The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 15, 1982, Image 1

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President Reagan sent Secretary of
State Alexander Haig back to Buenos
Aires today with new ideas to avert
war between Britain and Argentina,
but both nations warned they were
ready to fight for the Falkland Islands
and ordered up reinforcements.
Haig, resuming the peace mission
that has taken him to London twice
and Buenos Aires once in the last
week, said he had discussed proposals
with Argentine officials by telephone
Wednesday.
“Based on these new ideas, the
Argentines have invited me to return
to Buenos Aires,” he said, refusing to
elaborate or say if he would continue
the shuttle to London.
Argentina took a tough stand be
fore his arrival, with President
Leopoldo Galtieri saying his country
will seek a peaceful solution to the
crisis but would not withdraw from
the British colony they seized April 2.
Gen. Mario Menendez, the newly
appointed Argentine governor of the
windswept 200-island archipelago,
said the British are not going to push
Argentines off the islands.
Britain was just as firm in its de
mand for the islands’ return, with
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
vowing to Parliament Wednesday
that “our diplomacy is backed by
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strength and we have the resolve to
use that strength if necessary.”
Efforts to find a diplomatic solu
tion were hung up by British and
Argentine demands for recognition
of sovereignty before talks begin on
the future of the islands, inhabited by
1,800 Britons.
Britain and Argentina continued
their military buildup, with both sides
making a display of their willingness
to battle for the islands if Haig’s diplo
matic efforts collapse.
Thatcher called Haig’s mission to
day crucial and Argentina moved at
least 2,000 troops to Rio Gallegos,
1,740 miles south of the capital, on
their way to the Falklands off the etjst
coast of Argentina, where 9,000
troops were dug in awaiting the arriv
al of the British warships.
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Battalion Staff
JAthletic Director Marvin Fate and
Head Coach Tom Wilson were re
placed because of mediocrity in the
Athletic Department, the chairman of
the Texas A&M System Board of Re
gents said Wednesday morning.
I Regents Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright of Dallas also discussed the hir
ing of Purdue President Arthur G.
Jansen as System chancellor at a
breakfast meeting of the Sul Ross
Organization.
| And, after the meeting, Bright
commented on Hansen’s proposal for
a student member on the Board of
Regents, saying he does not see the
merit of the idea.
| The Sul Ross group is composed of
former students who graduated at
jeast50 years ago. It conducts a reun
ion on campus each spring; about 300
members attended the reunion’s
farewell breakfast Wednesday.
H At the breakfast. Bright focused on
the change of personnel in the Athle
tic Department. He said he had
started to worry about the quality of
the University’s athletic program as
early as the July regents’ meeting.
Bright appointed a committee then to
oversee department operations,
i That committee reported that the
Athletic Department was badly run,
Bright said.
§ No football games outside the
•Southwest Conference had been
scheduled past 1984; Bright said most
!major universities already had been
'booked through 1992.
I “That’s why we’re playing the
Louisiana Techs and UT-
Arlingtons,” Bright said. “Because
they’re the only ones we could get.”
That was not the only scheduling
deficiency, he said.
One technique used in recruiting
football players is to take them to bas
ketball games on Saturday nights in
recruiting season. The spirit display-
“The bottom line is — we
have an athletic program of
which you can he proud.
And I promise you we will
not go another 40 years
without going to the Cotton
Bowl.” — H.R. “5 urn”
Bright, chairman of the
Texas A&M System Board
of Regents
ed at. the games, Bright said, inspires
the high-school players to sign up.
“For this past recruiting season,
Texas A&M did not have one home
basketball game scheduled for a
Saturday night,” he said.
No University football coaches
were invited to speak at football cli
nics, Bright said. And few high-school
coaches came to watch Aggie spring
practice.
And since 1941, Texas A&M had
been to the Cotton Bowl only once, in
1967.
“We did hot have a pre-eminent
athletic program,” Bright said.
So the Board began to apply press
ure to the department to raise its level
of performance, he said. And under
that pressure, Tate resigned.
So the Athletic Oversight Commit
tee became a search committee. It
sought advice from professional and
college football coaches; those
coaches submitted a list of names, of
which five vvere picked as candidates
for the athletic director position.
All five candidates said they would
either fire the football coaching staff
or reserve the right to do so, Bright
said. And when the committee settled
on Jackie Sherrill, Sherrill said he
would take the job only if it were com
bined with the head coach’s position.
Under Sherrill, Bright said, the
athletic program will be outstanding.
“We have wound up with a man to
head our athletic program that will
make us second to none,” he said. “By
way of comparison, this year Texas
A&M will have about 250 high-school
football coaches attending their
spring practice.
“At Texas A&M, Jackie Sherrill has
built a juggernaut of a staff. And that
word is tlie word Darrell Royal (for
mer head football coach at the Uni
versity of Texas) used to describe it;
he said, ‘My gosh, you have put
together a juggernaut.’
“The bottom line is — we have an
athletic program of which you can be
proud. And I promise you we will not
go another 40 years without going to
the Cotton Bowl.”
Bright also praised Chancellor-
designate Hansen.
“I predict we’ll be so proud of Dr.
Hansen we’ll just strut around, pop
ping buttons off of our vest,” Bright
said. “He is a man of remarkable
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H.R. “Bum” Bright, chairman of the
Texas A&M System Board of Regents,
makes a point during his speech to the
Sul Ross
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organization Wednesday.
Mosher Hall, Edward J.
’28, right, listens.
Dean says enrollment limited to keep quality
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
A continued limit on enrollment
and raised academic standards for
admission are two ways administra
tors plan to maintain the quality and
reputation of the Texas A&M College
of Engineering, the dean of the col
lege said Wednesday.
“Standards will stay high and our
goal is set to maintain those stan
dards,” Dean R.H. Page told en
gineering students in an open ques-
tion-and-answer period Wednesday.
“We are not going to grow to be a
monstrous university.”
If the College of Engineering con
tinues to grow as it has since 1977 —
when enrollment was less than 7,000
students — total enrollment for the
fall semester of 1982 will be 12,500,
even with the raised requirements for
admission determined by the Texas
A&M System Board of Regents, Page
said.
A deficit of 400,000 square feet of
space is predicted for the fall semes
ter, and close to $29 million is needed
to cover undergraduate, masters and
doctorate teaching programs, he said.
“We need 52 new faculty, but be
cause of budget problems, we’ll only
add ten,” Page said.
These positions, he said, were cre
ated by a manipulation of funds from
other colleges.
Some of the facilities problems of
the college now are being solved.
The Engineering Laboratory Cen
ter now under construction should be
available in the spring of 1983, and
another building, planned for com
pletion in 1985 or 1986, will house
facilities for physics and engineering.
It will be located between the Halbou-
ty Building and the Cyclotron.
Page said the goal of the College of
Engineering, in order to maintain
high quality and standards, is to limit
enrollment in the year 1990 to 11,000
students.
Page told students the success of
the college depends on them.
“The crux is you, the student
body,” he said. “Without students
we’d be nothing.”
During the open question-and-
answer period, several areas of con
cern were brought up by students.
As to.the availability of laboratory
facilities for undergraduate use in the
new Engineering Laboratory Center,
Assistant Dean L. A. Carlson said
plans are not firm as to whether there
will be undergraduate facilities. He
added that whatever goes into the
building will leave space elsewhere in
current campus buildings for facili
ties.
As to the effect of raised academic
requirements on students currently
enrolled in the college, Page said the
changes, effective now, would not be
retroactive.
The question was raised as to
whether the statics and dynamics
course (ME 212) is being used to weed
out engineering students.
Mechanical Engineering Depart
ment Chairman G. R. Hopkins said
the requirements of this course have
not changed, but that it is harder to
meet them now because of the in
creasingly competitive nature of the
engineering curriculum.
He said individual student prob
lems cannot be handled as well now
because the student-faculty ratio is
not the same as it was ten years ago.
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today and tonight; high today in
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