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By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
■Cuts in the Texas A&rM budget
are likely to be the University’s
most critical problem in the next
biennium, Texas A&M President
Frank E. Vandiver told the Fac
ulty Senate Monday.
■ Vandiver said that if the talk in
Austin of no-growth budgets and
changes in the way the Perma
nent University Fund is handled
be< omes a reality, the University
would suffer “intense and long
term damage” that would be det
rimental to the state’s education
system.
■ Vandiver was delivering a State
of the University address at the
Senate’s monthly session.
■ The statements made were in
reference to Proposition 2, an
amendment to the state constitu
tion that will be decided by voters
in the November general elec
tion. If the amendment is not
passed, the University will lose
about $15 million — a chunk of
the budget Vandiver said would
unfortunately be cut mostly from
academic programs.
If the amendment does pass,
the University will still lose some
money, but the amount would be
much smaller and much easier to
trim from the budget.
If the amendment does not
pass and the $15 million has to be
cut from the budget, Vandiver
said, Texas A&M will survive, but
it will lose things that may never
be recovered.
Without the flexibility .of past
funds, he said, Texas A&M
would not be able to remain at the
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info death near end
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
I The investigation by the Corps
of Cadets into the death of Cadet
liruce Goodrich is “virtually com
plete,” Col. Donald L. Burton,
Corps Commandant, told the
Faculty Senate in a special ad
dress Monday.
& Burton, who spoke to the Sen
ate when new business was being
discussed, said that although that
investigation is almost complete,
He will take no action against
those involved until all other in
vestigations are finished.
I “Any action I do take will be
made public,” he said.
i Burton said he has been in a
'rather reactive mode” during
the last two weeks and wanted to
give the faculty accurate informa
tion about the controversy sur
rounding Goodrich’s death.
I One thing Burton was most
concerned about clarifying was
reports about the future of Com
pany F-l — the company Good
rich was a member of.
I “Unit F-l has not been disban
ded,” he said, “the seniors and ju
niors have been reassigned to
other outfits.”
He said that many of the up
perclassmen in the outfit already
are on probation for violating
rules last year and could not hold
leadership positions anyway, and
he felt the freshmen and sopho
mores in the company deserved
the best leadership they could
have.
Burton said it is important that
the underclassmen in F-l remain
where they are in order to reform
the outfit and its image.
The unit is a very good organi
zation, Burton said, ranking
ninth among other outfits in its
average grade point ratio.
Concerning his recent decision
to re-evaluate the Corps’ physical
training program and suspend
most activities until further no
tice, Burton said the move was an
administrative one, not a punitive
decision.
There were a lot of things
wrong with the program in the
past, he said, and he has been un
happy with it for some time.
Right now, all physical training
in the Corps is being supervised
by the various outfit advisors.
Physical training will be con
ducted according to rules in the
army field training manual.
“We’ll gradually build to where
we want to be,” he said, “mainly
with body building and confi
dence building — something the
new cadets need right now.”
Burton said he was surprised
that incoming cadets were not re
quired to take a physical examina
tion when they entered the
Corps. He said he was not aware
that the policy had been dropped
in the past but that it would be re
sumed immediately.
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Local
• The library’s automated card catalog system provides a
variety of services. See story page 3.
• Some Brazos County farmers have had low yields from
crops because of dry weather. See story page 3.
• The College of Agriculture will sponsor a career day in
the MSC Wednesday. See story page 5.
• Sixth Congressional District candidate Joe Barton makes
campaign stop here. See story page 13.
cutting edge of research and de
velopment.
The University of Texas will
have to cut as much as $30 million
from its budget if the amendment
is not passed.
Eddie Davis, vice president for
fiscal affairs at Texas A&M, said
that Vandiver has instructed the
University’s long-range planning
committee to be ready to cut $15
million from the budget and de
fault on existing debts — as a last
result, should Proposition 2 be
defeated.
On other issues, Vandiver said
the University has succeeded in
capping the recent increase in un
dergraduate enrollment, but it
still is not able to provide ad
equate registration and counsel
ing services for students.
He said the University is get
ting a new computerized ertroll-’
ment program that should help
alleviate some of the confusion.
Vandiver said that East Coast
universities’ criticisms of Texas
A&M’s tenacious efforts to im
prove its image are unfounded.
He said the University has
made a clear statement to the aca
demic world that it intends to pol
ish its image to compete with
other top universities, and that it
deserves more credit for its ef
forts.
To keep a good faculty takes
money and imaginative recruit
ing in such a competitive market
place, he said, and must be pur
sued with vigor.
Vandiver named several pro
grams that are being operated
successfully by the University: the
expanded intra-campus bus sys
tem that makes use of the parking
annex on the west side of the
campus; the strict enforcement of
the University Police’s ticket pol
icy; and accelerated minority re
cruiting, both for faculty and
staff and students.
Vandiver also expressed his
“wrenching sorrow” over the re
cent string of deaths at the Uni
versity, focusing on the contro
versy-ridden death two weeks ago
of Cadet Bruce Goodrich.
Vandiver said that Goodrich’s
parents told him that they held
neither the University or the
Gorps of Cadets responsible for
the death of their son, and that
they hoped the questions raised
about Goodrich’s death would —
if anything — prevent the same
thing from happening again.
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Joyce Rice of Bryan, a lab attendant for the her samples. She is doing a crude fiber anal-
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Mondale’s tax proposals
rekindling political flame
United Press International
Walter Mondale threw some fresh
red meat into the impoverished po
litical arena Monday in the form of a
sweeping tax increase and deficit
cutting plan that brought the Re
publican lions out snarling.
“It’s nothing new,” President Rea
gan said of his Democratic rival’s
proposal in Philadelphia to reduce
the federal deficit by two-thirds in
four years with $85 billion in new
taxes aimed at the wealthy and im
position of pay-as-you-go financing
of new government programs.
“He told us several weeks ago he
was going to raise the people’s taxes,
and now he’s repeating it,” the presi
dent told reporters as he greeted a
delegation of Baptist, ministers at the
White House.
“You pay as he goes,” Vice Presi
dent George Bush said in Raleigh,
N.C., where he was campaigning
with Sen. Jesse Helms. “If he can sell
the American people on the fact he’s
going to cut spending, the leopard is
really changing his spots.”
“A recovery-killing concoction
which is ready-made to produce a
recession that will throw millions of
Americans out of work again, pile
new and higher taxes on the backs of
the average citizen and make deficits
higher, not lower,” was the summa
tion of Reagan political adviser Lyn
Nofziger.
The Mondale proposal provoked
strong rhetoric from the Republi
cans, but the Democratic candidate
gave as good as he got in a news con
ference on the long-promised details
of his program.
“This is the most detailed and spe
cific plan any candidate for presi
dent has ever advanced,” Mondale
said.
“I challenge Mr. Reagan to stop
avoiding the deficit issue and start
telling you what he intends to do
about it.”
Prof considered for state board
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
A Texas A&M University professor
is one of 45 people nominated for
positions on the new state board of
education.
Dr. John M. Prescott, director of
the Institute of Occupational Medi
cine at Texas A&M, is one of three
people nominated for the District 10
position on the board.
Prescott, who was nominated for
the position by Sen. Kent Caperton,
said he received a phone call in Au
gust informing him of his nomi
nation.
“It was in late August, and I was
going on vacation when I got the
phone call,” Prescott said. “They
were asking for some information
about my eligibility.”
Prescott said the duties of the new
appointed state board of education
(which is replacing the elected board
of education) will include initiating
the reforms approved by the Texas
State Legislature last summer.
“Generally, the job will be to set
policies for the public schools of
Texas ... to convert, the laws into ed
ucational policies in the smoothest
way possible, and to set broad poli
cies,” he said. “I think our public
schools all over the country can use
improvement. Maybe enough peo-
t jle all over the country are ready to
>ack all sorts of improvements in the
schools.”
janis Monger, assistant press sec
retary for Gov. Mark White, said the
governor received the names of the
45 nominees Friday. White should
select the 15 members of the board
within the next two weeks, she said.
Before the new board can take
control, the United States Justice De
part ment must approve the change
from an elected board to an ap
pointed board. Monger said White
has already submitted the change to
the Justice Department, and expects
an answer soon.
Prescott is one of three nominees
for the District 10 position on the
board. Ruth Denney, a University of
Texas drama professor, and Will
Davis, a member of the current
elected board of education, are the
other nominees for the position.
Prescott, a native of San Marcos
and current resident of College Sta
tion, is a professor of medical bio
chemistry, biochemistry and biophy
sics. Prescott earned a bachelor of
science degree in chemistry from
Southwest Texas State University in
Dr. John M. Prescott
194,1. He earned a master’s degree
in biochemistry from Texas A&M in
1949, and a doctorate in biochemis
try from the University of Wisconsin
in 1952.
Prescott has held positions at
Texas A&M since 1946.