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Viewpoint The Battalion Thursday Texas A&M University March 29, 1979 Energy equals mass times jogging speed Big John makes good Midwest show By l3lCK WEST WASHINGTON — Ran into Coldthorn, the jogger, one day this week. His face was aglow with intellectual dawning. By “ran into,” I don’t mean we actually collided, although, knowing Coldthorn, I can well imagine that happening. In this instance, our paths merely crossed in a neighborhood fern shop. “Would you like to know why we joggers live longer than you other guys?” Coldthorn asked. That litany has become repugnant through repetition — how pumping extra air into the lungs galvanizes the corpuscles, scours the blood vessles, oxygenates the brain and prevents approximately 5,280 known diseases, plus 177 that are yet to be discovered. “I don’t want to hear it again,” I told Coldthorn. “Wait!” he insisted. “This is a new theory. I got if off the tube last week.” He had, he said, watched a public televi sion special produced as part of the Albert Einstein 100th birthday commemoration. One segment was devoted to demonstrat ing Einstein’s postulation that time slows down as velocity increases. “They showed pictures of particles that ordinarily only live two or three seconds,” he continued. “But when shot through a Cyclotron at high speeds, the particles lived about 30 seconds. “That’s the way it is with joggers. Be cause we move faster, we age more slowly, I had to laugh. “That’s ridiculous,” I scoffed. “The phenomena Einstein predicted would only occur at velocities approaching the speed of light.” x “Have you seen me jogging around the block lately?” Coldthorn retorted. Since I happened to have caught part of the Einstein program, I was in a position to pin him to the wall. One sequence had Peter Ustinov playing both himself, on earth, and his twin brother, who was out in space. As the earth twin grew progressively more wrinkled and grey, the other twin’s age did not change perceptibly. “That was an illustration of how time could be influenced by dense gravitation around the mysterious ‘black holes’ in space,” I said. “Joggers don’t encounter anything like that.” “What about that pothole in front of your house?” Coldthorn demanded. “It’s big enough to have its own gravitational field, it it not?” “Maybe so,” I said, “but the effect is the opposite. Whereas ‘black holes’ delay the aging process, potholes make you grow older sooner than you normally would. Then, pointing out that altitude as well as velocity theoretically has a bearing on the rate at which time elapses, I really socked it to him. “There is absolutely no evidence that Einstein had joggers in mind when he propounded the Theory of Relativity,” I said. “It is more likely he was thinking of pole vaulters.” By ARNOLD SAWISLAK United Press International WASHINGTON — History usually fails to repeat itself in politics, but reports from the recent gathering of midwestern Repub licans in Indianapolis somehow recalled a meeting of Democrats four years ago in Minneapolis. At that time, the Democrats had a grow ing herd of potential candidates for 1976 and a number of them showed up at the liberal-sponsored forum to speak and seek support. Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., the early favorite for the nomination, was not there; his campaign game plan did not include exertions to impress the Democratic left. Jimmy Carter, practically unknown to the midwesterners in the audience, was on hand. One strong memory of that event in the late summer of 1975 remains: a veteran of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party emerging from the hall after Carter’s speech saying, “By gosh, he sounds like Luther Youngdahl.” Youngdahl was the Republican governor of Minnesota who was so popular that the DEL despaired of ever unseating him. In what may have been his greatest political coup, Hubert Humphrey persuaded Pres ident Truman in 1951 to appoint Youngdahl to the federal bench in Washington, D.C. Republican fortunes in Minnesota went into a 27-year slump. So comparing Carter to Youngdahl in Minnesota had some special meaning, and a more astute reporter than this one proba bly would have picked it up. But it wasn’t until after the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary six months later that Carter started attracting serious attention. Jackson, of course, started going downhill in the early primaries and never did have a chance to carry out his carefully prepared campaign plan. How does all that relate to the Republi cans in Indiana in March of 1979? Only that Ronald Reagan, the acknowl edged frontrunner for the 1980 GOP nomi nation passed up the Indianapolis gather ing and John Connally, the Texas Democrat-turned-Republican made such an impression that he won a straw vote for the candidate most likely to lead the GOP back to the White House. Even though he was not there, Reagan’s name was on the ballot and he finished eight points behind Big John. It would be somewhat premature to suggest that Connally’s success at one re gional meeting is the key to the 1980 nomi nation. But it certainly is no exaggeration to say Connally did himself a lot of good by show ing up and turning on his charm and charisma for the midwesterners, who after ill are the hard core of the Republican Party. If they can forgive Connally for spending most of his adult life as a Demo crat, that could mean one of the tall Tex an’s toughest obstacles has been surmount ed. As for Reagan, the reports from In dianapolis can’t be good. He never did take the Midwest away from Gerald Ford in 1976, and by passing up the Indiana gather ing, he may have assured himself of the same problem in 1980. Large disasters can be brought on by small mistakes. Just about a year from now, Illinois holds the first midwestern presi dential primary. It will be interesting to see if the Indianapolis meeting is recalled when its results come in. “AND AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE LIBRARY IS STILL UNFINISHED!” Legislating religion: church-state collision? By DAVID E. ANDERSON UPI Religion Writer WASHINGTON — An increasing number of religious leaders are worried that religion and government are on a “col lision course” which may fundamentally alter church-state relations in the next few years. The issues — including the explosive question of whether government has the power to define ‘legitimate’ religious ac tivity — probably will have to be decided by the Supreme Court. The question boils down to whether churches and religious activities have a special place within the American constitu tional scheme that entitles them to treat ment different from similar secular institu tions and activities. While complicated and technical, the answer to the question could affect the hab its, especially in the area of financial sup port for churches, of millions of American church members. There has been no overall religious con sensus although on a number of the current disputes there has been an unusual amount of cooperation between religious groups traditionally at odds on church-state issues. The issues are not the ones that in the past have aroused large numbers of the Christian faithful such as the u^e of prayer or Bible reading in the public chools. The news problems flow from the ten dency of government, particularly regu latory agencies, to write rules and guidelines for new areas of public life, in cluding religious institutions. Most leaders intimately involved in the disputes are urging stiff resistance to the government without panic. “It is not yet a situation that calls for antagonism or loud cries of alarm,” said the Rev. Dean M. Kelley of the National Council of Churches. “But it does demand resistance, firm resistance.” The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, senior editor of Worldview magazine, agreed, saying “there is a crisis, but we shouldn’t panic.” Nevertheless, religious leaders are alarmed. Much of last fall’s meeting of Roman Catholic bishops was devoted to churchstate relations and the Lutheran Council in the USA has convened three closed-to-the press consultations to work out a Lutheran strategy in the touchy area. Father Charles Whealon, S.J., professor of law at Fordham University, says the cur rent shift in church-state relations began with the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1969. "In the last 10 years,” Whealon told the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, “many events have occurred that give us just cause for concern about the current attitude and future disposition of the state and federal government towards the American churches.” “A small but growing number of religious leaders of all faiths fear that the golden age of religious exemption has ended, that we are already in the twilight of substantially increased governmental regulation, and that there is a real danger — unless we / manfully resist — that we will soon enter the night where religious exemptions will be the rare gleam instead of the bright rule in American law,” Whealon said. Whealon argued that while some fears of the religious leaders were exaggerated, “there is real cause for serious concern about some of the developments in state and federal law during the last 10 years.” “The Tax Reform act of 1969 did not mark the demise of religious exemptions, ” he said. “But it was a landmark turning point, an imperative for new directions.” The law repealed the historic blanket exemption of religious organizations from filing of annual financial reports. It substi- regulate religion. tuted a more limited definition of exempt organizations and introduced into the vo cabulary of church-state relations the term “integrated auxiliary.” Churches and their “integrated au xiliaries” — agencies whose functions are “exclusively religious” — were exempt from the filing requirement, but such church-related institutions as schools, hos pitals and orphanages were under it. But the term “integrated auxiliary,” a creation of Congress, is used by any church to define its charitable, educational or wel fare activities. The IRS tended to confine it to preaching and worship. After much protest by the churches, the IRS said it never intended to say that chari table, educational or welfare activities were not religious in nature. But it insisted they were not exclusively religious and could not qualify as an “integrated auxiliary” of a church. For many church-state observers, the dispute, affecting many church-related hospitals, schools, orphanages and other social services, was the first “insidious” step in the current crisis. The National Council of Churches saw it as a government effort in “marking out the margins of churches and thus determining what the law would recognize as part of a church’s mission. ” In a statement by its governing board shortly after the IRS proposed its definition of “integrated auxiliaries,” the NCC said Congress and the courts “have observed the mandate of the First Amendment for 200 years without attempting to define ‘re ligion’ or ‘church’. “Efforts to spell out a definition of ‘church’ or ‘religion’ may have the effect of freezing in law the forms of one particular period rather than allowing the continuous evolution of forms to fit changing circum stances. “Furthermore, by defining the nature of ‘religion’ or ‘church, ’ government takes the first and most insidious step toward struc turing a sacred area where it has no power to legislate, ” the National Council said. But the “integrated auxiliary” dispute was only one of a growing number of disputes revolv ing regulatory agencies and their powers to Thotz ( Presses ro\\ L rnmUt^L/ roh V- 'SteKp \ -ho CD^e. Bt/ Doug Graham ^One easy _ cal l will f “Ic/as ? undetri’hand a was forced "to 1 s )\ ^ en ^ >n£ /^hJcrt- Or\y fcaiifr iY was d banded baked,and f 5irr»o-vViered £r]|§§!||§ in HoRarkdoisSup x sauce. and sbebacJrT#r-\ "Fo irrigate, a / « -faasAec \aVie. arl e ^ ~ ^^i yeqVv . I »°ve&d some. 7 \ v/eurFicaVton I 7 N**™ J lii ; ^Sure^^D^d^youTknow l^refused Lo give ber second helpings. C^ Q ^ on 'i“ soy lining Hall ^ V»Vce 'tbal', ^ Top of the News CAMPUS New band leaders chosen Eleven cadets in Texas A&M University’s Corps of Cadets» selected to head the Navy-Marine Corps, Army, Air Force ROTC* Texas Aggie Band units, each composed of two to four comp squadrons or batteries. The senior cadet officers for next year are! K. Harbour of Houston; Jerald W. Ellington, Oakton, Va.; Kem D. Jones, Bryan; John W. Sneed, Longview; Kevin J. Udell, Horn Timothy L. Ferree, York, Pa.; David W. Hagan, Whitehouse; Dan j Hughes, Beeville; Terrell E. Pruett, Victoria; Timothy P. Gaitk Friendswood, and Thomas E. Rheinlander, New Braunfels. KAMU pre-auction show Sunday A special pre-auction showing of all arts and antiques and 4 major items donated for the first Great KAMU-TV Auction willt place 2-6 p. m. Sunday in the Rudder Exhibition Hall. The auction* be broadcast 8-10 p.m. April 1-3. Profits will go to the operationij KAMU, Texas A&M University’s public broadcasting facility. Pen wishing to bid should tune to Channel 15 on the UHF dial duringft auction. The auction number is 696-2211. Summer cruise bids open Rear Adm. Kenneth Haynes, superintendent of the Texas Maritii Academy, announced applications are being accepted for 35 ffeshit; to sail on Moody College’s 15th annual Summer School at Sea. ffl cruise enables a select group of this year’s high school graduates to earl six hours of college credit in either math, history or English wliJ sailing the Texas A&M University training ship T.S. Texas Clipp«[ The ship sails June 9‘and returns Aug. 5. An application can be mai through the superintendent’s office at Moody College. a STATE By Mennonites may get residency Fourt ident: ener tition Legislation that if passed would grant permanent resident statusb^pj 653 Mennonite immigrants in West Te'xas, was introduced in thelLSBrol Senate Wednesday by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. The legisla«£ — regardless of whether it is passed ultimately — will shield tiBl Mennonites temporarily from deportation by the Immigration Naturalization Service while the bill is pending before Congress. idge NATION impe l (Si nal t The d. N-plant safety neglect cited :rchai ba< Kerr-McGee’s safety training program for workers at its plutonk rough plant met federal guidelines but was perhaps neglect in not inform me n employees about potential cancer danger, the former presidentofiparti company’s nuclear division testified Wednesday. Richard Zitting,taly’ve tifying in the Karen Silkwood contamination trial in Oklahoma, tAginei the court he believed training should also have included warningstfexas radioactive plutonium could cause cancer. The Silkwood familyiiongt asking $11.5 million in damages from Kerr-McGee in a lawsuit tiding contends the company’s negligence caused Ms. Silkwood’s radioactiy, Lo contamination by plutonium. None Park tells of getting Korea cash Tongsun Park Wednesday testified South Korean Central Intel gence Agency officials sent him cash from overseas in a diploma!) pouch sealed to block inspection by United States officials, parti because he could not trust the U. S. mail. Testifying for the sixth daji the bribery, conspiracy and tax evasion trial of former Rep. OS Passman, D-La., Park said Gen. Kim Hwon Yuk sent him $18,0001 diplomatic pouch because the rice dealer had a cash problem attl time. Park, who repeatedly has denied any connection with tl Korean government or KCIA, Tuesday testified he made a $500,1 “forced loan” to another KCIA official. WORLD Kurdish rebels attack in Iran Kurdish rebels closed in on the army stronghold in the west Iraniai city of Sanandaj Wednesday amid bursts of mortar and machine gw fire. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime rushed two top-level mediation missions to the embattled city. Unofficial sources puttk death toll at more than 500 after three days of heavy fighting. Viets ready to talk peace Vietnam said Wednesday it is ready to talk peace with China bul threatened to attack the 10,000 Chinese troops it claims are still in Vietnam if they fail to withdraw. A statement by the Vietnamese foreign ministry and broadcast by Hanoi radio said the Chinese troops remained up to 12V6 miles inside Vietnam. WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy with a 30% chance of rain. High today 7i and a low of 58. Winds will be S.E. at 10-15 mph. The Battalion r * LETTERS POUCY I Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and are subject to being cut to that length or less if longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit such letters and does not guarantee to publish any letter. Each letter must be signed, show the address of the writer and list a telephone number for verification. 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