The Battalion
Inside Monday
Duncan breads like Mama made,
p. 5.
Pooches parade, p. 6.
Aggies sweep TCU, p. 9.
Vol. 71 No. 132
10 Pages
Monday, April 10, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
io:
'risbee fans
lock to A&M
[isc festival
By RENEE’ PEVOTO
Flying discs of all colors invaded the
xas A&M University drill field this
ikend for a close encounter of the fris-
kind.
lie Disc Association of Texas A&M
AM) held a frisbee tournament and fes-
al Saturday and Sunday on the main drill
Id north of the Memorial Student Cen-
;r.
[About 45 competitors participated in the
■ tossing event. Twelve of these partici-
Ihts were Aggies, while the others were
fom Houston, Dallas, Austin and other
dies.
The first event was frisbee golf. The
Lyers threw the frisbee to advance toward
get, just as in regular golf. The frisbee
rs had their own 18-hole golf course
led between Coke and Houston streets,
ft- the home of Chancellor Jack Williams,
ar for this course is 58 and two rounds
re played. The winner in the men’s cate-
jpry for this event was John Hatfield from
[iston who scored 110. Janet Beam of
tin won the women’s event with a score
lie.
Double Disc Court (DDC) is similar to
ennis. This is a new frisbee game, using
H courts with two players in each court.
■ players throw the disc back and forth to
heii opponents, hoping they will not touch
■Vinners of the DDC were Steve Miller
nd Ken Bache of Houston, who won with a
ml score of 11-9 after three rounds.
tylaximum Time Aloft (MTA) was an in-
ividual event scored by seeing who can
Ice the longest throw and have the fris-
■ return to them. MTA was won by Steve
■an of Dallas with a throw of 8.7 seconds
■ Janet Beam with a throw of 5.1 see
ds.
mtestants entering the free-style ac-
showed their flair and skills with fris-
s. Teams of two of more persons threw
sees back and forth doing a routine to
bic. The team of Moises Alfaro from Dal-
sj Danny Mclnnis and John Hatfield from
luston took the trophy for this event.
B’rofessional frisbee throwers who com-
»e|ied in the tournament were Danny
|Innis, John Hatfield, Moises Alfaro, Jim
'arc! of Corpus Christi, and Bob Ennis
ustin (who started DAAM two years
Student officers elected;
poll returns contested
Bobby Tucker was elected student body
president in last week’s Texas A&M Uni
versity elections.
Tucker carried nearly 58 percent of the
vote, garnering 2,361 votes to Jeb Hen-
sarling’s 1,732.
The student election results are being
contested by a group of students. The jud
icial board of the student senate will hear
the case at 5:30 p.m. Monday. The hearing
is tentatively scheduled in the MSC
Council Room. The election results could
be ruled invalid, and a new election could
be scheduled.
Lynne Andrus won the presidency of
the Residence Hall Association, with
about 58 percent of the vote. Randi Mays
had 42 percent.
Jill Hall was elected the new president
of the Off-Campus Student Association.
She had 574 votes to Dorothy DuBois’s
483.
All five yell leaders elected for next
school year are in the Corps of Cadets.
Jeff Hancock, Joe Wright, and Ben
Shanklin were elected senior yell leaders.
Jeff Smiley and Brian Hill were elected
junior yell leaders.
A run-off will be held between J.C. Col
ton and Mike Wilson for the vice-
president for academic affairs race.
Colton carried 39.9 percent of the vote,
with Wilson drawing 31.7 percent. Mark
Smith siphoned 28.4 percent.
Austin Sterling was elected vice presi
dent for rules and regulations. Kevin Pat
terson beat Judy Rippel by 14 votes out of
nearly 2,500 in the vice president for stu
dent services race.
Wayne Morrison defeated Paul Knud-
son in the vice president of finance race.
Morrison carried 51.6 percent of the vote.
Joe Beall, running unopposed, was elected
vice president of student affairs.
Other winners in the contested election
include:
Class of 1979 President: Ronnie Las-
tovica
Class of 1979 VP: Mike Meyer
Class of 1979 Secretary: run-off between
Krissie Bett and Rick McCreary
Class of 1979 Social Secretary: Mark
Mosely
Class of 1979 Historian: runoff between
Vicki Benton and Reed Grabowski
Class of 1980 President: runoff between
Jim Pratt and Mark Murphy
Class of 1980 VP: runoff between Cathy
Cox and Jerry Ellington
Class of 1980 Secretary: Brian K. Miller
Class of 1980 Social Secretary: Peggy
Walker
Class of 1981 President: runoff between
Tim Mapes and Bill Jones.
Class of 1981 VP: runoff between
Brenda Kallina and Jess Mason
Class of 1981 'Secretary: Patti Heaton
Class of 1981 Social Secretary: Kay
Whitcomb
RHA VP: Brian Eck
RHA Secretary: Barbara Thompson
OCSA VP: Debbie Uptmore
OCSA Secretary: Janet DuBoise
OCSA Treasurer: Scott Terry
OCSA University Relations: Reed
Hughes
OCSA Tenant Relations: David Baze
OCSA Programs: Melissa Pitts
OCSA Information Services: Jim Con-
nor
CSC Agriculture: J.C. Colton, Boyd
Grimshaw, Candy Des Rosiers, Don
Williams and Ron Henry
GSC Education: Austin Sterling
GSC Liberal Arts: Geri Campbell
Senators from academic colleges: Candy
Des Rosiers, Mavis Rollins, Steve Yeary,
Johnny Lane, Jerry Risner, Stephen
Greenwade, Mike McCutcheon, Steve
Hageman, Rob Poole, Doug Nesmith,
Darrell Moore, George Black, Joe Cano,
Steve Wardlaw, Chuck Haynes, Robert
Van Winkle, Kathleen Miller, Brad Smith,
Jerry Glasow, Tami Steen, Tony Scardino,
Bruce Hook, Jim Thomas, Melanie
Zentgraf, Darrel Westbrook, Mike Dish-
berger, John Calhoun. Run-off between
Patty Johnson and Charles Ristivo
Senators from living areas (dorms): Dara
Flinn, Paul Bettencourt, Cheryl
Kucherka, Bruce Russell, Ed Ramos,)
Scott Farthing, John Kennedy, Leesa
Chiodo, Mark Tilton, Bob Ingram, George '
Giles, Ray Rabroker, Mike Jones, Jeff.
Duryea, Tim Torno, Jim Stockie, Randy
Hunter, Philip Johnson, Catherine Quar-
tapella, Robert Price, Alan Black, Teresa
Beshara, Kevin Basham, Chuck Wise,
Dorothy DuBois, Jim Connor, Laura
Brockman, Cliff Stewart, Mike Baye.
New election sought,
protests to be heard
Battalion photo by Chris Ficcione
Monica Darby of Stafford gets
some help during last weekend’s
frisbee festival.
ago). A&M’s Mike Barry, who holds the
state championship title for accuracy also
participated in the tournament.
The National Tournament Series will be
held in Dallas the weekend of the 30th.
Joyd Lyman succeeds
BVardlaw at A&M Press
GO?
yd G. Lyman will succeed Frank
rdlaw as director of the Texas A&M
iversity Press, effective Sept. 1,
unced Texas A&M Chancellor Jack K.
lliams.
Yardlaw, who founded Texas A&M’s
^psclmlarly publishing house four years ago,
^ [jhis announced plans to retire and return to
his native South Carolina. He will be 65
. tis year.
L< pLyman, who was recommended for the
* directorship by Wardlaw, joined the Texas
University Press as associate director
i/rlast year. He was formerly executive editor
1 * "ofthe Louisiana State University Press and
earlier in his career served for 15 years as
assistant director of the University of
California Press, Berkley.
“We are extremely fortunate to have a
person of Mr. Lyman’s ability and experi
ence to direct the continued development
of our press,’ Wardlaw said.
A native of Medford, Ore., Lyman is a
graduate of Reed College in Portland and
holds advanced degrees in history and li
brary sciences from the University of
California. He later served as assistant lib
rarian and instructor in history at California
Institute of Technology.
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battalion Staff
A group of students is attempting to have
last week’s campus elections thrown out
and a new election declared.
Scott Gregson will present more than a
dozen points of protest to the student se
nate’s judicial board in a meeting
scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today. The meet
ing is expected to be held in the Memorial
Student Center’s Council room.
Joe Beall, member of the protesting
group, listed 14 articles of objection.
Gregson could not be reached for com
ment.
Beall said that ballots were left un
guarded overnight.
Mike Barry, head of the Texas A&M
University election commission, said,
“They were all stored away and locked up. ”
Stan Stanfield, who will defend the elec
tion commission at the judicial board’s
hearing, said that the election commis
sion’s rules and regulations said nothing
specific about security. He added that it
was common practice for the ballots to be
placed in sealed boxes.
Beall said another point of contention
was that Bill Daily’s name was left off the
ballot. Daily was a candidate for at-large
senator from the College of Science. His
name was placed on the ballot Thursday
morning.
Barry said that this race would probably
be re-run. He also said he expected to
re-run the senatorial race from the College
of Veterinary Medicine and the College of
Medicine. Ballots instructed voters to
select only one candidate in this race, while
there are two senatorial positions.
Beall said no sample ballots were posted
at any machine and voting instructions
were lacking at most.
Barry said regulations didn’t require the
posting of sample ballots at the machines.
He said the only regulation about them said
they must be posted publicly three days
before the election.
But Stanfield, reading from the regu
lations, said that there must be sample bal
lots and instructions posted at each polling
place.
Several polls did not open or opened late
Wednesday. Mike Humphrey, student
body president, issued an executive order
Wednesday night which extended the elec
tions an extra day. The order was approved
by a unanimous vote of the student senate.
Beall said the election commission’s reg
ulations stated that campus elections could
continue only two class days and that by
extending them, the student senate and
president had voided the elections.
Humphrey defended his action by saying
the constitution allowed the legislature to
do what it deemed “necessary and proper”
in the administration of government.
Humphrey said he believed it was impor
tant that a large number of students not be
prevented from voting.
While at UT.
Regents oust student government
By Paige Beasley
Battalion Staff
The executive, judicial and legisla
tive branches of the Student Associa
tion at the University of Texas at Aus
tin, was abolished Friday. The UT
Systems Board of Regents, in a 6-3
decision, confirmed a student vote to
abolish the governing structure.
Students voted March 1 to abolish
the Student Association, providing
that a referendum be held when a
new constitution is devised. The op
tion favoring abolishment won by a
2,644 to 2,458 margin, but was not
final until the Regents’ decision.
“The association now is nothing
more than the student body and the
election commission,’ said Chip
Rainey, election commissioner. The
commission will continue to function
so that an election can be held when
a new constitution is proposed.
Any campus organization, group
or individual can write and propose a
new constitution, Rainey said. In
order to present new constitutions to
the administration, organizers must
have a petition signed by 1,575 UT
students. This figure represents 30
percent of the original number of
voters in the March 1 election. The
constitution must then be approved
by the Board of Regents and a major
ity vote of the student body.
Until a new constitution is
provided, the student association
will “just exist, Rainey said, but will
have no governing functions.
Former vice president of the as
sociation, Marc Luzzatto, said the
framework for a student government
still remains. The framework in
cludes the provisions for amend
ment, recall and referendum. The
membership article also exists, he
said.
Officers elected in the March 1
election held office for one week.
During the one-week period. Presi
dent Roberto Alozo said he ap
pointed committee chairmen so that
several student activities could con
tinue. However, these committees
were included in the executive
branch, and will not exist unless
provided for by a new constitution.
The role of the newly elected offi
cers will be determined by the new
constitution. The new constitution
could allow these officers to remain
in office or require a new election.
“Nothing is left governing the stu
dents, Rainey said. The Student As
sociation is just at a standstill, he
said.
Secret of good chili is taste, texture and ecstasy
Battalion photo by I^e Roy Leschper
Members of the M*A*S*H team “operate” on their chili at
the Jaycees Chili Olympics Saturday. The group from Bryan
won first place for showmanship.
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
He took a swig from the longneck in his
hand and absent-mindedly stirred the chili
bubbling on the Coleman stove. I ask for a
sample of his concoction.
“It’ll be ready about 12.”
Well, how’s it coming?
“Hell, I don’t know. We hate chili.
There ain’t no way we’d ever eat that.”
Well, why are you in the Second Annual
Bryan-College Station Jaycees Chili
Olympics?
“My wife ran off with a chili judge from
San Benito and I’ve been trying to get
even ever since.”
The man in the cowboy hat crossed his
legs, smoothed his beard and surveyed the
rest of the semi-camps set up, each one
dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect chili
recipe.
Or maybe dedicated to spending a
Saturday drinking beer and Jim Beam, and
listening to loud music.
Set up under trees out on Tabor Road,
the chili cookoff camp looked like a travel
ing circus, Texas style.
Dozens of pick-up trucks. “The Star
Spangled Banner,” and “Texas, Our
Texas” blasts from one of them. Suppor
ters of a candidate for Congress wear red,
white and blue T-shirts with his name on
them. Their booth is a huge sign pushing
their man.
Legal secretaries stir their chili in
judges’ robes. The Chicken Oil Company
cookers erect their own oil derrick.
One group cooked chili and roasted
sausage in a contraption that looked un-
nervingly like a huge black coffin. A black
and white banner waved from it: Roast in
Peace.
People paid $15 for the privilege of set
ting up a booth and getting their chili
judged. The only requirement was that
spectators got free samples. Fifty groups
competed. The proceeds of the cookoff
went to a Victoria school and hospital for
the handicapped.
Secret ingredients and rumors of secret
ingredients abounded. One drunk cook,
after I asked what was special about his
chili, leaned over and whispered.
“The shecret. . .ish Lone Shtar Beer. I
never did figure out if he put beer in the
chili, too.
One Texas A&M student was cooking
“Rat Tail Chili.” His secret ingredient
looked suspiciously like the skinned tail of
a possum. I never did go back for a sample
of his chili.
Most just wink and grin when asked
about their winning combination of meat,
peppers, tomato sauce and onions.
The chilis had special names as well as
ingredients: Mad Jack, Dog-Meat, Hul
labaloo, Good Luck, Pioneer, Cactus,
Hard Head, Dillechili, Papa John’s Ass-
bitin’ Chili.
The most original name was Peruvian
No. 7 Chili. Carol Weed, chief cook, ex
plained that Peruvian No. 7 was the name
of a coprolite that the team, as ar
cheologists, studied. A Coprolite is fos
silized human feces.
But what makes good chili?
“Taste, texture, and it has to leave you
in ecstasy, said a character who looked
like a pirate, pierced nose and all. (He was
with the Peruvian No. 7 bunch.)
“Sounds like sex,” said someone with a
camera.
The 10 judges rate the chili on taste,
texture and color in a blind taste-test. But
one of the things that made the cook-off
fun was that a showmanship award is gi
ven.
The best showmanship awards are de
cided “by a combination of things,” said
Kenny Mallard, vice-president of the
Jaycees. “Mainly, it’s who’s excited about
it.”
Some people just set up their pots, sat
in lawn chairs and relaxed the day away.
But there were some that were not
just excited. They were enthused, exhil
arated, aroused.
“All rioht! Stand back. Last time we did
this it ’bout near exploded.”
The four Aggie members of the Hul
labaloo chili team are testing their chili on
a volt-meter. Crowds gather round for
tests every 15 minutes or so. A chart plots
the increase in voltage.
But the M*A*S*H* bunch took first
prize. Set up under a khaki tarp (appropri
Getting a voltage reading on their chili is the Hullabaloo team,
which won second prize for showmanship. First prize in the taste
test went to Randal] Schafer and J.M. Thornberry, with Papa
John’s Ass-bitin’ Chili. They used a recipe delicately blending ar
madillo, venison, beef and pork, pinto and kidney beans. “We
were lucky to get it out of the pan before it ate through,”
Thornberry said.
ately camouflauged) Col. Potter, Hot Lips,
Hawkeye and Radar from the Bryan Hos
pital stirred their Meat*And*Spicy !,c Hot*
concoction with surgical instruments.
They begged bystanders for their adenoids
and tonsils to give their chili that special
flavor, and “anaethesized” themselves by
sipping on tubes leading from dangling
I.V. jars filled with interesting alcoholic
beverages.
In between watching the shows the
teams put on there were contests: cow
chip throwing, watermelon seed spitting,
shoe scrambling, and the obligatory
jalepeno-eating.
But I had the best time tasting. Each
group gave out little cups filled wih chili. I
didn’t get to taste all 50 chilis. (After about
seven my taste buds were gone anyway.)
The congressman-hopeful gets my vote
because his group had this fantastic
jalepeno combread. Well, maybe it’s be
tween him and the group with the Two
Fingers tequila.
Though some of the participants were
chili cookoff addicts, most of them wer£
first-timers. The winner of the cookoff got
a gold trophy with a black pot on the top
and points that can add up to being invited
to that “Big Daddy” of cookoffs, the Ter-
lingua World Championship.
But most, like one guy sitting quietly in
the back of the camp, enter “Just for the
hell of it. ”
“This is my first one,” he said. “I figured
even if I didn’t do as good as the others I
knew I could get as drunk.”