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By KARIN KNAPP
exas A&M has three new vice presi-
its. Positions for vice presidents for
iculture and renewable resources, en-
Eering and non-renewable resources,
development were approved by the
A&M University System Board of
;ents Tuesday.
vice presidencies are part of a reor-
ization program designed to
ngthen A&M’s programs in agricul
ture, marine sciences, engineering and
technology. The vice president will report
to A&M President Jarvis E. Miller on the
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station,
Texas Agricultural Extension Service,
Center for Marine Resources, Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station, Texas Trans
portation Institute, Texas Engineering Ex
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ligh school scores on College entrance
inations are not as reliable for placing
'ineering freshmen into math courses as
vhave been in the past, said Dr. Ned
iton, assistant dean of engineering at
as A&M University.
)r. O R. Blakley, head of the math de-
tment, said he and Walton are “se-
isly considering” new math placement
ig play'd 1115 which would be given to incoming
I [ineering freshmen during orientation,
exams are being considered because
hmen engineering grade-averages
js low at mid-term, partly because of
grades said Walton. Some students
getting into courses they’re not ready
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said Blakley. For those students who elect
to remain in their chosen majors, a Q-drop
simply represents a course which must be
taken again, he said.
For this reason the percentage of
freshmen who successfully complete math
courses is probably no higher today than it
was in 1970, said Blakley.
Both Blakley and Walton cautioned
against oversimplifying the reasons for
students’ having difficulty with math.
While better placement should improve
math grades, it will never be any easy sub
ject, said Blakley.
$85,125,358 for 1977-78.
Robert L. Walker, former vice chancel
lor for development, was appointed vice
president for development of Texas A&M
University.
“Earlier we had decided to have the
Texas A&M Development Program part of
the system. But it seems much wiser to me
that it be a part of Texas A&M Univer
sity,” Chancellor Jack K. Williams said.
The regents gave their approval for
A&M s take-over of the South Central
Texas Regional Training Center in San An
tonio, which will provide unemployed
persons with preparatory training in law
enforcement, fire safety, telecommunica
tions and other public service programs.
Now a project of San Antonio College, the
center will become part of the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service on a two-year
trial basis on Jan. 1, 1978.
The take-over won approval by a 5-3
vote of the board. Dr. James R. Bradley,
director of the Engineering Extension
Service, said there is concern about the
project because it involves preparatory
training, while A&M has only been in
volved with supplemental training for
workers who want to upgrade themselves.
Dr. Henry Cisneros, mayor pro-tem ol
San Antonio and a former A&M student,
told the board that A&M’s involvement in
developing San Antonio’s educational and
training facilities will aid the city’s eco
nomic development. He said San An
tonio’s citizens will help provide physical
structures and funding for the project.
A $630,000 appropriation was approved
for the detailed design of Kyle Field’s ex
pansion. This design will provide the
working plans for construction of two third
decks and physical education facilities
scheduled for completion by the first game
of the 1979 football season. The projected
total cost of the expansion, not including
parking spaces, is $19.8 million.
The board also appropriated $53,000 for
a detailed design for renovating Legett
Hall into an air conditioned dormitory.
Other construction appropriations in
cluded $22,000 for the design of a general
storage facility for the university.
Action was delayed regarding an ap
propriation for the preliminary design of
100 married student apartments to be for
cated behind the College View Apart
ments on University Drive.
In other business, the Board of Regents
approved revisions of their rules and regu
lations. The revisions will bring those
rules in line with the system’s recent
change to a chancellor form of administra
tion.
It was also decided that students regis
tered for extension courses away from the
university will be exempted from payment
of student services fees, medical services
fees and student center complex fees.
These students will not be exempted from
payment of the building use fee.
The Board of Regents will meet again in
January, 1978.
Last stop: Ai?M
Battalion photo by Jim Crawley
Country western singer Ronnie Milsap performed before a full
house Tuesday night at G. Rollie White coliseum, as he com
pleted his 1977 concert tour. Also featured was the western swing
band. Asleep at the Wheel. (Please see related stories, page 11.)
loth Walton and Blakley agreed that
t of the problem with this semester’s
des might lie in some changes made in
engineering curriculum.
UnitedPit|rhis semester freshman engineering
dents were placed in one of two new
courses. Math 150 and 151 recom-
ed the elements of the old three-hour
iparenthe irses. Math 102, 103, 104 and 209; and
Po: led a weekly lab, which Walton said
is designed to “give them problem-
ving experience. ”
Unfortunately, he said, the added credit
:ated by the lab now means that if a stu
nt is doing poorly in math, he must do
tter in his other classes to maintain a
ong grade average.
Although the exams now being consid-
d would be for engineering freshmen,
akley said all freshmen math grades
ight be improved with better placement
ocedure.
Radicals calling it a surrender
Sadat’s visit gets varied responses
Itis difficult to determine whether math
ades have improved or fallen in recent
t h the Am ars at Texas A&M. Since 1970, accord-
gto computer print-outs, the percentage
failures in freshman math courses has
J Jen, but in 1973 the Q drop went into
l) f feet. (At current policy, a student can
a class in the first week following
id-term grades with a Q, no academic
ate, Reds !na Ity> no credit.)
At least part of those students who
op a math course with a Q would have
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bonfire also
These last two weeks have seen
Aggies working on Bonfire, ordering
football mums, scrounging about for
game tickets and painting spirit
signs - all in preparation for Satur
day’s game.
But what about the folks at t.u.?
The Daily Texan, UT’s student
newspaper, reports that “a secret
spirit society” called the Eyes of
Texas planned to sell red candles at
the school’s bonfire Monday night.
According to UT tradition, red can
dles lit and placed in windows puts a
hex on the Aggie’s football skills.
The candles were to be purchased at
10 cents apiece.
Then there was the UT bonfire it
self. Or rather, a sign posted at the
bonfire site which contained a racial
slur directed at Aggies and blacks.
The Texas Cowboys, a recognized
UT men’s service group, accepted
resonsibility and offered a full apol
ogy Sunday for the orange-lettered
sign which read, “If an Aggie and a
nigger (sic) jumped off the Tower,
which one would hit first? Who
cares?”
The organization’s president said,
that kind of stuff doesn’t pull with
anybody.” He denied any previous
knowledge of the sign.
“What’s bad,” he said, “is that we
have blacks that are members of the
Cowboys.”
David McClintock, UT assistant
dean of students, said he was “in
censed and embarrassed by the
sign,” which had appeared on an
Austin television newscast.
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — Arab radicals are
labeling President Anwar Sadat’s trip to
Israel as “surrender.” Egypt is defending
it as a bold move for peace. And an Israeli
leader says it brought Tel Aviv to a “criti
cal hour of decision. ”
While Sadat’s weekend mission was re
garded throughout most of the Western
world as a major step toward a Middle
East peace, it appears to have stirred up
the Byzantine world of Arab politics.
Syria, once one of Egypt’s allies, Tues
day urged “progressive” Arab states to join
a wide alliance against Sadat and called on
the Egyptian army and people to confront
what it termed Sadat’s “treason.”
In Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan acknowledged Sadat’s trip had
brought Israel to “a critical hour of deci
sion. We must formulate our peace pos
itions quickly.”
President Carter today was staying in
volved in the drive to resume the Geneva
Middle East peace conference and awaited
a personal phone talk with Sadat, a
spokesman said in Washington.
In Damascus, Syria joined the Palestine
Liberation Organization in issuing a fiery
call for a solid front of Arab opposition
against the “Sadat-Zionist imperialist con
spiracy.”
The joint statement was issued after a
daylong string of Syrian-PLO meetings
that included several sessions between Sy
rian President Hafez Assad and PLO
leader Yasser Arafat.
The statement appeared to reject efforts
by visiting Premier Mudar Badran of Jor
dan, a moderate Arab nation, to get Assad
to temper his attacks on Sadat before they
led to an irrevocable Arab split.
U.S. Embassy officials in Damascus said
there had been “high level contacts” be
tween Washington and Syria on the Sadat
dispute, apparently also aimed at mellow
ing the Syrian stand.
The Cairo-Damascus rift surfaced at the
United Nations Tuesday when the Syrian
delegate opened a debate on the Middle
East by labeling Sadat’s visit a “surrender”
to Israel. The. Egyptian envoy stormed off
the floor.
Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem — the first by
an Arab leader since Israel was created 29
years ago — sparked a wave of concern
among other Arabs that Egypt was break
ing away from Arab policies to seek a sepa
rate peace with Israel.
To allay those fears, Egyptian Foreign
Minister Ghali was to meet with the Arab
ambassadors this afternoon and with
envoys from Asia, Western and Eastern
Europe and North and South America
over the next three days.
Sadat himself will make a full report
Saturday on his trip to a joint meeting of
Parliament and the Central Committee of
the Arab Socialist Union.
Sadat has received some support from
Jordan, whose information minister,
Adnan Abu Odeh, Tuesday praised the Is
raeli visit as having “broken the ice and
removed the psychological barrier” be
tween Jews and Arabs.
In Brussels, foreign ministers from the
European Common Market nations Tues
day praised the Egyptian president’s
“courageous initiative” but cautioned a
lasting peace could be achieved only after
a Palestinian nation is created.
Spain may have liberal constitution
United Press International
MADRID, Spain — After 38 years as an
ultra conservative nation, Spain will have a
liberal constitution that grants women the
same pay as men, legalizes divorce and
cuts the voting age to 18. But it does not
mention abortion.
The first draft of the constitution, which
will be debated by Parliament and submit
ted to a referendum next year, was leaked
to the press Tuesday by members of the
parliamentary committee that has been
writing it.
Since all major parties — ranging from
conservatives to Communists — are rep
resented on the committee, the draft is
almost certain to become the 12th con
stitution in Spain’s history without under
going major changes.
In a radical departure from the late dic
tator Francisco Franco’s harsh one-man
rule, the draft constitution strips the chief
of state of almost all his powers and invests
them in an elected Parliament.
It also guarantees human rights,
abolishes all types of censorship and frees
conscientious objectors from military serv
ice.
And it guarantees workers a “sufficient
and just wage satisfying his and his family’s
needs” while protecting the quality of life
with an explicity law on ecology.
Ending a 39-year ban on divorce, the
draft says that supplementary laws will
“regulate the forms of marriage, the rights
and duties of husband and wife and the
causes and consequences of separation and
dissolution.
Divorce existed in the short-lived
Spanish Republic, which was overthrown
by Franco in the 1936-39 civil war. Franco
banned it under pressure from Spain’s
powerful Roman Catholic Church, but the
church has already indicated that it will
not actively oppose the legalization of di
vorce.
The draft does not mention abortion,
but arguments for and against abortion are
likely to turn around an article that states
that “everyone has a right to life and his
physical integrity.”
This article also indicates the death pen
alty will be abolished.
Cereal has nutrients
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Breakfast cereals
may be advertised to children as munchy,
crunchy, chocolatey and sweeter than
ever, but they aren’t candy and they fill
what would be a big nutritional gap with
out them, says the cereal industry.
If children stopped downing ready-to-
eat cereals and had other standard food for
breakfast instead, their sugar intake would
decline by only a teaspoon per day while
their cholesterol intake would go up by
five times and their fat consumption would
double, said Gary Costley, vice president
of Kellogg’s in a Federal Trade Commis
sion’s informal hearing. It wovdd make no
sense to restrict the advertising of sugared
cereals to children — a possibility the FTC
is considering — because children would
simply add their own sugar or, worse, skip
breakfast entirely.
. Two of the FTC’s five commissioners.
Chairman Mike Pertschuk and David
Clanton, met for more than two hours
Tuesday with executives of the three com
panies.
Two days to go
The stack continues to grow as workers keep
adding logs to the bonfire in preparation for
Friday night’s burning. The large crane to the
left of the stack, called the “cherrypicker”, is
used to lift heavy logs to the upper levels of the
stack. The workers also use a man-powered pulley
system to raise and lower supplies and small logs.
Work on the bonfire will continue until Friday
afternoon in an effort to make the stack as large
as possible. The stack is scheduled to be lit at
7:30 p.m. Friday evening.
Battalion photo by Jim Crawley