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Battalion TATE & LOCAL idnesday, September 6,1989 itraw vote shows Student Senate gainst proposed summer schedule Michael Kelley The Battalion Staff The 1989-90 Texas A&M Stu- pnt Senate, in a straw vote taken juesday night at its first meeting |is semester, came out strongly gainst a proposed summer school schedule that would con- s it of overlapping six- and 10- vp-ek sessions. The proposal, sent to commit- tje after first reading and heated qscussion on the senate floor, | is presented by Greg Duewall, a arcl III senator, who is also the sfident representative from the Student Senate to the Evaluation Committee on Summer School. Duewall said the committee was created by A&M President Dr. William H. Mobley, and con sists of faculty, administration, and student representatives. “The purpose of the commit tee is to look at the problems with summer school and to find solu tions,” Duewall said. “The real problem is to make the summer session pedagogically sound and equal to the spring and fall semes ters. It’s obvious that professors cut back in what they teach in their lectures in the five week ses sions. “The Faculty Senate wants one 10-week semester in the first place, so this would be a compro mise with the students.” The bill raised questions from senators who where concerned with conflicts such as the Study Abroad program or half-summer work schedules. The problem with the bill, as voiced by various senators, was that these students would not be allowed the option of attending a second summer session — typ ically a five week semester — the second half of the summer. Dr. Malon Southerland, assis tant vice president for student services and an administration See Summer/Page 7 Flight Center offers services for the once and future pilot By Todd Connelley Of The Battalion Staff ill leather service, A&M orm meteorology center The Aviation Flight Center is the place for people who can’t seem to keep their feet on the ground. The Flight Center, located at Eas- terwood Field, is a complete flight training school for anyone, from a recreational pilot to a licensed pro fessional. “Our greatest asset is that anyone can walk in the door and have their pilot’s license in as little as five weeks,” Ronnie ITuddleston, owner of the Flight Center, said. The time it takes to get a pilot’s li cense depends on the individual. “The more time you spend in the air, the quicker you get through the course,” Huddleston said. The national average flight time for students receiving their license is 68 hours, he said. The Flight Center has an average of 42 hours. Huddleston, an 18-year veteran of the air, credits the low average to an excellent staff of fully-licensed pi lots. “We have a one-on-one instruc tion program,” he said. “Whoever you start flying with takes you through the entire course.” In two months, the Flight Center will be the first Texas aviation school to offer both light plane and heli copter training. Helicopter training will cost a little more and the de mands on the student will be tougher than light aircraft training, he said. “The helicopters we are getting in are the same ones used in the tele vision series, ‘MASH,’ ” he said. “They are the best trainers there are.” Huddleston plans to offer ground school classes at night to A&M stu dents who can’t attend during the day. “Ground school is designed to help get you through the written test required by the FAA,” Huddleston said. A three-day ground school soon will be offered to people with pre vious flight training who wish to take the written test immediately. The Flight Center also provides a pilot supply center with a full range of equipment. “We have everything a pilot needs — from maps to sectionals,” he said. “If we don’t have it, then we’ll get it.” The Flight Center is open seven days a week. For more information call 846-5636. Interim dean takes his job seriously; search continues for permanent dean Pam Mooman The Battalion Staff Tiere is more to accurate weather dictions than a smiling television sonality pointing to a cluttered Ip. Meteorology is, in fact, an ex- ict science that requires commitment :oresearch and knowledge. KTexas A&M made that commit- ! Jilt Friday with approval by the , Board of Regents to establish a I cl rsjieteorological research institute at legisf'pcM. jut to® he Cooperative Institute for Ap- ntist. M Meteorological Studies will be Killy funded by A&M and the Na- p ()r a ional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- . ‘ tiinistration, of which the National ‘ 1S e ' e feather Service (NWS) is a part, Dr. tow n ames R. Scoggins, head of the De- ? I’mcB-tment of Meteorology, said. :nt sadBcoggins is also the director of tie upipMS. school! wantl lodyelj “I’ll wear two hats until January,” Scoggins said. Scoggins said he then will be re placed as department head and his sole responsibility will be directing CIAMS. He said the institute will promote cooperation between University re searchers and NWS scientists. “The purpose is to promote ap plied meteorological research and improve collaboration between NOAA/NWS and Texas A&M Uni versity scientists and provide a cen ter where University and federal sci entists can work together,” Scoggins said. The institute, which will be part of the College of Geosciences, is the ninth cooperative institute formed in the nation, Scoggins said. “We are joining an elite group,” he said. The research that CIAMS will conduct will require expertise in sev eral scientific areas, Scoggins said. One research project will involve the study of marine meteorology, which will require cooperation between the oceanography and meteorology de partments. Others will include agri cultural meteorology, which will be a joint effort between agriculture and meteorology; and a joint study be tween space, oceanography and me teorological researchers on the ef fects of the Gulf of Mexico on eastern weather, he said. In December, CIAMS will begin using radar to study rainfall patterns of severe storms in the hope of in creasing prediction accuracy, Scog gins said. “We’ll have a Dopplar — the only one owned by a meteorological de- See Meteorology/Page 7 By Melissa Naumann Of The Battalion Staff His job is temporary but Dr. Chris Borman, interim dean of the College of Education, isn’t treating it that way. Borman said the college is progressing too rapidly for him to just “play caretaker” until a more permanent dean is chosen. “I don’t think we can afford to stand still,” Borman said. Borman, who was the associate dean of research in the college, said he will continue to expand existing programs, such as the new teacher education program that began in the spring. External funds also need to be increased, and a re search committee has been set up to form a research agenda for the college, he said. “It’s fine to have state funds and we need state funds to operate, but we need to put more emphasis on exter nal funds,” Borman said. In another quest for money, the college has started a Campaign for Excellence to increase development in the form of endowments and fellowships. The cam paign will target former students and corporations, while other “friends of the college” will he encouraged to contribute as well. , Evaluating the graduate programs will be another priority while Borman is dean. Borman said between 3,200 and 3,400 students are enrolled in the College of Education and 1,000 of them are graduate students. “We have maybe 18 percent of all of the graduate students on campus,” he said. “We’ll be concentrating more on quality and less on size.” Because the college was formed in 1969, the organi zation of the college needs to be reviewed also, Borman said. “We need to see if maybe there might be some better ways to organize because we have some very small de partments and then we have some that are very large — in fact, too large,” he said. “I’m not saying we have to reorganize. Wejust need to look at it.” Borman was chosen as interim dean when the search to replace Dr. Dean Corrigan was discontinued. 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