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T< is A&M students hold up copies of The Battalion indicating indiffer- G. Rollie White Coliseum. The Aggies lost the game, 65-61. For more on
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'ivilrights committee optimistic
By TERRY DURAN
Battalion Staff
AUSTIN — Members of a governor’s committee tp
ersee university desegregation are optimistic that
Eexas will be able to meet the June 15 deadline set by
federal civil rights authorities.
| Even though committee chairman Tom Rhodes
tdmits there “is still a long way to go,” committee
lembers expressed confidence at a Tuesday morning
leeting in Austin — their first — that the state will be
mle to fully satisfy federal desegregation require-
feents under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
After some eleventh-hour “good faith” bargaining
Texas Attorney General Mark White with the U.S.
ucation Department, federal authorities gave Texas
segregation efforts a temporary okay in January and
a June 15 deadline for submitting an acceptable
tailed plan.
Noncompliance could result in the loss of federal aid
aling almost $250 million a year.
The plan outlined by White calls for a 50 percent
uction in the disparity between the proportion of
inority and white high school graduates entering
lieges over a five-year period. Also included is an
crease in the number of minority faculty and admi
nistrators, and elimination of unnecessary academic
program duplication.
Committee members expressed concern that, while
such efforts might satisfy federal requirements,
lawyers for the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People (NAACP) might still sue the
state for Title VI noncompliance.
The committee agreed to use White’s January letter
to the Education Department as a guideline for overall
planning, although different schools will have to tailor
the general plan to their own particular situation.
White, who sat in on the meeting, said it is “very
important to avoid a letter of noncompliance.” He said
it will take “a burst of money” to bring the state’s two
mostly-black universities — Prairie View A&M and
Texas Southern University — into compliance. Small
extra appropriations spread out over several years
might be “dribbled away,” he said.
Rhodes said the $20 million “educational excellence
fund” recommended by the Legislative Budget Board
was “just the first step” on the road to full compliance.
TSU will get $12 million of that fund, Prairie View $8
million; however, the funds cannot be used for major
building repair and rehabilitation, which most agree is
one of the most pressing needs at both schools.
“It’s not going to be easy, ” White said, “to say TS U is
equal to the University of Houston. Your eyes will tell
you they’re not. This (educational excellence fund)
doesn’t paint buildings or build new dorms.”
Committee member Leonard Spearman, TSU pres
ident, said a lot of the excellence fund would go to
expanding TSU’s law school, pharmacy school and
educational department. Spearman criticized federal
authorities for charging them (TSU and UH) with “du
plication” of programs. He said both schools had
“reached a saturation point” of enrollment, so that
more students were being served than if only one
institution had a law school-
Spearman said he envisions TSU attracting new
students of all races by offering specialized field train
ing not offered at other schools in the area, such as
energy law, x-ray technology, insurance and banking.
The committee will turn its recomrpendations over
to a writing committee of staff members from the
state’s colleges and universities, which will draft the
plan in detailed form. It will then be sent to the
individual schools in mid-April for them to review and
see what kind of changes are needed for that specific
school.
By AUGUST SKOPIK
Battalion Reporter
State laws restricting the amount uni
versity health centers can charge stu
dents for health services ($15 per semes
ter per student), have forced the A. P.
Beutel Health Center to increase its de
mand for student service fee support,
the center’s director says.
Dr. C.B. Goswick presented his stu
dent service fee request before the Fi
nance Committee Tuesday night.
The health center’s 1981-82 prop
osed budget calls for $346,000 increase
in the request for student service fee
funds, up 125 percent from last year’s
$276,000, to $622,000 next year.
The total health center budget of
$1,885 million is a 25 percent increase
over last year’s total of $1,505 million.
Mandatory pay hikes and the prop
osed addition of three doctors make up
83.6 percent of the increase in student
service fee usage. Since the center is
already charging the maximum rate, as
well as for some services, the new
money must come from the student ser
vice fee allocation.
The student senate has recom
mended the addition of three new doc
tors to the center staff, effective next
year.
The center was forced to give state
employees a 5.1 percent increase in
January and will have to give them a 9.2
percent increase in September.
“Salaries and wages are our biggest
expense,” Goswick said.
The three new doctors would cost
$126,000, he said, and an additional
$5,000 would be needed for lab equip
ment and microscopes.
The projected increase for food,
medical and printing supplies was 10
percent, or $15,484.
“I think this is a reasonable projec
tion,” Goswick said. “Whoever heard of
getting food supplies for 10 percent
more than last year?”
General expenses, such as telephones
and utilities, were also projected to in
crease by $31,000 (10 percent) over the
1980-81 budget.
Goswick asked for an extra $2,200 to
repair the air conditioning system.
Goswick warned that fixture repairs
may be costly. “We have not had any
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nal story in a series examining cases of
holastic dishonesty at Texas A&M
Iniversity.
By MARJORIE MCLAUGHLIN
Battalion Staff
“Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal, nor
lo they tolerate those who do. ”
— The Aggie Code of Honor.
Although the “ideal Aggie” would nev-
r cheat, Texas A&M University is not
(nmune to the ever-present cheating
problem.
According to the 1980-81 University
Rules and Regulations (section 34-1),
bases of apparent scholastic dishonesty
must be reported by the professor, in
vriting, through the head of that de-
Jartment to the dean of that particular
allege.
But in most cases, the problem is
landled on the student-teacher level,
flaking it difficult to determine the pre
valence of cheating at Texas A&M.
Ron Blatchley, director of student
affairs, said that many« professors deal
with cheating cases as isolated inci
dents.
“We like for them (the professors) to
orward the information to the dean of
the student’s college to make sure that
the isolated case is not a part of some
Pattern,” he said.
Blatchley blamed economic pressure
r what he sees as an increase in cheat-
■flg. He remarked that many students
are desperate to get good grades so that
they can get good jobs.
He also blamed widespread apathetic
attitudes toward cheating, saying, “I’m
not sure we have the same value system
as twenty years ago.”
Teachers themselves “make opportu
nities for students to cheat, ” by leaving
the classroom or not paying attention to
students during tests, according to
Blatchley.
“It is a temptation that students can’t
handle,” he said.
Dr. Murray Milford, both a professor
and the chairman of the University Dis-
icplinary Appeals board, which handles
academic dishonesty cases, agreed that
the “atmosphere in the class” has to do
with how much cheating goes on.
He said professors stressing and ex
pecting integrity from their students,
don’t have the same problems with
cheating as teachers who have an
“adversary” relationship with their
class.
“Cheating becomes a game,” in such
situations, Milford said. “Students don’t
let themselves, or the teacher’s expecta
tion of them, down by cheating. ”
In cheating cases, professors have the
option of either failing the student for
that particular assignment or test, or
failing them for the class.
If the student protests the professor’s
accusation or the punishment, the case
is brought before the dean of that col
lege. If the student is enrolled in
another college, his dean is informed. If
the dean upholds the professor’s deci
sion, the student is informed in writing
of the action, and has three class days in
which to file a written appeal to the
University Disciplinary Appeals Panel.
The appeals panel consists of a chair
man, four faculty members and three
students. The students serve one-year
terms and are appointed by the student
body president.
Faculty members serve three-year
terms on the board and are appointed by
the president of the University.
The student has the right to have
either an open or closed hearing, to be
represented by counsel and to present
witnesses and any material pertinent to
the case.
A formal letter is sent to the student,
the president of the Univexsity, and to
all parties involved, informing them of
panel’s decision.
Three cases of academic dishonesty
were handled last semester at Texas
A&M. No figures for previous years
were available, because according to
Milford, each chairman keeps files for
his term and then most are destroyed.
Milford said that it is “relatively rare
for academic dishonesty cases to get to
the disciplinary panel,” and that most
students are appealing the punishment,
not the accusation itself.
He said that students are more likely
to protest if the teacher’s decision will
affect long-range plans, such as getting
into professional school.
“To me this means that students con
fronted with scholastic discipline gener
ally find the punishment given (to be)
reasonable,” he said.
Reagan to detail budget cuts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will contend “the ship of state
is out of control” and recommend 80
specific federal spending cuts totaling
149.4 billion in his address to Congress
tonight. The cuts will include some
subsidies paid to traditionally protect
ed constituencies.
The Reagan program will call for mas
sive tax cuts beginning July 1 for indi
viduals, and retroactive to Jan. 1 for
businesses.
Reagan will unveil the highlights of
his economic recovery program in a na
tionally televised address before a joint
session of Congress at 8 p.m.
“The president is expected to say the
ship of state is out of control,” said
Brady. “He will say it is within our pow
er to change the situation, that there’s
nothing wrong with the system.”
A 30 percent across-the-board indi
vidual income tax cut spread over three
years will be included in the Reagan
message, along with an accelerated de
preciation tax break for business “to
stress the creation of new jobs and in
creased productivity.”
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill
cautioned that Congress will not give
Reagan everything he wants, nor will it
move quickly.
“Legislation made in haste makes for
an awful lot of waste along the line,” said
O’Neill.
Hi Mickey!
Photo by Kevin Romo
Brian Replogle dresses up as Mickey Mouse in his efforts to keep the
NBC-TV series “The Wonderful World of Disney” on the air. NBC has
decided to cancel the series after this year, and Replogle and others are
soliciting signatures in front of Rudder Tower.
repair expenses,” he said, “but it won’t
be long before we have some major ex
penses, such as the roof, and it’s coming
up sooner or later. ”
Student health center fees would pro
vide 61 percent of the proposed
$1,885,000 budget. Various services
which the health center charges for
would provide an additional $108,000,
or 5.7 percent. The rest of the money
must come from student service fees.
Goswick detailed some of the
charged-for services: “We contract phy
sicals for military personnel, and we also
charge a nominal charge for pregnancy
tests.
“We don’t think it would be fair for a
test that is only provided for females be
partially subsidized by the males, and
vice versa,” he said.
Some center revenue comes from
selling some prescription drugs at be-
low-market prices, drugs which could
not be provided free of charge, Goswick
said.
“We would like to make a nominal
charge for all prescriptions to make the
student pay for our expenditures on the
drugs,” Goswick said. “It would help
keep us in the black.”
Charging for x-rays would also help
out, Goswick said. “It costs more and
more every year just to keep the same
thing going.”
Tracy Cox, vice president for finance,
said students can expect an increase in
the student service fee next year.
“It’s highly unlikely that the fees will
stay the same,” he said. The student
service fee is now set at $33.50 per
semester per student.
The 1981-82 projection for the stu
dent service fee fund is $2,173,392 if the
fee stays $33.50; $2,205,993 if the fee
increases to $34; $2,266,848 if the fee
increases to $35.
The final Finance Committee hearing
for service fee users will be Thursday
night. Saturday, the committee will
meet to make its recommendation to the
student senate.
The recommendation must be
approved by the student senate; Dr.
John Koldus, vice president for student
services; Acting President Charles Sam
son and the Board of Regents.
Pre-meeting
GTE talk set
for senate
By TERRY DURAN
Battalion Staff
A General Telephone representative
and his University counterpart will brief
students on the touchtone telephone
system to be installed this summer and
answer questions about the system’s use
and its cost to students in 206 Memorial
Student Center at 6:30.
Discussion of a recent University de
cision to exclude fifth-year and graduate
students from on-campus housing will
probably highlight consideration of ten
measures the senate’s under “old busi
ness.” A bill currently before the senate
would suggest an alternative to immedi
ate implementation of an eight-
semester limit on dorm housing.
Other bills to be considered include:
— A request to University officials to
decide officially whether classes will be
held the Monday after a football victory
over the University of Texas.
— A proposal for establishing a Texas
A&M student lobby in the Texas Legisl
ature.
— A recommendation to the campus
police for changes in traftic policies.
— A request for $11,500 in Universi-
ty funds to develop student organization
storage space under the west Kyle Field
ramps.
— A proposal for an “All-University
Pre-Election Bash” just before campus
elections to acquaint students with can
didates.
Five measures appearing before the
senate for the first time are:
— A bill, “Rx for Apathy, Laryngitis
or Whatever It Is That Ails the Silent
Majority, ” that would organize a weekly
open forum in front of Rudder Foun
tain.
-— A request to reverse the doubling
of campus parking tickets and reinstate
multiple ticketing instead.
— A request to the Board of Regents
to assign one of the new dormitories to
male students.
A proposal that would support
extending alcoholic beverage selling
hours in College Station from midnight
to 2 a.m.
The senate will meet in 105 Helden-
fels at 7:30 p.m.