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America belonged to the hostages today.
From San Diego to New York City and places in between like
■akow, Mo., Balch Springs, Texas, and Olyphant, Pa., the for-
er captives were being lavished with heroes’ tributes.
There were kisses and keys to cities, yellow ribbons and yellow
adillacs, champagne and cheering throngs.
Tve kissed so many women today, I don’t know if I could kiss
[ore,” laughed one hostage.
Marine Sgt. Johnny McKeel Jr. — who joked earlier this week
couldn’t wait to “get back to chasing women” — kissed them
The front lawn at his Balch Springs home in the Dallas suburbs
as covered Wednesday night with about 300 people, including a
Dzen teen-age girls who bounded over porch railings to get close
jough for a kiss.
A high-school band played “When Johnny Comes Marching
Home Again” as a Marine guard escorted McKeel, his parents,
and younger brother Todd to the steps of their home.
“There were times I didn’t think I would be here,” he told the
crowd from the front porch. “The day they told us we were going
home, the first thing I thought of were my family and my friends
back in Balch Springs. You’re beautiful.
“It makes me proud to be an American.”
About 200 people braved a chilly afternoon to welcome Jerry
Miele back to Youngwood, Pa., and broke into a spontaneous
rendition of “God Bless America” that quelled any words he
wanted to say.
“I’m not much for words, but I just want to say thank you, thank
you all,” he said softly. “I don’t know what to say.”
Walking through the crowd, the 18-year State Department
employee shook hands. Young girls, wearing yellow ribbons or
carrying yellow balloons, lined up to receive kisses. Miele pecked
each and every one of them on the cheek.
In Houston, where they do things big, former hostage William
Royer’s homecoming was no exception.
Royer, 49, his 79-year-old mother, and sister, arrived in sub
urban West University Place to find 1,000 well-wishers, chanting
“Welcome Home” and singing “God Bless America.” Someone
had hung a sign on the front of the house that read “Welcome
Home, Bill Royer. 444 days: Too damn’ long.”
Parked in the driveway, wrapped in a huge yellow ribbon, was
the yellow Cadillac given him earlier Wednesday at an airport
welcoming ceremony. The $17,540 car was a present from a group
of private citizens who have refused to reveal their names.
A local bank set up a $444 savings account to provide diesel fuel
for the auto.
Royer — ill with the flu and a 103-degree fever he called “Mr.
Khomeini’s parting gift” — grinned when he was given the keys,
shook his head in amazement, and said in voice that was barely
above a whisper:
“I want to thank Houston, Texas, America. I’m proud to be an
American. All I can say is thank you to everyone for the tremen
dous support. It’s just really mind boggling how great this country
is and how marvelous it is to be back home.”
By no means are the celebrations over.
The small mining community of Globe, Adz., 90 miles south
east of Phoenix, planned a parade today for Jimmy Lopez. A
cheering crowd of200 nudged its way through Arizona police lines
at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix Wednesday to
welcome him home. Twenty-four aunts, uncles and cousins from
three states broke into tears and rushed to greet the former
hostage when he stepped off the plane.
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LIBERTY, Texas — The wife of former
:xas House Speaker Price Daniel Jr., in
cited on murder charges in his shooting
lath, is expected to be arraigned some-
ne next week, authorities said today.
Vickie Daniel, 33, has yet to be ques-
medby authorities and refused to appear
fore a Liberty County grand jury that
turned the indictment late Wednesday,
istrict Attorney Carroll Wilbom Jr. said.
Defense lawyer Andrew Lannie said his
ient was being treated for emotional
ock. Lannie submitted a letter to the
strict attorney’s office Wednesday, stat-
g he had avised his client not to appear
fore the grand jury.
The grand jury, in session non-stop for
most 10 hours, interviewed 22 people he
re returning the indictment shortly he
re 11 p.m.
He said there were indications the shoot-
gfollowed an argument between the cou-
and there “was some premeditation.”
Among the final witnesses appearing he
re the grand jury was Kim Moore, 11,
Irs. Daniel’s daughter by a previous mar-
age.
Wilbom said he did not expect to call the
Has a prosecution witness.
Lannie has stated the girl did not witness
shooting, but saw an altercation before
shooting. He has said Mrs. Daniel had
uises that might have resulted from a
mfrontation before the shooting.
Sheriff Buck Eckols, who charged Mrs.
aniel with murder, was the grand jury’s
lening witness. He testified for an hour.
Also testifying was deputy Marvin
swell, who headed the sheriffs depart-
ent investigation.
Others called by the grand jury included
ubulance attendants who discovered
aniel’s body and drove Mrs. Daniel to
hristian Memorial Hospital where she
treated for shock, experts on finger-
rints, trace metal tests and ballistics,
dical examiners,' and relatives and
lends of the Daniels, including his
rather, Houston. Former Texas Gov.
rice Daniel Sr. did not appear.
Mrs. Daniel had been invited by Wil-
to testify but not subpoenaed.
Daniel, 39, was shot at the couple’s ranch
ouse Jan. 19.
Eckols said the shooting, with a .22-
aliber rifle found in a bedroom near the
itchen-carport hallway where Daniel’s
ody was discovered, followed Mrs.
laniel’s filing for divorce Dec. 31. He said
neofthe Daniels was packing to move out.
Under terms of the indictment, a convic-
on could result in a penalty of no less than
years in prison and a maximum of 99
Private parking
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Staff photo by Brian Tate
One Texas A&M dorm student found a shady solution to the campus
parking headache which plagues most students. Finding the surrounding
parking lots full, the student settled for covered parking in the wooded
area west of Fowler Hall.
Uselton to quit as free enterprise head
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Dr. Gene C. Uselton, director of Texas A&M Universi
ty’s Center for Education and Research in Free Enter
prise, has notified University officials that he is resigning
from his position as soon as a successor can be named.
Uselton, who served as director for two years, said he
resigned the position because he was appointed as a
senior professor in the Department of Finance.
The free enterprise center, funded entirely from pri
vate contributions, is involved mainly in helping public
school teachers inform their students about free enter
prise and economics.
Uselton said the Texas Legislature passed a law requir
ing public schools to teach a course in free enterprise;
however, guidelines on what to teach and and how to
teach it were not given. Also, the Legislature did not
allocate funds to finance the new requirement.
This is where the free enterprise center comes in,
Uselton said. The center holds summer programs for
teachers on the Texas A&M campus and they are given
five hours graduate credit for attending. He said the
center explains some basic principles of economics and
techniques on teaching.
For example, he said, “How do you teach a third grader
about inflation? ’These are the sort of things we concen
trate on.”
He also said the free enterprise center holds a spring
leadership program, also on the Texas A&M campus, for
approximately 300 teachers and administrators. He said
the spring program is similar to the summmer one, but
participants don’t receive credit.
In-service programs are another area the center is in
volved in. Uselton said experts in economics are invited to
state school districts to speak to social science teachers on
their in-service day. Normally, students don’t attend clas
ses on this day, whereas the teachers do.
The other main concern of the free enterprise center is
to research and publish information about economic prob
lems. He said the center commissions researchers to find
out a particular problem and then the center writes them
in laymen’s terms. Uselton said the publications are dis
tributed to all business decision-makers including state
legislators, federal judges and even the president. Usel
ton said the center’s Board of Consultants, at its Feb. 19
meeting, will appoint a search committee to look for a new
director. Until then, Uselton will remain director.
Q-drop rules
differ among
colleges
By JERI JONES
Battalion Reporter
Two deadlines occur in February for stu
dents wishing to drop classes from their
schedules.
Students may drop classes through Feb.
3 with no record. The student University
will, as the term implies, have no record of
the student having taken the course.
Between Feb. 3-Feb. 20, with the
approval of the dean of the his college, a
student may Q-drop a class.
The Q-drop, formally known as drop
ping without penalty, allows a student to
receive no grade in the course, though his
transcript will reflect his having taken and
dropped the class.
There is no maximum number of Q-
drops for students in the following colleges:
agriculture, architecture, education, gra
duate, liberal arts, science, and also for
biomedical science students in veterinary
medicine.
Students in the College of Business
Administration are allowed two Q-drops.
If a student transfers from one college to
business administration and has had pre
vious Q-drops, then the student is allowed
one additional Q-drop.
After two Q-drops a student must have
an unusual circumstance to drop.
“Failing a course is no justification,”
Carlton Stolle, assistant dean of business,
said.
The College of Geosciences allows stu
dents to have one Q-drop per semester.
Students in the colleges of engineering,
veterinary medicine and medicine are not
allowed to drop classes.
Students wanting to Q-drop should fol
low this procedure:
— Go to a departmental advisor for his
approval.
— Take the Q-drop slip to the college
dean.
(Students in the College of Business
Administration and the College of Science
should go directly to the Dean’s office to
Q-drop.)
Students receiving Basic Educatuonal
Opportunity Grants should notify the
Financial Aid Office if Q-dropping classes,
Bill McFarland, director of student finan
cial aid, said.
After the Q-drop deadline a student will
receive an F if dropped from a class, unless
unusual cicumstances exist. Those cir
cumstances would be determined on an
individual basis by the dean of each col
lege.
Money, minorities, growth highlight System goals
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By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
Recruiting minority students, planning for
iwth of the System and getting the 1982 budget
ough the Legislature are among the Texas A&M
'’niversity System’s 1981 priorities, says Chancel-
Jr Frank W. R. Hubert.
Hubert, 65, recently entered a Houston hospital
)r tests after he detected a slight increase in his
eart rate. He was back in his office five days later,
titlhe now says he’s in “good health.”
The chancellor’s health is the subject of a great
jeal of speculation among administrators, stu-
mts, faculty and former students, as it has been
ince Hubert assumed the job in 1979.
Although he wears a pacemaker and had
nnounced plans for retirement before he was
ed chancellor, Hubert said he is not consider-
ng quitting his current job.
In an interview Monday, Hubert commented on
sveral issues facing the System’s administrators in
s new year.
Minority recruitment
"We ll continue to give considerable emphasis to
he recruitment of minority students without mod-
lying or lowering standards anywhere within the
Wem,” Hubert said.
That’s going to be a challenge in ’81.”
The fact that the state-supported institutions in
lexas compiled a minority recruitment plan that
'is acceptable to the Department of Education is a
^accomplishment, Hubert said.
In December, the Board of Regents adopted a
solution calling for an effort to increase the num-
of minority students at Texas A&M and Tarle-
Hubert says no plans for resigna tion
ton State, and to increase the number of white
students at Prairie View A&M.
The Education Department said Texas’ desegre
gation plan was provisonally acceptable, and it gave
Texas six months to come up with a plan that satis
fied all the requirements.
“It means we can continue to plan our own
recruitment program for minority students and the
other facets associated with the Title VI program
without being under federal mandate,” he said.
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act calls for the
desegregation of public institutions of higher learn
ing. Institutions found in violation of Title VI must
develop plans to correct the deficiencies; loss of
federal funds is the penalty for noncompliance.
System growth
While System administrators make minority re
cruitment plans, each of the four campuses within
the System continues to experience rapid growth.
Last semester the Texas A&M University campus
had a record enrollment of 33,499 students.
“The academic institutions which are part of this
System are growing at a much more rapid rate than
are institutions elsewhere in the state,” Hubert
said.
The chancellor explained that the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and University System made
some predictions last year for the enrollment at
each state public institution for each year of the new
decade.
“We have reached, throughout the System, in
1981, the projections which they said we’d be at in
1985,” Hubert said.
The chancellor said limiting enrollment at the
University has been discussed among administra
tors.
“It has been a topic of discussion,” he said, “but
up till now we’ve made no plans to put a ceiling on
enrollment. ”
He added: “Trying to provide the physical facili
ties essential for a growing student population is
one of our No. 1 priorities.”
Hubert said there are dormitories under con
struction on the Texas A&M campuses at College
Station and Galveston, and renovation and repair
programs are underway at Prarie View A&M Uni
versity and Tarleton State University.
Presidential search
The search for a permanent president for Texas
A&M is another of the System’s top priorities.
Last week the presidential search committee
finalized a list of 20 nominees whom they will re
commend to the Board of Regents in February. The
regents will then determine the remaining process
and make the final selection themselves.
Hubert said he does not feel the System reorga
nization will affect the appeal of the position, which
has been open since the removal of Dr. Jarvis Mil
ler last July.
The reorganization plan implemented a year ago
removed the extension services and experiment
stations from the control of the University pres
ident; their directors now report to the System
chancellor. Thus, the Texas A&M president now
controls the University alone.
“We contemplate that this will be no deterrent
whatsoever in attracting to that post a truly out
standing individual,” Hubert said.
“Obviously it must not have been a deterrent —
over 500 nominations and applications were re
ceived. ”
Budget approval
Seeking the Texas Legislature’s approval of the
1982 budget is another top priority for the new
year. Hubert explained that the draft approved by
the Board of Regents last fall was sent to Austin,
where it received the recommendations of the
Legislative Budget Board and the Governor’s
Budget Office.
Hubert said he will be present when the legisla
tors review the budget this spring.
“I will participate in that along with the chief
executive officer of each part of the System,” he
said.
Teaching practices
The chancellor said there will also be a spotlight
on the importance of quality teaching in 1981.
Hubert organized the System Conference on Qual
ity Teaching held on the Texas A&M campus ear
lier this month.
He was unable to attend the conference himself
due to a brief stay in the hospital. However, he said
he has heard favorable comments about the confer
ence, which featured speeches and panel discus
sions by educators as well as workshop sessions for
participating teachers.
Chancellor FranK W.R. Hubert