The Battalion
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Friday, April 21,1989
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A&M lets professors consult at will
University places no restrictions on outside consulting by faculty
Becky
Weisenfels
Editor
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REPORTER
While many universities have poli
cies restricting the amount of out
side consultation by faculty mem
bers, Texas A&M does not designate
specific limitations, Provost Donald
McDonald said.
Unlike A&M, the University of
Tennessee has a rule that limits out
sideconsulting to one day a week.
“Most of the A&M faculty mem
bers don’t take anywhere near that
much time consulting,” McDonald
said.
If faculty members want to do
consulting, it must be approved by
(lie administration. McDonald said
I outside consulting must be beneficial
to professors in their teaching and
research at the University.
“You can’t let outside consulting
interfere with your obligations to the
University such as teaching and
meeting with students,” he said.
If the consulting doesn’t have
some kind of contribution to the
University along these lines, McDon
ald said, then faculty members
shouldn’t be wasting their time
doing it.
A&M faculty members are en
couraged to do outside consulting,
he said.
“The primary advantage is that it
brings faculty members in contact
with real world problems, which in
creases ability in the classroom,
brings real world problems to stu
dents and helps increase faculty
members’ skills,” he said.
Dr. J. Benton Storey, professor of
horticultural sciences at A&M,
agrees that outside consulting en
hances knowledge.
“Every time I do consulting, I
come back knowing a lot more about
my field,” he said. “Then I’m able to
make applications in the classroom.
It brings the material alive.”
Another positive aspect of consul
ting for faculty members is the salary
it brings, although McDonald said
consulting really doesn’t account for
a high percentage of faculty mem
bers’ income.
Dr. Don Tomlinson, assistant pro
fessor of journalism at A&M, does
ducation dean says politicians
enege on promises for funding
By Melissa Naumann
REPORTER
Contrary to promises made during political cam
paigns, funds for education have continued to decline
and cannot meet student needs, Dean Corrigan, dean
of the College of Education, said.
Corrigan said that although President George Bush
has claimed to be the “education president,” his “mea-
" attempts at educational reform have been less than
satisfactory thus far.
The rhetoric does not equal the action,” he said.
‘With all the talk about ‘a nation at risk,’ education still
appears to be more important in our political cam
paigns than in our appropriations.”
Corrigan’s view is supported by a National Education
Association report that affirmed the declining number
of students being served by four major education pro
grams: Chapter 1, Pell grants, the Bilingual Education
Act and the Education for All Handicapped Children
Act.
The decrease in funding for Chapter 1, which is
aimed at poor children in early grades, is the most omi
nous symbol for the future of education, Corrigan said.
According to the NEA report, during the 1980-81
school year, seven million students received aid from
the Chapter 1 program. In the 1988-89 school year,
however, only 5.6 million children are involved in the
i. The report also said the number of children
living in poverty, which is who Chapter 1 was designed
to help, is more than 12 million.
For 1989, Chapter 1 received $4.6 billion in federal
funds, but $6.9 billion was necessary to serve all eligible
students.
Corrigan said a goal of politicians in recent years has
been to concentrate attention and money on younger
children to save money on later remediation, but the ac
tual funds given to education haven’t backed this up.
“The farther up the education ladder you go, the less
effective remediation is,” he said.
Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos, former presi
dent of Texas Tech University, has spoken about the
drop-out problem, but Corrigan said the decreasing
funds for Chapter 1 contradict Cavazos’ promises to
lower the drop-out rate.
“Children are at risk (of dropping out of school) in
the first grade unless we provide opportunities for
them,” Corrigan said.
At the other end of the educational spectrum, the
amount of money allotted to Pell grants (assistance to
college students) also is not adequate for the needs of all
eligible students. To serve all students, $6.1 billion was
needed, but only $4.5 billion was allotted.
Bilingual education is also suffering, the NEA report
said. To serve all eligible students, $1.4 billion was
needed. Instead, $200 million was given to the pro
gram.
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VPI Communications.
Aside from the financial value of
outside consulting, he said, the ad-
; vantages to him are pretty much the
| same as to the University.
“It allows me to ‘keep my hand in,’
| in a professional sense, and to stay
on top of current issues that have to
do with my field,” Tomlinson said,
j “It also allows me to pass that infor
mation on to my students.”
He said there’s a danger of stag-
j nation in teaching, where one’s pro
fessional development becomes ar
rested.
“Research and consulting can pre
vent stagnation from occurring,”
Tomlinson said.
As for the one-day-a-week policy
at the University of Tennessee, he
said that should be adequate for fac
ulty members.
“The time I spend consulting va
ries,” Tomlinson said, “but I don’t
do it anywhere near a day a week.”
He said he doesn’t think outside
consulting takes faculty away from
teaching or responsibility to the Uni
versity.
“A faculty member has to per
form 100 percent of the responsibil
ity he has to the University,” Tom
linson said. “The consulting has to
be done over and above that.”
He said many people don’t realize
the extent to which faculty members
work on research and consulting at
night and on the weekends.
“In my opinion, consulting is not
only an activity that should be per
mitted, but it’s an activity that should
be encouraged,” Tomlinson said.
University of Tennessee Vice Pro
vost C.W. Minkel said he encourages
as many faculty members as possible
to experience the real world and
have practical training. He doesn’t
object to them earning additional
funds.
“Outside consulting can both con
tribute toward and take away from
the faculty’s teaching and responsi
bility to the university, depending on
how much is done and the nature of
it,” he said.
He said his one-day-a-week policy
is pretty much the national norm.
“For the most part, I think outside
consulting is a desirable thing to do,”
Minkel said.
Rock ’n’ roll music
has power to reflect
society, prof says
By Melissa Naumann
REPORTER
The times they are a-changin’
— and music is changing right
along with them.
Dr. Terry Anderson, a Texas
A&M associate professor of his
tory, has given his students a mu
sical walk through history for
nine years to illustrate music’s
power of reflecting society.
Thursday night, Anderson be
gan his list of 60 significant songs
with “Rock Around the Clock,”
the beginning of rock ‘n‘ roll that
also served as a rejection of 1940s
music.
“Rock signaled a change be
cause it was a rejection of this
pablum,” Anderson said. “In
other words, it was music that
demonstrated the restlessness.”
After the Korean War, songs
like “My Boyfriend’s Back” re
flected a desire for a return for
normalcy, he said.
“Courtship and romance —
that’s what’s normal,” he said.
Soon, the songs of the 1950s
began to sound the same, but re
lief was on the way in the 1960s,
Anderson said.
“If the Beatles hadn’t begun to
experiment with music, we would
have called the exterminator,” he
said.
As the ’60s wore on, black and,
eventually, integrated bands be
came more popular. Conse
quently, songs such as Sly and the
Family Stone’s “Stand” began ad
dressing the issue of civil rights,
he said.
“Another genre that started to
ask questions in the 1960s was
folk music,” Anderson said, play
ing “Tom Dooley” by the Kings
ton Trio. “This song by itself
wasn’t important. What was im
portant was that folk singers sat
up and said, ‘Hey, we can make
some money!”’
The silence of the students in
the ’50s, called the Silent Genera
tion, was attacked by Simon and
Garfunkel in “The Sound of Si
lence,” but this silence ended with
the ’60s, Anderson said.
In fact, with the beginning of
the Vietnam War, songs began to
reflect more than one facet of
American society. Songs like
“Draft Dodgers” were countered
with Barry Sadler’s patriotic “The
Ballad of the Green Berets,”
which sold 7 million copies.
“Eve of Destruction,” written
by a 19-year-old, showed that
support for the war, especially
among younger Americans, was
declining.
“War was a large factor in
alienating many people your age
from the nation,” Anderson said.
The war, however, wasn’t the
only thing musicians wrote songs
to protest, he said.
“If you didn’t revolt against the
establishment, you’d revolt just
for the hell of it,” he said, playing
“Born To Be Wild” by Steppen-
wolf.
The other half of American so
ciety responded with songs such
as “Dawn of Correction,” defend
ing the American way, Anderson
said.
The ’70s brought artists such as
Jimi Hendrix and the Moody
Blues experimenting with music,
while others such as Helen Reddy
with “I Am Woman” continued to
address social issues.
Although the experimentation
continues with artists such as U2
and Prince, the present trend is
back to normalcy, tied in with bits
of social commentary and cyn
icism, he said.
Anderson said one song in par
ticular served as the theme of the
Reagan administration, making
the most recent comment on
American society: “Don’t Worry
— Be Happy.”
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