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Thursday, Decembers, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local groups allege discrimination n state universities, may sue : to see suprises part be- her the y mem- because return, perfea ices an eiving. ■ things, >pe dur- at I can acity. ism ma- talion, AUSTIN (AP) — Three Mexi- n-American groups, joined by me members of the Legislature, ay sue the state over alleged ra il discrimination by Texas uni- rsities. The Mexican American Legal dense and Educational Fund ia news conference today to an- mnce “a major initiative to ad- ess decades of under-represen- ion of Mexican-Americans in stmas, 1 jher education in Texas.” The statement didn’t mention awsuit, but the Austin Ameri- n-Statesman reported Wednes- 'Tw that the groups planned to e P™| ; the news conference to an- unce filing of a suit. If filed, the lawsuit would come a time when Texas A&M Uni- sity and University of Texas icials have been visiting South Texas colleges as part of a legis lative requirement to improve higher education in the region. Norma Cantu, a MALDEF of ficial in San Antonio, refused to confirm or deny the report. MALDEF’s news release said, “Several distinguished spokesper sons will announce their propo sals for challenging the system of higher education, which ex cluded more than half of the His panic graduating high school se niors from senior colleges in Texas.” Cantu said MALDEF is being joined by two of the oldest and most powerful Hispanic organi zations in Texas, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the American GI Forum. State Rep. Alex Moreno, D-Ed- inburg, an attorney, told the American-Statesman that the news conference would coincide with the filing pf a lawsuit alleg ing the unequal expenditure of state higher education funds in areas of Texas with high concen trations of Mexican-Americans. The newspaper'reported that the suit would contend that by providing less money for higher education in South Texas, the state is violating the equal protec tion clause of the Texas Consiti- tution, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, sex or creed. The newspaper said the suit would charge that Texas and its public universities failed to live up to provisions of a 1983 out-of- court settlement with the U.S. De partment of Education that re quires the universities to recruit and retain minority students. The MALDEF news release said some members of both the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus in the House and the Sen ate Hispanic Caucus would take part in today’s news conference. Moreno said the suit would ad dress “the inequities we’ve been complaining about for many years and were brought to the Legislature this last year.” Gerald Hill, a former state leg islator who is now a lobbyist for the University of Texas System, said he was told that several His panic legislators would join the suit. “I have heard for some time that they (Mexican-American or ganizations) are going to file suit jointly, and it relates to funding patterns of higher education,” Hill said. A&M faculty members receiving more pay, board figures show A&M Salaries ■ Statewide Salaries m PROFESSOR ASSOC. PROF. ASST. PROF. INSTRUCTOR LECTURER TEACHING ASST. RANK rmer Army medics instructor carrying IDS pleads guilty to sex case charges OK' [N ANTONIO (AP) — A for- [Army medics instructor who fed guilty to having sex with female soldiers without telling |hehad the AIDS virus was sen- Jd to five month’s confinement Ha dishonorable discharge liesday night. j. Richard W. Sargeant, 28, also ■rdered to forfeit all his military fits and demoted to the lowest [of private. He will be sent to lood to spend his time behind lejury of four officers and four Its agreed Sargeant should be ■tied for nine years, but a plea- arrangement the judge ap- led before the punishment i began called for the shorter lither the jurors nor the public rare of the plea bargain, which supercedes the jury’s finding, until after the verdict was announced. The verdict mirrored the plea bar gain in all other aspects, prosecutors said. Earlier during the court-martial’s punishment phase, Sargeant had apologized for his conduct and said he doesn’t want to die in jail. “I would like to say I am truly sorry for all the trouble I have caused,” he said, choking back tears. “What bothers me is I have put these women in a position that I am going through, and I don’t want anybody going through the same thing I am,” Sargeant said. “I have let down the Army, my family and my friends ... if I am going to die, I pray it not be in jail.” There is no cure for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Sargeant had been charged with seven violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice involving his sexual contact with three women. Government attorneys said he also had sex with four other female sol diers, but he has not been charged in those instances. Neither defense attorneys nor prosecutors would say whether any of the women have tested positive for the AIDS virus. In return for Sargeant’s guilty pleas, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. He could have faced a maximum 35-year prison sentence on the seven charges. Lt. Col. Stephen Saynisch, a mili tary judge from Fort Hood, ac cepted the plea bargain after pros ecutors said they would not pursue other charges against Sargeant. During lengthy questioning by Saynisch about the charges, Sar geant only answered, “Yes, sir,” or admitted to the accusations by read ing the prosecutors’ charges against him. He was not asked why he failed to obey his officer’s orders or why he failed to wear a condom when he had sex with the women between March and July, and he offered no explanation. Attorneys declined to talk to re porters after Sargeant entered his guilty plea. Sargeant, a former medical in structor at the Academy Of Health Sciences at Fort Sam Houston, tested positive on the AIDS blood test dur ing a previous assignment in Hawaii last year. By Mary-Lynne Rice Staff Writer Top-ranking Texas A&M faculty members have found a bigger pay- check each month in the 1987-88 school year, giving them an average yearly salary of $>41,584 — a 9.93 percent increase from last year’s av erage of $37,850. The combined faculty average sal ary reached $34,220. That increase — reported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinat ing Board — surpasses the state’s overall average increase of 8.5 per cent for the top four faculty posi tions — professor, associate profes sor, assistant professor and instructor. Average statewide salary figures increased to $36,991. A&M’s new average salary ranks third in the state, behind the Univer sity of Texas at Austin, with $45,004, and UT-Dallas, with $42,223. According to the board’s figures, A&M professors in 1987-88 earn an average of $51,415; associate profes sors, $38,828; assistant professors, $31,669; instructors, $20,256; lec turers, $21,987, and teaching assis tants, $13,370. Although an instructor’s rank is considered higher than a lecturer’s on the Coordinating Board’s scale, a lecturer is usually -a temporary or part-time faculty, and earns more in scaled pay than the instructor. The A&M figures for all positions are above the state’s average. Across the state, salary increases for professors are $47,437, up 8 per cent; for associate professors, $35,111, up 8 percent; assistant pro fessors, $29,777, up 8.8 percent; in structors, $21,741, up 4.2 percent; lecturers, $20,508, up 9.9 percent, and teaching assistants, $12,929, up 6.9 percent. Despite Texas’ faltering economy, an appropriations increase from the state Legislature in part allowed the salary increase, Assistant Provost Dan Parker said. In addition to a $146 million budget outlay, he said, the state now also allows A&M to re tain its tuition and fees charges. Previously, each state university sent the money collected from tu ition and fees to the Legislature, which then sent back a predeter mined amount according to the bud get already allotted for the school. Tuition and fees will add about $25 million to A&M’s overall budget, Available University Funds will con tribute another $25 million and mis cellaneous sources will provide about $5 million, Parker said. Deans and department heads will decide the allotment of the extra funds on a merit basis, Parker said. “They decide how to distribute them (the funds),” he said. “We just make the funds available. Then they determine a merit increase.” The formerly mandatory cost-of- living adjustment salary increase no longer is required, he said. 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