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The Battalion Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 13 USPS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas Monday, September 19, 1983 Nationwide search for provost to begin by Stephanie M. Ross Battalion Staff A nation-wide search to fill the posi- ion of deputy provost for the College of Sngineering will officially begin in ktober when an advertisement is sent ovarious publications, said Dr. Clinton lips, dean of faculties and search ommittee chairman. The eleven-member search commit- ee met last week and divided tasks leeded in conducting the search. Phil ips said. The position title of deputy provost, owever, has not been made official. Some members of the committee will fork on a statement of duties and qual- ications for the position. Others will ut together a packet of information to e sent to potential candidates. The acket will include information on the lollege of Engineering and the en- ineering agencies. Two committee members currently re working on an advertisement that ill be sent to the Chronicle of Higher iducation and various engineering ublications. The advertisement will be run in ■arly October after approval by the ■exasA&M Board of Regents, Phillips laid. At the same time that people are sending in applications, Phillips said he will send letters to the deans of several engineering colleges and to all faculty members in the College of Engineering here, asking them to recommend any one they feel qualified for the job. Qualified people already in the Texas A&M University System also will be invited to apply. Members of the search committee who have ties to engineering will call contacts around the country asking for leads on potential candidates, Phillips said. “In terms of searches generally,” he said, “I think the committee and the people that they work with do have to work very hard at contacting persons around the country to get leads on well qualified people." The next part of the search is the most time-consuming, said Phillips, who has served on several search committees in the past. As applications come in to the University, every member of the com mittee will read and evaluate each one. Phillips said it is important to keep the same set of criteria throughout the evaluation process. Phillips stressed the time involved in the process of evaluating applications and narrowing the field of candidates for the final stage of the search. In a typical search that Phillips has been involved in, he said there are 75 to 100 candidates that meet the initial re quirements. From these, the commit tee usually will choose between 10 and 20 for the final evaluation. The final evaluation takes a long time, he said, because this is when the com mittee will contact former employees, co-workers and employers of the candi date. The committee also will read the candidates’ published works, which can take a long time. When it has narrowed the field to around five prospects, the search com mittee then will invite the candidates to the campus to meet with various groups and to see the University and engineer ing agencies. In the end, the committee will pass its evaluations to the president, chan cellor and provost, who in turn will make a recommendation to the Board of Regents. Phillips said he expects the closing date for applications to be some time in November and that the committee will begin elimination and evaluation in January. Special events center in A&M’s five-year plan by Ronnie Crocker Battalion StafT 1 Plans to build a special events center it Baylor University has opened specu- ition on whether or not one will be milt at Texas A&M. There is a tentative plan in the Texas l&M’s five-year master plan (1982-87) obuild a center in fiscal year 1985, Dr. Charles McCandless, chairman of the uaster planning committee at Texas i\&M, says. Fiscal year 1985 runs from Sept. 1, 1984 to Aug. 31, 1985. So far, however, the only work that )as been done is a feasibility study, McCandless said. The planned center is purely concep- :ual at this stage. That means that no irchitectural plans have been made for iuch a building. Glenn Dowling, director of planning and institutional analysis at Texas A&M, said the proposed structure would seat 15,000 people and cost approximately $25 million to build. Halt of the construction money must come from private donations because of laws regarding the building of athletic facilities at universities. Where the other $12.5 million comes from will depend on what activities other than athletics will be held in the center. Money will be appropriated from different funds accordingly, McCandless said. If the Texas A&M Board of Regents approves a program requirement for the center, they will then decide where to get the money, McCandless said. He added that, right now, the board is working on projects for fiscal year 1984. McCandless said all the plans, includ ing construction costs, are subject to change since the master plan is a work ing document where production dates often are moved up or back as they con stantly are reviewed. Dowling said, however, that the board has shown high interest in the project. If the center is built, Dowling said it probably will be located on the west campus near the Beef Cattle Center beyond the parking area. He also said there has been no word as to what kind of additional parking areas would be built. Dowling said the center probably would look similar to the Frank C. Erwin Special Events Center at the University of Texas. At Baylor, the proposed special events center also is waiting for con struction funding. Ken Simons, vice president for busi ness affairs at Baylor, said the money for its center will come primarily from donations, Costs for the Baylor center are esti mated at $11 million. Seating for the center is estimated at approximately 10,000 people. He said Baylor might develop some kind of seat-option plan to help finance the project. Dedication staff photo by Brenda Davidson State senator Chet Edwards honors John Lindsey at the Texas A&M University Press-John H. Lindsey Building dedication Saturday in Rudder Forum. Lindsey was instrumental in persuading the first director of the University Press, Frank Wardlaw, to start a publishing house at Texas A&M. Vice president flies to Romania, discusses nuclear arms reduction United Press International BUCHAREST, Romania — Vice President George Bush met Sunday with President Nicholae Ceausescu and reassured him President Reagan was deeply committed” to reducing nuc lear arms at the Geneva talks with the Soviet Union. T am not sure we have properly conveyed his conviction that he feels very, very strongly about — and that le United States will stay at that table a long as necessary — to achieve the feductions that all mankind really truly wants," Bush said. He delivered the off-the-cuff re marks at a lunch before his four hours of talks with Ceausescu. Washington had hoped to press Bucharest on its imposition of an educa tion tax to reduce emigration of highly educated Romanians and Romania’s $10 billion debt to western banks. The Romanian news agency Agerpres said Ceausescu urged Washington to delay deployment of572 U. S missiles in western Europe. Bush’s remarks were in response to a toast by Romanian Vice President Gheorghe Radulescu reminding Bush of Ceausescu’s iniatives to get both Moscow and Washington to cut back on the arms race. “You mention the question of inter mediate-nuclear force negotiations in Geneva going on now,” said Bush. “Ceausescu’s conviction on this matter is well known to us. The point Twish to make here is that our president is deep ly committed to significant arms reduc tions.” To underscore Romania’s stand on arms negotiations, the Communist newspaper Scintea Sunday printed a letter from Ceausescu to eight U. S. con gressmen expressing the deep concern of the Romanian people over the de ployment of missiles in Europe. The Aggie Band prepares for its march to the fish pond after A&M’s victory over For complete results of this weekends Arkansas State Saturday night at Kyle Field. games see page 11. Senator says oil policies leave U.S. Vunerable’ United Press International WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration’s “one-dimensional” energy policies have left the United States vulnerable to another Arab oil cutoff and the possibility of economic crisis, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Sunday. Citing a new study by the Congres sional Research Service, Levin said said administration plans to meet the loss of oil from the Persian Gulf area are “at best inadequate and at worst dan gerous.” Levin, in releasing the study, said it underscores “the need to improve our military capabilities” in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. “But I am concerned that the admi nistration’s. present focus is too one dimensional, ignoring non-military policy options such as those spelled out in the CRS study, ’ he said. The senator, who requested the study in 1980, said it shows that neither the United States nor its allies could “avoid an economic crises, except perhaps by military means,” in the event of a Persian Gulf oil cutoff. Levin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the “sobering analysis” of U.S. reliance on Persian Gulf oil “comes at a particularly critical time — when events are demon strating dramatically the persistence of instability in the area.” For the United States, the study sug gests, an Arab oil cutoff could reduce Beirut radio claims Lebanese, Syrians clash ‘in a growing revolt’ United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese troops clashed with Syrian soldiers in Lebanon Sunday for the first time in the growing radical revolt against the gov ernment of President Amin Gemayel, state-run Beirut radio said. The attack was reported after Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy put his troops in Lebanon under Syrian com mand. There are an estimated 600 Li byans, 10,000 Palestinian and 30,000 Syrian troops in the eastern Bekaa Valley. The radio said there were “limited clashes” between Lebanese and Syrian troops in the Kesrouane district town of Oyoun Siman, 20 miles northeast of Beirut. “The army silenced the fire using all sorts of arms,” the radio said. The flareup marked the first direct clash between Lebanese and Syrian forces since the outbreak of war be tween Lebanese government forces and Syrian-backed Druze Moslem militia men in the Shouf mountains southeast of Beirut a month ago. In Beirut, Lebanese army positions in the southern suburbs of Chiyah and Ain Remmaneh came under intense attack by militiamen- using mortars, rockets and automatic weapons, state- run Beirut radio said. It said the rebel shelling spread to other neighborhoods including Baabda, site of the Presidential palace, and Yarze, where the Armrican Ambassa dor’s residence is located. The National News agency said the “indiscriminate shelling” followed Lebanese Air Force strikes against Druze and Palestinian rebels in the Shouf mountains overlooking the capital. Earlier, gunners in a Syrian-occupied sector fired 40 rockets on the outskirts of the ancient port of Byblos, 20 miles north of Beirut, in an effort to wipe out the remnants of the Lebanese air force, Beirut Radio said. It said five people were killed and 13 wounded by the shells that landed 300 yards from their targets — underground hangars used by the handful of Lebanese jets still in service. No milit ary casualties were reported. the gross national product by from 11 percent to 29 percent and cut employ ment by 13 percent to 28 percent. Also hard hit by such a cutoff, the report says, would be the major indust rial countries of Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain. In those countries, it says, the gross national product could be reduced by 12 to 27 percent and employment by 15 to 30 percent. The study, Levin said, shows the most “dangerously misguided” assump tion expressed by administration offi cials at congressional hearings has been, “There is no need to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as quickly as possi ble because we are no longer vulner able.” inside Around town 8 Classifieds 12 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 11 State 5 What’s up 6 forecast Today’s weather includes a 50 per- cent chance of thunderstorms with highs in the upper 80s and southeast winds around 15 mph.