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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-
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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.
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Vision
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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
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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.
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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®
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certain companies,” a®
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said. “Our agency hasaveiy®
late, well-thought out enforo
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