Senate Defeats Bill to Halt H Ousing Guide Publication
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1HE UNIVERSITY DAILY VOLUME 51 NUMBER 114 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Friday, March 19, 1976 EIGHT PAGES Board approves name change for architecture department BY IRA PERRY art and music. The Division of Com- sociology, according to Tech's request. and divisional status could cost less UD Reporter munications will include all sections in Each division will operate under the depending on the percentage the dean's Tech's department of architecture the departments of mass com- supervision of an associate dean of the office will make up of the associate received College Coordinating Board munications and speech and theatre College of Arts and Sciences, Johnson dean's salary. approval last week for an ad- arts. said. Only one new associate dean will ministrative name change to the THE DIVISION of Science and be needed, he said. As planned, the section of theatre arts Division of Architecture within the Mathematics will include the depart- The large number of departments in will remain in the Division of Com- College of Engineering. ments of biological sciences, the Social Sciences and Humanities munications and the section of dance Dr. William Webb, acting com- chemistry, geosciences, physics, and Division is because of a large number of offered in the department of health, missioner of the board, said action on mathematics. small departments or departments physical education, and recreation, will requests for divisional reorganization The Division of Social Sciences and which do not offer major degree be placed in the Division of Social within the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities will include the depart- programs such as Biblical literature, Sciences and Humanities because will not be considered until the board's ments of aerospace studies, military Johnson said. studies have not been undertaken to regularly scheduled meeting April 23. science, anthropology, biblical NO ADDITIONAL space will be decide whether to create new depart- Approval for the architecture name literature, classical and romance necessary for the change, and no in- ments for the fields under the Fine Arts change came last week rather than at languages, economics, English, creases in salaries will be proposed, he Division. Johnson said. the April meeting, Webb said, because goegraphy, Germanic and Slavic said. no additional money or staff needs were languages, health, physical education, The move will cost Tech ap- No action on the Arts and Sciences involved in setting up the division. and recreation, history, philosophy, proximately $6,000, Johnson said, divisional organization will be taken THE CHANGE IS strictly an ad- political science, psychology, and adding that the figure is a maximum until April 23. ministrative name change to give the nakenn-• 7-114Satyr department identity within its Aesthetic 34th Street professional field and as a step toward an eventual Tech School of Ar- Senate defeats bill to halt chitecture, independent of the New 90-foot utility poles have been installed on 39th Street despite the protests by Engineering College, according to Dr. 34th Street merchants. The merchants argued the new power line contradicted William Johnson, Tech vice president their recent attempts to upgrade the street aesthetically. (Photo by Larry Smith) for academic affairs. H ousing Guide publication Johnson said the change will involve no reorganization of the college until y GEORGE JOHNSTON said that the guide was not thrown for a trip to Austin. 34th Street utility poles school status is requested and ap- UD Reporter together, but was begun last fall with —$800 to the Tech Chapter of the proved. The Tech Student Senate Thursday surveys of apartments and grocery American Institute of Architects for a Tech's request for four divisions to be night defeated a bill which would have stores. speaker series. created within the College of Arts and prevented the publication of the Student However, Cowart said, by Christmas —$175 to the Society of Petroleum up; controversy over Sciences will, however, involve Association Housing Guide. the volunteers for the surveys had only Engineers for a contest in Baton Rouge, reorganization of the college and ad- The bill, introduced by Arts and 10 per cent of the needed information, La. By ROBERT J. MOORE the earlier considerations, some of the ditional money and staff needs, Sciences Senator Steve Eli, did not so the present guide has the tenant —$180 to the Engineering Student UD Staff merchants thought the city had not Johnson said. specifically say the publication of the survey deleted. Council for the publication of The 90-foot utility poles have been been completely open with them. ACTION ON THE request for the guide would be prohibited, but instead BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION "Technology" magazine. installed on 34th Street. The tran- "THEY HANDLED it secretively to organization of Divisions of Fine Arts, would have prevented use of specific Senator Bryant Hance asked Eli why —$379 to Los Chicanos for a con- smission lines are being hung. The 34th avoid publicity, knowing there would be Communications, Sciences and funds by any SA executive officer until the vice president could not just give his vention in San Antonio. Street controversy is over. objections," charged Leland Payne, a Mathematics, and Social Sciences and July 1, and those funds were to be used report without having a "melodrama." —$500 to Kappa Kappa Psi band The city's announcement last sum- real estate investor with an office on Humanities will not come until the for publication of the guide. Eli replied that if the officer only fraternity for academic recruiting. mer that the line would be run caused 34th Street. April meeting. Eli said the reason for the bill was gives his report, then if the guide is bad, an outcry by some 34th Street mer- "The issue was handled as quietly as Tech requested the change to that the senate can't prevent an the only way to stop it is a bill. chants. it could be until it was too late to do promote interdepartmental and in- executive officer from spending funds In other action the Senate passed Blakely elected Most people on both sides of the anything about," said Paul V. Bush, terdisciplinary activities of closely unless the senate passes legislation. eight appropriations bills in which the controversy conceded a power line was owner of an electric motor shop on 34th related departments and to provide ALSO, ELI said, it was his feeling senate allocated: needed. Engineers had set the summer Street. more visibility for the individual that the housing guide had been —2,741 to Tech Foresnics Union for SA internal VP of 1977 as the time when Lubbock Merchants were not the only persons specialized areas, Johnson said. "thrown together" and would not be a competitions. By GEORGE JOHNSTON Power and Light's (LP&L) capacity to upset with the city's handling of the According to the request submitted to good use of student's funds. —$1,000 to Tech Accounting Society UD Reporter serve effectively all its customers project. the board, the Division of Fine Arts will Mark Cowart, SA external vice for Accounting emphasis week. Jim Blakely was elected Student would become questionable. DAN ROYAL, a newsman for a local include only the current departments of president, in speaking before the senate —$384 to Agriculture Student Council Association internal vice president in a VAUGHN HENDRIE, public in- television station, quoted a "very runoff with Paul Grimmer by a count of formation officer for the city, said the reliable source as saying city hall had 1,164 to 983 in Wednesday's SA elec- power line is essential, especially as a played the project "very low key." tions. power source during emergencies, for Other 34th Street merchants did not Candidate lists ways for student input Students also elected Tech Student the central part of the city and for Tech. think the city had purposely withheld Senators in Wednesday's elections. The angry merchants cited what they information on the project. BY BETSY HUMPHREY credit, holding mock city elections DELEON CALLED public tran- Blakely said he was dissapointed in considered a contradiction between the "I don't think the board was trying to UD Reporter where actual issues are discussed and sportation as the life line in the cir- the voter turnout, but thanked the proposed line and their recent attempts slip one by," Rapier said. The City is not doing enough to help establishing a Tech student to be mayor culation of the city. He said the students who took time to look at the to upgrade their street aesthetically. "I don't think anybody was trying to students, according to Nephtali of the day. problem today is the bus system is issues and vote. City Planning Director Jim Bertrand pull anything off on anybody else," said DeLeon, city council candidate. DELEON SAID he would like to forcing people to go downtown, in an ONLY ABOUT 2,300 students voted in had anticipated the merchant's feelings Frank McGlaun, owner of an office DeLeon made several suggestions to establish a Citizens Advisory Com- attempt to revitalize downtown. the elections. in a memo to LP&L Director Bill Wood supply business on 34th Street, get students more involved in civic mittee to advise city hall and which "Rerouting of the bus system is The results of the SA senate races in December, 1974, eight months before affairs if elected in the April 3 would be represented equitably in the needed," he said. "We need to go were: the controversy came to light. In the ED LUSKEY, owner of a western municipal election. community. where the people are needing to go. —AGRICULTURE Sciences: Charles memo, Bertrand warned that the line wear store on 34th Street, said, "I'm not Discussing crime, he feels that Reducing the size of buses is practical Bowers, Rex Isom and Denzel Tevis.