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Thursday • July 27, 1995
A&M reviewing fixture of printing center
i If a decision is made to privatize
\&M's printing center, the con-
ract would include a clause to re
am the University's employees.
*y Cretchen Perrenot
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I The Texas A&M University Printing Center
/ill either update its equipment or transfer
perations to a private company depending on
hejresults of a 2-year study.
I The study, which began in January, was re
quested by the Division of Finance and Admin-
str^tion because the University Printing Cen-
er’s equipment is behind in technology.
!■ The printing center behind the Reed McDon-
Jd Building handles the copying, printing and
raphic needs for the University. Newsletters,
iiisiness cards, football previews and The Battal-
Dn are a few of the jobs produced at the center.
About 60 percent of the University’s print
ing jobs are done at A&M’s printing center,
and the remainder are sent to local or out-of-
town print shops.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, interim vice president for
finance and administration, said that although
the printing center work is good, there are
more advanced ways to handle the printing
and copying needs of the University.
“The question is, ‘How do we handle the
printing needs in the future?’” Gaston said.
“We’re going to have to acquire new technology
or change our printing means. In the meantime,
we are keeping the printing center open.”
The printing center management stopped
purchasing new equipment two years ago be
cause there were some concerns of whether a
University should be in the business of printing.
Dr. Donald Powell, special assistant to the
vice president for finance and administration,
is heading the study, and said state govern
ment officials question areas that are not the
mainstream of universities.
“Our mainstream is the dissemination of
knowledge,” Powell said. “Some say that
since the University is in the business of
- teaching and educating, there isn’t a need for
the printing center.
“But the only reason the University is in
the business [of printing] is in order to con
serve the funds that are available.”
The printing center has a yearly budget of
S3.5 million and uses the money to pay em
ployee salaries and benefits, buy supplies and
maintain the equipment.
Customers are charged only what it costs to
do the job and pay for the equipment.
Mike Orts, printing center manager, said
customer representatives find the best-quality
method of printing the job for the customer,
whether it is done on or off campus.
“Because we do this all the time, we know
that certain printers are better-geared to doing
different kinds of work,” Orts said. “That’s the
advantage of coming through us. We try to be
the intermediary between the customers and
See Printing, Page 6
Stew Milne, The Battalion
The presses that print The Battalion daily are located behind the
Reed McDonald building.
A&M ranks top in Texas
in number of minority
doctoral degrees awarded
□ A national magazine ranked
A&M one of the top 20 uni
versities in the nation in total
minority doctoral degrees
awarded.
By Javier Hinojosa
The Battalion
For total doctoral degrees awarded to
minorities, Texas A&M is ranked in the
top 20 by a national magazine for the sec
ond consecutive year.
Black Issues in Higher Education
ranked A&M
Total minority doctoral degrees
All disciplines combined
in the top 20
in total mi
nority doctor
al degrees
and Hispanic
doctoral de
grees award
ed, based on
data from the
U.S. Depart
ment of Edu
cation for the 1991-92 academic year.
A&M is tied with Michigan State Uni
versity and New York University for 16th
in total minority doctoral degrees and
tied for seventh with the University of
Miami for Hispanic doctoral degrees.
National rankings of Texas schools 1991-92
16. Texas A&M University
23. University of Texas at Austin
45. University of Houston-University Park
45. Texas Woman's University
Source — Black Issues in Higher Education
A&M is first in the state in both of
these categories. The University of Texas
at Austin ranked 23rd, Texas Women’s
University ranked 45th, the University of
Houston-University Park ranked 45th,
Texas Southern University ranked 89th
and Southern Methodist University
ranked 97th.
For African-American doctoral degrees,
A&M was tied nationally for 35th with
seven other universities, but finished third
in the state behind Texas Southern Uni
versity and Texas Woman’s University.
In the 1991-92 academic year A&M
awarded 41 doctoral degrees to minori
ties. Nine doctoral degrees went to
African-Americans, 18 to Hispanics and
14 to other
minorities.
Dr. Robert
Kennedy,
vice presi
dent for re
search and
associate
provost for
graduate
studies, said
A&M minori-
Total degrees
41
34
22
22
ty graduate student enrollment has
grown in the past six years from 408 in
1988 to 498 in 1994.
“These rankings reflect Texas A&M’s
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plagues A&M
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aaker are causing computers on their net-
1 vork to disconnect from the Internet.
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omputers. The sniper bug causes computers connect-
id Ito those with the bug to randomly disconnect from
he Internet.
Dr. David Safford, director of computing and informa-
ion services (CIS), said the bug occurs on the Internet
■Yotocol (IP) level and can affect any IP service such as e-
nail, Telnet and the World Wide Web.
jflfrhe bug is present at all times, including when the ma-
:hine is idle. CIS does not know how frequently the bug
Problem occurs.
■‘We’ve proven the existence of this bug, but we don’t
enow how much this is happening,” Safford said.
■David Hess, CIS network analyst, said he found the bug
mjjtwo computers on campus.
[ Tin Evans Library, I found it through Windows for
vVorkgroups,” he said, “and in Wisenbaker [Engineering
Research Center], I found it through Windows 95.”
^■The bug involves all versions of Microsoft Windows
Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95)
vhen configured with the Microsoft 32-bit TCP/IP network
iriver (MS TCP/IP-32) and a Standard Microsystems Cor
poration (SMC) Ultra ethemet card.
[ISafford said the sniper bug causes random shutdowns
3f [TCP/IP connections between computers on the same
aetwork, and it can prevent new TCRdP connections from
oeing started.
|f'A TCP/IP connection is when two machines set up a
communications path between each other.
Ill Safford said the computers with the bug do not have
random shutdowns of their connection to the Internet, but
cause computers connected them to shut down.
Safford said if a faculty member or student is using the
network and it is randomly disconnecting, then this could
be a symptom of the bug.
M He urged faculty and students to contact CIS if they
have this problem, by calling 845-4219 or sending e-mail
to sniper@net.tamu. edu.
By Michael Simmons
The Battalion
A Texas A&M committee is re
viewing the role Matthew Gaines,
one of the first African-American
senators in Texas, played in found
ing the University .
The Matthew Gaines Commit
tee, which was created by the MSC
Council in March to address diver
sity issues, is researching how a
memorial of Gaines could encour
age diversity and racial accep
tance, as well as the importance of
recognizing his influence in the
founding of A&M.
Tim Novak, Forsyth Center cu
rator and chair of the committee,
said the three goals of the commit
tee are to research the historical
significance of Gaines, boost cam
pus and community awareness
□ The committe hopes to encourage racial accep
tance at A&M with the recognition of Matthew
Gaines' historical significance.
and aide in the process of acquir
ing commemorative artwork.
Gaines was a member of the
12th Republican Legislature,
which passed Senate Bill 2671 in
April 1871. The bill allowed the
state to create an agricultural and
mechanical college with federal
funds set aside for institutions of
higher education by the Morrill
Land Grant Act — which became
Texas A&M University.
“The reason the Texas Legisla
ture was dragging its feet was that
[the use of federal funds] meant a
college for African-Americans,” No
vak said. “Matthew Gaines was
very active in his support of inte
grated education and the use of
funds from the land grant act.”
Dr. Dale Baum, head of the
Matthew Gaines subcommittee for
research, said it is difficult to find
records from the late 19th century
because many of them have been
destroyed.
“We are going to spend a couple
of days in Austin examining the
contents of several vaults of records
at the state capital,” he said. “Many
of the records we will look at will
crumble when we open them.”
Frequently used Confederate
pension rolls can help people find
out their ancestry, Baum said, but
information about the 12th Republi
can Legislation is a little more diffi
cult to pinpoint.
Steve Pryor, student director of
the committee, said another aim of
the committee is to determine what
contributions Gaines made to A&M.
“We know he played a significant
role in seeing that A&M was prop
erly opened under the Morrill Act,
but we need to bring this piece of
history out,” Pryor said.
David Washington, Student Gov
ernment executive vice president for
administration, said students should
know the history of the school.
“It is unfortunate that people
have been left out of history be
cause of their race,” Washington
said. “We need to do research to
See Founding, Rage 6
Senate votes to lift arms embargo against Bosnia
□ Clinton warned that the move
could inject American troops into
the European conflict.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharp repudia
tion of President Clinton’s foreign policy, the
Senate voted decisively Wednesday to lift the
arms embargo against Bosnia.
Clinton decried the move, warning anew that
it could inject American troops into the Euro
pean conflict.
Following debate charged by fresh reports of
rebel Serb attacks, the Senate voted 69-29 to re
quire Clinton to lift the 4-year-old arms embar
go that critics say has rendered the Bosnian
people defenseless.
Republicans and Democrats alike said
Bosnia must be allowed to protect itself if the
allies lack the will to carry the fight.
“People have a right to defend themselves,”
said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-
Kan., who sponsored the proposal along with
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. The United
States, Dole declared, would bear the respon
sibility “if more are killed and more are raped
and more little boys are taken off to camps, 12
years old, and more are hanged in trees and
more throats are cut because we imposed our
■wall on this little country.”
The 69-vote majority was enough to over
ride a promised Clinton veto, as 21 Democrats
joined almost all of the Republicans in sup
porting the measure.
The House voted 318-99 last month to lift
the embargo — more than enough votes to
override a veto.
But because that measure was attached to
separate legislation, the House will have to
vote again.
On Wednesday, 112 House members signed a
bipartisan letter to Clinton calling the adminis
tration’s Bosnia policy “morally bankrupt and
an obvious failure.”
Nevertheless, Clinton
said he remained hopeful
that lawmakers would work
with him to resolve the dis
agreement.
“I do not believe the
strong course for the United
States and the strong course
for the people of Bosnia is to
unilaterally life the arms
embargo, collapse the U.N.
mission and increase the
chances of injecting Ameri
cans troops there,” he said.
If the bill becomes law, it would require Clin
ton to end U.S. support for the arms ban upon the
request of the Bosnian government or within 12
weeks of the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers.
Clinton