Page 6 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981
Student government does it better in committees
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Which Texas A&M student
organization is involved with reg
ulations and refrigerators, tenure
and textbooks, fees and football
tickets?
Only one campus group deals
with this wide assortment of topics
— the Texas A&M Student Gov
ernment.
The Student Government, an
advisory body, is divided into
three separate branches: the ex
ecutive, judicial and legislative.
Its executive powers are vested
in the executive branch, headed
by the student body president.
The judicial branch of Student
Government consisting of the
University Judicial Board meets to
hear appeals of election commis
sion rulings and cases involving
interpretation of the student body
constitution.
All legislative powers of Stu
dent Government are vested in
the student senate. The senate is
made up of 40 senators elected by
college, 30 by living area and five
from the freshman class.
It also includes the following
officers: speaker of the senate;
speaker pro-tempore; parliamen
tarian and vice presidents for
academic affairs, external affairs,
finance, rules and regulations and
student services.
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The committees and their re
sponsibilities are:
Academic Affairs
“This year, my committee will be
focusing on the teaching and re
search issue and trying to find an
effective method of professor eva
luations,” said Vice President for
Academic Affairs, Kathy Barth
olomew.
“We re going to be looking into
the teaching and research issue
and try to come up with a solution
to alleviate the problem of te
nure,” Bartholemew said. “One
thing that will help us will be the
professor evaluations that we re
working on.
“In the past, the professor eva
luations weren’t uniform. This
year, we re going to have one eva
luation form that will be used by
the students, deans and depart
ment heads. Then we ll compile
the answers and print them in a
booklet for the students.”
External Affairs
Improving communications be
tween Texas A&M and the Bryan
and College Station city councils
will be the main priority for the
external affairs committee, said
Blaine Edwards, vice president
for external affairs.
“We already have a liaison with
the College Station City Council
and our main priority for this year
is to establish a liaison with the
Bryan council,” Edwards said.
“By attending the meetings of the
councils and building up the
liaison positions, we can establish
a rapport with them so we will be
able to talk with them about issues
that directly affect students.”
Finance
The Finance Committee is re
sponsible for allocating the stu
dent service fee to various campus
groups such as the Memorial Stu
dent Center Council and Directo
rate, the Personal Counseling
Center, Student Publications,
Student Activities, the A.P.
Beutel Health Center, the Shuttle
Bus, the Student Legal Adviser,
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ment.
Vice President for Finance Ter
ry Smith said the formal budget
requests are made in February.
“We hear all requests, then we go
into closed session to go over
them,” he said. “Our problem is
that the requests always add up to
more than we have to allocate.”
The committee allocated $2.7
million for the 1981-82 school
year. Smith said he anticipates
that his committee will allocate
more than $3 million for 1982-83.
Rules and Regulations
Main priority for the Rules and
Regulations Committee will be
establishing the Free Speech
Forum, said Rhonda Rhea, vice
president of rules and regulations.
“The forum will be held every
Wednesday from 10 to 2,” Rhae
said. “Anyone who wishes to
speak is invited to come in and get
a time slot, and they’re guaran
teed a minimum of 10 minutes.
During this time, they can talk
about any subject they want to —
there’s no limit on the topic they
choose.”
The forum will be held at Rud
der Fountain. Any student with a
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during the
valid I.D. card
member can speak
forum, Rhea said.
Student Services
Issues that the student services
committee will be focusing on this
year include the fraternity-
sorority recognition issue and the
Living Bank, said Chris Langford,
vice president for student ser
vices.
“A committee has been set up
by the student senate to study the
issue University recognition of
fraternities and sororities,” Lang
ford said. “We’ll be studying that
issue throughout the
semester.”
The committee is also in clap
of coordinating the Living Bani
an organ donor bank establish
last year in conjunction will j.
blood drive, Langford said,
“The program started Is
semester and was very suw
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A talent pool of graduates capable
of selling high technology indust
rial goods coming out of Houston
and Dallas — two of the largest
centers is the nation — is being
created at Texas A&M University.
One of only a handful of distri
bution-oriented studies offered by
American colleges, Texas A&M’s
program has an enrollment of
more than 450 students, making it
the largest.
Students get a large dose of
salesmanship and marketing,
accounting and finance, manage-
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a wholesale distribution slant.
They also must learn the basics
of metallurgy, fabrication, electro
nics and fluids transmission. That
means operating lathes, pouring
castings and welding materials in
lab classes.
The program is headed by Dr.
Don Rice, a master electrician by
trade who worked six years in the
Texas oil fields, didn’t start college
until he was 26 and then in rapid
succession earned bachelor’s,
master’s and doctoral degrees.
“Distribution is a service indus
try,” Rice said, “and since we deal
in technical products, it helps a
salesman to solve customer prob
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casting is made, how a valve is
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