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ryers egents resolve to fight orps discrimination suit lams By KEITH TAYLOR Battalion Staff he Texas A&M University Board of ;ents adopted a strong stand on the anie Zentgraf discrimination suit y by adopting a resolution stating, P|yill defend this suit with vigor. We to defend the University, our ad- listrators and the Corps of Cadets nst this misguided attack. ” H resolution, which also stated the varsity had violated no constitutional ;al rights, was presented at the regu- ard meeting Tuesday, erfgraf has named Texas A&M Uni- iity, Jarvis E. Miller, president of is A&M, John J. Koldus, vice presi- r student services, Col. James R. commandant of the Corps of lets and Robert J. Kamensky, Cadet anei of the Corps, as defendants in the I suit charges that women are un- y excluded from Corps of Cadets or- Eions such as the Ross Volunteers, son s Mounted Cavalry, the Texas ■Band, Rudder’s Rangers, and the .1 Drill Team. other business, the regents ap- ted Marvin Tate as athletic director. Tate has been acting athletic director since the resignation of former athletic director and head coach Emory Bellard on Oct. 24, 1978. The regents also appointed T.R. Greathouse as vice president of interna tional affairs. The international affairs office adminis ters all Texas A&M programs in foreign countries and services offered to foreign students, faculty and staff. The regents authorized the creation of the Center for Strategic Technology to be administered by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The establishment of the center was prompted by the U.S. Air Force. The center will work with the Air Force on defense policy studies. The center will also work the Depart ment of State, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Department of Com merce, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and congressional committees. The regents also authorized the creation of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.. __ The institute will offer programs and in struction in the field of occupational medicine and health. Dr. Robert S. Stone, dean of medicine, will direct the institute. The regents also awarded over $5 mil lion in contracts to various contractors for construction work around the state. Jordan and Woods General Contractors Inc. of Bryan was awarded a $2,430,430 contract to renovate the mechanical engi neering shops building. Loyd Electric Co. Inc. of San Antonio received $1,229,400 contract to do lighting and power work on the Prairie View A&M University campus. The regents endorsed room and board increases for Prairie View A&M, Tarleton State University, and Moody College. The new rates will go into effect in the fall. Texas A&M was authorized to raise its student service fees to $1.92 per semester hour. The diploma fee will be raised from $8 to $11. The regents also approved new shuttle bus rates. The student rate will be $30, student and spouse permits will be $45, and faculty-staff rates will be $40. This rates will also take effect in the fall. HE Partly cloudy and warm with a high in the mid 80’s and a low near 70. Winds will be north-easterly at 5-10 mph. The amount of rainfall recorded for Monday evening and Tuesday morning was 3.92 inches reported by Easterwood Airport. Battalion •• Owlet Hoice Beef Vol. 72 No. 152 10 Pages Wednesday, May 23, 1979 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller looks over Bob Clyde Wells look over resolution at the Board of Regents Cherry’s shoulder as Clyde Freeman and Chairman meeting Tuesday. Battalion photo by clay Cockrill Egyptian borders closed despite return of El Arish im - Bulk: apped fiiffler of an ordeal United Press International Egypt said Tuesday its borders with Is rael will stay closed even after it gets back the unofficial capital of the Sinai, El Arish, Friday. Israel also took a hard-line stance, with the Cabinet Monday accepting Prime Minister Menachem Begin s plan of only limited administrative autonomy for the Palestinians. In Beirut, leftist sources said Israeli troops Monday thrust into Lebanon for the second time in three days and said Israeli-backed Christian militias shelled U.N. positions in the frontier region. The sources said-said Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers took up positions near the border Boneless Killer Bees reflect on successful walkout Boneless United Press International USTIN — The “killer bees” five-day ■it in a cramped one-room apart- it proved to be a “killer” of an ordeal, Mussing senators told reporters on riumphant return to the Capitol toy. e had one toilet and one telephone ■If of them kept wanting to trade the ;t for another telephone,” said Sen. I Parker, D-Port Arthur. “Nine of us gotten to know each other a lot bet- e 12 senators, who attracted national mtion with their successful efforts to "p Texas Rangers and a statewide bul- a for their arrest, said all but three re ined together in Austin the entire time Hpngle room at a “sort of a garage fitment. ' le lawmakers refused to reveal the lo- 0 *""$ ion of the Austin residence where they _ J l out to avoid possible retaliation against ""Wend who sheltered them. •We shared one room. We had one hot al,’ Parker said. Sen. A.R. Schwartz, D-Galveston, who looked wom and tired despite the jubilant welcome supporters gave the returning lawmakers, said there were not even beds for all nine senators to sleep. The three senators who left Austin, Sens. Gene Jones, D-Houston; Raul Lon goria, D-Edinburg, and Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, also declined to specify where they hid. “I was in Oklahoma most of the time until I was elected prime minister and came back to negotiate,” Brooks said. The Pasadena senator said he returned to the Capitol late Monday for a secret meeting with Hobby to work out arrange ments for the return of the “killer bees.” Sen. Gene Jones, D-Houston, said he spent most of the time in Houston staying with friends “who took care of me and made me feel like Robin Hood.” Jones narrowly escaped arrest Sunday, however, when Rangers came to his home but nabbed his older brother by mistake while the senator escaped out the back door and climbed over an eight-foot fence. Longoria said he had been excused from attending Friday’s Senate session and was in district court in Hidalgo County when he learned of the bulletin for the arrest of missing senators and went into hiding be cause, “I was under no circumstances going to allow the Texas Rangers to hand cuff me and bring me back to Austin.” “I’m not going to say where I was be cause I think I may have to use the same place again,” Longoria said. Senators said there was never any prob lem about some of the 12 breaking off and returning to the Capitol without the others ^because, “There are 12 honest people that gave each other their word and stuck with it.” Schwartz said police never came close to discovering the secret hide-away al though, “They almost talked me out once.” Sen. Tom Creighton, D-Mineral Wells, before the missing senators returned Tuesday said he believed Schwartz, a loquacious lawmaker, must be seriously ill to remain in hiding and miss the opportu nity to speak on national television. “When Sen. Creighton announced this morning that the national press was there, he was right,” Schwartz laughed. Senators wives, many of whom had not seen their husbands since last Thursday, brought fresh clothes to the secret hideout and to their Capitol offices less than an hour before their climatic reentry into the Senate chamber. * Schwartz, who went into hiding without a toothbrush or a supply of medicine to control his diabetes, said he ordered his prescription refilled at an Austin pharmacy and had the package picked up by an in termediary. Although some wives visited the hidea way, most did not know where their hus bands were staying. The “killer bees” said “very few” people knew where they were. “We blindfolded half of the senators who were there, Schwartz said. AIN RTISEO heavy di >f an ad ;t ask our ck you the itei oon as new Planting a star village of Chebaa but following contacts with Norwegian U.N. troops in the area, the Israeli units withdrew. An Egyptian government spokesman contradicted Begin’s statement in Cairo last month that the borders would be de clared opened after he meets with Egyp tian President Anwar Sadat Sunday at El Arish. The spokesman, in a statement pub lished Tuesday by the newspaper Al Ahram, said there would be no free movement between the Sinai town and Is rael for at least nine months. The statement said Israelis will not be allowed into El Arish, and the Egyptian inhabitants of the Mediterranean town will not be permitted to travel to Israel for work. The spokesman said free movement be tween El Arish, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, and Israeli- occupied territories “will be part of the normalization of relations which will not start before nine months.” The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty stipu lates that the two countries should open talks on normalizing their relations nine months after exchanging ratification documents. Diplomatic sources say Egyptians are using the “normalization of relations” as their trump card for pressuring Israel to soften its position in negotiations on Pales tinian autonomy, scheduled to open Fri day at Beersheba, a town in Israel’s Negev desert. Egypt wants a Palestinian autonomous authority to have political, judicial, legisla tive and administrative powers, leading after a five-year transitional period to self- determination and a Palestinian state. But Israel’s Cabinet Monday accepted Begin’s plan of granting orjy administra tive autonomy to the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip de spite the objections of Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. The two powerful ministers, who headed the Israeli team in the treaty talks with Egypt, asked to be excused from the six-man Israeli negotiating unit on Palesti nian autonomy but their request was turned down. Sadat and Begin will board an Egyptian Boeing 707 Sunday, fly to Tel Aviv and back to Cairo without landing in either capital before returning to El Arish. An Egyptian government spokesman said the flight will symbolize tlie opening of air space between Egypt andTsrael, but said regular flights between the two cities “will also be part of the normalization of relations.” The spokesman said the Egyptians are seeking to sever telephone links between El Arish and Israel and terminate water and electricity supplies feeding the city from Israel. Depression epidemic among drivers, says California psychiatrist ►ores, Inc- ! Prieve supervised the planting of the garden in front of the Academic luilding last week. When the bronze and green varieties of the “Joseph’s Coat” mature, they will form the familiar Texas A&M star. Making up the flower crew from front to back are Debra Baker, Corrine Bergee, Christa Neef, and Connie Chriss. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill United Press International Anxiety over possible gas shortages dur ing the Memorial Day weekend is causing an epidemic of depression among drivers, a West Coast psychiatrist says, but rest as-* sured — the U.S. isn’t “going down the tubes.” Even Southern California’s long gas lines are easing. California gas stations, swamped with lines of up to 100 motorists just last week, had shorter lines Monday, an “odd” day in the state’s rationing plan. One station in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale had no cars waiting in line at one point in the afternoon, a rare sight since May 1. The manager of a station in House OKs mortgage legislation United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas House Tuesday approved and sent to the governor legisla tion abolishing the state’s historic 10 per cent interest ceiling on home mortgage loans and establishing a new ceiling that would allow interest rates to rise as high as 12 percent. Representatives refused, however, to give the bill the 100 votes necessary to put it into immediate effect when it is signed by the governor. It was approved 92-41 with 10 members voting present. Without the 100 votes, the bill will go into effect Aug. 28, 90 days after the ses sion ends at midnight Monday. The House previously had approved the bill, and Tuesday’s vote was to accept Se nate amendments in the proposal estab lishing a floating interest ceiling 2 percent higher than the interest rate on 10-year U.S. Treasury Bonds, with a maximum of 12 percent. Gov. Bill Clements, who initially vowed to veto any bill allowing higher interest rates on home loans, reversed that posi tion because the Federal National Mortg age Association curtailed its purchase of FHA and VA loans in Texas. Clements said that action jeopardized the state’s homebuilding industry and made it extremely difficult for most Texas families to obtain financing to purchase a new home. the Hollywood area marvelled that he had run out of cars before gas. Still, one motorist reported waiting 73 minutes in line at a Burbank station and reported seeing lines “wrapped around the block” at two others. “It’s gloomy, it’s dismal and it’s expensive,” he said. In addition, gas supplies for the long Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer vacation period, were questionable in some regions of the na tion. In Ohio, the director of the 1,000- member Northeastern Ohio Petroleum Dealers Association said 73 percent of its members would close this weekend. More than half of Pennsylvania’s stations plan to close. Other states fretted about shortages should supplies not arrive in the next few days. Las Vegas officials even planned to install a “hot line’’ to help drivers find open stations. The Lundberg Letter, an authoritative petroleum newsletter, added to the dismal news Monday by reporting that the Energy Department is considering four proposals that would boost pump prices by between 1.3 cents and 6.8 cents a gallon above current levels. The gas shortage and resulting gas lines and high prices are, says Dr. John L. Schwartz, chief of psychiatry at Santa Ana-Tustin Community Hospital, foster ing an epidemic escalation of anxiety and depression. “Here we are,” he said, “rich America and we can have anything. It turns out, even though we are the richest country in the world, there are finite quantities of re sources. “We are all undergoing a loss of our ex pectations and this is making people de pressed.” In feet, said Schwartz, some Califor nians are behaving in irrational and dangerous ways because anxiety has superceded their judgment in the de- cisonmaking process. The heartening news is the end result may be a healthier society, he said. “I am not saying the United States is going down the tubes. It is not.” Schwartz said the answer lies in our abil ity to turn inward, to appreciate “what is, ” rather than “what is not,” and in recogniz ing the ability of our technology and people to deal with problems. “I hope we will all exercise the wisdom of appreciating what we have — take time to smell the flowers,” he said.
