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• --.vv: • -.v:*- • ■ ■ - ■■ jf®•'v:..'iiM';:: •■•. •.•■. - - • - ^•• he Battalion Cold and windy College Station, Texas Thursday, March 2, 1972 Friday — Clear to partly cloudy. Southerly winds 5-10 mph. High 64°, low 34°. Saturday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 71°, low 46°. 845-2226 Irish terrorists kidnap, kill north militiaman The new Health Center will look something like this quite an improvement over the older one. See accompany- though the surroundings will be quite different. Scheduled ing story. [tobegin when Mitchell Hall is razed, the center represents Vo ‘quack shack’ BELFAST (AP>—Terrorists marched a Northern Irish militiaman from his home Wednesday and shot him to death, minutes after assuring his sobbing wife he would not be harmed. Militiaman Tommy Fletcher was in his farmhouse only 100 yards from the border with the Irish republic when the terrorists—presumably an assassination squad of the Irish Republican Army—entered and took him away. Hours later a giant bomb rocked Londonderry, wounding at least 15 persons, including two soldiers, and causing the city center’s worst damage in more than two years of violence. The bomb, estimated at up to 100 pounds of gelignite, exploded in a parked taxi and damaged all 50 shops on Ferryquay Street. Persons in the area were evacuated after a warning but even hundreds of yards away behind army cordons they were hit by flying glass. Fletcher, 43, was kissing his wife before leaving for his regular job. He was bustled into a nearby field where three bullets were pumped into his head. His wife, who heard the shots, said the gunmen had told her Fletcher would not be hurt. Fletcher, a private in the Ulster Defense Regiment, was the second militiaman to die in less than 12 hours. Two hooded gunmen burst into the Lurgan home of Harry Dixon and shot him dead Tuesday night. His 11-year-old daughter was struck in the leg by a bullet. The slayings raised Northern Ireland’s death toll to 253 in 31 months of sectarian violence. Both deaths were blamed on the Irish Republican Army—IRA—which is waging a guerilla campaign to wrest the Protestant-dominated north from British rule and unite it with the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic republic. In Belfast, the British army said it captured an IRA bombmaker high on its wanted list after raiding a house in the capital’s Catholic Andersontown quarter. An army spokesman said an army squad which raided the area after a tip found the man huddled in an attic. The spokesman did not name the captive but claimed he was a “provisional” IRA officer who had escaped when troops raided another house in the same area earlier this year. He had been holding a bomb instruction class for seven IRA recruits who were arrested. Security forces believe Andersonstown, where the IRA enjoys powerful support, is a virtual explosives factory for making many of the bombs used in the terrorist assault in Belfast. Better health center coming Warrant may be needed Twenty new, carpeted rooms and a well-equipped out-patient ic will be included in the new health care center to be built on the present site of Mitchell Hall. The two-story structure is due to be completed in the summer of 1973, at a cost of $1,329,650. Construction will begin in March as soon as Mitchell is removed. “This will be one of the finest health care facilities in this part of the country,” said Howard S. Perry, director of civilian student activities. The first floor will be an out-patient clinic. It will include a plaster-fracture room, an orthopedic room, a gastro-intestinal room, a treatment-injection room, a dental hygiene room, a laboratory and a pharmacy. There will also be a doctors’ conference room and six doctors’ offices. Each office will have two adjacent examination rooms. The second floor will be for in-patients. There will be 20 double-occupancy rooms, each fully carpeted and with a call system. Every two rooms will share a bathroom-shower facility and oxygen will be piped into the rooms. There will also be two isolation rooms, one acute room and an emergency room. Also on this floor will be a new innovation for TAMU, a mental health facility. There will be a psychiatrist’s office and an observation and detention room. The basement will contain the x-ray equipment, a kitchen and storage areas. “Most of the staff will be transferred over from the present center, with some additions, but most of the equipment will not be. Almost all of the furnishing in the new center will be brand new,” Perry said. “We now have two full-time doctors and 12 cooperating specialists from the Bryan-College Station area handling about 4,000 patients a month. We anticipate raising this to four full-time doctors in the new center, with room for six eventually,” said Perry. There will be no operating facilities in the new building. “In most cases involving surgery, people have their own doctor and hospital where they want to go. In emergencies we have ambulances to take students to the hospital in Bryan,” he said. The new center is being financed by a bond issue and the students’ building use fees, which are $3.50 per semester. The facility will operate and pay the staff out of the student services fees paid by students. The need for a bigger, better facility was brought out in 1969. In January of 1970, a committee including four students, two physicians, a systems architect and Perry met and worked out a proposal. This was submitted to then acting President Luedecke who approved it and passed it on to the Board of Directors. They approved it and signed the contract. “This is really about as fast as you can move on a project and still be thorough,” commented Perry. “A&M is probably one of the few schools to offer all of these health services free. The University of Oklahoma students pay a much higher student services fee and still have to pay $12 per day to stay in the hospital,” Perry said. “I have heard complaints about students getting hurt in the evening and coming to the center but not having a doctor there to take care of them. We do have many doctors on call for emergencies, but outside of a metro-hospital you just do not find doctors there at all hours. In our new center we may be able to have interns there after hours. But our registered nurses are very capable and can handle most emergencies,” said Perry. for search of dorm room Construction moves on schedule Major construction proj ects valued at almost $50 million are on schedule at A&M, construction manager Charles Brunt reports. The building program is part of a five-year, $85 million expan sion project. Completed in Decem- kerwas the $10 million Engineer ing Center scheduled for dedi cation March 16. A&M’s Board of Directors Tuesday awarded two contracts for a student health center and office-classroom building, part of the current series, with several other major projects still in de sign phases. Brunt gave the following sum mary on current projects: -15-Floor Oceanography-Mete orology Building. Structural steel framework is complete and con crete floors are in place through the 12th floor. Masonry, mechani cal and electrical work is 60 per cent complete. The $7.6 million project, scheduled for completion in late 1972, is overall 65 percent complete. —Memorial Student Center. Construction consists of a base ment and two-story addition, plus tenovation of the existing build ing, Structural concrete work on the new addition is about 75 per cent complete. The $8.5 million project is approximately 35 per cent complete with construction scheduled through the summer of 1975. —Auditorium and Conference Tower Complex. This project con sists of a building complex con taining a 2,500-seat auditorium, a 750-seat theater and a 250-seat theater, all joined to a 12-floor conference and continuing edu cation tower. Total cost is $10 million. Construction of the tower is 50 percent complete. Twelve floors of structural steel with concrete floors have been laid and the elec trical-mechanical work is 40 per cent complete. The theaters and auditorium are 40 percent complete. Concrete structure for the large basement areas together with related water-proofing, subsurface drain age and electrical-mechanical lay outs have been completed. The first floor concrete columns and beams are finished. Multi-level concrete stairs and the large con crete girders also are completed. Overall, the project is 40 per cent completed, with the sched uled completion in the winter of 1973. —Chemistry Institute Annex. The $4 million facility consists of a basement and five floors of of fice and laboratory space. Struc tural concrete frame work has been completed, with brick work 85 percent complete. Electrical- mechanical installation also is 85 percent. Scheduled for completion next winter, the project is 70 per cent complete. —Eight-Story Office-Classroom Building. Construction on the $3.6 million high-rise includes a base ment and eight floors of offices and classrooms. Structural con crete work is 85 percent complete and brick work is 20 percent. Electrical-mechanical work is 50 percent complete. The building is 45 percent over all with scheduled completion next winter. —Dormitory Complex. This $8.5 million project includes two four- floor dormitories and a one-story commons building. Structural concrete and exterior masonry are finished, with intei’ior finish at the halfway mark. Currently it is 80 percent complete and will be finished this summer. A proposed revision to the Uni versity Bluebook asking that a search warrant be issued before a student’s room may be searched has been presented to the Univer sity Rules and Regulations Com mittee. The change, passed by the Stu dent Senate Thursday, says “per sonal belongings of students are subject to inspection only by a law enforcement official with the appropriate, signed search war rant issued only by local, state, and federal courts of law.” It goes on to say the “inspec tion will be made only when a cadet commander or a resident advisor accompanies the dormi tory counselor, commandant’s rep resentative, or other university official within the Department of Student Affairs.” The proposed revision also means that resident advisers will no longer be able to search rooms by opening drawers, closets, or moving articles on the students’ desks; only looking will be per mitted. “Currently, it is legal to search a room without a warrant,” said Mark Blakemore, chairman of the Student Senate Rules and Regu lations Committee. “But Dean Powell has instructed the Univer sity Police to have a search war rant before entering rooms.” According to the present policy in the Bluebook, “personal belong ings of students on University property are subject to inspection by the Commandant or Director of the Department of Student Af fairs of their authorized repre sentatives at all times. The rule also says “inspection will be made only when a cadet commander, a resident adviser, or their authorized representative accompanies the dormitory coun selor, commandant’s representa tive, patrolman, or other univer sity official.” In another important proposal, the Student Senate asked that the Board of Directors, the president, or their duly authorized repre sentative be reserved the right to cancel any speaking event causing an interruption in the university’s orderly activities. The old rule says the university may cancel any speaking event it deems as an interruption in or derly activities as well as being able to cancel the privilege of in viting speakers by any group abusing this privilege. The Senate also suggested that candidates be allowed to speak on campus following the regulations for other speakers. Campaigning for other than formal speeches must have the President’s ap proval. Under the disciplinary code of the handbook the Student Senate wants to remove the policy that says defacing another college campus by paint or other means will result in the minimum penal ty of suspension for the semester in which the act occurs. The new policy says suspension would be recommended for the defacement of another college by any means of depredation. Other changes are proposed in the House Rules section of the book. It is recommended that mat tress covers be kept on mattresses at aR times instead of requiring that beds be fully assembled. The delineation of the rule re quiring trash and other sweepings to be placed in trash receptacles rather than being swept into hall ways is recommended. The phrase, “excluding normal wear,” has been asked to be added to the policy of charging room damages to students. The Senate also proposes that cooking still be prohibited in the dorms and at the same time asks that food, and refrigerator's meet ing the dean of students specifi cations, be permitted. The dress code is suggested by the Senate to be stricken entirely from the handbook while cable television in dormitories cleared for such purposes be allowed as recommended by the dean of stu dents. Constitution referendum next Tuesday Students will decide the future of the new student government constitution in a referendum next Tuesday. The constitution, passed by the Student Senate in its last meet ing, will apply to the senate only. All students are eligible to vote with fee slip. Angley hammers Smith at Forum Vanity fair applications now available to seniors Applications for Vanity Fair ^ now available at the Student Programs office and the Student Publications office. Individuals must be sponsored a senior. From the applications submit ted, 12 girls will be selected to University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. attend the Student Publications banquet April 28, at which six finalists will be chosen. These six will represent the senior class as their sweethearts and will be for mally presented at the Ring Dance on April 29. Applications are also available from Jerry McGowen, Senior Class President (Dorm 9-301) and Henry Ostermann, Aggieland ed itor (Dorm 8-224). “Mr. Clean,” otherwise known as Gov. Preston Smith of Texas, was one focal point of Austin Rep. Maurice Angley, Jr.’s speech Wednesday for the Noon Political Forum meeting. The Republican House member, while criticizing the governor’s recent involvement in the Frank Sharp stock fraud case, said he could not find a reason for “what makes Smith tick.” “I just have not been able to reason why Gov. Smith found himself able to get political loans up to $275,000,” the irate Angley said. “In addition, he helped spon sor or push legislation that was favorable for him and his ‘team’ and then turned right around and vetoed the bill. It’s just not un derstandable.” The UT graduate expressed his indignation at the recent “closed door” meeting of the House In vestigations Committee because of its desire to do “its best to help Speaker Gus Mutscher and his cronies” in their court battles. The representative said the only new investigative action lately has been the Investigation Com mittee’s probe into how the press found out about the recent indict ments before they were released. “This fraud case,” Angley said, “has really hurt Texas as far as increasing the number of indus tries that would come into the state. The higher echelon of com pany officers have seen Austin become the laughing stock of the state and decided not to build be cause of the Texas banker that bought politicians.” Rep. Angley cited that most Texans don’t know what is going on with the scandal and suggested that interested persons read the December issue of “Fortune” magazine for the “most unbiased and comprehensive story on how sick our state government really is.” The legislator also pointed out a statement made by Mutscher as he was leaving jail after being arrested for the felony. “Mutscher’s statement: ‘While the big fish are still swimming free’ doesn’t point to the ordinary man on the street,” said Angley. “It insinuated two or more state wide-elected officials.” Angley said that with the House speaker, the speaker pro tern, the governor and the lieu tenant governor involved in the case, people are entitled to a meaningful, in-depth investigation “not by a committee formed by these men to investigate them selves, but a committee that will get down to business.” “I am concerned with the money Texans have lost through the years under State Treasurer Jesse James,” the representative said. James, who has been in office since 1941, is Angley’s opponent in the upcoming elections this year. Angley said it was James who “got the ball rolling” for the governor by balancing the gov ernor’s loans with state money in Sharp’s three banks, while other state banks were “crying out for state deposits.” “Under James, Texas has been losing roughly 10 million dollars in interest per year,” he said. “With the current interest rates, state money should be earning $700,000 a year, but we have only been getting $300,000 a year be cause of a special two-and-one- half percent rate on the six-million that was placed in Sharp’s banks. “In addition, four million were placed in a checking account in which only one transaction was ever carried out. This will have to go down in history as the world’s largest service charge.” In a short question and answer period, Angley said Bryan Rep. Bill Presnal was definitely a “Mutscher Man” because he has voted for some of Mutscher’s “notorious” bills. Angley does not want the state constitution rewritten per se, but would like a constitution that would provide for cleaning up state government. Rep. Maurice Angley, Jr.