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The Battalion
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 6, 1987
riends of Education show support at rally
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By Carolyn Garcia
Senior Staff Writer
JUSTIN — They are the rich, the
Powerful, the positioned and the
"oncerned. They call themselves the
'riends of Education.
Jnd education’s friends decended
Hm the Austin Hyatt Regency
fom all over Texas Tuesday to show
heir support in numbers.
Representatives of Texas A&M
University, Prairie View A&M, Blinn
College and the Bryan-College Sta
tion business community rallied to
gether to show support for rep
resentatives Richard Smith, Kent
Caperton and education — nam-
ingly higher education.
The, laurels of Texas’ education
system were not sung by the more
than 2,300 educators and concerned
citizens. Instead, speakers expressed
concerns about a Texas education
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lupporters of education wave signs at the Austin rally.
system that is falling far below par.
While pro-education picket signs
danced in the air and rounds of ap
plause echoed,speakers encouraged
the audience to file into the capital
and call upon their representatives
and demand protection for Texas’
future — the education of its chil
dren.
San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisne
ros charged Texans with the task of
seeing that a healthy educational sys
tem will provide a healthy economy
for the Lone Star State.
“I’m personally and absolutely
convinced that there is a heightened
relationship between higher educa
tion and economic development,”
Cisneros said. “The model seems to
be clearly established across the
country now that those states which
have invested funds in education de-
velope quality education.
“And those that have developed
quality education follow with the cre
ation of jobs. If we fall behind, we’re
not only not going to be in the first
rank, we’re not even going to be in
the second rank of states if we’re not
careful.”
The group of supporters charge
that Gov. Bill Clement’s proposed
budget would reduce state support
for education during the next bien
nium by $402.4 million, represent
ing an annual reduction of $201.2
million.
The proposed budget also would
provide general revenue appropria
tions to higher education during the
next biennium at $3.9 billion. This
would be $805 million below the
1985 biennial level of such appro
priations and $160 million below the
current biennial appropriation level,
the group reported.
Research and development, an at
tractive and necessary plus for Texas
universities, is suffering — contrib
uting to the strain already placed on
attracting first-class researchers and
faculty, according to businessman
and Texas education advocate Ross
Perot.
“On this stage there are three No
bel Prize winners from Texas,” Perot
said. “And if that doesn’t say some
thing for education, I don’t know
what does.” But, he added, without
attractive incentives — like jobs and
good schools — honors like that for
Texas could be over.
Although Cisneros said all Texas
universities combined conduct re
search at a level that is 79 percent of
that which is done at Johns Hopkins
University, and the total University
of Texas expenditures for research
and development are 31 percent of
what is spent by the University of
California, Texas A&M President
Frank Vandiver said A&M is not ex
periencing the same kind of strug
gles as UT.
“The University of Texas doesn’t
have the same research thrust as
A&M,” Vandiver said. “We haven’t
gotten the federal money we should
be getting. That is partially because
we haven’t asked for it so forcefully.
But we may have to start. The whole
state is down in federal appropria
tions.”
Cisneros, a former A&M Regent,
said that in the year 2000, Texas
could slip into a “sad backwater lag
ging the nation.” The state, he said,
is currently suffering from the 15
percent unemployment in the petro
chemical belt and 20 percent along
the border.
And Perot asked where the
money will come from to remedy
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these problems and help education
. at the same time.
“Now we can sit here and talk
fondly about raising more money
for education, but the simple f act re
mains we got to keep people work
ing so that we’ve got the money we
can tax,” Perot said. “You can’t tax
people out of work.”
Texas A&M University System
Chancellor, Perry L. Adkisson, said
A&M stands ready to fend off pred-
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
ators circling the Available Univer
sity Fund.
“Using part of the fund hasn’t
come up yet,” Adkisson said. “ The
last time the subject was brought up,
former students of A&M and UT re
sponded in such a big fashion that
they just backed off. But there is al
ways that threat.”
Vandiver said the available fund
could become the “unavailable
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Shuttle bus.
By Elisa Hutchins
Staff Writer
Texas A&M shuttle bus collided
yilf a car Tuesday morning, serid-
pg one woman to the hospital with
nor injuries.
College Station Fire Department
,t. I Thomas Goehl said Judy R.
Jraen was transported to St. Joseph
lospital after her blue BMW
into a shuttle bus at the in-
erlection of University Drive and
1 ION jizfecll Street at about 10 a.m.
xasAinjcputy Chief Dudley Wait of the
ig an University ambulance service said,
uislmi The injuries appeared to be very
ludin.jmjor. There was a cut on her chin
ackMjut it didn’t look too serious — she
i Aljas just knocked around a bit.”
preset Jreen, 57, is the wife of Dr. Roo
ms olid W. Green, an A&M associate
z of professor of veterinary small animal
’ Ron fieriicine and surgery.
P\V'ait said a fire department ambu-
nthal ince rook Green to the hospital, and
durinfle supervised University ambulance
nom Jsonnel, who assisted the fire de-
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uateil JpVornen at Texas A&M have
| ()W |),rained territory since the war for ac-
ifj.D fepi.tnce began. But the battlefield
ie p las been replete w ith obstacles.
K)ne problem ‘
innasgiai has im- Analysis
^featftleaed women’s
rogress has
peen die negative connotation of the
dreaded term “feminist.” The very
iterance of the word is enough to
:ause any self-respecting traditional-
st to shudder.
Dr. Wendy Stock, adviser to the
National Organization for Women
Women at Texas A&M
Part two of a two-part series
■\&M, says the interpretation of
he feminist movement has stunted
he organization’s growth.
■There is a stigma against the
word ‘feminist.’ ” Stock says. “It’s a
^Xhrty word — it’s almost akin to
commie.’ People think of feminists
f JSsubversive. They think we want to
’ 0 k r ‘ :ake over the world when all we want
a fl^is equality.”
rlfBtock said she is thankful the or-
deS^Wization has been able to endure
ijvhi such a conservative campus.
^HHSomehow we have managed —
Lytflike a cactus in the desert — to sur-
rive in an environment which is apa
thetic, at best, to our existence,” she
Although Stock views the very
-xistence of the organization as a vic-
:ory for women, she says she is frus-
■f B e( J by its small membership.
NOW has 18 registered members,
flfl) HWhen we set up a table in the
WSC, we have so many people who
say they support the issues that con-
car crash near campus;
Photo by Greg Bailey
Judy R. Green is put on a stretcher after the collision.
Aliens take first steps
to become citizens
partment in getting Green out of the
car.
Nursing supervisor Sharon Dent
said Green was in satisfactory condi
tion Tuesday evening and wasn’t
sure whether or not Green would
A plan to make women’s studies
an interdisciplinary minor is being
reviewed by the College of Liberal
Arts, said Dr. Harriette Andreadis,
associate professor of English and
coordinator of the program.
“Women’s studies is a discipline
that is nationally and internationally
recognized,” she said. “Many schools
and universities around the country
have women’s studies and have it as
a part of their regular curriculum.”
Currently, a student can get a mi
nor by taking any 12 hours of wom
en’s studies courses, Andreadis said.
But the proposed formal interdisci
plinary minor will have a more stuc-
tured curriculum and may require
three more hours.
The proposal for the new wom
en’s studies minor was submitted for
the approval of the Liberal Arts
Council last December, Andreadis
said. She anticipates the decision of
cern us,” Stock says. “Our programs
are well-attended, but we just can’t
get people to overcome their bias
against feminism enough to join.
Perhaps in 10 or 20 years — if we
hang on long enough — we will have
an active presence.”
The organization was started by
Stock in September 1985, and its dif
ficulty with breaking new ground is
not unique. Each miniscule step has
stay overnight in the hospital.
Bus Operations Manager Doug
Williams’said no one on the bus was
injured and that the driver, Craig
Cranfill, a senior engineering tech
nology major, has been driving since
the proposal will be announced in
the fall.
“Two reasons the college wants
the proposal approved is because the
interdisciplinary minor would ap
pear in the catalog, and it would ap
pear on student transcripts,” An
dreadis said.
If the proposal is approved, the
student still will have some choice
about which courses to take, but the
choice will be within a recommended
sequence of courses, she said. The
English department still will offer
advising for the student’s major so
that the minor is tailored to the stu
dent’s needs.
“It will be more organized than an
individualized minor so that we
make sure the student is exposed to
as many aspects of women’s studies
as possible,” Andreadis said.
Women’s studies courses, such as
Psychology 300, Psychology of
Women; and Sociology 424, YVomen
and Work in Society, have been
available since the women’s studies
been the result of a macro-effort
from the women who chose to test
their limits.
Andrea Abat, who survived 1985-
1986 in the Aggie Band, says she
knew it would be tough.
“I had heard.stories about the first
women who joined the Corps,” Abat
told the Houston Chronicle Sept. 28,
1986. “No one likes change. And I
had never done anything like it be-
one hurt
1985 and has a good reputation as a
driver.
“We are still researching the acci
dent and talking to witnesses,” Wil
liams said. “But at this point I can’t
say who caused the accident.”
The BMW was traveling east on
University Drive when it collided
with a shuttle bus turning left from
University onto Bizzell Street. The
front end of the driver’s side of the
BMW was smashed underneath the
bus.
Witnesses on the scene gave con
flicting reports of the incident.
The College Station Police said
the report was incomplete and infor
mation wouldn’t be released until
Wednesday morning.
Williams estimates damage to the
front of the bus at about $ 1,009.
“There have been 11 chargeable
bus accidents so far this semester,”
Williams said, “which does not in
clude this one. Chargeable means
that the driver was at fault or could
have done something to prevent the
wreck.”
program began in January 1986,
Andreadis said.
Andreadis said faculty members
want to attract the entire student
body to take women’s studies
courses, but that this does not always
happen.
“Generally, I have mostly women,
but some semesters I’ve had one-
third of the class be men,” she said.
“It just depends on the semester. I
think it’s important that men take
these courses, because the subject
matter affects them as well as wo
men.”
The information both male and
female students learn in women’s
studies will be practical in the work
force, Andreadis said.
“It’s important to have a real un
derstanding of issues that affect
women and how gender issues affect
the workplace,” she said.
“If you’re an employer who’s hir
ing women, it’s important to know
fore.”
Abat says she knew she would
have to work harder to adjust.
“I felt I needed to be twice as
sharp as anyone else,” she says. “If
women want to be here, they need to
prove themselves.”
Mandy Schubert says she also felt
the pressure to perform.
“I knew I had to prove myself to
them (the alumni),” Schubert says.
in amnesty
DALLAS (AP) — Amid scattered
protests, hundreds of illegal aliens
thronged into special centers all
over Texas Tuesday to take their
first steps toward becoming U.S.
citizens.
All 22 legalization centers in the
region, including nine in Texas,
opened as scheduled and ran
smoothly, said William Zimmer,
chief of legalization for the Immi
gration and Naturalization Service’s
13-state Southern region based in
Dallas.
But he noted that applications
were trickling in because the forms
had been released only 10 days ago.
“I think the cumulative effect will
hit us like a 10-ton truck on Mon
day or some time next week,” Zim
mer said. “We’re ready, and I feel
“They were older, and they had
been through everything before I
ever got here.”
Dr. Sara Alpern, a history profes
sor at A&M who teaches a course on
the history of women, says the
women faculty also have been sub
jected to close examination.
“Any woman who breaks new
ground is subject to a lot of pres
sure,” she says. “She is scrutinized
very closely. Everything she does is
watched because she is the ‘rep
resentative woman.’ ”
Alpern has experienced this phe
nomenon herself.
“For a long time, I was looked at
as the representative of all women,”
she says. “Whatever I did reflected
on the female sex as a whole. Even
though there are 50 ways to teach a
class, the way I taught was consid
ered to be the way every woman
would teach that course.”
Alpern says the question of ineq
uitable pay will intensify the pres
sure women professors feel.
“T he whole debate about the sal
ary just makes the pressure on us
worse,” she says. “Since the salaries
are going to be evaluated on a case-
by-case basis, we just feel more like
we are under scrutiny.
The Faculty Senate recently re
jected a proposal to alleviate salary
discrimination with an across-the-
board pay increase for all f emale fac
ulty members. The Senate instead
voted to evaluate each woman indi
vidually before granting pay Jn-
creases.
Only 8.2 percent of the A&M fac
ulty is female. And until more
women are recruited, Alpern says,
the scrutiny will continue.
“There aren’t enough women
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program
very confident we can handle what
comes our way.”
About 50 people with placards
and red flags protested at the INS
center in El Paso, while in San An
tonio a dozen members of the
Frente Unido Latino carried ban
ners and distributed papers in front
of the center there.
“Immigration and emigration
laws are immoral because people
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are not government property, and
the Earth is the Lord’s,” read a sign
carried by a lone protester at the
North Texas legalization center in
Arlington.
Zimmer called the protests fool
ish.
“They’re protesting for people to
have their status regulated to legal,
for them to be able to join the com
munity, to join the workplace and
to get a decent wage,” he said.
Critics had speculated the INS
would not be prepared to handle a
rush of applications when the am
nesty program opened Tuesday,
the same day Mexico celebrates an
1862 victory by outnumbered Mex
ican troops over.a French army in
the annual Cinco de Mayo holiday.
Otoniel Garcia Rodriguez said at
the Austin center, “It’s a good
Cinco de Mayo.” The 30-year-old
said he would live well and comfort
ably as an American.
Garcia, a mason who has lived in
the United States since 1981, said
he has a driver’s license, electric
bills and documents from truck and
insurance payments proving he has
been in the country since 1981.
Hundreds of t housands of Mexi
cans are expected to be among the
3.9 million people nationwide who
seek amnesty. Congress created the
program last year as part of sweep
ing immigration reform that also
makes it illegal for employers to
knowingly hire an illegal alien and
strengthens the Border Patrol’s re
sources to keep aliens from sneak
ing into the country.
Mario Aguilar said the Rio
Grande was dry when he walked
across the river into Laredo 15
years ago in search of work. An ap
plication form in one hand, he lis
tened to an INS worker at the Ar
lington center explain the process.
“I was raised over here,” Aguilar
said. “I never worked in Mexico. I
was never raised with my parents. I
already paid my money to the gov
ernment, but I can’t collect from
the government because I don’t
have any Social Security number.”
still fighting war for recognition
College of Liberal Arts considers proposal
to create new minor in women's studies
By Amy Roberts
Reporter
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