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105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
MONDAY
February 15, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 92 • 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
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today’s issue
State 5
Nation 6
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Aggie Baseball gets ready to
take on Southwest Texas State
University.
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BY AMANDA STIRPE
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013ReedMctater College of Medicine, Scott
Texasa&munrwhite Memorial Hospital and
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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.
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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.
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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.