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Vol. 74 No. 186
8 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, August 11, 1981
College Station, Texas
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non-voting seat
Council member
■ By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University’s Internation-
Student Association now has a seat on
10 MSC Council as a result of council
lion Saturday.
In a unanimous vote, the MSC Coun-
iitpproved a proposal to make an ISA
ipresentative a non-voting council
lemher.
ISA president Gerry Alves do O said
Bfplowing representation of the ISA
| the MSC Council will “improve com-
mnk'ations and understanding be-
veen the two organizations and help
nplement joint programs between the
vb groups.”
As?a non-voting member of the coun-
I the ISA representative will, partici
ple in discussions but will have no vot-
ig privileges.
H^he students of ISA desire to work
i closely with the Americans as we
H Alves do O said. “We come here
i get to know as much as we can about
the American people. We could just as
easily have gone to school in West Ger
many, but we came here.”
Alves do O, a graduate student in
agricultural economics, is from Belem,
Brazil.
The ISA is a coordinating board for all
the international student organizations
and their social and academic programs,
said Tina Watkins, international stu
dent adviser.
The ISA represents approximately
1,800 students from such countries as
Bangladesh, Honduras and approxi
mately 83 other countries.
Alves said representatives of the ISA
went to a national meeting of interna
tional student associations in California.
“A&M’s ISA is really the best in the
nation,” he said. “I’m not being biased,
this is really honest.
“As we (ISA) grow and become more
effective, we hope to avoid misunder
standings and discrepancies.”
Council members also heard a report
on a proposal that would prohibit food,
drink and any kind of recreational
games in the MSC lounges.
The proposal was brought to the
council after members heard several
complaints from MSC maintenence and
hotel staff concerning the rowdy and
abusive behavior of students playing
war or board games in the Serpentine
and Schweitz lounges.
Council President Doug Dedeker
said he has spoken with various mana
gers in the MSC to discuss establishing
a permanent policy. An interim policy
prohibiting food is currently being en
forced, he said.
He also said there is an existing policy
established in 1975 by the University
Center board regarding use of the
lounges. “Any policy we approve,” he
said, “will go over this, so we we have to
be very careful in establishing another
policy.”
Researcher looking for ways
;o recycle contaminated water
ftThough seven-tenths of the Earth’s surface is water,
iere s hardly more than a drop of fresh water for drinking
^ industrial use by comparison, says a Texas A&M resear-
ler specializing in recycling treated waste water.
Dr. Bill Batchelor, an environmental engineer, says he is
udying alumina, magnesia and silica— all chemicals known
(scientists as inorganic oxide absorbants — because they
jssess characteristics “which make them well-suited for
jplication in treatment systems producing water for reuse.
Batchelor, an assistant professor of civil engineering at
exas A&M, will present details of his studies Sept. 24
jring the 2nd annual Texas Engineering Experiment Sta-
on Besearch Conference to be held on campus.
Hfe said, however, that no extensive research is needed to
iderstand the limits of available ground water, and that
scycling relatively clean water primarily for industrial use
>uld serve as a practical alternative.
Last February, figures obtained from the federal govern-
icnt revealed Americans were daily draining 21 billion
dlons of fresh water more from their water tables than was
sing replaced by rainfall.
■ The figures also noted that agriculture was by far the
largest consumer of ground water, followed secondly but on a
much smaller scale by manufacturing and other industrial
uses.
A recently completed study of American rivers by other
scientists indicated that at times, up to 16 percent of the total
volume of a river was made up of treated waste water from
upstream.
There are even some attempts, like the one in El Paso, to
indirectly use recycled water as drinking water, he said. In
El Paso, city engineers designed a system of injecting treated
wastewater back underground to recharge the water tables
beneath a city that annually averages less than eight inches of
rainfall.
Batchelor said the study just initiated at Texas A&M is
funded by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Water
Research and Technology. The project will examine two
toxic metals commonly found in water — chromium and
lead.
“These metals were chosen for study because of their
presence in typical domestic waste waters, their resistance to
removal in some treatment systems and their importance to
direct or indirect reuse water for drinking purposes.”
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Smiles for everyone
Cindy Green was crowned Miss Texas A&M University Friday at
a reception in the Memorial Student Center. Sheri Ryman, the
former Miss Texas A&M who was named Miss Texas in July, passed
her crown on to Green during the weekend scheduled to honor
Ryman. Activities included a reception at the University
president’s home, a “roast” and dance at the Texas Hall of Fame.
Neutron
warhead
a reality
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Secret
ary Caspar Weinberger made it clear
the neutron warhead went into produc
tion weeks before the United States in
formed its European allies of the action.
The Pentagon chief told a news con
ference only a few warheads have been
produced thus far, not yet in “opera
tional numbers. But he declined to say
how many warheads will be produced or
where they will be stockpiled.
Weinberger said the decision to
assemble the components of the neut
ron warhead was made weeks agp and
indicated it was decided only Thursday
to notify European allies of the move.
He said although the allies were noti
fied, it was not necessary to consult
them on what was an internal U.S.
matter.
The administration began notifying
the allies Friday, Pentagon sources
said.
“Deterrence is one of the great values
this weapon has,” Weinberger said. The
chance of war, he said, “has been appre
ciably diminished.” He also said pro
duction of the neutron warhead will en
hance U.S. capability to win a war in
Europe.
“We certainly are inviting conven
tional war, which would be very difficult
for us to win with conventional means,”
he said. “With this (neutron warhead)
we can, in a very much shorter time
than other means and far less cost in all
ways, help redress the imbalance.”
He said the warhead could be air
lifted to Europe “within a few hours”
once a decision was made to deploy it
there. The warhead can be fitted to
Lance surface-to-surface missiles and 8-
inch howitzer shells. There are six
Lance battalions in Europe.
Weinberger indicated the Kremlin’s
“sharp and violent” attack against the
decision was expected because the
neutron warhead can neutralize the
Russian advantage in numbers of men
and tanks deployed in central Europe.
The neutron weapon kills humans
slowly and painfully through enhanced
radiation but leaves most buildings and
other structures undamaged by the
blast effect of a atomic bomb.
University officials expected to appeal decision
Eagle wins right to writ of mandamus in hearing
Photo by Dave Einsel
fan George (left), representing the Bryan-College Station Eagle, discus
es Friday’s hearing with Eagle Publisher John Williams outside the
ourtroom in Austin.
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
AUSTIN — 201st District Judge Jer
ry Dellana announced Monday that he
will grant a writ of mandamus forcing
Texas A&M University officials to dis
close the names of those persons being
considered for the University pres
idency.
The writ requested by the Bryan-
College Station Eagle late in July is a
court order compelling the University
to release the information.
Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
James B. Bond was unavailable for com
ment Monday, but Eagle Publisher
John Williams said he feels sure the
University will appeal the decision.
“We’re very happy with the deci
sion,” Williams said. “But it will ob
viously be appealed and be the start of a
very long, drawn-out process.”
He said it may be a matter of years
before the matter is resolved.
A hearing was initially scheduled in
Brazos County for July 16, but attorneys
* from both sides agreed that a state agen
cy such as the University must be sued
in Travis County, and thus the hearing
was rescheduled.
The University’s main contention in
the hearing Friday was that to make the
list of candidates public would cause
damage to the selection process and
would also be an unwarranted invasion
of privacy for those being considered.
Lawyers for the defense first called
Dr. Duane Leach, chancellor of the
South Texas University System to the
stand.
Leach said that officials of his system
had just completed a search for a new
president for Texas A&I University in
secret. He said there would be a nega
tive reaction if the list of candidates for
such a position was reviewed daily by
the press.
“The public will be ill-served,” he
said, “and the individual is in a no-win
situation.”
Leach said that when the candidates
names are disclosed, there is a possibil
ity of the person being considered to be
damaged in his current position.
Also testifying for the defense, Dr.
Kenneth Ashworth, Texas commission
er of higher education said: “A search
for a university president is not some
thing you conduct in the open.
“His (the candidate’s) effectiveness
in his present job will be eroded,” he
said.
Hubert testified that to disclose the
information would be “damaging and a
deterrent to the selection process.” He
said it would also be damaging to the
individuals being considered, to the
University and to all other schools in
similar situations in the future.
He said he believed many of the
candidates would withdraw from con
sideration if their identities were made
public.
“Three of the candidates would with
draw immediately,” Hubert said. “That
I know personally.”
David Donaldson and Jim George,
attorneys for the Eagle countered the
University’s case by claiming that the
testimony by Leach and Ashworth was
“the rankest of heresay.”
George said that since the presiden
tial search in which Leach was involved
was conducted in secret, Leach was in
no position to speculate on what damage
might be done if candidates were known
to the public.
George also objected to the testimo
nies of Leach and Ashworth, claiming
that their testimonies were opinion
ated.
Donaldson told Dellana in his closing
statement that the University should
follow the attorney general’s ruling be
cause to do so would not constitute an
invasion of privacy.
“We believe that under the statute
we are entitled to the information,”
Donaldson said. “If they (University
officials) don’t like the statute, they can
seek an amendment or a revision.”
University officials have the option of
releasing the list of candidates or
appealing Dellana’s decision. If the rul
ing is neither followed nor appealed,
University officials could be held in con
tempt of court.
The search for a new University pres
ident began a year ago after Dr. Jarvis
Miller’s dismissal by the Texas A&M
University System Board of Regents.
At the University Academic Council
meeting held last week on the Texas
A&M campus, Hubert told faculty
members that University officials ex
pect to name a president in the next few
weeks.
Photo by Dave Einsel
Texas A&M University System Chancellor Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert (left)
and Jim Kronzer, attorney for the University', leave the courtroom after
Friday’s hearing between the University and the Bryan-College Station
Eagle.