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Serving the University community
76 No. 186 USPS 045360 16 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 17, 1983
Will be consultant, lecturer
Borlaug joins Texas A&M staff
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
While the most important work
Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Norman E.
Borlaug will be doing here is conduct
ing seminars, says the director of re
search, he will be a great asset to a
joint research project with a center in
Mexico City.
Texas A&M has begun work with
the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center, or Simmyt, in
Mexico City — one of several research
centers that study agricultural pro
duction. Simmyt specializes in wheat
and corn.
The center researches and de
velops different strains of wheat that
are either more productive or more
suitable to certain areas. Texas A&M
will observe the work the center is
doing, test the wheat here and poss
ibly will cross some of their wheat with
some Texas A&M researchers have
developed.
“The research will involve Borlaug
and will be enhanced by his being
here,” Neville Clarke, director and
professor directors’ office, research-
general, said.
Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Prize
for his work in developing high-yield
wheat and rice seeds that quickly
boosted agricultural production in
many of the world’s poorer nations.
He has accepted a part-time faculty
position with Texas A&M effective
Jan. 1.
Borlaug, known as “the father of
the Green Revolution,” in the 1970s,
will hold a joint appointment with the
experiment station and with the de
partments of soil and crop sciences
and plant sciences in the College of
Agriculture.
He will work here from January to
June. The rest of the year, he will
lecture and serve as a consultant for
the center in Mexico City, the Rock
efeller Foundation, and various gov
ernment agencies.
Clark said he has the understand
ing Borlaug will come here every
spring.
Borlaug retired in 1979 as head of
the wheat research program for the
center. He has lived and worked in
Mexico since 1944.
Borlaug obviously has had great
experience with wheat, Clarke said.
“He was very definitely a plus fac
tor in getting this project,” Clarke
said.
However, Clarke said, the joint re
search project would go on whether
or not Borlaug accepted the position
here.
Texas A&M already has begun
working with the center to a certain
degree, Clarke said. Work between
the two institutions should increase
over the years.
The center’s worked is aimed at im
proving and increasing agricultural
production around the world, Clarke
said.
The interesting factor is the wheat
is bred for resistance to disease and
insects, he said. It’s interesting be
cause some of those diseases exist in
the area.
Texas A&M is particularly in
terested in the research for what it
could mean to the entire world,
Clarke said.
Clarke accompanied Dr. Perry
Adkisson, deputy chancellor for the
A&M system, to Mexico City two
weeks ago. Adkisson completed the
arrangements of Borlaug’s appoint
ment while Clarke looked at the re
search the center was doing.
Borlaug will reach mandatory re
tirement age for Texas A&M System
faculty in March. However, the Board
of Regents could waive the 70-year
age requirement. Borlaug’s salary for
the 4 and a half month appointment
will be $37,500.
Education committee considers
$2 billion teachers’ proposal
by Tim Widdison
Battalion Reporter
The chairman of the Select Com
mittee on Public Education named
several subcommittees to consider a
$2 billion proposal presented by the
Texas Federation of Teachers at the
committee’s first meeting last month.
Chairman Ross Perot of Dallas
established the subcommittees to deal
with such issues as teacher wages,
teacher competency and classroom
discipline.
The Select Committee on Public
Education was formed to research
ways to improve the quality of educa
tion in Texas. Perot said the commit
tee will take whatever time is neces
sary to carefully evaluate the state’s
education needs.
The $2 billion proposal includes
consideration of extra pay for
teacher-related activities, establish
ment of a top level teacher category,
creation of a state board of teacher
examiners and election of principals
by faculty members on a periodic
basis.
Teacher-related activities include
attending parent-teacher association
meetings, serving on textbook com
mittees, sponsoring school clubs and
other work incentives.
Teachers qualifying for the top
level teacher category would be paid
25 percent above a regular salary.
A state board of teacher examiners
would design and implement teacher
competency tests designed to provide
a fair statewide basis for evaluating
teachers.
The election of principals by facul
ty members would require the reor
ganization of school administrations.
Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of the
College of Education at Texas A&M,
is a member of the select committee.
A&M may open dorms for evacuees
. amateur art critic Dave Spence, a senior English major,
"“‘s a new perspective on artist Dorothy Hood’s “Visit to
iris.” The print is part of an MSC Gallery exhibition
titled “Recent Works by Eight Artists” which is being
shown this summer by the MSC Art Committee.
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by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
Three years ago, hurricane Allen
threatened to cause severe damage to
Galveston and the surrounding coast
line. The area was evacuated and the
highways were crammed with people
trying to find a safe place to stay.
Some of those people came to
Texas A&M. It was early August and
the residence halls were empty so the
University opened them up to the
public needing a place to stay.
Now with tropical storm Alicia
heading toward Galveston and hurri
cane watches being issued, Associate
Director of Student Affairs Ron Sas-
se, says if necessary, the dorms could
be opened to the public this weekend.
When it happened three years ago,
it was early August and the dorms
were empty so it was possible to open
the dorms, Sasse said.
“But there is always a possibility, if
it was a disaster situation, surely we
would,” Sasse said.
“We have a plan we have from
several years ago. If we had to, we
could get it out, dust it off and use it,”
he said.
The plan outlined the procedure
used for moving the people in during
the panic three years ago, when at
least a couple of thousand people
came on short notice, he said.
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knof A&M Sea Grant Program publishes booklet for coastal residents
by Eric Evan Lee
Battalion Reporter
crnationi 1 Mth tropical storm Alicia just off
la nt ifexas coast, many residents
Island gh t j- m( j a new booklet helpful in
19'i sparing for hurricanes,
iury * 6 Texas A&M Sea Grant Col-
nths, " e Program has published “Keys to
m N e ", irricane Safety,” a booklet to help
m the ' (idents who live near the Texas
J it and are affected by hurricanes
most.
Before a hurricane, the booklet
' 'Sgests that one know: the elevation
)ne s home; if one’s home might be
fccted by a storm surge; where the
irest emergency shelter is; a safety
route if evacuation is necessary; an
inventory of one’s property and the
amount of one’s insurance coverage.
“Keys to Hurricane Saftey” also
explains what to do if a watch or warn
ing is issued, and gives suggestions for
those evacuating their homes and
those remaining in thier homes dur
ing a hurricane.
The hurricane season runs from
June through October, with most
hurricanes hitting the Texas Coast in
September.
Some of the terms explained in the
publication are:
• eye — the calm area in the center
of the hurricane.
• hurricane — a tropical storm with
sustained winds of 74 mph or more.
• storm surge — a rise in the tide
which usually hits low-lying areas
blocking escape routes.
• landfall — the area where the
center of the hurricane passes over
land.
• tropical storm — a storm with
distinct rotary circulation at the sur
face of the water with sustained winds
of 39 to 73 mph.
The booklet has extra inserts for
areas of Texas that are hardest hit by
hurricanes, such as Corpus Christi
and Galveston.
The inserts outline evacuation and
flood zones of the area and the fre
quencies of radio stations that give
information in emergecies.
The inserts contain maps showing
evacuation zones and contingency
zones. Contingency zones are areas
that will flood from storm surges of
hurricanes with sustained winds more
than 130 mph.
The booklet can be obtained free
by calling 845-7524 or by writing to:
Sea Grant College Program, Texas
A&M University, College Station,
Texas 77843.
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Jit chance of rain. Today’s high
I be in the mid-90s, tonight’s low
the mid-70s. Easterly winds are
pected at 10 to 15 mph.
B-CS to offer
utility service
sign-up in MSC
The cities of College Station
and Bryan will be accepting stu
dent requests for utility service at
stations located on the second
floor of the Memorial Student
Center.
These stations will be open in
addition to the respective offices.
The stations in the MSC will be
open Monday through Friday, Au
gust 22 to August 31, from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Louann Shulze of the Off Cam
pus Center says forms for utility
service may be obtained at her
office in Puryear Hall prior to the
sign-up.
Hurricane Alicia aims
for upper Texas coast
United Press International
GALVESTON — Hurricane Alicia
churned slowly toward the upper
Texas coast today, packing wind gusts
of more than 100 mph and threaten
ing to make landfall by late today.
Alicia, with sustained winds of 80
mph and gusts to 103 mph, at 2 a.m.
was centered at latitude 27.8 north
and longitude 94.2 west, 110 miles
south-southeast of Galveston and
drifting at 5 mph toward the west-
northwest.
“The storm is continuing to inten
sify,” said Bob Case, with the National
Hurricane Center in Miami.
Although the storm center was not
expected to make landfall until late
today, accompanying gale-force
winds and heavy rain began buffeting
the coast just before dawn.
The National Weather Service in
Texas predicted the storm would
make landfall between Galveston and
Victoria, about 125 miles to the south
west, with the heaviest activity to the
north of the eye. Galveston was given
a better than even probability of the
center of the storm passing within 65
miles.
Hurricane warning flags were up
from Morgan City, La., to Corpus
Christi, Texas. Tides along the upper
Texas and western Louisiana coasts
were running about 3 feet above nor
mal and were expected to reach 4 to 6
feet above normal.
photo by Ann Brimbcrry
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Amy Jacobson, a junior biochemistry major, and Pamela
Hall, a second-year medical student, conduct glaucoma
experiments on a rabbit for the pharmacology
department at the University.