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Teacher’s group endorsing
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AUSTIN — One of Texas’
major teacher groups Monday
endorsed most of the recom
mendations by H. Ross Perot’s
education study committee, and
suggested a couple of new taxes
to fund the billion-dollar plan.
John Cole, president of the
Texas Federation of Teachers,
said TFT supports all of the
Perot committee proposals ex-
cept recommendations to do
away with an elected state
Board of Education and cut
back vocational education fund
ing.
Cole told reporters that
money to finance the plan could
come from a new tax on cor
porate profits or an increase in
the state’s oil and gas severance
taxes.
“We cannot continue to de
lude ourselves that a first-das
educational system may be pui
chased dirt cheap,” he said.
Instead of reducing fundin
to vocational education, Coir
said, “we need to upgrade am
modernize vocational educa
tion, to provide more trainim
for high technology jobs, and tj|
reach more children who cat
benefit from instruction in nop
academic areas.”
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United Press International
AUSTIN — An $8 million
anonymous gift coupled with $8
million in other private dona
tions and $16 million more in
matching funds will give the
University of Texas more en
dowed faculty positions than
any university in the nation, UT
President Peter Flawn said
Monday.
The $32 million will enable
UT to establish 32 new en
dowed chairs in engineering
and science, bringing to 665 the
number of endowed faculty po
sitions at the 45,000-student
university.
“I think in terms of the total
number of endowed faculty po
sitions we are far and away
ahead of any university in this
country, perhaps in the world,”
Flawn said at a news confer-
Flawn said the anonymous
donation from a Texas man
whose wife graduated from UT
was made on the condition $8
million more could be raised
from private sources. Five pri
vate foundations contributed
the matching $8 million, and
the resulting $ 16 million in turn
will be matched with a like
amount from a UT investment
fund.
The $32 million will establish
four chairs each in the depart
ments of chemistry, physics,
mathematics, molecular bi
ology, computer engineering,
microelectronics, computer-as
sisted design and manufactur
ing, and materials engineering.
“The anonymous donor
came to see me before
Christmas and he said... he was
very much concerned with sci
ence and engineering education
in Texas and in the nation and
CSISD setting new standards
for local high school grads
he thought we had to accelerate
it,” Flawn said. “He investigated
it and decided he could get the
most impact for his money at
this institution.”
Private donations that
matched the $8 million anony
mous gift included $3.3 million
from the Cockrell Foundation
of Houston, $2 million from the
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
of Fort Worth, $1 million from
the Cullen Trust for Higher
Education of Houston, $1 mil
lion from the Welch Founda
tion of Houston and $700,000
from the UT engineering
Foundation.
GSS Speaker
Bryan Guiot
'Homophobia among Gays" & other topics
April 18, 7:30 pm
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BySONDRA HOSTETLER
Reporter
Students entering A&M Con
solidated High School next fall
will be required to meet new re
quirements presented in com
mittee reports during the Col-
e Station school board
meeting Monday night.
State regulations for gradua
tion require increasing credits
from 18 to 22 for the 1984-85
school term. Students in the
CSISD currently must meet 20
credits to graduate. Under the
new recommendations, stu
dents entering high school in
the CSISD will be required to
meet the 22 hour state require
ment upon graduation in 1988.
The CSISD is requiring an
additional credit in either math
ematics or science. Other addi-
tons to the curriculum for col
lege-bound graduates include
one unit of computer science
and two units in a foreign lan
guage.
Students must also meet a
passing grade of 70 instead of
the present 60. In order to be
eligible for credit in a class a stu
dent may not miss over 10 class
periods because of extracurri
cular activities. There are cur
rently no limits to the number
of absences.
Other items on the agenda
included:
Books
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wokstore when it buys a used
wok is whether the book will
esell.
“If you can’t sell a book, it’s
lead, and you might as well
ake it to the junkyard,” said
Texas Aggie Bookstore Man-
igerjohn Raney.
The store’s decision to buy
lack a book is based on the
tore’s demand for the book,
he wholesaler’s suggested price
"or the book, the professor’s es-
imate of the quantity of books
ie will need, the history of the
look's sales and whether a new
dition of the book will be com-
ngout.
Based on all these variables,
he manager of the bookstore
nust decide if buying back the
look will be a profitable invest
ment. Most stores keep an up-
lated list of books to buy and
hose not to accept.
“It’s a gamble,” said Raney.
It’s like the junk business. You
never know if you’ll sell it
gain.”
Raney said 50 percent of the
lusiness he does is from used
looks.
“It’s our only competitive ed-
!e,”he said.
DeHart said only five percent
ifhis total sales are profits from
elling used books. He said his
luy-back price on used books is
tandard, following guidelines
et by the National Association
if College Stores and the
wholesaler’s listed prices to de
ermine the rates.
“There is no money in
looks,” Dehart said. “That’s
thy we sell all the T-shirts and
er things in the store.”
• Approval to lease campus
space to Aldersgate United
Methodist Church for the
month of May.
• Approval for eligible
transfer students to attend
• Approval for the CSISD to
participate in the Gifted and
Talented Co-op Grant.
• Approval to award a con
tract to A.R.A. to supply the dis
trict’s food services.
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