The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 15, 1983 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 69 No. 40
University of Texas at El Paso Student Newspaper, El Paso, Texas
Tuesday, February 15, 1983
Student files
complaint vs.
professor, T.
In an attempt to settle a dispute beteween a UT El
Paso student, a teaching assistant and a professor, Sally
Bishop, student welfare and grievance committee
chairperson, is looking for a mediator.
L. Phillips Blanchard, Faculty Senate chairperson,
said he asked Bishop to look into the matter.
Daniel Alonzo, senior criminal justice major, filed a
complaint, Feb. 7 in which he said Barbara Adams,
English department teaching assistant, threw a two-inch
piece of chalk at his leg during a Nov. 19, 1982 lab ses-
sion.
The incident was the culmination of a personality con-
flict that began in the fall 1982 semester, Alonzo’s com-
plaint letter states.
Alonzo’s grievance in-
cludes Larry Johnson,
chairperson of the English
department.
“In the third week of the y , ,
semester Danny Alonzo YOURS e
Photo by Letty Garcia
spoke with Dr. Johnson Cupid’s beau, Adrian Gonzalez, 4, takes aim at his sored by the Student Association for Bilingual Educa-
about the personality con- sweetheart, Veronica Juaregue, 3. The couple won the tion.
flict yet it continued, Dr. Valentine’s sweetheart and beau contest, Feb. 12, spon-
Johnson is responsible for 1.—
therefore, he was negligent S f 5 m TIi 0 n d iffere n © e
in dealing with this matter,” P 11111UI uliliVA
the letter states. . ..
In his specific complaint I egclature I I H P find appropriation
against Adams, Alonzo said Lsiidtule 011 C * DE iuno ADPI opHadoi
Adams had a “preconceived By Allison Ring The operating budget for UT El Paso will now go to
L Phillips Blanchard opinion of the student, as Statt Writer committees in the Texas House of Representatives and
well as a predisposition to Two state budget reviewing committees are $1.5 the Senate, Anderson said.
decide the quality of the student’s papers. The T.A. was million apart on how much money UT El paso should be The commmittees on higher education in the House
constantly belittling the student in the presence of the given for the 1984-85 biennium but estimates are still in and Senate will 8° over the budget again, making recom-
student’s peers as well as saying such comments as ‘Dan- the early stages, said Wynn Anderson, assistant to UT El mendations along the way.
ny, I think you are illiterate.’ ” Paso President Haskell Monroe The House and Senate appropriations committees will
, ., Anderson said the first step in the appropriations pro- amend the budget also. This committee makes final
complaint as of Feb. 14. neeass the University 5 own assessment of its financial said.
And Adams said she didn’t wish to comment on the UT El Paso asked for $93.12 million, but he said, the The final UT Fi Paso appropriations bills will come
matter, final appropriation is never as much as the original re- before the House and Senate in May and will not be
identical, however, Anderson said, the bill that makes it
Alonzo filed an offense report with the University QAieschool submits a preliminary budget the to Gov. Mark White’s desk will be a compromise effort
Police Dec. 13, 1982. He listed Adams’ offense as simple Governor's Budget Office (GBO) and the Legislative between the two legislative bodies.
assault. Budget Board (LBB) review it separately, Anderson said, After the original work of the University budget plan-
In accordance with the by-laws of the welfare and and each committee makes recommendations to give ners, and the supplementations of at least four commit-
grievance committee, which is under the jurisdiction of more or less money to different University departments, tees,, the governor can still reject the bill with his line
the Faculty Senate, Blanchard had to initiate action on In January, former Texas Gov. Bill Clement’s budget Lir this were to happen, Anderson said, the legislature
office recommended UT El Paso be given $76.5 million would undergo a special session to produce an ap-
He said he hoped an early settlement through a for 1984-85. The LBB was more generous, and alloted propriations bill palatable to the governer
mediator could be reached, but the if no accord was the University $78.35 million. The last time a special session was called to approve an
reached, a hearing committee would be formed. Anderson said he did not know why one group’s appropriations bill was in the early ‘70’s, Anderson said.
The duties of the student welfare and grievance com- recommendation was higher than the other’s, and the The LBB’s recommended allowance of $78.35 million
mittee are hearing student’s grievances, questions of LBB’s budget comments could just as easily have been is in line with a steady trend of increases over the years,
grades and grade changes and students’ rights. even less than the GBO’s. • Anderson said.
Dominicans don UT El Paso T-shirts
The Dominican Republic shares the shirt, he said, and many who could not the country in 1979.
island of Hispaniola with Haiti in the read the shirts did not even know what a Everytime Evans saw a Dominican in a
Caribbean Sea. It is a place of vast con- university was, much less El Paso’s loca- UT El Paso T-shirt, he thought of home.
trasts: the rich and the poor coexist in a tion.
“It struck me as funny,” he said,
land where nature regularly hurls its The first time Evans saw a Dominican “because I thought my job in El Paso
aquatic arsenal upon the island’s shores, wearing a UT El Paso T-shirt, he had might be related to the University. It
The natives repeatedly pick themselves been riding horseback all day, working seemed ironic to be surrounded by people
up from each disaster and supplicate their with members of a rural farmers’ associa- with these T-shirts.”
voodoo gods for mercy.
tion. He went to one of the farmer’s William Furlong, assistant bookstore
In an attempt to convert the natives to homes for dinner, and a 12-year-old boy manager, was amused at the coincidence,
Christian thinking, the Dominican came in the room wearing the striped “The T-shirts didn’t come from here,” he
Republic emerged as a major working shirt. said. “They may have been irregular or
place for missionaries of many faiths. Evans wondered about the shirt, and misprinted T-shirts we rejected from the
Clarke Evans, a United Methodist mis- asked the boy where he got it, but no one manufacturer, but we didn’t donate
sionary, completed 15 months of duty knew where the shirts came from. them.”
there in December 1981. It just seemed like everyone had one. Evans is currently working with the El
He became curious about UT El Paso Evans said he started asking around, Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organiza-. .
when he noticed thousands of Dominican trying to find out where the shirts came tion (EPISO). A. Dominican citizen in Santo Domingo
citizens wore T-shirts imprinted with this from. He was told thousands of the shirts Meanwhile, a little piece of UT El Paso displays , his 07 El Paso .-shirt.
University’s logo. . were in an aid shipment sent to the is at work on an island thousands of miles Thousands of the shirts were shipped to
Young and old alike were clad in the islanders after Hurrican David ravaged away. — Allison Ring the Dominican Republic after a 1979 hur-
ricane.
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