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Campus polls are open today
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Wednesday, April 2, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Students can vote in campus elections until 6p.m. today.
Polls are located in the Memorial Student Center, Sbisa
Dining Hall, the Commons Area, the Corps Guard Room,
the Kleberg Center, the Veterinarian center and Zachry
Engineering Center. Only an I.D. card is needed in order
to vote.
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1. TheTnL Staff Writer
anked 13[iBaylor University has resumed publica-
places bekibf its student newspaper, hut rumb-
Babout the controversy still continue.
' off of as The Lariat temporarily stopped publica-
.azorbacb n March 3 due to the firings of three
ville, arei dent editors following their editorial
M Southidfcmnation of Baylor President Abner
econd to 1 McCall.
KCall had aroused the anger of the edi-
issuing a mandate stating any Baylor
■nts posing for photographs for a Play-
B)read entitled “Girls of the Southwest
Rrence" would be expelled from the
iversity.
MBfh. ensuing controversy resulted in the
■ of Lariat editor-in-chief Jeff Barton,
Km) others. Two faculty members res-
■ in protest of those firings.
Barton said Tuesday the controversy
Biave subsided, but he was still being
erseeuted.”
I get a little bit of hassling in class,” he
d. “I’m taking a loosely structured jour-
, , ism class, and Cindy Slovak (ex-Lariat
l . ,u ." ws editor) and I are being given added
kidded »i
hat
irk It’s not being given to anybody but
is retirintg
“fme journalism faculty members say it
md l ) n»® 0 fj 1 i n g Jq w jth (firing). We re
■' ou | ltr 'i mo pleased with the things that have
™ , ll Bened. If I weren’t such a trusting soul,
ck the p Un itive action,
cision p declined to give the class name or
ern for lessors involved.
ren, theoiB L 0 y a i Gould, journalism depart-
ris at kjjlfchead, was not available for comment,
ssible ' few editors for the Lariat were selected
concuss arch 24 f n a special meeting of the Baylor
dent publications board. They are Philip
ump eubwn, editor-in-chief; Jim Bridges, city
said, il'jtor; and Keith Howard, news editor,
my gut Bridges said the Lariat resumed publica-
could Wednesday, but on Friday the distri-
;s I was iffo n 0 f the paper was sabotaged.
“Someone Friday issued an under
ground ‘bogus’ Lariat, ’ he said. “They used
fake campus advertisements. They wrote
false stories using the names of people on
our staff.
“They also stole copies of the real Lariat
which we had put out and replaced them
with the fakes. They stole some 5000
copies. We later reprinted about 3000
copies and got them out the same day.
Barton said many people feel he was re
sponsible for the fake paper.
“The fake newspaper was all very satiric
al,” he said. “It wasn’t any of us, but we re
getting blamed for it.”
Barton said his original plans to begin an
“underground” newspaper have been de
layed.
“I don’t know, I don’t think we re going
to get it on a regular basis,” he said. “We’d
have to form a partnership ... and we have
only six weeks to form one.
“We might try to get out one publication
around finals time. ”
David Chan, the Playboy photographer
who began the controversy when he
announced he was visiting the campus to
interview Baylor women for the Southwest
Conference issue, arrived at Baylor last
week. Few came to interview, and Chan
received an anonymous death threat.
Bridges said the rest of the visit was une
ventful.
“There were no problems at all,” he said.
“The day he left was the day we started
printing. We’ve had a few letters to the
editor about the events of the past few
weeks, but that’s all.”
Baylor President McCall said he heard
nothing from Chan.
“Everything went fine, as far as I know. I
never met him, I never heard from him. In
fact, a fellow on a TV station last night said
he was not coming back to Baylor, ” he said.
Bridges said he felt the turmoil would
subside soon.
Ready with a spare
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
This fellow seems to be as prepared as he possibly
can be in the event of a flat tire. He’s carrying a
spare tire in his hand. Here he is riding along S.
College Ave. in Bryan.
Female census takers
cause stir in men’s dorm
United Press International
Some students at Texas A&M University
and The University of Texas had something
in common Tuesday: they were angered by
the 1980 national eensus. But the census
aroused their anger for different reasons.
Determined female census takers mar
ched into the men’s dormitories at Texas
A&M causing an uproar before they were
reassigned.
“It caused a little bit of a stir early this
morning when they went in to conduct
their survey,” Ron Sasse, associate director
for student affairs, said Tuesday. “The
men’s dormitories were in the Corps of
Cadets area where ground rules stipulate
they are off limits to women during the
week.”
Sasse said the women were barred at the
door and, after several quick phone calls,
were ordered to canvas the women’s
dorms.
He also said male census takers had been
assigned to work the female dorms, but no
complaints had been received because
those dorms are normally open to men.
The surveys in the campus dorms are
necessary because college students who do
not live at home are not counted on their
parents’ census form.
In Austin, a student protested the census
itself, not who was taking it.
Not since the days of the Vietnam War
had observers of University of Texas poli
tics seen the public burning of a govern
ment document, but a student quickly
changed all that.
Jeff Hummel, chairman of Students for a
Libertarian Society, burned his census
form Tuesday on the campus’ West Mall,
proclaiming that the questions asked in
fringed on his constitutional rights.
He said the long form — which is to be
filled out by 20 percent of the population —
lists 65 questions, many of which violate
individual rights because they ask how
times a man has been married and how
many children a woman has given birth to.
Surrounded by a crowd of about 100 stu
dents and reporters, Hummel displayed
the census form and a butane cigarette
lighter.
Hummel, 31, then threw the flames into
a metal waste basket.
Local voting
to decide
bond issue
By NANCY ANDERSEN
City Staff
The April 5th city elections will decide a
$14.7 million bond issue, an opinion vote
on a transit system, and four contested
council positions.
Bryan voters will be asked to approve a
bond issue that would be used in a five-part
program to improve the water works sys
tem, streets, fire stations and firefighter
training, the municipal service center and
park and recreation facilities.
The opinion vote is non-binding and will
ask if citizens want the city of Bryan to
establish, operate and finance a transit sys
tem in cooperation with College Station.
It would cost about $165,000 to establish
a system and $227,000 to operate it the first
year, a city spokesman said.
In Bryan, only city council position six —
between incumbent John Mobley and for
mer councilman Andy Herrera — is being
contested. Neither could be reached for
comment.
Incumbents Pies Turner and Henry Sea
le are unopposed.
In College Station four city council posi
tions are open, but only three are being
contested. Councilman Gary Halter is run
ning unopposed for the mayor’s office.
Stephen Biles and Roy Kelly are running
for place one, which was vacated by Halter.
Biles is a research associate for the Texas
Engineering Extension Service Center for
Urban Research and said local government
is not only a long-term interest, but his
occupation. As a councilman, he said, he
would be concerned with city growth, the
possibilities of public transportation and
making sure local government benefits as
many people as possible.
Kelly was not available for comment.
The race for place two is between
Continued on page 3
‘Practicing'jet
causes concern
A jet circling the Texas A&M Univer
sity campus Tuesday afternoon caused
some concern on the part of students
and area residents.
A spokesman for Easterwood Airport
said the Boeing 707 jet was practicing
“touch and goes,” which consist of
touching down on the runway, moving
down the runway about 1000 feet and
taking off again.
“The story is all the phone calls, ” an
Easterwood Airport spokesman said.
“The phone has been ringing every
since the plane started circling.
“We’ve got two (telephone) lines and
they’ve both been busy since the plane
started circling.
“707 pilots have to practice some
where,” he said.
A Rio Airways spokesman said the
4-engine executive airliner belonging to
Campbell’s Soup Co. was practicing on
the Easterwood runway because it is
shorter than the ones 707s usually use,
and tested the pilot’s ability.
The runway at Easterwood Airport is
5,700 feet long.
“Touch and goes” are not often prac
ticed at the University airport by aircraft
as large as the 707, the Rio Airways
spokesman said.
Moore denies ducking opponent
By LAURA CORTEZ
City Staff
State Senator William T. “Bill” Moore
said he is not avoiding his opponent or the
press, but his campaign requires him to be
out of town much of the time.
“I have to go where the people are,”
Moore said at a Tuesday afternoon press
conference.
The Bryan resident has concentrated
his efforts elsewhere since he is better
known in the Bryan-College Station area
than in other areas of his senatorial district.
He also said he has not been avoiding his
opponent, Kent Caperton, with whom he
has refused to debate.
“I’m sure we ll run into each other, but
not at his convenience,” Moore said.
Concerning the Texas State Teacher’s
Association’s recent endorsement of
Caperton, Moore said he thinks many of
the teachers felt they were “duped by the
decision.
He said he believes it was only a handful
of teachers who actually supported the en
dorsement.
Moore commented on Caperton’s recent
statement that the Texas A&M System’s
share of the Permanent University Fund,
which it shares with the University of Texas
System, should be increased from Vs to Vz.
Moore said there is no way to do this
because the fund is already in serious
jeopardy, and concentration should be put
on preserving what Texas A&M now re
ceives rather than on trying to get more
money.
Several state-supported universities in
Texas that receive nothing from the PUF
are already “knocking at the door” and
trying to get a share of the money, he said.
“Nothing would please these other uni
versities more than for Texas A&M and the
University of Texas to get into a fight over
who gets what.”
Moore also said he is in a better position
to protect the PUF than “someone getting
on-the-job training in government.”
Concerning pay raises for state em
ployees, teachers and professors, Moore
said he feels it is only “humane” to give
them cost of living increases, but said he
will not support unionization in these
areas.
When asked for his reaction to a recent
Teamsters Union endorsement of Caper
ton, Moore responded, “I’m not sur
prised.”
Regarding gasoline taxes in Texas, the
senator said he will oppose any efforts to
increase the 5-cent tax by the state legisla
ture next year.
He said a lack of mass transit systems in
this district and in the state force people to
commute by car, some as many as 40-50
miles, to work.
“I cannot control what the Carter admi
nistration does (Carter has announced he
will place a 10-cent tax on gasoline), but I
will have a great deal to say about what the
Texas Senate does in the next legislative
Iran seeks new U. S. assurances
Photo by Dennis Denton
After a day of intense campaigning for student government candidates,
liana Smith, a junior majoring in biology, heads home.
United Press International
Iran’s President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
has demanded new assurances from the
United States as a condition for the transfer
of the American hostages to government
custody. But a White House official said the
administration isn’t quite sure “what it is
they’re looking for. ”
The statement from Bani-Sadr Tuesday
injected a new note of uncertainty about
the fate of the hostages, now in their 151st
day of captivity.
Hopes had been raised by his earlier
announcement that the Iranian govern
ment would take custody of the 50 hos
tages from the militants — believed to be
a first step toward their release — if the
United States promised not to threaten
Iran.
“We want to be helpful,” the White
House official said, but added “there are
obviously limits to how far this president or
any president can go.”
President Carter said Tuesday he viewed
Bani-Sadr’s initial statement as a positive
step and he announced he would delay
plans to impose new sanctions against Iran.
“Our view is that we re not sure of what
sort of assurances they’re looking for, ” the
official said.
U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim
told U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
Bani-Sadr was “waiting for a further state
ment from Carter.”
Bani-Sadr’s statement said the Revolu
tionary Council wants the United States to
pledge there will be no hostile actions and
provocations against Iran before the trans
fer of the hostages from the occupied U.S.
Embassy in Tehran can take place.
“It is not important to us what opinion
Carter has expressed,” Bani-Sadr said in a
broadcast carried by Tehran Radio and
monitored in London.
“What is important is whether or not he
takes the measures we have specified,” he
said. “If he does, the Revolutionary Coun
cil will undertake responsibility for the hos
tages until the Majlis (parliament) gives its
opinion on the matter: otherwise it will
not.”
His statement came after Carter said the
United States would never apologize to
Iran.
“No one in the government of the United
States has apologized to anyone in the gov
ernment of Iran, Carter said. “We have
not condoned nor expressed any under
standing of or approval of the seizure by the
militants of the innocent American hos
tages in Tehran nor will we ever.