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! d Live V&M University students — hailing
Hm Texas, Alabama, Louisiana,
I'ees Georgia, Nigeria and the Bahamas
hvood SI;—have been picked for inclusion in
|| 1976-77 edition of “Who’s Who
Hong Students in American Uni-
/ei sities and Colleges.”
^JjUDENT COUNCIL officers of
is A&M’s College of Business
AY ||l sponsor a career seminar be-
7, 12n«Hning at 1 p.m. Monday in Rud-
lei Theater. The seminar will be at-
Y Hded by area industrial represen-
merStn^atives and will end 10 p.m. Tues-
y^.'k.D MASTERS PAINTINGS
e r 2p from the Blaffer Collection at the
0 p men i|Jiii v e r sity of Houston will be on
: 30p m Bblic display in the Rudder Ex-
; e Fgfljlht Hall today
-ityHalH TWO MORE CASES of dog
rabies were confirmed yesterday,
1Y H s > n 8 the total to 37 cases in the
RegisiiHrrent epidemic, the Laredo-
,9 am,Hebb County Health Department
Hjorted. A spokesman said the two
iomics(§§Kes were confirmed from among
p.m. H dog heads sent to Austin for
Halysis. Both of the rabid dogs
] were shot by police under supervi-
('i'! sion of a health department sanita
ria,
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|7TEXAS’ MULTI MILLION dol-
Hr citrus crop has escaped major
K]atuleix!s W( , a th er damage, however citrus
aulf wers ex P ect r i s i n g prices be
en vs yB use f reeze damage to Florida
s. VetI§(°ps, Agricidture Commisioner
L 48 ; BSC jlhn C. White said yester-
s P' dly.White said prices already are
^ in teasing on cabbage which is sell
ing for as much as $10 a bag-almost
,,. Si a head.
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ss'litl the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
ators vs.fHnked in the top 10 in a survey
’layerssi among public institutions for its
k li-aduate training in law, education
42-21 aii 1 business, university officials
/ skid yesterday. UT’s law school
■ and Eas)■pnkcd fifth nationally among public
ilistitutions and its graduate pro-
vs CBjrgr.ims in education and business
lec. & fHtnked ninth. The study, conducted
b\ the University of California at
’Berkley, said no other institution-
*** public or private in the Southwest
achieved ratings in any of the
categories.
National
I ANDREW DALTON LEE
pwaits a court hearing to determine
jryvhether he will be sent back to
Kalifornia to face charges of conspir
ing to pass U.S. defense secrets to
the Soviet Union. Assistant U.S. At
torney Rene Gonzalez said the hear
ing would be held today if Lee’s at
torney, Kenneth Kabn, arrived
from Los Angeles.
1 AN ATTORNEY for French-born
singer Claudine Longet has asked
for an extension of the time allowed
for appealing her negligent
Homicide conviction in the shooting
Heath of her lover, pro skier Vla-
Himir “Spider” Sabich. Longet,
Hx-wife of singer Andy Williams,
Has expected to return to her job of
[ tutoring grade-school children in
French.
I FOUR PERSONS aboard a Coast
! Guard helicopter surveying naviga
tion conditions were killed when
Hhe copter crashed into the icy Il
linois River yesterday. Authorities
Raid the craft hit two high-tension
Hires. Divers pulled the bodies of
Hoast Guard Lt. John F. Taylor, a
||eservist from Belleville, Ill., Petty
Hbflicer 2nd Class John Johnson of
Mission, Tex. and a civilian
f passenger identified as William S.
Bimpson of Chesterfield, Mo. from
the copter. Divers continued efforts
mo recover the body of Navy Lt.
ijYederick W. Caeser of El Paso,
S Tex.
World
FOUR NON-COMMUNIST op
position parties in New Delhi, In
dia, began a joint compaign under
the label “Janta People’s Party” to
oppose Prime Minister Indira Gan
dhi’s ruling Congress party in the
March national elections-the first to
be held since a state of emergency
was imposed 19 months ago.
RETIRED SCHOOLMASTER
Ernest Digweek, who died last Sep
tember at Portsmouth, southern
England, left more than $44,000 for
Jesus Christ in his will published
yesterday in London. If within 80
years the money is not claimed, the
money will go to the crown.
weather
Partly cloudy today with increasing
cloudiness tonight and tomorrow.
Winds southeasterly at 10 m.p.h.
High today in the mid 60s. Low to
night in the mid 40s and high to
morrow in the mid 60s. No precipi
tation expected.
The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 62
8 Pages
Friday, January 21, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Free enterprise program awaits decision
Texas A&M University may soon
provide new insight into America’s eco
nomic system if A&M’s regents approve a
new program aimed at research and edu
cation in the free enterprise system.
The new program must be approved by
A&M’s Board of Regents in their meeting
next Tuesday before going into effect.
Under the program A&M would estab
lish a center for education and research in
free enterprise under the College of Lib
eral Arts. It would be administered by an
independent director and be staffed by
University faculty members.
The center would be funded by gifts and
grants from sources outside the University
as well as by industrial and government
research projects.
The A&M regents will consider a
number of construction projects in addi
tion to deciding on the free enterprise
program in their Tuesday morning meet
ing.
One agenda item the regents are to con
sider is a recommended $300,000 approp
riation to renovate a number of A&M’s re
sidence halls this summer. The renovation
program is scheduled each summer to re
pair damage from normal use in the resi
dence halls.
Other recommendations include funds
for preliminary work for renovations of
A&M’s Agronomy Building; construction
of a clinical sciences building at A&M’s
veterinary science school, and conversion
of Legett Hall from a residence hall to
university office space.
The regents may take action on bids for
improvements in Duncan Dining Hall and
replacement of the A&M’s Horse Barn
and Arena on A&M’s west campus.
P.E. vague about concepts
as graduation requirement
By JOHN W. TYNES
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University offers a physical
education course known as P.E. concepts.
Since its introduction into the P.E. pro
gram, many students have taken it assum
ing that it was a required course.
It may not be.
Dr. C. W. Landiss, head of the depart
ment of health and physical education,
said the purpose of concepts is to “give the
student a knowledge and understanding of
why physical education is important.”
He said concepts offers education on
some subjects that are not offered
elsewhere at A&M, such as cancer and ar
tificial respiration and circulation.
“I have determined this is important
and that’s why it’s in there,’ he added.
The A&M catalog states that all students
must take P.E. 101, 102, 201 and 202 and
fulfill a swimming requirement. It does
not state that a student must take concepts
as part of the P.E. requirement.
Every student who takes P.E., how
ever, finds himself in concepts sooner or
later. The department of health and physi
cal education makes certain that everyone
in required P.E. takes the course.
Dr. Landiss said he wasn’t sure if a stu
dent is legally required to take the course.
“The question hasn’t arisen before,” he
said. “I have made a note to insert it (the
requirement) in the catalog.”
A plan to allow students to place out of
the course by taking and passing a test
may be offered, he said.
“It (concepts) is one of the required
courses that all the people who come into
the required program are channeled into,”
Charles Riggs, concepts instructor, said.
Riggs, who lectures all concepts classes,
had 3,200 students in the course last
semester and 1,750 this semester.
Registrar Robert Lacey said that before
a student is allowed to graduate, his rec
ord is checked to see if he has taken four
semesters of P.E.
The man responsible for clearing stu
dents for graduation by checking comple
tion of degree requirements is Assistant
Registrar Robert Baine.
“I have no way of knowing when I clear
you for graduation, whether you’ve taken
concepts,” Baine said, adding that P.E. is
listed on a student’s permanent record
only as P.E. 101, 102, 201 or 202. There is
no indication of whether a student has
taken concepts.
Landiss said the P.E. department does
crosscheck its records to make sure a stu
dent has taken the course. He admitted
that some students might slip by without
taking concepts, but only occasionally.
Ken Robison, student legal adviser, said
that as long as the department of health
and physical education is meeting the
course goals specified in the A&M catalog,
they can ask the students to meet any de
partmental requirements they want.
He was unsure, however, if the Univer
sity could legally keep a student from
graduating merely because he has not
taken concepts.
“The catalog and the rules and regu
lations handbook constitute a contract,” he
said. He added that the catalog descrip
tion of P.E. 101 through 202 is very gen
eral and unspecific as it pertains to actual
course activities, perhaps general enough
to allow the department to require con
cepts.
Biofeedback relieves tension
For students who cannot seem to relax
or who have an annoying headache from
too much studying, bio-feedback may be
the answer.
Bio-feedback has successfully helped
people control headaches and relax. Dr.
Leslie Bagnall, mechanical engineering
professor at Texas A&M University, said
last night during a meeting of the Texas
Society of Professional Engineers.
“Bio-feedback is literally a feedback of a
function,” Bagnall said. The technique
helps people become aware of their bodily
functions.
“Once people are aware of these
functions, whatever they may be, most
people can learn to control them, to one
degree or another,” he said.
“Bio-feedback consists simply of elec
tronically picking up physiological
functions and mirroring them back to the
individual you are picking them up from,”
Bagnall said.
He explained that the idea behind bio
feedback is to teach people to control
these functions. Bagnall added, however,
that bio-feedback is not a cure at all, but is
becoming a “powerful tool in the armory
of medicine and psychology.”
“One of the most effective and useful
things that bio-feedback does is teach
people to relax,” Bagnall said.
Relaxation training can also help to con
trol headaches by lowering their fre
quency and intensity, he said. “If people
learn to relax, they can control simple ten
sion headaches.”
Bagnall reported a 75 per cent success
rate in reducing headache pain. The tech
nique is 80 to 85 per cent successful in
reducing the pain of migraine headaches.
Once people learn to relax, they are
taken away from the machine. They prac
tice at home and are soon able to relax
without using the machine, Bagnall said.
Bio-feedback also is being used to con
trol high blood pressure, epilepsy, stutter
ing, ulcers and insomnia. It has been
found to help relieve chronic pain, such as
low back pain. Pain clinics across the
country are using this technique suc
cessfully, Bagnall said.
Bagnall said that bio-feedback offers a
potentially effective alternative to the in
creasing reliance on medicine.
Bagnall is currently working to develop
a bio-feedback center at Texas A&M in as
sociation with the medical school.
Carter is President,
White House pomp dead
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter of
Plains, Ga., is now the nation’s 39th Pres
ident and he has let it be known that
White House formality is dead.
Thousands of plain folks had a great
time celebrating his Inauguration.
The 52-year old President and his wife
Rosalynn, who chose a 6-year-old gown for
the occasion, danced until the early hours
today to climax an inaugural festival that at
every turn discarded the formal trappings
that previously made the transition of
power in America almost a royal cere
mony.
Carter took the oath of office in a con
stitutionally required style, then walked to
work.
In an inaugural address that echoed the
populist tones of his two-year campaign for
the White House, Carter promised no
thing but asked Americans for a “fresh
faith in the old dream.”
Carter dumped formality every time he
got the chance during the daylong celebra
tion. He wore a business suit instead of
top hat and tails to the swearing-in, but he
gave in and wore a tuxedo — with clip-on
bow tie — to the jammed parties.
Old Masters Paintings
This painting and others were viewed yesterday when works from the
University of Houston’s Blaffer Collection began its exhibition in the
Rudder Exhibit Hall. The paintings will be on display through Feb. 18.
The board will also review appropria
tions for construction made by W. C.
Freeman, A&M system executive officer,
since the board’s last meeting in
November. These appropriations include
funds for a storage building at the swim
ming pool, an animal science hay barn, a
set of campus fire safety guidelines and
campus landscaping repairs for A&M.
Two fees which A&M graduate students
have been paying since November 30,
1970 will receive official sanction if ap
proved by the board. These are a $27.50
fee for microfilming graduate dissertations
and $15 charged for binding graduate the
ses and dissertations. Those fees are re
quired as part of A&M’s graduate degree
program.
The board is also expected to accept
gifts to A&M of $147,398.40;' grants of
$534,461.14, and loans of $21,950.
The board meeting, in the Regents
Board Room adjoining the Memorial Stu
dent Center, will come to order at 8:30
a.m. Tuesday and will be open to the pub
lic.
He was sworn in as Jimmy— not James
Earle Jr., his baptismal name.
He had decided weeks ago that what
history has always known as inaugural
balls would be called parties.
Whatever they were called, protocol
dictated that “Hail to the Chief’ be played
when the new President and his lady came
to dance — but formality met its match in
the peanut farmer who now lives in the
White House.
Carter, who plans to wear blue jeans on
weekends because they’re comfortable,
dictated the folk-rock tune “Why Not the
Best” — which also happened to be his
campaign theme song — be played when
he entered.
“I love every one of you,” he said with a
big smile and a wave at each crowded ball
room as he traveled from party to party. “I
don’t claim I know all the answers. I’m
going to try and do a good job.”
Vice President Mondale and his wife
Joan also made the rounds of the inaugural
parties. He moved into office assuming
one new formality — moving into the new
vice president’s mansion that was com
pleted during the Nelson Rockefeller te
nure but has never been lived in by a vice
presidential family.
Carter stuck to the formalities to the ex
tent of making sure as much of his Cabinet
as possible was confirmed quickly by Con
gress. In an unusual session on the after
noon of a presidential Inauguration, all but
three of Carter’s 11 Cabinet nominees
were approved by the Senate and they are
expected to be confirmed next week.
Inauguration day was a chilly affair for
the Carters and the 350,000 lining the
parade route. The temperature never rose
above freezing.
Letterbombs meant
for Carter, Ford
found by police
United Press International
NEW YORK — Five small letterbombs,
one addressed to President Carter and
another to former President Ford, were
found yesterday at various post offices in
Midtown Manhattan, police reported.
Police said four of the incendiary de
vices smouldered but none caused any
damage or injuries.
In addition to Carter and Ford, the
bombs were addressed to Carlos Romero
Barcelo, the newly elected governor of
Puerto Rico, and the FBI, police said. The
address of the fifth was obliterated when
the device detonatd.
All the bombs but the one sent to the
FBI went off, police said.
Local coffee prices
follow national trend
By DEBBIE KILLOUGH
Battalion Staff Writer
Coffee lovers may be looking for a
substitute drink when they discover
coffee prices have risen as much as
$1.30 per pond.
In College Station, Safeway leads
with the biggest price hike, as major
brands which recently sold for $1.69
per pound now sell for $2.99 per
pound. Piggly Wiggly and Weingar-
ten’s have maintained the lowest
price increases on major coffee
brands which sold for $2.39 per
pound, but are now selling for $2.69
per pound. Lewis & Coker and
Skaggs-Albertsons, while they have
not raised prices as much as some
local grocery stores, certainly rate
among the highest price increases.
Lewis & Coker has raised coffee
prices from $2.39 per pound to
$2.69 per pound, while Skaggs Al
bertsons is now selling their major
coffee brands for $2.99 per pound.
Local grocery store managers say
they have had to increase retail col-
fee prices because the wholesale
cost of coffee has risen to over $3.00
per pound.
The grocery stores aren’t the only
ones that increased prices, many
major restaurants have had to raise
the price of a cup of coff ee or lower
the number of free refills.
Shipley’s Donut Shop recently
raised a cup of coffee from 20 cents a
cup to 25 cents, plus 11 cents for
each refill.
Denny’s, once popular for their
unlimited number of refills has now
set a limit of two free refills. They
have also raised their coffee to 30
cents a cup.
International House of Pancakes
seems to have maintained the best
price charging 30 cents for the first
cup of coffee, but retaining unlim
ited refille.
Coffee prices up;
boycott won’t work
United Press International
The president of the Brazillian
Coffee Institute, the manager of
New York City’s 21 Club and sev
eral disheartened American food
wholesalers were in accord — the
coffee boycott simply won’t work.
General Foods Corp., the na
tion’s largest coffee wholesaler, ap
peared to agree yesterday. They
boosted the price of ground coffee
another 20 cents a pound, to a rec
ord high of $3.11, in the second
round of increases in a month.
A group of 25 American super
market executives and consumer
representatives wrapped up a tour
of Brazil’s frost-damaged plantations
and returned to the United States
with explanations — but no so
lutions — for coffee prices, which
they said are likely to go right on
accelerating for the next two years.
All agreed, lack of supplies — not
a conspiracy on the part of Brazilian
producers — is the villain of the
scenario in which America s favorite
beverage rapidly is becoming an
exotic delicacy.
“I don’t think a boycott will do a
lot because we have to reduce con
sumption by about 12 per cent, and
that surely is a lot,” said Sue Ann
Ritchko, director of consumer serv
ices at Price Chopper Discount
Foods in Schnectady, N.Y.
Jorge Wolney Atalla, chairman of
Hills Brothers, defended his coun
try’s 285 per cent increase in coffee
beans since the 1975 frost that
wiped out 73.5 per cent of Brazil’s
coffee trees.
Camilo Calazans, president of the
Brazilian Coffee Institute, was blunt
in his assessment of the American
boycott.
“It’s picturesque,” he said.
Back in New York City, at the
fashionable 21 Club where cofiee
and tea alike always have sold for
$1.50 a pot — with unlimited refills
— Manager Jerry Berns was in
clined to agree with Calazans.
He said the 21 Club joined the
boycott — offering free tea for about
two weeks.
To the Brazilian man in the
street, the American boycott is an
affront to national honor — one re
quiring an economic counterpunch.
“Americans are boycotting our
coffee,” a sign in a bar and restaur
ant in the city of Salvador proc
laimed. “Don’t drink Coca Cola. ’.