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AUSTIN (AP) — The State Text
book Committee votes Wednesday
on a list of proposed texts, well
aware that violence accompanied
the adoption of some of them in
West Virginia last month.
One witness at the final textbook
hearing Tuesday mentioned talk of a
boycott and court fight if some of the
protested books are approved for
use in Texas public schools.
Voting on the books, covering 15
subjects, is expected to take several
days. The State Board of Education
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will make the final adoptions at its
Nov. 9 meeting.
The 15-member committee lis
tened to final arguments from pro
fessional textbook analyst Mrs. Mel
Gabler of Longview, the Daughters
of the American Revolution, the
Continuing Task Force on Educa
tion for Women and several indi
viduals, with rebuttals by pub
lishers.
Mrs. R. C. Bearden Jr. of San
Angelo, speaking for the DAR, said
the boycott talk came from an un
identified Austin woman who ap
proached her at the textbook hear
ing in September.
“She said, T want you to know
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that I and a group of my friends are
prepared, if they adopt all these
texts to which you all are objecting,
to take our children out of school
and to have our day in court to let
people know what is going on and
Science college
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to head biology
Dr. John Richard Seed, 37,
formerly of Tulane University at
New Orleans, is the new head of the
biology department at Texas A&M
University, Dean John Prescott of
the College of Science, announced.
Dr. Seed succeeds Dr. William
P. Fife, who has served as acting
department head since mid-June of
1973.
Dr. Seed received his Ph. D. in
1963 from Yale University and the
next fall he did postdoctoral
research work at Haverford College
under Dr. Irving Finger.
Dr. Seed belongs to various
professional organizations and has
numerous publications. He is
married to Judith Ann Seed and
they have two children.
“We are indebted to Dr. Fife for
assuming the administrative
responsibilities for the department
and carrying them out so effectively
during the interim period,” Dean
Prescott noted.
“This is the second time he has
taken on such additional duties
while continuing to devote
maximum attention to his teaching
and research activities,” he added.
what is in the textbooks,' " Mrs.
Bearden said.
The DAR spokeswoman said she
opposed boycotts and similar acts of
protest.
Mrs. Gabler, who recently,
started a fulltime, nationwide con
sulting service for generally conser
vative textbook protesters, singled
out a series that is involved in the
West Virginia troubles.
The D. C. Heath & Co. “com
munication” series of readers for
grades 1-6 are “handbooks on how
to cheat, rob and steal for 6 through
9-year-olds,” Mrs. Gabler said.
For instance, she said, the third
grade edition shows a “picture of
children being taught to rob” and
includes a discussion of robbers.
“To claim that such examples do
not teach students the possibility of
robbing and breaking the law would
deny the effectiveness of pictures, ”
she said.
Mrs. Gabler earlier released to
the Associated Press correspon
dence in which Alice Moore, leader
of the Kanawha County, W. Va.,
textbook protests requested her re
views of the Hath books and several
other texts.
“After carefully and thoroughly
reviewing this series, I can under
stand why so many thousands of
parents in West Virginia are object
ing to these books and are willing to
sacrifice their salaries in strikes
against the use of these books,”
Mrs. Gabler said.
Heath counterattacked with a
statement by Brian McLaughlin,
executive editor of its language arts
department in Lexington, Mass.
McLaughlin said Mrs. Gabler
had “lamentably and flagrantly
quoted out of context. ”
“Experience shows that this
technique is used by those who
seize on every shred of evidence to
support a preconceived position,”
he said. McLaughlin said the au
thors of the series “enjoy excellent
reputations for the materials they
have contributed to language arts
education.”
‘First, go through
proper channels’
By RAY GRASSHOFF
Staff Writer
Going through proper channels
first is most important in making
academic appeals, said Dr. Harry
Kroitor, chairman of the Academic
Appeals Panel Tuesday night.
Kroitor spoke to a small audience
as part of the Student Government’s
Board discusses injunction
By JUDY BAGGETT
Staff Writer
The right to issue an injunction
was discussed Tuesday by the SG
Judicial Board.
An injunction is a court order
commanding or prohibiting an act to
be fulfilled. Temporary and perma
nent injunctions were discussed.
A temporary injunction could be
given by one member of the board,
while it would take the full board to
order a permanent injunction.
The possibility of limiting the
power of injunction to the chairman
and vice-chairman was considered.
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This action would eliminate a per
son going from member to member
until he found one willing to issue
the injunction.
The Judicial Board is trying to
model after the Supreme Court,
said Jerri Ward, chairman. No sta
tute gives the court the power of
injunction. It is a carry over from
common law.
The board discussed putting pro
cedures for injunction in the bylaws
or another set of codes. A 24 hour
time limit for the board to meet after
an injunction was issued was also
considered.
A writ of mandamus will be di
rected at any official in Student
Government to fulfill his duties. It
also comes from common law and
unwritten precedent. Ward said.
The Judicial Board is investigat
ing other judicial systems “trying to
find good ideas,” Ward said. The
board wants to expand its power and
have a firm reason or precedence in
doing so, she said.
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“Students should realize that
they must go through the proper
channels,” said Kroitor. “The in
structor is the primary authority and
should be consulted first. That is
where most of the students fail,” he
said.
The next step for the unsatisfied
student is the head of the depart
ment. Further problems should be
presented to the dean of the college
— and only after this “due process”
should the matter be presented to
the Academic Appeals Panel.
“The appeals panel is little under
stood by faculty or students,” said
Kroitor. Faculty tend to see the sys
tem as an undermining of their au
thority, said Kroitor, while students
see it as a way to gripe at almost
anything.
“Only disciplinary action for de
linquent grades concerns the
Academic Appeals Panel,” said
Kroitor. Such things as scholastic
dishonesty and misconduct outside
of academics are the concern of the
University Disciplinary Appeals
Panel.
Dozens of requests and inter
views are handled by Kroitor each
year, but he screens students and
gives his opinion on the individual’s
case. “All I try to do is make it realis
tic,” said Kroitor.
It should be remembered that the
grade and not the professor is on
trial, said Kroitor.