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. Tuesday, December 1,1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Resident director housing ^inadequate, official says hr : or :rn- ut- af' Ives ilish ran- dis iup- ians )wn s. It line i to aise :he\ irbi- de- d at rans free and The By Judy Black Reporter Texas A&M’s resident'director ac commodations are behind those of other universities, Debbie Owensby, the area coordinator for the Depart ment of Student Services, said, but renovations are under way to correct at least part of the problem. "Resident director” is the Univer sity’s new term for the live-in resi dence hall supervisors who used to be called “resident advisers.” “Most of the professional staff, area coordinators and assistant area coordinators had live-in accommo dations with a full-size apartment, a bathroom and a kitchen and some times two bedrooms at other univer sities,” Owensby said. “Resident di rectors come here to come to A&M not to be resident directors, because we can’t recruit RDs on the basis of our accommodations.” Resident director accommoda tions for McGinnis and Schuh- macher halls were renovated last summer, which is a vast im provement: over what they used to be -and better than several other halls at A&M — but the apartments are still much smaller than what a lot of campuses have, Owensby said. “It’s been difficult to get the reno vations approved, because it usually involves taking a student out of a room, and we have to justify the loss of revenue,” she said. “We say better accommodations attract better RDs who run the halls better. “As it is, we put our strongest staff in the most difficult halls. Unfortu nately, that usually equals the worst accommodations.” She also said resident advisers from other schools have come here to be resident directors and discov ered they were taking a step down in accommodations. “It makes it very hard for us to re cruit RDs,” she said. “Our goal is to renovate the RD apartments in all the dorms. Keathley-Fowler-Hughes will be done by August 1988, begin ning with Hughes this spring. “T he Corps-style dorms — Davis- Gary, Moore, Moses and Crocker — will be done as the halls are renova ted,” she said. Work begins on these four dorms in May 1988 and is expected to be completed in August 1989. “In these dorms it will be easier to renovate the RD accommodations because the whole dorm will be clo sed,” Owensby said. “It will be more difficult for Keathley-Fowler- Hughes because those buildings will not oe closed.” Some students are being moved out of a suite into places elsewhere in Hughes so the resident director will have a suite for her room and office while the old one is being renovated. “We decided to begin the renova tions on Keathley-Fowler-Hughes during the spring because only two dorms were done this summer — McGinnis and Shuhmacher — and the schedule was tight,” she said. “We didn’t see how we could get three done. We may have to move students again when we do Puryear, Law and Hart halls.” Owensby also said some work will have to be done on some of the mod ular dorms. “They were built with the inten tion that one RD would oversee Haas and McFadden halls and an other would oversee Hobby and Neely halls. “That didn’t work out, so now the RDs in McFadden and Hobby only have a (normal dorm room), while the RDs in Haas and Neely have an apartment. “The apartments include a bed room, bathroom and living and din ing room, with an adjacent staff room,” she said. Owensby thinks it’s difficult when an RD in a dorm room sees an RD with an apartment and says she is working to remedy the situation. State officials schedule meeting to discuss SMU football scandal AUSTIN (AP) — An assistant state attorney general is scheduled to meet this week with Southern Meth odist University officials to discuss the investigation of the SMU football scandal. Assistant Attorney General ohn Vasquez, who has been direct ing the probe, will discuss the attor ney general’s inquiry with the SMU board, said Ron Dusek, a spokesman for Attorney General Jim Mattox. “He’s going to go up there and talk to them about what our plans are, what he’s discovered so far,” Dusek said Monday. “He’s the guy who has been doing all the investi gating.” Mattox ordered the investigation into SMU earlier this year, following public revelations about the school’s pay-for-players football scandal. SMU received the harshest foot ball penalty ever from the National Collegiate Athletic Association after it was discovered that players re ceived cash payments for playing. The NCAA banned SMU from play ing football in 1987 and the school dropped its 1988 season as well. Gov. Bill Clements admitted in March that, while chairman of the SMU board of governors, he and other officials approved continued payments to players after SMU was placed on NCAA probation in 1985. 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