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The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 33
12 Pages
Wednesday, October 17, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
ANM returning to air
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By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Reporter
er II months off the air, KANM radio
ack and ready to rock n’ roll.
ANM, a student-run stereo radio sta
in which can be heard only on a cable at
I.9 FM, has been off the air since De-
lember. But this week it should be back,
nks to the telephone company and some
llunteer students who solved an electrical
blem that prevented it from opening
Her.
■—Af Todd Gross, KAN M’s assistant manager,
)R THRU said as soon as a few minor adjustments on
'Be cable system are made, the station will
leglin broadcasting.
■ Actually, the station could begin broad-
Mting now, ” Gross said, “but we want to
get as strong a signal as possible so we can
yiompete with other radio stations around
Gross said that earlier attempts to re-
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m Policewomen: More than tokens
open the station fell through because of
cable problems — static interference on
telephone lines used to send the signal.
The station sends broadcasts to Midwest
Video cable company via telephone wires,
which in turn sends out the signal on cable.
“That has pretty well been taken care
of,” he said. “Now all we have to do is make
a couple more adjustments to make the
signal louder.”
Gross said he is aware that earlier pub
licized attempts to reopen the station has
produced some skeptics.
He went into the station facility, located
at B-l lounge between Moore and Crocker
halls at Texas A&M University, and put on
a record. Then he walked into another
room and turned on a stereo, and placed
the tuning dial on 99.9 FM. There was a
signal.
“When we get some adjustments made,
we are going to be putting out an excellent
signal,” he said.
Gross said a strong signal is imperative
because KANM is so close in frequency to
Houston’s FM 100.
“We expect to be on the air by this
Thursday,” he said, “and we should be in
full swing by next week.”
KANM moved from broadcast facilities
at Briarwood apartment complex on High
way 30 in December. The station had been
there almost a year, Gross said.
Gross said KANM was originally spon
sored and funded by student government,
but now the station is self-supporting. He
said the station receives promotional rec
ords from several record companies and
makes some money through advertise
ments.
“We have also received a $400 grant from
Exxon,” Gross said.
The Exxon grant came from a former
KANM disc jockey, he said.
The only expenses are equipment, and
Gross said the station saves money by hav
ing students build and repair equipment
themselves.
He said the station will broadcast 24
hours a day, seven days a week. About 90
volunteers have signed to work as disc joc
keys, news reporters and in advertisement
sales, Gross said.
All work for KANM is done by volun
teers, except for ad salesmen, who make a
15 percent commission.
Gross said the music format will be rock,
progressive country and jazz.
“We play what you can t hear around
here, ”he said. “It’s basically just a bunch of
student disc jockeys having fun playing
what they want to play,” he said. “You
won’t hear much, if any, disco. I’ve burned
some disco albums. ”
Sir ith University law enforcement
REG. PRICi:
By DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Reporter
jVith women now making up 18 percent
he University Police Department, the
e certainly has more than a token
ale.
ne sergeant, one investigator, and six
ers of the 44 department members are
Jnen, said Capt. Elmer Snyder.
I he University Police Department has
oyed women officers since 1971, when
as the first department in the county to
a woman, Snyder said.
ipven now, he added, no other county
department has more than one female offi
cer.
Vickie Thomas, with the department for
18 months, started as a uniformed police
officer and is now an investigator. She said
she does run into problems because she is a
woman.
She said when she had to answer a call at
men’s dorm as a uniformed policewomen,
she was “hassled.”
“Now, when I walk up to them in
plainclothes, no trouble. They don’t have
time,” she said. She said students are sur
prised to find out she is a police officer.
Police Chief Russ McDonald said two
women work on every shift, and one is
always uniformed and on duty. McDonald
said that, logically, women officers are sent
to handle calls from women’s dormitories,
See related story, page 3.
if possible. But they are also sent to men’s
dorms.
McDonald said all the women officers
have attended a school on rape prevention.
With this information, policewomen have
conducted rape prevention seminars in the
dormitories.
Thomas said she likes her work on the
force.
“It took me a while to get used to it, ” she
said. It bothered her that students acted
like she had no authority. Once she got
used to that attitude, Thomas said, it stop
ped bothering her.
Thomas joined the force while working
on a sociology degree.
“I was tired of schobl — ready to get into
law enforcement without a degree,’’she
said. She still attends school part time, and
needs 30 hours to finish her degree.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
Bella Abzug, former co-chair of the National Advisory Committee for
Women, speaks Tuesday evening at Rudder Theater as a guest speaker
for Texas A&M University’s MSC Political Forum. Abzug, in her speech
on the women’s movement, urged students to “take hold of their world.”
Abzug: equal rights
are 6 simple justice 9
ACNi
ow of force to counter Soviet troops
^•Marines begin maneuvers in Cuba
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United Press International
UANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Tues-
s landings of more than 2,000 Marines
uantanamo Bay are part of a U. S. show
Force to counter Cuban and Soviet mili-
presence in the hemisphere,
he Marines, who were to hit the Carib-
an beaches from ships and helicopters at
were ferried to the island by an am
phibious force from the USS Nassau, USS
%mouth Rock and USS Spartanburg
unty.
iLance Cpl. Kevin Merritt, 19, of
’hoenix, Ariz., said Tuesday night the Cu-
lans have increased patrols around the
base, but there was no atmosphere of ten-
ion as some 2,200 Marines prepared for
the exercise.
“It’s not a John Wayne-style landing with
shooting all the way,” said one Navy
spokesman. “We re describing it simply as
a helicopter-borne and water-borne land
ing.”
Marines were to fly by helicopter from
the USS Nassau to landing strips on oppo
site sides of the base, while amphibious
landing craft were unloading troops and
five M-60 tanks at Windmill Beach in the
center.
“This is a training exercise which rein
forces existing Marine defenses. It in no
way approximates a landing in hostile con
ditions,” said Col. Warren Copenhaver,
one of the operation commanders.
Tuesday, however, base commander
John Fetterman declared a “Condition 2”
state of readiness, requiring all those not
involved in the exercise to take cover.
The cost of the operation was not known;
estimates ran about $500,000 above normal
costs.
The purpose of the exercise is to rein
force the 5,000 personnel of this 45-
square-mile naval base that has been held
by the United States since 1898. It is the
only American military base on communist
territory anywhere in the world.
The landings are the first major rein
forcement exercise here since 1974, al
though about 170 Marines made a visit in
1976 to familiarize themselves with defen
sive positions along the fence.
The broader purpose of the amphibious
maneuver is to demonstrate American re
solve to defend its friends in the Western
Hemisphere from any effort by Cuba or the
Soviet Union to ferment revolution or dis
patch military forces to regional trouble
spots.
The Marine exercise actually began
Sunday with the arrival at Guantanamo of
an attack squadron.
They will play a supporting role in four
weeks of games involving the Marine land
ing battalion of about 1,200 troops and
some 1,000 support and service personnel.
The Marines arrived aboard the new
amphibious assault ship USS Nassau,
which looks like a small aircraft carrier and
is capable of launching helicopters from its
flight deck and small landing craft from its
stern “well.”
—Four-train crash seriously injures 12
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United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — A commuter train
ing 30 miles per hour smashed into the
ear of another commuter train stopped at
H |he station during rush hour Tuesday,
shing it into a third and fourth train and
injuring hundreds of commuters.
(There were no fatalities reported, but at
st 12 people were reported in serious
Indition and at least one was admitted to
rgery.
|The hospitals reported that most of the
tier injuries were minor — cuts, bruises
Id broken teeth — and the nearly 250
injured were released after treatment.
Gene Robbins, Conrail Eastern Region
general manager, quoted the engineer of
the back train as saying signals “gave me
the go-ahead.”
The engineer went forward and when he
rounded a bend the sun was in his eyes and
the emergency signal came on.
Robbins said the engineer managed to
shout “hit the deck” just before the crash.
An estimated 1,200 commuters were on
the four trains.
R. B. Hoffman, assistant general man
ager of Conrail, said it was not known what
caused the crash and said it may take sev
eral weeks to find out.
“It could have been signal failure. It
could have been mechanical failure. It
could have been human failure,” he said.
Five of the estimated 35 cars involved
were knocked off the track, but none over
turned.
By CAROL AUSTIN
Battalion Reporter
The women’s movement is not any one
organization; rather, it has become mil
lions of American women who have exam
ined the human condition and decided
that woman’s place is every place, Bella
Abzug told a crowd of about 200 Tuesday
evening.
Abzug was at Texas A&M as a guest
speaker of Political Forum.
Abzug was “released” as co-chairman of
the National Advisory Committee for
Women in January 1979.
“I was not released, I was fired,” Abzug
said. “But in that sense, I feel terrifically
released.”
Abzug was given the choice of resigning
or being fired after the committee released
statements to the press outlining criticism
of President Carter’s budget cuts.
Time magazine reported “the release,
which contained such undiplomatic words
such as ‘unacceptable’ and ‘challenged,’
reached White House Aids Hamilton Jor
dan and Jody Powell as they were celebrat
ing Jerry Rafshoon’s 45th birthday. Out
raged, the White House staffers decided
Bella had to go.”
“The truth is, the major areas of infla
tion are in the areas of housing, hospital
care, food, etc.,” she said. “The budget
cuts in job training, education . . . cut the
heart out of a lot of people, but it didn’t
make that much difference in inflation.”
Abzug is currently organizing WO
MEN, USA, which “will establish a vehi
cle for women’s economic rights and
equality for women.
A strong supporter and co-sponsor of
the Equal Rights Amendment, Abzug as
serts that the ERA seeks to eliminate laws
which discriminate against either sex.
Women are seeking to share equally the
power and privileges locked into tra
ditionally male-dominated roles, she said.
They are seeking respect for the contribu
tions they make daily, whether in the
home or outside. Perceptions of work
done by women is perceived to be less
valuable than work performed by men.
“With the majority of the population in
numbers being women, why are there
only 16 women in the House and only one
woman in the Senate?” Abzug said.
“Equal rights for women are a matter of
simple justice. We do everything in pairs
except govern. That seems pretty un
natural to me, she said.
WOMEN, USA is trying to help women
mobilize, to make them a political force for
change, Abzug said.
“It is a divorced woman fighting for So
cial Security benefits in her own right, a
working woman demanding the same pay
and promotion opportunities as a man, a
widow embarking on a new career, a
mother organizing a day care center, a bat
tered wife seeking help, a minority woman
on Welfare seeking job training so she can
break the cycle of poverty for herself and
her children,” Abzug said. “It’s a woman
running for public office. It’s every kind of
woman.”
Women must fight for their rights be
cause people who have power don’t give it
up easily and people with prejudices don’t
relinquish them easily, Abzug said. There
has to be action from the people, from the
grass roots up, she said.
Being active includes being concerned
with everyday events that affect our fu
ture; when people don t care, or don t be
lieve that their votes and voices don’t have
any effect, we have the Nixons of the
world, Abzug said.
Abzug said she urges students to take
hold of their world.
“Wherever you function, this country is
messed up and we need to take it on,” she
said.
A&M prof: Stiffer rules
(needed to stop oilspills
United Press International
AUSTIN — A Texas A&M University
troleum engineering professor told a
ouse committee Tuesday stiffer regu
lations are needed to prevent oil blowouts
:e the one in the Bay of Campeche that
rated Texas beaches with oil.
Bruce Dameron said excessive gas and
d in the well bore probably caused the
|ne 3 blowout of Ixtoc I.
“Those are indications you are moving
:o an abnormal pressure zone,” Dameron
d the House Environmental Affairs
•Committee.
Dameron said federal regulations stipu
late that all personnel working on an oil
•'ell on federal waters be licensed in the
Bpping of oil wells. He said the U.S.
Geological Survey has week-long schools
which all personnel must complete before
being licensed. He said the certification
must be renewed once a year.
If trip tanks were made mandatory on
offshore oil well sites, he said, more
oilspills could be prevented. Dameron said
the trip tank measures the mud that is
placed into the well bore and also detects
the flow of fluid intrusion into the well for
mation.
“The trip tank can be used to monitor the
mud and flow of fluid and give the operafor
an indication if anything is going wrong, ”
he said.
Dameron said Pemex, the Mexican na
tional oil company drilling the Ixtoc I oil
well, did not have the monitoring devices
and also does not have a school to train
personnel in the capping of oil wells.
United Way reaches
51 percent of its goal
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The Brazos County United Way
has reached 51 percent of its goal in
the annual fund-raising campaign.
A total of $112,652.38 has been
pledged or collected.
“We are quite pleased with the
results so far,” said spokeswoman
Ann Wiatt. “Last year at this time,
the Bryan drive was at less than 40
percent,” and the College Station
drive was below that, she said.
The $220,420 fund drive is
scheduled to end Oct. 31.
A chicken-wire container in the
shape of a giant thumb is located near
Rudder Fountain for student con
tributions to United Way. Contain
ers are also at the three bus stops and
in the Kleberg Center lounge.
No specific goal has been set for
the student drive, said John
Scheider, student drive chairman.
About $18,000 has been collected
from Texas A&M University faculty
and staff. The goal is $75,000. Dr.
Don Hellriegel, professor and head
of the Management Department, is
chairman of this year’s drive. De
partment heads are in charge of col
lecting from their faculty.
The United Way supports 18
agencies in Brazos County, includ
ing boys’ and girls’ clubs, the local
chapter of the American Red Cross
and the Brazos Valley Museum of
Natural Science.