Battalion
Friday, November 16, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Town Hall still seeking
after-Bonfire performer
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By MARY JO PRINCE
Battalion Reporter
As wood is cut and logs are stacked on
one end of the Texas A&M University cam
pus, calls are made and fingers are crossed
at the other end. In the next two weeks, the
MSC Town Hall committee will put forth
its last efforts to insure that the Aggie Band
is not the only source of musical entertain
ment on campus the night of Aggie Bonfire.
College concerts this fall semester
appear to be on the decline as many schools
are finding fewer acts touring, according to
an article in Billboard magazine’s Septem
ber issue.
Texas A&M is no exception, as Town
Hall is feeling the crunch of this trend in its
continuing search for performers to head
line this year’s show following Bonfire Nov.
30.
The committee received final word
Wednesday that Tanya Tucker’s agency
had decided not to accept Town Hall’s offer
because the agency could not arrange other
concerts in this area around the same time.
“We have decided to continue our pur
suit of a Bonfire show until it is absolutely
no longer humanly feasible to carry out the
necessary preparations related to concert
production,’’ said Michelle Scudder, Town
Hall chairman. She defined the “necessary
preparations” as ticket printing, adequate
advertising, and adequate time to sell
tickets.
As of late Wednesday, no final deadline
for booking an act had been set.
“We feel that it is important to the stu
dent body of Texas A&M to have a Bonfire
show, and therefore it is important to the
Town Hall Committee that we do every
thing we can possibly do,” Scudder said.
“We are recalling other agencies and
groups we have contacted about this date
already, in hopes that there have been
some new developments. We don’t want
people to think that we have given up. ”
The search for a Bonfire act began last
April. A selection committee, composed of
student leaders and faculty members, eva
luated a Town Hall student preference sur
vey. The selection committee then made
specific recommendations to Town Hall,
which began contacting promotional agen
cies.
Acts considered were Tucker, Fore
igner, Seals and Crofts, Ann Murray, Dan
Fogelberg and The Marshall Tucker Band.
“The economic crunch has really
affected the concert tour business this
year,” said James Randolph, Town Hall
advisor. “Overall record sales are down,
and the record companies are not subsidiz
ing the tours as they have in the past.”
Randolph and Scudder agreed that,
without these subsidies, finding a group
that can be booked for a specific date coin
ciding with its tour provides a major obsta
cle to booking performers for the Bonfire
concert.
“Arranging concerts outside their tour
ing area proves to be a financial risk that
these groups are not willing to take these
days,” Randolph said. “And then we have
groups like The Marshall Tucker Band who
are coming close to Texas around Bonfire
time, but they are not willing to shift dates
to perform at A&M.”
‘Phased’ release is possible
Students reject mediation
was held to promote spirit before Saturday’s
A&M-Arkansas game.
Battalion phot by Clay B.
ink oink here’
Aggies chase greased pigs to promote
school spirit for weekend’s hall game
By DARRELL LUECKEMEYER
Battalion Reporter
Bln an effort to promote school spirit for
pe upcoming Aggie-Razorback football
game, 200 Ags tackled hogs of the greasy
Domesticated variety Thursday night when
lexas A&M Univesity’s MSC Recreation
Committee sponsored the fifth annual
greased Pig Chase in the Animal Science
ivillion.
Special Projects Chairman Jimmy Craw-
Jrd said 50 teams of four members each
lid the $4 entry fee to match skill and
eer determination against the semi-wild
tad totally confused porkers.
The event went something like this: A
am started at one end of the pavillion, the
unsuspecting pigs at the other. The team
members ran to the pigs’ end; if and when a
team member captured the pig, he carried
it back and forth once the length of the
pavillion, passing the squealing animal
among all four members of the team before
depositing it safely back in its pen.
It may sound simple, but when the pigs
are smeared with a pound of shortening
before being turned loose, Things get
complicated.
A local tavern got into the spirit by
donating a keg of beer to the winning team:
David Miller, Chuck Kiker, Mark Hempel
and Pete Dallas. The team finished the
course in only 18.4 seconds, slightly less
than a second in front of the second place
finishers.
A&M football was represented by two
teams, including the third place team of
Douner Honeycutt, Paul Pender, Dain
Mahan and Temple Aday.
The other football players, who didn’t
fare as well, were Arlis James, Mike Mos
ley, Scott Hays and Tim Ward.
At the end of the evening, it was evident
that everyone was in the “Beat the hell
outta the hogs” mood — much to the dis
may of the six little pigs who were totally
exhausted.
The Recreation Committee will sponsor
another spirit-boosting contest: “Sip the
Hell Outa t.u., ’ the week before the Texas
A&M-University of Texas game.
United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — Highly placed official
sources in Iran are considering the
“phased” release of some of the hostages
held by Moslem students at the U.S.
Embassy, but the student captors Thurs
day rejected any government attempts to
intervene in the standoff.
The sources, in the Iranian cities of Qom
and Tehran, said talks for the “phased
release of some of the estimated 100 hos
tages were being pushed by acting Foreign
Minister Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr.
But a spokesman for the students said:
“We shall accept the word of Imam
Khomeini, since he reflects the will of our
nation and will reflect the will of our nation
whenever he speaks.
The spokesman, based inside the diplo
matic compound, was asked to comment on
reports that some of the women and non-
American hostages might be released soon
through a government mediation effort to
end the crisis, now in its 13th day.
“We do not agree with any such
attempts,” the spokesman told UPI in a
telephone interview. “Our stand is the
stand taken by Imam.
Women and Asian hostages were
targeted for release earlier than the “white,
male Americans,” the sources said. There
are 62 American hostages, including about
half a dozen women, and about 40 non-
Americans, mostly Asians.
Bani-Sadr said he would ask the student
captors at the embassy to investigate the
cases of the non-American hostages, mostly
Asians, and release them if they were found
to be “innocent.”
He reiterated that the American hos
tages would not be set free until the shah is
returned to Iran for trial.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sum
moned the ruling Islamic Revolutionary
Council to Qom for a meeting on the crisis
and other Iranian state matters, the official
Pars News Agency said.
Outside the U.S. Embassy, hundreds of
Iranians gathered Thursday in support of
the Moslem students inside. Religious
leaders opposed to any compromise prom
ised a larger demonstration.
The developments followed President
Carter’s declaration Wednesday of a “na
tional emergency” and his ordering the
freezing of all Iranian assets in U. S. banks.
The president’s action came swiftly after
Iran announced it would withdraw $12 bil
lion in reserves from American banks.
Washington said the Iranians’ figure was
exaggerated and the true figure was no
more than $6 billion.
Carter Monday banned the import of
Iranian oil and several hours later Iran
announced a halt of its oil shipments to the
United States.
A spokesman for the Revolutionary
Council told Pars: “This action (Carter’s
freezing of assets) is a moral defeat for
America and has not impressed us and will
not have any effect upon us.”
“By doing this, the United States wants
to create an international crisis, he added.
Carter also recalled his two special en
voys from Istanbul, Turkey, where they
had awaited Iran’s approval to come to
Tehran for negotiations on freeing the hos
tages.
In Istanbul, U.S. envoy Ramsey Clark
said Thursday before leaving for the United
States, “I am returning to Washington for
consultations with the State Department. ”
U.S. risks enraging Iran
with naval maneuvers
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
has rejected suggestions of military inter
vention in Iran or blockading its oil exports
— either now or later — as ways to win the
release of U.S. hostages.
But he decided to take the calculated risk
of enraging Iranian authorities by proceed
ing with previously scheduled naval man
euvers off Iran’s coast in the Arabian Sea.
Officials said Thursday the administra
tion felt it was important to exercise its
right to hold exercises on the high seas as
well as airborne assault practice in Texas
despite the delicacy of the situation.
To do otherwise would have suggested
weakness or lack of resolve on the part of
the United States, officials said. Defense
and State Department officials were in
structed to emphasize that the war games
posed no threat to Iran.
White House officials, meanwhile, say
the United States is not preparing military
contingency plans, including a plan to
blockade the Straits of Hormuz to bottle up
Iranian oil exports.
A report in the Baltimore News Amer
ican said Wednesday a blockade was an
option under active consideration should
the hostages be harmed.
Some defense officials said such a plan
would infuriate America’s friends in West
ern Europe and Japan who are heavy im
porters of Iranian oil and who are, presum
ably, quietly trying to persuade Iran to free
the hostages.
Bass-pointing duck
is best fishing pal
United Press International
SPINDALE, N.C. — Fudgey appeared
bean ordinary duck when Hubert and
Jose Greene found him at Lake Lure two
ears ago, but since then the family pet has
irned into Greene’s best fishing buddy.
Fudgey doesn’t catch the fish, he merely
oints to their location. He is so good at this
X)rthe has been barred from the national
ass Trail, a series of fishing tournaments.
“One day he was watching Hubert fish
ben suddenly he laid it (his neck) out
raight and pointed towards a bush on the
ide of the lake,” Mrs. Greene said.
Greene threw his fishing line in the wa-
:rwhere Fudgey was pointing and caught
14-pound bass.
“Soon it became a regular thing, Mrs.
Ireene said. “A pattern developed,
i'herever Fudgey pointed, Hubert would
itch a fish. ”
Although Fudgey has never assisted
Ireene in a tournament, his antics have
lade him a celebrity at boat shows and
eminars and gained him at least one televi-
ion appearance. His picture is even
ainted on the couple’s van.
“Hubert is always speaking at different
ass clubs and he usually takes Fudgey
athhim,” Mrs. Greene said. “One day he
lot a call from Atlanta about doing a bass
eminar. But they said they wanted him to
o it on one condition — he brought the
luck.”
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At one boat show in Charlotte, the duck’s
popularity was so overwhelming one ex
hibitor asked if he could borrow him for
awhile to draw people to his display. The
Greenes, however, declined.
“One man in Charlotte offered us $1,000
cash for him, ” she added. “My answer was,
‘Could you sell your own child?’ His final
offer was $4,000.”
Green said the 2-year-old duck’s fishing
sense usually is accurate but he still ques
tions his pet’s reliability at times.
“We were at a lake in Florida and Hubert
was fishing at the front of the boat. Fudgey
pointed behind the boat and held it,” Mrs.
Greene said. “I said duck’s on point. ”
Greene told his wife he had already
fished at the rear of the boat and it was
useless to try again. Mrs. Greene said she
finally convinced her husband to try fishing
at the back of the boat again.
After casting his line several times,
Greene netted a 12-pound bass —
Fudgey’s largest prize.
Greene said Fudgey has pointed to other
fish, but the majority of his catches have
been bass.
“When he sees a bass over six pounds he
bobs his head up and down while his neck is
outstretched and makes an excited type
quack. ” Mrs. Greene said. “In other cases,
he’ll point at a fish until it’s caught or we
leave the area.
Presidential adviser speaks here
on women’s role in work force
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
Presidential Assistant Sarah Weddington spoke to a Rudder Forum audi
ence Thursday night on “The Changing Status of Women.’’
By CYNTHIA THOMAS
Battalion Reporter
During the last 30 years women
have entered the labor force in great
numbers, but by 1980, about 67 per
cent of all women will be working out
side the home, a senior presidential
advisor said in Rudder Forum Thurs
day night.
Sarah Weddington, speaking on
“The Changing Status of Women” for
the MSC Great Issues Committee,
said two-thirds of working women are
either heads of households, single or
working because their husbands don’t
make enough money. The main
reason many women work is the
money, she said.
Weddington, chairwoman of Presi
dent Carter’s Interdepartmental Task
Force on Women, said very few
women are a part of this country’s gov
ernmental power structure.
“It was only 50 years ago that we
adopted a constitutional amendment
allowing women to vote,” she said.
Since that time a lot has changed, she
added. “Women are no longer an
afterthought in Texas law,” Wedding
ton said.
Women should have a choice in how
they want to live their lives, Wedding
ton said. Women who want to work
should be allowed to do it, and those
who want to take care of households
should do that, she said. Another goal
for women Weddington spoke of is to
move into the mainstream of business,
science, and government.
Weddington, a native Texan and
former Texas legislator, said that today
women earn 59 cents to every dollar a
man earns. In some parts of the coun
try secretaries receive lower pay than
maintenance workers, and nurses less
than plumbers, Weddington said.
She suggested that universities can
help solve the problem by filtering
more qualified women into non-
traditional occupations such as science
and engineering.
Weddington said that in the future
women are likely to be working and
will earn less, but because of some of
the changes, they are more likely to be
in elected politics. The United States
is likely to be a country to put women
on an equal basis with men by adopt
ing the Equal Rights Amendment to
the Constitution, she said.
“We are now looking at a variety of
changes,” Weddington said. Many
companies are including maternity
and paternity leave in their policies,
allowing new parents to spend time at
home.
Weddington said women’s hopes
should not be limited by stereotypes
of the past; they should question why
-its been that way. She suggested
women care about issues of social con
cern, prepare themselves to perform
at their best and to support each other.