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Volume 103 • Issue 32 • 10 Pages
Tuesday, October 15, 1996
The Batt Online: http://bat-web.tamu.edu
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roved the post-tenure re-
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tee’s recommendation
would benefit tenured fac
ulty members by defining
how and when they would
be reviewed and, if neces
sary, dismissed.
Charles Wiggins, a politi
cal science professor, said
the policy was unnecessary
and could even be detri
mental to Texas A&M. He
proposed amending the pol
icy to state faculty disap
proval of post-tenure review.
The amendment would have
also deleted the proposed
procedures for review.
“I thought the committee
crafted a good policy,” he
said. “[This amendment] re
flects the view that this poli
cy isn’t desired or needed in
the first place.”
Wiggins said the review
policy was “logically incon
sistent” because faculty
would be reviewed for com
petency after seven years of
rigid review to gain tenure.
“It’s almost an oxy
moron,” he said.
Wiggins said the policy
may also be illegal. Any
post-tenure policy could be
subject to court-edge re
search could also be hin
dered, he said, with profes
sors “sticking to mainstream
research procedures,” in
stead of innovating.
“It amounts to our throw
ing in the towel in our strive
to become a world-class
university,” he said.
Donald Deere, an associ
ate professor of economics,
said senators have taken two
basic positions on post
tenure review.
On one side are the sup
porters of Wiggins’ amend
ment, who intended to
“stand up and just say no” to
crafting a policy for post
tenure review, he said.
The rest were determined
to produce a policy they did
not want in order to avoid
having one made for them,
Deere said.
“Some of us want to do it
to ourselves before someone
does it to us,” he said.
Stan Carpenter, a profes
sor of educational adminis
tration, said it would be bet
ter for the Faculty Senate to
accept a policy from the
Board of Regents than to
craft one of their own.
“We don’t need to partic
ipate in our own execution,”
Carpenter said.
Donald Smith, an associate
professor of industrial engi
neering, said the stance taken
by the Faculty Senate may not
matter, because its policy
would still need to be adopted
by University officials.
“The Board of Regents is
going to trash it anyway,”
Smith said.
The Wiggins amendment
failed and other amend
ments took its place on the
Faculty Senate floor.
Murl Bailey, a professor of
veterinary medicine, said he
has undergone departmen
tal review since working at
the University and he sees
the policy “as an additional
protection.”
“I can live with it,” Bailey
said. “Those worried about
academic freedom are actu
ally worried about the quali
ty of work they’re doing here
at Texas A&M.”
See Faculty, Page 6
Stacking Knowledge
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Cassandra Roberson, a senior industrial engineering major, reshelves
books on the fourth floor of the Sterling C. Evans Library Monday.
Gramm explains
sex offender law
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Battalion
Sen. Phil Gramm announced the Sex
ual Offender Tracking and Identification
Law at the College Station Police De
partment Monday.
Gramm said the law is vitally impor
tant because it will help eliminate two-
time sex offenders.
“The probability that a sexual offend
er will repeat the offense is 10 times
higher than that of an armed robber,”
Gramm said. “What I’m trying to do is
enhance our ability to protect our citi
zens from sex offenders.”
State and local law enforcement agen
cies are currently unable to identify con
victed sex offenders from other states.
The law will create a nationwide
database that will include each convict
ed sex offender’s Social Security num
ber, fingerprints and photograph.
Gramm said the only opposition to
the bill came from the American Civil
Liberties Union, who,said the law de
nies sex offenders’ rights to privacy.
Gramm
“You don’t get on
this list by accident,”
Gramm said. “If they
do get on the list, then
they have lost their
right to privacy.”
School districts
and child-oriented
civic organizations
may access the infor
mation by contacting
their local police
departments.
Gramm said elementary schools can
use this as a tool to screen visitors for any
previous conviction of a sexual offense.
Bob Wiatt, University Police Depart
ment director, said the law will help pre
vent sex offenses.
“[The law] is a tremendous resource
for local communities and their law en
forcement to identify these pe
dophiles,” Wiatt said. “This removes
the cloak of anonymity for people who
prey on kids.”
See Gramm, Page 6
Businesses recognized
for endowments to A&M
By JoAnne Whittemore
The Battalion
Students passing through the Wehner
building may notice that Room 118 is
labeled the “NationsBank Lecture Hall.”
These same students may also pass by
the EDS Information Technology Labora
tory and not even know it, and even fewer
students know about the Neiman Marcus
Conference Room located in the Center of
Retailing Studies’ office suite.
Pamela Wiley, information represen
tative for the College of Business, said
although it appears as if these compa
nies have bought into the University,
that is not the case.
“People cannot buy a classroom and
people cannot buy a college,” she said.
Wiley said the three businesses have
been recognized because of the endow
ments they provided for the University.
In 1995, NationsBank and Neiman
Marcus made $50,000 donations and
EDS donated $150,000 worth of labora
tory equipment.
Wiley said the endowments help
keep the University up and running.
“Universities do not get enough
funding from the state or students,” she
said. “The struggle for funding has been
going on for a long time.”
Wiley said the University does not ac
tually profit from the endowments, but
rather the interest collected on the en
dowments.
The interest is “unrestricted,” mean
ing it may be used for a variety of Uni
versity-related purposes. However, the
donor can specify in the agreement
where to direct the money.
Rooms and buildings are named after
donors because of their generous con
tributions, Wiley said.
See Businesses, Page 6
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Opinion, Page 9
College Station
wins logo award
University donations reach high
By JoAnne Whittemore
The Battalion
The city of College Station
received the Clean Cities 2000
Award for Program Excellence
from the Texas Natural Re
source Conservation Com
mission earlier this month.
College Station was chosen
from more than 60 cities for
“the best use and promotion
of the Clean Cities 2000 logo.”
Jim Smith, sanitation su
perintendent, said promot
ing the logo is a top priority.
“It’s everywhere,” Smith
said. “We try to make that
the focus point of our envi
ronmental campaign.”
The Clean Cities 2000
logo labels city vehicles, util
ity buildings, billboards,
brochures, the College Sta
tion homepage, promotion
al items and television spots.
Clean Cities 2000, a divi
sion of Clean Texas 2000, is
a voluntary pollution pre
vention and recycling pro
gram which aims to reduce
landfill waste 50 percent by
the year 2000.
College Station has been
a member of Clean Cities
2000 since 1994.
The program in College
Station is divided into three
categories: recycling, waste
reduction and diversion, wa
ter and air quality.
A few of the recycling ser
vices provided by the city in
clude Curbside Recycling,
Clean Green, and hazardous
waste collection.
Clean Cities 2000 edu
cates the public on clean
water and water conserva
tion by distributing
brochures and holding
workshops for citizens.
See Logo, Page 5
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Battalion
Donations for the “Capturing the Spir
it” fund-raising campaign have reached
$637 million for Texas A&M University.
Dennis Prescott, director of major gifts
and deputy campaign director, said the
campaign was to raise money for the Uni
versity as a whole.
“This was the first time A&M has done
a campaign this big,” Prescott said.
“Every aspect of campus would benefit
from the campaign.”
The campaign was initiated by the
University because of dwindling finan
cial support from the state. In 1986, 40
percent of the University’s budget was
supplied by the state. By 1995, it had de
creased to 33 percent.
When A&M announced the $500 million
campaign, it was the largest fund-raising
goal of any public university in the nation.
Prescott said financial stability is cru
cial to the success of a university.
“If we want to be over and above other
universities, we’ve got to produce the in
come,” Prescott said. “Private gift support
provides (the University) with a margin of
excellence.”
See Donations, Page 6
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