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The Battalion
Thursday, January 25,
Merger
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Associated Press they were dismayed
about the report.
“They went way beyond their du
ties,” State Rep. Dick Waterfield, R-
Canadian, said. “They weren’t sup
posed to make recommendations.”
The HECB recommendation,
however, said the legislature did not
obtain coordinating board views on
the merger before acting.
State Rep. John Smithee, R-Am-
arillo, told AP he thought Tech
might have influenced the staff re
port.
“I think Texas Tech began to see
this as somewhat of a threat,” said
Smithee. “This is not designed to be
a threat to Texas Tech.”
In the Jan. 19 issue of the Texas
Tech University Daily, Donald Ha-
ragan, Texas Tech executive vice
president and provost, said the re
port’s statement saying that a
WTSU-A&M merger would harm
Tech is not conclusive.
“There are too many factions, too
many things that we (at the univer
sity) have not taken a stance on,” Ha-
ragan said. “I think that both those
universities (A&M and WTSU) have
agreed that they think it would be in
their best interest to merge.
“I think there are some people
who have expressed the opinion that
it would be preferable for West
Texas to consider Texas Tech.
Other people express the idea that
our resource situation is such that
Texas Tech barely has the resources
to support itself.”
Texas Tech President Robert
Lawless told the University Daily on
Friday that Tech didn’t have re
sources that could be deployed
somewhere else and that a WTSU-
Tech merger would not be conve
nient unless the state provided funds
to support the satellite school.
“I think what we’re hearing now is
people expressing various opinions,”
Lawless said. “In my mind, the most
sensible of those recommendations
was made by (former coordinating
board member) Larry Temple, who
said that before anything is done
there should be a study.”
Hal Daugherty, chairman of the
HECB, asked Temple and 18 other
educators to examine the govern
ance of Texas’ universities and make
recommendations for the 1991 Leg
islature.
Since the report is not due until
October, Daugnerty does not antic
ipate the study will interfere with the
WTSU-A&M union.
Citing the recent mergers of seve
ral South Texas schools into the
A&M system and the integration of
Pan American University with the
University of Texas system, Daug
herty said things had changed since
the Select Committee on Higher Ed
ucation met from 1985 to 1987.
“There need to be logical recom
mendations for the future based on
these reports,” Daugherty said.
Texas A&M officials were un
available for comment.
Metcalf
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that.”
Todd Holloway, who played un
der Metcalf from 1984-87, said the
coach should have been given the
opportunity to go out with dignity.
“He should have gone through
the whole year,” Holloway said.
“They should have given him
enough respect to let him finish his
contract, especially after all he’s
given to A&M over the years.
“He deserves better,” he said.
Darryl McDonald was the Aggies’
oint guard from 1986-88, and said
e considered Metcalf a good friend.
He said he was shocked when he saw
the television reports Monday night
about Metcalfs removal.
“I saw it on the news, and I know
he’s got to feel hurt,” McDonald,
who lives in Connecticut, said. “He’s
a good man. He and I had a good
ilatic
relationship, and he helped me out
with a lot of things when I was there.
I don’t think he should have been
fired, but maybe they see it in a dif
ferent way.”
McDonald said he was planning
on calling Metcalf Wednesday.
Metcalfs job security had often
been questioned throughout his 27-
year career at A&M. McDonald said
the team started hearing rumors in
1986 that if the Aggies didn’t start
winning, the Athletic Department
was “going to get rid of a lot of peo
ple.”
He said Metcalf and the team
knew about the rumors, and that the
team held a private meeting soon af
ter and decided to pull together and
work harder for Metcalf.
The Aggies went on to win the
SWC Tournament as heavy under
dogs that year, and advanced to the
NCAA Midwest Regionals before
bowing out to Duke, 79-72.
broken when he heard the news
Monday.
“My ties to A&M go back to Shel
by,” Floyd said. “As soon as I heard
it, I had an empty feeling, like those
ties had been broken. I respected
him as a coach and as a very good
friend. He probably did more for
me after my eligibility was up than
while I was playing.”
Metcalf convinced Floyd to stay in
school and earn his degree, which he
accomplished in 1977.
“I have a lot of good memories
about him,” Floyd said. “I was really
confused when I heard the news. I
felt like part of my background was
taken away. I read that he said it had
killed him. I can sympathize with
that because I know his whole life re
volved around A&M. To him, it
wasn’t a job. It was a way of life.”
McDonald said he thought Met
calf would accept a position he was
reassigned to because of his ties to
the school.
“I think he’d accept something
else in the program,” McDonald
said. “He’s that type of person. He’s
not one to just give up and say, ‘Well,
they fired me. I don’t want to have
anything more to do with the
school.’ I just don’t see that in Met
calf.”
It was that loyalty to A&M that
Floyd said made it hard for him to
accept the past few days’ events.
“I know he wouldn’t make accusa
tions that he didn’t feel strongly
about,” Floyd said. “One thing he
taught us as players day in and day
out was lovaltv. I knew his allegiance
to A&M, and I found it veryditM
to believe that he brought this;
himself.
“I just won’t believe that,”hesa|
Metcalf was known for his t
liners, and several stories existab;,.
his humorous demeanor. Hollov
the Aggies’ No. 2 all-time ass
leader, recalled one day in
when the Aggies were on the tt
playing a SWC rival. «
“Coach Metcalf took meoutofil
game early in the first half,”the[t
mer starting guard said. “Backtb
all 1 had to do was say, ‘Coach,
not tired anymore. I’m ready to,
back in,’ and he’d put me back
there.
“When I told him, hejustlool
at me and said, ‘Todd, I didn'tti|
you out because you looked tiredl
took you out because you were
doing anything out there.’
wouldn’t let me back in the game
Goff last talked to Metcalf Iasi
cember before the Aggies left fort)
Great Alaska Shootout, and said
coach was extremely optimis
about this season.
Goff said he would always rente-
her Metcalf for his competitive rj
lure.
“If there’s one thing Shelbym
he was a competitor,” Goff said,
don’t care what it was. If you we
fishing with him, he wanted tocaii
more fish than you. It didn’t mattf
how many either of you caught.lv
had to have more.
"But, of course, Shelby Metcalf
damn good fisherman.”
Group offers help to bulimics
Student Counseling Services is or
ganizing an eating diorders group
for bulimics. The group will meet
from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday on the
third floor of the YMCA Building to
discuss techniques for treating buli-
After that Tournament victory,
then-Athletic Director Jackie Sher
rill granted Metcalf a four-year con
tract, paying him $77,000 a year.
“After we won the Tournament,
the whole atmosphere started to
change,” McDonald said. “We
started seeing Sherrill more. (Then
Assistant Athletic Director) John Da
vid Crow was coming around more.
It was funny.”
Goff said he knew Metcalf, known
for his down-to-earth humor and
straight-forward attitude, wouldn’t
allow himself to leave quietly.
“Just knowing Sheloy, I knew he
wasn’t going to go out quietly,” Goff
said. “He plays best when his back is
up against the wall. Whenever con
tract renewals were coming up and
he wasn’t having a great year, he’d
always win the conference tourna
ment or turn it around.”
Mike Floyd played for Metcalf
from 1972-75, and was Thornton’s
college roommate at A&M. Floyd,
who lives in San Antonio, had been
keeping up with Metcalfs situation
since last week. He said he was heart-
Dr. Debbie Rabinowitz, a doctor|f
the counseling service, if;
ommends this group for those wr*
have had some counseling.
Prospective group membeil
should call Dr. Debbie Rabinowiul
845-4427 prior to attending.
In Advance
B-2 Bomber pilot to talk about flight testing
Col. Richard Couch, chief test
pilot of the B-2 Stealth Bomber
and Class of ’68, will discuss the
flight testing at 6:30 p.m. Thurs
day in 124 Aerospace Engi
neering.
Couch is the director of the B-2
combined test force and was a
crew member test pilot on the
first test flight.
The presentation is free and
open to the public. It is being
sponsored by the A&M Society of
FligI
ight Test Engineers.
Psychology prof, to discuss minority students
Dr. James Anderson, psychol
ogy professor at Indiana Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, will speak at
noon Friday in 212 MSC and at 2
p.m. in 301 Rudder.
Anderson, who is visiting A&M
for- the Southwest Black Student
Leadership Conference, will dis
cuss aspects involved in retaining
minority students at universities.
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