The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 89
8 Pages
Thursday, March 10, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Senate discusses funding, dorm rules
tudent Senate requests
pen weekend visitation
By RAY DANIELS
’wenty-four hour dormitory visitation on weekends was recommended by the Texas
M University Student Senate last night.
introduced by Joe Beall (Soph.-Eng.), the bill originally asked Friday hours be
inged from noon to 10 a.m. It was amended to open visitation from 10 a. m. Friday to
p.m. Sunday as the maximum hours that could be adopted by dormitories. The bill
:omes part of changes to be considered by the University Rules Committee and the
ninistration. If passed, the changes take effect next fall.
extension of public liquor service to 2 a.m. on weekends was endorsed and recom-
mded to College Station City Council.
hil Sutton (Sr.-Bus.) sponsored the bill. Last year a similar bill prompted extension
midnight to 1 a.m.
utton said no increase in accidents or arrests had been associated with the extension,
cited a survey made last spring where 85 per cent of the students wanted the
tension to 2 a.m. on weekends. There was little opposition to the bill.
Reconsideration of a February decision by the Student Publications Board to use
hires of non-recognized student organizations in the Aggieland was brought up again
night. The Student Publications Board decided to allow non-recognized organiza-
nstobuy space in the Aggieland at the same rates charged recognized groups. Groups
be included would be decided by the editor.
There are a number of ways to include the organizations without putting them with
:ognized organizations,” said Robert Harvey (Sr.- Eng.). Harvey mentioned inclusion
the student life section and re-establishment of advertising. Harvey said putting
recognized groups with those that are recognized implies recognition, and such pow-
be ong elsewhere.
Censorship. ” said Joe Marcello. “This bill is the most dangerous piece of legislation
ve acted on. We re trying to make ourselves editor.”
Fhe Senate’s not overstepping its bounds because it is recommending on things
dents put money into, said Mary Ellen Martin (Sr.- Lib.Arts.)
\ roll call vote passed the issue and a copy of the Senate’s request will go to the
ident Publications Board for its consideration.
Battalion photo by Pat McAuliff
Senator Joe Marcello discussed the merits of allowing all student
organizations to buy space in the Aggieland at last night’s senate meeting.
Senate allocates $41,000
for university day care
By RAY DANIELS
Day care for 32 children of Texas A&M University students may be provided next
year because of a $41,000 allocation by the A&M Student Senate last night.
The day-care center allocation was among more than $1 million in allocation recom
mendations made by the Senate last night.
An allocation from Student Services Fee reserves was recommended to provide the
equipment and costs for the Texas A&M University Educational Development Center.
If the Board of Regents approves the allocation, the center will be located in the
Unitarian Fellowship on Old College Road.
Approval was given for yearly allocation of Student Service fees during a six-and-one-
half hour meeting.
Senators who spoke for the proposal said it would have educational and possible
financial advantages over services now in existence.
The plan combines College of Education students and paid personnel under guidance
of a three-student, two-faculty board to provide an educationally oriented day-care
program. Initially, it would be available to 32 children at a cost of $12 per week. Plans
include financial self-sufficiency by the end of the second year.
External Affairs Vice President Jerri Ward questioned this use of Student Service
Fees, saying that all students don t have children and wouldn’t use the service.
Providing the education of students’ children and the curriculum of education majors
was not the purpose of student service fees, she said. Robert Harvey, engineering
senator and Corps Commander, supported Wards views.
Academic Vice President Stan Stanfield stressed the center’s availability to students
needing it, within enrollment constraints.
Sens. Joe Marcello and Jeb Hensarling supported the bill for its potential in educa
tional growth of the children. They pointed out the total cost of $60,000 over two years
comes from the reserve without affecting money allocated for standard services.
Senate Speaker Lynn Gibson surrendered his position to address the issue. He emo
tionally pleaded for parents unable to attend school without day-care facilities. He
criticized making large subsidies to “bureaucratic garbage while by-passing this needed
and worth-while project financed by reserves, which basically go to waste.
The center budget included $30,000 employe’s pay and $9,000 food preparation
expense, plus rent, utilities and equipment.
Equipment included toys and art materials, a tape recorder, record player, filmstrips
and projector, cable television, and also a washer, dryer, refrigerator and dishwasher.
Renovation of the building would cost $6,(X)0.
omen work outside at A&M.
By LINDA NORMAN
Women who don’t mind a little dirt
under their fingernails are working where
they are most likely to find it—outside.
There are seven women working in out
side jobs for the Texas A&M University
Grounds Department, said Eugene Ray,
director of the department. They can be
found doing anything from digging ditches
to driving tractors.
“Flowers are easier to herd around than
cattle,” said Kathy Kraatz, a graduate of
A&M with a degree in animal science.
She has worked for the department
part-time for one year and full time for six
months. She is the youngest of four
women who are members of the flower
crew.
“We have a large tiller we run on the
beds, and I just love running it,” Kraatz
said.
Her least favorite job is cleaning plants
in the Memorial Student Center, she said.
“I wish I was out there now digging in
the mud,” said Pauline Jenkins, veteran
member of the flower crew.
A rainy day required her to work in the
greenhouse. She has worked for the de
partment eight years.
“I don’t like inside work. I used to work
in a cafe and didn’t like it,” Jenkins .said.
Her favorite task is planting, she said.
Dorothy Duarte, mother of five girls,
said the men co-workers treat them very
well. “They consider us women as well as
workers.” She said she enjoys trimming
the most, after working on the flower crew
about eight months.
Alta Blocker said her husband objected
to her work at first because he thought it
was not ladylike. The mother of four boys
has worked for the flower crew one and a
half years. She says setting out plants is
her favorite job.
“I think I’m just a damned ditchdig-
ger,” Blanche Prescott said when asked
what type of jobs she does.
She said she likes the work because it is
outside, but doesn’t recommend this type
of work for other women. The only woman
member of the landscape crew said her
husband doesn’t mind her w'orking. She is
the mother of three children, two girls
who are agriculture education majors at
A&M, and one son.
The crew gets many inquiries from
passersby, and they try to answer them as
well as they can, said Joe Prieve, foreman
of the seven-member flower crew. The
questions range from amounts of fertilizer
to how to plan their own flower beds.
Many ask the women how they can get
started working, said Duarte.
Prieve said it does not matter to him
whether he has men or women in his
crew. The main thing he wants is a
cooperative group, he said. He added that
the crew he has is very cooperative. He
has been crew foreman five and a half
years, and said he inherited women on the
crew.
“We have a lot of fun, but when it
comes down to getting work done, we
know how to do it,” Blocker said.
Coeds solve problem;
midsemester move helped
Muslims seize Washington buildings;
hold more than 100 persons hostage
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Blanche Prescott
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Hanafi Muslims told
police today that any attempt to free hos
tages captured when they seized three
Washington buildings would put more
than 100 lives in danger.
At the direction of the religious cultists,
Alan Grip, press secretary to a city coun
cilman and one of the hostages in Wash
ington’s city hall, sent out their message in
a telephone conversation.
Grip, a former radio announcer, said
the terrorists were holding more than 100
hostages at national headquarters of B’nai
B’rith.
After taking over three buildings yes
terday, the terrorists killed a young black
reporter, shot and wounded three per
sons, beat or stabbed five others and
seized as many as 100 hostages in the na
tional headquarters of B’nai B’brith, a
Jewish organization; the national Islamic
Center, a mosque; and Washington’s city
hall, a few blocks from the White House.
Seven hostages were believed held in
city hall, and about 15 at the National Is
lamic Center.
The raiders at B’nai O’rith released a
woman hostage who was suffering chest
pains. She was rushed away in an ambu
lance. Police first said she was a relative of
a hostage, then corrected themselves and
said she was a hostage. They did not iden
tify her.
Authorities, acting gingerly out of fear
of a bloodbath, tried to open negotiations
with the raiders. Officer Joseph Gentile, a
police spokesman, said there had been
“sporadic, on and off’ contact with the
gunmen through the night.
The terrorist band of six to eight persons
was led by Hanafi leader Plamaas Abdul
Khaalis. He demanded that five of the
Hanaffs religious enemies be brought be
fore the terrorists to receive retribution
for the 1973 executions of two women and
five children. Khaalis was the father of
four of the children.
In his broadcast message from the
Hanafis, press secretary Grip repeated
words told to him by the gunmen:
“We are Hanafi Muslims to the death.
And if the police have any ideas about
storming this room, it will put all of our
lives in immediate danger as well as the
over 100 hostages at B’nai B’rith because
that’s his father and he will fight and die
with his father. And they are prepared to
die because they killed our family.
“This is for all Islam. It is not a personal
grudge. It’s just that justice should be
done.”
Asked about the situation in city hall.
Grip said the hostages were being treated
well, and were given cigarettes, breakfast
and newspapers. Grip said the terrorists
“allowed us to have our hands tied in
front. We re being treated very well.”
Then he hung up abruptly.
By CAROLYN BLOSSER
Texas A&M University’s housing
shortage is making it impossible for
many off-campus students to get
dorm space next semester, but 26
coeds have found an expensive solu
tion .
They moved into the remaining
dorm vacancies in the middle of
this semester and now have a
guaranteed room for next fall.
Some managed to sublease their
apartments, but most of the coeds
must now pay rent for both the
apartment and dorm.
The dorm rent and board plan are
pro-rated, explained Glenn Jen
nings, assistant director of student
affairs. The costs vary according to
the date the student moved in.
Is living on campus worth the
extra money?
“I think so,” said freshman
Brenda Casimir. She moved into
Krueger Hall at the end of Feb
ruary .
“Life is much easier now,” she
said. “I have more time to join
school activities and clubs, and it’s
easier to study. I’ve met many
people and have made many new
girlfriends.
“I’m sure my father would have
preferred not to pay both rents, but
he was willing to do it to get me in a
dorm.”
Freshman Kim Fetter wanted to
live on campus next fall, but she was
number 140 on the waiting list.
“The Housing Office told me
there was no way I could get a dorm
room for fall, and it was doubtful
that I would get one for the spring,
she said. “My parents didn’t want to
pay for both the apartment and
dorm, but they told me I could
move as long as I tried to sublease
the apartment.”
Kim’s roommate Debbie Power
also wanted on campus in the fall.
Debbie Caldarola wanted a dorm
room for next fall but wasn’t too
happy about moving in the middle
of the semester.
“I already had my life established
and a system set up living at the
apartment,” she said. “I didn’t want
to break in the middle of the semes
ter.”
But it wasn’t her choice.
“My parents just told me, ‘We got
you a dorm and you’re moving out
today.’ I was upset because I didn’t
know anyone in the dorm and I
didn’t know if I could adjust to living
in just one room,” she said.
Caldarola doesn’t regret the move
now that she is on campus.
“It’s so much easier for me to
study here and it’s much more con
venient, she said. “I’ve made so
many new girlfriends. At the apart
ment you meet a lot of guys b”t not
too many girls. Now I’m more aware
of what’s going on around campus,
and I love not having to cook.”
She said her father doesn’t mind
paying the extra rent.
“If that’s what it takes to get me in
a dorm, then he is willing to do it,
she said.
Freshman Elaine Drewry wanted
on campus to meet more people,
but she was number 750 on the
waiting list. *
“My parents never said whether
or not they minded paying the extra
rent,” she said. “They just wanted
to make sure that living on campus
was what I really wanted.”
Vicki Hall faced the same prob
lem. She was number 500 on the
waiting list and had no chance of
getting a dorm room for next semes
ter.
“My mom told me to do whatever
I could to get on campus because
she knew how bad I wanted it,”
said. “I thought at first I might re
gret paying the extra money, but
after a couple of days I realized it
was worth it.”
“Of course it is ridiculous to have
to pay the extra rent,” Hall added,
“but it was the only way we could
get on campus.”
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Rape attitudes on campus cause problems, says counselor
By DEBBIE PARSONS
The attitude on the Texas A&M Univer-
(y campus toward rape, as toward many
her social problems, seems to be that it
not a problem, Susan Smith said last
ight in a talk sponsored by Women’s
orum.
Smith was co-director for a rape crisis
enter in California before becoming a
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rape counselor seven months ago at the
Rape Crisis Center at the Central Brazos
Valley Mental Health Center.
“The general community attitude to
wards rape is that of general unawareness
of the problem,” Smith said. “The best
way to let people know more about the
problem is to do what I’m doing tonight,
talking to people.”
A rape victim usually goes through
three stages. Smith said.
The first stage is that of shock, anger
and confusion. There are decisions to be
made, such as whether to prosecute or
whether to get counseling.
During the second stage, the woman
tries to lead a normal life, usually denying
that anything is wrong by saying, “I don’t
need counseling.”
Smith called the third stage a resolution
stage, triggered by dreams that bring back
memories of the rape, or court hearings
where the woman has to relate everything
that happened.
In all three stages, the woman has many
angry feelings that she has to own up to
and deal with, Smith said.
“If they come to us for help, we give
them anticipatory guidance, where we
tell the woman that these stages will prob
ably occur, and she should not think any
thing is wrong with her personally. It is
normal,” Smith said.
One of the major
have to deal with in
guilty they were in th
said.
issues that women
a rape case is how
act of rape, she
“A lot of women wonder what they did
to cause themselves to be assaulted,
Smith said. “Personal characteristics have
nothing to do with who is assaulted, it only
concerns the rapist.
Smith feels that a counseling service for
persons who are close to the rape victim
would be beneficial. This include hus
bands, boyfriends, fathers and brothers.
“It’s understandable that the male feels
as if something has been taken away from
him when an important person in his life
has been aggressed. Therefore, he needs
counseling also,” Smith said.
The number of legislative bodies who
now believe that rape is worthy of study
has greatly helped public awareness of
rape, Smith said.
“The Rape Crisis Center in California
has been pushing to reduce the number of
years of conviction for rapists, so that
hopefully more rapists will be convicted,”
Smith said.
“Right now, with the penalty so high, 20
years to life, most juries are reluctant to
convict a person unless there is over
whelming evidence that he is guilty .”
Smith said that instead of punishment,
convicted rapists should be given therapy,
because the repeated offense record for
rapists is high.
A major breakthrough in the way that
rapes are handled occured when a
member of one of the crisis centers
checked the laws and found that police of
ficers don t have to attend the medical ex
amination of a rape victim, as previously
thought.
“This greatly improved the doctor-
patient relationship,” Smith said.
The Rape Crisis Center was started last
spring. The Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare requires that one out of
the 12 services in any community mental
health service must be rape counseling.
There are four people working at the
Rape Center now, and they are hoping to
set up a counselor training program for
people who are interested in serving as
rape crisis volunteers, Smith said.
Most of the people now working at the
Rape Crisis Center are working at the pro
fessional level and do not have as much
time to spend working on the rape cases.
Smith said the centers need counselors
from all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
The Rape Crisis Center is located at 405
West 28th Street in Bryan and the tele
phone number is 822-7326.
Susan Smith