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College Station, Texas
Monday, April 8, 1985
lorbachev
halts missile
deployment
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mik-
Ihail Gorbachev said he wants to meet
fwith President Reagan and has or-
jklered a halt until November in So-
sviet deployment of medium-range
fnuclear missiles in Europe, the ofn-
Icial news agency Tass reported Sun-
jday.
Gorbachev said the Soviet Union’s
[decision on further missile deploy-
[ment after that time “depends on
[whether the United States follows
[our example: Will it stop or not the
[deployment of its intermediate-
range missiles in Europe.”
Tass quoted the new Soviet leader
[as making the statements in an inter
view with the Communist Party
newspaper Pravda. It did not say
[when the interview was conducted,
[or indicate a publication date.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., where
Reagan is vacationing, presidential
| spokesman Larry Speakes said: “If
they want a freeze, fine. It’s not
I enough.”
] Speakes said the Soviet Union al
ready haS a 10-1 missile advantage in
Europe and the Gorbachev plan
would not affect scheduled deploy
ment of American missiles.
He said Gorbachev’s statement
did not go beyond what he had con
veyed privately to Reagan and that
negotiations will get under way at
some point for the first top-level su
perpower talks in six years.
Vice President George Bush car
ried a letter from Reagan to Gorba
chev when he attended the March 13
funeral in Moscow of President
Konstantin U. Chernenko. The
White House disclosed the letter in
vited the new Soviet leader to the
United States.
In the Tass report, the news
agency said Gorbachev discussed the
possibility of a summit with Reagan
and quoted him as saying: “The
question of such a meeting was dealt
with in my correspondence with
President Reagan. I can say that a
positive attitude to such a meeting
being held was expressed from both
sides. Its time and place will be the
subject of subsequent arrangement.”
He said the correspondence dis
cussed ways to improve relations be
tween the superpowers.
Gorbachev was quoted as saying
that the Soviets also wanted to dem
onstrate their good will by halting
deployments of medium-range mis
siles which the Soviet Union has said
were necessary to counter NATO
deployments of U.S. missiles in Eu
rope.
“We are prepared to demonstrate
our good will again,” he said. “And
starting with this day, and I want to
emphasize this, the Soviet Union is
introducing a moratorium on the
deployment of its intermediate-
range missiles. . . .”
Photo by PETER ROCHA
In For The Holiday
Over a dozen bunnies made an Easter holiday visit to the
yard of Richard and Edna Stone on W. Carson Street in
Bryan. Stone is an employee of Texas A&M’s physical plant’s
electric shop.The bunnies left countless eggs to be gathered.
Celebrations
Easter brings bonnets,
blossoms, prayers to U.S.
Associated Press
Americans marked Easter Sunday
by promenading down New York’s
Fifth Avenue in their Easter bon
nets, protesting nuclear weapons at
an Air Force Base in South Dakota
and attending sunrise services across
the nation.
About 13,000 people attended an
Easter service at the Hollywood
Bowl in California that was high
lighted by the release of 200 pi
geons, while about 8,000 children
hunted for 60,000 Easter eggs at
Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta.
And Washington began its week-
Catalog insert brings
Zentgraf ruling home
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
Don’t throw away that extra sheet
of paper you’re handed when buy
ing the 1985-86 Texas A&M Univer
sity catalog. That piece of paper,
known as an errata sheet, adds one
short paragraph to the catalog.
But it’s a paragraph that’s helping
shape the future of A&M.
The final paragraph under the
listing “Corps Activities” states:
“All corps activities, including all
those listed above, are open to all
qualified applicants regardless of
sex. The Corps encourages female
participation in all such activities.”
The paragraph is part of A&M’s
efforts to obey a consent decree
signed by state Attorney General Jim
Mattox and approved in January by
a Federal judge. The decree states
the University must encourage
women to participate in the all-male
organizations of the Corps, such as
the Fish Drill Team and the Aggie
Band.
The decree settled a lawsuit filed
against the University in 1979 by
then-cadet Melanie Zentgraf charg
ing organizations in the Corps dis
criminated against women on the ba
sis of their sex.
The paragraph, located on page
54 of the new catalog, probably will
be included in the catalogs for the
next few years, but University offi
cials say tney hope it won’t be nec
essary after that.
“Hopefully, within some period of
time everything it’s supposed to ac
complish will have been accom
plished, and it won’t be necessary
anymore,” said Mary Helen Bowers,
director of educational information
services.
Bowers said st.udents are given an
errata sheet containing the par
agraph because the 1985-86 catalogs
already were in print when the con
sent decree was signed.
John Tyler, the attorney rep
resenting A&M in the case, has filed
an appeal of the ruling with the 5th
Circuit Court in New Orleans, but a
trial date has not been set.
If Texas A&M wins the appeal,
U.S. District Judge Ross Sterling will
rehear arguments about accepting
women into the all-male organiza
tions of the Corps.
“We’re going to abide by the con
sent decree,” said Lt. Colonel Don
ald J. Johnson, assistant comman
dant of the Corps. “We don’t have
any problem working with that. The
fact that it’s being appealed doesn’t
change anything one single bit.”
Hatchman loses race
in municipal election
long Cherry Blossom Festival with
the traditional lighting of a Japanese
stone lantern at the Tidal Basin.
Tens of thousands of New York
ers, some wrapped in furs against a
brisk wind, turned out for the ritual
promenade down Fifth Avenue,
which dates back to the latter half of
the 19th century.
To the south, Orange County’s
12-story, glass-walled Crystal Cathe
dral staged an elaborate pageant re
creating the death and resurrection
of Christ, complete with machine-
made clouds and fog, exotic animals
and a cast of hundreds.
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
Mike Hachtman’s bid for the College Station City
Council ended in defeat Saturday night in an election
where 13 percent of the city’s registered voters and 3
percent of the registered on-campus students voted.
Fred Brown, Terri Tongco and James B. Bond all
defeated their opponents by wide margins. The newly
elected members of the College Station City Council
will occupy Places 1, 3 and 5 respectively. They will as
sume their new duties at Wednesday’s city council
workshop meeting.
Voters also sent four new faces to the College Station
school board. Rob Schleider, with 58 percent of the
votes, easily won Place 1 on the board; Kenneth Mat
thews received 77 percent of the votes to capture Place
2; Larry Linder, who attracted 62 percent of the votes
will occupy Place 4; and Dane Hushey captured Place 6
with 57 percent. They will assume their new duties
Monday.
In other ballot decisions, almost 70 percent of the
voters indicated they would support the construction of
a city library and 67 percent approved the city’s plan to
sell a one-half acre undeveloped park.
The Place 1 council race was not close. FTed Brown,
owner of Fred Brown Mazda-BMW, easily defeated
Roy Kelly. Early in the counting, Kelly pulled to within
7 percent of catching Brown, but in the end Brown re
ceived 57 percent of the votes to Kelly’s 42 percent.
Although Brown says he doesn’t have any specific
[ )lans for the council, he does want to run the city more
ike a business and promises “a fresh, new approach” to
attacking problems.
Place 3 on the council, with three candidates, was the
most contested and closest race on the ballot. Terri
Tongco and Roy Hann Jr. often were tied during the
counting until results from the last precinct was avail
able. Tongco received 45 percent of the votes; Hann,
39 percent; and Hachtman 15 percent.
After the election, Tongco said her first priorities in
clude the establishing a city library and finding a way to
provide more bicycle paths.
“Everyone ran a good race,” she said. “We had a lot
of good candidates to choose from.”
One of those candidates, Mike Hachtman, was con
sidered a long-shot by most city officials and needed a
large student turnout to win. That turnout was much
lower than the city’s non-student turnout.
“Three percent (of registered students) isn’t an over
whelming amount of students turning out to vote,”
Hachtman said, “But it’s an increase over last year...I
still have my liaison position and I should hope the in
coming administration on campus (Student Govern
ment) lets me keep that position. It looks like they’re
going to right now. They’ve (the council) got me now,
win or lose.”
Last year’s city elections were ignored almost entirely
by students —only 27 people voted in three predomi
nately student precincts.
James B. Bond easily defeated Jim Gardner for Place
5 by getting 60 percent of the votes. Gardner trailed by
at least 19 percent during the counting.
Bryan’s elections, held at the same time as College
Station’s, revealed no surprises. Only one city race was
contested.
Marvin Tate, who gave up his unexpired seat on the
council to run for mayor, ran unopposed for the posi
tion and received 2,620 votes.
Hank McQuaide, Ben Hardeman and Helen Cha
varria were elected unopposed to fill Places 1, 3 and 5
respectively.
Tate’s unexpired Place 4 seat will be filled by C.P.
Vass after he defeated Bill Brown with 1,758 to
Brown’s 1,497.
In Bryan’s school board elections, voters sent two in
cumbents and one new member to the board. Six candi
dates crowded the ballot for Position 3, but Howard
Cargill captured the job by receiving 30 percent of the
votes.
James Stegall, with 87 percent of the votes, will fill
position 6, and Travis Bryan Jr., with 67 percent of the
votes, will fill position 7.
Faculty Senate runoff
necessary
By REBECCA ADAIR
Staff Writer
At the May 13 meeting of the
Faculty Senate, 29 senators will be
sworn in, at least 16 of whom will
be serving their first term.
Voters elected 24 senators
Thursday, with the additional
five positions to be decided in a
run-off election Tuesday.
With 760 faculty members vot
ing, the results were:
• College of Agriculture:
Place 1 —J. Benton Storey, Place
9—J.C. Grady, Place 1 1 —James
R. Dixon, Place 12 — Thomas C.
Cartwright, Place 13 — runoff
between Donald E. Farris and
Gary E. Hart, Place 14 — runoff
between Gary E. Briers and Fid-
ward Funkhouser.
• College of Architecture and
Environmental Design: Place 2 —
Carrol D. Claycamp.
• College of Business Admin
istration: Place 3 — Don Hellrie-
gel, Place 6 — Peter S. Rose.
• College of Education: Place
1 — Robert S. Hurley, Place 2 —
Barbara Stone, Place 4 — Doug
las]. Palmer.
in 5 races
• College of Engineering:
Place 3 — Ron R. Hart, Place 4 —
Gerald (Jerry) Miller, Place 7 —
Walter E. Haisler, Place 12—Ron
Darby, Place 13 — W. John Lee.
• College of Geosciences:
Place 4 — runoff between Dusan
Djuricand B.J. Presley.
• College of Liberal Arts:
Place 7 — Larry J. Reynolds,
Place 9 — Chester S. L. Dunning,
Place 10 — D. Bruce Dickson,
Place 12 — Katherine O’Brien
O’Keeffe.
• College of Medicine: Place 1
— Samuel (Sam) H. Black.
• College of Science: Place 1
— Merrill H. Sweet, Place 6 —
Peter F. Stiller, Place 7 — Ste-
hen A. Fulling, Place 8 — runoff
etween William H. Bassichis and
Dana P. Williams.
• College of Veterinary Medi
cine: Place 3 — Robert F. Playter,
Place 4 — runoff between Dave
Gross and Russell B. Simpson.
The run-off election will be
April 9, 1985, from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. at a location to be an
nounced.
Joint group to study evaluations
By REBECCA ADAIR
Staff Writer
The Academic Affairs Committee
of the Faculty Senate, in conjunction
with the Student Senate, is forming a
joint subcommittee to consider the
possibility of a University-wide
course and instructor evaluation pol
icy.
Committee member Manuel Da
venport said the Committee will rec
ommend policies to encourage and
reward good teaching and study the
desirability and feasibility of the
University-wide evaluations.
The subcommittee will be com
posed of an equal number of faculty
and students and will be co-chaired
by a faculty member selected from
the Academic Affairs Committee
and a student selected by Student
Government.
When the study is complete, the
subcommittee will present a recom
mendation to both the Student Sen
ate and the Faculty Senate.
Sean Royall. student representa
tive to the Faculty Senate and newly-
elected student body president, said
the main objective is to examine
from a student perspective the per
formance of a professor in the class
room.
i
Royall said the goals of the Faculty
Senate and the Student Senate are
similar, since both groups are con
cerned with monitoring teaching
performance. But, both groups are
aware that nothing can be done
overnight, he said.
Although designing a standard
evaluation form will be difficult,
Royall said, both groups consider
the effort worthwhile.
Royall said the top priority of the
subcommittee is to provide depart
ment heads with information on
professors’ performance. The infor
mation may be used when the pro
fessor is considered for tenure, he
Said.
The second priority, Royall said,
is giving the faculty a means to see
how they are performing in the eyes
of students. He said if the program
is successful, faculty members could
modify their methods to meet the
needs of the students.
Royall said the third priority,
which may concern students most, is
publishing the results of the surveys
so students can use a professor’s pre
vious performance as a criterion for
choosing a professor.
Dr. Glenn Ross Johnson, profes
sor of educational curriculum and
instruction and the director of the
Center for Teaching Excellence,
said teaching and teachers must be
measured separately.
Teaching, he said, measures inter
action between professor and stu
dent, not necessarily in the class
room. Any time the student learns
can be considered teaching, Johnson
said.
On the other hand, teachers are
measured in four areas: teaching,
research, service and publication.
Many people consider any one area
most important, but Johnson said a
balance is necessary.
Student evaluations of a profes
sor’s teaching methods can be useful
in the overall evaluation process, He
said.
Davenport said students can eval
uate a teacher’s enthusiasm and per
sonality in the classroom, but these
are not the only measurements of a
professor.
Another question is whether for
mer students should be involved in
the evaluation process.
“Five to 10 years later, students
may say they can’t remember any
thing the professor taught, but
they’ll say he was entertaining,” Da
venport said. “On the other hand,
they may remember that the profes
sor was ‘old man grump’ and the
class was horrible, but they remem
ber and use the information from
the class.”
As to the development of a Uni
versity-wide evaluation process,
Johnson said the evaluation should
contain some generic questions, yet
be beneficial to each department. He
said part of the questionnaire should
be designed around a department’s
specific characteristics and uses for
tne evaluations.
Some useful generic questions,
Johnson said, would ask whether a
student’s curiosity was aroused, if a
student felt challenged and if the
course was effective overall.
Johnson also said that professors
should be evaluated for their indi-
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