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Tuesday, January 19, 1982
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University of Pittsburgh Head Coach
Ickie Sherrill has accepted the posi-
■m of Texas A&M athletic director
Bid head coach, University President
Frink E. Vandiver confirmed today.
I Vandiver said the announcement
pi be made at 4 p.m. today in con-
ijnction with a press conference to be
pld in Pittsburgh.
Sherrill resigned as head coach at
: University of Pittsburgh this
orning. He has served as head
lach at Pittsburgh for five years and
four years remaining on a five-
fear pact that pays about $60,000 a
ar.
Vandiver said he talked to Texas
&M Head Coach Tom Wilson this
lorning. Wilson could not he
ached for comment.
Sherrill met with University offi-
als for seven hours Monday in the
sgents’ annex of the Memorial Stu-
ent Center. He refused to answer
uestions concerning the session as
id Texas A&M Director of Public
nformation Lane Stephenson.
Sherrill returned home Monday
light to discuss the situation with his
imily and University of Pittsburgh
Ifficials.
Sherrill, 38, toured the Texas
l&M campus Monday before he and
lis wife, Daryle, met with System
jhancellor Frank W.R. Hubert, Uni-
icrsity President Frank E. Vandiver,
/ice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
lames B. Bond and Assistant Chan-
:ellor Robert G. Cherry.
Regents John R. Blocker of Hous-
:on, Royce E. Wisenbaker of Tyler
md William A. McKenzie of Dallas,
nembersof the five-man search com-
mttee responsible for finding a new
ithktic director, also attended the
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Vandiver and Dr. Charles H. Sam
son, vice president for planning, also
are members of the committee.
However, Samson was not present at
Monday night’s meeting.
The latest effort to bring a new
athletic director to Texas A&M fol
lows an unsuccessful effort last week
to lure University of Michigan Coach
G.E. “Bo” Schembechler away from
his job with the Wolverines. The Uni
versity position was vacated when for
mer Texas A&M AD Marvin Tate res
igned Sept. 24.
Schembechler rejected a 10-year,
$2 million offer to become head coach
and athletic director at Texas A&M.
Regents Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright, who did not attend Monday’s
meeting, had insisted since Thursday
that the athletic directorship is “the
only position open at this time.”
However, Blocker explained the
situation Sunday:
“Its (the AD search’s) evolution has
changed its course to where the top
actors wanted both jobs (AD and foot
ball coach). The situation with (Aggie
Head Coach) Tom Wilson has to be
solved in such a way that it doesn’t do
any more harm to Tom than has
already been done.”
Bright has said that the new athletic
director would have the power to
assume the role of head coach if he so
desired.
“As athletic director, he has said
that he wants to control the coaching
and assistants and programs in the
sports for which he would be respon
sible,” Bright said earlier. “I can’t spe
culate what would happen about the
head football coaching position.
“I expect to turn the program over
to him if he takes the job and he would
then review the entire program.”
Details concerning why the posi
tion of head football coach was added
to the offer have not been released.
Staff photo by David Fisher
University of Pittsburgh Head Coach Jackie Sherrill, left, and
several Texas A&M officials leave Monday’s meeting held in the
regents’ annex of the MSC. With Sherrill are Texas A&M regents
John R. Blocker, center, and William A. McKenzie.
Desegregation
Office seeks minorities to comply with plan
by Randy Clements
Battalion Reporter
Although academic institutions in the
Texas A&M University System have
ihown only a slight increase in the
percentage of minority students en-
1, the System’s Desegregation
Plan is designed to raise minority en
rollment significantly over the next
few years.
The System’s desegregation plan,
established in compliance with the
proposed Texas Desegregation Plan,
prescribes specific resolutions and
planned commitments in recruit
ment, financial aid and retention of
minorities.
For Texas A&M University speci-
fically, the plan requires that 525
more black students and 675 more
hispanic students than are presently
enrolledenter the University by 1986.
In a yearly breakdown, the plan’s
alls: 105 more black students and
5 more hispanic students for the
82 enrollment; 210 more blacks
and 270 more hispanics for 1983;315
more blacks and 405 more hispanics
for 1984; and 420 more blacks and
0 more hispanics for 1985.
To help the University meet this
goal, former Texas A&M President
Jarvis Miller established the Universi
ty’s Office of School Relations in
1979. Staff members devote their full
time to recruiting at high schools.
The office’s mission is to make peo
ple aware of the benefits at Texas
A&M and to get as many qualified
students as possible to attend the Uni
versity, said Loyd Taylor, director of
the school relations office.
To accomplish this, recruiters visit
more than 450 high schools a year, he
said.
“Last year,” Taylor said, “our re
cruiters met with approximately
30,000 students and parents. Since
we’ve been in operation, the minority
student enrollment has just about
doubled.”
James Bond, System vice chancel
lor for legal affairs, said the recruit
ment office also visits two-year col
leges because a higher percentage of
minority students usually enrolls in
such schools.
This is attributed to lower costs of
attending institutions near their
homes and to the fact that the institu
tions offer more vocational programs
than does Texas A&M, Bond said.
In contrast with Texas A&M,
Prairie View A&M University, a tradi
tionally black institution, is required
to attract more non-blacks.
Dr. George Stafford, director of
admissions at Prairie View A&M, said
the recruitment practices are the
same for Prairie View A&M as for any
other institution.
“We are advertising state-wide that
we have quality programs that are
open to everyone,” he said. Realistic
ally, he said, Prairie View A&M gets
most of its students from the Dallas-
Fort Worth, Houston and east Texas
areas.
The university is trying to com
municate that it exists and that people
get hired after completing the prog
rams offered, Stafford said. Prairie
View A&M offers about 100 degrees.
Billy Marcum, student activities
coordinator at Tarleton State Univer
sity, said Tarleton State is trying to
recruit non-white students, but still
only about two percent of the total
enrollment is black.
“Most of the students we get are
from west Texas,” he said. “However,
we are in the process of trying to draw
more people from the Fort Worth-
Vandiver
quiets rumors
of resignation
by Jane G. Brust
Battalion Staff
University President Frank E.
Vandiver neither confirms nor
denies reports that he offered his
resignation Monday night.
Texas A&M sources say Van
diver, not pleased with the hand
ling of the athletic director
search, offered his resignation
and it was rejected by System offi
cials.
University of Pittsburgh Head
Coach Jackie Sherrill accepted
the position of Texas A&M athle
tic director and head coach today,
Vandiver said.
In a prepared statement issued
this morning, Vandiver said: “Re
garding the rumor currently cir
culating that I have resigned, I am
happy to report that I am very
much on the job and have every
intention of remaining so.
“I simply want to get on with
business at hand — and that is
doing everything that I can to
help Texas A&M attain a position
of preeminence in all its en
deavors — academic, athletic and
other.”
Rumors of the president’s res
ignation surfaced in the midst of
the University’s search for an
athletic director. University offi
cials have indicated repeatedly
that Vandiver has not been
pleased with the handling of the
search.
Vandiver last week withheld
President Frank Vandiver
comment on the offer made to
University of Michigan Head
Coach G.E. “Bo” Schembechler to
fill the athletic director’s spot.
Schembechler announced his re
jection of that offer Friday.
The Schembechler deal re
portedly was instigated by Re
gents Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright. That report has evoked
controversy among former stu
dents and athletic department
personnel who feel Bright has
been bypassing the appropriate
channels for filling the athletic di
rector’s position.
Vandiver, 56, was appointed
by the Texas A&M LIniversity
System Board of Regents.
System combats
sexual harrassment
Dallas area.”
“Most of the blacks in the Fort
Worth-Dallas area would rather go to
a junior college close to home.”
Texas A&M has a similar situation.
Bond said a problem in attracting
minority students to the University is
that metropolitan areas have more
appeal than smaller cities like Bryan
and College Station.
“This is a destructive factor that we
have to deal with,” he said.
Despite its responsibility to in
crease minority enrollment, Texas
A&M won’t compromise its stan
dards, Bond said.
However, he said, officials believe
that achieving the minority recruit
ment goals will benefit the University
in the long run.
In order to comply with the deseg
regation plan and fulfill its minority
requirements, the University has its
work cut out — even more so than
public schools have had in recent
years. Desegregation in higher educa
tion is more complex than in public
schools, Bond said, because public
school is compulsory and higher edu
cation isn’t.
See DESEGREGATION page 12
by Mary Jo Rummel
Battalion Staff
Individuals at Texas A&M University
who have been sexually harassed by
their employers have provisions to
seek criminal action against those em
ployers.
The federal government classifies
sexual harassment as a form of sex
discrimination and has issued guide
lines dealing with sexual harassment
in the workplace under Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act.
Texas A&M Affirmative Action
Officer Margaret Dean offers con
fidential counseling for any staff or
faculty member who feels he has been
discriminated against.
“(Sexual harassment) does happen
here,” Dean said. Most cases concern
females who have been harassed by
male employers. However, there are
some males who have been harassed
by female employers.
Sexual harassment is a violation of
the law and can result in disciplinary
action or reprimand, depending on
the severity of the charge and the
position of the individual. While it has
yet to happen, Dean said, termination
is possible.
Before the federal guidelines were
enacted, the victim’s only opportunity
for retribution was civil action.
The Texas A&M System has a poli
cy which affects all parts of the Sys
tem, including Texas A&M, Prairie
View A&M University, Tarleton State
University and Texas A&M Universi
ty at Galveston. That policy lists possi
ble grounds for charges of sexual
harassment but is not limited to only
the ones listed. The policy specifically
points out to employees which inter
nal grievances policy they should fol
low in a particular case.
Federal law protects individuals
who file harassment charges from re
taliation by the one against whom
charges are filed.
“Many are afraid to file charges
and would just as soon find another
job,” she said. “The individuals make
the decision to go forward with the
charges because they are the ones
who will have to live with it.
“It’s very scary to file a charge —
especially in a sexual harassment case.
Most of the time there are no witnes
ses and it is all a matter of perception
— what one person may feel is a com-
E liment, another may feel is sexual
arassment.”
A person’s first reaction to harass
ment is usually shock, she said, and
then a feeling of guilt. “They wonder
if maybe they did something to en
courage it,” she explained.
When a charge is investigated, ev
erything is totally confidential and
care is taken to protect the University
and the individual if he proves to be
innocent, Dean said.
If the investigation establishes the
charges as legitimate, action is taken
with the individual’s superior or the
case may be turned over to System
lawyers.
While the University memoran
dum deals with sexual harassment for
faculty and staff, it does not specifical
ly cover sexual harassment in the in
structor-student relationship. Stu
dent discrimination is covered in Title
IX of the Civil Rights Act.
Meal plans
validated
Students must have their five and
seven-day board plans validated on
their ID cards before Friday at 4:30
m. if they wish to enter a dining hall."
Meal plans can be validated today
and Wednesday in Sbisa Dining Hall
on the main floor between 6:30 a.m.
d7:00 p.m.
Meal plans can be validated Thurs
day in Duncan Dining Hall between
:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. and Friday
between 6:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Friday afternoon students can get
their meal plans validated in Sbisa un
til 4:30 p.m.
Enrollment declines
As many as 2,000 fewer students
could be walking on campus this
spring as enrollment figures drop
from a fall semester peak of 35,146.
Associate Registrar Donald D. Car
ter said he expects between 32,000
and 33,000 students this spring. En
rollment figures will not be official
until after the fifth class day. Jan. 22 is
the last day to enroll in Texas A&M
University.
Spring registration figures usually
count between 1,500 and 2,000 fewer
students than fall figures, he said.
One reason, Carter has said, for
the spring enrollment decrease is the
large number of students who gradu
ate each December. 2,071 students re
ceived degrees from Texas A&M
University last month.
Another reason for the decreased
enrollment is the small number of
freshmen who enter the University in
January. The University enrolls
approximately 100 new freshmen in
the spring compared to the 6,000 who
enter in the fall.
Today is the last day for all stu
dents to register without paying the
$10 late registration fee. Delayed re
gistration and drop-add will continue
through Friday.
Opera explained
Dallas conductor, pianist, compos
er and lecturer Simon Sargon will
speak on Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Rudder Au
ditorium.
The lecture is a prelude to the
MSC Opera and Performing Arts
Society’s presentation of the opera
Jan. 28.
Sargon will be assisted by principal
singers from the Texas Opera Thea
ter in presenting an operalogue of
“Rigoletto.” An operalogue is a dis-
: cussion of an opera’s plot, music and
action.
MSC Program Adviser David Muc-
ci said the operalogue will familiarize
the audience with the opera’s story
and music, in order to increase
understanding and enjoyment of the
full opera. Sargon will explain the sig
nificance of certain passages and how
the music molds to the dramatic ac
tion of the opera.
He will be accompanied by opera
performers who will present samples
from the score of “Rigoletto.” Music
selections in Wednesday’s operalogue
and the opera next week will be in
English.
Tickets for the operalogue are $1
and may be purchased in advance at
the Rudder Box Office and at the
door.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: Overcast and
foggy again with light drizzle with
no significant chance of rain. High
today in the mid-70s; low in the
mid-50s. Wednesday’s forecast
calls for mostly cloudy skies with
extended cloudiness until
Thursday.