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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1978 Need to borrow a book for finals? Borrow it now from Lou! We’ll loan you a book now and give you your full de posit back when you return it. We want to be your used book headquarters. Loupot’s Bookstore Northgate (Across from the Post Office) USED BOOK HDQRS Qbc INTERSTATE '//rcaZhrCJ -046-6/ 14 O. 040-1 ID I -UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER CINEMA ALTER MATTHAU] GLENDA JACKSON 7:45 9:40 OPEN 7: 15 t "House Calls" TECHNICOLOR® ©1978 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS. INC Yfou? {kaibt Lover Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 DON'T BUY AN UNKNOWN Ttrestone The new •teel Belted Radial ■R7t l3 Whitewall Wui St »» f I T Deluxe Champion 4-PLY POLYESTER CORD AS LOW AS A quality built tire. Four layers of body plies make it plenty tough ... an exclusive tread pattern—7 ribs wide — adds traction, handling and mileage to your ride. A78-13 Blackwall Plus $169 F E T. 165m 3 (5-Rib Dewen) (Equivalent Capacity 175-13) Quantities Temooraniy Limited on this size mi (•Utv CAPACITY fclACK- WALL r it sraia 175-13 $22 (1 7? Cts M 175 1«1 ill 1 W 670 14 • /• < >R 1 4 $24 2 ii E7B-14 106 14 $25 2 IS TTifTT 195- ijl ill 2.1$ SIZE rautv CAPACITY SLACK WALL FIT 670 14 205-14 $26 $2 42 M7a i4 ?’S 14 $30 2 SO G70 IS ?0 r > 1 j $29 2 >15 H78 15 215 * 5 $32 2*5 'L701S 1 ?3S-1b $34 2.(3 All Prices Plus F.E.T. WHITEWALLS ADD $3.00 im TTY tfH TTTrr BR78-13* S55 $1.99 GR78-14 $70 $2.76 CA70-13' 84 2 25 HR78-14 75 2 96 195/70R-13* 88 2.18 GR78-15 72 2 83 CR78-14* 59 2.26 HR78-15 77 3.03 0R78-14- 61 2.32 HR70-15 81 3.03 ER78-14* 12 2.40 JR78-15 80 3.19 FA78-14* 87 2.58 LR78-15 83 3.34 • SliQhtly different tread design than shown. DOUBLE BELTED DELUXE CHAMPION * A78-13 Blockwoll - Plu* $1 7 1 F.E T WHITEWALLS ADD $4 Pt«s 12 J4 It 12.55 FET Tiresrone DLC 78 RETREADS SUPER SPORTS sag NOTE: Some Sizes Not Available at All Locations IRS yG yM 50 scries Price FKT C5013 F5U-14 G.60 15 N SOI 5 $48.00 51.00 52.00 59 (MJ $2.61 2 93 3 02 4 05 fiC Maries Price F E T AMi-13 $40 00 S2.04 2.43 70 series Price FET KIKIU 46.00 2.02 A70-I3 $36 00 $1 91 FliO-1 1 17 00 2.74 D70 13 42 00 2.35 18 <H) 2 91 070 14 42.00 2 29 i: tin-M 64.00 3.09 E7014 4 2 00 2 42 i.Kn 14 .65 00 3.4 7 K70 14 43 00 2.57 I'M.-lh 18 00 2.81 C70-14 44 00 2 71 IS 49 <H> 2 9.6 FTO 15 44 00 2 67 U«ii»i:. 54.00 J 10 (.70 IS 40 00 2 82 1.lid 1.6 56.00 3 55 H70 15 49 00 2.9* All prices plus tax ANY OF THESE SMALL SIZE 8LACKWALLS IN STOCK A78-13, B78-13, C78-13 Plus 34C to 4K F E.T ANY OF THESE MEDIUM SIZE BLACKWALLS IN STOCK 078-14,15 E78-14, 15 F78-14, 15 G78-14, 15 ANY OF THESE LARGE SIZE BLACKWALLS IN STOCK H78-14, 15 J78-14, 15 L78-15 LUBE, OIL AND FILTER Includes up ♦ o 5 qfs. of High Grade Oil. 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CHARGE* auua PBICfS m THIS U) miUBU IT MRfSIOIII STORES CORPniTIVtll PRICED WHEREVER YOU SEE THE HRESTOWE SIM SORE BUIERS «Y HOT STOC« 111 ITERS SHOW! OR OFFER SERVICES T***cstone 2102 TEXAS AVE. BRYAN, TEXAS American White Spoke WAGON WHEELS 41™ Tenure for faculty member like acceptance to law firm By MICHELLE SCUDDER Tenure for a faculty member is like being accepted into a law firm. After a period of probation, the per son becomes a full-fledged col league. Until a faculty member is te nured, faculty appointments are made on a year-to-year probationary basis. Tenure is an assurance to a faculty member who has passed a probatio nary period of service, that he or she may expect to continue in an academic appointment unless funds are no longer available or adequate cause for dismissal is demonstrated through established procedures of due process. At Texas A&M University begin ning with appointment to the rank of full-time instructor or a higher rank, the probationary period for an individual joining the faculty should not exceed seven years. Faculty members who join the faculty at the rank of professor may become eligible for tenure after two years of satisfactory service. According to Texas A&M’s Faculty-Staff Handbook, “During the period of probationary service faculty members are employed an nually with appropriate review in the academic department(s) where the faculty member is serving. Par ticularly close attention is paid to the review of non-tenured faculty members in their first and second years of employment. ” “We look very, very closely at the person’s first and second year at Texas A&M to be sure they are heading in the right direction,” said Dr. Haskell Monroe, dean of facul ties. “The teaching load is usually heavier for younger faculty and the course preparation is heaviest the first and second year, but this is when the greatest demands are put MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER IN DOLBY STEREO 7:30-9:55 THE BETSY 7:15-9:35 ANNIE HALL 7:35-9:45 Skyway Twin WEST THE CHOIRBOYS PLUS TWO MINUTE WARNING EAST CARNAL KNOWLEDGE PLUS JOCK PETERSON to get something published,” one English professor said. “We want there to be at least one annual conversation between the individual and the department head so the discussion of progress will take place. These conversations will strengthen the people we really want,” Monroe said. Although the general basis for de termining tenure is standard within the University, different colleges and departments emphasize differ ent criteria in granting tenure. Although the emphasis is on teaching effectiveness in the Col lege of Liberal Arts, in the College of Sciences research is weighed very carefully in determining tenure. “Some departments don’t have Ph.D. programs so they don’t em phasize research like the sciences and engineering departments do,” physics professor Dr. John McIntyre said. “We feel a responsibility to get good research people at Texas A&M,” McIntyre said. “A faculty member must have his research published and he should have a status of an independent scholar, which means he should be recog nized nationally in his field. If we call a lab somewhere they should have his research. “The people have to do a good job in their classes but research is very important,” McIntyre said. In the year preceding the last year of probationary service, a for mal recommendation is made re garding tenure for each individual. Based upon the sources of infor mation, and faculty advisory partici pation a department head makes a tenure recommendation to the pro spective dean. “We cannot say that every de partment should judge everyone the same way,” Monroe said. “Student evaluations are one useful source of information.” Dr. W.D. Maxwell, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said a great deal of emphasis is placed on class room teaching effectiveness in his college. “We use the results of the student evaluations overtly, which means that they must be taken into account in recommendations for tenure and also for promotion decisions and sal ary determination,” he said. Maxwell said more emphasis is placed upon teaching in the College of Liberal Arts than most colleges, although the relative emphasis given o teaching and research varies among the individual departments that comprise the college. “Interpreting the results of the teaching questionnaires we look at them with a knowledge of their shortcomings,” Maxwell said. “We know what biases there are and we take them into account.” It is typically true that in large classes that are required the rating of the professor will be lower and that the ratings of the professor will fare better in an upper level class teaching a few of his majors. Max well explained. “There is faculty participation in tenure decisions in every depart ment,” Monroe said. “The decisions are made essentially down close where the faculty member works.” “The basic decisions are made at the faculty level because they know the people,” McIntyre said. “Here is where the knowledge of the man is judged.” The department head m&kes the first written tenure recommenda tion, then it is reviewed by the dean of the college, the vice president for academic affairs, the president of the University, and then the Board of Regents, which has the authority to confer tenure. “The higher it goes the fewer changes are made,” Monroe said. According to the Dean of Facul ties office, in 1977-78 Texas A&M SI good job, that is the only uu.u needs to get tenure,” Monroeg McIntyre feels there are tages to the tenure system foip ^ nured and non-tenured i n ^ v ^ J ]lL. “If a non-tenured faculty met* 115 P does not get along where he free to go look somewhere eiJ P ‘ lce McIntyre said. “Tenure does not protect a® fessor from not doing his job.] ^ j main thing he gains is thetimelM 3 better things,” McIntyre said. nure, if it works right, improvaB 1 " quality of what the P ro ^ essor ‘fe.ijt , because he doesn’t have tinually producing. _ There are some disadvantage B In the tenure system for a non-tea: I faculty member. The seven lP^ probationary period cannol^” shortened and there is no guat strikei the individual will be hereu*_ , , years or that after the seven will remain with the UniverskB , “The situation is a watersheiH the man. He either W 'M steady job or he has to where else,” McIntyre said. ■ , ^ “During my probationary was very concerned about teW ^ and worried about achieving it,f . has 763 tenured individuals, 78 of E llllllllllllllllllllllll I w hom were granted tenure this I singing j Monroe says there is no quota for cadets tenure. “If the individual does a I got it,” one professor said. Maxwell feels one misconct;] regarding tenure on the part if students and some of the facut that it is designed basically f« security. Tenure is probably an aspec faculty life most hidden fromvid the students and many stuil don’t realize what their profa can really do and what they bar complished in order to establ steady job for their future. According to Texas A4 Faculty-Student Handbook, afti faculty member has been gra ^ f tenure the only acceptable grot ^ for dismissal are if adequatec ’ is established by demonstrafe ^ professional incompetence,! ^ turpitude, gross neglect of pr sional responsibilities, or groi j e peated failure to abide bytheff^ g and regulations of the Texas ,■ University System.” IkME« gTEXAS A.feM UNIVERSITY SPRING CONCERT April 21 8 : 00pm Rudder Auditorium /Jduit & aqd " child $1.50 | A&M student $2. tickets at MSC Box Office M Sun Theatres 333 University 846 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS Campus >us 846-6512 COLLEGE STATION TELEFON PLUS WHITE LIGHTNING 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 episcopal JiTwhent Center MSC ARTS COMMITTEE presents.... n m 9U,99i NOMINEE FOR 1975 & 1978 GRAMMY AWARD 8:00 PM RUDDER AUDITORIUM _ vwv TICKETS student ZC 2.50 1.50 ZONE 1 ZONE 2 non-student ZONE 1 ZONE 2 3.50 2.50 902 Jersey (adjacent to southside of campus) 846-1726 , Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.: r Eucharist & Supper Wednesdays 12 noon Bible Study Fridays, 6:30 a.m.: Eucharist & Breakfast Sundays, 6:30 p.m.: Fellowship & Eucharist Fr. 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