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pplications for positions due March 7
Faculty Senate nominations open
k By SONDRA PICKARD
Staff Writer
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■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,
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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 —
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In addition, several colleges have
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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
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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
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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.
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