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Wednesday, March 5, 1980
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loom w4 ■ 'dSTON — George Bush got the vic-
C ludinnc 7 l 16 needed in Massachusetts and
n 9 au,li iald Reagan won in Vermont, but dark
Rooms se John Anderson nearly mugged both
he last of the early New England pres-
. ntial primaries.
U '* ien. Edward Kennedy gave a spark of
1 Fcijjgy q : to his battered campaign with a big win
' Massachusetts Democratic contest;
SundjiSident Carter won even bigger in Ver-
„ nt.
693'l;leagan’s Vermont win was a heart-
3UREAU ^ ec ^ e( ^ * n ^he last stages of voting
^ ^ tall Y from St. Johnsbury in the deep
wwPfim near the Canadian border. Ander-
—C foirscd a Massachusetts lead most of
. , ...t night, but the Illinois congressman was
lUAl' > ec l out by Bush as the counting reached
TTT?nb final stages -
l IVUalv 10-term Illinois congressman, Ander
son’s showing Tuesday gave him no claim to
frontrunner status but it inflicted wounds
on both the Bush and Reagan campaigns
and served notice that a third force was in
the field.
The next primaries are in Florida, Geor
gia and Alabama next Tuesday for both par
ties and South Carolina only for the Repub
licans Saturday.
As the surprising New England results
came in, Anderson told supporters in Bos
ton, “My heart is overflowing. This is a
campaign of ideas. We re going to leave
here tomorrow and carry that same mes
sage across the country.”
Carter sent a message of congratulations
to Kennedy for his home state win and
thanked Vermont supporters for their land
slide support.
Bush said in South Carolina he was
“pleased over what’s happened,” and
Reagan, in Los Angeles, said he had done
better than he expected in both New Eng
land states, which he called “not exactly my
territory. ”
In the contests for national convention
delegates, Massachusetts gave 77 delegates
to Kennedy and 34 to Carter and put Ken
nedy ahead, 111-85, in the race for the
1,666 needed to win the Democratic nomi
nation.
The Republican vote translated into 14
delegates for Bush, 13 for Reagan, 13 for
Anderson, and 2 for Baker. That would be a
national total of 36 for Bush, 35 for Reagan,
15 for Anderson, 8 for Baker and 1 for John
Connally in the race for 998 needed to
nominate.
The Vermont primary was a "beauty con
test” designed to show presidential prefer
ence but not award delegates.
ommittees will oversee
reas once under Miller
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Jmbers have been appointed to two
top-level administrative committees,
'-i of which will take control of areas pre-
ftullpy supervised by Texas A&M Univer-
^■^resident Jarvis E. Miller.
••■••Hllie revisions in governing the Universi-
System were instituted Saturday.
‘You’re taking the administration of
§$e jobs away from a straight-line
pigement and giving them to a commit-
Miller said when asked how effective
thought the new system would be. “You
eyour own judgment about how that will
irk. ”
Miller was appointed chairman of the
:w Joint Committee on University-
;ency Relations. That board will be re-
onsible for making several kinds of deci-
ms about University System agencies on
e main campus.
The committee will have authority on
rsonnel matters, land use, facilities plan-
ng, development and renovation.
Asked who did those jobs previously,
iller said, “I did.”
The committee was formed to comply
ith changes the Board of Regents made in
iRules and Regulations in January, Chan-
illor Frank W.R. Hubert said. He said it
ill “continue the close-knit relations” be-
reen the agencies and the main campus.
“I think we’ve had those close-knit rela-
ons,” Miller said.
“This removes from the authority of the
president a substantial part of the research
program in College Station.”
“Any time you set programs apart, I
think you run the risk of losing coordina
tion,” Miller said. “Just human nature says
that you create a competitive environment.
“But that is what the committee was
established to avoid,” he said.
Specifically, Miller said the change will
take over the engineering and agricultural
research branches. Miller was director of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
for many years.
Hubert will chair the System Executive
Council, which he said will be a planning
body for the system and a sounding board
for new ideas.
Miller praised this committee.
“We needed a device for communicating
between system parts,” he said. “I think
this is a good step. ’
Aside from chairman Miller, members of
the Joint Committee on University-Agency
Relations are: Wesley E. Peel, vice chair
man, who is the system’s director of facili
ties planning and construction; Dr. J.M.
Prescott, University vice president for
academic affairs; Howard L. Vestal, vice
president for business affairs; Dr. Perry
Adkisson, vice president for agriculture
and renewable resources; Fred J. Benson,
vice president for engineering and non
renewable resources; and W. Clyde Free
man, the system’s executive vice chancel
lor for administration.
The Executive Council is made up of
Hubert, its chairman; Miller; Dr. A.I. Tho
mas, president of Prairie View A&M Uni
versity; Dr. W.O. Trogdon, president of
Tarleton State University; Dr. William H.
Clayton, president ofTexas A&M Univer
sity at Galveston; Dr. Neville Clarke,
director of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station; Dr. Daniel C. Pfannstiel,
director of the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service; and Dr. C.V. Wootan, direc
tor of the Texas Transportation Institute.
The other members are Freeman, Paul
Kramer, director of the Texas Forest Ser
vice; Dr. William L. Sippel, director of the
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
Laboratory; Dr. John C. Calhoun, execu
tive vice chancellor for programs; James B.
Bond, vice chancellor for legal affairs and
general counsel; Wesley E. Peel, director
for facilities planning and construction;
Robert G. Cherry, secretary to the Board of
Regents; and two new positions, the depu
ty chancellorships for agriculture and en
gineering. Those positions are yet to be
appointed.
Adkisson and Benson are serving as agri
cultural and engineering deputy chancel
lors, respectively, on an interim basis.
Hubert will make recommendations to fill
those positions permanently March 25 at
the next Regents meeting.
Just for grins
Senior Scott Stroud decided to put on the ritz for
Memorial Student Center’s All-Nite Fair last
weekend. Stroud was just one of hundreds of Texas
A&M students who made an appearance. Thursday,
Focus magazine will present a pictorial essay on the
All-Nite Fair.
Staff photo by Lynn Blanco
Students opposed
to phone rate hike
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By NANCY ANDERSEN
City Staff
I Not suprisingly, ten Texas A&M Uni
versity students who were asked their
t reaction to General Telephone Com
pany’s proposed rate increase were
i; against it.
I This survey does not represent a ran-
: dom sample of the student population.
Besides opposing the 37 percent in-
rease in annual revenues, most criti-
ized the current rates and existing ser-
I vice.
Freshman business major Jeff Size-
’ more said, “I think they’re too high right
| now.”
| “It costs enough as it is,” said senior
pGary Hill.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous ... with the
ervices we get, there should be a de
crease,” senior physical education ma-
or Karl Lesche said. “It’s a Mickey
ouse phone company.”
“GTE needs to be improved,” senior
nance major Chip Reynolds said. “The
asic functions don’t work - you can’t
ial out (for long distance service), can’t
get information or an operator.”
Graduate student Bart Braden wasn’t
upset about the increase. “I can’t com
plain about the phone service,” he said.
“It’s really the cheapest service we’ve
got. They need some increase, but not
of that magnitude.”
The reaction centers around GTE’s
first statewide rate increase filed with
the Public Utilities Commission last
| week.
F.E. Hightower, revenue vice presi-
? dent, said: “Continued erosion of earn
ings through customer growth and re
quirements for services, rapidly chang
ing technology, the need to improve
and expand services, and unpre-
I cedented high levels of inflation make
our request necessary.”
If approved, phone rates for basic
monthly service in the Bryan and Col
lege Station area will be $11.48 for one-
party residential service and $31.19 for
one-party business service.
This means residents would have to
pay $4.17 or 51.5 percent more for ser
vice, and businesses would pay $15.29
or 96 percent more.
However, GTE Bryan division mana
ger Bill Erwin said “customers should
take a ‘wait and see’ attitude.”
“These (rates) are not set in con
crete,” he said. “The PUC determines
the increase and where it will be ap
plied. I think the increase will be spread
on optional services.”
According to PUC rules, rate in
creases may become effective 35 days
after filing, but Erwin said the date is
usually extended for an additional 120
days. This extra time enables the PUC
to investigate the validity of the increase
and hold public hearings, he said.
“It will probably be September be
fore the final ruling,” he said. “I am
expecting an increase, but I can’t say
how much.”
Erwin added customers will be kept
informed of developments by notices in
their bills.
Besides generating additional re
venue, GTE is attempting to standar
dize telephone rates by placing cities in
groups by the number of phones resi
dents can reach without long distance
charges. For example. Dime Box, a
“group one” city, can reach 1,000 to
3,200 phones and Crosby, a “group 10”
city, can reach from one to 1.5 million.
Erwin said cities with low rates would
feel the increase the most. For instance,
“group five” cities (for example: Bryan,
College Station and Snook-Tunis) would
pay $11.48 for residential service. But
since Snook-Tunis residents are now
paying $9.65, their increase would be
only 19 percent compared to 51.6 for
Bryan and College Station.
“Bryan and College Station have had
very nominal rates for years,” Erwin
said.
Long distance rates and free informa
tion service will not be affected by the
proposed increase.
Whether students favor the increase
or not, most feel they have little choice
in the matter.
As senior wildlife sciences major De
bbie Underwood said, “It doesn’t really
matter what we think — nobody wants
an increase. We have to do what they
say because no one wants to be without a
phone.”
Firings at Baylor leave
prof, students stunned
By RICHARD OLIVER
Staff Writer
Baylor University today finds itself with
out a newspaper, a newspaper staff and one
journalism professor — but one thing not
lacking in Waco is controversy.
The turmoil over the firing of three stu
dent editors at Baylor has resulted in the
dismissal of a journalism professor and the
sympathetic resignations of most of the
newspaper staff.
The Baylor Student Publications Board
fired the editors — Editor-in-chief Jeff Bar
ton, News Editor Cyndy Slovak and City
Editor Barry Kolar — Monday for criticiz
ing a university administration order that
they submit for prepublication review any
news stories or editorials concerning the
impending visit of Playboy magazine
photographer David Chan.
Associate Professor Donald Williams,
who had resigned in support of the editors
effective at the end of the semester, re
portedly appeared at work Monday morn
ing, only to be told to clear his desk and
leave by journalism department head Dr.
Loyal Gould.
Williams said the dismissal was a result of
a quote in a paper saying he was “no longer
proud to be at Baylor”.
Gould refused to comment on the dis
missal.
Faced with the option of either resigning
or being fired, the three student editors
decided to await the decision of Monday’s
board meeting. The board — composed of
five faculty members and six students —
agreed unanimously to dismiss the three.
On Sunday, 17 of 24 staff members of
The Baylor Lariat had voted to resign to
protest the actions of the student publica
tions adviser, who allegedly cut two sent
ences from an editorial without the editors’
knowledge or consent. Eight staff members
were not present.
The editorial criticized university admi
nistrators as being "arrogant” in advocating
the prior review of any Playboy articles.
Several Lariat staff members indicated
they would not quit their jobs because of
fear they would lose scholarships.
One staff member, who asked to be un
identified, said he wasn’t sure quitting
would be worthwhile.
“I just don’t know what I’ll do,” he said.
“There’s been so much flying around and I
think maybe the editors are blowing it all a
bit out of proportion.
“I have a scholarship now, and I would
hate to lose it. I may agree with Jeff (Barton)
on the whole thing, but I need that scholar
ship real bad.”
McCall said he didn t consider Williams’
early departure a dismissal or a firing.
“We paid him off all his salary, ” he said.
“It amounted to a one-sentence resigna
tion. Williams came in and left the resigna
tion with my secretary and we never dis
cussed it.
“If he’s not going to cooperate ... we
don’t need it,” McCall said.
“The professors in the department
agreed to take over his classes for the re
mainder of the semester. We relieved him
of his position and we’ve fulfilled our obli
gations.”
Williams disagrees.
“I quit in support of the editors,” he said.
“I think President McCall simply and repe
atedly slapped the editors in the face with
the policy. He treated them like irresponsi
ble children.”
Williams is upset at the lack of support he
received from his fellow professors in the
journalism deposit.
“I’m disappointed in those of my col
leagues who supported this action,” he
said. “I had already resigned, and I was told
Monday to get out right then. I’m shocked.
I’m very indignant. It was vindictive, pet
ty, and there was no justification for it.
“It’s not fair to the students to cut me out
of my classes in the middle of a semester. I
can’t believe my colleagues are so heedless
of the welfare of the students to support
such an action.”
Barton said the ousted journalists are
considering forming an “alternate news
paper at Baylor.
“It would be more legitimate than The
Lariat, he said. T’ve been on the phone all
day trying to drum up support for it.”
Barton said he had received support for
the idea from Baylor alumni in Waco and
Florida.
“Also, people from the Beaumont, Port
Arthur and Corpus Christi have expressed
interest in it,” he said. “But, of course, I
don’t know if they’ll put up money when it
comes right down to it.”
Barton said he would probably remain at
Baylor.
“The temptation to leave and go some
where where my talents are appreciated is
great,” he said. “But most of the professors
and the students have stuck by me. Mostly,
I don’t want to give them the pleasure of
seeing me leave.”
The Baylor Lariat will not publish until
after spring break, which begins Friday.
Chan, currently in Fort Worth inter
viewing Texas Christian University coeds,
said he is appalled by the Baylor situation.
“The editorial, which can be pro or con,
is the backbone of a newspaper,” he said.
“For example, your school might put me
down or praise me, and that’s the way it
should be.
“School should be a learning process. It
teaches students to walk on two feet instead
of somebody treating you like a puppet.”
Chan said he anticipates no problem
when he arrives at Baylor in two weeks.
Barton, however, said Chan shouldn’t
expect accurate press coverage.
“When he gets here, probably all hell
will break loose,” he said. “I don’t think
The Lariat will provide good coverage.”
See related comment on page 2.
News
summary
From local sources
Wilson’s son in good condition
The 16-year-old son of Texas A&M
University head football coach Tom
Wilson regained consciousness for
the first time Monday night after he
was injured in an automobile acci
dent Friday.
Mark Wilson was riding in the
back of a pickup truck on Harvey
Road when he fell out, hitting his
head on the pavement. He was taken
to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan and
was transferred to Methodist Hospit
al in Houston. Wilson remained un
conscious until Monday night, when
he spoke a few words upon
awakening.
Daun Wilson, Mark’s mother, said
she expects him to remain in
Methodist’s neuro-intensive care
unit for at least two more weeks.
Yell practice scheduled
A yell practice has been scheduled
for noon Thursday, prior to the Texas
A&M University basketball team’s
departure for Denton. The Aggies
play Bradley Friday night in Denton
in the opening round of the NCAA
Midwest Regional Basketball Tour
nament.
The yell practice will be held be
hind Cain Hall.
From wire reports
Khomeini overrules students
TEHRAN, Iran — Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah Khomeini has overruled the mili-
tants occupying the American
embassy in Tehran and said mem
bers of the U.N. Commission on Iran
will be permitted to meet with the 50
American hostages.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh said after a meeting of
the ruling Revolutionary Council
Tuesday night Khomeini had
approved the meeting between the
U.N. panel and all the hostages, an
official Pars News Agency report
broadcast on Tehran Radio said.