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The North Texas Daily
Thursday, September 10, 1987
North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
71st Year No. 7
NT, TWU combine efforts
to educate viewing public
By Joy Jones
Staff Writer
NT and Texas Woman’s University staff and faculty will
combine efforts with North Texas Public Broadcasting to
bring educational television to Denton.
North Texas Public Broadscasting holds the license for
KDTN-TV Channel 2 in Denton, KERA-TV Channel 13
in Dallas and KERA-FM 90.1. The stations arc governed
by a board of community leaders from each community
involved.
North Texas Public Broadcasting and officials from NT
and TWU have met several times, said Brandon Barnes,
director of KDTN-TV Channel 2. Preliminary agreement
about the extent of each schools’ involvement has been
reached, and now the schools are reviewing the agreement
KDTN should begin broadcasting in April 1988 Barnes
said funds are currently being raised for completion of a
broadcast tower and transmission facility, which will probably
be located in Cedar Hill.
The 100,000-watt station will reach an area with a
population of about 3.5 million people — broadcasting to
areas within a 100-mile radius of Dallas.
About 30 minutes a week of local programming for
Channel 2 will originate at TWU’s Redbud Studios. Barnes
said that as more funding comes in, the local programming
will be expanded. “There’s really no limit as to how far
we can go ... eventually we could do a lot more than we
have hours on the air.”
Ron Huebner, manager of TV services at NT’s Center
for Instructional Services, said the center’s staff worked
with TWU personnel to design and install the control room
at Redbud. The control room includes a two-camera studio.
Barnes, who also serves as director of educational services
at KERA-TV, said, “One of the main thrusts for the facility
is to make it a training ground for students. It’s beneficial
both ways — the students learn, and we keep our operational
costs down.”
TWU radio/television instructor Pat Casey said he hopes
that both NT and TWU interns will have the opportunity to
work on the programming for KDTN “This could provide
a good opportunity for broadcast news or Radio/ TV/Film
majors to work in a professional atmosphere,” Casey said.
KDTN will be broadcasting several shows currently seen
on KERA-TV Channel 13. Bames said KDTN will be airing
instructional classroom programs for kindergarteners through
high school seniors, college credit telecourses, and enrichment
courses for doctors, teachers, nurses and other professionals.
State funding tied to NT's status, Hurley says
By Ann-Shannon Erskine
Daily Reporter
NT President A1 Hurley told faculty members Wednesday that getting more
money is tied to improving the status of the university.
Hurley said NT will have to w ork hard to ensure that it gets its share of state
appropriations and other research money
Speaking to the Faculty Senate at its first meeting of the year. Hurley said
NT must concentrate on several goals for the coming year.
“The most important overall goal for this year is to work with the Coordinating
Board and state leadership and secure funding as a national research university.”
he said.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has been charged by the
Legislature to study and act on proposals that came from the Governor’s Select
Committee on Higher Education. Among the proposals is to recognize NT as
one of the top research institutions in Texas, and that would mean more funding
at this status level.
Hurley said many of the Coordinating Board changes will be coming about
during this and the next biennium
“The university’s goals toward improving faculty salaries are part of this,"
Hurley said. He said the board has been directed to work toward getting “salary
levels the same as comparable institutions across the country, hopefully to provide
help and coordination to those schools that need it — such as ours, which is
Shannon Drawe/NT Daily Stall
TYING THE KNOT—David Howard, Denton graduate student, snows
Aimee Musselman, Richardson freshman, how to tie a knot in the
beginning horseback class at the NT Stables.
Directory requests
are due Friday
Students have until Friday to request
that their addresses and telephone
numbers be withheld from publication
in the student directory.
Directory information includes name,
phone number, local address, permanent
address, date and place of birth, major,
classification, dates of attendance and
degrees awarded, said Lynn McCreary,
Assistant Registrar.
It does not include grades, schedule
or social security number, that kind of
information is not given out.
However directory information is
available to anybody who wants it,
unless the student requests that it be
withheld, McCreary said.
Students who wish to have directory
information withheld should go to the
Registrar’s Office in the Administration
Building and fill-out a request form
before 5 p.m. Friday, she said.
especially well-regarded in its potential.” A related area concerned faculty
development leave “There’s now a prospect because of changes in the law
that we can do more,” he said. “An expanded faculty leave policy is absolutely
essential. You’ll find me a champion of this idea based on my own personal
experience.”
However, reaching these and other goals requires more money, and he said
telling NT’s story is essential.
Resolutions thank politicians
The Faculty Senate at its Wednesday meeting passed resolutions thanking
state Sen Bob Glasgow, D-Stephenville, Sen. Ray Farabee. R-Wichita
Falls, and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby for their work for higher education
Glasgow was the vice chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and
was instrumental in getting more money for faculty salaries, helping
employees get better fringe benefits, supporting NT’s efforts to be recognized
as a research institution and sponsoring the NT name change to the University
of North Texas, which will be effective in May 1988.
Farabee, also a member of the finance committee, worked with Glasgow
. on the funding programs. Hobby spearheaded much of the funding effort
and supported NT’s efforts for recognition as a major research institution.
Hurley said one way is to tell NT’s story in Washington, D C. He said both
he and Vice President for External Affairs Walt Parker have been working with
the Texas delegation to Congress. “This is important in relation to the research
side of growth," he said.
He cited the need to work at the national level because the U.S. Governor’s
Commission has been working on the state of university education, asking just
what is being accomplished at universities.
A related aspect is the involvement of business. “The business community
has gotten into this area by noting the number of college graduates who need
extensive training in areas they feel should have been taught at the universities,"
Hurley said.
Another challenge for Texas colleges is preparing for the competency test of
fundamentals that will be a requirement by 1989 for all students seeking junior
status. He also said that every doctoral degree program in the state will come
under Coordinating Board scrutiny by 1992.
Another plan Hurley has is to get students to identify with NT. He said he
wants to schedule special events for freshmen and other students to bring them
together several times while they are at NT instead of waiting until commencement.
He also said NT will work more closely with Texas Woman’s University in
academic cooperation. Also, he said NT is trying to rent space at TWU to
alleviate NT’s library overcrowding problem and for office space.
Sheriff's deputies' delay leaves 'little
hope of redemption/ says one officer
By Jay Johnson
Staff Writer
The Denton County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment takes more than 30 minutes to
respond to calls, according to a recent
survey compiled by the department.
Sgt. Mark Eblen, who prepared the
study, said the sheriff’s department has
to cover too many miles with too few
patrol officers.
"lt is sad that Denton County has the
same or fewer patrol units to cover 950
square miles than NT has covering four
square miles,” he said in a prepared
statement Eblen left the NT Police De-
partment to join the sheriff’s office.
“It is a grim realization that each
officer has very little hope of redemption
if something goes wrong in the field."
patrolman Lewis Heath said in the state-
ment. “If a disturbance call turns into a
deadly assault on the officer, with backup
20-30 minutes away ... that officer knows
how precious life is, and how little his is
worth at that moment.”
NT Police Chief Eric Jackson said NT
police average less than two minutes from
the time a call is received until an officer
is at the scene, He said emergency calls
are usually answered within one minute,
but routine calls, like students who have
locked themselves out of their cars, cause
the average response time to go up.
Jackson said there are never less than
two police officers on patrol at NT, and
the licensed officers are supplemented by
five or six public service officers during
the evening.
Public service officers are students who
work for the department doing such jobs
as writing parking tickets, escorting stu-
dents to their cars at night, providing
housing security and working the desk at
College Inn from midnight to 8 a m
Although public service officers cannot
carry guns, make arrests or write reports,
they can answer many routine calls —
keeping regular officers on patrol so that
emergency calls can be answered quickly.
There are 12 patrol officers at the
Denton County Sheriff’s Department who
work five days a week, with three shifts
covering each day. Deputy Milton Babb
said Wednesday the department "can
have only two patrol units, plus a patrol
sergeant, out on any given shift."
Denton County covers 911 square miles.
Collin County is 60 square miles smaller
and slightly more populous than Denton
County, but the Collin County Sheriffs
Department has almost twice as many
patrol officers as the Denton County
Sheriff's Department.
Lt. John Holton of the Collin County
Sheriff s Department said six patrol officers
and one supervisor are usually on duty
each shift. He estimated the department’s
average response time was about 10-15
minutes.
Denton County Commissioner's Court
recently denied the sheriff’s department’s
request for five more patrol deputies for
the 1987-1988 budget.
Babb said the commissioners denied the
request because of budget constraints on
the county. He said the sheriff’s de-
partment understands the county’s budget
problems, but the siluation in the depart-
ment is reaching a crisis point.
Denton County Commissioners could
not be reached for comment Wednesday.
"The sheriffs department consumes
the largest part of any county's budget.”
Babb said, “because of the jail, providing
bailiffs for the courts and other similar
things It gets to the point where the
commissioners are reluctant to give us
more money ."
Babb said the department has considered
asking the county constables to take more
of the civil process work, like serving
papers, that sheriff’s officers are doing,
but the constable’s offices are also under-
staffed.
Currently the sheriffs department has
divided Denton County into four districts,
patrolled by two sheriff's officers. The
long distances between cities in the county
are the department's problem. Babb said.
Education Board
assumes new roles
By Kathy Linton
Daily Reporter
The Texas Higher Education Coor-
dinating Board is beginning the aca-
demic year with at least two new mem-
bers, nearly 40 new responsibilities and,
the members hope, an improved image.
With powers limited in the past to
approving or rejecting new construction
and degree programs, the board mem-
bers have been cast in the role of saying
no.
But board members say they believe
that role has changed. The board, which
oversees Texas public universities, now
has broader powers in the form of nearly
40 new responsibilities that were recom-
mended by the Select Committee on
Higher Education and adopted by the
70th Legislature.
The expanded powers are developing
a five-year master plan and setting
enrollment limits for each institution,
administering research programs, dis-
tributing $60 million in research funds
and reviewing doctoral programs and
eliminating those unnecessary.
Other new powers include developing
a test of basic skills for freshmen,
studying the funding system and as-
signing “mission statements,” or
descriptions of how each institution
contributes to the overall higher educa-
tion needs of the state.
Board members and university presi-
dents said that although they are en-
couraged by the board's expanded
powers, they are adopting a wait-and-
see attitude about its effectiveness.
NT President Al Hurley said the new
powers will allow the board to fulfill
its original mission which sometimes
clashes with the individual interests of
universities.
In addition to implementing its new
responsibilities, the board is undergoing
a change in membership, as six of the
seats on the panel came up for re-
appointment this month.
What's Inside
MINDS OVER SYMPOSIA—Professionals meeting at the third annual
series of symposia on Networks in Brain and Computer Architecture
will attempt to bridge the gap between neuroscience, computer science,
telecommunications, and other related disciplines.
The symposia, which will meet at NT Sept 10 through 20, will
bring experimentalists from neurobiology together with theorists on
neural modeling See page 5.
NT TRAINERS—Often only the obvious is seen at an athletic contest
However, there is much more that goes on behind the scenes and
during the games.
The student trainers that assist the teams at NT put in long hours
and many years of hard work and receive little compensation The
program that most trainers, including the ones at NT, go into requires
1,800 hours of participation. This translates into six semesters of outside
work besides that spent in class See page 8.
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