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5 minutesand®USTIN (AP) — Bobby R. In-
, that each si r,a ' ' f° rrner director of naval
n iwlligence and deputy direc-
j or of the Central Intelligence
Bncy, has taken a permanent
jotition at the LB] School of
^)radveplattertLI)^ Affairs, the University of
tomato slices. 'exas-Austin said Tuesday,
ervings ■nman will assume the Lyn-
KTi B. Johnson Centennial Chair
j|)National Policy in August. He
/vil teach a core course on pub-
Biolicy and conduct research.
■Inman, a 1950 graduate of
H spent 31 years in the Navy
Id was the first naval intelli-
Ince officer to achieve a four-
Ir rank. He served as director
of naval intelligence from
|74 to 1982.
■ In 1983, Inman moved to
Istin to become chief execu-
leand chairman of Microelec-
Inics and Computer Technol
ogy Corp. From 1987 to 1990,
hp was chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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I DALLAS (AP) — Police said
Tuesday they will file a criminal
charge against the parents of a
toddler who died last month
after being left in a hot vehicle.
I Michel Borg Jr., who was 23
months old, was left in his fam-
i ily'ssport utility vehicle June 3
after an afternoon swim party.
1 1 The child had Down syndrome
anda heart condition.
1 The Dallas County medical
examiner has ruled the death
an accident.
Police said they will seek an
njury to a child (reckless)
I [barge against the parents.
Conviction can result in two to
J 20 years in prison and a fine of
up to $10,000.
i Teenager charged
for June school fire
08/31/01.
I GRAND PRAIRIE (AP) — An
-— 18-year-old North Texas man
^ I B 35 t >een arrested and charged
. Pith arson for setting fire to a
| Brand Prairie middle school
■ l?st month, police said.
i Accompanied by his moth-
■ er, David Franklin Smith turned
hirnself in to police on Sunday.
I Smith was being held on
ik for 1/2OFF! the Grand Prairie jail in lieu
$'5,000 bail on the arson
I wiarge. He also was being held
’ Jin a $2,500 bond for an unre
lated assault charge.
I The June 27 fire to Lee Mid-
•1 die School caused about $6
million in damage. There were
no injuries.
| Smith faces from 5 to 99
years or life in prison, as well as
a maximum $10,000 fine on
tge charges.
jif Grand Prairie is about 15
miles west of Dallas.
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Search committee selected
to find Bowen's successor
Stuart Hutson
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Cliancellor Howard D.
Graves announced Tuesday the
members of the advisory com
mittee that will conduct a na
tional search for die most qual
ified candidates for die next
president of Texas A&M.
Tlie committee is com
posed of distinguished profes
sors, alumni and one student
wlio will file the number of
potential candidates down to
the few from whom the Board
of Regents will select the next
president.
“We’re looking for an emi
nently qualified individual who
will be effective in promoting
Texas A&M’s interests, leading
the academic community,
working with the state legisla
ture, interacting with the na
tional research community,
drawing outstanding students
representative of the state’s
population and maintaining
the Texas A&M University tra
ditions,” Graves said.
Graves said he hopes a new
president will be prepared to
take office by next June — a
deadline that he said means
the committee will have to
work fast.
The members have not yet
received directions or a time
line of committee meetings,
but Dr. Jane Conoley, a mem
ber of the committee and dean
of the College of Education,
said that, judging from past ex
periences with similar advisory
committees, the group proba
bly will need to have a list of vi
able candidates by early spring.
“We will really have to hit
the ground running and start
to contact potentials before
winter break,” she said. “You
have to provide the serious
candidates as much time as
possible to respond because
they are the ones that will take
their time and do their home
work before they finally de
cide whether or not they
would consider the job.”
Conoley, who is also work
ing with the committee in
search of candidates for a new
vice president of research, said
sj^e has no doubts that the
committee’s job will be a diffi
cult one. She said candidates
with the Qualifications to run
See Search on Page 2.
Presidential Search Advisory Committee
• Dr. John Junkins- professor of engineering, chair of the committee
• Dr. Perry Adkisson- chancellor emeritus of The Texas A&M University System
• Dr. Richard Carlson- professor of geology and geophysics at Texas A&M and
speaker of the Faculty Senate
• Dr. Jane Conoley- dean of the College of Education at Texas A&M
• Dr. F. Albert Cotton- professor of chemistry at Texas A&M, member of the Executive
Committee of Distinguished Professors at Texas A&M
• Jerry Cox- president and chairman of Cox & Perkins Exploration Inc., member of
the Texas A&M University Mays College Development Council
• Dr. Jerry Gaston- deputy chancellor of the Texas A&M System
• Bobbie Gross- president of the Texas A&M University Association of Professional
Support Staff
• Schuyler Houser- A&M student body president and an industrial engineering major
• Dr. Kevin Jackson- director of student activities at Texas A&M
• Dr. Howard B. Kaplan- distinguished professor of sociology at Texas A&M
• Dr. Jack Little- retired president and CEO of Shell Oil Company and distinguished
alumnus of the College of Engineering and Department of Petroleum Engineering at
Texas A&M
• Bookman Peters- member of Texas A&M President's Council
• Carroll Phillips- A&M Foundation Board of Trustees
• Dr. Herbert Richardson- director of the Texas Transportation Institute
• Dr. Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio- professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M
• Dr. Marlon Scully- distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M
• Dr. Mardel M. Shepley- associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M
• Charles Sippial- vice president for administration at Texas A&M
• Dr. Robert Strawser- professor of accounting at Texas A&M
• Dr. Max Summers- professor of entomology at Texas A&M
• Bob Surovik- president of the Texas A&M Association of Former Students
• Dr. Arnold Vedlitz- professor of political science and health policy at Texas A&M
• Dr. James E. Womack- distinguished professor of veterinary pathobiology, medical
biochemistry, medical genetics, toxicology and genetics at Texas A&M
RUBEN DELUNA/7h£ Battalion
Monkey roll
Joe Shine, an A&M Soccer Camp instructor and a while performing a monkey roll drill. Hundreds of
senior speech communications major, and 16-year- soccer players came from across the country this
old Brock Bonheim leap over each other Tuesday week to attend the camp.
House Judiciary Committee
passes human-cloning ban
(AP) — The House Judicia
ry Committee advanced a bill
Tuesday that would prohibit
human cloning, following a
lengthy debate that also delved
into stem cell research.
In passing the bill 18-11, law
makers said they wanted to
keep scientists from applying
the same technique on humans
that was used to clone Dolly the
sheep in 1997. The measure
now goes before the full House.
Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson
praised the committee, saying
its action puts Congress on the
right track toward prohibiting
the cloning of human beings.
“Supporting medical re
search to combat human dis
ease and infirmity is immense
ly important to this adminis
tration,” he said. “However,
science does not and cannot
proceed in a moral vacuum.
The ethical issues posed by
human cloning and the impli
cations for the child are partic
ularly troubling.”
But as the cloning bill has
moved through the House, a
debate has arisen over stem
cell research.
President Bush will soon de
cide whether to permit federal
funds for medical research on
stem cells pulled from human
embryos. Just Monday, Pope
John Paul II urged Bush to re
ject the idea.
As the president has grappled
with his decision, so have law
makers, including many staunch
anti-abortion Republicans. In
recent weeks, some — like Sen.
Science does not
and cannot
proceed in a moral
vacuum.
— Tommy Thompson
Health and Human
Services Secretary
Orrin Hatch of Utah — have
announced their support for
stem cell research.
Tuesday in the House,
many Democrats voiced con
cern that an outright ban on
human cloning would also
prohibit stem cell and other
types of research.
“This may be known as the
point in the meeting this
morning when we try to play
doctor and that’s bad for Amer
ican patients,” said Rep. John
Conyers of Michigan, the lead
ing Democrat on the commit
tee. “This would stop ongoing
studies designed to help people
(that are) suffering.”
Republican members said ac
tion is needed before science
advances to the point where hu
mans are cloned. They said the
bill only affects human cloning
See Cloning on Page 2.
Jimmy
Carter
critical
of Bush
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — In a
rare instance of one former pres
ident criticizing a current one,
Jimmy Carter
is taking issue
with just about
everything
George W.
Bush has done
in office.
Carter crit
icizes Bush CARTER
for not pres
suring Israel to withdraw from
the Gaza Strip, for threatening
to abandon the anti-ballistic
missile treaty and for not sup
porting human rights more
strongly.
He says Bush has ignored
moderates in both parties and
calls Bush’s proposed missile de
fense shield a “technologically
ridiculous” idea that will “re-es-
calate the nuclear arms race.”
“I have been disappointed in
almost everything he has
done,” Carter told the Colum
bus Ledger-Enquirer in an inter
view last week from his home
in Plains.
Carter also was critical of
President Clinton during the
fellow Democrat’s administra
tion, calling the Monica Lewin
sky scandal an embarrassment
and disparaging Clinton’s poli
cy in North Korea and Haiti.
Carter is “a guy with strong
views, and I think that’s always
been the case,” said presidential
scholar Charles Jones of the
University of Wisconsin. “What
surprises me is a kind of a sweep
ing critical analysis, at what has
to be said is an early stage.”
Carter noted that he had vol
unteered to be one of the few
Democrats at Bush’s inaugura
tion because he was optimistic
about the administration.
“I hoped that coming out of
an uncertain election he would
reach out to people of diverse
views, not just Democrats and
Republicans but others who
had different points of view,”
Carter said.