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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 17, 1976 9
r 3!
Taking a glimpse
at the administration
Roger P. Miller
Students who have complaints to
to the president usually end up
the office of Roger P. Miller, one
B three assistants to President
illiams.
Miller, a ’72 A&M graduate in
iirnalism, acts partially as a stand-
for Dr. Williams, whose duties
ten keep him out of the reach of
idents.
“Dr. Williams has an extremely
isy schedule, so I’m available to
Ipa student with his problem then
iport to Dr. Williams if need be,’’
id Miller.
Miller noted that one of the con
sequences of a growing university is
a growing bureaucracy where offi
cials have a tendency to not be as
available to individual problems as
they might be at a smaller school.
“It’s very easy not to know how the
University operates, and when you
don’t, then you blame whatever you
don’t like — the University or the
administration because of unfamil
iarity in how it operates. It wasn’t
that long ago when I was a student, ”
he said.
“We’ve tried at A&M, and I think
fairly successfully, to stay as personal
an institution as possible. In other
words,” he added, “if an individual
has a problem, there is someone that
individual can see to get the problem
solved.”
Miller’s job consists of many other
responsibilities besides student
complaints. His is a two-fold job in
that he acts as both assistant to the
president and coordinator of cen
tennial activities here at A&M.
In regard to the assistantship to
the president. Miller’s job is not
nearly as well-defined as those of the
other two assistants, Bob Cherry and
Mrs. Nelda Rowell.
“I do whatever needs to be done
on a day to day basis that does not fall
under either of their jobs,” he said.
This includes anything from talking
to students to answering a lot of cor
respondence.
Miller said he is also assigned to
special projects as they come up,
such as attaining football tickets for
the many guests and dignitaries that
visit the A&M campus in the fall.
Miller has been working on coor
dinating the year-long celebration of
the centennial for about a year and a
half.
— Vir Anderson
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General A. R. Luedecke
I A&M has seen many changes in
Jiecampus and the people attending
it in the last few years. General A. R.
uedecke, executive vice-presi-
ent, has witnessed many since he
rstcame here.
Luedecke first saw A&M as a
eshman in 1928. The enrollment,
len, was around 3,000. All the stu-
mts were in the Corps, except for
use physically disabled. There
By VIR ANDERSON
Nelda Rowell says hers is the most
1-encompassing position there is in
le executive office, outside the
residency.
■ ' It is a job that just sort of defies
[description,” said Rowell. She
ided, “I don’t really know what
ould be my primary duty, in all
Miesty, because I’m involved in ev-
rything.”
Rowell explained that many things
le does involve a number of other
eople in order to get a whole job
oordinated.
She must read all of the incoming
ail, which at last check averaged
bout 150 pieces daily, and refer
lem to officials for answering.
Rowell takes full responsibility in
rranging official functions for the
resident. One such responsibility is
were only three “casuals” in General
Luedecke’s class.
The ROTC program then was
strictly Army with training in infan
try, cavalry, coastal and field artil
lery. The Air Corps program had
been discontinued a few years ear
lier.
The four top students of each
graduating class were awarded
commissions in the regular army.
The rest were given commissions in
the reserves.
Luedecke said seniors in the
Corps had no problems and the
juniors only problem were the
seniors. Freshmen had it rough.
Some things never change.
The campus over the years has
changed. The swine center was
where the golf course is now. North
of that were the veterinary medicine
Nelda Rowell
planning everything from beginning
to end of the president’s reception
for faculty and staff.
“I try to keep the president in
formed of things he might not hear
about, whether it be a death or a
meeting... I generally jot him
notes,” she said.
Since tasks just seem to filter in,
Rowell said many things are done
automatically. She also noted that so
much time is spent on phone conver
sations, the majority of which are
with deans and vice presidents, that
not much paperwork gets done.
Rowell said she doesn’t feel sec
luded in her executive office up on
the second floor of the Systems Ad
ministration Building, mainly be
cause she is in such close contact
with people by telephone.
Rowell said she consults with stu
dents by phone or appointment
about issues like admissions and
room situations. “It’s usually a mat
ter of referring them to other offices
on campus. Now that we have the
office of Vice President for Student
Services set up, we don’t see near
fields. Faculty houses once stood
where the Memorial Student Center
now stands. The artillery and cavalry
horse barns were near the site of the
present creamery.
Since students came to A&M on
the train then, there were very few
cars on campus.
“Parking was no problem,” said
General Luedecke. It must have
been nice.
the number of students we used to, ”
she said.
Rowell said her job is a challenge
in that it takes her into all facets of
the university. “You learn some
thing about every area your job takes
you into,” she said.
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A consumer
roup says four senators, including
loyd Bentsen, D-Tex., and 34 con-
ressmen should not be re-elected
his year because they seldom cast
otes in favor of consumer interests.
At the same time, the group, the
bnsumer Federation of America, is
landing orchids to seven senators
L ud 57 House members who the
OT [roup says scored 100 per cent on 13
C^’^Htey consumer issues.
In announcing the list of “zeroes”
nd “heroes” Sunday, federation di-
ector Carol Tucker Foreman, said
he group seeks “to inform the
merican consumers about which of
l«^ e ’ r e ^ ecte( ^ representatives are
estaW ruly concerned with their problems
md which are continuously selling
mt to the interests of big business. ”
... The issues on which the federation
es or 10 rased its findings were energy legis-
ation, approval to create a federal
ronsumer protection agency, prod-
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The federation issued a “zero” list
of senators who are up for re-election
and who were deemed by the group
to besin jeopardy. The “zero”
senators voted against the consumer
at least 75 per cent of the time, the
group said. It also gave a list of
senators who never voted in the con
sumer interest but who were not
specifically cited as targets on elec
tion day 1976.
The other senators on the “zero”
list were James Buckley, Con-R-
N. Y.,; Robert Taft, Jr., R-Ohio, and
Harry Byrd, Ind.-Va.
Rep Bob Krueger, D-Tex., was
among those listed by the federation
as “zeroes” and who are targeted for
election .action. Representatives
who rated zero but were not cited for
election action, the federation said,
included Eligio de la Garza and Jack
Hightower, both D-Tex., Bill
Archer, R-Tex., and Harold Run
nels, D-N.M.
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