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The Battalion 73 No. 47 Pages Tuesday, November 6, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Schedule books available Schedule books for the Spring 1980 semester are availa ble now at the Admissions and Records Office at Heaton Hall. Preregistration for spring classes begins Monday at 8 a.m. and closes Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. ugh inonymous preacher draws attention it in the Bruce, Medical Tfj ity at HenJ By KATHLEEN McELROY ly is ajunioM Battalion Reporter I man who said his mission is to spread wts, ani. G f Q 0 d attracted a large and immunity .titties hostile crowd in front of the She likeyiorial Student Center Monday after- >1 softballf , r . . , . e ftian, who retused to give his name lyone including the police, started rmergencvihijig before noon in the MSC walk- pledge oi % 1 P m - more than 100 people had im t the! rei ' t ^ le area to e hher argue, sup- ?ty, and am ealth and b. Judy because ce to meet try new sd ^el. Accoi ive had (e ries: most] ;ed by lani of the foot.! advise please not r ability’. port or just listen to the mysterious man who held a large banner with Christian sayings written on it. About that time, three University policemen came to the walkway to monitor the crowd. When it became obvious the police wanted him to move, the speaker started defending his right to speak. He didn’t move until Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, talked to him. Koldus said the man was blocking the path to the MSC and had to move. But, Koldus said, he could continue talking. The man moved to a sidewalk on the MSC grounds facing G. Rollie White Col iseum. He resumed his discussion with one student in particular who told him, “I believe you’re narrow minded in your thinking,” and then asked, “What if your way is wrong and mine is right?” The speaker answered, “I have faith in the word of God. Even though some of the crowd walked away when the man left the walkway, enough stayed around to keep police standing nearby. “We re here to make sure no one gets into a fight, that no one gets hurt,” one policeman said. “Were not here to stop him from preaching.” Most of the students who gathered around the speaker said he should be al lowed to talk. “I don’t agree with him, but I think he does have the right to speak,” junior Lisa Shelby said as she listened to him. Even the student who had earlier said the man’s beliefs were narrow-minded also said the man shoud be allowed to speak. “He’s got all the rights in the world to stand up and argue,” the student said. President Jarvis Miller surveyed the situation. “We’re supposed to have a policy where speakers get permits,” he commented. “They’re supposed to go through proce- dures.” He said the University now would try to make sure all speakers are approved. The man, who left around 2:30 p.m., said he has no affiliation with any organiza tion on campus, and supports his lone crusade through his private business. He also said negative feedback from his audi ence does not bother him. “The response is not the criteria,” he said. T don’t come out here to mold me to you. I come out here to mold you to me and God.” ‘r, the TAJI Roadrunne: vo Aggies s andjoggei iin andcomi ’lub has be the Roa mannou lofTk First grade students at Bowie Elementary School in Bryan find traversing the country a breeze during recess Monday on this 42- by 65-foot scaled map of the United States. Some fourth graders, together with a Texas A&M University education class, painted the map in red, white and blue on the school’s basketball court. It includes state capitals and the proper abbreviation for each state. At least one fourth-grade teacher intends to use the map as much as possible for her social studies class. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco : competed i competil irds. On I to Dallas crock Mi n the Sprint, prizes to id over 35 ri nterstate travel easy for kids with supersize map : to 8 By SANDRA SEFCIK Battalion Reporter e race. j ve y 0U ever wished you could walk rrently toBjjg United States in just a few sec- of vvhicli ;?t.The kids at Bowie Elementary hip is opeiol in Bryan are about as close to that faculty, %i|nce as anyone can get. ait the ! furth graders at Bowie, with the help inedattWBrexas A&M University education t Programs!'^, have painted a map of the conti- Hllnited States on the school basket- Kijurt. B|niap is a 65- by 42-foot scaled rep- „ with 1 inch representing 354 miles, j| j(^' David David, Texas A&M Uni- Ace II as embers oia of 502 Team oi ( j reene, ryl Turneij (Di versity associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction. One of David’s classes, together with the kids, painted the map in one week. They colored the outlines white and the states red and blue. White stars represent the location of capitals and two circles represent Bryan and College Station. To finish the map the states were given their proper abbrevia tions. “The education majors came prepared with as much knowledge as they could get about a particular state,” David said, “and together with a fourth grader they talked about their state as they painted it on the concrete. It gave the children a sense of participation and it was an excellent way of enriching the learning environment.” For instance, one of the children who painted Arizona received a cactus to take home, said Randy Caperton, fourth grade teacher at Bowie. Another student, who painted Florida, drank orange juice, he said. The only problem with the map, Caper- ton said, is some of the kids have noticed that Alaska and Hawaii weren’t included and want to know why. Caperton has found it hard to explain that there just wasn’t room. Alaska is way up here, close to the school building and is larger than Texas, Caperton tells the kids. And Hawaii is down on the corner of the street and is bunch of islands. The map has been and will continue to be an educational tool, said Betsi McQuaide, another fourth grade teacher. The map has helped the kids realize that Bryan is not the only city; it is just a small part of a large country, McQuaide said. McQuaide said she hopes to use the map whenever possible in her social studies class. The children learn and relate to the big map more easily than to other maps because they can get a better idea of how large the United States is, McQuaide said. Even before the map was completed, Bowie principal Bill Hodge said the school’s youngsters were enjoying the project. He said one afternoon he found a group of children playing on the map, naming as many states as they could. “And that was after school,” he said. David said the project also served as a training tool for his class of future school teachers and helped the students develop a sense of group pride. “We are preparing teachers for the pub lic schools. We are out to serve the needs of the students and the community. In this project, the class had to extend itself to be of service,” David said. David added that he would like to work on a project every semester because it helps the students identify with the pub lic. Hodge said funds for the map came from a special budget set aside by the school board. He said he is not sure how much the project will cost, “but whatever it costs it will be money well spent.” from ship washes up on Skinner. : bowlers their tea® members® United Press International swere -f| ALVESXON) Texas _ Thousands of :s, Ed 5- l ons Q f cruc }e flowing from an rlosion-wracked tanker are washing us Squadrjo a 60-mile stretch of Texas shore, hit- d a team 4 th e favored west beach the hardest wler brodforcing the Coast Guard to scramble to include"Kct ecologically sensitive bay areas, entsch, SteB-joast G uart l sa i(l the 772-foot long ;r Burmah Agate originally held 16 |bn gallons of crude — more tan five ies the amount of oil estimated on Texas iches last August at the height of the |dean spill and more than double the ount carried by the Argo Merhant, ich broke up off the coast of Massachu- semeste ts ^ 19 7 6 irals seen® on 5 Tlit ^ e<: era officials, however, said they had r the sea® slightest idea” how much oil had ‘ dMd into the Houston Ship Channel and i, . ,Munding waters, though earlier esti- 1 Pl^ 6 ^ the total at 84,(XX) gallons. st * e iBe Burmah Agate and 482-foot freigh- ' ’ 1 /Mimosacollided before dawn Thurday, MeatedD Hg 32 Taiwanese crewmen from the victories® s ]up s . The Coast Guard found 11 jg, last -ffi’es before suspending its search. 324and8 ast g uarc l officer Richard Griggs said, fe would expect we will continue to see I til 65 floating to the surface. ” He said two ' " 1 dies were sighted late Monday about 2 , 0 " iles offshore, but rescue boats could not fhe fresl ^ them dark II Hyatt,-! il StanisLExperts said it might be days before the majoreviokcr fire that has been burning since jn the fis'.rirsday is controlled and the flow of oil placing ■ j ffi® Gulf of Mexico stopped. Aerial t the fish< rve y s found patches and sheens of oil ■miles from the site of the colision six les from the entrance to Galveston Bay. rryThebeaux of the National Oceanic crash beach Atmospheric Administration said oil had struck at least four places from the entrance of Galveston Bay to 20 miles south of Freeport. Griggs said a 300-yard stretch of beach just below the south jetty in Galveston re ceived a light amount of oil sheen but that heavy amounts of oil had washed up in a four-mile area along the 22-mile west beach just north of San Luis Pass. Th ere was also some light oiling of the shore on the Matagorda Peninsula, he said. Jim Havens, Galveston’s pubilic works director, examined west beach and said Texas’ most famous stretch of beach had the worst pollution he had seen in his 31 years with the city. “We’ got a mess,” he said. “It’s bad, but it’s not as bad as it could be. If we get ano little northern fron in, it should help.” Griggs said the Coast Guard had im mediately begun placing oil in sensitive areas inside the entrance to Galveston Bay to protect fragile wildlife. But he said there had been no reports so for of damage to breeding groungs or “biological ac tivity. ” Dutch and American crews fighting the fire aboard the tanker had to contend with three more explosions overnight Sunday and Griggs said as long as the tanker con tinues burning, the possibility for morel explosions exists. “You can never know what the outcome will be, ” said Richard Fredericks of Smith International, a Dutch firm hired to sal vage the tanker. “This is not a mattress fire in someone’s bedroom. It’s a very, very serious situation. It’s one that’s weather- dependent and there are anumber of other foctors. ” - Civil rights^ group wants investigation Slaying suspects under tight security United Press International GREENSBORO, N.C. — Fourteen men accused in the weekend slaying of four people at a Ku Klux Klan march were taken to the Guilford County courthouse Monday under tight security. Law enforcement officers blocked off numerous corridors around the second- floor courtroom where Chief District Court Judge Robert Ceil was to make sure that each of the 14 had an attorney to rep resent him in future legal proceedings. The men, handcuffed together, were taken through an underground tunnel from the jail across the street. Admission to the courtroom hearing was limited and reporters were required to show creden tials before entering. The hearing had been scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m., but by midmorning still had not gotten underway. Four people were slain and 10 wounded Saturday when two carloads of whites ar rived at a “Death to the Klan” march and began trading racial insults with an inte grated crowd of about 50 people. Witnes ses said the the men in the car opened fire and that some march participants returned the fire. Three people remained in the hosital Monday, two in critical condition. Most of the men accused in the shooting have been described by police as con nected with the Klan. North Carolina Nazi leader Harold A. Covington has identified at least one of his supporters as being with the group. Twelve of the men, arrested shortly after the shootings, have been accused of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The other two, arrested Sunday, are ac cused of conspiracy. The march was sponsored by the Work ers Viewpoint Organization, which re cently changed its name to the Communist Workers Party. The group has said it will hold another demonstration next weekend but Greensboro police, in an attempt to keep the situation calm, said Sunday they were suspending the issuance of all parade permits indefinitely. Civil rights groups have called for an in dependent investigation of the shootings, claiming authorities did not provide proper protection for participants in the march. Farm loan future to be decided by city voters in today’s election United Press International AUSTIN — The fate of a proposed con stitutional amendment backers say could determine the future of family farms in Texas will be largely determined by big city voters in today’s special election on three suggested revisions to the state’s constitution. The most publicized of the three pro posed amendments would authorize is suance of $10 million in state bonds to guarantee payment of loans made by pri vate lending institutions for the purchase of farm or ranch land by individual Texas citizens. The two other proposals on the statewide ballot would allow the legisla ture to delegate its review power over state agency rules and regulations to a committee, and require notaries public to be licensed directly by the secretary 7 of state rather than through county clerks. None of the three statewide issues has attracted any significant attention, how ever, and the heaviest turnouts for the election are expected in half a dozen cities where local issues have drawn voters’ con cern. The biggest of the local contests is in Houston, where Mayor Jim McConn is being challenged by eight candidates in his bid for a second term. The challengers are lead by Leonel Castillo, former city comptroller who resigned as head of the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service to enter the race, and city coun cilman Louis Macey. City votes also are scheduled in Dallas, Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Austin. Rev. Luther Jones, D-El Paso, the chief legislative sponsor of the farm loan guaran tee amendment, says voters in those areas will determine whether the constitutional amendments pass or fail. “The fate of the family farm and ranch in Texas is now in the hands of Texas’ big city voters,” Jones said Monday. He said rural Texans understand first hand the survival of the family farm and ranch is threatened and Texans need financial help to keep the farms and ranches from foiling into corpo rate or foreign hands. “Urban Texans don’t have this direct experience, which means that they are not as strongly behind the passage of the Fam ily Farm and Ranch Security Act program as rural residents are,” said Jones, who concentrated his campaign for the propo sal in urban areas. The amendment has been endorsed by virtually every state of ficial, including Gov. Bill Clements. Clements is opposed, however, to the proposition allowing the legislature to give a committee review power over rules and regulations adopted by state agenies. The governor said such action amounts to an intrusion of the legislative branch into the executive branch of government. The League of Women Voters also has opposed the amendment. Officials in the secretary of state’s office have estimated only about 750,000 of the state s more than two mil lion voters will participate in today’s elec tion .