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\Town Hall-Young Artist^eries
Bait interview
‘SG is official voice of the students’
By TERESA COSLETT
Staff Writer
“Perhaps student government is a
misleading name,” said Jeff Dunn,
student vice president of academic
affairs.
“A completely independent stu
dent government is nearly impossi
ble to achieve. But we do claim to be
an official voice of the students. That
is essentially what we are,” he said.
There are five committees under
academic affairs: academic services
and information, academic re
search, minority affairs, study ab
road and academic lecture series.
There is also the Student
Academic Council, a newly-created
Student Senate agency to:
—publish evaluations students
can use in choosing professors.
—provide the administration
with student input to use in decid
ing tenure and promotion.
Dunn said he considered the
Academic services and information
committee most important in
achieving more student input.
The committee serves as a public
relations liaison between the sente
and student body, publicizing stu
dent government issues and ser
vices.
The committee may print a news
letter next week giving facts on
grading criteria or ticket allocation.
The academic research commit
tee is drawing up a master plan
showing TAMU’s progress and pro
jected trends in curriculum. Next
semester the plan may be sent to the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. If the plan is approved
by HEW the university will receive
federal grants.
Also, the committee is working to
get more students on the University
Academic Council. The 130 council
members are mostly faculty and a
few administrators.
Student Body President Steve
Eberhard is now the only student
member of the council, said Dunn.
Eberhard does not have voting
privileges.
'Tm in favor of getting more stu
dents on the councij. But there is a
problem in having such a large and
diverse student body. It’s hard to
decide how many students should
be on the council and how they
should be picked,” he said.
The minority affairs committee is
a channel minority students can use
to approach the administration for
policy changes. It investigates dis
crimination and is planning a one-
day minority conference in Feb
ruary.
Dunn explained MSC minority
committees handle programming
but are restricted under the
Directorate’s charter from handling
administration policy changes.
“Nobody has to have student
government approval to seek
change but they have a better
chance by going through an or
ganized body like the senate,” said
Dunn.
“People don’t realize the poten
tial we have. They expect tangible
results and we give students some.
But they don’t realize most of our
accomplishments are policy
changes.
“We don’t want change for
change’s sake. We want change if
there’s a need for it,” he said.
The study abroad committee’s
major objective is getting transfera
ble credit for summer study over
seas. Financial aid for the commit
tee is also being investigated.
Present MSC travel loans are
geared towards vacation, not study,
Dunn said.
The fifth committee, academic
lecture series, works with the Great
Issues lectures series in arranging
lectures specifically on academic re
form at TAMU.
One has already been held this
year on academic appeals. Another
on the future of theater arts at
TAMU is scheduled for Dec. 4.
Explaining the Student Academic
Council’s (SAC) function, Dunn
said, “We want it to work, to be
good and we want it to be respecta
ble.”
He said the SAC will establish a
uniform criteria for professor evalu
ations, distribute and collect them
and maintain a permanent file.
Each senator on SAC will be re
sponsible for contacting his college’s
council for reactions on the evalua
tions.
Dunn said considerable research
has already been done on other uni
versities’ evaluation systems.
“It’s a very sensitive and critical
area. We’re getting professional
help and have three professors from
the College of Education investigat
ing criteria for us,” he said.
The senate’s failure to approve
many sections of the National Stu
dent Lobby’s (NSL) Title IX resolu
tion concerning sex discrimination
resulted from the NSL’s failure to
send the resolution information in
time.
The information arrived a week
before the Oct. 9 senate meeting. A
response was requested by Oct. 15
which did not give time for a second
reading of the resolution.
Dunn felt most of the senators
didn’t have enough information to
understand the provisions. “They
gave their opinion in the best way
they knew how considering the
amount of information available,”
•he said.
In his freshman year, Dunn was
elected as one of six freshman
senators. The junior economics
major served as a senator represent
ing the Corps living area in his
sophomore year and became in
volved in academic affairs.
The countdown for space
pioneering is green and go
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An
astronaut who walked on the moon
said Wednesday that the initial exp
loration phase of space is over and
the pioneering phase is beginning.
On the horizon is the civilization
of space, said Dr. Harrison H.
Schmitt, and he foresees the day
when students of all ages and na
tions will attend orbiting clas
srooms, studying everything from
nuclear physics to poetry.
Schmitt, a geologist who flew on
Apollo 17 two years ago, addressed a
conference on scientific results of
the Skylab space station program.
He said the Apollo and Skylab
projects had proved conclusively
that man can live in space and play a
useful role there, opening the way
for routine flights to earth’s new
frontier in the space shuttle starting
in 1979.
“Compressed into the last decade
of space activity, history has seen
the equivalent of two centuries of
exploration of the great American
West,” Schmitt said. “The first
movements into space, which cul
minated in Apollo, catalyzed our
imagination. Skylab gave direction
to our imagination. The space shut
tle now gives license to our imagina
tion. ”
The shuttle will be a reusable
| Bulletin Board |
TODAY
MSC DANCE COMMITTEE will sponsor a Hal
loween dance at Deware Fieldhouse from 9 to
11:30 p.m. Skydog will perform. Costume con
test with prizes. The film “Spirits of the Dead”
will lx? shown at 11:30.
CEPHE1D VARIABLE will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 601 of the Rudder Center.
CHESS CLUB will meet from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in
room 607 of the Rudder Tower.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WIVES CLUB
will meet in room 128B of the Zachry Engineer
ing Center at 7 p.m. There will he a womens self
defense demonstration.
FREE U—Automotive Principles and Applications at
7 p.m. in room 101 of the M E. Shops.
FREE U—Biblical Interpretations at 8 p.m. in room
108 of the Academic Building.
FREE U—Comparative Religions at 7 p.m. in room
510 of the Rudder Tower.
FREE U—Radio at 7 p.m. in room 230 of the MSC.
FREE U—Yoga in room 231 of the MSC at 7 p.m.
FREE U—Contract Bridge in room 229 of the MSC at
7 p.m.
FREE U—Ballroom Dancing in room 225 of the MSC
at 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
A CAR WASH will he sponsored by the Marketing
Society at the Texaco service station on the
corner of Hwy. 6 and Dominik from 12 to 6 p. m.
HAMBURGER FRY AND BEER BUST sponsored
by the Association for Computing Machinery at
1218 Lancelot Circle at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are
$1.50 for members and their guests and can be
bought from Mike Quick, 9-K Puryear.
SATURDAY
IRANIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION will meet in
room 402 of Rudder Tower at 7 p.m.
SUNDAY
GROMMETS will meet in room 228 of the MSC at 1
p.m. to play war games.
rocket ship, capable of scores of
round trips into space. It is expected
to ferry hundreds of researchers
from many lands into orbit in the
1980s.
Because of Skylab, Schmitt said,
“space observatories become possi
ble from which research and ser
vices in meteorology, oceanog
raphy, geology and environment
can be conducted and from which
broadscale exploration for new
earth resources can be carried out. ”
“The greatest discoveries of the
future probably lie in investigations
of stellar and interstellar
phenomena,” Schmitt said. “The
nature of gravity, the origin of
planets, the limits of our ability to
manipulate matter, energy and time
and our future as explorers of the
universe are all issues at stake. ”
Nature has a gift
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A garden
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Concert
Nov. 12 8:00 pm Forum
TICKETS
TAMU Students FREE
Non-TAMU Student Date $1.00
General Public $2.50
Town Hall Season Tickets Honored
No Reserved Seats
Tickets and Information
MSC Box Office
845-2916
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