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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
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■ 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
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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-
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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.
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