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Book Review:
Linda Ellerbee's
Move On: Adventures
in the Real World
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The Soviets should not be
allowed to feel betrayed by
democracy. Of course, they
should realize many days of
hardship He ahead .
Christina Maimarides, on
reconstruction in the Soviet Union
The Battalion
Vol. 91 No. 7 USPS 045360 College Station, Texas "Serving Texas A&M since 1893" 14 Pages Tuesday, September 10, 1991
Geology TAs shake up the system with list of complaints
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
Texas A&M geology teaching assis
tants are upset about possible salary dif
ferences between first-year TAs and expe
rienced TAs because of confusion caused
by the budget situation.
The Geology Graduate Student Coun
cil presented Dr. Melvin Friedman, dean
of the College of Geosciences, with a list
of grievances Friday.
The list reads:
* present geology TAs do not have
contract letters specifying the terms of
their employment,
* first-year TAs grossing $85 more per
month than experienced TAs,
* concerns about administration .plans
to help graduate students with increased
costs in tuition and fees,
* graduate students from different de
partments teaching geology labs,
* teaching assistants in the College of
Geosciences must register for 12 credit
hours to be eligible for financial assis
tance, while in some other A&M colleges
the requirement is 9 hours,
* some TAs being placed on contracts
that last different amounts of time,
* TAs receiving pay cuts.
Dr. John Spang, head of the geology
department, said he is aware of the stu
dent's concerns, but recent changes in the
budget situation have not allowed the de
partment to finalize any decisions on the
issue.
"We still don't have a budget," he
said. "There's not much to do at this
point. We hope to make up the difference
(in salaries) in scholarships."
First-year TAs received appointment
letters stating the terms of their employ
ment, including their salaries. The letters
are legally binding.
Dr. Melvin Friedman, dean of the Col
lege of Geosciences, said he has been pre
sented with the students' grievances and
has asked them to be patient.
"The department head had only re
ceived the budget one day before the stu
dents made their presentation," he said.
"He hasn't had an opportunity to address
the issues."
Friedman said the budget had to be
put on hold after the sudden announce
ment of pay raises that would be available
for faculty and staff.
"We know the students are upset," he
said. "But we don't have enough facts.
"Our next step is to figure out com
pletely our budget and then do our best to
address the issues," he said.
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Silver Taps
honors 10
tonight
The Silver Taps ceremony will
be Tuesday night in memory of 10
Texas A&M students who've died
since the spring.
The memorial ceremony will
be at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Aca
demic Building on the A&M cam
pus, which will be darkened in
memory of the 10 students.
Those hon
ored will be:
Huai Wen
Hou, 28, a
graduate stu
dent in chemi
cal engineering
from College
Station, who died of a
heart attack April 11.
John Wesley Brock,
20, a sophomore from
Euless, who died in May
27 automobile accident.
Larry Wayne
Gilmore, 30, a graduate
student in educational
administration from
Bryan, who died May 10
from a serious illness.
Jeffrey Neil Blanken
ship, 22, a graduate student in
chemistry from Plano, who died in
a June 16 automobile accident.
Brian S. Goldberg, 19, a fresh
man psychology major from
Houston, who died in a June 16
automobile accident.
George C. Willey III, 22, a ju
nior animal science major from
Mt. Herman, La., who died in a
June 20 automobile accident.
Marcus Jan Tyler, 20, a Junior
engineering technology major
from Dallas, who died in a June 26
automobile accident.
Stephanie Huong Nguyen, 18,
a sophomore pre-medicine major
from Mesquite, who died July 12
of natural causes.
Michael Sloan Davidson II, 18,
a sophomore wildlife and fisheries
sciences major from Childress,
who drowned July 14.
Christopher Ray Barton, 21, a
senior management major from
Victoria, who died August 18 from
natural causes.
The campus will be hushed
and darkened at 10:20 p.m.
On the Flip Side
Schumacher resident Mike Mullaney, a freshman from Sammy Seamen. On top of Mullaney's head is a letter "c"
Rochester, New York, proudly displays his dorm's mascot, that is part of S-C-H-U-M-A-C-H-E-R B-O-N-F-l-R-E.
Russia to
give back
islands ...
TOKYO (AP) — Russian Presi
dent Boris Yeltsin has told Japan
that financial assistance would be
an incentive for Russia to settle its
dispute with Japan over a chain of
islands seized from Tokyo in
World War II.
Yeltsin made the suggestion in
a letter delivered to Prime Minis
ter Toshiki Kaifu by Russian Par
liament Chairman Ruslan Khasbu-
latov, who on Monday became the
first senior Russian official to visit
Japan since last month's failed
coup in Moscow.
The letter said a settlement on
the Kuril Islands off Japan's north
ern coast could be reached in two
years if Tokyo agrees to build big
factories in the Soviet Union, the
Nihon Television network report
ed.
Foreign Ministery officials
quoted Khasbulatov as saying:
"Taking the Soviet's difficult situ
ation into consideration, I think
(Japan) can consider emergency
aid along with other Western na
tions."
Japan has been reluctant to re
spond to Soviet pleas for help un
til it settles the territorial dispute,
which has prevented the two na
tions from formally signing a
World War II peace treaty.
The Soviets seized the Kurils
— Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan,
and the Habomai islets — from
Japan during the closing days of
World War II. Moscow has repeat
edly said that the islands histori
cally belong to the Soviet Union.
... As U.N. Council prepares to
admit Baltics to United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
The U.N. Security Council will
vote this week to admit the Baltic
States to the United Nations, 51
years after they were extinguished
as independent states and an
nexed by the Soviet Union, offi
cials said Monday.
U.N. Spokesman Fredrick Ed-
khard said that the council would
vote Wednesday or Thursday to
admit Estonia, Latvia and Lithua
nia, but formal membership
awaits the vote of the General As
sembly next week.
The council is expected to
waive the standard waiting period
and rush the application through
so that the Baltics can be seated
when the 46th General Assembly
convenes Sept. 17, and approved
by acclamation.
The council scheduled closed
consultations Tuesday on the
Baltics' application submitteed last
week.
To join the United Nations, a
state must be recommended by
the 15-member Security Council
and endorsed by a two-thirds vote
of the 159-nation General Assem
bly.
The Soviet Union has granted
independence to the Baltics and
the Soviet Mission supports ad
mission of the three republics.
Membership of other Soviet re
publics is not expected immediate
ly. Membership of the Baltics will
raise the U.N. membership to 166.
Faculty airs parking concerns, Mobley calls for team effort
Chris Vaughn
Tire Battalion
Every fall at Texas A&M talk turns to parking,
or the lack of it —this time, however, faculty mem
bers complained about the problem.
Several faculty members took time during Com
mittee of the Whole of Monday's Faculty Senate
meeting to voice at least three different gripes about
parking and traffic on campus. Committee of the
Whole, held at the end of the Senate's regular busi
ness, allows for senators to voice concerns to the Ex
ecutive Committee on a variety of topics.
Dr. Terry Kohutek of the Department of Civil
Engineering related stories of students being ticket
ed in the middle of the night in empty lots, and par
ents being ticketed when visiting campus with no
permits.
"When visitors come to Texas A&M for the first
time and we fight over parking spaces, it can't be
good," Kohutek said.
Kohutek expressed hope that the Department of
Parking, Transit and Traffic Services would think of
its image, and the University's, when distributing
tickets.
Dr. Mickey Stratton of the Department of Kine
siology complained about PTTS not providing any
free spaces for senators in the new parking garage,
and asked the Executive Committee to look into the
possibility.
Earlier, Faculty Senate Speaker Pat Alexander
"When visitors come to Texas A&M
for the first time and we fight over
parking spaces, it can't be good."
Dr. Terry Kohutek
Department of Civil Engineering
said if senators wanted to park in the garage, they
would have to pay. But Stratton asked why faculty
members should have to pay for volunteering ser
vice to the University.
Dr. Marvin Harris of the Department of Ento
mology chimed in that he had his own "horror sto-
See Senate/Page 4
Higher education needs public support
Chris Vaughn
The Battalion
University President William
Mobley said Monday that higher
education must communicate bet
ter to the public
about its purpos
es in the coming
years if it wants
to avoid many of
the political prob
lems of this leg
islative year.
"We must
more visibly illus
trate to the public
at large that we
are both efficient
and effective," Mobley told the
Faculty Senate. "We have a good
story to tell, a story that was ob
scured in some quarters by the
political rhetoric of the recent ap
propriations and revenue debate
in Austin."
Mobley said a grassroots
movement must begin with peo
ple outside of the state's universi
ties to tell Texans the importance
of higher education.
The president called on the
faculty senators to reaffirm a com
mitment to efficiency and effec
tiveness, calling on everyone to be
prudent in travel, printing, use of
telephones and faxes, energy con
sumption and use of lab and of
fice supplies.
"We must be prudent in
launching new initiatives not
strategic to our missions," he con
tinued. "We must continue to re
duce the proportion of our total
budget that goes to general ad
ministration and we must contin
ue to seek out the highest returns
on our fiscal resources."
The Senate also heard Mobley
speak of the budget situation and
his hint that he supports an in
come tax.
"The need to revise the state's
method of collecting revenue is
more broadly recognized than
ever, and hopefully with eng-
lightened leadership from the
public and private sectors, will be
dealt with in the next regular leg
islative session," he said.
Mobley said he understood
the voter pressure on legislators
not to vote for an income tax, but
See Mobley/Page 4
Mobley