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The Battalion in thel M.asau ssponS in cell 'oundtkr|;, out20p«S 1 students • WwlB 3ening p S;etuse second Vol. 73 No. 135 16 Pages Wednesday, April 9, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 vacuation using a i tool is yo; iges.lfB ss, even So* the second night in a row, students jgist. Bordered to evacuate the Sterling C. terizedims Library Tuesday night. But this linutn eJsome of them refused, s ami liofrieone set off a number of hand- I canbiffiecl fire alarms at about 9:30 p.m. a specifitfijeral students didn’t leave the build- t neuron, complaining that this was just another at quantile llarm that would take up their time re dyssly. Jan Dubblede, a library assistant, said Hiderstood the students’ feelings. ||, she said, campus police told her felvould have to arrest such students t time. \ Jus routes j) ocontinue his summer By JERRY MAZE Campus Reporter Students on the south and east shuttle fjoutes will receive bus service both miner sessions, following a unanimous n eision of the Shuttle Bus Operations rnifiiittee Tuesday afternoon. The new program resulted from the com- jted ideas ofTexas A&M University rep- sentatives and Transportation Enter- ises Inc. (TEI). Brady Burnett, branch manager of TEI Bn an, said the summer routes will be ^r to the present evening routes. BEl has guaranteed service both sum- i'^essions for $15 per session. Burnett said buses will run at 10-minute fenals from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday rough Friday. These times may be reduced if not x ough students ride the buses, but Gene ites, chairman of the shuttle bus opera- tas, committee, said they will always run • C till at least 5:15 p.m. SlIltThe 19 apartment complexes to receive mmer service are Plantation Oaks, usalito, Sundance, Tanglewood, Barce- w, Sevilla, Scandial, Taos, Pepper Tree, mginire, Parkway, Southwest Village, Hwick, Arbor Square, Cripple Creek, mrtyard. Yellow House and Longmire Oates said these areas of service are the suit of a recent survey conducted by TEI determine interest in having summer uttle bus service. The north route was excluded because of ack of interest. A shortage of customers, Oates said, was bjeason a similar system failed at Texas icM two years ago. “It may be because gasoline was cheaper en. ’ Oates said, “but it was just not eco- mically feasible at that time.” Burnett said TEI is enthusiastic about e new program and has already started vertising. “It may help in making College Station a -month town, instead of a nine-month. ” Burnett explained that by giving stu- mts transportation and a better reason to ly in College Station, apartment corn- exes and businesses will not have to con- ntrate as heavily on making their annual come in nine months. Dr John Koldus, vice-president for stu nt services at Texas A&M voiced his sup- irt of the new plan and said he could resee no problems. His approval of the plan is required. Soccer, anyone? A tired soccer player, carrying a bag of those after a late afternoon practice session on the Univer- funny-looking balls that are becoming a familiar sity’s polo field. sight on the Texas A&M campus, heads for home staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Mr Force voids critical evaluation Students name Smith president Brad Smith won Tuesday’s runoff election for Texas A&M University student body president. Smith, a 21-year-old management major from Houston, collected 2,246 votes, almost 56 percent, to defeat Rip Van Wink le. Van Winkle, an agricultural education major, received 1,776 votes. Smith, who served this year as vice president for stu dent services, trailed Van Winkle in the April 1-2 elections by almost 600 votes. In other runoff races, Gary Branch was voted the Class of ’82 president. Branch received 515 votes, more than 55 percent, to opponent Bubba Correa’s 418 votes. Branch is an engineering technology major from Blue Ridge. Dale Whittaker was elected to the posi tion of Class of ’83 vice president with 59 percent of the votes. Whittaker received 615 votes, beating out Mike Plank’s 425. In the race for secretary-treasurer for the Class of ’83, Diana Horadam defeated Sherry Ackles. Horadam tallied 556 votes to Ackles’ 461. A total of 4,043 ballots were cast within the nine-hour period with the greatest per centage being freshman votes. The College of Engineering posted 1,156 votes, the largest amount of all colleges. Smith will preside over the recently- elected members and officers of the Texas A&M University student senate tonight. The senate meets in room 204 Harring ton at 7:30 p.m. The new speaker of the senate will not be elected until the senate’s next meeting in two weeks. Tonight’s meeting will mainly be an orientation for the new senators, to familia rize them with parlimentary procedures. There is no new or old business sche duled to be discussed. Outgoing student body president Ron nie Kapavik will present his final report before the senate. And the new vice presi dents will give their initial reports. Incoming vice presidents are Kathleen Miller for academic affairs, David Collins for external affairs, Tracy Cox for finance, Julie Spinn for rules and regulations and Eric Langford for student services. MSC craft shop offers bike rental By ANGELIQUE COPELAND Campus Staff For those times when you wish you had a bicycle on campus to make it to a class a little faster or you just get tired of walking, the Memorial Student Center Crafts Shop now has a bike rental program. The service is available to students, fa culty and community residents. Wren Grauke, assistant manager of the Crafts Shop, said they now have four bicy cles available for rent at 25 cents per hour and are going to get more in the future. The shop requires the renter to show a current Texas A&M University I. D. card or a valid Texas driver’s license. There is also a $10 security deposit that may be made with cash or check that will be refunded after the bike has been returned. Grauke said that the bikes may be rented for up to 12 hours, but not overnight, any time during Craft Shop hours. A $5 late fee will be charged for failure to return the bike before closing time on the day of rental. Craft Shop hours are 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekdays, 10a.m.-5p.m. Saturday and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. The bicycles were purchased last year in the auction held by the University Police Department. Grauke said that Tom Par sons, director of security and traffice, told her he would try and donate more bikes to the program next fall. There are two more bikes now that aren’t yet in working order, but when finished, the shop will have one single-speed, four three-speeds and a five-speed bike that can be rented. “These bikes are ancient, but they’re classics,” said Grauke. “They’re like ’54 Chevys. “The program is aimed mainly at the students, but we don’t want to limit the program to the campus. “The money we take in will be used for upkeep and repair. We aren’t trying to make any money on the program, we see it more as a service. “We’ve had quite a few people make inquiries about the program in the last two months, but we’re just now ready to start renting bikes. There hasn’t been any real publicity before now because we didn’t have it organized, but maybe we ll have President Miller kick it off and hop on a bike.” In addition to the bike rental program, the shop also has a complete set of bicycle tools and a technician to help oversee re pairs available free to all students, Grauke said. For bike reservations or more informa tion call the Crafts Shop at 845-1631. Carter, Sadat end summit United Press International WASHINGTON — Winding up talks with President Anwar Sadat today. Presi dent Carter says Egypt and Israel are honor bound to keep their Camp David commit ment for full autonomy for the Palestinian people. The two leaders planned a final meeting for this morning on the deadlock in the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on self rule for the Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza. In a toast at a White House dinner in honor of Sadat Tuesday night, Carter ex pressed his concern the stalemate on autonomy may continue. “It would be inconceivable that we would let this promise slip from our grasp and end the hopes and the confidence and the aspirations of two troubled peoples and indeed the entire world with failure,” he said. “It is inconceivable. ” Carter read excerpts from the Camp David accords and recalled that during the meetings in September, 1978 at the moun- taintop retreat, (Israeli Prime Minister Menachem) Begin “said many times in the presence of President Sadat and me, not just autonomy, full autonomy — full auton omy, he said many, many times.” “We cannot fail,” Carter said. He said the agreement specifies a self- governing authority 1 in the West Bank and Gaza through free elections held by those who live in those two areas. )f teacher who reported cheating By ANDY WILLIAMS Staff Writer The Air Force has voided an evaluation rm that criticized a former Texas A&M niversity aerospace studies teacher for his tions in reporting a cheating incident. The Officer Personnel Records Review )ard at Randolph Air Force Base acted in glonse to a request from M'aj. Joe cNabb. The results of the board’s study ere volunteered to The Battalion by a uree who wished to remain anonymous. A letter from the board said that an Offic- Evaluation Report concerning McNabb is been voided. The letter instructed the cords officer at Dyess Air Force Base, here McNabb is stationed now, to re- ove the report and replace it with a form |ing McNabb was not rated for that iriod. Col. Kenneth Durham, McNabb’s for- er commanding officer and the man who ed the Officer Evaluation Report, said he mid make no comment on the matter be- mse of privacy regulations. Durham is imrnander of the Air Force ROTC detach er) t at Texas A&M. McNabb was “on alert” at Dyess Air Force Base and could not be reached for comment. The report rated McNabb “below stan dard” in two of 10 categories. Those were “judgment and decisions” and “profession al qualities.” Remarks listed beneath both ratings re ferred to McNabb’s handling of a cheating incident that occurred in the fall of 1978. Specifically, Durham’s report said, McNabb “failed to obey my 22 Jan. 1979 instructions that all involvement (in the affair) in an official Air Force capacity must cease.” In the fall of 1978, McNabb told Gen. Ormond Simpson, head of the School of Military Science, that a student in one of his classes had cheated. Information re garding another cheating incident, this one in a class in the College of Business Admi nistration, was also passed on to Simpson. The student involved was in the Corps of Cadets and was on contract to the Air Force. He was majoring in management. He admitted he had cheated in both courses. McNabb said that after six weeks, neith er the dean of the College of Business Affairs nor the head of the Department of Management had been told of the happen ings. Meanwhile, the student had resigned from the Corps. Texas A&M University Rules and Reg ulations state, “Cases of apparent scholastic dishonesty ... may be reported by the in structor through the head of the depart ment to the dean of the student’s college. ” Dr. Clinton Phillips, acting dean of the College of Business Administration, said last spring that because of that statement, he should have been informed of the inci dent immediately. Simpson said afterward that Phillips was “probably right.” McNabb talked to Dr. Charles McCand- less, director of Academic Planning and Services. The teacher of the business course the student cheated in had taken no disciplin ary action and allowed the cadet to with draw passing. After McNabb told McCand- less what had happened, however, Dr. Clinton Phillips began a series of meetings to consider taking action. The student resigned from the Universi ty before any decision had been made. Durham said that by discussing the mat ter with McCandless, McNabb violated a lawful order. Statements from Maj. Gilbert Mayeux II and Capt. David Dubblede said that no such order was issued. McNabb contended he did not violate the instructions he was given because he approached McCandless as a former stu dent and not as an Air Force officer. Durham questioned that, saying in the Officer Evaluation Report that the letter McNabb wrote McCandless after their in terview was written on official stationery and signed with an official signature block. “You have blatantly violated a lawful order and have embarrassed the United States Air Force,” Durham’s letter of repri mand to McNabb said. But Dr. Don Hellriegel, head of the management department, wrote to Durham in a letter dated Feb. 19,1979,”. . . I hope it is possible for you or your superiors to provide Capt. McNabb and his colleagues with an appropriate letter of commendation for such ‘above and bey ond’ the call of duty actions. ” State, city taxes up 6.5 percent United Press International Americans are paying more in state and local taxes than a year ago, buying fewer homes and — to make matters worse — are being told they must let prices rise faster than their wages to curb inflation. In Washington, the Bureau of the Census reported Tuesday Americans paid a total of $211.2 billion in state and local taxes during 1979 for a 6.5 percent increase over the previous year. The $211.2 billion figure included taxes paid on property, general sales and gross receipts, motor fiiel, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, individual income, and corporation net income and motor vehicle and operators licenses. Charles Schultze, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advis ers, told the National Press Club, when people obtain wage increases to pay for higher energy prices they simply cause more inflation for themselves. V “It necessarily means,” said Schultze, “that for awhile prices have got to rise faster than wages and salaries and other forms of income.” Schultze said inflation will remain high for several more months, but there is “potential for a sizable decline there after.” The Commerce Department said, in February, new one-family homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 532,000 — a 10 percent dropoff from January’s sales and a 26 percent decline from a year ago. The department said 42,000 new single family homes actually were sold in February at an average price of $65,100. That left a total of384,000 new houses unsold at month’s end. Traditionally, tough times for the housing industry signals tough times ahead for other sectors of the economy.