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pll did comment on statements by
Ficials that housing has not been a
consideration in admissions practices.
“That is absolutely correct,” she said.
“No one was excluded from the Univer
sity’s standpoint because of housing.”
President Williams had told members of
the Student Senate Wednesday night that
A&M turned down 3,000 applications for
fall ’75 admission. Those students were not
admitted because A&M didn’t have any
housing on-campus and there wasn’t any in
local communities, Williams said.
Possible policy changes to limit future
increases in enrollment have been consid
ered for some time by University officials.
Setting a maximum enrollment ceiling,
limiting the enrollment of international and
out-of-state students and upgrading admis
sion requirements have been suggested as
possible solutions to the enrollment ques
tion.
Out-of-state students have had to meet
more stringent admission requirements
than Texas citizens for over a year. Lay
said.
Out-of-state applicants must have an
SAT score of 1,000 or more and must rank
in the top one-half of their high school
graduating class, he said. The A&M 1976
undergraduate catalog lists requirements
as SAT scores of 1000 for students in the
bottom quarter of their class and scores of
800 for those in the top half of their class.
Those special out-of-state requirements
don’t apply to scholarship recipients or sons
and daughters of A&M alumni. Lay said,
yesterday.
Calhoun said that acceptance would be
on the basis of curriculum. If a certain cur
riculum were filled, a student could wait
one semester to enroll or could enroll in
another curriculum and transfer to his pre
ferred curriculum later when openings de
velop, he said. Texas citizens would not
receive priority over out-of-state students,
he said.
Those special out-of-state requirements
don’t apply to scholarship recipients or sons
and daughters of A&M alumni, Lay said.
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Up With People brought its Saccharine
variety show to A&M Thursday night and
brought members of the audience on the
stage to help out.
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irststart§fATEMALA CITY — The National
;ency Committee today estimated
from Wednesday’s earthquake at
:o 3,000 dead, 15,000 injured and
homeless as the United States
led a 17-plane airlift of aid to the de-
id country.
. lurces close to the committee said the
0 ialtjy estimates were conservative.
fie committee said it had information
1,16,111 180 per cent of the area hit hardest by
n t a ‘• e g ion which stretched across
'! 1 per cent of the nation of 6 million
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•ok fori American survey team from the
reforeli a Canal Zone flew over the country
copters Thursday, locating the worst
e in a region north and northwest of
nala City.
U.S. Embassy said the survey con-
College Station, Texas
Friday, Feb. 6, 1976
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firmed the total destruction of several
cities, including Joyabaj, population
32,000; Tecpan, 24,000; and Patzicia,
11,000. The town of Chimaltenango,
20,000 population, was 98 percent leveled.
The emergency committee said other
towns leveled by the quake were Comala-
pa, 18,000; El Progreso, 12,000, and
Zaragosa, 8,000, and that many smaller
towns and villages suffered the same fate.
“Up to Wednesday, it did not look so bad
because all we could see was Guatemala
City. Today, it's an entirely different situa
tion,’ an embassy spokesman said.
No deaths or injuries were reported
among the estimated 5,000 Americans liv
ing in Guatemala or visiting there as
tourists. But hundreds of Guatemalans
were believed dead here in the capital,
where slum districts in the center of the
city were hit hardest. Adobe huts and shops
were flattened, but most major buildings
were left standing.
A massive relief effort was under way
from the United States as well as from
neighboring countries, which suffered var
ying degrees of damage but had no re
ported deaths and few injuries.
The U.S. Embassy said 16 big C141
transport planes from American bases
began landing at the rate of one an hour at
Guatemala City’s international airport
Thursday night.
U.S. aid included a 100-bed hospital
manned by 25 doctors that was airlifted
from Ft. Sill, Okla., and 500 family tents,
500 pints of blood plasma, 5,000 doses of
anitbiotics, a dozen 3,000-gallon water
storage tanks, electric power generators,
pumps and other supplies.
Ambassador Francis E. Meloyjr., whose
home was wrecked by the quake, met with
President Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Thurs
day night to discuss the American effort.
They were expected to send the hospital
into the countryside north of Guatemala
City to begin work by Sunday.
The U.S. Embassy also reported that
CARE, the relief agency, was beginning to
distribute 11 million pounds of food that
had been stockpiled in Guatemalan
warehouses for emergencies in Central
America.
Guillermo Echeverria Viehnans, the
top coordinator for the National
Emergency Committee, said more aid is
desperately needed.
“The backbone of Guatemalan com
merce has been broken” by the loss of two
key bridges on the highway from
Guatemala City to the Caribbean ports of
Puerto Barrios and Santo Tomas de Castil
lo, Echevenia told newsmen.
The MSC Radio Committee has broad
cast messages from Guatemalan students to
El Salvador after an earthquake devastated
the Central American country Wednesday.
David Creek, an advisor to the “ham”
committee, said the messages will be re
layed from El Salvador to Guatemala.
A few students have learned that their
families are unharmed. No A&M students
have received word of death in their
families, Creek said.
Citizens of the United States who have
family members in Guatemala may receive
information on Ithem from the State De
partment in Washington, D.C., Creek
said.
More earthquakes are expected within
the next hours in Guatemala, according to
ham reports. The Guatemalan government
is warning its citizens that the quakes may
be more severe than the one devastating
the country Wednesday.
Ziquinala, a city located about 30 miles
south of the nation’s capital, Guatemala
City, is the expected epicenter of the
shock. Fifty per cent of Ziquinala was de
stroyed in the quake Wednesday, radio re
ports said.
The latest reports received by the Radio
Committee place urban counts at 4,000
dead and 25,000 injured. The toll is set
higher in the countryside.
The latest reports received place urban
counts at 2,500 to 3,000 dead and 15,000
injured. The toll is believed to be higher in
the countryside.
Most rural Guatemalans live in adobe
huts which would collapse under the shock
of an earthquake, said Eduardo Castillo, a
student from that country. There is little
communication from rural areas because
most highways and telephone lines have
been destroyed.
The Radio Committee has tried to con
tact all Guatemalan students, in order for
them to send messages home. Creek re
quested that any that may have been over
looked go to the Radio Room of the MSC.
The room is near the Braley Travel Service
on the first floor.
— Richard Chamberlain
lurder suspect linked to A&M incident
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C*ks| By JIM CRAWLEY
Scien# Austin murder suspect has been
BSU W with a threat and possible attack on
gSU 35 A&M staff members last fall.
R. Sanders of Manor, is being held
suspect in the Wednesday murder of
-old Steven Paul Lulenski, a male
at Breckenridge Hospital in Austin.
|rs is in critical condition at the hospi-
Oiiii after being shot by a policeman in the
vS , Tiifftal’s emergency room, the scene of
murder.
pol
at Lulenski for trying to check his vital
signs. Sanders, who had complained of
chest pains, left the hospital and returned
later with a shotgun and shot Lulenski. The
victim died within minutes.
Sanders is a former patient at Rusk State
Hospital for the Criminally Insane. San
ders threatened a desk clerk at the Memo
rial Student Center Guest Rooms on the
night of Aug. 4, 1975. According to a Uni
versity Police report, the alleged threat oc
curred during an argument over the
availability of a room. After the disagree
ment was settled, Sanders spent the night
at the MSC.
During questioning by two police offi
cers at the MSC, Sanders said he was trying
to enroll in the University. The police also
checked Sander’s criminal record and dis
covered a murder conviction.
The murder conviction was in 1971 for
the murder of Sanders’ uncle. Sanders was
committed to Rusk State until the spring of
1974 when he was released.
After the criminal record was received
by the campus police, an investigating offi
cer said Sanders was extremely dangerous.
It was discovered that Sanders didn’t
meet the entrance requirements of the
University. At that point a police officer
was assigned to the Coke Building to watch
for Sanders. University officals feared he
might harm two administrators in the
building. Also, precautionary measures
were taken by College Station police to
protect the officals at their hqmes, said Dr.
John Koldus, vice-president for student
services.
Assistant Director of Admissions Bill Lay
confirmed that Sanders had filled out an
application, but was not enrolled in the
university. “He did not make any threats
here in the Admissions Office,” Lay said.
A&M Senate
to be revised,
asks input
Student Government will con
sider three major changes in its
bylaws this weekend during a con
stitutional convention.
Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday,
senators will discuss proposals
which would limit senate repre
sentation to colleges, set senate
membership at 50, and change its
name to “Student Association.”
The convention is open to the pub
lic, and is an effort to get student
input on the amendments.
It’s never too late to learn]
Kevin Vernier
By KEVIN VENNER
At 60 years of age, Frank Vasovski
is beginning his American college
education with newborn vitality.
The freshman journalism major
may look like an anthropology pro
fessor, but he is here to learn — just
like any freshman.
“I have no earthshaking, plans,”
Vasovski said. “I have some spare
time and I want to use it. ”
Vasovski, a former Polish army of
ficer and 22-year veteran of the U.S.
Air Force, said, “Attending Texas
A&M University is like going to an
eternal fountain of youth. I enjoy at
tending school with young persons. ”
The academic environment has
changed since he last attended State
Technological College in Warsaw,
Poland in 1936.
The scheduling of classes is one of
the major differences, Vasovski
said. In Poland, he attended class
five days a week for 40 hours. He did
not have to scurry about campus to
get from one class to the next.
“We were assigned a class with
which we stayed. The class did not go
to the teacher, the teacher came to
the class.
“The class formed a close relation
ship. We were like a second family.”
Vasovski liked this system of at
tachment because it gave an extra
incentive to the individual. A stu
dent did not want to fall behind in
his studies and risk being separated
from his classmates.
There were cliques in his class of
42 students though, and one day his
buddies decided to skip class. It
happened to be the same day a few
others failed to show up for school. In
fact, he said, only three people at
tended that day. “We got the
ax—the royal ax!”
Education is important to Vas
ovski. He believes the masses have
not reached a desired level of educa
tion, and a person has a better
chance of correcting the ills of the
world if he knows what is going on
around him. “Education is the key to
all problems,” he said.
Vasovski is majoring in journalism
because he said it is the best way to
learn a foreign tongue.
“I had to start at the beginning,
like a first grade student. See Jane
run.’ I wanted to know why Jane
runs, to where she is running and
See You’re, page 4.
Learning to be a student again
Learning to be a student again is
not an easy job, as the older than
average student soon discovers.
In order to help the older student
cope with his problems, the Stu
dents Older than Average Program
was formed. This program, directed
by Toby Rives, assistant director of
student affairs, provides students
who are 25 or older with counseling
and social activities.
The most common problem
among these students, Rives said, is
getting used to student life.
“They have trouble adjusting to
the ‘Joe College’ scene,” she said.
The older than average students
often have to relearn study skills,
especially if they’ve been out of
school for several years, Rives said.
There are over 4,000 students en
rolled at Texas A&M University who
fall into the older than average stu
dent category.
They come from many different
backgrounds. Rives said. Most of
them are graduate students, but
some are undergraduate, house
wives, divorcees or former ser
vicemen.
The older students feel very com
petitive with the other students.
Rives said.
They have had more experience
with life in general, she said, but
they have been out of touch with the
college atmosphere.
Several activities have been set up
to give the older than average stu
dents the opportunity to meet each
other and discuss their problems.
Noon-hour seminars are held
twice a month. Speakers present
programs on such topics as value
clarification.
The students meet on Fridays for
“happy hour.” Dinners and parties
are given at the students’ homes.
— Elaine Merrifield
INDEX
THE TEXAS A&M BEUTEL
HEALTH Center is compared with
the medical facilities at Texas Tech
and UT. Page 2.
THE STERLING EVANS Li
brary is receiving collections of
noted economics books. Page 3.
ANIMALS FOR CLASS
laboratories and experiments come
from many sources. Page 3.
COLLEGE STATION HOUS
ING CODE defines sanitation con
ditions and occupancy levels. Page 4.
DUVAL COUNTY is experienc
ing increased political activity. Page
4.
A NEW BASEBALL field
planned for fall of 1976. Page 5.
BAD OFFICIATING HURTS
SWC prestige. Page 6.
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THE FORECAST for Friday
and Saturday is mostly cloudy,
cold and windy. Light drizzle
is expected Saturday morning.
Friday’s expected high is 44;
tonight’s low, 30; Saturday’s
high, 57.