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The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 73 No. 168 Thursday, June 26, 1980 USPS 045 360
8 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
IT fund push uses Aggies as an example
Texas A&M cadet Dean Bernal didn’t know cover of a University of Texas pamphlet
his “gig ’em” at the Texas A&M-Rice foot- requesting alumni contributions.
ball game would result in a picture on the Pamphlet courtesy Jerry Cooper
Mailout says Ag donations ‘have us whipped’
by DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Staff
In trying to spur University ofTexas alumni on to
larger donations, the Longhorns have turned their
eyes toward the Aggie example.
Pamphlets UT ex-students received in the mail
ask, “Will the Horns become an Aggie joke?” The
orange-and-white mailers extol the extent of Aggie
fund raising, then urge the Longhorns to do even
better.
Featured on the front of the pamphlet is a Texas
A&M cadet yelling at a football game.
“Although we may hate to admit it, there is one
area where those Aggies from Texas A&M have us
beaten — hands down,” the pamphlet says of Aggie
contributions.
It continues, “Maybe those Aggies know and
practice something we UT-Austin alumni don’t.
You can bet they want their university to be the
best in the land.”
Copies of the publication keep turning up on the
Texas A&M campus.
Malon Southerland, assistant to Texas A&M
President Dr. Jarvis Miller, said a former student
from Austin sent Miller a copy of the pamphlet.
“I have heard Dr. Miller say — and this has been
quoted several places — ‘It may be worth a million
dollars to us,’ and I think it may,” Southerland said
of favorable publicity generated by the mailer.
Southerland said Miller considers the UT publi
cation “a positive influence for recruiting as well as
fund-raising. ”
Mary Leonard of the Texas A&M Development
Office said of the UT publication, “We saw it. They
sent us one of the originals. ”
Sources at UT seem reluctant to admit they were
responsible for the pamphlet.
Susan Allen at the Texas Ex-Students Association
in Austin said she wasn’t sure who published the
pamphlet. “I’ve seen it,” she said. “I got one at
home myself, in the mail. It’s a unique gimmick. It
caught my attention.”
A spokesman in the UT office of public informa
tion said the idea for the mailer came from the
development office, although the ex-student asso
ciation mailed it out.
The Houston Chronicle quoted Warren Gould,
UT director of development, as saying the pam
phlet was printed in Spring 1979 and sent out last
fall to 50,000 alumni who were lax in donations.
Neither Gould nor UT development officials
were available for comment during the past week.
The pamphlet reads, “We can beat those Aggies
at football, basketball, and in academic ares. But
when it comes to alumni support they have us
whipped. You can help us master the Aggies in this
area too...”
There seems little chance of that.
Figures in the text explain that in 1978, 30 per
cent of the total living Aggie alumni (20,833 gradu
ates) made a gift to Texas A&M. In the same period,
only 5 percent of the UT-Austin alumni made a
contribution.
More recent figures say even more for Aggie
fund raising, said Jerry Cooper, editor of the Texas
A&M alumni magazine, The Texas Aggie.
Cooper said that in 1979, 30,515 people, or 40
percent of the total living Texas A&M alumni,
made contributions to the University.
The Texas A&M Association of Former Students
sends mailings to 80,000 of the total 100,000 Aggie
alumni, Cooper said. Mailings are not sent to the
other 20,000 because they either have incorrect
addresses or are deceased. UT reportedly has
150,000 alumni.
In 1979, donations to the Association of Former
Students alone totalled $1,767,412.
A pamphlet the University ofTexas sent alumni
to solicit contributions claims the Longhorns can
beat the Aggies in “football, basketball, and in
academic areas.”
However, using several different criteria by
which the academic excellence of universities is
judged, Texas A&M comes out ahead.
For example, a publication from the National
Merit Scholarship Board shows Texas A&M had
194 National Merit Scholars enrolled during the
past year, while UT had 190.
National Merit Scholar testing is administered to
high school seniors throughout the nation, with
winners supposedly in the nation’s academic top 1
percent.
Using Fall 1979 enrollment figures of 31,331
students, Texas A&M had about six National Merit
Scholars for every 1,000 students.
UT, with 44,102 students enrolled, had four Na
tional Merit Scholars for every 1,000 students.
As for entering freshmen’s scores on Scholastic
Aptitude Tests, the Aggies averaged seven points
above the Longhorns.
Augustine Garza of the UT admissions office
placed the average UT freshman’s score at 128
Of that amount, Cooper said only $40,000 is
designated for a specific use, with use for the rest
being unrestricted. Association money is used for
faculty achievement awards, scholarships, and
endowment funds.
1979 alumni contributions to other sources, in
cluding the Development Foundation, come to
$9,397,000, Cooper said. Some of these contribu
tions are from wills and bequests, as gifts of land as
well as money. Cooper said one gift alone totalled
$400,000.
Cooper said the cadet “giggin’ ’em” on the pam
phlet’s cover is junior Dean Bernal. Bernal re
portedly didn’t even know his picture was being
used until someone showed him a copy of the
mailer.
Cooper has an idea for a headline about the
“joke” for the July issue of The Texas Aggie: “Will
the Horns become an Aggie joke? Maybe not, but
they’re trying.”
points above the national average.
Lane Stephenson, of the Texas A&M office of
public information, said the average entering Aggie
freshman placed 135 points above the national av
erage.
In funds available for research for each of the
Universities, in 1979 Texas A&M had $11 million
more than UT.
The Chronicle reported Texas A&M had $63
million for research as of Aug. 31, 1979, while UT
had $52 million, according to a report from the
Coordinating Board of the Texas College and Uni
versity System.
When it comes to the overall record for football
and basketball scores in the Texas A&M-UT rival
ry, UT does have a better showing than Texas
A&M.
In the Texas A&M-UT football series, Texas
A&M has won 21 games, UT has won 60, and there
have been five ties. UT holds a 90-63 edge in bas
ketball.
However, Texas A&M has won three of the last
five football games against UT, and the Aggies beat
the Longhorns twice in the 1979-80 basketball
season.
Figures dispute pamphlet
claim that UT is better
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\Iuskie rejects notion that Soviets
m re tain any n uclear a dvan tage
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United Press International
ANKARA, Turkey — Secretary of State
Imund Muskie Wednesday bluntly re-
:ted West Germany’s proposal for a
ree-year delay in stationing 572 modern
dear missiles in Western Europe.
Muskie, speaking as honorary president
the NATO council at the opening of its
mmer ministerial meeting, said the
iance must reject any arms control prop-
that leaves the Soviet Union with a
imerical advantage.
West Germany, represented by Foreign
inister Hans Dietrich Genscher at the
nncil, had proposed the three-year pause
the nuclear missile plan.
"We cannot accept the proposition that
igotiations are possible only if NATO
nmtries reverse their commitment to
hieve a safer and more secure balance of
leseforces,” Muskie said in rejecting the
Ian.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion’s meeting of ministers was being held
under tight security in the violence-racked
Turkish capital.
Earlier, the secretary told a news confer
ence a freeze now would in effect mean the
Muskie said the alliance must
reject any arms control propos
al that leaves the Soviet Union
with a numerical advantage.
West approves of the Soviet SS-20 missiles
in Eastern Europe. Nearly 200 of the
medium range weapons already believed
deployed.
Muskie also said the path to broader
cooperation with Moscow remains open
but “we all recognize that cooperation can
be sustained only in an atmosphere of res
traint, on a foundation of respect and for
independence of others.”
He said “with the prompt withdrawal of
all Soviet forces, we are prepared to sup
port a truly independent and nonaligned
Afghanistan, administered by a govern
ment acceptable to the Afghan people.”
Muskie had said he would also ask NATO
to take specific action to counter any possi
ble Soviet thrust toward the Persian Gulf,
and wanted the allies to draw up specific
plans to replace U.S. troops in Western
Europe should they be needed in the Mid
dle East.
In May, the alliance agreed to support
U.S. plans to establish a rapid deployment
force which would be moved quickly to the
area in case of any threat to the Gulf oil
fields.
House Dems say no legal grounds
Clark prosecution
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A group of House
kmocrats who studied the legal ramifica-
lons of Ramsey Clark’s unauthorized trip
)Iran says it does not appear the govern-
lent can prosecute the former attorney
eneral.
President Carter has said he is “inclined”
) prosecute Clark for defying a presiden-
lalban on travel to Iran.
But, the Democratic Study Group, com-
rised of most of the 275 House Demo-
rats, said Tuesday there does not appear to
eany legal grounds on which to prosecute
lark for his presence at an anti-U.S. con
duce in Tehran.
“Examination of existing laws raises a
serious question whether there is any legal
basis for prosecuting Clark, ” the group said
in a special report.
“It is unclear what would be the basis for
prosecuting Clark — violating President
Carter’s travel ban, engaging in ‘financial
transaction’ in Iran, or negotiating with the
Iranian government.”
Clark has denied violating any U.S. laws
when he and nine other Americans partici
pated in a conference last month in Tehran
on “U.S. Intervention in Iran.” The meet
ing had strong anti-American overtones.
President Carter has said he is “inclined”
to prosecute Clark for violating “my direc-
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tive” — an April 17 executive order limit
ing American travel to Iran and prohibiting
any financial transactions with that
country.
The report noted Carter’s remarks,
Clark’s denials of violating U.S. laws, and
Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti’s later
statement that any action against Clark
would be based on existing law and not on
Carter’s feelings.
The group’s report said the president can
limit the use of U.S. passports to travel to a
restricted area, but it also noted the Clark
group did not use passports to enter Iran.
Clark also said he did not spend U.S.
money in Iran.
Clark conceivably could be prosecuted
for violating the 1799 Logan Act, which
prohibits unauthorized people from speak
ing on behalf of the U.S. government in a
dispute with other governments, the re
port said.
But neither Clark nor the others claimed
to represent the U.S. government at the
Tehran conference, it added.
In any case, the report said, “no one has
ever been prosecuted under the Logan Act
since its enactment 180 years ago and judi
cial references to the act have questioned
its constitutionality.”
Farewell reception
Dr. Haskell Monroe gives one well-wisher some advice affairs at Texas A&M, is leaving that post to become
while Mrs. Monroe greets another during the reception president of the University ofTexas at El Paso. Several
given in Monroe’s honor Wednesday. Monroe, dean of hundred friends and relatives attended the reception,
faculties and associate vice president for academic staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper jr.
Senate calls for Soviet Union
to withdraw Afghan troops
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate has called on the Soviet
Union to end its “gross violation” of Afghanistan’s sovereignty
by withdrawing all its estimated 85,000 troops from that na
tion.
By a vote of 96-0 Tuesday, the Senate harshly condemned
the Soviet invasion and occupation and reaffirmed its support
for the U.S.-initiated boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
President Carter has dismissed as “propaganda” a Soviet
announcement it is withdrawing a division of troops from
Afghanistan.
The non-binding Senate resolution was co-sponsored by its
Democratic and Republican leaders — West Virginia’s Robert
Byrd and Tennessee’s Howard Baker — and by 53 other
members from both parties.
Baker said on the floor the resolution is not only aimed at the
Afghanistan invasion, “but it is against the entire pattern of
Soviet activity that we must respond.”
“The Kremlin must be convinced that the United States and
its allies will protect our interests,” he said. “The Soviets must
be convinced they will not be permitted to interrupt the flow of
oil from the Persian Gulf.”
Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., urged Americans not to forget
that “a brutal, lethal war” is being waged in Afghanistan.
The Senate resolution condemned the Dec. 27 invasion of
Afghanistan as a gross violation of that country’s sovereignty, a
threat to regional peace and contravention of the Afghan peo
ple’s right to self-determination.
It also urged continuation of trade restrictions — including
high technology — with the Soviet Union, and called on
President Carter “to continue to work with our European and
Asian allies and with other nations in the region to prevent
further Soviet incursions.