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Tuesday, January 20, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local G vice president’s resignation leads to restructuring of position By Christi Daugherty Staff Writer ■ Matt Simmons, Student Government exec utive vice president at Texas A&M, has resigned his position to accept a lucrative internship. I With Simmons’ departure, Student Body Pres ident Mike Sims is proposing to restructure com pletely the student government’s top administra- tii'e offices. ■ Simmons was appointed to fill the vice presi dential position in late November after then-vice president Mike Cook resigned to pursue an MBA elsewhere. ■ Simmons served about one month as executive vice president before he was offered the Price Waterhouse internship — one of two offered in the nation — which he accepted. Sims said this resignation led him to propose a restructuring of the whole system so that there will be two vice presidents — an executive vice president and an administrative vice president — with relatively different duties. After Cook left last semester, there had been only one vice presidential position. Sims said the new executive vice president will be Jay Hutchens, the current director of commu nications, and the new administrative vice presi dent will be Brian Banner, now chairmen of the university communications committee. However, Sims emphasized that all appointments are pen ding approval by the Student Senate, which meets next week. At the same time, Sims proposes to dismiss Beth Shivers, the director of adminstration, and Jaime Galvan, the director of programs. Sims plans to eliminate both positions. Sims said he also plans to eliminate the posi tion of communications director, which Jay Hut chens will vacate to become vice president. Sims said his intention is to get rid of positions which accomplish little or nothing and waste time. “Beth came to me and told me she wasn’t doing anything and wanted to be dismissed,” he said. “It’s that bad.” Although Banner’s current position will be eliminated, he will continue to handle those re sponsibilities along with his new duties as admin istrative vice president, Sims said. Sims said the duties of the vice presidents will differ somewhat, as the executive vice president will do the program work, while “everything else’ will fall under the administrative vice president’s leadership. hite urges action to ease prison crowding il ■ AUSTIN (AP) — On his last full Hiy in office, Gov. Mark White on Monday urged the Legislature to ■ke emergency action to ease prison crowding, while Gov.-elect Bill ^■ements attended a series of festivi- leading up to his swearing-in to- ■y- iMB White issued a proclamation call- ■g on lawmakers to quickly consider 1 spending additional money “to ex pand prison capacity, modernize prison facilities and to ensure the constitutional operation” of Texas prisons. Trouble in the prison system was a problem that surfaced again and again during the Democrat’s four- year term. Clements, the state’s only Republi- tterv am: be pis o tea:: lean 1 ' want! u I kc meins e Df ands elf." ets ab l it? Author to speak on “Maximum Sex” You’ve seen the fliers. Some urge you to “Hear Josh.” Others simply state, “That’s Josh.” “Josh” is Josh McDowell, noted Christian speaker and author. He’ll be on campus tonight to de liver the second of two programs this week. On Monday night he spoke to an audience in Rudder Audito rium about “The Great Resur rection — Hoax?”. Tonight at 8 in G. Rollie White Coliseum he will be talking about “Maximum Sex”. McDowell’s visits are spon sored by the Campus Crusade for Christ. Kim Martin, a representative with that group, said that during his college days McDowell set out to disprove the resurrection of Je sus. But he embarked on his pre sent career after finding that he couldn’t. He has been quoted as saying the resurrection is “either the greatest fact or the greatest farce known to man.” can governor in a century when elected to his first term in 1978, re turns to that office when sworn in shortly after noon today. Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby, a Democrat beginning his fifth term, also will be sworn in at that time. Both Clements and Hobby were declared the official general election winners Monday after the Legis lature completed a canvass of the re turns. That canvass showed Clem ents with 1,813,779 votes to 1,584,515 for White. Clements arrived in Austin about 3 p.m. Monday to prepare for the in augural events, press secretary Reg gie Bashur said. Bashur said Clements would at tend a late-afternoon reception for Hobby in the Great Hall of the Sen ate and an evening “Salute to the Texas Arts” performance on the University of Texas campus. With weather forecasters calling for cold temperatures and a 70 per cent chance of rain Tuesday, inau gural committee spokesman Andrew Erben said plans had been made to move the swearing-in ceremony from the Capitol’s south steps to the Texas House chamber if weather be comes prohibitive. In the governor’s office, mean while, aides said White spent part of Monday posing for photos with members of his staff. He also at tended the funeral of the father of one staffer. During what may have been his fi nal news conference as governor. White said Friday that he planned to work to the very end of his term. “I’m going to give you full mea sure — heaped-up, running over,” he said. White said he hoped to meet with Clements and intended to “wish the succeeding governor best wishes.” He also said he would honor tra dition and leave a special Bible pas sage marked for Clements, along with “a good lunch — a hot lunch” at the Governor’s Mansion. Clements has been working on a variety of state issues since his elec tion victory Nov. 4. He named most key staff people, appointed special task forces to make recommendations on criminal justice and state finances, and held meetings with key legislative leaders. Besides the evening concert and Hobby’s reception on Monday, Clements was scheduled to speak to several hundred people at a recep tion hosted by the Clements His panic Executive Committee that eve- ning. Senate resolution to benefit female faculty members The Texas A&M Faculty Sen ate on Monday passed a resolu tion it hopes will help female fac ulty and administrators at A&M. The resolution, carried over from the December meeting, came from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Univer sity. It was presented to the Sen ate by the co-chairs of the com mittee, Dr. Katherine O’Keeffe and Dr. Gayle Schmidt. The resolution said that women “continue to be woefully underrepresented” at A&M, and that the University has an obliga tion to improve the male-female ratio in both faculty and adminis tration. T he resolution, approved by a voice vote, suggested ways A&M could improve female represen tation: • The President’s office should develop written policies concerning the hiring and retain ing of female faculty and admin istrators. • Each year, department heads and deans should review faculty salaries to ensure that the gender of a faculty member does not affect decisions about salary. • A committee should be formed to discuss the possibility of starting a child care facility for A&M staff, students and faculty. In explaining this item, Schmidt emphasized that such an opera tion could benefit both men and women. • All sexist language should be removed from official University communication, and written Uni versity policy should be adopted to address this concern. Although the “ayes” domi nated the vote, there was not unanimous agreement. Dr. Thomas Caceci, assistant professor of veterinary anatomy, objected to the resolution, saying it advocated special treatment for women. “This is the single most sexist document the Senate has produc ed,” Caceci said. However, Dr. John McDer mott, distinguished professor of philosophy and humanities and founder of the women’s status committee, stressed the impor tance of getting more women into high faculty levels. He said A&M has few female faculty members who are full professors, and none who are distinguished professors. McDermott encouraged the Senate to pass the resolution, say ing it was needed to reverse the unfavorable ratios. “I do not find this document sexist,” he said. The Senate also recieved final approval from President Frank Vandiver on the final exam schedule: Beginning in Spring 1988, fi nal exams will begin on Friday of dead week and continue on Sat urday, Monday and Tuesday. In this way, final exams and grade deadlines will be finished before the commencement ceremonies, and no uncertainty will remain as to final course grades. In other business, the Senate approved a recommendation for a more standardized teacher- course evaluation system. The recommendation, which was discussed and amended at length in both the December and January meetings, does not re quire departments to use a stan dard evaluation form. It sug gested instead that all evaluation forms be approved by a joint Stu dent Senate-Faculty Senate com mittee. Discussion about the recom mendation centered on the way results would be published. The final resolution said that the guidelines for publication would be determined by the joint committee and approved by both the Student and Faculty senates. Chronicle Pizza-zz Keeps you a cut above the rest with this great spring subscription offer. Special discount - only $17.00 - to Texas A&M students, faculty and staff. 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