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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Wednesday, February 11,1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
The Weather
Yesterday Today
High 72 High 36
Low 23 Low 20
Rain .0.25 Chance of rain. . . none
Sixteen dead in
year s worst storm
Carts at large
Staff photo by ChucV Chapman
grounds maintenance worker Alvin Statz
['apprehends" some grocery baskets trying to “escape”
over the Northgate wall. A prankster placed the carts
atop the wall; Statz returned them to their owners.
United Press International
The season’s worst storm so far
dumped up to a foot of snow from Col
orado to Michigan in near-blizzard con
ditions and spawned tornadoes and tor
rential rains in the South and rumbled
toward the drought-stricken Northeast
today.
Much of Texas was shivering Tuesday
from the invading cold and accompany
ing winds. Temperatures fell to 8 de
grees in the Panhandle. Scattered areas
of snow and freezing drizzle also were
reported in the Panhandle and High
Plains, necessitating travelers advisor
ies. The low temperature of 8 degrees
was reported in Dalhart.
The front was even more chilling
because of north winds ranging from 15
mph to 30 mph.
Four tornadoes were reported in the
state, but they caused no injuries.
At least 16 deaths nationwide were
blamed on the storm, described as the
most dangerous of the winter by the
National Weather Service. The system
kept its strength as it moved across the
Appalachians and into New York today.
Vicious winds up to 65 mph raced
across southern West Virginia late Tues
day, leaving a trail of darkened homes,
uprooted trees, smashed storefronts
and toppled road signs.
In Kurten, just north of Bryan,
Harold Lloyd, 73 was injured when his
mobile home was overturned by a twis
ter about 2:30 a.m.
High winds and large hail pounded
north Brazos County, knocking down
power lines and smashing windows at a
score of businesses and homes.
A teen-ager was killed on her 19th
birthday and three family members
were injured by a tornado that touched
down outside Huntsville, one of four
tornadoes spawned by a swiftly moving
Arctic front.
Among the injured was an 18-month-
Course loads, money discussed
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Dr. Charles Samson, Texas A&M
University acting president, discussed
the fairness of allocating state money to
each academic department with a group
offaculty members in a meeting at Sterl
ing C. Evans Library Tuesday.
Samson spoke to approximately 25
faculty members of the Texas Associa
tion of College Teachers, who are also
concerned with the conflict that some
times arises between a professor’s
teaching and research.
Samson told the teachers that their
mission at the University includes good
teaching, research, public service and
creative activities.
The system of distributing money
among the colleges stirred controversy
among the faculty members and was the
main issue discussed at the meeting. In
the current situation at Texas A&M,
some colleges receive more money than
others.
Ultimately, the president of Texas
A&M decides the distribution of funds
for departments, Dr. Ron Holmes,
president of the Texas A&M chapter of
TACT, said. The president is advised by
various people; however, the final deci
sion is his. Holmes said.
For example, Holmes said, the Col
leges of Engineering and Education get
more money, because those programs
use more.
Samson said if the money were to be
distributed equitably, it would be
necessary to look at the marketplace in
that area. For instance, he said, “The
marketplace is different in different
areas. In the engineering department
they are faced with expanding enroll
ment and a highly competitive market.
“Where inequities have arisen, he
said, “we must try to solve them as fast
as we can.
Samson said a Legislature-proposed
suggestion for equitable distribution
was across the board pay for non-
tenured faculty, while tenured faculty
would receive pay increases based on
merits.
The suggestion was met with dis
approval by one faculty member who
questioned that considerable money is
spent on research, while pther areas,
particularly teachers’ salaries, are neg
lected.
“If you are doing good research, you
get rewarded,” he said, “if you are cons
idered a good teacher, you are
punished. We find this very frus
trating.” I
Another member said he is con
cerned about the necessity to establish a
“yardstick” that wotild measure a
teacher’s competence. He added that
First service fee requests heard
NG.
By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Reporter
Three of the nine student service fee
users presented their 1981-82 requests
to the Student Government Finance
Committee Tuesday night.
The Students’ Legal Adviser, De
partment of Student Activities and Stu
dent Government outlined their prop
osals in the first of four student service
fee hearings.
The hearings will be held by the
committee over a two-week period.
Committee members are reviewing
each student service user’s budget and
considering each area’s needs before re
commending student service fee alloca
tion for 1981-82.
The fees to be dispensed are those
collected during the 1980-81 school
year.
Jim Locke, students’ legal adviser,
presented his budget, requesting
$78,848, an increase of 15.3 percent
over last year’s allocation.
The largest single area showing an
increase in Locke’s proposed budget is
that of salaries. This area shows an
across-the-board increase of 9.2 per
cent, a great deal of which is due to the
recent 5.1 percent increase mandated to
all government employees in Texas.
Locke was allocated $55,008 for salar
ies this year; the requested amount for
1981-82 is $60,069.
The largest percentage increase in
Locke’s proposed 1981-82 budget is one
of 33 percent for telephone expenses.
Locke said one of the reasons for this is
the cost of the new telephone system
which will be installed before the fall
semester.
Case of the Incredible
Shrinking Newspaper
Beginning with today’s edition, The
Battalion will be printed on paper that is
two inches narrower than that previous
ly used.
Donald C. Johnson, director of stu
dent publications, said the reason for
the switch from 30- to 28-inch paper was
brought about by a shortage of news
print. Johnson said using the narrower
paper which The Battalion will use from
now on will save about $8,000 (a 7 per
cent saving) in newsprint costs in the
coming year.
This means the columns in the news
paper will be an eighth of an inch nar
rower than before.
Carolyn Adair, director of student
activities, presented the proposed 1981-
82 request of her department: $166,750,
$9,500 of which is for the student hand
book InROL.
This is an increase of 20 percent over
last year’s total allocation of $133,359.
Adair attributed most of this increase to
inflation and to increases in salaries,
both mandatory and merit. Adair’s
proposed budget delegates $115,250 to
salaries, 20 percent more than the
$96,268 for salaries in this year’s
budget. Some of the money would go
toward hiring a new clerk to keep de
partmental records.
The hiring of the new clerk to handle
“nit-picky bookkeeping details” is the
only “new” expense in the proposed
budget. She said it will be more efficient
to consolidate most of the departmental
record-keeping duties into one job.
She said her requested increase from
$9,000 to $9,500 for InROL is a “realis
tic” one, due to inflation.
Brad Smith, student body president,
submitted the budget proposal of the
Student Government to the committee,
requesting $39,092. This is an increase
of 5.3 percent over last year’s allocation
of $37,120.
The largest area of expense in the
proposed 1981-82 budget is the admi
nistrative area. A large amount of this is
in the salary of the secretary who hand
les administrative duties. Smith pro
jected the salary to increase 15 percent
overall, from $9,500 to $10,925.
Other expenses of the administrative
branch of SG include $4,000 for a pro
fessor information booklet; $2,200 for
telephone charges; and $2,200 for print
ing expenses.
Another area covered in the proposed
budget is the executive branch, which
coordinates such activities as Muster
and Parents’ Day. Total estimated ex
penses for the 1982 Muster are $3,140,
an increase of 19 percent over this year’s
projected expenses of $2,640.
Projected costs for Parents’ Day also
show an increase in the 1981-82 budget.
Expenses for advertising in The Bat
talion, as well as for printing newslet
ters, flyers, surveys and brochures also
fall under executive branch expendi
tures. Projected expenses for these and
other communications-related activities
are $4,000 for 1981-82, an increase of 32
percent over this year’s expenditures.
Of the three budgets presented Tues
day, the Student Government budget
request showed the least increase over
last year’s allotments. No final allocation
recommendations will be made until
the other three hearings are held Thurs
day night and Feb. 17 and 19.
The actual recommendations will be
made by the committee during a closed
hearing Feb. 21.
Upon student senate approval, the
committee will forward its recommen
dation to Dr. John Koldus, vice presi
dent for student services, for approval.
If Koldus approves the recommenda
tion, it will go through Acting President
Charles Samson to the Board of Re
gents.
old girl who was flown by helicopter to a
Houston hospitaf about Seven hours af
ter the 3:30 a.m. storm Tuesday, Wal
ker County Deputy Billy Linville said.
Also injured were an 18-year-old man
and a 45-year-old woman, Linville said.
Altricia Frear, who would have been
19, was killed in the wreckage of her
mobile home, which the tornado picked
up and set down about 100 yards away,
the Walker County civil defense coor
dinator said.
Fire Department officials were called
to the scene, off FM Road 2550 about 10
miles west of Huntsville, to free the
dead woman.
The tornado also destroyed a wood
frame house near the trailer, injuring
the 72-year-old occupant, the deputy
said.
In Diboll, a tornado pulled down
powerlines and trees and damaged
roofs. Several children were trapped in
a mobile home after it was overturned
but a police officer living across the
street rescued them before the trailer
caught fire.
Shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday a funnel
cloud whipped across west George
town, damaging businesses in the
Lakeair Shopping Center, police said.
South of the front, however, skies
were generally partly cloudy and tem
peratures in the 50s and 60s with the
high reported at Corpus Christi and
Alice: 71 degrees.
Today in SCONA...
The 1981 MSG Student Confer
ence on National Affairs begins today
at Texas A&M University. Interna
tionally known leaders from acade
mia, business and politics at the
three-day affair are addressing the
topic: “International Society in
Transition.”
Today’s speaker: — Robert Krue
ger, former ambassador at large and
U. S. coordinator for Mexican Affairs,
speaking on “The Changing World
Order,” at 2:45 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
The public is invited to attend.
he didn’t see such a yardstick at Texas
A&M.
In response, Samson said, “It’s rela
tively easy to count elements of research
— easy to quantify; however, it’s diffi
cult to quantify good teaching. ”
To solve some of the problems, Sam
son suggests there be clear-cut objec
tives and goals. “The situation we have
at Texas A&M is a system of inputs and
outputs, where we are trying to do diffe
rent things.”
He said he would like to see each
faculty member “carry two loads out of
six areas.”
' The areas include instructing, re
search, public service (continuing edu
cation), creative activities (English and
literature departments), administration
and counseling and advising. “There has
to be a blend of the different compo
nents,” he said.
Cherry
picking
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Morris Allison of one of Texas
A&M’s grounds maintenance
crews looks on as Joe Caudet
cleans dead leaves and mis
tletoe from trees in front of
the Biological Science Build
ing. Crews were out in full
force Tuesday, taking advan
tage of the springlike weather
— before a cold front roared
through Tuesday afternoon.