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seiS Vol. 74 No. 175
10 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Wednesday, July 15, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
L
fexas plans to stop all shipments
(,1 )f unsprayed California produce
leintnsK; United Press International
— Agriculture Commis-
ffier Reagan Brown Tuesday imposed
Jjjtj. immediate quarantine on the ship-
(1, mt of California fruits and vegetables
andig O Texas to protect the state against
"estation by the Mediterranean fruit
Brown said he expects most other
uthem states to impose similar
Bntines, although some of the states
^Tuesday they were delaying im-
sition of such a quarantine of Califor-
■foducts that serve as hosts to the
lit fly.
== Roadblocks will go up at noon Mon-
pon highways entering Texas from
Brnia, and national guard and De-
Bent of Public Safety troops may be
tension
United Press International
LtpNDON — Prime Minister Mar-
BThatcher promised the tradition-
Rmarmed British bobbies every
Bp-control weapon used in North-
Heland and sent six police chiefs to
ilfast today for a crash course in an
brt to break the back of Britain’s
„ uth riots.
m. ■
In another step to halt the rampages,
nand Yard said it has set up a special
mniand center to oversee police
nis in combating the rioting that has
jtired 518 policemen, resulted in at
ast 1,730 arrests and caused an esti-
.ated $32 million in damages.
used to enforce them if necessary.
Brown said.
Fruit and vegetables from areas of
California outside that state’s Mediter
ranean fruit fly quarantine area will be
allowed into Texas without fumigation if
they have certificates from California
officials that the products are from coun
ties that are free of the fly, Brown said.
If trucks arrive at the Texas roadblocks
without certification, they will be de
toured to El Paso for fumigation at Texas
Department of Agriculture facilities.
Fruits and vegetables from the Cali
fornia quarantine area will be permitted
to enter Texas only if they are fumigated
before they leave California and have
certificates proving the fumigation, he
The rioting by white, black and Asian
youths, who went on rampages in more
than 30 cities over 11 days, eased today
with only two minor outbreaks in Lon
don reported. Scotland Yard insisted
the incidents “definitely were not
riots.’’
In a tough statement in Parliament
Tuesday, Thatcher brushed aside argu
ments on whether unemployment
caused the rioting, saying “it is not a
time for detailed analysis — we have a
problem” and the first priority was to
restore order.
Thatcher said before any economic or
said.
“If we get fruit and vegetables from
out of the quarantine area without fumi
gation and certification, we re going to
confiscate the fruit and destroy it,”
Brown said.
Brown imposed the quarantine after a
conference telephone call with agricul
ture officials in other Southern states,
and said all had agreed to impose
quarantines with the same restrictions.
Aerial applications of the pesticide
malathion began in California Tuesday,
but Texas officials contend the spraying
should have been started much earlier
to prevent spread of the fruit fly.
Some residents threatened to resort
to civil disobedience to halt the program
social programs would be introduced,
the government would give police the
full array of anti-riot gear Belfast police
have used for 12 years — water can
nons, armored personnel carriers, plas
tic bullets and tear gas.
“We are not going to be able to deal in
practice with the economic and social
aspects of the situation until law and
order is restored and seen to be re
stored,” she said.
Thatcher then sent officers from six
British cities to Belfast to learn anti-riot
techniques from security forces who
have dealt with street violence in
Northern Ireland since 1969.
after aerial spraying opponents lost bat
tles Monday in the courts.
Brown said Monday he and officials
from 11 other southern states had been
asked by the United States Department
of Agriculture to hold off on a quaran
tine of California produce as the depart
ment worked to get the spraying under
way.
Brown said any delay in the spraying
program would result in California pro
duce being allowed into the state only
after it had been fumigated. Brown
characterized California Gov. Jerry
Brown’s refusal to fumigate produce be
fore it left the state as “demagoguery of
the highest order” because all citrus
fruit that goes from Texas to California is
fumigated.
Tuesday night, about 50 to 100 black
youths in the Forest Gate area of east
London taunted police and threw a
gasoline bomb at a police van. Three
youths were arrested. Another group of
50 black and white youths overturned a
car in Fulham, west London.
“These were definitely not riots,” a
Scotland Yard officer said, adding,
“order was quickly restored” — a
marked contrast to past violence which
lasted for hours and resulted in open
street battles between gasoline bomb
throwing youths and police using tear
gas.
eases in British youth rioting
The Weather
Today
Tomorrow
High
95
High
94
Low
75
Low
75
Chance of rain.
20%
Chance of rain. . . .
. . . 20%
Former student
given opportunity
in White
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
A former student of Texas A&M
University was recently chosen as
one of 15 White House Fellows
appointed by the Reagan administra
tion.
Joe Barton, 31, received a bache
lor’s degree in industrial engineer
ing from Texas A&M in 1972. He and
the 14 other White House Fellows
for 1981 were selected from more
than 1,600 applicants who applied
for the positions.
After they are chosen, Fellows
spend one year working as “special
assistants, usually in the office of the
president or vice president, or as an
assistant to a member of the
Cabinet,” said Beryl Hall, spokes
man for the program.
Fellows also receive an extensive
education through their weekly
meetings with leaders in govern
ment, business, Congress, the
media and the Diplomatic Corps,
she said.
Barton said he became interested
in the White House Fellows prog
ram about four years ago. “It seemed
like something that would be very
interesting to do and might have
some input into the country.”
The White House Fellows prog
ram was established in 1964 by Pres
ident Johnson.
Hall said: “It’s basically an
attempt to bring the best and the
brightest to Washington for a year
and expose them to the highest
levels of government, not only to
further their own education but to
give them a global view of problems
in the world today so they can contri-
House
bute more fully to their communities
when they return home.”
White House Fellows are chosen
through an “unbelievable process,”
Hall said in a telephone interview
from Washington.
Applications are accepted from
August through December. They
are read by personnel office em
ployees and are divided into five
categories numbered one through
five.
Categories one and two are eli
minated and the remaining applica
tions are read by all former Fellows.
The top 110 applicants are then
chosen and and divided into groups
of 10. These smaller groups are
screened by one of 11 regional
panels throughout the country. Each
regional panel is made up of city and
state officials, former Fellows and
businessmen, and is responsible for
choosing the top three candidates in
the region.
The 33 national finalists are then
interviewed by the President’s Com
mission on White House Fellow
ships, chaired by Vice Admiral
James B. Stockdale. Michel T. Hal-
bouty, Class of '30, is a member of
this commission.
Although the positions for the
1981 Fellows have not been
announced, Barton said if he gets the
job he prefers, he will be working in
the Office of Management and
Budget, headed by David
Stockman.
San Antonio Mayor Henry Cis
neros, Class of ’68, was another
Texas A&M former student
appointed to the White House Fel
lows program. He served as a Fellow
in the early 1970s.
Artistic copies
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
The MSC Arts Committee will sponsor an un
usual art exhibit beginning today in the MSC
Gallery. Dana Somoza is considered a pioneer
artist in the creation of copier art or “Xerogra
phy.” This art is created by using color photo
copying machines for the cost of only 5 cents per
illustration. Somoza’s work has been published
in several publications including the New York
Times and the Village Voice. Her work is disting
uished by her signature, written in gold ink. An
opening reception will be held Thursday at 5:30
p.m. in the MSC Gallery. The exhibition, enti
tled “Let’s be More Than Friends,” will be on
display July 15 through August 16.
A&M seeks court ruling on
attorney general’s decision
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University legal person
nel announced Tuesday that they would
seek a court review of Attorney General
University
plans sent
to Austin
Six construction and renovation pro
jects proposed for the Texas A&M cam
pus are being reviewed today in Austin
by the Coordinating Board of the Texas
College and University System.
Those projects include: a new animal
science pavilion, conversion of the ex
isting animal science pavilion into a stu
dent registration center, a new horticul
ture and forest science building, expan
sion of the Cyclotron, an observatory for
the physics department and a new facil
ity for the Texas A&M University Press.
All proposed projects have been
approved by the Texas A&M Board of
Regents and are now subject to approval
by the Coordinating Board.
Mark White’s ruling which stated that
the identities of some 500 candidates for
the University presidency must be re
leased under the Texas Open Records
Act.
“We have announced to the Eagle
that we prefer the matter have a review
by the courts,” said James B. Bond, vice
chancellor for legal affairs.
John Williams, publisher of the
Bryan-College Station Eagle, declined
to comment on the dispute.
The Eagle in February requested the
list of candidates from the Board of Re
gents and after the regents refused to
release the list, White was asked to de
termine whether the list was a public
record.
White ruled June 16 that the list of
500 initial considerations for the pres
idency must be released but that the
identities of the finalists for the post
could remain cofidential. The Board
then requested a clarification of the
ruling.
Susan Garrison, chairman of the
attorney general’s opinion committee
reaffirmed White’s ruling last week and
again directed the University to release
the names of the candidates along with
their qualifications.
Bond said there are two major
reasons for the University requesting a
court review.
The first, he said, is that “there are no
legal precedents to draw from in cases of
this type.”
Bond said the second factor concerns
invasion of privacy.
Some of those being considered for
the position have the potential for
bringing an invasion of privacy suit
against the University, he 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 of Regents a year ago.
After the committee recommended a
list of 34 final considerations to the
board, another committee including
Board Chairman H.R. “Bum” Bright,
Vice Chairman John Blocker, Regent
Clyde Wells and System Chancellor
Frank W.R. Hubert have interviewed
candidates for the position.
Bright said in May that although the
selection process is running slightly be
hind schedule, the board still expects to
have a new president chosen by Sept. 1.
Bond said he believes the case will be
reviewed by the courts before that Sept.
1 deadline.
Engineers
pick Samson
for office
Texas A&M University Acting Presi
dent Charles Samson has been elected a
vice president of the National Society of
Engineers.
Samson will be formally installed this
week at the annual meeting of the
80,000-member organization that rep
resents all engineering disciplines. He
will be one of the society’s five vice
presidents representing regions of the
nation.
The vice presidency is the second
major honor bestowed on Samson with
in the month. His selection as a Disting
uished Engineer was announced by the
Texas Engineering Foundation. That
award is the most coveted of five grades
of membership in the organization.
A registered professional engineer,
Samson joined the Texas A&M faculty
in 1960 and served as head of the civil
engineering department from 1964 un
til 1979. He has served one year as
acting president of the University. He
holds academic rank as professor of
aerospace engineering and civil en
gineering.
Parking permits
available for faculty
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
Parking permits for the fall semester
will be available beginning today for fa
culty-staff members and any students
who have not yet registered for the fall.
Director of Traffic and Security Tho
mas Parsons said the early-purchase
plan for the permits has been offered
the last two years, but most faculty-staff
members still obtain them in the few
days before the beginning of the
semester.
The purpose of the plan, he said, is to
avoid the usual rush near the the begin
ning of the fall semester.
Faculty-staff members have two op
tions for purchasing the permits. They
can either register their vehicle in per
son at the University Police Depart
ment or register through the Universi
ty’s mail service.
Parsons said the permits would be
returned in two to three days if the re
gistration was done by mail.
Students may purchase the permits
only if they have not pre-registered for
the fall and only in person at the Univer
sity Police Department.
The cost is $48 for a one-year permit
in the reserved staff lots, $36 for two
semesters and $20 for one semester.
Cost of the random street permits and
student permits is $36 for one year, $27
for two semesters and $15 for one
semester.
University regulations require that
all vehicles must display a valid parking
permit by the beginning of each
semester.
Last year, 6,177 faculty staff permits
were issued, but some of those were
duplicates since faculty members can
register a second vehicle for a $4 charge,
Parsons said. Taking the duplicates into
account, permits were issued for some
4,000 faculty-staff members.
Parsons said there are 4,200 spaces
available for faculty-staff, and that
almost half of the parking tickets issued
each day are for students parking in un
authorized reserved areas.