FIT
Battalion
01.75 No. 54
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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Monday, November 16, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
The
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Tomorrow
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Cow
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Trial scheduled today
in GSSO vs. A&M suit
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
The Gay Student Service Organiza
tion's suit against Texas A&M Universi
ty is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
today in U.S. District Court in Hous
ton. Judge Ross N. Sterling will
preside.
The GSSO is seeking University rec
ognition as well as damages to compen
sate for Texas A&M s refusal of recogni
tion, court costs and legal fees. The
amount of damages sought has not been
announced.
Representing Texas A&M will be
Lonnie Zwiener and Ann Kraatz, assis
tant attorneys general; James 13. Bond,
vice chancellor for legal affairs; Gene
vieve Graffeo and Ted Hajovsky, staff
attorneys.
Patrick Wiseman, of the Nelson and
Mallett law firm in Houston, will repre
sent the GSSO.
Defendants cited in the case are: Dr.
John J. Koldus, vice president for stu
dent services; the late Jack K. Williams,
former president of Texas A&M; Clyde
Freeman, System executive vice chan
cellor for administration; and the Texas
A&M System Board of Regents.
The plaintiffs, Michael Minton,
Keith Stewart and Patricia Woodridge,
were members of the GSSO when the
original suit was filed.
The organization requested official
University recognition in April 1976, a
request which was refused the following
month. In February 1977, the group
filed a civil rights suit against the Uni
versity.
In November 1977, Judge Sterling
dismissed the case. However, in Febru
ary 1980, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals overturned the federal court
decision.
Texas A&M appealed this ruling to
the U.S. Supreme Court in March
1980. In December, the Supreme
Court refused to hear the University’s
appeal. This action meant that the case
could finally be heard on its merits in
federal district court in Houston.
BAN A department seeks
undergraduate degree
Comedian pokes fun at Aggies
Photo by Gres Watcrmann
Comedian Bob Dubac, opening act for the
Pablo Cruise concert in Rudder Auditorium
Friday night, bad the audience laughing with
his spontaneous humor and mock magic tricks.
By GARY BARKER
Battalion Staff
The Department of Business Analysis
and Research (BANA) is the only de
partment in the College of Business
Adminstration that doesn t offer a de
gree. But Department Head John
Dinkel hopes that will change.
BAN A courses and the BAN A spe
cialty program are designed to teach
students to use quantitative methods
and computer technology to solve busi
ness problems systematically. Applica
tions of BANA include production oper
ations management, management of
business computing systems and inven
tory management.
kges Reagan to talk with PLO
Egypt calls peace plan hopeful
United Press International
Miigli Egyptian off icial praised Saudi
aliia’s Middle East peace plan as a
pcful and promising sign and a Saudi
ilomat said his country s proposal cal-
xlfor recognition of Israel.
Egyptian Foreign Undersecretary
tana El-Baz told a news conference
undaynight the Saudi plan amounts to
call aft bdf ft Israel and the Palestinians
ircTognizo each other and urged the
cagan administration to open a dia-
iguc with the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The fact Saudi Arabia found it im-
fyace shuttle
requires fewer
repeat repairs
HOWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.
— NASA officials say the space
1 linttlr Columbia is in superb shape
’pa will require fewer repairs before
sthird flight in March to study the
tin.
The winged spaceship, first to make
"o roundtrips to space, will be fer
ial back to the Kennedy Space Gen
eral Cape Canaveral, Fla., next week
bhe readied for launch again in just
four months.
Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard
My, who are already back at John-
, ion Space Center in Houston for to-
lay’s debriefing sessions, told Vice
President George Bush at a private
breakfast Sunday that they were dis-
ippointed about their early return be-
rause “we were just getting the hang
rf it."
Flight test manager Donald
Dcke" Slayton said Sunday the pre-
nature landing of Engle and Truly
ihould not affect plans for the third
in mid-March, a seven-day flight
«tha4-ton package of instruments to
itudy the sun and monitor the ship’s
own space environment.
The Columbia' s two-day flight of
Engle and Truly accomplished 90 to
B percent of the mission objectives
planned for the full five-day mission —
iespite a faulty fuel cell generator, he
said.
Page, who is directing the shuttle’s
preparation for the return to Florida,
said the faulty generator responsible
farthe shuttle’s early return will prob-
i ably he removed after Thanksgiving to
see what caused the problem.
portant to step in with its own peace
formula, advising the Israelis and Pales
tinians to accept the concept of mutual
recognition, even if it does not say so, is
a very hopeful and promising sign, ” said
El-Baz, who was foreign policy adviser
to President Hosni Mubarak when he
was Egypt’s vice president.
In New York, Gaafar M. Allagany,
Saudi Arabia’s ranking diplomat at the
United Nations, said in an interview in
the New York Times Sunday the Saudi
plan does recognize Israel.
The Times said it was believed to be
the first time a Saudi official said public-
“You can’t negotiate without sitting
together, and that means recognition,’’
Allagany told the Times. “It does recog
nize Israel. It says all states. We are not
afraid to say that it does recognize
Israel. We are not shying away from that
word Israel in any sense.
Previously other officials have said
the plan, which has been rejected by
Israel, merely implied but did not flatly
accord recognition to the Jewish state.
The eight-point plan advanced by
Crown Prince Fahd calls for Israeli
withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
including East Jerusalem, and estab
lishment of a Palestinian state in return
for implicit Arab recognition of Israel’s
right to survival.
The Saudi move, El-Baz said, “will
bring us sooner or later closer to peace.
It will make easier the job of the moder
ate Palestinians and other Arabs.
He said the Reagan administration
should “engage in a dialogue with the
PLO to encourage PLO moderation and
allow the PLO to participate in the
peace process, indirectly at first and di
rectly afterwards.”
He said the BANA department is
seeking approval of the undergraduate
degree plan, to make it available by the*
fall of 1982. Degree plans are subject to
approval by the Texas A&M System
chancellor, the Board of Regents and
the Texas College and University Sys
tem Coordinating Board.
The other four departments in the
business college — management, fi
nance, accounting and marketing —
offer degrees. Majors in these depart
ments are required to take at least nine
hours of BANA courses. Business stu
dents interested in taking more BANA
courses can take up to 15 hours of the
subject as part of a BANA specialization
program. If the degree plan is
approved, BANA majors will be able to
take up to 36 hours of the subject.
“Graduates who take the specializa
tion in BANA arc in greater demand and
are offered higher salar.Us, Dinkel
said. “They have very little trouble get
ting jobs and getting placed in situations
they find desirable.
The College of Business Administra
tion currently offers a master of business
administration in business computer
science that requires a student to take a
number of graduate BANA courses and
BANA-related courses. But a large
number of students who don t want
masters’ degrees could benefit from an
undergraduate BANA degree, Dinkel
said.
Dinkel said an increased demand for
an undergraduate BANA degree has
come about from recruiters and stu
dents.
“People who recruit here see the
usefulness of our BANA specialization
program and I think the time is right for
a BANA degree, he said.
Most universities in the U.S. with
business degrees have a major in a field
of study similar to the BANA program,
said Dinkel, who has been head of the
BANA department at Texas A&M for
two years. The University s BANA de
partment was established in 1963.
If the degree is made available by
next fall, only a few additional courses
woidd be required because almost all of
the degree courses are offered already.
Dinkel said the department would add
some of the new courses in the spring
and would need to add two or three
other courses as senior electives if the
degree plan is approved. Fifteen
courses are offered now, and 19 will be
offered in the spring.
Dinkel said the degree plan was
approved by the University Curriculum
Committee during the summer and by
the Academic Council on Oct. 22.
In addition to his comments on the
degree plan, Dinkel commented on
overcrowding in certain BANA courses.
He said that because of a shortage of
faculty, introductory BANA course sec
tions have been large. Some of the sec
tions have 160 students. The course,
BANA 217, Business Data Processing
Concepts, is required of all business
majors, some agriculture majors and
some liberal arts majors.
Dinkel said the department has hired
additional faculty members, and he
feels confident the section sizes will be
come more manageable.
“We can’t find enough qualified fa
culty — that s a problem of the entire
business college — and as a result the
section sizes get large, Dinkel said.
Reagan wants to rebuild strong America
President speaks to 1,500
at Houston fundraiser
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion Staff
HOUSTON — President Ronald
Reagan told Republican well-wishers
Friday night that his White House team
is working to “make America strong
again.”
The Republicans were gathered at a
fundraising dinner in the Hyatt Regen
cy Hotel to honor James A. Baker III
and Texas presidential appointees.
Reagan told 1,500 people — who
paid a minimum of $500 per person for
the dinner — that he wanted to make
the United States strong economically,
militarily and spiritually.
His address included a general up
date on the progress his economic plan
has made since taking office in January.
Concentrating on those economic
policies, the president defended his
economic plan — which authorizes sev
eral tax cuts even though there is a fed
eral budget deficit. He said any tax in
creases to help pay back the national
debt would only weaken the economy’
more.
“We can restore to full prosperity,
this nation, and balance the budget with
the revenues that such an economy (one
based on investment) would generate,
Reagan said.
However, he cautioned, the results
from the new economic plan will take
time and may not be immediate.
“Our plan didn’t start until (October)
and we won t really feel the eff ects of it
for some time now.
Besides the initial tax cuts that have
gone into effect, the president said the
economic package calls for several more
tax cuts in the three years to come, for
its successful completion.
Reagan stressed that cuts in taxes
were the only things he was considering
and said there would be no tax in
creases.
"There is one thing I don’t believe we
need, one thing I’m against: we re not
going to have a tax increase.
“Our program was designed to sti
mulate the economy, increase produc
tivity and create jobs.”
Former Governor John Connally
served as honorary vice-chairman of the
dinner entitled Salute to a Stronger
America. Connally defended Reagan s
economic policies and agreed it will take
time before results of the president’s
plan are known.
“We are going to have a stronger
America at home because this president
is going to do what he told the American
people he was committed to do, Con
nally said. “He said, “I am the one to cut
taxes,’ and he has recommended and
pursued to Congress to cut taxes.
“Above all else, he has given us hope
that we can reduce spending more, that
we can cut taxes more ....
However, Connally said, “No man
can perform miracles. No man can in
one year overturn what took 50 years to
do.
“Remember that President Reagan’s
policies went into effect Oct. 1.
“It’s going to take time. It s going to
take patience.
The dinner was sponsored by the
Texas Republican Congressional Com
mittee and the Texas Republican Cam
paign Committee and the money raised
from the dinner will be divided evenly
between the two.
Former governor John Connally speaks to
Republican fund-raisers at a dinner honoring
Texans appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Stuff photo by Daniel .Sander.'
Connally praised Reagan for his economic
- policies. H.E. (Eddie) Chiles, dinner chairman,
sits next to Reagan.
Reagan, Connally and Gov. William
P. Clements were in Houston to honor
the Texans which Reagan picked for his
White House team.
Speaking of his Texan White House
appointees, including Baker who is
assistant to the president and Chief of
the White House staff, Reagan said.
“With the help of these people, whom
(you have) sent from your state ... 1
think we have a great team, no matter
how much they pick on us.