Students’ voting on Athletic Council viewed negatively
Senate resolution opposed by Pres. Williams, Council head Samson
■ By VICKIE ASHWILL
■ Student representation on the
TAMU Athletic Council seems to
have a dim future in the admin
istration.
Student Senators approved Bill
35-11 by a majority vote Wednes
day night, asking for the appoint
ment of two voting student mem
bers and two student alternatives
to the Athletic Council.
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams said that the Athletic Coun
cil is not the kind of thing an
annual appointment of students
can help.
“The council deals with the
jobs and salaries of 17 individ
uals,” continued Williams. “It may
be a game to some people, but it
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is not to them.
“The council is totally unlike
any other university committee,”
said Williams. “They must work
under the rules and enforcements
of the Southwest conference.”
Williams said he saw no objec
tion to students being present to
the privileges of the floor but he
was not going to put students in
the position to deal with jobs,
salaries and lives.
Student Government Vice Pres
ident Shariq Yosufzai, sponsor of
the bill, said the basic reasoning
behind the proposal is that stu
dents are already involved in all
other phases of student activity.
Yosufzai said there is already
an advisory student board to the
Athletic Council but felt this was
a “quasi-vote.”
“If a person is capable of ad
vice then he should be given the
power to put teeth in that,” con
tinued Yosufzai. “We don’t want
a liaison but an active voice.”
Dr. Charles Samson, Athletic
Council chairperson, spoke to the
Senate on the topic. Samson said
some of the more important top
ics discussed by the council in
clude faculty salaries and jobs,
ticket prices and athletic facili
ties.
“The council discusses some
delicate areas,” said Samson.
“These include personnel salaries.
I try to guard these very care
fully. I feel this is an area I am
concerned about, especially if
something less than great care
handles it.”
Samson said there was good
communication with the advisory
board and that the council is sin
cere in its efforts to communicate
with the students.
Yosufzai said the objection that
students aren’t responsible
enough to handle delicate matters
was totally unwarranted.
“Several students sat in on the
picking of Dr. Koldus for vice
president for student services,”
said Yosufzai. “Most other uni
versities already have students
on their athletic councils.”
University of Oklahoma, Uni
versity of Michigan, UCLA, Uni
versity of Texas and LSU are a
few of the schools with students
on the council.
“Matters of a business nature
in the Athletic Council can be
discussed in as an effective a
manner with two students pres
ent,” said Yosufzai.
Student Senators noted that
approximately 11 per cent of the
Athletic Council budget comes
from students services fees. Last
year the Athletic Department re
ceived $170,000 from activity fees
and the Senate Student Services
Fee Allocations Committee is rec
ommending that $195,000 be al
located to the department next
fall.
SG President Randy Ross said
there were pros and cons to the
issue, but he felt the pros out
weighed the cons.
“Students are very responsi
ble,” said Ross. “You might say
they are sworn bound not to talk
about items discussed in closed
sessions.”
Council members seemed to
want to leave the decision up to
the Board of Directors and the
president. Four of the five said
they would do their best to work
with whomever was appointed to
the council.
Council member Dr. Lannes
Hope summed it up when he said,
“I’m moderately sympathetic to
the students, but the mechanics
are pretty hairy.”
Today in the Batt
Fake summer jobs p. 2
Academic calendar p. 3
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Che Battalion
Weather
Partly cloudy thru Saturday.
Continued mild. Both days near
80°.
Vol. 67 No. 341
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 1, 1974
Goodby to Prairie View?
By MARK WEAVER
Staff Writer
Words to the Aggie War Hymn may
soon read “Goodby to Prairie View
A&M” if the Constitutional Convention
in Austin decides to remove Prairie View
from the TAMU System.
“A large number of inquiries have
been received by my office requesting
that Prairie View A&M University be
provided with a separate Board of
Regents,” said State Representative Dan
Kubiak, chairman of the Education Com
mittee of the Convention.
The issue of a separate Board of
Regents was discussed during the Consti
tutional Revision Commission hearings
held over the preceding nine months,
Kubiak said. “The Commission did not
recommend any change in the present
board arrangement,” he said.
Bill Presnal, state representative
from Bryan, said there is a small group
that wants to control Prairie View with
out going through the TAMU System.
“A small splinter group within the
Prairie View alumni is pushing for a
separate Board of Regents,” Presnal
said. “They are a group of misguided
individuals.”
An advocate of the University Sys
tem, Presnal said it would be a great
mistake to remove Prairie View from
the system. “I hate to see Prairie View
go downhill,” he said.
Representatives Paul Ragsdale of
Dallas and Senfronia Thompson of Hous
ton issued a statement Tuesday saying
Prairie View A&M had been slighted in
the TAMU System’s allocation of bond
proceeds backed by the Permanent Uni
versity Fund. Since 1959, the main
university has received $35.7 million
while Prairie View has received $6.4 mil
lion, they said.
“This continuing fiscal strangulation
of Prairie View A&M has the same end
product as overt racism,” their statement
said.
The Board of Regents probably gives
priority to one or two schools in the
system while the other schools suffer,
Rep. Ragsdale said.
“Prairie View has been treated like
a stepchild for too long,” he said. “A
separate Board of Regents would be
more concerned about the school itself.”
A BRONZE STATUE from the Sid W. Richardson col
lection is eyeballed by a rapt TAMU student. The statue
is one of several being displayed, along with 71 paintings
by Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell, in the
J. Earl Rudder Center exhibits hall. (Photo by Kathy
Curtis)
Shuttle bus
route No. 2
to stay same
Shuttle bus Route Two, origin
ally scheduled to change Monday
morning, will remain as it is, says
Dean Powell. Residents along the
route asked Powell not to change
the route and a special meeting
of the shuttle bus committee was
called yesterday to reconsider the
plan.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Entertainment set
for weekends
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An assistant to Rep. Thompson said,
“As it stands now, the University of
Texas gets two-thirds of the Permanent
University Fund and Texas A&M gets
one-third. Rep. Thompson wants a sepa
rate Board of Regents for Prairie View
with the TAMU System receiving one-
sixth of the fund and Prairie View
receiving one-sixth.”
Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, President of
Prairie View A&M University, said, “The
Permanent University Fund allocation
to Prairie View A&M University for
1958-1977 was $2,660,000 more than if
the university were under the ad-valorem
tax program.”
Thomas said the Board of Directors
has a keen and vital interest in making
(See GOODBYE, page 2)
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EEOC rules chance of bias
in Stadelman tenure case
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commis
sion has decided there is a case of possible sex
discrimination at TAMU
Assistant Professor of History Dr. Bonnie S.
Stadelman filed a suit with the EEOC against
TAMU in April, 1973 and was notified of its
ruling two weeks ago.
Stadelman filed the suit after being told she
was denied tenure (assurance that a faculty
member may continue in an academic position
unless adequate cause for dismissal is demon
strated) in the fall of 1972 after six years of
service to the University.
When a faculty member is denied tenure, it
means he or she has only one year left on the
University teaching staff.
“I will go to court if I have to but I don’t
Bonnie Stadelman
want to,” said Stadelman. “A court case would
just leave ugly feelings and lasting hostility. It
would be better for the University and me if they
just let me have my job quietly.”
TAMU President Jack K. Williams said the
EEOC was interested in conferences with TAMU,
according to their letter of determination.
“This is a particular case where a faculty
member in a given department at a given time
was not given a recommendation for tenure,”
said Williams. “If a faculty member is given
tenure he is protected in his job. If he is not
given it, he goes about his business looking for
another job.
“Two men in that (history) department didn’t
get tenure either, but they went on about their
business,” said Williams.
Dr. Haskell Monroe, assistant vice president
for academic affairs, offered no comment and said
the case “is a matter I suspect the Board of
Directors will discuss.”
Dr. David Van Fleet, assistant professor for
management, had worked with sex discrimination
in salaries in Akron, Ohio for the American
Association of University Professors.
“I don’t know of a single university without
sex discrimination,” said Van Fleet. “Most
studies show it is pretty widespread.”
Van Fleet said it would surprise him if the
university didn’t adopt some sort of plan to ease
sex discrimination here.
Stadelman said the case was at a delicate
point right now and noted that if the case did
go to court, it would only make it more difficult
for her to stay at TAMU, even if she won.
After the case with the EEOC had begun,
Stadelman was finally shown the reason listed
in her records as to why she did not receive
tenure—lack of publication.
During her six years, Stadelman had published
two article and had a book ready for print. She
said she had never received any compliants as
to what she was doing and expected to be given
tenure.
Student entertainment was the
main topic when the Resident
Hall Association discussed its up
coming activities.
A series of films will be pro
vided on weekends. T. Getter-
mann, association president, said
individual dorms may rent them
to be shown in their lounges.
The films include “Where Ea
gles Dare,” “Candy”, “Hotel,”
“Wait Until Dark,” “The Boston
Strangler,” and a Tarzan and W.
C. Fields festivals.
RHA Weekend has been sched
uled for April 19, 20 and 21 to cor
respond with Muster.
“The musical group has been
confirmed,” said Gettermann.
“We are cooperating with Town
Hall to get Loggins and Messina.
The concert will be in G. Rollie
White Gymnasium but we don’t
know if it will be Friday or Sat
urday yet.”
Gettermann said Casino night
would again be sponsored. “Sev
eral gambling tables will be set
up in the MSC Ballroom and
packets of play money will be for
sale. That’s enough to play a
night of roulette and cards.
“At the end we have an auc
tion with the play money. The
auction has been for a bike, a
TV, a tape player or something
similar.”
New paper money will have to
be printed, Gettermann said. The
bills left from last year with pic
tures of Coach Emory Ballard.
Dean James Hannigan and Presi
dent Jack K. Williams may not
be used again this year.
“We may also need some new
equipment,” said Gettermann. “It
was stored in Milner Hall and I
think the roaches ate some of the
felt off the tables.”
Revision round-up
AUSTIN, (AP) — The “untouchable” first article of a new
constitution was given preliminary approval by the Texas Constitu
tional Convention Thursday, 165-0.
It is the same preamble and 32-item Bill of Rights found in the
present state constitution.
When the 1971 legislature and the voters called for the
convention, they said the Bill of Rights could not be changed.
Other committees continued hearing testimony on various
articles.
Mrs. Marietta Brooks of Austin urged the General Provisions
Committee to make it harder to get a divorce, saying the 1971 no-fault
divorce law “makes divorce so easy and so tempting.”
“It is the good wife and the good mother that suffers, not usually
the tramp,” Mrs. Brooks said.
Rep. Joe Pentony, D-Houston, attempted to rebut testimony
before the Education Committee that the Permanent University Fund
should belong solely to the University of Texas and TAMU systems
because it contributes to academic excellence.
Pentony gave the committee a list Thursday of 90 expenditures
from the available University Fund over the past two years by the UT
system administration. The items, which he said represented only a
sampling, totaled $470,000.
These included such things as ash trays for the chancellor’s office,
flower pots for the chancellor’s house and cases of paper towels and
toilet paper.
He recommended turning the fund over to the Texas College
Coordinating Board for distribution of its income to schools that need
it most.
THE LILAC FAIRY, Jennifer Holmes, right, interrupts of Washington presented “The Sleeping Beauty” to a capac-
the act of the Wicked Fairy Carabosse, Rosemary Miles, ity audience in Rudder Center Auditorium. (Photo by Rod-
who has crashed the christening of Princess Aurora. The ger Mallison)
magical action occurred last night as the National Ballet