The Battalion
73 No. 47
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Tuesday, November 6, 1979
College Station, Texas
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immunity .titties hostile crowd in front of the
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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.”
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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
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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,
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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.”
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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. ”
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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 .