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master’s degree program
By John C. Curry
Reporter
If all goes as planned, Texas
A&M’s Department of Speech Com
munication and Theatre Arts, which
is only three years old, will begin tea
ching graduate classes in speech
communication in Fall 1990.
Dr. Robert L. Ivie, author of the
master’s program proposal for the
department, said the University’s
faculty senate has approved the pro
posal.
“The proposal currently has a
couple of steps left within the Uni
versity,” Ivie said.
The proposal has been submitted
to the Board of Regents for consid
eration and will be discussed in a
Sunday meeting at 2:15 p.m.
From there, the proposal must
still be approved by the State Coor
dinating Board.
According to the proposal, the
program’s objectives are to:
• Provide advanced education in
speech communication within a re
search community.
• Support Texas public schools
and community colleges by provid
ing graduate instruction for teachers
of speech communication.
• Enable adults in the community
to further their education in com
munication arts and sciences.
• Offer courses that will enrich
the options available to graduate stu
dents in related disciplines.
“Each student will construct a pro
gram that will suit his or her inter
est,” Ivie said. “Graduates of the
program will most likely go on to
doctoral work or teach in a commu
nity college or a smaller liberal arts
college.
“Otherwise, the graduate will
probably work as a communication
specialist within an organization in
private industry or the govern
ment.”
Ivie said the research-oriented
program would allow the students to
study and learn from the professors’
personal research interest.
“A research-oriented program de
velops the depth and sophistication
of the communication process,” Ivie
said.
Some of the research interests of
the professors in the department in
clude political rhetoric, communica
tion in a technological society, and
health communication.
“The department’s faculty has al
ready achieved a high degree of rec
ognition in only three years,” Ivie
said. “The faculty produces publica
tions and research results that far
exceed many other schools.”
Students enrolled in the master’s
program would be required to take
three courses covering foundations,
human and rhetorical perspective
communication. Depending upon
the optional thesis route, a student
would subsequently take either six
(for those students choosing the the
sis route) or eighteen electives cover
ing other topics such as interperso
nal communication and rhetorical
criticism.
Although in its infancy, the mas
ter’s program would not lower the
standards of admission to increase
enrollment.
“We would be very selective,” Ivie
said. “After the first two years, we
would have 25-35 students enrolled
in any given year.”
Voters decide fate of polls
on gambling in Galveston
GALVESTON (AP) — Voters of this island commu
nity will decide Saturday if they want to ban straw votes
on the legalization of casino gambling as long as state
law forbids casinos.
But even if the proposed amendment to the city’s
charter is adopted, pro-gambling forces say they will
challenge it in court on grounds it would violate their
right to free speech.
“We object to Proposition 6 on the grounds that a re
straint of the citizen’s rights to petition for election on
any subject is a blatant violation of our First Amend
ment constitutional rights of free speech, which clearly
includes political speech and opinion,” Juliet Staudt, a
leader of Galvestonians for Economic Development,
told the Galveston City Council.
Staudt said litigation on the issue is inevitable if the
proposed ban on non-binding casino gambling referen-
dums is adopted.
By comfortable majorities, local voters have turned
thumbs down on legalized gambling in three non-bind
ing referendums in the past five years. Backers of the
proposed amendment say they are tired of fighting
over something that is not even legal under state! law.
“We’re tired of being guinea pigs for the rest of the
state,” said H.L.“Shrub” Kempner Jr., a leader of Gal
vestonians Against Casino Gambling. “We’ve done our
duty on this issue, and it’s time to put it behind us.”
It was Kempner’s group that gathered enough signa
tures to place the charter amendment on Saturday’s
ballot. The anti-casino folks resorted to the charter
amendment after winning a costly battle over Staudfs
group in a non-binding referendum in August.
“If the Legislature ever passes casino gambling, we
would be delighted to vote it down again,” Kempner
said. “But for now, (Galvestonians for Economic Devel
opment) need to turn their attention to the Legislature
and quit using us as some kind of stalking horse or gui
nea pig”
He said he believes the proposed amendment will
withstand constitutional tests.
The non-binding referendums were held only after
pro-gambling forces gathered enough signatures to
force City Council to call the elections.
Area legislators said they would ask the state Legis
lature to legalize gambling in Galveston only if a major
ity of voters said they supported the idea.
The charter amendment to ban non-binding refer
endums on casino gambling issues until the Legislature
makes gambling legal is one of 32 proposed amend
ments on Saturday’s ballot.
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ing is excerpted from a profile of
Lloyd Bentsen Sr. that was written in
1985. Bentsen, the colorful father of
Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, died
Tuesday in a car wreck at the age of
95.
MISSION (AP) — He grew' up
thrashing wheat and busting wild
horses in the South Dakota Bad
lands. He raced motorcycles and
broke bones and yearned to become
a World War I pilot.
He liked drinking and fighting
and discovered early on that the two
often traveled hand in hand along
his turbulent walk on the wild side.
His was not a death wish, al
though it came camouflaged as such.
In business, he preferred oranges
AUSTIN (AP) — After failing in a
last-ditch bid to hire a city manager
from Oakland, Calif, Austin offi
cials are resuming their year-long
search for an administrator to head
city government.
In the interim, Austin on Tuesday
named a second acting assistant city
manager, Barney Knight, to succeed
anothef acting manager, John Ware.
Ware last week resigned from the
job he had held since the last full-
fledged manager, Jorge Carrasco,
quit in November 1987.
Knight will hold the interim posi
tion until the council finds a perma
nent manager, a process that has
been marked by false starts and fail
ures since it began nearly 14 months
ago.
Ware’s resignation late last week
prompted a final bid to hire Craig
Kocian, assistant city manager of
Oakland, as permanent manager.
Kocian was offered the job by the
council on Dec. 20. After negotia
tions between Kocian and Mayor
Lee Cooke, Kocian refused Jan. 10
to take the job, because the council
would not guarantee him a year’s
severance pay.
But Ware’s notification that he in
tended to resign renewed some
council members’ interest in trying
to work out another deal with Ko
cian, according to Councilman Max
Nofziger.
to oil and cotton to cattle. But in
time, Lloyd Millard Bentsen Sr.
would build a financial dynasty that
embraced them all.
His mustangs and motorcycles led
him in and out of hospitals while his
dream of becoming a pilot took him
in 1917 on a wartime assignment to
San Antonio and a weekend of rev
elry in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
His first trip to Mission was with
an Army buddy named Ray Landry,
neither knowing they eventually
would father sons famous on the
football field, Dallas Cowboys coach
Tom Landry, and in the U.S. Senate,
Lloyd Bentsen Jr.
There would be wealth, measured
in the millions, for the elder Bent
sen. There would be a ranching,
Nofziger said that Friday he tele
phoned Kocian in Oakland and of
fered him nine months’ severance
pay and that Kocian agreed to take
the offer if the rest of the council
supported it. But he said Cooke,
Mayor Pro Tern Sally Shipman, and
Councilmen Smoot Carl-Mitchell
and Charles Urdy did not want to
make the offer to Kocian.
Councilman Robert Barnstone
said he hoped the selection of a new
manager can move ahead quickly.
“The main reason this matter of hir
ing a new city manager needs to be
laid to rest is that personality issues
like this tend to be the most divisive
and least productive for us,” he said.
The council has been trying since
February 1988 to hire a chief exec
utive, a hunt that has spanned the
terms of two mayors.
Initially, under former Mayor
Frank Cooksey, the council inter
viewed nearly half a dozen candi
dates, but they were either unaccep
table to the council or withdrew
from consideration.
After winning the mayoral elec
tion last May, Cooke began a lengthy
effort to recruit new manager pros
pects.
More candidates were interviewed
by the council in August, but none
received solid support.
farming, oil and banking empire
personifying the land he chose to
makehome.
First, however, there would be in
this drowsy Valley town in 1917 a
shy, beautiful young woman with
whom he fell instantly and irrevers
ibly in love.
She ignored him, but not for long.
In 1920, Bentsen returned from
the war and persuaded Edna Ruth
Colbath — his “Dolly” — to marry
him. He had $1.50 in his pocket.
Influenced by the missed oppor
tunities of his Danish parents -and
with guts and grit and a novel fi
nancing scheme, he began acquiring
land.
He wrenched prosperity from the
raw terrain, faced death at the hands
of his laborers and sired, besides his
namesake U.S. senator, two other
sons and a daughter.
The senior Bentsen was one of six
children of Danish parents who set
tled before the turn of the century
on a small South Dakota farm.
He had little time as a child for
school and none at all after age 13,
when he followed the grain harvest
across Iowa, Nebraska and the Da
kotas.
The incidental injuries in break
ing wild horses were nothing com
pared to a motorcycle accident in
1915 in which Bentsen broke several
bones and almost lost his life.
After months of treatment, he
fled the hospital and, following seve
ral rejections, eventually tricked a
drunken recruiting officer into en
listing him in the Army.
He bluffed his way into a 16-week
ground-training school at Princeton
University and wound up in the avi
ation section of the Signal Corps.
Fate took him then to Texas where
he met Dolly, who became his wife.
After the wedding in 1920, Bentsen
^Sorrowed $500, and he and his pe
tite young bride moved into a small
house on the Edinburg Canal.
His current home is filled with
photographs and paintings of the
Bentsen clan, a smiling Dolly and
her four children — Lloyd Jr., the
senator; Kenneth, a Houston ar
chitect; Don, a McAllen business
man; and Betty, the wife of Valley
businessman Dan Winn.
In the 1970s, Bentsen’s holdings
ranged from farm, cattle, oil, gas
and nursery operations to control of
six Valley banks, stock in other
banks and land sales estimated at $ 1
million a month.
Austin renews search
for city administrator
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