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dures for evaluating candidates for
tenure and promotion and a mark of
a University’s respect for its faculty is
its respect for these procedures,
“Therefore be it resolved that the
Faculty Senate deeply regrets the
Board of Regents’ action in unilate
rally granting the highest academic
rank with tenure to Mr. Sherrill.”
Anderson said he felt obligated to
introduce the resolution so the pub
lic — including fellow faculty mem
bers — would be aware of the Fac
ulty Senate’s position on the issue.
“What has happened is that the
the Board of Regents apparently
doesn’t understand or doesn’t re
spect faculty rank, and has reduced
it in a sense to something that you
can fincf.in ihe bottom of a box of
Cracker Jacks,” he said.
Dr. Peter J. Hugill, chairman of
the Academic Affairs Committee,
told the Senate that he had estab
lished a subcommittee that was
looking into the issue. He said the
subcommittee had delivered a letter
to President Frank E. Vandiver rais
ing questions about Sherrill’s ap
pointment.
Dr. C. Richard Shumway, speaker
of the Faculty Senate, said he also
had written a letter to Vandiver ex
pressing his sentiments “in no uncer
tain terms.” In addition, he said the
Executive Committee was taking ac
tions in private concerning the mat
ter.
Shumway also said he knew of
Sherrill’s appointment before it was
announced and that he had the op
portunity to discuss the plan to con
fer academic rank with Provost Don
ald McDonald.
“There was no discussion of ten
ure,” Shumway said. “There was a
different title involved. I expressed
my opinion on the matter at the
time. The title was changed from
what was originally discussed with
me; I think it’s an improved title.”
Shumway asked Senator Herman
J. Saatkamp to summarize the draft
of a letter to be sent to the president
from the Executive Committee. Sat-
tkamp outlined the letter, and then
read the last paragraph.
“For a University on its way to be
coming one of the nation’s finest re
search institutions we appear to have
momentarily lost sight of our goal
and have embarassed ourselves,” the
letter states. “When our goals are
back in sight, professors will be pro
fessors and directors of athletics will
be directors of athletics. And praise,
honors and awards will be whole
heartedly endorsed.”
Faculty senators spoke both for
and against the inclusion of the reso
lution on the formal agenda. Oppo
nents of the resolution argued that
the steps that were already being
taken — the investigations by the ad
hoc subcommittee and the Executive
Commitee — were sufficient for the
time being and that the Senate
should proceed with caution.
Senator Thomas J. Kozik praised
Vandiver’s unwavering support of
the faculty and said the president
deserved a chance to defend the ap
pointment. He asked the Senate to
wait for a response from Vandiver
before taking any formal action.
“The paradox in all of this, and
the reason that ultimately I’m asking
you to hold on making any such de
cision is not because of any lack of
concern hut really because of that
question regarding that individual
who is most responsible for giving it,
and that is President Vandiver,” he
said.
“It seems odd that that individual
who has supported the faculty, the
professoriate, and all that it implies
would have done and committed this
act which on the face of it seems to
violate all that we hold sacred about
the professoriate and about what a
university means. He is not an irra
tional man. I may not agree with his
actions, but nevertheless there must
have been a reason for them.”
Kozik said he personally delivered
a letter to the president from the
Academic Affairs subcommittee
Monday and that the president said
he would be delighted to meet with
faculty members to discuss the issue.
But Senator Mark B. Busby said
he saw no contradiction intakim
lion on Anderson's resolution
continuing the current effortslii|
Executive Committee. He
thought such action was necessr
light of the frustration expressd
his fellow faculty members.
“I also think that this Faculti
ate has an obligation to conside
emergency resolution that Se®
Anderson introduced and to
that emergency resolution
the f aculty members that Ihavt
ken to expect us to act as
resentatives and almost evei
that I’ve spoken with expressed
concern,” he said.
Other senators agreed
Busby, and Walter Buenger,t|j
man of the Status of Women
University Committtee and a a
her of the Executive Com®
questioned the way the Exee
Committee initially handled tlei
olution
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"It seems to me that weareser;
a poor pr ecedent if we do non
skier this resolution today,
said. “We have been a groupthai!
consistently in the past doneitsk
ness in the open. We’ve disc
tlungs openly. We’ve not beenal
of the press. I can’t thinkofass
resolution that’s come todies
utive committee before this ora
that hasn't passed on to the flat
the Senate.
Athletes
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common misconception is that ath-
cepti
letes lead a “Cush life.”
“It’s hard for some of the student
body to look at the athletes,” she
says. “A lot goes along with the pro
gram — recognition, publicity,
scholarships — but it’s like a full
time job. People think that it’s just a
lot of fun playing sports, but there’s
a lot of work involved.”
Student athletes must be self-dis
ciplined because they have to prac
tice and play even if they don’t want
to, Hickey says.
“You practice year round — you
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minutes after he was arrested Mon
day morning and is free on personal
recognizance until he is summoned
to appear before the court to enter a
plea.
“When someone is mak
ing judgments about ath
letes, 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. ”
— P. Clark Whiteside, Ag
gie Club associate director
The other incident involved a pos
sible initiation of freshmen football
players that required the players to
strip. Several naked men were seen
early Wednesday running through
buildings on campus; some of them
were turned over to Dr. Steve Crews,
Cain Hall supervisor, The Battalion
reported. The athletic department is
investigating the incident.
Athletes may seem to live a life
that’s far removed from the Univer
sity mainstream, but they’re not
much different from the average
college student, Whiteside said.
Mo^t of the athletes are just like
other students, but are talented in
one particular area, he says.
have practice, training, weight work,
meetings, travel — and it takes a lot
of time,” she says.
And although the recognition
may make the effort worthwhile, it
has its flip side, too.
“The athletes have to deal with
the recognition that when people
watch them they may also criticize
them,” she says. “People sometimes
will yell at you.
“Everything you do makes head
lines. When you mess up it’s not
something that just you and your
mom and dad know about.”
Despite the knowledge that their
actions are examined closely by the
public, some athletes do “misbeha
ve.” Two incidents involving possible
misconduct by student athletes were
reported in The Battalion Thurs
day.
“They are able to parlay their tal
ent to get their way through school,
just like the kid who was talented in
high school and got a President’s En
dowed Scholarship,” he says.
“People don’t understand that.”
Negative perceptions of college
athletes could be dispelled by per
sonal contact with some of the ath
letes, he says.
“I tell people to meet athletes who
aren’t in the limelight,” Whiteside
says. “They are some of the greatest
kids — and I don’t mean ‘kids’ dis
paragingly. They’re normal college
students.
Guy Broom, an A&M football
player, was charged Monday with
aggravated assault and two counts of
misdemeanor assault. The charges
were filed by Mary Barclay, one of
three A&M students who said they
were attacked Jan. 31 in the Wood-
“They don’t talk about agents or
going pro. They talk about BANA
303, guys they’ve been dating, girls
they’ve been dating. They’re normal
in every respect except that they
happen to play intercollegiate sports
— just like the student body presi
dent happens to be involved in stu
dent politics.”
“Normal” or otherwise, student
athletes at A&M are a group as di
verse as the sports they play. And
even the close scrutiny they receive
can’t reveal a category that will en-
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third degree felony and therefore
carries a penalty of two to 10 years in
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The misdemeanor charges each
carry a maximum penalty of one
year in jail and a maximum $1,000
fine. The minimum penalty for the
misdemeanors is probation.
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Sunrise Wednesday: 7:09 a.m.
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being on the back side of the high over Alabama. Our next front, being pushed
southeastward by a moderately strong high along the U.S.-Canadian borderwill
reach Bryan-College Station late tomorrow. The Pacific Northwest, part of the
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pressure system moving from west to east which provided the instability, the
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