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Call NOW to receive information on summer classes. ^ro SUMMER /— Classes begin June 8 SUMMER II- Classes begin July IS Brookhaven Cedar Valley Eastfield El Centro (214) 620-4700 (214) 372-8200 (214) 324-7100 (214) 746-2311 Mountain View North Lake Richland Instructional TV (214) 333-8600 (214) 659-5220 (214) 238-6100 (214) 324-7780 DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGES An Equal Opportunity Institution Education I I I I (Continued from page 1) fund” if Clements gets his hands on it. “We’re going to have to turn out the guard,” he said. “Aggies and Longhorns — he’s after the income from the Available University Fund, which is rapidly becoming the un available university fund. We have to be ready to defend it as the threat builds and they try to sweep up money from every corner.” The small universities and junior colleges of Texas have concerns and worries that are just as big as those of the major educational institutions. Prairie View A&M University President Percy Piere said that his school has been cut back just about as much as it can take. “At this stage, when they talk about budget cutting, they talk about cutting proportionately,” Piere said. “Our position is to support higher education. We’ve reduced adminis tration costs by consolidating three colleges into one. We’ve looked into ways to economize for the last two years. We’ve gotten to the point that further cuts would prevent us from doing the job that needs to be done.” Representatives from Blinn Col lege in Bryan said that although the college has been cut back in the last two years, it should fare well. University of Texas Regent Jay Hess said that coasting by isn’t good enougji. “Faculty salaries in our institu tions are currently 15 to 20 percent lower than other states,” Hess said. “'They are dead last among the 10 most populous states. This is truly an embar rassme n t. ” Adkisson said keeping salaries at tractive and competitive is necessary. “We need to maintain good fac ulty morale and provide incentives for those who deserve them,” he said. “This is necessary to keep the good people we have and attract new ones. You have to be able to offer prospective employees good oppor tunities to get the best people.” Representative Richard Smith said the support from his district has made the tough decisions easier. “I’m fortunate that people from my district understand the state’s economic problems,” he said. “A fair level of funding is all we wan: don’t want to slight anyoneelsr Perot said using businessandl cation together is the answer stale’s economic woes. “Bill Clements has beenai nessman all his life,” Peroil “Once we get past thisland it J free up Bill Clements, Bill H'l and Gib Lewis — all three oh| are excellent businessmen-J out and bring business to l-F then we’ve got the music going f And business — local busintsl standing up to be countedasasi backer of higher education, j “It makes me feel good,",® son said, “to look around an that the business community ports A&M.” Bryan-College Station bud man and College Station CityCj cil member Fred Brown saidl business should not hide behind] of time to avoid getting involved "I came out to be an extralol Brown said. “I came out to support for Smith and Capernj ever we need to rally aroum main employer in the Brazosl it’s now.” Vol. Women (Continued from page 1) here to reduce the pressure we feel as groundbreakers,” she contends. “We are hiring three new women in the history department for tenure track. I see concern and movement, which is a positive change.” Although not an isolated case, the history department is atypical. Twenty-four departments have no women faculty members at all. Four teen departments have one woman each, and seven have only two women. Dr. Ruth Schaeffer, a sociology professor and the second woman to secure a full professorship at A&M, says the University’s recruiting pol icy is to blame for the small number of women faculty members. change in the upper levels of lead ership in the Umversitv since 1 came here in 1971,’’ she says. “It’s not a lack of quality women available. It’s a lack of active recruitment. “Other universities have women deans; we don’t. We don’t even have more than one woman as an asso ciate dean. That should tell you something.” phasis in 1985 and Alpern'slis dasev course is included in the proms I 1WI ** -are r-ourwv in KngM lory, sociology and psychoi' Stock says. “It is continuing tog nore t Schaeffer relates a story about Al exander Astin, an expert on mi nority conditions who came to A&M as a consultant. She arranged meet ings between Astin and all the im portant people in the University, she says. After one meeting, at which about 20 administrators attended, Astin commented on their sex and ethnic background. So far, the classes have been well-enrolled Student interest is crucial i program’s growth, she says. “Getting the money to stan program wasn’t difficult,” shti “Attracting the funds to mail glow is a matter of student inn The more interest is shown, more likely the departments a: recruit women who have speoi ve the “There have been problems in re cruiting women,” Schaeffer says. “I have seen an increase in the number of professors where there is a f emale pool — a lot of women readily avail able in a certain subject area. But we have been waiting for people to come to us, and top people want to be courted.” A&M also is falling behind in re cruiting women for administrative positions, she says. “I definitely have not seen a “If my wife (Helen Astin, author of a book about women in higher ed ucation) had been there," Astin told Schaeffer, “she would have stood up and said ‘Why are you all-male and all-white?’ ” “T hat was 1981,” Schaeffer says, “and I don’t see any changes since then.” One change has been the addition of a women’s studies program to the liberal arts college. Stock chaired the task force which proposed the em- tions in women’s studies, more courses will be offered the emphasis.” Alpern says an extensive inir ciplinary study is on the horizon “It is in the planning stages says. “It has to lie approvedb\ Liberal Arts Council beforeita implemented.” This type of program in wok studies is common to otherunm ties, Alpern says. A&M was creating a similar option loriis dents, but tardiness is nothin)! at this university. Old habits die hard — espec at A&M. Although progm* been made, it has been a is worthy of the Spartans. Andii over vet. elliger lirecto oing t Leaf xmtra eption )fiver “Am now, 1 much t ,eahy. Rep. tying, tons u he mo nitiatis Case ure in o hav By t 988 ac Tribunal orders U.S. to return $451 million in frozen assets change fend ol l\&M I I Wit! yepres tvans THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal has ordered America to re turn $451.4 million in frozen Ira nian assets. At U.S. urging, the tri bunal stressed that the fate of American hostages in Lebanon was not linked to the return. The arbitration panel ruling ap parently solved a running dispute between the two nations over assets the United States concedes belong to Iran, which needs money to finance its 6'/a-year-old war with Iraq. The funds were frozen after the 1979 Iranian revolution that over threw the Shah and installed Ayatol lah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic fundamentalist government. The ruling tried to quash reports that return of the funds was linked to eight American captives in Leb anon, most of whom are believed held by pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem militants. He declined to say if an appeal was being considered. Redman reiterated the U.S. post ion that any move to return the fro zen assets should not be linked to the hostages, adding: “We had asked the tribunal to make clear that there was no such linkage and we would not accept any such linkage.” U.S. attempts to gain the hostages’ freedom led to secret American arms sales to Iran. Disclosure of the sales resulted in a national contro versy which continues to shake the Reagan administration. The money at issue has been held in Dollar Account No. 1 at the New York Federal Reserve Bank since 1981 and is the residue of a $3.66 billion account set up with Iranian funds to pay off syndicated bank loans to Iran. T he United States and Iran several times under tribunal pices since last fall to negotiate money’s return, but could not at service.' on the terms and mechanismol transfer. Studies (Continued from page I In its ruling, the tribunal said its award had “no relations or link whatsoever to the issues of hostages held in' Lebanon or any other politi cal matter.” A copy of the Monday ruling was obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the United States is studying the ruling. Dollar Account No. 1 was set up by the Algiers Accords of 1981, which resulted in freedom for 52 American hostages held 444 days at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The accords also set up the tribunal in The Hague to arbitrate billions of dollars in financial claims between the two nations resulting from the 1979 Iranian revolution. The United States and Iran both signed the Algiers Accords, which bind them to obey tribunal rulings. how to make women be prodm in the workplace and to undeR ! how discrimination operatesinf tice and to try to correct soil* those things.” And read is said women's si really about studying the differ# between men and women, en’s studies has expanded to in# larger questions of race ; she added. “These things are so intern’ that we try to look at them whole, rather than to lock (lit little boxes,” she said. Andreadis said women’s stud* the most fascinating research in the past 20 years. “I think every person who* ; to call himself educated show acquainted with women's she said, “and the kinds ofthirf research has made usawareof SMILE tew p nals ai remain “Mot up fasti aid Sh tor for “The reviewi suppor said. 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