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By MERIL EDWARDS
Battalion Staff
The College of Education is making a
v quick, unexpected changes.
Dr. Philip C. Limbacher has been
med interim dean of the College of
t pucation.
His unexpected appointment was
Jcessary because Dr. Frank W.R.
Hubert, dean of the College of Education,
is appointed Texas A&M University Sys-
m chancellor Wednesday.
Hubert will move into the chancellor’s
office Monday, and Limbacher will take
over then as dean.
Limbacher said everything happened so
fast that there hasn’t been much time to
think.
“We’re all a bit bewildered and flabber
gasted,” Limbacher said. “My appoint
ment was more or less just the ripple effect
of this tremendous event.”
A search was already under way for a
new dean since Hubert was planning to
retire next September. Vice President of
Academic Affairs Dr. J.M. Prescott said
the search committee is actively looking
for the right person to replace Hubert.
“We’re not going to let any grass grow
under our feet,” Prescott said, “but it
takes time to find the right one for the job.
We’ll have to agree on employment, the
starting date, etc.”
But in the meantime, Limbacher, who
has been associate dean of the College of
Education since 1972, will take over as
dean.
Limbacher said the College will carry
on as normally as possible. He will assume
all the responsibilities of dean. But, the
duties of associate dean must also be per
formed.
“We will need someone to assist in stu
dent affairs,” Limbacher explained. ‘Twill
probably have to appoint someone to serve
as interim there, and that will have to be
approved of course.”
Limbacher said the search committee is
probably aiming to have a person in the
dean’s position no later than Sept. 1, 1980.
“That’s rapid service considering the
quality of the individual the position de
mands,” he said. “They’ll be conducting a
wide search and considering a number of
candidates as well as taking into account
the candidate’s disengagement from his
present responsibilities.
“You think, my heavens, that’s a year
away, ” Limbacher said. ' But, if they hit
that date, I think they’ll have done an ex
cellent job.”
Limbacher said they are hoping to at
tract a figure of national stature. “We feel
like we have an excellent college here.”
In addition to his new position as
interim dean, Limbacher will continue his
teaching responsibilities as well, at least
for this semester.
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'01.73 No. 20 Friday, September 28, 1979 USPS 045 360
2Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
oerner
il price
against
regulation
By LAURA HERTENBERGER
Battalion Reporter
John M. Poerner, Texas Railroad Com-
nission chairman, said here Wednesday
light that the federal government’s stiff
price regulations and overly cautious
environmental protection standards are
the discouraging factors in the production
of oil and gas in Texas.
Poemer, chairman of the commission
which regulates Texas’ oil and gas indus
tries as well as its railroads, spoke in Rud
der Tower on energy problems. He was
invited by the Memorial Student Center
Political Forum Committee.
“The problem that we have with energy
today is not one of quantity,” Poemer said.
“We know where it is and we know how to
find it ... the problem is the artificially low
price of crude oil set by the federal gov
ernment since 1972. It is profit motive that
drives people.
“Texas production will fall to under 1
million barrels this year for the first time
since 1964, ” he said.
“I think that it’s totally unfair for us to
have a dual standard in the pricing of
energy. The open market place is the only
vehicle to adequately set the price. It may
be high in the beginning, but eventually
competition will take hold and we will
have the cheapest form of energy for the
long run.’
Poerner said he feels the Texas govern
ment has always been an environmentally
conscious one, while the federal govern
ment has become overly cautious. He il
lustrated his point.
“There was an operator not long ago that
told me that he had two sources of water at
the drilling site. One was a huge tank,
about 7,000 gallons, with a two-inch valve
at its base; that tank obviously was used to
drill the well. The other was an Igloo
cooler inside his little hut that held about
two gallons. He received a $2,000 fine
from the federal government because the
small two-gallon container was not labeled
‘drinking v/ater’ and the 7,000-gallon con
tainer was not labeled ‘non-drinking’
water.
Lot still 75 percent empty
Campus parking space open
By JETTIE STEEN
Battalion Reporter
There is a parking lot on campus for
day-students that has remained about 75
percent empty since the semester began.
Lot 40, located between Duncan field and
Bizzell Street, has been a bare blacktop for
the past three weeks.
A week-long survey by student senator
John St. Mary, who is on the rules and
regulations committee, showed that the
lot was only 20-25 percent full during the
regular “parking crunch” hours.
Tuesday, University Police showed
that, of the 541 spaces in the lot, only 355
were occupied. In the 186 occupied spots,
39 cars were illegally parked.
“People have already started harassing
me about this great number of vacant park
ing spaces and if the blue- and red-
stickered cars don’t start filling up lot 40
we may have to add green permits to the
lot,” Col. Tom Parsons of University
Police said. “You know that if we do that,
the day students won’t have a chance to
park there.” Green stickers are for all
freshman and sophomore students. Par
sons said.
Beginning Wednesday, Parsons has
given the day students one week to start
filling the lot. If the lot does not start fill
ing up by next week he will submit a rec
ommendation for the splitting of lot 40 be
tween red, blue and green parking per
mits.
“The most frustrating thing, however,”
Parsons said, “is those students parking on
campus without parking permits.”
Parsons said that any car parked in a
disabled space will be immediately towed
away if no disabled sticker is displayed.
Jogger spots
Kyle Field fire;
little damage
Hot and sweaty joggers spotted a
small fire up in Kyle Field Thursday
night.
The blaze caused little or no dam
age, said Lt. Rodney O’Connor of the
College Station Fire Department.
“It was 150 feet off the ground in
some construction supports or scaf
folding,” he said. “We pulled up a
line outside with the help of some
construction people who followed us
up there and helped. ”
Lt. Jack Bruce of the University
Police said a runner reported the fire
at 9:46. The College Station fire de
partment was summoned and they re
sponded with two fire trucks and an
ambulance.
Bruce said he spoke with Bill Hall
hum Zachry Construction Co., who
said there was no real damage.
Ali draws only 1,500
despite promotion
By BECKY MATHEWS
Battalion Reporter
When Muhammad Ali speaks, people
usually listen. However, only 1,500 lis
tened to him speak on world peace Tues
day night in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Ali, who is the only man to win the
world heavyweight boxing title three
times, was expected to draw four thousand
to five thousand people to the 8,000 seat
coliseum.
MSC Great Issues and MSC Black
Awareness paid approximately $9,200 for
the program despite the fact that Ali’s
usual speaker fee is $12,500.
According to Richard Reynolds, the
Memorial Student Center staff advisor for
the Ali program, the University was able
to get the reduction in the fee through the
efforts of Dr. John B. Coleman of the Uni
versity Board of Regents. Reynolds said
that Coleman has been a “valuable re
source in previous (Great Issues) pro
grams.”
About 85 students, faculty members and
staff members from over seven depart
ments and organizations contributed to
the Ali program. T.J.’s Restaurant closed
for four hours so that a dinner in Ali’s
honor could be held there before the
speech. The Physical Education depart
ment cancelled P. E. classes normally held
in the coliseum on Tuesdays so that the
coliseum could be set up for the program.
The MSC Hospitality Committee worked
the reception and the MSC Town Hall
Committee provided ushers.
Reynolds said that the publicity for the
program had been good and that MSC
Great Issues and MSC Black Awareness
had thought that Ali’s name was well-
known enough to draw a large audience.
“We are really not sure what happened,”
he said.
Republicans fight
passage of budget
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House, on its
second try, Thursday approved a $548.2
billion federal budget for fiscal year 1980.
Democratic leaders said it would curb in
flation. Republicans said it would make in
flation worse.
The vote was 212 to 206 with not a
single Republican voting in favor. Fifty-
two Democrats voted no.
The spending proposal for the fiscal year
starting Monday was reduced by only $400
million from one the House rejected a
week ago.
It now goes to a conference committee
with a Senate-passed version calling for
$1.9 billion less spending.
The House version projects a $28.9 bil
lion deficit in 1980, $4.6 billion less than
1979, but nearly $6 billion more than
Congress called for in a target 1980 budget
last May.
The proposed spending figure is nearly
$54 billion more than 1979 and $16 billion
more than targeted in May for 1980.
House Budget Commitee Chairman
Robert Giaiino. D-Conn., said much of
this increase was caused by the worsening
economy. Inflation swells government
costs and recession adds to unemployment
compensation and welfare payments.
Giaimo said the reduction in the deficit
from last year will help curb inflation.
Republicans said the budget continues
“the spending ways” of Congress, which
they said are the main cause of inflation.
They proposed an alternate budget, in
cluding a $20 billion tax cut and spending
cuts to bring the deficit below $20 billion.
The House rejected this last week, but
Republicans never got a chance to bring it
to the floor for a second vote Thursday.
Giaimo said the GOP version amounted
to “pie in the sky accounting.” He said the
tax cut proposed by Republicans would be
“the most inflationary thing we can possi
bly do at this time.”
“The federal government has forgotten
that most people are intelligent and will do
the right thing. If we can finally bring
some common sense to the federal regu
lations that exist in this country I’m con
vinced states like Texas will produce more
energy.”
Later, during a question and answer
session, Poemer was asked about the need
for a federal Department of Energy.
“In my judgment there is limited need
for a federal energy regulatory commission
which is a part of the Department of
Energy, ” he answered. He said President
Carter created the Department of Energy
Education
dept. OK’d
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
has a new Cabinet vacancy to fill — secre
tary of education.
The new post was created with final
congressional approval Thursday of the bill
establishing a separate Department of
Education — the second Cabinet depart
ment created at Carter’s request.
Congress went along with Carter’s 1977
proposal for the Department of Energy.
The new department will bring to 13 the
number of Cabinet-level departments.
Carter called the 215-201 House vote to
create the new department “a significant
milestone in my effort to make the federal
government more efficient.”
The bill removes federal education-
related programs from the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare and other
agencies, and renames HEW the Depart
ment of Health and Human Services.
The new department will have a budget
of about $14 billion and 18,000 employees,"
transferred from existing programs.
The bill now goes to Carter to be signed
into law.
The bill contains a strong prohibition
against interference in state and local edu
cation matters. But opponents said the
new agency nevertheless will wield great
power through its control of grants and
other financing and the rules and regu
lations that accompany the money.
as a super power to override all other
energy agencies and cut through red tape.
Poemer said it has not fulfilled this pur
pose and should be done away with. He
said favors a minimum amount of regula
tion and then only in producing states; he
feels there is no need for regulation in con
sumer states.
“I think states can pretty well handle
it, ” he said. “They’ve been in the business
a lot longer than the Department of
Energy.”
When asked about the Gulf of Mexico
oil spill, Poemer said, “It could have been
prevented.” He feels the state should
handle the situation with neighborly
understanding, realizing that it was the re
sult of simple human error. He said he has
recommended to President Carter and
Mexican President Lopez Portillo that the
United States and Mexico set up an inter
national coalition for the exploration of the
sea floor and the review of drilling opera
tions in the Gulf of Mexico.
Concerning the 1980 presidential elec
tion, Poemer said, “I think Carter’s had
his chance at solving the energy problems
of our country. He should have concen
trated more on increased production at
home rather than always importing. ”
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Energy saver
This student is one of a growing number who have decided roller skates
save time and energy when making those long treks across campus be
tween classes.