Texas A&M
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Vol. 76 No. 174 USPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, July 19, 1983
Traffic panel considers
limiting parking access
by Tim Widdison
Battalion Reporter
Front windows of most cars parked
on campus may someday be as clut
tered with parking stickers as rear
windows are now.
The possibility of requiring park
ing stickers on front windows instead
of rear windows is included in a study
of the parking and traffic situation on
campus. The consulting firm, Barton
Aschman and Associates was hired
late last year to conduct the study.
At one time, the firm considered
restricting parking on campus. Bob
Wiatt, director of security and traffic,
said Thursday.
Wiatt serves as a representative on
an ad hoc committee of Texas A&M
administrators appointed by Dr.
Charles McCandless, associate pro
vost for academic affairs. The com
mittee, appointed last year to study
parking and traffic flow, includes
representatives from each area of the
University to be effected by the study.
In a preliminary report to the ad
hoc committee in June, Barton Asch
man and Associates recommended a
two-fold approach to the problem,
Traffic Panel Chairman Larry Dooley
said. The firm proposed limiting ac
cess to campus and providing lot
attendants for each parking lot to in
sure limited access, Dooley said.
Under such a system, parking stick
ers would need to be on front win
dows so lot attendants could see them
before cars drive past, he said.
However, a decision was made in
March to postpone any changes in
sticker placement until the consulting
firm has reviewed recommendations
and made its final report, he said.
Dr. Charles Pinnell, associate de
puty chancellor and chairman of the
ad hoc committee, said the study
should be completed in August or
September.
Cooley said that probably no action
will be taken on the study until the
October meeting of the Board of Re
gents.
Dooley said if the study is
approved, parking stickers will not be
transferred to front windows any
sooner than fall 1984.
Expulsion of errant
congressmen called for
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Newt
Gingrich, R-Ga., blasting two col
leagues for “preying upon schoolchil
dren,” says they ought to be expelled
from the House of Representatives
for having sex with two congressional
pages.
Gingrich had particularly harsh
words for Rep. Gerry Studds, D-
Mass., saying in a speech on the
House floor Monday that Studds
showed no remorse. The Georgia
conservative noted that Rep. Daniel
Crane, R-Ill., apologized to his family
and constituents but said he ought to
be expelled anyway.
“Both men abused power,” Ging
rich said. “In this setting, the ethics
committee’s proposals for reprimand
are a sad joke.”
A reprimand entails no loss of pri
vileges or standing, amounting to a
figurative slap on the wrist. A vote on
the ethics committee recommenda
tion for a reprimand may come
Thursday.
The congressmen’s affairs were re
vealed by the ethics committee last
week after a year-long investigation
into allegations of sexual misconduct
on Capitol Hill. Studds had a homose
xual liasion with a 17-year-old male
page in 1973 and made sexual adv
ances toward two others. Crane had
sex with a 17-year-old female page
three years ago.
Kissinger ’not trusted’
Ready or not!
staff photo by Brenda Davidson
lati 0 ns ac^ ou g Johnson, 11, of College Station Park. He didn’t seem to mind the heat
ts assess works off a little excess energy Monday that kept many other people in the
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Henry Kissin
ger, President Reagan’s choice to
head the special commission on U.S.
policy toward Central America, is get
ting praise from a congressional lead
er, but stinging criticism from both
conservatives and liberals.
Saying the former secretary of
state is “virtually a legend” in foreign
affairs, Reagan announced Monday
in a speech to the International Long
shoremen’s Association convention in
Hollywood, Fla., that he will establish
the nine-member advisory panel with
Kissinger as its chief.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes told reporters Kissinger was
selected to head it as someone “who
has strong credibility in foreign poli
cy,” and added, “I don’t think anyone
can quarrel with that.”
But quarrel they did.
“It would be difficult to find a
spokesman less trusted by conserva
tives and liberals alike,” said Richard
Viguerie, publisher of the Conserva
tive Digest, who called a news confer
ence following the announcement.
Kissinger “was this nation’s No. 1
foreign policy official when U.S. fore
ign policy virtually collapsed, leading
to the loss of Angola, Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia,” Viguerie said.
tudent evaluations discussed at teaching conference
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[icial po: “Faculty Evaluation — The Great
^lies, pwffite,” one of several topics covered
productitlnday during the first day of a two-
thatRu iyinquiry into quality teaching,
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nked to The inquiry is sponsored by the
he said illege of Education, the Center for
Bhing Excellence and the Texas
agineering Experiment Station. It is
C /Mg held in 701 Rudder Tower, and
freitondude today at 1:30 p.m. with a
tundtable evaluation forum.
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\vere : | rmanent University Fund. The
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fUF had increased 27.6 percent
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1 .LMe year 1981 was incorrect. The
While it began as a discussion of
instructor evaluation in general,
Monday’s panel inquiry soon turned
into a lively exchange about student
evaluations in particular.
Panel member Glenn Ross Johnson
said the switch was understandable in
that student questionnaires, while
they might not be the most compre
hensive of evaluation tools, are the
most talked about as well as the easiest
to administer.
Johnson, director of the Texas
A&M Center For Teaching Excell
ence, opened the inquiry wdth a paper
on “the state of the art” of faculty
evaluation before joining what was
called “a reactor panel” by moderator
Gary Conti.
In his opening presentation, John
son first defined faculty evaluation.
It is, he said, “the process by which
we determine how well a professor is
accomplishing the objectives or goals
established for his role at the univer
sity.”
The purpose of faculty evaluation
is fourfold, Johnson said.
First, it is used for administrative
purposes such as determining prom
otions, pay raises, dismissals and te-
Second, it is used for documenta
tion purposes. Administrators can
turn to faculty evaluations to justify
decisions about promotions, firing
and tenure, while an instructor can
turn to those same evaluations to
appeal administrative decisions.
Third, evaluations can be used for
diagnostic purposes. An overall eva
luation of the faculty in a department
may lead to some special in-service
training for faculty development.
And finally, evaluations can be
used for instructional purposes. An
instructor can look at his evaluations
for clues on how to improve his
teaching.
Johnson listed a number of proce
dures available for faculty evalua
tions: checklists, surveys, personal in
terviews, self-reports, publications
and observation systems, among
others. But the panel immediately fo
cused upon student questionnaires
and never left that topic.
Dr. Kenneth E. Eble, former dire
ctor of the Project to Improve College
Teaching, was the first panel member
to address student evaluations.
“Student evaluation has been
steadily gaining ground,” Eble said. “I
have to be pleased.”
Twenty years ago, Eble said, facul
ty members, as a rule, were rather
“entrenched” in their opposition to
student evaluations. But today, he
said, more than two thirds of all the
colleges and universities use student
evaluations of one form or another.
Eble warned, however, that stu
dent questionnaires should not be
used indiscriminately.
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Bell increase not
to affect this area
by Rusty Roberts
Battalion Reporter
Southwestern Bell’s proposed rate increase of $1.7 million will not affect
General Telephone and Electric customers in the Bryan-College Station area,
says a local GTE official.
John Wallace, public affairs manager for GTE’s Bryan office, said Wednes
day that only those customers serviced by Bell will be affected by the rate
increase if it is passed by the Public Utilities Commission in October. The
nearest major Bell service areas are Houston and Dallas.
“As for our local customers,” Wallace said, “the only way their rates will be
affected will be if we decide to file for another rate increase.”
GTE received an increase of more than $83 million in February. Wallace
said there are no immediate plans for submitting further rate increase re
quests.
Wallace said the $83 million rate increase made up for lost revenue caused
by the deregulation of long distance services. Before deregulation, long dis
tance rates were held artificially high, while local rates were held artificially low.
However, after deregulation, rate requests were submitted and local rates rose,
he said.
Wallace said the primary reason for Bell’s requested rate increase is to
compensate for lost revenues.
When Bell split from American Telephone and Telegraph earlier this year,
he said, it lost most of its long distance servicing area. As a result, local subsidies
from long distance revenues also were forfeited.
Gene Thacker, community relations manager for Bell, said that Bell’s rate
request, if approved, will regain those lost revenues and help balance Bell’s
income and expenditures.
“We are simply asking our customers to make up for the lost revenue by
shouldering the new rate increase,” Wallace said. “If we can get the proposal
passed, local residents’ new rates will cover for the long distance revenues lost
to AT&T.”
Target practice
photo by Paul Koska
Texas A&M Target Archerers Liz Mullen,
Elaine Christensen, Michael Beck and
Scott Kubasta practice their shooting
Saturday while John Mullen spots for the
group. The practice session, held at the
field next to Zachry parking lot, resulted
when archerers from the University of
Texas failed to show for a weekend meet.