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Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Wednesday, September 2, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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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
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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.