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The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 26 Monday, October 6, 1980 USPS 045 360
14 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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Bob Hope
Photo by Bob Sebree
lope performed before a sell-out crowd Friday night in President” campaign at Texas A&M. For a review of his
x. Rollie White Coliseum after arriving in College Sta- appearance, see page 3.
tion Friday afternoon to kick off his “Bob Hope for
lobby to speak tonight in Rudder
I
Blliam P. Hobby, lieutenant governor of Texas, will speak at 8
“ tonight in 701 Rudder. His talk, entitled "The 1980 Legisla-
What the Future Holds,” is sponsored by MSC Political
m.
Since his election as lieutenant governor in 1972, Hobby has
ked as chairman of the National Conference of Lieutenant
dvernors and was a member of the Executive Committee of the
cjtincil of State Governments. He is chairman of the Legislative
udget Board and co-chairman of the Texas Energy and Natural
csources Advisory Council.
In addition. Hobby chaired the 1978 State Democratic Con
vention and was re-elected in 1978 to a second four-year term as
lieutenant governor.
He is president of the Houston Post and has served on the Texas
Air Control Board, the University of Houston Board of Regents
and the Board of Directors of the Houston Chamber of Com
merce.
Hobby is a native of Houston and graduated from Rice Univer
sity in 1953. He then served three years in the Office of Naval
Intelligence after joining the U.S. Navy.
Adopt an Aggie’ program tries
o create ‘home away from home’
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By DAWN SCOTTE FERGUSON
Battalion Reporter
he Student Y will try to create a “home
ay from home” for Texas A&M Universi-
students this semester in its new prog
in, “Adopt An Aggie.”
A faculty member, his family and a stu-
snt will be able to get together for dinner
Bust spend some time getting to know
cli another.
Bussell Merck, director of faculty/staff
tlations for the Student Y, said the prog-
i will give the professors a first hand look
f what current college students are like
what they experience.
|We are trying to give students someone
ey can go to when they have problems or
pd to talk,” Merck said.
Merck said the Student Y sent out 70
letters to faculty members; so far only 15
have been returned.
“Out of the 70 we sent,” Merck said,
“only 10 have agreed to the program.”
Texas A&M Methodist Church presently
has a program by the same name, wherein a
local family “adopts” a student. But, Merck
said, the Student Y program is aimed speci
fically at the Texas A&M faculty.
“This program will give the student and
the faculty member a chance to know each
other on a one-to-one basis,” Merck said.
In Fireside Forum, another Student Y
program, 10 to 12 students visit a profes
sor’s home for an evening.
“I’ve been to several of those and the
professor usually doesn’t remember my
name,” Merck said.
“Possibly, (in Adopt an Aggie) students
will get to know the faculty member as a
person and not just the guy up front who
marks F’s on their tests.”
Hopefully, Merck said, by knowing a
student, the faculty member will become a
better instructor.
Merck said there are no strict rules about
what the professor and the student must
do.
“The Student Y will try to match the
student and the professor, and hopefully
they’ll have a good time getting to know
one another,” Merck said. “One professor
wanted to find a student he could ride bikes
with.”
The program is open to all Texas A&M
students and faculty. Merck said any facul
ty member interested in participating in
the program should call the Student Y
office.
kggie mementos bring in
By SHERRY A. EVANS
Battalion Reporter
Although the College Station bookstores mainly market tex
tbooks at the beginning of each semester, the bookstores’ biggest
sales during football season are in Aggie paraphernalia.
Managers and owners of local bookstores all said they extend
their business hours right up until game time on home football
game weekends.
Howard DeHart, manager of the Texas A&M Bookstore in the
Memorial Student Center, estimated that on the day of a Saturday
football game his store has had anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000
people come in to buy Aggie souvenirs.
To help with the increased number of customers, DeHart said
his store brings in an additional 25 employees to work on home
game weekends.
Martha Camp, manager of the University Book Store, 409
University Drive, said a lot of people come in “just to see what’s
going on.” She said that often she sees “the same ones coming in
year after year.”
Camp and Dennis Bother, manager of Bother’s Book Store, 340
Jersey St., agreed that Aggie fans buy mostly T-shirts, sweatshirts
Iraq secures key
Iranian port city
United Press International
KHURRAMSHAHR, Iran — Iraqi forces flushed out die-hard
snipers in the major oil port city of Khurramshahr today in secur
ing the biggest prize of the Persian Gulf war.
For the 52 American hostages, the 15th day of the war was the
beginning of their 12th month in captivity at the hands of Iranian
militants who seized them last Nov. 4.
The Iranian parliament Sunday postponed a scheduled debate
on the hostages, held for 338 days, with the explanation that many
of the legislators were visiting the front.
A four-day truce declared by Iraq Sunday lasted 12 hours before
the Iraqis resumed their offensive, saying Iranian forces attacked
on land, sea and in the air.
As the war entered its third week, Iraqi forces secured the key
Iranian oil port of Khurramshahr and flushed out isolated pockets
of Iranian snipers in the city proper.
Securing the city on the Shaat al-Arab estuary at the top of the
gulf would be a major strategic prize and a big bargaining card in
any postwar negotiations.
Khurramshahr, besieged for 14 days, is the southernmost of a
line of vital cities in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzistan province, which the
Iraqis have hammered away at.
In the Iraqi oil port of Basra, raid blackout was lifted and street
Campaign only half over
lighting was turned on for the first time since Iraq attacked its
eastern neighbor Oct. 22.
Tnere was no immediate claim of victory in Khurramshahr from
Iraq, which since Thursday has limited itself to only one daily
late-evening communique on the progress of the war as it sees it.
But Iraq said its troops, warplanes and warships struck hard at
Iranian targets in a series of punishing attacks in revenge for Iran’s
non-compliance with the truce Baghdad said it called at dawn
Sunday.
Detailed reports of the ground fighting along the border front
were sparse from both sides.
Iran said it counter-attacked along a 100-mile stretch from the
Shatt al-Arab in the south to the cities of Ahvaz and Dizful in the
north. But Iraq said it repulsed the Iranian counter-offensive and
“forced (Iranian forces) to retreat on all battle fronts.”
Iraq said it killed 18 Iranian troops for the loss of five Iraqis in
the border-sector battles.
Baghdad claimed its air force destroyed two jumb’o jets on the
ground at Tehran airport, set the Tabriz oil refinery ablaze 60
miles from the Soviet frontier, burned oil storage tanks in Dehlor-
an and south of Tehran, and damaged and destroyed other Iranian
targets.
Iran admitted the raids, but claimed “most of the attacking Iraqi
MiGs were destroyed by our forces.”
Polls show Reagan ahead
United Press International
“If the election were today, I think we’d
win,” says Ronald Reagan’s adviser
Michael Deaver. “We rebehind, yes,’says
Carter campaign chairman Robert Strauss.
Several new polls and state-by-state sur
veys bear them out. Both The New York
Times and The Washington Post said Sun
day their analysts find Reagan over the top
in electoral votes, and NBC News found
■Reagan well ahead, although not yet
assured of the 270 electoral votes he needs.
But the campaign is only at the halfway
mark, and neither side is ready to claim
victory or concede defeat witb four full
weeks to go.
Reagan aides told United Press Interna
tional that he has “stabilized his campaign:
refraining from involvement in long-range
political invective, charming the crowds in
stead of haranguing them, benefiting from
television and newspaper advertisements
paid for by independent pro-Reagan
groups instead of his own federal funds.
Aides have devised 28 different winning
combinations of electoral votes, and confi
dence permeates Reagan’s inner circle.
But they are wary of the “October sur
prise,” or, as one aide put it, a “kamikaze
style attack at the end” — some stunning
international development that an incum
bent president could bring about without
giving them time to counter.
In a separate interview, Strauss said it is
up to the president, to Vice President Wal
ter Mondale and to himself “to point out
Reagan’s hardline harsh statements with
out being perceived as mean.”
“I don’t think any of us has done well, ’’ he
added. “We have to figure a way to elevate
the campaign to an issues dialogue ...
Reagan proved in the first two weeks of the
campaign that left on his own, he can’t be
relied on, and must be totally muzzled.”
But, he said, “We re reasonably well
satisfied with where we are,” and “if we do
the things we should do,” Reagan can’t be
elected.
A Reagan presidency “is very possible,
but not probable,” he said.
In San Antonio, Texas, the annual con
ference of the National Organization for
Women voted to withdraw its earlier posi
tion of opposing Carter’s re-election.
And it approved a resolution pledging to
“work in every state” against Reagan, and
calling for pickets “wherever Reagan and-
or (vice presidential candidate George)
Bush appear.”
In the surveys, with 270 electoral votes
needed for victory:
—The Times had Reagan leading in 29
states with 314 electoral votes; Carter lead
ing in 12 plus the District of Columbia with
136 votes, and nine states with 88 votes too
close to call.
—The Post had Reagan ahead in 28 states
with 283 votes; Carter in front in 14 states
and the District with 151 votes, and eight
states with 104 votes rated tossups.
—N BC News had no projected winner as
yet, but had Reagan ahead in 25 states with
233 electoral votes, Carter leading in 13
states and the District with 143 votes, and
12 states rated a tossup.
Supreme Court
term opens today
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The traditional
opening of the Supreme Court’s new term
— the first Monday in October — comes
with justices facing a record number of re
quests on emotion-laden questions, among
them abortion, child custody and sex and
race discrimination.
Business issues also confront the court.
Chief among them are several cases involv
ing federal regulation — the nemesis of
business. One involves the government’s
power to make business clean up pollution
no matter what the cost and another in
volves on-the-job health protection for tex
tile workers.
School busing may come up again, too.
St. Louis, Detroit and Indianapolis have
asked to be heard. Justices already have
indicated they may take on the integration
problems “white flight” from the cities cre
ates by agreeing earlier to hear a case on
black student quotas set by Chicago school
officials.
Today, the court also announces some of
the cases it will accept from the record
1,102 it has been asked to consider.
Last week, the justices conferred on
which cases. to add to the more than 70
already scheduled for argument during this
nine-month term. Several thousand more
cases will arrive during the term, and by
February another 70 to 80 will be chosen
for review.
The question of what can make up for
past discrimination has arisen for the fourth
consecutive year. The issue this year in
volves two white corrections officers test
ing a California affirmative action plan im
plemented without proof of conscious past
discrimination.
The court is expected to decide shortly
whether to hear another sexual bias finding
— a lower court ruling that the exclusion of
women from the military draft is unconsti
tutional.
The court will hear arguments over a
Utah law requiring doctors to tell a minor’s
parents before performing an abortion, and
the court also will consider how specific
must be state statutes that lead to “unfit”
parents losing their children to other au
thorities.
Steen charged
with possession
of cocaine
Another chapter was added to the Texas
A&M University football team’s controver
sial year Friday, when a felony warrant
charging recently dismissed Elroy Steen
with possession of cocaine was issued.
A state district court issued the warrant
after receiving Department of Public Safe
ty laboratory test results of a substance
found in Steen’s car two weeks ago.
Steen, a defensive back from Gonzales,
was kicked off the football team by Head
Coach Tom Wilson after an inventory
search of his car before towing by Universi
ty Police reportedly turned up a “control
led substance,” which was immediately
sent to the DPS in Austin by the Texas
A&M Department of Student Affairs.
Steen is one of three Aggies kicked off
the squad by Wilson in the past two weeks.
Linebacker Cal Peveto of Vidor was dismis
sed after a search of his Cain Hall room
turned up an amphetamine, and defensive
lineman Kenny Ingram of Corpus Christi
was removed last week in a subsequent
drug use investigation by the University.
Eight A&M players have been called be
fore University student affairs hearings in
the investigation.
bucks for local bookstores
and Aggie mementos such as mugs, pennants or bumper stickers.
Bother also said customer purchases often depend on how well
the football team is doing, whether the game is played at night or
during the day, and what kind of mood the customer is in as a
result of these factors.
As for actual textbook sales on football weekends, John Raney,
owner of the Texas Aggie Bookstore, 327 University Drive, said
the students who do come in are usually not there to buy books.
Although textbook sales probably make up two-thirds of his
regular business, Raney said, book sales account for no more
than 5 percent of total sales on football weekends.
DeHart said that on football weekends, he takes in about “99.9
percent on the sale of Aggie spirit items. ”
Annually, the Texas A&M Bookstore takes in 60 percent of its
revenue in book sales, 15 percent in Aggie paraphernalia and the
remaining percentage in supplies and confections, DeHart said.
Bother said the bookstore business “is a very seasonal busi
ness.”
DeHart agreed, saying “textbooks, as a whole, (90 percent), are
sold only twice a year and that’s at the beginning of the fall
semester and the spring semester.”
Battalion file photo