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Board of higher education puts degree programs on hold
By Julie Myers
The Battalion
Texas A&M, or any other state uni
versity, will not implement any new
degree programs until the state's bud
get situation brightens, according to a
recent ruling by the Higher Education
Coordinating Board.
Faced with the prospect of future
budget cuts and concerned about fur
ther diluting the quality of higher edu
cation, the HECB took the unprece
dented step of refusing to allow
institutions to implement any new de
gree programs.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, A&M's associate
vice provost for academic affairs, said
two new degree programs, a bachelor
of science in agribusiness and a bache
lor of arts in international studies, will
be on the board's July agenda.
"Both programs will be affected by
the board's new position," Gaston
said.
The board gave preliminary appro
val today to more than a dozen new
degree programs, but announced that
no programs approved between now
and July 1992 could be implemented
until the Legislature provides adequate
funding.
"As a result of years of underfund
ing higher education and potential
drastic cutbacks this year, we have
come to a true fiscal crisis in higher ed
ucation," said Harry Reasoner, HECB
chairman.
"We have gone, in constant 1985 dol
lars, from funding of almost $3,500 per
student to about $2,800 per student,"
he said.
The board recently issued another
statement which said the state should
suppport higher education.
Gaston said the statement is a posi
tive one which clearly recognizes the
needs of higher education and indi
cates the board will stand up to fight
for them.
"The decision by the board not to
implement new programs is not meant
to punish universities, but to commu
nicate to the state that programs cost
money and we have to have money to
do it," Gaston said. "It will be an in
convenient situation, but it will also
cause citizens to look at the state as a
whole and be sympathetic to its pos
ition."
Board member Lauro Guerra said he
equates higher education to a sick pa
tient in the hospital.
"By not finding revenue sources ad
equate to support the state's colleges
and universities, the Legislature is cut-
See Board/Page 8
Lewis enters drug rehab clinic
J. JANNER/The Battalion
A&M running back drafted by Bears failed
February drug test, misses Chicago mini-camp
By Douglas Pils
The Battalion
Darren Lewis, the Southwest Conference’s all-time leading rusher and a
sixth-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears, checked himself into a drug
rehabilitation center in Houston Wednesday. Lewis tested positive for
substance abuse at an NFL scouting combine in February.
Texas A&M running back
Darren Lewis, the Chicago
Bears' sixth-round draft pick,
checked into a Houston drug
rehabilitation center Wednes
day, after testing positive for
cocaine at an NFL scouting
combine in February.
Lewis, the Southwest Con
ference's career rushing
leader, played at A&M from
1987-91 and was a two-time
All-American.
Lewis failed his drug test in
Indianapolis while taking part
in an NFL combine — a gath
ering of NFL scouts and pro
spective draft picks. At the
combine, all athletes are re
quired to take a drug test.
A&M athletes are required
to take random drug tests
throughout the year, but
Sports Information Director
Alan Cannon said Wednes
day that as far as he knew, Le
wis never tested positive in
his four years here.
Drug testing at A&M differs
from the process Lewis went
through in Indianapolis.
A&M uses a system where
athletes are tested at random
once a week according to their
social security numbers.
Cannon said the athletic de
partment also tests athletes in
different random groups —
such as all running backs —on
the same day to eliminate any
chance of cheating.
All players knew they were
to be tested in Indianapolis.
Lewis was the only NFL pros
pect who tested positive.
He was drafted by the Bears
on Monday, despite a memo
sent by the league office to all
28 teams stating the results of
Lewis' failed drug test.
However, it was a letter Bill
Tobin, the Bears' personnel
director, said he never saw.
"I was told that someone
had tested positive," Tobin
said. "I marked the wrong
player and I made a mistake."
Tobin, who didn't find out
until Tuesday that Lewis had
tested positive, said in a pre
pared statement Wednesday
that he never would have con
sidered Lewis had he known.
Some experts were sur
prised that Lewis lasted until
the second day of the draft.
Others said Lewis had a sus
pect work attitude, and that
his lack of size and speed —he
refused to be timed in the 40-
yard dash at the combine —
would hurt him in the NFL.
Gene Burroughs, Lewis'
agent, informed the Bears of
See Lewis/Page 9
A&M student says University lacks formal anti-discrimination process
By Bridget Harrow
The Battalion
After taking his discrimination suit to federal
court, one Texas A&M graduate student said he
believes the University still has no formal appeals
process to deal effectively with discrimation com
plaints.
Dave Dearmont, a dyslexic graduate student in
agricultural economics, told the Committee for a
Discrimination-Free Campus last week that he
was discriminated against and could not find a
resolution, so he took his problem to court.
"President Mobley and the committee have
been saying who you need to go see if you've
been discriminated against," Dearmont said.
"What they do not say is how a complaint that has
merit is going to get solved."
Dearmont said his experience with discrimina
tion started in 1986. Dearmont said he had a lot of
problems with timed tests.
After failing one part of an economic theory
qualifying examination twice, Dearmont said he
told his advisory committee he failed because of
time limitations, not because he did not know the
material.
"It was my feeling that I would be stigmatized
or even discriminated against by others if they
knew that I had a learning disability," Dearmont
said. "That may explain why I waited so long to
discover my real basis of the problem I had."
He said he sought medical attention and was
soon diagnosed by the Texas Rehabilitation Com
mission as having a learning diability — dyslexia.
Dearmont's form of dyslexia is a problem of de
ciphering symbols and reversing numbers and
letters, so he tends to reverse minus and plus
signs.
To compensate for this problem, Dearmont has
to have extra time to complete his exams.
After having his dyslexia confirmed by TRC
and even the department head of educational
psychology at A&M, Dearmont was allowed to
take the microeconomics part of the test again.
He was given eight hours, instead of the usual
See Dyslexic/Page 9
Schwarzkopf
qualifies
A&M official defends general's capabilities
By Mike Luman
The Battalion
Gen Norman Schwarzkopf
is qualified to assume the
Texas A&M University Sys
tem chancellorship, a deputy
director of A&M's Mosher In
stitute for Defense Studies
said Tuesday.
Dr. Art Blair, a retired
Army colonel, also said
Schwarzkopf could make a
successful transition from
Army commander to aca
demic leader.
"He has the capabilities,"
Blair said. "The question is if
the regents choose him and if
he wants to get into the aca
demic world, not the business
world."
A&M faculty senators re-
See Schwarzkopf/Page 7
U.S. General Norman Schwarz
kopf would make a fine choice for
chancellor of Texas A&M, said a
A&M official Wednesday.
Institute focuses on ethnicity
Director hopes A&M center will attract scholars, improve race relations
By Katherine Coffey
The Battalion
The newly established center
of Race and Ethnic Studies Insti
tute (RESI) was implemented to
research the impact of race and
ethnicity at Texas A&M and
throughout the nation, said Gail
Thomas, director of the institute.
"The center's priority is to be
the basis for which a committed
group of scholars can do high
quality research on the critical is
sues of race and ethnicity," said
Thomas, also a sociology profes
sor. "It also will provide policy
alternatives for improving race
relations."
Thomas, a research scientist of
race and ethnic relations in
higher educa
tion, said the
idea for RESI
began with an
interest group
in the socio
logy depart
ment.
The depart
ment then
sponsored a Thomas
seminar on race and ethnic rela
tions in the United States, which
was the first step in getting RESI
started, she saia.
"The goal of RESI is to attract
scholars who are committed to
issues of race and ethnicity and
who are able to produce first-rate
research on these issues,"
Thomas said. "The second goal
is to offer policy alternatives for
improving race and ethnic rela
tions."
RESI will focus on education,
health and employment.
Thomas said while she be
lieves it is great for the United
States to strive to be world lead
ers in science and technology, an
even greater goal should be to
become world leaders in human
relations.
The success of the institute
will depend on securing grants,
she said. University President
See Director/Page 9