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Battalion Voi. 71 No. 34 8 Pages Tuesday, October 18, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Today: The secret ballot is alive and well, but not in Ann Arbor, Michigan, p. 2. Blackout investigation ordered in San Antonio, p. 3. 'Water polo team wins weekend tournament, p. 8. ah remained 4 three yearsi facility frail 1976.' it, said Cm rith as miJ ollege Stall on Id hewi Kith driven the speedi ic past hasi ng proce "it's lieenlu bought ith United S cut Riehanl USAC r« ional Assn rs) events U a the past, ited ■ the go with USK races a year, 'leclulcdliir? Ci oOO-nrild be -held at Board sets rules for detention hall Some of Baylor’s artwork is on display at the east gate wall of Texas A&M University. Baylor paint- Battalion photo by Larry Parkerj ers visited early Friday morning but were later apprehended by Bryan police. ‘Green’ strikes campus again By LARRY PARKER The “green’ of the green and gold strikes again. Texas A&M University was visited by a Baylor paint crew early last Friday morning. They ap parently decided to make the Law rence Sullivan Ross statue, the Uni versity Center statue, and the eastgate wall “green with envy. The Baylor visitors (five freshmen and sophomores) were chased around campus by University Police at about 3 a.m. They successfully eluded their captors on campus only to be picked up by the Bryan police while driving out of town. The “painters’ were handed over to University police, and the Baylor dean of men was notified of the inci dent. “The cost of damages in 74 was $485; in 75 $1,520; ’76 was an open date and the cost estimate for ’77 is $600, said Ed Kozlowski, in charge of maintenance and modification at Texas A&M. Kozlowski also said cleaning the stone surfaces was the difficult part. “Some of the stone can be cleaned with paint thinner or be water blasted, but Sully is another prob lem. The writing at the base of the statue prevents sandblasting.” After talking to the dean of men at Baylor, O.L. Luther, University police chief, concluded that the mis chievous venture probably had its inception after a Baylor “car hanging” session. It was related that a maroon and white wrecked vehicle bearing a sign that read “George Woodard s mother’s car” appeared on campus. Baylor students lined up and took turns beating on the car. When Woodard was asked for com ment, he said, “I don’t pay any atten tion to that sort of stuff; it just goes in one ear and out the other.” It was also reported that two car loads of Aggies were run off the Baylor campus Thursday. By KAREN ROGERS A&M Consolidated High School will draft a set of guidelines for detention hall as a result of a complaint issued Monday by Paula LaRocque, a journalism instruc tor at Texas A&M University. LaRocque, whose daughter attends A&M Consolidated high school, com plained to the school board at last night’s meeting about disciplinary practices in the school’s detention halls. She said she first noticed the problem when her daughter was asked to stay after school for deten tion. LaRocque produced statements signed by students last year, telling of their ex periences in detention hall. Each student said they were forced to sit up straight, with feet flat on the floor, knees together, hands flat on the desk and fingers out stretched. Students had to maintain this position for 50 minutes, and any infringe ment on these rules meant extra time in detention hall. LaRocque refused to iden tify the students who signed the state ments, saying she feared “reprisals from the administration.” LaRocque said conditions were better this year, and that teachers were using a “diluted version of last year’s punish ment. But her concern was that the teachers would return to their original practice. Fred Hopson, superintendent of schools, said the detention hall is “in tended to be an unproductive session de vised to substitute for study hall.” He said that students didn’t do their work during study halls, and this resulted in what Hop- son called “secondary disciplinary prob lems.” As an alternative to detention halls, stu dents have been given jobs such as work ing in the school cafeteria. But Hopson called this type of work “demeaning. ” “I don’t know that it’s unproductive to sit and be with one’s thoughts,” he said. The principal of the high school said he was not aware of any students being forced to sit as LaRocque described for any length of time. “I will not tolerate the abuse of any child,” he said. T think all the examples she gave you were from last year.” There are two alternatives to detention; suspension from school or corporal punishment. Students in detention hall are told to remain seated for the 50-minute period so they can reflect upon the reason they are there. They are not allowed to talk or study. “I see the value of sitting and meditating one’s deeds,” he said. Several teachers are in favor of giving students more options for punishment. Picking up trash in the school area was a popular suggestion. Mary Bryan, president of the Brazos Civil Liberties Union, said her organiza tion received complaints from parents re garding treatment of their children. She urged the board members to “consider what purposes detention hall could possi bly serve except those of solitary confine ment,” and said that such confinement is known to be “very distruetive of its victims.” A student from A&M Consolidated High School said punishment should be constructive: “if not constructive for the student, constructive for the school.” Trustee Bruce Robeek said no guidelines for detention is an invitation to inconsistency. Rules will be drafted and discussed at the next board meeting. School board debates chocolate milk issue iVest Germans bomb plane, dll terrorists, free hostages ik in United Press International fet German commandos hurling spe- llash grenades stormed a hijacked thansa airliner Tuesday, killing all four orists and rescuing their 86 hostages in pectacular seven-minute attack rein- icent of Entebbe, the Bonn govern- nt said. lie attack on the Boeing 737 airliner, lied on a runway in Mogadishu, nalia, in eastern Africa, ended a five- ’> 7,000 mile odyssey of terror that nned six countries. The Mogadishu hostages are free! a ilant government spokesman said in Ml. rhe passengers — 31 women, seven Wren and 44 men — and four crew’ mbers were to he flown home to inkfurt, West Germany, Tuesday to smotional reception. ^though Bonn insisted all four hijack- 'Wcre killed, Somalia said Tuesday one them — a young woman — survived 0 46-5766 aP and was hospitalized with injuries. West German officials, informed of the conflict ing report, insisted all four were slain. The raid came 90 minutes before a dead line the hijackers set for blowing up the plane with the hostages aboard. They al ready had executed the pilot, Juergen Schumann, 37, in Southern Yemen Monday. Using special grenades that create a blinding flash and deafening noise, 28 men of Unit 9 of the elite Federal Border Troops blew open the Boeing’s doors about 2 a.m. local time (7 p.m. EDT Monday), the government said. The two men and two women hijackers were gunned down before they could carry out their threat. One raider was wounded and one passenger suffered a heart attack, Bonn said. Within seven minutes, all the hostages had left the plane. They included 11 West German beauty queens and an ill Ameri can woman, Christine Santiago, 44, of Santee, Calif., and her 5-year-old son Leo. Lufthansa spokesman Frank Cesarz said the raid had been planned, to the last de tail. “The men of the Frontier Protection Troops had trained for a long time on an aircraft of the same type,” he said. Authorities said two hijackers belonged to the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang and two were members of an extremist wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Washington, the White House said President Carter praised Chancellor Hel mut Schmidt for “the courage of his deci sion to attack the plane. There was no word on the fate of kid naped West German industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, whose abductors were allied with the slain terrorists. The hijackers, like Sehleyer’s captors, had de manded the release of 11 jailed West German terrorists. In all, 60 men of the crack Unit 9 flew aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 707 from the Greek island of Crete to Mogadishu Monday, landing after dark. A spokesman Sifid the troops had shadowed the hijacked aircraft throughout its odyssey. The lightning raid resembled the Israeli raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976, when Israeli commandos flew se cretly into the airport and rescued 102 hostages in a shootout with Arab and West German terrorists. In the latest hijacking, the terrorists seized the jetliner Thursday ovejr the French Riviera as it was flying from Majorca, Spain, to Frankfurt, Germany. They forced the plane to fly to Rome, Cy prus, Bahrain, Dubai, Aden and finally Somalia. Besides the 11 terrorists jailed in West Germany, they also demanded release of two Palestinians in Turkish prisons for at tacks on Israeli facilities and a $15.5 mil lion ransom. West Germany and Turkey both refused. By KAREN ROGERS The hazards of drinking was the issue at Monday night’s A&M Consolidated school board meeting. The beverage under ques tion was not alcohol, but the chocolate milk served in elementary schools. Dieticians, dentists and College Station Mayor Lorence Bravenec discussed for one hour and 10 minutes the harmful ef fects of chocolate milk. The milk had been removed from school cafeterias several weeks ago. Michael Ringer, eight-year-old son of City Councilman Larry Ringer, has pres ented a petition (signed by approximately 70 of his classmates) to the school board at the last meeting. The petition requested that the milk be reinstated on the menu. The nutritional value and the sugar con tent of chocolate milk were the most popu lar topics in Monday’s discussion. “Chocolate milk isn’t particularly nu tritious,” said Bravenec. “The chocolate has a way of binding up the calcium.” Dr. H. L. Wade, a children’s dentist, showed slides of six to eight year-old chil dren with decayed teeth and gums. “Chocolate has about 20 percent more calories (than white milk) and 100 per cent more carbohydrates” he said. “We really offer the child nothing but empty calories when we give them chocolate milk.” Dr. J. Garland Watson, an orthodontist, pointed out that chocolate milk is an appe tite depressant. Patrolman likes complexities of job By KEVIN PATTERSON routine evening for officer Richard “ y> a member of the Department of . lc Safety s Highway Patrol, can in- ^ anything from citing motorists for fjenf v '°lations to investigating a bus , J°u never know what is going to hap- 1 mk that is why I like it,” said Looby, i J. S f°^ e speeding problem one ; 85 We pk as he drove north on Hwy. “J outside the Bryan city limit, efh ^ S an< ^ rac ^ ar detectors do have » et ° n 0ur j°h,” said Looby. “But in 1: CaS j S They are just too heavily relied ip , an these are some of the people we > o lliiig off the highway at a rest area, d .i,!‘l ) * a T n ud the capability of the radar eoti le U , n h can be pointed in either atnfa an< ^ s hows both my speed and n 1< .‘ ’Motorist I point it at.” ProJk ar Unit flashes the speed of an fifi ’ ng rno T° r ist in digital numbers; «1 as T ai i d . 54 “ The last s P eed re § is - i Ce ’ ve hicle came into sight of the Loob , atk and white ’” patrol car. th e r ’ i U)n T' nue s to explain the workings the a . j F )Ut * s interrupted by an alarm 'its fifi 3 ar Un h- The screen flashes the 315 66 as a truck passes by. rre j ’ Sjances to insure the speed is mi ih en cheeks the road for <>n- I g r affic. Accelerating onto the L] • ’ The officer’s ear quickly gathers p h takes the officer about ^nther vehid j us t give me a ticket for a °ut light? asks the truck driver. “Out on the bypass with the four open lanes the speeds creep up,” said Looby. As his car approaches the bypass, the radar again sounds a shrill warning and flashes the digits 71 on the screen. Looby slows his vehicle and cuts across the large median, turning up dirt and grass. “During a rain or when it is wet these medians are nearly impossible to cross,” remarks the officer as he pulls onto the highway. The other vehicle drives on—unaware that he has been clocked on radar. Com pletely out of sight of the speeding vehi cle, the officer accelerates to 70, 90, and finally 110 miles per hour to close the gap between the two autos. What type training do the troopers re ceive in this type of high speed pursuit driving? “We unfortunately receive very little in car’ high speed training,’’ said Looby. “The D.P.S. Academy gives instruction in the classroom hut little is in the car. The academy has increased this part of instruc tion, but only in the last 2 years.” Troopers gain much of their experience on the road. a mile to es and pull behind No, w as a clear violation,” Looby ~ uriVer > and cited him for speed- Tk on u! in ? . ou T j the necessary paper tn tk 6 driver s violation. Looby re- !>as stnl! a j\i S . milin S! h ? remarks that 1 times^hf P ar TT cu 1 ar driver sev- nt in be ‘ 0 re at his previous assign- ,n Bound Rock. For Highway Patrol officers, an evening’s work may include investigating accidents, chasing motorists and issuing seven or eight speeding violations. Richard Looby travels along the high way while his radar unit (right) clocks a car’s speed at 54 miles per hour. Battalion photo by Susan Webb During the probationary year when they (officers) are with another trooper, they Can gather some additional training,” Looby said. The other auto still has not slowed so Looby turns on the flashing red and blue lights. The motorist’s reaction is swift, and he brakes the vehicle and pulls to the shoulder of the road. “Why so fast?” asks Looby. “The driver says that his dashboard lights are out, that they have been giving him trouble for about two weeks but he just hasn’t gotten around to getting them fixed. After Looby tells him how he should deal with or pay the ticket, the driver shakes his head. “The Lord teaches me discipline through things like this,” he said. “At my last assignment we had so much traffic and so many speeders it was futile,” said Looby. “No matter how many we were able to stop there were still more going faster. It was a losing battle. Here in Brazos County the traffic volume is usually not as intense as on the interstates, so yes, there are quiet times. But attitude and morale here is a lot better because we can get more work done. Looby can cite seven or eight violators in a routine evening. The weekends, though, are more hectic. Heading north out of Bryan a ear speeds by at about 70 miles per hour. The officer checks the speed and then pursues the motorist. After pulling the motorist over. Looby approaches the driver. “Why are we going so fast?” asked Looby. “My girlfriend is pregnant and having pains,” replied the motorist. “How long has she been having these pains?” asked Looby. “A week,” said the motorist. “What hospital are you going to?” asked Looby. “Bryan,” said the motorist, shifting his feet. ' But the motorist is heading north, six miles past Bryan. Looby begins to write. “Chocolate milk and other sugar foods are of very low density nutrition-wise, ” he said. “Anything we can do to encourage our children to follow a good diet, we re doing them a favor.” Ann Barton, head of food services, said most children drinking chocolate milk were not eating their food. “It affects the flavor of other foods,” she said. “They have to learn to like bitter tastes,” Barton referred to the bitter taste most vegetables have when eaten with some thing sweet, such as chocolate milk. First grade teachers at South Knoll elementary said more students were eat ing cafeteria food since chocolate milk was taken off the menu. A first grade teacher even noted that her students were no longer sleepy or lethar gic in the afternoons. Mary Sweeten, a dietician, was the only proponent of chocolate milk. Many parents have complained their children will not drink milk unless it is flavored, she said. She also discounted the notion that chocolate causes obesity even though it has more calories than plain milk. Despite overwhelming protests, the milk will be available to students one day a week for the next two months to see whether it has a marked effect on the amount of food eaten. Bruce Robeek suggested the program. “It seems to me there is a limit to what the school can and should do to try to help people. There is a tendency to make deci sions for people and this isn’t always ap propriate.” “I think parerits should render some de cisions on behalf of their children. They should have the option and the responsi bility for knowing what their children are eating and drinking.” Judge wants county-wide taxing office County Judge William Vance has suggested the formation of a county-wide tax appraisal office, one that would combine the appraisal of fices of A&M Consolidated School District, and the cities of College Station and Bryan. His suggestion came through a letter read at Monday night’s school board meeting. The letter was ad dressed to Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce and Joseph Natowitz, chairman of the Consol school board. The function of the office would be to assess all property in Brazos County. Vance pointed out that up to three appraisers are currently as sessing one piece of property. He said combined appraisal could eliminate this duplication. Natowitz said Vance “was not proposing a merger in any strict sense of the word. ” “He seems to be suggesting the county tax office would take over this function (appraisal).” “The biggest problem I can see is the county is subject to different politi cal pressures,” said Elliot Bray, an A&M Consol board member. Natowitz requested the commit tee working with College Station for a total merger of their two tax offices to talk with county officials.