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Battalion TATE & LOCAL 3 ursday, October 5,1989 ssociation visits ‘acuity concerns, A&M to survey improve chapter yTodd Swearingen [ The Battalion Staff [Members of the Texas Faculty As- :iation visited Texas A&M last ^ek to strengthen the newly Irmed campus chapter and survey Iculty concerns. JDr. Charles Zucker, director of |FA in Austin, said the four staff lembers interviewed nearly 300 Iculty members during their five- ay stay. JZucker said the main goal of the IFA is to inform and protect the jghts of faculty members and to in tervene on their behalf when nec essary. “Basically, what we found was that there was a need for an organization like TFA at Texas A&M,” Zucker said. “There are most definitely certain hot spots on campus where faculty members are not pleased with how things are going and we’re going to be working with the faculty in those areas to try to improve those situa tions,” he continued. “We strongly believe in the con cept that faculty members should have a significant voice in the opera tion of the university — A&M has tidying tied of of tk 'e are e-weet semes- propo nd fat- oposal s need ! Otllft . It at udents work .lential attend l sum- session to do inner, attend &M, Tech study leadership behavior jlyTodd Connelley f The Battalion Staff Texas A&M University will )in Texas Tech University in a Tmonth project researching the Strategic leadership behavior of [enior military leaders. Tech’s College of Business Ad- unistration was awarded a 7,610 research contract from Army Research Institute in Washington, D.C. It is the largest grant ever for Tech’s business college. The 40-month project will em ploy faculty from Tech, A&M, [he University of Michigan, Mich- jan State University, the Univer sity of Maryland and the Center for Creative Leadership in Ireensboro, N.C. The study aims to enable the ermy to equip leaders for greater roles of responsibility and adapt from peacetime to wartime. “It is an opportunity for us to test unit effectiveness and to ex amine leader development on a collegiate level,” Bob Phillips, as sociate dean of research in Tech’s business college, said. “Texas A&M is an ideal place to conduct this research because of the Corps of Cadets,” he said. The existing military organiza tional structure, Phillips said, is restrictive and makes it difficult for subordinate leaders to main tain their individual discretion in dealing with those under their command and to handle the stress of battle. In the final step, researchers will recommend ways in which the Army can implement changes within its various units. Tech faculty members sub mitted the competitive proposal in late April. U.S. Rep. Larry Combest’s 19th Congressional District office in Lubbock an nounced the contract on Sept. 25. been slow in that regard to catch up with other universities. “Where we have strong chapters, they really become a factor in terms of decisions that are made on camp us,” Zucker said. The TFA acts as an advocacy group and provides legal assistance for its members, Zucker said. As an example, Zucker said, an issue has arisen at A&M concerning the right of faculty members to contact their local legislator. Zucker said some faculty members have been in structed not to contact their state legislators, but as a citizen of Texas anyone has the right to do so. “Even at the level of university professors, the level of the under standing of their rights under Texas state law and under U.S. law and un der the constitutions is not all that strong,” Zucker said. Zucker said the TFA is lobbying for the passage of Proposition 21 on Nov. 7, which would establish a col lege savings bonds program that has been successful in other states, such as Illinois and Michigan. In the past, the TFA has success fully lobbied for the repeal of man datory retirement of tenured faculty at the age of 70, protected the rights of tenured faculty and defended a faculty advisor removed from a stu dent newspaper for refusing to con trol criticism of the administration. .The TFA was founded nearly five years ago in Austin by 28 faculty members and has since grown to over 1,200 members. The TFA works in cooperation with the Na tional Education Association and the Texas State Teachers Association and has chapters on more than 20 campuses. Braniff hopes to stay in air as small carrier, offers $49 flight fares ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Braniff Airlines, looking to stay in the air as a smaller carrier, was optimistic Wednesday as more passengers paid $49 one-way fares to begin refilling the seats on the cash-starved airline. “We’re encouraged by the num ber of people that are flying Bra niff,” Braniff spokesman Sandy Smith said. Passengers on BranifFs 46 sched uled flights increased by about 800 people Tuesday to 2,927 passengers, or nearly 40 percent capacity, she said. At a symposium Tuesday of about 300 aviation executives, a top official of Braniff said deregulation hurt smaller, independent airlines while favoring larger carriers. Tom Volz, senior vice president Program offers outstanding students opportunities, engineering experience By Andrea Warrenburg Of The Battalion Staff An undergraduate program launched this semester by the Texas A&M College of Engineering will give out standing engineering students opportunities to have di rect contact with faculty researchers, industry represen tatives and peers, as well as prepare them for graduate school. “The Engineering Scholars Program is trying to ex pand what we already have to make it exciting for them,” Mary Ann Raatz, ESP director, said. “We want to make available opportunities, money and experien ce.” ESP sponsors invited engineering students with a grade point-ratio of 3.6 to 4.0 and incoming freshmen with a 3.8 GPR and either a score of 1250 on the SAT or a 29 ACT score to attend the inauerural meeting Sept. 20. “We were very excited about the response,” Raatz said. “And they are such an exciting group of individu als.” This year, in order to start the group, A&M students with 29 to 90 hours could applv. In the years to come, only freshmen in their first semester can apply. Students entering the program as freshmen will be required to take at least 1 1 hours of honors courses, in cluding two one-hour credit seminars and a three-hour credit special research project with an engineering fac ulty researcher. The first seminar will include representatives from industry and the second seminar will include faculty members, both speaking on research. “It will give A&M closer ties with industry,” Raatz said. “And industries will be very interested in these stu dents.” Leigh Ellen Key, an industrial engineering major and member of ESP said, “The industrial seminar will set up potential contacts and help us find the field we’re most interested in.” Raatz said the program will supply information about summer internships and Texas Engineering Ex periment Station Fellowships as well as provide re search experience to prepare students for graduate school. “The program is trying to enhance what the honors program already offers academically superior stu dents,” Raatz said. for marketing of the airline that last week filed for Chapter 11 bank ruptcy protection, blamed Orlando- based BranifFs troubles on the gov ernment’s 1978 deregulation of the airline industry. Frequent flyer tickets are a partic ular source of unfair competition, Volz told those attending the Trans port Aircraft Marketing Symposium here. Although he said he doesn’t favor a return to tight regulations, Volz suggested that the government should consider ordering an end to frequent-flyer programs. Because of its smaller size, Bra nifFs frequent-flyer program was not started until after those of the larger airlines, Volz said, and just wasn’t able to catch up. Volz said small airlines such as Braniff also were damaged by travel agents he described as being “locked in” by the suppliers of their compu terized reservations systems. Those systems, he noted, either are owned outright — or jointly — by larger air lines. Between 1978 and 1988, he said, the number of airlines dropped from 36 to 28, while carriers’ com bined profit declined to $600 million from $1 billion, and 200 carriers filed for bankruptcy or halted oper ations. Although Braniff has run out of cash, it hopes to remain aloft as a smaller airline with hubs in Orlando and Kansas City, Mo., and reduced service to “spoke” cities, Volz said. Kansas City will remain the air line’s primary hub because of its cen tral location, Volz said, and Orlando will continue as a hub because it is one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation. A new marketing program will start within two weeks, emphasizing “a smaller, independent airline with a lower price range,” Volz said. “We’ll have to be a boutique airline, offering more for less.” Photography* Astronomy, Art Reproductions, Contemporary European Images POSTERS S& 9e 'e/ SllPlil morel so re- lursesl denis p entedfo 1. \l'ep id esti “O 3> How’re you going to do it? pule! ' ‘My chcm lab report is due Monday. My English lit. paper is due Tuesday. My economics paper is due on Wednesday. And the big game’s tomorrow’’ r Now, super savings on PS/2 s. 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