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Vol. 80 No. 122 (JSPS 045360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, March 29,1985
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By KAREN BLOCH and
TRENT LEOPOLD
Staf f Writers
The 4,324 votes cast in this year’s
Student Government election pro
duced the first non-reg yell leader in
several years and a runoff for stu
dent body president.
Student body presidential candi
date Mike Cook received 975 votes,
or 22.5 percent of the total votes
cast, while Sean Royall received
1,313 votes, or 30.4 percent. They
will face each other in Wednesday’s
runoff election.
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at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue.
“But, I feel very optimistic about the
next week.
"In my opinion, there hasn’t been
enough stress on issues concerning
the student body and the student
body president’s ability to deal with
these issues.”
Cook said he was proud of the
“It’s been a frustrating cam-
n," Royall said Thursday night
way his campaign was run.
“My campaign was straightfor
ward, positive and free of controver
sy,” Cook said. “This is a real grass
roots victory. The people on my
campaign committee were willing to
go out and meet people.
“I tried to shake as many hands as
I could and I stressed my past expe
rience.”
Royall said that he hopes to put
more emphasis on his past record
during the runoff campaign.
“I want to stress my past perfor
mance and my past experience,”
Royall said.
Cook agreed with Royall saying:
“I think that a campaign for student
body president should be based on
the candidate’s credentials.”
Madelon Yanta received 21.2 per
cent of the vote for student body
president while Bob Stephan re
ceived 19 percent and Brett Shine
received 7 percent.
Steph Emage, Larry “Bud” Mel-
mann, Ed Polasek and Beaver
Cleaver received write-in votes lor
student body president.
Royall and Cook will speak at
Sully’s Symposium at noon next
Wednesday.
David Lawhorne will be the first
non-reg yell leader in several years.
He received 1,893 votes, 17 per
cent of the 11,109 votes cast for se
nior yell leader.
“I don’t think that my being a
non-reg will be an issue,” Lawhorne
said. “I hope people will just see us
(the yell leaders) as five Aggies yel
ling down on the field.”
The other two senior yell leaders
elected were Thomas Buford who
received 3,148 votes and Barry So-
werwine who received 2,098 votes.
In the race for senior yell leader,
Qhris Cordts received 1,135 votes,
Steve Lord, 1,524, Todd Watson,
809 and Tim Koch, 502.
Marty Holmes and Tom Kelley
were elected junior yell leaders.
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By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
I About 3,300 people are expected
to participate in spring commence
ment ceremonies May 3 and 4, Asso
ciate Registrar Don Carter said
Tuesday.
Carter said about 3,500 under
graduate and graduate degrees will
be awarded.
The degree check office will begin
contacting students about problems
with degree applications early next
week.
The clear list for graduating se
niors will be posted outside Heaton
Hall at 8 a.m. May 1.
Students will have until noon the
next day to take care of any prob
lems.
A red dot next to a senior’s name
on the list means he has an academic
block that must be cleared.
In the past, red dots indicated ei
ther an academic or a fiscal block,
but this year a fiscal block list will be
posted outside Heaton Hall.
Students may be blocked for un
paid parking tickets or money owed
to the Student Financial Aid office
or the fiscal office.
If the block is fiscal, the transcript
office will not release a student’s
transcript.
If the block is academic, he may
not be allowed to graduate.
Students with academic blocks
should contact the degree check of
fice in Heaton Hall.
Fiscal blocks must be cleared by
the fiscal office.
Graduation ceremonies will be at
3 p.nr. and 7:30 p.m. May 3, and 9
a.m. May 4.
All graduate degrees and degrees
in the colleges of agriculture, ar-
I chitecture and education will be
I awarded at the afternoon ceremony
on May 3.
Students in geosciences and engi-
[ neering will receive their degrees at
theevening ceremony on May 3.
Degrees in business, liberal arts,
I science and veterinary medicine will
be awarded May 4.
Ambassador John Tower will
[ speak at the first ceremony.
State Sen. Phil Gramm is guest
speaker for the evening ceremony
on May 3.
U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen is the
scheduled speaker for the last cere
mony.
Commissioning ceremonies will
be at 3 p.m. May 4.
General Ormand Simpson, assis
tant vice president of student serv
ices, will be the guest speaker.
More than 100 cadets will be com
missioned into the military services,
with 65 entering the Army, 37 enter
ing the Air Force, 10 entering the
Navy and eight joining the Marines.
Final Review also will be held May
4.
Graduation announcements can
be picked up today at the Memorial
Student Center Browsing Library in
223 MSG.
Students must show their receipts
and student I.D.s when picking up
their announcements.
Marjorie Patke, acting supervisor
for the MSG Student Financial Cen
ter, said about 6,000 extra an
nouncements were ordered and will
go on sale at 8 a.m. April 4.
Senior Weekend begins April 26
with the Senior Bash at the Texas
Hall of Fame.
Ring Dance, sponsored by the
Class of’85, is April 27.
Tickets for the weekend activities
are $60 a couple, including Ring
Dance, the senior banquet and the
Bash.
Tickets to Ring Dance are $35 per
couple and tickets to the Bash are $5
per person.
Tickets will go on sale April 8, and
may be purchased at the MSG Box
Office in Rudder Center.
Keith Carmichael, chairman of
the Ring Dance committee, said
about 2,500 couples are expected to
attend the dance.
Music will be provided by The
Drifters and the Ed Gerlach Orches
tra. The Debonaires will perform at
the Bash.
The Association of Former Stu
dents will hold senior induction ban
quets April 8 and 9.
Dr. Davis Ford, president of the
Association, will speak at the ban
quets.
Gateway To Aggieland
The Academic Building is perfectly out- ton Tower in this view from the west side of
lined by the arch at the bottom of the Albrit- campus.
Goetz remains free on bail
after making innocent plea
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bernhard Goetz
pleaded innocent to attempted mur
der Thursday and was allowed to re
main free on $5,000 bail for the sub
way shootings that his lawyer said
have made him “the best-known face
in the country.”
Goetz, who had been led into the
courthouse in handcuffs, left quickly
after the arraignment.
Assistant District Attorney Gre
gory Waples had asked that bail be
raised to $20,000 from the $5,000
that was set for Goetz in January.
But State Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Crane refused after Barry
Slotnick, Goetz’s lawyer, said Goetz
has nowhere to go. “You’re looking
at, unfortunately, the best-known
face in the country. He couldn’t
flee,” Crane said.
The supreme court is a trial court
in New York.
“I concede the defendant has
faithfully appeared in court when
ever required,” Waples said, but he
asked for higher bail because the
new charges, handed up Wednes
day, were more serious than the in
dictment issued by a different grand
jury in January.
The latest indictment came after
District Attorney Robert Morgen-
thau, saying he had a new witness,
resubmitted the case to a grand jury.
Slotnick, arguing there was no new
evidence, tried unsuccessfully to
block the resubmission.
Slotnick was granted 45 days to
prepare a motion to throw out the
indictment. The grand jury charged
Goetz with four counts of attempted
murder, four counts of assault, one
count of reckless endangerment and
one count of criminal possession of a
firearm.
Goetz shot the four youths on a
subway car Dec. 22 to forestall what
he said was an attempted robbery.
Two of the youths, however, said
one of them merely had asked Goetz
for $5.
Attempted murder is a felony
with a maximum penalty of up to 25
years in prison for each count. The
assault and weapons possession
charges carry up to 15 years for each
count, and the reckless endanger
ment charge carries up to seven
years in prison.
Slotnick told reporters after the
hearing that Goetz was “an average
Joe who’s going to face trial and
who’s going to look at a jury and
hopefully that jury will acquit him.”
On Wednesday, Goetz said the in
dictment was probably all for the
best. “Everything now should come
out in the open, with time, and that
will end the controversy,” he said.
'Proposal will maintain quality education'
Caperton talks about new budget plan
ByTRAYCE BERTLING
Reporter
Sen. Kent Caperton elaborated on
I a new state education budget plan in
a lecture sponsored by the Political
Forum Thursday night.
If new proposal is adopted, no
faculty salaries will be cut.
The same amount of instruction
will be given and possibly even more
money will be available for new re
search and advanced technology.
“It does require some pain like
most plans,” Caperton said.
“It requires that we raise tuition
instead of $8 an hour next fall to $ 12
an hour. This would still rtlean that
only New Mexico and Oklahoma
would have lower tuition than Tex
as.”
Non-resident tuition also will go
up to $120 an hour.
“The state of Texas can no longer
afford the luxury of subsidizing stu
dents from other states,” Caperton
said.
Caperton said he’s glad Texas has
out-of-state students. He said one of
the main components of a quality in
stitution is having a variety of stu
dents from different geographical
areas of the world.
Even with the tuition increase, the
budget proposal will only cover 10
percent of the cost of education in
1986.
To make up the difference, the
state is planning to divert funds
from other areas such as parks and
highways, Caperton said.
“If it ever comes to making a deci
sion between funding state parks or
higher education, there’s no doubt
about it, I’m for education,” he said.
Caperton said a state law exists
that increases the scholarship and
loan funds available to students hav
ing financial difficulties from sud
den increases in tuition.
“We are committed to striving for
excellence in higher education and
these plans call for money,” Caper
ton said.
“W’e don’t want to discourage stu
dents from coming to Texas. We
need to keep attracting the best and
the brightest all over the country.”
Even after these adjustments, Ca
perton said that Texas still will offer
students a wonderful opportunity to
come learn in this state.
“We’re going to keep good faculty
members here,” he said.
“We’re going to keep quality re
search going on in the laboratory,
and we’re going to make it clear that
when faculty members look for a
place to move and generate new
ideas and new concepts, that they
look first to Texas. And that Texas
remain strong and committed to
having the best system of higher ed
ucation in the nation.”
MX battle
ends with
approval
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House
ended a bruising congressional mar
athon Thursday and voted 217-210
to release $1.5 billion for the pro
duction of 21 more MX missiles.
The last of four votes in the Sen
ate and House closed the latest chap
ter in a decade-long battle over the
need for the strategic weapon.
But opponents said President
Reagan’s first major congressional
victory of 1985 also marked the
high-water mark for the MX, which
critics believe would be destroyed in
the first wave of a Soviet nuclear at
tack.
Reagan said the House vote
“shows again that we were able to
stand in a bipartisan way before the
world as far as our security is concer
ned.”
From New York, where he had
traveled for a speech, the president
acknowledged tne many Democrats
who voted for the missile by saying
he “will not soon forget those who
chose the road of political courage
and vision.”
Voting for the missile were 156
Republicans and 61 Democrats,
while 187 Democrats and 23 Repub
licans voted against it.
During an equally tense fight two
years ago, Congress approved a first
batch of 21 MXs.
Reagan eventually wants to install
100 of the 10-warhead missiles in
existing underground Minuteman
missile silos in Nebraska and Wyom
ing.
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill
Jr., who led the unsuccessful cam
paign against the missile, said Rea
gan is “going to have a very tough
time” winning approval this June for
an additional 48 MXs worth $3.2 bil
lion included in the administration’s
proposed 1986 Fiscal year budget.
House Republican Whip Trent
Lott of Mississippi agreed saying
there is growing pressure within his
party to make cuts in Reagan’s de
fense budget beginning with the
MX.
Reagan also is expected to lose the
support of a number of moderate
Democrats, including Sen. Sam
Nunn of Georgia and Rep. Les As-
pin of Wisconsin, chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee.
Aspin voted for the 21 MXs ap
proved Thursday.
Reagan successfully timed the MX
debate in the Senate and House to
coincide with the opening of the Ge
neva arms control talks.
In public appearances and in doz
ens of personal lobbying sessions
with Senate and House members,
Reagan said the success of the arms
talks with the Soviet Union hinged
on cogressional approval of the MX.
The president also brought Max
M. Kampelman, a Democrat and
Reagan’s chief arms negotiator, back
from Geneva last Monday for a day
of intensive lobbying with wavering
House members.
O’Neill said Kampelman’s emer
gency trip persuaded a half-dozen
Democrats and made the difference
in the final vote.
Critics said the U.S. nuclear arse
nal is already intimidating enough to
force the Soviets to bargain se
riously. They said no matter how
much accuracy, range or firepower
the MX adds, the weapon is still vul
nerable to a first-strike attack from
the Kremlin’s own force of land-
based missiles.