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Vol. 72 No. 19
24 Pages in 2 Sections
Thursday, September 27, 1979
College Station, Texas
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By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Editor
Frank W.R. Hubert found himself the
me at the end of an 8-month treasure
ant by the Texas A&M Board of Regents.
And he was surprised. He thought he
ight be a consultant to the hunt fora new
rancellor, but not the object.
Hubert, 64, said Wednesday his first
intact with the regents about the job was
i invitation Tuesday night to meet with
lem for breakfast.
"To tell the truth, I honestly thought
le board might want to interview me on
procedures to select a chancellor, ” said
[ubert, who has helped other schools pick
w leaders. Since 1969 he has been dean
the College of Education here.
“It came as a complete surprise to me
at my name was being considered.”
The appointment also surprised state
ucators, local legislators and his Univer-
|ty colleagues. But they universally
ijraised Hubert as an administrator and
locator.
Alton Bowen, commissioner of public
ducation in Texas, began laughing with
xcitement when asked about the ap-
intment.
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Bowen, who has been a friend of Hubert
for “at least 20 years,” said he is respected
nationally as a speaker and writer on edu
cational issues. In fact, Wednesday after
noon Hubert had to leave for Athens, Ga.,
to speak at an educators’ conference.
“The dean certainly has delivered posi
tion papers on education in most of the
colleges and universities across the coun
try,” Bowen said in a telephone interview
from his Austin office.
“There’s no man in Texas who loves
A&M more and knows more about what a
university should be.”
J.K. Butler of Houston, chairman of the
State Board of Education, was also pleased
with the selection.
“I have never known in public educa
tion and college education a more under
standing and outstanding educator than
Frank Hubert,” he said.
“It’s a fantastic thing to happen to Texas
A&M.”
Butler and others said Hubert will not
be simply a tool of the regents.
“I do know that Frank Hubert is not the
type of man who takes a figurehead job,”
the chairman said. “He’s his own man.”
Sen. William T. Moore, dean of the
Texas Senate and a longtime protector of
Texas A&M in the Legislature, said that
body will not intimidate the new chancel
lor.
“I think Frank Hubert can stand up to
anybody,” the Democrat from Bryan said
Wednesday.
“I believe he will do a good job.”
Moore and Hubert have known each
other since the late ’50s, when they ate
breakfast together each morning at a
Bryan restaurant.
“He’s not been a political dean,” Moore
explained. “He’s never lobbied.”
His contact with the Legislature has
been to provide information on education,
he said, and that will continue.
Traditionally, Moore said, the chancel
lor has left the lobbying for Texas A&M up
to the school’s representatives — Moore
and Rep. Bill Presnal, chairman of the
House Appropriations Commitee.
Presnal, contacted at his office in Bryan,
also said he was delighted with the ap
pointment.
On campus, Director of Planning
Charles McCandless said he was sur
prised. McCandless worked for him when
Hubert was dean of Arts and Sciences in
the early ’60s.
“I think he is a truly outstanding admin
istrator,” he said, reflecting the views of
several other Texas A&M administrators.
“He possesses rare judgment and is politi
cally astute.”
Dr. Carl Landiss, who has been here
since 1943, said Hubert is one of the best
administrators he’s ever known. Landiss is
the retired head of the health and physical
education department.
“I think the regents exercised sound
judgement in naming him chancellor,”
Landiss said.
Hubert, who has been dean of the Col
lege of Education here since 1969 and had
planned to retire next September, said he
was not reluctant to take the chancellor
ship.
“To the contrary, I would say I accepted
with enthusiasm, aware of the tremendous
responsibilities . . . eager to assist in any
way I could.”
Hubert, who takes over as chancellor
Monday, said he has no specific plans for
the four schools and six state agencies that
make up the Texas A&M System.
Within the next two weeks, he said, he
plans to meet with the head of each unit.
He’ll meet early next week with Clyde
Wells, chairman of the board, who has
been acting chancellor since Dr. Jack
Williams resigned last January.
“I don’t have a Hubert motto to give
you,” he told the press conference. “I do
know that educational enterprises are
dynamic, changing types of institutions.”
Two important principles, he said, are
to have good guiding policy — free of vag
ueness and ambiguity — and to administer
it “consistently, honestly.”
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Chancellor Frank Hubert
Regents select names
for new dormitories
By KEITH TAYLOR
DIANE BLAKE
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M University Board of
foments Wednesday appointed a chan
cellor for the University system and
named the new modular dormitories on
the Texas A&M pampus.
Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert, 64, pres
ently dean of the College of Education,
will take the position of chancellor
Monday. Hubert’s appointment was
announced by Board Chairman Clyde
H. Wells, who has been acting chancel
lor since the January resignation of Dr.
Jock K. Williams.
The modular dormitories were
named for Richard E. Haas and Ella C.
McFadden. Haas, a former Texas A&M
football player and charter member of
the Letterman’s Club, has given more
than $400,000 to the University.
McFadden willed a trust fund to
Texas A&M which has provided over
$130,000 to the general scholarship
fond. She also provided funds for 10
President’s Endowed Scholars totaling
$680,000.
The Board also awarded a bid for
construction of a women’s 500-bed
modular dormitory to H&G Construc
tion Company of Abilene. H&G made
the low bid of $5,802,334. Total hous
ing cost will be $6,460,000, which will
include landscaping, demolition costs
and furnishings. The dormitory will be
built at the site of the old Board of Di
rectors house, near Sbisa Dining Hall.
lire Board authorized $2.3 million (o
buy the Hermann Medical Center Pro
fessional Building in Houston. The
building will be used as a nursing facil
ity for the Prairie View A&M College of
Nursing. Finalization of the purchase is
expected within two weeks.
In major personnel actions, the
Board:
appointed Dr. Perry L. Adkisson,
. vice president for agriculture and re
newable resources. Distinguished Pro
fessor of Entomology. The appoint
ment is the highest award that can be
given to a faculty member. Adkisson
was the first Texas A&M professor ap
pointed to the National Academy of
Sciences for work done here.
— confirmed the appointment of
W.A. (Bill) Wasson as comptroller for
the Texas A&M University System.
Wasson has been with the system for
nine years, the last two as assistant
comptroller.
— appointed Dr. Phillip T. Cain as
sistant dean of student affairs at the
Temple campus of Texas A&M’s Col
lege of Medicine. Cain has been a lec
turer in the College since June.
Agri-business career planning day
Companies, 1,900 students meet
By ROSEMARIE ROSE
Battalion Reporter
Students in the College of Agriculture
and representatives of agriculture-related
industries got a first-hand look at each
other Wednesday, and the. overwhelming
reaction was one of optimism and
enthusiasm.
Over 1,900 students interested in find
ing out about career opportunities in ag
riculture attended Professional Career
Planning in Agriculture (PCPA) Day,
which was sponsored jointly by the Texas
A&M University chapter of the National
Agri-Marketing Association (TAMU-
NAMA), the Career Planning and Place
ment Center and the College of Agricul
ture.
Representatives of approximately 67
companies with an interest in agri
business set up booths in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom and spent the af
ternoon talking to students about career
opportunities, products and services re
lated to their companies.
Wednesday ’s program was the first of its
kind presented by the newly formed
TAMU-NAMA chapter under the guid
ance of the southwest chapter of NAMA.
Other programs like this have been spon
sored by other student chapters, said
Mark Ellison, president of TAMU-NAMA,
but nothing close to the size and scope of
PCPA Day.
Each company had a two-fold reason for
participating in PCPA Day, said Billy
Lawton, a representative for Elanco. The
companies want to recruit good students,
he said, and the companies want to
familiarize with their products and serv
ices. Students in college now will be mak
ing purchasing decisions in the future,
Lawton said, and events like PCPA Day
provide producers with important expo
sure to consumers.
Ellison said that Wednesday’s activities
were not exclusively for students in the
College of Agriculture. Business and engi
neering majors could benefit from expo
sure to companies involved in auxiliary
branches of agri-business.
Keith Schmidt, of the Republic National
Bank of Dallas, said he was interested in
meeting students who wanted to use their
specialized talents in agriculture in con
junction with talents in general business
and finance. Republic National Bank has a
special commodities division that orients
its lending activities to agriculture, he
said, so students with knowledge of both
agriculture and finance are needed.
Reactions from students to PCPA Day
were positive.
“I think it’s great,” said Jamie Atkinson,
a sophomore agricultural economics major
from Kenedy. “It’s a good opportunity for
students to find out about interviewing
and chances for jobs when they get out.
Also it can show students how to guide
their studies before they graduate.”
“I think this program is real helpful, said
Tommy Albright, a senior finance major
from Corpus Christi. “Students are finding
out what they (industry representatives)
want and what they’re looking for.” He
said he came to find out about banking
opportunities in agriculture.
Following the afternoon’s activities, par
ticipants in PCPA Day attended a bar
becue at the Brazos Center. More than
650 students dined with the industry rep
resentatives and faculty members of the
College of Agriculture. Speakers gave re
sponses to PCPA Day from the viewpoints
of students, NAMA, industry and adminis
tration.
“I’m proud and positive,” said Ellison in
closing remarks to the crowd of975 partic
ipants. In reference to comments regard
ing the necessity of preserving the free
enterprise system, he said that PCPA Day
had shown him that students don’t need a
new system, as had been suggested about
10 years ago.
“We need only the will to make the sys
tem we have now work. ”
Saudis to supply oil
to keep West warm
Chancellor Hubert: 41 years
in education field to his credit
The man who will take over as chancel-
r of the Texas A&M University System
Monday has 41 years of experience in edu-
ition.
Frank W.R. Hubert began his career as
he music director of Lutcher Stark Boys,
ic. in Orange in 1938. In 1946 he became
principal and director in secondary edu-
Ication in Orange, where he served until
1948.
From 1950 to 1955 he served as director
of the Texas Education Agency’s division
on professional standards.
Prior to joining Texas A&M, Hubert
served four years as superintendent of
[schools at Orange, where he was a princi-
1 and director of secondary education.
He joined the The A&M College of
Texas in 1959 as dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, which has since been
divided into five colleges.
Hubert holds three degrees from the
University of Texas at Austin, receiving his
Ph.D. in educational administration and
American local government in 1950.
Hubert is now serving as a chairman of
the Committee on Planning and Evalua
tion of the State Advisory Council for
Technical-Vocational Education. He is
also a member of the Commission on
Standards for the Teaching Profession.
At Texas A&M he is on the Academic
Programs Committee, the Academic
Council and the President’s Administra
tive Council. He is also chairman of the
University Council on Teacher Education.
United Press International
Saudi Arabia has promised to do its
share to keep the industrialized West
warm during the coming winter months
and analysts said the decision should
stabilize world oil prices for the remainder
of the year.
Saudi Crown Prince Fahd bin Abdul
Aziz said his country, the largest exporter
of oil to the United States, will maintain its
extra oil production levels for three more
months in order to help consuming nations
through the winter.
President Carter welcomed the Saudi
move as “a constructive complement to
the efforts of the oil-importing nations to
curb consumption and switch to other
fuels,” but said conservation measures
should not be relaxed.
The Wednesday decision means the
Saudis will continue producing an esti
mated 9.5 million barrels per day — 1 mil
lion barrels per day above the ceiling set in
1974 in an attempt to conserve its precious
natural resource.
Senate implements canal treaty
over conservatives’ reservations
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Winding up a long
and bitter battle, Congress Wednesday
passed a bill implementing the controver
sial Panama Canal treaties and sent it to
President Carter for his signature.
I The House approved the bill 232 to 188
over the objections of conservatives, who
do not want the canal turned over to
Panama on Jan. 1, 2000. The bill easily
passed the Senate Tuesday.
Carter will sign the implementing legis
lation before Oct. 1, when the treaties be
come effective and the canal turnover pro
cess actually begins. The treaties were
signed in 1977 and ratified after a bitter
Senate fight last year.
After defeating an earlier version of the
implementing legislation last week, the
House Wednesday approved a revised
measure.
Rep. John Murphy, D-N.Y., floor man
ager of the bill, said he shared conserva
tive objections to that pact.
“But we are not considering the treaty
of 1977,” he said. “We are at the point of
implementing the treaty regardless of its
merits.”
Murphy said a second defeat of the bill
was “unthinkable” and could produce
“chaos” in Panama.
Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md., who led
the fight against the bill last week, said he
could not vote for the revised bill, but
agreed it was needed “for the continued
operation of the canal.”
He said a House-Senate conference
committee had tightened up' provisions
concerning the security of the canal and
financial payments to Panama.
“Saudi Arabia has decided to extend its
decision to increase its oil production for
another three months,” said Fahd, who
chairs the kingdom’s supreme petroleum
council and is the No. 2 man in the coun-
try ’
The decision “derives from the king
dom’s concern for the interests of friendly
countries and in order to settle down the
world oil market and provide the consum
ing nations with enough of their fuel needs
to face the coming winter,” Fahd told the
official Saudi Arabian Press Agency.
U.S. analysts said the move by the Arab
nation will keep prices down.
“Since the United States is in the midst
of a recession and other foreign sources of
oil seem to be raising production, the
Saudi action means world crude oil prices
should remain reasonably stable until the
end of the year,” said Joseph Tovey, a
New York energy specialist.
Saudi Arabia supplies 18 percent of U.S.
oil needs and accounts for about one-third
of the Organization of Petroleum Export
ing Countries’ total oil production.
Fahd is well known for his pro-
American sympathies. He expressed the
hope the consuming countries would use
this opportunity to take serious steps to
wards decreasing oil consumption and
limiting the wasteful use of energy.
In July, Saudi Arabia raised its oil out
put by 1 million barrels above its official
ceiling of 8.5 million barrels a day in a
move Shat eased shortages of both gasoline
and home-heating oil in the United States.
That increase was to last until Oct. 1.
One American oil analyst in Jeddah said
“the Saudis appear to be trying to strike a
delicate balance. They want to give the
West enough oil to make the transition to
alternative energy sources and conserva
tion without too many serious economic or
political dislocations.”
Oil analysts said the increased Saudi
production has brought world supply and
demand back into precarious balance in
the aftermath of the Iranian oil cutoff-
Gargoyle
This fierce medievel demon seems bent on devouring any foolish
passerby. The 10-foot wooden gargoyle greets visitors to Magnolia’s an
nual Texas Renaissance Festival. For more information and a look at
some more of the festival’s revelers, see Focus magazine in today’s Bat
talion. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.