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Spectrum
May 6,1988
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Larger Than Many Art Schools,
Art Program Seeks School Status
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are just a few of the places we need to place
surveillance material.
"These areas arc difficult to patrol,"
Jackson said. The police patrol the campus by
driving around it. They do not patrol the
interior of each building. Surveillance material
placed inside the buildings around campus
would cut back on the amount of time it would
take for an officer to get out and patrol each
building. Monitors would make it easier to
accomplish this.
Jackson said he wants to set up an
educational program for administrators and staff
to promote safety among themselves and their
students.
"There are schools in the northeast part
of the country, where they are having problems
with security," Jackson said. "There have been
murders in the dorms (there) and a lot of
campus theft."
Jackson said he would like to prepare
the university for these types of incidents before
they happen.
"We want to make certain that the
campus is unattractive for this kind of activity,
and we need funding to do this," he said.
Jackson wants extensive funding. "In
the short run, the money we need for relocating
the department is in the $200,000 range,"
Jackson said.
For surveillance equipment, Jackson said, it
would cost $1.5 million over the next 10 years.
"There would have to be a lot of
rewiring done," he said. "We may be able to
share the expenses with other departments."
Timing is a key consideration in NTs
campaign to turn its 1300- strong art department
into a school, President A1 Hurley said last
week.
"I think everyone here would like to see
it become a school," he said. "The issue is
getting it approved in Austin."
Hurley said NT had not submitted the
plan to the coordinating board in Austin, and
that he was not sure what stage the plan was in
at NT.
Several NT officials, including Dr. Scott
Sullivan, chairman of the art department,
refused to talk to a reporter for the Spectrum
about the school proposal. However, an article
in the May 1,1987 issue of The NT
Daily quoted Sullivan extensively.
Last spring, the art department had
1,075 majors, and Sullivan said he expected
1,200 majors for this academic year. Hurley
said the department has about 1,300 majors for
the 87-88 academic year.
Reasons for the expansion fell into three
categories, Sullivan told The Daily. The first is
the department’s size. With 10 concentrations,
or "majors" within the department, and 34 full-
time faculty members, the department is larger
than many of the nation's art schools.
Furthermore, the department is a respected one,
Sullivan said.
He said the Art Building was designed
to accommodate 800 majors and was severely
overcrowded at 1,075 majors. He said he would
like tosee Proposition 2 money used to add on
to the building.
Sullivan said that contrary to the beliefs
of budget officials in Austin, converting the
department to a school would not be very
expensive because the department is already set
up like a school.
That will be a hard thing to make the
state's coordinating board believe, Hurley said.
He said NT would also like to make the College
of Business Administration's accounting
department a school under the college.
If plans keep the accounting department
under business administration, the coordinating
board is more likely to believe that costs
will remain low. Keeping a new art school
under the College of Arts and Sciences is
another example of the same strategy.
The board has deferred discussion on
NT requests for Proposition 2 money that
would renovate two buildings. Hurley said he
hoped the "climate would change," and the
board would allow NT the money to create an art
school.
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