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ALL students may dine on a meal
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from July 11 until August 16. We
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evening - $227. 00 plus tax
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Friday - $210. 00 plus tax
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served during week - $204. 00 plus tax
Indicate your choice of plans during
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Former Secretary:
Education reform
needs leadership
By DONNA DAVIS
Reporter
A former U.S. Secretary of Edu
cation said Monday that while in
Washington D.C. he learned the dif
ference between Republicans and
Democrats: “. . . Republicans raise
dahlias, Dalmatians and eyebrows
and Democrats raise Airedales, kids
and taxes.”
Terrel Bell, opening speaker for
the six-day academy for principals
sponsored by Texas A&M’s new
Principals’ Center, spoke to a group
of principals from across the state
about the need for dynamic lead
ership in education reform.
Bell said he has learned much
through his experiences and has
come up with five qualities that a
successful principal should possess:
First and most important, he
said, good principals must be more
concerned with learning than man
agement. Bell said management ca
pabilities are important, but obses
sion with how well a curriculum is
being mastered by the students is a
necessity.
Principals must be reaching out
constantly. He suggested using tele
phones to contact parents and get
them involved with their children’s
educations.
Principals must be teachers as
well as motivators. They need to
seek ways to highlight the good work
of the teachers, Bell said.
Good principals meet chal
lenges as they arise. Bell said that
principals often “waffle away” from
a challenge — they should meet
them head on.
Finally, he said, principals must
understand how to apply motivation
from students to the community.
Bell went on to say that few princi
pals possess all these qualities, but
they must strive for them in order to
complete successfully their role in
educational reform.
While in Washington, Bell ap
pointed his own education commis
sion after his national commission
request was denied.
In April 1983, the commission re
leased its highly-publicized report,
“A Nation at Risk.”
Bell said that “schools were starv
ing for support,” and that they Fi
nally began to receive it after the re
port was published.
President Reagan made 51 major
addresses on the problem of educa
tion between the release of the re
port and his re-election in 1984.
Bell said support from the presi
dent and each state governor is cru
cial to education reform.
“The president needs to use the
power of the Oval Office to keep ed
ucation off the back burner,” he
said.
Bell also said the effectiveness of a
governor can be measured by how
well he highlights the needs of edu
cation.
Bell said that quality leadership at
all levels is lacking. At the local level
principals must work to improve
their leadership as a critical part of
renewal and reform.
He added that the principals pre
sent at the convention were taking a
step in the right direction. They
must be concerned with educational
reform, he said, or they would not
have attended the meeting.
The establishment of A&M’s new
Principals’ Center will help in the
growth of education in Texas, Bell
said.
Chairman decides
to continue serving
on prison board
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — State prison
board chairman Robert Gunn said
Monday he was remaining on the
board and is “very anxious to con
tinue as chairman” in order to carry
out new prison reforms.
Gunn said after a two-hour,
closed-door meeting of the board
that “a consensus” of board mem
bers agreed he should stay on.
Published reports over the week
end indicated that Gunn, a Republi
can appointed by former Gov. Bill
Clements, would be ousted by the
Democrat-controlled board because
of Gunn’s intent to see incumbent
Gov. Mark White, a Democrat,
ousted in a 1986 re-election bid.
Gunn, however, said “the whole
thing has been blown up out of pro
portion.”
White was traveling Monday af
ternoon and was not yet available for
comment, his press office said.
Gunn has chaired the board dur
ing a time of upheaval in the Texas
Department of Corrections, the na
tion’s second-largest state prison sys
tem.
Earlier this year, officials agreed
to a settlement of a 13-year-old law
suit filed by prisoner David Ruiz,
agreeing to reforms and expansion.
The settlement awaits federal court
approval.
Gunn, a 60-year-old Wichita Falls
oilman, said a major reason for him
remaining was to see implementa
tion of the Ruiz settlement.
“I am very anxious to get things
lined up, to get things running
smoothly,” he said.
Most board members refused to
disclose the events of the executive
session, which preceeded a regular
ity scheduled prison board meeting.
One board member, Robert Lane,
said reports of Gunn’s demise “to
tally surprised me.”
Asked whether he supported
Gunn, he replied, “I certainty do.”
With Gunn’s prodding, the TDC
took steps toward modern prison
management. Consultants were
hired to scrutinize the agency’s anti
quated management and accounting
procedures, and federal court or
ders were obeyed instead of op
posed.
During Gunn’s tenure, longtime
director Jim Estelle resigned under
pressure, revelations of financial
mismanagement accumulated and a
landmark court ruling created tur
moil and change in almost every
area of prison conditions and inmate
rights.
Gunn played a strong role in run
ning the agency until Raymond Pro-
cumer was hired in May 1984 to re
place Estelle.
During Procunier’s stint as direc
tor — which ended abruptly last
month — Gunn played a key role in
negotiating the lawsuit settlement.
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In
Greek. Life?
Experience Sigma Nu Fraternity
Leaders in the Greek World
Fall 1985 Rush Schedule
All U Labor Day Bash
Elk’s Lodge (Open
Kami Kaze Party
K.C. Hall (Open)
Cookout
Central Park (Invitation)
Wine and Cheese Party
(Invitation)
For more information call:
Jimmy Kastleman 764-0626
Rush Chairman
Interfraternity Council
Rep resentative
Mon., Sept. 2
8:00 p.m.
Fri., Sept. 6
8:00 p.m.
Sun., Sept. 8
1:00 p.m.
Wed., Sept. 11
7:00 p.m.
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Program assists entrepreneur
By AMY NETTERVILLE
Reporter
There’s a new division of the
Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion, the INVENT program, that
may produce the next Alexander
Graham Bell.
TEES, a pnrt of the Texas A&M
University System, serves and sup
ports business and industrial com
munities, and higher education in
Texas and the nation, with engi
neering research and development.
The Institute for Ventures in New
Technology (INVENT), ones of
TEES’ newest divisions, works with
inventors from Texas and the
United States, lending them the nec
essary technical and business exper
tise to develop and establish a mar
ket for a new product or service.
Dr. Herbert H. Richardson, vice
chancellor and dean of engineering
and director of TEES, said anyone
with a good and creative idea has a
chance with the INVENT program.
“People who have innovative ideas
or new approaches can come here to
INVENT’,” Richardson said. “It’s a
program intended to help inventors
and entrepreneurs in Texas to estab
lish new business ventures.”
Richardsqn said people can bring
their ideas to INVENT for a series
of evaluations to see whether they
are feasible. If the idea passes the
screening, INVENT will providel
sistance in formulating a busiiJ
plan, market analysis and, evj
tually, establishing a complete bil
ness.
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Defensive driving class begins today
The Bryan-College Station Noon Optimist Club is sponsoring
defensive driving course Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 p.m. to]
10 p.m. at the Brazos Center on Briarcresi Drive in Bryan. Tit.
course can be used to receive a 10 percent reduction in amomobik
insurance rates or for the dismissal of a traffic fine. The fee is ,® < ’ A
All proceeds are used to help local youth organizations and groups.
Gal! 779-1111 for more information.
Theater group presents Thurber’s works
The Premiere Players, area high school students undo (he direc
tion of the TAMU Aggie Players, open their production of thede-
lightful comedy, t Thurber Carnival, at 8 p.m. Thursday in RuddJ
Forum. The play consists of an amusing and touching collection of
the short stories of one of America’s most beloved humorist, James
Thurber. Admission is $2 for students and $3 for the general public.