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Peanu,s lAround 30 Texas A&M em-
lsti n anfltyees vvill be forced to retire this
Foresfjtji year because they are 65 years
om bill p rec hcted H. Ray Smith, direc-
(as to gel- of personnel.
Wichili|The figure is based on last year’s
leal statistics.
, ,|However, The Texas A&M Board
rtfll of Regents can extend retirement
&M Regents can alter
breed retirement at 65
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the (J rtain cases, said state Senator Bill
i verdict Last Friday House of Ropresenta-
juryfc res passed a bill raising the re-
V lement age to 70 for most em-
oyees nationwide.
Last summer the Senate had pro
ved a similar retirement bill to
ise the mandatory age to 70 for
ith federal and private employees.
According to an article in the Sep-
mber edition of “The Chronicle of
jgher Education,” opposition to
e retirement bill has come from
any college and university presi-
;nts and officials.
Administrators said they were
ncerned about “the impact of a
gher retirement age on younger
irsons, particularly women and
embers of minority groups. ” They
id they also feared the “financial
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lief Dis-
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and had
said thal
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{•lik’d (c ^ rden ” ^ at t ^ ie would pose for
tne universities and colleges.
Last year in the session before
last, a report of the House Social
Services Committee recommended
that this issue be looked at,” said
Bill Presnal, state representative.
Presnal, who was on the committee
at the time, said the issue wasn’t
taken seriously.
If too many people took advan-
tage of the new (retirement) age, it
woluld create many problems,” he
said. People who are inefficient
could stay on, Presnal said.
Approximately 22 million Ameri
cans are at least 65 years old, and of
those people more than one-fourth
have remained working.
Dr. John Sperry, former A&M
professor of biology who was forced
to retire this summer, said that
mandatory retirement should be a
matter, of health.
Sperry has remained active at
A&M this fall as an advisor in clubs,
organizations and research.
It isn’t a case against retirement,
Sperry said, but a case against man
datory retirement based on age.
“It’s humiliating because life is one
continuous flow of young to old,” he
said. “There is not a point when you
jump off the cliff and suddenly you
become old.”
Sperry explained the difference
between appearing old and feeling
tes
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duced gas from onshore wells, hike
the federal price per mef from $1.46
to $2.48 and free offshore gas from
controls in five years.
Senate approval of the deregula
tion legislation sparked quick reac
tion as both sides rallied for final
negotiations.
The hill is “an injustice to the
working people of this country,”
President Carter said, labeling it
“unacceptable” and vowing, “I will
not sign an unfair bill.”
Backers say the higher price and
end of controls will give producers
enough money to find hard-to-get
gas in deep wells and distant fields.
Opponents say lifting federal con
trols will c'ost consumers billions of
dollars and provide unfair profits to
the oil companies, who would get a
big increase on gas that is costing no
additional money to produce.
Sens. James Abourezk, D-S.D.,
and Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio,
who blocked Senate action on the
legislation with a 13-day filibuster,
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persons outside the Capitol to chal
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guitar, Metzenbaum and others and
sang:
“All I need is just a little bit more;
just a penny here or three or four;
I ll give you all the gas you need if
you’ll tolerate just a little greed. ”
Predictably, business groups and
natural gas producers praised the
Senate vote. Richard L. Lesher,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, called the decision “a posi
tive step.. .20 years of regulation has
provided conclusive evidence of the
folly of price controls.”
David H. Foster, vice president
of the Natural Gas Supply Commit
tee, said the Senate measure “took a
giant step forward in providing con
sumers with the maximum assur
ance of a future supply of natural gas
at reasonable prices.”
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old. “My hair was turning white in
my late 20’s. People were shouting
in my ears. My hair was old, I
wasn’t,” he said.
Dr. Tim Stinnett professor
emeritus in the educational admin
istration department, retired 10
years ago.
Stinnett said that he believes re
tirement should not be mandatory
until age 70. “I believe that most
teachers would become more toler
ant, understanding and wiser in
dealing with students as they get
older,” he said.
Stinnett is currently writing a
book that involves research of a re
tirement court suit. He said that
Thelma Davis, who recently won a
suit against the Georgia school
board that arbitrarily fired her on
the basis of age, received around
$17,000 in back pay. After around
five years in court, she is teaching
again at 70 years old.
Ninety per cent of the teachers
across the country are winning cases
where boards rule on age rather
than for medical reasons,” he said.
Dr. J.F. Peirce, professor of
English, said he believes he will re
tire at 65. “There comes a time
when an older man should step
down to let a yriunger man have a
chance,” he said.
“What I’ll miss about teaching is
my association with students,”
Peirce said. The students keep him
young in spirit, he said.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, professor
emeritus in the department of edu
cational administration, said retire
ment should be optional at age 62.
But an individual’s performance
should be evaluated at age 65.
Hensarling chose to take two-
thirds retirement at 62. “But I de
cided to retire because I got further
and further behind in the things I
aspired to do,” he said.
“If I had everything to do over I
wouldn’t trade any of it off, but I
wouldn’t give a dime for any of it
now,” Hensarling said.
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