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A Wicked Messenger May Fall Into Mischief, But A Faithful Ambassador Is Health. Che Battalion Weather Vol. 67 No. 323 College Station, X Thursday, November 29, 1973 THURSDAY—Today’s weather is expected to be clear and mild with the winds from the NE at 5-10 m.p.h. High today should be around 77° and the low to night around 43°. Tomorrow is going to be another crisp, beau tiful day. ideast Peace Summit Ends With Arab Oil Threat, Boycott ALGIERS (AP) — Arab kings land presidents decided Wednesday to use every means at their dis posal, including the oil squeeze, to win their confrontation with Israel. The leaders said there will nev er be peace in the Middle East until two basic conditions are met—“Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territory, especially Jerusalem, and restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestine people.” Israel has consistently reject ed both demands. The demands were included in a statement ending the three-day summit, the first such parley since the end of the October Mid dle East war. The summit was meant to tighten Arab ranks for a peace conference with Israel Packet Time Again Pre-registration for the spring semester will continue through Friday and Monday through Wed nesday next week at the Registra tion Center in the old Exchange Store building. Registration hours are from 8 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. No fee for the spring semester will be collected at this time. Physically disabled students who need assistance with any phase of registration are asked to call 845-7117. ‘Perfect Mold’ Of Woman Presented The Aggie Players will present “A School for Wives” Monday night at 8 in the University Cen ter theatre. Written by the French play wright Moliere, the play saterizes sixteenth century attitudes to ward women, a buff of today’s women’s liberation movement. Analphe, played by Tim Mc- Canlies, has raised Agnes, played by Stephanie Inman. He has fash ioned her into what he feels is the perfect woman. However, she soon meets Horace (Ken Brown) and complications ensue. “It says a lot about today and it is still contemporary,” said C. K. Easton, director. Other cast members include Kenneth Dimmick as Chrysalde; Jim Dennis, Alaine; Pat Lock- stedt, Georgette; Bradley Ellis, Notary; Mark Scott, Enrique; and Kevin Cowser, Oronte. “The School for Wives” will run through Dec. 8. Admission will be $1 per person. tentatively scheduled for Dec. 18 in Geneva. But Iraq and Libya boycotted the meeting because they oppose peace with Israel, and King Hus sein of Jordan only sent envoys because he wanted to avoid face- to-face disagreement with the Palestinian guerrilla leaders. The leaders kept their resolu tions secret but gave maximum publicity to their resolve to con tinue holding back oil from coun tries they consider unfriendly— and to open the taps for pro-Arab nations. The Arab oil-producing nations have cut back production 25-30 per cent, raising fears of a fuel crisis this winter in the United States, Japan and Europe. More over they have slapped a total embargo on the United States and Holland because of policies con sidered particularly pro-Israeli. In a move designed to put ad ditional pressure on those who support Israel, they decided to cut production at least 5 per cent more each month. But the oil shieks have granted a one-month suspension of this measure for Japan, the Phillipines and the Common Market countries, except Holland, in recognition for pro- Arab statements. Sex Discrim ina tion Charged In TAMU Tenure Denial By VICKIE ASHWILL Most faculty members who fail to receive tenure leave quietly after their year’s notice is up. But assistant professor of his tory Dr. Bonnie S. Stadelman filed a suit of sex discrimination against TAMU. See related story page three Stadelman was told she was denied tenure (assurance that a faculty member may continue in his academic position unless ade quate cause for dismissal is dem onstrated) in the fall of 1972 after six years of service to the University. At a loss to why the review board of eight tenured faculty members within her department had denied her tenure, Stadelman said she wrote everywhere she could think of asking for help. She finally got a reply from the Equal Employment Opportu nity Commission and filed a suit against TAMU in April because of sex discrimination. Later, after the case with the EEOC had begun, Stadelman said she was shown the reason which was in her records as to why she did not receive tenure—lack of publication. During her six years, Stadelman had published two articles and presently has a dissertation ready for print. ,“During all my time here I never heard any complaints as to what I was doing. What else was I to do but to expect tenure?” asked Stadelman. “The University will acknowl edge that Dr. Stadelman did file a charge of sex discrimination against them,” said H. R. Smith, director of personnel. “We have tried to be very co operative with the EEOC when they come to the campus to in vestigate,” continued Smith. “The University received notice of the charges in July yet no decision has been made on this case or any other one filed against the University.” Smith said that only one other faculty case had been filed against the TAMU system and this person filed because he had not been hired. “Sex and race are the two things most filed for and seem to be sweeping the country with in the last two or three years,” Smith said. “The situation is not unique at TAMU, yet we (the administration) feel we are not discriminatory in any of our poli cies.” Assistant Vice President o f Academic Affairs Dr. Haskell M. Monroe is one of the tenured faculty members in the history department qualified to vote on the Stadelman case. “We had four people to con sider,” said Monroe. “For each one we had to ask ourselves if this person was the kind of col league we would like to have with us for the rest of our lives. “In Stadelman’s case, I cast a non-voting ballot because I’ve been out of the department for one and a half years,” continued Monroe. “I voted yes on one Refrigerator Rental Tonight Students may rent and re-rent refrigerators tonight in the base ment of the old Health Center tonight from 7-9, announced Larry Me Roberts, campus proj ects chairman. candidate because I knew that person personally and felt he was a good professor.” Monroe asked how one measures the performance of another in dividual. “It’s University opinion that we ought to ask ourselves whether or not we can get a person of better ability for the same money or someone of the same ability for less money,” said Monroe. “I believe strongly in tenure—with out it you tend to keep every body.” “We try to avoid the possibility that any faculty member who is coming up for tenure will be sur prised when he is turned down,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr. “We try to keep him informed as to how he is doing.” Calhoun noted that most people on tenure probation are gone be fore their probation ends. He also said that the decision concern ing tenure was one of judgment. “You cannot necessarily explain all of the logic behind a decision,” said Calhoun. Contrary to Stadelman’s com ments Calhoun said that any fac ulty member can and does get a full explanation concerning his tenure decision although it is not in official document form. Calhoun explained that the de partments voted on candidates by secret ballot to avoid personality conflicts.' “The goal of the University is that the tenure decision be made on the part of faculty peers so that it takes it out of the adminis tration,” said Calhoun. Calhoun said his office was tak ing on the role of a procedure supervisor. THIS MAROON AND WHITE football has found a dual use with Brazos Concrete Service. Conversion of the football is credited to Jim Edwards ’60. (Information and Photo supplied by Donaid Falk) Board Keeps Booze Rule An official policy allowing li quor on campus was rejected by the TAMU System Board of Di rectors last week. Student Senate Bill 20-(5) would have established a formal rule allowing the possession of alcohol in dormitory rooms had it passed the Board. Despite attempts to put the res olution on the Board’s formal Freshmen To Elect Officers Run-offs for freshman class officers are being held today from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Polling places are the library, the Sbisa news stand and the Memorial Student Center. In the presidential race, Steve Fort faces Gary Cooper. Buddy Brown and Carolyn Johnsen are up for vice-president. Due to a mix-up on the original ballot there is a re-vote for the secretary-treasurer and social sec retary posts. David Reta and Linda Goolsby are running for secretary-treasurer. Sandy Guil lory and Nancy Guido are run ning for social secretary. Freshmen must have their I.D. and student activity cards to vote. agenda, Student Government President Randy Ross did not suc ceed and watched the bill disap pear into the informal private session. Ross said he had asked permis sion to attend the private meeting in order to represent the students on that one particular item either by debating or answering ques tions. “TAMU President Jack K. Wil liams told me this request was not appropriate . . . not the way our system operates,” said Ross. Ross said Williams sent him a letter explaining that the Board had decided to continue the select ive enforcement policy established earlier this year. Williams said the Board felt residence hall living was com munal in nature and certain regu lations were required to main tain an appropriate atmosphere and study conditions. According to Ross, the letter stated that Board rules were not I meant to be repressive or reflect a lack of ^ confidence in the stu dents, but were for the benefit of the students. “I think most of the Board members were aware of the se lective enforcement policy yet at the same time some members felt strongly enough about the issue to want to go back to no alcohol on campus at all,” said Ross. “Selective enforcement is a lot better than the old policy where anyone could get in trouble for having liquor in their rooms,” concluded Ross. Scholarship Taxes Depend on ‘Strings’ Deciding if a scholarship, grant, fellowship or wages is taxable in come has been frustrating the re search assistant and advanced de gree student. Richard J. Stakem Jr., District Director of the Internal Revenue Service for Southern Texas, gives some guidelines: ‘Objective Bible Study Leads Back to in Haystack God’ Leads to Defection By WILL ANDERSON The Soviets, who at this time have no fear of missiles or sub marines, are frightened by the Dr. B. P. Dotsenko ‘Soviets frightened by Bible’ Bible, said Dr. B. P. Dotsenko, a Russian physicist who defected in 1966. Dotsenko’s appearance yester day was sponsored by Great Is sues and the Faculty-Staff Chris tian Fellowship. Formerly the head of the Kiev State University nuclear physics laboratoi’y in the U.S.S.R., he is now doing re search at Laurier University of Waterloo, Canada. “Paraphrasing Francis Bacon, one may say superficial and ego centric knowledge leads to athe ism,” said Dotsenko. “Genuine and objective study leads back to God. “One of the most fundamental laws of nature is entropy. Sim ply stated, any system given to itself will decay quickly because particles composing matter tend to run wild. Thus, the material world should have turned into a cloud of chaotic dust long ago. Some non-material power is ca pable of overruling this destruc tive entropy.” Dotsenko said he was born in Kiev in 1926 and as a boy he was a book worm. “This ‘book eating’ defined the evolution of my life. “My father was an engineer so we moved around. Once, when we were outside Moscow he asked what I wanted to do with my life and I told him to understand the basis and purpose of life. “Since the Revolution was still a fresh memory and my father had connections with nobility, his main drive was survival. He told me I was a fool.” Dotsenko said when World War II began his father was taken by the army and he was moved to Siberia for communal work. The conditions and food were terrible but he got out when the army took him. “I suffered a concussion dur ing training and was released,” Dotsenko said. “My family was then moved to Ukraine where I was again put to work in the factories. Conditions were again bad and a desire to escape the work made me enter electrotech nical communications school. Ev ery man and woman in the Soviet Union must work but students in important fields were expected.” “One hot August afternoon I fell asleep on a haystack in an old barn in the yard,” Dotsenko re lated. “When I awoke, I found I’d slipped between the stack and the wall. “The more I struggled the deep er I sank and when my feet touch ed the floor I felt paper beneath them. It was a stack of a prerev olutionary magazine called ‘Niva’ (‘The Wheatfield’)” Its description of prerevolu tionary life differed with the So viet propaganda, said Dotsenko, and further searching uncovered an old book. It was a Bible writ ten in ancient Slavic and Russian. Though he had been taught re ligion is a crime, he smuggled the book into his room and in two weeks almost finished reading it. “It spoke of loving your neighbor which seemed strange because that was the period of the purges. “Thousands disappeared for the slightest suspicions and you view ed your neighbor with fear and hatred. Hitler was stupid about his invasion when he set up con centration camps; he might have been welcomed as a liberator. Four million died in these camps.” Dotsenko said perhaps 60 mil lion died in the Communist purges from the Revolution to 1940. Dic tator Joseph Stalin considered ten innocents dying a fair price for the death of one spy. After the war Dotsenko said he studied in a university in Lvov. “It was here entropy first inter ested me. By the early 50’s I was worshipping and praying to God. Dr. Jakov Frenkel, a Jewish sci entist, was also a big influence.” Dotsenko said he went to Len ingrad in 1949 to study under Frenkel. “He let his students use his library and one day I found a large and well read Bible. “I was stunned a scientist of Fren kel’s reknown could read the Bi ble.” I said nothing when many men complained to me about the gov ernment or criticized Lenin. “Nor mally such action resulted in an other disappearance; the men who spoke to me received promo tions because they were KGB agents (the Russian secret po lice).” Tribute should be given Fren kel, Dotsenko said, because a few years later he was invited to make comment about Lenin’s book, “Materialism and Empirio- criticism,” an attack on anyone who suggested the existence of God. Frenkel said quietly but firm ly, “I do not consider this book, not the whole philosophy of Marx- Leninism, as any valuable con tribution to modern philosophy.” Frenkel died soon after or what was reported to be a heart at tack. Dotsenko said after he receiv ed his degree he married and be gan his work. The KGB began checking up on him and for eight years he lived under surveillence. He said the hardest fact about Communism is the government is placed even above the family. “The saint of Soviet yodth is the “Young Pioneer,” Pavlik Morozov who betrayed his father and un cles when they balked at giving 95% of their harvest to the state.” Dotsenko said when he discov ered his wife was reporting his actions to the police he prayed to either escape or die. In 1964, he attempted suicide by an overdose. “They were Soviet pills so it didn’t work,” he said. “Soon aft erwards I was told I was being sent to Canada to an international nuclear power program. I was (See DEFECTOR, page 4) Money received by a student or research assistant as the result of a contract between a university and a company which results in a product or service for the com pany is considered to be taxable income to the student. Payment cannot be considered nontaxable if it compensates the student for past, present or fu ture services, or if it is made to allow the student to pursue studies or research primarily for the grantor’s benefit. Neither can it be considered nontaxable income merely be cause the student is a candidate for a degree. To qualify for the exclusion, a scholarship or grant payment must be a “no strings attached” arrangement intended primarily to further the recipi ent’s education and training. Stakem said that certification forms previously provided to graduate schools titled “Certifi cation of Fellowship Status of Re search Assistants” will no longer be used. He explained that the number of variations in arrange ments for grants and scholarships makes it necessary to examine the facts of each case where there is any question whether the money is taxable. Cinema I & II Bought Out By ABC, Inc. ABC Interstate Theatres, Inc. took over operation of the Cinema I&II twin theatre in the Univer sity Square Shopping Center Nov. 16. Texas National Theatres was the original leasee of the theatre property. ABC Interstate Theatres, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of (See CINEMA, page 4) University National Bank “On the side of Texas AAM." Adr.