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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
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By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battalion Staff
and PEGGY C. McCULLEN
Battalion Reporter
A former professor in Texas A&M University’s College of Architec
ture and Environmental Design says it is unfair to make the school’s
dean a scapegoat for its problems.
A letter to Dean Raymond Reed from 61 architecture graduate
students says that friction between his office and the department of
architecture has caused the resignation of key faculty members and
the department head.
“I don’t think it’s that easy to pin the blame anywhere,’’ said Bob
Meeker, now of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Meeker is one of three men who resigned from the college in the past
two years.
■‘The dean is in a very prominent position, and so he’s going to take
a lot of the heat for the present situation.”
David Woodcock, who resigned as head of the department effec
tive in December, said he did so because the position’s duties inter
fered with his teaching career.
A search committee has interviewed three candidates for the posi
tion, but has yet to make any of them an offer.
Meeker, Lance Tatum of the University of Texas, and Robert Heat-
ley of Oklahoma State University, the three professors who resigned
from the college in the past two years, were contacted by phone
Monday after The Battalion received a copy of the students’ letter.
Heatley declined to make any comment.
■Meeker said, “I would say that the reason I resigned was that there
was resistance across the board to any efforts at reforming and
modernizing the department.
■“None of my initiatives were discouraged by the dean. It really
goes even deeper. The bottom line is something that has to do with
Texas as a state and with Texas A&M as an institution. This is not a
criticism of Texas A&M, it is just an observation.
.year-oU^H 1 It’s an institution that has a strong military tradition, and because
I( l , of that, it has a very hierarchical organization, and you don’t make
romanoj waves in such an organization. Efforts at reforming the situation were
( sometimes treated as revolution and not reform.
jUegedhBHMeeker said he “had no doubt” he’d have lost his job if he’d voiced
I the criticisms of the school he made in this interview while still
he
dean is scapegoat,
teacher says
working at Texas A&M.
“American educators have not only a right but an obligation to act
as positive critics of the American system. And if they’re muzzled,
then positive reforms will be short-circuited.
“I respect Texas A&M as an institution, and I think they have a
potential to be one of the best architectural schools in the whole
sunbelt, if they can get their act together.”
Meeker said he believes the college has yet to recognize the “pub
lic sector’’ as a potential market for architecture graduates.
Meeker said he defined the public sector as being community,
county and state governments, and of regional councils of govern
ment.
He specifically excluded the federal government, saying that he is a
believer in states’ rights.
“Because the department is in such disarray, the department hasn’t
fully absorbed and thus cannot deliver 10 years of architectural re
search and development.
“That’s par for the course for many departments of architecture. ”
He also and Lance Tatum, now at the University of Texas, both
objected to the college’s policy of prohibiting its faculty members from
practicing architecture in the community,
ing architeceture in the community.
“How can you teach architecture if you’re not allowed to practice in
the field? It’s like teaching medicine without being allowed to prac
tice,” Meeker said.
“The public awareness and appreciation of architectural services in
Bryan-College Station is very low,” Meeker said.
Tatum said, “I was discouraged from practicing in the community .
. . not only by the college of architecture but by the administration.”
Meeker said he didn’t believe the rule had been established by
Reed.
Don Sweeney, assistant dean of Urban and Regional Planning, said
the policy was established to assure the school that its professors
would be full-time.
“The demands of a practice do not respect the demands of teaching
full-time. That’s why the state can not condone two full-time jobs,”
Sweeney said.
Meeker said no such policy exists at the five other Texas schools
that have architecture programs.
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echniques for saying no and surviving
ape can be prevented — seminar
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iafe-Lp Bv JEAN LONGSERRE
The Battalion Reporter
iringlk Rape and assault can be pre-
let undfl
litionstn
ted if women are aware they
I take precautions before they
le-craltiappen and know procedures to
^Bvhen confronted with them,
representatives of the Univer-
y Police and Office of Student Af-
during a seminar on personal
Bfor women.
The seminar, presented Tuesday
ast dght in the A-l lounge of the North
frea dorms, included an hour long
„,ilm entitled, “How to Say No to a
sleepii^Pbt And Survive,” by Fred
idreds 'toraska. .
t p ar t, Stgraska, who has studied rape
:onnec(i^Hf or ov er nine years, believes
, g re fljiat psychological preparation is a
rkers ml 5111311 s ^ est defense in escaping
' spolwjl 6 or assauIt alive and uninjured,
jjzatjon § Storaska believes that using your
rom thtpUnd being aware of crime pre-
|. 1|lt entions and I agree,” said Glenna
Vitt, a speaker from Student Af-
HB“You have to watch the situa-
ons you put yourself in,” she said.
If you’re jogging alone at 3 a.m.
ou may be putting yourself in
anger of being raped or assaulted.
University Police Lt. Jack Bruce
sminded women never to go out
lone at night if it could be avoided.
“If you do have to go out alone at
ght, tell your a friend where you
B and when you’ll be back, ” Bruce
id.
Bruce also said a student or staff
ember wanting a police escort
from a parking lot or building just
need call the department at 845-
2345, and request the escort. “We
encourage women to use this serv
ice,” he said.
Bruce said assaults and rapes
need to be reported. “The only way
the police can help is to know about
the crime,” he said.
“If you are in a rape situation
don’t get yourself hurt, ” Bruce said.
“You can live over a rape if you’re
alive.”
Several suggestions for proce
dures to take when being raped
were to run if possible, grab the
rapist in the groin area or offend the
rapist by vomiting and acting sick.
Witt explained procedures to take
in case of rape. “Do not bathe or
change clothes,” she said. “Go di
rectly to the Health Center and call
the police.”
During the 1978-79 school year 2
rapes, 9 sexual offenses and 21 as
saults have been reported to the
University Police.
The program while will be re
peated Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. in
lounge A of the South Area dorms.
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