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ltd d heap ill ood ?adilv e weel; »e was I, giving i V bloftj; The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 168 8 Pages Wednesday, June 28, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Wednesday • Campus interview up by 38 per cent - p. 3. • A&M scientists do earthquake studies in Center for Tec- tonophysics - p. 5. • Randy Hall to compete with U.S. team - p. 7. nerius. nan in \y am 1 eni Denver A a belli ichols i Board (i be st wed ouncil votes o stop funding By MARK S. WILLIS Battalion City Editor rnJhe College Station City Council ap- j iroved the 1978-79 budget Tuesday night lid served notice on both Brazos County id local service organizations that the city be phasing out its support of these rganizations. hockiel The budget reflects a 4-cent tax increase bringtlf 5< l an H percent increase in expenditures ver the present fiscal year. The council as a whole agreed that the irvice organizations’ funding requests lould be a county consideration rather wn a city one. copp® “These are functions that should be car- t° Hoe ie( j ou t by bhe county,” Mayor Lorence Bravenec said. The council voted to send re l t fetters to the various organizations and the sourcti |county judge, notifying them of the its in- t indii4m n tj on (. 0 phase out support. “riouslytP he oldei! er of Ih] allow franelis Of the service organizations applying for funds, the Retired Senior Volunteer Pro gram (RSVP) and the Brazos Valley Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center were allocated $2,000 and $9,000 respectively. The Arts Council of Brazos Valley, which had been included on the budget earlier for an allocation of $8,200, was removed from the budget, with those funds re served for later consideration. That amendment was recommended by Coun cilman Gary Halter. Not included in the budget were re quests by the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History and the Brazos County Senior Citizens Association Inc., for $3,500 and $10,000 respectfully. Coun cilman Larry Ringer made a motion to amend the budget to include the museum, but his motion was not seconded. The council also approved the city tax roll. evelanJi iced timed* that tint HL oncepts dropped from P.E V . plan By SCOTT PENDLETON Battalion Staff Concepts is out. The physical education department has lecided to no longer require all students o take the “concepts” portion of the de- lartment’s required P.E. curriculum. “As of this moment, we will not have equired concepts,” said Professor Emil famaliga, head of the required physical ducation office. In a meeting Thursday, Dr. Carl W. andiss, head of the physical education lepartment, and Mamaliga decided to de- ete-concepts from the P.E. program start- ng next fall. Instead, a new course will be ffered that is optional and has very few ecture hours. Concepts was introduced in 1967 as a physical fitness evaluation and condition- OQjf * n g course. It included a considerable amount of lecture time to give students pore detailed information about subjects uch as heart disease. All students were equired to take concepts as one of their our required P.E. courses. Mamaliga said unfavorable feedback was one of the reasons concepts was discon tinued. Students and staff members felt that there were too many lecture hours in the course. 4.9i 7.011 :30 pi Another problem was whether or not concepts could legitimately include lec tures. P.E. is classified in the catalog as an “0,2” course, meaning that it has no lec ture hours and two lab hours. “Our teaching has changed. We use more visual aids,” Mamaliga said. “There has got to be a given amount of lecture. But we re still classified as a 0,2,” he said. No required course will replace con cepts. The P.E. department is planning to offer an optional course similar to con cepts, but without the lecture hours. The new course would include various types of physical fitness testing. Students’ performances would be measured against the average of A&M students over the past 30 years. If a student was deficient in any areas, appropriate conditioning exercises would be recommended. “It would be good for those who don’t want to run or swim,” Mamaliga said. Although most of the lecture material contained in concepts would be omitted, information about basic conditioning would be retained. “Everyone should know that they aren’t in shape if they can’t do so many knee-bends,” Mamaliga said. Mob still oams city Ain wake of violence • • United Press International ^ MATAMOROS, Mexico — City officials hoped the presence of machine gun carrying soldiers would deter students from a second night of burning and loot- /— 1 ' First session 1 enrollment highest yet If classes seem larger this summer than they did last summer and if the lines in the MSC look longer, it’s because a record number of stu dents are attending summer school this year. Approximately 600 more students registered for the first summer ses sion this year than last year. The unofficial count for the summer is 10,644 students, Don Carter, as sociate registrar of admissions and records, said. Last year 10,045 stu dents attended summer school. “I’ve been here since 1973 and enrollment has grown every semes ter since then,” Carter said. While the total number of stu dents enrolled at Texas A&M con tinues to increase, the rate of growth seems to be decreasing, Don Woods of the office of planning and institutional analysis, said. Woods said that enrollment at Texas A&M has continued to grow, but has been slowing down since about 1974. Based on fall enroll ment statistics. Woods gave the fol lowing figures: STUDENTS ENROLLED 1975 24,876 1976 27,547 1977 28,833 GROWTH OVER YEAR 17.1 10.7 4.7 PREVIOUS Projected enrollment for the fall, 1978 semester is 29,928 students, representing an increase of 3.8 per cent over last year. Woods said. Students pay respects pto.™ b, p.. om.ii.. Bill Coble, a freshman engineering technology major from Dalhart, staff who have died during the past month. Silver Taps, a 21-gun salute pauses to study the Silver Taps notices posted on the flagpole in front of ceremony, is a time when Aggie students gather to pay their respects to the Academic Building. Although Silver Taps is not held during the deceased fellow students. The next Silver Taps will be held at the begin- summer, the flag still flys half-mast to honor Aggie students, faculty and ning of the fall semester. University of Houston program audit shows fund shortage; investigation starts United Press International HOUSTON — A spokesman for the University of Houston Tuesday disclosed that an audit of a program whose dean committed suicide has revealed a fund shortage of between $6,000 and $9,000. John Davenport, chief spokesman for the university, said the money was missing from the Center for Continuing Educa tion. ing, but gangs of teen-agers still roamed near the barricaded downtown plaza Tuesday night. An estimated 1,000 persons — in groups of 30 to 40 — gathered near the army bar ricades around the 15-block area where students protesting police brutality had broken windows and burned buildings Monday night. Damage was estimated at $2 million and the downtown city hall was destroyed. The rioters also stormed a jail on the west side of the city, burning it and allowing six prisoners to escape. There were reports of gunfire and scuf fles with soldiers late Tuesday and an American reporter’s car was overturned by a mob, but no casualties were recorded. State and federal troops from nearby cities were put on alert Tuesday as rumors circulated that students from Monterrey were heading for the city to join Matamoros students. At least three rioters were killed Monday and 15 were hospitalized with in juries after a four-hour battle with police and soldiers with armed automatic weapons. Gov. Enrique Cardenas Gonzalez ar rived fom the state capital to view the damage and Gen. Manuel Sanchez Rocha mapped plans to curtail further outbreaks. Some reports indicated as many as 3,000 soldiers patroled the city Tuesday, but of ficials said only 100 additional soldiers were called in. “We think the whole thing is under con trol since last night,” government spokes man Edmundo Lozano said. He said the additional forces probably would stay two or three days to guard against more vio lence. The students had demanded Mayor An tonio Cavazos Garza fire the police chief in retaliation for the death of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly was beaten by police last week. Cavasos Garza suspended Police Chief EmiUano del Toro Tuesday pending an in vestigation of the boy’s death, but rejected Toro’s offer to resign. Matamoros, a city of 150,000, has had a history of police brutahty allegations and three police chiefs have been fired in the past three years. The most recent case involved the fatal beating of Salvador Barba, 15. Twelve policeman have been fired in the past two weeks for their involvement in his death and the ensuing coverup. George Young, dean of the school, committed suicide two weeks ago, shortly after Houston station KULF broadcast an investigative series on the school. Davenport said District Attorney Carol Vance had been advised of the shortage of funds and all information had been turned over to his office. Vance indicated he would begin his investigation immediately to determine if there should be any crimi nal prosecutions. Davenport said the audit of the center showed at least 11 payments had been re ceived as tuition for real estate courses at the school but there was no indication of where the money went. The 11 tuition payments were made between Jan. 1 and June 1 of this year. Tuition payments were under Young’s jurisdiction at the school. Dr. Barry Munitz, chancellor of the center campus, confirmed between $6,000 and $9,000 was missing. “We can’t find at this point where the cash is,” he said. Ex-representative ruled fit to face trial United Press International WASHINGTON — Otto Passman could become the first ex-congressman to be tried on charges relating to alleged South Korean payoffs to congressmen. A federal judge has ruled that the former Democratic representative from Louisiana is competent to face charges of bribery and tax evasion, despite health problems. U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker said Passman, who spent three decades in Congress and was chairman of the power ful House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid, could stand trial on allega tions he received $213,000 from South Ko rean businessman Tongsun Park and failed to pay taxes on some of that amount. Before reading his decision, Parker ar raigned Passman on the two indictments. To each. Passman, in a barely audible voice, replied: “I’m not guilty, your honor.” Former Rep. Richard T. Hanna, D-Calif., the only other congressman charged in the case, pleaded guilty March 17 to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States. As a result of his plea, the government dropped 39 other counts against him. The government said Hanna received $246,640 from Park. Defense attorneys argued that Passman, who was 78 today, is “a broken-down old man” who has neither the memory nor the emotional stability to stand trial. ‘Over the Hill Gang’ may beat confessed heist rap Shower time Battalion photo by Pat O'Malley Actually, Scott Weaver isn’t looking for a free shower in the Rudder Center fountain. He’s looking for rocks which block the fountain’s water intake valves and cut off its water. Scott is a senior history major from DeLeon, working for the University facilities department this summer. Keeping the Rudder fountain clean is one of his duties. United Press International BOULDER — The police call them the Over the Hill Gang: six middle-aged housekeepers who confessed to heisting 10 bicycles from a college dormitory — and it looks like they’ll will beat the rap. Detective Rick Johnson said the six women, housekeepers at the Williams Vil lage dormitory of the University of Col orado, admitted using bolt cutters to break locks on 10 bicycles left in racks by stu dents at the end of the semester. Johnson said Tuesday that investigators beheve 15 to 20 bikes were taken, but only 10 have been recovered. They were val ued at $80 to $200 apiece. “We call them the Over the Hill Gang,” Johnson said. “The women said the stu dents were careless with their property. and so they decided to take it for them selves. One woman said she gave three bikes to underprivileged children in her neighborhood. ” Deputy District Attorney Kill Kowalski said no charges have been filed in the case, and he doubts the case could be prose cuted successfully. “It’s hard to prove which maid took which bike,” he said. “And with the Robin Hood aspect of the case it would be tough to convince a jury to convict anyone.” Johnson said only three students filed theft reports on missing bikes, and one of those has been recovered. A dormitory administrator, Jim Whit ney, said the six women, 44 to 58 years old, included long-term employees. He said one had been a housekeeper at CU for 19 years.