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Battalion Vol. 71 No. 105 8 Pages Friday, February 24, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Friday: Library doormen ‘chalk it up to progress,’ p. 5. The door-to-door magazine sale: another fast swindle? p. 2. Women’s basketball team loses to TSU 64-61, p. 7. Treaty changes found after Sorenson visit Good weather and good music Battalion photo by Dennis Billingsley ie Mike Boone and Todd Griesenbeck take advan tage of the fine weather as they perform for the lunch-time crowd in front of the Memorial Stu dent Center. The Basement Committee, which operates the Basement Coffeehouse, also sponsors the noon entertainment. Boone is a senior an thropology major at A&M and Griesenbeck is a senior psychology major. United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate plans to look further into an unusual intermediary role played by Theodore Sorenson, Presi dent Carter’s first choice to be CIA direc tor, during a critical time into the Panama Canal treaty negotiations. Some members are concerened the United States may have made major treaty conessions to assuage threats by Panama nians angered over press-reported com ments by Sol Linowtz, chief U.S. treaty negotiator. According to the reports, Linovvitz commented about U.S. “intervention” rights once the canal came under Panama nian control — an emotional subject in Panama. Senate sources said it was possible Sorenson was an unofficial Carter emissary and party to some of the reported conces sions. The administration denies Sorenson played a negotiating role. Sorenson, a former John F. Kennedy aide, had been selected by Carter to head the CIA, but his nomination ran into trou ble because he had taken some Kennedy White House papers with him to write a book. The nomination was withdrawn. Treaty opponents told UPI of four major changes in the treaties that occurred after Sorenson’s visit with Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Torrijos on July 16, 1977. They were: —Dropping a provision requiring prior ity passage for U.S. ships; —Adding a provision requiring Pana ma’s permission if the United States wants to build a new canal; —Sharply reducing the number of Americans receiving diplomatic immunity in Panama; —Eliminating a provision allowing a prisoner exchange similar to that recently negotiated with Mexico. In an interview with UPI Thursday, Sen. Harrison Schmitt, R-N.M., ex pressed concern about Sorenson’s role and called information provided by the admin istration in this area “very sparce. ’ Schmitt said during the closed Senate session. Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., made some “Excellent points on changes that did occur” after July 16, but Schmitt didn’t know if they were related to Soren son’s visit. Both Schmitt and Wallop are members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. e$ onstruction date set for new * lassroom-labs-office building 90 By CHRIS CAIN pstrliction of a new, six-stor\ build- |>n campus is scheduled to begin Feb- 1979. building, now referred to as the Bemic and Agency Building, will have ,170 square feet of floor space, said |ry E. Zenner Jr., project coordinator. 1 be located where the barracks now behind the Reed McDonald Build- le cost is estimated to be $16 million, Zenner. This figure includes the cost ing utilities and barracks and cost of [itureand equipment in addition to the construction cost, pn Burke, project manager with the liiston architectural firm Koetter, ■p, Cowell and Bartlett, estimated the uding and landscape cost to be more i $13 million. His company received a Jtract with Texas A&M University last lember to design the building, xecutive Vice Chancellor for Adminis- pn W. Clyde Freeman said funding for project will come out of the Board of ents’construction fund. This is divided i three separate funds: the University liable fund, the permanent University 1 bond proceeds, and the combined fee :nue bonds proceeds. The total cost of building will be divided among these ie funds, said Freeman, he project originated out of a need for sroom and lab space, said Freeman, reusing enrollment made the Academic Agency Building a “high priority on the Board of Regent’s five-yeitr struction program, he added, he Academic and Agency Building will [the largest classroom facility on cam- said Zenner. He said there will be ut 37 classrooms on the first lev el, in- ingone with the capacity to seat about people. The total number of class rooms will be approximately 40, Zenner said. The remaining space in the building will house laboratories and offices. The English and accounting departments will be located on the second lev el. The man agement, marketing, business analysis and research, and finance departments will be on the third level and the fourth level will house the Institute of Statistics, the Executive Development Program (EDP), and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). The Ti l also will completely occupy the fifth level and part of the sixth. On the sixth floor will be the Research Founda tion and the Texas Real Estate Center. The building will house more than 1,000 stall members and about 2,000 students at one time, Zenner said. Student traffic will be confined mainly to the first lev el where most of the classrooms are located, he added. To build the Academic and Agency Building, this summer four barracks will be torn down and four will be relocated for further use, said Paul W. Stephens, man ager of the Facilities Planning Division. Those barracks will be moved east, closer to the Cyclotron Building, he added. The people now using these buildings are from various departments and colleges on campus which have run out of space. “There are little pieces of activates in these buildings, said Stephens. Some ar chitecture students already moved into the Langford Architecture Building, he said. Freeman said the remaining people will be moved later on this semester before the barracks are removed. Bids for a building construction contract will be "let six to nine months from now, said Freeman. Zenner said the official groundbreaking will be in February or March of 1979. Construction should end in June or July 1981 and the move-in date is expected to be later that summer. The building is two months ahead of schedule now, said Zen ner. The architects have completed the pre liminary design stage and have receiv ed permission to begin the blueprints, or de tail design .stage*. Burke said architects from his firm meet with faculty and staff members who will work in the new building, several times during the plaining stage. During these meetings, Burke said his firm obtains feedback and ideas about each user s designated space. The English department, which will oc cupy the first lev el of the building, has planned to have K) 27-seat classrooms, said Zenner. Dr. David H. Stewart, English depart ment head, said smaller classrooms were designed for English classes w hich require a small student-teacher ratio, such as freshman English courses. However, the rooms will be designed to be flexible, said Zenner. The Academic and Agency Building w ill be an energy-efficient building, Zenner said. The building, roughly the shape of a parallelogram when view from above, w ill have its longest walls facing north and south and its shortest walls will face east and west, said Burke. This minimizes the heat gain on the sides of the building w ith the most exposure to the sun. The building is equipped with spandrels, board bands running between the columns above the windows so as not to block the v iew from the windows, said Burke. Spandrels work on the same principle as the sun v isors in cars, but thev do not ex tend from above the window — thev are separate from the window wall. Other special features of the building will be a remote computing facility, four classrooms containing computer terminals and a specialized study center with media centers, said Zenner. The Academic and Agency Building w ill help consolidate offices for the College of Business Administration, the Texas Real Estate Research (.'enter and TTI. Council rezones land, allots money By MICHELLE BURROWES The College Station City Council Thursday rezoned tracts of land in the South west Parkway-Wellborn Road area, set the date for a $9.1 million bond election, and agreed to donate $15,000 to the Safety City project. Several tracts in the Southwest Parkway area were down-zoned from R-6, a high density apartment zoning, to R-4 and R-5, low and medium density zonings. One tract that had been designated A-0, agricultural-open, was rezoned to R-2, a duplex zoning. This tract is surrounded by residential areas, and one commerical zone. The Planning and Zoning Commission had submitted priority and alternate proposals for the City Council’s consideration. After voting on the tracts in a piecemeal fashion to start, and then voting on the proposal as a whole, the coun cil’s final zoning plan closely resembled the alternate proposal. A petition had been filed by property owners protesting the downzoning of their 75 acres from the high density apartment zoning to a single family unit zoning. However, councilman Gary Halter said the petition was invalid, because only one of the two property owners had signed the petition. If the petition were valid, a three-fourths vote would be required of the council to change the zoning. Since the council vote was 6-1, the petition had no affect on the zoning. The council also tentatively set April 1 as the date for voters to approve a $9.1 billion bond issue. $3 million will be paid by taxes, and the remaining $6 will come from revenue from utility sales. The bonds, if approved, will go to fund utility improvements, a street rebuilding project, park acquisitions, and a water revenue project. Communism to threaten U.S., Birch Society member says By BETH DZIKOWSKI I don’t want to live in socialist state,” id Patricia Hurley in a speech Thursday ight. Hudey, a member of the John Birch So- fety, spoke in a Political Forum presenta- Hurley said that through the Yalta Agreement, the Suez Canal incident and Filing deadline ends Wednesday for city elections Only two candidates have filed for Col- ege Station's city election. Wednesday is the last day candidates nay submit petitions to have their name ’laced on the ballot for the April 1 munic ipal election. Four postions appearing on the ballot ndude mayor and councilmen for Places !,4 and 6. Official candidates as of Thursday are: James H. Dozier, associate professor of inance at Texas A&M University, for louncilman. Place 6. Tony Jones, owner of Tony Jones Con struction Co., Inc., for councilman. Place the focused attention on the Panama Ca nal, communism will become a threat to the United States. Hurley’s conculsion is based upon Nikolai Lenin’s ideologies of the spread of communism. Lenin said Eastern Europe should be taken as a buffer. Next, the Suez Canal area should be taken, and finally the Panama Canal. Communism should work for Cuba, which is the door to the western hemisphere, according to Lenin. Com munism, she said, then becomes a major threat. Hurley said that China, through the power of Mao Tse Tung and his beliefs in communism, has made these ideas of Lenin work. The Yalta Agreement launched the first threat of communism, she said. During the talks, Eastern Europe was to be taken and turned into satellite countries under Soviet rule, said Hurley. She said the threat spread further when President Carter signed an agreement to return the crown of St. Stephen to the people of Hungary. The U.S. had agreed to hold the crown until the people could take back the land themselves. But Hurley said that by returning the crown so soon, the president placed it in the hands of Communists. The Suez Canal incident was the next step in furthering the spread, Hurley said. Egyptian president Carnal Abdal Nassar, took over the canal from the British, Israel moved in to claim her territory. This threat closed down the canal to shipping traffic, and Henry Kissinger was sent to settle and to negotiate peace. Hurley said the U.S. ended up giving $300 million to Nassar to reopen the canal. However, she contended that revolutionaries are now trying to remove any kind of U.S. in volvement with the canal. With this, she said, Nassar holds the key for any kind of traffic that passes through the Mediterra nean and the Indian Ocean. The U.S. also was greatly hurt with the overtaking of Willis Air Force Base in Libya, Hurley said. Hurley focused her last point on the Panama Canal. She said the U.S. needs better negotiations with Panama so naval bases and air force installations can remain n that country. Hurley predicted that if the U.S. loses Panama, communism is only one step away from Cuba. “Communism is the most ancient form of man’s inhumanity to man,” Hurley said. She said she wanted to see it stopped be fore Lenin’s ideologies became reality. Hurley is the daughter of the late Gen eral Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War and Ambassador to China. She was for years her father’s confidante, with complete access to his records, reports and corresondence. Flying high and long Paper planes invade Zachry By DEBBIE GOLLA “Ya wanna enter it? “Well,...” “Come on, let s try it! The main ball room of Zachary Engineering Center became the runway for the Second Annual Great Paper Aeroplane Contest Thursday afternoon. The contest was limited to students, faculty and staff personnel of Texas A&M Uni versity. A 50 cent entry fee was the cost for everyone entering the three categories. For each category in which they won, entrants were awarded a $10 cash prize, plus a ticket for two to the Engineer’s Ball on March 3. The categories were: distance and accuracy, time in flight, and design originality and appearance. Robert Winkler, senior in the Corps of Cadets, was the contest director. Professor Emeritus George Thompson of the mechanical engi neering department, Dr. Dave Nor ton of aerospace engineering and Assistant Dean Ned Walton were judges for the event. The announcer was Dr. Alvin Meyer of the civil en gineering department. Cylinders, rockets, airplanes, and even a wadded-up, masking tape ball were seen gliding and spiraling through the air. Glenn Baker, who entered his original masking tape ball just min utes before the deadline, was dis qualified. His entry was not quite in the spirit of an aeroplane, Meyer said. Meyer later announced that Baker would be awarded a special prize of $5 for his entry, for “guts if nothing else.” The first event, design and origi nality, brought to attention the vari ous shapes and sizes of the entries. Rules for this category were the sta bility of the aeroplane, general neatness and appearance, and origi nality. The event was won by Doug French, with a yellow, indescribably-shaped entry. Robert Merrill took second place, and Doug French again took third with his second entry. The second event was for longest time in flight. The contestants went to the second level of the ballroom and let their entries fly, glide, or fall down. Scott Pendleton’s gyro copter spindled to the ground in 11.63 seconds, winning the event. Robert Byrne took second at 9.4 seconds, and Doug French placed third at 7.52 seconds. The last event, distance and accu racy, would have been won by Glenn Baker, who threw his wadded-tape plane 79 feet, 11.5 inches, had he not been disqualified First place went to Robert Merrill s cylinder, which flew 50 feet, 6 inches. Second place went to Greg Pekar, at 49 feet, 6 inches, and third was taken by Gustavo O'Byrne at 48 feet, 9.5 inches. The event was sponsored by the Texas Society of Professional Engi neers, of which Meyer is the faculty sponsor. Battalion photo by Stisiin Wobb. A new dance step? No, it’s the follow-through after Robert Mer rill throws a paper airplane. The junior meterology major demon strated his technique Thursday in Zachry Engineering Center dur ing the second annual great Paper Aeroplane Contest. Merrill won first place on distance and second place for design of a paper airplane. •' mm*n«■ ’• Md- .7 1 r j .