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Che Battalion Vol. 69 No. 43 Copyright (c) 1975, The Battahon College Station, Texas Thursday, Nov. 13, 1975 hr n»' sj t Ticket Referendum Past system preferred .. . '■ j C3k,~~- r . •T Windy Wednesday Staff photo by Jack Holm A cold front which brought gusty winds of up to thirty miles per hour caused discom fort for some of the new plants across cam pus, as well as the students. The front also brought the first below forty temperatures of the season. IlNI GIVi Campus WOMEN INTERESTED in represent ing A&M in Cotton Bowl activities in 1976 should go by the Office of Student Affairs in the YMCA building or room 216 of the MSC. Application for interviews must be submitted by Nov. 19 in the Student Affairs Office. • THE TAMU COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB will have a meeting for people wish ing to join Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in Room 502 in Rudder Tower. • THE IDA M. GREEN FELLOWSHIP, [forwomen in mathematics, biological sci ences, or physical sciences, is a $3,500 stipend offered to a woman who has fulfil led all requirements for the doctorate ex cept the dissertation by Jan. 2, 1976. Appli cation forms can be obtained from: AAU W Fellowships Office, 2401 Virginia Ave. N. ? W„ Washington, D. C. 20037. The dead line for receipt of completed application is Jan. 2, 1976. • THE A&M HORTICULTURAL SOC IETY will have a Pecan Sale Nov. 17-20 from 6 a. m. to .6 p. m. at the Horticulture Field Lab. The cost is $9 for a 10 pound bag. “PETRIFIED FOREST” will be pre- Isented by the Aggie Players Nov. 13-22 in the Forum Theater at 8 p. m. Tickets may be obtained at the MSC Box Office. Stu dent admission is $1.50, $1.75, $2; non- |> student admission is $2, $2.25, $2.50. • THE SECOND WOMEN’S SOUTH- 0< jFEST Water Polo Tournament will be *” ® held Friday at 4 p. m. and Saturday at 8 a. m, at Wofford Cain Pool. THE STUDENT BOOK COLLEC TOR’S CONTEST AWARDS Ceremony will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in room 226 in the University Library. Frank Wardlow will speak on “Authors with Texas Roots”. • THE CHESS TOURNEY registration will be Friday at 7-7:45 p. m. The ACU-1 Qualifications and Fall Championship will be held Nov. 21-22. Entry fee is $2.50. For further information call 846-8497 or 845- 6875. City PRESIDENT FORD PLANS to ask Congress to modify federal regulation ol the trucking industry sharply in an attempt to increase competition and lower con sumer costs. The proposed legislation being sent to Congress today would re move much of the federal red tape that now keeps trucking firms from raising or lower ing their prices quickly to meet changing marketing conditions. It would also limit the authority of rate bureaus, the trucking organizations that set common fares for their members. By CECILIA COWANT Battalion Staff Writer The ticket referendum passed Wednes day with 1065 votes in favor of last year’s first-come first-serve system. The present system received 741 votes, said Susan Price, election commission chairman. A committee will be formed including members of student government, the Ath letic Department and the administration. They will consider the best compromise between the present system and the old system. The seniority system and ticket al locations will also be considered in the proposal. “This doesn’t mean we will definitely go back to last year’s system as it was,’ Jeff Dunn, student body president, said. “But first-come first-served has to re main in the proposed system.’’ The student senate will consider the new proposal sometime early next semester. Student hit by automobile Accident — Hodges A Texas A&M University student was struck by a 1974 Pontiac Le- Mans at the intersection of Univer sity Drive and Old College Main yesterday about 4 p.m., according to College Station Police. The automobile was traveling west on University and the victim, Jerry Cordell, 20, room 408 in dorm 10, was apparently walking across the street toward the campus when he was struck. Police Investigator Milton O’Glivie said Wednesday night. Cordell was taken to St. Joseph Hospital and treated for a broken leg. He was transferred to the Texas A&M Health Center about 8 p.m. Wednesday. No charges were filed last night against the driver of the car. Police, who are still investigating the acci dent, said the driver voluntarily turned him self in after the accident. The athletic department then makes the final decision. The major student objections to last year’s system were the long lines and the unfair ticket allocations. The attached survey showed 1762 stu dents wished to keep the seniority system. Forty-four votes were against it. The stu dents voting on the ticket allocations re commended ticket sales in groups of six or 10. Optional funding of the present system includes the coupon books for the home games. Dunn said that student services fees would be increased with the manditory funding of last year’s system (buying tickets at the window the week of the game). The ref erendum was held as a result of a petition signed by 10 per cent of the stu dent body. The referendum election had to be held within 15 school days of petition submittance. The senate had previously scheduled a survey to be held in December. The Ticket Evaluation Committee will review the new proposal at its next meet ing. Supreme Court justice retires Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Ford’s choice of a successor to retired Justice Wil liam O. Douglas could tip the ideological balance on the Supreme Court as it faces such crucial issues as the death penalty. Douglas, 77-years old and partially paralyzed since last Dec. 31 by a stroke, retired Wednesday, telling President Ford what had become increasingly obvious to observers of the nation’s highest court. “I have been unable to shoulder my full share of the burden, he wrote after a deci sion which court officials said was reached alone in the privacy of his chambers. He said he was retiring effective immediately, bringing an end to history’s longest Sup reme Court career. Ford, who as a congressman attempted five years ago to impeach Douglas, saluted him for service “unequalled in all the his tory of the court. Douglas had been a Supreme Court jus tice since April 17, 1939, when he was sworn in following his appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and nearly unanimous confirmation by the Se nate. His court service eclipsed by two years and two weeks the previous record set by Justice Stephen Field, a Californian ap pointed by President Abraham Lincoln. His retirement could pave the way for appointment of the first woman justice, and feminist groups with avowed support of First Lady Betty Ford are expected to mount a strong drive for such an appoint ment. The constitutionality of the death pen alty is the central issue in one of eight cases the court was unable to decide last term, apparently due at least in part to Douglas illness. Douglas voted with the majority in 1972 when the court struck down the then- existing capital punishment laws because they gave too much discretion to judges and juries. The question now is whether the 34 state laws passed since then suffer from the same defect. Other issues the court faces include so- called “reverse discrimination” against whites in the awarding of seniority to blacks once passed over for hiring, whether pri vate schools may discriminate racially and whether recent campaign reforms passed by Congress are constitutional. Ford has not publicly expressed his views on what qualifications he woidd look for in a justice. Morris says CIA paralyzed At ,ner ■ 0 ■mi THE MOON IS BLUE will be pre sented in dinner theater by the A&M Con solidated Thespian Troupe 919 and the Ag- gieland Inn, Friday and Saturday. Dinner will be served at7 p. m. and show curtain is at 8 p. m. Tickets are on sale at the Aggie- land Inn. World Texas MEMBERS OF THE U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION are con sidering final aspects of a proposed nuclear power plant near Bay City. There was no opposition to the plant at the final public hearing yesterday on radiological health and safety issues. National NEW YORK CITY MAYOR AB RAHAM BEAME received the Optimist Club of New York City’s annual award yes terday. The award was dated October 17, the day the city was saved from default by the skin of its teeth. The original City Hall ceremony was postponed that day because of the crisis. LEBANESE ARMY COMMANDOS battled Arab gunmen at Beirut’s interna tional airport today, causing panic among hundreds of passengers fleeing renewed Christian-Moslem warefare in Lebanon. Elsewhere in the capital, armed bands of Christian and Moslem militiamen erected roadblocks, kidnaped unwary motorists and traded gunfire in five Beirut districts. Yesterday, President Suleiman Fran- jieh, a Christian, said he agreed with the Sunni Moslem mufti of Lebanon, Sheik Hassan Khaled, that constitutional amendments should be introduced to reapportion political power now concen trated in the hands of the 40 per cent Chris tian minority. • THE FIFTH BOMB EXPLOSION in London’s fashionable West End in three weeks killed one person and injured 15 others, including an American couple, Scotland Yard said. The Irish Republican Army was blamed. The American casual ties were James Howard and his wife, Louise, from Georgia. Howard was hos pitalized with a foot injury, while Mrs. Howard was treated for shock and released. By LISA JUNOD and TIMOTHY SAGER Battalion Staff Writers Sen. Frank Church’s investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “to tally paralyzed one of the most useful arms of the executive overseas,” said Donald Morris. Morris, a former CIA case officer, cur rently employed as a news analyst by The Houston Post, spoke last night to a Political Forum audience on the CIA and KGB (Soviet) intelligence gathering operations. “It will take the agency five years to get back to where it was a year and a half ago, thanks to Sen. (Frank) Church (D-Idaho), ’ Morris said. All nations have the right to protect themselves from foreign subversion, to en gage in espionage and to carry out covert actions against their enemies, said Morris. In the United States the FBI guards against foreign subversion while the CIA carries out other functions. In the Soviet Union the KGB, divided into five “chief directorates, is responsible for all these jobs, Morris said. “The United States has never engaged in any covert action except in answer to an existing and massive Soviet program,” Morris said, “Less than five per cent of the CIA’s activities involve covert actions against foreign governments.” Were it not for such intervention Morris said at least 12 other countries would cur rently be under Marxist rule. Covert action has never included a CIA assasination plot. “The United States government doesn’t really go around trying to knock people off,” Morris said. “There are no big civil servants sitting around Washington trying to figure out how to get Castro to smoke poison cigars. This image has resulted in recruiting dif ficulties for the agency, which hires most of its personnel “off the street,” Morris said. Most of those hired tend to have political views “slightly left of center,” Morris ad ded. Morris said that George Bush, a well- known Texas Republican, woidd make a good head of the CIA because he would know nothing of the agency’s operations and could not answer any questions asked by congressional committees. “They can talk until they’re blue in the face and Bush isn’t going to know much about it, Morris added. The KGB is the Soviet counterpart of the FBI and the CIA, handling domestic sec urity, foreign espionage and covert ac tivities, said Morris. The KGB is divided into five chief direc torates, with each directorate covering a different area, such as espionage, internal security and guarding boarders. Morris said, “Wherever there is a Soviet presence overseas,” Morris said, “the KGB is there. Wherever the Soviets have an embassy — upper Slobobia — they will have 100 people and 50 of them will be KGB.” Though they will take advantage of such situations as Chile and Portugal, Morris said the Soviets are truly interested in de tente with the United States. Morris said that the desire for detente was based on the Soviets discovery that “the Chinese can make babies faster than the Russians can make bullets. The Russians expect the United States to collapse from within. Every newspaper they see causes them to believe that the final collapse is one day nearer, Morris said. Morris added, however, that he is a be liever in detente — a guarded detente. “We can’t lower all the fences now,” Morris said. Med school may open in ’76 By JIM JAMES Battalion Staff Writer After years of planning, Texas A&M may have a functioning medical school in Sep tember 1976 t ' This is conditional on receiving provi sional accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which has the responsibility of certifying prospec tive medical schools. Dr. James Knight, dean of the college of medicine, said that the Texas A&M program would enable students to cut the time required to obtain aDoctorof Medicine degree from eight to i|l|l| six years by eliminating duplication in the III’E curriculum of undergraduate study and 0OT§ medical school. Lll Knight explained that the school will en- jjm roll the students after two years of under- of'J'M graduate work. After the second year of the kjv four-year medical school, the student 1 would receive hfs or her Bachelor of Sci ence degree from A&M and would then receive two years of clinical curriculum at the affiliated hospitals of Baylor School of Medicine. Those hospitals are the Texas Medical Center, Scott and White Hospital and the Temple Veteran’s Administration Hospital. After this clinical curriculum, the student would receive a joint Texas A&M-Baylor Doctor of Medicine degree, llnf Knight said that if the medical school is ||pl| provisionally accredited by July, it would Iff ill enable the school to accept applications from students currently enrolled at A&M who are completing their junior year. He estimated 32 students woidd initially be enrolled and eventually the school would graduate 100 new doctors per year. “The accreditation team,” Knight said, “evaluates you on your facilities, the faculty you’ve chosen and the curriculum you ve devised. They also look at the university as a whole and its graduate programs. We hope to get a letter of reasonable assurance in January and sometime between March and July get provisional accreditation. Then just before the first class graduates, in 1980, we would be eligible for complete accreditation. I’m optimistic that we ll re ceive provisional accreditation in time to enable us to begin classes in September. “ Knight said that currently his office is in process of obtaining faculty members for the medical school. He noted that 15 per sons had already been hired and he esti mated another 15 would be added before classes began. Many of these teachers will also teach courses in other fields, such as the medical ethics professor will work in conjuction with the philosophy department and a medical historian will teach part-time in the history department. Knight continually stressed inter disciplinary cooperation. “We can work with the College of En gineering, College of Science or College of Agriculture in fields such as nutrition; work with liberal arts in areas such as ethics. So the university offers us many opportunities for joint endeavors. One of the primary goals, according to Knight, is the exposure the student will receive to different hospital settings in his clinical training. The students may see ser vice at primary care community hospitals and at urban hospitals such as Baylor in Houston. Knight said that the students would be urged, though certainly not com pelled, to become primary-care or general practitioners rather than specialists since the objectives of the program is to relieve small communities’ shortage of doctors. The impetus toward establishing the program began after a federal law was pas sed in 1972 providing Administration funds to the Veterans to support the develop ment of new medical schools in conjuction with state universities. A&M requested that it be designated that state universities in Texas and the Texas Coordinating Board concurred over the bitter objection of Texas Woman’s University. In December 1973, A&M was awarded a $9.6 million, seven-year grant effective on receipt of a letter of reasonable acceptance. A supple mental grant request is being prepared for the VA in hopes of substantially increasing that sum. Knight said he hoped that within three or four years a medical sciences building could be built across from the College of Veterinary Medicine enabling the two re lated fields to work more closely. He also hopes for a combined medical library that both colleges could utilize. Alvin Luedecke, vice-president in charge of grounds and construction, said that the building was still in the speculative stage and that when and if such a building might be constructed was impossible to guess.. A&M will not be the only school in the nation allowing students to start medical school before obtaining a degree. Rep resentatives from Brown University in Providence, R.I., and Boston University in Boston, Mass., said they had instigated similar programs and had found no signific ant loss of competence by beginning stu dents earlier than usual in medical school. Both said the accelerated students were extremely dedicated and there was no dif ference in their level of maturity. “We are really excited about this medical school,” said Knight. “Many of the truly great medical schools are located right on the main campus such as Duke and Stan ford. We feel that A&M has a unique and humanistic environment, and we hope to link this humanistic atmosphere to the ex cellent technology' here and produce a doc tor who in all of his professional life will put his patients first.” Petrified Forest Staff photo by Winnie Cathi Cowgill reads French poetry to Steve King in the Aggie Players production of The Petrified Forest. The play opens tonight in the Rudder Forum.