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State and Local
Focus of search committee
to be on A&M candidates
By Tracey Baber
Reporter
I exas Air M's associate provost
search committee expects to receive
SfO nominations and applications for
the positions, but applications from
outside the I'niversity are not likelv,
the chairman ol the committee said
Dr. John Dinkel, associate provost
fm computing information svstems,
said. “We focused on an internal
searth due to the short time span
given and the nature of the pos
ition.’*
Nominations and applications are
due bv June 20. he said
Dr. Charles McCandless. the cur*
rent associate provost. Mill be leaving
Texas AJIrM at the end of August to
become executive vice president of
Iowa State L’niversitv
He will join current A&M Provost
(Gordon P. hat on. who is leaving the
University at the end of June to be
come president of Iowa State.
In mid-Julv, after the search com
mittee has reviewed all the nomi
nations and applications, it will sub
mit a list ol candidates to the new
provost. Dt Donald McDonald.
f he final selection will be made bv
McDonald
Dinkel said the committee is
looking for a good match between
the candidate's capabilities and the
requirements of the position.
“Because of the nature of the po
sition and its duties, thev need to
have a good working knowledge of
A&M." Dinkel said. "They need to
have a good working relationship
with the administrators, deans, de
partment heads and the facuhv of
A&M.**
The assoc iate provost assists the
provost and vice president of aca
demic af fairs in coordinating univer
sity programs and activities and
chairs the Academic Operations
Committee, which deals with most
academic poliev.
His other duties include chairing
the Mastei Planning Committee and
working Mith the Texas College and
I'niversity System Coordinating
Board. Mcflandless said.
‘Human’ prints
may belong
to dinosaur
DAIT.AS (AP) — Sets of an
cient foettprmts creationists have
claimed as evidence that humans
and dmcMaurs co-existed mav ac
tually be tracks of flatfooted crea
tures. according to new research.
T he finding bv Clen Kuban, a
computer programmer and part-
time dinosaur detective from
Brunswick. Ohio, has prompted
some creationists to back a wav
from claims the prints are evi
dence that (kid created mankind
because man existed at the same
time as the dinosaurs and did not
esc live.
The prints in the Paluxy River,
southwest of Dallas, were exca
vated beginning‘in 1968. T hey
are 15 to 20 inches long and do
not appear to have clear toe
marks like most of the dinosaur
tracks nearby.
But because of the new find
ings jhat the prints may be those
of dinosaurs with an unusual
heel-to-toe gait, distribution of a
creationist movie on the subject
has lieen stopped and the author
of a popular nook* on the prints
now sends out disc laimers
(•eulogist and author John
Morris said. “Until we get it
itoned out. we may have made a
mistake “
Morris used the prints for
much of the evidence in his book,
as did the Films for Christ Asso
ciation for the creationist film,
“Footprints in Stone.”
Kuban sent his evidence to cre
ationists Last fall, distribution of
“Footprints in Stone'’ was
stopped.
«
Morris, a geology professor at
the Institute for Creation Re
search in El Cajon. Calif., en
closes an article he wrote about
Kuban's findings when he sends
out copies of his book
Lawsuit against TECAT
reaches high court
AUSTIN (AP)— A plea on behalf
of S50 Starr County educators
against the recent reading and writ
ing test reached the Texas Supreme
(aHirt Wednesday.
The court was advised, however,
that the lawsuit did not include all
the issues raised bv educators against
the Texas Examination for Current
Administrators ami Teachers, or
TECAT.
The Texas State T eac hers Asso
ciation had asked the court to delay
the Starr Counts suit and consol
idate it with the tSTA suit in which
the 3rd Court of Appeals at Austin
ruled Friday that the literacy exam
administered to all Texas educators
was a legal exercise of the state's “po
lice power.”
I he Supreme (kiurt denied that
motion.
“Ours is the only case which in
cludes aU the issues — both statutory
and constitutional — and ours is the
only case which represents all ad
ministrators and teachers m Texas.”
TSTA President Chailes Beard said
in a statement.
Representatives of TSTA were in
die courtroom for oral arguments
on the Starr (aiunty case filed by
Picrject Principle Inc., a nonprofit
teac hers’ organization.
The organization obtained a tem-
iMirarv restraining order from State
District Judge Ricardo (kircia that
said the state could not take away the
educators’ teaching certificates if
they failed the exam
Assistant Attorney (>eneral Kevin
O'Hanlon said teachers are not be
ing “singled out” by the tests, since
certified public accountants, lawyers,
medical .students and engineers all
must pass multipie-part tests to be
certified
The intentions of the test are “to
make teac hmg truly a profession in
this state.” he said. “What we’re try
ing to do is create a profession, if
you w ill ,"
However, Chief Justice Hill added
that (km haps a test on subject matter
would lie a “better gauge" of a teach
er’s competency.
Clues scarce in shooting
DALLAS (AP) — Police said re
ports were trickling m Wednesday
about the freeway shooting of a 23-
year-old woman, but they are still
unsure what triggered the attack.
Beverly Amaro died at 11:15 a.m.
I uesdav after her relatives removed
life-support equipment at Bayloi
Univerity Medical Center.
She was shot about 11:45 p.m.
Saturday as she and a friend. Karen
Zapata. 37, were driving on a south
Dallas freeway. Zapata, who was shot
in the back, was released from Bay
loi Monday.
No arrests have been made m the
case. Dallas police investigator
Bobby Hammer said Wednesday.
“We've had a couple of people
call." he said "We don't have much
of a description of the vehicle Ev
erything that conies in we’re check
ing"
Zapata told police a red-and-white
IV).'»Os or l‘*bOs model pickup drove
past het car seconds after the shots
were fired. She also said Amaro ear
lier had argued with a man who
made a rude remark to her at the
Oak Clift nightclub the women had
visited.
Hammei said there is speculation
the argument may be connected to
the attac k. but he said die men at the
dub are believed to have been illegal
aliens and can not be traced.
The victim's family — het par
ents. five sisters and nine brothers of
Socorro, N.M as well as her hus-
liand. Mike Amaro and her two chil
dren — are devastated, a sister said
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