 1
pointed the concept of affirmat:
action, Bush responded: “Ik
lieve in the concept of beingfi )unce<
and having an inclusive society' ner£ y
“I do not believe in rever : ^?^
discrimination, 1 do not belie - 1 * 10
in quotas, and I do believe 16 £ er
clearly defining what the ge
are of any program that’s
sive,” he said. ”
The debate over affirmatr
action grew testy in Texas a: ie ^ ee
state Sen. David Sibley, R-W rs ^ y e
proposed a constitutk.
amendment during the
live session to discontinue!
programs. The Legislatureo
not take action on the proposa
Lawsuit
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considef ' the recommendations of an independent study byEr
and Yoi utilities consulting group. - T
The 1 a a. t said that although Thompson reported his conce -
about the project’s cancellation, University and System auditors
not include the concerns in any official reports. If t!
Acco lit ; 1 t lawsuit, Thompson instead was called to am?
ing with Gaston and Ray in which he was notified that theSys:T0aS
investigation into the project’s cancellation was complete andth g^ .
preliminary decision had been made to terminate his employmeir
The lawsuit states that Thompson submitted a response to G thei
ton and Ray and wrote a letter to Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M preside. .
asking to not be fired and maintaining his opposition to the projr***^
termination. snl *
Thompson, according to the lawsuit, reported that “Uniunt. .
and/or System officials had violated the non-disclosure provissrJtlOJ
the Tenneco Development Agreement, and that there was novi
basis to terminate the Tenneco agreement.” Y Wes
The lawsuit states that Thompson was fired on March 31 after fie Ba
refused to resign. Two other members of the Physical Plant Cog
eration Project Team, former Physical Plant Director Joe Sugg Texe
former Power Plant Superintendent A1 Baxter, were forced, acccmpilt
ing to the lawsuit, to resign their positions under similar circtfar 19
stances. eeks v
Gaston and Ray, because of University policy, are unable tocTe fee
ment on the lawsuit. Le Bog
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Mentors
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A May 1995 survey revealed
that the most common reason
students participated in the pro
gram was for career guidance.
“Sixty-one percent of the
mentors reported that students
approached them regarding
choosing career paths, finding
jobs and other career related
questions,” Milbum said.
In addition to academic con
cerns, mentors address ques
tions relating to family difficul
ties and roommate conflicts.
Students are advised in the
mentors’ area of expertise. Mil-
burn said, and referred to other
A&M services for specific prob
lems or needs.
Students are commonly re
ferred to their departmental
academic advisers.
“We conduct a training ses
sion at the beginning of each se
mester,” Milbum said. “At these
sessions we deal with listening
mera
adget
skills, resources on campus, ble <
sis intervention and othertonould
vital to a mentor.” :e in
Dr. Frederick Boadu, ass/ease
ate professor of agricultural tie mg
nomics and a mentor, said It 3-pe
ing students is another par.aff in
his job. To c
“I see that my role asa imin:
ulty member goes beyond ing fc
classroom to make specific3ssibi
forts to students who m Dr. <
help,” Boadu said. dve v
“I think at a large uni verb id d
students need people to reach ivisi
to them and be there for theere t
That is what I try to do.” ieir b
Dr. Patricia Alexander, prc tere i;
sor and department head of ec Lee
cational psychology, said sheHso w
been a part of the program s:Scess
it began and encourages stude:’*’ the
to seek out mentors. ay rai
“You need to feel persona “Ttu
comfortable with your ment ath p
Alexander said, “and feel G ant t
you can trust them.” ^ ^ai
Alexander said she jolt e re £
the program because .now
wants to help students ie nts
every way possible. snera
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size of our department here,” Bisor said. “He has a good mixofe. Dr.
perience in the private and public sector. He knows the folks inp
department, and he knows the customers.” U1 \ s ’
Mickey Speakman, facilities manager of the Sbisa Undergmiiif ac y
said he is pleased with Beard’s appointment. ' s sti
“We’re happy it went to someone we’re familiar with and w:
knows what we need,” Speakman said.
The road that led to Beard’s 1983 arrival at A&M, as food scj
vices manager of the MSC, began 34 years ago with an apprent:
ship in a French-cuisine restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif.
Since then, he has worked in a number of restaurant manafj
ment capacities, including serving as acting director of food a'
beverages for the central U.S. division of Ramada Inns.
In 1987 he was appointed interim associate director of A&J",
food services department under Dr. Richard Floyd, and was k TOJC
named associate director. in i T
Beard is a member of the American Culinary Federation, G *
National Association of College and University Food Services. *' he
National Restaurant Association, the Texas Chefs Association
the Texas Restaurant Association. ilcUi
In June 1988 he was named Chef of the Year by Food Mana?
ment magazine. |y Tar
Taking all of these experiences and honors into considerate' he B,
Beard said he is pleased with the position his years of hard wf
have earned him. , Thr
“The best decision I ever made was to come to A&M,” he said /ere
have been given many opportunities to use my experiences to £>ack ]
grade A&M services.” 'H the
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