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COLLEGE STATION • TX
TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 17 • 1998
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BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
>ny Barone came from Creighton
diversity where he led the team twice
the NCAA Tournament. His overall
baching record at A&M is 75-116. This
Bason’s record is 6-16.
From staff and wire reports
Texas A&M coach Tony
Barone will no longer be the
head of the men’s basketball
program after this season.
In a statement, Wally Groff,
A&M athletic director, said
Barone will be reassigned to a
position as a special assistant
in the program.
"One of my main concerns
about the program is based
on a lack of wins,” Groff said.
Barone came to A&M af
ter rebuilding Creighton Uni
versity’s basketball program.
A&M had hoped he would ac
complish a similar feat in
College Station.
Unfortunately, Barone only
chalked up one winning sea
son for the Aggies.
Groff’s statement said
Barone would not comment
on his reassignment “until the
appropriate time.”
The Aggies have lost a
near-record-tying 13 straight
games and have yet to win a
conference game this season.
Students act out against PITS
KAMU-TV airs program addressing variety of issues
from limited parking to reckless buses
By Stacey Becks
Staff writer
Texas A&M’s Television Production II class
gave students an opportunity to voice con
cerns about parking to representatives of Park
ing, Traffic and Transportation Services (PTTS)
last night on KAMU-TV, Channel 18.
Some concerns voiced by students were that
PTTS officers have a daily quota for tickets and
that bus drivers are playing dangerous driving
games called “where will my brakes fail next?”
Brian Minyard, a junior biochemistry major
and the chair of the Student Senate’s parking
subcommittee, said students want PTTS to ad
mit there is a parking problem on campus.
“When the director of PTTS is quoted in
The Battalion saying there’s no problem, it
makes us see our concerns are not being
solved,” he said.
Minyard said the program should show
PTTS that students think parking needs to be
addressed.
“PTTS believes there is no parking problem
on campus,” he said. “We wanted to make sure
PTTS realizes the students have legitimate con
cerns about parking.”
The program featured two PTTS represen-
tate proposes railroad relocation
By Jennifer Wilson
Staff writer
The Texas Transportation Institute
proposed Monday a $75 million
ito move the Union Pacific Railroad
:20 miles west of Bryan and College
ion in an effort to eliminate trains
/eling through the Texas A&M cam-
at Wellborn Road.
The transition would relocate the
tion of track running from Mum-
1 to Wellborn Road and eliminate
ins going through campus.
Tom Williams, director of Parking,
Traffic and Transportation Services
(PTTS), said he believes the proposal will
benefit the students and faculty at A&M.
“We need to move the railroad,”
he said. “This is the last opportunity
to see it happenand we need to take
advantage of it and use all the avail
able funds.”
TTI reported Texas has the highest
railroad fatality rate in the United
States. Twenty trains traveled through
College Station on Sunday, and this
number is expected to increase in order
to maintain railroad operating safety
and efficiency, TTI reported.
The new route will allow trains to
move faster and carry more cargo be
cause they will be in a less populated area.
By eliminating 88 crossings in the
Bryan-College Station area, the pro
posal complies with recent federal
legislation calling for a 25 percent re
duction of railroad-street intersec
tions by the year 2000.
Williams said the tracks should be
relocated now before it is too late to ad
dresses the problem.
i&M seeks out reputable professors
By Rachel Dawley
Staff writer
Texas A&M works to become a world-renowned uni-
fsity, the quality of professors has become a major focus.
Faculty reputation is key to the University’s ranking in na-
palsurveys. A&M has two Nobel Laureates, five members
ae National Academy of Science and 15 members of the
[ional Academy of Engineering.
Jr. William Perry, dean of faculties and associate provost,
ithe University is looking for a “good mix” of teaching and
Jearch experience.
| When hiring assistant professors, we look at their grad-
jeteaching experience and quality of their dissertation, as
las prior publications,” Perry said.
['When hiring on the senior level, we assess their national
international reputation and their quality of teaching. We
hook to see that they’ve been involved in the University.”
Each department forms a Faculty Search Committee
en hiring a new professor. In some departments, gradu-
[and undergraduate students sit on this committee,
hen candidates visit the University, they typically meet
i students but there is no policy that requires student in-
tin hiring decisions. Candidates often hold seminars for
ilty and students in the department.
Perry said A&M does target some faculty members, but
the search committee tries to get a large and diverse appli
cant pool.
“We are always looking for exceptional people,” Perry
said. “If we’ve heard that someone is interested in A&M, then
we target some recruiting, but this an exception rather than
the rule.”
The search committee makes a recommendation to the
department head. This recommendation then goes to the
Provost’s office for approval.
A&M must meet the market salary in order to stay com
petitive, although its salaries are behind those of its peers.
Perry said the University is working to combat this problem.
While much emphasis is placed on research at A&M, all
professors are required to teach.
Professors are allowed teaching credit for advising gradu
ate dissertation students, serving as an undergraduate advi
sor, as well as teaching graduate and undergraduate classes.
“What we want at A&M is a community of scholars, both
with students and faculty,” Perry said. “We want faculty to be
engaged in the search for knowledge and share it with stu
dents, each helping one another. Any knowledge gained ben
efits both us and society.
Please see Recruit on Page 6.
INSIDE
fnry Moore exhibit show-
lat the J. Wayne Stark
[Meries, thru March 8.
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fellas Baptist University’s
feseball Coach Jim Harp con-
|Hies winning after 25 years.
See Page 11
Collett: Aggie
ring policy
unfairly treats
graduate
students.
Leadership course under way
Global Economv
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By Kelly Hackworth
Staff writer
Fifteen Texas A&M students are
learning leadership skills and interna
tional perspectives on business topics in
a new program offered this semester at
the George Bush Presidential Library
and Museum.
This is a trial semester for The Acade
my for Future International
Leaders, a leader
ship and internship
opportunity offered
through the In
ternational Center
at the Bush Library.
The three-hour
course includes lec
tures delivered by
15 University facul
ty and international
business leaders.
Ken Stanton, pro
gram director and direc
tor of the Institute for Pacif
ic Asia, said the program gives
participants a global perspective on their
field of study.
“Every Thursday night is a different ex
perience,” he said. “It’s different Texas
A&M faculty and business leaders from all
over the country coming to participate.”
The guest speakers also serve as men
tors for the rest of the semester, answer
ing any questions about students’ careers
and interests.
The mentors help the students plan
international careers and prepare them
to work in an international environment,
Stanton said.
Steve Sywulka, a junior agricultural
development major, said the program
is a great opportunity to interact with
professors.
“It gives us a lot of reading material
from many disciplines and teaches us
what is going on in the world,” he
said.
Tammi Walker, a ju
nior marketing major,
said the program fo
cuses on the impor
tance of cultural
awareness.
“We live in a soci
ety that tends to be
closed off,” she said.
“You learn more about
the world around you
through this class.”
Completion of the
spring program is intended to
prepare students to apply for in
ternational internships during the fol
lowing summer.
The internships are with internation
al firms or multinational firms in the
United States.
Stanton said an advisory committee
consisting of A&M faculty, administra
tors and business executives reviewed 40
applications before choosing the stu
dents for the program.
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tatives,
two stu-
dent rep-
resenta-
tives and ’
guests who
asked ques
tions. A student
from the produc
tion class was the
mediator between the
two parties.
Woody Eisenhart, manag
er of customer service for PTTS,
said there has never been a quota for officers
giving tickets.
He said bus drivers take their jobs seriously,
and if they are playing games, bus operations
does not know about it.
One audience member said PTTS should not
sell more parking tags than there are spaces.
Eisenhart said red lots are not oversold, but
blue lots are oversold.
Red lots are reserved for students living on
campus and blue lots are reserved to students
living off campus.
“The red lot is not oversold,” he said. “The
blue parking is sold at 230 percent because
lots turn over as
much as three times a day.”
He said all universities oversell tags in an
ticipation of turnover.
Craig Rotter, a graduate student and stu
dent services chair for Student Senate, said
PTTS should listen to students because they
are the customers.
“Students have been extremely vocal and
unhappy about the parking situation,” he
said. “PTTS as a service provider should listen
to its customers.”
The television program was the first of eight
shows the class will produce this semester.
The programs air Mondays at 9:00 p.m.
Unchained melody
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
Barbara Nelms, a teacher at Bryan High School, takes a break Monday by “throwing” a pot at
the University Plus Program located in the basement of the MSC.
Camp Day allows students to relive
days of campfires while finding jobs
By Katy Lineberger
Staff writer
Representatives from 45 to 50 summer
camps will be in the MSC today recruiting Ag
gies for jobs as counselors and staff.
The annual “Camp Day,” spon
sored by the Department of Recre
ation, Parks, and Tourism Science,
the RPTS Majors Club and the
TAMU Career Center,
will take place from
9:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. in the
MSC hall
way and
Flagroom.
Dr.
Louis
Hodges,
Associate
HD
professor of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
Sciences and campus Camp Day coordina
tor, said camps from across the country will
be here looking for students to serve as
counselors, activity coordinators/directors
and lifeguards.
“This provides employment opportunities
not only for our majors, but also for others
around the University,” Hodges said. “It also
helps out the camping industry because they
can bring in large numbers of people at a time.”
Hodges said the camps are for the most
part resident use summer camps, where kids
of different ages stay for anywhere from five
days to several months. He said the camp
representatives, who are on a two-week tour
of Texas colleges, are looking for students
with interests in the outdoors, crafts, working
with children, swimming, lifeguarding,
equestrian events and all sports.
Please see Camp on Page 6.