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
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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