The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 145 Wednesday, March 23, 1980 usps 045 360
16 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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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
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ai Nov 3 a ^ ces ^ ave ra * se< ^ board prices 8 percent.
There are 3,744 students eating at Sbisa
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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,
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ate has suggested a two-meal-a-day plan in
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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GOP candidates
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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.
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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.
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Holocaust
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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.”
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Hunts ordered to testify
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