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4 =national Forum (continued from page 1) chapters of such professional organizations as the Association of General Contractors, the American Institute of Architects and the Institute for Landscape Architects, Assistant Dean James W. Craig Jr. said. Students also serve on various committees in the college, he said, such as curriculum, faculty advisory and appeals. “Students are involved in the college,” Craig said. In the College of Geosciences, the four undergraduate depart ments — geography, geology, geophysics and meteorology — have student representatives on the student council for the Col lege of Geosciences. The student council takes up issues and serves as a channel of communication between stu dents and administrators. “We don’t have any other for mal setup,” Dr. Davis A. Fahl- quist, assistant dean for acade mic affairs, said. “If students re quested it, we would.” The College of Science also has established a student council as a means of identifying and dealing with student concerns. Assistant Dean Omer C. Jenkins said this council meets every two weeks with Dr. Kenneth R. Poenisch, assistant to the dean. Representatives to this coun cil come from student organiza tions in the College of Science. Associate Dean Candida Lutes of the College of Liberal Arts said her office always is open to students and they can easily make appointments with her or Dean Keith L. Bryant. “We do meet with probation students to tell them about poli cies and give them a pep talk,” she said. Student problems are indi vidual concerns so an open poli cy of student communication with the deans is better than a formal meeting. Lutes said. Each department in the Col lege of Education is represented on a Student Advisory Council at both undergraduate and gra duate levels. Student representatives to this council are the communica tions link between their depart ment and the administration. Dr. Bryan R. Cole, associate dean of the College of Educa tion, said. The council meets with Cole three to four times a semester to share any concerns from under graduate students in the depart ments of educational curricu lum instruction, health and phy sical education and industrial education. At the graduate level, these three departments plus educa tional administration, educa tional psychology and interdisci plinary education have repre sentatives to the advisory council. Because of the small size of the College of Medicine — 32 students in each of two classes — Associate Dean William E. Ward said students have no problem getting in to see the deans. “Whether their problems are personal or otherwise, we’re here to help them,” he said. Small group meetings are held with the students to iden tify and discuss problems, Ward said. Dr. George C. Shelton, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, said since this college is also comparatively small, stu dent-administration communi cation is not a major problem. “Our door is always open,” he said. “We communicate directly whatever way we can.” A student-faculty relations committee meets regularly, he said, and any problems or con cerns identified are dealt with by the committee. “We maintain an attitude of responding to students’ needs,” Shelton said. jfS*™ WHOLE EARTH PROVISION COMPANY j 105 e>oyett 846-8794 j When a good friend borrows your car, the tank may not come back full. But the trunk does. Battalion/Page April 23,198; Mexico slashes budget to fight El economic woes United Press International MEXICO CITY — Mexico has launched a radical new economic program to slash government spending in the wake of sagging world oil prices and soaring domestic inflation. President Jose Lopez Por tillo ordered the 12-point plan into action Wednesday, slashing the 1982 federal budget of $72 billion by 8 per cent — or $5.76 billion — and imposing new tariffs to raise $3.2 billion for the depleted public coffers. The measure also orders the government and private business to cut imports by $3 billion this year in a move ex pected to have its biggest im pact on the United States, Mexico’s No. 1 trading partner. The government hopes the belt-tightening will ease infla tion, which rose at a 54 per cent annual rate during the first three months of this year, and restore publico lost because of thep valuation, economist^ The economic ( been brewing sinceeI when oil supply oiffi| demand and forced!! the world fourth I crude oil producer, cj prices to keepfromlc turners. The plan also dera •A halt to all non® tive public works. •A limit of $111 new foreign debt, vik. totals about $70bilkl ico’s foreign debt iskJ Brazil’s for the I world. •Intervention inciri exchange by thecenu; “to avoid gross oremsj tuations" of the peso Economists said the Mexico’s financialcristl dramatic drop in rai: r roleum price duringtl year. UAW lo blasts G! bonus Lowenbrau. Here’s to good friends. © t982 Beer Brewed by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. United Press bkMM DETROIT — Disk | : workers Thursday urjs day shutdown of theal I to protesta planmakini I for top brass to get Ira Don Douglas, pra Local 594, said he sn President Douglas Ftts gram urging a protts proposal “up to andiui large scale protest atil ^ holders’ meeting 1 complete shutdowno.' operations that day." Douglas’local is the I Locals Opposed to Cos ^ a group that vch opposed granting ih automaker “givebacb contract. Theiropposit: | ly scuttled a new $3 hi! cessions pact with Motors. 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