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Battalion Staff
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'office space as a result of measures
approved Tuesday by the System Board
of Regents.
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Regents authorized the conversion of
; the basement of the Engineering Re-
learch Laboratory Center, now under
Iconstruction on the south side of the
Zachry Engineering Center, to labor
atories and office space.
Stop orders will be issued for work
now in progress in the basement and a
contract change-order will be issued,
said Regent H.C. Bell of Austin. Bell is
chairman of the Board’s Planning and
Building Committee.
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Engineering Research Center was
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issued, it called for the basement to be
used for underground parking,” Bell
said. “Fortunately, the plans were
drawn so changes could be made —
converting the basement to offices and
labs is no problem.”
Regents also voted to begin prelimin
ary work on a new engineering and phy
sics building.
The cost of the planned 141,000-
square-foot engineering building, to be
located by the Cyclotron and the Hal-
bouty Building, is an estimated $17.5
million. It is scheduled for completion
in the fall of 1983.
Making his first presentation to the
Board as the president of Texas A&M,
Dr. Frank E. Vandiver said the Univer
sity is “off and running in a new year,”
and there are “no discernible problems
that I have stumbled over yet.”
He said he would be presenting new
plans for organization and changes and
“possible programs in connection with
Target 2000” — the 15-month study of
the future of the Texas A&M System —
to the Board in the near future.
Enrollment figures for the four uni
versities in the Texas A&M System
were presented to the Board by the
president of each institution:
— Texas A&M, 35,065; an increase of
4.7 percent over last year’s enrollment
of 33,499
— Tarleton State University, 3,730;
an increase of 3.8 percent over last
year’s enrollment of 3,592
— Prairie View A&M University,
5,012; a decrease of 8.7 percent over last
year’s enrollment of 5,446
— Texas A&M University at Galves
ton, 585; a decrease of 0.5 percent over
last year’s enrollment of 588.
Enrollment at the four universities
totals 44,392, an increase of 2.8 percent
over last year’s total enrollment of
43,125.
In other action, the Board appointed
John B. Beckham to the position of dean
of the College of Science. Beckham has
served as associate dean since 1970 and
was named interim dean when Dr. Tho
mas Sugihara resigned Aug. 31 to accept
a similar position at Oregon State Uni
versity.
The Board also adopted a resolution
commending Dr. Charles H. Samson
for his year of service as acting president
ofTexas A&M and approved the naming
of the Kyle Field track for Frank G.
Anderson, a former Texas A&M track
coach.
The regents also approved the follow
ing recommendations made during
committee meetings Sunday and
Monday:
— a $110,000 appropriation for pre
liminary design of the Medical Sciences
Library. The 9,200-square-foot facility,
to be located by the Medical Sciences
Building, will house 110,000 medical
volumes and will be shared by the Col
lege of Medicine and the College of
Veterinary Medicine.
— a $100,000 appropriation for the
40,000-square-foot addition to the Hal-
bouty Building. This addition to the
geosciences building will cost an esti
mated $7 million.
— a $30,000 appropriation for the de
sign of classrooms and an equipment
housing facility at the Bray ton Firemen
Training Field
— a $25,000 appropriatioi.
liminary design of the transp^
center expansion
— a $15,000 appropriation to c
the cost of an appeal in the lawsuitess
questing the University to release tas
list of candidates considered for tin
University presidency
— the awarding of a $2 million con
tract to Sentry Construction Company
Inc. of Bryan for the conversion ofTexas
A&M’s Animal Husbandry Pavilion.
The remodeled pavilion will house the
registration center.
— the awarding of a $103,353 con
tract to Graham Architectural Products
Corporation of York, Pa., for window
replacements as part of the Francis Hall
renovation project.
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Vol. 75 No. 17
14 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Wednesday, September 23, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
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By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
A new Texas A&M vice presidential
osition has been created to fulfill what
resident Frank E. Vandiver says is a
tween Texas, All eed for comprehensive planning for
he University’s future.
The Texas A&M System Board of
legents Tuesday approved the new
isition of vice president for planning
. appointed Dr. Charles H. Samson,
rmer acting president ofTexas A&M,
that position. Vandiver and System
Bharicellor Frank W.R. Hubert recom-
ended both the position and Samson’s
fointment to the regents. Samson’s
rnual salary will remain at $72,000.
A large, growing university, such as
ixas A&M, needs comprehensive
lining for the future, Vandiver said.
a current enrollment of 35,065
udents, Texas A&M has been the na-
)h’s fastest growing college or univer-
ty during the past decade.
Given the size of the University, I
ink we need someone to do compre-
insive and cohesive planning in the
eas of academics and physical facili-
Pfufi is,” Vandiver said.
Vandiver said Samson will serve as a
ion between the University and the
get 2000 Committee. Target 2000 is
System-wide study to determine
here the System’s academic and ser-
ice branch priorities will lie by the year
. Texas A&M administrators as well
| appointed citizens serve on the
^nriKSI g t 2000 committee.
“This (planning) is an activity I’ve
eeninterested in for some time,” Sam-
>n said. “I’ve got strong interests in
'stems analysis, systems planning and
'terns engineering.
“I was interested that Dr. Vandiver
roposed it (the position) — I’ve had a
long interest and some involvement
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Dr. Charles H. Samson
in University planning.”
Vandiver said the former acting presi
dent is definitely qualified to work in
the planning area. Samson has been
briefing Vandiver on University policies
and issues since Vandiver’s appoint
ment Aug. 26.
“He (Samson) has talked to me about
the planning concept and I know it’s
something dear to his heart — en
gineers just think that way,” Vandiver
said.
Samson will concentrate on current
activities in all facets of University
areas, along with Vice Presidents J.M.
Prescott, academic affairs; John Koldus,
student services; Howard Vestal, busi
ness affairs; Robert Walker, develop
ment; and Terry Greathouse, interna
tional affairs.
Samson’s appointment was the first
personnel change made since Vandiver
took office Sept. 1. The president said
he does not plan to create any additional
vice presidential positions at this time.
“I think we’ve got a good team,” Van
diver said.
Samson
However, Prescott will complete his
tenure as academic affairs vice presi
dent Jan. 1, thus creating an opening in
Vandiver’s administrative staff.
“I see that position as a key role in the
University,” Vandiver said, “and we ll
soon be looking for someone to fill it. ”
Vandiver is also looking for a pres
idential assistant to fill the position va
cated by Dr. Elizabeth Cowan.
Cowan, a tenured professor of En
glish, has taken a two-semester leave of
absence from the University to continue
writing and research. She will return to
campus in July 1982 to teach a graduate
English course during the second sum
mer session.
Former University President Jarvis
Miller appointed Cowan to the position
in April 1980. During her term in the
president s office, Cowan worked with
Samson on such programs as the estab
lishment of a women’s network organi
zation to open communication between
male and female staff and faculty mem
bers.
Samson will be moving into the Coke
Building office previously occupied by
Cowan.
Vandiver said he is looking for some
one to fill Cowan’s position and he may
possibly propose creation of a third
assistant position. Dr. Malon Souther
land has served two years as one of the
two assistants to the president.
While he assumes his new position
that took effect Tuesday, Samson said
he expects to continue teaching, at least
for a little while. Currently the tenured
professor of aerospace and civil en
gineering is teaching a graduate course -
in systems engineering.
He joined the University in 1960 and
served 15 years as head of the civil en
gineering department.
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Final arguments
in murder trial
begin today
By PHYLLIS HENDERSON
Battalion Staff
Closing arguments in the capital
murder trial of Joel Aniceto Quintans
will begin today in the eighth day of
the former Texas A&M student’s trial.
Quintans is charged with the April
20 stabbing death of Frederick Axel
Youngberg IV, an acquaintance of
Quintans and also a former Texas
A&M student.
Quintans and Youngberg, both of
Irving, were freshman pre-med stu
dents when the stabbing occurred.
The two had known each other since
adolescence.
In testimony Tuesday, Robert E.
Wiatt, special investigator for the dis
trict attorney, denied Quintans’
charge that the investigator substi
tuted his own words for the defen
dant’s when Quintans dictated a state
ment confessing to the slaying.
Wiatt said that during the Quintan’s
interrogation, Quintans described
himself as “freaked out by the emo
tions of the struggle.” Quintans
charged in his testimony that he never
used the term “freaked out.”
Wiatt also testified that during his
interrogation. Quintans was unable to
give specific details about the location
of the stab wounds and his actions dur
ing his fatal struggle with Youngberg.
In testimony Friday, Quintans gave a
detailed account of the struggle.
However, Wiatt said. Quintans did
maintain throughout the questioning
that he acted in self-defense in the
stabbing death.
Dr. Arthur Copeland, the forensic
pathologist who examined Young-
berg’s body, refused to speculate
whether or not Youngberg could have
remained conscious after a major
artery had been pierced by a stab
wound in his left shoulder. Copeland
testified that about one quart of blood
from the wound was found in Young-
berg’s chest cavity.
The specialist also refused to specu
late on Youngberg’s possible weakness
and whether or not he would have
been able to continue struggling after
the wound to his left shoulder.
Copeland did say, however, that
Youngberg “should be able to move or
swing an arm ora hand” in those cir
cumstances. Copeland said it was also
possible that a release of epinephrine
during the struggle could have in
creased the victim’s strength and
activity.
In fact, he said he knew of a case in
which a man walked six blocks after
being shot in the heart.
Brazos County District Attorney
Travis Bryan III also called to the
stand two of Youngberg’s high school
teachers, apparently in an effort to dis
credit the defense’s claim that Young
berg was a violent person.
The two teachers from MacArthur
High School in Irving, one a social
studies instructor and another a Latin
teacher, testified Youngberg was a re
spectful and an intelligent student.
“He was a very pleasant person —
always cheerful, always polite,” the
social studies teacher said. “I never
had reason to suspect he was a violent
person.”
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f adat: U.S. secretly
irlifting weapons
United Press International
NEW YORK — Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat says the United States has
been secretly airlifting Soviet weapons
for the past 21 months from Egypt to
Afghan guerrillas battling the Russian
occupation of their country.
“Let me reveal this secret,” Sadat
said in an interview Tuesday with NBC
News taped in Cairo. He said immedi
ately after the Soviet invasion of Afgha
nistan in December 1979, Washington
asked him to provide Soviet-made
Weapons for the Afghan rebels.
“I opened my stores to them (the
Afghans),” the Egyptian president said.
“But you (the United States) were very
generous. You have paid also for the
armaments.”
Sadat said the Soviet-built arms were
ferried in American planes to Pakistan,
which borders Afghanistan and is now
home to Afghans who have fled the
Moscow-backed regime.
In Washington, a State Department
spokesman declined comment on the
report.
But, he said, “as we have previously
noted, the bulk of the arms in Afghan
nationalist hands have been obtained
from indigenous sources. These include
arms captured from the Soviets, from
defecting or cooperating Afghan army
personnel, and existing supplies in local
hands.”
Sadat said the arms shipments have
been going on for 21 months and he will
continue sending them until “the
Afghanis get rid of the Soviets.”
The secret purchase of the arms be
gan during the Carter administration
but has been continued by President
Reagan, Sadat said.
Student Senate to fill
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The Texas A&M Student Senate will
elect a vice president for external affairs
at their 7:30 meeting tonight in 204 Har
rington Classroom Center.
This position was left vacant with the
resignation earlier this year of Blaine
Edwards.
Filling other senate vacancies is also
on the agenda for the meeting.
In other business, the Rules and Reg
ulations Committee will report on the
Religious Rights Bill, which calls for the
senate to adopt the use of a secular non-
denominational prayer to open its meet
ings and encourages the use of such a
prayer by all student organizations and
to open major events, such as Muster
and football games.
Four new bills are scheduled to be
introduced at the meeting; the Con
sumer Safety Bill, the Aggie Women’s
Softball Facility Bill, the Graduate Rec
ognition of Academic Excellence Bill
and the Traffic Safety Bill.
Foggy mornings photo by Dave Ein!
Morning fog conceals the dome of the Academic Building in the may have trouble seeing on the way to classes through such layers
early hours of the first day of fall Tuesday. Early morning risers of fog throughout the new fall season.