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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.