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
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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
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Judge
Loter
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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.