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‘Now, hold it straight . .
Billy Hill and Louis Ruffino add letters to the A&M graduate. Also, the University’s television
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building was officially named last weekend in Moore Communications Center, in honor of
ceremonies honoring Halbouty, a 1930 Texas Moore, a 1938 A&M graduate.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
and the shah of Iran, ignoring the most
violent demonstrations in the capital in
more than six years, are forgoing fresh
promises of friendship between the oil rich
nation and its chief arms supplier.
Carter, the shah, and their wives, Tues
day night traded a teary White House wel
coming ceremony, marred by riot gas, for
the formality of a State Dinner in which
the president and monarch vowed close
ties.
Police braced for more protests today,
as the shah was continuing meetings with
Carter after a morning meeting with
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. The
Iranian leader planned an appearance on
Capitol Hill later in the day.
Even as guests arrived for the White
House dinner Tuesday night, anti-shah
demonstrators continued the vigil across
from the executive mansion.
U.S. Park Police said the day’s violence
was the worst in the city since anti-war
demonstrations in 1971. Police said 109
civilians and 17 police were injured, most
with cuts and bruises. Hospital spokesmen
indicated the numbers may be lower than
that, but included one man, a shah parti
san, in serious condition with a skull frac
ture.
Eleven persons were arrested, nine for
disorderly conduct and two for assaulting
policemen.
Guests arriving for the dinner were
brought into the executive mansion
through rear entrances along streets
blocked to regular traffic.
“We look upon Iran as a very stabilizing
force in the world at large,” Carter told the
dinner guests.
“We are bound together with unbreak
able ties,” Carter said. “Our military al
liance is unshakable.”
“We look to your country and your
people... as such good friends that this
gives us even more fortitude and courage
to pursue our goals,” said the shah, who
has met every American president since
Harry Truman.
“This is a world in which countries with
the same principles must come closer to
gether.”
Evidence ties between the two nations
would remain strong came earlier in the
day. Following his first private meeting
with his visitor. Carter said he had assured
the shah the United States will continue to
help Iran meet its military security needs
and fulfill its economic and social de
velopment programs.
buttle bus system ready for official ‘go ahead’
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
esting an on-campus, internal shuttle bus system next
ester has been all but officially announced, administration
tees agreed Tuesday.
exas A&M University President Jarvis Miller and Dr. John
dus, vice president for student services, are expected to
it official this week and begin planning for the trial, but
lhave been out of town.
Were relatively sure some type of shuttle bus system will
lied in the spring,” Howard Perry, vice president for stu-
services, said Tuesday. “Within the next few days, the
ision will be made depending on the Transportation
erprises, Inc., (TEI) decision.” Texas A&M contracts with
for shuttle buses and drivers, and TEI would be used in
trial. TEI’s decision is whether or not the company can
aly additional buses in time.
wo weeks ago the Texas A&M Student Senate approved a
ilution requesting the trial and supplied reports on the
for the shuttle bus. The proposed route travels the
imeter of the campus, with three buses traveling in one
iction and three more in another. At each stop, time be
en buses would be about 10 minutes.
tudent service fees would finance the project, which would
(approximately $51,000 under the senate proposal,
he testing would not affect existing shuttle bus service, but
nay use the same bus stops and intersect the off-campus
tem.
'reventing traffic hazards and jams will be the main concern
lilanning the trial, said E. C. Oates, Residence Hall Safety
Maintenance supervisor and chairman of the Shuttle Bus
erations Committee. If the Student Government recom-
ndation to run three buses both directions is followed,
:espredicted problems on Ross Street, already narrowed by
ibike lanes. One possible hazardous area, he said, might be
intersection of Lamar and Bizzell Streets near the Teague
iearch Center.
these problems must be resolved” before the spring test
ibegin, Oates said Tuesday. He said the cost of each bus will
about $100 per day next semester. The number of buses on
! regular system, serving about 7,000 riders, will probably
crease next semester because fewer students will be
illed, Oates said.
e proposed system would not integrate on and off-campus
ites, but transportation services at UT and Texas Tech do.
e UT shuttle system, running 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. week
days, includes nine routes, two of which encircle the campus.
Fifty-five buses transport about 15,000 people a day, said Jim
Wilson, assistant to the vice president for business affairs.
“It is an essential part of our way of running the campus, he
said. “There is not even any standing room on the buses. We
could expand by 50 percent except for money.”
Of a UT student’s $30 student service fees, $12 goes toward
the bus service. The eight-year-old service operates on a yearly
budget of $1.2 million. Like Texas A&M, UT contracts with
TEI for buses and drivers.
Buses run every four minutes in the morning, 10-12 minutes
in the afternoon and 20-25 minutes in the evening.
All routes intersect at least once, and one intersection near
the main library sees 82 bus stops per hour in the morning.
About 12,000 of 22,000 Texas Tech students use Tech’s
nine-year-old campus bus system, Ernie Prenevost, manager
of Lubbock Transit Co., said Tuesday. The university contracts
the company, paid by student service fees, for the system
which operates from 7 a.m. to 4:45 or 5:45 p.m. weekdays. The
yearly budget is $126,000.
Eight buses shuttle four routes to parking lots, dormitories
and academic centers of the campus, he said. Buses run four or
five minutes apart. Two routes go off campus every hour to
streets near apartment complexes, said Ronnie Bobbitt, vice
president of the Texas Tech Student Association. The associa
tion allocates student service fees, designates routes and hand
les complaints about the system, he said Tuesday.
Recommendation for a spring trial of the Texas A&M system
was first made in May, 1977, by an ad hoc committee ap
pointed by Chancellor Jack Williams. The committee investi
gated the need for an internal shuttle system and concluded
next semester “might be a more opportune time to start a trial
run.”
In a letter to Williams, Koldus said, “since the project would
have to be funded by student service fees, it is my opinion that
Student Government should be given the assignment of assess
ing a need for such a service.
A subcommittee chaired by student senator William Altman
studied the situation this fall and drafted the resolution passed
by the Student Senate.
The resolution itself does not mandate any specific route or
number of buses, but the report sent with the bill recommends
the looping and six buses.
The recommendation states one route should serve the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine, west campus, existing shuttle bus
stops, Northgate area, peripheral parking areas at the west
campus and Zachry Engineering Center.
Student Senate has recommended a shuttle bus
route, shown by the dotted line, to University
administrators. Under the senate proposal, three
buses would travel the route clockwise, and three
counter-clockwise: a bus would come to each stop.
shown by stars, every 10 minutes. The round
trip takes about 20 minutes, plus time for loading
or heavy traffic. Officials are expected to act on
next semester’s trial later this week.
Patrolman accused
of lighting bonfire
By STEVE MAYER
The rascal who tried to ignite the
bonfire on Monday, 11 days ahead
of schedule, wasn’t from t.u. or
Texas Tech, nor was he a two per
center.
College Station patrolman Don
ald Gooch, wearing a Texas Tech
t-shirt, doused the stack with a can
of gasoline and lit it at 12:50 Monday
afternoon after an apparent dare.
Gooch has been charged with
criminal trespassing by the College
Station Police Department and has
been dismissed from the depart
ment, College Station Police Chief
Marvin Byrd said Tuesday.
Tom Parsons, director of security
and traffic for Texas A&M Univer
sity, was the first to notice the
flames.
“I was standing over there talking
to a couple of the kids,” Parsons
said. “There were six or seven work
ing on the stack. Then I saw this
flame and heard this poof and I said
‘What in the hell is going on? ”
A dozen cadets chased Gooch
across Jersey Street to a house at
806 Silvey owned by William Lan
caster, who leases it to students.
Mrs. Lancaster said Gooch
showed a badge to one of the resi
dents and said he was being chased,
but that it was “just a joke.”
The cadets outside, however,
didn’t see the humor and they sur
rounded the house. Mr. Lancaster
was summoned to go into the house,
where he found Gooch squeezed in
the back of a closet.
Gooch told Lancaster he was from
Texas Tech and that eight others
had been with him. He was wearing
a custom-printed t-shirt which read
‘Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas and
something about karate,” Lancaster
said.
He told Gooch, “You better come
on and face the music, they’re wait
ing for you outside.” He was sur
rounded by cadets until College Sta
tion police arrived.
Mrs. Lancaster praised the be
havior of the cadets in that they
never entered the house. “They
could have gone in there and gotten
in a big fight,” she said. “They were
just itching to get him.”
Gooch was taken to the College
Station Police Department and sus
pended 30 minutes later for “unpro
fessional behavior,” Byrd said.
Gooch’s trespassing charge stems
from his entering the house, and is
punishable by one year in jail or a
fine, or both, Byrd said. He had
been with the department 13
months.
No one was injure^ during the in
cident and the bonfire was not dam
aged.
Gooch has lived in this area all his
life and he knows it takes more than
a gallon of gasoline to ignite the
stack, Byrd said. He said he thought
it was because of a dare.
He also said College Station
police officers were concerned that
the incident might adversely affect
the department’s relationship with
Texas A&M students. As a result,
some of the officers have offered to
guard and help build the bonfire.
Parsons said it really wasn’t neces
sary.
The 26-year-old Gooch was un
available for comment, but his wife
agreed the incident resulted from a
dare. Despite all that has happened,
she said she and her husband plan to
attend the bonfire.
Begin-Sadat talks considered
foregone result by officials
United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minis
ter Menahem Begin both used Com
munist Romania to sound each other out
about a possible summit meeting. Begin s
top aide said today.
Official sources treat the historic visit
almost as a foregone conclusion. Some say
it could take place next week, possibly
Friday, shortly after Begin returns from an
official visit to Britain.
Sadat arrived in Damascus, Syria, today
to confer with Hafez Assad, who is be
lieved to oppose Sadat’s dramatic offer to
travel to Jerusalem. But Arab diplomats
said it would be exceedingly difficult for
Sadat to back out of the trip now.
Begin s top aide, Yehiel Kadishai, said
today the question of direct talks between
Begin and Sadat was raised during the
prime minister’s five-day visit to Romania
in August for talks with President Nicolae
Ceausescu.
“It was all verbal, of course,” Kadishai
said. “All sort of political questions were
raised and a possible meeting was among
them.”
When Sadat visited Romania in Oct
ober, he said, “I imagine something hap
pened there as well. ”
Diplomatic sources said the Romanian
leader previously used his connections as
president of the only Soviet-bloc country
with diplomatic relations to Israel to pass
similar messages from Israel to the Arabs.
Begin handed the formal invitation
Tuesday to U.S. Ambassador Samuel
Lewis, who cabled it to Cairo for retyping
and delivery to Sadat. It was not clear yet
whether Sadat had actually received it.
Sadat Tuesday told a group of U.S. con
gressmen in Cairo he considered his visit
to Jerusalem a “holy job” to end 30 years of
hostilities between the Israelis and Arabs.
In Washington, Israeli Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz thanked President Carter
for U.S. help in arranging the visit and
said Israel had proposed several alterna
tive dates.
The fast-breaking developments caught
Israeli officials by surprise, forcing them to
start making arrangements for a visit that
would have been considered an impossi
bility as recently as a week ago.
Government sources said a hasty search
is under way for Egyptian flags and music
sheets of the Egyptian national anthem in
anticipation of the visit.
Jerusalem’s three largest hotels — the
King David, The Hilton and the Plaza —
are vying for the privilege of hosting
Sadat, his entourage and a bevy of re
porters.
Begin issued the momentous invitation
to Sadat from the floor of the Knesset, the
Israeli parliament, and lawmakers over
whelmingly endorsed the move.
“I hope that soon I will meet President
Sadat at Lod Ben-Gurion Airport and we
will ride together to Jerusalem, Begin
said as he handed over the note to Lewis.
“He may speak Arabic — we will have
in interpreter — or we may both speak
English, he with Arabic accent and I with
an Israeli accent.”
He said his invitation to Sadat can be
expanded to include the leaders of Jordan,
Syria and Lebanon. But invitations to
these leaders have not been transmitted.
Schlesinger predicts future
of energy to oil industry
United Press International
HOUSTON — Energy Secretary James
Schlesinger predicts “a golden age” for the
petroleum industry once it patches up its
disagreement with the government over
energy policy.
Schlesinger Tuesday told representa
tives of the oil industry they needed to
practice moderation in order to meet the
energy requirements of the future.
“This industry has never failed to re
spond to a national challenge. I expect that
once those energy policy quarrels are
over, everyone will get to work. It will be
for the next 20 years a golden age of the
industry,” Schlesinger said in closing re
marks of the American Petroleum Insti
tute’s 57th annual convention.
But the secretary, whose remarks stir
red occasional grumbling in the audience,
warned oilmen to limit their demand for
reward.
“If you ask for too much, more than is
politically acceptable in this country, you
may get it temporarily, but it will not be
consistent with stability in planning.”
Schlesinger said the petroleum industry
was apprehensive of government, and he
said it was his responsibility to eliminate
the problem.
“It is part of my purpose to do what I
can to try to reduce some of that ap
prehension. The object of the government
is to see the American oil industry
flourish. Indeed it is flourishing,” he said.
Schlesinger, who admitted his address
had “nothing new in terms of policy,” said
President Carter’s energy plan should be
considered “a major step forward . . . not
a blueprint for all time. It was intended to
provide a stable framework within which
industry could operate.”
He said the president’s policy included
some reduction in regulations, changes in
some price controls favorable to industry
and a diminished bureaucracy.
Schlesinger attacked what he called “a
mythology that has spread wide in this in
dustry” and called for reasoning rather
than “facile answers or sloganeering.”
He said industry myths include: the
government thinks there is no new oil;
Carter too strongly favors conservation
over production; and government regula
tion is to blame for energy problems.
Schlesinger said the first is untrue, “We
read the same publications . . . that you
do.” He said there are an estimated 81
billion barrels of reserves yet to be discov
ered, but that could be exhausted in 20
years if the country did not practice
moderation.
Schlesinger also said blaming govern
ment regulation ignores the fact that oil
men sought such regulation in times past,
when the reverse of today’s situation pre
vailed and supply exceeded demand.