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Regents
Continued from page 1A
KPRC Investigative Producer Brian Sassar, Wynn
said the aircraft was necessary for her to conduct
her duties as a regent.
“My obligations as a mother, a physician and a
regent require the efficient use of my time and more
scheduling flexibility than provided by the limited
airline service to College Station,” Wynn said.
Wynn said she is confident that her travel
arrangements meet state and University regulations.
“It is impossible to have a fair comparison of the
regents’ travel arrangements without factoring in
their occupations, the availability of private means
of transportation and the amount and type of airline
service available in each community,” Wynn said.
David Margulies, public relations representa
tive for Wynn, said that KPRC’s report is inaccu
rate and not a thorough analysis of how system
aircraft is used or budgeted.
Corps
Continued from page 1A
Huffman and Tobin will focus on recruiting
and retaining cadets. The recruitment process
starts with inviting high school students to spend
the night with the Corps on a given weekend.
Huffman said the Corps wants to recruit
quality cadets, which Tobin said means cadets
who have a desire to be at A&M.
“We want to get guys and girls who will come
in here and make a difference, make an impact
on the Corps, make an impact on the University,”
Huffman said. “The freshmen are the life-blood,
so we’d like to keep them around.”
Tobin said being the future deputy Corps
commander reminded him of a quote from the
book of Proverbs in the Bible.
“Humility before honor,” Tobin said.
“We’re servants of the Corps now.”
Huffman said he wants to get commis
sioned in the U.S. Army or attend law school
after graduation.
Tobin said he is still trying to decide
whether to take a contract after graduation or
enter the workforce.
Justin Woods, public relations officer for
the Corps of Cadets, said he is looking forward
to the Huffman-Tobin administration.
“They’re both outstanding characters and
humble leaders,” he said.
“KPRC’s analysis is so fatally flawed that if they
put that in front of a business they would be fired.”
Margulies said. “(Wynn) is a physician, she’s highly
qualified and she’s not wealthy, and so if you want
people to be on your board from a wide variety of the
community, this is one of the issues you have to face.”
According to the KPRC report, University of
Texas regents spent $25,000 on air travel and
University of Houston regents spent $13,000 dur
ing the same time period.
Fred Brown, District 14 Texas state representa
tive, said the money does come from state taxpay
ers, but that A&M regents need the plane to get to
rural A&M campuses that are difficult to reach
with a commercial carrier.
“UT and UH are in huge metroplex areas, and all
of A&M campuses are in rural areas,” Brown said.
Brown said he did not find the amount spent on
regent travel to be surprising or unusual.
“As a legislator I would like to know the
details, and I’m sure there’s an explanation for it,”
Brown said.
Continued from page 1A
L. Murphy Smith, professor of accounting and
director of A&M’s internal auditing program, said
internal auditing of other companies requires exter
nal oversight.
“Large publicly traded companies have internal
auditing departments,” he said. “In addition, publicly
traded companies must still have an external audit by
an independent CPA firm.”
Internal auditing, Smith said, assists management
of an organization in promoting operational efficien
cy, adherence to organizational policies and govern
ment regulations, safeguarding assets and ensuring
the accuracy and reliability of accounting records.
Tom Taylor, assistant vice president for finance at
A&M, said the state wants to ensure that the institu
tion is operating efficiently.
“The state wants to make sure the students are
getting the value for their educational dollar,” he
said. “As far as we’re concerned, we are operating as
we should.”
Taylor said the University is not making any spe
cial preparations for the audit.
“You can do a lot of unnecessary work leading up
to such a thing,” he said.
Taylor said that the University is not worried
about the audit.
“We will wait and see what it is they want to
review,” Taylor said. “We look forward to cooperat
ing with the state.”
Audit
Clarification
In a Feb. 17 page 1 article,
ConocoPhillips cited an
interest in enhancing its
relationship with Texas A&M
and supporting students by
assisting them with educa
tional costs and providing
internship opportunities.
The initial award is $2,500
per semester or $5,000 per
year. The scholarship is
available to geoscience,
business and engineering
majors.
Design
Continued from page 1A
and exploratory research and
design project toward develop
ing a safer, sustainable and user-
friendly school bus for (lie
nation’s children.
“It is estimated that in 19%,
23.6 million children were
transported to and from school
each day.” Mann said. “In 2001,
there were almost 608,00(1
school-related (church, industri
al and other) buses in service in
the U.S.A.”
Mann said he had never
been on a school bus until
recently.
“When I saw a bus accident
in the fall, children were flying
all over the place,” he said. “1
decided to put a project together
to build a safer, sustainable,
user-friendly school bus.”
He also said that if seat bells
are built in, people might say
that children may use them as
weapons.
Junior environmental design
major Heidi Sanders designed a
bus called The sChOOL Bus. It
took her two weeks to design it
and one week to build a model.
“My bus includes seat belts,
exterior cameras, a centralized
driver, recycled rubber tires, a
natural lighting system, armrest
power outlets, fold-down lap'
desks and a monitor beside the
driver,” she said.
Her bus is divided into study
and social areas. The study area
is for students to finish as much
homework as possible before
they get home. The driver is cen
tered in the front of the bus and
the exit door is at the back of the
bus so students will not walk in
front of the bus.
Vanessa Ortega, a junior
environmental design major,
designed a bus called the Be
F.R.E.E. bus, which stands for
“fun reliant energy efficient,”
“Each student has their own
seat, and there is a monitor
besides the driver on the bus to
make sure the students behave,
she said.
Spectators who looked at the
models said they were
impressed with what they saw,
“These students are very cre
ative and very inventive. The)
design the projects, and ol
engineering students handle tk
numbers and math such as tk
safety per unit dollar,” sal
mechanical engineering profes
sor Bill Schneider.
Mann said he hopes the*
designs will be used in tk
future.
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