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mm ■ Texas A&M ■ ■ ■ ■
The Battalion
Serving the Universily community
1.75 No. 116 USPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, March 22, 1982
hancellor candidate
eets with board today
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
|Dr. Arthur Hansen, president of
rdue University, met today with
embers of the Board of Regents to
cuss his recommendation as the
Jw chancellor of the Texas A&M
Iniversity System.
The formal announcement of
lansen’s appointment as chancellor
lexpected during Tuesday’s regular
|eeting.
Members of the four-man chancel-
search committee made their re-
Immendation to the full board in
[used session this morning. Hansen
; present during the meeting. The
[arch committee’s recommendation
subject to approval by the full
laid, and (he vote on Hansen is ex
acted to be unanimous.
Hansen reportedly will be paid
La,()()() a year to head the system
office that oversees Texas A&M Uni
versity, Prairie View A&M University,
Texas A&M University at Galveston,
Tarleton State University and the
seven research and extension services
including the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Servive.
Hansen and his wife, Nancy, ar
rived in College Station Sunday with
regents’ Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright.
The regents held a formal dinner
for Hansen and his wife Sunday night
in the Regents Annex of the Memo
rial Student Center.
University sources indicated last
March that Hansen was interviewed
for the Texas A&M presidency,
which Dr. Frank E. Vandiver filled
Sept. 1. Sources say Hansen turned
down the earlier offer to come to
Texas A&M because he was not in
terested in another university pres
idency.
Hansen announced in November
that he would step down from the
Purdue presidency by the end of this
year.
Search for a new chancellor began
when present System Chancellor
Frank W.R. Hubert offered his res
ignation Jan. 25, to be effective Aug.
31. The selection committee included
Hubert, Bright, and regents John R.
Blocker of Houston and Clyde H.
Weljs of Ciranbury.
Hansen, 56, received his bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering from
Purdue. His master’s and doctorate
degrees are in mathematics. He was a
research scientist for NASA from
1948 to 1949.
Between 1966 and 1969 he was
president of the Georgia Institute of
Technology, and he became presi
dent of Purdue in 1971.
card to look at dorm
ee increase for ‘82-83
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
An 8 percent increase in dormitory
[(Mini lees and a doubling of the room
[leposit will be considered at today’s
pieeting of the Texas A&M Universi-
System Board of Regents.
Several regents arrived here Sun-
fhy for a meeting of the board’s Plan
ping and Building Committee. The
l0 ard convened at 8:30 a.in. today to
[onsider that committee’s report,
along with reports from the Commit-
lee for Service Units, the Committee
l or Academic Campuses, the Com
mittee on Mineral Leases and the Ex
ecutive Committee.
Among the proposals to be consi-
[leted is one from University Presi-
jtlent Frank E. Vandiver, who is re-
pmmending an increase in all resi-
kleiice hall fees to cover rising operat-
f n g costs.
F nder his proposal, the least ex-
i Fnsive rooms would increase from
$2ti3 to S284, and the most expensive
rtpnis would increase from S655 to
$~b7 for one semester.
lees for individual halls would in
crease as follows:
•Hart, Law, Purvear, Walton: from
$283 to S284
*X<>. 1 through 12 (Corps Area),
Crocker, Davis-C iary, Moore, Moses,
Hotard: S424 to $458
•Fowler, Hughes, Keathley, Mcln-
n| s, Schuhmacher: $467 to $504
•1-egett: $490 to $529
Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert
• Haas, McFadden, Neeley, Hobby,
Clements, Underwood: $628 to $678
•Krueger, Dunn, Aston, Mosher:
$655 to $707
Vandiver also suggests doubling the
present $100 room deposit, saying
the measure would reduce the num
ber of students who sign up for on-
campus housing but then fail to check
into their rooms. Each semester the
housing office assigns more dorm
spaces than are available in order to
compensate for those students.
The proposal would not affect stu
dents who already have dorm rooms
and are planning to return in the fall.
Also slated for price increases are
board plans, rents for married stu
dent housing, student services fees
and laundry fees.
The price of the five-day board
plan would change from the present
$503 a semester to $534 and the
seven-day plan would rise from $563
to $597. Rents at Avenue A apart
ments would rise by 3 percent and
rents at all other married student
apartments by 7 percent.
The maximum student services fee
for one semester is now $39.50; that
would be changed to $43.50. And the
laundry service fee would rise from
$70 to $77.50.
All fee changes would be effective
with the Fall 1982 semester if
approved Tuesday by the Board of
Regents.
Today regents also are expected to
consider the establishment of the
Texas Transportation Institute as a
separate part of the System, indepen
dent of the Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station.
In addition, System construction
and repair proposals are on the agen
da. Those items include the proposed
horticulture/forest science building,
the extension of the Halbouty Build
ing and a study of the flooding prob
lems in the Zachry Engineering (Cen
ter basement.
See REGENTS, page 6
Back from break
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Sucking their ice cream sticks while
unloading their car after a satisfying
spring break in their hometown of
Dallas, are David Hughes, front, and
Adam Jones. Hughes is an agricultural
economics major and Jones is a
petroleum engineering major. Both are
freshmen.
Hiroshima survivors
to speak at Senate
Senator urging rejection of cuts
in college grants for students
United Press International
WASHINGTON — One member
of the Senate Labor and Human Re
sources Committee thinks the Senate
should reject President Reagan’s
proposed $ 1.4 billion slash in college
student grants.
Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., urged
senators in a letter released Sunday to
support the full $2.8 billion autho
rized for the program in the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act passed bv
C’ongress.
The committee voted 9-7 to urge
that the full $2.8 billion be appropri
ated.
Pell said the halving of the prog
ram proposed in Reagan’s 1983
budget would mean a 40 percent re
duction in the number of students re
ceiving Pell Grants, named for the
senator as the original sponsor of the
grant authorization bill. The formal
name of the grants is Basic Education
al Opportunity Grants.
The number of students receiving
the grants, he said, would drop from
the current 2,845,085 to about 1.7
million. Texas would lose from
136,634 to 81,980.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A group of
survivors of America’s first atomic
bomb blast are in Washington today
to describe the horrors of the 1945
Hiroshima explosion from a weapon
1,000 times smaller than a modern
nuclear warhead.
The Hiroshima survivors make up
one of four panels of witnesses set to
testify in a public forum chaired bv
Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and
Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., cosponsors of
a Senate resolution calling For a U.S.-
U.S.S.R mutual and verifiable freeze
of nuclear stockpiles at current levels.
The other panels consist of reli
gious leaders, spokesmen from va
rious organizations promoting the
nuclear freeze, and military wit
nesses.
Kennedy also has invited Dr.
Helen Caldicott of Physicians for So
cial Responsibility to a March 24
showing of “The List Epidemic,” a
film depicting the medical horrors of
nuclear war.
The Kennedy-Hatfield legislation
has 21 co-sponsors in the Senate and
150 in the House. It represents con
gressional participation in a nation
wide freeze movement which a Un
ited Press International weekend sur
vey showed to be both active and fast
growing.
April 18-25 has been designated
“Ground Zero Week,” with hundreds
of seminars, lectures, film showings,
teach-ins and other educational acti
vities scheduled across the nation to
spark public interest in halting the
arms race.
The American Friends Service
Committee is calling for a June 12
freeze rally at the United Nations.
Vermont’s freeze sympathizers plan
to attend, and warmed up with a
three-day march last August from
Washington, Vt., to Moscow, Vt., on
Hiroshima Day.
Referendums and initiatives will
appear on the November election bal
lots in a number of states, including
New Jersey where Assembly Speaker
Alan Karcher argues: “We already
have enough nuclear arms to kill ev
erybody 10 times. To build enough to
kill everybody 20 times is insane.”
Two nationwide polls published
Sunday show a majority ol Americans
favor a freeze on nuclear weapons
construction.
A survey of 1,500 adults bv the Los
Angeles Times and Cable News Net
work showed 57 percent of those re
sponding feel the United States
doesn't need additional nuclear
weapons for its defense.
And a poll of 757 adults by News
week magazine showed 60 percent
supporting the nuclear freeze move
ment.
I he Nuclear Weapons Freeze
Campaign’s clearinghouse in St.
Louis reported that 257 township or
county resolutions have passed in five
New England states; similar resolu
tions have been voted in both houses
of six legislatures and the New York
Assembly, and one house has passed
it in two more; 23 city councils and
seven county councils outside New
England have adopted Freeze resolu
tions, and responses to a January
questionnaire found freeze activity at
differing levels in 179 congressional
districts in 43 states.
Students help A&M work through jobs
by Pam Barta
Battalion Reporter
For some students, Texas A&M
niversity is not only where they live
nd learn — it is also their workplace.
At various times during the 1980-
II academic year. 6,098 undergradu-
te students were employed by the
. niversity. About 2,000 graduate stu-
Icnts were employed and paid dur-
ng the same lime period.
The number of students employed
it Texas A&M this year is about the
ame as last year, said Clair E. Fink,
tudent financial aid assistant dire-
“The trend is about the same or
maybe a trifle more than last vear,” he
said.
I exas A&M paid S6.6 million to
undergraduate student employees
and $8.7 million to graduate student
employees during 1980-81. Fink said.
The Student Financial Aid Office
has the responsibility of coordinating
employment for Texas A&M stu
dents. It maintains current listings of
job vacancies from the University,
businesses, firms and citizens in the
Bryan-College Station and adjacent
area.
The Student Financial Aid Office
does not takejob applications, neither
does it have job placement authority.
Students are responsible for arrang
ing interviews and work schedules.
The University doesn't have the staff
or the facilities to do this for a student,
Fink said.
“We haven't had any complaints
about the system," he said. “As you
can see, we have students on the job."
Students who need financial aid
may apply for the College Work-
Study Program. Students who are
employed under this program are
paid at least the minimum wage and
may work up to 20 hours a week, de
pending on their class schedule.
Students who do not participate in
the Work-Study Program have no re
strictions on how many hours a week
they may work. However, students
are encouraged not to let their work
hours interfere with their study time,
Fink said;
The starting salary for a student is
$3.64 an hour and salaries range up
to $6 an hour depending on the job,
Fink said. About 60 ptercent of the
students employed at Texas A&M
make $3.64 an hour. Fink said.
The average student worker makes
about $1,000 to $1,100 a year. Fink
said. The money to pay these students
comes from state appropriations and
federal money and grants.
Many typ>es of employment are
available to students, including job as
food servers, office clerks, game offi
cials, lab technicians and papter grad
ers. Food Services, intramurals and
the Sterling C. Evans Library are the
largest student employers with about
200 students employed at each.
The only students w ho are prohi
bited from working on campus are
those who receive full financial fund
ing from the Student Financial Aid
Office. Fink said.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: Cloudy and cool
with a 30 ptercent chance of rain
today and a 50 percent chance
tonight. Today’s high should l»e in
the low 60s and the low should lx*
near 50. Tuesday’s forecast calls
for a 40 percent chance of rain.