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    The DaTtaMon
Serving the University community
76 No. 2 USPS 045360 26 Pages in 2 Sections
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 2, 1982
>-'0011
Record budget
iought by System
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
'he Texas A&M University System
Wednesday presented a 1984-85
mium budget request of more
n $867 million to members of the
Kitive Budget Board staff and
Hentatives of the governor’s
ice.
fhe System’s most recent budget
juest — for 1982-83 — was more
jn$624 million for its four univer-
B and six major service agencies.
■Spinal appropriation was $596
lion.
fexas A&M University was sche-
Kd to present the largest single re-,
■—$460,731,693 — this morn-
iThe requested 1984 appropria-
nol $231,348,351 is an increase of
ut 59 percent over the
|)92.004 appropriated for the
1 YflllK" f ,sca l year, which began
■ • UVHesday.
j.j n . ■rial items in the University
Kinglet request include computer
lipment and data processing,
)i6 nority student recruitment, en-
. leering laboratory equipment and
I jO^iilitai v studies institute.
|3fter the hearings, the Legislative
Bet Board staff and the gov-
pr’s staff will draft an appropria-
hs bill, which will be submitted to
■ext regular session of the Legisl-
ire.
Representatives of Tarleton State
fersity and Prairie View A&M
Diversity presented their budget re-
ests Wednesday. Tarleton officials
requested $27,614,095 —
$13,322,622 for 1984 and
$14,291,473 for 1985.
Prairie View officials requested
$66,790,769 —$32,839,003 for 1984
and $33,951,766 for 1985. The 1984
request is almost twice the
$16,387,046 budgeted for 1983. Most
of this increase resulted from plan
ned construction and building re
habilitation at Prairie View.
During the hearings Wednesday,
System Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen
emphasized the need for salary in
creases and faculty and staff develop
ment leaves.
The System has requested 1984 sal
ary increases of 15 percent for profes
sional employees and 16.1 percent for
classified employees. Salary increases
requested for 1985 are 10 percent for
professional employees and 12.4 per
cent for classified employees.
“We have to look at salaries not
only from the real-dollar standpoint,
but also from the standpoint of salar
ies being competitive,” Hansen said.
“If you want to keep the best, if you
want a really fine faculty, you have to
pay.”
The System keeps salaries in step
with inflation, but that isn’t enough,
he said.
“We have to keep the ball rolling,”
he said. “Not only do we have to move
ahead from the past — we have to
leap ahead."
Salaries aren’t the only problem,
Hansen said.
“We have to make up a competitive
package,” he said. “Right now, we’re
not very competitive m faculty and
staff development leaves and fringe
benefits.
“Development leaves are absolute
ly prime. They give the faculty a
chance to grow. If we want this Uni
versity to be regarded as first-class,
we’ve got to have them.”
The lack of faculty leaves can tar
nish a university’s image, he said.
“There’s a feeling that institutions
without (faculty leaves) do not have
the respect and confidence of the
state,” Hansen said.
Persons outside a university some
times interpret development leaves or
sabbaticals simply as another vaca
tion, but that is not the case, he said.
“The faculty needs this type of
chance,” Hansen said. “It’s up to us to
give them flexibility, then see if they
can achieve the goals they have set out
to accomplish.”
Other presentations scheduled for
today are the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station at 1:30 p.m., Texas
A&M University at Galveston at 3
p.m., and the Texas Forest Service at
4 p.m.
On Friday, budget requests from
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, the Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station, the Texas Trans
portation Institute, the Texas En
gineering Extension Service and the
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
Laboratory will be presented.
Syst
em Budget Proposals
Divisions 1983 Allocations
1984 Requests
1985 Requests
Texas A&M
University
$136,092,004
$231,348,351
$229,383,342
Texas A&M
at Galveston
$4,369,612
$37,509,072
$9,813,777
Tarleton State
University
$8,306,864
$13,322,622
$14,291,473
Prairie View A&M
University
$16,387,046
$32,839,003
$33,951,766
Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station
$36,295,426
$48,236,964
$52,223,593
Texas Agricultural
Extension Service
$27,962,922
$44,222,862
$47,634,053
Texas Engineering
Experiment Station
$4,067,583
$7,182,781
$8,064,674
Texas Engineering
Extension Service
$1,758,390
$7,850,343
$5,961,022
Texas Transportation
Institute
$1,201,525
$2,111,623
$2,336,645
Texas Forest Service
$7,923,717
$9,735,528
$10,920,634
Rodent and Predatory $2,082,893
Animal Control Service
$2,894,833
$3,067,462
Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic
Laboratory
$1,692,065
$3,216,381
$2,616,739
System administrative
and general offices
$1,437,278
$3,165,979
$3,511,909
Total
$249,577,325
$443,636,342
$423,777,089
Rudder
=riama9ed
O
Iby fire
by Hope E. Paasch
United Press International
^ A fire in the kitchen in Rudder
ower’s 11th floor dining hall
iused extensive smoke damage
■dnesday. College Station Fire
bid Douglas Landua said.
iCapt. Dave Giordano of the Col-
:ge Station Fire Department said
re damage was limited to the kitch-
I|area, but the entire floor was
amaged by smoke.
| “Actual fire damage was limited
) a grill, three deep-fat fryers, the
Bing over the grill and a couple of
uorescent lights,” Giordano said.
Hie only estimate on damage is
pound $5,000, and that’s only a
piesstimate.’ We’re waiting for the
tisurance people.”
| No one was injured in the fire,
1 mich was reported to the CSFD ab-
>ut 10 a.m.
I Firemen were unable to reach the
K immediately because the stair-
veil doors were locked.
IpGiordano said firemen were de-
iyed 20 or 30 seconds while waiting
or a key to the stairwell door.
Landua said locking stairwell
loors is not standard fire safety pro-
(aure, but the Rudder Tower
loors always are locked,
i Once firemen were able to get
into the floor, the fire was exting-
jished within two minutes, Landua
laid.
I Fire and smoke damage would
lave been much less if the building
lad a sprinkler system, he said.
| “If they’d had a sprinkler system,
College Station firemen radio in
that fire would’ve been out a lot
quicker,” Landua said. “A sprinkler
system probably would’ve put it out
before we even got there.”
A dry powder chemical system in
a vent hood in the kitchen dis
charged properly, but did not ex
tinguish the fire, he said. The dry
powder was the only fire protection
after the Rudder Tower fire.
device on the floor, Landua said.
The University is exempt from
local fire safety codes because it is a
state agency. College Station fire
codes require unlocked stairwell
doors and sprinkler systems in
schools.
University officials were unavail
able for comment.
Mexico nationalizes
banking system
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Choking back his tears, President
Jose Lopez Portillo ordered Mexico’s banking system na
tionalized, a move that sparked criticism from the nation’s
business community and strong praise by communists.
Lopez Portillo’s announcement in his State of the
Nation speech Wednesday was considered the most con
troversial expropriation since Mexico seized assets of
foreign oil companies in 1938. In the 1950s, it took over
electric companies.
“It is now or never,” Lopez Portillo said in his final
State of the Nation address before leaving office Dec. 1.
The president wiped tears from his face and choked as he
tried to talk. “Mexico is not finished.”
The government also imposed exchange controls,
which require tourists to register money brought into
Mexico, order Mexicans to cash in their dollars and
theatened jail terms for anyone caught selling currency
on the black market.
Banks were shut down until Monday to allow author
ities to implement the new measures. But the nationaliza
tion will not affect depositors, who probably will notice no
major changes when banks reopen under government
management.
The secretary general of Mexico’s communist-
dominated Unified Socialist Party called for “all democra
tic classes” to defend Lopez Portillo’s decision and “stop
political measures that the bourgeoisie evidentally will
take.”
Seniors must meet deadlines
to receive December degree
Graduating seniors probably know
that graduation is 99 days away. But
what they probably don’t realize is
that their long-awaited degrees have
strings attached.
Seniors must fulfill a variety of
obligations before crossing the stage
of G. Rollie White Coliseum. First
they must pay a $ 15 graduation fee at
the Coke Building. The fee receipt
must be taken by Sept. 10 to Heaton
Hall, where the senior must fill out a
degree application.
If the senior misses the Sept. 10
deadline, he will not be eligible for
graduation, Assistant Registrar
Donald Gardner said.
Overdue library books and other
financial matters also must be cleared
with the University and all grade
changes must be completed by Dec. 9
in order for a senior to graduate,
Gardner said.
Next on the list are invitations.
They can be ordered between 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in
217 MSC. French-fold invitations cost
60 cents each, cardboard souvenir in
vitations are $2.50 and maroon
souvenir invitations are $3. A box of
100 name cards costs $6.50.
Invitations should be ordered by
Sept. 30, and they should arrive Nov.
15, said Faye Yeates, supervisor of the
Student Finance Center. They can be
picked up in the MSC Browsing Lib
rary.
And of course, no graduation is
complete without a cap and gown.
They will be available in the MSC
Bookstore beginning Nov. 1 until the
day of graduation. A bachelor’s cap
and gown costs $ 11.50, and a master’s
cap and gown costs $12.50. Doctoral
caps and gowns can be rented for
$23.50. Women will need a white col
lar for their gowns.
Reagan seeks home for Palestinians
United Press International
1 BURBANK, Calif. — President
agan, stepping out of the tradition-
U.S. role of Middle East mediator,
spelled out a precise, “fresh start” in
Rmerican policy toward finding a
me for the region’s displaced Pales-
ians.
While grounding his comments
pth the vow: “America’s commit-
Bent to the security of Israel is iron-
fiad, and I might add, so is mine,” the
president, in a surprise address to the
tion Wednesday, called for Palesti-
iian self-government in the Israeli-
cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,
der Jordan’s guidance.
He said the plan, first proposed by
: late Egyptian President Anwar
idat, would involve an exchange of
^ ydfmtory for peace.
He warned Israel against expand
ing its settlements in its occupied
areas of the West Bank and Gaza and
said the United States would not sup
port an Israeli annexation of the
those lands.
“It is the firm view of the United
States, self-government by the Palesti
nians of the West Bank and Gaza in
association with Jordan, offers the
best chance for a durable, just and
lasting peace,” the president said.
But even before Reagan spoke,
Israeli officials vowed to resist any
U.S. attempts to sidestep the Camp
David formula for Middle East peace
and said they would never allow the
creation of a Palestinian state in the
West Bank or Gaza.
When Israeli Prime Minister Begin
received the Reagan proposal in a let
ter Tuesday, he cut short a vacation
and scheduled an emergency meeting
of his Cabinet today to review the new
U.S. stand.
It was uncertain how Jordan’s
King Hussein would react.
Reagan did not detail the exact
relationship envisioned between Jor
dan and autonomous Palestinians in
the areas currently administered by
Israel.
Reagan was lauded by two Repub
lican senators for making a
courageous proposal in his surprise
nationwide television address on the
Middle East.
But a House Democrat said
Reagan had damaged the role of the
United States as a mediator by laying
down conditions in advance for Israel
to accept as part of a comprehensive
Middle East peace.
“I’m afraid the Israelis are going to
panic and that will just blow the whole
show,” said Rep. Benjamin Rosen
thal, D-N.Y.
Officials of major Jewish organiza
tions said they were pleased Reagan
reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to
Israel’s security and ruled out sup
port for an independent Palestinian
state
Sounding weary of the continuing
Middle East conflicts, Reagan said the
now-completed evacuation of PLO
fighters from Lebanon offers a
chance for “a more far-reaching
peace effort in the region — and I was
determined to seize that moment.”
The president said the defeat of
the PLO did not diminish “the yearn
ing of the Palestinian people for ajust
solution of their claims; and ... while
Israel’s military successes in Lebanon
have demonstrated its armed forces
are second to none in the region, they
alone cannot bring just and lasting
peace to Israel and her neighbors.”
He said he would never ask Israel
to live in the shadow of enemy guns,
but feels “a new realism” is demanded
in the area. He said A vital part of the
new process would be recognition of
Israel as a state with unchallenged
legitimacy.
“Israel exists,” he said. “It has a
right to exist in peace behind secure
defensible borders.” But he added,
the Lebanese war dramatizes more
than ever the homelessness of the
Palestinian people.
inside
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Whatsup 6
forecast
Today’s Forecast: Same as usual.
Very slight chance of afternoon
showers. High in the high 90s, low
in the mid-70s.