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Stay In The Lines
Texas A&M Physical Plant workers take advantage of
r ednesday’s warm weather and wash the windows on the
g g|j north side of Sterling C. Evans Library.
-.Bryan policeman
busy on night shift
y By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
■l he Bryan policemen stayed busy
Tuesday night patrolling the town,
picking up a safe, checking night
clubs and arresting a man for public
intoxication while most people re
laxed from a long day.
^B\fter spending a few minutes get
ting acquainted with the basic patrol
operations at the department, Sgt.
Mark Ricketson invited me to go
with him on his night patrol.
KV/e started our journey by taking
a lide through one of Bryan’s high
crime rate areas. As we drove by a
small elementary school, Ricketson,
a 12-year veteran of the Bryan police
fofce, noticed a group of children in
the front of the building. He turned
the police Chevrolet Malibu around
and flashed his spotlight on the chil
dren.
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“Apparently they are just playing,
but a good police officer has to keep
his eyes open for things going on
around him,” Ricketson said. “There
may have been a fight going on
there, so it’s a good idea to check and
see what’s happening.”
Ricketson then noticed some men
working on a truck parked on the
side of the road.
“I would get out and help those
guys,” Ricketson said. “But it looks
like they have the situation under
control. I’m always wanting to pro
mote a good relationship with the
people in the city.”
At about 8:30 p.m., Ricketson was
instructed by police radio to go help
two officers with a safe they had
found lying on the side of the high
way.
Ricketson said he couldn’t think
See Police, page 12
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 21, 1985
Regents’nominations reviewed
Committee approves Mays,
postpones other selections
From staff and
wire reports
AUSTIN — The Senate Nomi
nations Committee appprpved one
new Texas A&M University regent
Wednesday but postponed action on
two more while Sen. Kent Caperton
worked to give senators more say in
gubernatorial appointments.
L. Lowry Mays, a San Antonio
broadcast executive, got a 6-0 clear
ance but the hearing for appointee
John Mobley of Austin was delayed
until next Wednesday, at the College
Station senator’s request.
Caperton told reporters he hoped
to eitner get a Senate resolution call
ing on the governor to consult with
senators involved by the appoint
ment or to get 1 1 votes that would
block Mobley’s final approval next
Thursday before the full Seriate.
Caperton said blocking Mobley’s
appointment would be the “least de
sirable” of his options.
“I think that’s the principle now
and that is that we’ve got to clearly
Thatcher warns
U.S. to be wary
of Soviet aims
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Amid ex
traordinary security precautions,
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher cautioned Congress on
Wednesday that the Soviet Union
will attempt to divide the West dur
ing nuclear arms control talks and
warned “we should not expect too
much too soon” from the negotia
tions.
Echoing a theme sounded by
President Reagan, Thatcher said,
“Let us be under no illusions: It is
our strength and not their goodwill
that has brought the Soviet Union to
the negotiating table in Geneva.”
Thatcher was the first British
prime minister to address a joint
meeting of the House and Senate
since Winston Churchill did so on
Jan. 17, 1952. After her speech,
which was interrupted 24 times by
applause, she went to the White
House to confer with Reagan on
arms control, America’s huge bud
get deficit and the soaring U.S. dol
lar.
A senior American official said
Reagan and Thatcher agreed that in
the three-part arms talks beginning
next month, the Soviets would try
“to hold progress on the interme
diate-range and strategic arms nego
tiations hostage to concessions by the
United States on the Strategic De
fensive Initiative” — the so-called
“Star Wars” defense system.
Referring to their discussions on
arms control, Reagan said, “We fully
agree that the unity, patience and
determination of the North Atlantic
Alliance are essential if arms control
negotiations are to succeed.”
On the deficit, Thatcher said they
had reviewed the importance of cut
ting federal spending.
Escorting Thatcher to her limou
sine after lunch, Reagan called the
prime minister “a dear friend and
the respected leader of one of Amer
ica’s closest allies.”
The ornate House chamber was
packed by members of the Senate
and House, assembled in a joint
meeting, and members of the Cab
inet and diplomatic corps.
See Thatcher, page 11
establish that Gov. White will consult
with the Senate,” Caperton told re
porters.
Action on Mobley’s appointment
to the A&M board was postponed
for a week Wednesday because com
mittee chairman Sen. Ed Howard,
D-Texarkana, said Caperton
“wanted additional time to study the
nomination of Mobley.”
Caperton complained previously
that White did not ask his advice, as
the senator of the A&M district, be
fore making the A&M appoint
ments. Caperton said he thought the
name of Mobley should be returned
to White.
Howard said White’s reappoint
ment of Royce E. Wisenbaker of
Tyler to the A&M board also was
postponed until next week because
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a bill
Wednesday night calling for $1,700
to be taken from the Student Service
Fee Reserve Account and given to
the Sterling C. Evans library to fund
the extension of library hours.
The new extended hours will be
gin Sunday, Feb. 25, said Tom Ur
ban, Vice President of Academic Af
fairs.
Urban said the library will now be
open from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Sun
day, 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. Monday thru
Thursday, 7 a.m. to midnight Friday
and 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday.
The library was open during these
hours at the beginning of the semes
ter, but the hours were cut because
Wisenbaker was unable to appear
Wednesday because of bad weather.
The Senate committee recom
mended confirmation of Maj. Gen.
James T. Dennis as State Adjutant
General; Jack Martin, Austin, and
Philip G. Warner, Houston, to the
Texas State University System
Board; and James P. Allison, Austin,
and Dr. Elbert Whorton Jr., Galves
ton, to the Texas Low-Level Radio
active Waste Disposal Authority.
Howard said the nominations will
go before the full Senate Thursday
for consideration. A two-thirds vote
is needed for final approval.
Mays, 49, president of Clear
Channel Communications Inc.,
which is building a new TV station in
College Station, said he favored a
“significant” college tuition increase
of proposed University budget cuts,
said Mike Kelley, Vice President of
Finance.
Urban said the extended hours
were needed because students need
a place to study late at night.
But Sen. Brian Hay said he op
posed it because of philosophical
reasons.
“It sets a dangerous precedent in
that we are using student funds to
subsidize a University service,” he
said.
In other business, the Senate
passed a resolution opposing Uni
versity plans to assign 2,500 square
feet of the library’s 6th floor to the
Development Foundation.
The resolution says some student
seating on the 6th floor would be
such as the $4 to $8 per semester
hour proposal made by Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby.
“As long as I’m convinced there
will be programs to benefit the fi
nancially disadvantaged, I’ll support
the increases,” Mays said. “I don’t
want the momentum of universities
to stop. Higher education needs the
money.”
Mays also said he hoped the Legis
lature would be very careful in mak
ing cutbacks in higher education
funds.
“I think we should be concerned
whether these cutbacks would be
detrimental because both our major
university systems, A&M and the
University of Texas, have the great
est momentum they have ever had
and to interrupt that momentum
would be very dangerous, a very bad
return on the investment of the peo
ple of Texas,” Mays said.
See Regents, page 11
eliminated by the plan. It says the
University already provides seating
for less than 15 percent of the stu
dent body while national standards
recommend seating for 30 percent
of the student population.
The Senate also passed a bill call
ing for vice presidents in the Senate
to be elected by the Senate.
Currently, the student body elects
the vice presidents.
Because the bill would change the
Student Government Constitution, it
must be approved by the student
body before it can go into effect.
The Senate also introduced a bill
that would allow students to voice
their views during Senate meetings.
Chem Busters
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Michael Goad is interviewed on the steps of
Heldenfels Hall by Channel 3, KBTX. Goad,
with some of the more than 400 chemistry
students he tutors, posed for pictures
Wednesday afternoon. Goad is questioning
the Chemistry department’s policy of as
signing students to teaching assistants. The
graduate student in education and about 100
of his students wear “Chem Buster” T-
shirts.
Student Senate passes bill
funding longer library hours
discrimination among faculty studied
Sexual
P
^mEditor’s Note: This is the second article
in a two-part series on possible discrimi
nation against women at Texas A&M.
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
hether female students are dis
criminated against at Texas A&M is
uncertain, but at the faculty level this
issue is being studied. Researchers
say current studies point to the need
for more in-depth investigations,
nil .M'f he Committee on the Status of
Women, an A&M Faculty Senate
ctoii subcommittee, is developing a ques
tionnaire to “find out the different
f ierceptions from the faculty about
acuity women,” said Dr. Ethel Tsut-
sui, committee chairman and an as
sociate professor of biochemistry.
. She said the questionnaire proba
bly will be sent out in March.
The committee’s primary con
cerns are salary, promotion, tenure
and equitable treatment of women
faculty, Tsutsui said. It also is work
ing to eliminate sexist language in
University publications.
“When the Faculty Senate started,
various women came to it with prob
lems, so that led to this committee,”
she said.
Tsutsui said she is concerned
women faculty at A&M are victims
of subtle discrimination. They tend
to be overlooked for promotions and
research grants, she said.
“Men get promoted in about five
or six years,” she said, “For most
women, it doesn’t happen that
quickly. The excuse is that women
are not turning out as many research
papers, and promotions are based
on research. Well, many women
here can’t do as much research be
cause they’re teaching such large
numbers of undergrads.
“The issue largely is money. The
attitude is that you don’t want to pay
a woman more because she either
has a husband to take care of her or
because she doesn’t have to support
a family.”
Dr. Clinton Phillips, dean of fac
ulties, said the University is com
mitted to eliminating any sexual dis
crimination at the faculty level.
Promotions are made on an individ
ual basis, he said, and his depart
ment has investigated complaints of
women faculty about unfairly heavy
teaching loads.
“The administration is very sensi
tive to this,” he said. “They’re sensi
tive to treating women fairly. I think
there may be some latent male chau
vinism in some departments, but
we’ve made great strides in recent
years.”
Phillips said the University has re
viewed a sexual discrimination case
brought by a male faculty member.
Virginia McDermott, an agricultural
communications specialist and mem
ber of the Committee on the Status
of Women, has written a report on
the situation of faculty women at
A&M.
The purpose of the study was to
see if a small sample of female fac
ulty had experienced sexual discrim
ination.
Of the 12 women interviewed for
the study, six said they had been sub
tly discriminated against, for exam
ple, through heavy teaching loads.
These women, whose teaching expe
rience at ranged from six to 24 years
See Faculty, page 10