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Survey:
Lawmakers’ salaries too low
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas legis
lators who claim they are underpaid
at $7,200 a year might be right — at
least if compared to salaries paid by
many other states.
An Associated Press survey found
that Texas, with the nation’s third
largest population, ranks well be
hind the two biggest states in legis
lative pay.
Many smaller states pay better,
too.
In Texas, serving in the biennial,
part-time Legislature pays $600 a
month, plus $30 per day in expenses
during sessions.
In contrast, California’s full-time
legislators get $40,816 in salary plus
$87 a day when they are meeting.
New York state legislators receive
$57,500 a year, which may be the na
tion’s highest compesation following
a raise from $43,000 starting in Jan
uary 1988.
New York’s Legislature meets an
nually and is technically a part-time
body.
But it’s not just the bigger states
that pay more.
• In Massachusetts, the 160
House members and 40 senators all
draw a base annual salary of
$30,000, with party floor leaders
and committee chairmen receiving
bonus pay ranging from $7,500 to
$35,000 for the speaker and Senate
president.
• Base pay of Ohio legislators is
$36,650 annually. Leaders, commit
tee chairmen, vice chairmen and
ranking minority party members
earn more.
• Oregon lawmakers receive sala
ries of $937 a month, or $11,244 a
year. They also receive expense pay
ments of $66 a day seven days a
week during legislative sessions, and
$400 a month between sessions.
• Illinois legislators are paid
$35,661 annually and receive $72 a
day for living expenses during ses
sions.
• Colorado legislators are paid
$17,500 a year. Those living less
than 50 miles from Denver receive
$35 a day expenses when Legislature
in session. Those living 50 miles or
more receive $70.
• Hawaii’s 25 senators and 51
House members get $27,000 a year,
just raised from $15,600. That’s
scheduled to go to $32,000 in 1993,
with the Senate president and House
speaker getting an additional $5,000
a year.
• In Georgia, legislators make
$10,251 per year, plus a maximum
of $4,800 per year as reimbursement
for expenses.
• Minnesota pays its 201 lawmak
ers $25,138, with top leaders making
more.Expenses are $48 a day during
sessions and autorized interim work.
House and Senate members also re
ceive a monthly housing allowance
the annual sessions.
The Texas salary of $600 a month
is written into the state constitution,
so voters would get to decide on any
proposed pay hike.
House Speaker Gib Lewis has said
he thinks lawmakers are underpaid
and supports a raise. One leading
proposal, by Rep. David Hudson of
Tyler, would pay legislators 25 per
cent of the governor’s annual salary.
If that amendment were ap
proved at curent salary levels, legis
lators would see their pay more than
tripled to $23,358 a year.
Gov. Bill Clements, who is paid
$93,432 a year and gets free rent at
the Governor’s Mansion, opposes a
raise. “I don’t think they need a
raise. I sure don’t,” he said.
Clements says recent voter outcry
over the proposed congressional pay
hike ought to tell state legislators
something.
A&M provides advice
about economic growth
to Texas communities
By Alan Sembera
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M soon will be offer
ing its technical and managerial
expertise to local governments
and community development
groups across the state.
In an effort to spur economic
development, the federal Eco
nomic Development Administra
tion has awarded $100,000 to the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station to establish a state-wide
network of economic devel
opment outreach centers.
“The major objective of the
program is to assist Texas com
munities in improving economic
conditions and the standard of
living through the creation and
maintenance of jobs for Texas
residents,” said Dr. Helen Baca
Dorsey, director of the new TEES
Municipal Assistance Program.
This program was initiated,
Dorsey said, because there was a
need for local governments and
economic development groups to
have better ties into a research
agency in order to get technical
assistance.
Dorsey said her division will be
providing technological and busi
ness information to local commu
nities through the 254 county
agents of the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
The expertise mostly will come
from within the Texas A&M Uni
versity System, she said.
Some of the services the new
program will offer are:
• A toll-free telephone num
ber that local governments and
development organizations can
call for information about eco
nomic development-related pro
grams.
• Helping local areas to iden
tify economic development
needs
See jobs/Page 8
SCONA panel: U.S. can learn
from Japan’s global economy
By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
World economy has been transforming into'a global
marketplace and Americans can learn much from the
Japanese about how to operate in a global economy, a
participant in a SCONA panel discussion said Friday.
Dr. S. Kerry Cooper, director of Texas A&M’s Cen
ter for International Business Studies, said American
and Japanese differences are conducive to learning.
At the 34th MSC Student Conference on National
Affairs, Cooper said Americans have a good deal to
learn from Japanese business culture.
Guest speakers for the panel discussion, titled “U.S.
and Japanese Bilateral Businesses,” were an American,
Steve Levy, senior adviser to a United States company
operating in Japan, and a Japanese, Dr. Kiichi Mochi-
zuki, president of a Japanese company operating in the
United States.
Japanese and U.S. economies are different in many
aspects, Cooper said.
“The United States and Japanese economies are mar
ried to each other in the sense that opposites attract,” he
said. “The Japanese save a lot, and we don’t. They em
phasize quality in production first, foremost and always.
We tend to emphasize quantity.”
The United States has problems trading with Japan
because of trade barriers, Levy said.
“We need to remove some of the barriers that exist in
Japan,” he said, “perhaps by use of political backing.”
Levy said the Japanese know how to operate in a
global economy as evidenced by their success. He said
major differences exist between Japanese and Ameri
cans.
“In Japan, the Japanese customer demands ex
tremely exact delivery of merchandise,” Levy said.
“They expect delivery on a specific day, and sometimes
at a certain time. If their expectations are not met, it is
likely they will find a different merchant to do business
with.”
The internal market in Japan is highly competitive,
he said. The Japanese compete vigorously among
themselves.
Because of the Japanese, the United States uses sta
tistical sampling methods on quality control, placing
limits on the number of defects found in a certain num
ber of products.
“If there are more than 50 defective products in a to
tal of one million, that is not acceptable in Japan,” Levy
said. “Their high standards have been responsible for
causing us to improve our quality control levels nation
wide.”
When the Japanese purchase a product, he said, they
buy the service behind it almost as much as they buy the
product itself. Therefore, excellent after-market serv-
See SCON A/Page 8
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Zeta Beta Tau
ends pledging
nationwide
By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
More than 45 men have died
because of fraternity hazing activ
ities in the past 25 years and Zeta
Beta Tau fraternity’s national
body has decided to confront the
issue by abolishing pledging in
ZBT chapters nationwide.
In a statement, James Greer
Jr., executive vice president of
ZBT Fraternity Inc., said every
imaginable method has been
tried to eliminate hazing, includ
ing workshops, seminars, screen
ing of written pledge programs
and disciplinary action against of
fending chapters, but nothing has
worked.
Greer said the only thing left is
to abolish pledging.
The new policy will go into ef
fect this fall and all ZBT chapters
are required to follow it.
As a result of the non-pledging
policy, ZBT’s national organiza
tion is creating a new program,
“Introduction to Membership,”
to recruit new members. The na
tional body is sending informa
tion to chapters on how the pro
gram will be run.
“A set program has not been
established yet,” Spencer McDon
ald, ZBT president of the A&M
chapter, said. “The national body
is taking input from fraternities
around the country. They’re try
ing to develop a program that will
help everyone.”
This fall, ZBT will have rush
like all the other social fraternities
on campus.
“The difference in pledge pro
grams will be that ours will be
much shorter, and we will em
phasize education,” McDonald
said.
He said choosing members still
will be a selective process.
“Just because we’re changing
our pledging policy doesn’t mean
we’re lowering our standards,”
McDonald said.
New members will be chosen
See ZBT/Page 8
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