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ge ow Pre-registration Juniors A-K today A&M defense Ags return experience Page 9 percent jump I up and groKtlJ ig people a|et| nd, the numljtil 17 fell by 9.3 |j ■ 5-13 populit percent, bust" of tlieJ 70s, when delt! eased attemiol eers caused6 j 30 No. 131 (JSPS 045360 20 pages in 2 sections ildbearing. ncrease in tliej jut the reportsHL si Texas luring icrease in fenim top scholars to schools | Cal-Berkeley ] alumni worried Associated Press I DALLAS — “If we’re not careful, many of our top scholars may soon le wearing cowboy hats,” warns a ™i!l-page ad in the University of Cal- ■brnia at Berkeley alumni mag- m Ezine. ffiC h And while that school laments Hint the University of I exas “re- , fenitlv got some impressive new fur- niture, 32 ‘chairs’ worth a million f ylHoilars apiece, other officials said I they’re also fretting that Lex as’ ef forts to lure top professors and stu- ients may be becoming too success- m r nuay. * * ■ includesCamM Karl Plster - engineering college essional otanl#* 0 at f '"ve. s.tv of California |lt Berkeley, said he has a friendly n- lalry with Earnest Ciloyna, who holds the same post ai U i I “1 call him ‘tne.pirate’,” Pister told BJhe Dallas Morning News. “He , tHipmes to (.ahtorma flying the skull crossbones' I have to batten ■own my hatches.” I They have not yet been'success- lil — and I cross my fingers — in at- jy.tacnng any of o.ur fecufty,” Pister HUfr "'Lv’vui w Li V- AaiwIrt-'-Hfr r tenge for Berkeley. We see their rate ^ of ascension as being very rapid. We Jfeperceive them as having limitless re- Bources at their disposal.” I Five professors at the University pf Texas and Texas A&rM get six-fig s' uie salaries. And to attract Marshall Bfosenbluth, a world leader in nu- im ear fusion research, from Prince- |lf|on University, UT matched a $5 Hnillion federal grant with $5 million ppf its own. ■ Texas A&M lured Herbert Rich- Hrdson from his post as associate Bean of engineering at the Massa- Hhusetts Institute of Technology by pledging $8 million to upgrade the 5 Ichool’s faculty and facilities. I The efforts hit a new high last ; April when UT officials announced j Tie 32 endowed faculty chairs that Sere cited in the University of Cali- Hbrnia ad and then began looking Bor professors to fill them. I “We consider the efforts of the ■Texas schools (to be) exactly what wood schools should do to build qual- Hty,” said Raymond E. Miles, dean of the University of California’s school of business. ■ Texas schools. Miles said, have iome a long way since the 1950s, Ivhen he received his undergraduate Ind master’s degrees from North llexas State University. Texas A&M m m m • The Battalion College Station, Texas Friday, April 12, 1985 a la lion isconsi® the whilepon ited, with titil .s 26.3, cottipiJ ues. Both gw same agingtj jdv estitnatttl■ 236,681,del un 227,061,!■ •gment ofthef® 5 7 percent d« 28,609,000, ki ii I \ 3.2 percent! i clock started very, aiming! .m. Fnd. ll\ set for Feta ed live innei;! i ambling M! Donald Will Inesday ntor gs on rhe si y are to land, day mission. A&M officials: no objections to study panel Wanna Dance? Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPER Reveille V gives an Aggie Houston Ballet Company. welcome to the The troupe per formed Swan Lake in Rudder Auditorium Thursday night. Related story page 7. By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer 1 exas A&M officials said Thurs day they have no objections to a pro posal to create a blue-ribbon com mission that would conduct an m- depth study of higher education. We are always ready to undergo scrutiny,’’ said Dr. Gordon P Eaton, provost and vice president for aca demic affairs. “We do a pretty good job here. 1 think our graduates can testif y to that.” The resolution for the commis sion calls for a higher education study similar to SCOPE, the Special Committee on Public Education headed by Dallas billionaire H Ross Perot. SCOPE led to various education reforms during the special summer session including $2.8 billion in new taxes for primary and secondary schools. The resolution is sponsored by Larry Don Shaw, D Big Springs, and was called for by Gov. Mark White, Speaker of the House Gib Lewis, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and other legis lators last Wednesday. Although Eaton doesn’t object to the committee studying Texas higher education, he said he won ders how valuable it would be. “1 am aware there were problems at. the secondary level of education,” he said, “But I have to wonder how valuable it (the study) might be to higher education.” “Most states have gone through something like this and have tried to develop a strategic plan,” he said. “Now having said that, we’re doing that (researching goals) within the Texas A&M system.” The blue-ribbon panel is a wise way to allocate resources, he said. Clifton Lancaster, vice chancellor for budgets and human resources, agreed with Hansen. “Just the fact that we are looking at a group of people who are going to be intensively studying higher ed ucation will help colleges and uni versities,” he said. “Frankly, some of the functions of the (Texas College and University System) Coordinat ing Board have become a lit lie bu reaucratic. We need a fresh out look.” The blue-ribbon commission would be scrutinizing the Texas Col iege and University System Coordi nating Board. Gov. Mark White said the blue- ribbon commission “might be more of a confirmation of what we’re doing rather than a restructuring.” The proposed 19-member Select Committee on Higher Education would be composed of White, Hobby, Lewis, the heads of the House Higher Education Commit tee, the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the 1 exas coor dinating board. The committee would study col lege funding, enrollment and appro priations projections, technology, fa cilities, curriculum requirements and the distribution and excellence of academic programs. Lewis said the study may raise is sues such as the possible elimination of Texas A&M University at Galves ton and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa. Sandinistan: Reagan hindering peace By SARAH OATES Staff Writer President Reagan’s call for $14 million in aid to rebels fighting Nica ragua’s leftist Sandinista govern ment is part of the Reagan adminis tration’s “closing off all avenues to a peaceful solution,” a Sandinistan government official said T hursday night. “If we talked, we could reach a so lution,” said Ramon Meneses, North American desk officer for the De partment of International Relations for the Sandinista party, “but we’re being blocked by the counterrevolu tion." Meneses answered questions from an audience of about 30 in a presen tation at. the College Station Com munity Center sponsored by Brazos Peace Action, an organization in volved in Central American issues. He said the rebels don’t have strength to win the covert war against the Sandinistan government without U.S. military aid, but that an American invasion of Nicaragua is “a very small step” away if the Rea gan administration continues to sup port the rebels. “Reagan s commitment is se riously leading to an involvement that could be disastrous for Nicara gua, Latin America and the people of the United States,” Meneses said. “You re going to have another Vietnam war, probably with more serious consequences because it’s not hall way actoss the world.” Meneses also said the Reagan ad ministration does not respect the sovereignty of Latin American coun tries and is using Soviet and Cuban support of the Sandinista govern ment as justification for attacking Nicaragua. He said Nicaragua is too small and too poor to pose a threat to the United States, and that the Reagan administration has seized the coun try’s links to the Soviet Union and Cuba as a way of prejudicing Ameri cans against the ruling leftist govern ment. “This is not the real reason why the U.S. government is attacking Ni caragua,” Meneses said. “It would be hypocritical if it was because it (the U.S.) has commercial and diplomatic relations with communist govern ments.” He did not elaborate on what he thinks the real reasons are for U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. “Somehow, the U.S. has to learn to respect the sovereignty of Latin American countries,” Meneses said. “Why try to deny Nicaragua’s sover eign right to relationships with any country? The Soviets and Cuba have said they won’t aid Nicaragua if it r s invaded by the U.S. We are not al lied through any defense pact.” 1985-86 student service fees Budget decreases proposed By JERRY OSLIN Staff Writer Student Government’s fi- committee has budgeted ■ I He ■nance ■$3,84 million in student service fees ■ for the 1986 fiscal year, a decrease of ■ 1.3 percent from the 1985 budget, ■according to the fiscal 1986 budget ■report. "The budgeting of student set vice fees is probably the most important thing Student Government does all year,” said Mike Kelley, former vice president of finance. Kelley was vice president of the fi nance committee when it drevy up the budget. Kelley said the $50,000 drop in the student service fee fund was be cause of the decrease in enrollment over the past year. The student service fee budget helps to fund 14 University depart- Hments and organizations, Kelley said. According to the budget statement, the A.P. Beutel Health Center will receive $800,000 for fis cal 1986, a decrease of about $50,000 from last year. To offset the shortfall, the health center will start charging for x-rays and lab tests. In its fiscal 1986 budget request, ‘The budgeting of student service fees is probably the most important thing Student Government dries ail vearf— Mike Kelley, former vice president of finance. trie health center listed x-ray and lab test user fees as projected revenue sources for the upcoming year. The finance committee also rec ommended that the vice president for student services ask the Texas A&M Board of Regents to raise the health center fee from $15 to $22.50 per student. Kelley said the increase is needed to maintain the quality of services the health center offers. “The raised fee will enable the center to maintain and improve its facilities and equipment,” Kelley said. The Memorial Student Center is budgeted for $1.04 million in 1986, a decrease of about $17,000 from 1985. While the MSC’s overall student fee funding will decrease, the money for administrative salaries will in crease by 10 percent. MSC adminis trators’ salaries are too low and must be raised to retain experienced ad ministrators, Kelley said. The money for salary raises will come from MSC programs, he said. Other University departments re ceiving student service fee funding during fiscal 1986 are: • Student Counseling Service — $553,595, an increase of 7 percent from 1985. • Intramurals — $532,590, a de crease of 5.7 percent. • Student Activities Office — $276,573, an increase of 3.4 percent. • Sbuttlebus — $17.0,000, no change in f unding. • Student Legal Advisor — $104,000. a decrease of one-tenth of 1 percent. • International Student Activities — $57,235, a decrease of 1.3 per cent. • Extramurals — $50,000, no change in funding. • Student Publications — $35,000, no change in funding. • Student Government — S33,453, a decrease of 12.3 percent. • University Art Exhibits — $27,000, an increase of 270 percent. • Student Handbook — $ 10,450. no change in funding. • Study Abroad Office — $8,200. an increase of 1 7.1 percent. I he committee also set aside $139,986 for reserves. Kelley said $45,709 will be divided among 12 of the 14 department heads to help retain staff workers. Kelley said the committee pro vided for merit increases in the MSC and the Student Legal Advisor s budgets. 1 he committee also set aside $57,235 in reserves, anticipating that the state will require the Universil v to fund 100 percent of the Interna tional Student Activities office bud get. ( urrently, the state funds 50 per cent of the International Student Activities Office budget. The committee set aside $37,042 for unencumbered reserves. The committee recommended that the student service fee remain at $54.50 per student per semester. The budget has been approved by the Student Senate. Kelley said the budget still must be approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents. But the board rarely changes the budget, Kellev said. Schedule of events for Parents’ Weekend Friday , April 12 ii a.m.: Federation of Texas A&M University Mother’s Clubs boutique opens' Rudder Exhibit Half 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m,: Mothers’ Clubs Spring Executive Board Meeting, Rud der Theater (this and other Mothers’ Clubs events are open to all Aggie Moms) Men’s tennis vs. Arkansas, Smith T ennis Center 3 p.m.: Who’s Who Reception, 301 Rudder Tower 4:30 p.m.: Texas A&M Badmin ton Tournament, G. Rotlie White 7 p.m.: Black Awareness Com mittee Awards Banquet 7:30 p.m.: Mothers’ Clubs Open House and Reception, 145 MSC MSC Variety Show, Rudder Au ditorium A&M Men’s Baseball vs. Baylor, Olsen Field 8 p.m.-midnight: RHA Casino Party, MSC 9:45; Aggie Cinema presents “Never Cry Wolf’ Midnight:' Aggie Cinema pre sents “Get Crazy” Saturday, April 13 8:30 a.m.: Mothers' Clubs Bou tique opens. R udder Exhibit Hall Mothers’ C lubs Coffee, Rudder Exhibit Hall 9 a.m.: RHA Parents’ Day Coffee, Blocker Building Texas A&M Badminton tourna ment begins, 351 G. Rollie White 9:30 a.m.: Mothers’ Club Annual Spring Meeting, Rudder Theater 10 a.m.-noon: MSC Hospitality Committee Tout 10 a.m.: Class of ’85 Gift Presen tation, 205-206 MSC 10 a.ra.-5 p.m.: Alpha /eta. Brand Bevo, the Grove 11 a.m.: Ross Volunteers’ Awards Ceremony Noon: Clements Hall Parents’ Weekend Bar-B-Q, grass area by Clements 12:30 p.m.: Mothers’ Clubs Lun cheon (reservations requited), 212-214 MSC 1:30 p.m.: Pregame Activity, Par ents of the Year 2 p.m.: Texas A&M Varsity Foot ball Imersquad Came, Kyle Field 3:30 p.m.: Off-Campus Aggies Mid-Day Break* picnic area near Mt. Aggie 5 p.m.: MSC Travel presents “We’ve Never Been Licked,” 601 Rudder See Parents’, page 8