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Mlore fighting follows
cond striker’s death
United Press International
LEAST, Northern Ireland
idics enraged by the death of the
id imprisoned IRA hunger striker
s|week hurled firebombs filled with
mel at British troops today in run-
battles in which one person was
and two soldiers wounded.
j Hundreds of Catholics stormed into
ftreets of west Belfast, rioting and
Sng gunfire with police following the
| statement from Britain’s Northern
Ind office that Hughes, a convicted
derer, had died during his bid to
i political status for IRA prisoners.
| Hughes’ death followed by a week
| of Bobby Sands, who died in the
i day of his selfimposed starvation.
Still fasting were Raymond McCreesh
and Patrick O’Hara in their 53rd day
and Joseph McDonnell, in his fifth day
— all vowing to starve to death unless
Britain gives in on five demands for pris
on reforms.
Britain, maintaining the IRA inmates
are criminals, has refused to grant the
demands — unrestricted association
with inmates, wearing clothes of their
choice, refusing prison work, extra
visits and letters and a 50 percent re
duction in prison sentences for good
behavior.
Within minutes of the news of
Hughes’ death Tuesday afternoon,
angry crowds of men, women and chil
dren lined the streets of Belfast’s Catho
lic ghettos, waving placards of Hughes,
erecting barricades and chanting
“Frankie, Frankie” and “Bobby, Bob
by.”
Bands of masked youths chanted
“murderers” at soldiers and hurled blast
bombs — gasoline bombs with shrapnel
— at police and soldiers from behind
hastily erected barricades in rioting that
after nightfall became as intense as in
the hours after Sands died. A thunder
shower at 2 a.m. ended the rampage.
Hughes died with three sisters and a
brother by his bedside, hours after laps
ing into a coma. Outside the prison,
Hughes’ brother Oliver said British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher “has
murdered another IRA man — and cre
ated another IRA hero.”
Wongressm an
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^ Con;
Gramm
‘hit list’
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
llie National Committee for an Effec-
k Congress has added the name of
mgressman Phil Gramm, D-College
lati i, to its list of candidates which
ill be targeted for defeat in the next
3-In all, 63 representatives and 5 sena-
irsare on the “hit list” which commit-
« nember Jeff Byron said is “by no
^ns final. ” He said the list is updated
st weekly.
I'We see him (Gramm) as being a
conservative democrat,” Byron
“We feel the position could be
fcerfilled by someone who was a little
pre moderate.”
inother reason Byron said Gramm is
Hthe list is because the committee sees
) as being particularly vulnerable to a
stronger candidate. Gramm’s support of
President Ronald Reagan’s economic
program is another reason for the com
mittee’s action, he said.
Gramm was not available for com
ment, but his press secretary, Mark
Holcomb, said that when the congress
man’s name first appeared on the list,
Gramm responded by repeating a
quotation by Abraham Lincoln: “When
you have strong views, you have strong
enemies.”
“He will run in the next election,”
Holcomb said. “And he will run on his
record.”
The tactics of the committee include
first targeting a candidate for defeat and
then identifying a challenger and sup
porting that challenger in the next elec
tion.
But the committee has not yet found a
challenger to oppose Gramm in this dis
trict because Byron said it is still too
early.
The committee differs from the Na
tional Conservative Political Action
Committee, which targets liberal candi
dates for defeat, in that the National
Committee for an Effective Congress
does not engage in the use of extensive
negative media advertising as does the
NCPAC, Byron said.
The NCPAC created a “hit list” a year
ago which included the names of five
liberal senators. Four of those senators
were defeated in their attempts for re-
election.
Byron said the NCEC has had consid
erable success in the past as well. He
said his committee would be involved in
well over 100 elections in 1982.
7 wanna go home!
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Despite the cool weather and rain that
threatened to cancel final review Saturday,
Jonathan Cornwell (left) keeps an intent eye on
the marching. Jonathan and his 2-year-old
brother Ian (right) are sons of mechanical en
gineering professor Leonard Cornwell.
rades, discipline problems, reasons for probation
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Scholastic and disciplinary problems are at
t two of the items that resulted in Companies
M l and E-2 being put on probation last week,
if Corps commandant said Monday.
However, Col. James Woodall, commandant,
sed to give specific reasons why the two
tilts were put on probation.
“I don t think someone’s dirty laundry should
be put out for everyone to see. if a unit’s ready to
e an effort (to improve), I don’t think it’s fair
to write about it in the paper,” he said.
Companies M-l and E-2 were put on proba-
n for the 1981-82 school year, and Trigon
Hlicials and the commanding officers have re
fused to explain why.
I Ormond R. Simpson, assistant vice president
for student services, said Corps units are placed
On probation if they are “perpetuating a ... sub
standard record of performance not consistent
rith the standards we expect from a unit in the
xirps.”
If a unit’s behavior doesn’t improve by the end
of the probation period, usually one year, the
unit will be disbanded. When a unit is dis
banded, its members are scattered throughout
different units within the Corps.
The decision to put a unit on probation is
made by Woodall, after he takes a “multitude of
sources” into consideration, Simpson said.
Woodall receives reports from major unit
commanders, the inspector general, unit advis
ers, battalion commanders and the Corps com
mander, Simpson said. He constantly reviews
the performance of all units, gathers statistics
and data and reviews grades at mid-term and at
the end of the term, he said.
“Reports come from a wide variety of sources,
none of it is rumor and all of it is documented,”
Simpson said.
However, Woodall would not explain why E-2
and M-l were put on probation last week. “I still
think this (the probation) is a matter between the
commandant and the unit,” Woodall said.
In a story published Friday in The Battalion,
Mitch Meyer, commanding officer of Company
E-2, said: “We’ve had a lot of trouble over the
last four years. We started out anti-Waggie and
we’ve progressively gotten worse.
“The Trigon got upset with us — one more
mishap and no more outfit. But, we’ve been
threatened a million times before.” E-2 is the
company responsible for taking care of Reveille,
the University mascot.
Ray Hengst, commanding officer of Company
M-l, also refused to comment on the reason his
outfit was put on probation.
The most recent disbanding of a unit occurred
after the 1980 Final Review. Company L-l, the
Lone Star Company, was disbanded because of a
“series of things,” Woodall said.
“They had cut down two trees valued at $400
that belonged to a professor. They had been told
there wouldn’t be any pranks on Kyle Field and
they attempted to pull a prank there, and they
were generally rowdy,” he said.
Company L-l was warned verbally but the
unit’s members didn’t pay any attention to the
warning, Woodall said.
However, Companies M-l and E-2 have been
warned in writing, he said. “We want to be sure
that they understand that we mean what we say,
that we’re serious about it.”
Individual discipline is handled either by the
Corps through demerits or “rams,” or through
the commandant’s office, Woodall said.
“The more serious offenses are handled here
and the minor infractions are by the Corps,” he
said. “Discipline is handled at the lowest level
possible. I prefer that the Corps handle its own
discipline.”
All unit discipline, however, is handled by the
commandant.
Probation is a warning period, Woodall said.
“If they heed the warning they have no problem;
if they don’t heed the warning, then they have a
problem.”
Before an unit is put on probation, the com
mandant “monitors all aspects, looking at their
total performance, conduct, attitude, grades,
freshman retention and their whole perform
ance as an organization,” Simpson said.
“If over a considerable period of time, that
unit has shown up low in these areas, the com
mandant will put that unit on probation,” he
said.
An outfit is only put on probation when the
commandant is convinced that by trying, the
unit can do significantly better, Simpson said.
When the commandant reviews a unit’s re
cord at the end of the probation period, the unit
will be taken off probation if he is convinced the
members tried sufficiently hard, he said.
“We hope that these two outfits will make the
effort to make sufficient progress so the proba
tion can be removed and any stigma of probation
can be removed,” Simpson said. “But, they’re
also on warning not to sink down to these depths
again.”
denied in Hochmuth dispute
Charges
By BELINDA McCOY
Battalion Staff
Part of the criteria for winning the Gen. Bruno
(Hochmuth award, the military achievement award,
jwas changed this year by Col. James R. Woodall,
[Corps commandant. Controversy had arisen within
j the Corps when discrepancies were discovered by the
[Corps staff in Company D-2’s extracurricular activity
Reports — part of the criteria originally used in judging
! the winner.
P However, no proof could ever be made of the
allegations, Woodall said. In every instance investi-
iated, he said, it was proven that the cadet was a
nember of the organization. But it couldn’t alw’ays be
•roven that the cadet had become actively involved in
he organization, which was the original intent of the
activity point criteria.
Company D-2 has denied the allegation of inaccu-
ate activity reports.
)rotest to Otiice of the Commandant of the Corps of
Cadets at Texas A&M Univerisity.
Woodall then formed a board of officers — one
officer from each of the three services — to investigate
the allegation. However, Woodall had the board in
vestigate the activity sheets of every outfit in the
Corps.
As a result, discrepancies were found in the activity
point reports of five outfits.
Updated and accurate rosters of members could not
be found of all of the MSC committees, said Dave
Baker from Company D-2. This was because most of
the committee chairmen said their membership fluc
tuates and it is hard to keep accurate rosters of present-
day members.
“We went over there (to the Memorial Student
Center Student Programs Office),” Baker said. “We
talked to chairmen and sub-chairmen of all these com
mittees that we had people who were members of. We
got one of the chairmen of the MSC Directorate to go
around there with us, so that we would have someone
to vouch for what we were doing.
“So we had it from the horse’s mouth, more or less,
that the things (the accusations) were inaccurate,”
Baker said. “We’ve got the letter from that guy to our
military adviser attesting to our involvment in those
things.”
Company P-2 came in second place for the award.
The letter written to Woodall by Nygard was a protest
to the changing of the competition rules.
In the letter, Nygard asked that the Hochmuth Flag
not be carried and the cord not be worn by any cadet
for the 1981-82 school year.
“As the Hochmuth Award stands at the end of this
year, it is cheapened, for the award has been ‘prosti
tuted,’” the letter said.
In response to the letter, Woodall said that he ex
plained to Nygard the process gone through to deter
mine the winner of the award.
“I assured him that we wouldn’t have a recurrance of
this and that that portion of cadet activities would be
revised,” Woodall said.
This summer the activity points criteria for the
awards will be rewritten to prohibit manipulation of
the rules by simply joining an organization and not
actively participating in it, Woodall said.
Regular publication
schedule starts June 2
The Battalion will be publishing
two newspapers before the begin
ning of the first summer session,
June 1.
These papers will come out on
May 20 and May 27.
The regular summer publication
schedule will begin June 2, with pap
ers coming out every Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday through
out the summer.
Student charged with
stabbing out on bond
Summer registration to be held June 1
While many Aggies enjoy the sun and fun of pool-
side play and vacation trips, other Texas A&M stu
dents will be attending summer school classes.
Registration day is June 1 for the first summer
session at Texas A&M University.
Students should pick up registration card packets in
DeWare Field House according to the following sche
dule:
— L through R — 7-8:15 a.m.
— S through Z — 8:15-9:30 a.m.
; — A through D — 9:30-10:45 a.m.
— E through K — 10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.
Students should then report to the appropriate
department head or designated representative for
approval of courses and class cards, in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Deans will also be stationed in G. Rollie White to
approve schedules.
Students who plan to live on-campus must report to
the housing manager, also in the coliseum.
Students should then visit the fee assessors in MSC
212 and 214. Card packets should be turned in at the
registrar’s station in the same rooms, no later than 2
p. m. Those who don’t complete registration by 2 p. m.,
who pay fees after the first day of classes or who go
through late registration must pay a fee of $10.
Classes will begin the following day, June 2. Stu
dents can then pay all fees at the cashier’s desk in G.
Rollie White. Late registration will also be held June
2.
Final examinations will be given July 7-8, and
students can register for the second summer session
July 9.
A Texas A&M sophomore, charged
with the stabbing death of his room
mate, was released Saturday on a
$50,000 bond.
Joseph Lynn Dill Jr., 19, a freshman
accounting major from San Antonio,
was found stabbed to death in his Tang-
lewood apartment early Friday morn
ing. Autopsy reports show Dill was stab
bed over 40 times in the head, neck and
back.
Leighton Barry Hurst, 20, was
arrested at the scene and has been
charged with murder in connection
with Dill’s stabbing. Hurst, also from
San Antonio, is a sophomore wildlife
and fisheries science major.
Dill is the second Texas A&M stu
dent found stabbed to death in the last
three weeks. Joel Quintans is charged
with murder in the April 22 stabbing of
Frederick Axel Youngberg IV. He is
being held without bond.
Silver Taps ceremonies will be held
for both Dill and Youngberg next fall.