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Muse elected president of SBAA
Dr. William V. Muse, Dean of the College of Business
Adminsitration here, was elected President of the Southern
Business Administration Association at the Thirtieth
Annual SBAA meeting in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 4-5.
The SBAA represents approximately 225 southern insti
tutions of higher education who have programs in business
administration.
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Arab professor to speak here Wed.
Dr. Dawood El-Sayed will speak on “The Place of English in
Arab Univerisities,” Wednesday at 7:30 in Room 203 Acade
mic and Agency Building.
El-Sayed is a visiting professor teaching linguistics in the
English Department at Texas A&M.
Q-Huts available for spring parties
If your recognized student organization is planning a party
for the spring semester, and needs a place to have it, the
Student Activities Office is now taking reservations for the
Quonset Huts.
Reservations include an optional sound system or D. J.
and are on a first come, first serve basis.
For more information or to reserve the Q-Huts, contact
the Student Activities Office in Room 221 MSC, or call
845-1133.
Benefit variety show set for Sat.
The sixth annual Songfest, a benefit variety show with
proceeds going to the Brazos County Rehabilitation Center,
will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Civic Au
ditorium.
Sixteen different groups will be participating in the show,
which is sponsored by Chi Omega Sorority.
Last year the sorority raised $1800 for the Center.
Tickets for Songfest are $3 in advance and $4 at the door.
For ticket information call 693-5340. For more information
about Songfest in general, call Laura Green at 693-5900.
Holiday fashion show to be Wed.
The MSC Hospitality Committee is sponsoring a Holiday
Fashion Show, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 201 MSC.
Tickets may be purchased for 75 cents at the door.
Water to be topic of conference
The 1982 Water for Texas Conference opens here this
Thursday and Friday. Directors of the conference are anti
cipating over 250 scientists, state and municipal officials and
water experts from throughout Texas.
At the top of the agenda is the topic of the state’s rapidly
shrinking supply of fresh water and the threat that the
diminishing supply poses to agriculture, industry and urban
life.
Pendleton to speak at SPJ meeting
Scott Pendleton, will speak on “What It’s Like To Be a
Journalist in Saudi Arabia,” at The Society of Professional
Journalists meeting, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Room 308
Rudder.
Pendleton is a former Saudi Arabia stringer for the Wall
Street Journal, and a contributing writer for a Saudi daily
newspaper and The Financial Times of London.
Culture films to be shown bi-weekly
The Texas A&M International Students Association is
sponsoring a series of documentaries to promote awareness
and understanding among different cultures.
The films will be shown bi-weekly during the next semes
ter. Films to be shown include documentaries from Sri
Lanka, Egypt, Greece and Colombia.
The First Film with be shown Tuesday night at 8 in Room
701 of Rudder Tower.
For more information, contact the International Students
Association in the Memorial Student Center Student Prog
rams Office.
Public hearing to be held Thurs.
The City of College Station will hold a public hearing
Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Council Room of the College
Station City Hall.
The hearing concerns possible future development of the
Northgate Park, located at the corner of Church Street and
Wellborn Road.
For additional information, contact the Parks and Re
creation Department at 696-4753.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit
for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
local / state
Battalion/Page 4
November 15,198!
Textbook critic
defends views
United Press International
AUSTIN — Fundamentalist
textbook critic Norma Gabler
claimed she was voicing the con
cerns of parents, not advocating
book-banning or censorship, by
trying to police the contents of
$51 million worth of textbooks
adopted Saturday by the State
Board of Education.
The board unanimously
approved a slate of nearly 100
books to be used in public
schools beginning in 1983.
Adoption of health and civics
textbooks was delayed until
January so publishers could ex
pand drug abuse chapters in
health books and add more his
torical documents and patriotic
speeches to civics texts.
Gabler said Saturday she was
representing the interests of
concerned parents and denied
claims by some anti-censorship
groups that she and her hus
band, Mel, exercised too much
influence in trying to ban books
that fail to support their fun
damental religious beliefs.
“We’ve never imposed our
values on anybody, and the way
a person votes or the way the
board votes has nothing to do
with what the Cablers say,” said
the Longview housewife, who is
considered one of the most in
fluential textbook critics in the
nation.
“It has nothing to do with cen
sorship. You can’t take them all,
but you can choose the best (tex
tbooks). I don’t call that book-
banning or censorship. I think
that’s the right of selection.”
She said she was pleased with
the board’s agreement to re
quire changes in some books
that treated evolution as a fact
instead of a theory. She said pa
rents also would be pleased that
more emphasis would be placed
on the dangers of drugs in
health texts.
The textbook selection pro
cess in Texas,- the nation’s
second biggest school book pur
chaser, began last spring when
proposed books were made
available for public inspection.
A state textbook committee held
public hearings last summer.
Last week the Board of Educa
tion conducted three days of
adoption proceedings.
It will cost $51.3 million to
purchase and distribute the
books, which cover the subjects
of health, civics, English as a
second language, music, home
making, accounting, math,
marine science, physiology and
anatomy, German, geography
and cosmetology.
Cost to build dorms
outweighs demand
by Carol Smith
Battalion Staff
The demand for on-
campus housing at Texas
A&M University is still grow
ing, but chances are few that
more dorms will be con
structed in the next four or
five years, says James Wallace,
supervisor of housing ser
vices.
“Cost is the primary factor
for not building more dorms,”
Wallace said.
Fhe cost of dorm construc
tion has increased tremen
dously over the last decade, he
said.
For example, Krueger and
Dunn halls, which were built
in 1970-71, house about 800
students and cost approxi
mately $7 million. Under
wood Hall, constructed in
1981, houses 300 students
and cost approximately $8
million.
Last spring, the Board of
Regents approved plans for a
2,200-student complex, Wal
lace said, but the major prob
lem is the estimated $44 mil
lion it will cost to build the
facility.
Students at the University
subsidize on-campus housing
to some extent, Wallace said,
but the main revenue comes
from bond sales. Financing
bonds is somewhat prohibitive
because of the cost of borrow
ing money, he said.
The term of debt lor dorms
is usually 50 years, Wallace
said, and the University is
paying off bonds on 16
dorms, including the Com
mons complex, the modular
dorms and the balcony-style
halls. The only ones that are
paid for are the corps-style
dorms.
But, he said he does not be
lieve the demand will drop
off.
“With the increasing cost of
living off-campus, the de
mand is going to increase if
anything,” Wallace said.
Fhe University, which hits
an enrollment of more than
36,()()(), hits housing lot
1 (),()()() single students;
1,500 married students.
“ Fhe only potential limi
one in which we wouldt
force a policy that all fret!
men are required to liven
campus,” he said. But, ll'l
lace added that such a polio
unwise and probably wot!
not be enacted.
“The upperclassmen|i
on-campus would havei
out into the community,!
the parents are not goitifd
want their kids to ntoveo
campus,” he said. “It becottt
itu reasingly expensive to!
ofl-campus — lunSl
vom ou n food, paying!?™
lit ies and furnishingyotirt)i|
transportation.” i
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Fhe lottery system used
decide which applicants))
receive rooms will contit
until the demand for ho
drops off , Wallace said,
demand drops, then thclt
terv system will be exclianp
for one which goes by thetl
of application.
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sium are to promote an under
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issues involved in the discussion
of religion in schools and to dis
cover cooperative approaches to
resolving conflicts that arise
occasionally in the Bryan-
College Station area.
Dr. James E. Wood, Jr., dire
ctor of the J.M. Dawson Studies
in Church and State at Baylor
University, will give the opening
address. He will review the pre
sent legal status of religion in the
public schools, the history of the
conflict and the current religion
is schools issue.
The symposium also will in
clude a panel of local authorities
on the subject, includingn*
sentatives from various
dies, local schools and the#
Majority.
The panel members \l
questioned by a Baylor pi
sor, managing editor
Eagle and the news direcij
KAMU-TV. Written quesii
also will be accepted from
audience.
Bill Y oungkin, coordiffi
of the symposium, said thus
of the reasons for hi
public discussion is that 1 'll
has been a lot of pressure
schools to restore prayeritt
systems.
The symposium will be
to the public. titfl
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$1.8 million
On Thursday, Nov. 18, and Friday, Nov. 19, 1982, representatives from the Stehlin
Foundation for Cancer Research (associated with St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston)
will interview students interested in the Cooperative Education Program. They will
choose (4) four students to start co-op this spring 1983 semester. A Minimum GPA of
2.7 is required.
The Stehlin Foundation wants to interview pre-med, pre-vet, and students as well
as ANSC, Biomedical Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Microbiology
and Zoology majors. The pay is $850.00 per month for the first work term, and the
positions are in Houston.
You must call the Co-op office at 845-7725 or come by Room 107, Harrington
Tower for an orientation to co-op and complete your application prior to your interview
with the Stehlin Foundation.
NOTE: In the past, the Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research has employed
summer students from other universities and co-op students from Texas A&M
University. All students who worked from them and desired to go on to medical school
have been accepted to medical school.
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