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By C. J
Gates
Continued from page 1
Faculty will have a key role
in determining which programs
to cut. Gates said.
“We’re changing the gover
nance structure to bring the
deans and faculty into the
budgeting process,” Gates said.
“Instead of the administration
making all the decisions, our
budget options will be devel
oped by the academic side of
the University.”
Improving campus facilities
carries a steep price tag, and
despite the pressing need for a
new life sciences building and
other projects. Gates said, there
is no money right now to expand
classroom space.
“I haven’t got a clue how
we’re going to solve that
problem,” Gates said.
Additional Vision 2020 pri
orities will not only require
additional funds, but may clash
with state legislators’ priorities.
Gates acknowledged efforts to
attract better graduate students,
including giving in-state tuition
rates to out of state graduate
students, may not sit well with
legislators.
State Sen. Steve Ogden, R-
Bryan, said he would like for
A&M and other state schools to
give preference to graduate
school applicants from Texas.
“Texas schools should be
serving Texas students,”
Ogden said.
To secure state funding.
Gates said, he will urge the leg
islature to change the way
money is distributed among the
state’s public colleges.
Texas schools
should be serving
Texas students.
— Steve Ogden
Texas senator
Currently, most of the money
is distributed through a complex
set of formulas which takes into
account factors, such as how
many credit hours a school
teaches. However, other funds
are distributed only to select
schools, partly to serve as a bal
ance to the Permanent
University Fund, of which A&M
and UT are the primary benefi
ciaries. By distributing all high
er education money through the
formulas, A&M would receive
additional funding because of its
enrollment growth. Gates said.
Although UT officials have
made deregulating tuition their
top priority for this legislative
session. Gates said removing
tuition caps should only be a
last resort.
“It would be a mistake to
have as your first option raising
costs for students,” Gates said.
“We’d prefer to see the legisla
ture fully fund the budget.”
Gates said A&M’s efficiency
and lean budget will help make
the case to legislators that every
dollar given to the University
will be used wisely. A&M has
the lowest p>er capita administra
tive costs of any university in
Texas, Gates said, and A&M
devotes 52 percent of its budget
to instruction, compared to 35
percent for UT.
A&M will continue to tight
en its belt and prioritize funds
during the next two years as the
state grapples with a budget
deficit. Gates said. However,
he said, if these conditions per
sist. the quality of education at
the University will begin to
seriously erode.
“You can’t deny an institution
funds for growth for a prolonged
period without there being con
sequences,” Gates said.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Commons Dining
Hall closed for
repairs until Jan. 21
The Commons Dining Hall
will be closed until Jan. 21
to repair a rotten watei
pipe under the building.
"The plumbing started
over Christmas and is goinj
longer than we thought'
said Food Services
Associate Director Cynthi-
Zawieja.
Zawieja said both Stone
Willy's Pizza and the
Common Denominate!
located above the dininj
hall, will accommodate stu
dents living in the Commons
residence halls.
"We want to make sure
we have something oper
for breakfast, lunch anc
dinner," she said.
RTFS changes
name, plans for
increased efficiency
The Department o‘
Parking, Transportation and
Traffic Services (PITS
announced this past weee
that it will now be known as
simply Transportation
Services.
The department plans to
make efficient use of all park
ing spaces and provide dos
er, more reliable access to a!
customers. Transportation
Services director Rodne)
Weis said plans have begur
toward this effort.
"This will also help us
accommodate more student
customers, because a lot oi
the spaces are currently
wasted and spaces not in
use during the evenings will
be available for other con
stituents to use," Weis said.
Weis said the department
is working to make the cam
pus safer for pedesfriar.'j
and cyclists.
The $21,000 make-ovei
will include an evaluation oi
the current bus system to
make the necessary changes
for more efficient routes,
Weis said.
Crisis
Continued from page 1
nuclear non-proliferation treaty and said in a sec
ond statement Tuesday that there was a limit to its
“self control” in the face of what it calls U.S.
aggression.
If the United States responds to the withdrawal
from the treaty “with new sanctions, blockade and
pressure offensives, (North Korea) will exercise
the second and third corresponding options,” a
commentary in Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s
most prominent state newspaper, said.
Possible further next steps for the North would
include suspending its moratorium on missile tests
— as it has threatened — or go ahead with a test.
A more extreme option would be to begin devel
oping weapons-grade plutonium at a reprocessing
plant that they say is ready for operation.
The commentary, carried by the North’s news
agency, said the withdrawal from the non-prolifer
ation treaty had been a “legitimate option” and was
“guaranteed by its powerful military capacity.”
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Ari
Fleischer denied a report by Japan’s Kyodo News
agency that the United States has proposed providing
North Korea with a written security guarantee signed
by Bush.
“There is no truth to it,” Fleischer said.
In a push for diplomacy, the Chinese Foreign
Ministry said it would be willing to negotiate talks
in Beijing between the United States and China’s
communist ally.
Beijing’s dual position — as a powerful mem
ber of the U.N. Security Council and one of North
Korea’s few allies — would give it a unique per
spective on the issue.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that if
North Korea agrees to abandon its nuclear ambi
tions, the United States would want to enter “a
new arrangement” — stronger than a 1994 deal —
to better constrain Pyongyang’s ability to produce
nuclear weapons.
Under the 1994 agreement, the North agreed to
abandon all weapons activities in return for U.S.
and international aid to build two light-water
nuclear reactors for energy production.
The 1994 agreement “left intact the capacity
for production. I think, therefore, that we need a
new arrangement and not just go back to the exist
ing framework,” Powell told The Wall Street
Journal in an interview published in its Tuesday
editions.
Ogden
Continued from page 1
court gives a green light toaffn
mative action.
He declined to discuss to
many minority students k
would like to see at A&M orfi I
set any goals or timetables fj
measure the University E
progress.
“If you start setting nun
bers, it gives credence to tM
notion that its about quotas, j
Gates said.
Gates recently announce,
the creation of a new vice pres I
ident for institutional diversiiy |
who would help coordinatetl*|
University’s diversity efforts;
The position will have litlH
staff or authority, and will
serve only an advisory fund
tion, Gates said.
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