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Abscam men convicted
United Press International
NEW YORK — Reps. John M urphy and Frank Thomp-
jthe most influential congressmen to be convicted in
BI’s Abscam probe of political corruption, say they
ipeal, but one juror says the panel never seriously
ted their guilt.
eight-man, four-woman jury Wednesday night
i|d both men guilty of conspiracy and also found
|hpson guilty of bribery in accepting $50,000 from
mover agents posing as representatives of Arab
s.
Ont! of the jurors, Alfred Moskowitz, 62, of Brooklyn,
the panel was surprised the two experienced con-
imen would “swallow” an FBI “cock and bull” story
[t Arab shieks without carefully checking out the men
-w ning the claims.
Although the jury had decided to consider each charge
By and carefully, he said there was little doubt in their
minds about the guilt of the two congressmen after de
liberations began.
Thompson, 62, chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee, faces up to 22 years in prison for convictions
on conspiracy, bribery and accepting an unlawful gratui
ty. He was found innocent of conflict of interest.
Murphy, 54, chairman of the House Merchant Marine
Committee, could face sentences of up to nine years on
three convictions: conspiracy, conflict of interest and
accepting an unlawful gratuity. He was found innocent of
bribery.
Both men were defeated in the November elections.
Murphy had served nine terms in Congress from New
York and Thompson 13 from New Jersey.
Both said they would appeal after the verdict was
announced in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
“The thing speaks for itself,” Thompson said as he left
the court with his wife, Evalina, his face drooping. “Ob
viously, Tm upset and disappointed. I maintain my inno
cence, as I have from the beginning.”
Murphy, accompanied by his tearful wife Kathleen,
said he too would appeal and then charged through the
veritable army of reporters outside the courthouse with
out further comment.
“I think it’s a fair verdict. I’m satisfied, ” said prosecutor
Thomas Puccio.
Three other congressmen are awaiting trial on Abscam
charges: Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., the only sena
tor indicted in the FBI probe; Rep. Raymond Lederer,
D-Pa., and Richard Kelly, R-Fla. Kelly was to go on trial
today.
Besides Murphy and Thompson, Rep. Michael Myers,
D-Pa., and Rep. John Jenrette, D-S.C., have been con
victed in Abscam trials. Myers was expelled from the
House and lost his bid for re-election, as did Jenrette.
bngresspreparing to end session
nd leave decisions for next year
United Press International
SHINGTON — Congress is prepar-
3 sweep its 1979-80 session under the
iy Friday, leaving many important de-
|hs for the new, more Republican 97th
;ress next year.
th the House and the Senate worked
necessary legislation in the remain-
two days of the two-year 96th Congress.
many major money bills, necessary
nd government operations, will not
iven though the fiscal year began Oct.
To keep the federal machinery moving,
ouse Wednesday passed, 272-106, a
tinning resolution” that will keep
ding at current levels for those depart
ments with no appropriations.
Senate leaders hoped to pass that bill
quickly, effectively handing some of the
96th Congress’ most important business to
the 97th.
The Senate faced twin filibusters
threatening the end of the lame-duck ses
sion, but the House — whose rules prevent
filibusters — moved swiftly through num
erous major bills and its leadership made
clear it wants to adjourn by Friday.
For one thing, members of the new
House meet Monday to elect their leaders
and organize for the new session. The Sen
ate, which will switch from Democratic to
Republican control next year, already has
taken care of much of that housekeeping
chore.
The Senate failed Wednesday to break
one of two filibusters, voting, 51-39, against
limiting debate on a bill providing enforce
ment powers for the open housing law. The
vote was nine short of the needed margin to
limit the talk.
The Senate planned new attempts to
stop that filibuster, and is expected to end
the second one — against the nomination of
Stephen Breyer to the 1st Circuit Court of
Appeals.
In lengthy sessions on Wednesday, the
House and Senate took this action on other
major bills:
ite pa
appropriations bill for the Justice Depart
ment and some other federal agencies with
some of the strongest anti-busing language
ever passed by Congress. It would bar the
department from spending any money to
go to court to seek school busing for deseg
regation purposes.
— The House passed, 274-94, and sent
President Carter a bill that would create a
$1.6 billion fund — called a “superfund” by
its sponsors — to clean up the hundreds of
chemical toxic waste dump sites around the
country during the next five years. Most of
the fund would be financed through special
industry taxes.
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Never too big for Santa
Kelly Kays smiles for the camera as she prepares to get her picture made
with Santa Claus in the MSC main hallway Tuesday afternoon. Students
who missed having their picture taken with Santa on Tuesday can have it
done in the MSC on Friday. The Polaroid pictures cost $3 each.
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enate opposes Academic Programs Committee proposal
By NANCY ANDERSEN
Battalion Staff
e senate passed a bill Wednesday opposing the Academic
ograms Committee’s approval of a proposal allowing instructors
give a test exclusively to graduating seniors.
The proposal in part says: “If the instructor chooses to give
ididates for the baccalaureate degree a major test, before sub-
ssion of grades, this test must be scheduled to comply with the
War’s schedule for the submission of grades for graduating
idents.”
Or, as Student Body President Brad Smith said, “It says up
til Friday of dead week, a prof can make a graduating senior
S a test no one else has to take. ”
A proposed alternative added the phrase “and must be given to
Itudents in the course,” but this version did not pass,
file APC passed the proposal last week and it will be up for
Hemic Council approval next week.
pith is upset with the proposal, saying, “Let’s wake up, let’s
act about it and fight this thing.”
senate responded to Smith’s challenge by passing the
“Cruelty to Dead Elephants” bill. The bill says “that the Texas
A&M University student senate strongly objects to instructors
giving a mandatory examination to graduating seniors and gra
duating graduate students, unless it is given to every student in
the course at the same time.”
The bill was not on the agenda and a two-thirds vote was
required to take action on it. Smith urged the senate to consider
the bill so he could have student input for the Academic Council
next week.
The Academic Council is chaired by Acting President Charles
Samson and includes the deans, department heads and one stu
dent, Smith.
In other action, the senate defeated a bill to create a senate seat
for international students. Bill sponsor Tim Cavell said the bill
was a symbolic gesture to incorporate the nearly 1,500 interna
tional students into the mainstream of life at Texas A&M.
Many senators said they agreed with the bill’s intent, but added
that giving them a senate seat was not the way to do it.
David Collins, vice president for external affairs, suggested
creating a sub-committee for international students. Tracy Cox,
vice president for finance, suggested the Student Government
give presentations to international student organizations showing
them how to get involved with University committees.
The senate many also have ended long lines to run computer
programs by voting to recommend extending happy hour — the
time programs can be run without charge — Monday through
Thursday 7:30-11:30 p.m.
The senate also voted to recommend extending the Sterling C.
Evans Library hours to 7:30-1:30 a.m. Monday through Thurs
day, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, noon-l:30 a.m. Sunday and the
reserve room open from 9 a.m.-noon. Friday hours would remain
from 7:30 a.m.- 11 p.m.
Senator Jeff Bissey said it would cost $850 per person to work
the extended hours. An additional two or three would be needed.
He said this is relatively inexpensive and is of great service to
students.
Texas A&M’s first Student Government conference received
senate approval for additional funding. The conference is sche
duled for February. Forty-two schools from a five-state area have
been invited.
Senators also heard three new bills on first reading.
One bill would establish policy concerning whether or not
classes will be held the Monday following an Aggie victory over
the University of Texas.
The bill would also request that the administration instruct
faculty not to penalize students for missing classes Dec. 1 due to
any confusion about classes being held.
Another bill would recommend that any possible action, such as
more bike racks, be taken to improve or remove areas of conges
tion of bicycle parking. Bill sponsor Ron Palomares said the
continuous parking of bicycles along sidewalks and in front of
buildings detracts from the beauty of Texas A&M’s campus.
The bill would also recommend extending the bike route on the
west side of Spence Street along the length of Spence south to the
Commons. The route now ends in front of the Agriculture Build
ing, Palomares said.
The last bill involves some University Rules and Regulations
Revisions.
egents to discuss System future
egents for the Texas A&M University
em will meet Friday at the chairman’s
ill near Granbury mainly to discuss the
re of the System.
|o formal action is expected, but the
da does include discussions of long-
gge plans for the schools and the System’s
pliance with federal regulations con
ing minorities.
ihairman Clyde H. Wells manages the
l Black estate in Dallas, which includes
the ranch near Granbury.
Saturday the regents will attend the de
dication of the new $7.5 million fine arts
center at Tarleton State University. The
center will be named for Wells, who gradu
ated from Tarleton in 1936 before attending
Texas A&M.
Other events planned for the dedication
include an art auction to benefit the facility,
a reader’s theater presentation of “The
John Tarleton Story,” an art exhibit in the
gallery of the center, a 140-voice presenta
tion of Handel’s “Messiah” on Friday night,
and the presentation of an original piece of
music written especially for the occasion.
Other items on the agenda include con
sideration of a proposal to establish an ener
gy affairs center at Prairie View A&M and a
report on the Coordinating Board’s staff
report for long-range plans for higher edu
cation in Texas.
Today’s college student
The jargon changes along with the faces
A Little Less Parking
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Workers broke ground this week to begin construction of be used as a parking lot. Mesa Construction Co. of Austin
a condominium complex on the 6-acre tract that used to is in charge of the 178-unit project. John Van Winkle,
be the Circle Drive-In. Because of the construction, the president of the company, said the first phase of 58 units
lot at the corner of Cross and Nagle streets can no longer is scheduled for completion by next fall.
The following article is the third in a four-
part United Press International series on
current campus fads. It will conclude in
tomorrow’s Battalion.
United Press International
Many campuses feature coed living, but
the sexes are on alternating floors or in
separate apartments. Some students think
it’s great. Others have gone in for coed
apartments off campus.
At the University of Florida, Steve and
Marie, who declined to give their last
names, had their parents finance the pur
chase of two houses on the outskirts of
Gainesville.
Marie, a psychology student, bought a
two bedroom, and Steve, a three bedroom.
They rent out the three bedroom and share
the two bedroom, making one room sleep
ing quarters and the other a study.
At West Georgia, the dean of students
gave as an example a case in which he said,
“There is no sex involved. It is a conveni
ence. They like each other, can relate to
each other and sex doesn’t get in the way
and create a strain on the relationship.”
Dating is somewhat on the decline on
many campuses. Students prefer a few boy
or girlfriends.
With the introduction of “Road Trips”
women have been accepted as ‘buddies’ of
men and have also influenced the decUne of
traditional dating. A “Road Trip” consists of
packing as many people as possible into a
car and heading to the beach, park, woods
or a concert for a day or two.
Jargon
College students have a jargon all their
own. But the terms change with the times.
Students today, for example, appear
preoccupied with being intoxicated —
drunk or stoned. Their terms for it: Annihi
lated, B, Baked, Blasted, Blown Away,
Blown Out, Buried, Buzzed, Faced, Press
ed, Ripped, Stupid, Trashed and Zonked.
Here is a glossary of some other campus
terms which may help parents understand
their offspring and students at one campus
understand those at another:
Ace — To pass a course, more often with
an ‘A’.
Airhead — An attractive female, not
necessarily one with higher intelligence.
Babe — An attractive woman.
Beat — Tired. Also a worn out object.
Bee — Short for Frisbee.
Bent Out of Shape — Angry.
Big Times — A callous or ironic summa
tion of an insignificant event.
Bizarro — A leftwinger.
Blastoff — To leave to go somewhere.
Blow Off — Purposely forget or skip
something.
Bolt — To leave someplace.
Book — To leave someplace.
Bowling, Luds and Cruise — Taking
Quaaluds, drinking and chasing pedes
trians in a car.
Bozo — A rightwinger.
Brew (Brewskie) — Beer.
Breeze — Easy.
Brutal — 1. Sarcastic description of a
somewhat serious event. 2. Emphasizes
the relative difficulty of something, like an
exam.
Bummed or Bummed Out —- Glum, dis-
sappointed, depressed.
Bummer — Anything unpleasing that
depresses you.
Bust — A drag, bummer
Burnt or Burned Out — Tired.
Burn Out — Describes someone who
gets drunk or uses drugs too often, or a
person who is so active socially they are
failing in school.
Catch Rays — Tan.
Catch You Later — See you later.
Catch Z’s — Sleep.
Clone — Generally used as an insult with
no particular definition.
Commode-Hugging — Throwing up.
Computerhead — Engineering or Com
puter major.
Cool Breeze — Someone suave and de
bonair.
Cool Out — Take it easy.
Cop Out — What a plea bargainer does.
Cosmo — A woman who dresses stylish
ly, as in the magazine Cosmopolitan.
Crank — To speed through something
with ease.
Crash — To sleep.
Cruise — 1. Leave one place to go to
another. 2. A breeze.
Deck out — 1. Lie on a beach to catch
rays. 2. Hit someone. 3. Dress up.
Disk — Frisbee.
Do A Bone — Smoke marijuana.
Doobie — Marijuana cigarette, some
times abbreviated ‘Doob.’
Drag — A bummer.
Dynamite — Great or really good.
Emotional flash—To fall in love, briefly.
Face Book — Yearbook.
Flaky — see Airhead, Space.
Flamed — To be angered by someone.
Foot — Walk.
Frosted — To be put off by someone.
Fun — Pointless.