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The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 76 14 Pages Monday, January 16, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Monday: A chain reaction in Brazos County governments, p. 2. “Close Encounters” in review, p. 5. Texas A&M defeats SMU 78-71, p. 12. rkans o'M Male dorm new home Ifor women By GLENNA WHITLEY Battalion Stall Billy Ellerbrock is caught in the middle. Visitation rules keep women from visiting him after hours in Hart Hall. But now he can’t have male visitors after hours, either. That’s because 28 women now share F-ramp with Ellerbrock and his suitemate, who’s the resident adviser assigned to the 28 women. Promised rooms on campus by the Texas A&M University Housing Office, there was no room for the women when they arrived and they were placed in interim housing at Hart. Kurt Luckinbill, a resident ad viser at Hart, said Sunday the hous ing office overbooked the female housing, relying on previous per centages of no-shows to provide the needed rooms. No-shows are per sons cancelling their dorm reser vations or dropping out of the dorm. Bernadette Platis, a junior educa tion major from Houston, said she was told by a housing office spokes man that the women would be in Hart three days to one month. As no-shows are confirmed, the women will be placed in women’s dorms on campus. Housing officials were unavailable for comment. All the women questioned said there were no problems as yet and that Hart residents seemed to be very helpful, even assisting them in moving in. But, “You stick 28 girls in with 280 guys and you can imagine the problems,” said Luckinbill. One problem is the ban on male visitors and weekend guests for El lerbrock. “He’s not complaining,” Luckin bill said. “I don’t think he’d switch that opportunity for anything.” T HALLt Cowboys win Superbowl 27-10 Battalion photo by Susan Webb With apprehension, Mrs. Vaughn Platis (left) helps her daughter Bernadette, a junior from Houston, move into Hart Hall. Because of the shortage of women’s dorm rooms, the Housing Office tem porarily assigned 28 girls to Hart Hall, a men’s dorm. United Press International NEW ORLEANS — The Dallas Cow boys, stirring memories of their Dooms day Defense of old, destroyed Denver’s title dream Sunday by intercepting a record-tying four passes to capture the Na tional Football League title with an error- filled 27-10 Super Bowl XII victory over the Broncos. In a mistake-filled game that resembled a “Blooper Bowl” rather than a Super Bowl, the Cowboys broke things open on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Roger Staubach to Butch Johnson in the third period and went on to end the American Conference domination of the title game. The Cowboys’ second Super Bowl victory ended a string of five consecutive AFC triumphs in the title game and was only the fourth NFC victory in the 12 Super Bowls. With Dallas leading 13-3 in the third period, the Cowboys put the game out of reach when Staubach launched a long pass down the middle from his 40 and Johnson, a reserve wide receiver from Califomia- Riverside, made a spectacular, diving catch off his fingertips in the end zone. The Cowboys added an insurance score midway through the final period after re covering the record 10th fumble of the game. Fullback Robert Newhouse took a pitchout and threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Golden Richards. Denver roared back after the touchdown pass to Johnson when Rick Upchurch returned the kickoff a Super Bowl record 67 yards to the Dallas 26. Norris Weese, who replaced AFC Player of the Year Craig Morton two plays later, brought Denver to 20-10 deficit when he sent former Cowboy Jim Jensen 18 yards to the one on a fourth-and-one and rookie Rob Lytle went over the for the score. Neither club could mount any real of fense after that with their primary offen sive threats on the sidelines. The ineffec tive Morton, who became the first quar terback in Super Bowl history to be inter cepted four times, remained on the bench. while the Cowboys lost NFC Rookie of the Year Tony Dorsett with a knee sprain and quarterback Staubach with a hand injury. Dorsett was injured late in the third period when he ran around right end and Staubach hurt his hand after he was sacked for the fifth time and fumbled. Punter Danny White replaced Staubach until the former Heisman Trophy winner returned with four minutes to go in the game. Dor sett returned to the Dallas bench after being taped but saw no further action. (See Superbowl, page 13) Friends farewell say final to HHH Vard controversy starts up again By RUSTY CAWLEY Battalion City Editor n’t look now. But an old controversy ding new life as College S tation city ons near. e controversy concerns the College m ward system, an election plan in- ced here two years ago. idea is simple enough. Split the into six sections and allow each to one councilman to represent its ests. t in a town as small as College Sta- the critics say, the simplicity turns to . The result is an unproductive, un- isary gerrymander the voters find in- irehensible. at’s what the critics say. And they a point. e ward system does have its support- They say the system provides equal sentation throughout the city. And, say, it gives minorities a chance to their own representatives without ig to compete with the white masses. Never mind that the council remains pure Caucasian despite use of the ward sys- News analysis tern last year. Never mind that incumbent councilmen were re-elected without a challenge. Never mind. College Station voters installed the ward system in the 1976 city elections. The city councilmen didn’t like the system from the start and did everything they could to ignore the inevitable. First they took the election itself to court. Not officially, of course. But they did support former mayor Andy Anderson and 700 residents who filed a petition in 85th District Court. Election ballots were vague and confus ing, the petitioners said. They asked Judge Bill Davis to overturn the election. He re fused. Strike one. Next the council made a half-hearted ef fort to design a system acceptable to them selves and to the Justice Department. And when die plan was finished it benefited none of those it was supposed to. Not because the council was unwilling to help the city’s minority voters, but be cause grouping them within a single ward is impossible. Black and Chicano residents are scat tered throughout the area. Strike two. And now here’s the windup for what is hopefully the final pitch. The council told City Attorney Neeley Lewis in last Thurs day’s meeting to start drawing up an amendment for this year’s election. If approved, the amendment will bring back the old system of electing all six councilman and the mayor on an at-large basis. And it would put the relatively new but battered ward system out of its misery. United Press International ST. PAUL, Minn. — Thousands of friends said a final goodbye today to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, champion of the underdog and a man President Carter called “the most beloved of all Americans. ” Thousands of mourners filed by the flag-draped coffin of the Democratic “Happy Warrior” and former vice presi dent Sunday night and early today in the rotunda of the Minnesota Capitol. A 75- year-old black woman, who said, “He meant everything to me,” was first in line. President Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale and former President Gerald Ford planned to join 3,000 persons at serv ices at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul at 2 p.m. The veteran of almost 30 years in Con gress, who lost a courageous battle with cancer Friday night at the age of 66, asked a week before his death that the service be simple, in the style of a celebration” with out eulogies. “I’ve had enough eulogies for two lifetimes,” the senator said. Pastor Calvin W. Didier, a Humphrey friend, arranged the funeral, with remarks by Carter, Mondale and the Rev. Robert Schuler of the “hour of Power” television program. The music was to be provided by famous violinist Isaac Stern, pianist Eugene Istomin and opera star Robert Merrill. Rabbi Max A. Shapiro of Minneapolis was to read the 8th Psalm: “O Lord, O Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth, who hast set Thy glory above the heavens...” Roman Catholic Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul was to read the New Testament lesson from John 14: “...Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid...” Humphrey will be buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, where he began his public service career as mayor in 1945 at the age of 34. Mondale escorted Humphrey’s body and the senator’s widow, Muriel, and his im mediate family to the Twin Cities aboard President Carter’s personal plane late Sun day, following a round of goodbyes in Washington. About 300 persons watched a military honor guard carry the coffin off the plane at the snowy airport. Temperatures were in the teens. Mrs. Humphrey and the senator’s four children, eight of his 10 grandchildren and two sisters were met by Gov. Rudy Per- pich, the Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors and two old friends. Federal Judge Miles Lord and former U. S. Secretary of Agricul ture Orville Freeman. The body was taken to the state Capitol rotunda, decorated with floral wreaths from friends across the country, for an all- night vigil that began at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Carrie Peoples, 75, a black St. Paul resident, waited seven hours in the cold to be the first in line to pay her last respects. “Such a wonderful man, ” she said. “He’s done so many good things for the blacks and for everybody.” Eugene Svendsen pulled a stocking cap over his ears as he waited to enter the state Capitol and said, “I think we have a duty to be here and pay homage to a great man.” “I just felt I had to come,” said a young secretary, Jane Sachs. In Washington Sunday, an estimated 55,000 mourners filed past the wooden cof fin in the rotunda of the nation’s Capitol. President Carter told those at a Capitol memorial service Humphrey was “the most beloved of all Americans... his greatest asset was that he really knew how to love. ” Carter recalled how Humphrey always championed the cause of the underdog, the disadvantaged. Mrs. Humphrey sat next to the President during the memorial service, her hand tightly in his. Mondale, Humphrey’s former protege and Senate colleague, said in a voice crack ing with emotion that the senator “taught us all how to hope and how to love... how to live and finally... how to die.” Italians end 39th reign United Press International ROME — Italy’s 39th postwar govern ment, locked in a power struggle with the powerful Communist Party, will resign to day. But, Premier Giulio Andreotti will be asked to form a new cabinet almost im mediately, the state television reported. Andreotti, 59, scheduled a final cabinet meeting today for his 17-month-old gov ernment following his Christian Demo cratic Party’s rejection of the Communist demand for a reorganized government in which they would hold cabinet posts. Andreotti and his ministers were ex pected to hand their resignations to Presi dent Giovanni Leone after the cabinet ses sion. It has become a well-established ritual in a nation where the life of the aver age government since the end of World War II has been less than one year. Political sources said a deal had already been worked out under which the Com munists would back down on their de mand for cabinet posts to avoid early gen eral elections. All party leaders have said the election would be disastrous;. In reporting the imminent fall of An- dreotti’s government, the state television Sunday said that “barring the unforeseen” the premier will be asked to form another cabinet Wednesday or Thursday. The Christian Democrats hold 38.8 per cent of Italian electors’ votes, with the Communists a close second with 34.5 per cent. Andreotti survived for 17 months only because the Communists agreed not to vote against him and support him on a minimum emergency program. tan kills 2 Florida students, t ijures 3 in pre-dawn attack United Press International * LLAHASSEE, Fla. — Police say the j gler who killed two sleeping Florida 5 University sorority sisters and * geoned three other coeds is “a very f depraved young man who should turn _ elfin before he hurts anyone else.” irgaret Bowman, 21, and Lisa Levy, ' loth of St. Petersburg, were killed as e semester-long trial of intra-campus le bus routes was scheduled to begin at 7:05 a.m. o routes begin each morning at the r of Lubbock and Bizzell streets on all arly scheduled class and exam days g the spring semester. 5 service connecting the main and campuses is free, but riders may be isted to show a student, staff or faculty ification card. een Route moves north to parking lot vest to the College of Veterinary cine and south to the new College of ulture buildings. It serves lots 56 and fore returning to campus and stopping they slept in their Chi Omega sorority house rooms early Sunday. The assailant was seen by one surviving victim and another coed, but Sheriff Ken Katsaris said he has no suspects. The pre-dawn attack was described by police as vicious and senseless, with rape the apparent motive. Katsaris said the autopsy report proved near Rudder Tower. The bus then returns to the corner of Lubbock and Bizzell streets. Red Route proceeds to Rudder Tower, south to Jersey Street and across the rail road to lots 56 and 61 and the agriculture class buildings. It then enters Wellborn Road and travels to the College of Veteri nary Medicine. Returning on University Drive to the main campus. Red Route stops at Milner Hall and goes back to its starting place. Both routes make one off-campus stop on University Drive. The free trial intra-campus buses will be in addition to regular off-campus shuttle service for which there is a charge. one of the victims was raped, but was in conclusive as to the other. He would not say which one. Sophomore Nita Jane Neary, 20, saw the fleeing intruder when she returned to the sorority house from a late date about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, just as one of the bloody victims staggered from her bedroom, screaming incoherently. However, police spokesman Wayne Smith said the descriptions were “too gen eral and too broad. It would probably iden tify half of Tallahassee if we tried a draw ing.” Katsaris said the attacker apparently was a stranger to his victims. He theorized the man found a side door unlocked, walked in, and looked into several second-floor bed rooms before finding one in which a single girl was sleeping. Two others who survived the attack — Karen Chandler of Tallahassee and Kathy Kleiner, 21, of Miami — were listed in satisfactory condition in Tallahassee| Memorial Hospital. The fifth victim — Cheryl Ann Thomas, 22, of Richmond, Va., a sophomore dance major — was beaten unconscious in du plex apartment six blocks from the sorority house. She was hospitalized in critical con dition. Police linked the two attacks because of their similarity.. \tra-campus shuttle system ■gins semester runs today Ouch! Writing checks to pay tor spring semester class is a pain in the pocketbook. But it’s also a prere uisite for picking up class schedules, and the Texas A&M students waited in line last week to pay up. Battalion photo by Susan Webb tzcMwnnn ... ftOSS ... KFNWOOD — SANSUI