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Page 4 The Battalion Monday, March 27,1989
Scholarships, fellowships
entice graduate students
A&M departments compete for top applicants
By Mia B. Moody
REPORTER
Most departments at A&M re
cruit by offering fellowships and
sending brochures to prospective
graduate students, but many de
partments have resorted to other
measures.
stry department recently spon
sored a weekend extravaganza in
which prospective graduate stu
dents were given VIP treatment.
“The students got to meet with
important faculty members includ
ing a Nobel Prize holder, attend a
poster session, attend a shrimp boil
and engage in other activities,” said
Elizabeth Porter, a staff assistant in
the chemistry department.
Porter said the chemistry depart
ment’s recruitment techniques were
successful last year.
Ward Wells, interim department
head of innovation in the architec
ture department, said his depart
ment recruits in and outside of the
state for future graduate students.
“Our department recruits under
graduates by visiting universities in
and out of state where we tell them
what the A&M graduate depart
ment has to offer,” Wells said. “We
also place ads in newletters from
different clubs and societies.”
04205501 Dr. Eckhard Krots-
check, chairmen of recruitment in
the physics department, said his de
partment recruits through network
ing.
“We ask colleagues at other
schools to spread the word about
our department,” Krotscheck said.
“We get many students because
A&M has graduates who are profes
sors at other colleges who encour
age their students to look at A&M’s
graduate program.”
Krotscheck said the physics de
partment is having problems re
cruiting because of administrative
rules.
“One of our problems is the rule
that applications must be held by
the Office of Admisssions if they
have something wrong with them,”
he said. “So we don’t know who
some of the students are who apply
because we don’t receive their appli
cations.
“The other problem is the $25
processing fee that A&M charges to
graduate applicants. Most under
graduates can’t afford to pay $25 to
have an application processed, so
this puts us at a disadvantage with
other universities.”
Dr. Richard Alexander, associate
department head for the graduate
department in mechanical engi
neering, said his department en
courages its undergraduate stu
dents to participate in the graduate
program by allowing them topartic
ipate in research programs with tht
faculty.
“This gives them a glimpse of
what graduate school is like,” Alex
ander said. “It also gives them the
opportunity to make a little mono,
which is an extra incentive. After
they participate in this pragram, a
lot of them decide to attend grad
uate school.”
He said his department looks for
prospective graduate students who
meet University guidelines. Stu
dents must have a 3.0 grade-poim
ratio and an acceptable Graduate
Record Examination score. In addi
tion to these requirements, he said
the department looks at letters of
recommendation and the students
initiative.
Alexander said students searcli
for specific qualities in a university
and its faculty when considerinj
graduate schools.
“They look for faculty members
with expertise in the student’s area
of interest,” he said. “They wantfac
ulty members who have madeschol
arly publications and done a lot of
research work. They also want fac
ulty members who are interested in
their welfare.”
Perks, allowances
help boost earnings
of state legislators
AUSTIN (AP) — State lawmakers
earn $7,200 per year, which is below
the federal poverty level for a family
of two.
But there the similarity ends.
During the legislative session,
state senators receive $15,500 per
month and House members $7,000
for office expenses.
And the allowances don’t stop
when the session ends.
During the last interim period be
tween regular legislative sessions.
Senators received $13,000 per
month to run their operations, while
House members received $6,000 per
month.
Many lawmakers have com
plained the low salary for state legis
lators prevents Texans with limited
resources from serving in the Legis
lature.
Lawmakers are considering a pro
posed constitutional amemdment
for the ballot that would set legis
lative pay at 25 percent of the gover
nor’s salary boosting it from $7,200
per year to about $23,000 annually
beginning in 1991.
Voters last gave lawmakers a pay
raise in 1975 — a 50 percent in
crease from $4,800 annually to
$7,200.
Under the monthly allotments,
senators have fewer items to pay for
with their larger allotment than
House members.
House members use their
monthly stipend for staff salaries, of
fice supplies, district office rental,
telephone, postage, subscriptions to
newspapers and magazines, adver
tising, travel, copying service and
photography.
Senators’ monthly allowance goes
toward staff salaries and intrastate
staff travel. Senators are not limited
on the amount they can spend for
office supplies, district office rentals,
telephone service, postage, subscrip
tions and copying service.
Reports for the six-month period
from Sept. 1, 1988 through Feb. 28,
1989, show a wide variance in ex
penses on the part of senators.
According to the reports obtained
by the Associated Press, the top
spending senators for this period
were Don Henderson, R-Houston,
$112,178; Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
$108,682; John Whitmire, D-Hous-
ton, $ 108,588; and Frank Tejeda, D-
San Antonio, $103,638. Chet Ed
wards, D-Duncaville; Gene Green,
D-Houston; and Eddie Bernice
Johnson, D-Dallas, each spent more
than $102,000.
Aside from newly elected senators
who have not served during that en
tire six-month period, the five low
est-spending Senators were; Bob
McFarland, R-Arlington, $59,219;
John Leedom, R-Dallas, $63,704;
Bill Sims, D-San Angelo, $67,375;
Bob Glasgow, D-Stephen ville,
$70,632; and Carlos Truan, D-Cor-
pus Christi, $72,577.
Another perk members of the
Senate receive are photographs.
Photographs taken of senators at
work or with constituents are free,
unless it is determined the photos
will be used for political purposes.
On the House side, lawmakers
pay for their photos. House mem
bers spent approximately $5,300 of
their stipends for photographs in
January and February, according to
records filed with the House Busi
ness Office.
The top 10 spenders in the House
for photograpy in January and Feb
ruary were Betty Denton, D-Waco,
$368; Ron Wilson, D-Houston,
$257; David Counts, D-Knox City,
$207; Hugo Berlanga, D-Corpus
Christi, $195; Jerry Johnson, D-Na-
cogdoches, $192; Bob Melton, D-Ga-
tesville, $163; Mike McKinney, D-
Centerville, $152; Larry Evans, D-
Houston, $152; and Robert Saun
ders, D-LaGrange, $141.
Gulf’s sea level
will rise, says
Rice scientist
GALVESTON (AP) — A geol
ogist envisions the day Galveston
Island will be a fraction of its cur
rent size and the Gulf of Mexico
coastline will be 5 or 10 miles far
ther inland than it is now.
As in the past, the changes in
the Texas coastline will be caused
by events in the Antarctic, Rice
University geologist Dr. John An
derson said.
“We’ve had these very rapid
rises in sea level long before there
was a greenhouse effect,” Ander
son told the Dallas Morning
News.
Anderson has gathered evi
dence in the Antarctic and along
the Texas coast that he said sup
ports the idea that a rise of 250 to
300 feet in sea level after the end
of the last ice age 18,000 years
ago was not a long, even process.
Underwater sandbanks off the
Texas coast — ancient barrier is
lands that were submerged vir
tually intact rather than eroded
— indicate that sea level at times
has risen rapidly, not slowly, An
derson said.
Other scientists have found
similar evidence of rapid rise in
sea level elsewhere, he said.
“There’s enough unstable Ant
arctic ice now to raise sea level...
30 feet,” Anderson said.
A rise of just 10 feet would sub
merge most of Galveston Island
and would move the Gulf Coast
inland as far as Texas Gity and
Port Arthur, according to U.S.
Geological Survey maps. A rise of
30 feet would cause Galveston to
disappear and the coast to move
even farther inland.
Mean sea level on tidal gauges
along the Texas coast has risen
cane foot in the past 100 years, but
90 percent of that change is due
to subsidence, Anderson said.
The possibility of a faster rise in
sea level is another reason to con
sider stronger regulation of
coastal development, he said.
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