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Iding opposed the change by a margin
of 52-48 percent. The poll was taken by
Student Government members who set up
a table in the MSC and took opinions from
students who volunteered them.
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tencourt, vice president of rules and reg
ulations, pointed out that the results could
be inconclusive depending on the way the
questions on the survey were worded and
on how well the lists of pros and cons pro
vided for the students were drawn up.
Other bills the senate will consider in its
final meeting of the semester include ones
which would:
—recommend the installation of lights
for safety and security reasons around the
aerobics track;
—recommend the installation of a traffic
light at the intersection of Joe Boutt Boule
vard and Wellborn Highway;
—request the installation of Nautilus
weight training facilities in the G. Rollie
White Coliseum expansion. The facilities
would cost an estimated $40,000.
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By SYLVIA FELLOWS
Battalion Reporter
All people who handle food for pub-
of h ic consumption will soon be required
Jo# :o attend an educational class by the
Brazos County Health Department.
Beginning Jan. 1, a new food hand
er’s education course will replace the
lounty’s old tuberculosis and syphilis
letection program for food handlers,
quart Completion of the new educational
aurse is the new method of issuing
health cards for personnel of food re
lated businesses.
All food handlers within Brazos
County will be required to attend the
course before new or revalidated
health certificates are issued.
The certificate — which will he
valid for four years — is especially
convenient for Texas A&M University
students, said Andi Wilson, food
handler’s program assistant.
“They can get one (health certifi
cate) as a freshman and then they
won’t have to worry about it any
more,’’ Wilson said.
The course will be offered three
times a month at the Brazos Commun
ity Center and will cost $5 per person
for the three-hour course. The first
class will begin Jan. 8 from 2-5 p.m.
Those persons now holding valid
health cards will not be required to
take the course until their current
health cards expire.
The new educational course will
teach methods of food-handling tech
niques, preventing food-borne dis
ease and poisoning, proper sanitation
methods, personal hygiene and insect
and rodent control.
This type of educational course has
been used by many other Texas coun
ties for several years, Wilson said.
Brazos County switched to this new
method of issuing health certificates
because the incidence of tuberculosis
and syphilis cases in the county
through the old program has been so
insignificant in the past few years.
Consequently, the state has refused
further funding of the testing system.
“This educational course is a much
better way of certification, anyway.
We hope that after taking the course,
the people will understand the im
portance of health inspections and
proper food handling, said Wilson.
“It’s something that everybody can
benefit from and use in their personal
homes also.’’
After the first year, when commer
cial food handlers will be given top
priority, we encourage private home
makers to take the course,’’ Wilson
said.
Presently, health inspectors check
health certificates and inspect opera
tions of commercial food businesses
twice a year. Bakeries and bars with
food are inspected as well as re
staurants.
People can register one month in
advance for the course at the Health
Department. The $5 registration fee
will be required at that time.
The Health Department encour
ages people to register now if their
health card expires during the month
of December so they will be assured a
spot in the January classes.
aptors contradict minister
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United Press International
ITEHRAN, Iran — Militant students to-
lay flatly rejected the U.N. Security Coun-
icil s call for the immediate release of the 50
ericans and warned revolutionary
arts would try the hostages as spies if the
iposed shah left the United States for any
untry but Iran.
student spokesman appeared to con-
idict a statement by Foreign Minister
idegh Qotbzadeh that the students them-
ilves would judge the hostages, now in
eir 32nd day of captivity.
j'The U.N. Security Council is under the
fders of the American government and
i CIA and therefore, this decision is not
bportant for us,” a militant spokesman
pd of the 15-0 vote at the council meeting
uesday, which Iran boycotted.
All the world has seen that the U.N. is
pned by the U.S.A. and we reject this
cision.”
The spokesman added, “Our demands to
(le U.N. that the shah be returned have
en ignored. If and when the shah is re-
firned, the hostages will be freed.
But if the shah is not returned and goes
any other country from the United
Itates, the hostages will immediately be
|ut on trial and face Islamic revolutionary'
astice,” he added. The charge of spying
[arries a maximum penalty of death.
In Washington, a top White House aide
Jisputed claims the hostages were well tre-
ted, saying, “The American hostages have
been threatened with execution if they fail
to cooperate, ” and added, “They have been
threatened at gunpoint and told they would
be shot.”
Diplomatic sources said the militants’
continued intransigent stand would greatly
complicate any fresh attempts from moder
ate Iranians and the United Nations to se
cure freedom for the hostages.
Finance Minister Abol Hassan Bani-
Sadr, who was acting foreign minister for
19 days, visited the students at the embassy
earlier this week and lectured them, saying
they had “no legal right to put the hostages
on trial.”
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini this week
received an overwhelming mandate to be
come Iran’s absolute ruler for life, and di
plomatic sources said this development
offered the best prospect for the eventual
safe release of the Americans.
Qotbzadeh insisted Iran had done all it
could to defuse the crisis and the next move
was up to President Carter. The foreign
minister also said Iran had urged the Soviet
Union not to interfere in the confrontation
even if the United States launched military
strikes against Iran.
Reacting to such a possibility, the gov
ernment announced the formation of a
“combat cadre” of former soliders to pro
tect the country from “American aggres-
In Moscow, in its first high-level com
mentary on the crisis in Iran, the Commun-
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Wednesday, December 5, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Football season’s last yell practice was held on the steps of the
YMCA Building after Saturday’s 13-7 victory over the University of
Texas. After being dumped ceremoniously into the Fish Pond, yell
leaders Mark Outlaw, Brian Hill, Pete Greaves, Jeff Smiley and Ed
Franza begin the post-game celebration with Aggie Band seniors in
the background. Battalion photo by Jeff R. Sanders
Title IX
Government rules confuse women s athletics
By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Battalion Reporter
and United Press International
Before the Justice Department inter
vened in the sex discrimination suit on be
half of Melanie Zentgraf, most of the con
troversy surrounding Title IX dealt with its
application in regulation of intercollegiate
athletics.
Title IX of the Education Amendments
of 1972 bars all forms of discrimination on
sexual grounds in schools and universities.
Implementing the regulation in athletics
has been th subject of debate since it be
came effective July 21, 1975.
Tuesday, the government confounded
the issue more when it ordered all colleges
and universities receiving federal aid to
immediately make athletic scholarship
funds available to women and men in prop
ortion to their participation in sports prog
rams.
But aside from scholarships, the new
policy says schools will not have to spend
proportional amounts of money on women
athletes as on men.
The rules pertain to both public and pri
vate institutions and those which do not
comply with the scholafship rule could lose
federal financial assistance. Policing could
be delayed for several months because the
new U.S. Education Department is just
getting organized.
In spelling out the long awaited policy
regarding Title IX, HEW Secretary Patri
cia Harris announced the government will
conduct a nationwide evaluation of prog
rams at schools receiving federal assistance
to determine compliance with the law.
She said the guidelines mean, for exam
ple, that if 70 percent of a school’s athletes
are male, they are entitled to 70 percent of
the scholarship dollars their school makes
available. But 30 percent would go to
females.
Before the regulation was released, the
government required recipients of federal
funds who operate or sponsor intercollegi
ate, club or intramural athletics to provide
equal athletic opportunities for members of
both sexes.
Factors determining whether an institu
tion had been providing equal opportunity
included selection of sports, accommoda
tion of interests, number and compensa
tion of coaches and publicity. A three-year
transition period that expired July 21,
1978, was granted to universities by which
to comply. By November 1978, HEW had
received 93 complaints alleging more than
62 institutions of higher education were not
providing equal opportunities for women.
In response, a proposed policy interpre
tation setting specific guidelines was de
veloped by HEW. The purpose was to clar
ify what universities must do with their
programs to be within the law.
The interpretation then proposed by
HEW established a two-part approach to
compliance and enforcement. Failure to
comply resulted in a threat to withhold
federal funds to the university.
The first part was aimed at immediately
eliminating discrimination in existing
athletic programs with two standards of
compliance.
The program was to have equal per capi
ta expenditures in what HEW termed
“readily measurable benefits” and compa
rability in those areas HEW said were “not
easily financially measurable. ”
Measurable benefits included scholar
ships, recruitment and supplies. Examples
of nonmeasurable benefits were opportun
ity to compete and practice, recieve
coaching and facilities.
The ruling Tuesday kept the measurable
benefit ruling the same, but changed the
government’s position on the second
group. Comparability of the unmeasurable
benefits is no longer required, according to
HEW’s announcement.
The second part encouraged continued
growth of women’s athletics and overcom
ing what HEW terms the “discriminatory
effects of the historic emphasia on men’s
sports” within a reasonable length of time.
HEW requires universities to take speci
fic steps to provide more athletic opportu
nities for women to “fully accommodate
their rising interest in athletic competi
tion.”
Tuesday’s new policy added to this by
stating items such as equipment and sup
plies, games, travel expenses, locker rooms
and medical training need not be identical,
but must be “equal or equal in effect.”
“HEW does not require identical be
nefits, opportunities, or treatment,” the
policy statement said, “but the effect of any
differences must be negligible.”
Before the announcement, equal per
capita spending was to be met by an institu
tion unless it could demonstrate the differ
ences in expenditures were based on non-
discriminatory factors.
Under the new decision, exact equality
will not be required, but HEW is expected
to allow only small differences unless these
non-discriminatory factors are present.
These factors include cost of a sport or
the scope of competition; for example, na
tional rather than regional or local competi
tion. However, these factors do not exempt
revenue producing sports from the per
capita calculation.
See Title IX, page 3
resolution
ist Party newspaper Pravda said today the
United States was headed down a “very
alarming and dangerous” path, adding the
seizure of American hostages in Iran was no
justification for military action.
Diplomatic sources said there was still
optimism, despite the latest apparent set
back, that Khomeini could launch a fresh
initiative to help secure the hostages’ re
lease.
They said such a move would come only
after results are officially announced at the
end of the week on the two-day referen
dum to turn Iran into an Islamic state with
the Moslem elder himself as absolute ruler.
In a move escalating its economic war
fare with the United States, Iran officially
forbade foreign companies from paying for
oil with dollars and announced Tuesday it
will raise oil prices in 10 days.
In other developmments, British Air
ways has suspended its flights to Tehran
and rerouted flights over Iranian airspace
because of the hostage situation at the
embassy in Iran, an airline spokesman said.
The spokesman said the airline sus
pended flights to the Iranian capital Tues
day because of pilots’ concern about their
safety.
The airline also rerouted its eight daily
flights that normally travel through Iranian
airspace en route to Australia and the Far
East, he said.
Protestors denied permits
for shah demonstration
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — City officials,
citing the “well-being of the hostages
in Iran,” have responded to a test of
their authority by refusing to allow
an Iranian student group to protest
publicly against Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi.
But the students’ lawyer — back
ed by the American Civil Liberties
Union — indicates they will appeal
the action, and the Socialist Workers
Party has gone ahead with plans to
stage a peaceful picket line at city
hall Thursday in protest of the shah’s
presence in San Antonio.
“Our greatest concern has been
for the well-being of the hostages in
Iran,” City Manager Tom Huebner
said Tuesday in denying requests by
the loosely organized Iranian Mus-
lem Organization for two protest
permits.
The shah, whose return to Iran is
being demanded by Moslem stu
dents in exchange for the hostages
being held in Tehran, is convalesc
ing from cancer therapy and gall
bladder surgery at the visiting offic
ers’ quarters at Lackland Air Force
Base amid extraordinarily tight
security.
Huebner said city officials were
concerned about the possibility of
violence should the Iranians be
allowed to protest, and said they
consulted with a number of agen
cies, including the National Security
Council and the Texas Department
of Public Safety before denying the
permits.
But he said, “At no time did any
person or agency tell us what to do.
We view this as a local issue.”
The Iranian Muslim Association,
described by its lawyer Louis Lin
den as a loosely organized group
with about 200 members, had re
quested one permit to demonstrate
Friday at Lackland’s north entrance
and another for a 400-person march
from Travis Park to city hall and the
Alamo an hour later.
Although Linden indicated he
would appeal the city’s action, which
he called a “judgment call,” he said
he would advise his clients not to
demonstrate in the meantime.
The Socialist Workers Party,
meanwhile, announced it would set
up a peaceful picket line in front of
city hall Thursday. Anthony Gon
zalez, a SWP congressional candi
date, said the organization had been
assured by the city the demonstra
tion would be legal because it would
be held on a public sidewalk.
“The majority of the people in San
Antonio do not want the shah here, ”
Gonzalez said. “We would not have
protected Adolf Hitler had he lived
through World War II.”
San Antonio has been the site of
numerous anti-shah demonstrations
since 1978, but many Iranian stu
dents, fearing deportation, have ex
pressed reluctance to demonstrate.
The Texas leader of the Ku Klux
Klan, Gene West, had said his orga
nization also would request a permit
if the city gave the Iranian associa
tion authority to conduct the demon
stration and the parade.
“I think for these people to de
monstrate at this time is a slap in the
face of the American people, ” West
said. “After all, this is our country. I
don’t see how they can refuse an
American organization’s right to
march, while giving a bunch of fore
igners a permit.
“If you can’t protect unpopular
speech, then we really don’t have
free speech.” Goldstein said such an
advance decision by the city “smacks
of prior restraint.