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The Battalion Wednesday, October 19, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 tudent apartments W' [o nave unmarried tenants 8 s - Thene »e total (o s 12tohaiK all team® > spring. , senior Hi College Sl ston; SasA B y DONNA SCHLABACH tana PerliiM,,, Xexas A&M University student r, juniorUM-tments are commonly called the mar- from BnA s t u J en t apartments, but it is possible and Car residents include unmarried students, ehes. Then Ithough the married student housing om Junctia jication states that “only a married innieArnol rle or a family unit of two or more per- )r from Pe? s are eligible to reside in the >re from ft versity-owned apartments, proof of riaee is not required of apartment ap- includeser )n ts. II games,sd . s a reason f or this,” said F. Ken l-l hman Ileai i Sartain« J 18:35; sixth in 191 s, manager of the apartments. "As I ns, serving: iblieizingll| erstanc j l aw a U a couple has to do 11 co tJ ec * are t h ernse l ves husband and wife lent in Bah ^cy have a common law marriage, ay. Therea hris Kling, student legal adviser, said |mon law marriages are legal in Texas, arlton, Da Isaid the only requirements are that a Mark Ta\i hie show intent to be husband and wife that they represent to the public that try teamwB are living in a husband-wife relation- n impressii 1. Kling said court documentation is Invitation * four places! not required to prove common law mar riage. Nicolas said the only way the student apartment office finds out about unmar ried tenants is through reports from other residents. What happens to unmarried students found living in the apartments? “They are told to move out within 30 days, Nicolas said. “We don’t impose any penalty on them.” He said a student was recently found living in a student apartment with his brother and was told to leave. It is possible for a single student to live in the apartments, because only one signa ture is required on the application and it is not recpiired that both tenants check in at the apartment office. “But we really haven’t had any kind of problem with this,” Nicolas said. “I’ve been working here for five years and there have been maybe four couples of ques tionable status.” The only other eligibility requirement of applicants is that the principal tenant (the tenant attending A&M) be currently enrolled at the University for at least 12 semester hours. Nicolas said this require ment is checked by comparing the twelfth-day roster from the Registrar’s of fice with the tenant roster. He said with drawals are checked by the housing office on campus. Nicolas said there were approximately 400 applications for the apartments this past September and only 175 vacancies. Location, access to campus and low rent- tal rates are the greatest benefits to living in the A&M apartments, Nicolas said. Most of the apartments are located on the north side of campus across University Drive and some are located on Jersey Street. All are within walking distance of campus. Rental rates for the apartments range from $70 for an unfurnished two- bedroom to $190 for a furnished two-bedroom apartment, depending on how modern the oncorde |»y Court; in finished! nt in Deni ch 15-1 inti Wesleyan 14- 10 seasa I United Press International IeW YORK — The needle-nosed Con- eamfinislt P e SST makes its maiden flight into nHuntsvi v York City Wednesday, heralding the Lee ColltJ a two-year legal battle by the 2, 15-4; We ishand French to win landing rights in 15- 12,121! one market that can save the aircraft 5-12. In I n financial ruin. 5-8, 15-9lif ho British-French onslaught to obtain loustonlo-l ling rights for their supersonic trans- thenbeati t triumphed Monday when the U.S. 3, 9-15inti 'feme Court lifted a ban imposed by ;I singled#! Port Authority of New York and New nt andnotij^oy. which runs Kennedy airport. Wednesday’s test flight, without [sengers, is the first into New York City, first regular passenger service into iv York is set to begin Nov. 22. he maiden test flight is under intense ntiny by sound measuring machines •y Q Iby bitter SST opponents who lost their m Q it, but promise a court suit to prevent ■ w revisits by the faster-than-sound plane. ‘' thought any legal maneuver to block plane again could cause more than a |ht delay. Officials of British Airways and Air Wee said the record SVfj-hour flight from douse, France, would carry only three otsand a dozen crewmen. With Capt. Jean Frenchi at the controls, sleek jet will radio the Kennedy tower: oncorde Sierra Charlie ready,” and re- K permission to land. «r France officials said Concorde has on practicing for its New York debut by ll!ln g landings under simulated New ban lifted lands today York conditions at Toulouse and Casa blanca, Morocco. Its average landing noise level on the test flights was 107.5 decibles. The noise limit at Kennedy is 112 decibles. The Supreme Court ruling upheld one by the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals, which said a ban on Concorde flights by the Port Authority was discriminatory. The court accused the Port Authority of stalli UK- The appellate court still allowed the Port Authority to develop new noise standards — even ones that would ban the Concorde — as long as the new rules are applied fairly to all aircraft. apartment is. All tenants must pay their own telephone and cable bills. Only those who reside in apartments with window air conditioners have to pay electricity, and they only pay for the elec tricity used by the 1 air conditioner or other major appliances installed. Rental rates are set by the Board of Re gents, Nicolas said, and the rates are non competitive'. “We're* not trying to compete with other apartment complexes in this area,” he saiel. Othc*r apartments located near A&M have considerably higher rental rates. The Casa De-l Sol apartments on Stasney Street rent for $230 for a furnished eme-bedroom anel $290 for a furnished twei-bedroenn apartment, plus a $50 security deposit per person. All bills are paid except phone and cable. The French Quarter apartments, located on Cross Street, rent for $225 for a furnished one-bedroom and $295 for a fur nished two- bedroom apartment, plus a deposit of $50 per person. All bills are paid except phone and cable. Nicolas said the A&M apartments are self-supporting. The rent they collect from tenants pays for all the maintenance and bills incurred by the apartments. Nicolas said applications for the apart ments are'accepted up to a year in advance of the date the applicant wishes to move in. Applicants should indicate which apartments they prefer on the application, because failure to accept an apartment of fered w ill result in cancellation of the ap plication. Applications are filed by the date they are received at the student apartment of fice, Nicolas said. If an applicant is not of fered an apartment at the time indicated on his application, he should notify the of fice to move his application to a future date, or it w ill be cancelled. Some ‘dirty candidates try to use tricks’ during campaigns =R29. ION By LIZ NEWLIN Dirty tricks in campaign politics do not seem to be confined to Washington, D.C., or even Austin. Two candidates “came close” to disqualification last spring for actions in their name, Mike Barry, Student Government election commissioner, said. Another candidate misread the rules and was penalized for a 64-square-foot sign, he added. The maximum size for a sign is 32 square feet. Barry said he was sure other “dirty tricks” occurred which were not reported to the election commission. The semester’s first election, set for Oct. 27, will select freshman class officers, five at-large freshman senators and 22 off-campus student association representatives. Some of the more popular ploys practiced by the candidates included buying advertisements in the Battalion, tearing down opposing candidates’ signs and posting their own signs, Barry said. If a candidate was close to his spending limit ($50), buying an ad could “put him over the limit” and subject him to disqualifi cation. People posing as friends could do this purposely, while in some cases an honest mistake by a friend could place the candidate in jeopardy, Barry said. Tearing down signs and “trashing up” the campus or private businesses is illegal, Barry said, but some did it anyway and tried to blame a particular candidate. “Last year, they would stick them (signs) on an illegal spot and call us,” Barry said. Last year he was assistant election commissioner. Now a for mal, typed complaint is required, he said. The system for buying advertising has also been changed. A candidate must show identification proving he’s running before buying an ad. If someone other than the candidate wants to place an ad, he must present a form signed by the candidate approving the ad. “We could’ve (disqualified or penalized some last spring), but we didn’t,’’ Barry said. “It’s politicking,” said David Ruis, also on the election com mission. Barry agreed. Battalion photo by Susan Webb Pickin’ pumpkins Deborah Holcomb, a sophomore from Luling, picks out a pumpkin at Diloris Farms & Roadside Markets along Highway 290. West Germany wants tactics kept secret UnivxT ^ n ' te 4 Press International u ’ West Germany — They walked a ! • the ramp, wearing sport tp ti broad smiles, looking more a iletes returning from a win than ^mandos from a raid that had freed 86 tr( ^Pers from Unit 9 of the West an order Police returned to Col- irm a 0,T1 S orna lia Tuesday, having U e t , a hijacked Lufthansa 737 jet, i ree j 0 ^ b° ur hijackers, rescued 86 !ar 3 ,f S an ^ wrote a new chapter in the pr against terrorism. ^ <)ur °f ihe 86 remained in tvived me r ieclical treatment, all had 0 106 hours of hell: they walked off their plane in Frankfurt exhausted but happy, some carrying children, others barely able to carry themselves. The West German government, fearing a negative world reaction from an enthusiastic display of German military prowess, had the returning soldiers dress like civilians. West Germany also tried to keep secret as many details of the mission as possible in case they have to do it again. But bits and pieces emerged from jubilant officials and the freed hostages who returned to an ethusiastic welcome from friends and fam ily at Frankfurt. “Most people were dozing — sleep was never really possible,” George Freiburg recalled. “Suddenly there were explosions and men came pouring into the plane. The commandos blew out the plane’s doors and, hurling non-lethal “flash” gre nades to blind the terrorists, charged in shooting. “They screamed out ‘Hinlegen! Hinle- gen!’ (Lie Down! Lie Down!) as the shoot ing began,” Freiburg said. “In only a few minutes we were told to leave the plane.” The operation took seven minutes, but represented the culmination of five years of training that began with the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972, when an at tack by German police ended in disaster and the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes. The mood in Cologne and Bonn was tinged with grief. Juergen Schumann, 37, captain of the hijacked plane, was shot in the head in front of the passengers for standing up to the terrorists. Even before the two planes carrying the hostages and victorious commandos landed, three leaders of the Baader- Meinhof gang reportedly committed suicide. A fourth imprisoned terrorist tried, but failed. All had been among 13 terrorists whose freedom had been demanded in exchange for the lives of the Lufthansa hostages. They included Andreas Baader, 34, who with Ulrike Meinhof — she was found hanged in her cell last year — founded the Baader-Meinhof gang. Baader’s mistress, Gudrun Ensslin, 37, hanged herself from her cell window and another accomplice, Jan Carl Raspe, 33, also shot himself, offi cials said. A fourth convicted terrorist, Irmgard Moeller, 30, slit her throat with a bread knife and was in critical condition. H ow the arms were smuggled into the top-security but relatively comfortable jail at Stuttgart is still unanswered. Authorities acted immediately to head off’ any suspicion that the suicides were less than voluntary. They asked renowned pathologists from Switzerland, Austria and Belgium to attend the autopsies and in vited Amnesty International to send a rep resentative. The end of the hijacking and the deaths of the three imprisoned terrorists raised fears of revenge by other German ter rorists still at large. Ethics Committee will hold hearings for Korean scandal Membe Strings perform Battalion photo by Dick Wells H u r s of the string section of Philarmonia n garica concentrate on a passage from Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40, in G Minor.” (See related story page 8.) United Press International WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee moved to open hearings for its probe of Korean lobbying in Congress — seeking testimony by a Capital Hill secretary, a former Korean diplomat, a secret agent who defected, and a one-time aide to Tongsun Park. Special Counsel Leon Jaworski said this first phase of hear ings will show that Korea’s government plotted with Park, the indicted rice merchant, and others to buy influence in the 1970s. The naming of congressmen who might have been im plicated will wait, he said, “because we are not at that point yet.” A huge “caucus room” in the Cannon House Office Building was secured for three days of hearings, probably the only ones this year after many months of secret investigation, and Jaworski said he hoped the sessions will force more Korean government cooperation — especially with Park, who remains in Seoul refusing to testify. The time has come when they should step forward, said the former Watergate prosecutor in an interview Tuesday. Before the prospective witnesses officially were announced, sources said they would include: — Nan Elder, personal secretary to Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., who said somebody connected with Korea’s embassy here brought her boss an envelope full of $100 bills several years ago and that she returned the money at Winn’s instrut tions. — Lee Jai Hyon, a former chief cultural and informatioi officer for the Korean embassy here who has sworn previousl that he saw a Korean ambassador stuffing cash into envelope for delivery on Capitol Hill in 1973. Lee quit his job soon afte and now teaches journalism at Western Illinois University. — Kim Sang Keun, the KCIA’s No. 2 agent in Washingtoi who defected last fall, is said to have passed orders from Seou to Park and other Koreans involved in covert lobbying opera tions. He has talked to investigators for months, but this will hi his first public testimony and he demanded no pictures o recording of his statements. — B.Y. Lee, longtime employe at Tongsun Park’s “holdinj company” here who was his “liaison” man on Capitol Hill. H< also is said to have been a possible “bag man” who delivers packages or envelopes to congressional offices and brough back information. A separate but parallel Justice Department investigation al ready has produced grand jury indictments of Park, the forme Washington socialite who allegedly directed the lobby in; scheme; Hancho Kim, another Korean-born businessman here and former Rep. Richard Hanna, D-Calif., the only con gressman charged so far.