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Vol 68 No 77 College Station, Texas Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1976
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LLAS — An effort to get two sus-
ed Texas A&M basketball players
jK[ in uniform by Thursday night was
resumed today after a similar try
Tuesday.
iwyers filed a motion for a temporary
bining order that would.block the sus-
^jttsions of Karl Godine and Jarvis
—- liams by the Southwest Conference,
Sa hearing was set up for Tuesday.
But the hearing in federal court here was
Iponed because the players’ counsel of
fd, Hugh Smith, was not present, a
kesman for U.S. District Court Judge
tick Higginbotham said. The spokes-
ii said it also was not determined
per the case woidd be beard by U.S.
pict Court Judge Robert Porter or Hig-
botham.
Smith said, “I will try to get on the doc-
[Wednesday. They ran us around to two
• bts today (Tuesday).”
/ Heanwhile, the first place Aggies beat
f Riston 94-80 Tuesday night without the
pices of the two freshman starters.
Smith said the ruling suspending the
hers was based on ‘‘hearsay and errone-
sevidence — no one has even advised us
be charges against them. The Southwest
Conference has not informed me of the
charges against them and has refused to
divulge any charges.”
Godine and Williams took lie detector
tests Friday and they were ruled ineligible
Monday to play the remainder of the sea
son.
Smith said independent investigators
have probed reports that the two players
each received new cars plus bonuses and
jobs with unusually high salaries, and their
mothers received new washing machines
and dryers.
Wesley Boyd, coach at Houston’s Fran
cis Scott Key Jr. High School, denied re
ports that cars allegedly provided Godine
and Williams were registered in his name.
The Houston Chronicle quoted Smith as
saying the two cars allegedly registered to
Boyd comprised one point of the SWC in
vestigation.
Boyd said he has a 1975 Thunderbird
registered to a funeral home he owns, and
has a 1975 Oldsmobile registered in his
own name.
Both A&M and the SWC were named in
the suit by the players. Smith said they are
asking $10,000 from both Texas A&M and
the conference, but added, “We don’t care
about the money damages if they will be
allowed to play right now. The $10,000 is
the minimum allowed in federal court.”
He said A&M has denied the players due
process “whether it wants them to be guilty
or not. ”
INDEX
Eavesdropping by the CIA and
the National Security Agency in the
United States is to be banned under
Ford s intelligence reorganization.
Page 7.
B-CS banks are compared in Con
sumer Check. Page 4.
THE FORECAST for Wed
nesday is fair and mild with N W
winds at 10-14 mph. The high
today, 73. Tonight’s low 46. Fair
to partly cloudy is expected
Thursday. Tomorrow’s high, 78.
Williams says regents
won’t limit enrollment
By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Staff Writer
The A&M Board of Regents will not set
any enrollment limits for the 1976-77
school year. University President Jack K.
Williams said last night.
“The Board has already listened to our
recommendations (on enrollment limits),
listened to our enrollment projections and
has set enrollment at 27,500,” Williams
said.
An enrollment limit of 27,500 students
for fall 1976 has not been established be
cause university officials do not expect en
rollment to reach that figure. It is the proj
ected maximum number of students
A&M’s facilities can handle.
The Board made the decision anticipat
ing that the Texas Legislature will take
some action on enrollment limits in the
legislative session beginning in January
1977.
“Enrollment is set at 27,500, and, bar
ring miscalculations, that will carry us
through the legislative year,” Williams
said.
The last Texas Legislature authorized
the Texas College and University System
Coordinating Board to make recom
mendations on enrollment limits for all
state universities. Any legislative action on
enrollment limits would stem from such
recommendations.
“It would be rather foolish for us to really
be setting limits on enrollment until this
board completes its work and makes its
report,” Williams said.
Dr. Norma Foreman, Coordinating
Board director of publications, said yester
day, “The state legislature is the only
agency (outside the university) that can set
enrollment limits for state universities,”
but A&M’s Board of Regents can set its own
enrollment limits, she said.
The Coordinating Board recom
mendations on enrollment limits woidd be
part of a “role and scope” study of state
universities authorized by the legislature,
Foreman said.
She explained that a university’s role is
the level of course offerings it provides and
its scope is the breadth of those offerings.
Each state university is submitting to the
Coordinating Board its own role and scope
projections for the next five years. Fore
man said.
The role and scope study is still in the
working draft stage. A Coordinating Board
report summarizing the study and contain
ing any enrollment limit recommendations
will probably reach the legislature this De
cember, she said.
Foreman said the recommendations
from the Coordinating Board would not af
fect enrollment for Fall 1976.
A&M’s five-year plan allows for about
5,000 additional students over that period.
Fall 1975 enrollment increase over Fall
1974 was about 3500.
“We re looking at an enrollment of
30,400 five years from now, ” Williams said.
“Were expecting 27,500 for next fall.
That means we’ll have to be a little tougher
on admissions in the future,” he said.
The admission requirement at present is
a July 31 deadline for submitting admis
sions applications.
A special faculty-student committee ap
pointed by Williams last October investi
gated possible enrollment limits. The
committee made the following recom
mendations:
• The University should publicly state that
A&M reserves the right to curtail enroll
ment if registration for a given semester
exceeds A&M’s physical limits.
• Scholastic probation, suspension and
re-admission policies should be stiffened.
® The Dean of Admissions should initiate
tougher admission practices for out-of-state
and international students.
• Students, especially freshmen and those
on scholastic probation, should be encour
aged to attend summer terms.
0 The University should set a deadline for
newly' admitted students to make a definite
commitment to A&M.
@ Entrance requirements for the Univer
sity should be uniform for students in all
curricula, but individual colleges and/or
departments could set their own limits.
• The class day Monday through Friday
should be extended wherever possible.
• Freshman and transfer student admis
sions should be limited for Fall 1976 to
approximate the number admitted in Fall
1975.
The recommendations were offered as
guidelines for possible Board of Regents
controls on enrollment.
A number of factors already limit enroll
ment, Williams said.
These factors include limited housing
on-campus, required entrance exam
inations and tougher entrance require
ments for out-of-state and international
students.
A&M freshman files
for county sheriff
Ronald Woessner, a 19-year-old fresh
man in Forest Science at Texas A&M, is
running for Brazos County Sheriff on the
Republican ticket in the May 1 primary.
Woessner, a six-year resident of College
Station, graduated from A&M Consoli
dated High School where he was freshman
class president, sophomore vice-president
and student body vice-president his senior
year.
“The main reason I decided to run for the
office is because I came to the realization
that one-party politics like we have in Texas
shouldn’t be the way of life here, ” Woess
ner said. “There needs to be a viable two
party system at the local, state, and national
level of government.
“The Democrats in this county have won
year after year. The Republicans are never
going to go anywhere unless somebody
stands up and says, ‘Count me, I want to
run.’
The first chapter of Genesis is an “abso
lutely calamitous text” containing “beliefs
which can guarantee the destruction of
man,” a visiting Texas A&M Centennial
professor told his Zachry Engineering
Center audience last night.
Ian McHarg’s criticism of the first book of
the Old Testament singled out its support
of the dominion of mankind over nature.
The Biblical notions that man alone is
made in the image of God, that man shall
have dominion over all things, and that he
shall go forth and multiply are forms of
suicide, the visiting landscape architect
Woessner said, “Somebody has go to get
involved and young people have to show
what they are made of. I want to represent
the party.”
He suggests mandatory prison sentences
for persons convicted of crimes using a
hand gun.
He said, “We need to reevaluate the
priorities concerning what should and
should not be crimes such as marijuana and
prostitution.
“Law enforcement officials should spend
their time on more important matters and
not try to capture headlines by busting
football players,” Woessner said.
Woessner’s opponent in the Republican
primary is W. R. “Bill Owens.
Candidates for the Democratic nomina
tion are incumbent Sheriff? J.W. Hamilton
and John Miller, a College Station detec
tive.
— PRESTON JONES
and planner said.
“When one creature multiplies at a super
exponential rate without the normal biolog
ical controls,” McHarg said, “then the
brain is a spinal tumor rather than the apex
of biological evolution. ”
McHarg suggested that man is becoming
a “planetary disease that infests the earth,
adding that it is fast becoming one of
epidemic proportions.
The Scottish-born planner is chairman of
the Department of Landscape Architecture
and Regional Planning at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Once a myth confined primarily to the
Pacific Northwest, Bigfoot has gained na
tional recognition through full-length
motion pictures and a two-part television
episode, “The $6 Million Man Vs. Big
foot. ”
Texas A&M anthropologist Dr. Vaughn
Bryant Jr., who tracked down Bigfoot
stories while a professor at Washington
State University, will be featured in a
two-pai't series on the elusive Bigfoot
beginning in tomorrow’s Battalion.
I J
Genesis guarantees doom,
says Centennial professor
&
A&M basketball player Sonny Parker charged after an attend
ant of Shasta, the University of Houston mascot, at the game
between A&M and UH last night in Houston. Parker was
restrained from the pursuit by a guard and A&M player
Steve Jones. See story, page 11.
Plans fdr new equipment
Emergency aid said to improve
Ed Sherrill poses by one of the stationwagons
of his ambulance fleet. Photo by Jack Holm
By ROD SPEER
The effectiveness of Sherrill’s am
bulance service has improved in the
past few months, local hospital ad
ministrators agree.
The service, a private firm receiv
ing governmental aid, was criticized
early last fall before the College Sta
tion City Council by a graduate stu
dent class which surveyed public
opinion of local emergency health
care.
“In the last five or six months the
ambulance service has improved
tremendously, said Sonja Shepard,
director of nursing for St. Joseph’s
Hospital.
Sister M. Norbertine, head ad
ministrator for the hospital, de
scribed Sheriff s service as “no
utopia, ” but added she had no major
problems or complaints.
Shepard said in the past some
times only one Emergency Medical
Technician (EMT) would ride with
the ambulance driver on a call, but
now there are always two EMTs to
aid accident victims. (An EMT has at
least 120 hours of emergency medi
cal training.)
All of Sherrill’s ambulance crew
except owner Ed Sherrill’s son Billy,
an ambulance driver, have com
pleted EMT training in the last year.
Mobile radios for Sherrill’s ambu
lances have been purchased by the
local city and county governments
with federal funds funneled through
the Brazos Valley Development
Council (BVDC). The long-awaited
radios are arriving piecemeal, ac
cording to a BVDC spokesman, and
none has been installed.
The BVDC originally requested
federal help in purchasing a base sta
tion radio unit for use in the Texas
A&M University Health Center.
After it was ordered, the student
health center declined to take the
$700 station. (BVDC executive di
rector Glenn Cook admitted re
cently his agency should take better
precautions in applying for Health,
Education and Welfare funds to pre
vent such misunderstandings.)
Bryan has agreed to buy the health
center equipment, which needs to
be modified for use at Sherrill’s office
at 3108 Doerge, near Sulphur
Springs Road.
Sherrill’s company operates in the
Bryan-College Station area under
permits granted it by the two cities.
When local funeral homes drop
ped their ambulance service in
March, 1974, the two cities and
Brazos County purchased three fu
neral home ambulances for $14,300.
When Ed Sherrill received the city
permits over an Austin firm, Trans
portation Enterprises, the cities and
county gave him the ambulances on a
lease-purchase plan with 6 per cent
interest.
Last year College Station and
Brazos County bought modulances
with matching federal grants for
Sherrill’s use. (A “modulance”
amounts to a small emergency room
on wheels as opposed to the conven
tional stationwagon ambulance, used
strictly to transfer accident victims to
an emergency room.) Sherrill pays
only for operating costs for the
modulances.
The A&M graduate student class
pointed out the public concern for
lack of complete ambulance records
and lack of an adequate recourse
procedure for complaints against the
service.
To meet HEW guidelines, the city
and county have required Sherrill to
complete a five-page form for each
person treated and transfered to a
hospital in the modulances. Sherrill
is required to fill out a form for every
emergency run, whether it be with a
modulance or one of his ambulances.
He is not required to make a form for
transfer runs — taking patients from
one hospital to another or similar
duties — and he is not allowed to use
a modulance for those cases.
The form itemizes aid given by by
standers and ambulance attendants,
response time to the scene and to the
hospital, and a specific description of
the condition of the injured person
before and after treatment.
In addition, complaint forms were
(See AMBULANCE, Page 3)