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Vol. 71 No. 90
8 Pages
Friday, February 3, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Friday:
Ski Aggieland, p.4.
Respect your state s snakes, p.6.
Jogging: everybody’s doing it, p.8.
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By JEANNE LOPEZ
Several sororities are looking into the possiblity of
building homes on Munson Avenue in College Station,
says Don Martell of Martell Properties. Martell pre
sented the sororities’ plans to the College Station Plan
ning and Zoning Commission in their regular meeting
Thursday night.
“Nine sororities are presently housed in the Sausalito
Apartments,” he said. “They have 15 units with each
sorority having around 40 or 50 girls.”
Block 2 on Munson tract will be made into one-acre
tracts, Martell said. Alpha Chi Omega sorority has pro
posed a 5,000 foot home with nine bedrooms. The house
will accomodate 18 girls and have another bedroom for
the sorority housemother.
“The shuttle bus goes up and down University Oaks
and turns on Munson to pick up the kids at Sausalito and
then goes on to pick up passengers at the Sundance
Apartments. We feel that this would be convenient for
the sorority girls, Martell added.
He went on to say that after the three organizations
built houses, perhaps the others would follow.
Commissioner Violetta Burke asked Martell how he
was sure the sororities would actually go through with
their plans.
“We are essentially treading in new territory as this is
something that we’ve never tried,” he answered. Com
missioner Chris Mathewson suggested to Martell that he
make alternate plans for a conditional use permit and
present them to the council at a later public hearing. The
hearing will allow area residents to express their opin
ions on the possible sorority move.
Earlier the commission denied a conditional use per
mit to Alpha Gamma Rho, a mens’ fraternity that wished
to use a house located at 418 College Main . The house
would accomodate 12 men.
“Even though 12 men would live there, they problaby
would be feeding 30 to 40 others. This would block the
lire lane on Cherry Street because the present parking
lot does not meet city standards,” Mathewson said.
Bob White, commission member, added that de
liveries to the house would also cause parking and block
ing problems.
“I cannot decide until I see the floor plans. It is impor
tant to see how the kitchen is relative to the driveway
where deliveries are concerned White said. He
abstained from voting on the issue.
Commission Chairman Vergil Stover noticed a discre
pancy in the architectral drawing of the house and ad
mitted that the fraternity needed to present a “suitable
site plan before being considered for a conditional use
permit. ”
The Commission agreed the permit would he granted
later if the several conditions were met. The existing
driveway must be removed and replaced with an appro
priate driving area and the parking lot must be edged
and surfaced according to the city standards.
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So this is basketball
Jeremy Byington didn’t just want to see the A&M-Baylor game
Monday night. He asked his companions if he could venture to pet
Revielle, the Aggie mascot, during halftime. E-2, the mascot
company, is in charge of bringing Revielle to games.
By PAIGE BEASLEY
A preliminary survey by the graduate
student council has shown a need for ex
tended library hours. Consequently, the
council will begin working with the library
council to prepare a new questionnaire to
examine other student demand areas.
The graduate student council surveyed
250 students from Texas A&M University
during the fall semester.
Survey results show that if library hours
were extended, more students would use
the library between the hours of midnight
and 2 h.m. than they do now between the
hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
Results also show the library being used
most between the hours of 8 p.m. and
midnight.
Members of the graduate student coun
cil distributed the questionnaire among
friends within their respective colleges.
Glenn Sliva, past chairman of the student
government’s canvassing committee, as
sisted in distributing surveys for the un-
iprovei
atergate officials claiming
1 million of campaign funds
dergraduate level.
Undergraduates were shown to use the
library an average of less than half a day
per week during semester break.
From approximately 145 samples, taken
in the fall it was shown that graduate stu
dents would use the library an average of
two days per week during semester break.
When the sample was taken, some
graduate students were unaware of their
work requirements during the Christmas
holidays. Thus, graduate student use dur
ing holiday periods may be higher than the
sample indicates.
The survey also showed which courses
of study required the most library use.
For graduate students, the College of
Education required the most library use,
with the College of Agriculture ranking
second. Results for undergraduates have
not been calculated.
Michael D. Gerst, vice president of the
graduate student council, said a new ques
tionnaire will be distributed to include
questions concerning particular hours and
days throughout the week.
At least 1,000 surveys will be distrib-
“The whole objective is to determine
what hours the students want from their
uted within a month by members of vari
ous campus organizations,
library which includes extended hours,
Gerst said.
“Another thing, he added, “is to point
out the times of the library’s demand
loads. For example, if we can show that
there isn’t a need for as many library em
ployees between the hours of 5 and 7
p.m., then we can suggest they extend
hours and shift employees to the hours of
midnight through 2 a.m.
“Then we could possibly get these ex
tended hours with probably no change in
the finances of the library, Gerst said.
A lack of funds, he said, is the major
problem in opening the library on an ex
tended basis.
“We would also like to see which col
leges are demanding most use of the li
brary,” Gerst said. “This would aid in de
ciding where to put more money for the
acquisition of journals and books. ”
Another area of concern, not included
on the first questionnaire, is the need for a
24-hour library service.
0-incliB United Press International
•sical"WASHINGTON — John Mitchell and
t ofF§her major figures in the Watergate scan-
can taw have claims totaling more than $1 mil-
wl iis man against the last $313,715.78 in Richard
jlixon s 1972 presidential campaign fund.
The claims by Mitchell, Maurice Stans,
fenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Sally
jlarmony and others are mostly for legal
|es in cases where they were found inno-
pnt. Such fees in the past have been paid
even if the person involved was found
iuilty in another case.
The Campaign Liquidation Trust, suc-
Jssor to the Committee to Re-Elect the
resident, filed its 1977 year-end report
ith the Federal Election Commission
hursday.
The trust said it started 1977 with $1.3
million and took in about $28,000 ——
mostly in interest while spending
$955,000.
The report said the trust will receive
$148,784 plus interest from the Internal
Revenue Service for over-assessment of
federal income taxes. When the IRS pays
up, the trust will have assets of about a
half-million dollars more than five years
after the 1972 campaign.
The trust said it was studying all claims
for payment of legal fees.
Mitchell, former attorney general, asked
the trust to pay $471,390 in legal fees from a
conspiracy case in which international fugi
tive Robert Vesco was also indicted.
Mitchell was acquitted in that case and to
date, the trust has paid $220,000 with the
remaing $251,390 pending.
Mitchell is now on medical leave from a
federal prison camp in Alabama where he
was serving a sentence for conspiracy in the
Watergate cover-up.
Stans, also indicted and cleared in the
Vesco case, has asked for $140,000 not only
for legal fees in that case, but to pay for 620
hours of his own time spent in preparing
testimony for the Watergate prosecutors.
Stans, former commerce secretary and
campaign finance chief, pleaded guilty to
five counts involving illegal campaign con
tributions in another case and was fined.
$5,000.
Parkinson and Mardian, along with
Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman, stood trial in the Watergate
cover-up conspiracy. Mardian was acquit-
Leaders prepare U.S. meeting
ted and Parkinson’s conviction was over
turned on appeal.
Mardian, former deputy attorney gen
eral and deputy campagin manager, asked
for lawyers fees of $481,898 while Parkin
son, the counsel for CREEP, asked for
$73,390.
Sally Harmony was secretary to
Watergate burglary mastermind G. Gor
don Liddy and she testified that, like a good
secretary, she never read the boss’ letters
when she typed them, so she didn’t know
what was going on.
She asked for $780 in legal fees and
was one of a half-dozen lesser Watergate
figures making such requests.
The campaign trust also noted that Nixon
contributors need not bother to ask for
their money back.
During the past year some such requests
for refunds were received and the “trust
has not honored any such requests and it
probably will not do so at any time in the
future.”
Student causes scare
By TERESA HUDDLESTON
Texas A&M University police were
armed and ready for action Thursday
when a man was seen carrying a weapon
into the Sterling Evans Library. A by
stander on the first floor looked up to see
the man holding a rifle at his waist in a
two-tone brown case.
A 45-minute search led to the confisca
tion of a .22 automatic rifle and the embar
rassment of a Texas A&M University
freshman.
“When I saw a half dozen policemen
running around, I knew what they were
looking for and I knew that I was in for it,”
said the freshman, who owned the gun.
The student had the rifle on campus be
cause he planned to attend tryouts for the
Texas A&M rifle team that evening.
He said he was in a hurry to get back to
his job in the computer center of the li
brary. “My car would not lock, so I had no
other choice but to take the gun with me,”
he said.
But University regulations prohibit the
carrying of any firearm into buildings on
campus. Chief O.L. Luther of the Univer
sity Police department said the student
wasn’t trying to hide or conceal the gun.
At work he put it on a box visible to
everyone,” he said.
No charges were filed. The student was
returned to work after checking in his rifle
with police. He was allowed to pick it up
after getting off work.
Any on-campus student wishing to keep
a firearm is required to register it with the
University Police Department who will
keep it when not in use.
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RABAT, Morocco — Egyptian Presi-
|ent Anwar Sadat is taking his drive for a
fiddle East peace to the United States
d President Carter says a common trust
|iGod will help guide them in two days of
rivate talks.
Sadat was leaving for Washington today
n the second stop of a 13-day, eight-
lation diplomatic mission to promote his
roposals for ending 30 years of Arab-
Israeli conflict.
He conferred Thursday with Morocco’s
ing Hassan II, the strongest Arab sup
porter of his peace initiative, and stayed
overnight at the palace of Dar es Salaam —
the house of peace.
Only 800 miles away, the hard-line Arab
states — Algeria, Syria, Libya and South
Yemen plus the Palestine Liberation Or
ganization — were winding up a two-day
summit in Algiers aimed at blunting
Sadat’s peace drive.
Algerian President Houari
Boumedienne opened the conference with
a blast at Sadat for “negotiating about the
Palestinians without the consent of Syria
and the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion.” But political observers said the tone
Park plans complete
By TIM RAVEN
Bids for construction at Bee Creek Park
>vill be solicited over the next few weeks,
College Station City Council decided
Thursday in a special session. A two-hour
ong closed session to discuss “pending
itigation and land acquisition followed.
Plans for Bee Creek Park include con-
itruction of a 50-space paved parking lot
)n the north side of the park’s swimming
1. An extension of Anderson Street will
bive access to an additional 140 paved
Spaces while an arboretum, located behind
fhe present baseball diamonds on the
[south, will give access to the outdoors via a
narked nature trail.
Paul Wojciechowski, director of Parks
nd Recreation, presented the plan to the
ouncil.
Between $70,000 and $80,000 are ex-
Jpected to be spent on this project, accord
ing to councilman North Bardell who dis
cussed the plan after the closed session.
He said the city now has $104,000 for such
projects from the sale of municipal bonds.
He added that the council is considering
using the remaining funds to help finance
the construction of four new tennis courts
at the park.
Raised voices were heard coming from
the council chamber during the closed ses
sion.
Grumbling councilmen were herded
back into the council room after the closed
session by reporters demanding a public
adjournment. The reporters said the pub
lic adjournment was required by the Texas
Open Meetings Law. After the public ad-
journtnent, Councilmen protested when
reporters approached them.
“You’re embarrassing us,” said Coun
cilman Jim Dozier.
of his speech was much more moderate
than they had expected.
Sadat, who has often said the United
States “holds 99 percent of the cards in the
Middle East,” was making a brief state
ment at the White House and then flying
with Carter to Camp David in western
Maryland for 48 hours of talks so private
even the usual brief photo sessions were
cut out.
U.S. officials said they hoped the sum
mit could help break the deadlock be
tween Israel and Egypt on the broad out
lines of a settlement.
President Carter told a prayer breakfast
in Washington Thursday a common reli
gious faith he found in both Sadat and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
could help bring about peace.
“In our own search for peace ... I have
a sense of confidence that if we emphasize
and reinforce those ties of mutual faith and
our.subserviance and humility before God
and our acquiescence in his deeply sought
guidance, we can prevail,” Carter said.
But in an indirect criticism of the Jewish
state, he also told aides he would stand by
his public statement that Israeli leaders
promised him they would create no new
settlements in occupied Arab territories.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
has denied he made such a pledge.
Sadat began his trip Thursday less than
24 hours after Egypt and Israel adjourned
their military talks without reaching
agreement on Israeli withdrawal from the
Sinai desert.
Parallel talks between the Israeli and
Egyptian foreign minister broke down in
Jerusalem two weeks ago.
Sadat will leave Washington on Wed
nesday and make visits to Britain, West
Germany, Austria, Romania, France and
Italy before returning home.
Heave!
This is ideal weather for getting cars stuck in the
mud, as students in Wildlife Fisheries Science 408
discover. Charles Davis demonstrates the tech
nique of getting stuck, while WFS students come to
his rescue.
Battalion photo by Larry ('handler
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