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bl 78 No. 22USPS 045360
College Station, Texas
Friday, September 30,1983
[tansen dares Aggies
o beat charity goals
Chancellor
Arthur G. Hansen
by Michelle Powe
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M System Chancellor
Arthur G. Hansen challenged Texas
A&M Thursday morning to exceed its
goal of $111,000 for the 1984 Brazos
County United Way campaign.
“I think it’s a modest goal, friends.
I really do,” Hansen told Texas A&M
System representatives working for
the drive.
Texas A&M’s drive is divided into
three parts — University, System and
students.
During a breakfast to officially kick
off the System’s drive, Hansen told
System area coordinators that besides
collecting contributions, they should
inform colleagues and employees ab
out the United Way and the services it
provides.
You don’t just ask people to give
money,” he said. Instead, he encour
aged the area coordinators to sell peo
ple on the campaign and “that good
feeling” that comes from helping
others.
Hansen said he hopes Texas A&M
can increase its participation in the
drive a notch or two this year.
Employee participation is being
stressed in this year’s drive — on cam
pus as well as county wide.
John Williams, chairman of Brazos
County’s United Way drive and presi
dent and publisher of the Bryan-
College Station Eagle, said participa
tion at Texas A&M has increased in
the last two years.
In 1981, 24 percent of the Univer
sity employees gave to the United
Way and in 1982, 28 percent contri
buted.
The contributions per person also
increased, he said, from an average of
$6.97 per person to $9.67.
Hansen said Texas A&M contri
butes more money to the United Way
than seven Texas universities and
University of Arkansas, but ranks
third to last in contributions per per
son. The University of Arkansas is
eighth in contributions and Universi
ty of Texas is last.
Dr. Charles Pinnell, co-chairman of
Texas A&M’s drive in charge of the
System units, added some incentive to
the drive by challenging each System
unit with individual goals.
United Way funds will be used to
support 17 human service agencies in
Brazos County, such as the Girl
Scouts, the Boy Scouts, the Senior
Citizens Association Center and the
Rehabilitation Center. The services
are expected to reach 40,000 county
residents in 1984.
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Plant design wizardry
This model may look big but its actually a scaled-down
version of an Exxon coal hquification pilot plant. It is
currently on display in the main lobby of the Zachry
Engineering Building.
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
Target 2000, a comprehensive plan
for Texas A&M’s next two decades,
has been completed and presented to
the Texas A&M Board of Regents for
approval, the director of the plan said
Thursday.
“Right now we’re not planning to
write anything further, unless some
thing urgent comes up that we over
looked,” Dr. Robert E. Shutes, project
director, said.
Target 2000 was created by the
regents in October 1981 to define
problems the System may face in the
next twenty years and to recommend
solutions to them. This long range
study will generate proposals to be
used as “roadmaps” for administra
tors to follow in preparing its prog
rams for the year 2000.
Shutes said the report was original
ly scheduled for presentation last De
cember but was not completed until
May 1983.
The Target 2000 committee con
sists of 230 citizen members, includ
ing 33 executive members who are
chairmen of the various subdivisions
within the committee.
The System parts involved in the
plan include four agricultural agen
cies and services, three engineering
agencies and services and the four
academic institutions — Texas A&M,
Prairie View A&M, Texas A&M at
Galveston and Tarleton State univer
sities.
Target 2000 reviewed the prog
rams, faculty, organization and man
agement of each facility within each
System part.
The committee has focused heavily
on 10 areas, Shutes said, and he con
siders these recommendations to be
the most important ones in the plan.
They are:
• Supplement state funds by rais
ing more money for academics and
research through endowments and
gifts.
• Improve the quality of students
and keep enrollment from climbing
much higher than it already is.
• Focus on recruiting more minor
ity and graduate students.
• Have more cultural opportunities
for students that would include build
ing a museum, extending more over
seas academic programs to students
and increasing enrollment in the li
beral arts college.
• Recruit more professors with
high research capabilities, but at the
same time try to keep non-research
professors who contribute to the Uni
versity with other teaching skills.
• Build continuing education,
visual arts and sports events centers
near the campus.
• Solve the traffic problems by
trying to get campus traffic to be con
centrated along Jersey Street, Texas
Avenue, University Drive and Well
born Road.
• Increase enrollment at Tarleton
State, Prairie View and Texas A&M at
Galveston universities.
• Transfer all major marine prog
rams to the Galveston campus.
• Raise standards in the agricul
ture, engineering and science col
leges.
The executive committee is sche
duled to meet next May at The Wood
lands, Shutes said. After that meeting
the committee will probably meet
once a year to review and revise the
plan.
Imbers ‘ready to start work’
Advisory board sits in on Regents
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
[After the first meeting of the the
udent Advisory Board, the mem-
p are enthusiastic and ready to
art work on the line of communica-
pn between students and the chan-
Hor, the newly-elected advisory
ard chairman said Wednesday.
The 13-member board was created
iissummer to be a sounding board to
e chancellor. It is a direct way for
: students in the System to present
ident views on System policies.
The board consists of students
om all of the universities within the
:xas A&M System. Five members
e from Texas A&M, three from
airie View, three from Tarleton
ate and two from Texas A&M at
ilveston.
At its first meeting, the student
board attended the Texas A&M
Board of Regents meeting to see how
the board operates and to learn of any
issues raised at the meeting that it
feels need researching, Fred Billings,
newly-elected chairman, said.
The student board also selected
and approved some System policies it
will begin to research.
Among policies to be researched is
a proposed amendment to the state
constitution that deals with funding
for higher education in Texas. Cur
rently, the Permanent University
Fund, a constitutional endowment of
2.1 million acres of land in west
Texas, creates revenues for use by i;
Texas A&M and The University of
Texas.
If the proposed amendment is pas
sed by Texas voters, a new fund will
be opened for the Texas colleges and
universities that do not benefit from
this fund, and changes will be made in
how the Permanent University Fund
reveneues will be used.
Other problems and policies to be
studied include minority recruitment
and enrollment at different universi
ties, cooperative education between
universities within the System and
possible student involvement in stu
dent service fee allocation, which can
be handled in a similar way at all the
universities.
After its research is completed, the
advisory board will discuss the results
and present them to Chancellor
Arthur G. Hansen. If it has any re
commendations, Billings said, those
will be included with the report.
The board will deal with the effects
of System-wide policies and problems
on students, rather than ones, limited
to one university, he said. If a certain
university policy is brought to the
board for research, it will vote on
whether or not to research it.
Another function of the advisory
board will be to open the lines of com
munication between students at the
universities within the System.
“This could prove to be tremen
dously valuable, because it will pro
vide and exchange of ideas and
methods of how students do things at
different universities,” Billings said.
The advisory board will meet once
a month, he said, and will always meet
in conjunction with the regents’ meet
ings. In months when the regents do
not meet, the student board will meet
at different campuses.
photo by Doug TrieglafT
Practice, practice, practice
Practice is a way of life for those who devote themselves
to intercollegiate sports. Kerry Bower, a member of the
Texas A&M women’s golf team, is shown practicing for
this weekend’s Memphis Women’s Intercollegiate
Championship to be held at Memphis State. Kerry is a
senior marketing major from Logensport, Indiana.
Freshmen SATs
rise nine points
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
Average Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores of the Texas A&M freshman
class this semester increased by nine
points from last fall’s scores even
though the average for Texas high
school seniors fell three points.
University officials said the aver
age combined math and verbal score
for freshmen last year was 1,031 from
a possible score of 1,600. This fall the
average score increased to 1,040 —
175 points above the current state av
erage and 147 points above the na
tional average.
Inal 982 survey conducted by The
Houston Chronicle, Texas A&M av
erage SAT scores ranked third
among Texas schools with an average
score of 1,026. The survey was based
on scores for the freshman class of the
1980-81 academic year. Rice Univer
sity was ranked first with an average
score of 1,289 and Southern Method
ist University was second with 1,050.
Following Texas A&M in fourth
place was the University of Texas at
Austin with 1,021.
This year, Rice University reported
that the average SAT score for its
freshman class was 1,299. Southern
Methodist reported 1,059. The Uni
versity of Texas figure was unavail
able.
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver attributed the rise in SAT
scores at the University in recent years
in part to the enrollment manage
ment program that was implemented
two years ago. According to the plan,
the student body growth would be li
mited by raising entrance require
ments, including the SAT scores
necessary for all high school students
applying to the University. The only
students excluded from this require
ment were high school seniors in the
top quarter of their graduating class.
Texas A&M reported a record en
rollment of 36,840 this fall, but it is
the smallest increase the school has
seen in 12 years.
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