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Vol, 75 No. 44
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Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Monday, November 2, 1981 DSPS 045 360
College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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Staff photo by Greg Gammon
SMU cheerleader Dave Schmidt grabs Cadet Greg
Hood’s leg during the Texas A&M-SMU football
game Saturday. Hood was attempting to get the
SMU cheerleaders off of the field, where they had
been spelling S-M-U after a second-quarter
touchdown. According to Aggie tradition, only
the bands, yell leaders and opposing football
teams may be on the field during the game.
Waiting for Soviet explanation
Sweden surrounds sub
United Press International
KARLSKRONA, Sweden — Sweden
bployed ships, helicopters, jets and
,000 troops to ensure a Soviet sub-
narine caught near a key naval base
bes not escape, and the Soviet ambas-
ador arranged a third straight day of
alks to explain the sub’s mission.
Defense chiefs ordered military
brceson increased alert when the sub’s
ingines sprang to life Sunday and it
ried to back off rocks and sand in the
karlskrona archipelago, 10 miles from
Sweden’s Baltic naval center.
In Stockholm, Soviet Ambassador
Mikhail Jakovlev and Foreign Minister
Ola Ullsten met in Stockholm and
arranged today’s third successive day of
talks on the aging, gray Whiskey-class
vessel that lay 20 miles inside Swedish
waters where it ran aground last
Tuesday.
‘‘The forces were put on increased
alert because the submarine’s captain
started its engines in an apparent re
verse maneuver,” Cmdr. Lennart Fors-
mann of the Karlskrona base said.
But the 228-foot, 1,000-ton sub re
mained stuck and the commander
ordered the engines turned off. De
fense spokesman Col. Jan-Ake Borg said
only that they ran “long enough to get us
interested.”
Borg said the submarine, carrying 56
crewmembers and apparently conven
tionally armed, “can’t get out.”
Cmdr. Karl Andersson, the officer
handling talks with Gushin, reboarded
the craft after the incident in another
futile bid to persuade him to leave for
questioning with his log book and naval
maps.
But the Soviet Baltic naval base at
Kaliningrad, about 210 miles to the
southeast, apparently refused to allow
Gushin off the boat, defense officials
said. The base was communicating with
Gushin via two Soviet destroyers in in
ternational waters.
Professors exchange classes
in program with Prairie View
By ELAINE ENGSTROM
Battalion Reporter
Getting across campus to class on time is a trial for many,
but four Texas A&M professors travel about 75 miles to their
classes. They teach at Prairie View A&M University.
This semester the Texas A&M professors and four Prairie
View A&M professors are trading classes in a faculty exchange
program. They commute between schools and teach the same
courses they usually teach at their home school.
The exchange program was established in response to a
federal government request that the University comply with
the Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to a report
filed in Washington outlining plans to comply with the act,
University officials said they will increase recruiting in minor
ity high schools, increase scholarships and initiate a shared
faculty program.
However, Dr. Clinton Phillips, Texas A&M dean of facul
ty, hinted at an additional reason for instigating the program.
“The program was started ... to satisfy our legal require
ments, but equally important is our deep-felt desire to work
with the Prairie View faculty in a program of mutual assistance
aimed at building bridges between the two institutions,” he
said.
Phillips said that although individual departments had ex
changed ideas in the past, there has never been an organized
effort approved by both university presidents and the System
chancellor until this year.
Professors participating in the program include: Dr. Terry
Anderson, a Texas A&M history professor, and Dr. Purvis
Carter, from Prairie View A&M, who have swapped History
106 classes; Dr. Bruce Hottel and Dr. Alfred Parks who have
exchanged an agricultural economies class; and Dr. Jim
Boone and Dr. Charles Edwards who have exchanged an
industrial education history class.
In addition, Dr. Jerry Elledge commutes to Prairie View to
teach adapted physical education while Leon English teaches
a community health class at Texas A&M.
In August, faculty members from both schools met at
Prairie View to work out the program’s details.
The biggest problems associated with the exchange prog
ram are the time lost in travel and the two schools’ differing
class schedules, Phillips said. Since the professors’ schedules
differ, they drive separately between campuses.
“Hopefully, in the future we can arrange schedules to allow
several professors to car pool,” he said.
A meeting for discussion between all of this semester’s
participants is being planned. An evaluation of the program
and an orientation session for future participants has also been
suggested.
Broadcasting classes between Prairie View and Texas A&M
via television are also a possibility. Phillips said he would like
to see a permanent program established that is similar to the
one being used between the College of Medicine and the
Scott White Clinic in Temple.
Professors involved in the faculty exchange program this
semester have expressed a positive reaction to the program as
a whole.
Boone says he has enjoyed teaching at Prairie View. “Both
students and faculty get to widen their experience in the
industrial education program,” he said. “Students have the
opportunity to learn from new professors and professors get
the chance to work with more students than they normally
would have — all without actually hiring more people.”
Anderson travels to Prairie View three times a week to
teach history and says the program is beneficial although
travel time is an inconvenience. “I’ve wanted to be in a
program like this for over a year,” he said.
Elledge teaches a class of 29 students at Prairie View. He
said they were wary' of their new' teacher at first but now
students stay after class to talk and ask questions.
“The students and I have exchanged ideas,” Elledge said.
“I hope I never go in a classroom without learning from the
students. The students have given me new perspectives. I
was getting in a rut. It (teaching at Prairie View) has gotten me
back to teaching better.”
Elledge also said the Prairie View faculty members have
been friendly and receptive to the exchange program.
“They don’t have some things we take for granted, like
overhead projectors in every classroom,” he said. “It is a
smaller school, of course, with a smaller budget.”
English is a Prairie View faculty member who teaches two
days a week at Texas A&M. He is currently working on his
doctorate from Texas A&M.
“I think the exchange program is an excellent idea,” he
said. “Each school can benefit from the expertise of the
exchange professors. This kind of program needs to con
tinue.”
Officials, cadet to meet,
discuss saber incident
By MARY JO RUMMEL
Battalion StafF
University officials today will meet
with cadet Greg Hood to discuss a scuf
fle in which he drew his saber at Satur
day’s Texas A&M-SMU football game.
SMU cheerleaders say they will de
cide whether to file criminal charges
against Hood at a meeting tonight. The
cheerleaders contend the cadet en
dangered them by drawing his saber
and waving it at them.
Hood, a senior in Squadron 2, met
Sunday with Corps Commandant James
R. Woodall to present his side of the
story, the commandant said.
The discussion was to continue today
with Woodall and Vice President for
Student Services John J. Koldus.
However, for any disciplinary action
to be taken, an official hearing will have
to be called. Hood has the right to be
informed in writing of all charges at least
three class days before any such hearing
may proceed or he may waive the right,
according to University regulations.
Hood is presently serving as chair
man of the Judicial Board of Student
Government and he is also a member of
the Cadet Court and the Traffic Appeals
Court.
However, according to University
regulations, if he is placed on disciplin
ary probation, he will be ineligibile to
hold any office at the University.
The incident occurred in front of
more than 62,000 fans after the SMU
Mustangs scored a touchdown with 1:25
left in the second quarter. The team’s
male cheerleaders ran onto the field in
front of the stands to spell out S-M-U
with their bodies.
According to Aggie tradition, howev
er, only the bands, yell leaders and
opposing football teams may be on the
field during the game.
Consequently, Hood, who was an
officer of the day and who was standing
on the sidelines, ran onto the field to
order the cheerleaders off. He was tack
led by SMU Cheerleader Dave Schmidt
but jumped back on his feet with his
saber drawn.
As Schmidt again grabbed Hood’s
legs, the cadet kicked another cheer
leader.
However, no one was injured.
“It was a potentially dangerous situa
tion,” Bill Vogel, an SMU cheerleader,
said. “Someone could have fallen on the
saber or been pushed into it. It is what
could have happened that makes the
incident so serious.”
He added that before running onto
the field, Hood did not tell them they
were violating a tradition by being
there.
However, other observers contended
the cadet did warn the cheerleaders be
forehand.
Hood was unavailable for comment.
In a separate incident in the fourth
quarter, a group of freshman cadets
stole an SMU megaphone and were
chased out of the stadium by two cheer
leaders.
Local elections to decide
candidates, propositions
By RANDY CLEMENTS
Battalion StafF
Texas voters go to the polls Tuesday
to decide the fate of seven proposed
amendments to the state constitution.
Two of the propositions receiving the
most local publicity are Proposition No.
1, which offers incentives for redevelop
ment, and Proposition No. 4, a water
trust fund.
The water fund proposition, which
would dedicate half of the state’s surplus
revenue each biennium to a trust fund
to help cities, counties and other en
tities finance future water projects, is
the most hotly- contested amendment.
Governor Clements and Speaker of
the House Bill Clayton, as well as the
Texas Municipal League, support the
proposition.
Locally, Hubert Nelson, Bryan dire
ctor of planning, also supports the water
trust fund, saying it’s a project that
needs to be done on the state or local
level.
Cities could sell bonds and use the
earnings as collateral for backing the
projects. Nelson said.
“Bryan doesn’t need water now,” he
said, “but as the community grows it
may require surface water.”
But, local opposition to the proposi
tion comes from the League of Women
Voters on the grounds it would be like
“buying a pig-in-a-poke,” Brazos Coun
ty LWV President Marlene Muse said.
The amendment gives an elusive
amount of money to the Texas Water
Development Board, she said, to do
something equally elusive about Texas’
water problems.
However, Muse and the LWV sup
port Proposition No. 1, a proposed re
duction of the property tax to offer in
centives to redevelop run-down areas of
a city.
Freshman
run-offs
Tuesday
Run-off elections for freshmen class
officers will be held Tuesday from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Polls will be set up at the guard
room, the Memorial Student Center,
the Commons, Sbisa Dining Hall and
in front of Sterling C. Evans Library'.
Only freshmen who show their ID
cards will be eligible to vote.
Following are the candidates in the
run-off election:
— President — Richard Schultze
and Warren Sumner
— Vice President — Jim Allen and
Diane Baumbach
— Secretary/Treasurer — Sherrie
Couch and Susan Stubblefield
— Social Secretary — Mary Ann
Heaton and Patti Poe
Seven freshmen senators-at-large
were also chosen in last week’s elec
tion.
The proposed amendment would
permit cities, towns and other taxing
agencies to designate a run-down area
as a reinvestment zone and taxes would
be frozen in that area as redevelopment
incentives.
College Station Mayor Gary Halter
said the amendment will have little or
no effect on the city.
But, if the passing of the amendment
helps any part of College Station, he
said, it will help the Northgate area.
Nelson said the amendment would
have a positive affect on Bryan.
It would allow another opportunity to
make investments in redeveloping the
downtown area instead of developing on
the outskirts of town, he said.
Nelson also said it will enhance the
property tax base without raising taxes
for the rest of the city’s taxpayers.
“I don’t know how much it will help
the city until it’s tried. It will build a
more sound tax base, though, ” he said.
It allows cities to handle some of their
problems on a local and state level
rather than having to ask for federal
assistance, he emphasized.
The other five proposed amendments
are:
— Proposition No. 2 — A proposal to
allow the General Land Office to issue
titles to persons who have lived on state
land for at least 50 years under the belief
they owned the property.
— Proposition No. 3 — Allows the
Legislature to give a State Finance
Management Committee the power to
manage the expenditure of some state
funds when the Legislature isn’t in ses
sion.
— Proposition No. 5 — Adds poultry
and livestock to the definition of farm
products in the constitution. This would
make livestock and poultry tax-exempt.
— Proposition No. 6 — Allows cities,
counties and school boards to exempt
up to 40 percent of the value of a homes
tead from property taxes for the years
1982-84; up to 30 percent for 1985-87;
and up to 20 percent after 1987.
— Proposition No. 7 — Authorizes
issuing an additional $250 million in
bonds for the Veterans’ Land Program.
This self-supporting program was cre
ated after World War II to provide low
interest, long term loans to veterans
wanting to buy rural land.
Gun
Issue to
control
be debated tonight at 8
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion StafF
When the right of men to keep and
bear arms was written in the U.S.
Constitution, guns were common
place and necessary for survival in
some cases.
Today, however, with a surge in
violent crimes, some have questioned
who should have the right to carry
arms. And the assassination attempts
on President Reagan and Pope John
Paul II and the fatal shooting of Egyp
tian President Anwar Sadat have
fueled arguments for further handgun
regulations.
Tonight at 8 in Rudder Theatre,
John Snyder, Washington lobbyist for
the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms, and Philip D.
Zelikow, a Houston lawyer involved in
the restriction of handguns, will de
bate the gun control issue. The debate
is sponsored by the MSC Great Issues
Committee.
Snyder, editor of Point Blank, a
monthly publication by the CCRKBA,
whose motto is “straight talk about
what you can do to preserve your right
to keep and bear arms,” has debated
the issue with Nelson. Shields, chair
man of Handgun Control, Inc. on
Issues and Answers.
On the ABC radio news program,
Snyder said he does not favor gun re
gistration and licensing because they
don’t prevent crime, rather they
“The result of the whole
thing would be that you
would have the law working
against the interest of the
law-abiding citizen and
actually underpinning the
interests of the criminal. ”—
John Snyder, Washington
lobbyist
emburden law-abiding citizens who
would comply with such laws.
“The result of the whole thing
would be that you would have the law
working against the interest of the law-
abiding citizen and actually underpin
ning the interests of the criminal,”
Snyder said.
As to why people in his organization
are so opposed to gun control, Snyder
has said, “The gun is ... a symbol of
freedom to these people. It has a lot
more significance to people than a
job.”
Zelikow, who will oppose Snyder in
tonight’s debate, has worked with the
U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals. He spe
cializes in constitutional law and re
lated areas and has appeared at other
campuses and on television in support
of legislation restricting the availabil
ity of handguns.
In an interview he said the actual
bills before Congress are relatively
moderate and wouldn’t jeopardize
honest citizens.
“The proposed law would require
anyone purchasing a handgun to be
checked by the police for a criminal
record,” Zelikow said.
He outlined the three main objec
tives of the proposed legislation: to
stop the manufacture and sale of all
Saturday Night Specials, to establish
mandatory jail sentences for posses
sion of the gun and to require any
person purchasing any type of hand
gun to be checked out by police.
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