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Battalion Thursday, April 28, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Thursday • Reactions to the misplaced records, p. 2. • Moody College — not all fun in the sun, p. 6. • Bellard’s thoughts on spring train ing, p. 10 I .47 95 .39 Texas A&M students Susan Schilling (left), Connie Nelson (middle) and Shari Smyth (right) look at some of the pottery on display at the Arts and Crafts Fair Wednesday. The fair, sponsored by light endanger prisoners the Crafts and Arts Committee, is located at the MSC-Rudder Fountain area. The fair will con tinue through today until 5 p.m. Battalion photo by Paige Beasley Engineers of spy swap HEW targets A&M for investigation By CHRIS CAIN President Jarvis Miller officially an nounced Wednesday afternoon that inves tigators from the department of Health Education and Welfare will visit the Texas A&M campus the week of May 22 to see if the University is in compliance with the 1974 Civil Rights Act. The act states that no person in the United States who is in any program re ceiving federal funds shall be discrimi nated against. “In our opinion, Texas A&M is comply ing fully with that requirement,” Miller said. “HEW has embarked on a review of the 14 or so states which at one time main tained dual systems of higher education based upon race.” HEW has sent two teams of inves tigators to visit 18 institutions in Texas. They will explore the schools’ compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1974 and make a report on their findings. Miller said they may come next week to interview minority students on campus. “I might say that at the beginning our assumption is that their report is already written and they are looking for informa tion to justify their conclusions,” Miller said. “We re under no illusions in this case that we re in for anything but trouble, and our posture will be to cooperate, but to be certain that anything we give them is fac tual,” he added. Miller warned members of the Academic Council to be careful of what they tell the investigators. Before Miller discussed the HEW visit, the council approved candidates for un dergraduate and graduate degrees by a unanimous vote. The council approved 2,540 candidates for baccalaureate degrees and 591 candi- silent dates for advanced degrees. Graduation is set for May 5-6. These candidates must still fulfill re quirements for graduation prescribed by the registrar’s office. Miller said the operating budget had been “put to bed” and will go to the Board of Regents during their June meeting. “This is a very tight budget year,” Mil ler said. “We have dipped into the Availa ble Fund for the maximum amount we can to supplement the operating budget this year,” he said. The maximum is around $4 million, he said. Miller also reported that the Coordinat ing Board approved building projects submitted by Texas A&M. The major projects are the Academic and Agency Building and the health and physical education facilities and Kyle Field expansion program. In other business, Miller said that if the freshman acceptances this year are about the same as last year’s level, they could expect an enrollment increase of 1,000 to 1,500 students. Dr. Billy Lay, director of admissions, said the latest report indicated that freshman acceptances were slightly ahead of this time last year. The council also approved the awarding of a posthumous bachelor of arts degree to Joe David Lasater. Lasater, who was a history major, com pleted his academic requirements shortly tifter the fall 1977 graduation date but failed to register for a degree. He died in March in Austin where he was a graduate student. Council considers street construction College Station City Council members Wednesday discussed new street con struction standards which if approved, will increase area property taxes. The discussions took place at a work shop meeting where council members may discuss problems but may take no ac tion on them. The plans, as explained by city engi neers, include adding limestone to stabilize sheet foundations. The limestone would decrease street maintenance costs, but would increase property taxes, engi neers said. Mayor Lorence Bravenec said he will call a special council meeting to discuss streets to be considered for the rebuilding program, which will be financed by the April bond issue. Proposals for a Dominik-Kyle rebuilding project will be considered at the next regular meeting, Bravenec said. It was also suggested that bike lanes in College Station be changed to bike routes. North Bardell, city manager, said bike routes are specific streets designated for both vehicles and bicycles. Signs would be posted along bicycle routes to warn motorists that bicyclists may be near. Bravenec said he would like to have a city ordinance to prohibit bicyclists from using Texas Avenue. He said Texas Avenue is unsafe for bicyclists and alternate streets are availa ble to handle bicycle traffic. Special interests should il United Press Internional 'JEW YORK — A Communist lawyer 1 an Israeli parliamentary aide engi- ;ring the swap of a Soviet spy for an terican freedom-runner held in East many say they can’t discuss their mis- n for fear of endangering the prisoners’ ety. Wolfgang Vogel, the 53-year-old East rlin attorney who arranged the 1962 ex- ■nge of Gary Powers for the Soviet mas- ■ spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, arrived in New York Wednesday accompanied by Is raeli official Shabtai Kalmanowitz. Speaking German through an interpre ter at Kennedy Airport, Vogel said he wished to “remain silent for the safety of those involved.” He also refused to comment on reports that the Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky might eventually be freed from the Soviet Union as part of a larger prisoner exchange. Kalmanowitz, an aide to Israeli Knesset 9 y of Sizes! Judge Loter |AU advises awareness United Press International AUSTIN — While candidates in most statewide political campaigns are ■fr I |i)couraging voter participation in the May 6 election, at least one former officeholder Jl Is suggested Texans not vote in appellate SI Idge contests unless they know the can- Jb lidates. ^ I The races for the Texas Supreme Court bid the Court of Criminal Appeals, tra ditionally the most low key of the J Ratewide campaigns, are haunted this iQ year by memories of the 1976 election in I'liich Donald B. Yarbrough’s name famil iarity enabled him to defeat a highly re jected Civil Appeals Court judge for a place on the Supreme Court. Within six months Yarbrough was reed to resign, and since his resignation pluntarily has surrendered his license to Jractice law and faces a five-year prison I Jentence for lying to a Travis County ■rand jury investigating forgery allegations ■gainst him. I Judges on the state’s high courts say jarbrough was elected because his name similar to that of other well known lexas politicians — former governor can- idate Don Yarborough and former U.S. |en. Ralph W. Yarborough. They do not want voters in 1978 to 'house another judge on the basis of a miliar sounding name, gfl I Judge T.C. Chadick, appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Dolph Briscoe to [Ucceed Judge Thomas Reavley, called on ewspaper editors to help inform voters hout the judicial campaigns. “We all remember only too well what appened two years ago in the Supreme burt race because of an uninformed pub lic,” Chadick said. “This year once again ve are faced with the problem of amiliarizing the voter with the candidates n judicial races. With all the political ac- ion going on this year, our obscure court aces are getting lost in the shuffle. ” Reavley, at a news conference at which 10 of the 11 living retired Supreme Court ustices endorsed Chadick, suggested the nlUjiS# hews media encourage voters to skip over udicial races on the ballot if they had no ^^■eal basis for choosing between the candi- n dates. ’Chadick is opposed in his campaign by jH Robert M. Campbell of Waco. Neither has campaigned aggressively, although Chadick won strong support of the state’s attorneys in the State Bar poll of its mem bers. In a second Supreme Court race, Dis trict Judge Franklin Spears of San Antonio was the overwhelming choice in the State Bar poll over O’Neal Bacon of Newton, who said at the outset he did not plan to campaign outside his home area. The two are competing for the Democratic nomina tion to the seat being vacated by the re tirement of Judge Price Daniel. There are two contested races for places on the Court of Criminal Appeals, and those races have attracted more attention than the Supreme Court contests. Judge Jim Vollers, elevated to the court when it was expanded from five to nine members in January, is being challenged by Sam Houston Clinton of Austin. Judge W.C. Davis of Bryan, appointed to the court by the governor, faces a strong chal lenge from Marvin O. Teague of Houston. Teague was a narrow winner over Davis in the Bar poll, which in most judicial races — with the exception of Yarbrough’s 1976 campaign — has been a fairly accu rate indicator of the election outcome. Vollers has chided Clinton about his name, and repeatedly urged voters to pick the judge on the basis of qualifications rather than on name. “Although my parents did not name me for a Texas hero, I feel that I have the experience and qualifications to continue to better serve the people of this state on the Court of Criminal Appeals,” he said. “I merely ask that every voter in the state look to qualifications for which a name stands and not merely a name. Codes of conduct leave judicial candi dates little room for campaigning, other than to stress qualifications. Vollers cites his experience as a commissioner for the Criminal Appeals Court, while Clinton says his varied trial experience could bring a new viewpoint to the court. “I don’t know my opponent’s philoso phy,” Vollers said. “I assume our judicial philosophies are poles apart.” Clinton, who participated in the appeal of Jack Ruby’s conviction for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, frequently has repre sented the Texas Civil Liberties Union in civil rights cases. stop, says candidate member Samuel Flatto-Sharon who said earlier this week a complicated prisoner swap could involve up to 20 people, also turned aside questions. “No names, no numbers. I’m sorry,” Kalmanowitz said, shaking his hands and spreading out his arms. But then he added, “One thing is for sure — there are no discussions about Shcharansky.” Moscow claims Shcharansky worked for the CIA but President Carter publicly had denied the charge. Vogel arrived to pick up Robert Thompson, a 42-year-old former U.S. Air Force cipher clerk sentenced in 1965 to 30 years as a Russian spy and held at Lewis- burg, Pa., federal penitentiary. Thompson will go to East Germany in exchange for Alan van Norman, a student from Windom, Minn., who was arrested Feb. 8, 1977, on charges of trying to smuggle an East German family to the West. The two men arranging the tradeoff were more talkative when they left Frankfurt airport for New York. “First I represent one client and when that case is over I take another, but I have said too much already,” Vogel said at the time. Kalmanowitz, 30, who left Russia seven NTSU student injured badly in dorm fall United Press International DENTON, Texas —- A North Texas State University freshman fell from a win dow of a seventh-floor dormitory lounge Wednesday and was in critical condition at a hospital with extreme injuries. The woman, Dee Marie Fishell, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, underwent surgery at Westgate Memorial Hospital for several hours for multiple fractures of the neck, back, legs and right arm and numerous internal injuries. A hospital spokesman said Miss Fishell was too critical to be moved. Kathy Hall, a NTSU student and ac quaintance of the injured woman, said she was in a third-floor television lounge of Kerr Hall about 12:30 p.m. when she saw someone fall by the window. She said when she ran outside she found Miss Fishell on the ground, apparently still conscious and bleeding from the mouth. Pat Colonna of the university’s public information office said university police were investigating but had no additional information on the woman, a 1977 graduate of Plano High School. Ms. Colonna said the woman was alone in the lounge when the incident occurred. “We are assuming it was an accident,” she said. “I understand from the students that those windows are rather hard to open. One of the students told me they’re some type of metal window that doesn’t open that far.” years ago, said in Frankfurt that he would continue to help arrange prisoner ex changes. “That’s my work, Kalmanowitz said. “I want to get out of jail people who shouldn’t be in it.” Vogel and Kalmanowitz were met at the airport by Rabbi Ronald Greenwald, who with Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., re cently helped arrange the release of an Is raeli imprisoned for 18 months in Marxist Mozambique. Greenwald said Vogel and Kalmanowitz were going to an unidentified location in Manhattan “for a rest” and then would fly to Washington for a meeting with Gilman. Earlier, Kalmanowitz said he was con templating spy-swaps in Cuba. The United States is interested in securing the release of Lawrence Lunt, a former CIA agent serving a 30 year term in Cuba. The trend toward special interests con trolling political candidates must stop, Kay Jones, candidate for the 6th Congressional District said Wednesday. Jones spoke to the Women’s Students’ Association at the Memorial Student Cen ter. “We have a new trend,” she said. Jones said at the start of the campaign that she would not take contributions from special interest groups. She said she did not know the answers to many of the prob lems facing the country, but stressed common sense answers to all problems. Jones said she is concerned about lack of public interest in the race. “This year people just aren’t up (for the election),” Jones said. “I bet 50 percent of the people don t know who is running. The people are not seeking in-depth in formation on the candidates.” The major issue is inflation caused by the energy problem, she said. She added she expects price controls on petroleum to be removed. Jones said she would also favor mass production of solar energy equipment. Switching to the plight of farmers, she said, “President Carter has closed his eyes to form problems. He is afraid to step out and go in his own direction. America should use its food-producing technology as a bargaining point in international trade, she said. Member of the Dance Arts Society perform a sponsive crowd in Rudder Forum. The dancers jazz routine entitled “Classical Gas.” The dancers are all students at Texas A&M and had been performed Wednesday night before a large, re- practicing all semester for their performance.