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Eight changes in the vehicle regulations
were made by the University Traffic Panel
yesterday.
The regulation changes require approval
by Dr. John Koldus, vice-president for stu
dent services, before taking effect. Regula
tion changes would become effective fall
77.
Regulation changes approved by tbe
panel include:
• All regulations apply during business
hours from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
• The perimeter parking option will be
abolished. The option now allows students
and University employes to park half-
price in parking lots 50, east of Zachry En
gineering Center, and lot 56, west of Kyle
Field.
• Motor vehicles will be forbidden froir
operating University malls and sidewalks
without special permission.
• Anyone holding a valid daytime nark
ing permit can park for short periods in
30-minute and one hour parking spaces.
• Parking vehicles on malls will be il
legal.
• Parking lot 49 south of Old Main Drive
aiuucm vemeies on
home football game days.
• Reserved parking spaces for female
students will be added to the list of spaces
where students cannot park after 5 p.m.
and on weekends.
• Parking spaces along the south side of
University Drive between the Post Office
and Spence Street will be listed as Univer
sity parking. The spaces are presently des
ignated as University-owned.
The panel updated the map in the regu
lations brochure to agree with the changes.
The panel also discussed making part of
parking lot 19 available to residents of Hart
Hall on week nights. The lot now is re
stricted to staff and faculty parking 24-
hours a day.
David Grundy, spokesman for Hart Hall
residents, told the panel the students ob
served more than 21 vehicles in the 64-
space lot after 5 p.m. Robert Melcher, ad
ministrative officer to the vice-president
for student services, said that his office
could remove about 20 spaces in the lot
from 24-hour status. That would make the
spaces available to any University permit
holders after business hours.
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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 78
College Station, Texas
Thursday, Feb. 19, 1976
lectronic gates to open in March
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By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Staff Writer
ler a six-month delay, electronic con-
|gates on two university parking lots
Id be in operation by mid-March,
we have good weather, they should
In operation by March 15,’ Robert
dcher, administrative officer for the
•president for student services, said
'rosecution continues
yesterday. “That would be the earliest.
With bad weather it could be later,” he
said.
The four gates were installed at the entr
ance and exit of parking lots 13 and 34 in
mid-September. Lot 13 is between the En
gineering and Chemistry Buildings, and
Lot 34 is between the Heep Building and
the Animal Pavilion.
Neither pair of control gates has been
working since October. They were origi
nally installed on an experimental basis to
keep unauthorized vehicles out of the two
faculty-staff parking lots.
Total cost for the four gates was $7,186.
The Lot 34 gate, controlled by Computer
punch cards, was deactivated and later re
moved because of construction in the area.
Hearst faces cross-examination
Associated Press
|AN FRANCISCO — Patricia Hearst
h cross-examination today about her
qrj oflife ruled by dual fear of death from
wrists and the FBI.
|.S. Atty. James L. Browning Jr. Wed-
pay started his dissection of Miss
rsfs three days of testimony in her fed-
jbank robbery trial when court was re-
sd for the day. He predicted questions
|ld last at least another day.
fie prosecution contends Miss Hearst
i willing convert to terrorism when she
|ed the Symbionese Liberation Army
ibank on April 15, 1974. She said she
(ordered to do it — boast about it — or
killed.
bief defense attorney F. Lee Bailey
[iped up his detailed questioning of
i Hearst on Wednesday. In a storm of
he told Browning testily that he
1 not ask the defendant her whereab-
| or activities from September 1974 to
mber 1975.
l.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Car
ter agreed with Bailey. The jury was not
present for the exchange.
Bailey, effectively barring any cross-
examination on 12 of Miss Hearst s 19
months with the SLA, deliberately skipped
the year his client was believed to have
spent in Sacramento and San Francisco.
Miss Hearst, 21, had finished her tale of
kidnap, sexual abuse, forced participation
in bank robbery and months of living under
threat of death by telling the jury she con
tinued to this day to fear the remnants and
sympathizers of the SLA.
She said the terror that was implanted in
her mind by the late SLA chieftain Donald
“Cinque” DeFreeze and others was per
petuated for months by surviving members
William and Emily Harris, now in a Los
Angeles jail.
She had spoken of her Feb. 4, 1974,
abduction, wept in telling of being raped
twice during nine weeks of captivity in dark
closets, and recounted her horror of being
killed at any moment if she failed to cooper
ate.
All her actions, she said, were based on
an ingrained belief that if the SLA didn’t
kill her, the FBI would.
In testimony, the defendant said she be
lieved tbe SLA’s recurring admonition that
she had nowhere to go. When the FBI
burst into her apartment last Sept. 18, she
said, “I thought I was dead.”
In her last hours under Bailey’s prod
ding, Miss Hearst said the SLA’s threats of
execution lingered after her placement in
the San Mateo County jail in nearby Red
wood City.
She asid Mrs. Harris, arrested the same
day as her husband and Miss Hearst, had an
adjoining cell in the jail and warned her
that if she cooperated with authorities,
“somebody would kill me.”
Her clenched fist salute the night of her
arraignment, she said, was a signal to the
underground that she had not sold out her
SLA-created role as the revolutionary
“Tania.” The gesture, she added, was for
(See Prosecution, Page 4)
\hyers reinstated
Melcher said. University officials feared
heavy construction vehicles needing to
enter the lot would damage the gate if it
were not removed, he said.
“We were suprised by the reaction we
got when we removed the gate,” Melcher
said. “It was there about 20 days before we
took it out, and we got a number of com
plaints three or four days after.
“People would call up and say ‘Man, you
had a good thing going, why’d you stop?”’
he said.
The gates on Lot 13 have never been
used, Melcher said.
Originally the Lot 13 gates weren’t used
because of a shortage of the magnetic cards
that control them, he said. University offi
cials ordered 100 of the cards for the 80
faculty and staff members using the lot, he
said.
Before the gates were put in operation,
officials found that about 40 more cards
were needed for vendors, university police
and others needing to enter the lot,
Melcher said.
While additional magnetic cards were
being ordered, the University began con
struction on a bicycle parking pad at the
end of Lot 13, he said. No one in the Uni
versity knew about the pad except Univer
sity construction officials, Melcher said.
The gates were left open to allow free
access for construction vehicles to reach the
bike pad area. The pad, designed to ac
comodate about 450 bicycles and 45
motorcycles, should be finished in early
March, he said.
Parking Lot 34 will disappear entirely by
late this fall when construction begins on
the new addition to Evans Library,
Melcher said. That will be a loss of 113
faculty-staff parking spaces, he said.
Electronic gate
Steve Betts
This is one of the electronic gates that will begin operation
in March.
Court rules two denied due process
Associated Press
DALLAS — A federal judge has put two
sxasA&M basketball starters back in uni-
Irni after telling the Southwest Confer-
ice that it cannot delclare them ineligible
lay until the two get a fair hearing,
he two players, freshmen, Karl Codine
Jarvis Williams, were declared ineligi-
| by the Southwest Conference on
day for the remainder of the season
next season for alleged violations that
|e not been made public,
he two players went to federal court
[dnesday and obtained a court order that
iffect told the SWC that the two players
been denied “due process of law. The
ng means Godine and Williams will be
lie to finish the season.
nJ.S. District Court Judge Patrick Hig
ginbotham ordered the conference to have
another meeting within 30 days and allow
the players to defend themselves.
The hearing in federal court also re
vealed that it was Leon Black, basketball
coach or A&M’s arch-rival, the University
of Texas, who turned in the complaint that
resulted in the players’ suspension.
Texas was one of the schools that tried
unsuccessfully to recruit Godine and
Williams after the two graduated from state
champion Kashmere of Houston.
In his ruling, Higginbotham, after a day
long hearing in Dallas, pointed out that the
SWC decision-making process “was geared
to the rights of the conference members,
not the rights of the athletes. ”
He noted his decision was not intended
to constitute a judgement on the merits of
the suspension, but merely on the process
involved. He said the SWC “though years
of experience has failed to focus on the
rights of the athletes . . . when often the
athlete is the one that can least afford the
sanctions. ”
Higginbotham said the athletes had been
denied due process of law; had inadequate
notice to a Feb. 9 meeting; and were de
nied an opportunity to answer “a critical
piece of evidence — a polygraph test.”
The federal judge said the SWC should
call a hearing no later than 30 days from
now and at that time permit the athletes
their full legal rights.
Texas A&M currently is leading the
SWC standings with three league games
and a conference tournament to go.
Higginbotham said: “Our educational in
stitutions should serve as an example of
fairness. I am sure there was no ill will
intended, but there appears to be a practice
to protect conference members, but not
protect the athletes. There is too much
focus on conference members and not
enough focus on the athletes.”
The judge also said that the athletes are
the ones to suffer in such cases and there is
a danger, “that they could lose their
scholarships and therefore not be able to
attend college.”
In his ruling, the judge lumped together
both the temporary and permanent injunc
tions, meaning it would not be necessary to
hold another court hearing until after the
SWC committee meets.
Earlier in the hearing, SWC commis
sioner Cliff Speegle testified that Black
lodged the complaint against the two
players in a letter to the conference office
dated Sept. 29, 1975.
Black, contacted in Little Rock, said: “It
seems rather immaterial to me whether I
did or not,” he said. “It’s not a matter of
who turned them in, but what rules were
violated.”
Williams had said Tuesday in Houston
that he felt that Black was responsible for
the charges against him and Godine.
“Coach Black and Coach Adams (assis
tant coach Skip Adams) told me if I went to
A&M, they would turn me in. I said, for
what?’ I haven’t done anything wrong.”
(See related stories. Page 8)
Rabbit resident
ousted from
Leggett Hall
Moonshadow, the rabbit pictured on the
front page of Tuesday’s Battalion, is no
longer a guest at A&M.
The picture and caption, identifying the
rabbit’s host as a resident of Legett Hall,
was not intended to cause the rabbit’s ous
ter from the dorm.
Dr. Charles W. Powell, director of stu
dent affairs, ordered Moonshadow’s re
moval from Legett, said Jeff Burhus,
fourth-floor resident advisor.
★★★
THE FORECAST for Thurs
day and Friday is continued fair
and mild with temperatures in
the upper 70’s. Tonight’s low,
46.
Bigfoot escapes professor’s research
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By ROD SPEER
In 1924 a lumberman, Albert
I Ostman, tried to make extra money
I on a vacation by searching for an
I abandoned gold mine near Van
couver Island, British Columbia.
He ventured into the Canadian
wilderness with a rifle, dried and
canned food and a few utensils. One
night, after a week of hiking through
the brush, he awoke to find himself
being carried in his sleeping bag by a
huge, gorilla-like creature.
After being carried an estimated
25 miles, he was finally dropped to
Bigfoot
Dr. Vaughn Bryant Jr. examines castings of Bigfoot tracks.
v.
the ground. Crawling out of his
sleeping bag, Ostman found himself
in a cliff-enclosed valley with four of
the huge, hairy animals.
The animals were a family of Sas-
quatches, the Indian name for an
Abominable Snowman-like creature
of the Pacific Northwest. It is now
commonly called Bigfoot, because of
its massive footprints.
Ostman spent six days with his
four hosts—an eight-foot father, a
mother and teenage son, both about
seven-foot tall, and a smaller imma
ture daughter. During his stay, he
was never threatened or attacked,
but only gawked at and treated like a
novelty. After the six days he slipped
out of the Sasquatch camp and re
turned to civilization.
Ostman’s story is one of the more
bizarre tales of the elusive Bigfoot, a
legend which is achieving national
attention through movies, television
and print media.
“The Legend of Bigfoot” and “In
Search of Bigfoot,” are two movies
playing at theaters in Texas.
Not to be outdone, a recent two-
part television serial featured “The
$6 Million Man Vs. Bigfoot.” (In it
Bigfoot turns out to be a bionic ser
vant to outer space visitors doing re
search on mankind.)
Texas A&M anthropologist Dr.
Vaughn Bryant Jr. has predicted Big
foot T-shirts and Bigfoot dolls will be
on the market soon. In Washington,
where Bryant examined Bigfoot evi
dence as a Washington State Univer
sity professor, bumper stickers read
“Save Our Sasquatches” and “Make
Sasquatch Our State Animal.”
Bigfoot, according to believers,
haunts the backwoods of the mighty
Cascades—one of the few areas of
wilderness in the United States
largely untouched by man.
The mountain range starts in
Northern California where the
Sierra Nevadas end. It extends into
Oregon, Washington and British Co
lumbia. Trails cutting through these
mountains are known to climb 4,000
feet or more in two miles. Cougars,
deer, elk, bear and mountain goats
inhabit the mountain’s piney woods
forests.
If Bigfoot does in fact exist, the
Cascades would adequately provide
the cover to shelter the immense
creatures from exposure to mankind.
Based on the more than 300 re
ported sightings of Bigfoot since
1900, the animal has reddish-brown
or auburn hair which turns black
below the knees. The hair on its head
is said to be about six inches long and
curls down over the forehead.
The legs and feet, as well as the
style of walking, are manlike. Fin
gers, based on handprints, are
shorter and more stumpy than would
be expected of a man of that size and
the hand lacks man’s opposable
thumb.
It has broad shoulders (up to four
feet) and practically no neck. Height
has been reported as great as 11 feet
and weight could exceed 1,000
pounds.
Bigfoot is shy and timid; only one
case has ever been reported of a Big
foot having attacked a person and
that person was not injured.
Over the years Washington State
University professors have been de
luged with stories of Bigfoot, but few
would listen, much less treat the
stories seriously.
Two anthropology professors
there, Bryant and Dr. Grover
(See Bigfoot, Page 4)