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Tuesday, April 12, 1988
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Residents of Walton
get eviction warning
By Karen Kroesche
and
Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff writers
Residents of Walton residence
hall’s K ramp received letters April 8
from the Office of Student Affairs
warning them that they may be
evicted before the end of the semes
ter if their “continued problems” of
“disruption and vandalism” con
tinue.
The ramp will be closed during
the 1988-89 school year, however,
and students who reserved housing
in the ramp for next year will be re
located to other ramps within Wal
ton Hall or to comparable dormito
ries on campus.
“We have had several incidences
since early in the semester and have
had a number of correspondences
with the residents, but the damage,
vandalism and disruption have con
tinued,” said Tom Murray, assistant
director of student affairs for hous
ing.
In his letter to the students living
in K ramp, Murray writes, “In spite
of our efforts to communicate to you
the University’s expectations of ap
propriate behavior in the residence
halls, problems continue to occur.
Frankly, I am nearing a point where
the only alternative may be immedi
ate relocation of all K Ramp resi
dents.
“I recognize the inconvenience
this could cause residents with Final
exams approaching, but we are also
concerned for all residents exposed
to the disruptions of K Ramp.”
K Ramp residents wanting to
move immediately will be accommo
dated, Murray said, if they apply for
relocation before Friday.
Among cited damages are broken
windows and doors, for which K
Ramp residents as a group will be
billed at the end of the semester.
Council proposes
Texas A&l branch
A&M vet school
From Staff and Wire Reports
KINGSVILLE (AP) — Establishi
ng a branch of Texas A&M’s veteri-
hary school at Kingsville is among 95
proposals a planning committee has
recommended for Texas A&I Uni-
ersity.
The 21-member
Strategic Plan-
L ping Committee also recommended
rouWw [pharmacy school and doctoral pro-
iQjjjd [rams in range and wildlife manage-
aent, biology and all engineering
irograms. The package that would
S :ost between $50 millibn and $75
finillion over the next decade, Texas
|A&I President Steven Altman said.
One key recommendation of the
panel was to establish a veterinary
science program as a branch of
i Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary
Medicine. Under the proposal, a stu
dent could spend two years in a pre-
weterinary science program at A&I
before moving on to Texas A&M.
“We already have an outstanding
lecord in placing students at A&M
because of our pre-veterinary
Jourses at A&I,” Altman said. “We
Biink some of the work now being
'done at A&M could be done here,
lUsing available resources.”
i Dr. Dean Gage, the Associate
■lean of Veterinary Medicine at
IjA&M. said Monday evening that he
[ had not heard about the proposal.
He said A&I approached Texas
A&M with a similar proposal about
ihree years ago, but no action was
laken.
1 Gage said a group of professors
went with Dr. Eaton, a provost at
A&M, to look at the A&I situation
when the branch was originally pro
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posed, but nothing was done at the
time.
“We felt the Texas A&M Veteri
nary Medical School could accom
modate the state’s needs for a pro
fessional curriculum in veterinary
medicine,” Gage said. “The proposal
was not economically feasible be
cause of the extreme high cost of a
professional curriculum and hard fi
nancial difficulties in Texas.
Students that meet A&M’s Veteri
nary School entrance requirements
have no problems getting in,’ f he
said, “so there is no need to have a
branch at A&I.”
Altman said one of the reasons
A&I proposed locating an A&M
branch in Kingsville was to remedy
the lack of professional schools in
South Texas. A&I’s doctoral pro
gram in bilingual education is the
only doctoral program in the region.
Last year, the state’s Select Com
mittee on Higher Education re
ported that South Texas had been
ignored because of a lack of profes
sional degree programs.
Gage said A&M’s veterinary
school has a good representation of
minorities.
“We work very hard to recruit
blacks and Hispanics,” he said. “We
have a good representation of mi
norities.”
The Legislature last year ordered
Texas A&M and the University of
Texas at Austin to conduct a study
on higher educational needs in
South Texas.
A lawsuit also has been filed
against the state’s higher education
system on behalf of Hispanic stu
dents in South Texas.
The estimated cost of the damages is
$310, to be divided among 32 resi
dents.
Objects also have been thrown
from and shot at windows in the
ramp, and noise has been a contin
ual problem, Murray said.
Associate director for student af
fairs William Kibler told the Faculty,
Senate Monday that there has been
more damage in K Ramp than in all
the other dormitories on campus to
gether.
The Faculty Senate discussed one:
section of 1988-89 University Rules
and Regulations that would allow L
the University to bill all residents of
one ramp or floor of a dormitory for;
damage that couldn’t be attributed
to individuals.
Kibler said that clause already is in ,
housing contracts that dormitory
residents sign, but that it previously
has not been in the offical University
rules and regulations.
Faculty Senator Manuel Daven
port opposed the controversial sec
tion, and proposed an amendment,
that was eventually passed, to delete
that section.
“The concept of group guilt has
no place in rules and regulations,”
Davenport said, adding that this is
an issue of an individual’s right to
presumption of innocence until guilt
is proven.
He said innocent students
shouldn’t be billed for damages they
didn’t commit.
But Kibler said housing officials
only would bill an entire group of
students as a last resort, and that this
is a relatively uncommon problem.
He said the University administra
tors can’t compensate for the cost of
the vandalism by raising dorm rent,
because they risk “costing ourselves
out of the market.”
Dormitory rates already are
scheduled to go up 5 percent in the
Fall semester, he said.
Faculty Senator .Leonard Ponder
spoke in favor of the controversial
section, saying that the administra
tors in charge of student discipline
have a virtually impossible task.
“University students are smarter
than we are,” Ponder said. “They al
ways have been and they always will
be. They think while we sleep.”
Resident Scott Shelton, a sopho
more business major, said he thinks
the penalty is unfair, but unavoid
able, to those innocent of the vandal
ism.
“Most of the stuff (vandalism)
happens at night, and it keeps build
ing up,” he said. “You can’t say,
‘Hey, guys, don’t do that.’ ”
Last year, residents of Walton’s E
Ramp were evicted in the middle of
the semester for excessive vandal-
But Murray said he believes the
two relocations in the same hall are
“just absolute coincidence.”
“We’ve had problems with other
halls, too,” he said. “But in a dorm
like Walton, where the hall is divided
into ramps, each ramp develops its
own personality. Each one is totally
different from the other ramps.”
Junior Greg Abbot leads others at the Central Roa- way. Abbott has been racing for about one year
dracing club race Sunday at Texas World Speed- and has achieved expert status.
Study: Business schools
need ties with ‘real world’
DALLAS (AP) — The most de
tailed assessment of the nation’s
business schools in nearly 30 years
found widespread complacency,
poor planning and a lack of contact
with the business world.
But the 372-page report, released
Monday at a national convention of
bus mess’ sdhbois," drew immediate
fire from deans and corporate offi
cials who said the report didn’t go
far enough in addressing social and
ethical issues, including minority re
cruitment.
“While both corporate and aca :
demic leaders believe business
schools are performing reasonably
well at present, they are in danger of
drifting casually toward the 21st cen
tury, without careful thought and
strategic planning about the roles
their graduates will play in the chan
ging world of business,” the study
said.
It chided schools for preaching
long-term planning in the corporate
world, but doing little planning
themselves beyond the next semes
ter.
Businesses, for their part, “typ
ically feel they can safely ignore most
business school research with impu
nity,” the report said.
The report, “Management Educa
tion and Development: Drift or
Thrust into the 21st Century,” was
commissioned by the American As
sembly of Collegiate Schools of Busi
ness, an accrediting body whose 254
member schools award about 55 per
cent of all business degrees awarded
annually.
The report was compiled by Ly
man Porter and Lawrence McKibbin
after a three-year study of the na
tion’s business schools. The re
searchers interviewed deans, profes
sors, placement directors and others
on 60 campuses, as well as chief ex
ecutives, college recruiters and those
responsible for executive devel
opment from 50 private-sector orga
nizations.
In addition, the data includes re
sults from 10,000 extensive question
naires mailed to a similar audience.
“I was disappointed that after
three years of work, the politics of an
organization this large seems to have
watered down everything,” said
John Rosenblum, dean of the Uni
versity of Virginia’s graduate school
of business.
“It just wasn’t strong enough,” he
added. “I think one could have left
with the impression that we really
are all right. I don’t think we’re all
right.”
Porter, a professor at the Grad
uate School of Management at the
University of California at Irvine,
said the report could not answer all
the concerns of the business or edu
cational communities. But after the
research was complete, he said he
was pleased to see how well the cor
porations thought of the prepara
tions for their employees.
“The reactions from the business
community were more positive than
we had anticipated,” Porter said.
McKibbin, a professor of manage
ment at the University of Oklahoma,
agreed. '
“When we went in, we expected to
be tongue-lashed by our colleagues
in the corporate world,” McKibbin
said. “That didn’t happen at all.’
Bob Pike, a spokesman for
Procter & Gamble, said the report
failed to address “the diversity of
our work force. We’re looking very
carefully at things like the minority
enrollments in business colleges and
other social issues. Our company
and many major firms are very con
cerned about these things.”
The report concluded that busi
ness schools were lax in forecasting
and meeting future trends in the
business community.
“Complacency and self-satisfac
tion appear to be the dominant atti
tudes in many schools,” Porter and
McKibbin reported. “There is little
perceived need for major changes in
the way in which collegiate manage
ment education is carried out.”
Richard Lewis, dean of the busi
ness school at the University of
Michigan, said,“This is our opportu
nity to see that and change our com
placency. This could be the single
most important factor coming out of
the study.”
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Female provost given place on search panel
By Karen Kroesche
Senior Staff Writer
■ Associate Provost Sallie Sheppard
has replaced President Frank E.
Jsandiver on the Presidential Search
( Advisory Committee, Faculty Senate
Speaker C. Richard Shumway said
Monday.
|| In his opening comments at a reg
ular Senate meeting, Shumway said
■andiver will serve as a consultant to
the committee.
I George Wharton, director of af-
■rmative action for the Texas A&M
Srstem, also has been appointed as a
consultant to the search committee,
Shumway said.
H Wharton will advise the commit-
! tee on minority matters.
E Student Body President Mason
Hogan, a member of the Search Ad-
Msory Committee, said Sheppard
was asked to join the committee
about a month ago in response to
■unplaints that there were no mi-
| tjorities or women on the committee.
President Vandiver’s hectic sched-
| ule made it difficult for him to at
tend all the search advisory commit-
llee meetings, Hogan said.
B He said the president indicated
parly on that he would prefer just to
perve as a consultant to the commit-
Bee.
I So when the committee decided to
add Shepherd to its ranks, one mem-
y ber suggested that she take Vandiv
er’s position, Hogan said.
He said Vandiver was agreeable to
the idea.
Hogan said he does not think dis
crimination has been a factor in the
selection process.
“The minority issue has been
brought up several times,” he said,
adding that Wharton has been advis
ing committee members on what
types of questions they should ask a
candidate to determine his or her
commitment to affirmative action
programs.
Both Sheppard and Vandiver
were unavailable for comment Mon
day evening.
Shumway also said Regent John
B. Coleman has been added to the
presidential selection committee.
In its meeting, the Faculty Senate
put its stamp of approval on policy
and procedure guidelines formu
lated by the president’s Task Force
on Sexual Harassment.
It also passed a resolution that
recommends that classrooms be clas
sified according to degree of equip
ment available and asks that the Uni
versity “move with all deliberate
speed to upgrade all classrooms.”
The resolution also recommends
that the University develop a central
campus authority to provide techni
cal assistance to faculty members
wishing to produce video tapes and
use audio visual equipment.
Speaking in favor of the resolu
tion, Dr. Peter Hugill said he fears
Slideshow leads to criticism of traditions
By Karen Kroesche
Senior Staff Writer
Aggie students and traditions came under fire at a
Faculty Senate meeting Monday after a guest presenta
tion by Student Body President Mason Hogan and a
presentation and slide show by student Aggie Muster
representatives.
“I would never advise anybody to go to midnight yell
practice,” Dr. Alton Patton said as the meeting drew to
a close. “It may be a tradition, but it’s a bad one.”
Patton was responding to Hogan’s comments, in
which Hogan called for a better understanding among
faculty of Texas A&M traditions. Hogan said a lot of
the misunderstandings between faculty and students —
like the senior finals and faculty club issues — are
caused by the fact that faculty don’t understand “where
students are coming from.”
Hogan said last semester Student Government wrote
and sentinvitations to 300 new faculty members to at
tend yell practice with student hosts. Of the 300, only-
two faculty members showed up, Hogan said.
Patton said he attended midnight yell practice once
and was surrounded by students throwing up, fighting
and shoving each other. He said students, not faculty,
need to clean up their act.
Faculty Senator Mark Busby said he was “dismayed”
that he did not see a single slide in the Muster commit
tee’s slide show of students in a classroom or in the li
brary, and Senator David Anderson said his time could
have been better spent.
“I would have preferred not to have seen that slide
show on Aggie tradition,” Anderson said.
But Senator William Bassichis pointed out after the
meeting that not all faculty members share the opinions
expressed on the floor of the Faculty Senate meeting.
He said he was touched by the slide show.
Hogan also said he does not think Faculty Senate
members are a true representation of faculty opinion.
“I really found out that a majority of faculty on this
campus don’t even respect Faculty Senate opinion,”
Hogan said after the meeting, adding that the same
could probably be said for the Student Senate.
A&M is being left behind in the tech
nological revolution when it comes
to classroom equipment.
“We’re supposedly approaching
the 21st century,” Hugill said, “but
we’re teaching as if we’re in the
19th.”
Hugill said he thinks United
States universities are undergoing
an audio-visual revolution akin to
the printing press revolution, and
that A&M needs to keep up.
“The question is ‘Are we as faculty
going to allow ourselves to be out
weighed by new technology, or are
we ging to try to keep up with it?’ ”
Hugill said.
In other action, the Faculty Sen
ate:
• approved candidates for degrees
in May and June.
• finished revisions and approval of
the 1988 University Rules and Regu
lations.
• rejected a resolution requiring the
University to provide a financial ad
vising and counseling service to fac
ulty members.
• rejected an amendment to a rules
and regulations housing policy that
would allow the University to hold
residents of entire ramps or floors of
dormitories financially responsible
for vandalism that occurs on their
floor or ramp when the individual
responsible for the vandalism could
not be identified.
• listened to a guest presentation by
Student Body President Mason Ho
gan and a presentation and slide
show from representatives of the
Aggie Muster committee.
Hijackers kill
Kuwaiti officer
during siege
EARN AC A, Cyprus (AP) — Arab
hijackers on Monday killed a second
hostage, tossed his bloody body from
a Kuwaiti jet and threatened to kill
the rest of the nearly 50 captives if
the plane wasn’t refueled.
The gunmen said the dead man
was a “Kuwaiti officer.” He was the
second of three Kuwaiti military
men aboard Kuwait Airways jet that
the hijackers have slain during the
weeklong ordeal.
The hijackers have demanded
that Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian
terrorists convicted in 1984 for
bombing the U.S. and French em
bassies in December 1983.
Sources close to the negotiations
said, however, that the hijackers on
Monday demanded freedom only
for the three men among the 17 who
have been sentenced to death. Ku
wait apparently rejected the mod
ified demand.
In Kuwait, Foreign Minister Sheik
Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah said his
country is prepared to lose more
hostages rather than give in to ter
rorism.
“We will try our utmost to protect
our dear ones aboard the plane, but
we will not surrender to any black
mail, even if we lose more of them,”
he told a news conference.
There are 52 people aboard the
Boeing 747, including three mem
bers of the Kuwaiti royal family, as
well as the hijackers.