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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 106
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 14, 1976
earst has surgery for collapsed lung
Associated Press
iDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Patricia
st, rushed to a hospital in pain after
ight lung suddenly collapsed, was re-
Hresting comfortably today — the
lie was to have had a dreaded cour-
Breunion with two underground
lanions.
tf 22-year-old convicted bank robber
aken to Sequoia Hospital last evening
gasping for air after her lung collapsed
without warning in the San Mateo County
Jail. She underwent surgery less than two
hours later.
Undersheriff Harold Baker said Hearst
was in stable condition and that the prog
nosis is good. A doctor who examined her
said she probably would remain hos
pitalized for four to five days following the
Photo courtesy of Steve Goble
T imber!
Shock and dismay appear on the faces of David Burris’ computing
| science class as their card stack disqualifies itself by collapsing be
fore standing for 15 seconds without support. The winning stack
the Gas Week competition was an 8’8Ms" tower ol computer cards
formed into tubes built by Rex Jones’ computing science class.
There were only two other entries.
wo grand for $2
RHA Casino
By GALE KAUFFMAN
Battalion Staff Writer
o dollars will get you $2,(X)() at the
i annual Residence Hall Association’s
o.
For $2, you cap get $2, (X)0 in play money
play craps, roulette, black-jack, chuck-
|k and the wheel-of-fortune at the April
lasino. The events start at 8 p.m. in
morial Student Center 212, 224, and
C
sino has been sponsored by the RHA
the past four years. It is designed to
np a little of the Las Vegas night life to
Evervone is welcome to come in and
gamble to build their fortunes. Gambling
stops at 11 p.m. and an auction begins. The
play money won during the evening can be
used to hid on movie and dinner passes,
plants, gift certificates, beer, a calculator, a
10-speed bike, and one night’s use of a suite
at the Aggieland Inn.
Tickets will be sold beginning April 13 in
front of the Harrington Education Center,
in Sbisa and the Commons. Tickets may
also be purchased from dorm presidents.
At the door Friday night, tickets will cost
$2.25.
Dealers, saloon girls, can-can girls and
the stage band, “Common Wealth ”, will
add to the Las Vegas atmosphere.
45-minute procedure.
Security was tight around the hospital,
about 25 miles south of San Francisco.
Sheriffs deputies were stationed at the
emergency entrance and elsewhere in the
facility. Hearst was in a private room in a
section of the three-story hospital where
maternity and surgery patients are usually
kept, said Arthur J. Faro, the associate
hospital administrator.
It was the first night in the nearly seven
months since her capture that Hearst had
not slept in a cell at the jail. She was to have
been flown to Los Angeles early today for a
pretrial hearing on state kidnaping, assault
and robbery charges.
It was at that hearing Hearst was to have
encountered William and Emily Harris,
the Symbionese Liberation Army mem
bers she reportedly implicated in a Sac
ramento bank robbery during a meeting
Monday with FBI agents. She was “fearful
and apprehensive” about the meeting, one
of her lawyers said.
But attorney Albert Johnson said Miss
Hearst’s emotional condition had nothing
to do with the lung collapse.
Hearst’s lung collapse came just hours
after prosecutors from various parts of the
state met in San Francisco, reportedly to
discuss Hearst’s potential role as informer.
It was also reported that she already had
provided FBI agents with details of the
so-called “missing year” in her under
ground travels — including the names of
those who took part in the Sacramento,
Calif., bank robbery for which her former
lover, Steven Soliah, is on trial.
SG elections to fill eight positions
Foreign students face problems
By SUZANNE DEATHERAGE
Most international students come to
Texas A&M for the first time a week before
classes start. They don’t know anyone, they
don’t have any transportation, and they
generally don’t know where they are going
to live.
They compete with American students
on a firstcome, first-served basis for dor
mitory rooms. Of the 1,063 international
students now enrolled at A&M, only a few
live on campus.
And those hunting for off-campus hous
ing may run into opposition. They often
receive the area’s less-than-desirable hous
ing.
At a recent Bryan-College Station
Apartment Association meeting, many
apartment owners expressed a reluctance
to rent to foreign students. Tliey were talk
ing to guest speaker Corkey Sandel, acting
international student adviser for A&M.
Several owners cited cases of foreign
students who neglected to pay rent. The
student would deny that he was the person
who signed the lease and then leave the
country, they said.
One apartment owner said he was going
to charge international students a higher
security deposit for an apartment.
Dr. Roy Hann Jr., president of the
apartment association, listed five general
Oeffinger plans
problems encountered when leasing to
some international students.
First, the international students often
have trouble understanding contracts and
rents.
Second, the student sometimes vacates
his apartment without giving advance
notice.
Third, uncleanliness. That is associated
with the fourth problem, Hann said, the
tendency of some international students to
overcrowd their apartment.
The fifth problem is the international
students’ helplessness in such matters as
properly operating a dishwasher or dispo
sal, or flipping a circuit breaker.
Sandel acknowledged the problems that
apartment owners have with some foreign
students.
“I’m willing to work with you in any
way,” Sandel told the owners. “If I can
locate a student, I will.”
Sandel said, however, that the majority
of problems “start at the beginning, with
understanding the lease.” He repeated
that in a later interview.
“The best solution is more time and pa
tience in outlining the contract,” Sandel
said. “Some apartment owners just say
‘sign here’.”
Sandel said foreign students are not
familiar with American laws and that it is a
great cultural shock for them to come to
America.
The International Student Advisors of
fice is hard pressed to fully orient foreign
students when they arrive at A&M. San-
del’s staff consists of one secretary. Their
time is almost entirely consumed by immi
gration matters.
A prospective international student does
receive basic information through corre
spondence before he arrives in the United
States.
Then, a week before school starts, a spe
cial orientation for international students is
held. Information from the International
Student Adviser, the Student Legal Ad
viser and the Student Affairs office is pro
vided.
The International Student Association
also helps.
“Our part is making sure the interna
tional student knows what he’s getting into,
before he gets into it,” said Raj Kent,
(See Adjustment, Page 6)
S. G. runoff election Thursday;
eight places to be filled
Eight student positions are to he filled in
the Student Government run-off elections
Thursday. The run-off races are those not
decided in the Student Government gen
eral election last week.
Polls for the election will be open from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. in the MSC, the Commons,
and the Old Exchange Store. Voters must
present a student ID and activity card to
vote.
The races and candidates in the election
Thursday are:
Vice president of finance — Hal Brunson
and Scott Gregson.
MSC to widen appeal
“Our motto has been ‘step inside the
MSC circle’. Now we want to add to that
and say ‘step inside the MSC circle, your
student union .”
That’s how new MSC President John
Oeffinger explains his chief goal for the
Center’s coming year.
“What we re trying to do is make the
MSC a place where students can come not
only to study, but to do just about anything
else. It’s a recreational place, it’s a place for
communicating with people, it’s a place for
just about anything, even sleeping,” Oef
finger said in an interview yesterday.
“We realize the students provide our
money and we re going to try our best to
get their money’s worth,” he said.
Oeffinger said he is studying two main
projects for his year as president.
“We want to explore the feasibility of a
credit union for faculty, staff and students,
and possibly former students” he said.
“The big project for this year is increas
ing the quality of programs and trying to
reach the student body, to let them take
part in it. We re going to take a number of
student polls and get student opinion as to
what they want to see.”
Oeffinger said he is exploring more pro
grams to draw off-campus students into
MSC activities.
“We’ve got two-thirds of the student
body living off-campus, so we’re going to
be working to expand our public relations
to the apartment coverage complexes.
John Oeffinger
President, MSC Council
since that’s where the majority of the stu
dents live.”
Oeffinger said he plans to take an active
role in issues facing the student body and
the University.
“I think the MSC president should come
out, not so much to politic but to find out
what other organizations are doing and
keep abreast of their ideas. This year I want
to work closely with each of the major or
ganizations, like Student Government, the
Corps, RHA and off-campus people, and
see if we can help their needs in any way,”
he said. “At the same time if we have any
problems, we can see how they can help
us.
“What I’d hopefully like to see is all of us
working together to get some things ac
complished.
Oeffinger was also elected last week as
the graduate senator from the College of
Liberal Arts. He was elected as a write-in
candidate with two votes.
“I think anybody who has speaking
privileges in the Senate (as the MSC presi
dent does) should make use of them,” he
said. “I’m also going to be a student senator
so in that capacity I will also be making my
views known.”
Allowing liquor on campus and in the
MSC is an issue in which Oeffinger will
undoubtedly be involved.
“I can see in the future some time that
liquor will be legally recognized on this
campus. I think it would be advisable to
have some sort of a small pub-type ar
rangement where you might have some
light music and maybe wine. But you want
to have a control on it in the evening hours
so that you don’t have people getting drunk
all over the union building.
“What we re doing now is contacting
(See New, Page 1)
Graduate senator, College of Business
(open position).
Class of’77—Vice president, Susan Fon
taine and Mark Smith; Treasurer, Scott
Turner and Susan Colgan.
Class of ’78—Vice president, Richard
Tocquigny and Mark Mohr; Secretary,
Mark Sicilio and Gail Hawley.
Class of ’79—President, Ronald Las-
tovica and Brad Wakeman; Treasurer,
Michelle Marti, David Person and Mark
Hryhorchuk (name mi spelled on first bal
lot).
Index
Profile on the Democratic candi
dates begins today. Page 2.
Allen Academy is struggling with
financial woes. Page 6.
Filipino hijackers have given up
and released all hostages. World
roundup. Page 8.
John Connally and the President
have conferred at the White
House. Political roundup. Page 9.
Brenda Goldsmith keeps driving.
Page 10.
Alvin Roy’s expertise aids the New
Orleans Saints. Page 11.
Sandra Good
is sentenced
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — Sandra Good and
another follower of Charles Manson were
sentenced to prison terms yesterday for
making death threats to business and gov
ernment leaders. The prosecutor called the
sentences a death blow to the so-called
Manson family.
“They’re all in jail. I don’t know what
they can do now,” Asst. U.S. Atty. Bruce
Babcock said after the sentencing.
Good, 32, former roommate of Lvnette
“Squeaky” Fromme, was sentenced to 15
(See Sandra, Page 6)
Two GOP candidates run for sheriff
W. R. Owens
In the coming weeks The Battal
ion will be providing candidate pro
files for state and county offices in
the upcoming May 1 primary elec
tions.
By STEVE GRAY
Contributing Editor
A Texas A&M University student
and a veteran private investigator
oppose each other in the May 1 pri
mary for the Republican nomination
in the Brazos County sheriffs race.
Two other candidates. College
Station detective Johnny Miller and
incumbent Sheriff J. W. Hamilton,
will contend for the Democratic
nomination.
Ronald Woessner, 19, is a
freshman forest science major at
Texas A&M and a six-year resident of
College Station. He graduated from
A&M Consolidated High School
where he was student body vice-
president his senior year.
Woessner says he is running for
sheriff because he feels that the
Democratic Party has had a stron
ghold on Texas politics for too long.
“Brazos County has been a one-
party county for a long time and the
Republican party has been having a
hard time in getting candidates to
run for office,” he said. “It’s time for
a change.”
He said there needs to be a two-
party system on the state and na
tional levels, as well as locally.
“You’ve got to start somewhere
and I’m willing to take the first step
by representing the Republican
party in Brazos County.”
Woessner said he was uncertain
about complaints regarding the lack
of space in the sheriff s office and the
overcrowding in the county jail.
“I’ve taken only one tour of (the
jail) and right now I don’t feel I can
comment on the conditions there,”
he said.
Woessner advocates mandatory
jail sentences for persons convicted
of crimes in which a handgun was
used. He said some of the criminal
laws should be re-evaluated.
“We need to reset the priorities
concerning what should and should
not be crimes such as prostitution
and the use of marijuana, ” Woessner
said. “But I still intend to enforce the
present laws to the letter and let the
courts decide on the guilt of those
accused of crimes.”
Woessner is single and lives in
1118 Berkeley in College Station.
Woessner’s opponent, W. R.
Owens, brings 27 years of experi
ence as a private investigator for
numerous business firms. He is
presently affiliated with the In
terstate Auction Company of Hous
ton and conducts auctions for various
groups in the area.
Owens, 62, was defeated by
Sheriff Hamilton in 1972. He said he
was affiliated with the Democratic
party for about 40 years before he
recently switched over to the Repub
lican party.
He said the county jail is in dire
need of expansion.
“Those facilities are pitiful,” he
said. “The county could certainly use
another jail because the present one
is definitely overcrowded.
“One of my first priorities is to
have separate facilities constructed
to isolate children and first-time of
fenders from the other criminals in
the jail.”
Owens said he’s received numer
ous complaints from citizens who say
they have to wait a long time for a
sheriffs deputy to be dispatched.
“What I’d like to do is to provide
fair and efficient service to all points
in the county. One way we could do
this is to equip the (sheriffs) de
puties with citizen’s band radios,” he
said. “This way we could keep re
serve deputies on call 24 hours a
day. ”
Owens said he would also like to
crack down on drug pushers who
frequent the local school campuses
and to encourage more communica
tion between the public and the
sheriffs office.
Owens is married and lives at 120
Highland in Bryan.
Ronald Woessner