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!R (ASM IHIM - OtiidMll 1 ^ Ur iWrtj bp dHr ^mnNmU, Im *Mkl| ikwifHirltMihfrlu, •fcU •••• •WWf*iMli«IIMWmj|| W| ■ it and SaaltuMfrd Tiim ASH BINGO ODDS CHART CASH tor ODS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER M, l»! JMBIR ODDS OOOS a OF t ,J ! RIZES VISIT VISITS ^ 4,as Mil iM,»jy 4j,jsi II. 114 Hi 144 tel Mite I M tel Tnnrr Vol. 75 No. 18 36 Pages in 2 Sections Battauon Serving the Texas A&M University community Thursday, September 24, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High ....88 High ...90 Low ....70 Low ...68 Chance of rain. . . . . . 10% Chance of rain . 10% Athletic Director Marvin Tate resigns Marvin Tate Texas A&M Athletic Director Marvin Tate today announced his resignation effective Oct. 31, 1981. “It is with mixed emotions that I submit my resignation,” Tate said. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my relations with Texas A&M faculty, staff, students and former students and all the athletes here at the University. One University official stressed that Tate was not fired. “Mr. Tate has been allowed to resign, ” he said. “He is work ing this out for what’s best for the Uni versity.” Another University official confirmed that University officials discussed Tate’s resignation earlier this week. “I know there’s been some concern (among Uni versity officials) about a lack of direction in the athletic department,” he said. Tate said he doesn’t know what his plans for the future will be. However, he said there are dynamic growth possi bilities in the Bryan-College Station area for Texas A&M. Tate, 48, has been with the Texas A&M Athletic Department since Feb ruary, 1967, when he joined the staff as Associate Athletic Director. He became interim Athletic Director in October, 1978 and was named Director of Athle tics on May 22, 1979. tudent Senate axes eligious Rights Bill Scotch N Filter^ King Sin CigarelH ights: 14 mg. "tar", cigarette by FTC Method. irgeon General Has t Cigarette Smoking To Your Health. By PHYLLIS HENDERSON Battalion Staff |The Student Senate elected Melissa sper as vice president of external 'airs and following an hour-long de- ite overwhelmingly rejected the Reli- us Rights Bill Wednesday night. Gosper, Haas/McFadden/Hobby/ ely senator, was elected by the Sen- to fill the vacancy left by the resigna- )n earlier this year of Blaine Edwards, lis is Gosper’s third year on the Exter- Affairs Committee. She has served chairman of the voters’ registration :ive, co-chairman of the Discover ggieland program, coordinator of the eshman aide program and has tended the Texas Student Association invention. “Because of my experience, ” Gosper id, “I will be able to have the hind- ight to prevent problems.” She added that the committee and e Senate as a whole had to have “the lesire to want to” make a contribution the University and the student body. In another measure, the Senate re nted the Religious Rights Bill in a roll- vote of 53 to nine, with four absten- s. However, this vote came after Ixtended debate on the measure, which las reported out of the Rules and Reg ulations Committee with no prefer- 1.00 The bill stated that the Student Sen ate adopt the use of a non-faith specific prayer to open its meetings and that the Senate encourage the use of this type of prayer by all student organizations and at the opening of major events such as Muster and football games. Fred Seales, off-campus graduate senator and author of the bill, said he felt that it was important to recognize that not all students at the University are members of the Christian faith and that those non-Christian students might be offended by the use of a Christian prayer at occasions such as those men tioned in the bill. “There are more and more students on this campus every day who are not Christians,” he said. The bill also had the support of the Religious Council, the council which represents 25 recognized religious orga nizations on campus. The council pas sed a resolution in support of the Reli gious Rights Bill Sept. 14. Adren Pilger, Ward III senator, questioned the purpose of the bill. “When do the rights of the minority stop and the rights of the majority take over?” he asked. Pilger also questioned the kind of publicity that might be gen erated if the Senate passed such a bill. Rhonda Rhea, vice president for rules and regulations, cited two Supreme Court decisions in her support of the bill. “Religion is a personal and private belief,” she said. Neither the Universi ty, nor the Senate, should “advocate a specific religion (through a specific prayer),” she said. Pat Pearson, Ward II senator, de bated the Senate’s right to consider the bill. “I don’t think we should be legislat ing religion,” he said. “I think we’ll be creating a problem when there isn’t one.” Kathy Bartholomew, vice president for academic affairs, agreed with Pilger on a reliance on majority preferences. “I think the majority should not be held back by the minority,” she said. Several senators argued that the mea sure was simply an encouragement to student groups, not a requirement. Ken Johnson, president of the student body, said that if the bill passed, a memo would be sent to each of the recognized student organizations informing them of the Senate decision and recommenda tion. Tracy Cox, graduate business sena tor, argued that a person asked to give a prayer at an event or meeting should be able to choose the prayer of his choice. “We shouldn’t be mandating a faith or a See SENATE page 6 1.00 eagan to disclose budget oves in speech tonight ZED $2.00 OFF TOW MW M T PHARMACY. IF TOW r, TOUR PRESCIIPTIOR 4 ) IS MADE FOR TUI Dll AIT I C0UP0H PH CUT 10*11 1911 United Press International [WASHINGTON — President leagan’s revised economic recovery Ian includes a $2 billion cut in defense Pending plus, sources say, abolition of pe Energy Department and a likely (eduction in most federal benefit prog- ns. But Reagan, who is to unveil his fetest budget-cutting moves in a nation- lily broadcast speech tonight, apparent- V is backing off plans for a three-month lelay in a 1982 cost-of-living increase in Jocial Security benefits. Earlier this week, Republican con cessional leaders warned Reagan to Helve the Social Security proposal or ee it defeated on Capitol Hill, where it as evoked loud and bipartisan opposi- ion. Sources said, however, Reagan is kely to propose delaying cost-of-living nereases in other federal benefit prog ams, such as black lung and military etirement pay. Reagan is expected to propose about 16 billion in additional reductions in pending for fiscal 1982, which begins « kt. 1. This summer, Congress l! pproved $35 billion in 1982 cuts as part "‘ff Reagan’s sweeping economic recov- py plan. Amid these efforts, there has been wunting criticism on Wall Street and i Congress about the effects of leagan’s overall program. A recent poll showed declining support for Reagan’s program among Americans in general. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., cautioned his colleagues against panicking over Reagan’s new round of budget cuts. “The present projected deficits are no shock and no surprise,” he said. But Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., said Domenici should be counseling Reagan not to propose further cuts. Hollings said his advice to Reagan would be: “Don’t give people good Hol lywood and good shows. Give them the truth — that Kemp-Roth (the tax cut) is a bomb.” Defense Secretary Caspar Weinber ger told the House Budget Committee the package would include only $2 bil lion in Pentagon reductions and another $11 billion spread over 1983 and 1984. Meanwhile, Rep. Toby Moffett, D- Conn., has quoted administration sources as saying Reagan tonight will propose abolishing the Energy Depart ment and transferring its functions to other federal agencies. The House Appropriations Commit tee dealt Reagan a possible problem Wednesday in approving a measure that would fund the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Ser vices at levels above the president’s target figure. The panel approved a bill totaling $87.2 billion, about $700 million above the level recommended by Reagan. The president has threatened to veto any appropriations bills not in line with his guidelines. Plane crash victims are robbed at site United Press International DETROIT — Bystanders picked the pockets of two prominent state Repubh- cans as they lay injured near their plane’s burning wreckage, waiting for medical help, the families of the men said. Vallotton and Saltzman were thrown from the single-engine aircraft as it plunged into an empty house near De troit City Airport and burst into flames. Valloton was GOP 17th District Chairman. Saltzman is chairman of the 19th District GOP Issues Committee. Medical examiner backs Quintans in murder trial By MARCY BOYCE Battalion Staff Striking a winning blow for the de fense, testimony by a medical examiner Wednesday supported Joel Ancieto Quintans’ account of a violent struggle which resulted in the stabbing death of a Texas A&M student. Quintans, also a former Texas A&M student from Irving, is charged with capital murder in the April 20 slaying of his acquaintance. Last week, he testi fied that he stabbed Frederick Axel Youngberg IV, also of Irving, 24 times in self-defense but that he never held the knife. Youngberg confronted him with a knife, Quintans said, so he grabbed the victim’s hand from behind and made Youngberg stab himself repeatedly. Gripping a letter opener to represent a knife and posing as Youngberg, de fense Attorney Doug Mulder Wednes day had Quintans re-enact the scene for the jury and Dr. Vincent Dimaio, chief medical examiner in San Antonio. In addition, the medical examiner re viewed photographs from an autopsy re port prepared by Dr. Arthur Copeland, a Dallas County medical examiner whom Dimaio trained. Following the demonstration, he concluded that all of the wounds are consistent with Quin tans’ explanation of how they were in flicted. The weapon was “probably in the hand of the deceased,” he said. Dimaio said he primarily based his opinion on the direction of the incisions in the body and on the lack of defense wounds on Youngberg’s right hand and his left arm. Defense wounds are cuts an indi vidual gets on his hands and arms when attempting to fend off an attacker by grabbing for the knife with his right hand (if he is right-handed as Young berg was) and guarding his face with his left. Furthermore, he said it is “improb able” that the mulitiple wounds on Youngberg’s body could have occurred had Quintans been facing Youngberg or straddling his body while stabbing him with the knife. When pressed by Brazos County Dis trict Attorney Travis Bryan III, howev er, Dimaio said that it would not be impossible for the wounds to have been inflicted from such a position. Straddling a dummy laid on its back with a photograph of Youngberg’s face attached to the head and ink markings to indicate the location of the wounds, Bryan repeatedly stabbed the fake body and asked, “Now doctor, every wound that we discussed is also consistent with being inflicted in this manner, this man ner and this manner, isn’t it?” Dimaio agreed, but he said it was improbable. The medical examiner dealt another blow to the prosecution by testifying that the circumstances of the slaying are not indicative of a homosexual rape as Copeland, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, testified. Dimaio denied that a rectal hemor rhage in Youngberg’s body, the fact that the victim’s shorts were pulled down when his body was discovered or that the multiple stabbings point to the probability of a homosexual assault. “You don’t get hemorrhaging from a homosexual rape,” he said, suggesting that possibly blood seeped down from wounds in Youngberg’s abdomen. And although Youngberg’s shorts were pulled down when his body was discovered two days after the slaying, Dimaio testified, “they were up in their normal position when wounds were in flicted” because they were blood soaked. He also contended that multiple stab wounds does not have homosexual over tones in this case because he said there were only three major wounds — one which ruptured a major artery in the chest region and two in the abdomen. In homosexual assaults, the assailant usually stabs the victim up to 100 or 150 times in vital areas such as the heart and lungs, he said. “These weren’t that savage,” Dimaio said. Bryan expressed disbelief that the medical examiner was disagreeing with the testimony of Copeland, a man he trained, and alluded to the possibility that Dimaio was testifying merely as a favor to Mulder, a Dallas attorney [ whom Dimaio has known for several years, or for Quintans’ father who is a physician in Dallas. Dimaio denied the charge, however, and said he is getting paid $750 a day for his testimony in the case. Later testimony by Dr. James Grig- son, a psychiatrist who examined Quin tans, supported both Dimaio’s , and Quintans’ testimony. “He (Quintans) is not a homosexual, nor does he have homosexual tenden cies,” he said. And furthermore, Grigson, who spe cializes in the examination of persons charged with criminal offenses, said that he is 100 percent sure that the defen dant was acting out of self-preservation on April 20. In cross examination, however, Bryan cited an appellate judge who, in reference to another case, said that Grigson is “operating on the brink of quackery” by making such predictions. Closing arguments in the case are scheduled to begin today. f fa i , Staff photo by Greg Gammon It s all in the wrist A “stunned” Jack White shakes the hand of Student Body President Ken Johnson after Johnson defeated the pool shark in a game of “8-ball.” White, a well-known pocket billiards player and trick shot artist, was the guest of the MSC Recreation Committee Wednesday afternoon in the MSC Lounge. White also gave a demonstration of billiard basics.