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
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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