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Page 2 • The Battalion • Monday, June 24, 1996
Report ranks A&M’s engineering
departments among nation’s best
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Batt alion
Three departments in Texas A&M’s College of
Engineering have recently been ranked among the
top 10 best in the country by the Gourman Report.
The Gourman Report named the petroleum, agri
cultural and industrial engineering departments
among the nation’s best.
On the basis of 18 criteria, including faculty
qualifications, quality of students, admission re
quirements and computer facilities, the Gourman
Report rates academic programs.
The Department of Petroleum Engineering ranked
first among 22 leading institutions with a score of 4.91
on a five-point scale. A&M outperformed the Universi
ty of Texas, the University of Tulsa, Louisiana State
University and Stanford University. The four are
ranked second through fifth, respectively.
Dr. James Russell, head of the Department of
Petroleum Engineering, said all aspects of a de
partment’s program are taken into consideration
in the ranking process.
“Highly ranked departments have outstanding
current and former students, an excellent faculty
and first-class facilities and support,” he said. “The
petroleum engineering department at Texas A&M
University has all of these attributes, and we are
proud to be ranked first.”
The Department of Agricultural Engineering
ranked second out of 38 institutions with a
score of 4.90. Cornell University was first, and
Iowa State University, Michigan State Univer
sity and the University of Wisconsin ranked
third through fifth, respectively.
Dr. James Gilley, head of the Department of
Agricultural Engineering, said the department is
proud to be second in the nation because it brings
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Agricultural Engineering.
“This recognition, along with the other national
rankings recently released by others across the
country, reflects very positively on the department
and the direction of both our undergraduate and
graduate programs,” he said. “We believe this con
firms the absolutely outstanding quality of the
agricultural engineering faculty and the types of
the students being attracted to the departmental
academic programs.”
With a score of 4.66, the Department of Indus
trial Engineering ranked 10th among 34 institu
tions. Stanford, the University of Michigan, the
University of California-Berkeley, Purdue Univer
sity, Northwestern University, the Georgia Insti
tute of Technology, Cornell, Ohio State University
and Columbia University were ranked first
through ninth, respectively.
Democrats aim program at middle class voters
news
BRIEFS
Committee to interview
Commandant candidates
During the next three weeks,
three candidates for the position of
Corps Commandant will be on
campus for interviews.
A search advisory committee
headed by Malon Southerland, vice
president for Student Affairs, has se
lected three career military officers
for on-campus interviews.
The commandant serves as the
senior student affairs professional in
charge of the 2,200-member Corps
of Cadets.
The individuals selected for in
terview are Maj. Gen. Jay D. Blume
Jr., Ma. Gen. M.T. "Ted" Hopgood
Jr., and Lt. Gen. J.T. "Terry" Scott.
Blume retired in February as the
Air Force Chief of Staff's special as
sistant for base realignment and
transition. Hopgood is the current
president of the Marine Corps Uni
versity. Scott is currently comman
der of the U.S. Army Special Opera
tions Command.
Train, car collide;
one inj’ury results
At 5:47 p.m. Saturday College
Station police officers were called to
respond to an accident between a
train and a car at the intersection of
FM 21 54 and George Bush Drive.
Adam Diaz of Austin, was west
bound on George Bush Drive in a
1995 Plymouth Neon when he
crossed the tracks in front of an on
coming, southbound train.
Sgt. Dean of the College Station
Police Department, said the train
struck the right, front quarter of the
car and propelled it about 15 feet.
There were four people in the
car, but only Diaz, who was dri
ving, received minor injuries.
Hurricane Alma hits
Mexico's east coast
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) —
On palm-dotted islands through
out the Caribbean, hundreds of
victims of the 1995 hurricane sea
son are still sheltered in tents or
under tarpaulin roofs.
A new storm season is already
upon them. Even though forecasts are
for a milder season, the ravages of last
year mean more people are vulnerable
to even low-grade storms. The damage
this year could be just as great.
The first hurricane of the year,
Hurricane Alma, hit Mexico's south
ern Pacific coast on Sunday, spinning
winds of up to 100 miles per hour
that damaged homes and downed
power lines. There were no immedi
ate reports of injury. Alma was ex
pected to dump up to 12 inches of
rain on coastal areas, possibly caus
ing flash floods.
The Atlantic hurricane season
covers the Atlantic, the Caribbean
and the Gulf of Mexico. The Pacif
ic has distinct eastern and western
seasons, and Hurricane Alma is
one of those storms. The first storm
of the Atlantic season, named
Arthur, occurred off the coast of
Florida last week.
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Con
gressional Democrats plan to go
door-to-door across America to
push a “families first” legislative
package aimed squarely at win
ning middle class voters and re
taking Capitol Hill.
The Democratic agenda, in
the works for months and for
mally rolled out on Sunday in a
five-city virtual town meeting, is
the minority party’s answer to
the “Contract With America”
that helped the GOP win control
of Congress in 1994.
In promoting the proposed tax
breaks and health, education
and crime programs, House De
mocratic leader Richard
Gephardt implored Americans to
give the Democrats “another
chance to lead” the nation.
“Democrats have an obliga
tion to tell the American people
not just what we stand against,
but what we stand for,” the Mis
souri congressman said in open
ing the 75-minute program from
the Old Town Hall here. “You
see, Democrats don’t want to
merely win back the gavel. We
want to deserve it.”
Republicans denounced the
proposals as “tiny ideas from
tiny minds.”
“I know that anytime a dozen
Democrats can agree on any
thing it makes news,” said Rep.
John Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman
of the House Republican Confer
ence. “The American people are
smart enough to see this election
year rhetoric for what it is: vi
sionless hot-air.”
Gephardt conceded that in
years past Democrats didn’t do
enough to address Americans’
everyday problems, causing vot
er dissatisfaction that helped
Republicans take over both
houses of Congress in 1994.
“The bottom line is that De
mocrats are asking for another
chance to lead,” he said, reach
ing audiences in Sacramento,
Calif., Houston, Des Moines,
Iowa and Dearborn, Mich.
The presentation, via satellite
linking this Washington suburb
and other sites nationwide,
played like an “infomercial” with
scripted questions from pre-se
lected citizens and answers from
lawmakers. The product: a set of
21 initiatives, including several
already proposed by President
Clinton, aimed at helping the eco
nomically squeezed middle class.
Among the Democrats’ pro
posals: tax breaks for parents to
pay for child care; requiring pri
vate insurance companies to pro
vide “kids-only” health plans;
stiffer penalties for corporate
pension abuses; cracking down
on “deadbeat” parents by giving
states new tools to enforce child
support orders and collect pay
ments; creating a national effort
to prevent teen pregnancy and
holding corporations responsible
for keeping drinking water and
air clean.
The Republicans’ Contract
With America — including the
key promise of balancing the
nation’s budget within seven
years — won handily in the
House but most items have
foundered in the Senate or
were vetoed by Clinton.
"Democrats have an obligation to tell the American
people not just what we stand against, but what we
stand for."
— RICHARD GEPHARDT
House Democraiic leader
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