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Vol. 76 No. 153 USPS 045360 8 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 25, 1983
Target 2000
Committee’s proposal: build image, take risks
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staff photo by Diana Sultenfuss
Dr. Ray Telfair helps Wes McQuiddy and
Isabelle Cancellare dye bird tags for an
upcoming wildlife and fisheries science field
study. Ken King, a senior from Temple,
hangs up the tags to dry. Eight students
and two instructors will be on the trip
to Gus A. Engelina wildlife management
area near Palestine.
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
The Target 2000 Committee, after
almost two years of work, presented
the Texas A&M University Board of
Regents with plans projecting where
the Texas A&M University System
should be by the year 2000. The plans
were submitted at Monday’s board
meeting.
“The committee has created a
roadmap and blueprint for the Sys
tem to follow,” H.R. “Bum” Bright,
chairman of the board, said.
The 250 member committee stu
died 11 parts of the University System
and divided the study into three areas
of concern, forming a task force for
each — academic institutions, agricul
ture and engineering.
System-wide recommendations in
clude:
•Increasing the volume and signi
ficance of research.
•Building a stronger public image.
•Improving organization.
•Gaining additional resources.
George P. Mitchell, general chair
man of the committee, said that pub
lic relations should have a high prior
ity and that that a System identity
should be established.
“A&M isn’t as good as we think it
is,” Mitchell said, “but better than our
peers perceive it to be.”
A continuity among System posi
tions and a resolve by the regents not
to intervene within the administra-
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Battalion Staff
r Dla»B^ exas A&M University has filed a
J! et Jquest for a rehearing before the 3rd
Juurt of Appeals following the
■urt’s ruling that the University
ctural' |hust disclose the names and qualifi-
dnotl Sationsof all nominees and applicants
the ptwho had been under consideration
idea si for the University presidency before
nidationBr. Frank Vandiver was chosen in
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a .r f M If the court rules against a rehear-
inz, officials have said Texas A&M
aS i 2 W'll appeal the lower court’s ruling to
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i (ithe Texas Supreme Court.
ama ^ e ■ The Board of Regents decided
during an executive session after its
[regular meeting Monday to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
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“The University lost at the Court
of Civil Appeals level and believes
that our issues are sufficiently strong
enough to deserve a Supreme Court
review,” said James Bond, vice chan
cellor for legal affairs and general
counsel for the system.
Bond added that the issue is suffi
ciently important to higher education
in general.
The 3rd Court of Appeals ruled
two weeks ago against Texas A&M on
a suit filed by the Bryan-College Sta
tion Eagle in July 1981 asking for the
disclosure.
John T. Williams, president and
publisher of the Eagle, said that the
Eagle had requested a list of candi
dates at that time, but Texas A&M
refused. Dr. Frank E. Vandiver was
appointed president.
Williams said that Mark White,
attorney general at the time, respond
ing to a request by Texas A&M to give
an opinion on the matter said the
names were public information
under the Texas Open Records Act
and the list should be disclosed.
After Texas A&M still refused to
issue the list, the Eagle filed the suit.
“We had very strong dissent by one
of the three judges,” Bond said of the
decision issued by the court of
appeals. “We will raise and have
raised many of the same arguments
the dissent raised.”
One of the arguments involves the
Texas Open Records Act. Bond said
that the act does have exceptions and
this should be one of the exemptions.
Bond said however, that this is only
a small part of Texas A&M’s defense.
The case was first heard by State
District Judge Jerry Dellana of Austin
who ruled in favor of the Eagle saying
that the names were public informa
tion. Texas A&M then appealed the
case to the 3rd Court of Appeals
arguing the release of the names
would violate the candidates’ right or
privacy.
Williams said that he hopes the
Supreme Court will uphold the opin
ion of the lower courts.
A request for a rehearing must be
filed in the court where the decision
was made before an appeal to the
Supreme Court can be made, Bond
said. However, he added that rehear
ings are not usually granted.
[ er pexas A&M played key role
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Austin to get computer center
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r et h e WTexas A&M played a key role in
attracting a multi-million dollar com-
ns of "M 1 ter center to Austin, said Doug
, t ^ e j [ |!‘Green, associate professor of electric-
ninoid al engineering here,
ionic, m ^ reen was P art °f a six-member
igroup from Texas A&M that made
enderf(p resentat ' ons to Microelectronics and
( , nujijComputer Technology Corp., a re-
-I fsean h firm funded by 12 major com
puter companies.
p Bobby Inman, the firm’s chief ex-
recutive officer, said criteria used in
ithe selection of the site included ac
cess to schools with strong existing
graduate programs in computer sci
ence and electrical engineering.
While Texas A&M was an equal
partner with Gov. Mark White, the
University of Texas, and the City of
Austin, in presenting information.
Green said the presentations made by
representatives from Texas A&M
had a significant impact on the deci
sion. Green said the expertise which
exists at A&M was also a factor.
Governor White and representa
tives from MCC visited Texas A&M to
study the facilities of the electrical en
gineering department.
“One of the good things about the
electrical engineering department
here is that it gives students the
chance to fabricate their circuit de
signs in silicone, which allows for
actual testing and evaluation,” Green
said. “Only six or eight colleges in the
country offer this service.”
Green said the location of the cen
ter would be beneficial to Texas A&M
faculty.
“It would increase research oppor
tunities, and some of the scientists
might consider sabbaticals here, and
professors from A&M also might be
able to work at the center during the
summer,” he said.
Green pointed out the benefits to
students, saying, “It primarily will
help research and the graduate prog
ram. It would identify areas of re
search on the cutting edge of technol
ogy which w'ould provide a focus for
the work of the graduate students.”
Green added, “MCC is a consortion
of 12 of the largest companies in the
world, and it will give us the oppor
tunity to compete with other coun
tries in the world market. Any com
pany can join MCC — it’s a form of
research.”
He added that since there are 12
big companies involved, the center
would provide a catalyst for computer
development.
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forecast
Partly cloudy and warm today, with
a chance of afternoon and evening
scattered showers. Cloudy Thurs
day with slight chance of showers
again. High both days near 86.
Reagan, moderate Democrats
engineer MX win in House
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The crucial
House vote to release $625 million for
developing the MX missile can be
attributed to two factors: tough lob
bying by President Reagan and strong
support from a handful of moderate
Democrats.
The House, controlled by Demo
crats, voted 239-186 Tuesday to free
an estimated $65 million for MX
flight testing and $560 million in 1983
funds for engineering and develop
ment of the giant weapon.
The Republican-led Senate is ex
pected to follow suit today. A test vote
in the Senate just minutes before the
House vote was concluded showed
strong support for the 10-warhead
weapon.
Congress had withheld the fund
ing last December when it rejected
Reagan’s now-abandoned “dense
pack” basing plan and ordered him to
develop a new one.
The size of the victory margin in
the House surprised both sides, who
expected approval of the MX by only
a few votes.
The highly accurate MX, to be
positioned starting in late 1986 or ear
ly 1987, is designed to destroy “har
dened” Soviet missile silos. But since it
was first proposed a decade'ago, Con
gress has withheld approval of pro
duction funds because of failure to
find a basing mode that would ensure
the survival of enough MX missiles
following a Soviet first strike to re
taliate.
Texas faces cattle quarantine
United Press International
The Department of Agriculture
says it will order a quarantine begin
ning June 1 on Texas cattle because
the state has no legal authority to test
herds for brucellosis.
Brucellosis is an incurable disease
that attacks the reproductive systems
of cattle.
Bert Hawkins, administrator of
the department’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service in
Washington, described the action as
necessary “to protect the nation’s $29
billion beef cattle and $18 billion
dairy industries.”
The bill has been passed by the
House and by the Senate on a second
reading. However, it will require 21
votes to bring the bill up for final vote,
and the Legislature adjourns Monday
night.
George P. Mitchell, general
chairman of the Target 2000
Committee
tion needs to be established, he said.
To accomplish all the recom
mended tasks, it would cost approxi
mately $1 billion in addition to what
the Permanent University Fund
(PUF) could supply, Mitchell said.
Texas A&M would become the first
public institution to develop massive
amounts of supplemental funding if
it were able to raise the funds needed
to implement the recommended
changes, he said.
Jack M. Rains, academic institu
tions task force chairman, presented
the report of the academic institu
tions task force committee. He said
the Texas A&M graduate program
should become more sophisticated.
The curriculum at Texas A&M is
too narrow and too conservative,
Rains said. He added that Texas
A&M must tolerate and create diver
sity.
Recommendations made for
academic institutions include:
•Controlling the growth and pro
tecting the quality of students at
Texas A&M, while encouraging
growth at Prairie View A&M, Tarle-
ton State University and Texas A&M
University at Galveston.
•Increasing the graduate portion
of enrollment to 25 percent.
•Seeking an undergraduate de
gree in fine arts.
•Ghanging the names for Prairie
View and Tarleton to Texas A&M
University Prairie View and Texas
A&M University Tarleton.
“Open enrollment is dispropor
tionate to making A&M a premier in
stitution,” Rains said referring to the
first recommendation. By making the
name changes, the other parts of the
System could attract the overflow of
students, he said.
Jay Pumphrey, agriculture task
force chairman, said that all areas
concerned with agriculture should
See TARGET 2000, page 4
staff photo by Diana Sultenfuss
Bouncing baby ball
Ten-month-old Erika Yokono didn’t get much of a look
around on a recent sunny stroll across campus with her
parents, Yoshinobu and Barbara Yokono. Erika’s dad is
a graduate student in architecture.
Nobel laureate
visiting campus
Hawkins said the quarantine will
deprive Texas of most of its share of
federal funds to fight brucellosis.
He said the quarantine will allow
Texas breeding cattle to be shipped
out of the state only if the animals are
from herds that have passed two
brucellosis tests 120 days apart. He
said animals from other herds must
be branded with an “S” and will be
shipped for slaughter only.
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
For a second time this year a world-
class scientist is making an extended
visit to Texas A&M University. Dr.
Norman Borlaug, a 1970 Nobel Peace
Prize winner, will be here until Thurs
day talking with officials while consid
ering an offer to teach and conduct
research at Texas A&M.
Borlaug is known as the “father of
the green revolution” because of his
role in developing crops such as a
high-yield, protein-rich hybrid of
wheat and rye called triticale.
To create any stability in the world,
he said, food production mustn’t be
forgotten.
“Whether we like it or not . . . the
world has shrunk,” Borlaug said. He
said that we must help third world
countries just as we help ourselves.
“You don’t build peace and good
will on empty stomachs,” he said.
Looking at the world food situa
tion, he said, in three years there will
be another United States added to the
total world population.
Borlaug said that increases in crop
production cannot rely on more land
as they did in the past. The next four
to five generations of people in de
veloping countries must count on
higher yields per acre, he said.
He said his decision whether to join
the faculty would depend on how
much he feels he can offer Texas
A&M.
“I don’t need a job. I’ve got too
many of those,” he said. “I’m visiting
here to see if I might be useful to
Texas A&M, especially in interna
tional linkages.”
If Borlaug comes to Texas A&M, it
will be because he would be useful to
Dr. Norman Borlaug: “You
don’t build peace and good
will on empty stomachs.”
graduate students and students in
general, he said.
Borlaug said, most of his research
is with wheat, but he does have broad
er interests.
Borlaug, who joins Harvard Uni
versity physicist Dr. Sheldon Glashow
as Nobel laureates being sought by
Texas A&M, said he will make his
decision several months from now.
He would be a combination of resear
cher, strategist and teacher.
Borlaug is now partly retired from
his duties as a Rockefeller Foundation
scientist and as a researcher with an
international grain improvement
center in Mexico.
University President Frank E. Van
diver said Borlaug has done “more
than any person in the 20th century to
increase food supplies in the Third
World.”