Battalion
Vol. 75 No. 12
16 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Wednesday, September 16, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
High .
The
Today
Weather
Tomorrow
. . 85 High
.. .87
Low. .
. . 63
Low
.. .68
Chance of rain
20%
Chan ce of rain
. 20%
errorists plant bombs
n American air base
i!
United Press International
IMNKFURT, West Germany (UPI)
Terrorists planted two bombs today
| rail line used to supply the U. S. Air
e’s Rhein Main Air Base in the
|st attack against Americans, a West
nan justice spokesman said. The
were defused.
be spokesman said the attack, the
| on Americans and American instal-
gypt-Soviet
ik nears
ifa/ break
United Press International
|A1R0, Egypt — Egypt and the
et Union were close to a complete
kdown in relations today with the
Ision of the Soviet ambassador and
ther Russian diplomats, but Cairo
it does not want to sever all ties.
Ike Egyptian government, retaliat
ing mist what it said was a Soviet plot
President Anwar Sadat, Tues-
ordered sweeping expulsions of
let diplomats, journalists and tech-
I. Bns and sharply downgraded diplo-
Yfc relations.
> But Egyptian officials said they did
ant to break all lines of communi
on with the Kremlin, despite
ges Soviet Ambassador Vladimir
akov personally directed the plot
|nst Sadat.
The officials predicted Moscow
Id stop short of breaking diplomatic
ions with Cairo because it is eager
3ep Egypt as a listening post in the
Idle East.
nlyakov and six members of his
assy staff were given 48 hours to
e the country Tuesday after being
ictmsed of abetting civil and religious
Kst and recruiting Egyptians as
Soviet spies.
he aim was to implement a Soviet
[gn against the regime and the na-
unity and social peace of the coun-
the Egyptian Cabinet said in a
nnent.
le Cabinet also ordered the expul-
ofa Hungarian Embassy official and
Soviet journalists and canceled the
acts for all Russian technicians
ing in the country,
addition, Egypt abolished the
|tary attaches in the embassies of
countries and ordered a cutback of
iloyees at the Soviet Embassy in
o to the same level as the Egyptian
assy in Moscow.
Jhe Cabinet statement accused
pet spies of posing as diplomats and
[aging in subversive activities “with
lligence services and embassies of a
hber of Eastern Bloc countries as
I as local Communists and interna-
al Communist movements. ”
t said Soviets stirred up “seditions
etalta aJ conflicts” between Moslems and
if unit fey Coptic Christian minority that led to
)laybaCWafs crackdown on religious fanatics
control® political opponents, including the
iffjMst of 1,536 people.
lations since Aug. 31, was designed to
disrupt rail transport to the American
air base. It came one day after an
attempt to kill Gen. Frederick J.
Kroesen, the commander-in-chief of
the U.S. Army in Europe.
The West German interior minister
said terrorists have marked Americans
as their main targets and security offi
cials had expected the ambush of
Kroesen to be followed by more attacks.
The bombs, with time fuses attached,
were in 13-pound fire extinguishers
placed on the tracks on a rail line about a
mile from the American base, the
spokesman said. They were discovered
at 8 a.m. and disarmed about 30 mi
nutes later.
Intelligence agencies have received
reports terrorists were planning to dis
rupt the U.S. Army’s two-week annual
fall manuever in Germany that began
Monday. Documents found in hideouts
also disclosed plans for attacks on Amer
ican installations.
Interior Minister Gerhart Baum said
in an interview in the Bild Zeitung
newspaper he was warned months ago
Americans and American installations
would be the key target of terrorists.
His statement was believed to reflect
internal reports of West German intelli
gence that the Red Army Faction, the
main German terrorist band, is plan
ning new attacks on Americans.
“I don’t know who is responsible,’’ a
relaxed Kroesen told a news conference
after the attack. “I do know there’s a
group that has declared war on us and
I’m beginning to believe them . They
are making the job less than fun.”
He referred to the Red Army Fac
tion, which still exists although its
founders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike
Meinhof are dead. Meinhof killed her
self in a Stuttgart prison in 1976 and
Baader committed suicide a year later in
the same top-security prison.
Police said if the badly damaged Mer
cedes-Benz of the 58-year-old U.S.
European Army commander had not
been armored it would have been
almost totally destroyed. The general
and his wife were cut by flying glass.
The terrorists carried out their care
fully prepared plot at 7:20 a.m. as the
general’s car stopped for a traffic light on
its customary 15-minute route from his
suburban home to his headquarters in
Heidelberg.
The West German federal prosecu
tor’s office said its preliminary investi
gation showed at least one Russian-
made anti-tank grenade was fired from
about 200 yards away in a wooded slope
on the edge of Heidelberg.
“The material of which the launching
apparatus was made and its construction
point to its Soviet origin,” a spokesman
for the prosecutors office said.
Speech Forum
begins today
By PHYLLIS HENDERSON
Battalion Staff
Student Government wants students
to speak out on issues that concern
them, and it will provide them with a
forum to do so.
Free Speech Forum begins today at
Rudder Fountain and runs from 11 a.m.
until 2 p.m. The open forum will be
held every Wednesday throughout the
rest of the fall semester.
Student Government is sponsoring
the forum in order to give students an
opportunity to air their views, said Dale
Collins, coordinator of the event. “It’s
going to be an open forum for students
and organizations to voice their opin
ions on different issues,” he said.
The hours between 11 a.m. and noon
and between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. will be
reserved for individual students to ex
press personal views. Each student will
have 10 minutes to discuss issues such
as University policies, political views
and religious beliefs.
Students do not have to register be
fore they speak; however, each person
speaking must be a University student
and will be required to show the proc
tors of the forum a Texas A&M I.D.
card.
The hour between noon and 1 p.m.
will be reserved for student representa
tives of University organizations. They
also will be restricted to a 10-minute
discussion.
Organizations must register the Mon
day previous to the forum at which
they’d like to speak in the Student Gov
ernment office in order to reserve time
during this hour. If organizations do not
reserve the entire hour, the remaining
time will be thrown open to individual
students.
Student Government will not control
the topics discussed at the forum, Col
lins said, but it does reserve the right to
stop one group from sending up diffe
rent representatives every 10 minutes.
“We don’t want to have one group of
people hogging all the time,” he said.
Collins said Student Government
hopes to continue the forum in the
spring. “We re on a trial period now,”
he said. “We’ve only got the fountain
reserved for the first (fall) semester.”
He said the senate expects the forum to
start off slowly, but “we expect it to pick
up.”
The idea for an open forum was intro
duced in a bill to the senate last fall by
Tim Cavell, a graduate liberal arts sena
tor. This bill was sent to the Rules and
Regulations Committee and was re
molded into Free Speech Forum.
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
The A&A Building features modern architectural opened in June, is the largest classroom building
designs including suspended arches and skylight on campus. It has 44 classrooms, 539 faculty and
windows. The $15.4 million building, which staff offices and 24 seminar and conference rooms.
Building has 44 classrooms
A&A among busiest facilities
Students waste 1,000 pounds
of aluminum cans each week
By SHELLEY EMSHOFF
Battalion Reporter
Each semester Texas A&M stu-
|ents and staff throw away about
,000.
_ Three quarters of an ounce of alumi-
|>im, the nation’s second most impor-
fant industrial material, is wasted ev-
y time a top is popped on a beverage
n and the can is thrown away.
Twenty-four cans make up one
Ound of aluminum and Russell Han
oi Coca Cola Distributors said ab-
|ut 25,000 cans of soft drinks are
ught on the main campus in an aver
se school week — bringing the total
luminum waste to about 1,000
ounds each week.
In dollars and cents, this means
University students and staff may just
s well be donating a sum of nearly
240 to their nearest trash container
ach week since the cans can be recy-
|led for about 24 cents a pound.
Yet, what lurks at the bottom of
pose trash containers is virtually an
mtapped fund-raising source.
Dr. James Fletcher, adviser for the
texas A&M Recreation and Parks
Hub said, “Recycling cans not only
ielps to conserve energy, but also is a
;ood way for clubs to make money that
»uld go toward scholarships.
The main reason that no one saves
ans is because of the inconvenience, ”
>e said.
When the recreation and parks de-
lartment was located in Goodwin Hall
he department set up aluminum can
receptacles to raise money for the club
treasury.
But, recreation and parks is moving
to Francis Hall, and Fletcher said he
doesn’t know whether or not the de
partment will continue to collect cans
once they are relocated.
O.O. Haugen, manager of custodial
services, said his department would
set up aluminum can receptacles if a
club is interested in using this as a
fund raiser. He said the club would
need to notify him and identify the
organization on the container.
Several places in Bryan/College
Station will purchase aluminum cans
for recycling. Coors Distributors, lo
cated in the Industrial Park on FM
2818 buys cans Monday through
Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Bryan
Iron and Metal, located on Finn-
feather Road, buys cans from 8 a.m. to
12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Safeway grocers began a recycling
program Sept. 6, purchasing cans
from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. There is a
counter where cans are weighed by an
employee and cash is given in return.
Payment at these recycling centers
vary from 20 cents to 24 cents a pound.
“Things are picking up after the
first week,” Jerry Howard, a manager
Safeway in College Station said. But
mostly families and children wanting
to earn spending money are selling
cans rather than Texas A&M students,
he said.
BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
With over 2,000 students walking to
and from the Academic and Agency
Building every class period, Texas
A&M’s newest facility is one of the
busiest buildings on campus.
The A&A Building — which opened
in June — is also the largest classroom
building on campus. The building’s up-
to-date facilities were designed to
accommodate 3,700 people. It has 44
classrooms, 539 faculty and staff offices
and 24 seminar and conference rooms.
Kotter, Tharp, and Cowell of Hous
ton, an architectural firm, designed the
building. And in 1979, BFW Construc
tion Co. of Temple began construction
on the project that cost $15.4 million
upon its opening three months ago.
The modern architectural design fea
tures suspended arches and skylight
windows. And walls on each floor are
painted a different color; for example,
first floor is blue, second floor is red.
John Merchant, construction divi
sion manager for Texas A&M, cited sev
eral reasons why the A&A Building is
located on Ireland Street, on the north
side of campus.
“One reason is because there are not
many buildings on that side of campus
that can help facilitate students.”
Merchant said University officials
also wanted to tear down the old bar
racks that were located in that area.
And still another reason the location
was desirable is because its immediate
access to University Drive and the main
campus make it convenient for faculty
and students, Merchant said.
Staff members in the College of Busi
ness Administration have posed no ma
jor complaints about their relocation
from the Old Hospital Building, Wil
liam V. Muse, dean of the business col
lege, said.
Before moving into the A&A Build
ing in July 1981, the faculty of the busi
ness department were housed in three
different locations and classes were held
in several buildings.
“Not all the business classes are pre
sently held in the A&A Building, ” Muse
said, “because the department has
almost doubled in size since the idea to
put our department in the A&A
Building.”
Other departments located in the
building are English, finance, manage
ment, marketing and business analysis.
There are also several agencies who
have offices located in the spacious
building such as the Texas Real Estate
Research Center, the Texas Transporta
tion Institute and the Texas A&M Re
search Foundation.
“The building was designed to fit the
specific needs of the departments who
were going to use it,” said Muse, “and
we are going to take advantage of the
type of space we have.”
The large classrooms are conducive to
class discussions and the good media
facilities make courses more interest
ing, the dean said.
“The A&A Building is a very fine
building for the business school and is a
big plus for communications between
all students who use the building,” he
said.
Writing lab moves to A&A Building
BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
The writing lab, formerly located in a
small red-brick building, moved on to
the bigger things in life last summer
when it relocated in the new Academic
& Agency Building on Ireland.
The lab’s former home was in the
English Annex on Ross Street.
“My staff was very happy to move
into the small building four years ago,”
said Dr. Ray Leighman, writing lab di
rector. “Anything was better than the
barracks where we had been located.”
But after a while, both staff and stu
dents made fun of the annex building,
Leighman said. A standard joke Leigh
man said he told visitors, was that they
could easily recognize the English
Annex because it was the only vine-
covered building on campus. The dire
ctor said the building was designed in
early vegetarian.
“There are cracks in the building big
enough to throw a cat through, ” Leigh
man said. “I would tell the gardeners
not to pull the vines out because the
building would fall apart.
“In a way, we miss it (the annex),”
Leighman said. “There was sort of a
charm to that building.”
The annex was built in the early 1920s
and was once the fiscal office for the
University. Before the writing lab
moved into the annex the Radioactive
Safety Office was located there, Leigh
man said.
The math department has housed
graduate students in the English
Annex, Leighman said, since the writ
ing lab was re-located in the Academic
& Agency Building in July.
Charles McCandless, assistant vice
president of academic affairs, said the
annex will not be torn down in the near
future; however, he said the building is
not in good condition and eventually it
will have to be razed.