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'ssioni Deceased student to be
C e“ honored at Silver Taps
?ineer;
Debashis Biswas, 25, will be hon-
^ ored at Silver Taps on Sept. 5. Biswas,
a §exas A&M geography graduate stu-
" K dent, passed away on Aug. 11. Services
f 18 - were held at Southpark Cemetery in
idents;Houston on Aug. 14. He is survived by
to the his parents, Dayal and Bhawani
d be at Biswas.
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Jury selection to begin in
id. b trial of Regents secretary
singM.
d worn Jury selection in the trial of Vickie
thejiRunning, the Texas A&M Board of Re-
ow gents secretary, on charges of tamper
ing with government documents will
begin Oct. 16.
st Running is charged with altering
user government documents in an attempt
own a: totdisguise the purchase of alcohol as
food, drink, ice and cups purchases.
CoM The trial, originally scheduled to be-
lnK gin Aug. 15, was given a continuance
for two months.
en ^'l The case will be heard by District
1 U P Court Judge J.D. Langley in the 85th
at by District Court at the Brazos County
r , stuilCourthouse in Bryan,
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Sippial named as new VP
of A&M Physical Plant
Charles Sippial has been named as
Texas A&M's assistant vice president
for the Physical Plant.
Sippial, Physical Plant director at
San Diego State University, was ap
pointed by Dr. Jerry Gaston, interim
vice president for finance administra
tion, and he will assume the position
Monday, Aug. 28.
Prior to his six years at SDSU, Sippi
al worked for the U.S. Air Force in Eu
rope and the United States.
He holds a bachelor's degree in
construction science from Tuskegee
University and a master's degree in sys
tems management from the University
of Southern California.
Engineering department
receives new head
dure today.
The Tejeda twins have been criti
cally ill since they were born 13
weeks premature at St. David's Hospi
tal on May 1 5.
Doctors do not expect Michelle
to survive separation because a her
pes virus inherited in the womb has
destroyed part or all of her in
testines, stomach, bladder, kidneys,
liver and brain.
Only her connection to Michelle is
keeping Michelle alive.
As of Sunday, the total charges for
the conjoined infants was approximate
ly $525,000.
A small portion of those charges
will be paid for by Medicaid, the re
mainder will become part of the charity
care St. David's provides to the Austin
community, officials said.
AIDS patient to receive
baboon's bone marrow
Dr. Rayford G. Anthony was
named head of the Department of
Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M
by Dr. C. Roland Haden, Dean of the
College of Engineering.
Anthony, a senior fellow in the
Texas Engineering Experiment Station,
has taught at A&M since 1966.
He is also head of the chemical
engineering department's Kinetics,
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
Laboratory.
Anthony will assume his new posi
tion Sept. 1.
Conjoined twins face
slim survival chances
jL. The Critical Care Cafe, a new dining
facility in the Interdisciplinary Building
on West Campus, opened Aug. 14.
I The cafe offers specialty sandwiches
not served anywhere else on campus.
The cafe replaced the Vet Med Snack
Bar, and is open Monday through Friday
from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The new restaurant will be dedi-
ycij' cated at a special ceremony Sept. 1,
J recognizing those who funded the
cafe's construction.
xi l995 Texas
- SAT scores
gnjraM
r remain low
,, (AP) — Texas students scored
,, higher this year on the Scholas-
n ^ tic Assessment Test but re-
1]^ ^nfained behind the national av-
n’lhe era £ e on both sections of the col-
lege entrance exam, according to
excedi new fi g^ res -
^ The College Board figures
, , released Wednesday showed
A ? that Texas’ average score on
lgs [ ei . the verbal test was 419, a sev-
3e |j eV( en-point increase over 1994,
sank 'Tile the math score remained
0 ff q unchanged at 474.
)U jj- a; The state’s combined score of
ie exar 893 was a seven-point increase
^hasl over last year’s combined score
of 886, but it was still 17 points
ft er Gbehind the nation’s average
lepende: combined score of 910.
3 en A- The national average on the
inaat: Ver bal test increased from 423 in
3 playt 1994 to 428 in 1995, while math
ig aiio: 8 cores rose from 479 to 482.
Texas Education Commis-
rderec 8 kmer Mike Moses attributed
cade the higher scores to the num-
en C l 561 * of students enrolled in hon-
s, the °rs curriculum,
sxash “These results clearly show
were that taking rigorous courses in
nth oifliigh school is a prerequisite
>r, thejfor success in college,” Moses
estroyaPaid. “For those students who
iels fejpvant to attend college after
high school, taking challeng-
offGalBg courses is not a luxury but
37. Aftp necessity.
, ships ‘The figures showed that
ihoai Texas students who completed
accomPO or more course units in six
crew?;honors classes recorded an aver-
schooii age verbal score of 473 and an
storm javerage math score of 533.
. wag c»hose with fewer than 15 ad-
n i835sVanced course units scored an
Q g toll average 355 on the verbal sec-
was pinion and 408 on math.
3 refit Both white and minority stu-
guin dents recorded higher verbal
comrjBcores this vear. with the
biggest jump among black stu-
on pi dents, whose scores increased
and 5 nine points.
i Aust Mexican-American students’
sand! scores rose six points, while
Asian and white students' scores
increased five points.
Females showed bigger im-
rovements on the test than
ales. Females increased their
average verbal score by seven
i^i points and their average math
(AP) — The medical staff seeking to
surgically separate twin baby girls
joined at the head said survival
chances were slim for one if not both
of the infants.
Michelle and Michelle Tejeda
were to become only the sixth set of
twins to undergo separation surgery
worldwide since 1991 when neuro
surgeons Gordon White and Lee
Berland initiate the daylong proce-
(AP) —- A baboon from a San Anto
nio research facility is being prepared
for a controversial operation that would
transplant the animal's bone marrow
into an AIDS patient in hopes of fight
ing the deadly disease.
The San Antonio Express-News re
ported today that officials of the South
west Foundation for Biomedical Re
search are scheduled to take the ba
boon this week to the University of
Pittsburgh.
A school spokeswoman says the op
eration could occur as soon as late
September to try extending the life of
38-year-old Jeff Getty.
The procedure would be the second
of its kind.
In 1992, the Pittsburgh group in
fused baboon marrow into a 56-year-
old man with advanced AIDS.
The graft failed to grow, and the pa
tient died a few weeks later.
Foundation officials say the 62-
pound Olive baboon to be used is
about 7 years old and has been
found through a battery of expensive
tests to harbor fewer natural baboon
viruses than most of the foundation's
3,065 baboons.
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