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■a fowling named new planning director n aAU. V S JL. V J recent I uldn't b loycott,] by SCOT K. MEYER Battalion Staff Glenn Dowling has been named director of planning and management analysis for Texas A&M University, President Jarvis Miller announced. Dowling, who has served as Mil ler’s assistant for the past three years, will take the new position on July 1. Dowling will succeed Dr. Charles McCandless, who had served as director of planning in addition to his duties as associate vice president for academic affairs. McCandless said he was able to serve in those positions, as well as chairing the steering committee for the University master plan, because all three jobs were interrelated. When the responsibilities involved grew, McCandless said, the administration decided to split the authority into two separate positions. Miller said that the appointment of Dowling reflects a recognition of a need for increased management effective ness. Dowling gave the shortage of secretarial and clerical workers as one example of the need for management plan ning. He said he would try to identify departments with several vacancies, and “beef them up, possibly with word processing or communication systems.” Dowling said that he would offer suggestions like that one in order to improve the information flow between various departments in the University. In a long range sense, Dowling will be in charge of institutional analysis of the Texas A&M University System parts, such as the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, which are located in College Station. The studies done by his department will be important in “fine-tuning” the System’s five-year plan, “to keep it in focus with our needs,” he said. One of the greatest challenges his office will face will be to maintain Texas A&M’s position during a slow growth time, Dowling said. The University has undergone pheno menal growth in the past five to ten years, he said, but he doesn’t anticipate that same growth continuing into the future, because “the numbers of 18-year-olds just aren’t there.” Dowling said he will report directly to Miller, although during the transition period he will be working very closely with McCandless, who will be devoting full time to acade mic affairs. Dowling became assistant to the president when Miller was named to the University’s top post in 1977. He pre viously served as assistant to the director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the position Miller held prior to being named president. Dowling’s former duties will be split between two other presidential assistants. Dr. Elizabeth Cowan and Malon Southerland, Southerland said. the* ^ iThe Battalion o the sit right goj mentiit etes to a >f the m e not the le world, ilize that, .73 No. 165 10 Pages Serving the Texas A&M University community Thursday, June 19, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 r* —\ Q-drop deadline today Today is the last day to drop courses with no penalty. A spokesman for the admissions and re cords office said, however, that a student may not Q-drop down to zero hours — the only way he could dp that would be by withdrawing from the Univer sity. V y he thii \ecommendation to 1981 Legislature itedtose - clo,”hes inistratk s the US) A lot o(fi tly wen announe :t. Tomd i’t the 19811 Angelesi rid veiy f it does blegei ;s to 1#! ic pow* my, 0 umania in the Tuition doubling urged United Press International AUSTIN — A committee appointed by rmanyl ov. Bill Clements to study college fi- it, he id mces voted Wednesday to urge the 1981 eal trail egislature to double tuition at Texas cam- ises and raise charges for medical and ntal students up to 900 percent. The committee, headed by Lt. Gov. Wil- m P. Hobby and Speaker Bill Clayton, voted without dissent in favor of in- easing tuition rates for foreign students id other non-Texas residents. The recommended increases would cost le state’s 300,000 graduate and undergra- late students $28.5 million a year, force 300 medical students to pay an additional 10.7 million annually and require 2,500 ental students to pay another $2.3 million t blow! 1 Vo yeit* about I® dth R®' That’s tk is to «)l sanies is Miller says increase will benefit Moody e now lines m lympid iralouj situati* inbtata 3ecausf link tit i cofflp 1 RN I'E DO IMP CER' than I 'ACE HI TEE IT! a year in tuition, according to the State College Coordinating Board. Officials at the board said even with the proposed increases, medical and dental students would pay only 10 percent of the cost of their education and other students 8 percent. Kenneth Ashworth, state commis sioner of higher education, said current tui tion rates for Texas residents — unchanged since 1957 — are among the lowest in the nation and cover only a small fraction of the costs of educating students. “It costs $91 per semester for the state to teach a credit hour course on (the) average statewide,” Ashworth said. “The student pays $4 per semester hour now.” The committee’s recommendation, if approved by lawmakers, would increase A governor’s committee decision to re- ommend a doubling in the tuition charged state universities will result in more oney being more evenly distributed raong state universities, Texas A&M Pres- lent Jarvis Miller said Wednesday. “Under the action of the committee to- ay, the University of Texas System and exas A&M System would take in all insti- h* K ations within our system, ” Miller said. “In urease it’s only Moody College.” “Taking in” means making Permanent Iniversity Fund monies available to those bools, Miller said. Miller explained the committee decision io recommends that the money gener- ited from the tuition increase would be armarked for capital expenditures at chools which have no dedicated source of funding. Texas A&M receives one-third of the money generated by the Permanent Uni versity Fund; UT gets the other two-thirds. Last year Texas A&M received more than $19 million from the PUF. Moody College is affected because it has no dedicated source of funds, Miller said. The tuition increase, if approved by the 1981 Legislature, would double the cur rent charge of $4 per semester hour to $8. The increase would barely change Tex as’ low standing in terms of tuition charged per student, Miller said. State Commissioner of Higher Educa tion Kenneth Ashworth said Wednesday Texas is 48th in the nation in tuition charged resident students; the increase would raise the state to 46th place. the rates for Texas residents from $4 to $8 per semester hour. Most students take 15 hours per semester. The recommendations approved by the committee call for raising tuition at state medical schools to $3,600 a year and at dental schols to $2,500 a year. Medical and dental students from Texas now pay $400 a year and non-resident medical and dental students are charged $1,200. The committee voted to recommend 20 percent of the increased tuition revenues be allocated to a special program designed to persuade more Texas graduates to set up medical and dental practice in the state. The committee proposed making loans to medical students that would be written off for doctors who complete their resi dence and practice in Texas for at least three years. “Texas taxpayers should not have to sub sidize doctors who go elsewhere to prac tice,” Clayton said. Ashworth said students’ tuition covered 15 percent of the costs of their education when the $4-per-semester-hour rate was set 13 years ago. Tuition for foreign students has been raised in recent years but under the com mittee’s recommendations would increase from about $1,200 to $1,400 a year. The committee voted to recommend foreign students’ tuition be set at “not less than 50 percent of the total cost” of educat ing them. Although the recommendations apply only to senior colleges and universities, junior colleges currently are required by law to charge tuition at least as high as the four-year facilities and most charge more. Tuition represents only a portion of col lege students’ costs. Assessed fees such as building use levies bring the cost of gaining admittance to class to more than three times the actual tuition rate at most cam puses. Referendum may decide fate of American hostages M SOI'’ AST 162 7801 4* United Press International TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian newspap er says parliament might not discuss the 53 American hostages until late September but their fate may be decided by the Ira nians in a mass referendum. The referendum would decide whether to release the hostages, now in their 229th day of captivity, or put them on trial, the Donaye newspaper said Tuesday. The paper said Iran’s parliament, or Me- jlis, will be involved in the “internal affairs until some time in late September,” when the hostage question may be debated. “Currently the idea is taking shape that if the deputies” do not make a decision “by putting their minds together, then the de cision would have to be left to the nation to make,” the newspaper said. President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, a mod N The Weather Yesterday High 96 Low 73 Humidity 44% Rain 0. Oinches Today High . . . 95-100 Low .... 70-76 Humidity 50% Chance of rain. none L , _ _ erate who believes in rapidly resolving the hostage question, allowed details to be re leased Wednesday of a purported coup that was being planned against him by Moslem fundamentalists. The president’s newspaper, Islamic Re volution, released the transcript of a tape detailing the coup plot by the fundamental ists, who favor spy trials for the Americans. The paper said the tape was obtained recently and was one of two giving details of the plot. It said the tapes were of a conver sation by Dr. Hassan Ayat, member of the central group of the Islamic Republican Party, which controls parliament. The paper said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had heard the tapes. Ayat, consi dered the most powerful fundamentalist leader after Ayatollah Mohammad Behesh- ti, described Bani-Sadr as an “American pawn” in the taped conversation released by Islamic Revolution. The Donaye newspaper, which is pub lished three times a week and has close connections to fundamentalist Moslem, cir cles, said a “yes” vote in a referendum would mean release and “no” would mean trial of the hostages. Anti-draft campaign beginning despite law United Press International A nationwide anti-draft campaign is under way with its organizers vowing to flaunt federal law by using sit-ins and de monstrations to discourage eligible young men from registering for the draft. Members of the National Resistance Committee — the group organizing the drive — said at a news conference Wednes day in Washington they were deliberately breaking the federal law against advocating draft resistance. Other NRC news conferences were held in San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta and New York. “We think 10 percent won’t register even if we do nothing,” Eric Garris, a Fran cisco NRC spokesman. Garris said the group’s aim is to convince 25 percent of the nation’s 18- and 19-year- olds not to register for the draft. In New York, anti-draft activists said that even if they can only convince 2 percent of the 19- and 20-year-olds eligible for the draft refuse to register, the court system would be hopelessly bogged down with 80,000 cases. Though both the House and Senate have approved President Carter’s plan requiring men 19 and 20 to register for a potential draft, each house passed slightly different legislation, and further House action is re quired. In Washington, the seven NRC mem bers, including former priest Philip Berri- gan, said they already have gotten 7,000 cards from men who will refuse to register once the draft bill becomes law. All seven made clear they were deliber ately violating the federal law against advo cating refusals to register. First ‘Empire’showing greeted with sellout crowd Star Wars movie fans swarmed into Manor East III Theatres Wednesday afternoon for the first area showing of the movie’s sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. by BECKY SWANSON Battalion City Editor A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... ... But meanwhile, in a theater not so far away, many Earth creatures gathered expectantly to get a long- awaited glimpse of their inter- galactic heroes, Luke, Leiaand Han. Anxious fans began lining up at the box office of the Manor East III Theatres at 8 a.m. Wednesday for the first area showing of The Empire Strikes Back. In the mall around the box office, local television station crews rolled cameras, restless children ate hot For a review of The Empire Strikes Back, please see page 3. dogs and the line of Star Wars fans patiently or impatiently awaited the opening of the doors, scheduled for 2 p.m. Some people who obviously had stood in lines before had the line waiting down to an art. Pat Henry, a member of the Aggie swim club, said 15 club members and their coach came to see the movie. “We had people coming in shifts,” said Henry, a junior management major. “I came at 10, but the shift before us got here at eight. “That’s how we were able to orga nize the shifts so well,” he said. Swim coach Mel Nash said he and the members of the club took the day off from workouts to see the show. Nash said he had seen Star Wars sev eral times, although most of the time he was taking friends. “It’s a relaxing and enjoyable ex perience,” Nash said. The first showing in the 400-seat theater was a sellout, manager Rick Atwood said. The show is scheduled to run “a minimum of eight weeks,” and Atwood said he expects near capacity crowds for each showing. There were frantic shouts of, “Hurry up!,” when a single preview for a coming attraction was shown, and wild screams and whistles when the “Our Feature Attraction” frame appeared on the screen. During the movie, the appear ances of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) brought screams of delight from the audience; Darth Vader’s (David Prowse) entrance invited boos and hisses, and Princess Leia Organa’s (Carrie Fisher) first appear ance brought more than a few Aggie whoops. One woman, who walked in the theater shortly before the film started, said, “There was no reason to come early. I saw the first showing in Houston and I only had to wait 20 minutes.” The sequel to George Lucas’s Star Wars premiered in Houston and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in mid- May and many of Wednesday’s moviegoers had already seen the film. Atwood said he had seen Empire in Dallas several weeks ago. “I thought it was better than the original one — definitely.” Many of the enthusiasts — some of the most devoted — are schoolchil dren. “I’m in the Star Wars fan club,” Stephen Dennis, 11, of College Sta tion, said before the show. “I saw Star Wars six or seven times. I ha ven’t seen The Empire Strikes Back, but I’ve read the comic book and I know what it’s about. ” Jerry Warden, a 17-year-old junior at A&M Consolidated High School, said he had seen Star Wars 24 times and saw Empire three times in Ft. Worth. “I know every word of both movies,” Jerry said. But Empire was better, he said, “because it had more action the whole way through.” David Hunt, 12, of Bryan, said he had seen Star Wars six times and had seen Empire in Houston. He said he’s looking forward to Revenge of the Jedi, the sequel to Empire. The Empire Strikes Back will be shown four times daily. Tickets for the feature are $4 for adults, $3 for ages 11-14 and $2 for children 3-10, Atwood said. S. Africa police ‘shoot to kill’ United Press International CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police armed with “shoot to kill” orders charged into mulatto townships Wednesday to dis perse youths stoning cars and burning shops in South Africa’s worst racial riots since 1976. To back up the action, authorities rushed two planeloads of riot police from other regions to help quell the violence as it en tered its second day. The newspaper Cape Argus quoted hos pital sources as reporting 36 dead and 200 wounded in Tuesday’s riots. Police Minister Louis le Grange placed the official toll at 11 dead, but the national news agency said this figure did not include three people who later died of wounds. Le Grange blamed the riots on “violent hooligans” and chief aide Gen. Mike Gel- denhuys gave orders to shoot to kill looters and arsonists. “We are no longer dealing with school, meat or bus boycotters,” Le Grange said. “We are concerned now with criminal vio lence, hooligan elements, and we will act relentlessly against them.” Violence broke out anew at mid-morning in two mulatto townships as firefighters battled blazes that had burned out of con trol through the night. Youths gathering in the streets stoned passing cars and shops that opened for busi ness. At least two stores went up in flames before police restored calm with gunfire and teargas without causing new casualties. Police said at mid-way that the situation had been brought under control but there was widespread fear that the calm would not hold. There was a heavy police presence in the townships of both Cape Town and neigh boring Paarl, which still bore the scars of the previous night’s volence. Burned car tires and stones littered streets that also contained the occasional smear of dried blood.