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ir facility yoy. f services y e-ups to coi/ WE areope! doon’ n: Tues.-Satl Sundays 8-11 693-8682 The Battalion Vol. 74 No. 12 14 Pages Serving the Texas A&M University community Tuesday, September 16, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Yesterday Today High 96 High 97 Low 73 Low 73 Humidity. . . 61% Humidity . . ..67% Rain Chance of rain . . . . . slight OFF m 'earn Cone ise of sub upon) of Blue Belt 'ream arter: No aid to help ducate illegal aliens United Press International CORPUS CHRISTI —Texas is not likely ) avoid a court order to educate the chil- ■ v/0/iUJ(j|n of illegal aliens, nor should the state 'OO Elect federal aid for those school districts t'*' ®st affected, says President Carter. 0 C/nemali iCarter’s first question during a town Bing Monday attended by about 1,400 1th Texans at Moody High School con- Bed the education of illegal aliens. other border states at this time are roviding education for undocumented lien children, ’ Carter said. ■he state government, which has a sur- lus in its treasury, has maintained that Iferal impact aid should be given to those ■icts affected. This is illegal and will not 846- Carter said federal impact aid is designed to assist school districts adversely impacted by activities of the federal government, and he said education of alien children does not fall in that category. “I don’t believe there is any possibility of federal impact aid applying. Other states provide this education and I believe Texas will do the same now that the court has ruled,” the president said. Texas Attorney General Mark White has appealed the federal court decision, claim ing the problem of educating illegal alien children is a result of inadequate enforce ment of federal immigration policy by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. White asked Texas’ two U.S. senators to sponsor legislation guaranteeing the feder al impact act to school districts harmed by the court decision. Carter, campaigning for the Hispanic vote that could be crucial in the battle for Texas’ 26 electoral votes, greeted the pre dominately Hispanic voters in what he cal led “Georgia Spanish” and received a bois terous ovation. The school gymnasium, which became so warm many of those at the meeting re moved their coats and used makeshift pap er fans to cool themselves, was decorated with signs in both English and Spanish. Some of the 1,400 south Texans who won tickets to the town hall meeting in a draw ing showed up as much as five hours earlier to get front row seats. The president answered 16 questions during the hour-long meeting, and drew warm applause for his commitment to maintain the Corpus Christi Naval Air Sta tion. There was talk two years ago of closing or moving the station, but Carter said Mon day, “I can tell you there are no plans to move the naval air station away from Cor pus Christi.” A student at Moody High School, who said he will be 18 in a few months, asked Carter about draft registration. Carter said he proposed the registration as a symbol of American strength and unity, but told the young man, “as long as our voluntary forces are strong and getting stronger, I see no prospect at all for a man datory draft, so you need not worry.” Ross Volunteers escort Clements The Ross Volunteers, an honorary com pany of the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets, tonight will serve as the official honor guard at a Reagan-Bush fund-raising ceremony in Houston. The company, the governor’s official honor guard, was invited by Gov. Bill Cle ments to the function. In addition to Cle ments, other well-known representatives of the Republican Party are expected to attend, among them former President Gerald Ford and John Connally, former governor of Texas. Captain of the Ross Volunteers, Roy Brantley, said the group will perform a Queen Ann drill at the ceremony, a spin-off of the drill they did at Parents’ Day last spring. Later in the year the honorary company, named after former president of Texas A&M College, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, will also escort His Majesty Rex, leading the largest parade at the Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans. The 72 members of the Ross Volunteers were selected in the fall of their junior year based upon several factors, including their character traits, academic and military standing, social graces and disciplinary re cord, Brantley said. However, this year for the first time ever the company also has a 73rd member, Allen Crowley. Crowley was selected as a Ross Volunteer during his junior year in 1978, but he was forced to withdraw from the Corps before his senior year, Brantley said. Upon returning this year, Crowley was reinstated to the Corps as a senior, and the Ross Volunteers voted unanimously to wel come him back as a member of their com pany, the captain said. “It’s kind of like ‘Once an Aggie always an Aggie’ — ‘Once a Ross Volunteer always a Ross Volunteer,” Brantley said. oday last multi-primary day of campaign season Presents IN Oil lair Desiqnl United Press International . , . [Washington’s Cov. Dixy Lee Ray is fighting to keep her job for a eCiallZiriQ llpond term, politics and religion are mixed in Massachusetts if Shaoina iirS 311 ^ a senator’s son wants to follow in his father’s footsteps in Bihoma. native rcH 1 ‘Washington, Massachusetts and Oklahoma hold primaries to- lorina And M last multi-primary day of the campaign season. . , , |Polls open at 8 a.m. EDT in Massachusetts and Oklahoma, and minizing, itl()a.m. EDT in Washington. They close at 8 p.m. in the first I Hprimaries and at 11 p.m. EDT in Washington. Turnouts of nut 50 percent are forecast in Washington and Oklahoma. The Iksachusetts turnout is projected at 40 percent for Democrats md about 25 percent for Republicans. c |The Democratic Washington governor, seeking a second term, ■ challenged by state Sen. Jim McDermott, who has been our Hair" gaining on the incumbent rapidly in the past month and is given at least some chance of pulling off an upset. Should Miss Ray, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, survive the challenge, she is expected to face King County Executive John Spellman. Four years ago, she beat Spell man, who is favored for the GOP nomination over two opponents. Sen. Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., and all seven House mem bers are expected to win their primary races. State Attorney General Slade Gordon has the edge on broadcast commentator Lloyd Cooney for the GOP nominaton to oppose Magnuson in the fall. The influence of the Roman Catholic Church among Democrats was tested today in two Massachusetts races. In both contests, church leaders asked parishioners to reject candidates who favor abortion, and the influence of the religious leaders could be a deciding factor in the races. Pope John Paul II told Jesuit priest Robert F. Drinan, a House Democrat, to retire from his 4th District seat. Drinan and Sen. Edward Kennedy back state Rep. Barney Frank, a liberal opposed by anti-abortion conservative Arthur Clark, mayor of Waltham. Clark is supported by Gov. Edward J. King. Ranking Catholic leaders have targeted Frank for defeat, but Drinan, although asked by one church leader to stay out of the race, kept up his campaign for Frank. The other race in which religion and politics were mixed was the close contest between freshman Rep. James Shannon and Robert F. Hatem, an executive of Raytheon Corp. who opposes abortion. In Oklahoma’s runoff primary, Robert F. Kerr Jr., 53, son of the late senator, faces attorney Andy Coats, 45, in the Democratic Senate primary for the seat being vacated by Republican Henry Behnon. In the GOP race, state Sen. Don Nickles, a 31-year-old bornagain Christian, backed by the “Moral Majority” group, is favored over John Zink, an industrialist who once promoted race cars. In the only Oklahoma congressional runoff, in the 4th District, state Rep. Jim Townsend and former assistant state attorney general Dave McCurdy are in close race for the nomination to replace Rep. Tom Sneed, a Democrat retiring after a 32-year career in the House. The winner will face Republican Howard Rutledge, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, in the November general election. ys to be friendly ggies say howdy aids I® By BECKY SWANSON Battalion Reporter HOWDY!” his week is “Howdy Week” at Texas WdVl University, and the Traditions Coun- pis encouraging everyone on campus to tarry out the unique Aggie tradition of jng “Howdy!” s competition, i To promote the event, the council will be :ime 33 teams klPhig “Howdy” T-shirts in the Memorial to play PickWlM^t Center from 10 a.m.to 3:30 p.m. 21 individual' ™ v ’ Sabrina Seward, Howdy Week chair- the Tennis Sirar 1 ’ sa ’^' t, while 35 and I To encourage students to say “Howdy,” registered totofeward said, there will be five “howdy per- Field Goal Kkt^ ns walking around campus saying the d the Home E greeting to people they encounter itest respective!**^ counting the number who return it. He hundredth person answering will re- • ceive $5 and a “Howdy” T-shirt. zing round on St* idividuals qualify liversity P at 7 p.m. on M® room 230 of G J tries open today II close Tuesday “What we want is to make sure that everyone is saying ‘Howdy!’ and being friendly,” Seward said. Saturday is the first Aggie home game, so there will be many visitors and parents on the campus, she said, and students will have a chance to “get in practice” making visitors feel welcome by saying “Howdy!” to fellow students and faculty members. The maroon-and-white T-shirts bearing the message “HOWDY!” on the front and “No Place But Texas A&M” on the back will be on sale for $4.25 in the MSC throughout the week. Seward said the Traditions Council spon sored “Howdy Week” for the first time last spring the week before Parents’ Weekend. The event is now tentatively planned for the week before the first home football game, she said, unless it falls on the first week of school. Clayton may get 4 weeks of FBI testimony; jury selection in Brilab to conclude today United Press International HOUSTON — The 12 jurors and alter nates chosen to hear the federal govern ment’s Brilab case against House Speaker Bill Clayton and two Austin lawyers can expect as much as four weeks of FBI testi mony, says the presiding judge. Jury selection in the trial was expected to conclude today. Monday the court excused 18 of the 102 prospects summoned for reasons ranging from admitted bias against all politicians to the need to be at home or at work. Opposing lawyers spent most of the day questioning individual prospects in private before telling them to return to court today for the final selections. Prosecutors told the prospects they could expect to hear from 17 government witnesses, more than half of whom would be FBI agents who devised or supervised the scheme to “ferret out” corruption in labor and politics by using an informant to find office holders willing to take bribes. U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor Jr. said he anticipated the prosecution testi mony could take up to a month. Clayton, who dozed during a pre-trial hearing last month, was relaxed and smil ing Monday. None of the prospective jurors acknowleged knowing him, although one woman was excused because her daughter had once been represented by Clayton’s defense lawyer, Roy Q. Minton of Austin. Likewise, none of the prospects express ed a bias against what O’Conor referred to as “court-authorized wiretaps.” The FBI recorded hundreds of hours of conversations involving Clayton and his co defendants beginning in July 1979 when Los Angeles-afea racketeer Joseph Hauser, posing as a Prudential Insurance Co. agent, traveled to Texas in his role as FBI infor mant. When Hauser reported to prison last November, the FBI received permission to continue the investigation by wiretapping the telephones of suspects. In one tape played during the pretrial hearing, Clayton was heard to accept $5,000 from Hauser during a visit to his Capitol office. Clayton has admitted taking the money but his lawyers say his defense will be that it was forced upon him by a virtual stranger in the company of a political ally, Houston labor leader L.G. Moore, the man who introduced Hauser to Clayton and who was Hauser’s admitted “dupe” in the investiga tion. Clayton, Moore, and lawyers Randall Wood and Donald Ray were indicted June 12 on charges they used interstate com merce to further a bribery scheme. Pro secutors say Clayton promised to try to reopen bidding on the state employees’ in^ surance policy in exchange for the money. O’Conor has granted Moore a separate trial. mal facilities ecreation ted in the pool®* Hollingsworth, i ’ool Manager. y true Aggie on nda Miksch, Beli' : a Coordinator minor team spo' d protests w additions to ear are Lynette ft Weis. Lynette i! For Special Events 1 sisting with jor responsibility ublicity. he most underril of any staff are I i and clerical :he workload for t tment in this areas Schakel (Senior isa Burnett (Pay 1 asan Rawls iller (Clerk) and (Clerk). Last but mas Walker sen?' partment’s ft" More women re-assigned; 108 still waiting three to a room About 42 women presently living three- to-a-room in Texas A&M University dormi tories were re-assigned to other rooms on campus Monday in an attempt by the Housing Office to further alleviate a record overbooking. Now only 108 women of the 600 students overbooked at the beginning of the semes ter still await permanent assignments, Director of Housing Ron Hilton said Monday. Currently the remaining women are liv ing three-to-a-room in Hobby and Neely halls, the two new modular women’s dor mitories on campus, and Hilton said they probably will be there the rest of the semester. Some of them will be re-assigned, but only a few, Hilton said. The women who received permanent housing assignments Monday are being moved into rooms of dormitory students who have withdrawn from school, Hilton said. As others withdraw or move^off cam pus, he said, the remaining 108 will also receive reassignments. NEVER ENDING Staff Photo by Pat O’Malley Long lines in front of G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday were a sure sign that the first home football game of the season is almost here, as graduate students and seniors waited patiently in the 90-degree weather to get first choice of football tickets for Saturday’s game against Penn State. Juniors will get their shot at tickets today, sophomores on Wednesday and fresh men on Thursday. Kick-off for Saturday’s game will be 7:30 p.m. Appeals panel begins on backlog of violators Battalion Staff The University Traffic Appeals Panel has been approved by Texas A&M University Acting Pres. Charles Samson and will begin hearing appeals on parking and moving violations this week. Formation of the panel was slowed while awaiting Samson’s approval and organization of panel members. The University Police Department, which is not associated with the panel, scheduled dates and times to appear before the panel yesterday. The panel of staff members and students is divided into two groups which will meet weekly, one on Tuesdays and one on Wednesdays, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Appeals are scheduled at 10 minute intervals. About 12 appeals can be heard each session. There were about 40 people waiting to schedule appeals Fri day, said University Police Department employee Nancy Lane. However, many don’t come back to schedule an appeal, she said, and a small number don’t show up for an appeal once it is scheduled. “A lot of times they don’t even come back and pay the ticket, ” she said, adding, “until we catch up with them.” Most of those who file appeals are students, Lane said. Anyone receiving a ticket believed to be unwarranted has 10 calendar days from the date of the violation notice to file an appeal.