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tHt ^ laid 8ACKATS51 Drive safely over Thanksgiving The Battalion dp mo mts Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 63 6 Pages Wednesday, November 26, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Yesterday The Weather Today High 50 High 49 Low 32 Low 32 Rain . . 1.14 inches Chance of rain . . . . . . good ve mowstorm sweeps Texas run back to e original corps,” said® United Press International hey stoppedisH 16 storm that brought Lubbock a one-month snowfall Iton) sort of :-B r ^ move d through the Hill Country of central Texas ^y, slickening roadways with its deposits of snow and Travel advisories stretched from the Panhandle dmigh the South Plains and into the Austin-San Antonio n and only X w h’ c h was shivering under icy precipitation and ) then" BP era tures in the upper 20s. Snowfall had ceased in m Texas. abietoi! y o a.m. today, the National Weather Service said if at all. iss this momii p," said Stolk] vho went are: m, Johnny!: y, Russell kn lark Willians [ones, Wayne k 7 an DeWaie. ic only senior lers’ advisories would remain in effect for parts of central and southeast Texas throughout the day. in mixed with light snow and sleet was scattered over astern half of the state as well as eastern portions of Texas. e-dawn temperatures were mostly in the 30s across tate. Extremes at 4 a.m. included 8 degrees at Amar- md 43 at Beaumont. ies were mostly cloudy. Some clearing was reported northwest and extreme west, the rest of thaw’s forecast called for cloudy skies with rain, snow lo it again netB^ eet ^ or ^ ie eastern two-thirds of the state, with "easing cloudiness in the west. Temperatures were cted to range in the 30s and 40s, although highs in ime southern portions were expected to be near 50. ie 11 inches of snow that fell on Lubbock Tuesday ined with last week’s 10.6 inch snowfall to give the inew monthly record, the National Weather Service The previous record of 16.8 inches was set in Febru- 956. |iff winds of up to 25 mph piled the wet West Texas into drifts as high as 3 feet, and snow-encrusted were near impassable. No major accidents and no Sties were reported, however. iat holds the 12 who ran wl jrs today to 1 11 light the goes up will the 12 from :el great. ind of like minute or hw, Aggies see snow An early-season snow fell on the Bryan- College Station area Tuesday night, and local weathermen say there could be more snow flurries today. The Flight Service Station at Easter- wood Airport recorded 0.01 inches of snow Tuesday. A spokesman said that although there could be some snow flurries today, temperatures should prevent any snow from sticking on the ground. A spokesman for the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation said roads in the immediate area are wet, but are not experiencing any icing. Although local highways are in good con dition, local residents and students going north for the holiday weekend should listen for weather advisories, she said, because they will run into both ice and snow. Re ports on how far south the ice and snow conditions extend were not available as of 10 a.m. this morning. Lubbock-area schools were closed for the second day today, and some 23,000 Texas Tech students started the Thanksgiving holiday early as classes were dismissed until Monday. The snowfall transformed ordinarily pedestrian neigh borhoods into gorgeous snowscapes of flocked pines, firs and elms. Dollops of snow sculpted flat lawns. The beauty was lost on some people, like highway department workers, who battled the drifting snow and skating rink-slick roadways. Mel Pope, a district engineer for the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation in Lubbock, said 110 trucks were on the roads in the 17-county area, blad ing snow, salting bridges and hills and the areas where ice normally accumulates. “But they’re having extreme difficulty,” he said, “with the snow drifting behind the equipment. ” About 5 inches of snow, a numbing wind and tempera tures in the upper 20s created hostile conditions at Amar illo, “but we’ve just had minor fender-benders,” said a Department of Public Safety dispatcher. A jackknifed truck on U.S. 287 near Dumas caused minor traffic problems in the Panhandle, but Lubbock seemed to be taking the brunt of the storm, just as the weather service had predicted. “It’s just all roads packed solid with ice and blowing snow. It’s colder ’n blue blazes, and everybody wants to go to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving,” said Lubbock DPS officer Bert Sinclair. “We have a jackknifed truck, well, one that slid off the road in (nearby) Idalou. We’re working on getting a wrecker to it, but the wrecker got stuck,” he said. Lubbock Regional Airport was open today, although some flights were running late, said a Braniff Airlines spokeswoman. Tuesday morning, one-eighth-mile visi bility, stiff winds and poor braking action had thwarted commercial pilots trying to traverse the snow-covered runways. Staff photo by Greg Gammon A storm traveling across the state brought enough snow to the Bryan- College Station area Tuesday night for one resident to make this snow- woman. Local weathermen say there is a possibility of flurries again today. egents emphasize development of marine programs r LOGO! £S DESK JANIZA- STEAK lio— [major new commitment to attainment Itional and international leadership in Ine-related programs was underscored ■e Tuesday by the Texas A&M Universi- Sjstein Board of Regents — a commit- nt similar to that presently accorded culture and engineering. Ihe Board of Regents hereby reaffirms ommitment to the development of Ine-related programs within the Texas University System, with an express- joal to serve the growing needs of stu- ts and other citizens of the state in this ortant area and to achieve national and rational recognition for excellence in ield,” the regents said in a formal state- !nt after accepting a report compiled fol- a year-long study ofTAMUS marine ities. team of nationally prominent consul- I compiled the report. A companion "y was conducted by a 15-member in- 1 advisory committee, e overall picture that emerges is that k marine-related programs of the Texas A&M University System are diverse and broad, are representative of many areas of knowledge and encompass all the facets of a modern university in terms of teaching, research, extension and public service,” Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert told the regents. “The complexity of the marine-related programs within the system is similar to the complexity of programs found in the agri cultural and engineering fields,” he added. “However, the consultants have noted that the marine programs lack the institutional focus that is enjoyed by the programs in agriculture and engineering.” The agricultural and engineering emph ases stem from Texas A&M University’s land-grant designation. Texas A&M now has the nation’s largest student enrollments in both fields, and TAM US agencies con duct research and extension programs which rank among the best in the country, Chancellor Hubert said. Texas A&M now also has sea-grant designation with a federal mandate to provide leadership in marine and related activities. “The ocean is important to Texas. Ocean resources — oil, gas, fisheries transporta tion and recreation — all enhance the state’s economy,’’ noted the report accepted by the regents. “Continued growth of the population of Texas accents the need to understand the adjacent marine environment. Increased reliance on an unspoiled ocean will require public wisdom based on knowledge and under standing of that environment. “As the land-grant and sea-grant institu tion in the State of Texas, the Texas A&M University System has the opportunity and obligation to serve the ocean-related needs of the people of Texas,” the report con tinues. “Recognition of this role is evi denced by the many related marine prog rams within the system.” The Texas A&M University System cur rently invests about $25 million annually in marine programs, the study showed. Recommendations made by the consul tants include a proposal to nurture Prairie View A&M University’s unique role in pro viding access to marine employment for minority students. In other business, the regents appointed Mayo J. Thompson of Houston and Lawr ence D. White of Fort Worth to the board of consultants for Texas A&M’s Center for Education and Research in Free Enter prise, an economic think tank. Thompson, an attorney, is a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and was in strumental in founding the privately fi nanced center. White is president of an architectural and engineering firm. Both men are Texas A&M graduates and have held alumni board positions, with Thomp son serving a term as president. John William Caple of Fort Worth was named to the board of visitors for Texas A&M University at Galveston. The found er and president of Trailer Equipment Warehouse, also a Texas A&M graduate and past president of the alumni associa tion, was appointed to a three-year term on the advisory board for the president of the marine-oriented institution. The regents awarded four contracts total ing $13 million for construction projects throughout the system, and appropriated an additional $548,000 for six other pro jects. A $10,235,725 contract was awarded to Allen M. Campbell Co., General Contrac tors, Inc. of Tyler, for construction of a 167,075-square-foot, three-story engineer ing laboratory center at Texas A&M. Century Builders of San Antonio re ceived a $1.27 million contract to construct an office-classroom-shop building for the Texas Engineering Extension Service’s South Central Training Center at San Anto nio. T.D. Howe Construction Co. of Hous ton received a $977,100 contract to reno vate a recently purchased nine-story build ing adjacent to the Texas Medical Center in Houston for use in the Prairie View A&M nursing program. The sewage treatment plant will be expanded at the Mitchell Campus in Galveston under a $245,950 award to Medina Engineers & Construc tors, Inc., of Texas City. Appropriations include $300,000 for pur chase of a sea-going vessel by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station for use in its environmental engineering program. Other appropriations: $120,000 to purch ase furniture and shelving for the Sterling C. Evans Library, $60,000 for design work for expansion of cyclotron facilities and $43,000 for design work to convert the animal pavilion into a registration and add- drop center and student lounge, all at Texas A&M; $25,000 for design work to air- condition three dormitories at Prairie View; $10,000 for a feasibility study for con struction of a new dormitory and renova tion of existing dormitories at Tarleton; and $15,000 for design of an addition to the headquarters building at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Ex tension Center at Lubbock. iliililiiiliis ised Willi iting Foods us Tax. to 7:00 Pi - JESDAY 3 SPECIAL Fried Steak im Gravy ^tatoesand )f one other letable 5read andBi)? eorlea )S. IKEYDINN? enterpole alls early _Je traditions hold true, it will be a rial game against University of Texas sweekend, since the bonfire centerpole well before midnight, radition has it that if the centerpole ains standing until midnight, the ies will beat the Longhorns. A smaller than usual crowd stood Pugh rain, sleet and snow Tuesday night Watch the bonfire bum and the center- le collapse about 9:30. powever, the pole fell before midnight tyear, and that didn’t stop the Aggies beating the Longhorns 13-7. A stong north wind kept one side of the rek from catching for almost 30 minutes | kept the outhouse on top of the stack | burning. nother tradition says that yell practice inot be held until the outhouse col- Ses, but because of the weather, yell I SPECIAL piers decided to start early. r| pucug luring yell practice, Acting President Charles Samson, Head Coach Tom Ison and quarterback David Beal Iressed the crowd. ed with irry Sauce td Dressing Bread-Butte eorTea it Gravy choice ol any egetable Vilson acknowledged that although the son had been disappointing to most, he ieves his actions have laid the ground- rk for a strong program in the future, ieal said the football team has come [ether more now than he has ever seen in past. He said the team is ready for the Be this weekend. We re going to Austin with only one in mind,” Beal said, “and that’s beat- ?the hell outta Texas.” While Aggies were making their way to bonfire Tuesday night, traffic was slowed somewhat on Wellborn Road as pas sing motorists observed some Missouri Pacific Railroad cars that derailed across from the Kyle Field Stadium. Police said the accident, which caused no injuries, occurred about 6:15 p.m. Railroad workers described the incident as a “washout,” but declined to make any comment on the cause of the derail ing. Wreckers were called in from Houston, but investigators are not scheduled to make an announcement on the accident’s cause until today. The cars were carrying sand and gravel. Iran threatens release in stages United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran’s parliament speaker Hojjatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani warned the United States today if Iran’s demands for freeing the hostages are met only in installments, the American captives will be released the same way — in stages. The United States said publicly late last month any piecemeal release of the captives was “unacceptable,” and also warned Iran at the same time of “grave” consequences if any of the Americans were put on trial in Tehran as spies. The strong statement came by Rafsanjani came hours before an a three-man Algerian delegation, Iran’s go-between in the hos tage crisis, was to arrive at the State Department to explain Iran’s position on the release of the captives, who on Thursday will spend their second Thanksgiving in captivity. The Algerian envoys — Abdelkarim Gheraib, Algerian ambas sador to Iran; Redha Malek, Algerian ambassador to Washington; and Mosstefaii Seghir, head of Algeria’s central bank — were to meet with Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Rafsanjani, on the last stop of a four-nation Arab trip to win support for Iran’s war effort against Iraq, told a news conference in the Lebanese capital Iran will not compromise on its conditions for the release of the Americans or ending the war with Iraq. He said the same non-negotiable demands for freeing the Americans, who have been held for 389 days, apply to the incom ing adminstration of Ronald Reagan and warned the hostage crisis “could remain with us as long as Washington does not do anything about it. “There is no differences between Reagan and Carter,” Rafsan jani said. “Whoever meets our demands, will get the hostages. If our demands are met by installments, then the hostages will be released by installments. “The Americans and the Iraqis are the aggressors, and there could be no compromise with the aggressors,” Rafsanjani said. “Our demands for the release of the hostages and ending the war are clear; and unless these demands are met, neither crisis will be settled.” The Iranian hostage release demands are a pledge of noninter ference in Iranian affairs, the return of the late shah’s wealth, the release of Iran’s frozen assets and the cancellation of all legal claims pending against Iran. Washington has indicated that all but the first demand of a non-interference promise entail legal and financial complications. Tuesday night, the Algerian delegation arrived in Washington with a list of questions from Tehran about the U.S. reply to Iran’s conditions. The Iranian mesage brought to Washington apparent ly asked for specific U.S. actions to fulfill the Iranian demands. But the delegation’s arrival also was the first indication of a genuine give-and-take on the negotiations for release of the hos tages. U.S. officials, however, expect it will take several days of intense discussions to produce the “clarifications” Iran has de manded.