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' ‘2*3. *CtTJBB5S*5 S-±k mil *& wTvs f^*i} • ttn#r u n ■'f For More Info: (409) 361-5117 (713) 999-4018 HET ■as All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a statutorily required public hearing to discuss an increase of the General Use Fee Monday, November 25, 1996 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre Office of the President, Texas A&M University hE Dr. Bill Kibler, associate vice president for student affairs, said an across-the-board raise has not been given in a long time. "Generally, A&M uses a merit pool raise, which is currently proposed by President Bowen,” he said. “Each department is allotted a set amount of additional money to grant raises.” Thomas H. Taylor, assistant vice presi dent for finance, said the University estab lishes parameters for each department. “For example, the overall salary increase can’t exceed 3 percent of the current salary base,” he said. “If a department is given $10,000, it’s up to the department head to spread it out and give everyone a raise or just give a few faculty raises.” The past two years, the University has devot ed $5 million of the GUF to salary increases. “Because of the GUF increase in the spring of 1996, $2.2 million was generated to in crease the graduate system stipends,” Taylor said. “We have to stay competitive in all areas of our faculty and staff.” Based on nine-month faculty salaries of 1995, full professors at the University of Texas averaged $76,393, compared to $71,568 at A&M. A public hearing regarding the increase will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Taylor said students should take advan tage of the opportunity to learn more about the proposed increase. “We encourage everyone to attend the open public hearing Monday,” Taylor said. “It will benefit all students to know how these salary raises will affect A&M as an institution of higher learning.” Senators Continued from Page 1 “I don’t believe I can fully represent all oft] dents),” Duncan said. “The students can obvii better job of expressing their opinion than lean Alice Gonzalez, an off-campus senator and; more agricultural development major, said she ;a ed the resolution because it lets students knoivjj: Student Senate feels about the increase. ■ •* “The reason I feel the resolution is impor fore the referendum is it gives the students tion,” she said. “By passing this resolutionwf ing this is a good thing.” Gonzalez said all students use the MSG] By C The sking t ball Te; tackle “The reason I feel the resolutior 1 ^ ^^ ^ important before the referendiihl see whei is it gives the students a directic^^^j^^ By passing this resolution were h e Aggies s . .. . , „ owes to flattei saying this is a good thing. Alice Gonzalez Off-campus senator and Koldus Building. A fee inc low student organizations ti buildings without charging th Bryan Atkinson, a College and a junior computer scienc support the resolution because the referent give students the chance to give their opiniot ami 31 quaru pDespite b rease is neces: j continue us em, she said, of Engineerin e major, said h j£fl love to ■aid. “When ike to come vhat I can d ike to bust ind put them range ly starred as a Bryan High S team Class 5. i senior. The stellar num taitkles (48 f Atkinson said rather than telling students ates opinion, a committee s discuss the pros and cons of uld have * increasi beenf ■ withs Grant Continued from Page 1 Math professors are confi dent the grant will improve the department. Dr. Jon Pitts, a professor of mathematics, said the money will be put to good use. "I think |the grant] offers the opportunity for the math de partment to strengthen its ex isting programs and to initiate new and important programs,” Pitts said. The GAT group is trying to link traditional mathematics to cross-disciplinary research, in dustry, technology and educa tion. Currently, the group is work ing to include mathematical re search in areas such as chem istry, robotics, visualization, computer-aided design and database indexing. ;as ler said in thepri that the grant wil peoples’ eyes to mathen research. "People typically dom of mathematics as a field new technology and tot being developed,” hesa mathematics, the genera lie does no mathematic oped all the ing their w technologic; other schoc lineman, Sp Texas A&M b Aggies’ trad fensive line has one of i line coaches ■ While Spil credit to AS. 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