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Vol. 74 No. 171 6 Pages Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Tuesday, July 7, 1981 USPS 045 360 College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High 88 High 90 Low 73 Low 73 Chance of rain. 70% Chance of rain. . . . . . . 40% Board needs clarification before making list public By BERNIE FETTE Battalion Staff Texas A&M officials have yet to tlis- (jse the names of some 500 candidates irithe University presidency. Action n|he matter has been delayed by the atas A&M University System Board of Hcnts’ request for a clarification of tt< rney General Mark White’s June 17 ■ g> Board Chairman 11. R. “Bum’’ Bright ■ the request for clarification was Be because the regents did not com- Bely understand White’s ruling. B‘We do not understand what his ■or says,’’ Bright said in a telephone iferview from his office in Dallas. ■Glenn Dromgoole, editor of the Ban-College Station Eagle, said he elieves the board is stalling. Bhe Eagle in February requested the st of candidates from the regents. After the board refused to release the list. White was asked to determine whether the list was a public record. White ruled June 17 that the list of 500 initial considerations for the post must be released, but that the list of 20 finalists could be kept confidential. “The board asked the attorney gener al for an opinion, and now they’ve got it,” Dromgoole said. “Now they’re re fusing to abide by it. “I’m very disappointed with the way A&M has responded in this matter,” he said. “They’re obviously stalling.” Dromgoole said the Eagle would pur sue all possible avenues of action in the dispute including, he said, civil lawsuits and criminal proceedings if necessary. He said the Eagle’s primary intention in this dispute is to serve the public interest by making the identities of the candidates known to the public. “This is about as public an issue as you could ask for in Bryan-College Station,” Dromgoole said. A presidential search committee be gan its screening process of the nomina tions and applications for the presiden cy following Dr. Jarvis Miller’s dismis sal by the board a year ago. The 22- member committee in January recom mended a list of 20 candidates to the regents. Since that time, a committee includ ing Bright, Vice Chairman John Block er, Regent Clyde Wells and System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert have interviewed candidates for the position. Bright said in May the presidential search is running slightly behind sche dule, but he still anticipates the selec tion of a new president by Sept. 1. finals, registration process packed into one busy week By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff Since summer school is divided into /(fsessions with two sets of final exami- ittons, some confusion usually arises ist the final exam exemption policy for ngprs who will graduate in August, i The only graduating seniors who are ;empt from final exams are those who tmplete their degree requirements iring the first session, said Associate egistrar Donald C. Clark. ■eniors who will complete their de- ee requirements during the second immer session will be exempt from mt session’s final exams, he said, his week’s final exam schedule is as ws: ffuesday, 7 p.m. — 9 p.m.: classes eeting 2 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 a.m. — 10 a. m.: clas- 'slmeeting 8 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.: clas ses meeting 10 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, 3 p.m. — 5 p.m.: classes meeting noon —1:30 p.m. All students currently living on cam pus who will not be enrolled for the second session are required by the housing office to clear their rooms by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Failure to check out properly will result in a $10 fine levied by the housing office. Students moving into the residence halls for the second session may check in with the head resident beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Registration for the second summer session will be held Thursday. Students should get their registration card pack ets in DeWare Fieldhouse according to the following schedule: S through Z: 7 a.m. — 8:15 a.m. A through D: 8:15 a.m. — 9:30 a.m. E through K: 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m. L through R: 10:45 a.m. — noon. After picking up packets, students are to go to their department head or the designated representative in G. Rollie White Coliseum for approval of courses and to get class cards for courses. Next, students should check with their dean in the coliseum for approval of their schedules. Students who live in an on-campus residence hall should then report to the housing manager in the coliseum. All students should then go to the fee assessors in 212 and 224 MSC to turn in their card packets containing the assign ment card, all class cards and fee cards at the registrar’s station there. Fees may be paid at the cashier’s desk in the coliseum beginning at 8 a.m. Friday. Classes for the second summer ses sion begin Friday. England United Press International LIVERPOOL, England — Police early today quelled a fresh outbreak of rioting and settled down to a tense watch over an area ravaged by Britain’s worst urban violence since World War II. The estimated 200 stone-throwing rioters who battled police about mid night were mainly white. Blacks began Sunday’s seven-hour battle in which 185 were injured, although whites later plundered and burned stores along de vastated Lodge Lane. The burning of four stores and the looting of a supermarket in the latest violence followed the torching or plun dering of some 50 shops Sunday night at the height of Britain’s worst post-World igh telephone rates justified, says professor | Telephone company rate hikes ! seem exorbitant to consumers, but i probably are justified because of the high cost of new technology, says a | visiting professor at Texas A&M Uni versity. Bill Edwards, an expert in tele communications who teaches en gineering technology, said better and greater services by the tele phone companies are going to cost more but will be justified. | He said the telecommunications industry is the fastest-growing in dustry in the United States, offering data flow, satellite communications, voice, video and even electronic mail service. j “Imagine how much it would cost to replace every rotary telephone in existence with digital equipment,” Edwards said. “This is only one of the problems facing the telephone industry.” Costs will go down when technol ogy levels out, Edwards said. Soon, he said, it will cost more to call a neighbor next door than to call across the United States. A call to a neighbor ties up the service area common control of the switching sys tem, involving a lot more computer time, he said. A call across the coun try leaves the central office and is handled by very sophisticated equipment in other locations, he said. Another IRA hunger-striker near death as talks continue United Press International ! BELFAST, Northern Ireland — 'atholic intermediaries raced to save HA hunger-striker Joseph McDonnell )day and presented a plan overcoming tajor British objections, in a possible reakthrough that could end the chain f starvation deaths, sources said. ; McDonnell, one of eight inmates urrently refusing to eat to press their emands for political prisoner status, /as in the 60th day of his fast today and le government said his condition con- iiiiued to deteriorate. A Northern Ireland office spokesman aid a room had been set aside at the irison for McDonnell’s wife, Goretti, ndicating his death was imminent. It dded impetus to attempts to break the mpasse before he becomes the fifth unger striker to die since the campaign began in March. “If a settlement is to be reached, it is in everyone’s interest it should be in time to save the life of Joseph McDon nell,” said Joe Austin, a spokesman for the Maze Prison’s H-Block protesters. “Clearly, that means that we need agreement within hours rather than days. ” After the five-man Roman Catholic delegation from the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace met the Irish Re publican Army prisoners for a fourth time Monday, the group held four hours of talks with Northern Ireland Minister of State Michael Alison, late into the evening. Sources close to the delegation said the major obstacles to British agree ment for a plan to end the hunger strike were overcome and a peace outline had been presented. A spokesman for the Northern Ire land Office would neither confirm nor deny any draft settlement had been reached. The sources close to the Catholic delegations said the success of the for mula hinged on how it would be pre sented so as not to alarm supporters on either side and what guarantees it would give IRA prisoners. Prisoners at the Maze claimed they won concessions after a hunger strike last December but the government re neged on the deal. The government de nies there was any deal. The apparent movement toward breaking the impasse came on the weekend with conciliatory-sounding statement from the prisoners calling for direct talks with the government. Staff photo by Greg Gammon ‘Melon’choly baby Mary Hunnell seems to be savoring the taste as she bites into a cold, juicy hunk of watermelon at the Mosher Hall watermelon party Monday night. The party, organized hy the Mosher Hall resident advisers, was part of the summer activi ties for Mosher residents that also include two mixers and a hot dog cookout. The party was held inside the Mosher Hall quad area. ’s riots stopped by police War II riots. Police, aided by reinforcements from much of northwestern England, quel led the latest troubles without tear gas, which they used before dawn Monday for the first time in Britain. A total of 62 people were arrested Monday, mainly for looting or stone throwing. The only casualty in the new fighting was a policeman with a bruised leg and the area was “very peaceful,” said police spokesman Inspector David Wright. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed shock at the Liverpool riot ing, which came one day after racial violence in London’s Southall, saying “most of of us did not think these kinds of things could happen in our society. ” The Texas Engineering Foundation has bestowed its highest honor on Dr. Charles H. Samson, acting president of Texas A&M University and professor of aerospace engineering and civil en gineering. Dr. Samson has been designated Distinguished Engineer of the Founda tion, the most coveted of five grades of membership in the organization estab lished to enhance the stature and stan dards of the engineering profession. Samson, who joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1960 and served as head of the civil engineering department from 1964 until 1979, received the honor in recog nition of his “distinguished service to the engineering profession, ” said Grov er C. Williams, chairman of the Austin- based foundation. A registered professional engineer, Home Secretary William Whitelaw, who told Parliament police were “attacked with extraordinary ferocity, said he supported the use of tear gas and vowed police would receive better equipment. Whitelaw said “violence at such a level must be firmly met if people and property are to be protected” and mem ber of Parliament Eldon Griffith said, “In the end what matters is that the police must win. If they lose, we all lose.” Police, churchmen and community leaders did not blame the rioting on race. Some blamed bad housing, declin ing welfare services and dramatically in creased unemployment from govern- Samson is a 1947 civil engineering gra duate of the University of Notre E)ame, where he also earned a master’s degree. He earned his doctoral degree, also in civil engineering, at the the University of Missouri. Samson became acting University president following Dr. Jarvis Miller’s dismissal in July 1980. The foundation’s by-laws say a max imum of five individuals can be desig nated distinguished engineer in any one year, but a spokesman for the organiza tion noted the number of actual awards is traditionally less than that. The only other person to receive the honor this year is Dr. John McKetta of the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. McKetta is the former dean of engineer ing at UT. ment policies. Almost 40 percent of young blacks in the area are without work, slightly worse than young whites. The devastated area is not a stereotype black ghetto. It is an area of crumbling Victorian houses and public housing that once housed rich mer chants until immigrants started moving into the large houses. Liverpool has one of Britain’s oldest black communities, unlike other areas where racial violence has broken out among recent black immigrants. Former A&M tennis coach dies at age 67 A former tennis coach at Texas A&M University died Wednesday following a lengthy illness and was buried Friday in the College Station City Cemetery. Omar Smith, 67, had 13 winning seasons during his 15-year tenure as Texas A&M tennis coach. In 1966 he was voted one of the top 10 tennis coaches in America. Texas A&M’s new tennis center was named after Smith last year by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. In 1937 Smith received a bache lor’s degree in economics from Texas A&M. He was owner of the world’s largest family-owned Dairy Queen chain. He is survived by his wife, Elouise Beard Smith of Bryan, two sons and a daughter. Memorials may be made to the Omar Smith Scholar ship Fund at Bryan’s First National Bank. A&M president named distinguished engineer