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Monday, September 7, 1981
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United Press International
ilEW YORK — Opening a 10-day
visit, Israeli Prime Minister
Inachem Begin is huddling with his
i aides and Jewish leaders at a New
fk hotel to prepare for his first ven-
: to the Reagan White House.
[Begins trip to Washington starts
esday and is complicated by conflict-
] goals.
|The Israeli leader hopes to warm
Jitions with the new administration.
R he also is trying to muster enough
eoigressional support to block Reagan’s
proposed $8.5 billion sale to Saudi Ara-
bifj of Airborne Warning and Control
sStcni planes, known as AWACS, and
■ advanced military equipment.
Congress has until Oct. 30 to vote on
i proposal.
|0n his arrival Sunday, Begin stood
on his opposition to the AWACS:
^■e can only repeat our position that it
fmll endanger very seriously the secur-
ityjof Israel.”
■Asked if his meetings in Washington
titeant a new stage in Israeli-U.S. rela-
dfops, he said, “Well, it’s a new adminis-
Rion in the United States, it is a re
efed government in Israel, and so
perhaps it will be a new era.”
Begin and a huge entourage, includ
ing three top government ministers, ar
rived at Kennedy International Airport
at 1:11 p.m. Sunday on an El Al flight
from Tel Aviv.
They were taken to the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan,
where they occupied four floors. Begin
was scheduled to conduct private meet
ings until he leaves Tuesday for
Washington.
The prime minister spent most of
Sunday resting after a long journey from
Israel, a spokesman for Begin said.
In Washington, Begin has scheduled
two days of official meetings. He also
plans to meet former President Carter
in Plains, Ga., as Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat did last month.
“We go to the United States to hold
important discussions on international
and bilateral issues,” Begin said at Ben
Gurion Airport before leaving on the
trip that will include his first meeting
with Reagan.
“We go with open hearts and as allies
to allies, friends to friends. We hope the
talks will end positively as allies and
friends.”
By MARY JO RUMMEL
■p: Battalion Reporter
H;Night travellers walking between the
fest parking lots and campus don’t have
[journey alone in the dark to reach
eir destinations.
The Texas A&M Night Shuttle prog-
jm provides late night transportation
| Sunday through Thursday from parking
i lots 56 and 61 (across the railroad tracks)
to the Memorial Student Center and
|e North Area dormitories.
A University-owned van transports
udents, staff and faculty at 20-minute
jtervals from 7:20 p.m. to 12:40 a.m.
The mini-bus, which can be indenti-
fed by a flashing blue light, is manned
by members of Alpha Phi Omega, a na-
Bonal service fraternity. The night shut-
i tie program which began in 1979 is a
oint project of the Department of Stu-
ent Affairs and A.P.O.
• The program was established after
JStudent Government conducted a
|§tudy of similar programs at other uni-
f| versifies.
Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president for
Student Services, then approached
|P0 with the idea of driving the van as a
Igular service project. Koldus has
ferved as an adviser to APO.
“The night shuttle was mainly de
signed as an anti-rape tool for women
yho must park so far away from their
dorms on the north side (of campus),”
bid Ed Morris, administrative assistant
i to the director of Student Affairs. Mor
ris is the staff representative in the night
shuttle program.
With the addition of four women’s
dorms in the North Area in the last few
years, parking close to the dorms is a
problem, Morris said. Underclassmen
must park one-quarter to one-half of a
mile away from their dorms in the lots
across the railroad tracks.
Norb Mahnke, APO president, said
that last year between 75 and 100 peo
ple rode the bus each week — men as
well as women.
“We try to make the interval between
runs short enough to make waiting for
the bus faster and more convenient than
walking,” he added.
Mahnke said Sunday night is prob
ably the night shuttle’s busiest night
because people are getting back in town
from weekend trips.
There are approximately 20 regular
drivers — male and female — that man
the mini-bus. All drivers are members
of the fraternity and are required to
have a restricted chauffeur’s license.
Presently there are no plans to ex
pand the program to the south side of
campus, Morris said. He said residents
in southside dormitories have more
convenient access to parking areas.
“The night shuttle is a good thing for
the campus,” Morris said. “With a (pre
vention) program like this, you never
know how many it may have helped,”
he said. “If it helped one girl, it is worth
it.”
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Photo by Bob Sebree
Senior center David Bandy hugs Aggie head
coach Tom Wilson after the Texas A&M victory
over the Cal-Berkeley Golden Bears. The Ag
gies fought back from a 28-16 half time deficit
for their first season victory.
Class held
despite
Labor Day
Since its beginning as an 1880s New
York parade. Labor Day has grown from
a single labor organization’s celebration
into an annual holiday recognized
nationwide by government employees,
many businesses and most students.
And though some may argue Texas
A&M students and faculty also labor
diligently, classes will be conducted as
usual today while others take refuge
from their normal Monday activities to
celebrate the holiday.
Following a proposal by labor organi
zation leader Peter J. McGuire, who
believed laborers should be honored for
their contributions to the nation. Labor
Day was first observed in 1882 with a
parade by the Central Labor Union, a
New York City labor organization.
According to history texts McGuire
proposed the first Monday of Septem
ber thinking a holiday at that time
would fill the gap in the chronology of
legal holidays existing from the Fourth
of July to Thanksgiving.
Although that first celebration was
held on the first Saturday in June,
observance of the holiday was soon
moved to the first Monday in Septem
ber in accordance with McGuire’s prop
osal.
The holiday rapidly gained popular
ity and by 1885 labor organizations
nationwide were observing Labor Day.
However, it was not until two years la
ter that Oregon became the first state to
officially recognize it.
And then in 1894 President Grover
Cleveland signed a bill making Labor
Day a federal holiday — a holiday ap
plicable to all federal employees and the
District of Columbia.
Labor Day is observed in U.S. terri
tories as well as in the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico. Canada and the United
States celebrate Labor Day simul
taneously. But in Europe, the holiday
has been celebrated on May Day (May
1) since it’s origination in the 1890s.
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw
Pact countries also observe a labor day.
Mount St. Helens forms new dome
United Press International
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Glowing
cracks crisscrossed the giant lava dome
of Mount St. Helens today and a ribbon
of lava hundreds of feet wide protruded
from the dome’s northeast side, said
geologists monitoring the volcano’s
latest eruption Sunday.
“It’s like a big wart or bump on the
side of the dome, ” said Mike Doukas, a
U.S. Geological Survey scientist. “At
night, it’s pretty spectacular. There are
ribbons and tongues of this glowing rock
cascading down. You can see falling
rocks coming down the slopes of the
dome and exploding into sparks.”
Geologists made a night flyby Sun
day after the unpredictable mountain
began yet another dome-building erup
tion with up to 10 earthquakes reported
per hour. More flights were planned
today.
Both the Geological Survey and Uni
versity of Washington scientists said the
eruption would probably not become
explosive and that little or no ash would
be emitted.
Doukas said USGS scientists were
still trying to determine if the new lobe
of the dome — about 300 to 400 feet
wide — was formed out of fresh lava or
old lava pushed up from below.
“The dome is definitely undergoing
quite a bit of structural change and the
crater is very unstable,” said A.B.
Adams of the University of Washington
geophysics lab.
The dome, a mass of toothpaste-like
lava rising out of a vent in the center of
the crater, lost its circular appearance as
the northeast side pushed out, Adams
said.
“Thin red cracks” surrounded the
new section and incandescent boulders
rolled down its slopes to the crater floor,
casting sparks into the air and providing
natural fireworks, Doukas said.
“The bottom of that area has in
candescent rocks cascading down the
slope,” he said. “Plus that, there’s hot
red glowing cracks in spots sprinkled
about the rest of the dome. We re
assuming that something is coming up
inside and forcing the dome to start to
break up like that.”
Adams said an “enormous” rock rol
led off the lava dome and interfered
with transmissions from the lone seis
mic monitor in the 2-mile-wide crater.
The seismic monitor continued to
transmit readings of the earthquakes,
but the information was hard to inter
pret because the transmissions were
partially blocked by the rock, Adams
said.
The volcano’s last eruption June 18
also was a nonexplosive event that in
creased the size of the lava dome to
about 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide
and 500 feet high.
Geologists have said that eventually
the dome could grow to fill the crater
and restore the mountain to near 9,677
feet, which is how high it was before the
massive May 18, 1980, eruption blew off
the top 1,300 feet.
Mount St. Helens first exploded May
18, 1980, leaving 60 people dead or mis
sing, dumping up to 6 inches of gray grit
on eastern Washington, sending a huge
black ash cloud across the U.S., wiping
out thousands of acres of lush southwest
Washington forest and triggering mudf
lows that flooded three river valleys.
Since that time, it has erupted about
10 times, with each event generally
quieter than the previous one.
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Welcome home Aggies!
Photo by Dave Einsel
The Texas A&M football team is welcomed home from their victory
over Cal-Berkeley by over 300 whooping supporters at Easterwood
Airport. The Aggies came from behind to win Saturday with a
score of 29-28 and blocked a field goal for an exciting finish.
Graduates from the Texas A&M Col
lege of Business have been rated the
best in the state according to a survey of
1,600 chief executive officers of Texas-
based firms.
In addition, the survey, conducted
by Texas A&M’s College of Business
Administration, assessed the college’s
emphasis on teaching as tops among
business programs.
“The executives also rated the Uni
versity’s overall reputation number
one,” said Dr. William Muse, dean of
the college.
Enrollment in the college has dou
bled in the last five years. Muse said in
July at an open house celebration spon
sored by the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce to introduce the
college’s new classroom facilities.
With more than 5,600 undergradu
ate students, the school is now the sixth
largest in the nation in terms of full-time
students and the second largest college
at Texas A&M, surpassed only by the
College of Engineering.
Another survey, the national Gour-
man Report, which rates undergraduate
programs in American and international
universities, lisljs Texas A&M’s College
of Business Administration as 20th in
the nation, he said.
The graduate school was rated 34th in
the nation. The report strongly consid
ers quality of faculty and curriculum,
and success of graduates. Muse said.
“That’s pretty darn good considering
there are more than 600 educational in
stitutions in the nation that offer busi
ness degrees. Of these institutions, 217
have accredited business programs at
the undergraduate level,” Muse said,
adding that 136 universities have both
graduate and undergraduate programs
that are accredited.
During ceremonies featuring the
University’s newest and largest acade
mic building, the Academic and Agency
Building, Muse was lauded for the gui
dance and leadership he has provided
since he came to Texas A&M two years
ago.
“It’s the leadership of men like Dr.
Muse that makes Texas A&M among
the great universities in the nation,”
said H.R. “Bum” Bright/Class of ‘43
and chairman of the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents. “I’m amazed at the
progress the University has made since
I was a student here.”
State Sen. Kent Caperton (D-5th
District) a 1971 finance graduate of
Texas A&M, and Pat Mann, executive
vice president of the local Chamber of
Commerce, also praised Muse for his
dedication which has created a “signifi
cant relationship” between the business
school and local community.
“Texas A&M has the kind of spirit
that nobody can quantify — an under
standing that there is something special
about this university,” Caperton said.
“Students who graduate here will al
ways remember the University with
pride.”