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Faculty Senate tables
civil rights resolution
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Stuit Writer
A resolution favoring civil rights
for Texas A&M students was tabled
Monday afternoon for revision in a
30to 26 vote by tire Faculty Senate.
The resolution, a generic
statement for civil rights, met with
decidedly mixed reaction in the Sen-
ateduring its monthly meeting. ;
The disagreement was not over
the issue of civil rights, however, but
over the content of the resolution.
One argument held that the
statement — which stemmed from
two lawsuits against the University
— was too general and did not ad
dress both cases.
One case involves Melanie Zent-
graf, who filed suit against A&M in
1979 when she was denied admis
sion into the Corps of Cadets band
because she is a woman. An out-of-
court settlement on the case is pen
ding. The settlement will force the
University to encourage women to
join the band and other Corps orga
nizations.
The other case concerns a recent
decision by the 5th district Court of
Appeals requiring the University to
recognize a gay students organiza
tion. That case has been in and out
of court for about seven years, and
the University may appeal the case
to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The only statement in the resolu
tion that gave any clue to what, spe-
cifically, the Senate was referring to
was:
“In particular, the Faculty Senate
favors prompt acceptance of recent
court decisions ami agreements in
volving issues of civil rights of stu
dents at Texas A&M University.”
The Senate voted to strike that
statement from the resolution just
before the whole issue was tabled.
Other senators argued that if the
resolution touched specifically on
the Zentgraf and GSS cases, the issue
would become too emotional and di
visive for the Senate to vote on.
One senator argued that specific
issues did not matter in the resolu
tion.
It isn’t important, he said, that the
Senate comes out against whatever
discrimination is going on at the
University this year, and cited past
incidents of discrimination at A&M.
What matters, he said, is that the
Senate speaks out against all forms
of discrimination within the Univer
sity.
A&M’s Director of Affirmative
Action Annette Lopez was at the
meeting to discuss the resolution.
“I had hoped for more specificity
in the resolution,” she said, “and if
we’re not going to be specific as far
as which issues we’re talking about,
then we’re probably going to defeat
our purpose.”
In other business, Clinton Phil
lips, dean of faculties at A&M, ad
dressed the Senate on tenure and
promotion policy.
Phillips explained the process to
the Senators and discussed im
provements in the policy over the
last few years.
Not including the tenure cases
currently being reviewed, he said, 54
percent of the University’s faculty is
tenured.
The University has been granting
tenure only since 1968, when it
adopted a basic tenure policy set up
by the state Coordinating Board.
Nicaragua still fearful,
declaring national alert
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nica
ragua declared a national alert Mon
day against a feared U.S. invasion,
ordering all members of the army,
reserves and militia to mobilize and
deploying tanks and armored vehi
cles throughout the capital.
The state of alert was ordered
“given the gravity of the threats of
military aggression against our
country,” said a Defense Ministry
communique read hourly over offi
cial Voice of Nicaragua radio.
The ministry “has ordered in all
national territory a state of alert to
all permanent combat units of land,
sea, and air, and to the units of the
reserves and to those of the Popular
Sandinista Militia,” the communique
said.
The United States has denied it is
preparing an invasion of Nicaragua.
The crisis exploded last Tuesday,
when Washington reported that a
Soviet freighter that could be carry
ing MiG 21 jets had docked in Nica
ragua.
The Reagan administration re
peated warnings it has made since
1981 that it would not tolerate deliv
ery of advanced combat jets to the
leftist government in Managua. The
Soviet freighter’s cargo still has not
been verified.
Most estimates say the Nicaraguan
army has 50,000 regular members
and another 50,000 in the reserves,
making it the largest land army in
Central z\merica. The government,
for reasons of security, has refused
to disclose the numbers of air force
and naval personnel but said they
were “small.”
The government says it has en
rolled another 400,000 people, out
of Nicaragua’s 3 million population,
in the militia but the U.S. Embassy
puts the figure at 50,000.
Managua residents, told a U.S. at
tack on the country would concen
trate on the capital, have been dig
ging trenches
Photo by KIM NORRIS
Mud pack
Confronted with mud and water the entire
weekend, juniors of Squadron 16 finish
their afternoon at bonfire cutting site with a
mud bath. Sixteen sit-ups later, everyone
was covered from short hair to shoe strings
with oozing, slimy mud.
Local mayors aid
annual smokeout
By KAREN BLOCH
Reporter
Why did Bryan Mayor Ron
Blatchley adopt College Station
Mayor Gary Halter Monday at a
ceremony at the College Station
RamadaInn?
The adoption, which will be of
ficial for 24 hours beginning at
12:01 a.in. Thursday, was a pre
lude to the American Cancer So
ciety’s Eighth Annual Great
American Smokeout.
Both mayors signed the Adopt-
a Smoker-Adoption Papers, mak
ing it non-smoker Blatchley’s re
sponsibility to assist Halter make
it through a day of smokelessness.
By signing the adoption pa
pers, Blatchley has pledged to be
responsible for providing “cons
tant encouragement, fruit and
peanuts if need be, and a shoul
der to cry on.” Blatchley pre
sented Halter with a survival kit
containing gum, candy, nuts and
other snacks.
“We want smokers to have fun.
with the smokeout.” Roy Munse,
Brazos County GAS chairman
said. “This isn’t a day when we
show pictures of rotting lungs
and try to scare smokers into quit
ting. We’re trying to reverse the
cigarette advertising trend that
shows people having fun while
smoking. YVe want to let smokers
have a fun day without smoking.”
KORA, a local radio station,
will have a drawing for a hot-air
balloon ride, Munse said. Smok
ers can register for the drawing
by turning in a package of ciga
rettes to the KORA booth at Post
Oak Mall on Thursday between
noon and 6 p.m.
Another radio station, KKYS,
and Keathley Hall will be distrib
uting “Kiss Me I Don’t Smoke”
stickers by Rudder fountain on
Thursday. People wearing stick
ers will be “showered with roses
and kisses” by KKYS disc jockeys,
said Suzie Hixson, Texas A&M
smokeout representative.
Munse said four area restau
rants — Jubilations, Fort Shiloh,
Carboes and Swenson’s — will be
smbkeless on Thursday. Smoking
will be discouraged arid “cold tur
key specials will be offered.
While there are special smo
keout activities in many commu
nities, the Great American Smo
keout is a nationwide campaign
sponsored by the American Can
cer Society.
National programs include a
quitters hotline. Would-be quit-
See SMOKING, page 4
States pressed to up drinking age
By SARAH OATES
Stuff Writer
In an effort to reduce alcohol-re
lated traffic accidents and fatalities,
federal legislation may force slates to
adopt a 21-year-old drinking age or
risk losing five percent of their fed
eral highway tax money.
The 27 states that do not yet have
a minimum drinking age of 21 could
lose five percent of federal highway
funds, an estimated 260 million in
fiscal 1987. Legislators have two
years in which to make a decision.
Some analysts say the projected
losses in taxes and fees associated
with liquor sales may be greater than
the highway funds states stand to
lose if they refuse to comply with the
bill.
But for some angry college stu
dents, the issue in question is justice,
not losing money.
“We oppose the 21-year-old
drinking law for a number of rea
sons,” Bob Bingaman, spokesman
for the United States Student Asso
ciation in Washington, D.G., told
The Battalion in a phone interview
Friday.
“For one thing, it’s a civil rights vi
olation,” he said. “This age group
can vote, marry and serve in the mil
itary. It’s ridiculous to say they can’t
drink.”
He said the USSA is part of a co
alition of organizations who are chal
lenging the constitutionality of the
law.
“This is also a states’ rights issue,”
Bingaman said. “The Attorney Gen
eral of South Dakota filed the suit in
September. A decision will be made
on it in February.”
He said South Dakota was chosen
because states rights arguments
work best in midwestern states.
Bingaman said his group’s strate
gies for fighting the law include lob
bying, efforts to educate the public
and pointing out alternative laws.
“Minnesota’s alcohol-related traf
fic accidents and fatalities increased
after it raised its drinking age to 19,”
he said. “That’s the basic illogic of
the law. Kids still got the liquor and
didn't have a controlled place like a
campus or bar to drink in, so their
cars became bars.”
Minnesota’s traffic fatalities de
creased after it passed tougher driv-
ing-while-intoxicated laws.
Rodney Schlosser, University of
Texas student body president, said
the Texas Student Lobby has been
See DRINKING, page 4
Library needs innovative funding
Editor’s note: this is the second of
u three pun series on The Sterling C.
Evans Library.
By BONN FRIEDMAN
Stuff Writer
You can buy a used ’71 Ford Pinto
with auto transmission and a/c for
$995 or you can buy a maroon ’82
Lincoln Continental, loaded, for
$12,095 or you can buy a 1984 Ca
dillac Fleetwood Limousine for
$26,000.
Excellence is expensive.
Texas A&M University spent $5.2
million on the Sterling G. Evans Li
brary in 1981-82, the University of
Texas-Austin spent $13.9 million on
its library and Harvard LTniversity
spent $21.1 million on its library
The 197] self-study of the Ster
ling Evans library says the major
cause of inadequacies in the library’s
collection is insufficient budgeting.
A little over a decade later, the same
conclusion was reached.
“The problems that exist, and
they are significant, are almost en
tirely due to underbudgeting,” the
1982 Institutional Self-Study of the
Sterling C. Evans Library says. “This
is not to say that the collection is in
adequate; indeed it is quite adequate
for under graduate purposes.
“But mere adequacy is not excel
lence, and the collection is not suffi
cient for a university that aspires to a
major position in graduate teaching
and in research.”
The director of the library agrees.
“Money cures a lot of problems,”
says Irene Hoadley, director of the
library.
Though T exas A&M may never
be able to support a Cadillac of a li
brary like Harvard, how is it that an
other school supported by the Texas
legislature, the University of Texas,
invests $13.9 million in its library
while Texas A&M invests $5.2 mil
lion that same year?
Well, first, in order to understand
anything about the funding of the
two largest institutes of higher edu
cation in the state of Texas — Texas
A&M and the University of Texas —
you must understand the Permanent
University Fund.
The PUFTs a constitutionally en
dowed stockpile of money set aside
to support higher education in
Texas. The fund receives proceeds
from the leasing of 2.1 million acres
of West Texas land, much of it used
for oil exploration. The f und itself is
permanent; that is, it cannot be used
to build or buy anything, but a cer
tain percentage of it can be used as
collateral to issue bonds to pay for
construction at Texas A&M or the
University of Texas.
So, the use of the PUF as collateral
aids the construction programs at
these two campuses. The Texas
Constitution provides that the inter
est from the PUF be placed in an
other fund: the Available University
Fund. The AUF is earmarked as a
source for the enrichment of pro
grams at the University of Texas and
Texas A&M.
The PUF and the AUF originally
were designated as a w r ay to make
the University of Texas a “university
of the first class.”
In the 1930’s Texas A&M was
added as a beneficiary of the funds.
UT now receives a two-thirds cut of
the AUF pie and Texas A&M re
ceives the remaining third. Both
schools may use a percentage of the
PUF as collateral to float bonds.
Now, why do the libraries of the
See LIBRARY, page 4