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Dr. John L. Jim kins, a Texas
A&M aerospace engineering profes
sor, was named to the National
Academy of Engineering. His for
mal induction will be Oct. 1 in
Washington, D.C.
Junkins, an expert in spacecraft
navigation, was elected to the
Academy because of his contribu
tions to spacecraft flight mechanics
and vehicle control.
He is the 14th Academy honoree
from the A&M University System.
Applications for new
scholarship available
Applications for the Outstanding
Service Awards, sponsored primarily
by the Texas A&M University Com
munity Awareness Network, are due
Friday, March 22.
Designed to inspire and reward stu
dent volunteers, the program will pro
vide a $500 award, two $250 awards
and five Governor's Certificates to stu
dents who have contributed to the
community through service projects.
Depending on this year's student
response to the program, the award
will become an annual offering.
Applications can be pic ked up at the
Student Programs Office in the MSC,
Student Activities in the Koldus Building
and in several West Campus locations.
For information, contact Shelly
Howell at 693-0944.
Student candidates to
hold forum March 20
Candidates for Texas A&M stu
dent body president and junior and
senior yell leader positions will pre
sent their platforms and answer
questions at a candidate forum
March 20 in 510 Rudder at 7 p.m.
The forum is sponsored by the
MSC Committee for the Awareness
of Mexican-American Culture.
Campus elections will be held
March 27 and 28.
Supreme Court to hear
Aquifer argument
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
Supreme Court will hear arguments
Wednesday over whether the
state's plan to manage the Edwards
Acjuifer is a crucial effort to con
serve water or an unconstitutional
attack on private property rights.
Backers of the plan Say it is a ne
cessity for Texas to manage the 1 75-
mile-long underground reservoir and
keep water levels from periodically
dropping so low that springflows at
its eastern end are threatened.
Opponents say the law, which im
poses limits on pumping from wells, robs
them of a century-old property right.
Gore praises simplicity of
small business applications
The vice president said the basic goal of the U.S.
General Store is to improve customer service
HOUSTON (AP) — Vice Presi
dent A1 Gore began a daylong
swing through Texas Monday by
praising a prototype service cen
ter that makes it easier for small
business owners to deal with a
maze of government bureaucracy.
“This store makes everyone in
government look a little bit better,”
Gore told the staff of the U.S. Gen
eral Store for Small Business.
“Your actions encourage other gov
ernment employees to try new ap
proaches also in order to give their
own customers better service.
That’s leadership by example.”
The one-stop federal center,
which opened last July, allows
small business operators to con
sult with about 20 federal agen
cies about licenses, regulation
and loans all under a single roof
rather than visit individual of
fices scattered around Houston.
Four thousand customers
have been helped at the center,
where they deal with one person
competent to answer questions
about each agency rather than a
separate person for each one.
The store is the product of the
National Performance Review, a
task force headed by Gore to
make government more efficient.
Gore said a basic goal of Ids pro
gram is to improve customer service.
“Right now, in most cases, our
customers must go door to door
rely on their common sense.
“A big part of the problem is
that we have a system that’s
bound up in rules and red tape.
It was created on a 1930s-style,
industrial-age model, and now
it’s trying to operate in an infer-
"A big part of the problem is that we
have a system that's bound up in rules
and red tape."
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to get what they need, and it is a
hassle,” the vice president said
to a crowd of about 400. “And if
you’ve ever gone to the federal
building, you know that in spite
of what people do, you just feel
kind of intimidated.”
He said the government wrote
too many regulations telling em
ployees exactly how to do their
jobs and not permitting them to
— AL GORE
Vice president of the United Slates
mation age,” Gore said. "Over
time, as we gave government
more things to do, we created
more and more rules.”
“The general store sensitizes
government to the overall needs
of small business,” Owens said.
“The sensitivity created here
shows us that not only the staff,
but various government agencies,
care about our continued success,”
Controversial Salk therapy for
AIDS starts mass testing this week
The “therapeutic vaccine” was
designed to boost the immune
systems of infected patients
WASHINGTON (AP) — An AIDS therapy de
signed to boost the immune systems of infected pa
tients — the last work of vaccine pioneer Jonas
Salk — begins testing in some 3,000 Americans
this week.
Remune is the first immune system-based AIDS
treatment to make it to such advanced testing.
But scientists caution that patients should not
expect a miracle. While the rationale behind im
mune-boosters is intriguing, earlier testing of such
agents has been disappointing, said AIDS expert
Dr. Pat Fast of the National Institutes of Health.
Developed by Salk, the inventor of the first polio
vaccine who died last year, Remune is a form of im
munotherapy. Sometimes called a “therapeutic vac
cine,” it is designed to rev up the immune systems of
people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Salk took a strain of HIV, stripped it of its outer
coating and killed it. He then added a chemical
that helps immune cells recognize an invader and
remember how it looks.
HIV usually hides in the body until it is strong
enough to kill immune cells. Salk’s theory was
that Remune would prompt those cells to recog
nize all of HIV’s proteins, usually hidden under its
outer coating, earlier and fight back.
Salk’s therapy has been highly controversial. Ira
mune Response, maker of Remune, told the Food and
Drug Administration last year that, in small studies,
it helped some patients retain vital immune cells.
Dr. James Kahn at the University of California,
San Francisco, on Monday began enrolling some
3,000 patients with HIV, but not AIDS. Half will
get Ftemune shots every 12 weeks for three years
— in addition to whatever anti-AIDS drugs their
doctor regularly prescribes — to see if Rejnwie
slows their progression to AIDS.
“Clearly there’s a lot of controversy,” mnowl-
edged Immune Response spokesman Steven Bas-
ta. “This study should give us a definite answer."
One worry is that repeated injections oftradi
tional vaccines, like flu shots, cause a small, tern
porary boost in patients’ HIV levels. While theres
no proof these small boosts cause harm, Kahn said
he will watch Remune patients closely during
their repeat injections.
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