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Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, October 2.1, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
The Weather
Today
Tomorrow
High 70
High
...72
Low 55
Low
.. .68
Chance of rain 20%
Chance of rain
. 20%
freshman
Freshman elections will continue
ay [» ,u ^ out afternoon today until 6
^ Voting tables are set up at the Guard
Dm, the Memorial Student Center,
'&A Commons, in front of the library and
llSbisa Dining Hall. Freshmen will
|;d their IDs to be eligible to vote.
Mike Wolff, speaker pro tempore of
Student Senate, said the results of
y’s election should be ready
idnesday. But if necessary, run-offs
be held next Tuesday.
Candidates for the Class of ’85 offic-
are:
President
Warren Sumner
Bentley Nettles
Kenneth Ro
[-Kenneth Mays
J-Stephen L. Smith
L| I-Richard Schultze
I' -Cody Gilbert
-Pam Huckleberry
-Robert N. Ellithorpe
n -Gary Rose
F i - Ken Anderson
-Scott Strom III
n Vice President
f", -Karen Pirtle
Lindsey Dingmore
- Diane Baumbach
- Jim Allen
-John Sottile
- Richard Poorbaugh
-Steven Edwards
- Ray Mikeska
Bill Patterson
- Michael Grage
- Keith Beauchamp
Social Secretary
- Mary Ann Heaton
-Amy Kardell
- Patti Poe
Secretary/T reas urer:
- Sherrie Couch
-Julia Herndon
- Susan C. Stubblefield
j—Cara Huegele
thill Seven positions for freshmen-at-large
yyjt o will be decided today. Candidates
— Eddie Floyd
-Mike Anthony
— Mark Holubec
Jimmy Gilbreath
— Dennis S. O’Grady
— Lindsey Dingmore
— Matt Powell
— Kirsten Murphy
— Randall S. Harris
Lynn G. Carroll
— Sandy Montgomery
— John Jones
— Michael Gates
— Brock Coleman
— W.J. Hutchins III
— Jay Holland
-Jim Currie
— Melody Garner
— Randy Pollock
— Keith Goode
— Paul Munin
— Grant Swartzwelder
-Timothy D. Evans
— Linda Thomas
-Tracy Turner
— Loretta Keng
-Russell O. McGee
-Donnie McGilbra
-Brent Johnson
-Dwayne Whitley
— Patrick Majors
— Darrell Pickard
-James Lopez
— Keith Carmichael
— James Weaver
— Carl Tong
— Scott Alderink
— Conrado Flores
-Raul Hinojosa
— Eddie Elizalde
— Harold Hinkle
-Charles Dietsch
— Melissa Williams
— James Ray
-Jim Paul
— Vincent A. Neal
d's
Eddie Chiles
to speak today
t fund-raiser
Eddie Chiles, chairman of The West-
imCo. and owner of the Texas Rangers
icball team, will be in Bryan today to
peak at a Republican fund-raising
Inner.
Also scheduled to speak at the dinner
State Sen. Walter Mengden, who
as announced his candidacy for the
U.S. Senate race, and Texas Sec
retary of State George Strake, who is
running for Texas lieutenant governor.
The dinner, dubbed “The First
Annual Teddy Roosevelt Birthday
Fund-Raiser” in honor of Republican
President Theodore Roosevelt, will be
gin at7 p.m. in the Brazos Center, 3232
Briarcrest Drive, and its purpose is to
raise money for Republican candidates
for the 1982 elections.
Tickets are $25 per person and can be
obtained at the door.
Reagan may
arrange deal
on nukes
In terna tional welcome
Staff photo by Dave Einsel
Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver
accepts a Chinese painting from Dr.
Chih-Kang Wang and other members of the
Youth Goodwill Mission of Taiwan Republic of
China. The dance troupe, directed by Wang
and sponsored by the Chinese Student
Association, performed Monday night in
Rudder Auditorium. The group has visited 21
U.S. cities in seven weeks and will return to
Taiwan at the end of this week.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan would be willing to negotiate a
proposal not to deploy nuclear weapons
in Europe, provided the Soviets dis
mantle their potent SS-20 missiles, a
spokesman says.
At the same time. White House
spokesman Larry Speakes said Monday
the administration believes the anti
nuclear protests in European capitals
last weekend were not representative of
most Europeans.
NATO defense ministers last week,
feeling pressure from the peaceful mar
ches that drew several hundred
thousand persons, endorsed the so-
called “zero option ’ as a possible nego
tiating position with the Soviets.
It would provide for the United
States not deploying Pershing missiles
or cruise missiles in Europe if the
Soviets agree to remove their 600-mile
range SS-20 missiles, which carry nuc
lear warheads.
Speakes said the administration feels
the “zero option’’ is something to look at
under ideal conditions, but not at pre
sent.
The protests abroad, reminiscent of
the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in
the 1960s, have caused some concern in
White House circles.
They may serve as a prelude to talks
on theater nuclear forces in Geneva on
Nov. 30 between Secretary of State Ale
xander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Andrei Gromyko.
Speakes was prepared for the ques
tion when asked for White House reac
tion Monday to the disarmament move
ment.
“While these are obvious expressions
of concern by a free people, they do not
represent a widespread view of West
European citizens,” he said in reading
from a prepared text.
“In fact, numerous public opinion
polls consistently show strong majority
support for NATO, and the West Euro
pean governments share our concern
over what is clearly the main threat to
peace in Europe: the unceasing Soviet
military building up in recent years.
“We will continue to work closely
with our allies to deter potential Soviet
aggression and believe strongly that is
the best way to assure the peace.”
Vice President George Bush also
addressed the matter in speaking to a
gathering of international investors of
the American Stock Exchange at the
White House.
“I don’t question the idealism of the
people who have been protesting the
deployment of medium range nuclear
missiles in Western Europe,” Bush
said. “But I do question their sense of
perspectives. NATO is a defensive
alliance. NATO exists because a threat
exists. The threat is real. It is a fact of
life.”
Referring to the upcoming U.S.-
Soviet arms talks, Bush said “those who
say we aren’t willing to discuss these
issues with the Soviets aren’t talking
straight.”
“It is our policy to negotiate a reduc
tion of nuclear forces,” he said.
Republicans weigh
tax increases
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Republi
can leaders, fearful President Reagan’s
new round of budget cuts won’t get
through Congress, are considering re-
Phyllis Schlafly vs. Katherine Brady
ERA Amendment debate tonight
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Staff
“Section 1. Equality of rights under
the law shall not be abridged by the
United States or by any state on account
of sex.
“Section 2. The Congress shall have
the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
“Section 3. This amendment shall
take effect two years after the date of
ratification.”
This proposal, the Equal Rights
Amendment, will be the subject of a
debate between Phyllis Schlafly and
Katherine Brady tonight at 8 in Rudder
Theater. The debate, entitled “Per
verted Hoax or Fundamental Freedom:
The ERA,” is sponsored by the MSG
Political Forum Committee.
Phyllis Schlafly, lawyer, author of
nine books including “My View of the
ERA” and national- chairman of Stop
ERA, claims wometi don’t want to be
equal to men, that men are better busi
ness executives than women and that
the ERA is a fraud that will destroy any
rights women presently hold. She says
that being a wife and mother is the most
fulfilling role for a woman.
Katherine Brady, who will argue in
favor of the ERA, is the author of
“Father’s Day,” an autobiographical
best-seller on incest, and the chairper
son of the New York Women Against
Rape organization. She’s also a rape
counselor and founder of the Katherine
Brady Foundation, a self-help, non
profit organization that helps child
abuse, rape and incest victims.
The ERA, passed in 1971 by the U.S.
House of Represenatatives and in 1972
by the U.S. Senate, must be ratified by
June 1982 if it is to become part of the
Constitution. Three-fourths of the 50
states, or 38 states, are needed for ratifi
cation. To date only 35 states have pas
sed the amendment.
If ratified, the ERA would nullify all
laws that distinguish individuals on the
basis of their sex.
In domestic terms, this means that
property would be jointly owned by
husand and wife. If a couple was to di
vorce in a state with alimony laws, the
spouse with the better financial position
would be required to pay the other ali
mony. Consequently, some men would
be eligible for payment. Property set
tlements would still occur, but posses
sions would be divided evenly.
In addition, child support payments
and child rearing would not be the sole
responsiblility of one parent, but would
be equalized between the two accord
ing to their financial position.
And contrary to a popular argument
of those who oppose the amendment, if
the ERA passes women will not automa
tically be eligible for the selective ser
vice. Congress has the option of drafting
women now, without such an amend
ment, but apparently has not yet
deemed it necessary.
However, if the proposed amend
ment is ratified and the draft reinstated,
the issue of whether to draft women
would probably go to the U.S. Supreme
Court, predicted Dr. Terry Anderson,
assistant professor of history and adviser
of Texas A&M’s Student Women’s
Organization.
The Supreme Court would probably
interpret the amendment so that
women are eligible to be drafted, he
said, but the decision to send them into
combat could depend on individual
field commanders.
The ERA also would not integrate
public restrooms, one of the most corn-
mom misbeliefs. The Supreme Court
has ruled that individuals have a right to
privacy, and that privacy includes sepa
rate restroom facilities for men and
Also, under the ERA, women would
be allowed to take out loans without a
husband’s or other male signature. In
some states, women are prohibited
from this as well as from buying stocks
and bonds without a male co-signature.
After tonight’s debate, MSG Political
Forum Committee will take a poll to
determine the audience’s view of the
ERA. In a mock poll of 1,414 students
last week, 697 students, or 49.3 per
cent, voted for ratification and 717 stu
dents, or 50.7 percent, voted against it.
commending that tax hike proposals be
substantially ‘increased to ease mount
ing budget deficits.
Congressional sources said Monday
GOP leaders are considering $50 billion
to $70 billion in tax increases over the
next three years, including raising taxes
on cigarettes and alcohol.
Reagan, who got a record cut in per
sonal income taxes through Congress
last summer as part of his economic re
covery package, has already proposed
raising other taxes by $3 billion in fiscal
1982.
Senate Finance Committee Chair
man Robert Dole says he expects Con
gress to pass a bill raising some taxes
next year. Tax hikes of $50 billion over
three years are possible, he says, but
not necessarily likely.
Dole, R-Kan., said his panel could
find more than $50 billion in tax hikes
but that no decisions have been made to
do so. “It’s not a question of whether we
can find it, it’s a question of whether
Congress would pass it,” he told a re
porter.
Senate Republican Leader Howard
Baker conceded Monday that Congress
probably will not meet Reagan’s goal of
$16 billion in deficit-reducing measures
this year and said he doesn’t believe any
significant tax increases are possible.
Despite weeks of meetings on the
subject. Baker and Dole sent mixed sig
nals about how much could be achieved
in tax-raising measures.
Dole issued a statement saying,
“Congress will enact tax-increase legis
lation next year, despite recent reports
to the contrary.”
Baker had said Sunday on national
television that no tax increases would be
passed next year. But he retreated from
that statement Monday, saying no signi
ficant increases were likely.
Baker told reporters congressional
Republicans were still committed to
Reagan’s three-year goal of $115 billion
in savings.
Students may
pick up
Aggielands
The 1981 Aggielands have arrived.
The yearbooks can be picked up be
tween 8:30a.m. and4:30 p*m. this week
and next week in the Commons. Stu
dents must present their ID cards in
order to pick up their books.
Students who have not yet paid for
yearbooks will not be able to purchase
them until Nov. 9. Beginning that day,
they can be purchased for $15 in the
Student Publications Office, 216 Reed
McDonald.
Yearbook distribution began Mon
day when students picked up 2,000
books.