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nd will makei r - The 105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MONDAY February 15, 1999 Volume 105 • Issue 92 • 10 Pages College Station, Texas :as film | iters fast ; recent full a: <th Annual Te«r. es a young % ed up against;: he caption, ‘t!| Film Festival..: this dog.” icouragethee: isementtosK'. razos Valley A'j animals whosn e not lucky e r :: ?d or adoptee ase have enouf / of your films instead ofvioej aggielife • From the days of earliest man to the present, condoms have served as a safety blanket for many. PAGE 3 today’s issue State 5 Nation 6 Tuesday’s issue Aggie Baseball gets ready to take on Southwest Texas State University. opinion . • Columnists delve into the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of the legalization of the world’s oldest profession. PAGES alth institutes Efe Battalion erxxun ters must be 300 the author's nan* ' nerge to create center BY AMANDA STIRPE The Battalion for length, style, an: submitted in perscr with a valid stuflerL.t rite Battalion fe,’he Texas A&M Health Science 013ReedMctater College of Medicine, Scott Texasa&munrwhite Memorial Hospital and Co ^7?im/Mv ic and the Central Texas Vet- 77843m: Campus Mail! is Health Care System have af- ^ orm the Cardiovascular E-mail:batt«tamvrni^ar|h Institute (CVRI), which be located at the Olin E. ;ue Veterans Center in Temple. cntiwc’q he !°P enin S tlie CVR1 was .tfN I IlNt 5 ounced Thursday at the Capi- jf m.ln Austin. Rep. Diane Delisi mued from % j 0 j ne d by representatives ike her dinner \ AiiM and Scott and White to up her apartm«4ilhow the three entities will g her clean you k together to form the CVRI. e key is avoidio-'he institute has already gen- out to showhe ed|$30 million in grant fund- iy doing this y and has provided training for Bart and deny he than 350 undergraduates, haul this Valeraicll students, graduate stu- fsand postdoctoral fellows. is sell Page is a: ’he $7-million funding for the si was provided by the A&M ege of Medicine and the Scott White Foundation. 'he CVRI was originally es- CcZOtC dshed in 1981 under the for- y name Microcirculation Re- icncvicutC cb institute. The Texas A&M i mese Specialiif rd of Regents approved the ces - all entreeCje change at their meeting in ^r^nna Hejl of Christian-Hum- __^Ozmun Media and Commum- elivery Available ons said the institute’s foci will ninimumi Phone^p look for causes of cardiovas- r disease on the molecular lev- d treatments for cardiovascu- isedse. The institute brings a lot of rent specialists, funding and nt basis,” Hejl said. “A pow erful organization has combined to have more power.” Harris Granger, head of the De partment of Physiology at the Col lege of Medicine, will head the CVRI, which is composed of the Division of Vascular Biology and the Division of Molecular Cardiol ogy. Dr. Kenneth M. Baker will head the Division of Molecular Cardiology. ‘The goal of the institute is to bring cardiovascular disease and stroke research from ‘bench to bedside,’ by integrating the work of molecular biology scientists with clinical physicians,” Baker said. “This research will extend into the community, as we dis cover better strategies of preven tion and intervention with existing cardiovascular disease and stroke.” Baker will work with nine oth er cardiovascular scientists.to per form research on heart failure as sociated with high blood pressure, aging, diabetes and obstruction of major vessels supplying blood to the heart. Twelve scientists with the Divi sion of Vascular Biology will focus their research on regulation of blood flow, vessel size and vessel number through chemical and physical factors under normal conditions and following heart at tack, stroke, shock and diabetes. “The Cardiovascular Research Institute will have a definite im pact on the Central Texas area, not only to the business community, but also by stimulating the envi ronment of medical and research excellence that already exists,” Baker said. Ml > > , ! ! 'tlifi! v ' 'S 3F4''! i. SALLIE TURNER/Thh Battalion Chelsea Roll, an 18-month-old i^sident of Bryan, rides the animal train at Mardi Gras Brazos Style. The celebration included many fpmily-oriented activities. Brazos Valley celebrates Mardi Gras BY APRIL YOUNG The Battalion Citizens of and visitors to the Brazos Valley celebrated the fifth annual “Mardi Gras Brazos Style” this past Saturday in downtown Bryan. Kali Wood, assistant coordi nator for the Bryan Main Street Project, said the celebration helped the project accomplish its goal of attracting more visitors to the downtown area; 8,000 people visited Mardi Gras Brazos Style throughout the day. “This year’s celebration went very well,” she said. “We had more people than ever before. Our continued goal is to bring new visitors to consider living downtown, because when more people are living there, there will be more businesses.” Activities for the celebration in cluded face painting, train rides, the Bryan Fire Department’s Fire Safety House and various games. Wood said the children’s play area set this year’s celebration apart from previous years. “We had a better play area this year than in years past,” she said. The winner of the Interna tional Barbecue Cookers’ Associ ation sanctioned cook-off was Rick Day, who won first place for ribs and brisket and won the title of “Master Cook.” Wood says downtown Bryan will have a new look for next year’s visitors because a number of the buildings in the area are being renovated. Wood said Square One Restau rant and the Forgey Building are some of the buildings under ren ovation. HBO & CableT' Coffee & Local t- 1 ' LdmwmiMs^' 1CKOWAVES & RH# ow-wow draws sasepresentatives V( iMrom across U.S. The Cu ( BY SALLIE TURNER The Battalion REE POOL H w/student 1 purchase of ^ ut j ient j c costumes an( j dancing highlighted the tlnesday Nigii'jjyg American Student Association (NASA) and ay free all ni( American Indian Science & Engineering’s pow- ; Coiiege-acrossfr f ' w at Sam Rayburn Middle School in Bryan Satur- 822-0791 r . 'NorthgatetradiW'More than 2,000 people attended the pow-wow. ==^======^3 day’s festivities included vendors selling every- dg from jewelry to Native-American prayers, and les and dancing. TTL/jRichard Burgess, a NASA council member and a se- 1 IBr poultry science major, said the vendors and iceis came from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and attal“ The P° w - wow a conung together of Native v4 1* LvA jgB^ans,” he said. “It is a gathering of friends and published ft' w ^ ere y ou never k now w ho you are going to through F%he evening included a grand entry with different vith a circulates of dancing including the Men’s Traditional 40 000 nce ’ Straight Dance and Fancy Dance. ’ Joseph and Barbara Winger said they have come the pow-wow the last six years, terested inp^fEach year we come, we see old friends and have }rtisemenM 0 °d time,” he said. “It is also a good time to sell r jewelry and artwork.” -/•Burgess said the dancing, which is led by the beat- 845- 26^; of a drum, was the main focus of the pow-wow. , “The drum is the heartbeat of the dance,” he said, for DisplayFj! the songs played have vocals, and some have ac- 0 r il words. Each song and dance has a certain mean- SAS-OSUsA started the pow-wow in 1993 with the hope educating the Bryan-College Station community for Classifie G 3Ut Native-American culture. Business Student Council to host four-day long career fair in Wehner SALLIE TURNER/Thf: Battalion John Hensz, a junior aerospace engineering major, dances Saturday at a pow-wow. Hensz started attending pow-wows when he was in the Boy Scouts. “It leads back to the article about the A&M com munity not being diverse,” he said. “[Native Amer ican culture] is not like the Latin language. It’s not dead.” Burgess said next year’s pow-wow is scheduled for the second weekend in February, and he expects it to draw a larger crowd. BY RICHARD PADDACK The Battalion One-hundred-fifty companies will attend the fourth annual Spring Business Career Fair today through Thursday in the Wehner Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The four-day event will be host ed by the Texas A&M Business Stu dent Council (BSC) in conjunction with the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business. The career fair is the largest event sponsored by the BSC and is put together each year during the fall and spring semesters. The career fair began in 1980 with 27 companies and was a one- day, one-seminar event. Today businesses will send representa tives to meet and discuss career plans with students. The career fair will benefit stu dents in the business school look ing for full-time job placement, in ternships and co-op positions. Mary Ann Ricca, senior academic advisor for the Lowry Mays College of Business, said students behind the scenes of the fair also gain valu able knowledge and experience which should prove beneficial after graduation. “The planning of the career fair is like managing a company busi ness,” she said. “The volunteer staff invests six months of coordi nation and planning whereby they B learn about budget planning, pro motion, corporate relations and hospitality. ” BSC, with a membership of 150 students is comprised of elected representatives of the 25 business student organizations, five execu tive officers, 16 Business Career Fair officers, 40 cabinet members and four business senators from the Texas A&M Student Government Association. “The planning of the career fair is like managing a company business” — Mary Ann Ricca Senior academic adviser Cory Willis, president of BSC and a senior finance and manage ment information systems major, said the event will beneficial to at tendees. “At the cornerstone of our exis tence is our career fair,” Willis said. “Every Fall and Spring, over 140 companies and 4,000 students at tend this event, one of the largest of its kind in the nation, which not only benefits the students and com panies attending, but also our ca reer fair officers.” Parents maybe notified of violations •Amendment to allow Universities to report alcohol, drug transgressions. BY RICHARD PADDACK The Battalion Universities have been given the option of reporting any alco hol and controlled-substance vio lations to students’ parents. An amendment to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and part of the High er Education Act of 1998 called the Warner Amendment was signed by President Clinton on Oct. 7, 1998. The amendment, to go into ef fect by 2000, prohibits anything from barring “an institution of higher education from disclosing, to a parent or legal guardian of a student, information regarding any violation of any federal, state or local law, or of any rule or pol icy of the institution, governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance, regardless of whether that information is contained in the student’s educa tion records,” according to the text of the amendment. Under the original FERPA, uni versities could release this infor mation if the student was a de pendent but could not release information that was in the stu dents education records. Patterson said he is in forming a task force, scheduled to meet in the spring, to discuss whether or not the University should take ad vantage of the option and to de cide how to compile statistics and other information necessary to fulfill the requirements of the new amendment. The new amendment states that regardless of the student’s de pendency, the legal guardians can have access to the information. Bob Wiatt, director of Univer sity Police Department, said UPD would report all violations relat ing to the amendment with the help of the College Station Police Department and the Bryan Police Department. Wiatt said any violations at a University-sponsored activity, in cluding fraternity and sorority parties, or occurring on Universi ty property are reported to UPD who would report the incident to the Department of Student Affairs. Dr. Brent G. Patterson, director of the Department of Student Af fairs, said the amendment will change the way the University handles situations and students. A campus-security brochure is published each September with information concerning emer gency procedures and phone numbers, crime prevention and other information. The brochure includes a list, compiled by UPD, of students who have committed campus violations during the past three years. With the new amend ment, the brochure will include the names of those who have committed any alcohol and drug violations.
