Book Mart quits
buying textbooks
The Student Government Book Mart will no longer be able to
buy used textbooks.
Jeff Dunn, student body president, said the decision to stop
buying used books was necessary due to a lack of funds. How
ever, he did note that the book mart will continue to sell used
books through the summer and fall semesters.
Student Government Executive Director, Mary Ellen Martin
said that a limited amount of funds are available to begin repur
chasing used books in the fall. She noted however that books
would be bought in the fall on a selective basis only until more
funds are available.
Martin also said that book mart operations will move at the
end of the current semester to the old student programs office on
the ground level of the old MSG.
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. 1975
Page 7
Input on committees examined
By STEVE GRAY
City Editor
Kwitcherbitchin’.
That’s not a German word but a
term often used by students at Texas
A&M who claim no one ever listens
to their complaints about the uni
versity. Some students say they feel
they have no recourse but to give up
and save their breath.
However, there are some 77
committees which allow some sort
of student input or already have a
student representative. Many uni
versity committees, however, are
composed mostly of administrative
and faculty members. The lack of
response to student input by some
committees appears to be a two-fold
problem.
Steve Eberhard, past student
body president, said quick response
to student interests is hampered by
a combination of apathy on the part
of student committee members and
the possible intimidation of student
members by faculty members on
committees.
“Some students on committees
feel they have to go to the meetings
and just listen to what the faculty
members have to say,” Eberhard
said. “The real crux of the situation
is that they (students) feel intimi
dated by so many administrators.”
Apathy, he said, is caused mainly
by students dropping out of com
mittees because they just don’t have
enough time.
“The bad thing is that students
with a lot of initiative in the begin
ning tend to become disinterested
in committee work and drop out be
cause of their course loads, ” he said.
“That’s why some committees fail to
meet more than once a year.
Eberhard cited the U.S. Volun
teer Programs Committee as a vic
tim of poor student interest. The
program was set up to provide stu
dent volunteers to help with local
charity fund drives and similar pro
jects. The committee dissolved last
year but may be revitalized next fall
if there is enough interest,
Eberhard said.
The advisory Committee on Fa
culty Evaluation Procedures, which
had not met for four or five years
until recently, is now one of the
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most active committees. Eberhard
said it has met twice a month since
last fall.
“It wasn’t until we started ac
tively pursuing the issue of profes
sor evaluation did we begin getting
a lot of student interest,” he said.
Eberhard said the Honors Prog
ram Committee, which has more fa
culty than student members, has
been actively working on a prop
osed program which would allow
honors program undergraduates to
do research on the graduate level.
He said the program might start as
early as next fall if it is approved by
the university.
Eberhard said there are several
committees that have potential for
serving students but are not being
utilized. He said the International
Student Advisory Committee and
the Long Range Campus Planning
Committee were good examples.
Battalion reporter Jim Peters, in a
recent commentary, said none of
the established campus planning
committees were ever consulted as
to the furnishings in the new
Memorial Student Center complex.
President Williams established the
campus planning committee three
years ago in an attempt to draw stu
dent input on campus planning.
However, it has not met since last
spring.
Dr. John J. Koldus, administra
tive vice president for student ser
vices, said he was not sure why the
campus planning committee was
not consulted on the interior design
of the MSG. He said he had worked
in the past with the committee on
the master plan for the campus
which designated, for example, lo
cations of roads and buildings.
“The biggest problem with com
mittee structures,” Koldus said, “is
that faculty members usually serve
on a continuing basis whereas stu
dents might serve for only a year. ”
He said most committees recog
nize student input but sometimes
disagree over what students actually
desire.
“Sometimes people don’t want
input but just want to have their
way,” Koldus said. “Committee
work is always a compromise.”
Koldus said he disagreed with
Eberhard’s contention that students
are intimidated by the number of
faculty and administrators on uni
versity committees.
“I think it’s the nature of the per
sonalities of the faculty and adminis
trators on committees that students
might fedl intimidated by, ” he said.
Koldus said he did not want to see
faculty members evaluated unless
the results were sent to the respec
tive department heads in order to
possibly improve upon course
guidelines.
The four university committees
that report to Koldus are the Books
tore Allocations Committee, MSC
Council, Traffic Panel and the
Who’s Who Committee. He said all
of them have been active this year
except for the Bookstore Allocations
Committee.
“It was originally designated as an
advisory committee,” Koldus said,
“but it never functioned in an advis
ory capacity. Koldus had renamed it
as an allocations committee last
summer.
Koldus said he had originally
planned to eliminate the U.S. Vol
unteer Programs Committee but
now says he plans to reappoint a
new one in the fall. “Tom Walker
was coming up with some plans for
that committee but he got bogged
down while running for student
body president and did not pursue
his plans,” he said.
As far as student apathy on com
mittees is concerned, Koldus ag
reed with Eberhard.
“Committee work is not easy and,
in the end, a lot of students realize
that work is not what they had in
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