Battalion
Inside Wednesday
Seminar focuses on getting jobs,
writing resumes, p. 5
A funny cartoon, p. 11
Aggies lose to the Arkansas Razor-
backs 84-68, p. 14
Wednesday, January 18, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
-FM could fold if budget is cut
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion StafT
Texas A&M University radio, KAMU-FM, will go off
lie air Aug. 31, 1978, unless drastic changes are made in
tiie proposed budget for fiscal 1978.
The radio station may cease operations by March to
jhannel funds to KAMU-TV if the budget cut is con-
srmed, an informed source said Tuesday night. Student
Government station KANM is unaffected by any Univer
sity budget decisions, because its funds come from student
lervice fees.
University officials declined to comment on the pro
posed budget cuts for the educational television and radio
stations. University administrators’ only official comment
Tas that budget planning for fiscal 1978-79 had just begun,
Ind that “nothing has been finalized, either for the univer
sity overall or any of its divisions.
Effects of the decision are outlined in two memoran
dums given to station workers Friday.
“Prospects for outside (non-federal) funds for KAMU-
■"M support are very poor,’ the memo states. “Prospects
federal funds are worse. . . Therefore, in view of the
ecent budget decisions for account 16150, KAMU-FM
ill go off the air at the end of this fiscal year.
“The $169,000 worth of equipment involved in the radio
tation was purchased with HEW funds; it, therefore,
annot be sold or rented for 10 years, the memo con-
inues.
Five full-time staff members, three part-time workers
ad eight student assistants are supported by the budget.
The memo was sent from Leatha Miloy, director of edu-
ational information services, to Dr. J. M. Prescott, vice
Biresident for academic affairs. It states the five full-time
taffers will be absorbed by the television station.
“The student workers will not be re-hired next fall,” it
ays. KAMU-FM carries National Public Radio programs,
imilar to Pub ^Broadcasting Service programs. Funding
rom NPR w , be approximately $30,000 in fiscal 1978
, nd will trip the next five years.
UM ® Money for programs purchased by KAMU-TV will be
mg
reduced from $75,000 to about $60,000 if the budget deci
sions are respected.
The cut will have several effects on KAMU-TV, accord
ing to a memo sent to Miloy from Dr. Mel Chastain, direc
tor of educational broadcasting services. These include:
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• Loss of 350 hours of PBS programming per year, from
more than 3,350 hours to 3,000 annually.
• Loss of affiliation with the Southern Educational
Network (SEGA).
• Loss of almost 450 hours of weekend programming
from SEGA.
• Loss of such PBS programs as “NOVA,’ “The
MacNeil-Lehrer Report, “Great Performances,”
“Visions” and “The Dick Cavitt Show. ”
• Loss of Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
funds. Reduction of University support will result in los
ing $40,000 in CPB funds the following year.
• Reducing student assistant workers from 20 to seven.
• Reduction below practical limits of funds available for
replacement of worn-out electronic parts.
• Complete denial of funds for capital improvements.
To keep KAMU-TV solvent, the station manager, news
director and other staffers will also have to double as fund
raisers, encouraging businesses to “underwrite” the pro
grams if the budget is increased. Membership drives, auc
tions and other fund-raising activities common to non
university public television stations will also be used in
addition to other cost-saving measures.
“Maybe it’s the University’s way of telling the stations to
be self-sufficient or get lost,” said a source, who asked that
his name be withheld.
“It’s ruined the morale of that station,” he added.
Students majoring in communications who want to
specialize in radio broadcasting could not secure paid staff
positions for practical experience. Eight students are disc
jockeys now. Several other students work in production,
bookkeeping and news departments.
Cameramen and some directors of local programs are
students. Broadcast journalism students might be re
quired to run the equipment, but the source pointed out
that under University regulations a student could be ab
sent or not do his work.
“You work for what you’re paid for,” he said. “It would
be a very tight situation. ”
Texas A&M spent three years and more than $261,000
to prepare the grounds, build the station and hire profes
sional staff to operate the station.
Texas A&M has sponsored a TV station since 1970, but
KAMU-FM has been on the air about eight months. The
Joe Hiram Moore Communications Building was named
last month.
Miloy’s memo to Prescott noted, “KAMU-TV is consis
tently below average in total operating budget when na
tional statistics are published. . . We believe we have
made some progress in spite of the fact that support from
the University in account 22259 has decreased from about
$80,000 in 1975 to zero in 1977.”
In outlining steps to be taken if the budget cut stands,
station director Chastain said the University could help by
encouraging campus departments with TV capabilities, to
operate jointly with KAMU-TV. Both the medical school
and the College of Veterinary Medicine have television
facilities. Through this cooperation, he said, the funds
could be counted as part of the institutional support for
CPB grant purposes. Less fund raising would therefore be
required.
“It is difficult to foresee all effects,” Chastain said in the
memo. “For example, currently the average hourly em
ployee works 47 hours per week. . . As more employees’
efforts are directed to fund-raising, work at the station
must be carried on by fewer people.
“When the hours-per-week limit (whatever it may be) is
reached by individuals, some regular work will not be
accomplished.”
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United Press Internationa]
TON — A reduction in American
strength on Taiwan could help
the United States and China to-
normal diplomatic relations, Sen.
rdM. Kennedy, D-S iss., said in his
ews conference since his return from
week trip to China,
suggested Tuesday an exchange of
by leaders o, {he' two nations and the
sion of trade hlso would help achieve
al relations.
ickey obstacle to normalization of re-
s remains the. future of the 16 million
e on Taiwan, Kennedy said. “I did
tpect and cannot report progress in
dng that issue.”
y change in relations between the
id States and China would have to
s peace and security in Asia, Ken-
said, referring especially to Taiwan,
Japan and parts of Southeast Asia.
Kennedy said he told Chinese leaders
he thought Americans would be willing to
recognize Peking as the actual government
of China as long as the Taiwanese were
permitted to “continue to exist in peace
and security.” He added that his talks with
Chinese leaders, including Vice Premier
Teng Hsiao-ping, helped the Chinese
understanding of “the American view that
Taiwan should enjoy a peaceful and pros
perous future.”
Kennedy said acceptance of Taiwan as
an independent nation not connected with
the mainland would not solve the problem
of recognition. He added that the final so
lution must be determined by Chinese
and Taiwanese leaders themselves, not by
outside forces.
Kennedy said his China trip left him
“more committed than ever to helping
move forward the process of normalizing
relations ’ between China and the United
States. He said the Chinese “now consider
the U.S. a potential ally” and view the
Soviet Union as an adversary.
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
Riding is free and easy
The first week of school is hectic — but traveling near the vet school, west campus, Rudder com-
across campus by shuttle bus in one way to save
time. Buses run from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and stop
plex, the Commons, Zachry Engineering Center,
Reed McDonald Building, and Northgate.
Heavy storm warnings up
Snowfall continues in North
United Press International
Residents of a corridor from Arkansas to
Pennsylvania are burrowing out from
under a foot or more of snow, while the
storm that caused the mess heads north
east.
But the national Weather Service said a
temporary and slight reprieve from win
ter’s nastiness is in store. A Pacific system
that ominously belted California Monday
showed signs of weakening on its trip
through the Rockies.
The storm that swept through the South
and Ohio Valley on Monday and Tuesday
was focusing its fury on the Northeast to
day. Heavy snow and winter storm warn
ings were up in portions of Ohio, the
Virginias, Pennsylvania, New York and
New England.
The National Weather Service said five
more inches of snow could fall in these
areas. In Altoona, Pa., the accumulation
reached 15 inches.
Utility repair crews throughout the
Northeast, particularly on Long Island and
in Rhode Island, worked frantically to re
pair lines and equipment damaged in last
week’s ice storm — before the new system
hit.
President Carter authorized the use of
giant Air Force cargo planes to carry more
than 24 dozen utility trucks and 50 per
sonnel from utilities in Chicago and De
troit Tuesday night.
Late Tuesday, Louisville, Ky., had 17
inches on the ground. Gov. Julian Carroll
declared a state of emergency, ordered all
trucks off the barely open interstates and
placed the National Guard on stand by.
Near Cairo, Ill., residents thrust a
yardstick into the snow and it sank 18
inches. No official total was available be
cause weatherman Don Semancik, who
lives in Missouri, couldn t get to work.
Millie Mignone, a weather observer
who lives about 300 feet off a county road
Registrar, P.E. officials differ
about Concepts requirement
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
Registration and physical education de
partment officials will soon have to settle a
controversy over whether or not a course
called Concepts is needed for graduation.
In classes Tuesday, P.E. teachers told
students the course was necessary. Repre
sentatives of the registrar’s office also said
Tuesday that no student had been denied
graduation because he did not take Con
cepts, a course similiar to many high
FBI releases final
pages of investigation
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
The ice man cometh
Diane Simmons, majoring in agronomy, gets a cold shoulder as she
begins the new semester. The junior from Houston discovered
these patches of ice near her apartment Tuesday morning.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The FBI is laying
bare the remaining 58,754 pages in its in
vestigation into who killed John Kennedy
and — the question it still can’t answer —
why.
Heavily censored raw files released
today were expected to shed light on how
the FBI helped persuade the Warren
Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald,
whatever his motives, acted alone and not
as the agent of a conspiracy.
All told, the FBI was making public
50,604 pages of investigative files and
8,150 pages of its communications with the
Warren Commission.
Except for material the FBI is permitted
by the Freedom of Information Act to
withhold, this opens the bureau’s entire
Kennedy file to public scrutiny for the first
time.
An earlier release of documents Dec. 7
showed the late FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover concluded that Oswald fired the
fatal shots, but, Hoover initially was skep
tical that Oswald had acted alone. He put
Oswald “in the category of a nut.”
Twenty days after the slaying, the files
showed, Hoover was still expressing
“great concern” over whether he was the
only man involved.
Ultimately, as the FBI conducted
25,000 interviews and checked out
thousands of tips. Hoover appared satis
fied no conspiracy existed.
But despite an intense effort to investi
gate every aspect of Oswald’s life and
movements, nothing in the files estab
lished a motive for Oswald.
This failure to establish why Oswald
acted has helped fuel theories that he was
the agent of a foreign or domestic conspi
racy.
The Warren Commission was left to
speculate that five of Oswald’s character
traits may have led him to slay the presi
dent.
These were: “his deep-rooted resent
ment of all authority;” “his inability to
enter into meaningful relationships with
people;” “his urge to try to find a place in
history;” “his capacity for violence,” and
“his avowed commitment to Marxism and
communism.’
The FBI’s first release of 40,001 pages
— a quarter ton of raw files — covered
material gathered from Nov. 22, 1963, the
day of the slaying, to September 1964.
The new documents reflect materials
gathered in the years since the killing.
New “tips” are still investigated, the
bureau says.
school health courses. Many students be
lieve the course is necessary and have in
cluded it in their schedules.
None of the required physical education
courses are described in the 1977-78 un
dergraduate catalog. Students taking con
cepts study physical fitness, some first aid
and participate in labs designed to mea
sure aspects of fitness such as cardiovascu
lar endurance, flexibility and strength.
Beginning last semester, all students
who signed up for P.E. 101 were given
Concepts. When classes are full, the com
puter assigns P.E. 102, and students are
required by the P.E. department to take
101 later.
“I don’t even know what concepts is,”
said an official in the registrar’s office. The
catalog only requires P.E. 101, 102, 201
and 202. It does not specify Concepts as
P.E. 101, a and a student’s record does not
list Concepts either.
“They could in fact require students to
take a course they call Concepts,” he said
in an interview Tuesday.
The official said he knew of no student
denied graduation for lack of Concepts.
Emil Magmaliga, head of required P.E.
and elective activities programs, said the
P.E. department requires the course for
all students.
He compared it to University require
ments in the English department.
“Nobody tells them what to teach in
English 203,” Magmaliga said. But a gen
eral description of the English course is
published in the catalog while Concepts is
not described.
Registrar officials said students who take
two semesters of P.E. 102, P.E. 201 and
202, have been cleared for graduation.
“I probably would let that by,” said the
official.
Department head Carl Landiss and reg
istrar Robert Lacey were unavailable for
comment.
north of Marion, Ill., said she measured 16
inches of snow Tuesday morning.
“If we needed help, all we could do is
just sit here and scream,” she said.
The winter shipping season on the St.
Mary’s River system in Michigan nearly
stopped when six feet of slush trapped 21
freighters. The Coast Guard ice-breaker
Mackinaw slowly moved one ship at a time
through the frozen areas.
In the South, thunderstorms moved
north into snowstorms over northern
Texas. Heavy snow warnings were posted
in the Colorado and New Mexico Rockies,
where the Pacific system was moving.
But the NWS said the Western system
“is becoming less of a threat as it moves
eastward.” Los Angeles Mayor Tom Brad
ley called for an end to his city’s manda
tory water conservation program, begun
last July, because of the plentiful rains,
which have hit Southern California in re
cent weeks. As Bradley was speaking, a
new system was on its way with more rain
and snow.
Health center
provides new,
faster service
BY GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
“All right. Those of you with fewer than
four symptoms — to the left.”
Well, maybe you don’t have to count
your symptoms, but you can get faster
service in the Express Line, a new service
provided by the Health Center at Texas
A&M University.
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the
center, said Tuesday the new Express
Line was allowing a doctor to see three
times as many students who have minor
complaints like fevers, earaches or rashes.
Goswick said the service will open when
the clinic becomes crowded, and will
provide a brief diagnosis and treatment by
a doctor. He said doctors spend three to
five minutes with each patient.
The Express Line differs from the cold
clinic because a doctor is present and can
issue prescriptions for medication. In the
cold clinic only over-the-counter drugs are
dispensed, and no doctor is present.
Nurses make the diagnosis.
“It’s worked quite well so far,” Goswick
said. “I don’t think the students feel
rushed. If anything, that’s what they
want.”
He said those who want more privacy or
have more complicated problems can wait
to see a doctor in the regular clinic.
Because of the cold, wet weather now in
College Station, Goswick predicted, “In
about a week, there will be a full-fledged
epidemic of flu. I feel like a prophet of
doom.”
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