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Page 2 • Monday, June 7, 1999 News The Bad Graduation speakers praise med students BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion Sixty-three students in the Col lege of Medicine took their final steps toward their medical degree as they walked across the stage of Reed Arena last Saturday at the college’s 19th commencement ex ercises. Spencer Travis Sincleair, Class of ’99, said, “There’s nothing like the fear of paying off an $80,000 loan without a degree as motiva tion for making it through medical school.” Among the graduates of the college was Kip Corrington, a for mer A&M football star who played for the Denver Broncos. Corrington delivered the “mo ment of reflection” for the Class of ’99. Corrington, who maintained a 3.5 grade point average throughout medical school, received his fourth degree from A&M at the ceremony. Speakers at the commencement exercise said they believed the class should strive to be technical ly proficient, morally responsible and involved in the community. Michael L. Friedland, dean of the College of Medicine, said stu dents interacted well with each other during their time in medical school. “This is also a wonderful pro gram because the students fre quently helped each other whether it was academically or personally, and the faculty were very involved with their students,” he said. Luci Baines Johnson, com mencement speaker for the cere mony, chair of the board of the LBJ Holding Company, vice president of business suites and a member of the board of directors of LBJ Broad- ANTHONY DISLAVO/Thk Battalion Luci Baines Johnson,commencement speaker, receives a medal of honor at the graduation ceremonies Saturday at Rudder Auditorium. casting said, “You are extremely bright, boundlessly energetic and exhaustively hard-working “Although these special gifts are necessary, they are not sufficient. You need passion for your work, for your patients, for the commu nities in which you serve and pas sion for life pursuits beyond med icine. ” Michael Dean McFadden was presented with The Helen Salyer Anderson Award, the award for the student with the highest grade point ratio during his or her four years of medical school and re ceived a check for $1,500. McFad den also received a medallion and a plaque in recognition of his ac complishments. NUTZ BY R. DELUNA Vision Continued from Page 1 chance of becoming one of the top- five universities in the nation, and I think we can do it before 2020.” Walter V. Wendler, Vision 2020 coordinator, said another impor tant factor in the success of this program will be the faculty. “The one most important issue that will propel us into the top-10 ranked universities will be the in creasing size and quality of the fac ulty,” he said. “They are the core of the insti tution.” Wendler said this type of long- range planning is nothing new to A&M. In the ’60s President James Earl Rudder developed “The Aspi rations Study,” which made the Corps of Cadets non-compulsory and officially accepted women into the University for the first time. “Texas A&M has a history of long-range planning,” Wendler said. “And has always been suc cessful in achieving its objectives and goals. Not every university can say that." Bush leads Quayle, Dole in Ohio poll ) — ifAdb Gov. George Bush’s support for the 2000 presidential primary widened over Elizabeth Dole’s among Republi cans and inde pendents, ac cording to an Ohio Poll re leased Sunday. Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed said they would be most likely to support Bush, and 20 percent chose Dole. Ten percent chose U.S. Rep. John Ka- sich, R-Ohio. BUSH They were followed by Dan Quayle (9 percent); John McCain and Pat Buchanan (5 percent); Steve Forbes and Gary Bauer (3 percent); and Lamar Alexander (] percent). Five percent said they did not know and another 1 percent chose “other.” The numbers did not add up to 100 percent because of rounding. In an Ohio Poll taken in Febru ary, 36 percent picked Bush and 25 percent chose Dole. Fifteen percent picked Quayle and the other can didates were in single digits. The poll, sponsored by the Uni versity of Cincinnati, was conduct ed by the university’s Institute for Policy Research from May 11 through May 23. A total of 343 Republican and independent registered voters from throughout the state were inter viewed by telephone. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 points. Govern considt] oyster h VICTORIA (AP)-AblS ing Gov. George W. Bush’;;, tore would put more eneij finding out why oyster;; times make people sick. The bill authorizes the: biology department of Tea University at Galvestontol ligate and provide infotE about oyster diseases, orje and other concerns thate feet human health.” Prolific Galveston Bay: beds were shut down id I months last year becauseol J terial outbreak thought f made 416 oyster eaters ski* a moderate intestinal illneiK The bill also requiresthM Department of Health torm as quickly as possible bay; K to harvesting. “Consumers will benetim knowing that fresh oyster;* marketplace are safe tel state Sen. Ken Armbrister,.® toria, said. “Industrywillrfl from increased publicawi® and the creation of an ^ council.” • “The industry is tellnffi (Health Department) thrH want you to take samples;;® as possible — twicea weeN stay on top of it,’” Jot:| Colquitt, quality controlr;; for Broadway Shrimp and oi: Inc. of Port Lavaca, said. Report attacks Texas air qualit WASHINGTON (AP) — The air that Texans inhale is not as clean as it could be because regulators are not enforcing federal clean air statutes as vigorously as they should, an environmental research group charges. “Major improvements in air qual ity in Texas could be achieved just by strict enforcement of current laws and regulations,” the Environmen tal Working Group concluded. “To achieve this goal however, both state and federal environmental enforce ment agencies need to vastly im prove their enforcement activities. ” The organization’s assessment, in a recent report entitled “Above the Law: How the Government Lets Ma jor Air Polluters Off the Hook,” was disputed by Texas officials, who say their enforcement is robust. But the report’s authors, who ex amined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) records on Clean Air Act enforcement nationwide for 1997 and 1998, concluded that a “shocking percentage” of large in dustrial polluters “keep operating in open, government-certified violation of the law — month after month, year after year — without paying a penny in fines.” The state’s environmental agency, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNR- CC), levied $5.7 million in Clean Air Act fines during the two-year peri od, an amount Environmental Working Group describes as inade quate in deterring future violations. “In contrast to the image of a crushing regulatory burden, this analysis clearly shows that there is barely any enforcement at all of ex isting clean air health protections and virtually no pressure foul® Inters to comply witheuner: tion control laws,” the stud; 1 An author of the repon: blame largely on theTNRCi “We mainly fault the 9i cause the state has the p® risdiction to enforce thfiat Act,” John Coequyt saife® view. “EPA has also donts# of overseeing the states'* ment of the Clean Air Act’ A TNRCC official dispffi#; findings and said fineswM only one facet of enforce^:: “You can’t simply lookaiowi forcement activity ... by tall® how much money the agenc® certain companies,” a® spokesperson Patrick Crii® said. “Our agency hasaveiy® late, well-thought out enforo policy and penalty policy." 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