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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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