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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1977
Student Government endorsements
Th ere are several well-qualified candidates for Student Body Pres
ident this year. All three candidates have served in influential stu
dent leadership positions during the past year.
Robert Harvey, Corps Commander and Senator, is definitely a
leader and could handle the job of executive administration, but he
often seems to let petty prejudices get in the way of his thinking. He
was one of the main supporters and proponents of reactionary legisla
tion in the Senate during the past year.
Student Government needs leaders who will initiate action and not
always be reacting to something.
For this reason. The Battalion endorses STAN STANFIELD for
Student Body President.
Stanfield, currently Student Government Vice President for
Academic Affairs, is a mover and can be expected to prod the Senate
into action during the next year. Stanfield has been an involved and
vocal force throughout the past year and always seems to have the
students’ interests in mind. He is aggressive and has some progres
sive ideas which will benefit all students.
Scott Gregson is outspoken on student rights, but his administra
tive abilities are dubious. He is currently serving as Student Gov
ernment Vice President for Finance and has come under fire for not
making the student service fee allocation process a year-long one
rather than doing it all within a two-month period just before recom
mendations are made to the Senate.
In the race for Vice President for Academic Affairs, MIKE HUM
PHREY gets the endorsement of The Battalion. He is knowledgeable
about the office and has some sound ideas on what he would like to
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ELECT APRIL 6&7
JOE BEALL (’79)
Junior Senator
College of Engineering
Presently Soph. Senator (Eng.)
Parliamentarian Of Senate
Serving On Following Committees:
Student Services
Legislative Affairs
(Lobbying Student Oriented Bills)
Business & Consumer Relations
(Student Purchase Program)
This Semester 3 of 4 Bills Passed
Senate
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see accomplished. His experience in academic affairs and scholastic
matters is impressive.
The Battalion endorses PHIL SUTTON for Vice President for
External Affairs. Sutton, as can be attested to by Battalion reporters
and editors, has been very active in promoting student interests
before local governmental agencies, especially the College Station
City Council. We believe that if Sutton is elected, he will be instru
mental in getting a student elected to the College Station City Coun
cil next year. Sutton has proved that he is not afraid of hard work.
The Battalion makes no endorsement for Vice President for Fi
nance. Both candidates have qualities which recommend them for
the position, so you make a choice based on what you value more
highly — ideas or experience.
Owen Massey has some good ideas on what should be done in
operating the Finance Committee but lacks the experience in dealing
with the many facets involved in accomplishing this task. But one has
to start somewhere.
Michael Springer, although lacking innovative ideas, has been a
member of the Finance Committee and a member of the Student
Service Fee Allocation Subcommittee. He is aware of the procedures
necessary for completing the job.
JIM CONNOR receives The Battalion’s endorsement for Vice
President for Rules and Regulations. He is well-versed in current
rules and regulations and has had extensive experience in dealing
with them. He also brings some new ideas and some old ones into the
arena. He’s for prohibiting those ugly campaign billboards which
litter our campus at this time every year, and he’s also for an on-
campus student pub.
For Vice President for Student Services, The Battalion endorses
VICKI YOUNG. She wants to get more nonsenators involved in the
student services committee and get each of these members in specific
projects. She also wants to keep students informed about what stu
dent services are available. Her past experience in working for stu
dents shows her dedication and recommends her for the position.
Slouch
by Jim Earll
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SPRING IS NOT A DATE
ON A CALENDAR, IT IS
NOT A TIME OF THE YEAR,
SPRING . . .
IS A BUCKET OF
WATER!’
DC9 jet crashes through grocer
All Ags can be yell leaders P low through cars; at least 71 d
Editor:
As candidates for yell leader
begin their campaigning this week,
students should consider the real
job of the yell leaders. It is not rep
resentation of the Corps or of the
non-regs, but of all Aggies and the
Aggie spirit.
The Corps is an integral part of
A&M, but the civilian population is
just as representative of the school
and the spirit. A yell leader should
not be elected on the basis of his
affiliation, or lack of it, with the
Corps, but rather because he
typifies the Aggie at his fightin’
best.
When they are on the track, the
yell leaders are the same in the most
important way: they are all Aggies at
heart, interested in bringing the
student body together. It should not
matter whether a yell leader is a CT
or a non-reg. What should matter is
his ability to generate enthusiasm in
just roll back the leftover buzz a
measly 20,000 Hz for the most in
formative and innovative radio sta
tion we had.
— Kyle Moore ’79
— John Purcell ’80
Daycare center
considered
Editor:
At the last Senate meeting, a mo
tion was brought to the floor to re
consider the $41,000 of students’
service fees previously allocated to
the Day Care Center. The motion to
consider this bill again failed by one
vote.
It wasn’t enough that half of the
Senate wanted to reconsider the
large appropriation for the reason
that possibly the Day Care Center
may have been pushed through on
emotional instead of practical rea-
the stands and to represent, the Ag- soning that there might be too
gies with pride.
—Karin Knapp, 80
KAMU-FM vs.
KPFT-FM
Editor:
Amid the celebrations concerning
the instigation of our new radio sta
tion, KAMU-FM, we failed to
realize what havoc the station would
soon play on the airwaves. It wasn’t
until the new station began broad
casting that we realized what a
tragedy had occurred. Until March
30, local listeners were able to re
ceive KPFT, at 90.1 MHz, Hous
ton’s non-commercial, listener sup
ported radio station, via the cable.
Now, between 6 a.m. and midnight,
this station is practically obliterated
by the overpowering signal of
KAMU.
The loss of a radio station may
seem insignificant until we consider
some of the unique services offered
by KPFT.
We realize KAMU was assigned
by the FCC the frequency at which
it must broadcast. But it is a shame
that local subscribers of KPFT can’t
enjoy the station they paid for.
So if midnight finds you at 90.3,
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Vote for ALLISON KING
VP Rules & Regulations
1) better student representation
2) student participation on revision committees of Blue Book
and Constitution
3) better communication between students and myself thru the
use of The Battalion and bulletin boards
4) availability to any students who have questions about Rules
& Regs.
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many unanswered questions con
cerning the operation and funding
of this project.
For instance, how will the 32
children be selected? If based on
need, will someone with 2 children,
who is more needy, get 2 of the 32
slots, or should it be limited to one
child per family? What about the
legal ramifications? Can state funds
be used to support an off-campus
operation which competes with the
private sector? Can state funding be
used to renovate a building which
the Day Care Center will be rent
ing?
Advocates of the bill implied that
if the Senate could support this pro
gram for two years, funding would
be guaranteed the third year from
other federal sources. Guaranteed
by whom? It was also brought out
that students from the College of
Education would be working as vol
unteers in the Center, thus cutting
costs for salaries. It’s about time to
straighten out a few things.
The College of Education, under
Dean Hubert, does not endorse or
support the idea of the Day Care
Center. The College of Education
has no plans to have student volun
teers work in the Center and will
provide no funding. No free work
ers means an unforseen increase in
cost. No funding means the $41,000
appropriated this year, and the
$26,000 requested for next year
won’t be the end of the Senate’s ob
ligation. Who can allow a $67,000
investment to fail the third year for
lack of funds?
There is only one meeting left
and only one more chance for the
Senate to reconsider the $41,000 +
of your student service fees appro
priated for the Day Care Center. If
you believe $41,000 is too much to
pay for the benefit of a few students,
urge your senators to vote for recon
sideration.
— Brett L. Hamilton
Senior Senator,
Corps of Cadets
Joy L. Johnson
Senator,
Keathley, Spence, Fowler, Hughes
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NEW HOPE, Ga. — A Southern
Airways jet, both engines dead and
its pilot desperately trying to land
on a two-lane highway during a hail
storm, crashed and exploded yes
terday in the small Atlanta suburb of
New Hope.
At least 71 persons were killed
and 27 others injured.
The DC9, carrying 81 passengers
and four crew members from
Huntsville and Muscle Shoals, Ala.,
to Atlanta, plowed through a gro
cery store and cars, sheared tele
phone poles and trees as it careened
down the highway in a 300-foot
swath of destruction.
“It sounded like a tornado and I
screamed for everyone to run and I
looked back down the highway and
here come a jet plane,” said Mrs.
Mary Clayton, who was working in
her yard when the airliner came out
of a squall at 4:20 p.m. EST.
“It was breaking apart all down
the road. It was throwing pieces up
in the air and they were exploding,”
she said.
The pilot, Capt. William W.
McKenzie, 54, of Laplace, La.,
swooped low over the New Hope
Elementary School and guided the
crippled craft down the narrow
highway. McKenzie died in the
wreckage.
“He did a miraculous thing. He
did all he could and probably lost
his life doing it. He had his mind
and thoughts with the people on
that plane,” said Sheriff Bob
Shippo.
Government sources said at least
10 of the plane’s passengers were
executives from the Marshall Space
Flight Center and the Army’s Red
stone Arsenal Research and De
velopment Command at Huntsville.
Their fate was not immediately
known.
The plane disintegrated as it
skidded down the highway. The
fuselage tumbled end over end,
then exploded.
“We actually seen the fuselage
slipping, the wings disintegrating
and bodies going through the air,”
said John Clayton, chief of the New
Hope Volunteer Fire Department,
who saw the crash from his yard.
“It was a big ball of flame,” said
James Higdon, who witnessed the
crash from the front porch of his
house. “I started running through
the woods but by the time we got
over there it was burning too bad for
anybody to get out. There was
people hurt all over the place. We
helped get a few out. They was
burned real bad.”
When firemen finally extin
guished the flames, the largest
single piece of debris was the over
turned tail section.
Frederick Clemens, 18, a
passenger from Wilmington, Del.,
received burns.
“We were flying through a
storm and I guess the hailsl
clogged up the engine or
thing. And after that we had
or four minutes of unpowered
with both the jet engines U
and we coasted down to a I
landing. All I remember was
we started hitting, it was gi
rougher,” he said.
Authorities were unable
termine how many persons i
ground were killed or injured
plane’s debris.
Sheriff Shipp said 59 bodies
in a makeshift morgue near
the Paulding County seat. Hoi
in the area reported 12 pel
dead.
The sheriff said two of the
were townspeople and three
New Hope residents were mil
■“but they may be in a bospil
they may be in the woods. We
know.”
The plane apparently deve|
trouble while approaching
for a landing.
“The pilot was talking to the
lanta Air Route Traffic Control
ter and reported a windshield
ure and one engine flamed
said Jack Barker of the Federal;
ation Administration. “And tin
reported the flameout of thesi
engine. He then switched totliej
lanta tower and said he would
set it down on a road.”
Botulism linked to hot-sauce peppers
Health officials expect more poisonh
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PONTIAC, Mich. — Health offi
cials have expressed hope that the
worst outbreak of botulism poison
ing in U.S. history can be ended
without deaths. But they said the
number of cases could climb to 50.
The outbreak has been linked to
imporperly canned peppers a Mexi
can restaurant used in a hot sauce it
served.
The number of reported cases in
creased to 35 yesterday with five
new cases reported. All of the
victims remained hospitalized today
— two in critical condition.
Health officials estimated that 10
or 15 more cases will emerge by late
Friday, the end of the 8-day incuba
tion period. They said they expect
about three new cases to emerge per
day.
Dr. Robert Locey, Oakland
County health director, expressed
optimism “that somehow we can
come out of this without any deaths.”
He said that no one’s having died
thus far “is a very bright sign.”
A class action damage suit was
filed yesterday on behalf of Sally
Koskey, 23, Pontiac, one of the
poisoning victims. Miss Koskey is a
surgical nurse at St. Joseph’s Mercy
Hospital, near Trini and Carmen’s
Restaurant, source of the poisoning.
Oakland County Circuit Court
Judge Francis X. O’Brien issued an
injunction ordering that all the evi
dence be preserved — including the
147 jars of home-canned peppers
blamed for the outbreak.
Dr. William Terranova, inves
tigating the incident for the Center
of National Disease Control at At-
University Center Scheduling Notice
Applications for meeting rooms in the University
Center Complex for recognized student organi
zations, clubs, and governing bodies will be
accepted for the 1977 Fall Semester (August 29-
December 16, 1977) in the Scheduling Office,
2nd Floor, Rudder Tower beginning at 8:00 a.m.
Friday, April 15, 1977. Application forms may be
obtained in the scheduling office. Requests will
be confirmed before the end of the Spring Se-
mester.
lanta, said the outbreak was an
toric event” because it gives e
their first on-the-scene opporti
to study botulism.
Dr. Joel Breman of the state®
partment of Public Health sal
estimated 200 to 300 persons
the restaurant each day until il
closed last Thursday.
JANE EIKEI
FOR ’79 V-P
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