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Nobel Prize winners
Warped
to give food seminar
By KAREN WALLACE
Staff Writer
Dr. T.W. Schultz and Dr.
Norman Borlaug, two of the na
tion’s Nobel Peace Prize win
ners whose work focuses on ag
ricultural issues, will present a
seminar entitled “Food for the
World, Learning From Experi
ence Since World War II,” to
night at 7:30 in 701 Rudder
Tower.
Borlaug is a Distinguished
Professor of International Agri
culture at Texas A&M and the
1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Schultz, from the University of
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for economics.
Schultz will be on campus
Monday through Wednesday
and will deliver four seminars
to Texas A&M faculty members
and graduate students and
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station research scientists.
Discussion topics range from
world hunger and agricultural
research in the United States
and abroad to the nature and
significance of agricultural eco
nomics.
Schultz says economics is to
blame for the falling farm prod
uct prices.
Schultz was president of the
American Economic Associa
tion in 1960.
Tonight’s seminar is open to
the public and admission is free.
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Staff Writer
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The battle of the Select Com
mittee on Public Education is
approaching the Final bell.
Battling to end mediocrity in
the Texas education system,
Gov. Mark White’s blue-ribbon
panel of education experts has
almost completed its task.
When the committee was cre
ated last June, its main objec
tives were to examine the state
school system, research ways to
improve the system, and then
present its recommendations to
the state Legislature.
Now Finished with the bulk of
its work, all the committee has
left to do is present a Final draft
of its recommendations to the
Legislature for its consider
ation.
But the committee has no
more power than that. Any ac
tual changes made in the state
school system as a result of the
group’s studies will be left en
tirely to the state Legislature —
the committee was created for
advisory purposes only.
The last time the committee
will meet officially is April 1 1 in
Dallas, where it will present its
amended recommendations to
White.
Working in subcommittees
for more than six months, the
panel has studied in depth four
aspects of the education scene:
• improving teacher excel
lence, competency and compen
sation.
• evaluation of the distribu
tion of financial resources to ed
ucation.
• the state education budget.
• special programs and
problems in the state education
system.
The committee met March
14-15 in Dallas to go over the
subcommittees’ recommenda
tions and amend them for the
final draft.
Present at the meeting were:
the committee’s creator, Gov.
Mark White; Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby; and state Gomptroller
Boh Bullock, all of whom will
play an active part in having any
legislation on the committee’s
recommendations passed.
Two controversial recom
mendations the committee
passed are the abolishing of the
elected state board of education
and the creation of a smaller,
state-appointed board, and the
elimination of state aid for voca
tional education programs.
The committee also has been
engaged in a battle of conflict
ing opinions.
Although committee Chair
man H. Ross Perot has fervently
hacked all of the committee’s
recommendations — many of
them his own ideas — some of
those decisions met with disap
proval from some committee
members, including Dean C.
Corrigan, dean of the College
of Education at Texas A&M.
“Perot has been quoted a lot
on TV and in newspapers, act
ing as a kind of spokesman for
the group and raving about the
recommendations and their vir
tues,” Corrigan said, “hut a lot
of his views do not truly reflect
the feelings of everyone on the
committee.”
Corrigan is bothered by the
recommendation to do away
with the elected state board of
education.
“It’s important that we have
that elected board, because
elected officials are accountable
to the people,” he said. “I’m
worried that we may put too
much power in the hands of a
state agency with only the gov
ernor to answer to, and that will
set it too much apart from the
people and eliminate a lot of lo
cal control.
“The last thing we need is an
appointed board under a czar."
Corrigan also is opposed to
the recommendation to elimi
nate state funding of vocational
education programs.
Perot has recommended that
a core curriculum filled with
many science, math and English
courses replace programs such
as vocational education.
“I think the ‘core curriculum’
that Perot has outlined is too
narrow,” he said. “What it
amounts to is a college prep
^curriculum plan, and that is
very wrong.
“We need a comprehensive
high school curriculum pro
gram with a variety of programs
like vocational education as well
as the humanities such as art
and music, because you're
going to turn a lot of students
off without those programs.
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some things, however. litecture
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committee,” Corrigan said gesands
that it has stimulated a state odern bu
logue on education, whichi > s ^ not
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niittee are:
• the establishment of
based fellowship and
arship and scholar loan
grams designed lolurecri
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nates into teacher educate
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There are only three polling
places in this year’s student
body elections, six more than
last year’s nine.
The Student Government of
fice explained that there are
fewer polls this year because
there were problems last year
with staffing so many polls,
which caused two polls to be
closed before the election
ended.
This year’s polling places are:
• the first floor of the Me
morial Student Center
• the First floor of the Pavil-
• in front of Sbisa.
The polls open at 9 a.m. and
close at 6 p.m. both Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Any student can voteal
poll.
Ballots will once agair
computer forms to be
with a No. 2 pencil, whid
be supplied at the polling
In order to vote, students
must give their I.D. card to the
officials at the poll, who will
punch it with a specially shaped
hole punch to eliminate mul
tiple voting.
All active cainpaigmngi|
stop at midnight tonight,
no campaign material mi(
worn at the polling places
campaign signs, flyers
ers must be taken downb]
p.m. Thursday.
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