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exas s beenTi ative Ae .„ MI l ate ly, wliemlj ; ru ns, Ihavepii d f on e bad P four orfiventj . 75 No. 2 ::: 22 Pages in 2 Sections Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Wednesday, September 2, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather ! Today Tomorrow High 88 High 92 Low 72 Low 75 Chance of rain. 40% Chance of rain. . . . . 20% long was wodj i the seti chiefly became 'cd not to pr4 ' or ds. Ranged American Lesj "dicated Jei <e comments t he had mailt United Press International FORT WORTH — A temporary re- ning order blocking the implemen- m of Texas’ new drug paraphernalia law is keeping Dallas and Fort Worth thorities away from two “head shop’’ erators. The law was put on hold Tuesday, ithin hours of going into effect, when U S. District Judge David O. Belew Jr. iued the order in a suit against it filed Freak Imports of Fort Worth and the spipe of Dallas. The head shop oper- V \\li H° rs con t en d the law inflicts irrepar- \\*j able economic harm on the stores. \ \ \ \\1K Hie restraining order protects only V v * ' Ipe two plaintiffs until the law’s consti- Vy> W Itionality has been determined, said . JJ Iton Ryder III, a clerk in Belew’s lambers. 1 ‘‘Only those parties (the plaintiffs) are rotected under the order,” Hyder 4ft id. "Unless there are similar cases in her courts, there is no protection to pers who are selling this kind of mate- Hi ® The state law is in effect except for jese two parties and there may be her court actions.” . Another hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9 at which Belew will determine pettier he will issue a preliminary in junction against the law'. The constitu- blocks drug law IN )E JR tionality would be determined either on that date or 30 days later, Hyder said. Belew issued the order after a lengthy hearing to give officials of Texas Attor ney General Mark White and law en forcement officials a chance to state their respective positions on the law. The attorney for shop owners Tom Atkins of Freak Imports and Jerry Schults of the Gaspipe said he was hap py with the decision. “We sought a tem porary restraining order and we got it. The judge saw it fit to grant the order which implied that there are constitu tional uncertainties (governing the law).” White was out of town and was not available for comment. Dallas police officials have said the law would not be very helpful in pro secuting cases because of its wording. Officials said the problem was that to successfully prosecute a head shop case, the state must prove not only that a head shop operator sold the paraphernalia but also knew the buyer had the inten tion of using the paraphernalia for stor ing or consuming drugs. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said be cause of the vagueness of the law people could be subjected to possible prosecu tion for having guessed wrong at what the law meant. Five die in floods StafT Photo by Dave Einsel Three s Company? Maybe not Junior Anna Henderson and freshmen Leah Goeden and Dena Anderson are a few of many Clements Hall dwellers living three to a room as the result of a routine overbooking by the Housing Office. Many of the students hope to move to less crowded quarters this week as rooms of those who forfeited their rooms are being reassigned to three-to-a-room residents. Texas rains persist United Press International South Texas residents drenched by leavy rainfall and flooding since the be- jnning of the week are hoping for a break in the weather, but have little ‘thance of getting it. For yet another day today the weath- f service called for downpours of 1 to 4 dies in areas where rivers already are 20 feet over their banks and thousands ve been chased from their low-lying mes into high-ground shelters. Five already have been killed and age is running in the millions from 19 inch rains that have hit since junday — the result of a collision be- een a tropical depression blown in om the gulf and a northern cold front ing down across the Panhandle. Even as the weather service posted its forecast Tuesday, several cities be gan a monumental clean-up effort as riv er waters at least temporarily drained torn homes, businesses and highways. Officials said it could take a week be fore life is back to normal in the Guada lupe and Lavaca River towns, f Hardest hit was Hallettsville, on the Lavaca River, where waters pounded 15 Hocks of the town’s business district. I; While unable to place a dollar figure on the damage, state trooper David Dodge said the damage easily was in the millions of dollars. Dodge said the National Guard was activated Monday night with 19 guards men and seven highway patrolmen on duty to prevent looting. He said downtown Hallettsville was mndated with 5 to 6 feet of water and some people living in rural areas were evacuated with helicopters. T’m crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn’t rain more,” said Shiner police chief John Ideus, “We re watching the weather and will be a bit more prepared for it than we were last night.” Ideus said flooding on the south side of the city not only killed three teena gers but did millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and businesses, in cluding the Spoetzle Brewery where Shiner Beer is made. Ideus said the brewery was flooded with about 5 feet of water, engulfing some of the equipment and forcing the company to stop production until Tues day afternoon. Killed in flood related accidents were three brothers — Glenn Hights, 17, Johnny, 15, and Bradford, 13 — who drowned Monday as rescuers tried to reach them. The bodies of two other men, Her man Reyna of Yoakum and Sam Goode Jr. of Hallettsville were recovered Tuesday a few hundred feet from the Rocky Creek Bridge where their vehi cles washed away. The U.S. Geological Survey reported Tuesday the floods set new record high stream flows on the Guadalupe River at Cuero and the Lavaca River at Hallett sville. Before floods damaged the USGS stream flow gauge at Hallettsville, it re gistered a stream flow of more than 100,000 cubic feet per second. The av erage flow on the river at Hallettsville is only 48.1 cfs, said Lynn Harmsen, San Antonio sub-district chief of the water resources division. Hitler s ‘war machine’ dies in London United Press International LONDON — Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man who ran the German war machine in World War II, collapsed and died Tuesday — the 42nd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Po land. He was 76. “If Hitler had a friend, I was it, he once said. But Speer, who served 20 years at Berlin’s Spandau Prison, also was the only German leader to admit his guilt for war crimes and later said he tried to assassinate Hitler when he realized the war was lost. Ironically, Speer had arrived to re cord a television program in London — site of some of the most ruthless bomb ing by Hitler’s Luftwaffe — when he collapsed at his hotel. He died in a hos pital four hours later, 42 years to the day after the Nazi invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. “It’s believed he died of a cerebral hemorrhage,” said Angus Macdonald, hospital administrator. As Nazi minister of war production, Speer directed one of the greatest in dustrial war machines the world has ever known. At the peak of the war, he controlled 14 million workers from the Urals to the Pyrenees and considered himself second only to Hitler in the Nazi hierarchy. His brilliance, energy and devotion to Nazi Germany kept the armament factories running despite massive Allied bombing until Hitler killed himself in the Berlin chancellery bunker as Rus sian troops were moving in. Speer was the only Nazi close enough to Hitler to be able to tell him the war was lost. He did so several times to no avail. Speer said he planned to kill Hit ler by dropping poison gas into the ven tilation shaft of the Berlin bunker in February 1945, but Hitler foiled the attempt by building a 10-foot chimney. Born in Mannheim on March 19, 1905, Speer was teaching architecture at Berlin’s Technological Institute in 1931 when he first heard Hitler speak at a rally. Freshmen elections nearing, 12 positions open By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff In most high schools if you wanted to run in a student body election, all you had to do was sign up to run, distribute campaign literature and wait for the election. But, as freshmen who wish to run for a student position at Texas A&M Uni versity will soon learn, the election pro cedure here is more complex. Freshmen are eligible to run for 12 positions including seven freshman at- large positions and officers for the Class of 85 (president, vice president, secret ary, treasurer and social secretary). Students who wish to run for an office are required to abide by the following guidelines and election regulations set forth in the University general election regulations handbook. — All first semester freshmen are eli gible to run during the fall freshman elections, but they must post a mini mum grade point ratio of 2.25 at the end of the semester or they will automatical ly be removed from office. — Filing for freshman elections opens Oct. 6 at 8 a.m. in 216 Memorial Student Center and closes Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. Elections will be held Oct. 27. — Each candidate is required to pay a $1 filing fee at the time of the filing. — A student may not file for more than one student government office. — No candidate may withdraw after the close of filing. — Every candidate must attend a mandatory meeting to be held after the filing period. If a candidate is not able to attend a meeting because of illness, a scheduled class conflict or a University- excused absence, he must contact the election commission chairman and make arrangements to have a personal representative present. If a candidate fails to do this, he will be disqualified. — A candidate may not formally cam paign until after he or his personal rep resentative has attended this mandatory meeting. — Each candidate may spend no more than $65 on his campaign. — Each candidate is responsible for removing all campaign posters or other literature bearing his name from bulle tin boards, doors, and other public places within two class days following the election. Candidates who violate this regulation will be fined $25. Freshmen who want to get involved with student government but who don’t want to run for office have another op tion — they can become freshman aides. Freshmen who are interested in be coming student government aides should attend the meeting for aides held during the first two weeks of school. At that time 40 to 60 aides are chosen through an interview process. Aides are allowed to choose the sen ate committee with which they wish to work. They are required to work at least four hours a week at the student govern ment office, running errands and help ing officers, committee members and senators. In addition, aides serve as pages at the bi-weekly senate meetings and may be asked to take minutes at committee meetings. Student Body President Ken Johnson said: “Because we have elected posi tions, there’s a very limited opportunity for freshmen to get involved. By becom ing student government aides, those in terested people have a chance to learn about student government and, in a sense, pay their dues. “After they spend a year as aides, they’re ready to move up through the ranks. Most of this year’s vice presi dents and most of our executive people started out as freshman aides and have moved up.” Foreign students confront By TOM SOLOMON Battalion Reporter Imagine yourself in a foreign country. )’ou are on your own to find food and lousing, and you are about to enter col- ige to study new subjects in a language Hwhich you know very little. Sounds scary? Thousands of young ople experience this every year, as ey come from countries all over the Vorld to study at American universities. They know it will be difficult, but ley want the benefits of the education in American university offers. Roberto Perdomo, a plant and soil lienee major at Texas A&M University lid he came to the United States and Texas A&M from Guatemala because of jhe University’s agriculture program. "It is prestigious among (all universi ties) in the United States,” Perdomo But, international students who wish |o study in the United States are not erely at home one day and here the lext. They spend almost a year in prepara tion. The students have to obtain pass- irts and visas, which American embas sies won’t issue until applicants have confirmation from a university saying students meet admission require ments. Many universities have programs to aid international students as they begin a college education in a new country. Texas A&M has the International Ser vices Office, located in Bizzel Hall. That office offers foreign students an orientation program at the beginning of each semester to explain cultural differ ences and practical matters such as the ins and outs of signing an apartment lease, how to get a shuttle bus pass and how the American banking system op erates. “International Services helps 90 per cent of the foreign students that come to Texas A&M,” said Tina Watkins, inter national student services adviser. Texas A&M has about 1,700 interna tional students, representing 66 coun tries. The country outside the United States with the most students at the University is Taiwan, with 212 students attending. Second is Mexico, with 141, and El Salvador is third with 82. Canada is fourth with 73, and Venezuela has the fifth highest number of students at Texas A&M with 72. Perhaps the biggest problem facing obstacle international students is breaking the language barrier that separates them from their fellow classmates and makes textbooks and lectures harder to under stand. Perdomo said he would turn on the radio or television, but when he first arrived in the United States he couldn’t understand the rapid-fire English broadcasts. International students are expected to know some English before coming to the United States, and most take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which establishes a student’s proficien cy in written and oral English. Texas A&M requires prospective non-English speaking students to score 550 on the test before admitting them, a higher score requirement than some universities. Those who score less than 550 on the test but who still want to be admitted enter the English Language Institute located on the University campus. The institute, however, is an entity separate from the University. Students enrolled in the English Language Institute take intensive train ing in a number of courses equivalent to 32 regular college semester hours, a far greater course load than the average load of no more than 21 or 22 hours, said Jean Erb, coordinator of the institute. course Sam Olivieri, a graduate student in his seventh year at Texas A&M, said he did not know any English when he first came to Texas A&M. “It’s hard for a person who came from another country with another language to spend a year over here trying to learn the language (English),” Olivieri said. Olivieri was the 1980-1981 president of the International Students Associa tion, a club for all international students attending Texas A&M. Students of different nationalities also have separate associations compris ed of students from their native coun tries. They get together because often they are the only ones who understand the political nature of their country, Watkins said. The associations meet needs of the foreign students, but they can create a problem if the students become too de pendent on the organizations and iso late themselves from the rest of the stu dent body. “They come here to meet Americans, and Americans are not generally open to internationals. They are very dis appointed because they don’t become close friends,” Watkins said. Consequently, the international stu dents tend to socialize only with stu dents from their own countries, she said. A&M Corps to honor Samson The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets will honor Dr. Charles H. Samson with a special presentation tonight. Samson, a civil engineering pro fessor who Tuesday stepped down from the University president’s office, has served one year as acting president of Texas A&M. Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, who was formerly president of North Texas State University in Denton, took office Tuesday. Samson will meet with the cadets and then lead the Corps’ evening passby across the quadrangle and into Duncan Dining Hall where the cadets eat their meals. Inside the east wing of the dining hall, Corps Commander Kelly Cast leberry will present Samson with a saber recognizing his service to the University. Samson will then join the cadets for dinner. Vandiver’s appointment was announced Aug. 26 by the Texas A&M Board of Regents following a year-long search for a president. Samson has returned to the clas sroom to teach a graduate course in systems engineering at Texas A&M.