Accrediting Group To Analyze, Critique Self-Study Program
Thirty-eight educators repre
senting the regional accrediting
|agency, the Southern Association
if Colleges and Schools, will be
onthe A&M campus March 18-21
to evaluate the university as part
of its reaccreditation project.
In preparation for the visit,
. ITu lUriAtt has just completed a two-
0 ei! ®year self-study, which is conduct
ed as an integral part of the re
accreditation process.
Every 10 years each SACS
member school is required to ap-
ily for reaccreditation and con
duct a self-study. A&M last un
derwent the process in 1963.
Associate Liberal Arts Dean
Charles E. McCandless, who co-
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the 1963 self-study were of little
assistance because of the tremen
dous changes at A&M during the
past decade.
“We feel our present report is
more intensive because at the
time of inception, A&M had a
new president,” said McCandless.
“He pointed out the study would
be of personal benefit for him
and could also be used to let fac
ulty and students help better the
purpose of the university.”
A five member Steering Com
mittee set the guidelines for the
self-study program by creating
11 university-wide committees.
These committees cover areas of
purpose, organization and admin
istration; faculty, student per
sonnel, research, educational pro
gram, financial resources, physi
cal facilities, library, graduate
program; and special activities
(those activities without college
credit).
Under these areas came reports
from independent colleges, in
cluding the Moody College in Gal
veston, various departments and
areas of student life.
Dr. Robert W. Barzak, associate
professor of English, served as
general editor for the array of
publications generated by the
self-study.
“In the basic 11 university
committees over 200 faculty and
students were involved,” said
Barzak. “Also, most of the un
derlying committees followed the
basic 11 areas as guidelines to
their reports.”
The 11 basic committees com
pose the first phase of the study
where the view was toward the
university as a whole. The other
committees and areas of study
created the second phase which
entailed a detailed examination
of each of these components.
The Steering Committee asked
the deans of the 10 college areas
to appoint a coordinator and edi
tor to manage the internal studies
and to generate a series of re
ports from each unit as well as
an overall component report.
“Overview,” the publication
summing up the entire univer
sity, shows a distillation of what
has beeh achieved, according to
McCandless. The book emphasizes
that the basic guiding behind the
self-study program was not only
to provide the information need
ed by the visiting team studying
the University but also to create
a “set of self-contained, separate
ly bound documents that could
be used locally for planning and
improvement beyond the immedi
ate need to meet SACS require
ments.”
“The visiting team hopefully
will recommend that our accred
itation be endorsed,” said Barzak.
“The team will not only evaluate
us, but also act much like con
sultants. They’re here to help
us as much as to check us out.
“Some team members will cer
tainly want to talk to students
about both the educational and
student life aspects of A&M life.”
Barzak also said the visiting
team would have a free hand
around the university, going and
doing exactly as they pleased.
Dr. Herman E. Spivey from the
University of Florida will be the
chairman of the SACS visiting
team.
Members of the Steering Com
mittee who helped determine the
direction of the program were
Dr. C. H. Samson, Dr. K. C. Brun-
didge, Prof. J. B. Beckham, Dr.
J. C. Martin and Dr. A. M. Soren
sen.
A display of the self-study ma
terial is in the library and two
copies of “Overview” are in the
Reserve Room.
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Vol. 67 No. 228
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 8, 1973
845-2226
New Sbisa Policy Hurting
Waiters May Strike
[ “GET GROADY, ARMY!” might look like the thoughts
of this ancient-looking Aggie yell leader, but it’s really
Christopher Columbus as depicted on the wall of the Capitol
in Washington, D. C. (Photo by Mike Rice)
A threat of no waiters work
ing in Sbisa Dining Hall Friday
was looming over Food Services
Director Col. Fred Dollar’s head
this morning.
“We’re not getting a fair shake
as far as policy-making goes,”
complained Sbisa headwater Tom
Moore to The Battalion Wednes
day night. “As far as the type
of work we’re doing, everything’s
fine. But it’s getting to where
a waiter can’t get a drink of
water without quitting his job
to do it.”
Controversy involving the wait
ers seems to be stemming from
a policy revision handed down by
Dollar on Tuesday which said that
the waiters would have to work
according to a set schedule, one
which would allow almost no flex
ibility in allowing for tests and
studies.
Dollar told The Battalion that
at this time he can’t see any prob
lems involved with his policy and
that it is a management problem.
He said he is just trying to get
his department’s operation more
businesslike.
“I’ve never worked at a place
where waiters could just come
and go as they please,” said Dol
lar. “Perhaps our procedures have
gotten a little loose over the
|k|j Athletic Dept. Cut Proposed
Senate Considers Fee Division
B) VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
The question of how much
money to allocate to the A&M
Athletic Department from the
1973-74 Student Services Fee
budget will highlight the Student
Senate meeting at 7:30 tonight
in Room 102 of the Zachry Engi-
| neering Center.
"The committee will recom-
| mend an allocation of $135,000
from the Student Services fees
with a partial user fee for the
! athletic department,” said Vir
ginia Ehrlich, Senate treasurer.
"This is a reduction of $107,000
from its original request for
$242,000.”
In the 1971-72 academic year
only $89,000 was allocated to the
Athletic Department. This figure
increased 91 per cent to $170,000
for 1972-73.
The proposed combination Stu
dent Services fees and user fee
would be similar to the Shuttle
Bus finance system. One dollar
would be collected from each per
son for each of the five home
football games he attended. Home
games for other sports would re
quire an activity card.
"The money collected during
football season will be used for
all of the sports,” said Ehrlich.
“In talking to Wally Groff, Ath
letic Department business man
ager, he seemed to be in favor
of the combination financial
plan.”
Normally $11.28 is allocated
from each student’s $60 Student
Service fee payment per year for
athletics. With a combination pay
plan, only $8.40 out of each $60
would go to sports. Based on
16,000 students paying a $5 user
fee, the total comes to $13.48
which is a $2.12 increase per year
per student, according to Ehrlich.
There are two other options
concerning the allocation of
money to the Athletic Depart
ment. The $242,000 could be paid
for completely with either Stu
dent Services fees or a user fee.
“We are waiting for the Me
morial Student Center Student
Programs and the MSC Facilities-
Local budgets before we can pre
sent a complete budget proposal
to the Senate,” said Ehrlich.
The committee will work
through the holidays in order to
make up two separate budget
plans to present to the Senate in
its March 22 meeting. One pro
posal will include the hospital
fee while the other proposal will
not.
“There is a possibility that the
Student Services fees without the
hospital fee could range any
where from $15 to $18,” contin
ued Ehrlich. “Students should
contact their senators and let
them know how they feel on the
matter.”
Senators will continue to dis
cuss the Student Services fees at
the March 22 meeting. Accord
ing to Student Government Pres
ident Layne Kruse, a special Sen
ate meeting may be called March
27 to vote on the proposal.
In other action, Student Sena
tors will vote on the establish
ment of a publication to inform
the general campus of current
student affairs.
The proposal, presented to the
Senate at the March 1 meeting
by Debi Blackmon (off-campus-
under-grad.), asks for the alloca
tion of $7,205 from the 1972-73
Student Services reserve fund.
The publication would be based
on a magazine format divided in
to a literary, a student affair
and a student advising section. It
3 Lobby In Austin For Rights
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By LARRY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
A&M students Mike Ehrlich,
Steve Eberhard, and Curt Marsh
got their first experience as lob
byists Tuesday in Austin.
The three lobbied for a bill
submitted by Sen. Bob Gam-
mage, D-Houston, for full legal
rights of eighteen-year-olds.
Sen. Bill Moore, D-Bryan, is
leading a filibuster against the
bill. Moore, along with Tom
Creighton, D-Mineral Wells, and
Don Adams, D-Jasper, have a
total of 32 amendments against
the bill.
All three senators protested
the bill when it was introduced
Thursday.
The three A&M students went
to speak to senators who were
undecided on the bill. They also
wanted to speak to Moore, since
he represents this area.
Moore is filibustering against
the bill because he could not
“live with himself” if he didn’t,
said Ehrlich.
Moore said that he couldn’t
picture himself at 18, or his son
now, as responsible enough to
have full legal rights.
“The contract clause is the big
issue,” said Ehrlich. “That’s
what most of the senators are
worried about.”
Another factor in the senators’
decisions is a recent poll of the
University of Texas at Austin
campus which showed that most
of the students did not support
the bill.
Gammage was one of the sen
ators approached by Ehrlich.
Gammage requested that repre
sentatives from A&M come to
Austin and present their views.
“We told the senators that an
18-year-old at college has al
ready accepted a lot of responsi
bility,” Ehrlich said.
“It’s a two-way deal,” Ehrlich
continued, “a person won’t be re
sponsible if he doesn’t have to.”
The Aggie lobbyists also talked
to Sen. O. H. Harris, who was
undecided on the bill.
Other senators contacted were
Sen. John A. Traeger, who is
against the bill, Sen. Payton Mc-
Knight, and Sen. Mike McKen-
nan. Sen. Jack Ogg is for the
bill, as is Sen. A. P. Schwartz,
Class of ’45 at A&M.
The Aggies also talked to
former student Bruce Clay, now
a staff assistant in Lieutenant
Governor Bill Hobby’s o f fi c e.
Clay said he might be able to
break up the filibuster by talk
ing to Moore.
“Moore might have been shak
en up when three Aggies came
into his office to talk about his
being against the bill,’ said Ehrl
ich.
“We would probably have been
more effective if the vote had
been taken Tuesday,” Ehrlich
added.
The Senate originally voted to
postpone the vote until Tuesday
after Creighton had talked for 30
minutes.
Gammage then proposed that
the vote be postponed until next
Monday, after Creighton tried
similar tactics Tuesday.
The A&M students plan to re
turn to Austin Monday to talk to
more senators before the vote is
taken.
would be published five times
yearly with approximately 25
pages.
The constitutional revisions
that were tabled 32 to 24 with
two abstentions at the March 1
meeting will be brought before
the Senate again for vote. An
other part of the constitution
will be discussed.
The revisions include wording
and clarification problems cover
ing the method of approving ap
pointments to election of all of
fices by majority vote to make
the recorder and corresponding
secretary appointed positions.
Tessies End
Student Y’s
Manners Panel
Four Texas Women’s Univer
sity coeds, including Becky Mc-
Creery, last year’s Aggie Sweet
heart, closed out the fourth and
final student “Y” Viewpoint
Panel Wednesday night.
The four Tessies discussed “The
Steps to Marriage” in their pres
entation and answered questions
from the audience, which includ
ed 48 Corp members with only a
handful of civilians.
The coeds divided the subject
into being “dropped” and prom
ise rings; being pinned; engage
ment; and the wedding.
“If you don’t have the money
for an engagement ring, then I
think a pin is fine,’ said Mc-
Creery. “A pin can mean a lot
to some girls.”
Dismissing promise rings as
“high school stuff,” Jo Ann Da
vis explained that being “drop
ped” was receiving a necklace or
a drop, with the school insignia.
“It’s not like being dumped or
anything.”
“If I got a ring,” said Mc-
Creery, “I wouldn’t care if I
could see the diamond. If I love
somebody and I want to spend
the rest of my life with him,
then nobody is going to stop me.
I’n just the kind of person that
if I want to do something, then
I’m going to do it.”
McCreery gave her opinion on
the Aggie Sweetheart, “It meant
so much to the girls at TWU,
but I can understand the feelings
of the girls down here. I’m glad
that it is not divided between
TWU and the Maggies anymore.”
years. I don’t want to be un
reasonable in scheduling waiters
for working hours.”
Moore said it “amazes him that
Col. Dollar can be the nicest per
son in the world to outsiders and
then make a 180-degree turn
about when dealing with his
staff.” Moore added that Dollar
tends to just “shake-off” the wait
ers at Sbisa.
He noted that the strike is only
intended as a last resort, if the
waiters can’t get satisfaction any
other way. Moore said the major
problem for the waiters is they
have no bargaining power with
Dollar and the only way to get
attention is through something
like a strike.
The headwaiter went on to ex
plain that most of the men work
ing with him were in need of
money and are very versatile in
their jobs as the system is set
up now.
“Some students need to work
more than what they are present
ly doing and some less,” said
Moore. He added that it was a
year ago February that any stu
dent waiter got a raise in pay.
Moore pointed the finger to one
of Dollar’s assistants, who he
said was “stirring things up. He
doesn’t like the system and is
taking the friendly atmosphere
away from the dining hall.”
The waiters are scheduled to
meet with Food Services Depart
ment’s representatives tonight.
Moore said a strike Friday would
be “purely a last resort if no
bargaining power is gained
through the meeting.”
If no waiters showed up Fri
day, he said that a maximum of
four of five lines could be opened
without them but that would leave
no one to wash the dishes.
“We’ll go through the proper
channels first,” said Moore.
“Only Col. Dollar can change the
policy and up until now he hasn’t
talked to anyone about the issue.”
Senator
Elections
Delayed
Dunn, Henderson-Fowler and
Keathley-Hughes senator elec
tions have been postponed until
the fall semester. The decision
was made Sunday night by the
Election Board Committee and
unanimously approved by the
Student Senate Executive Com
mittee, according to Steve Vin
cent, election board chairman.
“If the election was held this
semester at least 50 per cent of
the constituents would not have
any voice in the election of their
senator,” said Vincent.
For example, the first two
floors of Dunn will be all male
next year, Keathley-Hughes will
be all girls and Fowler of the
Henderson-Fowler area will be
all girls.
“The candidates for these posi
tions were notified Sunday and
have been given the opportunity
(See Senator, pagegf)
BAC Group Plans Activities
For Black Experience Week
Black Experience III will pre
sent a sampling of Black Ameri
can culture and heritage to A&M
students March 19-25.
Planned performances by
Mance Lipscomb, “Soul Food
Day,” a dance featuring the Choc-
late Glass Band of Houston and
a worship service in All Faiths
Chapel.
Mance Lipscomb, a blues and
folk musician, will return on
Tuesday due to popular demand
in a performance at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room along with local talent
from A&M and A&M Consolidat
ed H.S. Last year nearly 100
“jived and finger-popped” to his
tunes and lyrics while thor
oughly enjoying the humor of
this 78 year old native of Central
Texas, said Morvin Bridges. Dis
covered nationally about 13 years
ago, “Daddy Mance” has toured
the U.S. and played concerts at
numerous colleges. Admission is
50 cents per person.
Speaker Says He Knows More
About Drugs Than Students Do
There is no drug problem at
A&M, says Cleburn Maier, U. S.
regional commissioner of cus
toms.
“On many campuses I am con
fronted with an audience that
knows more about drugs than I
do,” he told a small crowd in the
Zachry Engineering Center lec
ture room Wednesday. “I’m glad
to see that A&M is not like that.”
He faced some criticism from
the audience when he said he
opposed the legalization of mari
juana.
“I am opposed for two main
reasons,” he said. “First, there
is nothing filthier than grass
grown in Mexico. It is laden with
lice and vermin. Secondly, there
are many people mentally incap
able of handling marijuana and
I’ve got scars all over my body
to prove it.”
He defended foreign countries
against charges from the crowd
that those countries where drugs
are grown and manufactured are
unconcerned with drug control.
“They’re concerned but just not
as concerned as we are because
they don’t see the drug problem
first-hand like we do. The pop
pies are grown in Turkey and
heroin is manufactured in France,
but they don’t see the drugs be
cause they are all shipped over
here.”
He said his primary concern
is the Texas-Mexico border. “Last
week we recovered 44,000 pounds
of illegal drugs from the amnesty
boxes alone. (Amnesty boxes are
placed just outside the U. S.
border for disposing of contra
band.)
Last year in Maier’s region,
$400 million in drugs were con
fiscated and 8,900 offenders were
jailed.
ROTC Cadets
Receive Honor
Ten Distinguished Air Force
ROTC Cadets have been named
for the spring semester, Col. Rob
ert F. Crossland announced.
Seniors selected for the honor
are Gerald Anderson and William
R. Dixon of Houston; Russell A.
Braden, Columbus; Andrew R.
Brosh Jr., Shiner; Thomas E.
Dayton, College Station.
Also, Barry D. Fulbright, Dal
las; Alan H. Gurevich, Valley
Stream, N. Y.; Ronald L. Krna-
vek, Corpus Christi; Larry D.
Luethke, Pasadena, and Lewis W.
Nunley, San Antonio.
Col. Crossland, professor of aer
ospace studies, said selection was
based on demonstrated achieve
ment in academic, air science
studies, in the Corps of Cadets
and in campus student affairs.
Wednesday, educator Dr. J.
Don Boney, presently chief in
structional officer for Houston
Public School District, will speak
in the MSC Assembly Room at 8
p.m. The former College of Edu
cation associate dean at the Uni
versity of Houston recently made
front page news in Houston, say
ing that “if you don’t cool down
the schools and get some order,
nothing is going to happen edu
cationally” and thus declaring
security top school priority in
stead of reading. Dr. Boney, also
a certified psychologist, will lec
ture on education and its rele
vancy to the black experience in
the admission-free preservation.
A&M’s dining halls will ob
serve “Soul Food Day” Wednes
day, also. The evening meal will
include chitterlings, barbecue
spare ribs, hamhocks, collard
greens and sweet potato pie
among other menu items.
The BAC is negotiating with
the Texas Southern University
Jazz Band for a Thursday night
performance.
Friday at 8 p.m. the Chocolate
Glass Band will provide rhythm-
blues and rock music at the
Knights of Columbus Ballroom
on Leonard Road in Bryan. The
10-piece Houston-based group is
considered to be among the best
in Texas. Tickets are $2.50 per
person and will be available at
MSC Student Programs Office or
from BAC members during the
week.
A Worship Service in All
Faiths Chapel will wind up Black
Experience III Sunday.
A host of exhibits on loan
from the Institute of Texan Cul
tures in San Antonio will be
available for viewing during the
entire week in the MSC lobby.
Black heroes of the Revolution,
the Buffalo Soldiers, the 9th and
10th Regiments, Hugh McElroy,
great-grandfather of former Ag
gie football player of same name,
are a part of the exhibit.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
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