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Wednesday, September 6,2000
THE BATTALION
Oxford University meets Texas A&M
Exchange students from England join biology program in study abroad program
Wednesday, Sept
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By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
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Three of England’s brightest
scholars, Michael Richardson, Lee
Bofkin and Carla Hayde, are on ex
tended trip in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area to study biology with an
emphasis on genetics for a new ex
change program between Texas
A&M and Oxford University.
Oxford University is the oldest
English-speaking university in the
world, founded more than eight cen
turies ago.
“These are the first three students
in this program and they are excep
tional individuals — really first-rate
scholars,” said entomology professor
Dr. Spencer Johnston in an Aug. 23
press release. “We decided early on
to select genetics as the field of study
for this first group because it reaches
across all areas of science. All three
have done excellent work here, and
they have been a credit to this pro
gram. The faculty has said it wished
they could all come back as graduate
students.”
The University looks to broaden
the two-week program to other fields
in the future.
The students had never traveled to
Texas before their trip to A&M and
were surprised by the spaciousness
of the area and the extreme heat.
Botkin works with plant enzymes
and studies how chemical weapons
and pesticides affect plants’ ability to
reproduce. By studying the mutant
plants, he determines whether spe
cific methods increase the growing
None of us had
ever heard the
term 'Texas Aggie'
until we got here.
... Now I know that
you can always tell
an Aggie by his
school spirit ”
— Oxford exchange students
said in an Aug. 23 press release
time of the plants.
Richardson has
been working
with plants and cloning at A&M.
studied herbs in the mustard
and their methods of reproduction
Hayde studies plants and environ
mental biology, and she has a special
interest in insect ecology. She
plans to travel to Portugal to stud\
plant taxonomy and ecology to fur
ther her studies.
“None of us had ever heard the
term ‘Texas Aggie’ until we
here,” the students said in the An
23 press release. “We had absolute
ly no idea what an Aggie was
what it meant. Now 1 know thatyou
can always tell an Aggie by hi:
school spirit.”
Texas A&M is scheduled to sen:
a student to Oxford in Decemberanc
send another two students to England
next spring.
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Until the new equipment can be installed,
Hagge suggested that everyone on campus be
conscious of water usage.
“When you have 50,000 people on campus,
every bit of conservation helps,” he said.
The cities of College Station and Bryan have
their own wells close to, but separate from, Texas
A&M’s wells. With all three entities pumping at
full strength, the Physical Plant is only able to
guarantee about 7 million gallons of water pro
duction per day.
The pinch on supply has lead to water ra
tioning around the University. The brunt of the
cutback is being borne by landscaping across the
University’s 5,200 acres.
“We cut way, way back on irrigating large
fields, but there are some irrigation requiremeui
that are unavoidable. The greens on the goli
course are expensive to maintain and the turfor
Kyle Field is also very expensive. ... these are
significant parts of the University that wecar
not afford to neglect," Hagge said.
As a result of the cutback on irrigation, land
scaping crews are making the most of theiral
lotment. Hand watering is replacing timed spa r
kler systems on parts of campus. In someplace-
crews are waiting for more moderate temperj-
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199 in the state that is considered
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News in Brief
SBP Lane to make
speech on his
2000-’01 agend
Apt. #160
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Student Body President Fot
rest Lane, a senior political sc-
ence major, will offer his Staff
of the University address thif
evening at 6:30 in the Forsytt
Center, located in the Memons
Student Center.
Lane said his speech will ad
dress a broad range of topics
‘‘[The address] is my<
tunity to set what I think wool
be a good agenda for studer
government for this year
Lane said.
Lane said one of the fore
most goals for student goverr
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advocate student views.
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