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Campus
As those lucky enough reach the borders of Louisiana, there are
still some things that can be done in the line of entertainment on the
home front.
“The Sting will he shown at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Saturday in the Rudder Theatre. Tickets are $1 and can be purchased
at the door.
raphed books, gift certificates and furniture will take place at Manor
East Mall, Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
•
The Basement Coffeehouse will be open on Friday and
Saturday evenings this weekend. Tonight, the featured attractions are
Jana Farwell and Stan Jones. On Saturday Byrd Larberg will head the
list followed by Bruce Wooden and Paula Lozano-Canning. The cof
feehouse which provides an on-campus location for student perfor
mers is open from 8 to 12 and admission is 50c. Corps members do not
have to wear uniforms. Anyone wishing to audition should contact
Skip Bruner at 845-2588.
•
The TAMU Diamond Darlings will hold tryouts at 5 p.m.,
Tuesday, on the Kyle baseball field.
The Darlings, “batgirls” for the Aggie baseball team, will add two
new members and two alternate members through the tryouts and a
multi-step screening process.
During the Tuesday tryouts applicants will be required to show
some basic knowledge of baseball. They will also be asked to de
monstrate their abilities at running and at throwing and catching a
baseball.
Applications can be obtained at the baseball field before the
tryouts, or in baseball coach Tom Chandler’s office, 8th floor, Rudder
Tower.
City
Today’s weather is mostly sunny with southerly winds
10-14 mph. Twenty per cent chance of rain is expected Satur
day. The high today is 89.
•
Auction of antiques, art, rare books (first editions), autog
raphed books, gift certificates and furnityre will take place at Manor
East Mall, Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Proceeds will go to the A&M Library fund.
“Plaza Suite,” a Niel Simon play, will he performed at Stage
Center, 3100 S. College. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Admission is $2.50.
•
The A&M Consolidated School Board will discuss a possible
$4 million bond issue for new facilities at its regular meeting Monday
night at 7:30.
The meeting will he at the A&M Consolidated High School at 701
West Loop S. in the cafeteria.
Also on the agenda will he the possible offering of six pieces of
school property for sale.
The order for levying taxes for 1975-76 will be discussed.
Other reports to he presented include finances, enrollment,
drug abuse, and the Head Start program.
Action will also he taken on a loan for salary and operating
expenses.
•
A rummage sale sponsored by the classes and clubs of A&M
Consolidated High School will he held in the high school parking lot at
701 West Loop S. on Saturday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Proceeds from the sale will he used to pay operational costs for
the participating groups for the 1975-76 school year.
Clothes, small electrical appliances and home-made items will he
Onedia Hensley, student council sponsor, said the sale will he
moved into the cafeteria and courtyard in case of had weather.
In the past the organizations have raised money by operating
concession stands at Texas A&M hxitball games.
This year those concessions were given to Bryan High School by
the concession lessee.
Texas
Texas oil allowable was set at 100 per cent for October (the
43rd consecutive month) while Railroad Commissioner Mack Wallace
warned of a federal plan to raid Texas of its oil and gas reserves this
winter.
A State Bar of Texas committee says the state court system
faces “a slow death by case-load strangulation” that can he prevented
by passage of the judiciary article of the new constitution.
•
A state trooper has been arrested and charged with aggra
vated robbery as the third law enforcement man involved in
the stick-up of a Caddo Mills bank.
•
About 200 law students marched peacefully on the governor s
mansion Thursday to complain about the manner in which Dr. Lorene
Rogers was chosen president of the University of Texas at Austin.
National
A former CIA intelligence analyst said yesterday that U. S.
Sficials tried “to fool the American press, the public, and Congress
V deliberately under estimating enemy forces during the 1968 let
[Tensive in Vietnam. As a result, he says, the military itself was
night by surprise.
The Postal Service said it moved Thursday to increase the
rice of a first-class stamp from 10 to 13 cents, effective shoitly
fter Christmas.
An expert on sexuality told an Air Force discharge board on
Thursday that Technical Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, a homosexual,
would not be subject to blackmail and could not pervert other ser
vicemen if allowed to remain in the military.
World
Hurricane Eloise ripped across Cuba Thursday, and still re
mains a threat to the southeastern United States.
Moslems and Christians agreed Thursday to a cease-fire in
Lebanon’s communal strife, but factions expressed doubt it will hold.
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Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Fugitiv e
newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
and three radical comrades were ar
rested Thursday, ending one of th^
longest and most bizarre manhunt s
in American history.
Almost by chance, FBI agent s
spied two of Miss Hearst s fellows ir,
the Symbionese Liberation Army
jogging on a San Francisco street.
William and Emily Harris wer^
taken without a struggle.
Miss Hearst and Wendy Yoshim.
ura, an artist linked to the radical
movement, were apprehended
about an hour later, taken into cus
tody at an apartment in the city’s
Mission District.
“Thank God she’s all right,” Miss
Hearst’s mother, Catherine, said in
a barely audible voice when in
formed of the captures.
Her husband, Randolph A.
Hearst, was in New York on busi
ness and said as he boarded a plane
for San Francisco, “I am very
pleased that things turned out the
way they did.”
Hearst said that despite the bank
robbery charges against his daugh
ter, “I don t think anything will
happen on that score; after all she
was a kidnap victim, you must re
member.”
In a crowded courtroom 2 M> hours
after her arrest. Miss Hearst was
arraigned on charges that included
hank robbery and federal weapons
violations.
Her hair a reddish-brown coler,
cut in a shag style, the slightly built
Miss Hearst listened as the charges
against her were read by U.S.
Magistrate Owen Woodruff. She
wore tinted glasses and appeared
quite pale.
Miss Hearst was kidnaped from
her Berkeley apartment Feb. 4,
1974 by the then-mysterious SLA.
Within two months, she had joined
her capters and declared herself a
revolutionary.
In addition to federal charges.
Miss Hearst and the Harrises face
state charges that include kidnaping
and robbery. Asst. Dist. Atty. John
Howard in Los Angeles said the
three would be brought there next
week for anaignment.
William Harris, 30, and Emily,
28, were arraigned after the 21-
year-old Miss Hearst was taken
from the courtroom.
Bail for all three was set at
$500,000.
Cbe Battalion
Copyright © 1975, The Battalion
Vol. 69 No. 12 College Station, Texas Friday, September 19, 1975
Helping hand?
Ed McClintock receives an assist from his class number at the yell practice last
Rodger Poole and Kit Haydon while doing night. stair pi.oio in c;ie,. Johnson
Despite U.S. trend
SAT scores rise
By VICKIE D. ASHWILL
Battalion Staff Writer
While the Associated Press re
ports a decline since 1964 in the
average scores of high school
graduates on the Scholastic Ap
titude Test (SAT), the scores of en
tering freshmen at A&M have risen
steadily.
The average score of 4,617 enter
ing students this fall was 1041 (com
bined verbal and math). The latest
national average score on the SAT is
906, 135 below the A&M average.
This year’s average score, how
ever, was below A&M’s 1974 aver
age oil 057. Auston Kerley, director
of counseling and testing, was not
concerned with the drop.
“There’s no answer for the drop,”
Kerley said. I think it’s because
more and more students are taking
College Entrance Examination
Board (CEEB) tests and broadening
the base. The drop in averages here
is not significant, merely a fluctua
tion which occurs from year to
year.
SAT scores are required for ad
mission, but Kerley added that the
CEEB never intended for these
scores to he used alone for admis
sion to any college or university.
“We tie the SAT scores to the
high school record,” Kerley said.
“The better the record, the lower
the scores are required.
Entrance requirements at A&M
sa y that students in the first and sec
ond quarters of their high school
chesses must make at least 800 on the
SAT. Students in the third and
fourth quarters of their high school
classes must make 900 and 1000 re-
spectively •
Students are also required to take
CEEB achievement tests hut
minimum scores have never been
se t. Kerley said these scores are
uS ed for placement and credit by
examination.
SAT test scores have only been
used for admission purposes since
1963. Kerley said the tests and the
results were studied for two years
by the university to be sure they
were fair.
“We still feel they’re fair, Kerley
slid. “We have held to the same
standards we set in 1963 and have
found no need to raise them. They
vvere never set for image purposes,
only to help determine whether or
„ot the student can profit from train
ing at the university.”
Nearlv 90 per cent of A&M’s pre
sent undergraduates were in the top
half of their high school class. In
1974, 67 per cent of the entering
freshmen were in the top quarter of change in image from college to
their high school class. university.
Why are the percentages so high? Lay said the changing times, in-
“Part of it is because A&M’s creasing numbers of girls and a vol-
image has changed,” Dr. Bill G. untary corps probably all helped to
Lay, director of adminissions, said. encourage the relatively fast
“We’re no longer just agriculture change.
and engineering but we re known A&M s rule of thumb has been to
for all areas and are attracting better accept anyone who meets admission
students. There has also been a (continued, page 3)
Campus crime
rises sharply
By CATHY RANDALL
Battaltion Staff Writer
Crime has definitely increased on the Texas A&M campus.
Campus Chief Police O. M. Luther says.
And County Attorney Roland Searcy said he intends to
vigorously prosecute university cases.
Both officials expressed their concern about the increasing
crime rate at A&M University in separate interviews Thursday.
“It’s too early to tell about this year,’’ Luther said, “but in
the past two years crime on campus has increased 20 per cent. ”
Searcy said he has noticed an overall increase in arrests
since school started in September.
Parking lot thefts account for much of the increase, Luther
said, with tape decks and citizen hand radios being primary
targets.
Building thefts from Zachry and the MSC are also on the
rise, Luther said. The police have been called to investigate
cases ranging from stolen paintings and purses to thefts of elec
tronic equipment.
“So far this year the force has been plagued with theft of
ladies’ purses,” Luther said. He said the campus police had two
suspects in the purse-snatching cases.
“Better than 55 per cent of the cases we receive are
cleared,” he said.
After the police have charged a suspect he is turned over to
the County Attorney's office if the offense is a misdemeanor or
the District Attorney’s office if it is a felony.
Searcy said he receives one or two cases a week involving
A&M students, the most common offense being driving while
intoxicated. Theft came in second, with hot checks and posses
sion of less than four ounces of marijuana, a misdemeanor, close
behind.
“The thing I want to impress upon the students is when
they take upon a foolish lark, take something, and get caught,
they will get prosecuted for committing a crime just like
everyone else,’ Searcy stressed.
“There is not a free state called Texas A&M University
where new laws apply, ’ h e sai( ^- If you’re caught it is handled as
a crime, not as an university-level disciplinary problem.”
Some of the larks Searcy spoke of were: Breaking into the
Tower restaurant for food, breaking into a girl’s apartment and
stealing a chair, and stealing $15 dollars’ worth of cinder blocks
from a construction site.
If convicted offenders could receive anywhere from six
months to 99 years, Searcy said.
The University police have added three men this year to
lighten the case load, bringing the total campus force to 40.
Luther advised students to properly secure bicycles, lock
dorm rooms, and record serial numbers of all valuable property.
Compromise fails
Rates rise
By STEVE GRAY
City Editor
The cities of Bryan and College
Station and the General Telephone
Company on Thursday failed to
reach a compromise concerning the
phone company’s request for an in
crease of $1,073,193 in local rates.
Representatives from General
Telephone met for more than two
hours with officials from both cities
trying to reach an agreement on the
rate increase request in order to
avoid a possible court battle.
Bill McMorries, an Amarillo-
based rate consultant was also pre
sent at the meeting. He was hired
by both cities to assist them in mak
ing a fair offer to General Tele
phone.
The closed meeting at Briarcrest
Country Club focused on the offer
made Monday by both cities to
grant the phone company $219,307
of their original request.
B. A. Erwin, division manager for
General Telephone, after the meet
ing said neither side could agree on
a fair figure.
“We completely turned it down,”
he said of the cities’ offer. “It was
obviously too low.
The offer by both cities, about 21
per cent of General Telephone’s
original request, was submitted in a
letter to the phone company.
In the letter, the cities said “the
difference in the amount proposed
by General Telephone Company of
the Southwest, and the amount
proposed by the cities, arises from a
difference in opinion as to the law
and accounting principles to be
applied in arriving at the fair rate of
return.
Erwin said the phone company
plans on Monday “to declare the
franchise (granted by the city to the
phone company) ‘null and void and
to put the scheduled rate increase
into effect.
The new rates, effective at 12:01
a.m., would increase single-party
residence line charges from $6.50 to
$9.65 per month. Single-party bus
iness line charges would jump from
$13.55 to $21.20 per month.
The rate of return on invested
capital on present telephone rates is
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