The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 02, 1981, Image 1

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    he Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, June 2, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
The Weather
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arine pilot
ill be buried
ear Texas A&M
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By JANE G. BRUST
_ Battalion Staff
Chicago V^ e body of a former Texas A&M
lontrcal ■dent who died in last week’s jet crash
it Atlanta ■ the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will
> at Cincint be buried Thursday in College Station,
it New Yorl jMarineCapt. Steve White, Class ’76,
pilot of the Marine Corps jet that
shed May 26 during a landing on the
nuclear-powered Nimitz. At least 19
Other aircraft aboard the ship were dam-
led, 14 people were killed and 48 were
) injured when the electronic warfare jet
■shed while on a nig;ht training mis-
lon. The Nimitz is the world’s largest
warship.
■ Funeral services for White, 27, will
■ held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the All
terizcd E niths Chapel on the University cam-
just his pu> Burial will follow at the College
)lavs alonf JStation cemetery on Highway 6.
es out, an« The interment will be with full
[’ou hardh phtary honors,” said Mike Jones, assis-
Mit manager of Callaway-Jones F uneral
Home in Bryan.’
k e Bj ones sa j ( ) a Marine detachment from
Houston as well as ROTC cadets from
’ out Bra: ftexas A&M will take part in the burial
bases loai ceremony.
fanning lull “It was always his (White’s) request
iclberger, that he be buried back by Texas A&M,”
;cond and | nes said -
White was a member of the Texas
A&M Corps of Cadets, served as com
manding officer of Squadron 4 and was a
Ross Volunteer platoon leader.
“He was a fine young man, respected
by his peers and the members of the
military faculty here,” retired Marine
Corps Lt. Col. Art Hickle said in a Uni
versity press release. Hickle was one of
White’s instructors at Texas A&M and
will deliver the eulogy for White.
“He was Aggie all the way,” Hickle
said. “The best evidence of that was in
his personal papers, he asked to be
buried in College Station. Texas A&M
was his home.”
The EA-6B Prowler jet, which car
ried White and two other crew mem
bers who were also killed in the crash, is
used to jam enemy radar and radio sig
nals. This type of jet was temporarily
grounded last year because of a history
of fatal accidents.
White is survived by his wife Ann, an
air force captain who lives in Satellite
Beach, Fla.; his father, Charles H.
White of Houston; and his mother,
Mary Spivey of Houston.
He is also survived by two brothers
and four sisters.
White was born in Houston and is a
graduate of Milby High School.
University officials expect
record-breaking enrollment
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion StaiT
Although enrollment figures will not be com
plete until early next week. Associate Registrar
Donald Carter said he is expecting another record-
breaking number of students to attend Texas A&M
University during the 1981 first summer session.
“I can’t remember any time in the last four or
five years when enrollment has declined,’ Carter
said. “Last year we had over 11,700, and I think
we ll have at least that many again this year.”
Last year’s count of 11,782 set a first summer
session enrollment record.
“I think we ll have close to 10,500 by the time
everything is counted up on Monday,” he said.
“And we should have well over 11,000 by the end of
the fourth class day.”
University officials use the count at the end of the
fourth class day of the summer session as the official
enrollment figure.
Ron Sasse, associate director of student affairs,
said so far housing is much more crowded for
women this year than last year, but not as crowded
for men as was expected. Sasse said he had no
explanation for the unusually high female enroll
ment coupled with lower male enrollment this
summer.
Mosher Hall was completely filled Monday as a
result of the overflow of female students. Sasse said
it was not expected for Mosher to be filled and that
the residence hall has never been filled for summer
school in the past. No more than two Mosher resi
dents moved into any one room, but preliminary
room assignments did show three and sometimes
four people to the same room.
In the Commons area, Aston and Mosher will
house summer school students. Some rooms in
those two halls are also housing students and pro
fessionals attending short courses during the sum
mer, but Sasse said the number of people enrolled
in those courses will vary from week to week. Some
of the rooms used for short-term housing will open
at various times during the summer session.
The overflow from Mosher and any other dorms
will be housed in two Corps dormitories, Lacy
Hall, Dorm 6, and Leonard Hall, Dorm 7.
, Other halls being used in the Corps area to
house students for the summer are Briggs, Dorm 3,
Whiteley, Dorm 9, White, Dorm 10, and Har
rington, Dorm 11.
Dunn and Krueger will be used for summer
orientation housing, accoinmodating both incom
ing freshmen and parents.
^Legislative session
J 1 nds without final
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edistricting plan
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United Press International
lAUSTIN — Four days of negotiations
led to bring House and Senate con-
■ees together on a compromise to
ipportion the state’s congressional
iricts as the 67th Legislature ended
140-day regular session at midnight
[onday.
The result will be a special session to
ain attempt to redraw 27 districts rep-
[sented by the Texas delegation.
But the same differences that could
the worked out by the Senate-House
inference committee will still be there
en the special session is called later
is summer by Gov. Bill Clements.
Because of the state’s 27 percent
Bowth rate during the last decade,
three more congressional districts will
be added to the present 24. Where
Bose three new districts will be located
— Dallas, Houston and South Texas —
was never in contention.
But the exact location and the crea
tion of a new minority district in Dallas
Were the stumbling blocks when com
promise was attempted.
And Gov. Bill Clements is emphatic
that a new minority district should be
Seated in Dallas. The governor said
Monday night when it became apparent
that a compromise could not be reached
that he will veto any plan that does not
provide Dallas with a new minority dis
trict.
The only black on the conference
committee, Rep. Craig Washington, D-
Houston, refused to go along with any
plan creating a black district in Dallas.
He reasoned that blacks in that city cur
rently have substantial influence in two
Dallas districts — those held by Reps.
Martin Frost and Jim Mattox, both D-
Texas — and creation of a black district
would diminish their overall input.
Washington, after hearing of the gov
ernor’s veto threat, said he would still
champion the same cause when the
Legislature attempts to adopt a new
congressional plan.
Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Houston, was
another who backed a proposal that
would protect Frost and Mattox. He
said he was disappointed a compromise
could not be reached, but he indicated
that everything had been done for a final
resolution on the congressional redis
tricting plan.
“We can accept defeat because they
are people with strong feelings and sen
timents, and those people can only go so
far. I guess they went as far as they
could. ”
Finally at 10 p.m. Monday, Von
Dohlen announced a compromise was
not forthcoming.
“I feel it’s our duty to tell you that we
cannot agree on a congressional district
ing plan,” he told a standing-room
crowd.
Students lined up in record numbers to pre-register for the first summer
session Monday. Over 11,000 students are expected to register for sum
mer school. Students began lining up as early as 6 a.m. at Deware Field
House to get their card packets, then proceeded to G. Rollie White
Coliseum and the Memorial Student Center, where registration con
tinued.
Justice Department investigates
unauthorized contact with Soviets
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Justice De
partment has begun investigating an Air
Force missile officer accused of making
unauthorized contacts with the Soviet
Embassy to determine if he should be
prosecuted for espionage or other
crimes.
The Air Force Monday asked the
Justice Department to examine the case
of 2nd Lt. Christopher Cooke, already
charged by the Air Force with making
contact with Soviet officials in Washing
ton without telling his superiors.
Associate Attorney General Rudolph
Giuliani, the Justice Department’s No.'
3 official, said the case was referred to
the department, but “the decision to
prosecute him (Cooke) has not been
made. ”
Department spokesman John Rus
sell, who Sunday night said espionage
charges would not be pursued, said
Monday the decision to open a criminal
investigation followed discussions at
high levels ’ of the Justice and Defense
Departments.
Cooke, 25, a deputy crew comman
der of a Titan missile team at McConnell
Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., is
being held at the base on charges of
breaking military regulations barring
unauthorized contacts with officials of
communist nations.
Defense sources said Cooke photo
graphed highly classified information
that included missile launch authoriza
tion codes. The sources also claimed he
gave the Soviets information so sensi
tive that Titan targets and codes had to
be changed.
Cooke is accused of making three
visits to the Soviet Embassy since De
cember, including one in early May.
ABC News reported the manner in
which the FBI discovered Cooke had
visited the embassy is so secret the gov
ernment might drop the case rather
than let the details come out in court.
It is commonly speculated the FBI
and other intelligence agencies photo
graph everyone entering and leaving
the Soviet Embassy, but ABC reported
the Cooke visit was detected by a far
more sophisticated method.
If prosecution of Cooke begins in
open court, ABC said, only the third
embassy visit will be used as evidence
since there are enough eyewitnesses to
provide open-court testimony without
revealing intelligence secrets.
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Don’t forget summer’s
important dates, events
On this first day of summer school
classes, students are reminded to
pay all fees at the cashier’s desk in G.
Rollie White Coliseum. Late regis
tration is also being held today and
calls for a $10 late registration fee.
If you’re marking your summer
calendar, July 3 will be a class holi
day in observance of Independence
Day.
Final examinations will be given
July 7-8, and students can register
for the second summer session July
9.
With this issue The Battalion be
gins its summer publication sche
dule with papers coming out every
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
throughout the summer.
MSC Town Hall walkie-talkies
found missing after NACURH
No news today
Staff Photo by Greg Gammon
n
Editor Angelique Copeland “reads” the first of
today’s Battalion. The main motor of the press
burned out and the paper had to be taken to the
Eagle to be printed. Electricians working on the
press are not yet sure how long it will take to
have the motor repaired.
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Five walkie-talkies, valued at appro
ximately $5,000, have been reported
missing to the University Police.
Tom Murray, North Area Coordina
tor, said the five radios were used by the
Residence Hall Association to aid in
communication at the National Associa
tion of College and University Resi
dence Halls conference held May 21-24
on campus.
Investigative officer Bill Wade said
they are in the process of tracking down
the person who last checked out the
walkie-talkies. Wade said they are those
people who might have checked out the
equipment at their summer addresses.
Murray, who originally checked out
the radios from the MSC Town Hall
Committee, said they (RHA) was “neg
ligent” in not getting the name of the
person who last checked out the walkie-
talkies.
He said the equipment was used by
Texas A&M delegates to provide infor
mation to other conference delegates
between housing and registration
tables.
The national conference held on the
Texas A&M campus brought together
1,300 representatives of other colleges
and universities to discuss and propose
effective residence hall programs.