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Pag November 15,| Friday Page 5 November 15, 1996 rJEJignured professors to undergo evaluations .V,B| IT System Board of Regents adopts guidelines to conduct faculty reviews Th«TS lil Axe Hw’J W^56l.F! ■ DALLAS (AP) — The University of Texas iystem Board of Regents approved guide- es Thursday for periodic evaluation of enured professors, which includes provi- iitpns for their dismissal. ®The policy calls for a comprehensive evalu- on of tenured faculty every five years. > “I think the faculty in the UT System is extremely upset about this. ,, Charles Zucker Executive director of the Texas Faculty Association Faculty members who get unsatisfacto ry reviews could be subject to review for dismissal. ■ “Post-tenure review is sound academic policy,” Chancellor William H. Cunning ham said. Under current policy, tenured professors pan be dismissed for cause, such as incom petence or immoral behavior. The new policy applies to 13 institutions in the system. The exceptions are the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where faculty reapply for employment every seven years, and the UT Health Center at Tyler, which doesn’t have tenured faculty of any kind. The UT System joins others across the country, including the University of Califor nia System, the State University System of Florida and Harvard Business School, in re quiring rigorous periodic review. Last year, the Texas A&M System Board of Regents also passed a resolution requiring a post-tenure review process. The UT schools have until next Septem ber to develop procedures to comply with the guidelines. Critics of tenure argue that the job securi ty has led some professors to neglect their classroom duties. Six professors spoke out against the new policy at the meeting, saying it could threat en academic freedom and put professors at the mercy of university politics. “We will continue to have the best com puter systems and the best technology and the best medicine and the best everything else as long as we can continue to maintain academic freedom in this country,” said Michael Siciliano, chairman-elect of the UT System Faculty Advisory Council. Tenure traditionally guarantees profes sors’ jobs for as long as they want them. It means academic freedom, protecting pro fessors who express unpopular ideas. “I think the faculty in the UT System is extremely upset about this,” said Charles Zucker, executive director of the Texas Fac ulty Association. “They see it as reneging on an agreement they thought they had with the UT System.” Zucker said some critics of tenure don’t understand that the professors who achieve it must meet high standards and many don’t make it. Professors go through about six years of graduate school to receive a Ph.D. Once they’ve received a tenure-track po sition at a university, they must wait an average of six years before a decision is made on tenure. "It can be a rather harrowing experience,” Zucker said. “You’re looking at a rather rigorous sys tem that I don’t think people understand.” £L Juat Lfhree Tenors concert tour to wrap up in Houston !► World renown musical trio to perform at the Astrodome on March 16. HOUSTON (AP) —When Placido Domingo steps onto a stage in the Astrodome in March, he’ll have a whole new view of the Houston arena. ‘‘It’s a wonderful place, the Astrodome,” Domingo said Thursday in announcing the final concert of the Three Tenors’ world tour. “I have been there watching some baseball games.” Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, the world’s three most famous tenors, said they will wrap up a 12-city, eight-country tour in Houston on March 16. Pavarotti and Carreras were in Vienna and Domingo was in Washington when they dis cussed their plans via live satellite with reporters in the Astrodome. Organizers said 65,000 tickets will be available for the show, with prices ranging from $50 to $2,500. The tenors get $1 million each per concert. Domingo said the performance likely would be -iONGFEST s ontinued from Page 1 Cantwell said the performers are ^■alented. | ■ a ■ “‘They spend a long time prepar- ^^mg for this,” she said. “It’s a really big reduction with lots of singing and lancing.” 1 Trophies will be awarded to first, econd and third place acts. The roups are judged on several cate- ;ories, including creativity and iniqueness. [■Between major acts, "fillers” will jerform. I “This is the first year that we’ve had . c ,1 filers besides Chi Omega come in,” exosAve n««Sou!li :antwellsaid j. This year’s fillers will include Chi “^Jmega pledges, Delta Sigma Theta, the —ffigie Wranglers and the Chain Gang, a juartet-style group comprised of iinging Cadets. Junior yell leaders Tim Duffy and handon Meche will be this year’s nasters of ceremonies. The list of udges include Dr. Ben Welch, John Thorton, Brenda Simms, and Sam pd Susan Torn. ^ ^ ^ “It’s all fun stuff,” said Devenish. “It’s J I - * | i very light-hearted night.” ^ JL Advance tickets may be purchased or $5 at the Wehner Building or the vlSC hallway. Tickets may be pur- tased for $6 at the door. “Rudder is usually completely full,” venish said. “We sell out every year.” hopping Center MBER t 17 Pat James, The Battalion Charlie Tassos, a Phi Delta Theta member, sings Jailhouse Rock. the last by the Three Tenors until 1998. “If we are in good health and we are on this planet, we certainly are going to do the ’98 World Cup,” he said. “This is the last concert of this world tour.” Domingo said he wasn’t worried about acoustics in the Astrodome, which is not noted for its sound quality. “I am confident there is going to be no prob lem at all with the acoustics,” he said. “We have the best people.” Promoters said they are still negotiating with musicians and declined to reveal which orchestra may back up the tenors. The Houston concert will be their fourth in the United States. They appeared at Giants Stadium outside New York last July and at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 1994. The tenors are scheduled to perform in Miami on March 8. Recycling Continued from Page 1 Patschke said the EIC has been helping TNRCC collect phone books on campus and will help col lect and unload them at the Target parking lot to day. She said the EIC has also helped TNRCC with its pledge-card drive. Dr. Roy Hartman, associate professor of engi neering technology, explained the purpose of the pledge card. “A pledge card is where you pledge to partic ipate in a recycling activity,” he said. “It’s kind of a commitment card.” The pledge cards will be placed in a raffle with prizes offered such as a Jeep Wrangler or a shop ping spree. Patschke said the EIC collected approximately 2,000 pledge cards this year from the campus and community. She said the EIC set up tables outside of local grocery stores, different spots on campus and before football games. Part of the incentive to collect so many pledge cards, she said, came from the University of Texas in Austin. “t.u. challenged us to see how many pledges we could get signed on our local campuses,” she said. Gibson said the purpose of recycling is to save resources. “You don’t bury [recyclable items] in the ground and leave them there, so you don’t take up landfill space,” she said. “Recycled-content mater ial helps us be more competitive because it takes less resources to make them.” The city will recycle the telephone books and newspapers gathered today. Other recyclable items will be taken to Junction 505, a recycling center on College Main that also helps mentally or physically disabled individuals find jobs. Costs ' Continued from Page 1 She said friends she told about the plan kre looking into it for themselves. If a student has been in college for one t^ear, Rich explained, the Texas Tomorrow Amd pays for the remaining years. The Texas State Comptroller’s office esti mates that children younger than one year old will be the largest age group benefiting from the plan. Parents who enroll in the plan are not required to choose a college at the time of enrollment. However, in the plan’s first year of oper ation, nearly 74 percent of parents and grandparents who purchased contracts named a specific college or university as their first choice. The top two colleges chosen were the University of Texas and Texas A&M respectively. Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president, said he at tributes parents choosing A&M and Texas to the large enrollment at the two universities. “They (A&M and Texas) are the two largest schools in the state,” Bowen said. “[Texas] generally has a larger freshman class, but it (parents choosing A&M and Texas) means nothing.” Master Bootmaker In Town Three Days Only Order Your Aggie Senior Boots November 17, 18, 19 In Lounge ‘A’ on the Quad We will have samples to see and try on Delivery in January $495 total November 17, 10-8 November 18, 10'6 November 19, 8-4 For More Information call 268-6831 *?* Hey Ags! with this 16” Serves 12-15 Call or Walk-Up Orders. Ready in Minutes! Post Oak Mall • 764-0079 Delivery Available MSC FILM SOCIETY Now Showing: Friday, Nov. 15 ?-<XS & HidKlptn A Tiine :<> KiU Saturday, Nov. 1<> 9:30pm \ Time u> Kill Sunday. Nov. 17 Free Movie 2:00pm <V 1/2 Bio/Bu* Rm. 107 Due to ureuuistances bewnul our coat ml. She's the On? wilt no! he shown Tlmtsiliiy night. Tickets are $3 00. All films show n in Rudder Theatre Complex. Questions? Call (he Aggie Cine rim Hotline (847-847$!. |<!R Persons w ith qwia! needs cal S45-I515 within 3 days of the tihu. |4r Wchsite: hUp://f1Ims.taimt.cdu| 361-3920 Dr. S.A. LeSage '86, '88 Dr. W.S. Haley '89 Emergencies • Cleanings Teeth Bleaching $250 We Accept & Bill Insurance 846-5817 601 Mary Lake Crooked C^atb die Clouse >kf<rs tmtf‘lasers vl\orlhfjcifc In celebration of Children's Book Week, MSC Literary Arts presents ^eact Seusui Monday, Nov. 18 Carl Baggett - Student Body President reading “If I Ran The Circus” Michael Lemonds - Class of 2000 President reading “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” Tuesday, Nov. 19 Chris Williams - MSC President reading “The Lorax” Gen. M.T. Hopgood - Corps Commandant reading “The Cat in the Hat” Wednesday, Nov. 20 R.C. Slocum - A&M Head Football Coach reading - “Oh The Places You’ll Go!” Michael Landauer - Battalion Editor reading “The Butter Battle Book” Thursday, Nov. 21 J. Kahili - Food Services reading “Green Eggs and Ham” Jesse Czelusta - RHA President reading “Go Dog Go” Friday, Nov. 22 Kathy Mathis - PTTS reading “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” / 2:30 TZucCden If weather is bad, readings will be held in the MSC Flagroom 4N«K)M» *»**<*#* ******* *sf*t«* * **** **0 ** **»*««# ^ me*- ^ » a*# ***!* -«*** . j***** *Wf (p» ■ i *k>* *** *M**°X« X*«**(*X '**•»*> A « xdmmk a*** **^ *s*,C »rt** 5 *•<•>«* **«**>**** *• *«■<* «**«* MW *6* * 'W**»** *** *o» <*,>+»*■»> y*W ***** **« aw**** #** *** *•«* <*** *S> >9 The Last Corps Trip The poem traditionally read at Bonfire is now a print. Meet the Aggie Artist Benjamin Knox ‘90 and the au thor of The Last Corps Trip P.H. DuVal, Jr. ‘51 Both artist & author are available to autograph your print Friday 6-9 Benjamin Knox Gallery Saturday 10-2 A&M Corps Center prints are $40 100% PROCEEDS BENEFIT A SUL ROSS SCHOLARSHIP OEEINI/XIVMIN KINQX G A I I E K Y 404 University Dr. E. 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