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The Battalion
VqI.73 No. 1 Monday, September 3, 1979 USPS 045 360
80Pages in 7 Sections College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
David sweeps into Gulf;
60 mph winds in Miami
United Press International
MIAMI — Hurricane David, churning
across the Gulf Stream toward boarded-
up, battened down South Florida, hurled
its vanguard squalls and 60-mph winds
into Miami Beach early today.
“There could be hurricane force winds
in any one of these bands of rain approach
ing the coast,” said National Hurricane
Center forecaster Joe Pelissier at 4 a.m.
EDT. “It’s the leading edge of the
eyewall.”
Steady, howling winds of 60 mph drove
sheets of rain almost horizontally through
the pitch-black night, whipping palm trees
with the sound of waves crashing into a
beach. Gusts up to 70 mph — 5 mph
below hurricane force — were reported.
For the 4 a.m. report, the hurricane
center located David’s eye 60 miles from
Miami, and reported that readings from
hurricane hunter planes showed its peak
winds may have fallen below 100 mph.
“The center is still several hours away,”
Pelissier said.
As the storm that cut a path of death and
destruction through 1,500 miles from the
Bahamas, blue-green flashes of lightning
flickered across the rolling clouds over the
Atlantic, an ominous latticework on the
dense black night.
The first squalls came in on a barrage of
thunder, and lights flickered in downtown
buildings. Power lines flashed and
burned.
Hurricane warnings flew from Marathon
in the Florida Keys to the launch pads at
Cape Canaveral. By midnight 37,000
people had checked into public shelters in
the Miami area.
As David was battering the tourist-
packed Bahamas Sunday en route to the
mainland, haggard officials of the Domini
can Republic reported the storm had
killed hundreds and perhaps thousands
when it struck the island of Hispaniola
Friday. A government spokesman said
more than 600 were known dead, but
many outlying areas were still isolated and
the death toll was “incalculable.”
Clements visits A&M campus;
interested in research facilities
By RHONDA WATTERS
Battalion Reporter
A all the problems of keeping up
studying, maintaining an acceptable
Sand trying to manage finances, going
lege can create a great deal of pres-
hr a student.
iforone certain group of college stu-
ts, the pressure is often much more
normal. In fact, you might say it’s
tied, because these students are mar-
to the registrar’s office, Texas
Peek-a-boo
Michael Palmer, 23 months, and this puppy
size each other up as the pup peeks from be
tween Michael’s mother’s legs. Michael, son
of educational psychology professor Doug Pal
mer, encountered the pup outside the Me
morial Student Center. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion StafT
Gov. William P. Clements visited the
Texas A&M University campus Thursday
to look at the University’s research
facilities here and see how the research
could help his administration.
“I am on the campus to see how Texas
A&M can be benificial to the administra
tion to the Texas govenment,” Clements
said.
He said he was “very enthusiastic”
about what he saw at Texas A&M.
“A&M has not been used to the extent
we could. A&M could be used more.
Marriage adds to school strife
A&M University has about 2,000 married
students enrolled at the main campus.
In some cases, both the husband and
wife attend school. But as the cost of edu
cation rises, more couples are turning to
having one member work and support the
two, while the other pursues his educa
tion.
Most married students agree that
money is probably the primary cause of
their problems.
While some couples receive financial
support from one or both sets of parents.
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in many cases once a couple gets married
they are expected to support themselves
and financial aid stops.
Some couples combat the money prob
lem by working at part-time jobs. Some
married students qualify for government
financial aid and use food stamps to help
out.
One important benefit open to married
students at Texas A&M is the low-rent
apartment program. Several apartment
complexes exclusively for married stu
dents are located in areas close to the
campus. These complexes have a low rent
rate and in most cases tenants don’t have
to pay the utility bills.
While very valuable to couples low on
money, there is a waiting list for some of
the complexes that can at times last almost
a year.
Another problem many married stu
dents face is the frustration of having too
little time to spend together. Between the
time spent in class and working on
homework, very little time is left, and as
one couple commented: “This causes the
relationship to really suffer.”
One married student couple, Kathy and
Lynn Millegan, have another problem that
some married students face — children.
The Millegans, married for more than
six years, have a four-year-old son who
stays at a day care center while Kathy
works and Lynn goes to school. Not only
does a child cause extra financial worries
for them, but they said it also puts yet
another demand on their time.
“You must dedicate evening time to a
child, and it must be quality time,” Kathy
said. With so many other things to do “this
can be very difficult on a marriage.”
When all the pressures cause serious
marriage problems, married students use
different methods of alleviating them. The
Millegans said they rely on their Christian
befiefs to pull them through.
Some couples said they take advantage
of a free campus marriage counselor that is
open several days a week and is located
close to the married student housing of
fice.
Some quit school for a while and try
again later; others said they decided they
couldn’t solve their problems and split up.
Though special advantages for married
students are few and far between, there is
one service organization on campus espe
cially for married students — the Married
Student Council.
“We get money from the Student Fi
nance Center and do projects to help mar
ried students,” said Gus Wilson, president
of the council.
Wilson said that not many people knew
about the council. Officers are elected by
the married students.
Wilson said some of the organization’s
projects include a camping equipment re
ntal program, a married students’ newslet
ter and a free tool and garage use program
that married students can use for working
on their cars.
Another project Wilson said the council
has available is free garden plot use. Plots,
20 feet square in a field on the north side
of campus, can be checked out and used
for growing things. Wilson said all the user
must do is maintain the upkeep on the
plots.
Wilson said elections for this year’s
council officers will be held in late Sep
tember.
Some married students have relatively
few problems outside of the problems that
plague all students in general. But for
others, college life can be a difficult and
trying time.
There are many valuable resources that
can be more frilly utilized.”
Clements said he was particularly in
terested in International Programs, long-
range energy plans and research in water
resources, fishing and shrimping.
When asked why his office had not
made use of the Texas A&M research
facilities earlier, Clements said it was the
state government’s fault, but he wanted to
change the situation.
“We need a higher degree of coordina
tion in effort between the the University
and the state government. We need to go
beyond cooperation, to coordination. I
want to alert A&M to how it could help
more. ”
The governor also said he wanted to in
volve Texas A&M in the agricultural and
cultural exchange program he is now try
ing to set up the Mexico.
Earlier in the day, while Clements was
being briefed on the dangers of deep-sea
diving to pregnant women by Dr. Feenan
Jennings, director of the Texas A&M Uni
versity Sea Grant program, the governor
startled some people by an off the cuff re
mark.
“They’re always looking for birth con
trol. We might say, ‘Go deep water diving
and exercise birth control,”’ Clements
said.
Later, during a press conference, an
aide to Clements said the denial of more
gasoline for the Bryan-College Station area
earlier in the summer would be reviewed.
“If you have a problem, we will help you
with the problem,” the aide said.
When asked about the oil slick now
washing up on the beaches of South Texas,
Clements said the the matter was dip
lomatically sensitive and he would have to
use extreme caution in dealing with
Mexico about the problem.
He also said the United States is doing
all it can in stopping the oil still gushing
from the Pemex Ixtoc I oil well.
“As a fact, all of the American technol
ogy available and needed is in that job.
They (the Mexican government) is doing
everything it can. ”
Silver Taps
to honor six
A&M students
The Silver Taps ceremony will be
held Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 10:30
p.m. on the mall in front of the
Academic Building.
The ceremony will honor six
Texas A&M University students
who have died since Aggie Muster
in April.
— Charla Gwin, first year veteri
nary medical student; died April 25.
— Stuart Brent Walker, second-
year veterinary medical student,
killed May 14 in an automobile acci
dent.
— Alan Dale Peacock, senior civil
engineering major, killed May 18 in
an auto-pedestrian accident.
— Tamara Lynn Bates, sopho
more agricultural economics major,
killed May 24 in an automobile acci
dent.
— Henry Barbee Bishop, sopho
more business management major,
killed July 14 in an automobile acci
dent.
— Luke Dennis Bell, sophomore
civil engineering major, killed July
16 in an offshore drilling rig acci
dent.
Paying the price
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Standing in lines has become
Aggie tradition as Silver Taps,
as much an dents found last week while waiting to reserve
as these stu- post office boxes for the fall semester.