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RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM
CALL FOR STUDENT RESEARCH PROPOSALS
Outstanding juniors who will have completed nine hours of honors coursework before the fall semester
and who have at least a cumulative grade point average of 3.4 are invited to apply for participation in the
University Undergraduate Research Fellows Program during their senior year. The Fellows Program
offers a two-semester independent research experience that culminates in a senior honors thesis. It is the
most prestigious research opportunity available to undergraduates at Texas A&M and provides
participants with opportunities usually extended only to students pursuing graduate degrees. Over the last
several years, 40 to 70 students have been selected annually as Fellows based upon faculty review of
research proposals submitted to the University Honors Program. The Fellows Program features a close,
. master-apprentice relationship between student researcher and faculty advisor and involves both students
and advisors in periodic interdisciplinary group meetings, to encourage the development of a scholarly
community.
Faculty acquainted with capable juniors who meet the criteria for participation in the Undergraduate
Fellows Program may wish to encourage them to consider preparing a proposal. An informational meet
ing concerning the 2001-2002 Fellows Program, open to faculty as well as students, has been scheduled
for 4:00 PM on Thursday, 15 February, in 292B MSC. Research proposals will be due on Thursday, 22
March. Students will know whether they have been admitted to the program in early April. For
additional information, contact Dr. Donald R. Dickson, Fellows Coordinator, d-dickson@tamu.edu or
visit the Honors website at http://honors.tamu.edu.
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STATE
Wednesday, February!:
THE BATTALION
Inmates’ escape plans discovere
Guards find outgoing letter with sketch of a.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — It was an escape plan, but
prison officials say it was half-baked, at best.
A plan by two inmates to escape from the Bexar Coun
ty Jail was stopped after officials discovered an outgoing
letter to a girlfriend that contained a diagram of a cell.
Then they found crude knives made of stiff wire tak
en from springs on a mop bucket.
Despite the plan’s haphazard appearance, officials
insist there were sinister undertones, including a plot
to kill a jailer.
Implicated in the plan is Joshua Maxwell, 22, who is
awaiting a capital murder trial in connection with the slay
ing of a Bexar County deputy during a cross-country
crime spree, sheriff’s officials said Monday.
The plot began to unravel Jan. 21, when jailers dur
ing a routine mail inspection opened a letter Maxwell
wrote to his girlfriend and co-defendant, Tessie McFar
land, who has been in a separate area of the jail since
their Oct. 17 capture.
Inside the envelope, authorities found a diagram of
Maxwell’s cell and the floor plan of his maximum-secu
rity unit in the sixth floor of the jail, sheriff’s CapU
Gabehart said.
“We inspect hundreds of pieces of mail a day,
something like a drawing sticks out. We opened itancK
‘Hey, this looks familiar,’ ” Gabehart said in Tuesday’s
lions of the San Antonio Express-News. “It was adit
move because we started paying closer attention tote:
The next day, a fellow inmate in Maxwell’s unit
investigators that Maxwell and another inmate, Joscl
pinoza, planned to assault a jailer, then crawl onto the r
of the jail and rappel down the side with bed sheets
How the two planned make it past perimeter fer
and heavily armed security was not clear.
The inmate also told jailers that Maxwell and Espi:
had made two knives and stashed them for the esc
Jail officials soon found the knives hidden in a coni:
area both men had access to.
“It was half-baked,” Gabehart said. “You can’tgo
through the roof unless you have a jackhammer. T:
would have just been locked in with a dead or won
officer.”
State battles to shut down casini
EL PASO (AP) — Attorney
General John Cornyn says the state
will go to court in July to try to shut
down the Speaking Rock Casino,
owned and operated by the Tigua
Indians.
A group of state lawmakers, how
ever, hope to circumvent the legal ac
tion with bills that would specifical
ly allow the casino to continue
offering gambling.
The state contends that slot ma
chines and card games at the casino on
the tribe’s southeast El Paso reserva
tion are prohibited by Texas law. The
Tiguas argue that the State Lottery Act
allows for those games of chance.
“The question is whether the
Tiguas may legally operate a casino
in Texas,” Jane Dees, a spokes
woman for the attorney general, said
Monday. “We believe the answer is
no.”
She said Cornyn believes it is a
simple case.
Tribe spokesman Marc Schwartz
said the Tiguas are looking forward
to resolving the issue.
“Texas is already a gambling
state,” Schwartz said. “It has a variety
of different laws providing for a vari
ety of different gambling. Our law is
modeled exactly after the Texas act.”
Tigua attorney Tom Diamond said
it still is possible there could be an
out-of-court resolution.
U.S. District Judge Harry Lee
Hudspeth in his order for a July 24
trial date requests a report on “alter
native dispute resolution.”
In the Legislature, Reps. Juan
Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Terry
Keel, R-Austin, have filed a bill that
would allow the Tiguas and two
other Texas tribes —the Kickapoos
at Eagle Pass and the Alabama-
Coushatta in East Texas—tok
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gaming on operations on exu
reservations.
Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-ElPi
has a companion bill in the Senal
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us,” Hinojosa said in Tuesday’s j| McL
tions of the Austin American-Si Bush pi
man. “They are sovereign natw 011 tax
recognized by our country. ^ |S r i|e!
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folks and own needs.” ■ores a
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bling has generated money toim
in businesses, build houses for
members and make charitable
tributions.
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News in Brief
Husband jailed for
murdering priest
DALLAS (AP) — A man infuriat
ed by a priest who said God made
him have an affair with his wife
was sentenced to 20 years in
prison Monday after a jury convict
ed him of murdering the holy man.
Ramesh Kumar Wadhwa, 52, of
Coppell, pleaded no contest to
stabbing a popular Sikh priest,
who claimed God led him to have
the affair with Wadhwa’s wife.
Wadhwa told jurors that he sat
down for lunch with Iqbal Singh in
his office-apartment in Coppell last
January, expecting to hear the
priest confess to having had an af
fair with his wife and apologize.
Instead, Wadhwa said he flew
into a “sudden passion" when
Singh blamed God for his affair
with Sarita Wadhwa and said five
other members of the small Sikh
congregation knew of and sup
ported the relationship.
Sarita Wadhwa had told her hus
band two days earlier that Singh
had been forcing himself on her
during weekly counseling sessions.
Singh was found stabbed to
death in the apartment after a
phone call from Wadhwa’s attorney.
Police found a bent,
knife blade next to the tafyaw)
bloodstained clothes belong
Wadhwa in a bedroom closet. :
second bloody knife was
side a plastic bag in the
Wadhwa faced up to 99yea
in prison for the murder,
who owns a check-cashing te|
ness, was eligible for probation
cause he had no previous fell
convictions.
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dent of Singh’s, who was con:
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teacher of the tabla, the da
used in Sikh — who are Hindus
religious services.
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