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T:
Regent praised
by Vandiver
for contribution
By Mona Palmer
Assistant City Editor
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver on Monday gave special
thanks to Regent Royce Wisenbaker
for the $100,000 contribution he
made Sunday to a graduate
fellowship fund.
Vandiver delivered his special re
port during the final meeting of the
Board of Regents.
He added that Wisenbaker was
the “father” of the President’s En
dowed Scholarship.
“He’s a man who puts his money
where his heart is,” Vandiver said.
“This is a marvelous example of en
lightened generosity.”
Wisenbaker commented, “Frank,
all of that wasn’t necessary but,
really, you said just what I told you
to.
“For many, many years the only
scholarships we had were for poor
boys — that’s all that came to A&M.”
The first scholarship that ad
dressed this need was the President’s
Endowed Scholarship, which is
based on scholastic ability rather
than financial need, he said.
Wisenbaker added that the
fellowship, which is slated for engi
neering graduate students, needs a
total of $200,000. At 7 percent inter
est, $200,000 generates $14,000 per
year, which is enough to support a
graduate student for a year.
He added that the University has
to have graduate students and if it
wants the best ones, it will have to
pay for them.
After Vandiver’s presentation, the
board reconvened and gave final ap
proval to items proposed by the
hoard’s committees.
The Committee for Academic
Campuses proposed the establish
ment of an Institute for Pacific Asia.
Since virtually all of the institutes for
Asian studies at U.S. universities
concern themselves almost exclu
sively with culture, the A&M insti
tute is unique in its focus on science,
technology and economic devel
opment, Vandiver wrote in the pro
posal.
The institute will fully support it
self within three years, but the board
appropriated $120,000 from the
Available University Fund to cover
the costs associated with the estab
lishment of the center.
The board also approved a propo
sal to establish a Center for Environ
mental Research in Austin.
The center is designed to fill a gap
in existing environmental manage
ment technology and will be jointly
established with the University of
Texas and the City of Austin.
Pack Your Trunks
Stephanie Schulze, a senior from Lexington, dresses in
style for the cold, wet weather of Elephant Walk Monday.
Register
(Continued from page 1)
The board also approved:
• an appropriation of $418,000
for renovations in the ceiling of the
Memorial Student Center.
• an appropriation of $70,000
for a preliminary design for the
Chemistry Building renovations.
The renovations are scheduled to
begin in Spring ’87. The renovated
building will be used to accommo
date the needs of several senior fac
ulty members.
• an appropriation of $40,000
for a preliminary design for the ren
ovations scheduled for the Langford
Architecture Center. Those renova
tions will include the repair of prob
lems in the heating-ventilating-air
conditioning system and several in
terior modifications.
to have information showing the
peak times of registration and be
lieves that making this information
available to students also should help
reduce the time it takes to register.
Brigham Young University is us
ing the phone registration system,
and has found a solution to the
problem of having the system avail
able more days than it’s really
needed by requiring a $100 deposit
to preregister.
This gives university officials an
idea of how many students will be
preregistering in each classification.
From these numbers, they decide
how much time to allow for each
classification.
This possible solution was dis
cussed at A&M, but as yet has little
support, Ritchey says.
Dropping and adding courses also
may be difficult on the new system,
Ritchey says.
Although the phone system easily
can drop a course and allow another
to be added, it has a problem with
changing sections of the same class,
he says.
Students now cannot add a section
of one class until they have dropped
the previous section. This does not
allow students to compensate if the
preferred section is closed. By the
time they return and add the old sec
tion, that one may be closed, too.
Ritchey says by this time next
year, “The system should be able to
add a second section of the same
class long enough to determine if the
new preference is open.”
if it is, the old section auioi
illv will be dropped, he s
Otherwise, the student willreca
in the first-choice section
Terminals will Ik* availablehtc
ning Jan. 7 in the Pavilion anil
Remote Computing Center for
dents who need to changesectioi
a course.
Another problem students
find with the new system isthat
though it is possible to registerk I
c lass without proper prere(|uisE ®
once in that class there is nothir;
keep the instructor from dropft
t he st udent.
“Although the phone systemw| ue
magnify this problem,” RitchepB|)
"it's not a new problem." ‘ a "
Ritchey says it is possible for;
system to check for prerequisites: C
it would he too time-consuminji p
costly. ■
The biggest source of discomfi
seems to be having to deal svi
machine directly, without
through a human go-between ft k?, 0
he says.
“There was a little buffer inti
and we have definitely removedtl
buffer,” he says.
The new system was testedonl
students in each summer session!
50 students registering forthi
Ritc hey says the overall r&E
from the tests were positive.
Ritchey says that preregisi
students should read throught
rec tions and prepare the worlsk
provided in the class scheduleW
picking up the phone.
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