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.
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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
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