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State and Local
\ssociation may expand services
Former students get new chief
By TERESA MONTZ
Reporter
[Ernest T. Pitzer, Class of ’50, has
een named president of Texas
fcM’s 30,000-mernber Association
Former Students.
|itzer says, “I’d always felt like I
kfived a lot as a student and now I
ive a chance to give back some of
tat support.
[‘fl never really envisioned as a stu-
tOt that I would someday be an of
fer, much less president (of the as-
aation).’’
While a student, Pitzer was in the
|psof Cadets and was involved in
SC Town Hall and activities spon
ged by the YMCA.
Bitzer, who now lives in Dallas, is
Jsident of DeGolyer and Mac-
tpighton, a petroleum and geologi-
consulting firm. He says his de-
je from A&M in petroleum and
geological engineering prepared
him well for his career.
Pitzer says because of his service
to the former students’ association,
he was asked to serve as president.
“I served two years as vice presi
dent for fund raising and one year
as vice president for public relations
of the association before being
named president,” he says. “I never
really sought the position, but I’m
glad they asked.”
Pitzer says he will preside for the
first time March 14-15 at the associa
tion’s mid-winter meeting.
' "On the 14th we’ll have our board
meeting, which 'includes about 16
board members,” he says. “Then on
the 15th, we’ll have about 100 other
council members come in for a gen
eral meeting.”
T he two-day meeting will be held
at the College Station Hilton and
Conference Center.
E.T. “Ted” Pritzer
“This is a very exciting year,”
Pitzer says, “because our new asso
ciation headquarters should be com
pleted sometime in late ’86.”
The offices of the Association of
Former Students currently is located
in the Memorial Student Center.
“This new headquarters will give
the association the ability to do some
things that we didn’t have the man
power or space to do in the MSC,”
he says.
Pitzer says the former students’
association will continue its support
and possibly expand services to its
members.
“I do feel very strongly about
continuing the strong support we’ve
always given to the administration
and students,” he says.
Pitzer says the University has
come a long way since he was a stu
dent.
“My son David graduated from
A&M in 1978, and I can see —just
in the past eight years — how far
A&M has come,” he says.
|G setting up endowment for health center physicians
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By FRANK SMITH
Staff Writer
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It
he Student Government finance committee is
Brkine this semester to establish an endowment
supplement the salaries of A.P. Beutel Health
Biter physicians.
■Mills Roberts, Student Government vice presi-
|tu of finance, said the committee currently is
Bking contributions from the private sector and
mtne Class of’86 senior gift.
BHe added that the University’s development
Bice is helping the committee organize the pro-
■Jand also is providing it with a list of former
■dents now in the medical field who might be
interested in contributing.
^he committee is hoping to raise $200,000 for
the fund by the beginning of the fall semester,
Roberts said. He said a long-range goal would be
for an additional $200,000 to be raised every year
until the fund contained $2 million.
Roberts said until enough money is raised to
adequately supplement every physician’s salary,
the amount available might be set aside as an in
centive and used to reward one or more outstand
ing physicians for the year.
Roberts said he and Dr. Claude Goswick, direc
tor of the health center, will try to complete a case
statement for the endowment before spring
break.
The finance committee currently is waiting to
see if the University will prioritize the endow
ment, so the development office can work specif
ically on the project. The project would be given a
considerable boost if such priority is given, Rob
erts said.
“There’s no telling what they (the development
office) can do with it,” Roberts said. “They’re ad
vising us. We’ve already got the account set up —
it’s just a matter of how much we can do with it.”
The endowment effort springs from a need to
make health center salaries here more compet
itive with other schools, Roberts said.
“The health center is the best equipped in the
state — and probably in the nation, especially
with the new wing they’re building,” he said.
The first contribution to the endowment was a
$125 check donated two weeks ago by the Aggie
Mothers Club, Roberts said.
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
Gen. Robert Ives (left) gives Nancy Hedgecock, a junior civil
engineering major, the Sons of the American Revolution Silver
ROTC Award as Col. Donald Burton, commandant of the Corps
of Cadets, watches. These awards were given to the top cadet in
each of the service branches at Saturday’s Military Review held
on the Ormond R. Simpson Drill Field.
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, JlMedia coverage of the Lebanon
ven acittfLtagg situation continues to be in-
ism, we adequate because of the govern-
ie very lefent’s attitude, said Jerry Levin, a
Inner CNN foreign correspon-
Blnt, who was held captive by Is-
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of Wastoll-
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confusi ]| months of captivity, five Ameri-
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about his experiences as a captive,
the meaning he’s derived from his
captivity, the plight of the four
American hostages still being held in
Lebanon and what their continued
captivity poses to U.S. citizens. Ad
mission is $1.50.
After his escape, Levin criticized
the media’s lack of coverage of the
plight of he and the other hostages.
“They had been persuaded that
writing about the basic demands of
our captors would be harmful to us,”
he said Friday in a phone interview
with The Battalion. “I didn’t feel
that was correct then, and I don’t
feel that it’s correct now. I under
stand where they were coming from.
What would you do if you were an
employer and the experts in the gov
ernment said, ‘Don’t say anything,
even while they’re being held, be
cause that will get them killed’?”
While Levin said this was an ag
onizing decision for the media to
make, he said he thinks it could have
prolonged the hostages’ captivity.
“It kept the people from under
standing just what the circumstances
of our captivity and it permitted the
government for many many months
to pursue a course that couldn’t be
challenged,” he said.
“The course may have been ap
propriate or may have not been ap
propriate,” he said. “But the point is.
that in the matters of life and death,
the American people should at least
know what the basic facts are and as
sess for themselves and be able to ex
press whether or not they feel the
approach is appropriate.”
He said the media coverage hasn’t
changed much since he returned,
but that, since he started speaking
out on his disagreement with the
government’s position, the govern
ment has become more candid about
the hostage situation^
As for tfie recent Middle East ter-
rorism. Levin said the media’s focus,
is too narrow. They should focus,
more on the grievances and motiva-
tions behind the terrorism, not the
acts themselves, he said.
“If we don’t begin to investigate
why they do what they do and we
simply talk about terrorism as if it
acts in a vacuum with no political or
sociological motivation, then that
type of narrow view fosters polariz
ing stereotypes on our part that ev
erybody over there is a terrorist and
everybody wants to kill Americans,”
he said.
Despite his 11 months of captivity,
Levin said he would return to Leb
anon.
“I’m a journalist, and that’s where
the actidn is,” Levin said.
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