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.”
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forecast
Today’s weather includes a 50 per-
cent chance of thunderstorms with
highs in the upper 80s and southeast
winds around 15 mph.