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Page 10 THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1981 Local United Way reaches 25 percent of collection goal Texas A&M employees have contributed $14,035 to the United Way since the drive kicked off September 4. The campus goal is $56,000, said Tim Phillips, co-chairman of the campus drive. University em ployees have given 25 percent of the goal, he said. The student drive will run Sep tember 28 to October 2. Collec tion tables will be set up in the Commons, Sbisa Dining Hall and the Memorial Student Center. Unexpected pregnancy? A to Z Women’s Health Services Abortion to 20 weeks • Awake or Asleep • Prompt confidential appointments • Low fees Houston: 1-800-392-8676 Dallas: 1-800-442-4076 San Antonio: 1-800-392-8676 2 one potato, two potato... Offers Ph.D.’s Pure, Healthy, & Delicious potatoes. 250 off Offer good until Oct. 30 1981 Plate Lunch Specials (Monday-Friday) Happy Hour (Mon.-Fri. 4:30-6:30) 913 Harvey Road woodstone commerce ===== center on hwy. 30 Vandiver... (continued from page 1) between the outside world and the university. The university is an extremely fragile thing. It exists as a place of teaching and research on the suf ferance of the public and at the generosity of the public. And the public sometimes feels that it ought to have more say in the uni versity than the university would like it to have. It’s at those mo ments that the administration has to stand between the university and the rest of the world. Q: Texas A&M’s Former Stu dents are known for taking a parti cularly active role in running the University. Do you see this as a possible problem? A: Well, I hope not. I suppose it depends on what you mean by ac tive. If they want to come in and run the place, that’s doing too much. If they want to come and give money, that’s fine. Q: Because of recent attempts by some schools to get a share of the Permanent University Fund, currently shared only by Texas A&M and the University of Texas, there is much concern about pro tecting Texas A&M’s share of the PUF. Do you think the University should try to find funding for other Universities not provided for by the PUF? A: I think we have to (make) a concerted effort, not just to pro tect the PUF, which I certainly think we need to do, but also to find a way to get these other uni versities a dedicated fund. They have to have something. I always thought that the ad valorem tax seemed to be a good way to get it. Even when I was at North Texas State University I never fa vored breaking up the PUF, even though North Texas needed the money desperately. It always seemed to me that the PUF ought to be used for what it was there for, to make these two institutions (Texas A&M and UT) really super. But I also thought (the other schools) ought to have something; (they) shouldn’t just be there with an empty handbag, running around shaking a tin cup. I think it behooves both UT and us to be as helpful as we possibly can for these other institutions. I think we ought to try to find what is a logical plan and get behind it and support it. Q: You have been quoted as saying that the University needs to find new sources of funding. What ideas do you have about new sources and what will that money be used for? A: The problem with the money we get from the PUF is that so much of it has to go to building and supporting other ongoing programs that we don’t have enough left over for what I call academic enhancement, that is to bring in very distinguished faculty and chairs. I know around here we say a chair costs about a half million dollars. That won't hack it. A good chair costs about $1 million these days. Q: What do you see as possible alternate funding sources? A: We have to make a more concerted pitch to the (Texas) Legislature for particular kinds of funding. We need more research money than the state is ever will ing to put up. We need to get more private donations, because DIETING? Even though we do not prescribe diets, we make it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal while they follow their doctors orders. You will be delighted with the wide selection of low calorie, sugar free and fat free foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center Basement. 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Q: While there are studies being done to determine what needs to be done to update the University’s computer system, there has been no money set aside to do so because of the tremen dous cost. Is updating the compu ter system going to be one of your priorities? A: I think it’s going to have to be a priority. If we don’t have better hardware and better availability, our students are going to suffer. Any major university has got to have hands-on experience on a computer for everybody. Whether you like them or not, you’ve got to know how to use them. It’s going to have to be a major investment and we’re going to have to plug it in over a five- year period, if it’s not a priority now, it’s going to have to be one. Q: Do you have any reorganiza tion plans for any of the major de partments on campus such as Stu dent Services? A: Student Services is one of the areas in which I intend to pur sue something called an Opera tional Audit. It’s an audit done by not only financial people but man aging experts also. You send in a team of people who are not just fiscal experts but management ex perts in that area. They study who is doing what, what kind of service is being produced and whether or not it is humanly effective, cost effective and service effective. I’m going to do that for the main oper ational areas of the University: the library, some of the major schools within the University, the book store and other major components of that kind. Technical Majors: Q: Do you have any basic con cerns about the direction of the University? A: I do worry about the Univer sity’s capacity to be free, to be a place of free inquiry. Of course, no university is ever totally free, we are all subject to budgets and poli tics, even private universities. But the administration must guard very carefully the basic concept of academic freedom. Q: H ow do you enhance, prom ote or actively support this freedom? 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