The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 23 Wednesday, October 1, 1980 USPS 045 360
16 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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Carter, 56 today,
celebrates on trail
United Press International
Today is President Carter’s 56th birthday, and he appears
rtain to cut as many decorated cakes and hear at least as many
lappy Birthday to You renditions as his opponent, Ronald
;agan, did on a similar occasion during the primaries.
Carter scheduled a trip to the Detroit area to see the new
nerican economy cars on the assembly lines and on parade,
tend a town meeting in Flint, Mich., and an address a local
lion in Niagara Falls, N.Y., before a private celebration with his
mily at the White House tonight.
Reagan used his own birthday to defuse the age issue in the
imary campaign, with considerable success.
Reagan, who held a big “Prelude to Victory ' dinner in New
)rk Tuesday night — complete with closed-circuit hook-ups to
parate but similar events with Gerald Ford and vice presiden-
il candidate George Bush — planned new appeals today to
jrkers in blue-collar areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Independent candidate John Anderson received a setback
icsday in his effort to borrow badly needed campaign funds
ainst a federal payment he will receive after the election if he
ts at least 5 percent of the vote.
Two staff reports recommended the Federal Election Commis-
mnot give its approval to the loan efforts. The commission won’t
t :et on it until Thursday, hut the recommendations could be
cisive.
war is a good thing’
Anderson could get the loans anyway, but he hoped to use the
FEC approval to help convince bankers of his application’s
merits.
Both Anderson and Bush reacted late Tuesday to a comment
attributed to Vice President Walter Mondale earlier in the day,
calling on Anderson to drop out of the race.
Anderson rejected the suggestion, and said, “I’m not about to
take the vice president’s advice and get out of the race. ’’ And Bush
agreed Anderson should hang in there.
“I guess Mr. Mondale thinks Mr. Anderson is hurting them and
he’s trying to crowd Anderson out,” Bush told reporters in Los
Angeles.
Anderson said that suggestion — plus word from Carter cam
paign director Robert Strauss the campaign soon will air commer
cials saying a vote for Anderson is a vote for Reagan — proves his
effort “is having an impact. ’
“A vote for Anderson is a vote for Anderson,’ he said on his
arrival in Miami.
Reagan met with some farmers in Nevada, Iowa, before flying
to New York Tuesday. He said Carter’s embargo on grain sales to
the Soviets had been a political ploy at their expense, and ap
plauded the Senate’s vote last week to withhold funds for the
embargo’s implementation.
A fund-raiser scheduled here Saturday for Bill Clayton — the
Texas House speaker on trial for bribery — has been postponed,
says the Texas A&M University student who’s organizing it.
Irene Little, a graduate student in English, said the barbecue
has been indefinitely postponed because Clayton can’t come
Saturday.
“He can’t be here because the budget board chairman insists he
attend budget hearings in Austin on the weekends,” Little said.
During the week Clayton and two other men are on trial in
federal court in Houston.
“We feel like if we have a party for him, he should be here,” she
said. Profits from the barbecue will help pay Clayton’s legal fees.
Little said the barbecue was planned to show support for
Clayton, who graduated from Texas A&M in 1950.
“I really know he’s an honest person, and it seemed to me the
time to say that,” she said. Little met Clayton when she was
working for another legislator in Austin in 1969.
Students she’s talked to, she said, are willing to help with the
barbecue.
“Even the students understand he’s done more for A&M than
just about anybody,” she said. Neither the University nor the
System is involved, she said, although some employees are help
ing with it.
None of the $10 tickets ($5 for students) were sold, she said.
Khomeini spurns mediation
United Press International
BAGHDAD, Iraq—Ayatollah Ruhollah
homeini turned down mediation to end
>e 10-day conflict with Iraq, saying “war is
good thing, ” and sent fighter-bombers on
■an s deadliest raid against Baghdad that
ft hundreds wounded and dying.
In Baghdad, Iraq said its forces tightened
ie siege of Dizful north of the Iranian city
f Ahwaz, saying they will “control the city
t any moment” but were giving the enemy
ie opportunity to surrender before “they
)ere crushed.
“We shall fight against them right to the
nd,” Khomeini said late Tuesday, appeal-
ig to his countrymen in the embattled
ities of Abadan, Khurramshahr and Ahvaz
oil-rich Khuzistan province to “remain
leadfast and not leave their towns.”
“From one point of view, war is a very
bod thing, because it reveals the courage
lidden in man and stirs man out of his
fcactivity,” Khomeini said in seeking to
ouse the residents of the three key towns
jb the south to stand and fight.
Some 90 miles southwest of Ahvaz on the
Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iraqi infantry,
frtillery and tanks tightened their siege of
Abadan.
Iran’s Abadan Radio broadcast orders
civilians to “prepare trenches in the
streets, make Molotov cocktails” and ready
themselves for hand-to-hand combat
“against the enemies of God and the
masses.”
In their 10-day drive, the Iraqis have
swept with relative ease over much of the
136-square-mile Shatt al-Arab waterway,
established a zone of security 10 miles deep
inside Iran along the central and southem
border, and pushed up to 65 miles into
Iranian territory.
In the deadliest Iranian air raids of the
war against the Iraqi capital, an Iranian
bomb or rocket hit a fuel depot on the
southwestern fringes of the city, turning
the depot into an inferno in seconds. A blast
at the same time rolled into civilian re
sidential areas.
The raid, in which Iranian U.S.-built
Phantom fighter bombers swooped 500 feet
above the ground, caught Baghdad by sur
prise.
Hospitals were jammed with hundreds
of wounded and dying. Authorities said at
least half were children. Flames licked
hundreds of feet into the night sky more
than eight hours later.
A French-built nuclear research center
also was hit and partly destroyed, although
French officials said the reactor was un
damaged with no danger of radioactive
leakage.
Both Baghdad and Tehran warned the
United States against any move to protect
oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said
it would turn the Persian Gulf into “a vast
hell” if there is any Western intervention.
Addressing Iranians on nationwide radio
and television, Khomeini scoffed at Presi
dent Saddam Hussein’s acceptance of a
U.N. cease-fire call and his offer to talk
peace with Tehran.
In Tehran, the Iranian parliament re
sumed its debate on the fate of the 52
American hostages now in their 333rd day
of captivity. It beard more demands the
hostages be tried as spies before adjorning
the debate until Sunday, Tehran Radio
said.
In New York, Secretary of State Edmund
Muskie met unexpectedly with Iraqi Fore
ign Minister Saadoun Haminadi. Hammadi
later said he told Muskie, “The best thing
the United States can do to ease the situa
tion is not to interfere in any way.”
Want a kiss?
Battalion photo by Pamela Eadcs
Boomer, n 7 1/2-foot Redtailed Boa Constrictor, found
the weather a tad too chilly for his liking Tuesday. So,
owner Roger Terrel, brought the snake to visit
McFadden Hall residents while warming up.
Clayton barbecue postponed
created for students
Ingram to appear again
before hearing board
By NANCY ANDERSEN
Battalion Staff
A common student reaction to the phrase
•Indent Government is “What does it do
or me?”
[ Two things Student Government does
>r the students are going on right now.
The external affairs committee has two
rejects which every student can use —
ggie Bucks atid Discovering Aggieland.
Aggie Bucks is the old Student Purchase
frogram with a new twist. The name is
Jew, and committee member Sue Vito said
be reason for the change is to get better
same recognition. SPP wasn’t too catchy,
Vito said.
[ Other changes include dollar-bill type
Irtwork on each coupon and an index of the
foupons.
Aggie Bucks is a booklet of coupons good
for discounts at 29 local businesses for any
thing from food purchases to hair cuts. To
receive a discount using Aggie Bucks, a
student must present his Texas A&M Uni
versity I.D. card and the appropriate
coupon. There is a limit of only one coupon
per student.
The book was produced in conjuction
with the Bryan-College Station Chamber of
Commerce and distributed by Student
Government. Vito said a coupon book was
included in the Survival Kits distributed to
dormitory rooms. Off-campus students can
pick up a copy at 216 Memorial Student
Center, or at most of the major apartment
complex offices this week.
Discovering Aggieland is another old
program that received a face lift. Formerly
the Consumer Guide, this handbook is a
concise guide to services and businesses
available in the Bryan-College Station area.
Besides consumer tips, church listings
and emergency numbers, Discovering
Aggieland contains a restaurant guide com
plete with a key indicating price estimates
of a dinner for two and whether liquor is
served.
A Texas A&M University football player
who was asked to return Tuesday for an
additional Student Affairs hearing was
asked to return again today for another
hearing. The reason was undisclosed.
Three of his teammates were cleared on
Monday.
Kenny Ingram, a sophomore defensive
lineman from Corpus Christi, will meet
with the hearing board again today at 1
p.m.
Aggies Doug Carr, Leandrew Brown,
Jay Dale and Stuart Clark were cleared
Monday after a letter by dismissed team
mate Cal Peveto implicated them in an
investigation of drug use.
Texas A&M players Peveto and Elroy
Steen were kicked oft' the team last week
after a Student Affairs board upheld their
initial dismissal by Head Coach Tom
Wilson.
Wilson dismissed Steen Tuesday after
University police found a substance be
lieved to be marijuana in his car.
Peveto was dismissed after an ampheta
mine pill was found in his room in a search
of Cain Hall.
The University Student Affairs offices
are now running the entire investigation.
But overcrowding causes problemsforsome
‘Triplets’find three-to-a-room
By TRACY L. FENTON
Battalion Reporter
; The two new women’s dormitories, Hob
by and Neeley Halls, have what head resi
dent Hadley Hoff calls “triplets.” Triplets
are three people living in one dorm room.
Ron Hilton, coordinator of housing ser
vices, said fewer students than expected
Canceled their dorm agreements and more
upperclassmen decided to stay on campus
this fall, resulting in the crowding.
The three-to-a-room situations are met
with mixed feelingsd by many students.
I For freshmen Lynn Kurtz, Patricia Ben
ner and Linda Sampson, things are going
"just great.”
I Benner is a petroleum engineering ma
jor from McAllen. Sampson, a psychology
major, and Kurtz, a marketing major, are
both from Houston.
r “One of the reasons we all get along so
well is we’re three completely different
people,” Benner said.
The women said they seldom argue or
fight.
Kurtz said the only real problem that
ever comes up is when one of them is ex
pecting a phone call and one of the others is
on the phone. She said they just tell the
other roommate they’re expecting a call
and they get the phone back as soon as
they’re through.
The women take turns buying the snacks
and drinks, compromise on what kind of
music to listen to and try not to slam the
door when one of the others is taking a nap.
They have no space or storage problems.
“We have tons of room,” she said.
Sampson said she and Kurtz share a desk
and leave the other one to Benner so she
can have space to do her engineering
homework. They each have a closet, a set of
drawers and a bookshelf.
They also store things under Sampson’s
roll-away bed.
(1-r) Linda Sampson, Lynn Kurtz, Patricia Benner
life not so bad
Benner said the women have no “house”
rules. “It’s just common courtesy,” said
Sampson.
Benner said one of the main reasons the
roommates don’t fight is because they talk
out any problems that come up.
“I don’t think it’s the size of the room or
the space,” Sampson said. She said she
thinks it depends on how well the people
get along and if they are willing to com
promise.
The women said they are just as glad
there are three of them because this way
they’ve gotton to meet more new people.
N ot all of the new residents of Hobby and
Neeley agree with Benner, however.
Hadley Hoff, head resident for the two
dorms, said most of the complaints she gets
are about one roommate wanting to study
while the other two are listening to music
or entertaining friends.
Another problem, she said, is upper
classmen that have freshmen or sophomore
roommates. She said sometimes the under
classmen carry lighter schedules and do not
have to study as much.
Sometimes there’s just a personality
clash that is not made any better by living
three-to-a-room, Hoff said.
Occasionally, if two roommates are
close, the third feels left out or rejected,
Hoff said.
Hoff said many of the girls had problems
in the beginning of the semester, but didn’t
talk things out because they thought one
roommate would eventually be moved.
But Kurtz, Sampson and Benner said
when they found out about two weeks after
school started that Sampson, their “tem
porary, ” would be with them the rest of the
semester, they were glad she was staying.
As far as room plans for next spring,
Sampson said she didn’t want to leave. The
three women said they would be just as
happy to stay a triple.