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T Battalion Serving the Texas A&A1 University community Monday, October 26, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 1 The Weather Today Tomorrow High .... .62 High .. .68 Low 45 Low .. .55 Chance of rain. . . . . 20% Chan ce of rain . 20% Polish government dispatches troops United Press International WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government, accusing Solidarity of wag ing a war on the economy, warned it would not tolerate the union’s general strike set for Wednesday and ordered troops into 2,000 villages today to re store economic order. But some 300,000 workers rejected both government orders to end their walkouts and Solidarity’s appeal to halt wildcat strikes in favor of a one-hour nationwide shutdown Wednesday to protest food shortages. Minister of Administration Tadeusz Hupaloski announced over Polish tele vision Sunday that troop deployments ordered by the government Friday to put down “street provocations,” insure transportation and combat waste would begin today. He said the troops, special units whose military service had been ex tended for two months, would be de ployed in 2,000 villages in the provinces as an “emergency measure” to combat an “emergency situation.” The soldiers first duty would be to ensure that food reaches markets and to prepare the country for winter, he said. The government has issued repeated warnings of severe shortages this winter. The government had warned it would not tolerate this week’s general strike in a communique released Saturday and issued in an official translation Sunday. “The Solidarity leadership is waging a war against the country’s economy,” the communique said. “The strike gun is really put not only to the temple of the government but also to the temple of the entire society.” A speech by Politburo member Kazi- mierz Barcikowski broadcast Sunday condemned “ambitious leaders” in Soli darity for using “blackmail or threats” to force workers into strikes they did not understand. “The country is in the grip of a succes sive wave of strikes,” Barcikowski said in the speech. “They stem from local conflicts but threaten to turn into a nationwide conflict.” It appeared neither the government nor Solidarity leaders controlled worker unrest, mainly over food shortages but also caused by a police crackdown on union activities. Students reminded of hazing’s consequences Strike up the band StaH-photo by Greg Gammon ptasA&M President Frank E. Vandiver leads Rice University Marching Owl Band iring halftime of Saturday’s game with Rice, iide from their usual light tone, the MOB played “America the Beautiful” as Vandiver directed. Vandiver had responsibility for the MOB while he was provost (vice president for administration) at Rice University. leagan says national security, jrestige on line in arms sale United Press International WASHINGTON — With only three s to go until the Senate decides ether to sell Saudi Arabia $8.5 billion lew arms, President Reagan is laun- ig a final lobbying blitz with waver- lawmakers. ie president invited seven senators le White House this morning and ined to sec eight on Tuesday and 'tkt three on Wednesday in adv- of the vote that afternoon, eagan, back from a week in Cancun, sico and the 22-nation economic nmit conference, is arguing that the ions security and his prestige and the globe is on the line in the idiarms package. teagan wants to sell the Saudis laipment to enhance warplanes pay in their hands plus five sophisti- radar surveillance planes known Airborne Warning and Control Sys- ns. Delivery of the AWACS would :start until 1985. Hie House has already rejected the il by a 3-1 margin. It takes a majority both houses of Congress voting i against the package to cancel it. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker rejected such counts Sunday. Af ter saying “I’m not going to get into the numbers games,” he declared, “Oppo nents of AWACS have less than 50.” Variously describing the final days of the trench warfare over the arms pack age as a tight fight and an uphill battle, Baker said, “Nobody knows how it will turn out.” But, Baker, interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said “The battle is still imminently winnable. He said rejection of the sale would jeopardize efforts to secure peace in the Middle East and would cut into the president’s ability to conduct foreign policy. Reagan said Saturday that senators opposing the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia are unrealistic about the danger ous situation in the Middle East and are not doing their country a service. Rejection of the deal would, accord ing to Reagan: —Insult a key partner in U.S. foreign policy plans. —Endanger the security of Israel be cause the Saudis will have to look else where for their arms than to Israel’s best friend. —And damage his foreign policy in the eyes of the rest of the world. By MARY JO RUMMEL Battalion Stall Students who consider quadding and other similar hazing exercises as “good bull” may soon have to tone down their entertainment. Director of Student Affairs, Ron Blatchley, issued a memo recently to remind students of the consequences of hazing or malicious treatment of stu dents by other students. Hazing, which can degrade and physically harm a per son, is against both state law and Texas A&M University regulations. Persons participating in hazing or malicious conduct are subject to disci- plinary action which could result in probation, suspension, dismissal or ex pulsion from the University, Blatchley said. “The purpose of the memo is to ask students to monitor their activities -— not to cut out Texas A&M traditions,” Blatchley said. “On the other hand, stu dents shouldn’t abuse these traditions.” No statistics are available regarding who or how many students participate in malicious conduct, but it does hap pen, Blatchley said. “We want to nip it in the bud before it becomes a big problem,” he said. Many times, there is a fine line be tween what is good bull and conduct which violates University regulations. “The occasion, the people and the circumstances all add up to whether or not an incident can be defined as good bull or not,” Blatchley said. “Obviously revenge is not good bull ... if what hap pens serves to mainly discredit the indi viduals.” Residence Hall Association President Tim Ryan defined activities as good bull if those involved don’t mind participat ing and it doesn’t physically or emotion ally downgrade any person. But, he added, good bull doesn’t include re venge or involve an indecent act. One type of malicious conduct has been to undress someone to his under wear, chain him to a grill so that his only escape is to strip naked, and pour buck ets of water on him. This type of activity called quadding occurs about once or twice a week in the Northside area, said Haas Hall Resident Adviser Michele Hilberth. In Blatchley’s memo, behavior consi dered malicious includes: — forcing a student to violate the law or a University regulation such as inde cent exposure, trespassing, violation of visitation, etc. — any form of bondage — injury to a student — forced embarrassment or humilia tion of a student — damage to any University prop erty — behavior of any of the participants which could be considered disorderly conduct. Whether or not an activity is classi fied as good bull, participants should be aware that accidents can happen. Dr. Claude Goswick jr., director of A.P. Beutel Health Center, said. Floods soak dorms, damage possessions Two dormitories had unforeseen wa ter problems during the weekend, re sulting in soaked carpets and damage to residents’ belongings. Students in Dorm 11, which houses members of the Aggie Band, returned Saturday about 8 p.m. from the Texas A&M-Rice University football game to find all four floors of their dorm flooded with water. Students in Moore Hall dis- covere.d water flowing out of one of the third-floor bathrooms at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, resulting in about three hours of cleaning, mopping and vacuuming on the first, second and third floors of the dorm. A broken water pipe in the shower of one of the fourth floor bathrooms caused the flooding in Dorm 11. Although not much damage was done to rooms or articles in them, the hall carpets on all four floors were soaked and had to be cleaned with special water-lifting vacuum cleaners. The water pipe was fixed early Sunday morning. An overflowing third-floor toilet was the source of the flooding in Moore Hall, sending water into the hall and down the stairways to the second and first floors. Water also flowed into two or three rooms on each of the three floors, damaging stereos, records, car pets and notebooks. oreign student dies b hit-and-run By NANCY WEATHERLEY Battalion Staff Jivier Antonio Cesar, a graduate in- 'strial engineering student from icaragua, was killed Friday night in a and-run accident on 3600 Pinfeather Cesar, 3501 Pinfeather Rd., was rid- Shisbike at about 8:30 p.m. when he >s struck by a car. According to a De- ttment of Public Safety report, the iver of the car fled the scene. The was pronounced dead on arrival St. Joseph’s Hospital. But shortly thereafter, Bryan police 'prehended a suspect at the Alamo Bar College Station after they were tip- id by an anonymous phone call. The Her said the car involved in the hit- id-run, a 1976 Chevrolet, was parked kind the bar, according to the report. Douglas Mitchell Smith, 910 Stain- eld Cr., was arrested and has been charged with failure to stop and give assistance, a felony. Silver Taps will be held for Cesar Nov. 10. In another weekend accident on Fin- feather Rd., Kenneth Ray Hutchinson, 303 Tee Dr., was killed Friday around midnight when a car struck him as he was crossing the street, Bryan police officer Dale Cuthbertson said. After hitting a utility pole in the 2200 block, Huchison got out of his car. While crossing the street, he stepped into the path of a car driven by John Windell Neely, 2201 Leonard Rd., a junior agricultural economics student, who apparently could not see Hutch inson in the dark, Cuthbertson said. Hutchinson was dead on arrival at St. Joseph Hospital from head injuries, he said. No charges were filed in the acci dent.