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Senate OKs change
in football seating
By NANCY ANDERSEN
Battalion Staff
After much debate the student senate passed a bill to recom
mend that the Athletic Department set aside 588 seats for gradu
ate students wishing to sit during Texas A&M football games.
The senate’s Wednesday meeting was its first of the academic
year.
The seats are located on the first six rows of the third deck and
range from the 10-yard line to the goal line. The bill originally
provided for any remaining seats to be given to seniors, but it was
amended to read that these seats would revert to standing room.
Supporters of the bill argued that the “Twelfth Man” tradition
of standing during football games should not be legislated or
forced on people.
“Traditions are fine,” said Aubrey Johnson, president of the
Graduate Student Council. “But they are liner still when they
come from the heart.”
Eric Langford, vice president for student services, said “you
can’t catagorize graduate students as one of us. The majority are 25
years old, some in their forties. Some are from other universities
and don’t understand our traditions.”
Senators opposing the bill said such a move would threaten the
the Twelfth Man tradition, divide the student body and encour
age freshmen to sit during games.
In other action. College of Agriculture sophomore senator Jeff
Anthony defeated College of Business sophomore Blaine Ed
wards 36-21 for speaker pro tempore.
Anthony replaces George Pappas, former senator from Aston
and Dunn Halls and speaker pro tempore, who resigned upon his
acceptance to law school.
In legislative action, the senate sent the evaluation of the Silver
Taps change back to the student services committee. The senate
voted last year to have the ceremony for deceased students no
more frequently than once a month. Silver Taps previously had
been held on the Tuesday immediately following a student’s
death.
Tracy Cox, vice president for finance, presented the student
government budget. The budget proposes the following alloca
tions from student service fees: administrative expenses $15,980;
executive branch $6,290; legislative branch $6,082 and communi
cations $5,110 for a total of $39,412. The budget will not be acted
on until the next senate meeting, Sept. 24.
Cox said budget changes will be made before the next meeting.
Senators also heard a bill to commend Dr. Jarvis Miller, former
president of Texas A&M University, for serving “with integrity
and dedication for many years.”
The bill would also appropriate $125 for a plaque to be pre
sented to Miller at a senate meeting.
It, too should be voted on at the Sept. 24 meeting.
Photo by John West
A dog's life
handler, mascot corporal Greg Zachary of Company
E-2, to all Zachary’s classes.
White: Aid needed to ease
o Carter in first debate burden of schooling illegals
United Press International
Ronald Reagan is “sorry and angry.”
esident Carter is adamant. John Ander-
Imys it’s all the fault of Carter aides.
The upshot: There will be a debate be-
isn Reagan and Anderson Sept. 21 in
iltimore, sponsored by the League of
|oi|en Voters. An empty chair will sym-
llizu Carter’s refusal to participate.
An unsuccessful final effort was made
ednesday to find a format all three candi-
te could embrace. When the meeting
okc up, Reagan and Anderson had
pepted the invitation; Carter had formal-
rejected it.
‘lam sorry and I am angry and the Amer-
Hpeople also will be, said Reagan,
j lct the American people see who is
ping to discuss the grave issues that con-
lit our nation, he said, “and let them
)te whose chair will be empty.
Baler said: “My position has been clear.
I consistent and I do not intend to change
H. We still are eager to have as many
pirates as we can schedule between myself
ffiGovernor Reagan first and then to de-
ate Governor Reagan, Congressman
Brson and any others the sponsors of
||debate might bring together.
In Los Angeles, Anderson blamed Car-
:rs aides for scuttling the plans.
Anderson was given several opportuni
ties at a news conference to criticize Carter
personally for refusing to debate, but
turned aside the questions.
“I find it difficult to think the president
would make that decision, but is relying on
the advice of campaign managers who are
looking at this as a purely political thing,”
he said.
“I want to leave it to others to assess his
motives,” he said. “I don’t have any diffi
culty assessing Mr. (Robert) Strauss’ mo
tives.
Strauss, Carter’s campaign chairman,
said both sides have selfish interests at
heart.
Anderson will take votes from Carter
Nov. 4, he explained, and this knowledge
affects the position of both major party can
didates.
“We have our selfish reasons. Reagan has
his selfish interests.” Strauss said. “Let’s
don’t kid ourselves.
“We know that that (Anderson) candida
cy ... takes a great many more votes from us
than it does from Reagan. Reagan wants
him on there for that very reason,” he said.
ABC News asked Democratic and Re
publican state chairmen whether they
think Carter will be hurt by his debate
decision. Of the Democrats, 28 thought he
would be hurt, 16 thought he would not
and seven had no opinion. Forty-seven of
the Republican chairmen thought he would
be hurt.
Late Wednesday, Reagan and Carter ex
changed some genteel name-calling on the
energy question.
Reagan charged Carter with misleading
the public by claiming there is an acute
shortage of energy resources, while “the
truth is America has an abundance of
energy.”
“When Mr. Carter says we don’t have
enough energy at home, what he really
means is his policies won’t let Americans
find and produce the energy they need,”
Reagan said.
Carter, in his Oval Office, promptly de
manded “one shred of evidence” that admi
nistration policies have discouraged discov
ery and production of energy in America.
“Governor Reagan is wrong, ” Carter said
in a statement in the Oval Office. “Again he
has made accusations without checking the
facts. I do not intend to let my Republican
opponent misrepresent facts about this
administration.”
United Press International
Attorney General Mark White is urging
the state’s senators to sponsor legislation
guaranteeing additional federal aid to pay
for the schooling of children of illegal
aliens.
The Justice Department, said White, “is
in charge of immigration laws and its failure
to enforce these laws has resulted in (illegal
aliens) being here in the first place. Now,
they’re asking us to make up for their fai
lure.”
White said thousands of children have
crossed the border from Mexico into Texas
to obtain a free public education because of
the U.S. Justice Department’s failure to
enforce immigration laws.
White said he personally agrees with a
federal court decision requiring the state to
educate children of illegal aliens, but as
attorney general he must defend state sta
tutes until the courts determine their con
stitutionality.
“I personally believe that every child in
Texas ought to be educated in our public
schools regardless of their nationality,”
White said in a telegram to Sens. Lloyd
Bentsen Jr., D-Texas, and John Tower, R-
Texas.
White told about 160 delegates at a
South Plains Association of Governments
meeting Tuesday that the federal govem-
“7 personally believe that
every child in Texas ought
to be educated in our pub
lic schools regardless of
their nationality. ”
ment should enforce immigration laws to
“fit the facts.”
If the Justice Department wants the chil
dren of illegal aliens educated, the federal
government should pay the cost, he said.
White said if the program should be im
plemented at the expense of state bilingual
programs already in existance, not only tax
payers but alien children will suffer be
cause already strapped bilingual programs
will be stretched even further.
The state is appealing the federal court
decision requiring schools to admit illegal
alien children without charge. In 1975 the
Legislature passed a state law prohibiting
children of undocumented aliens from
attending public schools unless they paid
tuition.
“This caused overcrowding and diluted
the quality of education for border district
students, the majority of which were Mex-
ican-Americans,” he said.
White said Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas,
has introduced legislation providing feder
al impact funds for school districts adverse
ly affected by a recent ruling on the case by
Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
“I would appreciate it if you would spon
sor similar legislation in the Senate to help
us alleviate this problem,” White told the
senators. “This would resolve the situation
much quicker and more effectively than
through protracted litigation.
“Although I agree that we ought to edu
cate these children,” he said, “I do not
think the state of Texas should bear the
financial burden alone for what is essential
ly a national problem that was brought ab
out because the Justice Department failed
to enforce their own immigration laws.”
\Hotard discovers
'iris next door’
By CINDY GEE
Battalion Beporter
Some people might compare Hotard
pilton to “Animal House, but in the
tovie John Belushi needed a ladder to spy
Bids; in Hotard all you need is a room
iat faces Neeley Hall.
Hotard is a mens’ dormitory about 20
ards directly across from Neeley, a
'omens’ dormitory. Windows in each
arm are on the same level, and as one
leeley resident said, “You can see every-
Bg-”
pEvery night about 11, when everyone’s
Ired of studying, some girl opens her
I finds and waves, ” said David Dartez, who
as lived in Hotard three years. “That gets
j l>l guys started. They just wave and yell
(it their name and number. It’s an in-
I feting way to meet people.”
|; Amy Polk, a Neeley freshman, said the
I pt night she heard a lot of yelling, opened
, prwindow and saw about four men armed
dth binoculars, megaphones and flash-
ights hanging out every window.
Most of girls in Neeley don’t seem to
jlind being courted this way. Lisa Neal, a
fesident adviser in Neeley, said the girls
ppreciate the way Hotard has included
pern in the dorm’s activities.
Hotard men are making a big effort to
linge their image — that of being anim-
1 she said. When Neeley residents were
noving in, Neal said the men spent all day
B evening moving furniture and carrying
Xttes for them.
■Last year when you told girls you lived
Hotard they would say, ‘Oh, Hotard’ and
^koff. Now it’s great; they like Hotard, ”
aid Dan O’Neal, a senior on the third floor
If Hotard.
One reason women may be visiting
ptard more is because of its summer re
lation. In years past, the main reason
flam men chose to live there was because
it was so rundown they didn’t have to worry
about damaging it.
That made the Hotard Hilton unique.
“We used to have massive water fights in
the halls. It got so bad that one time the
cleaning ladies refused to come in,” said Jay
Caton, a junior on the second floor.
Although Hotard’s new face lift might
appeal to the women, it does not appeal to
most of the men who live there.
“We’d like to keep the girls dorms there,
but have Hotard the way it used to be,”
James Smith said, a senior on the third
floor.
“We could swing on the lights and drill
holes in the doors and nobody cared,” he
said. “We just did what we wanted to.”
O’Neal attributed Hotard’s new atten
tion to the fact that 80 percent of the new
modular dorm residents are freshmen and
they think this is what college is all about.
He said they like having panty raids and
jock raids and getting attention.
One Hotard resident indicated that jock
raids” may soon become “sock raids.”
“I only have one jock,” he said, “and it’s
too expensive to throw out the window, so I
threw a sock.”
All of Hotard’s attention has not been
through the lenses of a binocular. Hotard
invited Neeley women over for ice cream
and watermelon and held a “practice” yell
practice for their freshmen neighbors. Sev
eral times Hotard escorted the young
women to dinner, and of course afterward
several freshmen were introduced to the
fish pond.
Many Hotard residents were upset when
bulldozers began tearing up their field, but
now if someone were to give them the
opportunity to choose between keeping
their field or building a womens’ dorm they
would probably say, “Build the dorm and
we’ll play the field!”
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Hotard Hall residents say have some new “scenery” in their back yard
with the opening of two women’s dorms. Jon Cook, Joe Bill Thompson,
Photo by Bob Sebree
Carl Husman, Gary Valenting, Ron Richards, Kenneth Hicks and Brad
Brady eye Neeley Hall and their new female neighbors Wednesday.