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Wednesday, March 7, 1984
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[ United Press International
len. Gary Hart buried Walter
tpmiale in a landslide in Vermont's
ion-binding primary Tuesday, grab-
iing bis thiru straight victory in the
laitle for the Democratic presi-
lemial nomination.
■"he race wasn't even close as I lart
;oi about 70 percent of the vote.
Suing on the heels of last Tues-
fl’s upset in the New Hampshire
■nary and his victory Sunday in
hg Maine caucuses, Hart became the
andidate to beat.
I With 65 percent of the 204 pre-
:iikts reporting. Hart had 25,295
oti s or /1 percent, Mondale 6,940
)i 19 percent and Jesse Jackson
or 9 percent.
Campaigning in Florida, Hart
■ed that in Vermont a lot of Re-
pblicans apparently crossed over to
tor for him and he said that meant
he could beat Ronald Reagan in No
vember.
“I believe the result in Vermont
shows this campaign does have a
chance to reach out beyond the Dem
ocratic Party to expand the frontiers
of our party and to expand the elec
toral base of our party,” Hart said. "I
intend to defeat Ronald Reagan.”
Mondale still led in the battle for
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention. He had 132 to 29 for
Hart. Many of Mondale’s delegates
were House members picked earlier
this year to go to the convention and
they could change their pledges.
Shrugging off the defeat, Mondale
told a wildly cheering rally in Tampa,
that he is in the presidential race to
stay, saying, “I am what I am. What
you see is what you get.
“This is not a horse race. This has
become a battle for the soul of the
Democratic party and the future of
our nation.
“1 will stay in this race to the Finish
because of principle and not because
of pollsters,” he shouted.
Mondale dismissed the Vermont
results, telling reporters: “We were
not really contesting Vermont. No
delegates were being selected in the
contest.”
Hart’s stunning Vermont victory
— his most impressive to date — gave
the Colorado Senator a clean sweep
in northern New England over the
past eight days.
Indicative of Hart’s lopsided vote
was his 3 to 1 margin in the first re
sults from three wards in Burlington,
which was expected to be a pocket of
strength for Mondale.
Hart was favored to score another
victory Saturday in Wyoming, a
friendly western state adjacent to his
home state of Colorado.
That would mean he would be
building on a string of four consec
utive wins going into Super Tuesday
— March 13 when 11 jurisdictions
hold primaries and caucuses to pick
511 delegates.
There was already indication that
Hart’s building momentum and
Mondale’s failure to win anywhere
since the season opening Iowa cau
cuses was having a strong effect on
the upcoming events. A Boston
Globe poll earlier this week showed
Hart coming out of nowhere to lead
Mondale in Massachusetts, a Super
Tuesday state.
And in another, Florida, a Miami
Herald poll Tuesday showed Hart
moving up fast and Mondale sinking.
Similar results were reported in Ala
bama, although no polls had been re
leased.
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Controversial item deleted
from new appointment letter
is lhc * By MICHELLE POWE
Staff Writer
him ®A dispute over a revised version of
■xas A&M’s annual faculty ap-
BntmeiU letter was temporarily re
solved Monday when the vice presi
dent for academic affairs, Gordon F.
Eaton, agreed to strike a controver-
Bl item from the letter.
iy bladBfhe controversial item — Item 3
ouldn’ of the annual appointment letter —
j j n m States what percentage of each fac-
thougl member’s salary will be drawn
sl0 p from state leaching money and how
the due W c h from other sources, such as re-
( j ^ey search grants. The item also states
thai the University is only obligated
to pay for the teaching part of each
faculty member’s salary.
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The revised letter was the subject
of much debate in the Faculty Senate
meeting last month, the result of
which was a letter of protest sent to
Eaton by the Faculty Senate asking
that the item be striken from the let
ter.
Many senators expressed concern,
both last month and Monday, that
Item 3 could jeopardize the salaries
and tenure of faculty members. Seve
ral senators expressed concern that if
any research grants fell through,
some faculty members could be left
without a large part of their income.
Others worried that some depart
ment heads or deans might “punish”
a tenured faculty member, or an un
tenured faculty member awaiting
tenure, by manipulating assignments
between the University and state
agencies. The senators charged that
a department head might allocate
part of a faculty member’s salary to
research funds, knowing that no
such funds were available.
Eaton said, however, that the ap
peals process guarantees against such
action. He said a faculty member can
take a case to University President
Frank E. Vandiver and to the Ten
ure Advisory Committee.
Eaton said the deletion of Item 3
won’t change anything. He said Item
3, although a new addition to some
colleges’ appointment letters, is not a
new policy.
The University administration, at
the beginning of each academic year,
distributes all teaching funds appro
priated to it by the Legislature to the
various colleges. State law, he said,
prohibits all State institutions from
committing funds it does not have.
State law also prohibits converting
teaching funds for other purposes,
he said.
He said the University still won’t
be obligated for “more than the sup
port from teaching funds indicated,”
as stated in the appointment letter.
Eaton said some of the appoint
ment letters already have sent out
but can be corrected.
The Senate’s resolution requesting
the deletion of Item 3 applies to the
1984-1985 academic year. But the
Senate called for a study of faculty
appointment letters in the future.
Photo by JOHN RYAN
Future Aggie All-American
Two-year-old Justin Wayne Sherrill receives some advice on
the finer points of basketball during half-time at the Texas
A&M-University of Texas game from his father Jackie Sher
rill, head football coach and athletic director here.
fhe ‘Battle of Twin Cities’ is only beginning
By ED ALANIS
Staff Writer
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Arkansj
t ot iltf J It’s two dogs fighting over the
d^lme bone, but that bone is growth
n 1s " and business, and the meat on the
bone is the almighty dollar.
> have'll Jhe two dogs, Bryan and College
seasof Station.
it moi 11 ® Good or bad, the good of days are
t to S over for Bryan. This sleepy railroad
y nigk town has been thrust into the sophis-
V nw ticated realm of industry and big
ts tin 5 business, and it’s up to its ears in a
clear predicament few towns ever face,
hadp College Station has grown to meet
menl Bryan at its city limits, and is chal-
bosta 1 jenging Bryan for every new business
west or industry coming to the Brazos
gaflt £ Valley.
,e first ! Tie bottom line — which city gets
ar Inst the generated tax revenues?
home ■ College Station became a town in
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one
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1938, after growth around the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College
justified the incorporation of a city.
If only Bryan had been able to fore
see the potential growth of that small
military college across the prairie...
Instead, College Station sprang up
overnight and stole the biggest thing
in the Brazos Valley right out from
under Bryan’s nose — Texas A&M
University and the steady influx of
dollars from students. Of course,
Bryan hasn’t been left out in the cold
completely. Bryan reaps many bene
fits from the University. However,
College Station obviously has the up
per hand in the game, and more im
portant, College Station represents a
threat to the healthy growth of
Bryan.
James Gardner, a Texas A&M
professor of urban and regional
planning and a former College Sta
tion city councilman, describes the
twin cities as being plagued by a “ri
valry syndrome.” He calls it good-na
tured rivalry, though.
Good-natured or not, big dollars
are at stake. With big money in
volved, “good-natured” can only be a
temporary description at best.
Bryan founders probably never
dreamed their city would one day be
battling a neighboring city for every
thing from a chamber of commerce
building to a hi-tech plant, but so it is,
and the cities resemble two men
deadlocked in an arm wrestling
match, beads of sweat forming on the
brows of both.
A combined Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce, formed in
the early 1960s to unite the two cities
and enable them to combine re
sources to achieve common goals, has
backfired after twenty years and cre
ated a dissension in city politics that
will not disappear overnight. It’s a
full-blown fight, and someone has to
lose.
The fight is over where the com
bined chamber of commerce will be
housed. Since its formation, it has
been situated in downtown Bryan,
with a branch office in College Sta
tion. Now, College Station is no
longer satisfied with its small branch
office.
When one was finally formally
proposed, College Station jumped at
it. The city council voted to contrib
ute $400,000 towards the estimated
moving cost of $660,000. The pro
posed site had a central location very
near the boundary shared between
the two cities, but it was in College
Station.
When put to a vote the proposal
was favored by a majority, but not by
the required two-thirds majority. A
temporary victory for Bryan, at the
cost of diminishing unity with Col
lege Station.
“But there’s more than one way to
skin a cat,” College Station Mayor
Gary Halter told reporters after the
vote was announced. And indeed,
College Station has not given up the
fight.
Another issue to finally surface
this year has been the status of medi
cal care in the twin cities. The exist
ing two hospitals are located side by
side, in Bryan.
The smaller, Humana Hospital
Bryan-College Station, has filed a
proposal with the Texas Health Fa
cilities Commission to expand and
move to a new location in south Col
lege Station.
The feelings on this issue are
mixed. As a city, College Station rec
ognizes its need for medical facilities,
Halter said.
However, the value of size is also
recognized. Hospital expansions are
granted based on estimated overall
community needs. If Humana moves
and expands, a lot of growth will
have to take place before St. Joseph
Hospital will be granted approval for
more expansion. Many think that
one large hospital with a central loca
tion, like St. Joseph, would be of
more benefit than two smaller hospi
tals.
The bottom line is city politics —
twin city residents go where their
needs can best be served, they don’t
necessarily go to one city as opposed
to the other because of some sense of
loyalty. And where the people go,
well, that’s where the dollars go.
Women make their mark at A&M
By ROBIN BLACK
Staff Writer
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he wi ||1 li Editors note: This is the first oj a tzuo-
ame i ( l P url senes copcirning women, both stu-
as JtfBento and faculty, at Texas A&M Uni-
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is to Texas A&M as teachers
st the' or students until the late 1960s, they
iJhave — quite unofficially — made
j c |tib'|their presence known in the past.
• have* Wanda Farr, the wife of a profes-
tourH' i l Sor a t the University, began teaching
thoU# 0 l°gy in 1917 —without the rank of
-jg w ai ftrofessor, of course.
co* Professor Charles Hutson’s three
jg Tuftlaughters completed studies in engi-
Le a steering between 1893 and 1903 as
-re ™ c °urtesy students.” They were al-
Ynure Bowed to attend as a favor to their fa-
Suitt-Bher. They did not receive degrees,
the I Almost 100 years after its genesis,
Texas A&M finally admitted women
to the University.
Betty Unterberger was hired as a
« ull professor of history, with tenure,
n 1968.
Unterberger, who was the only
woman with such rank at Texas
Annette Lopez, director of affirmative action at the
University, said although a shortage of women in ad
ministrative and teaching positions at Texas A&M is
a problem, the trend lately has been to hire more
women.
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A&M then, said she was treated very
well by her co-workers.
“I don’t feel any sense of having
been discriminated against — then or
now — as far as my scholarship is
concerned,” she said.
Things were a little uncomfortable
at first, though, she said.
“It was kind of like being a black in
a white society,” she said. “I was their
‘token woman’, but there was really
no vindictive treatment. I think the
other men just weren’t sure how to
behave; they had never worked with
a woman before.”
Unterberger said she wasn’t really
surprised by this, since she had
worked in a similar atmosphere at
three other universities before com
ing to Texas A&M.
Women professors were rare until
well into the 1970s, she said, so she
learned to “pretty much be a loner.”
More women have been hired in
teaching and administrative posi
tions, but, she said, she doesn’t see
many promising indications that the
balance of men and women in faculty
positions will ever be what it should.
“There has been such a long
standing tradition against it (hiring
of women in high positions) at
A&M,” she said. “It’s just really hard
to overcome.”
Annette Lopez, director of affir
mative action at the University, said
although a shortage of women in ad
ministrative and teaching positions at
Texas A&M is a problem, the trend
lately has been to hire more women.
“We’re still at an extreme shorta
ge,” she said, “but starting from
nothing and going to something is an
improvement.”
The Texas Plan, which provides
that the University must hire a cer
tain number of minorities in admin
istrative positions within the next
four years, does not include women
as a minority.
“Women are technically not a mi
nority, because they make up about
half of the work force,” Unterberger
said, “but realistically we are a mi
nority where professional positions
are concerned.”
In a report compiled last Septem
ber by the department of Institutio
nal Analysis, out of the 1574 faculty
members (which includes full, assis
tant and associate professors) at
Texas A&M, about 13 percent or 108
of those are women, and 43, or less
than half, of the women have tenure.
Of the remaining 1466 male fac
ulty members, 965, or about 66 per
cent, of them are tenured.
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Local
• Corps’ dining routines won’t change despite higher
costs of Duncan’s family-style dining. See story page 3.
• The Aggieland Inn is opening a dinner theater. See
story page 5.
• TAMU parking permit fees may double next semes
ter along with an increase in dormitory rates. See story
page?.
State
• Corpus Christi businesses held a mock funeral and
burial for one of the Cabbage Patch Kids in a protest Tues
day. See story page 11.
• Three children who befriended convicted killer
James Autry have asked Gov. Mark White to spare him
from execution. See story page 11.