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The Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 75 No. 38 14 Pages Friday, October 23, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High . 62 High .. .66 Low. . 50 Low .. .55 Chance of rain 30% Chance of rain .... . 30% Academic group [ to submit names for committee By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff Texas A&M President Frank E. Van diver told the Academic Council Thurs day that the proposed faculty senate is not a maneuver to do you in as a body ” and restated his support of a bicameral structure consisting of the Council and a faculty senate. During an organizational meeting of the faculty senate, held Oct. 15, Van diver authorized the formation of a steering committee to oversee the orga nization of the senate. And Thursday, he asked the Acade mic Council members to submit names of candidates for the steering com mittee. A bicameral group would be a “move toward a greater deliberative process in academic matters,” Vandiver said. “It would give more voice to the faculty.” Die Academic Council is primarily made up of administrators, deans and department heads — 34 of the 167 members of the Academic Council are elected faculty members. Vandiver also said Thursday he favors student representation on the faculty senate. However, at the faculty senate meet ing, ad hoc committee member Dr. Thomas J. Kozik said: “It is the feeling of (head hoc committee that the concerns of the student ... could best be voiced through the Academic Council. The fa culty senate would be made up of facul ty members alone.” In regular business, the Academic Council approved the establishment of a doctoral degree in applied psycholo- However, the recommendation must be confirmed by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents and then the Coordinating Board for Texas Colleges and Universities. Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice president for academic affairs, said the proposed doc toral degree has a long history. It was recommended several years ago but was tabled by the Board of Regents, he said. That degree emphasized the field ap plications of psychology; however, the degree approved Thursday by the Academic Council emphasizes indust rial and clinical psychology. “There is more demand for people in this field in this state than there is in the rest of the country,” Dr. Rand B. Evans, head of the Department of Psychology, said. “There is a market for our product.” The council also approved a curricu lum that will provide for a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in business analysis. Another recommendation by the council was to change the name of the foods and nutrition curriculum to scien tific nutrition. Completion of the curri culum makes a student eligible for a bachelor of science degree. The Coordi'iating Board reserves the foods and nutrition curriculum option for colleges with home economics prog rams; therefore, the name of the Uni versity’s nutrition curriculum had to be changed, he said. Changes in the biology and zoology curricula also were approved. The changes will place greater emphasis on cell and molecular biology and will affect the curricula leading to the follow ing degrees: a bachelor of arts in biolo gy, a bachelor of science in biology and a bachelor of science in zoology. Mengden to run for U.S. Senate By GARY BARKER Battalion Staff State Senator Walter Mengden Jr., R-Harris County, was in College Sta tion Thursday to announce his candida cy for the U.S. Senate in 1982. Mengden, who has served on the Texas Legislature for 10years, said U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, has not consistently voted to reflect the conser vative views of the majority of Texans. If he wins the Republican primary in May, he will run against Bentsen in the November general elections. “What we need is a senator who con sistently votes the conservative views of the majority of Texans, one who will actually work for conservative legisla tion that this country needs,” he said. Mengden, who supported President Ronald Reagan in the 1980 race, said the year was a very encouraging year for persons favoring conservative govern ment. “We have elected a conservative president and Senate, and we have elected a House of Representatives that has been willing to work with them,” he said. “Unfortunately, the conservative margin in the Senate is very slim.” Mengden also outlined legislation he will support if elected. “Included on my conservative agen da for the Senate is the need for initia tive and referendum on a national level, to give the people the right to propose and enact legislation themselves,” he said. “We need a constitutional amend ment to prohibit deficit spending by the federal government, and sunset legisla tion that would require that federal agencies be automatically terminated every 10 years unless they are specific ally renewed by Congress.” In addition to these, Mengden said he supports strict anti-crime legislation, election of federal judges, and the Right-to-Life bill. Mengden said he is against abor tions, especially federally funded ones, even for rape victims. “I don’t think it’s in the best interest of this country for someone — either a woman or a doctor — to be able to say ‘there’s an innocent human life, kill it,’” he said. Mengden, an attorney from Hous ton, also commented on the U.S. eco nomy. “We’re on the verge of economical collapse if interest rates are kept as high as they are,” he said. Staff photo by Dave Einsel State Senator Walter Mengden, R—Houston, spoke at La Quinta Motor Inn Thursday to announce his candidacy for U.S. Senator in the 1982 congressional election. If he wins the Republican primary in May, Mengden will be running against incumbent Lloyd Bentsen. First time in nation’s history U.S. debt tops $1 trillion mark United Press International WASHINGTON — For the first time, the national debt has topped the $1 trillion mark. On a per-capita basis, that amounts to about $4,400 for every man, woman and child in the United States. “It’s not an issue for celebration. Treasury Department spokesman Mar in Fitzwater said Thursday in making Time to change Sunday Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks should be set back one hour, which will result in an extra hour of sleep. the historic announcement. And, he quickly added, “This admi nistration is committed to lowering the rate of increase in government expendi tures.” President Reagan last month, aware the nation was heading toward a debt of $1 trillion, said the 13-digit figure should serve as a warning against past economic practices. “One trillion dollars of debt — if we as a nation needed a warning, let that be it, ” said Reagan, who two weeks earlier had been forced to ask Congress to per mit the national debt to climb above the $1 trillion level. On Sept. 30, the Senate voted to go along with the House and agree to a debt limit of $1,079.8 billion. To do otherwise would have paralyzed gov ernment. The debt limit would have slipped back to a $400 billion level, stopping the flow of operating cash. The Treasury Department was un able to say Thursday exactly how large the debt is, but a contributing factor in passing the $1 trillion mark was the routine issue of weekly Treasury bills that day. That added $925 million in new debt. On Oct. 1, the actual debt climbed to $998.8 billion before falling back again in a usual monthly pattern. On Tues day, the debt level climbed to $999,388,000 just $612 million short. Finally, on Thursday, the historic mark was passed. The national debt was built by de cades of deficit spending for thousands of programs financed by government bonds and securities instead of taxes. Only seven budget surpluses have re duced the debt in the past half century. But the level of borrowing made its largest jumps during times of war. United Press International CAIRO, Egypt — President Hosni Mubarak said today Anwar Sadat’s assassination was part of a massive plot by Moslem extremists to wipe out Egypt’s entire political and military leadership and create an Iranian-style Islamic state. “Their model was (Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini, and Khomeini did not spare anybody, neither the political nor military lead ers,” Mubarak said in an interview in the semi-official newspaper AlAhram. The government originally blamed Sadat’s murder Oct. 6 during a military parade solely on a four-man squad of Moslem fanatics, led by artillery Lt. Khaled Al-Islambouli. But Mubarak, in the first official indi cation the conspiracy was much wider, said, “The terrorists would have staged successive waves of terrorism that would have sent the country backwards, years and years.” “Their plan was to assassinate all lead ers, including opposition leaders,” Mubarak said. “Their objective was to hit the entire leadership, halt economic progress and muzzle freedoms.” But the former air force general also indicated he wants to mend relations with hardline Arab states that rejoiced over Sadat’s death because of his peace treaty with Israel. “Within the next few months, we will try to find out what the rejection states want exactly,” he said. “Should one of them seek a rapprochement with Egypt, we will welcome it and work to strengthen it'.” Warning that his crackdown against Moslem fundamentalist opponents would continue, Mubarak said “tough measures would be taken against any body playing with fire, any group or party that harms the security of citizens.” Mubarak said all political parties should forego their differences and “rise to the level of the supreme national in terest. ” Battalion ad, story help find woman Houston man completes search Interviews to begin soon for travel loans By ERICA KRENNERICH Battalion Reporter Students who would like to broaden their academic backgrounds by travel ing abroad may begin signing up Mon day to interview for interest-free loans. The MSC Travel Committee will grant those loans this semester to qual ified Texas A&M students for foreign travel. “Students request a certain amount, list approximately how much they think the trip is going to cost them and how much they can afford to pay,” she said. “They request a certain amount and may be granted that amount or a lesser The loans potentially are available to any student, but they must be used over Christmas vacation or next semester, Uraine Lacey, loan fund coordinator, said. And, they are primarily for those who want to study abroad rather than simply vacation abroad, she said. “Students must fill out applications and state why they want the loan and how they plan to use it,” Lacey said. Interviewing for the loans will be con ducted Nov. 2-3. Interested students can begin signing up for interviews Monday in the Student Programs Office, 216 MSC. Lacey said a three- member selection board will decide which students receive loans. “We will interview the people and from then it’s based on why they think they deserve the loan and how they think the trip will benefit them,” she said. ' Lacey said there is no maximum limit on an individual loan, but the average ban is usually between $800 and 51,000. Loan repayment terms usually vary, she said, and are often set up by the student, based on how soon he can re pay the loan. Lacey said no verification of how the loan was used is required. She said the amount of money loaned by the committee this semester will de pend on how many students apply for and receive loans. Money in the loan fund was earned by the committee. “All the profits from the showing of ‘We’ve Never Been Licked’ go into the loan fund,” Lacey said. The committee shows the World War II movie — which stars Noah Berry and focuses on Texas A&M tradition — once a semester to generate money for the fund. Lacey said most students who receive loans use them to go to Europe. Loans for domestic travel will be available next semester. But, all loans granted next semester will carry 6 percent interest, she said. The committee, which has about 45 to 50 members, arranges rates ^nd accommodations for trips it sponsors. Members also maintain the MSC ride board, located outside the main lounge, where students can try to find rides or riders to their hometowns. By BARBIE WOELFEL Battalion Staff Tony Paulin, the Houston man who ran an advertisement to locate a senior marketing major he met on a plane, has found his mystery woman. Renee Brown, the mystery woman and senior finance major from Houston, learned about the Battalion advertise ment and subsequent article about Tony Paulin’s search from a friend. She said she jokingly told her friend the ad referred to herself, but when she heard the details of the advertisement and read the story, she realized it really was her. Paulin, 25, of 10313 Gladewood Dr. in Houston, bought an advertisement in the Sept. 28 issue of The Battalion re questing that a senior marketing major who flew from New Orleans to Houston March 18 call him and identify herself. Then an article explaining the adver tisement appeared in the Oct. 5 issue of The Battalion. Brown said she met Paulin at the New Orleans airport last March when flying home to Houston after spring break. “I saw him sitting in the airport, and he had an Aggie ring on his finger,” she said. “I always make a point to speak to fellow Aggies.” In the Oct. 5 article, Paulin was re ported as saying, “I was truly impressed by her interest and knowledge in mar keting and her interest in me and my job. She was an unusually intelligent girl and had a good head on her shoul ders.” Brown went to The Battalion news room Tuesday to look up the ad and the article and then called Paulin immedi ately to identify herself. “I told him I felt obligated to call since he had spent so much money on the advertisement, but I did tell him that I have a boyfriend and that we are very serious,” she said. Paulin had said he figured that if Brown called, she would be interested in him, and if she didn’t, she wasn’t Photo by Becky Swanson Renee Brown, a senior finance major from Houston, talks to her admirer, Tony Paulin. Paulin ran an advertisement to find Brown after meeting her on a plane and forgetting her name. interested. However, Brown said she was only being courteous by returning the call. Paulin had given Brown his business card when they met and felt sure she would call him. But later in the year, he changed jobs and phone numbers and now works at Intercon Inc. in Houston. “I was wearing a blazer that I had worn on the trip the other day when it was cold,’ she said. “I reached in the pocket and pulled out this business card. I couldn’t remember who Tony Paulin was or where I had met him. “Then it dawned on me whose card it was when I read the advertisement and the story in The Battalion.” Paulin, who would not comment on Brown’s phone call, graduated from Texas A&M in 1979 in mechanical en gineering. Mubarak says Sadat slaying part of plot