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Tuesday, March 10,
Tues
Faculty Senate
discusses YCT
By Sharon Gilmore
The Battalion
Texas A&M instructors at
Monday's Faculty Senate meeting
said student monitoring of classes
for political bias is upsetting and
disruptive to learning.
Members of A&M's chapter of
Young Conservatives of Texas
have been monitoring selected
classes to see if professors are
pushing their biases on students.
Liberal arts instructors referred to
the program as censorship and
thought-policing.
Dr. Patricia Alexander, speaker
of the Senate, said the covert ob
servation is troubling.
"I am concerned about stu
dents monitoring," she said.
Dr. William Perry, dean of fac
ulties and associate provost, said
anyone attending classes they are
not enrolled in must abide by Uni
versity attendance rules.
"If students visit three times
regularly, they must get (both the)
department head and instructor's
permission," Perry said. "The
regulations are clear."
He said professors have a right
to ask students not enrolled in
their classes to leave if the instruc
tors don't want them there.
A&M System Chancellor Her
bert H. Richardson also addressed
the Senate, saying he has seen the
Faculty Senate grow and become a
model for the University and its
system.
"I think the Faculty Senate is a
model which I hope the other in
stitutions in our system will emu
late," Richardson said. "Former
students are second to none in the
world, and it reflects the faculty."
"The eight agencies are a great
asset and tool to bring programs
together to benefit the system and
ourselves," Richardson said.
In other business, the Senate
made editorial changes to the
Texas A&M University Regula
tions and approved amendments
to a faculty grievance report.
The Senate also approved new
graduate courses and passed a
resolution expressing appreciation
for Student Government leader
ship during Replant.
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Patrick Gendron (left) and Ivonne Vasquez of encourage students to vote for a Democratic
the Aggie Democrats used Jack the donkey candidate during Super Tuesday primary
during a promotional event designed to elections in Texas.
NPR funding battle takes on political overtones
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tion of control over which programs are
funded and which are not; and that is clear
ly happening," Lewis said. "They want to
see more control in the hands of local sta
tions."
Lewis said he does believe that public
broadcasting is generally left of center.
"I think many of the 'Frontline' pro
grams and other documentaries have gone
beyond investigative to become an attack
against the administration," he said. "I
think it's undeniably true that the produc
ers and the talent that appear on the nation
al programs are definitely liberal."
The program director for National Public
Radio affiliate KAMU-FM, however.
doesn't believe the debate is so cut and dry.
"There are people who believe some
things shouldn't be on the radio — and
they're right — but sometimes they take it
too far," director Rick Howard said. "They
use a few instances to penalize everything."
Howard disagrees with the broad gener
alization that public broadcasting is "liber
al."
"Some of the shows like 'All Things Con
sidered' can be considered liberal, but there
are some shows on the other side too,"
Howard said.
"I think it depends on how you look at
things as to whether you call it liberal or
you don't," he said.
Howard said he did believe that NPR
had a large amount of control over news on
public radio. With KAMU-FM's tight bud
get — typical of many public radio stations
— buying news from NPR is their only real
istic option.
"News is very expensive," Howard said.
"With the economy the way it is, we're cut
ting bones. So, NPR does have a lot of con
trol over news."
Howard said he thinks that the public's
freedom to choose is most important.
"You have to ask, should the govern
ment, or the individual decide?" Howard
said. "You don't want take away people's
freedoms because you think something is
bad."
Lewis said, from the viewpoint of a local
public TV station, the senators' allegation
that public broadcasting is "unaccountable"
is totally false.
"I think that public broadcasting has
been scrupulously accountable," Lewis
said. "I don't know of any federally funded
programs which are so directly dependent
on the voluntary support of the people who
benefit from it.
Although he understands what caused
the senators' action, Lewis said he doesn't
agree with sidetracking public broadcasting
funding.
"I have to agree with their analysis that
the programing tends to be liberal," he
said. "I don't agree with reducing funding
for public broadcasting. It's a special ser
vice. Nobody is going to do it if it isn't
done by public broadcasting."
Medical waste
company asks
to locate in CS
Seeks residents' OK
By Tanya Sasser
The Battalion
The recycling revolution hii
hit College Station with the post
bility of a waste disposal comp*
ny opening a new recycling plant
Stericycle Corporation, an Illi
nois based company, is conside
ing College Station as the siteofi
new medical waste recycling facil
ity, but only if the community ap
proves the idea.
William Cebak, Stericycle fad!
ity citing and permitting manap
er, addressed concerns resident-
might have about the waste rea
cling plant in a public foruc
Monday night.
"We have to show both from!
company standpoint and to tin
state that we've given the com®
nity an ample opportunity tort
spond and to have a say in whe
we want to do as a company," If
said. "That's very unusual!;
business."
Stericycle handles medic*
waste from hospitals, veterinan
clinics and health care clinics.
"We address a very specift
portion of the waste stream," &
bak said. "There were 65 milk
pounds of medical waste last ye*
in Texas alone."
Cebak said the facility will ne
open unless Stericycle receive
complete approval.
"The one thing we want to tr
to avoid is people making dec
sions based on emotionalisms
opposed to making decisior;
based on fact," he said. "Ihi
don't have complete acceptairc
from the community, we are®
going to build a plant."
Cebak described the relatior-
ship as a "two-way street" and':
marriage."
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