Friday, September 11, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 Is Vandiver to speak to Faculty Senate H Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver will give his annual State of the University address at a Faculty Senate meeting at 3:15 p.m. Monday in Rudder Tower. ■ The Senate also will hear pro posals for the core curriculum, faculty tenure promotion and a new Q-drop policy for graduate students. An emergency resolu tion concerning student counsel ing services also is on the agenda. I The Academic Affairs Com- Biittee is requesting the adoption of a Q-drop policy for graduate students that will allow Q-drops through the first 10 weeks of the spring and fall semesters and through the first 3 weeks of 5- w^ek summer school courses. Revisions on a proposed policy statement concerning tenure and promotion of faculty is in its sec ond round of Senate discussion. The proposal introduces changes to a previous statement on academic freedom, responsibi lity, tenure and promotion in June. In other business, the Resolu tions Committee plans to express thanks to the Texas A&rM System Board of Regents and others for their efforts in convincing the Texas Legislature to provide ad equate funding for the Univer sity. SC Council plans review meeting I The MSC Council will meet 7 p.m. Monday in MSC 216-T. ■ The Council is scheduled to re view last semester’s activities and discuss Madrigal Dinner. Aggie- Con nominations for chairman of the Pageant Committee also will bl taken. I The evaluation of the Madrigal Dinner will include what direc- d<>n it should take and if other Runpus organizations can be in corporated, said Linda Hartman, MSC Council president. I The Cepheid Variable Com mittee has proposed a Gene Rod- denberry program, Hartman said. The MSC Council will re view the proposed program and determine if it will be financially successful. A discussion of AggieCon will take place at this time. The Pageant Committee is re sponsible for the Miss Texas A&M Pageant, Hartman said. Anyone interested in becoming president of this committee should apply at the Student Pro grams Office in the MSC. Applications should be in by 5 p.m. Monday. Educators may move convention DALLAS (AP) — The Texas State Teachers Association is threatening to move its convention scheduled for Dallas next March, officials say. The group wants Dallas school district officials to allow teachers to go to the meeting on school time. Until last year, Dallas school offi cials allowed teachers to use profes sional development time, which al lows them to draw salaries, to attend the TSTA convention. A school at torney last year found a 1979 state attorney general’s opinion that he said makes it illegal for district offi cials to pay teachers while they at tend the convention. The association has a July 1 letter from Attorney General Jim Mattox that says “an entity and program that contributes to the purpose of education serves a public and gov ernmental purpose. The value and the importance of the programs you refer to cannot be doubted.” The Dallas affiliate of the TSTA, the Classroom Teachers of Dallas, has requested that its national orga nization, the National Education As sociation, consider moving its 1990 convention from Dallas. “We are trying to put some pres sure on the school board to give the teachers some rights,” said Gene Ep person, president of the Classroom Teachers of Dallas. Alphi Phi Omega fraternity raises $10,000 to fight MDA how byJirj By Karen Lawson Reporter BTwo Texas A&M students joined Jerry Lewis in San Diego, Calif, on Labor Day to present him with a $10,000 check for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. ■Barbara Uridales and Ken Pecus, |of[ A&M’s chapter of Alpha Phi tega, joined Lewis for the annual r-studded event, but the entire imbership of the University serv ice fraternity joined Lewis in his fight against MDA by raising the much-needed money. The fraternity’s members raised the money for the telethon last spring through a benefit concert given by the Singing Cadets, a dance-a-thon and solicitation of do nations around campus. The dance-a-thon, which is held every year, raised the most money, Urdiales said. The fraternity’s original goal of $25,000 would have allowed them to appear on the telethon. But because A&M chapter’s $10,000 was the most money raised by any Alpha Phi Omega chapter in the nation, the lo cal chapter earned the TV spot. Urdiales and Pecus, co-chairmen of the fundraising projects, were chosen to represent the chapter at the telethon. The telethon paid all expenses for Urdiales and accomo dations for Pecus. A fundraiser was held the weekend before the tele thon to raise money to pay for Pecus’ accommodations. Urdiales said it was scary being on stage with Jerry Lewis knowing that millions of people were watching her. CLU joins with foreign students to battle Arlington public schools ■ ARLINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has [joined with parents of foreign stu dents in a fight with the Arlington public schools. ■ School system officials say that parents attending the University of plfexas at Arlington who are not per- ■anent residents must pay tuition for their youngsters to attend public school. B The ACLU plans to file suit on be half of the families. B“We believe the school district is acting in a disgraceful fashion, vio lating the U.S. Constitution and the llradition of American public educa- tibn as well,” said Jim Baerwaldt, an associate professor of psychology at UTA and board member of the ACLU’s Greater Fort Worth affil iate. “I’m mad as hell and getting madder every day.” The district plans to charge $275 a month for elementary students and $300 a month for secondary stu dents. School officials decided last fall to delay enforcement of the policy until U.S. District Judge David O. Belew made a decision on the matter. Baer waldt said the ACLU suit will be filed in Belew’s court. Baerwaldt and the ACLU say the students should be considered resi dents because they live in Arlington and already pay school property taxes. re paying i amount of taxes you pay is irrele vant,” he said at a meeting Wednes day with some of the parents. He urged parents to decide soon whether to join the case. “We have to work fast to get this together over the weekend,” he said. One of those attending the meet ing said he was glad of the help. “I think we are all grateful to have someone like the ACLU willing to work on this,” Mohan Reddy told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “It is nice to have someone to help us in a foreign land,” said Reddy, an electrical engineering graduate stu dent from India who has a child in the second grade. SI In this day and age, one can't be too careful when it comes to a subject such as SEX! Sigma Alpha Mu presents The "SAFE SEX" Party 9 ^ TONIGHT AT TREEHOUSE PARTY ROOM 8 : 30 PM Information about safe sex will be pro vided courtesy of Planned Parenthood FOR MORE INFO : CHRIS DAVIS - RUSH CHMN - 696-7884 DAVID BECKMANN - PRES - 696-9186 FOOTBALL southern mississippi AT JACKSON SEPT. 25-26 fATU'' TECH BOCK OCT. 2-3 Tic