Fhe Battalion
. 75 No. 29
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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Monday, October 12, 1981
College Station, Texas
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The Weather
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gypt, Sudan to gain
J.S. arms for defense £
United Press International
tAIRO, Egypt — U.S. teams negoti-
ited stepped-up arms supplies for
ipt and neighboring Sudan today to
inter threats from Libyan strongman
iammar Khadafy, but Cairo also
ed to clamp down on internal
ats from Islamic fundamentalists.
The Egyptian capital buzzed with
nors of unrest, but Interior Minister
I'frki’.vi Ismail said Sunday a report that
■damentalists had shot up his house
■ killed or wounded several guards
■ingSaturday’s funeral for slain Presi-
pt Anwar Sadat was “completely a
■
■The weekly newspaper of Egypt’s
■ngparty, Mayo, reported today that
■ agreement has been reached to
Bed delivery to Egypt of 439 U.S.
Ski tanks, 48 F-16 fighters and surface-
Bair missiles to protect against Libya.
It said the United States also has
■eed to provide Sudan, Egypt’s
Btegicsouthern neighbor, with tanks,
■nes and other weapons to counter
the Libyan threat.
The Khartoum government said Sun
day two Libyan jets attacked two
Sudanese border villages last Thursday,
killing two women. It accused Khadafy
of trying to subvert Sudan “in a desper
ate attempt to realize his dream of
building up an empire.”
Sadat said in his last interview that he
expected Khadafy would attack Sudan
rather than Egypt because it is more
vulnerable. Libya declared a holiday
Sunday to celebrate Sadat’s death last
Tuesday.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig,
who was on his way back to Washington
today, discussed security with Egyptian
President-designate Hosni Mubarak
and Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry
over the weekend.
A senior American official acknow
ledged the United States is trying to
speed up arms deliveries to Egypt and
Sudan. He said Haig discussed with
Mubarak the possibility of enlarging
planned joint American-Egyptian man
euvers in November, possibly including
the shipment of B-52 heavy bombers for
the exercises.
Haig obtained from Mubarak and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Be
gin an “unequivocable” commitment to
continue the Camp David peace pro
cess with Israel in all its aspects, the
official also said.
But within Egypt, there were indica
tions that unrest by extreme Moslem
fundamentalists who see Iran as a model
and oppose peace with Israel is much
more widespread than the government
admits.
There were rumors of attacks on
police stations in Cairo and elsewhere,
and of a sweep that arrested as many as
200 people following Sadat’s assassina
tion.
Mayo, the organ of the ruling Nation
al Democratic Party, said extremists kil
led 54 policemen and injured more than
100 in the southern city of Asyut Thurs
day. Some reports put the casualty toll
much higher.
Airport parking valued
during Aggie home games
Ride 'em cowboy
Staff photo by Dave Einsel
By ELAINE ENGSTROM
Battalion Reporter
BWlien the Texas A&M football team
pays a home football game, airport
[parking is always a premium — not
gutomobile parking, airplane parking.
Where do you park 250 airplanes? On
the runway, of course.
1 Prior to every home game, dedicated
■inner students from all over Texas fly
iieirprivate planes to Easterwood Air-
Iport. Texas A&M Flying Club members
IJin a van service for the flyers to drive
Aem from the remote closed runway,
lised for parking, to the airport termin-
. ai it the terminal, Flying Club mem-
\ libers greet them with free coffee and
jg Ipokies and former students drive off to
uhegame with family and friends.
Many planes are painted maroon
jid white and have special call letters
pat announce the Old Ag’s graduation
late,’ said Michelle Dolan, Flying
b president. Call letters are num-
iand letters that identify a plane.
[ Eddie Chiles has a maroon and
/
white 16-passenger plane with “WC
for Western Company as its last two call
letters,” she said.
“Clayton Williams of Midland has
eight maroon and white planes and four
maroon and white helicopters with
“CW as the last two call letters,” she
said. “Dr. Al Hopkins of Dallas flies in
for every game and “54 AG” are his call
letters.”
Even Saturday morning’s foggy
weather conditions didn’t stop former
students from flying in. “I was surprised
by the number of people who flew in,’
Dolan said.
With visibility less than three miles,
pilots had to land by their instruments.
Many planes circled the airport in fi
gure-eight holding patterns for as long
as one hour and 15 minutes and waited
for controller permission to land.
Those planes with critical gas sup
plies were given priority. “It was a very
dangerous situation,” Dolan said. “The
emergency priorities threw off the
sequence of landing planes. There were
at least 20 planes circling the airport all
morning.”
But just before game time, the skies
cleared enough to allow pilots to land
visually, instead of relying solely on
their instruments.
After the game, daylight take-offs
were not a problem. “Some fans left in
the fourth quarter to make sure they
could leave in time,” Dolan said.
“One plane had loist radio power so
the Flying Club van escorted it down
the runway and acted as its radio,” she
said. “The plane took off after a green
light from the control tower.
“The only reason it was allowed to
take off was because it was flying to an
uncontrolled airport near Houston. An
uncontrolled airport is a small one with
out a control tower. The pilots land by
communicating with one another.”
However, the fans who waited until
dark to leave were stranded because of
the campus power failure which also left
Easterwood without runway lights. The
stranded fans were all able to leave by
Sunday, Dolan said.
Willie Ballagc rides in
competition at the Texas
the bull riding
Prison Rodeo in
Huntsville Sunday. For more on the rodeo, see
Thursday’s Focus.
Second power outage in wee
darkens campus,football garr
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Where were you when the lights
went out?
Chances are you were one of the
66,569 people in Kyle Field watching
the Aggies defeat the University of
Houston Cougars when the second
power failure in five days occurred.
Saturday’s power outage was the re
sult of an equipment failure on bus No.
1 in the Texas A&M power plant, said
William E. Holland Jr., associate dire
ctor for utilities at the Physical Plant.
Full power was restored shortly after
midnight, he said.
A bus is an electrical conductor, a
copper bar approximately kb to % inches
thick and 6 inches high. Physical Plant
Director Joe J. Estill Jr. said.
Holland said a water leak on bus No. 3
was the cause ofTuesday’s campus-wide
power failure.
The power failure occurred and the
Temporary loss because of allocation method
$
Enrollment jump results in funding lag
By RANDY CLEMENTS
Battalion Staff
Rapid enrollment growth at Texas
|&M University has resulted in the
I'niversity temporarily receiving inade-
luate funds from the state legislature,
[Vice President for Academic Affairs
,M. Prescott says.
Enrollment reached a record total of
5,146 for the 1981 fall semester, 7 per
cent more than the 1980 fall semester
enrollment of 33,499.
As a state college, Texas A&M is
linded by the Texas Legislature, and
pat funding is based on the semester
Credit hours taught during previous
lerms. But at rapidly growing institu-
jions, such as Texas A&M, where signi-
icantly more students have enrolled
ran in preceding yeai-s, more semester
lours are taught and therefore the ff-
ires used to allocate funds prove in
accurate.
Consequently, funding of the schools
i Jails behind what it should be, Prescott
L said, whereas it woidd be more consis-
™ tent for an institution with a stabilized
enrollment.
For instance, if the 1980 and 1981
enrollment is about the same, the fund
ing will be sufficient, he said.
■ But, “ifyou have 3,000 students more
'0 than when the base period was taken,
0 essentially 3,000 students are being
educated without state funds,” he said.
With an institution like Texas A&M,
Prescott said, the funds may lag any
where from one semester to two years
behind what is needed. And this has put
the school in the position of having to
draw upon other financial sources, he
said.
The Available Fund, shared by both
the University of Texas and Texas
A&M, is the main source of this income
used to supplement legislative funds,
Prescott said.
The Available Fund, which comes
from interest earned from the Perma
nent University Fund endowment, was
designed initially to be used for Univer
sity improvements.
“It’s what we use to build buildings,
supplement operating expenses, when
legislation doesn’t supply us with
enough, he said.
But when Texas A&M is forced to rely
on it to compensate for inadequate
legislative funding, the fund is used
more to maintain status quo rather than
to finance improvements, Prescott said.
Glenn Dowling, director of planning
and institutional analysis, said the en
gineering and business administration
colleges have experienced the most
growth during the last five years.
The College of Engineering has
11,418 students enrolled, an 11 percent
increase over last year, with engineer
ing students making up 32.5 percent of
Rapidly increasing enrollment at Texas A&M
University has caused an obstacle 'in receiving
adequate state funds. Enrollment reached a record
of 35,146 for the Fall 1981 semester.
the total University enrollment.
The College of Business Administra
tion has 5,714 students enrolled, a 7.5
percent increase over last year. Busi
ness administration has 16 percent of
the University’s total enrollment.
Yet, the enrollment increases in
these colleges affects everybody and ev
erything at Texas A&M, Dowling said.
Although the University is not in a
bind for classrooms because of 46 addi
tional classrooms in the Academic and
Agency Building, he said, the enroll
ment creates more of a need for
teaching labs.
“When enrollment swings toward a
particular college, as it has for engineer
ing, lab space is in demand,” he said.
Prescott said he is also surprised by
the large enrollment in General Stu
dies, a program for students who have
not yet declared a major field of study.
With an enrollment of 1,823, enroll
ment in the program has increased 4.5
percent since and 53 percent from 1977-
1981 from 958 to 1,823.
Students enrolled in General Studies
presently comprise 5 percent of the tot
al enrollment at Texas A&M.
Prescott attributed the increase pri
marily to more students wanting to try a
number of studies before committing
themselves to a major.
1980 fall enrollment for the remain
ing colleges is: Agriculture — 4,887;
Architecture — 1,665; Education —
2,656; Geosciences — 968; Liberal Arts
— 2,053; Medicine — 125; Sciences —
2,237; Veterinary Medicine — 1,503;
and Moody — 97.
As of the 12th class day, the Universi
ty announced an official enrollment fi
gure of 35,065, but that figure has been
officially updated to 35,146.
Associate Registrar Donald D. Carter
said the difference in the two totals in
cludes 74 professional veterinary medi
cine students not included in the 12th
class day tally, additional students
paying fees late and other students
withdrawing from the University.
score board went blank with 3:51 left in
the game, when the Aggies were pre
paring to punt to Houston. During the
next 2 minutes and 42 seconds, the
Cougars moved the ball 80 yards in 12
plays and scored a touchdown with 1:04
left in the game.
Houston missed their two-point con
version try and unsuccessfully attemp
ted an onside kick. Texas A&M took
possession and used up the remaining
time to secure the one-point win.
During all of this, spectators were left
wondering just how much time was left
in the game. The suspense ended only
when referees signaled that the game
was over.
Kyle Field was not the only campus
facility affected by the power outage.
Power went off in the A.P. Beutel
Health Center but the lights, which are
connected to an emergency generator,
were restored almost immediately.
Power was restored in the Commons
and the Corps area dorms and in the
North Area modular dorms in about an
hour; other North Area dorms were
without power until after midnight.
University Police Chief Russ McDo
nald said no major problems occurred as
a result of the power outage.
Caper ton
reception
scheduled
Friends and supporters of State
Senator Kent Caperton will hold a re
ception in his honor Thursday from 6:30
p.m. to 8 p.m. in the College Station
Ramada Inn.
“We wanted to hold this event to
congratulate Kent on the outstanding
job he did during his first session in the
Legislature,” Calvin Guest, chairman of
the reception, said.
Tickets to the reception will cost $50
per couple, and Guest said the money
will be used to help Caperton retire a
debt remaining from the campaign last
year.
Tickets are available in advance by
writing Kent Caperton Reception, P.O.
Box 4884, Brvan, 77805, or by calling
779-2800, 696-3410 or 846-1748. Tick
ets also are available at area businesses
and banks and will be sold at the door.
The event will be a drop-in reception,
with hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.
“We hope that as many of his friends
as possible will come by to shake his
hand and say thanks for a job well
done,” Guest said. “Kent has been
named ‘Rookie of the Year’ by one state
wide magazine and has received praise
from several others. This will give us a
chance to congratulate him on his fine
performance. ”