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ksellf »sphere Senate confirms 2 new A&M regents Wisenbaker: No handbook Moser elated by appointment itor’s note: The Texas Senate con- i / ,1'®^ Texas A&M’s new regents Wed- JL Ot pfj'sday. This interview took place Satur- y, the day after the then-prospective Niht was told of his appointment. Center B y liz newlin Battalion Staff fYLER — The regent’s job at Texas :M University comes with a free room the Memorial Student Center and good Sjtball tickets, but no instruction book. ^ HRoyce Wisenbaker, one of former 4 |v. Briscoe s new appointees, doesn’t " gnkjhe needs one. | 51 think if anybody’s prepared, I am,” If 6l-year-old engineer said. :j|l®939 graduate of Texas A&M in ag- lultural engineering, Wisenbaker was Vsipent of the Association of Former « Indents in 1966-67 and served on the | of directors for four years before He also was president in 1968-69 of Aggie Club. He is the only man to ■ I be [held both posts. I Aggie Club works to provide schol- money for athletes while the As- ■ Aion of Former Students works for ~ Bgeneral improvement of the Univer- Royce Wisenbaker “There is a jealousy between them that shouldn’t be there,” he said. “Football is good advertising for A&M — especially when we win.” Since then, he has been a member of the University’s Research Foundation and is on the mailing lists of several depart ments, he said. He has been a counselor for the Re search Foundation since 1973. The 100 counselors are similar to a company’s stockholders — promoters of the product (research) and “eyes and ears” for the firm. Wisenbaker was reluctant to set definite goals for his six-year term. “I’ll take these problems as they come,” he allowed. But, later in the interview, he did say he wanted one thing changed — the Univer sity’s married student housing south of campus. He said the barracks were meant to be “short-lived military buildings.” Instead, students have lived in them since after World War II. Now, however, the University is tearing them down at the rate of four per year, said Ken Nicolas, manager of the Married Students Apartments. He agreed with Wisenbaker, who said the buildings were a fire hazard. University systems architect Robert S. Boyce said the University will release bids next month for new apartments. “We hope to be able to afford 80 apart ments,” he said, to be built between Av enues A and B in the old College View area. The regents are scheduled to act on the bids at their March meeting. Wisenbaker also said he believes there is an increasing need for University re search. By STEVE LEE Battalion Staff It “came as a complete surprise” to Norman N. Moser when then-Gov. Dolph Briscoe called him Friday with news of his appointment to the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. Moser, a banker and rancher from De- Kalb, and Royce E. Wisenbaker of Tyler were chosen by the lame-duck governor to succeed retiring regents Richard A. Good- son and Mrs. Wilmer Smith. Although Moser says the appointment was a surprise, he and Briscoe are long time friends. The two men served to gether as directors on the National Ag ricultural Research Advisory Committee, in the Department of Agriculture, during in the sixties. But Moser says that he was more closely associated with Briscoe when the two later served on the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, of which Moser was president. Briscoe also followed Moser as chairman of the National Live stock and Meat Board. When asked what he considers his main responsibility as a regent, Moser said he “knows in general’ what his respon sibilities are. However, he said he is not * n iutit t acquainted with the policies of the current board. Moser’s only interaction with the last Board of Regents was as a director of the Texas A&M Center for Education and Re search in Free Enterprise. He was serving in this capacity until his appointment to the board, and he has stepped down from the post. Moser is the president of the State Bank of DeKalb in northeast Texas and has been, and still is a member of various other boards and associations relating to business or agriculture. He is a 1937 graduate of Texas A&M and said that both his father and his son are graduates of A&M. Moser himself received the Distin guished Alumni Award in 1971. Although having been associated with many other boards, Moser is elated about being chosen as a regent. “I can’t think of any other position I would rather have than as a regent at Texas A&M,” Moser said. Moser begins his first six-year term next week when he will be officially inducted. The regents will hold their first meeting with the new members on Monday. Chairman Clyde Wells, who has served on the boartdcsince 1961 was re-confirmed by the senate Wednesday. he Battalion 1 72 No. 77 Thursday, January 18, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Ags beat top Hogs Rudy Woods scored 20 points Wednesday night in the Aggies’ 74-69 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks, who are ranked 11th and 13th nationally. See stories on pages 9 and 11. ain may violate llliew NCAA rule I|;| f By ANDY WILLIAMS Battalion Staff at (iz ( Texas A&M University officials say their school is in compliance with a new Z • (|GAA regulation concerning athletic dorms; NCAA officials say they simply don’t I spow if it is or not. J ? r "It's a new rule to us, and it will probably be going to the NCAA council for IMMlfiV- .Interpretation,” said David Berst, director of enforcement for the NCAA, in a | telephone interview Wednesday. > Li a convention in San Francisco last week, the National Collegiate Athletic « ’(^ministration prohibited “material benefits for athletes connected with on- ■ .ffipus or off-campus student housing if’such benefits are not available on the same 8 !asis to students in general.” | P Among other things, the ruling, which will be effective Aug. 1, specifically | JMitioned room furnishings and appointments of special quality. ■ IBl his is a question of not only economizing but equalizing in athletics, ” said John 99* Ver, athletic director at the University of Connecticut and a member of the CAA Council, in a phone interview Wednesday. Me said the move was made in an attempt to keep large universities from having I (■unfair” advantage over small schools. 019 ij !B>r- Charles Samson, chairman of Texas A&M’s athletic council, says he thinks | Texas A&M’s Wofford Cain Hall will not be affected by the decision. I bdk e d with Walter Byers of the NCAA, and based on our description, he 1 40 ■ lldn’t think we were in violation," Samson said. Byers is the chief executive of the :mcaa. I | Marvin Tate, acting athletic director, talked to Byers last week. He has been I a! > having told Byers, “We have no private televisions or stereo sets for | mident-athletes. no private recreational services that the other dorms on campus of ■hmm | JKiparable age and design don’t have. ... We have our own dining hall and so do . _ _ :||| ||rpeger and Dunn Halls. D !■ IwAs for having other students live in Cain Hall, we do. All our athletic trainers live " ^ ■ yithe athletic dorm and they are not scholarship athletes by any means. After I had >$$■ gplained this to Byers, he told me he didn’t think we had anything to worry about. ^ | |Ve re confident we’re within the proper limits.” ■ 1 jj’Among Cain Hall’s differences are; r I R—A dining hall operated independent of the University’s Food Services division, aare usually includes steak twice a week and roast beef three times. I It Rooms that measure 18 feet by 16 feet, the largest on campus. Rooms in the fclf Mnmons (Krueger, Dunn, Mosher and Aston Halls) measure 12 feet 11 inches by I L2feet 6 inches or 16 feet 11 inches by 9 feet 11 inches. Rent in the Commons is the O H I }©t expensive on campus; they are the newest dorms. ■■ A basement containing a training room with a whirlpool, two rubbing tables other therapeutic equipment; it also holds a weight room. — Two speakers and a control panel for piped-in music in each room. Classrooms in which tutors instruct study halls in the evenings. Seven-foot-long beds. A sunken lounge with a fireplace. S&v |5|| 4 Berst, the NCAA’s director of enforcement, said there will be several possible A | •emedies required of schools found in violation of the NCAA rule. l$| llfThe furnishings might have to be adjusted downward, or those of all the other W . »donns would have to be adjusted upward. If neither of those is practical, there * I'vould have to be made some adjustment which would bring about a mixture of etes and other students,” Berst said. VED Shah departs; violence arrives United Press International TEHRAN, Iran — Troops fired on demonstrators celebrating the departure of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Wed nesday, killing at least 24 people in a sud den burst of violence in three Iranian towns. Scores of others were wounded in a violent climax to the nationwide celebra tion that erupted after the shah left for Egypt, reportedly en route to exile in the United States. Troops opened fire on demonstrators in southern city of Ahvaz, killing at least 12 persons. Another 12 demonstrators were shot dead by troops in two other towns. Witnesses in Ahvaz said scores of sol diers spilled out of the military base of Ira nian army’s 92nd armored division and started shooting indiscriminately at the demonstrators in the streets. The shooting broke out after the shah’s farewell message was read out to the troops early Wednesday. Iran’s chief of staff, Gen. Abbas Qarabaghi, explaining the shooting, said soldiers became emotional upon hearing the message and “expressed their emo tions in the street.” He denied that the incident was a mutiny. Iranian newspapers reported that scores of people were hit by machinegun fire from tanks, armored cars and jeeps that raced through the city creating terror and shooting at random. Gen. Qarabaghi, however, said the troops fired into the air. The shooting fol lowed nightlong celebrations in Ahvaz in which demonstrators pulled down or de molished all the statues of the shah and his father and monuments to his 38-year re ign. The chief of staff charged the anti-shah demonstrators shouted inflammatory slo gans at the troops all night long, provoking strong feelings among the soldiers. Shootings in two other towns — Ham and Arak, southwest of Tehran — ap peared to be in retaliation for Tuesday’s antishah demonstrations in which some soldiers also took part. Reports from Arak, said SAVAK secret police agents joined troops and police in firing on the demonstrators. In the Iranian earthquake that struck three northeastern villages within minutes of the shah’s departure Tuesday, the death toll grew. Iranian newspapers said the quake has killed more than 1,000 persons and injured at least 1,000 others. In towns across the country, statutes of the shah were pulled down and replaced with photographs of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khoumeni, the shah’s archenemy who is considering a return to Iran after a 15-year exile. In France, Khomeini called on all Ira nians, including the military, to rally to his forces, and demanded that all ministers of the civilian government resign. The Moslem leader said the shah in fact was already “deposed,” and an aide said a provisional government may be an nounced within 48 hours. Please see related stories, page 7. The facilities at Wofford Cain Hall may soon come under investigation by the NCAA. A new regulation requires athletic housing to be compar able to the general campus standard. Above is the lounge at Cain Hall. Below is the basement training room, which includes a whirlpool. Battalion photos by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Jordan says she’s OK, not terminally ill ■dJSPr K * : : --r—I ¥ United Press International AUSTIN — Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South to be elected to Congress, says she walks with a limp because of damaged knee cartilage — not an incurable bone disease. Jordan, a renown orator who received nationwide acclaim for her strong speech on the U.S. Constitution during House Judiciary Committee hearings on the im peachment of former President Richard Nixon, retired from Congress earlier this month. She said she did not retire for medical reasons. The Dallas Morning News Wednesday reported sources in Washington and Aus tin as saying Jordan is suffering from mul tiple myeloma, an incurable bone disease. Friends who have seen Jordan in recent weeks reported she had difficulty walking and had to be assisted from her chair and onto the stage at one dinner. “It is true that I walk with a limp and use a cane,” Jordan said Wednesday. “This is a medical difficulty, but I do not suffer from any terminal illness.” Jordan, who now lives in Austin, made no mention of the disease in a brief state ment read by her secretary in response to reporters’ inquiries. Doctors find more cancer Wayne recuperating ; ■ . .w ' -t' tT •i H United Press International LOS ANGELES — Doctors disclosed Wednesday that the cancer in John Wayne’s stomach also had been detected in gastric lymph nodes which were re moved during last week’s surgery and there was “a probability that it will spread.” A statement by UCLA Medical Center said the final pathological report “dis closed evidence of microscopic metastasis in the gastric lymph nodes that were re moved from his stomach.” Bernard Strohm, associate hospital ad ministrator, said there was “a probability that it (the cancer) will spread.” Asked if he could say anthing to reassure persons concerned about Wayne’s recov ery, Strohm said, “I wish I could. “Cancer is the type of disease that just doesn’t give that option. There is concern naturally. Anytime you see this type of analysis on other than the tissue removed it has concern.” The hospital statement said the 71- year-old actor’s progress in recuperating from his surgery was “satisfactory” and the pathological finding “will not alter the original plan for Wayne’s further care and treatment.” The lymph node cancer was not de tected at the time of operation or upon the initial pathological examination, the hospi tal statement said. Wayne entered the hospital last week and on Friday underwent surgery for re moval of his gall bladder, an operation that was expected to take less than two hours. But surgeons found that his stomach was cancerous and the surgery went on for nine hours during which his stomach was removed and a smaller stomach was fashioned from intestine tissue.