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Page 2 (^AMPUS Monday • May 30, 1994ji|onday * ^ Stew Milne/THF. Battalion Driving into the future A year-long race to create a hybrid electric vehicle kicked into gear Friday, May 27, as the Chrysler Corporation presented a 1995 Dodge Neon to the Texas A&M Dwight Look College of Engineering. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students will work to create a vehicle that will run on both electric power and natural gas, which would allow for a clean-burning engine with ade quate power and range. Texas A&M is one of the 12 schools in the nation competing in the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Challenge. Minorities Continued from Page 1 population should increase as well,” Perry said. “Our goal should be to increase our repre sentation in the faculty so that we become more responsive to our student body.” Perry said he is pleased with the recent progress A&M has made in recruiting minorities but hopes to see growth in the future. The key to increasing the numbers of minority faculty members is to develop a di verse candidate pool, he said. George Wharton Jr., assis tant executive director of A&M’s Affirmative Action Of fice, said the University needs to look closely at minorities in the job pool. “We are attracting minori ties into the pool,” Wharton said. “We need to hire them.” Portales said the University needs to make new efforts in the area of recruitment, includ ing allotting more money, be cause recent programs have not worked. “We have to huddle again and decide what we have to do,” he said. That is what the Faculty Senate did in developing its proposal to increase recruiting, Portales said. “The University needs to or ganize itself around these ef forts,” he said. “There is no concerted, University-wide ef fort. “This is part of what we have to do to prepare for the future of Texas,” Portales said. “It’s going to take some re sources. The point is that these efforts won’t happen without people working active ly to bring about change.” Perry said he thinks the commitment within the admin istration, faculty and the Uni versity will lead to a noticeable difference. “I think what we’ll see in the future is a continual increase in numbers,” he said. Perry said it is important, however, not to get too caught up in the numbers. “We need to look at the num bers, but it is also up to us as "We are attracting minorities into the pool. We need to hire them." — George Wharton, Jr., assistant executive director, Texas A&M Affirmative Action Office Faculty Continued from Page 1 saying in these recommenda tions is let’s go back to a pro gram that worked in getting these minorities.” Dr. William L. Perry, associ ate provost and dean of facul ties, said the report indicates progress by the University. Portales said 4.7% of the fac ulty is black or Hispanic. “There is no word for that except shameful,” he said. “We are a land grant college for the state of Texas. I think we have to represent that population.” Dr. James Wild, a senator for the College of Agriculture, said Texas A&M needs to real ize the benefits received by working with minority faculty. his term as Speaker with his State of the Senate address. Morgan urged returning sen ators and 24 new senators to continue on the path of part nership with their administra tive colleagues so they “will be able to accomplish things other wise impossible.” In its final business, the Fac ulty Senate elected new officers for 1994-1995. Dr. Mark H. Weichold, a| MARK SMITH Clearly, if "We are a land grant college for the state of Texas. senator from you look at the | think we have to represent that population." 9 ollege of data, progress r r r i Engineering, has been made,” Dr. Mtarco Portales, was elected Perry said. a member of the Committee on Minority Conditions sp ^ e pierceE Cantrell, Jr., Sports Editor “The fact is, the progress is not as fast as we would like.” “The numbers indicate a fluctuation in retention,” he said. Dr. Donald Deere, a senator from the College of Liberal Arts, said A&M should not be overly concerned with retention. “Failure to have retention is not necessarily a bad thing,” Deere said. “There are a lot of issues that come dow n to more than race and ethnicity.” Dr. Marco Portales, a mem ber of the committee, said the University definitely needs to make progress in the area of minority recruiting. “I certainly find my life en riched by the diversity I have around me,” Wild said. In other business, the Sen ate approved a recommenda tion from the HIV/AIDS Aware ness Subcommittee to explore the possibility of including an HIV/AIDS education course in the University’s core curricu lum. The health issues” require ment would be either a one- credit or three-credit course or would replace one of the four required hours of physical edu cation with a one-credit course. Dr. James Morgan concluded also from the College of Engi neering, was chosen as deputy speaker, while Diane S. Kaplan, a senator from the College of Education, was elected to the secretary-treasurer position. Senators chosen to serve on the Executive Committee in clude Dr. Raymond D. Reed, College of Architecture; Dr. Al lison R. Ficht, College of Medi cine; Dr. James M. Mazzullo, College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies; Dr. James M. Rosenheim, College of Lib eral Arts; and Dr. Steven M, Oberhelman, College of Liber al Arts. “Wild 7 my butt sti —Ri an institution to look beyond the numbers,” Perry said. “We’re building a community that will last. “We all understand that goals are something more than what we want to achieve. We want to exceed them,” he said. Perry said Texas A&M can increase the number of minori ty faculty by focusing on the recruitment of doctorate candi dates. “The number of blacks and Hispanics getting Ph.D.s is limiting,” he said. “We should emphasize programs to get stu dents to consider graduate school and Ph.D.s. Our job is to also be on the supply side.” Portales said Texas A&M has a good chance of increasing its numbers. “We have the possibility to have a successful program in place,” he said. “Everybody has to be involved in an en deavor like this. 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