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4 Bill Hindi The Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 118 Monday, March 23, 1981 USPS 045 360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today High 65 Low 51 Chance of rain none Tomorrow High 68 Low 42 Chance of rain none ',734 the Razorbacksa| ht to overcome tie] -13, and a hostile] ‘na of the Univets] guard Dartezli points and centetf ded 14, but tie | t down the streti bounder Benton® with 6:52 to play! s U.S. Reedsat:| 1 center Scott Ha] despite missing ai d goal attempts! If. first game' iver and Terry| way from 1 >r 41 points and 6 irdinals to their J the Missouri 1 right in the NCA mal first round. Regents to discuss orm rate increase By JANE G. BRUST Battalion Staff Texas A&M University System re- Igents on the Committee for Academic Campuses will meet today to discuss student fee increases including a 20 per cent increase in dormitory room rates |for all dorms. Howard Vestal, vice president for Ibusiness affairs, said the increase is due ‘primarily to necessary salary increases for head residents, resident advisers and all staff associated with residence jhalls. The increase was a result of the 5.1 Ipercent emergency pay raise effective j Feb. 1, as mandated by the state legisla- iture. Vestal said another factor in the re commended rate increase is residence lalls’s increased utility costs. Committee members will also dis- Icuss increases in shuttle bus and laun- |dry fees, rental rates for married stu dent apartments and rates for five-day and seven-day board plans. Committees will meet today at the following times: — Planning and Building Committee (continued meeting) — 8:30 a.m. — Committee for Service Units — 9:30 a.m. — Committee for Academic Cam puses — 11:00 a.m. The committees will review agenda items and make recommendations to the full Board Tuesday. The Planning and Building Commit tee Sunday discussed a $135,000 appropriation for a Cyclotron expansion design to be reviewed by the committee today. The appropriation from the Universi ty Available Fund would supplement previous appropriations of $65,000. After a long discussion regarding bids for the Meat Science and Technology Center, the Planning and Building Committee decided to recommend postponing action on the bids until the regents’ May meeting. The committee reviewed eight diffe rent bids that approximate the esti mated cost of the project. However, the estimated cost of the project has surpas sed the amount of each bid. The committee also discussed award ing a contract to Diversacon, Inc. of Houston for the Waste Water Treat ment Plant expansion. The contract award would be contingent upon approval by the Environmental Protec tion Agency. The executive committee will meet in closed session at 1:30 p.m. The meet ing of the Board of Regents will be Tues day morning at 8:30. All meetings will be held in the Board Annex across from Cain Hall. H. C. Bell, chairman of the Planning and Building Committee, will lead discussion in today’s regents Staff photo by Greg Gammon meeting of possible increases in student fees, in cluding a 20 percent increase in all dorm rates. &M works to meet deadline By TERRY DURAN Battalion Staff As the deadline for state compliance vith federal university desegregation ^regulations approaches, Texas A&M lofflcials are trying to find the funds for Iplans to increase minority enrollment. Texas has until June 15 to submit a ^detailed plan that will satisfy federal de segregation requirements under Title /I of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Texas A&M Board of Regents (published a policy statement in Decem- pber 1980 outlining general steps to be retaken to “provide an equal educational ^opportunity” and “operate on a totally "jdesegregated basis.” I Acting President Charles Samson and pother University officials appeared be fore the state Senate Finance Commit tee March 10 to ask legislators to recom- ' " mend funds in addition to those already okayed by the governor and the Legisla tive Budget Board, which reviews all state agency budgets. Among other requests, Samson asked the finance committee for over $700,000 to expand the University’s minority programs. Texas A&M began a concentrated effort to recruit black and minority stu dents in the fall of 1979, School Rela tions Director Loyd Taylor said. The University currently provides 76 $l,000-a-year scholarships to minority students; 74 more will be offered in the fall, for a total of 150. Taylor said 200 scholarships will be in effect by Fall 1982. The scholarships are good for four years if the necessary grade point ratio is maintained. Samson said the funds he asked the finance committee for will be aimed at minority recruiting, admissions, finan cial aid and miscellaneous support prog- Just over $208,000 of the request is slated for active recruitment of minority high school students. These funds would provide for: the hiring of two more full-time recruiters to add to the current staff of four; additional visits to “priority one” schools — those having over 50 percent minority student enroll ment; and possible establishment of a toll-free telephone line for answering potential students’ questions about Texas A&M. Over $51,000 of Samson’s request is slated for expanding an already existing summer program that gives high school students with marginal scholastic qual ifications a chance to prove themselves before the start of the regular school year. Another $77,350 is slated to go to establishing more minority scholarships and eventually upgrading the $1,000 scholarships to $1,500 per year. Special programs, such as a study skills laboratory for students needing academic help, or a Big Brother-Big Sis ter program for new minority students, account for another $285,000 of Sam son’s request. Samson emphasized that none of the programs were “set in concrete. “We’re just trying to do what’s right,” he said. “We are working to get input from minority students and faculty as the program crystallizes. Also, every thing must be woven in with the overall state plan. It very well could be mod ified, although I assume it will largely be acceptable,” he said. “We are not just trying to satisfy numbers, ” Samson said. “What we want is for those (people) to come to A&M, regardless of race, because that person has the interest and the attitude to be come an Aggie.” Miners reach tentative settlement United Press International i WASHINGTON — Negotiators for 160,000 miners and the soft coal indus try, after bargaining through the night, announced a tentative three-year con tract settlement today that is expected to head off a long strike. The t entative agreement — announced shortly before 7 a.m. EST— followed a five-hour bargaining session in the same hotel where negotiators deadlocked and talks broke off at 4 a.m. last Tuesday. United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr. said he expects his bargain ing council and union members to ratify the pact. The agreement will not avert a strike, scheduled to begin when the current pact expires at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday, because the miners refuse to work without a contract. But asked how long a strike would last, Church replied: “If it’s ratified, four or five days.” “We have a tentative agreement that will have to go to our bargaining council and then to our rank and file for ratifica tion, ” Church announced, flanked by negotiators for the bituminous Coal Operators Association. “I will not get into specific details,” Church said. “We have taken care of our major problems and the total package is a little more than 36 percent over a three-year period.” A union spokesman said the new bar gaining meeting, which began shortly after 2 a.m., grew out of telephone calls in recent days that had produced “a bet ter understanding” of the differences separating the miners and operators. Did the miners get what they wanted? “We’re satisfied,” he said. “You nev er get all you want.” Mayor leaves plush apartment for helV United Press International CHICAGO — Residents of the gang- infested Cabrini Green housing project say they’ll be glad to have Mayor Jane M. Byrne as a neighbor, but they don’t think she’ll find the accommodations as safe or as homey as her luxury apart ment. “They’ll be outsiders, but they’ll get a taste of the hell we are living in,” one Cabrini resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said Sunday after hearing Mrs. Byrne and her husband, Jay McMullen, would be moving in. Mrs. Byrne announced during the weekend that she would move from their ritzy Gold Coast apartment into the housing project for “as long as it takes to clean it up” and to “prove that those who live decently can live there. ” The project, located about six blocks from the mayor’s high rise, has been the site of 11 deaths in a gang battle for control of the area since January. About 800 Cabrini Green residents recently received eviction notices from the complex for allegedly harboring prison parolees active in the gang vio lence. “I think for the most part, all the resi dents would be happy to have her,” resi dent Lula Allen, 45, said. “I’m sure there would be changes. Of course, the bad element would be more cautious if anyone of her stature moved in. ” The mayor’s opponents were not so generous, calling Bryne’s plan apolitical ploy and an “insult” to the city’s blacks. The mayor, who would receive exten sive police protection in addition to her bevy of personal bodyguards, said she was not afraid to live in the complex and would be able to adjust to life in the stark housing units. “Any politician who lives anywhere is threatened,” she said in a news confer ence Sunday. “I’m not afraid over there at all and I think what you have to prove is that you don’t have to be afraid. Andrew Bajonski, a deputy press sec retary; said the mayor would begin look ing Tuesday for an apartment among the 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, which house about 14,000 resi dents — virtually all of them black and poor. A Chicago Housing Authority official said the mayor would likely live in a two-bedroom apartment that is vacant on the 16th floor of a high-rise building. Two police officers were killed by sniper fire near the building in 1970. Mrs. Byrne said she would keep her elegant apartment on the city’s “Magni ficent Mile,” but Bajonski stressed the mayor would live in the housing com plex “seven days a week,” using her present apartment only for official func tions. “It certainly couldn’t be apolitical,” said Rep. Susan Catania, R-Chicago. “They didn’t decide to do it because they don’t like where they’re living now. They’re probably not having money problems and they certainly don’t meet the eligibility require ments.” Diet pills, centers offer aid in losing weight Common sense is best By GWEN HAM Battalion Reporter “Once on the lips, forever on the hips” takes on a special meaning this time of year ... the time when bulky sweaters and concealing coats are re placed by skimpy shorts, barely-there tops and clinging swimsuits. After a winter of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s goodies com es a summer of celery, water and more celery. But there’s help. For every fat cell in a 200-pound body, there are two diets, diet centers, diet pills or other diet aids. Covers of magazines brazenly display 65-pound models with captions such as “lose up to 20 pounds a week and still enjoy food” or “shed ugly body fat with out effort. ” Bookstores have entire sec tions reserved for diet books. Food and drug stores have aisles lined with diet pills, powders, drinks, and foods. Diet centers are springing up all over the United States, dedicated to America’s favorite past time — losing weight. What seems like a humorous obses sion can actually be very dangerous. How does one decide what is safe or legitimate and what can be lethal or a scam? “Common sense is the best way,” Dr. C.B. Goswick of A.P. Beutel Health Center said. “At this time of the year we start to have a few more than usual pa tients complaining of feeling bad or weak. It’s pretty obvious what’s going on. This is the ‘rush season’ of diets. Most of our students seem to be pretty sensible. They seem to keep the so- called starvation diets and such under control.” Goswick says the doctors at Texas A&M University have seen but a few cases of anorexia nervosa, where a per son craves perfection and has a self- image of being fat, no matter how thin he or she may be. Nor has the health center seen many cases of bulemia, where a person eats a big meal and then forces himself to throw up. Students asking the health center for help losing weight and finding a sensible diet are referred to Pat Haberstroh, administrative dietician for Texas A&M. “I take a diet history of present food habits, food likes and dislikes and aller gies,” Haberstroh said. “I then plan a diet that is suited to the individual.” For the student who wants a personal diet that will work, Haberstroh has some suggestions to offer. “I would say they need a well- balanced diet; you have to eat to lose weight but you have to know what foods. There is a public misconception about the nutritive value of some foods. “For instance, a lot of people befieve they can lose a lot of weight by eating celery. Around here we have a high amount of sodium in our water and soft drinks. Celery, which is also high in sodium, can make you retain water. There’s a difference between fat weight and water weight. Eating celery may make you lose fat weight while gaining water weight,” Haberstroh said. “When planning a diet, take into con sideration that some nutrients have to be activated by other nutrients. You put gas in a car, but no oil and the car isn’t going to run,” she said. Although they don’t prescribe diets, the Souper Salad Area in Sbisa Dining Center offers low-calorie, sugar-free and fat-free foods especially for dieters. Sometimes people desperate to rid their body of obesity turn to diet clinics, after failing with egg diets, banana diets, steak and white wine diets, protein diets, instant breakfast diets or grapef ruit diets. Again the question of legiti macy comes to mind. While some will readily make avail able all information about the diet, money and time required, others are rather secretive. One center was very elusive over the telephone, pushing for an appointment to discuss their plan further. All a spokesman would say was that the center’s diet took no exercise, included eating and was an individual ized program. Once in the office, even though itwas just an inquiry visit, center employees take a dieters’ life history, weigh them, measure their height, ask them what their desired weight is and tell them a few general facts about the clinic. More details come with more money. Another alternative to fad diets, drugs and dubious clinics is group ses sions offering support, a main factor to weight loss. “Eating behavior control is empha sized rather than strict dieting,” Dr. Kerry Hope of the Personal Counseling Center at Texas A&M said. “We have two groups, ranging from three to ten people, who come from all walks of life. They may go to either one or both of the sessions which are free.” Surveying the many alternatives to dieting, maybe once on the lips isn’t necessarily forever on the hips. tool to use in dieting Photo by Alison Awbrey Special diets, salad bars and diet-aid displays cater route to take for weight loss can sometimes be to dieters young and old alike who are trying to confusing, beat the battle of the bulge. The decision of which