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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
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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
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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