Battalion
Vol. 74 No. 50
|14 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, November 10, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
The Weather
High . .
Today
67
Tomorrow
High
. . . 68
Low. . .
. . . 43
Low
. . . 45
Chance*
of rain 10%
Chance of rain
. 10%
aber-wielder
isuspended; no
MU charges
By DENISE RICHTER
Buttalion Staff
"Greg Hood lias bccMi suspcMicIed from
University until the end of the
Jmester for brandishing a saber at the
|exas A&M-Southern Methodist Uni-
l;rsity game. SMU cheerleaders say
0 Bey will not press charges against the
• Bilet.
n| | “Ifeel like he and A&M have been
Bgraced enough,” SMU Head Cheer-
Jadcr David Schmidt said Monday
Beht. "As long as he regrets what he s
, that’s enough. I don’t want to rub
It in his wounds.
Last week, Schmidt said the eheer-
jaders would wait until Texas A&M
ik disciplinary action against Hood
fore they decided whether to press
aiges.
The decision to suspend Hood was
ladled Monday after a 3'/•’-hour closed
aring, chaired by University Adini-
strative Officer William L. Kibler.
I Hood had been charged with assault-
Jg SMU students, improperly using a
s at home. ftaP 011 an d creating a disturbance,
a 4-6 re(J>ss$le punishment ranged from ac
he second-W'ittal to expulsion.
Marc Wil J After the hearing. Hood said: "Look-
) a 6-point LilS the University. I felt (the suspen-
m) was a relatively fair position. Hav-
|g the positions I’ve had, I understand
ire of the broader concerns that go
to making the decision. My main con-
n is to do what s best for the Univer-
;d byeompIBty,”
■ Before his suspension. Hood serv ed
> an d was rB the chairman of the Student Govern-
careerivlnB L . n t Judicial Board and was a member
larterhack VCadet Court and the Traffic Appeals
ta of the NFIjuurt.
He has three class days to file an
meal with the University Disciplinary
meals Panel. But, he saiil Monday
as a must
else he
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night that he does not plan to file an
appeal at this time.
I lood will be able to re-apply for
admission to the University in January.
However, re-admission is not guaran
teed.
“What a student is given at the time
of suspension is a guarantee that his case
will be reviewed,” Kibler said.
Concerning the courses that Hood
was taking this semester, Kibler said he
will receive grades of “withdrew pas
sing or “withdrew failing.
“A suspension does the same thing
that withdrawing does,” Kibler said,
“but a notation (concerning the suspen
sion) goes on the student’s permanent
record.”
Hood said the suspension will delay
his graduation by a semester. He said he
had planned to graduate in May but now
will graduate in August or December.
"I do, most definitely, plan to return
(to Texas A&M),’ he said. “This is my
school and I plan to graduate from here.
“I still feel the same love that I always
have for the University ... the decision
has no effect on my feelings toward the
University, the administration or the
way we conduct things down here.
The incident occurred Oct. 31 in
front of more than 62,()()() fans after the
SMU Mustangs scored a touchdown in
the second quarter. The male cheer
leaders ran onto the field to spell out
S-M-U with their bodies.
Hood, who was standing on the side
lines as an officer of the day, drew his
saber as he ran onto the field to order
the cheerleaders off . He was tackled by
Schmidt but jumped up again.
As Schmidt again grabbed Hood s
legs, the cadet kicked another cheer
leader. However, no one was injured.
riday fatality second
onfire-related death
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Shots.
Wiley Keith Jopling was not the first
mlent to he killed in a bonfire-related
ident.
In 1955, cadet James Eduard Sarran
as struck and killed by a ear on the old
igliway 6, now Wellborn road, when
pushed another student out of the
ath of an on-coming ear. Sarran. 18,
ad been standing watch at the bonfire
ite, which at that time was on the main
drill field.
The Texas A&M student body dedi-
|ed the Texas A&M-University of
ms football game to the cadet that
Col. Joe E. Davis, then commander
hIcCorps, said Sarran s death was the
bt bonfire-related fatality.
Jopling, 19, a sophomore agricultural
momies major, died Friday night af-
|rhe was crushed beneath the rear tire
a tractor. He and two other students
we taking the tractor to the bonfire
sitting site on Old San Antonio Road
'hen Jopling fell off its rear fender.
Trooper Bill Kuhnle, of the Depart
ment of.Public Safety, said Monday that
the student s death is still being investi
gated .
Director of Student Affairs Ron
Blatchley said he will meet with the
bonfire committee informally tonight to
check on the bonfire s progress and to
discuss whether any additional precau
tions need to be taken at the cutting
site.
However, he said he did not have any
specific changes in mind and absolved
bonfire coordinators for Friday’s acci
dent.
“When you’ve got a project as big as
bonfire with as many students involved
as you do in bonfire, you’ve got to count
on ... people to use good common sense
and not to do careless things, ” Blatchley
said.
“No one could possibly monitor all
that might happen,” he said.
Blatchley said, however, that he will
still continue to consider suggestions for
making bonfire safer.
fSenate Republicans
peddle budget
i) righ t:
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ey an(f
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Republi
cans are making a final pitch for Presi-
Career Center
alters hours
Wednesday
The Texas A&M Career Planning and
Placement Center announced Monday
(bat it will be closing its office three
hours earlier beginning Wednesday.
The office will be open from 8 a. m. to
Span. Previously it was open until 8
p.m.
Placement Center Night Supervisor
Jay Wheeler said students primarily
used the center’s evening hours to sign
up for interviews since the office is
usually less busy at that time than dur
ing the day. Interviews are conducted
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The center schedules interviews for
students with prospective employers.
Students may sign up for interviews up
to two weeks in advance but no later
than one day before the interview.
Students who basked in the sun last week are
bundled up in thick winter clothes this week.
The cooler part of the fall season may have
finally arrived to stay.
Bonfire, intramurals on Duncan field
Saudi Arabia
chases away
Israeli jets
United Press International
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi
Arabia demonstrated its growing aerial
might by intercepting and forcing back
Israeli warplanes that had penetrated
up to 100 miles inside Saudi airspace on
the eve of a defense meeting today of
Arab Gulf states.
Israeli jets reportedly cross into the
desert kingdom on training and surveill
ance flights frequently, but Saudi Ara
bia took the unusual step of pursuing
them Monday and publicizing the viola
tion for the first time. / .
Israel refused comment.
Crown Prince Fahd briefed the
Saudi cabinet on the incident in adv
ance of today’s summit of the six-nation
Gulf Cooperation Council, which is
meeting to study plans for joint regional
defense, Riyadh Radio said.
Summit sources said the Israeli viola
tion highlighted the need for the six
nations to study strategies for regional
defense, without involvement by the
superpowers.
White House deputy press secretary
Larry Speakes urged restraint, saying:
“We urge all parties to avoid any actions
that tend to raise tensions in the area. ”
Israel has stepped up its denuncia
tion of Saudi Arabia recently following
U.S approval of the sale of A WAGS
radar planes to Riyadh and international
recognition of a plan proposed by Fahd
as a substitute for the 1978 Camp David
peace accords between Israel and
Egypt.
“Israeli warplanes violated our airs
pace in the northwestern sector of the
kingdom, a Saudi military statement
said. “Our planes intercepted the
enemy planes and forced them out of
our airspace.
The Saudis gave no further details.
They did not say if shots were fired nor
what kind of planes were involved.
In Washington, administration offi
cials said Israeli planes violated Saudi
air space twice during the day. The
officals said the Israeli planes flew up to
TOO miles.aeros^the border, skirting the
Saudi airbase at Tabuk.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, who last week said the “darkness
of the Middle Ages reigns in Saudi Ara
bia, has said Fahd’s peace plan is aimed
at Israel’s “liquidation and added Mon
day it had no chance of succeeding.
Building not to disturb activities
dent Reagan’s support of controversial
austerity measures which they say could
balance the budget by 1984 — a goal
Reagan recently shelved.
The new plan totals $163 billion in
budget cuts and tax hikes over three
years, including $27 billion in defense
spending reductions, $48 billion in tax
increases, $40 billion in cuts in entitle
ment programs such as welfare, Medi
care and food stamps, and $33 billion in
other domestic spending.
It was presented Monday to Treasury
Secretary Donald Regan, budget dire
ctor David Stockman, White House
chief of staff James Baker and congres
sional liaison Max Friedersdorf at a
Capitol Hill meeting.
President Reagan said last week the
goal of a balanced budget was no longer
in reach because of deteriorating econo
mic conditions. Sources said the admi
nistration team was “cool” to the idea
because they feared rejection by the
Democratic-dominated House.
Earlier, Regan said balancing the
budget was only fourth on the list of
White House priorities after the need to
cut back the size of government, pass
tax cuts and strengthen the country’s
defense.
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M University Press
building, planned for construction on
Duncan field, will not interfere with
bonfire or intramurals, University offi
cials say. Yet, some Texas A&M stu
dents and staff members disagree.
Construction of the 24, ()()()-square-
foot building is scheduled to begin
March 1.
Paul Stephens, manager of facilities
and planning, said it will be on the east
corner of the field behind Duncan Di
ning Hall, by Lewis Street and parking
annex 40.
“That’s a steep slope area and not
good for athletics,” he said. “But it does
give the proper access desired for the
press building.”
After reviewing the plans last week,
Dennis Corrington, director of intra
murals, said although the location won’t
directly interfere with sports, it will cre
ate problems.
Playing room on the field will be
tight, especially during construction, he
said. Balls from intramural sports could
be lost around the area and others could
break windows or cause other damage,
he said.
T’d rather it not be there,” he said,
“but that’s a personal feeling.”
Similiar sentiments have been ex
pressed by the the Student Senate. The
Senate passed a bill Wednesday night
recommending that an alternate site be
found for the building. Furthermore, it
recommends that no future construc
tion on Duncan field be considered be
cause of the possibility of jeopardizing
intramurals and bonfire.
Stephens said that plans call for the
University Press building to be con
structed a safe distance from where bon
fire is usually located. However, he said
he does not know exactly what that dis
tance will be.
A1 Link, junior head civilian (for bon
fire) and student senator, agreed that
bonfire probably could be continued at
its traditional site if the building is con
structed, but he expressed concern that
the University Press will start a prece
dent.
“We think it would open the door for
future construction,” he said, “and
that’s what scares us.”
Additional buildings on the field
would cause bonfire to be moved off-
Awaiting construction of a new building
proposed for Duncan field, the University Press is
Staff photo by Dave Einsci
currently housed in several trailers located north
of Hotard Hall, behind the Northgate Post Office.
campus, which would hurt participa
tion, Link said.
Student Body President Ken John
son said students probably also are con
cerned that the remaining grassy areas
on campus will be destroyed by con
struction.
Johnson recommended that sites on
the University’s west campus be recons
idered.
The site on Duncan field was
approved last spring by the Texas A&M
System Board of Regents, based on a
recommendation of the regents’ plan
ning and building committee.
Regent Clyde H. Wells of Granbury
said Duncan field and two other sites on
Texas A&M’s west campus were consi
dered for the University Press; howev
er, Duncan field was chosen because of
its proximity to the Sterling C. Evans
Library, the post offices and the acade
mic departments that work with the
press.
University Press employees are ea
ger to be on the main campus because of
these advantages, he said.
Wells said the regents probably
would consider changing the location,
but that such a request would have to
show “strong advantages for such a
proposal. ” ' 1
Noel Parsons, editor of the press, said
changing the building’s site to the west
campus would inconvenience press em
ployees, who need access to faculty and
the library for research.
Robert Boyce, chief architect in faci
lities and planning, said, “The building
was tailored to the site the board chose
(but) in my opinion, it could be site
adapted.
Changing locations would mean a
construction delay of about two months,
Boyce .said. Estimates of the costs in
volved in such a move aren t available,
since it would depend on the site
chosen, he said.
The University Press originally was
located in the old Board of Directors
Building — the present site of Hobby
and Neeley halls. But, it was destroyed
by fire in 1979. Since then, the press has
been operating out of mobile trailers on
Asbury Street.