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Provost-
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Perahia performs
concert tonight
Battalion Staff
Anyone interested in music,
especially piano music,
shouldn't miss Murray Perahia
in concert tonight at 8 p.m. in
Rudder Theater.
Perahia was the lust Amer
ican to win the Leeds Interna
tional Piano Competition in
London in September 1972.
Currently, he is performing
and conducting Mozart’s piano
concert! with the English Cham
ber Orchestra for CBS Master-
works Records.
Tonight’s concert will include
a Beethoven sonata,“Opus 10,
No. 3,” Schubert’s “Four Im
promptus, Opus 142,” and the
Liszt “Sonata.”
You’re invited..
to experience your ability
to relax through the use
of biofeedback
ment.
equip-
For information contact:
Dennis Reardon
845-0596/845-5826
TAMU Alcohol Abuse
Prevention Program
Coming from a position as
dean of the College of Geosci
ences, Eaton supervised about
85 faculty and five department
heads. Now he oversees about
2,()()() faculty and about 80 de
partment heads in the 11 col
leges at the University.
“Here, every academic en
deavor that’s represented by
people on the campus falls
under my purview,” he said.
In addition to his other
duties, the provost is responsible
for taking over the University
president's duties in case of his
absence.
“He (University President
Frank F. Vandiver) left two
bouts after 1 came to work on
the first day.” Eaton said. “I got
off to a fast start.”
In general, Eaton said his new
position catties more responsi
bility than his previous one.
“Basically it's it much greater
breadth of responsibility, and a
greater number of people
answer to me here,” he said. “As
a net result, it's a much faster
track.”
Eaton said he sees several very
general responsibilities associ
ated with his position as provost.
“First is the responsibility of
the vice president of academic
affairs — to serve the various,
academic constituents of the
University,” he said. This in
cludes serving the student body
faculty and administration.
“Another one is to lead in
matters like academic innova
tion, or in reasearch in its rela
tion to graduate teaching,” he
said.
“In relation to the faculty, one
thing I have to do from time to
time is to constrain. There are a
lot of very bright people on the
faculty and they have lots of
bright ideas and while it would
be wonderful to pursue of all of
these, somebody has to sort
through these and make selec
tions.”
As part of his more formal
duties, Eaton also reviews de
gree programs, course propos
als and plays a role in shaping
the curricula of the University in
periods of change.
He also plays a significant role
in the* University’s long-range
planning activities.
Despite the emphasis on mov
ing toward new goals, Eaton said
there are a few things that
should remain unchanged.
“1 would like to see us con
tinue what I regard as a ver\
outstanding leadership prog
ram at this institution. I am very
bullish on Texas A&M Universi
ty. One of the several elements
that’s made me more bullish on
the University since I’ve been
here was the student body and a
lot of the student activates,
things like SCONA.
“I find a lot of the students
here poised and matured
beyond their years and I've real
ly been impressed.
“I think it’s one of the unique
strengths of this University. I
don’t think this exists on many
other campuses. I think we’ve
got something here that we
ought to be very proud of.”
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United Press International
PITTSBURGH — II you
can’t afford the Brooklyn
Bridge, Bethlehem Steel Gorp.
will make you a deal on a Seattle
steel mill.
Bethlehem is offering its Seattle,
Wash., plant for sale.
“Unique investment oppor
tunity now available in the Paci
fic Northwest!” said I he quarter-
page ad in the Frida) edition ol
The Wall Street Journal.
The plant, pictured in an ae
rial photograph, boasts an “en
thusiastic, stable and competent
workforce” and the “largest pro
duct range at one plant location
in comparison to its competi
tors.”
“We would be open to any
viable opportunity to sell it as an
ongoing, profit-making facil
ity,” said a spokesman for the
No. 2 steelmaker, which posted
a $1.5 billion loss in 1982.
The steelmaker won’t dis
close its asking price, hut
Charles Bradford, a steel analyst
with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fen
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Dr. H. Grant Vest Jr. has bee n appointed head oft
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Vest is currently beaded du- Department of Horticuli
at Oklahoma State Universitv where he has served v
1976.
Prior jo going to Oklahoma. Vest was assoc iaie niolq
of horticulture at Michigan State Uuivcisit) Imni 19V
Vest is a native of Utah having received b.uhelorw
master’s degrees at Utah Stale Uuivcisitv and a |'|.
the University of Minnesota in 1967.
Vest succeeds Dr. Warren S. Bat ham who stepped do
in September 1980 to devote moic time to rejcjrchi
serve as president of the American So< ietv for Honi
Science. V est’s appointment is effective June 1.
Watercolorist to conduct
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The
Well-known watercolorist Danny Gambit'
day watercolor workshop at the Bt a/os Cc
March 29-31. Cost ol the workshc
classes will lie held from 9:30 a.m. u
classes will Ik* from 6:30 p.m. until
A free watercolor demonstration
28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brazos Genie
open to the public.
To make your reservation for the workshop
name, address, phone number and a SI5 depo
Blev ins, 4026 Green Valiev Drive. Hi van. I exa<
sure and state which classes vou wish to attend
information concerning the demnnstrati
call the Arts Council at 770-2193 <m b<
0801.
Hie workshop and demottMiation at
Brazos Valley Art League and the \iis
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beginning at 7 p.m. and all other area n
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Former CIA Director to speak hen [SuencE
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Former CIA Direc tor Admiral Stansfield Turner uill$pBT tan
at Texas A&M Unversity on Marc h 22 at 8 p.m. in
Rudder Theater. The topic of his speech will he “Intel
tional Hot Spots.” His talk is a presentation on )iotOl
identify and interpret information on the unrest in thews
political arena.
Admiral Turner directed the CIA from l l J77 io
under President Garter, whic h put him in control of^
entire U.S. intelligence communitv .
Admission is free. For more information please coni*
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Peso to decline
more, prof says
United Press International
ALPINE, Texas — An assoc i
ate professor erf finance for the
American Graduate School of
International Management says
the Mexican peso probably will
fall to a level of 200 pesos to $ 1
before leveling off sometime in
1983.
Currently, the peso is valued
at about 150 to $1, a rapid slide
from its 27 to $ 1 level prior to
the final devaluation last
summer.
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Speaking to about 100 busi
nessmen studying the ef fects of
the Mexican economy on West
Texas, Dr. Paul M. Dickie said
the peso is “grossly under
valued,” judging f rom the Mex
ican economic situation. He said
the Mexican government has
kept the peso artificially low as a
means of encouraging the tour
ism and exports needed to turn
the country’s economy around.
“The true value of the peso is
about 100 to $ 1,” he said. “But a
further decline in the price of oil
will make it necessary for Mex
ico to borrow an additional $4
billion.”
“The twin plant prograBl
not been exploited fullybl
Mexic an government, " M
“In Houston we receive.wl
phone c alls a week or mmefij
all over the United States^
businessmen asking how
can set up a plant in Mextf
Guerrero referred tothej
tariff regulations which
U.S. products to enter a coni
lor assembly or linishingaffl
turn to the United .Staiesf
taxes paid only on the 4
added to the product.
“American labor unions^
traditionally opposed thd
plant program,” Guerrero)
“But in the last eight veai'l
sistence f rom organized 111
has decreased.”
Bill Mitc hell, marketing<1
c tor for the* Bermudez, hill
rial Park of Juarez, Mexko.*]
American-owned twin
along the border represenil
second highest source of (Wl
in Mexico, with tourism f
venues in third place. Me»|
main sourc e of dollars reiiif
oil.
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Felix Guerrero, of the United
States Department of Com
merce in Houston, told Mexican
bankers the U.S. policy of prom
oting twin plants has become
permanent.
Dickie predicted major pi
lems surrounding MexicOijf
f rom the International M4
ary Fund as a result of oil [
going down and the gofl]
ment’s inability to
spending.