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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.
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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