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NEWS IN BRIEF
Moore
A&M student found guilty
of indecency with a child
Nathan George Howard, a 20-year-old junior
electrical engineering student at Texas A&M was
found guilty by a Brazos County jury for indecency
with a child while he babysat at a church nurs
ery. Howard faces 10 years probation and
$10,000 in fines. He is awaiting trial for the
same crime in Burleson County.
Tebeaux to take over as
distance education head
Elizabeth Tebeaux, a professor of English, will
be the new director of distance education for
Texas A&M starting tomorrow.
Pierce Cantrell, associate provost for infor
mation technology, said Tebeaux has been en
thusiastic in promoting distance education ac
tivities at A&M.
Tebeaux started Web-based instruction with
a technical writing course. She served as the
coordinator of technical writing and co-au
thored the textbook Reporting Technical Infor
mation.
Nuclear waste transport
to cross Texas highways
(AP) — Truckloads of nuclear waste may be
come a familiar site along Texas highways.
No public notification or alerts are planned
when one of the shipment makes its 640-
mile trip across Texas, passing through Tyler,
Abilene, Midland and Odessa along Interstate
20 before turning onto U.S. Highway 285 at
Pecos.
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[A&M] — we’re not living
back in 1876.”
In her thesis “Salvation of
a University: the Admission
of Women to Texas A&M,”
Heidi Ann Knippa said
Bracewell filed a motion to
reconsider the measure and
Moore’s resolution was de
feated in a vote of 27 - 1.
In a letter Moore wrote to
the Dallas A&M Club pub
lished in The Battalion in the
days following the defeat of
his legislation, Moore said,
“We speak of traditions ... of
A&M College, but I do not
feel traditions should be so
binding and so unflexible as
to prevent the development
of the individual’s con
cerned.”
.Though the A&M Board
of Directors announced in
1963 that women would be
allowed to attend the Uni
versity, Moore’s battles in
the Senate were not over.
According to Tommy De-
Frank’s series “The History
of Coeducation” published
in The Battalion in 1966,
Sen. Andy Rogers of Chil
dress and Rep. Will Smith,
both A&M graduates, sub
mitted legislation calling for
the return of an all-male
A&M following the Board’s
decision. Smith’s legislation
was never voted on, but
Rogers had to face off with
Moore who was the head
Senate Education Commit
tee.
“The fiery Moore ...
called the [Rogers] legisla
tion ‘a simple bill thought up
by simple people’ attempt
ing to ‘return A&M to the
year 1900,’” DeFrank said.
After the bill was stalled
in Moore’s committee for
several weeks, Rogers had it
transferred to the Commis
sion on Military and Veteran
Affairs, where it was ap
proved.
Moore filibustered the bill
for two days after it was sent
to a subcommittee, DeFrank
wrote, before Rogers was
forced to kill the bill.
Two days later, the House
passed Rogers’ resolution.
“[The resolution stated]
A&M should remain essen
tially an all-male institution,
but ultimately, authority still
lay with the Board of Direc
tors,” DeFrank said.
At Sunday’s funeral ser
vice for Moore former Texas
comptroller John Sharp said,
“There has never been an
advocate for A&M like him. ”
Sharp said Moore’s con
tributions to the University
deserve recognition.
“There ought to be a stat
ue bigger than the Adminis
tration Building for him,”
Sharp said.
Love birds
ANTHONY DISALVO Tmi lUn
Leigh Chastain, a staff assistant for continuing education, kisses Oro, a four-month-old Consure parrel
the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine Saturday. Oro was part of the Exotic Pets Conference
Birds and Rabbits this weekend at the veterinary school. The conference focused on the diagne
sis and treatment of out-of-the-ordinary animals.
Bowen to mark 5th year as preside!
BY SUZANNE BRABECK
The Battalion
Texas A&M President, Dr. Ray
M. Bowen said he is going to cele
brate his 5th an
niversary as pres
ident today by
trying to stay out
of trouble and try
ing not to receive
a parking ticket.
Bowen, Class
of ’58, who earned
his bachelors de
gree in mechani
cal engineering, said he has adopt
ed the philosophy that spending
time in Aggieland are the best years
BOWEN
of one’s life.
“I have had a great time these
past five years,” Bowen said.
“There is something magical about
living on campus, and I love being
part of the Aggie family,” he said.
Part of the draw of living and
working at A&M, Bowen said, is
the efforts of the former students.
He said it is unique for former stu
dents to show support and affec
tion for their alma mater.
“A&M benefits a great deal due
to the continued contributions of
alumni emotionally and econom
ically,” he said. “I know a lot
about A&M since I graduated
from here, but I had been gone a
long time.”
Bowen said A&M is a gre®
versity with great facultyar®
dents and he had highexpcctH
when he came here. j
Bowen said these goalskr
spired him to implement a w
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from 3:30 pan. to 5:30 p
at Reed Arena.
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