Tuesday, September 18, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
Debate Forum discusses GSSO
Vote against gay recognition
By BRITTANY MILLHOLLAND
Reporter
Seventy-five percent of the people
who attended the debate sponsored
by Texas A&M Debate Forum Mon
day night, voted against University
recognition of the Gay Student Serv
ices Organization. A total of 204
voted against and 70 voted for the is
sue.
Last August a 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled that Texas
A&M will have to recognize the
GSSO as a student organization.
Later this month the Texas A&M
Board of Regents will meet to deter
mine whether or not they will con
tinue litigations on this topic.
David McDowell, a freshman busi
ness major from Houston, began the
debate by speaking against the rec
ognition.
“Texas A&M should retain the
right to recognize who they want to
and who theydon’t,” McDowell said.
He compared the GSSO to the
fraternities and sororities that were
refused university recognition. Mc
Dowell pointed out that the fraterni
ties ana sororities went off campus
and have still successfully thrived at
Texas A&M.
Mcdowell said that this is a matter
of principal not need.
“Gay students at Texas A&M have
a social responsibility to remember
the majority of the people not only
on this campus, but around the na
tion, do not support the stance they
take on the moral issue of sex,” he
said.
Andy Kirkpatrick, a sophomore
general studies major from Hous
ton, argued in favor of recognition.
He said that one doesn’t have to
agree with the morals of the gay
community, or the Texas law that le
galizes homosexuality, one just has
to agree with the U.S. Constitution
that guarantees freedom of speech
and association.
In dealing with equal representa
tion, Kirkpatrick said, “Since A&M
has allowed the publication and pre
sentation of anti-gay material, Texas
A&M is legally obligated to allow an
opposing group equal time.”
The GSSO can’t be compared
with fraternities and sororities, Kirk
patrick said, because it is a service or
ganization not a social organization.
It offers referrals, counseling and
speakers on gay issues.
MSC Council discusses PUF change,
approves entertainment programs
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By KARI FLUEGEL
Reporter
The MSC Council heard a report
from the Legislative Study Group
about Proposition 2 which concerns
the future of the Permanent Univer
sity Fund at the council’s meeting
Monday night.
Texas voters will vote on Nov. 6
about a constitutional amendment
which will restructure the PUF, said
Michael O’Quinn, administrative di
rector of the Legislative Study
Group.
Until 1981, schools not financed
by the PUF recieved funding from
ad valoreum taxes (property taxes)
dedicated to state universities. This
tax was repealed in 1981 and with
out this portion of taxes, the schools
have no guarantee of funding from
the legislature. This means the legis
lature has had to budget funds for
the non-PUF schools on a yearly ba
sis. The lack of funding restricted
long-range planning, O’Quinn said.
The amendment would create an
annual $100 million fund derived
from general revenues for state uni
versities. The money from this fund
would be allocated by a formula,
O’Quinn said.
Universities which would share in
the fund, if the proposition is ap
proved, will include Texas Tech
University, the University of Hous
ton System, Sul Ross State Univer
sity, North Texas State University
and Texas Southern University.
If the proposition fails, funding
for non-PUF schools will be re
turned to the political arena and
long-range planning will be impossi
ble, O’Quinn said.
For Texas A&M and the Univer
sity of Texas, which already share in
the PUF, the passage of the proposi
tion would insure that new system
schools also would share in PUF
bond proceeds and would allow
Texas A&M and UT to use PUF
proceeds to acquire land, repair exi-
sisting buildings, purchase scientific
equipment and library books.
In other business, the MSC Pro
gram Review Committee was asked
by the MSC Council to study the
purpose, organizational placement
and programming scope of the MSC
Christmas Program, MSC Fall Lead
ership and MSC Spring Leadership.
By conducting a review, the coun
cil hopes it can find continual lead
ership and consistent membership
for the committees.
Also, the council approved several
entertainment programs. Among
those are Four Hams on Rye and Joe
King Carasco, Sept. 21 sponsored by
MSC Basement; Alabama, Oct. 21,
and Willie Nelson, Nov. 28 spon
sored by MSC Town Hall; and
Promise Them Anything, Sept. 11,
and Hypnotist Edwin Baron, Sept.
24 sponsored by MSC Great Issues.
Photo by Peter Rocha
TREE ART
A student stares at a “work of art” in front of the Academic
Building. The work, several jean pant legs stuffed with pa
per, was hanging from a tree. There was no clue to the mean
ing of the art, and it remained unsigned.
CSISD sets guidelines for implementing
newest Texas education requirements
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Police beat
The following incidents wer e re
ported to the University Police De
partment through Monday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A green Kuwahara 12-speed bi
cycle was stolen from outside the
Memorial Student Center.
• A red Schwinn Le Tour 10-
speed bicycle was stolen from the
first floor of the Reed McDonald
Building. The bicycle was locked at
the time of the theft.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone threw an egg at a Uni
versity Police patrol car as it passed
in front <>I Puryear Hall.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VE
HICLE:
• A Pioneer KE-3000 stereo and
a Clarion Equalizer, model EQB300,
were stolen from a Chevrolet in
Parking Annex 40.
By CAMILLE BROWN
Staff Writer
The 1984-85 goals for the College
Station Independent School District
were adopted, with the exception of
administrative services goals, Mon
day evening during a meeting of the
district’s board of trustees.
The goals include provisions to in
sure that the new state education re-
quiremeqts, passed this summer, will
be carried out by schools in College
Station.
The other topic raised during the
meeting was brought up by con
cerned parents. The parents com
plained about scheduling delays and
the hiring of teachers for subjects
which they may be unqualified to
teach.
The board agreed that scheduling
has been badly organized this year.
“We know about the situation,”
said John Reagor, president of the
CSISD board of trustees. “It has
been the worst scheduling problem
... and it just has to be different next
year.”
H.R. Burnett, the superintendent
of CSISD, attributed the problem to
a late increase in enrollment, only
one counselor being available to ad
vise students’ schedules and com
puter problems with scheduling.
Burnett said changes in schedul
ing will be made by next year.
Other items brought up by teach
ers at the meeting concerned the dis
trict’s evaluation procedures. They
said the evaluations are inconsistent
from campus to campus and that the
evalutions are completed too late in
the year to be benefical to the teach-
Burnett said the evaluation proce
dures are being re-evaluated.
The district’s goals were divided
into four sections: special programs,
instructional, personnel and admins-
trative services. The board voted to
consider administrative services
goals at the next board of trustees
meeting in October.
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