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Serving the Texas A&A1 University community
Monday, October 26, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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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.