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Vol. 75 No. 8
36 Pages in 2 Sections
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Thursday, September 10, 1981
College Station, Texas
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approves its budget for 1981-82
Senate hears proposal for Northgate
Jy PHYLLIS HENDERSON
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?sday J
Battalion Staff
iC Student Senate authorized
its
1981-82 budget of $40,621, with only
onje dissenting vote Wednesday night,
and also listened to a city council prop-
on Northgate crowding.
The budget is up 11.1 percent from
[tyear. The budget allocates $17,796
Student Government administrative
its, a decrease of 15.1 percent from
1980-81 budget; $10,925 for the ex-
tive branch, an increase of 7.2 per-
t; $6,760 for the legislative branch,
increase of30 percent; and $3,575 for
gram development, which was pre-
msly included under administrative
Student Government is given
,500 in student services fees. The
paainder of its budget comes from its
ih account, which contains funds gen-
ated from refrigerator rentals.
‘Student Government administrative
[sts include a secretarial salary and be
fits, fiscal charges, printing charges,
lephonecosts, office supplies, postage
d subscriptions.
The organization’s executive branch
ordinates both Aggie Muster and Pa
nts’ Day programs. It also funds the
mmunications director, election com-
issioner, freshman programs director,
liversity committees coordinator and
e Traditions Council.
pThe legislative branch has six estab-
ihed committees and positions which
je funded; academic affairs, finance,
les and regulations, student services,
temal affairs and the speaker of the
nate.
The allocation for program develop-
ent will allow officers of the Senate to
lltin nake funds available for projects which
■'Ijegin to materialize in the middle of the
^ year, Comptroller Dina Villarreal said.
When this was under the administrative
arm of Student Government its funds
were targeted to specific programs.
The Senate also received a report
from Mary Elizabeth Herring, the Col
lege Station City Council’s liason to the
Senate, on the council’s proposals to
alleviate crowding in the Northgate
area.
She said according to one of the prop
osals Northgate businesses would con
vert their rear entrances to front entr
ances. Patricia Street, the street which
now runs behind Northgate, would be
closed and parking would be trebled,
she said. A tract of land also would be set
aside for customers to congregate.
Herring said this plan already had the
support of many of the Northgate
businesses and that the city already had
$45,000 with which to implement the
plan. She said within 18 months the
development should be started.
In other business, Jeff Anthony,
speaker of the Senate, announced that
the vice president of external affairs
position is now open following the res
ignation of Blaine Edwards. Edwards
resigned for personal reasons.
Anthony said an internal election
would be held to fill the vacancy at the
Sept. 23 Senate meeting, with nomina
tions, speeches and voting by the Sen
ate members all to be held at that time.
Other Senate vacancies will be filled
by interview. Anyone fulfilling the con
stituency requirements may apply for
these positions in the Student Govern
ment office beginning at 8 a. m. today
thru 5 p.m. Sept. 17.
The vacant positions are: one seat.
Ward I; four seats. Ward II; one seat.
Ward III; one sophomore, one senior
and one graduate student seat, College
of Liberal Arts; one at-large seat. Col
lege of Medicine; one sophomore and
one senior seat. College of Engineering;
and two off-campus graduate seats.
The Senate also introduced eight new
pieces of legislation:
— Dorm Security Bill — directs the
Student Services Committee to re
search security systems at other univer
sities and to recommend feasible secur
ity plans for female residence halls at
the University.
— Pedestrian Protection Bill — calls
for the University Police to increase
ticketing of illegally parked motorcycles
and mopeds and to adopt a policy of
impounding the vehicles of repeat
offenders.
— Bicycle Registration Bill — calls
for the registration of all bicycles by the
University and the University Police
and the ticketing/impounding of all non-
registered bikes. It also suggests charg
ing a fee for this registration, to be used
to increase the number of bike racks and
lanes on campus.
— Summer School Registration Bill
— calls on the University to establish a
pre-registration program for summer
school, with one registration for both
summer sessions and separation of
undergraduate and graduate registra
tion.
— Motorcycle and Moped Parking
Spaces — calls for the creation of more
motorcycle parking on the street or in
parking lots.
— Housing Bill — proposes that the
Married Student Housing Office be
transferred to the Department of Stu
dent Affairs in order to get all student
housing under one department.
— Rat Control Bill — encourages
University Grounds Maintenance to re
place all ground cover in front of Dorms
1 thru 12 with grass in order to control
the rat population and to spray for rats
more often than bi-weekly/monthly.
— Computer Appropriations Bill —
directs the Senate to support the final
committee selection of a microcompu
ter system for the Student Government
by allocating the funds needed to buy
the system and to also allocate up to
$350 for its installation.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Congres-
Jional Budget Office projected today
the federal deficit next year will be $80
billion — nearly twice the size the cost-
utting Reagan administration had anti-
pated earlier.
And, CBO said, President Reagan’s
Fa balanced budget by 1984 may
be crushed as it now seems the deficit
that year — even if Reagan’s current
|economizing measures are adopted —
will be close to $50 billion,
f Despite these gloomy statistics, the
Ion-partisan CBO predicted the eco
nomy would improve next year.
I “The updated economic forecast of
the Congressional Budget Office shows
pibstantial improvement in the eco
nomy compared with the lackluster per-
pprinance of recent years,” CBO Dire
ctor Alice Rivlin said iri a statement pre-
j pared for delivery to the House Budget
Committee.
In recent weeks, the White House,
faced with projections of a mushroom
ing budget deficit, has sought to find
ways to impose deeper spending reduc
tions.
Congress already has cut $35 billion
from 1982 spending, and the adminis
tration planned to request about $75
billion in cuts in fiscal 1983 and 1984.
Reagan has talked with Republican
congressional leaders about further cuts
for the new fiscal year of $15 billion to
$20 billion. The administration esti
mates a cut that size would be necessary
to hold the deficit to its July projection
of $42.5 billion.
But CBO projections show it still
would leave Reagan way off his target.
Although CBO projected a deficit of
$80 billion next fiscal year, which begins
Oct. 1, it said the figure would be closer
to $65 billion if Reagan got the addition
al spending reductions he is seeking.
Speaking of the overall state of the
economy, Rivlin said, “The major
reasons for the projected improvement
in economic growth are the moderation
of inflation and the reduction in taxes
contained in the Economic Recovery
Act of 1981.”
She said, “The slowing of inflation
that began in the first half of 1981 is
projected to continue into 1982. Real
growth is expected to pick up late in
1981 and to be strong in 1982.”
“Interest rates, although lower than
in 1981, should remain high in 1982
because of reduced money growth and
strong credit demands,” CBO said.
CBO estimated the fiscal 1982
budget at $720 billion, presuming the
additional $15 billion in cuts assumed in
the first budget resolution are made.
That compares with the administra
tion’s July figure of $704 billion.
It estimated revenues at $655 billion,
compared with the administration’s
$662.4 billion.
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Farmers Fight!
Photo by Dave Einsel
Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver ap
pears to making a quick conversion to an Aggie
Wednesday evening as he “humps it” on the
front steps of his house. The Texas A&M Corps
of Cadets assembled on the front lawn to wel
come the president. Also getting into the Aggie
spirit are Vandiver’s wife, Renee; his daughter,
Nancy, a senior history major at A&M; Corps
Commander Kelly Castleberry; and several
other members of the president’s family.
Comptroller Dina Villarreal makes a pitch for the
Student Government budget at Wednesday’s Stu
dent Senate meeting as Student Body President
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Ken Johnson (L) and Executive Vice President
Jeff Bissey look on. The budget passed with only
one dissenting vote.
Sadat calls referendum
federal deficit may be
billion next year
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — President Anwar
Sadat, stung by American news media
coverage of his government’s mass
arrests, sought popular support today
for his “electric shock” crackdown in a
national referendum.
Officials of Sadat’s ruling National
Democratic Party predicted Egypt’s 12
million eligible voters would over
whelming approve the most severe
crackdown on religious leaders and poli
tical opponents since Sadat took office in
1970.
Voters at 26,000 polling stations
across the nation were required to say
“yes” or “no” to 10 measures taken by
Sadat last week to ensure “national uni
ty and social peace.”
It was the sixth national referendum
in Sadat’s 11-year rule of the predomi
nantly Moslem country. The Egyptian
leader won the last referendum in 1979
on the peace treaty with Israel with
what the government said was a 99.9
percent “yes” vote.
At a rare news conference Wednes
day in his Nile hometown of Abul-Kom,
an unusually emotional Sadat bitterly
assailed American news media for “dis
torting” the crackdown by representing
it as a suppression of democracy.
Sadat has arrested 1,600 people, in
cluding Moslem and Christian clergy
men and opposition political figures.
He banished the leader of the nation’s
3 million Coptic Christians, Pope She-
noudah III, to a desert monastery on
grounds he was a prime instigator of
sectarian strife leading to last June’s
Mpslem-Christian clashes in which 17
people were killed and 112 wounded.
He disbanded 13 religious societies,
seized the property of the extremist
Moslem Brotherhood organization and
other groups and transferred to other
jobs scores of journalists, radio and tele
vision personnel and university profes
sors.
At his news conference, Sadat
likened Egypt to a patient and himself
as a doctor who had prescribed “electric
shock” treatment to bring the nation to
its senses and avoid a repetition of the
bloody religious clashes.
Student Government to study
possible Greek recognition
By PHYLLIS HENDERSON
Battalion Staff
Student Government plans to tackle
the controversial issue of University
recognition of fraternities and sororities
this semester.
A nine-member committee, autho
rized by student legislation last spring,
may begin looking into Greek recogni
tion as early as next week, Student Body
President Ken Johnson said. Student
Government members now are organiz
ing that committee.
Although the legislation requires the
committee to make a recommendation
by Nov. 18., the committee could make
its decision earlier, said Chris Langford,
SG vice president of student services.
“That’s (Nov. 18) our target date right
now,” he added.
Johnson, who will serve as commit
tee chairman, said the group’s discus
sion will “encompass the whole issue of
the Greek society and recognition here
at the University.”
Three primary alternatives to be dis
cussed include: the recognition of indi
vidual fraternities and sororities; recog
nition of only the Interfratemity Coun
cil and Panhellenic, the organizations
which coordinate the Greek system;
and denying recognition altogether.
Sigma Phi Epsilon filed the most re
cent application for University recogni
tion in 1977. But, Dr. John Koldus, vice
president for student services, denied
recognition on the basis that the frater
nity selectively chooses its members.
Koldus said such practices contradict
the concept that all students are Aggies.
Recognition of the Greek groups
would give them the same status as
other student organizations. The soror
ities and fraternities would have access
to all facilities, but Tom Graf, president
of the Interfratemity Council, said they
wouldn’t use MSC funds, which are
generated by student service fees.
Sororities and fraternities operate on
membership dues.
Leaders of the Interfratemity Coun
cil and Panhellenic say recognition
should be restricted to their organiza
tions instead of individual fraternities
and sororities.
Graf said this type of recognition
would provide a smoother transition
into the University. “Individual frater
nities will never be accepted on this
campus,” he said.
“There’s a big difference between
recognition of the IFC and Panhellenic
and recognition of individual fraterni
ties, he said.”
Recognition of individual fraternities
and sororities would give the national
chapters greater control, Graf said.
“Recognizing an individual fraternity
would take away from Aggieism.”
Lisa Jakubik, president of Panhelle
nic, agreed that the group’s primary ob
jective is to gain recognition for the
coordinating organizations and not indi
vidual fraternities and sororities. She
added that the majority of the sororities
were not looking for individual recogni
tion. “I don’t think they’re looking that
far ahead yet,” she said.
Members of the IFC and Panhellenic
say recognition is important. Graf said,
“Any time you have two-thirds of your
people living off-campus, you have to
have something to fill this void.” Frater
nities and sororities have the organiza
tion to do this, he said.
And recognition will “get more com
munication going between the Univer
sity and us,” Jakubik said.
Two members from both the IFC and
Panhellenic will represent the organiza
tions on the Student Govenment com
mittee; these members have not yet
been chosen. Other committee mem
bers will include: Johnson; Langford;
Tim Ryan, president of the Residence
Halls Association; Paul Bettencourt,
president of the Off-Campus Aggies;
and Ken Cross, Corps commander.
Langford said the members of the
committee were chosen because they
represent a wide range of student in
terests. “That’s a lot of what were going
to be trying to do — find out how the
students feel about it (Greek recogni
tion),” he said.
Langford said students’ contributions
will be an important part of the commit
tee’s decision. Letters to The Battalion
will be encouraged, he said, and open
forums may be a possibility.
The IFC and Panhellenic also will
provide information to the committee.
“We’re trying to take an emotional issue
and look at the facts,” Graf said. “We
want to make a smooth transition into
the University without a lot of hos
tility. ”
If the committee should recommend
recognition of either individual fraterni
ties and sororities or of the IFC and
Panhellenic, Johnson said he would
prefer for students to have an opportun
ity to vote on the issue.
However, even if the issue is raised in
a student referendum, Johnson said, it
will only be a recommendation to the
Student Organizations Board that is
comprised of faculty, staff and students.
RHA to meet
tonight at 7
' Dorm security and activities to raise
funds for the United Way are two of
the topics scheduled for discussion
tonight at the Residence Hall Asso
ciation’s first meeting of the
semester.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. in 501
Rudder.
Plans for the RHA-sponsored
Almost Anything Goes to be held
Sept. 27 will be discussed tonight.
Proceeds from the event, which is
patterned after the television show,
will be donated to the United Way.
The installation of Wallpapers on
campus, poster boards featuring arti
cles on college life and some adver
tising, are another item on tonight’s
agenda, Michele Rowland, RHA
vice president, said.
Questions on the new legal drink
ing age and judicial board revision
will also be answered, Rowland said.
In addition, Rowland said the
association will try to recruit a dire
ctor of projects to coordinate Casino
Night and RHA Parents’ Day.
Anyone living in a residence hall
is a member of RHA and is urged to
attend, Rowland said.