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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.