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Texas A&M University System
Vice Chancellor William V. Muse
has been named president of the
University of Akron, effective
Sept. 1.
The board of trustees for the
27,000-sludenl Ohio university
formally selected Muse Monday
to succeed Dr. D. J. Guzzetta who
has reached mandatory retire
ment age.
“I have enjoyed being asso
ciated with the Texas A&M Uni
versity System, and this has been
excellent experience for me,”
Muse said following announce
ment of his selection for the Ohio
position, “but the University of
Akron presidency offers an excit
ing new challenge, and I am
looking forward to assuming the
responsibility.”
System Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen said Muse is “most de
serving of the opportunity to
head a large university.”
“We obviously regret losing
someone of Dr. Muse’s ability and
character,” Hansen said, “but he
is well qualified for the responsibi
lities that he will be assuming and
all of us here wish him well in
deed.”
Muse, 45, has served as the
Texas A&M University System’s
vice chancellor for academic pro
grams since Feb. 1, 1983. He pre
viously served three years as
Texas A&M University’s dean of
business administration.
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Ida Mae Walker (seated), of College Station, celebrated her
90th birthday Saturday afternoon in the Ramada Inn pent
house with friends and relatives. Surrounding her (left to
right) are: great grandson Jefferey McDonald, of Temple;
daughter Evelyn Hewett, of Van Buren, Ark.; and grand
daughter Linda McDonald, of Temple.
Education topics debated
Senate inspects proposals
United Press International
AUSTIN — After a week of
House committee debate on educa
tion reform proposals, the Texas
Senate took its first official look
Monday at the No. 1 issue of the spe
cial legislative session.
The 31-member Senate split into
four subcommittees to examine dif
ferent topics of education reform.
During one subcommittee hear
ing on proposals for an appointed
State Board of Education, the super
intendent of Dallas schools said the
current 27-member elected board
often ignored the education policies
set by the Legislature.
“Because we have a large board,
there is a tendency to change the leg
islative intent or for it to be watered
down,” said DISD superintendent
Linus Wright.
A member of H. Ross Perot’s edu
cation committee, Dr. Emmett Con
rad of Dallas, testified the elected
board was more concerned with pol
itics “than what’s best for our chil
dren.”
But Austin lawyer Will Davis, a
member of the state board, spoke in
favor of retaining the elected body.
“The schools really belong to the
people, they don’t belong to the gov
ernor,” Davis said. “I think we ought
to keep them in the hands of the
people.”
The House Public Education
Committee, which gathered public
testimony on education reforms last
week, Monday canceled its first
scheduled work session aimed at
producing a bill for House floor de
bate later this week.
Chairman Bill Haley, D-Center,
reportedly was late in putting to
gether a redrafted version of his ed
ucation bill and delayed the meeting
until Tuesday.
The House Ways and Means
Committee discussed the compli
cated mechanics of school financing
and equalization aid Monday, hear
ing from Education Commissioner
Raymon Bynum and Texas Re
search League President Jared
Hazleton, who offered their views of
the best ways to finance public edu
cation.
Hazleton advocated a “Robin
Hood theory” that would give much
less state funds to school districts
with high tax bases.
Bynum said at least two-thirds of
equalization funding should go to
help poor school districts enrich the
salaries of teachers currently on the
payroll or to hire more teachers.
Hart, Jackson testify on platform
United Press International
ASHINCTON — Cary Hart
mildly jabbed at Walter Mondale
Monday as the Democratic Platform
Committee began its final public
hearings, calling on Democrats to re
ject the traditional “promise-every-
thing-to-everyone” approach.
Hart also called on the committee
to reject protectionist trade policies
such as the domestic content bill,
which requires a certain portion of
foreign cars to be manufactured in
the United States, and which Mon
dale strongly supports.
“Avoid a protectionist policy
based on the domestic content bill,”
Hart said.
But Hart generally held to his
promise to work for party unity
while still not giving up his bid for
the Democratic presidential nomi
nation. He never attacked Mondale
directly.
Rival candidate Jesse Jackson,
however, renewed his attack on the
delegate selection process, which he
said disenfranchised two-thirds of
those who voted for him.
The committee scheduled two
days of hearings Monday and Tues
day, the last of a series held around
the country. A drafting committee
begins Sunday writing the main doc
ument for presentation to the com
mittee.
Hart press secretary Kathy Bush-
kin said, following his testimony,
that the key points of contention be
tween Hart and Mondale in drafting
the document will be trade and in
dustrial policy.
Bushkin criticized Mondale for
failing to appear at the hearing, say
ing, “I think it’s foolish for a leader
of the party not to come in and pre
sent views on a platform that he
might be running on.”
Mondale, having claimed he now
has enough national convention del
egates to win the nomination, is va
cationing on New York’s Long Is
land. An aide at the hearing said
Mondale takes the platform “very se
riously” and “We’ll be sure to have
our views known.”
Hart has repeatedly accused Mon
dale of promising everything to ev
eryone.
“If we simply cling to the policies
of our own party’s past, we will only
repeat our own failures,” Hart
said.“The only way to win is daring
to be bold and brave once again.”
Jackson, who testified following
Hart, continued his criticism of the
party’s delegate selection process,
saying many of his supporters have
been “locked out of the convention,”
which will be held in San Francisco
in July.
Blacks, Hispanics, women and ho
mosexuals cannot be brought into
the political mainstream if their
votes mean less than others, he said.
Cable squabble concerns residents
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
The Bryan-College Station com
munity has been in an uproar since
McCaw/Midwest Communications
Companies, Inc. announced some of
the proposed changes to be enacted
after its purchase of Community Ca-
blevision and Midwest Video is com
pleted.
Because of the purchase, resi
dents in the area may find
themsleves having to adjust to seve
ral changes. Apartment residents,
who in the past paid only rent and
utilities, may soon find themselves
paying rent, electricity and cable or
higher rent.
Area residents can also expect to
see a rate increase from the current
$6 a month subscription fee.
Not only will the takeover affect
the pocketbook, cable subscribers
will also find a new channel line-up
available. Also, residents will find
that their “cable ready” televisions
will have limited access depending
on the cable package purchased.
Such changes in the cable system
and services have sparked a lot of
discussion and interest.
“I think it is very easy to under
stand why there is a high degree of
interest,” Midwest Regional Vice
President for McCaw Joseph Di-
Bacco said.
“People primarily consume cable
television during their ‘leisure time.’
That is, time they earn by working
40 plus hours a week. Anytime there
is a change to how they can use their
leisure time, it creates a lot of inter
est among the people.”
It is not atypical for such concern
to be expressed, DiBacco said. Any
change in line-up usually creates a
stir, he said.
“I think it is a really good oppor
tunity for everybody to stop and
think what they have been getting in
their basic service and to have some
imput and say so about it,” DiBacco
said.
“Up to this point (when McCaw
purchased the two companies) they
have had no say so, so I think it has
been very healthy for the commu
nity to be involved in the dialogue on
what services will be involves in the
basic service.”
One method employed by McCaw
to gain subscriber imput was run
ning an advertisement in the May 27
Bryan-College Station Eagle asking
subscribers to pick six channels to be
included in the basic package.
KBTX (channel 3/CBS in Bryan-
College Station), KCEN (channel
6/NBC/ABC in Waco), KAMU
(channel 15/PBS in Bryan-College
Station), a government access chan
nel and an education access channel
will automatically be included in the
McCaw line-up in addition to the six
most popular channels from the bal
loting to form a base for the final ca
ble line-up.
Friday is the deadline for voting.
Already, McCaw has received almost
3,000 ballots from area viewers.
The most recent tally has the top
six listed as channel 13 leading with
2,260 followed by channel 20 with
2,120, channel 39 with 2,046, chan
nel 11 with 1,464, channel 2 with
1,362 and channel 36 with 968.
Other channels follow Christian
Broadcast Network (CBN), 947; The
Nashville Network, 943; American
Christian Television (ACTS), 851;
The Weather Channel (TWC), 850;
Channel 7, 772; channel 24, 725;
The Learning Channel, 241; Trinity
Broadcast Network (TBN), 159; C-
SPAN (the United States House of
Representatives), 150; Dow Jones
Wire Service, 92; Spanish Interna
tional Network (SIN), 77; and Black
Entertainment Television (BET), 33.
“I am ecstatic about the input,
frankly,” DiBacco said, “because the
more input obviously the more likely
we are to capture the ‘consensus’
opinion.”
DiBacco also said he was suprised
the voting showed viewers preferred
more duplication than diversifica
tion.
Because of the differences in the
programming of Community and
Midwest, no matter what McCaw
would have to make changes in line
up, DiBacco said. The final line-up
will depend on the reaction of cities’
staffs, he said.
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Loco! resident celebrates 90 years
In Today’s Battalion
By SUZANNA YBARRA
Reporter
Ida Mae Walker remembers 1918
as her best year. It was the year she
and her husband Waldo Walker
moved from Macon, Mo., to Texas.
A lot of time has passed since she
and her husband rented their first
apartment in Bryan for $15 a
month.
Mrs. Walker celebrated her 90th
birthday Saturday with a party in the
Ramada Inn penthouse. She also
bought herself a new brick house.
Looking more like one of her
younger 75 or 80-year-old friends,
Walker passed her favorite birthday
cards to her 40 friends and family at
the party.
President Reagan and first lady
Nancy Reagan sent their best wishes,
as did Vice President George Bush.
Gov. Mark White, Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen and Rep. Phil Cramm also
sent cards.
“I got 36 birthday cards, not
counting my political ones,” she said.
A graduate of the Chicago School
of Nursing-by correspondence,
Walker worked at Bryan Hospital
(now Creenleaf Hospital) from 1918
to 1923.
“Medical science has come a long
way,” she said. “There were no anti
biotics back then.”
She always kept a medical diction
ary by her side while she was nursing
soldiers in World War I.
“Whenever they (the doctors)
would say stuff I didn’t understand,
I’d look it up,” she said, then
laughed. “There’s more than one
way of choking a cal.”
After leaving nursing in 1923 to
raise her son Chester Walker, who
died in 1974, Walker and her hus
band hired Texas A&M College stu
dents to help on the farm in Well
born. The farm ran from the end of
what is now Southwest Parkway to
the presentWelch Street, where they
had a dairy pasture.
Quite a few students paid for
school by working on the farm from
1924 to 1944, she said. A few stu
dents worked for their room and
board until they could afford to
move on campus.
“She has always stayed young and
has been a mother to a good many
Aggies,” said Evelyn Hewett, Walk-
er’sdaughler-in-law, from Van
Buren, Ark., who came to Bryan for
the parly. “Everything she does is
special.”
Walker said she remembered a
picnic she and her husband chaper
oned in 1925 at the Brazos River.
She was having a contest with cadet
B.C. Davisto see who could shoot the
most garfish.
“I shot four out of the five and he
didn’t hit a one,” she said, laughing.
“In 1975 B.C. came back for his
50th reunion and I didn’t know him
from Adam.”
In 1956 — Walker’s worst year —
her husband died.
Walker returned to nursing at the
College Hospital (now A.P. Beutel
Health Center) in 1957 as a dieti
cian. She retired at 70.
“I guess I just eat the right foods,”
she said explaining why she is in
such good health.
Then, resorting to “country talk,”
she delivered this advice: “Don’t put
nothin’ in your body that don’t be
long there.”
In addition to eating right.
Walker is out-going and fun-loving,
and that keeps her going, said her
grandaughter Linda McDonald of
Temple.
“She could out exercise me or
most of us,” McDonald said refer
ring to “the bear crawl,” an exercise
her grandmother did a few years
ago.
“You walk out on your hands
while your legs are straight behind
you,” she said.
Until last March, Walker still
drove the car she bought herself for
her 80th birthday.
Mrs. Walker has her own incen
tive to push on: she wants to reach
her biggest goal — 100.
Local
• The 1984-85 Texas A&M Faculty Senate met for the
first time Monday and approved a list of recommended
curriculum changes.
See story page 3.
State
• A wandering motorcyclist from Georgia, who trav
eled across the desert from Dallas to El Paso, now has a
healthier respect for Texas tall tales.
See story page 7.
World
• Heavy artillery and rocket Fire tore through Beirut
Monday, killing at least 44 people and wounding at least
227 others in the deadliest fighting since Moslem mili
tiamen seized west Beirut in February.
See story page 4.