The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 92 Friday, February 6, 1981 USPS 045 360
10 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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bright named chairman
System branches receive building plan approval
By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
O. “Bum” Bright will chair the Texas
:M University System Board of Regents
Ithenext two years, the regents decided
lay.
John Blocker of Houston was elected
ard vice-chairman.
Bright, a Dallas businessman and friend
Gov, Bill Clements, was named to the
sition at the regents’ meeting this mom-
He is one of three regents appointed
E lements in January.
e succeeds Clyde Wells of Granbury,
announced Wednesday that he would
eek a seventh term as Board chairman,
s, whose term as a regent expires in
, finished his twelfth consecutive year
chairman. He has served 20 years on the
ard.
Bright, 60, graduated from Texas A&M
1943 with a degree in petroleum en-
leering. He is a senior partner of Bright
Company, an oil and gas producing firm.
: also serves as chairman of the board for
si Texas Motor Freight.
[he naming of Bright as chairman high-
hted a regents session which included
ion on items endorsed in committees
ursday.
The Board approved a Planning and
Building Committee endorsement for an
appropriation of $45,000 from the Univer
sity Available Fund for the preliminary de
sign of the new Animal Science Pavilion.
The new Animal Science Pavilion, which
will be located south of FM 4327, will re
place the old pavilion being renovated for
administrative space. That space will be a
center for permanent registration and stu
dent activities.
Phase I of the new pavilion project will
involve construction of a 24,000-square-
foot area containing 1,400 bleacher seats,
storage areas for feed and equipment, a
lobby and custodial facilities.
The proposed cost of Phase I construc
tion is $2.1 million.
Phase II will involve construction of clas
srooms, offices, wool facilities, a holding
area and parking spaces.
The Board also approved the committee
endorsement of $35,000 from the Universi
ty Available Fund for the preliminary de
sign of the University Press Building. That
building is to be constructed in the north
east corner of the Duncan Intramural
Field.
Committee Chairman H.C. Bell Jr. of
Austin said that area of the field is not desir
able for intramurals and the new building
would not interfere with Bonfire activities.
“The new facility will be a great resource
for those people working with the press,”
Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert said.
The University Press has been operating
in mobile homes since the old Board of
Directors home, where it operated pre
viously, burned three years ago.
Over $3.6 million in federal Environ
mental Protection Agency grant money was
earmarked by the committee and approved
by the Board for the expansion of Texas
A&M’s waste water treatment plant.
Also approved was an appropriation of
$15,000 for a feasibility study of a dormitory
renovation and construction program at
Prairie View A&M University.
Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, Prairie View A&M
president, said the University turned away
500 prospective students last semester be
cause of a lack of housing both on campus
and in the surrounding community. Cur
rent enrollment is 5,600.
“I feel residence halls are a special part of
our program,” Thomas said Thursday. “We
don’t want Prairie View to be a commuting
college.”
A 35 percent increase in dormitory room
rates at Texas A&M-Galveston was
approved upon a recommendation from the
Committee for Academic Campuses.
The proposed increase would cover in
creased utility costs, employee salary in-
creases and bonded indebtedness incurred
when bonds were sold to finance the new
dormitory construction.
Dr. William H. Clayton, TAMU-
Galveston president, said Thursday the
current fee of $445 per semester was too
low when it was determined four years ago.
He said he does not think the increase to
$600 per semester will discourage students
from living on campus.
Another item of discussion among board
members Thursday was a “Kyle Field” sign
for the top side of the stadium facing west.
The 16-foot aluminum letters would be
painted a bronze color, and a smaller block
ATM emblem would be painted maroon.
The block T would be 12 feet tall.
Lights would surround the letters spell
ing “Kyle Field” — Bell said it could be
seen from Caldwell.
Cost of the project would be an esti
mated $111,000. A $50,000 donation for
the project has been proposed. The regents
decided to try to fund the project entirely
through donations before seeking money
from University accounts.
H.R. “Bum” Bright, new chairman of the Texas A&M University System
Board of Regents.
Pay raise benefits
student workers
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Approximately 6,000 students at
Texas A&M University will be affected
by the Legislature’s emergency pay
raise, Clair Fink, assistant director of
student financial aid, said.
Fink, who handles student employ
ment, said there is really no way to say
exactly how many students are
affected by the pay raise because it’s an
“on-going process.” Students are con
stantly being hired or leaving their
positions on campus, so it’s difficult to
determine accurately how many stu
dents are on the payroll.
However, he said, the immeadiate
affect will be on approximately 2,500
to 2,600 students.
The pay raise, effective Feb. 1, will
reflect an increase of 29 cents per hour
or 5.1 percent, whichever is greater.
In other words, students receiving the
federal minimum wage of $3.35 an
hour will now receive $3.64 per hour.
Anyone receiving more than $5.70 per
hour will get 5.1 percent.
Students on the College-Work
Study program will receive the raise
based on guidelines in the Policy and
Procedures manual. College-Work
study is awarded to students who have
a determined financial need. Under
this program, 80 percent of the stu
dent’s salary comes from the federal
college-work study fund.
Students in this program will re
ceive between $3.64 and $6.31 per
hour, depending on the job classifica
tions in the Policy and Procedures
manual. Positions in the manual are
classified as student workers I, II, III,
IV and student technician.
A student worker I position requires
“...few special skills and little or no
work experience necessary,” student
worker II position requires “a person
with some previous training, experi
ence or knowledge,” student worker
III requires “previous training or ex
perience, independent judgement
and considerable mental activity,” fin
ally, position IV requires “a high de
gree of mental activity and indepen
dent judgement ... involving decision
making and normally supervision of
other student employees.”
Fink said he thinks more students
will be looking for jobs on campus be
cause of the increase but he doesn’t
forsee any problems in finding a job.
“So far, he said, “we haven’t received
any complaints about students not
finding any work. ”
He also said the Office of Financial
Aid posts listings of available jobs both
on and off campus. It is then up to the
student to pursue the job, he said.
Tom Taylor, director of accounting,
said the increase will not show up in
employees’ Feb. 6 paycheck. “That
paycheck, ” he said, “covers work done
from Jan. 15 through 28 and will not
include the increase; however, the
next pay check (Feb. 20) will include
the increase.”
Taylor said it still hasn’t been deter
mined how much total money will be
involved because increases in salaries
for each job must be documented and
then sent to the state comptroller for
reimbursement. “We have to file for
reimbursement from the state com
ptroller from funds in the state treas
ury,” he said.
Taylor said this process will take “a
couple of more weeks. ”
‘Economic calamity’ imminent
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan,
using his talents as a communicator to alert
the nation to a gathering economic storm, is
attempting to buy cooperation from Con
gress and time from the American people.
In his first nationally broadcast Oval
Office address, the president spoke Thurs
day night of an “economic calamity of
tremendous proportions” that threatens
the United States unless swift action is
taken.
Details of that action still are unclear.
Reagan said the depth of the new auster
ity will be revealed in an address Feb. 18 to
a joint session of Congress. There, he is
expected to say how social programs will be
trimmed, how foreign aid will be reduced
and how poverty will be defined in the
future.
“Over the years,” he said in his speech.
“we have let negative economic forces run
out of control. We have stalled the judg
ment day. We no longer have that luxury.”
What is needed, he said, is for Congress
to pass his three-year, 10-percent-per-year
reduction in personal income t^xes,
“budget cuts in virtually every department
of government” and incentives to business
to create new jobs.
The president proposed to attack the
problems of unemployment and inflation
together and produced a chart showing
how he also can balance the budget.
Government spending problems are so
large, he said, before the economic pendu
lum swings back in the right direction, the
country may see a $1 trillion debt — a
figure “beyond our comprehension.”
There were many catch phrases and the
familiar “get-up-and-go” gumption that
Reagan utilized to such advantage during
the presidential campaign.
The president spoke for 20 minutes.
Aides said Reagan wrote much of the
speech, putting his ideas into easy-to-
understand words.
Speaking of 7 million unemployed Amer
icans, he said, “If they stood in a line, allow
ing 3 feet for each person, the line would
reach from the coast of Maine to Cali
fornia. ”
Congressional Democrats, judging from
their reactions to the speech, would like to
see how the president plans to proceed,
particularly in balancing the budget.
The speech was skillful, said Rep. Parren
Mitchell, D-Md., “but what does it mean?”
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., said
Reagan will have no trouble finding tax
cutting friends, but it will be hard to raise a
quorum to cut spending.
“If it had any failing,” said Rep. Leon |
Panetta, D-Calif., “he did not emphasize j
the amount of sacrifice that almost certainly
will be involved.”
Republicans liked the speech. Sen.
Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Fi
nance Committee, said, “There’s no mys
tery to solving our problems. It will take a
sacrifice from virtually all Americans. Con
gress must see that these sacrifices are j
made fairly.”
Leftist activist Tom Hayden called the
president’s address “an Academy Award
winning performance” that obscured the
social costs his economic initiatives will
exact.
“He told us he was decontrolling oil,”
Hayden said, “but he didn’t tell us it would
be $2-a-gallon gas.”
Garwood guilty; sentencing today
United Press International
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marine Pfc.
Robert R. Garwood, convicted by a jury of
Vietnam veterans of collaborating with the
enemy during 14 years in a Viet Cong POW
camp, could spend the rest of his life in a
military prison — “another tragedy of a
very tragic war.”
The 34-year-old Marine’s court-martial
was summoned back into session today to
set a date for sentencing, which will be
decided by the same panel of five officers
who convicted him Thursday.
After sentencing, the case will go into
appeals that could last for years.
Garwood was convicted of collaborating
with the enemy by wearing the Viet Cong
uniform, carrying Viet Cong arms and
accepting a position in the Communist
cadre — which carries a maximum sent
ence of life in prison.
He also was convicted of assault on an
American POW, which carries a maxirrrfim
sentence of six months.
David Harker, the former private whom
Garwood struck in the ribs in an argument
over the killing of a camp cat by starving
POWs, said he took “no pleasure” in Gar
wood’s conviction.
“To me,” said Harker, “it’s another
tragedy of a very tragic war. It hurt, it hurt
me to see someone who turned against his
own people.”
“Bob got a fair trial,” said Harker.
Garwood did not testify in his two-and-a-
half month trial. The defense freely admit
ted he committed all the acts POWs said
made him a “white Viet Cong, ” but claimed
torture had driven him insane.
Garwood’s attorneys said he was not re
sponsible for his behavior, and in fact was
still so unstable he could not stand up
under questioning on the witness stand.
They produced a string of military
psychiatrists who agreed he had been
driven into madness at the hands of the Viet
Cong, but the prosecution claimed he had
merely sold out his countrymen to curry
favor with the Communists.
Garwood, wearing the Marine Corps
dress uniform with his good conduct and
Vietnam service medals, gave no visible
sign of emotion as Lt. Col. Abromo Vallese,
the ranking member of the court-martial
panel, read the jury’s verdict — reached
after 12V2 hours of deliberation.
Behind him, Donna Long — a MIA
activist who has been his constant compan
ion since he arrived at the sprawling Camp
Lejeune base in 1979 — closed her eyes
and began crying when the guilty verdict
was returned.
Garwood’s family — held to blame by the
defense for laying the seeds of his break
down in Vietnam — did not attend the
court-martial.
“I’m just sick. It’s hard to believe,” his
father, Jack Garwood, said from Adams,
Ind. “I don’t see how five people could ruin
a boy’s life like that, even after it had
already been ruined.”
Garwood disappeared near Da Nang in
1965 and resurfaced in 1979 when he pas
sed a note to a European in a Hanoi res
taurant, saying he wanted to return to the
United States.
He originally was charged with desertion
but that charge was ordered dropped on
grounds the prosecution presented insuffi
cient evidence. The assault charge was re
duced by the judge to one of maltreat
ment, which could have brought him
another life prison term.
officials, students question
Greeks’ bulletin board use
By PAMELA EADES
Battalion Reporter
Sorority and fraternity spring rush par-
:s are drawing to a close, but controversy
ill rages over some of the advertising
cliniques used by the groups.
David Bergen, student activities advis-
, said signs, posters and flyers tacked on
Diversity bulletin boards to advertise
ish parties are in violation of University
'gulations.
Only student groups with official Uni-
ftity recognition are allowed to use Uni-
irsity facilities for advertising, Bergen
id, Even then, these groups must comply
strict regulations concerning what
pe of notices they can put up and where
«y can put them, he said.
Greek organizations are not recognized
1 tlie University, and are not allowed to
£ its facilities.
Eric Langford, student vice president for
udent services, said it is unfair for the
trifles and fraternities to be able to post
te in places other student groups can-
)t He said these locations include car
hdshield wipers and glass windows of
Stories.
No student group can go around putting
?posters all over campus either,” Lang-
td said.
Ungford said recognized student groups
could lose University recognition for viola
tion of advertising regulations.
Bergen said there is nothing his office
can do to prevent the illegal flyer posting
unless someone is caught putting the post
ers up.
If caught, offenders can expect disciplin
ary action, Bergen said. He said appropri
ate action could include anything from a
verbal reprimand to conduct probation.
Conduct probation is an official warning of
wrongdoing not serious enough to warrant
expulsion.
One student putting up fraternity rush
posters was caught by University Police
this semester, Bergen said.
Bill Kibler, assistant director of student
affairs, said the student who was caught
lived on campus and was not affiliated with
a fraternity. He said the flyers being posted
by the student could be considered offen
sive and were confiscated. A hearing will be
held Tuesday to determine if action will be
taken against this student. Kibler said his
name would not be made available.
Bergen said an effort had been made in
November to inform the presidents of each
fraternity and sorority of the regulations
concerning advertising.
Bergen said he called each of the presi
dents of the organizations and Dr. Carolyn
Adair, director of student activities, had
written a letter to each group repeating his
advice.
Langford said the rules should be well-
known to the groups now. He said, “They
all are aware of the rules now. The problem
we have is that they keep breaking them
because they realize there’s not too much
we can do to them.”
Bergen said the only approved methods
for unrecognized organizations to reach on-
campus students are: The Battalion, tele
phone calls, word of mouth and the U.S.
mail.
Mailing lists of incoming students can be
obtained from the registrar for about $150,
said Penny Denton, Panhellenic adviser
and rush director. Panhellenic is an organi
zation of representatives from each
sorority.
This mailing list is used to send informa
tion about rush to women freshman and
transfer students who might be interested
in sororities, Denton said.
Until last spring, Denton said there had
been no way for the sorority council to
contact upperclass women except advertis
ing in The Battalion. Last spring, the
Panhellenic council held a forum for 70
women at the Ramada Inn in College Sta
tion. More than half of these women de
cided to pledge, or join, a sorority, she said.
Elizabeth Mitchell, a junior from Woodlawn, and her polo practice. The polo club practices in front of the
horse Paprika practice “tapping” the ball at Thursday’s Systems Building Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.