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« Tuesday, February 25,1986/The Battalion Page 3 State and Local pplications for positions due March 7 Faculty Senate nominations open k By SONDRA PICKARD Staff Writer r«er> the i.; e omie ■dominations for tlie 33 available —-^posiiions in the Faculty Senate are ipen and will be due March 7. Ab sentee voting is scheduled for March 24-28, and the election w'ill be held April 1. ■he number of currently held iaci ^ open in each college are: Ag- n0K Iculture — three; Architecture and Environmental Design — two; Busi- less Administration — one; Educa- jon — two; Engineering — three, Acatitr| amv-J iv to la lus one unexpired two-year term; sciences — two; Liberal Arts — fif, plus one unexpired one-year n; Medicine — one; Science — Ir, plus one unexpired two-year k M<, tmi: Veterinary Medicine — two; aaui: • nd the Sterling C. Evans Library — Mas ne In addition, several colleges have ne: lb new places open which were created by reapportionment. Harry Boothe, chairman of the Election Commit tee, said that some of the terms for the new places are not the standard three-year term in order to comply with the Senate’s by-laws. The by laws state that, as closely as possible, one-third of each electoral unit will come up for re-election each year. The new positions are in the col leges of Liberal Arts (a three-year term), Medicine (a one-, two- and three-year term) and Veterinary Medicine (a one-year term). Individuals eligible to fde for elec tion are employees of the University who are tenured or on the tenure track or hold the rank of professor, associate professor or assistant pro fessor. Also counted as faculty are visiting professors and lecturers who get full-time salary from funds ap propriated as teaching or library sal aries, and retired faculty members who teach at the College Station campus. Eligible faculty members may self- nominate or be nominated by an other individual in his electoral unit, which would be in either a Univer sity academic college or the library. Nomination forms are available at the Faculty Senate office in 203 Goodwin or from any member of the Senate election committee. Nom ination forms should be filled out in full, and information included in the biographical sketch/comments sec tion will be distributed to voters in each unit. Election Committee members and their colleges are: Gary Briers, Agri culture; Carroll Claycamp, Architec ture and Environmental Design; Peter Rose, Business Administra tion; Robert Hurley, Education; Harry Jones, Engineering; Brann Johnson, Geosciences; D. Bruce Dickson, Liberal Arts; James O. Morse, Medicine (Temple); Don Al len, Science; Harry Boothe (chair), Veterinary Medicine; and Julia Rholes, Library. Nominations are due at the Sen ate Office by 5 p.m. Friday, March 7. The list of nominees and their bio graphical information will be distrib uted to the faculty following that date. Absentee ballots can be cast in the Senate Office March 24-28, or by mail March 24-31. Mail absentee bal lots should be placed in an un marked envelope, which must then be placed in a second envelope, signed by the voter with his electoral unit indicated. State employees’ union to help in reducing spending itled" Associated Press AUSTIN — A union representing jiall minority of state employees (ecfied Monday to do its part in re- icing state expenses but said the tgiMature must look for ways to ise more money. Wayne Smith of the Texas State Inbloyees Union said the union ■ for three years advocated a cor- Htte profits tax. m ditional possibilities are a state lottery and pari-mutuel betting,” Smith said. “These proposals are fair and equitable, and do not add to the tax burden of the average Texan.” He said the union doesn’t favor a sales tax increase and feels that a state personal income tax “is not po litically viable at this time.” Smith, a safety inspector in the state fire marshal’s office, said 10,000 of about 180,000 state em ployees are union members. About 30 employees attended the conference, which was scheduled in response to Gov. Mark White’s call for a 13 percent cut in state agency spending. White said the reduction would not require layoffs of state workers, but was necessary to make up a pro jected $1.3 billion budget shortage over the next 1 ‘A years. Smith said it would be very diffi cult to achieve White’s goal without layoffs. He said the union had got ten involved because otherwise “management would insulate them selves and make the cuts to protect themselves and not take care of the services to the public.” The union proposed setting up volunteer committees within state agencies to review agency operations and come up with cost-saving ideas. The recommendations will be sub mitted to White and the Legislature. Mesquite resident protests school’s mascot tttended' ves andt it ofblau our- le. (Dr •eiteraie ' 3 siuonso; chool, orced- i for whir Associated Press lESQUITE — Storybook pirates ave always been the bad guys, but h Mesquite resident David Rucker, Qteet High School’s bucaneer mas- at is a symbol of Satanism. ?‘A pirate is a terrorist, a murderer nd a rapist and that is a fact,” said Mucker, who lives near the school rat will open for classes in the fall. Rucker, who does not have any ildren attending school in the dis trict, said a pirate is a bad role model for children. Rucker’s distaste for the ma rauder, complete with skull and cross bones, dark eye patch, gold earring and dagger clenched be tween his teeth, has drawn the atten tion of the U.S. Department of Edu cation. Beginning March 9, the depart ment will launch a preliminary in vestigation into Rucker’s complaint. “We’re just sending someone to look in on the situation,” said Iwa Iwahiro, a regional supervisor for the education department, which can deny the district federal funding as a possible sanction for the mascot. Mesquite School Superintendent Ralph Poteet, notified of the depart ment’s plans Sunday, said Rucker is a “one-man show.” Poteet said the school board has twice rejected requests by Rucker, who owns a Dallas photo studio, to change the mascot. “As far as we’re concerned, the subject is over with,” Poteet said. “If they investigate the pirate, they’ll have to investigate Vikings. . . . They’ll have to investigate all the team mascots.” He said Mesquite voters over whelmingly selected the pirate seven years ago to represent the new high school, named in Poteet’s honor. In Advance Sally's to feature Page 2 staff By MARY ANN HARVEY Staff Writer Battalion opinion page editor Loren Steffy and weekly column ists Cynthia Gay and Karl Pal- Imeyer will speak Wednesday at Sully’s Symposium. The symposium, sponsored by the Lambda Sigma Honor So ciety, will begin at 11:45 a.m. at the Sul Ross statue in front of the Academic Building. Steffy said he plans to explain policies and procedures of the opinion page. “A lot of times people think Page 2 is the view of everyone on the staff,” Steffy said. “They think we all have the same view as Karl (Pallmeyer).” Steffy said he will explain the difference between a letter to the editor, an editorial and a column. Pallmeyer said he mostly will be answering questions from stu dents. “Most people will probably be wondering why I make everyone mad — why I write what I do,” Pallmeyer said. “Part of the reason is because it’s fun,” he said. “The other rea son is that maybe I can get some of them to think about some of these things. “The biggest problem with my column is that few people catch the humor. “If a person can’t laugh at him self, he’s in sad shape, indeed.” GOP chairman to visit A&.M George Strake, the Republican Party chairman for Texas, will address members of the Aggie GOP at 7 p.m. tonight in 206 Me morial Student Center. Strake will talk about the im portance of the student vote and their participation in the upcom ing Republican primary. Guests will include Gerald “Buddy” Winn, Brazos County tax assessor-collector. He will swear in deputy voter registrars, who will take an oath which al lows them to solicit voters and dis tribute voter registration cards. Student Senate to hear 5 bills By FRANK SMITH Staff Writer The Student Senate Wednes day will hear a bill recommend ing Texas A&M’s shuttle bus sys tem provide time schedules of individual bus routes to students when bus passes are issued. Four other bills are scheduled to be introduced to the Senate. One calls for a change in the Senate’s absence policy. One of its provisions calls for senators to be called before the Student Gov ernment Internal Affairs Com mittee for review if they miss more than two legislative commit tee meetings in a semester. Another new bill proposes the Senate pass no new legislation concerning election regulations within 15 days prior to the filing date for the election. In addition, a bill to establish an overall grade-point ratio of 2.25 for executive branch appoin tees will be introduced. Under the bill, the appointees also would be required to maintain at least a 2.0 GPR each semester. The Senate also will hear the first reading of a bill calling for a revision in the Student Govern ment constitution. The bill pro poses a committee composed of the student body president, Stu dent Government’s executive vice president and the speaker and speaker pro-tem of the Student Senate be in charge of appointing members of the judicial board. liVIljKIJHBAJV drink specials. 505 University Dr. The INTERURBAN 846-8741 66 an aggie tradition”
