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Vol. 102, No. 31 (12 pages)
Established in 1893
Monday • October 9, 1993
Aggie Bucks Advisory Council formed
□ The group will suggest
which businesses can
use the system and
which products can be
purchased using the
debit card.
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
Texas A&M students are get
ting a chance to put in their
two cents worth about how the
Aggie Bucks debit card system
will be expanded to off-campus
businesses.
The Division of Student Af
fairs has formed the Aggie Buck
Advisory Council, a 12-member
panel of students, business own
ers, administrators and other
University-related interests. The
Council will help formulate Uni
versity policy on how Aggie Buck
expansion will be handled.
Ryan Shopp, Student Govern
ment University Committee coor
dinator, said the Council was
formed to explore the possibilities
for expansion and which busi
nesses may use Aggie Bucks.
“The goal of this committee is
to look into off-campus expan
sion and further on-campus ex
pansion,” Shopp said.
The Texas Legislature gave
the University until Aug. 15,
1996 to expand the Aggie Bucks
system to off-campus businesses.
The Legislature mandated that
any service or merchandise that
could be purchased by Aggie
Bucks on campus must be made
available off-campus.
College Station
bookstores began ac
cepting the debit cards
in last August.
The expansion has
several gray areas that
pose problems to the
University. For in
stance, the administra
tion has made it clear
in the past that it did
not want Aggie Bucks
available to purchase
alcohol or tobacco.
Casey Underwood, a
Council member, said the alco
hol question has caused some
confusion for many students, in
cluding herself.
“I thought I would go off-cam
pus and buy groceries and it
would be convenient,” Under
wood said. “But I’m not sure
what we should be able to buy
with them.”
Underwood said that during
the first meeting last week, the
president of the Aggie Mom’s
Federation was concerned that
students would use Aggie Bucks
to purchase alcohol.
“She was concerned because,
first of all, the kids might buy al
cohol, and she would not want
them to buy say, a stereo,” she
said. “A lot of parents feel this
way, and they don’t trust their
kids not to buy alcohol. A lot of
parents would not get Aggie
Bucks, and that would take that
market away.”
Shopp said he has been im
pressed with the Division of
Students Affairs’ speed at form
ing this committee, which
Shopp proposed.
“It wasn’t even a week before
[debit card administrator] Dale
Witenhafer called me and said,
‘Ryan, let’s go with this,’” he
said. “I’m impressed that the
University is being so proactive.
“They’ve gone after these is
sues; they’re not waiting for
these things to come to them.”
Toby Boenig, student body
president, said the committee
should provide an excellent
platform to help students learn
more about how Aggie Bucks
can be used.
“Hopefully, the committee can
not just offer input, but offer in
formation to students as well,”
Boenig said. “So much is not
known to the students right now.”
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Batt bet gone bad
Rob Clark, editor in chief of The Battalion, "shows his guns" as a result of his bet with Megan Clark (no relation), editor in chief
of the Texas Tech student newspaper, The University Daily. When the A&M football team lost 14-7 in Lubbock on Saturday,
Clark had to buy a Tech T-shirt and pose for this photograph. The photo will be published in The University Daily later this
week. "I'm not real happy about it," Clark said, "but I want to be a good sport and uphold my end of the bet. The game was
quite disappointing, but the bet was all in good fun."
AIESEC to receive
first foreign intern
□ The four-year-old A&M
chapter sent its first student
intern abroad last year.
By Tara Wilkinson
The Battalion
The Texas A&M AIESEC chapter,
a student-run international business
organization respected throughout
Europe for its power and prestige, is
giving students the chance to broaden
their business perspectives.
AIESEC, a French acronym, trans
lates into English as the International
Association of Students in Business
Economics.
An international work exchange
program established in 1948 in Brus
sels, Belgium, AIESEC is the world’s
third-largest non-profit organization,
outranked only by the Red Cross and
the United Nations.
Chris Nelms, A&M AIESEC chap
ter vice president for sales, said that
although 55 U.S. colleges have
AIESEC chapters, the organization is
not nearly as well-known in the Unit
ed States as it is in other parts of the
world.
“If you go to Europe, you can say
you’re in AIESEC, and everyone un
derstands,” Nelms said. “In the Unit
ed States, it just hasn’t caught on yet.
But we’re working on it.”
The four-year-old A&M AIESEC
chapter, sent its first student intern
abroad last year and will be receiving
a foreign intern for the first time in
November.
Freddy Puentes, A&M AIESEC
chapter president, said chapter mem
bers are finally gaining the expertise
and knowledge necessary to partic
ipate successfully in the program.
“AIESEC is set up to be a recipro
cal exchange program,” Puentes said.
“For every person we bring from
abroad, we can send one Aggie
abroad.”
Operated as a small corporation,
each chapter of AIESEC has a human
resources, exchange and reception, fi
nance and sales committee.
The organization’s activities are
funded by student initiative. Sources
of revenue include sponsorship by pri
vate companies and student dues.
AIESEC salespeople target compa
nies interested in hiring interns from
foreign countries, convincing these
companies to sign contracts for in
terns recruited from the AIESEC net
work.
“We’ll go into companies, as sales
people basically, and try to sell our
program,” Fuentes said.
AIESEC members are responsible
for finding students from AIESEC
chapters in different parts of the
world specified by contracting compa
nies. They take care of all details,
such as paperwork and lodging, for
the students arriving from abroad.
“We basically deliver them to their
front door, walk them into their first
day of work,” Fuentes said.
For each contract between an
AIESEC chapter and a company for
bringing an intern to the United
States, the chapter receives a “credit”
to send one of its U.S. members
abroad. Members have internship op
tions in 84 countries with AIESEC
chapters.
AIESEC chapters can be found
See AIESEC, Page 6
TEES lab plays energy
□ A&M's department will be
recognized for its monitoring
analysis of the LoanSTAR
program, which has saved
Texans more than $25 million.
By Kasie Byers
The Battalion
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The U. S. Department of Energy will
recognize the Energy Systems Lab of
the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion later this month for the lab’s role
in energy efficiency and savings.
The lab will be honored Oct. 31 in
Arlington, Va., for its monitoring
analysis program for Texas Loans to
Save Texas and Resources
(LoanSTAR).
The State Energy Conservation Of
fice, which sponsors the LoanSTAR
program, nominated A&M’s laboratory
for the award.
LoanSTAR, which began in 1988 is a
$98 million revolving-loan fund that pro
vides government entities with money to
upgrade and perform retrofits to build
ings’ heating and air conditioning sys
tems to promote energy conservation.
The revolving loan is the refund
Texas received from the oil overcharges
during the 1980s.
The TEES Energy Systems Lab mon
itors the buildings’ energy usage before
and after the retrofits.
Each building is measured once a
week. The data from these measure
ments is then compiled into reports
that are sent to each agency on the
amount of electricity, gas and money
that was saved.
Dr. Dan Turner, Energy Systems
Lab director, said all the software, en
ergy analysis methodologies and re
porting techniques were developed by
the lab.
“We are responsible for the monitor
ing of over 200 buildings throughout the
state of Texas,” Turner said, “and this is
all done from our College Station loca
tion. It is a very sophisticated system.”
The Energy Systems Laboratory is
involved with other projects involving
saving role
air conditioning and heat pump re
search. LoanSTAR, however, is its
largest project, which the lab has been
a part of since the program’s beginning.
In a TEES news release, the moni
toring efforts of the laboratory were
called “pioneering” by the DOE.
Turner said the DOE description
was accurate because of the uniqueness
of the program.
“There are programs in other states
that are similar to LoanSTAR,” he said.
“But there are no other major public
programs in the U.S. where metering
and monitoring of this energy conserva
tion is a required part.”
Turner, as well as Dr. Dennis O’Neal,
Dr. Dave Claridge and Dr. Jeff Harberl,
representatives from the lab, will attend
the ceremony and accept the award on
behalf of TEES laboratory.
The LoanSTAR program has saved
Texans more than $25 million in energy
costs and is projected to save taxpayers
$700 million over the next 20 years.
The program was recognized in April
by the Environmental Protection Agency
for its role in energy conservation.
Clinton recalls stepfather
| firing gun at his mother
I □ The president remembers
| having to stop violence in
I his own home.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
i Clinton’s memories of his alcoholic
I stepfather remain vivid, continuing
| to shape his life “as a peacemaker,
i always trying to minimize the dis-
I ruption” around him.
One scene haunts him still. He
was barely 5 years old when his
j stepfather, Roger Clinton, fired a
gun at his mother, Virginia Kelley.
| The bullet smashed into a wall next
i to where Kelley was seated.
“I remember that incident vividly,
like it was yesterday,” Clinton said
in an interview in November’s Good
j Housekeeping magazine — perhaps
the most personal, frank interview
Clinton has given as president, his
aides say.
“That bullet could have ricocheted
and done anything,” Clinton re- •
called. “It could have killed me. If
anything had happened, Roger
would never have gotten over it.
“Roger wasn’t a bad man, and he
didn’t want to hurt anybody. He was
just an alcoholic, full of self-loathing
and anxiety, with no way to deal
with it. He had problems before we
ever came into his life.”
Roger was Virginia’s second hus
band. Her first husband, William
Blythe, was killed in a car accident
before Bill Clinton was bom.
As he grew older, Clinton began
to intercede when trouble started
with his stepfather.
Twice, the president remembered.
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