The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 98 Monday, February 11, 1980 USPS 045 360
12 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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Some basket ball stars of the future admire their Basketball Shout-Out during the Aggie’s game against Rice Saturday night and were presented
Ifjitrophies won during the Bryan-College Station Evening Optimists benefit their trophies along with an autographed basketball during halftime.
,t 0 „ contest for Easter Seals. The youngsters sat on the Texas A&M bench staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper jr.
Carter wins
second round
United Press International
AUGUSTA, Maine — President Carter
has won round two of the 1980 Democratic
presidential race, beating a strong chal
lenge by Sen. Edward Kennedy in cau
cuses in Maine, a New England state that
was on Kennedy’s “must win’’ list.
Carter finished comfortably ahead of
Kennedy in Sunday’s caucuses, with Gov.
Edmund G. Brown running an unex
pectedly strong third. But Carter won less
than a majority of the Maine votes, and all
three candidates claimed some headway.
With 86 percent of the results in, Carter
had 13,660 votes, and had elected 870, or
45.7 percent of the delegates to the state
Democratic convention.
Kennedy had 12,041 votes and had
elected 752, or 39.6 percent of the dele
gates. Brown had 4,494 votes and had
elected 252, or 13.3 percent of the dele
gates.
Those state convention delegates will
select the Maine delegation to the Demo
cratic National Convention. Based on the
caucus results there will be 10 Carter dele
gates, eight or nine for Kennedy, two or
three for Brown, and one uncommitted.
Kennedy’s final vote was only 2 or 3 per
centage points better than what he polled
in Iowa, but Brown, who was virtually
ignored by Iowa voters, drew liberal Maine
votes, and possibly deprived Kennedy of
victory.
“When you win, you win and when you
lose, you lose,” said Carter’s Press Secret
ary Jody Powell, who called Carter’s first-
place finish in Kennedy’s New England
backyard a major victory.
But Kennedy said his strong second re
vitalized his campaign after the 2-to-l
drubbing by Carter in Iowa last month. The
Kennedy camp noted polls that had shown
Kennedy trailing Carter in Maine by 19
percent, and said they had come back a
long way since the Massachusetts senator
took off the gloves two weeks ago and began
attacking Carter head on.
Kennedy and Brown claimed that the
fact they combined to keep Carter from
getting 50 percent of the vote in Maine
showed that a majority of voters wanted
someone else for president.
“I am grateful to the Democrats of Maine
for this welcome vote of support, ” said Car
ter in a statement issued by the White
House. “Both Senator Kennedy and Gov
ernor Brown ran strong, well-organized
races, and I congratulate them on their
campaigns.”
Returning to Washington with his own
count, Kennedy said the results of the cau
cuses were “good news. ” He told cheering
welcomers, “Four days ago, we were 19
points behind President Carter and tonight
we are in a dead heat.”
Brown said he was satisfied that in one
week he had been able to “generate
tremendous support.
“A spark has been lit in Maine for peace
and against nuclear madness and against
reinstituting the draft,” said Brown. “I see
in rural areas, I took votes away from Carter
and in urban areas away from Kennedy.”
Modular dorms plagued with problems
le# By JANA SIMS
ItOBB Campus Reporter
ani Hanging alongside flyers promoting con-
Hsts, wing flings and meetings in the new
u laas dormitory is a door-sized poster read-
agl' MOLD?? If you still have mold in your
1 ioJets ...”
' Mesidents of Haas and McFadden halls,
1 he new twin modular dormitories, have
id ringside seats in a five-month trial and
™®'r fight with humidity.
211 A plague of problems — the humidity,
mbing ills and mosquitoes — appeared
he new residence halls last semester,
praying rid the dorms of the mosquitoes
ind the only remaining plumbing problem
exists in the showers. Residents must con
tinually adjust the water temperature in
the showers — a problem that maintenance
foreman Bennie Bilbo said is caused by
insufficient water volume and the problem
is being worked on.
But the main concern is the humidity.
Due to a construction deadline which
allowed no time for a trial run of the dorms,
residents moved in and immediately began
suffering from dripping windows, damp
carpets and moldy closets.
Bilbo said Texas A&M chose to construct
the modular-type dorms because they are
the cheapest and fastest to build while still
retaining quality.
The dorm rooms were built in San Anto
nio and assembled here by Construction
Modules, Inc., a subsidiary of H. B. Zachry
Co. Once they were assembled, another
firm took over the architectural and mecha
nical design engineering. Texas A&M staff
and representatives of both companies
have discussed, examined and tested the
dorms.
They unanimously agree that a lack of
fresh air circulation is the source of the
problem.
But a method of introducing fresh air into
the dorm rooms has not been decided,
according to Eugene Oates, housing opera
tions supervisor.
The staff first attempted to “dry-out” the
dorms. Doors were opened, windows were
cracked, the heater was turned up and
blowers heated and pulled in outside air.
Tom Murray, coordinator for the north
dorm area, the dry-out was tested on a
small scale over Thanksgiving break and
done on a large scale during Christmas
break.
Murray said he talked to about 60 resi
dents the week after Christmas break. He
said only one or two women didn’t think the
dry-out helped.
“But now the problems are coming
back,” Murray said.
Lee Harvey, head resident of the new
dorms, lives in Haas and said the dry-out
made a big difference. But she said it’s
“awkward to tell at the moment” the extent
of the improvements because the problems
are beginning again.
But McFadden resident Helen Cous-
soulis, seated near a large puddle on her
carpet, said she didn’t notice the dorm had
been dried out. The puddle in her room, as
in many other rooms, forms from excessive
condensation dripping off her windows.
The dampness has caused mildew in the
closet nearest the window.
The dry-out caused an additional
headache. The doors in the dorms are
wooden with cement cores and support full
length mirrors. Murray said the dry-out
cracked about 30 doors. The contractors
replaced the doors. He said the mirrors will
be taken down and relocated.
Frances Kahlich, a resident advisor in
McFadden, said “that’s a big point of con
tention with the girls” because they want
their mirrors in the rooms.
Kahlich said she feels lucky when com
paring her living conditions with other
women. Although last semester she battled
mosquitoes, this semester she only has a
window-side puddle and bathroom mold to
contend with.
Kahlich said, “The girls are used to it by
now and they don’t get bent-stretch out.
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Report of man s death
greatly exaggerated
United Press International
BOISE, Idaho — It was Mark Twain
j Mio said reports of his death were great
ly exaggerated. The same applies to
Donald Roberts, who returned from a
three-month hunting trip to find he had
been declared dead.
It all started with Roberts heading
‘n [into the wintry Sawtooth Wilderness
1 Area to do some goat hunting. He dis
appeared and eventually was declared
dead by his church and two judges.
Roberts returned, very much alive,
last week, 85 days after he left on his
trip.
The way Roberts tells the story, he
fell and injured himself while trying to
pack a mountain goat out of the Saw-
tooths. For nearly three months,
Roberts said he lived in his sleeping
, surviving sub-zero temperatures
and subsisting on the slaughtered
mountain goat and provisions he had
brought with him.
Meanwhile, bill collectors were
pounding on his wife’s door, his rela
tives were fighting over his possessions,
his business partner was fighting with
his family over his estate.
Upon his return, Roberts found civili
zation wasn’t exactly waiting for him
with open arms.
Law enforcement officials were skep
tical of his story.
He discovered he had been declared
dead by two Ada County judges at the
request of his wife’s attorney. His Mor
mon bishop had stamped “deceased” on
his church records and sent them to
church headquarters in Salt Lake City.
A life insurance company was in the
process of paying off the mortgage on his
home.
“It’s given me all kinds of weird
thoughts,” Roberts said. “I was at the
bank today and I was in the deceased
file. ”
His local ward church leaders came
up with a unique explanation for
Roberts’ return from the dead.
Mormon bishop Dale Hopkins said
local church officials met to decide what
to do now that Roberts had returned.
They still had a duplicate of Roberts’
church records, so with a red pen they
wrote “resurrected” on them.
MSC director to start new job
By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Battalion Staff
J. Wayne Stark is about to take over the
second job at Texas A&M University that
was created with him in mind.
Three years before it was built in 1950,
Stark was hired to be director of the Memo
rial Student Center, a job that also entailed
guiding its development. Next month.
Stark will begin developing a committee to
set policies governing gifts made to the
University.
The change will be made April 12 at the
MSC Council banquet. Jim Reynolds, cur
rently associate director of the MSC, will
be promoted to director.
Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president for
student services, said Stark’s move came
after several months of discussion with Uni
versity President Jarvis E. Miller, Terr
ance Greathouse, vice president for inter
national affairs and Robert Walker, vice
president for development.
“The idea sort of came out of the wood
work as we talked. The president realized
he needed someone to study, among other
things, the possibility of a museum for the
University because of the many people giv-
Russians torture rebels
United Press International
Thousands of opponents to the Moscow-
ked Kabul regime have been executed
1 tortured since Soviet troops invaded
ghanistan, a rebel leader and reports
iching the West said today.
On the battlefront, rebel resistance re-
rtedly was crumbling, with Soviet troops
iningfirm control of all parts of Afghanis-
except for the mountainous northeast.
Amin Wakman, secretary general of the
bel Afghan Mellat Party, charged that at
ist200 members of his party disappeared
om the Pulacharki prison in Kabul since
e government of Babrak Karmal was in
filled during the Soviet invasion.
We have given up hope of seeing them
ive,” Wakman said in New Delhi. “We
sume they disappeared with the
fl|| ousands of others the government claims
released.’”
“We have told their families not to hope
any longer,” he said.
Indian reporters today said the prison
was empty following the release of 3,000
political prisoners in January.
A Western traveler to India reported
that a luxurious house in Kabul, used as a
“reception center” for questioning and tor
ture under the previous regime, was still in
service last month.
“I don’t know what they do in there. But
trucks pull up and let out five to 10 people
at a time — maybe 30 or 40 a night,” he
said. “I’m not saying they all died, but I
have not seen any walk out.”
Another traveler said he saw one man
whose “his fingernails had been ripped
off.”
Diplomatic sources said they do not
know where the prisoners from Pulacharki
Prison have gone.
“They may be in other prisons, ” said one
diplomat. “But I can’t think why the gov
ernment would have gone to the trouble or
expense when other solutions were easier. ”
In a related development, an American
journalist who toured guerrilla camps in
southeastern Afghanistan today characte
rized rebel operations as “primitive to the
point of being ineffective.”
“There was no military cohesion in any
thing I saw,” said Judah Passow, a photo-
journalist who spent four days inside Afgha
nistan with three other reporters on the
invitation of the Jammiat Island (Holy
Freedom Fighters).
Passow, who spoke to UPI in Quetta,
Pakistan, said women and children lived in
the camps using animal skin tents for shel
ter.
As to weapons, he said the rebels, rang
ing in age from 15 to 70, “were armed with a
ragtag collection of arms ranging from mus
kets. . . to captured AK-47 automatic
rifles.”
ing and offering art objects and artifacts to
A&M,” Koldus said.
Koldus said that Stark’s long service with
A&M had given him the experience and
contacts needed for the job. Stark will also
continue working with the student enrich
ment programs he has created at the Uni
versity, including the Experiment in Inter
national Living program.
“(Stark) will have a unique relationship
not now provided for in the administration
or the budget. The administrative change
will come in conjunction with the MSC
banquet since that’s when the new officers
will come in and Jim (Reynolds) will take
over as director,” Koldus said.
Koldus said the title being considering
for the new position is Special Assistant to
the President for Development of Cultural
Programs, but that other details of the
change, including salary, have not yet been
worked out.
Stark was hired as director of the MSC in
1947 to help guide the direction and pur
pose it was to take.
Stark said the idea for the building was
patterned after the student union buildings
in England. In Europe, the universities
supplied only academic instruction, Stark
said. In an effort to fill a void, students
scrounged money and bought buildings
near the campus where they could meet,
debate and socialize with other students.
Stark said there were already some forms
of this in the United States but most of
them were the “filling station” type.
“You could meet, get a drink of water and
go to the bathroom and leave. There were
no programs, nothing to contribute to the
enrichnment of the student learning ex
perience.”
But Stark wanted Texas A&M’s student
union to be more than that.
T’ve tried to make all the programs at
the MSC student experiences. A college
union should be a receptacle for all the
things students want to do.”
One of the things Stark helped create
through the MSC was a speaker sponsor
ship program.
“I believed that the student union should
be interested in helping sponsor a speaker
system. The professional staff of the MSC
are ‘coaches’ helping the students see
things like what it is to make a budget and
stick to it and how to write a state senator
and ask him to come and speak,” Stark said.
Since the MSC first sponsored five
speakers in 1953 it has developed into an
organization of 20 committees with a
budget of $1.9 million. The various com
mittees have sponsored shows of all types,
from performances by world-class pianists
and opera stars to speeches by Muhammad
Ali and Ralph Nader.
Stark said that he will still work with the
Opera and Performing Arts Society and the
Student Conference on National Affairs,
but his main concern will be with directing
a committee to decide what and how gifts to
the University will be made.
“The president wants to know whether
we need a museum, where the money will
come from to build and operate it and what
the philosophy will be. I’ve had ideas about
this sort of thing for a long time and now I’m
just going to guide them along.”
J. Wayne Stark will move from his job as director of the Memv;
Center to a new position created just for him, developing a C
rules governing how gifts are made to the University.