Battalion
mvol. 72 No. 128
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Thursday, April 5, 1979
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Trip on a clipper
Some Aggies spent their
spring vacation on the high seas
of the Caribbean. Another 7-day
trip is planned for May. See to
day’s Focus for details.
'ee allocation
proved- twice
By DILLARD STONE
Battalion Staff
hours of parliamentary wrangling
verbal volleyball yielded little in
ednfsday’s Texas A&cM University stu-
int senate debate over the 1979-80 in-
anijiral department budget.
Aftef approving the finance committee’s
d student service fee allocation
enators voted to reconsider that
to hear an intramural department of-
justify his budget request for next
MU
rises
ipport
By MARK HANCOCK
Battalion Reporter
The Great KAMU-TV Auction has done
lore than raise $13,546 for the tight-
feted Texas A&M University public
pasting system, says station program
br.
le’ve raised more than just money,
ve raised a lot of public interest and
l a lot of new supporters,” Rodger L.
1 said. “We don’t want to convey the
Kht that we are rolling in money,
because our station is operating
lot less this year.”
Die income from the auction and the
|U festival held two weeks ago brings
ation close to its $29,500 fund-raising
Aludget cut by the University last yeat
lurithe stations ability to purchase pre-
^Bed programs. So KAMU may have
Jit showing some programs such as
: Performances and the NOVA series
licient funds are not raised,
j Gfeat Performances costs $15,000 per
and the NOVA series costs $12,000
^pason. The program’s increasing costs
, decreasing fund level could mean a
|:am change for the station, Lewis
Herbert-Wiesenberg, develop-
ent and promotion coordinator said,
V|\vant to stress that even though we
jirough with the festival and the auc-
tionlthis is not the end.” She said the fund
|g for the station will be a continuing
^ss.
jie cost of the programming is going
[id the funds are going down, so the
■raising has to go on,” Lewis said.
J5re than 200 volunteers donated their
■ to the auction, which was Sunday,
Molday and Tuesday from 7-12 p.m.
|s a total of 350 free man-hours for the
nights of the auction.
[other fund-raising event for
[U-TV and FM will be April 25 near
i — the Third Annual Miller Highlife
Fest, which will have lots of beer.
Band sports events for all.
year, and then finally, to approve the
budget again — as originally recom
mended.
Included in the recommended total al
location of $1.4 million in student service
fees is a proposal to raise the fee’s ceiling
from $20 to $23, to charge intramural team
entry fees, and to charge for a faculty/staff
intramural user pass.
Jim Jeter, associate intramural director,
was granted speaking privileges by the se
nate and went over an intramural budget
that was a compromise bewtween the 63.4
percent increase originally requested, and
the 8 percent increase granted in the
committee’s recommendation.
Jeter’s compromise would have in
creased the intramural budget by 29 per
cent.
Although Jeter presented justifications
for a $368,847 intramural budget, he said
everything in the original $466,445 budget
could be justified.
After Jeter’s presentation, senators
voted once again to approve the original 8
percent allocation recommendation.
The senate evidently agreed with
Wayne Morrison, vice president for fi
nance, when he said, “Our problem lies in
the fact that there’s not enough money to
go around.”
Bobby Tucker, student body president,
pointed out that it had been the finance
committee’s responsibility to study and
recommend student service fee alloca
tions.
Tucker also said that it would be impos
sible for the senate to attempt to perform
the committee’s function, either in one
specific case, or for all service fee users.
Finance committee member Ron
Woessner presented the senate with only
two amendments to the original recom
mendation.
The shuttle bus system will receive 48
percent more than requested, boosting its
total from $156,000 to $187,992. The
additional $31,992 was taken from the re
serve fund allocation.
Although the fee allocation was the
major item of business Wednesday, the
1978-79 senate did consider several other
bills in its final session.
A recommendation, passed by acclama
tion, asks the Residence Hall Association
to inform students in writing that dormi
tory programming fees are optional.
Another recommendation was that tests
outside regular class periods, particularly
night exams, be prohibited unless ap
proved by the class or by the vice presi
dent for academic affairs.
A proposal was defeated that would
place a 30 percent limit on the amount a
final examination could count toward a
final grade, as was a bill that would have
taken elections out of student govern
ment’s jurisdiction and placed them under
a separate Election Committee.
A recommendation for the University
vice president for student services (not the
student one, as was indicated in a Tuesday
Battalion article) to be placed on the Uni
versity Five Year Planning Committee
passed.
Peeking through the clouds
The spring sun, which has been hidden by cloudy skies most of the week,
appeared long enough for this early evening sunscape. This view was
from the top of the Lake Somerville Dam.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
BCLU probing sex discrimination
involving A&M, women in Corps
By DIANE BLAKE
Battalion Staff
The Brazos Civil Liberties Union —
prompted by Melanie Zentgraf — is inves
tigating sex discrimination in the Corps of
Cadets. And a lawsuit may be filed if the
organization finds enough evidence.
“I don’t expect legal action, if any, for at
least a couple of weeks,” said Lamar Han
kins, cooperating attorney for the BCLU.
A cooperating attorney handles cases and
provides legal assistance for local chapters
of the American Civil Liberties Union.
A suit may be filed “if we find evidence
to the extent that our client has suffered
sex discrimination,” the attorney said last
week. The suit would name Texas A&M,
the Corps of Cadets, and certain people on
campus.
“It’s impossible to say at this point
whether a suit will be filed,” Hankins said.
“We re checking with various people, but
we really haven’t investigated enough
yet.”
Zentgraf, a junior Air Force contract
cadet, initiated the investigation by a
complaint to the BCLU. She declined to
comment.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Merrill
Whitburn, head of the Brazos Civil Liber
ties Union and an associate professor of
English here, had also declined to discuss
the matter. A formal press statement will
be released next week, he said.
[Former OPEC official: there’s no love lost
in trade relations between U.S., oil countries
Hankins said Zentgraf told the BCLU
she had been called in for a meeting
March 23 with Cadet Commander Bob
Kamensky involving a reprimand against
her. Kamensky later said the reason for
the meeting was to counsel her.
Hankins said the meeting’s purpose was
vague.
“First Kamensky said it was to be a rep
rimand for all the things she’s done,” Han
kins said. “Later he changed it to counsel
ing for all the things she’s done.”
Zentgraf still felt she had cause for
alarm, the attorney said, and was reluctant
to go. Hankins went with her and the
meeting was canceled.
Kamensky said last week he canceled
the meeting because “she was dragging ex
ternal forces into a Corps-type matter.”
Zentgraf has recently charged that the
Corps has discriminated against women in
areas such as selection of cadets to honor
organizations — for instance, the color
guard and the Ross Volunteers. She has
also complained of excessive hazing of
women in the Corps.
On March 21 the charges made national
news as columnist Jack Anderson
criticized the Corps for mistreatment of
women members.
Col. James R. Woodall, commandant of
cadets, called Hankins the day the meet
ing was scheduled — March 23 — and said
Kamensky did not have the authority to
give the cadet a reprimand.
Kamensky said later he had not known
of the different meanings of the word “rep
rimand.” He said he meant to have a talk
with the cadet, not to punish her.
Kamensky said he scheduled the meet
ing with Zentgraf “to enlighten her. I don’t
think she realizes that her actions are af
fecting all the women in the Corps.”
Kamensky said Zentgraf should consider
the ramifications of her actions “if she’s in
tent on seeing women grow and prosper in
the Corps.”
By MARK HANCOCK
Battalion Reporter
IA co-founder of OPEC said here
Wednesday night that OPEC nations
[e “trying to create a sphere of coop-
i between the oil producing and
bnsuming nations of the world,” but
le U.S. government and oil com-
anies are looking to their own inter-
— afraid of Arab competition.
“Friendship and cooperation is
tually non-existent in our trade rela-
Jonships,” said Sheik Abdullah Tariki,
helped create the Organization of
be Oil Producing and Exporting Coun
ties. “The United States should be a
; brother and insist on human rights
broughout the world by seeing that
[thers don’t get hurt.”
Tariki said the costs of building re-
bneries or petro-chemical plants are
times as expensive in the Arab
ountries when compared to costs in
Europe or America.
“The United States is over-charging
bs for the equipment we need to de
velop,” the Saudi Arabian native said.
Tf we keep going this way, we go
nowhere. We don’t have the laborers to
io the jobs.
“An expert planning consultant costs
$200,000 a year in Saudi Arabia, com
pared to $40,000-60,000 in the
|UnitedStates.
“A refinery may cost $350 million
land a petro-chemical plant ranges from
|S700 million to $1 billion.”
Tariki said that Americans believe
|the Arab nations are ruining the U.S.
[economy when actually they spend
[most of their oil money in the Western
[markets.
“Since the Arabs and OPEC con-
jnected (1974-78) we have made $550
billion in revenue, but $400 billion has
[been spent in Europe and the United
States in investments.
“We have been trying to spend our
money for economical plans, but due to
the costs of implementing them they
have failed miserably.”
Tariki said the United States wants
the OPEC nations to increase oil pro
duction when it currently wastes 5 mil
lion barrels a day — the same as a day’s
usage in Japan.
“Increased production is unrealistic
for our situation because they (Ameri
cans) insist on not helping us to develop
what we have. Who will feed the
people when the oil is gone?”
Now the United States is importing
50 percent of its domestic oil supply,
and 45 percent of that comes from
OPEC. He said the U.S. Congress is
discussing ways to encourage OPEC to
increase production by 10-15 million
barrels a day, but the negotiations with
OPEC are not succeeding.
“I don’t understand American pol
icy,” Tariki said. “The people plan for
the four-year elections and don’t think
of the future. American’s plans are too
short-sighted and mix trade with politi
cal policy.”
Tariki said the Arab nations are plan
ning for the future carefully because
their surplus revenue -— which has
steadily decreased from $16 billion in
1975 to $9 billion now — is in danger of
running out.
“We are taking steps to insure that
this doesn’t happen,” said the 60-year-
old Tariki, who now advises OPEC and
the Algerian government. “This is one
reason we can’t increase our produc
tion. Inflation, the dollar devaluation,
and labor and operation costs make in
creased production impossible at this
time.
“Consuming countries are still pay
ing 22 percent less than they were in
1974, due primarily to inflation.”
Experts say 6 steps
led to N-accident
Sheik Abdullah Tariki, one of the co-founders of OPEC, spoke to about
150 people last night in the MSC about energy. Battalion photo by Larry Parker
United Press International
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Federal officials
blame the Three Mile Island atomic plant
crisis on a safety rule violation — two val
ves left closed by mistake two weeks be
fore the incident — and five other human
and mechanical failures.
A utility spokesman estimated damage
to the plant at more than $1 million,
another cost that might hit rate payers.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials
said efforts to cope with the crisis have cost
$500,000 — a tab the federal government
will pick up — and total cleanup costs may
be $40 million. Blame for the severity of
the crisis centered on the discovery by
NRC investigators that two manually op
erated valves in an auxiliary cooling sys
tem were mistakenly left closed after
maintenance, disabling the system, two
weeks before pump failure triggered the
emergency March 28.
In a report to the NRC in Washington,
investigators said the valve closing — the
first of three human errors — was but one
of six factors in the accident. The others
included basic flaws in the Babcock and
Wilxcox plant design and equipment fail
ure.
The other problems included:
—At 4 a.m., the feed-water and con
densate pumps failed, so heat was not car
ried from the reactor.
—After 12 to 15 seconds, a relief valve
stuck open and released radiation.
—After 30 seconds, auxiliary feed-water
pumps tried to come on but water could
not flow because of valves that were im
properly closed. Had the auxiliary flow
started, officials said, nothing serious
might have happened.
—After 2 minutes, the emergency cool
ing system came on. But its two pumps
were turned off — the second apparent
human error — between 2 and 9 minutes
later when pressure indicators gave an ap
parently wrong high reading.
—After 1 hour and 15 minutes an
operator turned off other coolant pumps
for reasons not fully understood by the
NRC. That was the third human error.
Fuel damage resulted when the reactor
got too hot
Pennsylvania authorities are looking at
who should bear the multimillion-dollar
impact of the nation’s worst nuclear power
accident, in its eighth day today.
Engineers are preparing a slow, careful
process — aided by a robot named “Her
man” — to bring the reactor to a safe shut
down. They say the next step may be
taken in five days and a cold shutdown
achieved in 10 days.
But traces of radiation still drift from the
plant in a halfmile-long plume. Gov. Dick
Thornburgh’s call for pregnant women and
pre-school children to shun the five-mile
circle around the plant remained in effect
today.
Officials said those at the edge of the
plant site would have been exposed to a
maximum 85 millirads of radiation —
about the equivalent of three chest X-rays
— through Tuesday.
With Three Mile Island out of service,
the utility that operates the plant — Met
ropolitan Edison — has been paying an
estimated $1.1 million a day for replace
ment power. That cost conceivably might
be charged to consumers.