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Inside Today: Michigan defeats A&M, 41-3. Page 8. Review: House of Bernarda Alba. Page 3. Classes on alcoholism offered. Page 4. The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 23 Monday, October 3, 1977 News Dept. 845-2611 8 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Students to use computer voting By KARIN KNAPP Voters in the foil student elections will . the first Texas A&M students to use a mputerized voting procedure in a cam- js election. Mike Barry, election commissioner, re- ( nt|y said the procedure will save money id time and should prevent students am voting more than once. "We bought 2,000 computer cards for [8,” Barry said. “Last year the printing one cost almost $300. With this system, ell really only have to pay for the print- it, which won’t cost more than $10 or 15.’’ The system involves inserting a com- iter card into a voting machine and linching a number corresponding to a mdidate’s name. Barry said the voting achines are the property of Brazos Coun- and available to student government ee of charge. The votes will be tabulated by the uni- :rsity’s Amdahl 470 computer. “It used to take three days and three ights to count ballots after student elec- ons, ” Barry said. “This year, if all the poll orkers get the cards here by 6 o’clock, e’llhave the results by 6:30.’ Previously, ballots were counted by udent volunteers not actively running for lice or campaigning for an active candi- ate. Jim Connor, chief aide for the Judicial oard, said ballots must be counted within todays of elections and then ratified by le Student Senate. Technically, last irings votes could be thrown out be- lusethey took three days to count, Con or said. Allison King, student government vice resident for rules and regulations, said ther problems were encountered during ist spring’s elections. In the past, there have been pro- dural problems with the running of the lections, King said. "I’d like to change a >1 of the voting regulations. The Rules and Regulations Committee going to meet and propose some ranges which will have to be ratified by le Student Senate. They probably won’t e effective until spring elections,” King lid. Barry said he believes the elections and rmpaigning regulations need overhaul- >g ; Some of the regulations can’t be con trolled — like campaigning and off-campus campaigning, he said. There is money in volved in a campaign, but you can’t prove how much a candidate really spent. Some people think we need to change the grade restrictions, too,” Barry con tinued. They think if you can’t make good grades, then you don’t have the time for Student Government.” Barry said he would also like to see changes in the sign regulations. I was disqualified last year because my sign was too big,” Barry explained. “But I took my case to the Judicial Board and won.” Students must present their ID cards and activity cards in order to vote, Barry said. He added that the activity cards will be punched to prevent students from vot ing more than once. The computer print-out of the votes could be used to determine the percent age of voters in different groups, Barry said. "For instance, we could figure out the percentage of freshment voting in Dunn Hall and who they’re voting for,” he said. "But I doubt we ll end up printing out any thing like that. Some people are for it and some are against it.” Barry indicated that Robert Harvey, student body president is against compil ing these statistics possibly because they could be used to determine if there was a Corps bloc vote in the 1977 spring elec tions. Harvey said Wednesday that he di rected the student government not to in clude voting statistics in the computer program because he does not feel govern ment has the responsibility to compile them. "It would serve no purpose for the stu dent government to get that information,” Harvey said. “Our responsibility is to get the election results. Let someone else go to the expense of other programming. ” In addition to the freshman class offi cers, 22 representatives for the Off- Campus Student Association, will be elected this fall. Elections are scheduled for Oct. 27. Poll ing places are SBISA, Commons, Memorial Student Center, guard room and shuttle bus stops at Throckmorton, Commons and Reed McDonald building. Barry said he hopes to have two voting machines and four poll workers at each location. Battalion photo by F. M. Bonno Comic books and chemistry Oh, for the carefree days of childhood, when Batman was an accepted major and you were too cute for the prof to flunk. Mason William Peatross, 3-year-old son of pre-med major Mike Peatross, was in that enviable position when he attended Dr. Marvin Rowe’s chemistry class last week with his father. Hawkeye’ is watching Security system installed By LIZ NEWLIN Battalion Staff nawkeye is watching out for Texas A& ’ Nversity. Hawkeye security system can repo res, intrusions and other data to Unive l ™ ce an d the Physical Plant. It w: J n • '^stalled in three campus built 8, and five more structures ai H j to receive Hawkeye security, ward Perry, associate vice preside! [J lldent services, said last week th; e )e was approved about six montf The wireless system keeps tabs on environmental chambers like refrigerators and incubators and alerts monitors to pos sible malfunctions. Before Hawkeye, Physical Plant Department employes were checking environmental chambers every few hours for smooth operation. Hawkeye also monitors temperatures of certain rooms on campus, to see whether they are too hot or too cold. Hawkeye can report dramatic changes in temperature or any other data which can be measured by machine. FBI joins in hunt A tor jeweler s killer Vpii, Pre ss International few York Cd K T The i FBI haS ■’° in< lan ’ll P°hce in the hunt for mo »nneoh milIl0n L Worth gems, missing Ae deaths of two Manhr lird ea ers an d the disappearance o indavd! s P H h esrn an in New York sa etectives^nO^ 7 iS a , ssistin g Manhatt; the search for some $1 m ar mers striking 0r r ecognition; Waten boycott L EXlNrTn e M Pr r S Interna tionaI ant parjtv ” — Chanting “V ir mers and crovv d of several hundn fluents an i e * r Emilies rode farm ii ibliej 2e tk to a Sphering Sunday ^ farmer,;’ 1 , na . nt , la ' plight of farmers. 8 r °UD nf ri- stri ^ e Parade, organized 1 lre *ehed a 1SgrUntled Nebraska farmei rept at a 7 est j ma ted four miles as le haws(>n7° r S pace from Arapahoe I Pic kup7 7 >unty fairgrounds. * Actors and 7 tars ’ ca ttle trucks, var lent travelJi ; er , pieces of f arrn ec l ui "Uf-long r a u to t he fairgrounds for : Both ek-M bWT„ r A n *" d “dv'ts. carrit ^ you wanf nS hearing such slogans £ ’f’d better u m , <,re t h an peanuts to e£ »of, ,r a „ " jP us > and “Now is tl ,l '' r farme rs <,( ” men t° come to the aid ar| dful of U . rr ' n ? theme expressed by od." takers was: “No nrofit. i lion in gems missing since the Sept. 20 death of diamond broker Pinchos Jaros- lawicz, 25, of Brooklyn. The spokesman said the bureau also is searching for $300,000 worth of stones Manhattan gem dealer Abraham Shafizadeh, 31, was carrying with him when he left on a trip to Puerto Rico last July 28. The 31-year-old Shafizadeh has not been seen since. The spokesman said that the bureau also is involved in the case of Haskell Kronen- berg, a diamond salesman for the Manhat tan firm of Leon Frich. Kronenberg was shot and killed Sept. 1 while carrying an unknown amount of diamonds in Key Largo, Fla. Florida police are investigating his death while the FBI is searching for the diamonds he was carrying. According to the spokesman, the FBI is required to investigate any theft of prop erty valued at more than $50,000 when it is likely that the stolen goods will be sold across state lines. Meanwhile, New York City homicide detectives were awaiting the results of blood tests done on Shlomo Tal, a material witness in the slaying of Jaroslawicz. The blood test, detectives said, could lend substance to Tabs assertion that he was kidnapped, robbed and and then drugged by the same two men who killed Jaroslawicz in front of him in his Diamond District office on Sept. 20. According to Tal, the men forced him to stuff Jaroslawicz’ body into a plastic bag, place it in a small crate and hide it in his office. Tal, whom police found sleeping in a car on a city street Sept. 28, said he did not go to authorities because he feared for his life. Tal led police to Jaroslawicz’ body. The A&M Hawkeye system includes two master receivers (one each at Univer sity Police and at the Physical Plant) and several small radio transmitters which are hooked into remote monitoring devices in a building. Some detection units can “smell smoke or measure ionization, another sign of fire. If a fire begins, it trips the detection device and starts a local alarm. The remote Hawkeye transmitter is also activated and sends the code for fire to master receivers, where people can respond to the emergency. Director of Security and Traffic Tom Parsons said the University Police and Physical Plant employes share responsibil ity for responding to the transmitted sig nals, depending on their type. For in stance, notice of fires is given to the fire department by the Physical Plant. Each signal is cross-checked by tele phone, Parsons said. Perry said Hawkeye can make use of fire detection systems already in some campus buildings. In buildings which have fire detectors but lack Hawkeye, fire reporting is “strictly a manual-type system, ’ said Gerald Scott, control systems engineer. If no one hears the alarm or sees the signal in the building, the fire is not reported. “Fire reporting is the basic premise of the system,” Scott said. "Eventually, we would hope to have a fire reporting system throughout the Uni versity, Perry said. The completed system will cost about $90, ()()(), Scott said. He estimated $30,000 has been spent installing the two receivers and Hawkeye transmitters in the Memo rial Student Center, Plant Sciences Build ing and Purchasing Stores. Perry said some of the cost includes in stalling new fire detectors in buildings which previously did not have them. Monitoring security systems is also part of Hawkeye. Some buildings already had intrusiton detection devices which are being connected to the Hawkeye network. The Coke Building, Beutel Health Cen ter, Zachry Engineering Center, the Data Processing Center and the Veterinary Hospital are scheduled to receive the sys tem soon, Scott stud. Gas filibuster delays Senate adjournment United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate’s origi nal timetable called for adjournment for the year by the end of this week. Now there is no assurance that it even will be able to end the natural gas filibuster by then. The overheated question of whether gas prices should continue under federal regu lation entered its third week today, and other priority legislation — including other sections of the energy program — was still awaiting action. “I think they will have had a bellyful of it (the filibuster),” by about Tuesday, a hopeful Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told reporters, as the Senate plowed through its second fruitless Saturday in two weeks. Final resolution of the multibillion- dollar issue of gas prices lies in an inevita ble House-Senate conference committee, which will resolve differences between the Senate measure and the House-passed plan offered by President Carter. After a week of debate on whether natural gas prices should continue under federal control, the Senate last Monday voted cloture — its method of cutting off a filibuster by limiting debate to one hour per member. But Democratic Sens. James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzen- baum of Ohio bypassed that rule by calling up amendments and demanding quorum calls and roll calls on each. By week’s end only some 200 of more than 500 such amendments had been dis posed of in six long days and one all-night session of the Senate. Senate leaders tried frantically to end the process — but the rules worked against them and members were reluctant to change its rules under pressure of ex traordinary conditions. When the Senate recessed Saturday, Byrd warned, “If we’re not careful we may set some precedents that will come back to haunt us.” Byrd, the legislative master, admitted, T’ve never run up against anything like this.” The parliamentary thicket during the week belied the standard advice given to tourists that they will be bored by watch ing the Senate. Plans released for cancer control United Press International WASHINGTON — The administration Monday unveiled the government’s first comprehensive plan to regulate cancer- causing chemicals in industry and prevent cancer among American workers. Occupational Safety and Health Admin istration officials predicted the proposed blueprint for controlling carcinogens in the work place will have more impact on industry than anything else the controver sial agency has done in its 6-year history. The plan probably cannot be im plemented for at least a year, following hearings and revisions. Industry was ex pected to delay it even longer by fighting it in court. The proposal marks the first time OSHA has developed a uniform system for regu lating a whole class of worker-hazards in stead of simply setting exposure limits one-by-one for specific substances. The agency now has standards for only 17 of an estimated 2,000 suspected cancer-causing chemicals. The new proposal outlines what evi dence the government will use to classify cancer-causing chemicals and determine permissible exposure levels. It also sets forth three model rules that OSHA can issue by simply “filling in the blanks” with the name of a carcinogen. The sad fact is that over 1,000 Ameri cans die everyday from cancer — 370,000 a year, said OSHA chief Eula Bingham. Leading cancer researchers have attrib uted over 60 percent of these cancer cases to environmental factors. I believe the time has come to implement a com prehensive program to prevent cancer in the work place. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall concur red with the idea of standardizing the reg ulations of whole classes of work hazards — an approach OSHA also intends to use for pesticides and skin hazards. "For too long OSHA has had to deal with each chemical hazard on a substance-by substance basis,” Marshall said. Any chemical could be classified as "confirmed carcinogen under this plan, on the basis of either animal or human data. Officials estimate there are nearly 100 chemicals that could be classified as confirmed carcinogens as soon as the plan is finalized. OSHA intends to require industry to reduce worker exposure to confirmed car cinogens to the “lowest feasible level,” and those chemicals with known substitutes will be banned entirely. Officials said the industry has responded to drafts of the proposal with "deafening silence. ” Washington holds annual Octoberfest By JEANNE GRAHAM A post office, fire department and old country store depict a sleepy, little Ger man town of Washington, eight miles from Navasota on the Brazos River. But on the first weekend in October each year, the town comes alive. The Octoberfest, with arts and crafts and loads of merriment, brought a crowd to Washington’s narrow streets this weekend. Why an Octoberfest? Legend has it that many years ago in this little German town, a king and queen were married in the month of October. A festival was held after the wedding and the townspeople, it is told, had so much fun that they have con tinued to have annual “Oetober-fest . Residents of Washington and folks from nearby towns sat at booths featuring their own particular talents. Everything from beer and sausage to paintings and handic rafts were available to eat or buy or just browse through and admire. Reba’s Country Corner served German beer, sausage and sandwiches to hungry passers-by while others played bingo sponsored by the Washington fire depart ment. Kids and adults alike ate snowcones, tried on jewelry and played the Lion’s Club ring-toss. In addition, booths offered quilts, hook rugs, baskets, pottery and other hand-crafted goods. John Swearingen, an artist from Brenham, had his paintings tied with string to a barbed wire fence for easy view ing by possible customers. "I like to paint,” he said, “and a man’s got to do what he like to do. I bring mv things to sell at the Fest.” And if one wasn’t looking at Swearingen’s paintings or browsing through “Handicrafts by Diana,” they could be learning a little of Texas’ history. Washington was the first capital of the Republic of Texas, and the town offers his torical buildings, monuments, and a his torical museum at nearby Washington on the Brazos State Park. Senior Floriculture major Liddy Campbell puts the finishing touches on one of many floral sculptures decorating Rm. 224 of the Memorial Student Center. V Battalion Photo by Jo Ella Dixon Inaugural celebration events begin tonight Various events celebrating the inauguration of Dr. Jarvis Miller have been opened to students and the general public, beginning with tonight’s concert at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. The University Symphonic Band, Century Singers, Singing Cadets and Reveliers will be featured in the free concert. The president’s reception follows the concert in Rm. 224 of the Memorial Student Center. Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony begins at 10:30 a. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum, with Gov. Dolph Briscoe and Congressman Olin E. Teague among the visiting dignitaries. The Corps of Cadets will pass in review in honor of the president at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday on the Parade Grounds. Guided tours of the Texas A&M campus will be given from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. The tours will begin at the Visitor Information Center on the first floor of Rudder Tow er. Classes will be dismissed all dav Tuesdav.