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The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 145 Wednesday, March 23, 1980 usps 045 360 16 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 rice of board plan will rise 8 percent starting i 'ayer,’’ if prayer classroom, Ives if pm g in tire i ) school ol this posin' m woi said. “Tb that would ^mendmen! ate a partic L, Hawldai, I Universit) tonal Admiii schools em 1 church, k ■sofsociet); hoolattradi itors may* s are m) BY SHERRY A. EVANS Battalion Reporter Due to an 18 percent increase this year in to oniZjiBthe number of students eating at the north area Sbisa Dining Hall, the Joint Menu nst the Lull ^ oart ^ an ^ department of Food Ser ai Nov 3 a ^ ces ^ ave ra * se< ^ board prices 8 percent. There are 3,744 students eating at Sbisa must coddm i. , j . . . this semester and a significant increase m this number is expected for the 1980 fall iemester because of the construction of two icw dorms. Sbisa officials said they must iT Hcompensate for their losses at the expense 1 ^ of the students. Currently, the 5-day board plan costs $448.35 per semester according to the Texas A&M 1979-80 undergraduate cata log. The 8 percent increase — $35.87 — would make the cost for the 5 day-board plan $484.22. According to the Joint Menu Board, this [increase is far below the percentage in crease announced by most of the other uni- ersities in the Southwest. Assistant Director of the Department of eandbecoi Ifood Services Lloyd H. Smith said that a 13 percent board rate increase in two years iscrepancji t'is “pretty good” compared to a national nflation rate almost double that in the if educafe isame amount of time, it the pi Tlie Texas A&M University student sen ate has suggested a two-meal-a-day plan in rder to reduce cost to students and to aid /kins said, hose who do not take full advantage of id demauil tion and B tg that tk|i* tiontoeitk communit)! ;ue outofil blem. It n dining three times a day. Smith said this plan is not feasible be cause “every time you add another meal plan, you’re going to increase the cost of all the other meal plans becaue it takes more administration and more hassle to try and guess how many students are coming. ” The two-meal-a-day plan would be the same price within a dollar or two of the five-day plan, which would probably be increased about $4 in order to compensate, Smith said. The Department of Food Services has placed an initial limit on off-campus stu dent contracts to 300 in Sbisa. When the Sbisa quota is filled, the off-campus stu dents may elect to drop board plan or dine at the Commons Dining Hall or Duncan Dining Hall with the provision that if open ings occur at Sbisa, reassignment is to be made on a priority basis. Smith said Sbisa has the capacity to handle all of the on- campus students. When asked if they felt there was an overcrowding problem in Sbisa, 100 per cent of the students informally surveyed agreed there was a problem. Smith said the overcrowding is due to the fact there are certain peak periods when most of the stu dents dine. “Between 88 and 90 percent of all the students are in the door (for dinner) by 6 p.m. and by 6:15, it reaches almost 98 per cent,” he said. However, ‘Tve never seen a day when there weren’t seats available,” he said. The possibility of another dining hall has been suggested as part of a Commons-type complex to be built west of the railroad tracks which run parallel to Wellborn Road. Smith said that the whole idea has been rejected, however, because the inclu sion of a dining facility would make the entire project too expensive. The students are evidently finding solu tions to these problems on their own. The Souper Salad, located under Sbisa, feeds about 350 people a day during its lunchtime rush. Students can limit their spending by the ounce or inch, with salad selling for 12 cents an ounce and sandwiches at 35 cents an inch. The Memorial Student Center cafeteria offers everything from five cents for crack ers to $2.55 for top butt steak. Employee Marion Williams said, the cafeteria serves mostly conference people, but Manager Odessa Goode said about 4,000 students a day frequent the cafeteria. The restaurtant in Rudder Tower caters to about 100 stu dents a day. The dining hall dilemma affects vast ma jority of Texas A&M students. Dining hall officials say they feel they are in the process of solving these problems. Just in case, though, on-campus students better get their dinner reservations in early next fall and off-campus students better get out their checkbooks. ctices I when i questions 11 achings.' ush believes he can take nomination from Reagan L26 ILE United Press International HOUSTON — George Bush’s startling and perhaps campaign-saving win over Ronald Reagan in Pennsylvania has the candidate and his aides convinced the Re publican presidential nomination will re tain an open race until this summer’s con- /ention. “We re very, very pleased with the re sults in Pennsylvania,” Bush said Tuesday at his campaign headquarters in Houston. Every time we win we move that much closer to being able to do something about inflation, the Carter administration’s fore ign policy and energy.” Sen. Edward Kennedy also got a cam- taign boost in the state’s primary, as he defeated President Carter by a yet unde termined amount. Kennedy needed the /ictory as badly as Bush needed his. Politic al observers saw the contest as crucial to the ives of both campaigns. Bush campaign chairman Jim Baker emphasized it was not too late for Bush to win the nomination, saying the campaign still was well under federal limits for cam paign spending while the Reagan forces were pushing the maximum. “Were in good shape,” he said. “We have $3.8 million with money already set aside for the convention and (Reagan) is down to $1.5 million with no funds set aside. That should give us a significant advantage in the coming primaries and cau cuses. “It’s not too late at all. Between 48 and 49 percent of the delegates (to the national convention) are unbound. They’re free to vote their conscience and they don’t have to decide until the minute of the balloting. There is no way anyone could get a lock on the nomination before the convention.” Baker said the next big GOP shootout was next week in Texas, Bush’s home state, but conceded he did not expect his candi date to win. “Four years ago Reagan won the Texas primary 2-1 over President Ford,” Baker said. “I think we ll do better than Ford did and we’ll win some delegates.” He said he hoped Bush would win be tween a quarter and a third of the Texas delegation. “We feel the next good test will be i: Maryland,” Baker said. “We expect to do well in Maryland and we’ll run well in Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. There also are big blocks of delegates still out in Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey and we think we’ll do well in those states.” fniii • So where’s the sheepskin? Photo by D. D. Underwood Monica Domas, a graduating senior majoring in marketing, tries on the cap she will wear during her commencement May 2. Another graduation prog ram is scheduled for the morning of May 3. Moore wants second PUF started f? of ; 'S(N' non indav IT in. uple* GOP candidates ready for Texas United Press International Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the two men who long for Texas’ 80 dele gates to the Republican national con vention, have made their plans for a full-scale assault on Texas voters prior to the May 3 primary. On the Democratic side, where the primary vote will have no effect on dele gate selection, President Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, has nonetheless scheduled two days of campaigning this week, while spokesmen for Edward Kennedy say the Massachusetts senator has made no definite plans for a trip to Texas. Reagan, who swept the state in its first presidential primary in 1976, will tour the Capitol in Austin and meet pri vately with Gov. Bill Clements Thurs day, then have a campaign rally at the Lyndon B. Johnson Auditorium on the University of Texas 'campus. Clements, who has vowed to remain neutral in the GOP primary even though he spoke glowingly earlier in the year of Texas’ two candidates in the race, has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee on a Reagan ticket. But he is covering all bases with the remaining Republican candidates, planning a similar meeting and joint news conference next week with the only Texan still in the race, George Bush of Houston. The allocation of the 80 GOP dele gates to the national convention will be determined by the outcome of the May 3 primary, but the Democratic primary is a beauty contest between Carter and Kennedy. Democrats will determine the allocation of their 152 delegates through the convention process, and the final outcome of that may not be known until the state convention June 21. Mrs. Carter is tentatively scheduled to spend Friday morning campaigning in Austin, then travel to Corpus Christi for more speeches on behalf of the presi dent in the afternoon. A spokesman at Kennedy’s state cam paign headquarters said no plans were definite yet for a Kennedy campaign tour of Texas, but an advance team is in the state checking out potential cam paign stops. “There is a very good probability he’ll be in Texas for two days the week of April 28th,” the campaign spokesman said. “We re trying to get something set up.” Bush has announced the most ambi tious schedule of the candidates com peting in Texas, beginning next week with campaigning Monday in his home town of Houston. He will concentrate Tuesday and Wednesday of next week in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, then make stops in College Station and Cor pus Christi before travelling to Austin for his joint appearance with Clements at the Capitol. Bush’s schedule includes a morning of campaigning in San Antonio on the eve of the May 3 primary, then a final swing through Houston that afternoon before departing for Minnesota. I > By NANCY ANDERSEN City Staff Sen. William T. ‘Bill” Moore met and spoke with student supporters during an informal meeting Tuesday at a local apart ment complex. About 40 students attended the event which featured a short talk, followed by a question and answer session by Moore and several students’ endorsements. The Aggies for Moore Committee sponsored the event. Moore said he did not want to make the Permanent University Fund an issue in this campaign, but he said his opponent (former municipal judge Kent Caperton) has three different views on the fund depending on who he is talking to. United Press International WASHINGTON — The billionaire Hunt brothers of Dallas — for all their money and power—can’t escape the call of Congress to explain their involvement in the collapse of the silver market last month. The House Government Operations Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs voted 6-0 Tuesday to compel Nelson Bunker and W. Herbert Hunt to testily April 29. The brothers were to be served with separate subpoenas in Dallas today by a U.S. marshal. The panel agreed to the subpoena after the Hunts failed to respond to an April 7 telegram inviting them to appear before the panel. An attorney for the brothers claimed they were not given sufficient notice to prepare adequate testimony. The Hunts did agree to testily voluntari ly before another group, the Senate Agri culture subcommittee, on May 2 on the same subject. Some congressional sources The fund has been under attack since the 1930s, Moore said, but the abolishment of the state ad valorem tax, which supported the other state schools not included in the fund, has rekindled the issue. Texas A&M University and the University of Texas are the only schools that receive money from the fund. Moore said the solution to the problem is to establish another fund for the other schools, which include the University of Houston, Southwest Texas State Universi ty and Texas Tech University. He added that he has been working on such a plan since last year. Moore said about the PUF, “I have the seniority to best protect it and to establish another fund for other schools. Frankly, believe the Hunts expect an easier round of questioning from the Senate panel. The House and Senate Agriculture com mittees have jurisdiction over the Com modity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates the commodity futures markets. The government operation subcommit tee, which oversees agencies that regulate various segments of the economy, has held a number of hearings to investigate why silver futures prices shot up from $6 an ounce in early 1979 to $50 an ounce in January 1980. Subsequently, prices plunged to $10 an ounce in late March, threatening the stabil ity of the silver market, stock market, and some banks and brokerage firms. The Hunts have been blamed in some quarters for forcing up silver prices through huge purchases and for the subsequent col lapse of the market when they decided the daily contract payments they had to make were too high to meet. I’m ready to step aside if we get this done. ” Moore labeled comments about ducking the press or his opponent as “untruths.” “I’ve been busy in this campaign,” he said. “I’ll meet with the press when I can, but I’ve never courted the press. I could never do the job if I did. ” Moore stressed Caperton’s connection with organized labor, calling it a threat to Texas’ right-to-work law. He said the lack of such a law and a state income tax is drawing industry into the state. “We need to keep government favorable and we ll all be employed,” he said. “I’m surprised by how many (industries) have come to the fifth district. We’re living in the golden triangle.” Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal, D-N.Y., said, “We know from documents and other information made available to the subcom mittee that the Hunts may have attempted to corner the silver markets and actively intervened in the federal regulatory pro cess and in the self-regulating activity of the commodity exchanges.” In a related matter, the panel voted 6-1 Tuesday to subpoena records of the Com modity Futures Trading Commission of meetings between August 1, 1979, and April 22, 1980, concerning silver trading. “The subcommittee’s hearings have already demonstrated that there is great concern over the ability of the federal reg ulatory apparatus to properly deal with the domino effect of the collapse of one market or another,” Rosenthal said. The subcommittee agreed to suggest to the House Appropriations Committee that any funds for the commission operations be withheld until questions about the silver problems are answered. Redistricting was also mentioned. Stu dent supporter Frank Mann said Moore has been asked to head up this program follow ing completion of the 1980 census. On his way out, Moore invited all the students to a victory party at the Ramada Inn after the May 3 primary. f Holocaust scheduled for Tuesday United Press International HELENA, Mont. —A thermonuclear war will devastate the United States next Tuesday, a small religious group pre dicts. And just in case they’ve gotten the date wrong, at least their fallout shelters are stocked and ready. The group’s leader, Leland “Doc” Jen sen, a former Missoula, Mont., chirop ractor, said he made the prediction based on biblical passages, features of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and current events. “If there’s no holocaust on the 29th, we’ve got the shelters up for when it does happen,” Jensen said. “There’s going to be a holocaust. And by having a date established, we’ve accomplished tremendous things. If we didn’t have a date established, we’d never get the dam things up.” Jensen and his followers are members of a splinter group of the Baha’i Under the Provisions of the Covenant faith, which he said split off from the Baha’i International in a leadership dispute. Jensen’s forecast is controversial even among his group, but none of his follow ers said their faith would be shaken by lack of a nuclear war next week. Did Jensen pay his income taxes this year? “No,” he laughed. “I’m going to pay them May 1. I got them postponed. I’m using the money to get the shelters up. I mean, the money isn’t going to be any good after May 1 anyhow.” ' y Hunts ordered to testify on silver market collapse