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DALLAS (AP) — More than
200 teachers laid off in a Dallas In-
iependent School District budget
:runch awaited word Tuesday of
the superintendent's plan to put
[them back on the job.
About 75 teachers picketed the
)ISD administration building
ionday to protest the 270 layoffs.
Superintendent Marvin Ed-
/ards has announced he will sub-
lit a plan to school board trustees
'during a meeting Tuesday
jvening that will restore the job
cuts.
"We kind of have to be in a
iwait-and see attitude," said Bob
Baker, the president of Classroom
Teachers of Dallas.
"I've heard just about every
thing in the way of rumors about
the plan. But the bottom line is
that the teachers have to go back
to work."
A state district judge last week
declined to issue a restraining or
der requested by the teachers'
union and other groups. But Judge
Frank Edwards said the layoffs
would not be effective until after
trustees met to review the budget
and, if necessary, ratify the job
cuts.
Edwards has been meeting
with staff members since his an
nouncement Saturday. Larry As-
cough, a DISD spokesman, did not
immediately return a telephone
call Tuesday from The Associated
Press.
"I don't think there is any
thing, anywhere, that can make
everybody happy," Edwards said
Monday. "We're just trying to
solve the immediate problem."
Baker said trustees could de
cide to raise property taxes by 19.5
percent, rather than the 17.5 per
cent tentatively approved last
month, to make up for a $47 mil
lion shortfall in state aid.
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Universities could award faculty
salary increases, association says
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas college
, ^faculty members deserve a 5 per-
200 Hektaiit; i cen t pay raise, and most public
mSe t Juniversities have the funds tucked
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)n ulty Association said Tuesday.
University faculty and staff
jhave been awarded a 2 percent
[salary increase from the Legisla-
Iture. But faculty association mem-
[bers said universities should pitch
in another 3 percent from their lo-
[cal funds.
During his audit of state gov-
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ernment earlier this year, state
Comptroller John Sharp criticized
universities for holding more
money than necessary in reserve.
He said they should use those
local funds for faculty salaries, in
stead of asking for more state tax
dollars.
Charles Zucker, director of the
Texas Faculty Association, said a 5
percent pay hike would "barely
cover the rate of inflation over the
next academic year."
"Clearly many of our universi
ties have been saving money for a
rainy day. From the faculty's per
spective, it is now pouring," Zuck
er said.
Failure to increase faculty
salaries will hurt attempts to re
cruit and retain top professors for
Texas schools, he charged.
The faculty group criticized
Southwest Texas State University
in particular, which members said
had amassed more than $13.5 mil
lion in unrestricted current funds.
Legislator
seeks job as
Speaker of
the House
AUSTIN (AP) — A state repre
sentative said Tuesday he will run
for House speaker in 1993 in hopes
of reforming a legislative body
now too easily swayed by special
interest lobbyists.
"What we've got is not right.
It's not democracy," said Rep. Bil
ly Clemons, D-Pollok.
"The system should be one
that caters to the will of the public
and not to the will of special inter
ests," he said. "The public wants
ethics in government. And for
some reason, we're not represent
ing what the mainstream of soci
ety of Texas wants."
Clemons, first elected in 1982,
said his beef isn't with five-term
Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth,
but with the rules under which the
House operates.
He also branded as "unfair" a
Travis County district attorney's
investigation of Lewis that led to
two misdemeanor ethics charges.
Lewis has pleaded innocent and a
trial is pending.
"I'm a big fan of Gib Lewis ...
(But) he doesn't feel like the sys
tem's broke, so he's not going to
want to fix it," Clemons said.
Lewis responded that all law
makers, including himself, some
times are frustrated by the legisla
tive process.
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Itronauts would go and what kind
of educational backgrounds they
[should have, what they would eat,
how long it would take and what
they would do once they arrived
on Mars.
"We have even gone into the
psychological impact it would
have on the astronauts and how to
cope with it," says Korb, a general
studies major.
The proposal includes one
hour of hypnosis each day to ease
stress. The trip to Mars would
take about three years.
"Basically, we've approached
every aspect and everything that
could possibly go wrong," he
says.
The proposal even outlines
how other countries could assist in
the expedition, which would be
too costly for the United States to
fund entirely.
The team's adventure began
their junior year in high school
when French's mother, the school
librarian, suggested they enter the
competition.
That year, they won the state
competition and a chance to go to
the Marshall's Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, Ala., for research.
They re-entered a revised pro
posal their senior year and won
again. This past spring, they won
at the national level and will travel
to Washington D.C. next week for
the National Space Science Sym
posium. There they will present
the proposal to a committee of
Congress, as well as other groups,
including students, within the
symposium.
They have other plans for the
trip, such as a Baltimore Orioles
vs. Cleveland Indians baseball
game and a visit to the Smithsoni
an Institution.
"I want to talk to Congressman
Greg Laughlin," says French, a
general studies major. "I've met
him once and want to see if he still
remembers me."
In high school, the four friends
were involved in debate, band,
drama and auto mechanics,
among other things. Only one
team member, Kieschnick, has al
ways expressed an interest in sci
ence.
Winning the competition,
however, has furthered their inter
ests in science technology and def
initely has had its rewards. All
four received numerous scholar
ships upon graduation, which
helped defray college expenses.
When asked how much time
was put into the project, which
they describe as a "book," Ki
eschnick, a computer science ma
jor, said "countless" hours.
"We would just sit down and
think about it, even during class,"
he says. "We tried to calculate
how many hours it took once and
we almost needed a bigger calcu
lator."
All four of them say they enjoy
A&M so far, although the study
ing is more extensive.
"When I walked into one of
my classes on the first day, I admit
it was a little scary," says Rhodes,
an aerospace engineering major.
"But so far, I love it. It really is the
friendliest school."
As for the next several days,
the Giddings team will be prepar
ing for their presentation for the
congressional committee and their
trip to Washington, D.C., an event
Kieschnick calls "a pretty serious
ordeal."
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subject are needed for the pro
gram. Most of the graduate stu
dents presently working have a
mechanical engineering back
ground.
Students chosen for the project
are involved with the leading
building monitoring program in
the United States, Turner said.
The program has received na
tional recognition, and two faculty
members from A&M have been in
volved with the DOE to monitor
its Forestall building in Washing
ton, D.C.
"It's a tremendous experience
for the students," Turner said.
Dr. Warren Heffington, an as
sociate professor of mechanical en
gineering, is one of the faculty
members involved with the pro
gram.
Heffington agreed that the
program is excellent experience
for the students involved, because
it allows them to become familiar
with a different area of engineer
ing.
"They get exposed to the real
world of engineering," he said.
"Most students think of working
in
engineering as working with a
big industry. They don't think of
becoming private consultants."
The students are involved in
reviewing the audit reports by the
engineering firms and see what
consulting engineers do, Heffing
ton said.
One energy report the A&M
researchers worked on saved that
state agency $180,000 per year,
which means savings for taxpay
ers.
"It's very important because
it's going to save the taxpayers
money," he said.
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