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Yol. 87 No. 91 CJSPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 9, 1988
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to keep warm between classes. Rummerfield is a
Photo by Shelly Schluuter
native Californian and is not used to the current
cool temperatures.
Senate will hear views
on final exam schedule
By Karen Kroesche
Senior Staff Writer
Faculty members will have a
chance to make their opinions heard
on the senior finals scheduling issue
at an open hearing Feb. 17, Speaker
of the Faculty Senate C. Richard
Shumway said Monday.
The Executive Committee of the
Senate scheduled the hearings as a
forum for open discussion on the
compromise schedule that was re
cently approved by the Student Sen
ate. The hearings will be held from 4
p.m. to 5 p.m. in MSC Room 206.
Jay Hays, speaker of the Student
Senate, said Shumway invited stu
dent senators to attend the hearings
and answer questions on the pro
posed finals schedule.
“It’s essentially a faculty hearing
at which they want student represen
tatives who have been working on
this issue to answer questions,” Hays
said.
The students’ proposed schedule
would move finals this semester to
May 9-13 for undergraduates and to
May 7, 9 and 10 for graduating se
niors. Graduation ceremonies would
still be held May 13 and 14.
Shumway said the student’s pro
posal will be presented for possible
endorsement at the next regular
meeting of the Faculty Senate on
March 7.
One of the students’ biggest com
plaints about the current schedule
was that the campus would be empty
when seniors graduate. The propo
sal solves that problem.
Student and faculty representa
tives arrived at the compromise at a
recent meeting between the two
groups.
The Battalion reported Jan. 20
that Student Senate and Faculty Sen
ate officers were meeting to discuss
the finals schedule after both groups
expressed displeasure with the plan
that is currently in place.
In the article, Hays said that last
semester’s trial run of the schedule
created problems for both faculty
and students.
“It pointed out a lot of problems
in the practical application of the
schedule,” he said in the Battalion
story.
See related story, Page 1
Faculty senators criticize
Sherrill’s professor title
By Karen Kroesche
Senior Staff Writer
Faculty Senators Monday crit
icized Jackie Sherrill’s appointment
as full professor with tenure, but the
Senate tabled a resolution condemn
ing the action.
The Board of Regents granted
the title to Sherrill at its Jan. 24
meeting, praising his accomplish
ments as A&M athletic director.
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tereotyping plagues A&M athletes
The Senate debated at length
whether to formally discuss a resolu
tion from Dr. David R. Anderson
that expressed “deep regret” at the
Board’s actions. Anderson sub
mitted the resolution as an emer
gency measure at Monday’s meeting
after the Executive Committee ta
bled the resolution prior to the
meeting and refused to put it on the
agenda.
According to parliamentary pro
cedure, a majority vote of the Fac
ulty Senate was required in order to
place the resolution on the agenda
for formal discussion. After 40 min
utes of debate, the Senate voted to
include Anderson’s resolution on
the agenda and discuss it formally,
but then tabled it by a vote of 49-17.
The resolution stated: “Whereas
the Faculty Senate recognizes the
achievements of the University’s ath
letic programs under the leadership
of Jackie Sherrill, but
“Whereas faculty status, rank, and
the award of tenure require aca
demic qualifications, experience and
achievement or achievement in arts,
letters or sciences outside the aca
demy, and
“Whereas individual departments
and colleges have established proce-
See Sherrill, page 6
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By Tracy Staton
Senior Staff Writer
If it were possible to open the
lompartment labeled “athlete” in
nost people’s brains, out would step
huge, muscular man sporting a
Bazed facial expression. He would
probably be holding a football.
“Yo,” the man would say. “I’ve got
>go to practice. No time for school,
tut who cares if I flunk out?”
This vision crumbles when exam
ined under the bright light of fact.
There’s a wide world of sports be
yond football, and football players
Athletes at A&M
Part one of a four-part series
don’t always fit the stereotype of
brawniness and stupidity.
But these misconceptions abound
in the world of student athletics, and
Texas A&M is no exception.
P. Clark Whiteside, associate di
rector of the Aggie Club, says the
stereotypes linger because people
don’t make an effort to think other
wise.
“People are really enforcing the
prejudice and the ignorance because
they don’t know or take the time to
hear the way it really is,” Whiteside,
Class of’78, says. “Everyone consid
ers college athletics to be football —
period — and that’s not how it is.”
The stereotype keeps people from
noticing other athletes besides foot
ball players, further strengthening
this narrow view, he says.
“When someone is making
judgments about athletes, he may be
sitting next to a woman golfer, and
he doesn’t know she’s an athlete just
because she’s not 6 foot 8 inches and
280 pounds,” Whiteside says.
Jenny . Breummer, a junior exer
cise technology major, comes into
contact with many athletes through
her job at East Kyle. She says some
athletes are just like the typical stu
dent, but others aren’t as pleasant.
“There are some that are really
cocky, but some are just regular
guys,” she says. “There are very few
jerks, but I think those few are the
ones that make the athletes look
bad.”
Lynn Hickey, assistant director
for women’s athletics, says another
See Athletes, page 6
Athlete arraigned
for assault charge,
released on bond
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By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
The Faculty Club of Texas A&M
Jniversity is less than a month away
trom completing work on the faculty
aunge in Rudder Tower, but some
|A&M students and former students
ire looking to keep the grand-open-
gcelebrations from happening.
The lounge is being constructed
1 the top two floors of Rudder
bwer, where the public dining fa-
iility used to be. The dining room
as opened on June 17, 1977, and
was open to the public tor breakfast
and lunch until it was closed last fall.
In a Jan. 28 faculty club newslet
ter, the founding board of directors
of the faculty club, comprised of 868
paying faculty members, says they
will plan special events for students
on occasions like graduation or Par
ent’s Day. The newsletter says while
“. . . they have always been mindful
of student desires not to be totally
excluded from the tower, our policy
in no way implies student usage on
other than those occasions such as
those mentioned.”
Students have started a petition
that protests the faculty club’s exclu
sion of students and suggests that
the club be re-opened to the public.
The petition is being circulated
through the office of Mason Hogan,
student body president.
This is the first time many stu
dents have been informed of the re
strictions being placed on the tower.
Hogan says few people even knew
about the club before this semester.
“I was under the impression that
about 15 students a day would be
able to use the club if they made a
reservation,” Hogan said. ‘Ob
viously that is not to be the case.”
The petition says “undersigned
taxpayers and voters of Texas” are
opposed to the takeover of the top
floors of a state-owned building
(Rudder Tower) for the use as a pri
vate club for the faculty of A&M.
Such discriminatory use, the peti
tion says, would prohibit the free
dom of the use of this space by any
and all tax payers/citizens of Texas
See Petition, page 7
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Clements pleased
with A&M plans
to cap enrollment
By Todd Riemenschneider
Staff Writer
Gov. William P. Clements was in
College Station Monday and ap
proved of the enrollment manage
ment program at Texas A&M.
Clements said he is pleased to find
out what A&M has planned for en
rollment management.
“I was pleased to hear what they
lave in mind with regard to the en
rollment procedures and the pop
ulation of the institution,” he said.
The enrollment management
irogram is designed to get the num-
)er of students on campus in line
ivith the facilities the University has
to offer.
“I think this is part of what we
need to do across the state to better
use our resources, wherever they
are, like this A&M campus and its
j $ system and to improve the quality of
our education, our students and the
iroducts we are turning out in
ligher eduction,” Clements said.
The governor said he believes the
enrollment management program at
A&M and the University of Texas at
Austin will help out other schools in
the state.
“I think this will be highly benefi
cial to all of the schools down stream,
wherever they may be,” Clements
said, “because it will give them the
opportunity to participate in a level
of students that had been coming
here or going to Austin and instead,
they will be going down stream into
some of these other institutions.”
“This (enrollment management)
will enhance the quality of these
other institutions,” he said.
Since the enrollment manage
ment program will raise the admis
sion requirements to the University,
questions have been raised as to what
this will do to minority student re
cruitment.
Clements said he is aware of the
need at A&M and UT to bring min-
iorty enrollments up.
Photo by Jay Janner
Gov. Bill Clements answers questions Monday as Chancellor Perry
Adkisson watches.
“First of all, I know there is a stre-
nous effort at both institutions here
in College Station, as well as in Aus
tin, to increase the sheer numbers of
minorities on campus,” he said.
Clements said the goal in these
programs are never met, however,
much progress has been made and
deserves to be noticed.
“We never do as well in these
things as we would like to, but we
have made enormous progress,
there is no question about that,”
Clements said. “I think it is time that
everyone recognize the progess we
have made, instead of being so crit-
See Clements, page 5
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
Texas A&M football player Guy
Broom was arraigned Monday on
one charge of aggrevated assault
and two counts of misdemeanor as
sault as a result of an incident Jan.
30 that resulted in the hospitilization
of two A&M students and a College
Station man.
Broom, a senior who played de
fensive end for A&M the past four
years, and his lawyer, were at the
Brazos County Courthouse when
the warrant was issued. Broom
turned himself in to police shortly
afterwards, said College Station De
tective Richard VanNest, who
headed the investigation of the inci
dent.
Broom went before a judge at
10:40 a.m. Monday and VanNest
said he was released on personal re
cognizance after posting a bond of
$3,300. In about 30 days he will ap
pear before a judge to enter a plea.
If found guilty of the aggrevated
assault charge, which is a third-de
gree felony. Broom could face a sen
tence of between two and 10 years in
a Texas Department of Corrections
facility and a maximum fine of
$5,000. The misdemeanor charges
carry a maximum fin'e of $1,000 and
up to one year in jail. However, all of
the charges could be probated,
which would result in no prison time
or fine, assistant Brazos County At
torney Rod Anderson said.
“The sentence all depends on the
circumstances and the defendant’s
background, and there is no way to
estimate a probable sentence,” An
derson said.
If the case goes to trial, the county
attorney’s office will prosecute the
misdemeanor assault charges while
the district attorney’s office will
prosecute the felony charges.
Andy Barclay underwent surgery
Thursday for the injuries he sus
tained in the incident. Police records
show the College Station man told
them Broom assaulted him, his wife
Mary, and Walter Voigtman for no
apparent reason in the Woodstone
Shopping Center parking lot.
Barclay had two steel pins placed
in his broken collar bone and several
torn ligaments in his shoulder area
repaired, Mrs. Barclay said Monday.
Barclay was released from the hospi
tal Friday, she said.
Mrs. Barclay said her husband
could not respond to questions Mon
day. He has missed the last six days
Guy Broom
of school and she said he is expected
to be out until next week. Mrs. Bar
clay said he probably will not be able
to return to his regular job as a lum
ber sales clerk for some time because
it requires lifting heavy objects.
Barclay’s surgery was one reason
for the lapse of time between the in
cident and the filing of charges, said
VanNest, who added he wanted to
see the outcome of the surgery be
fore issuing a warrant.
The lapse before Broom was ar
rested also gave police time to get
their “paperwork together” and in
vestigate the allegations, VanNest
said. But, he said, so far the investi
gation hasn’t turned up any wit
nesses to the incident other than
those involved. The Barclay’s said it
was bystanders who originally told
them Broom was the man involved.
He said police are still looking for
witnesses and hope someone who
saw the incident will come forward.
The Barclays and Voigtman told
police Broom threw Barclay against
the rear of a car, threw Voigtman, a
political science major, against an
open car door, and hit Mrs. Barclay,
an elementary education major, in
the face. The three told police the
assault was unprovoked.
The Battalion attempted to con
tact Broom Monday night but A&M
Assistant Sports Information Direc
tor Colin Killian, a liaison between
The Battalion and the Athletic De
partment, said Broom would not
want to comment on the charges.