The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 13, 1978, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 13, 1978, Image 1

Newspaper Page Texte Battauon Vol. 71 No. 96 S 10 Pages n Am Monday, February 13, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Monday A long, coal winter in Ohio, p. 2. The new look in dresses for the Corps, p. 7. A look at Hawaiian football, p. 10. 7 iewo| President, vice president announce resignations Battalion photo by Pat O'Malley Hey ref, need some help? Tim Feickert, a senior from Lancaster, Ca., thinks a blind person could do a better job of calling fouls than the referee during Satur day’s game against Texas Tech. Feickert is a member of the Aggie Baseball team. See related story p. 10. By LIZ NEWLIN Battalion Staff Texas A&M University’s student body president and a vice president announced their resignations from office Sunday night. Robert Harvey, president, and Vicki Young, vice president for student services, said they will submit their resignations to the student senate in a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The site has not been confirmed. The constitiution provides for the senate to choose a new student body president by majority vote from the remaining four vice presidents. They are Mike Humphrey, Phil Sutton, Mike Springer and Allison King. The new president will then nominate candidates for empty vice presidential seats, probably at the regular senate meet ing Feb. 22. The floor will be open for other nominations, and a majority vote will fill the vacancies. Vice presidents are not required to be senate members. Harvey and Young posted below 2.0 grade point ratios for the last semester’s Course work, but that’s not the only reason they’re resigning. “At this point in time it seems like this is the only way to resolve this issuej” Harvey said. Last Wednesday the senate requested the resignations of Harvey and Young. By a secret vote of 26-24 senators adopted the resolution, “The person in question should resign according to regulations as stated. This is to be applied to all members of student government currently shown to be deficient in posting a 2.000 GPR per semester. One member abstained, and 19 were absent. Eight senate seats were vacant. The senate did not decide which grade requirement should apply. Regulations are listed in the student body constitution and University Regulations. Young and Harvey contend the rules mean a 2.0 cumulative GPR should be required. Young's cumulative GPR is 3.23, and Harvey’s is 2.94. The senate decided the requirement should be a 2.0 GPR per semester. The senate may try to revise the constitution and University Regulations to require only a cumulative 2.0 GPR. “It’s in the interest of student govern ment to move on and get something ac complished,” Harvey said. “They won’t as long as they’re preoccupied with this is sue.” “I honestly feel there is no precendent for officers to resign for posting less than a 2.0. I don t feel the constitution is clear on the matter, and the third reason is I don t believe the University Regulations have been enforced and won’t be enforced con cerning grade requirements. “Those are the reasons I haven’t re signed sooner,” he said. Young said her resignation is based on the senate’s recommendation. “I think they acted fairly in their own opinion. It was their responsibility to enforce University Regulations. "It’s my opinion it should be a student’s responsibility to remain in good standing with the University.” She said that for her it meant maintaining an overall, cumula tive, 2.0 GPR. “There are times when the demands of the office will make your GPR drop below a 2.0 It’s easy,” Young said. She plans to apply to medical school this semester. If Young, a junior, is accepted, it will affect her plans for participating in student gov ernment next year. She will be around in an “advisory capacity” for the rest of the semester. Harvey plans to graduate in mechanical engineering this May and apply to law school. He said he will spend a week brief ing the new student body president on his duties then “back out completely.” He blamed putting student government duties above studies for his low grades. Harvey also requested the resignations of other executive committee members di rectly responsible to him: executive direc tor, director of information, controller and recording secretary. “I just think that’s the prerogative of any chief of staff, ’ Harvey said. Harvey said his greatest accomplish ment as president was “just leaving an executive branch that s better organized, that’s more able to assume the executive responsibilities of student government. He said his greatest regret was a job left undone. “There are still so many things that stu dent government can do that I’d like to see them do — that they may not get done. Tuesday night he plans to tell the senate “what they’re capable of and suggest projects in new areas of student life. “My main worry is that student gov ernment may let this issue drop and not resolve it,” Harvey said. “They need to see it doesn’t come up again. A president should not have to resign. It should be procedural. We shouldn’t have the hub bub we’ve had this semester. Like Harvey, the vice president said her greatest accomplishment was in adminis tration. “It was to provide the committee with a good example — one of interest and com petence and some forethought into next year’s plans and projects. “The worst thing about student gov ernment is that it has this discontinuous set of officers who work six or seven Robert Harvey months and then leave. Young said she cultivated secondary leaders and planned for continuity. “If they give me time. I ll speak Tuesday night. I’d like to include some closing re marks to the senate. “ uciii in* v- a ..jn/* y irael’s Begin blasts U.S., ccuses Carter of taking sides UniteTTPress International regret and protest over the statement had overstepped his role as mediator be- Pope Paul VI and Premi United Press International jaeli leaders are unleashing some of strongest attacks on the Carter ad- istration and accusing it of taking the f Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Jerusalem, Prime Minister icliem Begin met with his Cabinet lay and afterward formally protested rks by Secretary of State Cyrus in which he reiterated U.S. opposi te Jewish settlements on caputured lands. he government of Israel expresses its regret and protest over the statement made by Secretary of State Vance, Begin said. “The cabinet expresses its hope the government of the United States will re consider its position.” Israeli officials said Begin s statement was the sharpest criticism of the U.S. ad ministration since he took office in June 1977. They said Israel was concerned more by the timing than the substance of Vance’s remarks. In New York, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said in a television interview Vance ignitaries unharmed i Australian bombing had overstepped his role as mediator be tween Egypt and Israel. “On this specific point — on settlements and West Bank — I’m afraid he is taking sides now, which won’t make his job any easier as a mediator,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press. The Israeli barrage came in response to an apparent shifting of American policy toward Sadat, who visited the United States last week. U.S. officials said Sadat was privately assured he would receive sophisticated American weapons. In Paris, Sadat met French President Valery Giscard d Estaing Sunday and French sources said Paris also was ready to sell Egypt advanced fighter bombers if the American arms deal fell through. Sadat was flying to Rome today to meet Pope Paul VI and Premier-designate Giulio Andreotti, ending his eight-nation tour. In a related development, Israeli Radio reported the Defense Ministry had or dered bulldozers to stop preparing the ground for expanded settlements in the Sinai Peninsula. A high-ranking official said the move was a gesture to Cairo. “It was decided that it was best that operations be cur tailed.” Vance said Friday that Jewish settle ments were illegal and “shouldn’t exist. But Begin said, “The government of Is rael stands by its view that the Israeli set tlement program is in full harmony with international law and that it always has been legal, legitimate and essential.” SC ON A sessions begin Wednesday SCONA 23’s four-day plunge Wednesday into “The Politics of Energy” will bring a variety of viewpoints to the issue. Along with previously announced speakers, the Student Conference on Na tional Affairs at Texas A&M University has added Cong. Toby Moffett (D-Conn.), Standard Oil of Indiana Executive Rady Johnson and Roberta Hornig, Washington Star reporter on energy and the environment. Speakers and roundtable co-chairmen represent Congress, government offi cials, major and independent energy firms, business and investment firms and education. Cong. Olin E. Teague will address the opening session of the conference Wed nesday. A major contributor and influence on SCONA since its inception in 1955, the Sixth District representative is ending 32 years in Congress this term. The SCONA keynote speech, by Under Secretary of Energy Dale Myers, follows Cong. Teague’s 2:45 p.m. Wednesday address. An aeronautical engineer and former NASA administrator, Myers was president of North American Aircraft Operations for Rockwell International before 1976 appointment in the U.S. De partment of Energy. Three Thursday presentations open with a delegates-only panel qn “Energy, Life Styles and the Future” by Dr. Bob Jones and Dr. John Steinbrink of the University of Houston. A public presentation by Cong. Morris Udall is set for 12:20 p.m. in the Rudder Theater, site of most SCONA speeches open to the public. The Arizona Democrat will discuss the environment and energy. Thursday evening and Friday panels go into Congress’ role in energy policy, future energy technologies and energy production. Cong. Robert Krueger (D- Tex.) and Moffett, representing conservative and liberal views, are on an 8 p.m. Thursday panel. A Friday leadoff panel, on alternative energy sources, will feature the Univer sity of Texas’ Dr. Linn Draper, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory director, and Dr. Harlan Smith, Astronomy Department head and McDonald Observatory director, with Dr. Stephen Riter. Riter is director of the Texas Energy Extension Service at Texas A&M. Appearing with Johnson on the oil-gas panel are George Lawrence, American Gas Association president, and Michel Halbouty, petroleum exploration specialist. Hornig appears Saturday, Feb. 18, as SCONA wrap-up speaker. Her assign ments have taken the reporter to Alaska to write about the pipeline. Co-chairmen of SCONA roundtables, at which delegates delve into conference data, include officials of the Shell Company and Mobil Oil Companies, General Services Adminstration, National Consumer Information Center and Library of Congress Research Service. Ten Texas A&M faculty members, in petroleum en gineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, medicine, history, political sci ence and geosciences, are co-chairmen. Texas A&M former students Lee Walker and Don McCrory will also help stimulate delegate thinking and roundtable involvement. Walker is a top official and shareholder in companies engaged in nuclear metallufy, medical product manufacturing and other areas. He was an Aggie basketball letterman in 1964. McCrory, employed by a Houston investment building firm, chaired SCONA 14 in 1968-69. United Press International SYDNEY, Australia — A terrorist bomb Med today outside a downtown Syd- | hotel where 12 Asian Commonwealth ds of state were meeting, killing at l f ar Hymn author lebrated 81st [irthday Sunday he man who wrote the Aggie War jmn was 81 years old Sunday and the he wrote is approaching 60. ■V. “Pinky Wilson of Burnet scribbled Itune on the back of a letter while hud- |d in a foxhole in France during World ir I, even as the Armistice was ap- jaehing on Nov. 11, 1918. !he 1920 Texas A&M graduate took the rds from an old Aggie yell — “Hul- aloo, Caneck! Caneck!” — for his open- wrote the tune for a quartet, and the t is history. iVhen Wilson and his Marine buddy irtet first performed the new song, Wil- was the only Aggie and Texan, but the uber grows yearly now. The War Hymn was first performed for lotball game at the opening contest in !1, Wilson, and it’s been a fixture e — ranking among the nation’s most dily recognizable college fight songs. It simply never occurred to me that ^ J Is song would ever be what it became... I ide no effort to keep the letter on which ^lad written it,” he recalls. least two persons and injuring seven others. None of the visiting dignitaries were hurt in the explosion, but 12 hours later army experts harmlessly detonated a sec ond bomb that was set to go off only 300 yards from the site of the first blast. The explosion occurred shortly after midnight outside the Hilton Hotel where the Asia-Pacific Commonwealth leaders had just returned from a harbor cruise. Four of the seven injured were policemen. Two garbage men collecting trash were killed instantly when the bomb, concealed in a trash bin on the sidewalk outside the hotel, exploded as they emptied its con tents into their truck. The force of the explosion tore open the steel sides of the big truck, shattering shop windows for hundreds of yards around. The four policemen, part of the confer ence security force, were cut down by the blast. A police spokesman said one of the injured officers was on the critical list. Earlier reports said three persons were killed because parts of a body were found several floors up on a balcony of the hotel. Police said they were still not able to de termine if there was a third fatality. A few minutes before the explosion, police headquarters received a phone call from a man “with a foreign accent warn ing of a bomb in a garbage bin outside the Hilton. While an officer was putting out the alert, the bomb went off. rril • * f* 7 • T Battalion photo bv Susan Wehb 1 he ice is gone —for a while Temperatures in the 30s last week brought on freezing rain and these icicles hanging from a trash can in front of Heaton Hall.

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