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sVol. 80 Mo. 108 GSPS 045360 16 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, March 4, 1985
Shultz’s meeting Ortega
offers no breakthroughs
Associated Press
■ MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay —Sec-
■tary of State George Shultz’s visit
to South America last week was
■ned at giving liis blessing to the re-
■ al of democracy in the henii-
sbhere, but he found his attention
■verted by,a new Nicaraguan peace
(jflensive.
■ Shultz had viewed his three-hour
■it to Ecuador and his 36-hour trip
|t| Uruguay as symbols ol l .S. sup-
put for the fledgling dcnuH racies in
■ese countries.
■ But overshadowing all ol his a<ti\-
iti s was his second meeting in nine
ninths with Daniel Ortega, presi-
■rntol Nicaragua.
■ The meeting took plate against
■e background of steadily deepen-
■ghostility between the Reagan ad-
■inistration and the leftist SancJi-
ilsta government.
■ The two antagonists were in Mon
te Ico for the inauguration ol I'res
jileiii Julio i^angumetti. who re-
Baced a military regime in power
■nee 197S. Shultz and Ortega had
leavyschedules and. when the Nica
raguans suggested the meeting ETi-
day, the only opening available to
them was at 7 a.in. Saturday.
Shultz arrived punctually at Orte
ga’s hotel and was w hisked to a 17th-
floor meeting room where the Nica
raguan awaited him.
Shultz sat a few feet away from
Ortega, dressed in military garb,
whom he had a week earlier said was
leading Nicaragua into the “endless
darkness of communist tyranny.”
The meeting produced no break
throughs.
They agreed that the two-year-old
Central American peace mediation
effort being carried out by the Con-
tadora group was the proper forum
for achieving a regional settlement.
In the past, however, the two sides
have accused each other of sabotag
ing the Contadora peace effort, led
by Mexico; Venezuela, Colombia
and Panama.
The U.S.-Nicaragua meeting did
provide one new twist: Ortega told
Shultz that there were 800 Cuban
military advisers in Nicaragua. Pre
viously. Nicaragua had acknowl
edged the presence of only 200.
Shultz said he didn’t consider Or
tega’s disclosure to be much of an
admission because the American es
timate on the numbers of Cuban
military personnel is between 2,500
and 3,500.
Although their meeting produced
no concrete results, officials accom
panying Shultz felt it was a political
plus.
“If we had refused to meet with
Ortega, Congress would have com
plained about it for weeks,” one of fi
cial said privately.
Concern over congressional atti
tudes toward Central America domi
nates the thoughts of Shultz and Or
tega these days now that a legislative
ban on CIA funding of the Nicara
guan rebels has ended and a new
proposal for $14 million is awaiting
U.S. congressional action.
The Reagan administration is
placing the highest priority on win
ning congressional approval for the
measure, while the Sandinistas are
attaching equal importance to ensur
ing its defeat.
Course outline is flexible
Altering syllabus OK
I By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
I When a professoi changes an
■xamdate or alters the guiding sys-
■eniexplained in his syllabus, he isnT
liolating University policy. Dean of
Fauihies Clinton Phillips says.
A syllabus is supposed to give (he
itudent an idea of how tin- course
vill be structured, Phillips says.
“It’s not a binding contract.” lie
lays, “A syllabus is supposed to, to
he extent possible, outline what top
es are to be covered, when exams
vill be given and what the general
grading policy is.”
Phillips says although the admin-
stration hopes the professors will
allow their initial plans, syllabuses
ire still subject to change.
“I’m not one to say everything
mist be laid out in black and white,”
Phillips says. “There has to be some
flexibility.” That’s one reason sylla
buses should not go into detail on
plans, he says.
Associate Provost Charles Mc-
Candless says that when a professor
c hanges a test date, it is usually to the
students' advantage. In all cases of
change, however, the professors
should use reason and common
sense, he says.
“Generally what happens is a pro
fessor talks to the students and ex
plains why he is doing it, especially
when exams are moved up,” Mc-
Candless says. “Students need
enough time for preparing.”
McCandless says professors
should give notice of a change at
least one class meeting ahead of
time. If a student objects to a
change, he should first speak to the
professor, then the ciepartment
bead and finally the dean if nec
essary. Some cases have gone as high
as the University president, he says.
Final exams are supposed to be
given during exam week at times es
tablished by the University. T he only
exception to taking the final during
exam week is for one-hour lecture
courses. Those classes, he says, may
take the final on the last day of the
class.
McCandless says that even if the
professor allows students to choose
test dates, some students may be
harmed.
“If you’re in the minority, there’s
a lot of social pressure to conform,”
he says.
In most cases, he says, the admin
istration isn’t able to intervene be
cause students don’t complain.
“If the students agree (to the
change),” McCandless says, “and the
professor does it and no one says
anything, then the administration
doesn’t know anything about it.”
Visitation
RHA reviews dorm hours
Faculty can
still file for
Senate seats
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Staff Writer
Only, seven faculty members
had filed for 28 open Faculty
Senate positions as of last Friday
afternoon. The tiling deadline is
Friday and elections are April 4.
Murray Milford, Faculty Sen
ate speaker, says he expects some
one will file for each position by
the deadline.
The 28 positions open are in
Agriculture (6), Architecture and
Environmental Design (1), Busi
ness Administration (2), Educa
tion (2), Engineering (5), Geosci
ences (1), Liberal Arts (4),
Medicine (1), Science (4) and Vet
erinary Medicine (2).
The seven filers are: Gerald
Miller (incumbent), place 4 engi
neering; Donald Smith, place 13
engineering; William Kuvlesky,
place 7 liberal arts; W’aher
Buenger (incumbent), place 9 lib
eral arts; Samuel Black (incum
bent), place 1 medicine; Stephen
Fulling (incumbent), place 7 sci
ence; Thomas Caceci, place 3 vet
erinary medicine.
Each senator serves three years
with no senator serving more
than six years in a nine year pe
riod.
Last year, 770 faculty mem
bers, or 37 percent of the eligible
faculty, voted in the election.
By ELIZABETH MICKEY
Reporter
The Residence Hall Association
will consider a proposal to extend
dormitory visitation hours at its
meeting in two weeks.
The external affairs committee
will present the proposal at Tues
day’s RHA meeting. The proposal
would extend the present visitation
hours on weekdays, which are 10
a.m. to 10 p.m., and weekends,
which are 10 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. The
proposed times are: Sunday through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to midnight, and
Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Director of External Affairs Tracy
Triplett said RHA decided during
the first meeting that extending vis
iting hours would be one of this se
mester’s goals.
An RHA task force conducted two
surveys: one which went to 5 percent
of the residents of each dorm and
one which went to all resident advi
sors, Triplett said. From these sur
veys, the external affairs committee
wrote its proposal, she said.
Tom Murray, housing services su
pervisor, said if the bill is passed it
will be presented to Ron Blatchley,
director of student affairs. Blatchley
will approve or disapprove it based
on feedback from the Residence Life
Staff, composed of area coordina
tors and student affairs profession
als.
Gina Harlow, president of RHA,
said that if approved, the new visita
tion hours could be in effect for the
Fall 1985 semester.
Triplett said the committee is
looking for possible problems that
could occur because of the new visit
ing hours. Included in the proposal
will be a suggestion that the outside
doors of womens’ dorms still be
locked at 10 p.m. Another sugges
tion is to let each dorm decide its
own visiting hours, as long as they
stay within the maximum limits.
Other problems the committee
foresees are increased noise and pos
sible security problems, Triplett
said.
Gary Niekerk, head resident for
Aston Hall, said if the hours are ex
tended, resident advisors would be
required to stay up until visitation
hours end to check the halls and, in
womens’ dorms, to lock the outside
doors.
Ronda Duckers, head resident for
McFadden Hall, said that the only
problem she foresees is more noise.
Duckers said she hopes the doors
will be locked at 10 p.m. so guests in
the dorm will be escorted by a resi
dent.
Monica Christen, area coordina
tor for the north area, said the staff
of north area dorms is split between
wanting longer hours and keeping
hours the same.
“I don’t foresee any real prob
lems,” Christen said. “There
shouldn’t be a noise problem on the
weekdays, and if the doors lock at 10
p.m., there shouldn’t be a security
problem.”
Photos by WAYNE L. GRABEIN
Big Event
successful
For the first time in its three-
year history, Saturday’s Big Event
went oil without a hitch, Mantza
Pena, organizing committee
chairman, says.
“Never have I seen it run so
smoothly,” Pena says. “I was very
pleased that it ran so well. We
were better organized than we
have been.”
About 5,000 students, working
with 130 organizations, com
pleted more than 80 community
projects for the Big Event.
The Big Event is a community
wide service project sponsored by
Student Government.
Student volunteers worked in
the community painting, clean
ing, gardening and visiting hospi
tals and rest homes.
Also, residents of Moore and
Briggs Halls and the Off Campus
Aggies washed fire trucks. Pur-
year and Keathley residents
hosted a picnic for the Boys Club
of Brazos Valley. Several organi
zations recorded the names in 12
Bryan and College Station ceme
teries for the local genealogical
society.
West German envoy seeks
better relations with Soviets
Associated Press
MOSCOW — The West German foreign minister,
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, arrived in Moscow on Sunday
for a surprise meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko.
The visit was one more in a Hurry of East-West ex
changes preceding the U.S.-Soviet arms beginning in
Geneva on March 12.
The official news agency
Tass said Genscher arrived
Sunday evening for a short
working visit and gave no
details.
Hours before, Politburo
member Vladimir V. Sh-
cherbitsky, who meets Pres
ident Reagan and Secretary
of State George P. Shultz in
Washington 1 hursday, left for the United States.
Genscher’s visit was announced Sunday morning,
when sources in Bonn, the West German capital, said
he would go to Moscow and also squeeze in a six-hour
trip to Warsaw, Poland, between already scheduled vis
its to Helsinki, Finland, and the Bulgarian capital, So
fia.
The last-minute additions to Genscher’s itinerary re
flected renewed West German efforts to mend rela
tions with the Soviet bloc damaged recently by NATO
deployment of medium-range nuclear missiles and by
bloc accusations that Bonn wants to recover German
territory lost in World War II.
Diplomats in Moscow, who, like the Bonn sources,
spoke on condition they not be identified, said Gen
scher would meet Gromyko Monday, then travel to
Helsinki.
The talks will mark Gromyko’s third meeting with a
West European foreign minister in a week. He re
turned Saturday from a trip to Spain and Ital) during
which he reinforced Kremlin protests against U.S.
plans for a space-based mis
sile defense.
Soviet officials and news
media have concentrated
on the space weapons issue
and their objections to Rea
gan’s Strategic Defense Ini
tiative — commonly called
“Star Wars” — in the run
up to the Geneva arms con
trol talks. Moscow diplo
mats said Gromyko would likely raise the issue with
Genscher.
Diplomatic sources in Bonn and Moscow said Gen
scher would outline the West German position on the
Geneva talks to Gromyko and also note that the corning
40th anniversary of the Allied triumph over Nazi Ger
many — to be widely marked in the Soviet Union —
should not revive old animosities but strengthen de
tente.
v Chancellor Helmut Kohl took another step toward
reducing tension with the Soviet bloc last week by reaf
firming in an important parliamentary speech that
West Germany haa no ambitions to forcibly regain Ger
man territory lost to Eastern Europe at the end of
World War II.
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