Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, March 5-6, 1976

              MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS
Ne"l Mexico State University
March 5-6, 1976
1. CALL TO ORDER
The Board of Regents of New Mexico State University met at the NMSU-Carlsbad Branch
Campus beginning at 1:30 p.m., March 5, 1976. Present: Mr. R. L. Ahrens, President;
Mr. Malcolm Garrett, Vice President; Mr. William Humphries, Secretary-Treasurer; Mr.
Avelino Gutierrez and Mr. Rudy S. Apodaca, members. Representing the student body: Mr.
Richard Antram, President, Business Administration and Economics Council; Mr. Forrest Bray,
Vice President, Associated Students; and Miss Linda Farrell, Edit~r of the Round ~.
Representing the faculty: Dr. Lloyd Cooper. Also present: PresLdent Gerald W. Thomas;
Vice Presidents D. C. Roush, C. R. Hall, R. E. Kirkpatrick, R. E. Pesqueira (3/5/76), and
Steele Jones (3/6/76); Asst. Academic Vice President Harold Daw; Asst. Vice President for
Planning E. J. Waid; Mr. Duane Dorsey for Mr. Fred Day, Mr. Eddie Groth, Mr. John Darden
(3/6/76), Dr. W. P. Stephens (3/6/76), Dean Lowery Davis, Dr. Gary Sims, and Mrs. Lois Busby.
2. INTRODUCTIONS
Chairman Ahrens introdu~ed the Regents and the University-Community Council members
composed of Mr. Henry Gustafson, Chairman, and representative of the Las Cruces Community;
Dr. James Gray, faculty representative; Mr. Arthur Valdez, and Mr. Stan Welling, student
representatives. Absent was the Al~mni representative, Mr. Bob Porter. Mr. Ahrens, on
behalf of the Board, expressed appreciation to the UCC for their efforts in visiting with
Branch College communities in addition to the Las Cruces campus and community to keep the
Board informed of the various activities.
Dr. Gary Sims, Director of the CarlSbad Branch introduced local Carlsbad people
present: New Mexico, Eddy County, State Representative James Otts, and Mrs. Jean Tracy,
alumna of NMSU and representing the CarlSbad Argu~. Other members of the press present
were introduced by Mr. Eddie Groth: Joyce Watson, KBAD Radio; Jerry Bean, KCCC Radio;
Casey Church, Las Cruces ~ News; Scott Merville, Round ~; Leland Martin and Frank Pinnock,
NMSU Information Services.
3. "llPROVlIL OF AGENDA
From the Schedule of Events for the Regents' meeting, adjournment time for Friday's
session of the Board meeting was changed from 5:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to allow time to
tour the site areas for the proposed new Carlsbad facility.
Added to the Ag.!nda under "Business Office," was "1975-76 Budget Adjustments."
MOTION was made by Mr. Garrett to approve the Agenda as amended. Motion seconded by
Mr. Humphries and CARRIED unanimously.
During the course of the meeting, several Agenda items were deleted due to the time
pressure to complete ~he Agenda by around 12 noon on Saturday to meet departure schedules.
reletions under' "Business Office" were: "Budget, Alamogordo Addition" und "Preliminary
Plans for Corbett Center Remodeling and Other Buildings." The "NMSU at Carlsbad Campus"
was deleted under "Academic," because the subject had been covered at the Board of Regents
Breakfast for Carlsbad Board of Education and Advisory Committee on Saturday morning,
March 6. Also deleted were: "Development Report," Attorney's Report;'" "Report on New
Mexico Produce l1arketing Act, Regulatory Order No.3," "Report on New Mexico Dept. of
Agriculture Building," and "Other items of interest" under the "New Mexico Department
of Agriculture." No action was ~equired from the Board of Regents on the deletions
from the Agenda.
~. MINUTES OF JANUARY 29-31, 1976 MEETING
Mr. Apodaca requested the follOWing modification to the Minutes of the January 29-31,
1976 lllp.eting:
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