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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1981
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By LISA SURMAN
Battalion Reporter
Activated fire alarms are com
mon at Texas A&M University,
but they are not always the result
of fires. University Police Officer
Cameron Moore says.
Of 759 alarm responses last
year, only nine were actually
caused by fires. Police Chief Russ
McDonald said. In spite of this,
officers “must respond to every
alarm as if it’s the actual thing,” he
said.
“We answer two or three calls a
day like this,” Moore said. “We
answer these calls to keep the fire
station from having to come on
campus all of the time.”
He said the alarms may sound
because of cigarette smoke, clean
ing solvents or even steam from a
shower. The sensor heads on an
alarm may get “so sensitive they
actually set each other off,” Moore
said.
A spokeswoman from the elec
tronics shop of the University
Physical Plant said an alarm may
set itself off because of too much
radioactive material in the air. But
this “can be helped by a simple
adjustment,” she said.
Any time a system is put in a
new building, there is a lot of dust
in the air which gets into the re
turn air vents, she said.
The spokeswoman said each
building on campus has a trans
mitter in the ceiling of its main
office which sends out a code. The
code is picked up by a computer in
the radio room at the Physical
Plant, she said.
Moore said the computer puts
out a number which tells where
the alarm has sounded. He said a
new computer system was instal
led at the Physical Plant to process
the incoming information.
One of the most recent false
alarms was Oct. 4 in Underwood
Hall, the new modular dormitory
located in the Commons Area.
Meredith Ross, Underwood
head resident, said an alarm on
the first floor sounded but no
switches which activate the alarm
were pulled.
Duke Bonilla, chairman of the Bonfire Committee, looks
on as H. B. Zachry speaks with Texas A&M University
President Frank E. Vandiver and Assistant to the Presi
dent Malon Southerland at the barbecue held Saturday at
the Grove to benefit bonfire construction. More than
1,600 people attended the barbecue .
Procedures set
for complaints
By JOYCE HALLBAUER
Battalion Reporter
If a faculty member has a com
plaint concerning official actions
such as dismissal, tenure, salary or
academic course assignments,
Texas A&.M University has a spe
cific grievance procedure to
follow.
The faculty member should talk
to his department head first, Clin
ton Phillips, dean of faculties,
said.
Ifhecould not settle it with his
department head, then he could
appeal to his dean and through the
system to the vice president for
academic affairs, Phillips said.
After Vice President for Acade
mic Affairs J.M. Prescott is con
sulted, the final decision is left up
to University President Frank E.
Vandiver.
The basic policies and proce
dures are outlined in a manual on
academic freedom, responsibility
and tenure published in 1979,
Phillips said. Tenured faculty can
appeal a decision for dismissal to
an advisory committee, which is
elected by faculty, but a non-
tenured member cannot, he said.
A hearing may then be recom
mended and the decision will be
sent to the Committee on Acade
mic Freedom, Responsibility and
Tenure, which sends its recom
mendation to the Texas A&M Sys
tem Board of Regents for review
and a final decision, Phillips said.
In the case* of faculty being de
nied tenure, there are many fac
tors involved, and the normal pro
cedure is followed, Phillips said.
“Contrary to what a lot of stu
dents may think, inadequate
teaching may be just as important
a reason for not granting tenure,”
he said, as lack of research. Ser
vice function involvement and
student advisement are also consi
dered.
Faculty may also have com
plaints about salaries, which are
increased yearly by cost of living
and merit raises. Recommenda
tions of deans are reviewed for in
dividual faculty salary increases,
he said.
When faculty feel they are not
given the courses they are most
capable of teaching, or have hours
they feel are unfair, they may file a
grievance to have these changed,
Phillips said.
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