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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1990)
Friday, February 2,1990 The Battalion New committee places advising under scrutiny By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff Student advising and counseling procedures at Texas A&M will come under scrutiny this month when a presidential advisory committee be gins a five-month study. The committee will study the problems and inadequacies in advis ing and counseling. Dr. Dan Robertson, associate dean for academic programs in the Col lege of Business, said now that the committee has been formed, he would like to begin business in two to three weeks. The committee, which is chaired by Robertson, consists of 19 people who represent faculty, students, stu dent services, admisssions, financial aid and other campus offices. The committee has been charged “I It is only logical that since there are 34,000 undergraduates that we focus on the problems in that area mainly. But graduate advising will not be precluded by undergraduate advising.” — Dr. Dan Robertson, associate dean by A&M President William Mobley and acting Provost E. Dean Gage with six tasks. The tasks are: • Make an assessment of the ad equacy of student advising and coun seling. • Provide a description of proce dures and an analysis of the effec tiveness of advising in each of the 10 colleges. • Provide an inventory of all stu dent counseling and advising serv ices, such as multicultural, interna tional, general studies, financial aid, Mentors and others. • Provide any other analyses rela tive to the availability of student ad vising. • Study advising and guidance given to high school students before admission. • Make recommendations for strengthening advising and counsel- ing. Robertson said the study’s pri mary focus is undergraduate advis ing, but the committee will not ig nore the graduate students either, he said. “It is only logical that since there are 34,000 undergraduates that we focus on the problems in that area mainly,” Robertson said. “But grad uate advising will not be precluded by undergraduate advising.” The issue of student advising arose during the December meeting of the Board of Regents. Two members of the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board, Brennan Reilly and Kimberlea Ward, told the Board there were too many inconsis tencies in advising from college to college and there was little coordina tion in advising services. The regents asked President Mob ley to look into the issue promptly. Mobley then requested that Provost Gage, Vice President for Student Af fairs John Koldus, Faculty Senate Speaker Hermann Saatkamp and student body President Kevin Buch- man form a committee. The committee must make its evaluations and recommendations to Gage and Mobley by June 15. Committee members are Dr. Peter J. Hugill, geography profes sor; Dr. Woodrow Jones, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Leonard D. Ponder, head of the health and physical education de partment; Dr. Kenneth R. Poenisch, assistant dean of the College of Sci ence; Dr. Larry Guseman, director of the Office of Graduate Studies; and Lucia DeBauge, graduate stu dent; Reilly, Ward, and Tim King, all undergraduates. Other members are Dr. Dan Turner, associate dean of the Col lege of Engineering; Dr. Wade G. Birch, director of the Student Coun seling Service; Gary Engelgau, exec utive director of Admissions and Re cords; Jack Falks, student financial aid administrator; Dr. Karon Sturdi vant, director of the Office of School Relations; Kriss Boyd, director of General Studies; Ralph Smith, direc tor of Biomedical Sciences; Stan Lowy, coordinator of the Mentors program; and Dr. Karl Mooney, scholastic supervisor in the athletic program. Down to earth Photo by Jay Janner An airplane descends on Easterwood Airport Thursday, the first day of operation for the new McKenzie Terminal. College station firemen responded to a major auto accident at jng Thursday night’s storm. Police continued to Wellborn and Holleman involving A&M students at 7:10 p.m dur- matter into the night. Forging a Fatherland Germanys ready for negotiations EAST BERLIN (AP) — East Germany’s Com munist premier on Thursday appealed for nego tiations with West Germany to forge a “united fa therland” that eventually would be neutral and governed from Berlin. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wel comed the call to discuss reunification, but re jected the call for military neutrality. “Such a proposal contradicts the logic of the pan-European process of unification,” Kohl said. He added that a single German state in the heart of Europe could not afford to be isolated. East German Premier Hans Modrow called for “a reasonable time horizon” for reunification to be mutually determined, apparently hoping to gain control over the galloping pace of events drawing the two countries together. His announcement marked a turnaround in the Communist-dominated government’s posi tion on the German question. The East Berlin leadership had previously resisted reunification efforts as premature and destabilizing. But mounting economic woes and an accele rating exodus of thousands of skilled workers to the West are forcing the nation’s interim leaders to address public pressure for a merger with prosperous West Germany. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev also has softened his view on the issue; earlier this week he said reunification was inevitable. At a news conference to announce his plan, Modrow rejected suggestions that he was angling to win votes for the Communist Party, which is threatened by opposition groups in East Ger many’s first free elections set for March 18. Kohl flew to West Berlin to meet with Eft German opposition leaders to discuss possiblt campaign assistance for their challenge of tk Communists. He said he yould discuss reunihtf lion with the new government elected in March Modrow cautioned that German reunificatio must be carried out carefully to avoid stirringuj fears among neighboring nations that a powerful German state would rise and threaten them “Nothing can occur that runs counter to thf process of overcoming the division of Europect that would create new dangers,” he said. He titled his proposal “For Germany, a United Fatherland,” a slogan touted repeatedly by reun; fication advocates at weekly rallies in Leipzigand other major cities. Bulgarian premier and cabinet resigns Atanassov and Communist government buckle under pressure SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Premier Georgi Atanassov, a holdover from the era of disgraced leader Todor Zhivkov, resigned along with his 22- member Communist-controlled Cabinet, Bulgarian state radio said late Thursday. The resignation was the first by a government since 1947, when the Communist Party consolidated power in postwar Bulgaria, accord ing to the state news agency BTA. The government has been under severe pressure to resolve Bulgaria’s labor strife and other economic ills. Their departure clears the way for creation of an interim government to run Bulgaria until elections this year. The Communists have pro posed such a government to share power with the opposition. The state news agency said the resignations became known Thurs day night during an emergency, closed-door Communist Party con gress. The government will continue to serve until parliament accepts its res ignation, the agency said. No date was given. Atanassov’s departure was earlier reported by an official source, speaking on condition of anonymity. Delegates to the party congress re mained in session and were expected to continue meeting into Friday. 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