The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 82
14 Pages
Friday, January 23, 1981
College Station, Texas
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By AUGUST SKOPIK
Battalion Reporter
Hie new student weight room opened
esday night and is now available for all
sas A&M University students, faculty
staff and their spouses.
The weight room, a Student Govern-
asjiE Jnt-funded project, is located in 262 G.
Hie White Coliseum and will be open 11
-2p.m. and 5 p.m.-lO p.m. weekdays,
d2p.m.-7 p.m. on weekends.
Increased demands on the old weight-
ining equipment caused Student Gov-
pent to seek a student weight room,
Langford, vice president for student
rvices, said.
The room’s $40,000 cost was shared by
ore profits and student serv ice fee
rves, after the student senate recom-
mded construction of the facilities.
There was a big conflict bewteen the
letes and students competing for
ights,” Langford said. “There was a set
free weights and Nautilus machines in
eWare, and when the demand got too
eat, the students were kicked out.’
Although the seven Nautilus machines
ve not arrived, the three Universal Gym
ichines and the free weights are ready for
Committee narrows candidate field to 20
By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
1 list of 20 candidates for the presidency
Texas A&M University will be presented
the Board of Regents in February, as
ilized by the presidential search com-
ttee Thursday.
“There is still .a broad cross-section of
le within the 20 names,” Mike Lytle
i Lytle, a staff associate in the office of
^chancellor, has served as coordinator of
search committee meetings.
In Thursday’s closed session, committee
mbers deliberated for four hours in their
h and final meeting.
The committee will not reveal specific
mes on the list, but Lytle did say
Jiinees both inside and outside of the
xas A&M System are still under con-
eration.
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“As soon as the Nautilus machines arrive
they will be set up,” said James Welford,
associate director of intramural athletics.
“The machines come pre-assembled so all
that has to be done is for us to point the way
\vhen they’re delivered.”
Texas A&M was the last on the delivery
list because of economics, Welford said.
“Our distributor is from Dallas, and it
wouldn’t pay for them to deliver to us first
because of the extra fuel that would be
used,” he said.
Welford said he thought the new weight
room will be a definite improvement when
compared to the one the students used be
fore.
“The new weight room will have three
Universal machines, each of which will in
clude a running machine, while the old
weight room had none,” Welford said.
“The new weight room will only have seven
Nautilus machines, though, compared to
the old room which had 12 or 13. ”
“Now students can get a full workout for
their entire body, instead using the equip
ment they had before,” Langford said.
A seminar on weightlifting techniques
and safety will be held Feb. 4 from 7-9 p.m.
in the newly opened weight room.
Steve Stinson will be the demonstrator
brought in to help students realize the
hazards and the benefits of the machines.
“We’d like people to take care of these
machines since we have limited funds, but,
we also want everybody to be safe,” Wel
ford said.
Keith Dunn, a member of the Weight
lifting Club, was pleased with the new
weight room.
“I thought the weights were quite ade
quate for the non-athlete students and
those interested in keeping trim, but those
interested in body-building should join the
Weightlifting Club,” Dunn said.
“I also think the seminars are a good
idea,” he added. “Anything that makes
people more aware of safety and techniques
in weightlifting is an added plus.”
Tri Huynh, a former member of the Twin
City Athletic Club, said that the student
weight room compared favorably to the
club’s.
“Maybe this room doesn’t have as many
weights, but you don’t have to pay $20 a •
month to use these,” he said.
Searchers to forward list
Clyde Wells, chairman of the Board of
Regents and the search committee, ex
plained in a press release that names are
being kept confidential because not all can
didates are aware that they are under con
sideration.
Since September, the committee has re
viewed 500 applications submitted by the
nominees themselves, by their colleagues
and by other sources. The University also
contracted a personnel consulting firm to
aid the search.
“It was a big job, ” Wells said in the press
release.
He said the regents are willing to take
the time necessary to find the best indi
vidual for the position, “however long that
may be.”
Lytle said the regents themselves will
determine the rest of the selection process
when they meet Feb. 5-6. He said they will
possibly consider some candidates not
among the 20 committee recommenda
tions.
The board may also trim down the list
further before beginning interviews with
the nominees.
The regents asked faculty members,
alumni. Students, and representatives of
private business, industry and education to
serve on the search committee that would
begin the screening process.
The 22-member was committee orga
nized in August after Dr. Jarvis Miller was
fired by the Board of Regents in July.
Dr. Charles Samson, a former depart
ment head of civil engineering, and acting
president since Miller’s firing, has not been
disqualified as a possible candidate for the
permanent position.
)lin ‘Tiger’ Teague dies
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By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
Olin E. “Tiger Teague, retired Con-
ressman from Texas’ 6th District, died this
ping at Maryland’s Bethesda Naval
ospital after a lengthy illness.
Sources at Bethesda would not disclose
formation surrounding his death, but the
932 graduate of Texas A&M College was
Sown to be a diabetic and in recent years
ad been in ill health.
He was in College Station visting his
)n, John Teague, during the Christinas
olidays, Dr. John Koldus, vice president
student services, said. The son is assis-
ffltvice president for business affairs at the
liversity.
However, since that time Teague’s
nr oilmen t
ets record
or spring
A spring-semester-record enrollment of
#,610 students has been reported so far
Texas A&M University Associate Re-
jstrar Donald Carter.
Final enrollment figures cannot be de-
trmined until the twelfth class day, Carter
iid, but he expects those figures to be
Tween 31,000 and 32,000. The twelfth
figures are the ones reported to the
flordinating Board in Austin, and are
ipted as the official numbers for the
ester.
Spring enrollment is normally 1,000 to
,500 lower than that of the preceding fall
lester, Carter said, because of Decem-
t graduations of Texas A&M students,
i, few high school students graduate in
December, and enter the University in
liuary.
This semester’s enrollment so far ex
ceeds last year’s spring enrollment total of
29,409 by almost 4 percent.
Last semester’s record enrollment was
33,499.
During the 1970-71 academic year,
Texas A&M enrolled 14,316 students,
meaning the University has seen a 134 per
cent enrollment increase over the last
foacde,
health had suddenly “taken a turn for the
worse,” Koldus said.
A memorial service tentatively is being
planned for Tuesday, however details are
not yet definite. And funeral services will
be held at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia,
Koldus said.
Even at 70, Teague is probably still best
known to his constituents and colleagues
today by the nickname he acquired while
playing high school baseball — “Tiger. ”
The name stuck with him throughout 31
years in the U.S. House of Representatives
during which time, Teague, a decorated
World War II veteran, served as chairman
for the House Veteran Affairs Committee
and the Science and Astronautics Com
mittee.
For these and other accomplishments, in
1966 he received the A&M Distinguished
Alumni Award, presented by the Associa
tion of Former Students at Texas A&M
University.
And in 1967 the University’s mulitmil-
lion dollar Teague Research Center was
erected in his honor on Lamar Street.
While at Texas A&M from 1928-1932,
Teague was a Ross Volunteer and comman
ding officer of Company G Infantry.
Upon graduation, he was commissioned
and served in the National Guard until he
volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1940.
Teague is survived by his wife Freddie,
sons James and John O., daughter Jill and
five grandchildren.
Scott Zentner works out on the new student weightroom
equipment in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The $40,000
facility, funded from Bookstore profits and student ser-
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
vice fee reserves, is open to Texas A&M students daily.
Although the room only has Universal Gym equipment
now, Nautilus machines should arrive shortly.
Reunion to be at West Point
United Press International
WIESBADEN, West Germany — The
freed American hostages will fly home Sun
day to an undisclosed location for two days
of family reunions and a heroes’ welcome.
Pentagon sources said the emancipated
captives would then be taken to the West
Point military academy on the Hudson Riv
er in New York for the reunions with rela
tives at the Thayer Hotel.
The freed Americans will arrive on “Su
per Sunday,” the day of the Super Bowl
football game in New Orleans, La.
State Department spokesman Jack
Canon said the airport where the former
captives will again set foot on U.S. soil
would not be disclosed to protect the priva
cy of the returnees, who survived 444 days
of captivity in Iran and have been in Wies
baden for “decompression’’ for three days.
Awaiting the new heroes following fami
ly reunions will be an official public wel
come in Washington and what New York
Mayor Edward Koch said would be the
largest ticker tape parade in history of the
city.
But the hostages first steps on American
soil will be out of the public eye with only
family members present. If West Point is
their destination, NJcGuire Air Force Base
in New Jersey or Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware seem logical choices for arrivals.
The announcement of the Sunday flight
came just six hours after the hostages went
on a pre-dawn shopping spree at a military
department store — spending $15,000 on
suitcases, shoes and clothes to wear for
their homecoming.
The only former hostage to skip the
shopping excursion was Donald R. Hoh-
man, who spent Thursday night with his
German wife, Anna, at a Frankfurt apart
ment 25 miles from Wiesbaden.
State Department officials said Hohman
would stay behind in Frankfurt when the
rest of the hostages took a jet chartered by
the U.S. government for Sunday’s return to
the United States.
But a State Department spokesman in
Washington said the hostages would return
as a group. Government officials have gone
out of their way to keep the hostages in one
group to ease their return to normal life
after 14 months in captivity.
Visitors said several of the 52 hostages
have been slower to adjust to their freedom,
because of the way they were treated in
Iran.
Going home was clearly on the hostages’
minds today. There have been widespread
reports some of the hostages were tortured,
fed only bread and water and placed before
mock firing squads. But Iran flatly denied
the growing allegations.
Before dawn, two blue Mercedes buses
Spring calendar listing wrong
Today last day to add classes
Photo by Beth Gibson
The spring semester Student Activities calendar incorrectly shows Feb
ruary 23 as the last day to enroll or add classes. Today is the last day that
can be done.
Because of an error in Texas A&M
University’s spring calendars, some stu
dents may have mistakenly believed
they had some extra time to add classes.
Today is the last day for enrolling in
the University and adding classes, but
the calendars say the deadline is Feb.
23.
Today is also the last day for students
who registered during delayed registra
tion to pay fees at the Fiscal Depart
ment.
The calendars’ final exarn schedule is
also incorrect. The exam schedule for
Monday, May 11, is repeated for May 12
through May 15. A correct exam is on
page 8 of the spring class schedule book.
Donnie Albrecht, assistant director
of student activities, said typing errors
caused the mistakes. But he said the
calendars won’t be reprinted because
the University also publishes monthly
calendars.
“We ll have a chance to correct the
exam schedule in the (May) monthly
calendar,” he asid.
Albrecht said 27,500 calendars were
printed and about 27,000 distributed.
The calendars are available in resi
dence halls, married student apart
ments, the Information Center in Rud
der Tower, the Off-Campus Center in
Puryear lounge and 216 and 221 Memo
rial Student Center.
The calendars are funded by profits
from the MSC bookstore and are
availabe free of charge.
Academic
deadlines
Jan. 23 — Deadline for adding clas
ses or enrolling in the University.
Feb. 3 — Last day for dopping clas
ses with no record.
Feb. 6 — Deadline for graduating
seniors and graduates to apply for
degrees to be awarded in May.
Feb. 20 — Last day for dropping
courses with no penalty (Q-drop).
carried 51 of the 52 Americans 2 miles from
Wiesbaden Air Force hospital to a military
department store where they stocked up on
the new clothes, luggage, hanging bags,
cameras and film.
Following the reunions at West Point,
the released captives will be flown to
Washington for public welcoming cere
monies at Andrews Air Force Base in sub
urban Maryland, followed by a ceremony at
the State Department — career home for
the majority of the former captives.
In Congress, Rep. Frank Annunzio, D-
111., introduced legislation to recognize the
“hostages as heroes” and to award them
gold medals to pay tribute to the;
“courageous men and women.”
The eruption of the patiotism that has
accompanied the hostages’ release turned
to rage Thursday as the horror tale of the
two-day beating and mock firing squad ex
ecution of Marine Sgt. William Gallegos,
21, of Pueblo, Colo., became public know
ledge.
Officials of the Reagan administration
said they too were outraged at the treat
ment but said the president would honor
the Carter agreement that freed the hos
tages in exchange for $8 billion. Reagan
said, however, that the implementation of
the accord might be complex.
Bomb threat
likely work
of prankster
Over a hundred residents of Gainer Hall
— Corps Dormitory 5 — spent a chilly;
evening interlude outside their dormitory!
Thursday night due to what were apparent
ly the efforts of a prankster.
Someone who “sounded like a white
male” called the Corps of Cadets Guard
Room at 9:57 p.m. and told the cadet who
answered, “Tve got a bomb and I’m gonna
blow up Dorm 5 ... Dorm 5,” and then
hung up.
Someone also called a cadet living in
Gainer and told him about the same thing,
at about the same time. Both the guard
room and a resident of Dorm 5 reported the
call to the University Police, who arrived
on the scene about 10:10 and ordered the
dormitory evacuated.
While some residents of the hall clus
tered outside and some sought the warmth
of the nearby lounge or another dormitory,
University Police searched the hall and
came up empty-handed.
Residents were allowed back in the
dorm about 10:30 and told to watch for any
unfamiliar objects. The incident was char
acterized by one police officer there as
“probably a prank. ”