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.