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The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 75 No. 56 . Wednesday, November 18, 1981 DSPS 045 360
16 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
The Weather
Today
High 80
Low 57
Chance of rain 10%
Tomorrow
High 67
Low 48
Chance of rain 10%
Final GSSO
witnesses to be
heard today
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Attorneys for the Gay Student Ser
vice Organization plan to call their final
witnesses today, Patrick Wiseman,
attorney for the GSSO, said Tuesday.
Scheduled to testify for the GSSO
are; Dr. Kenneth Nyberg, sociologist
and former GSSO faculty adviser; Dr.
William Paul, a psychiatrist; and Dr.
Frederick VV. Plapp jr., professor of en
tomology and genetics, and current fa
culty adviser for the GSSO.
Tuesday was the second day of the
GSSO vs. Texas A&M University trial
which is being held in U.S. District
Court in Houston. The group is suing
TcvasA&M for recognition as an official
student organization.
In testimony Tuesday, a sex resear
cher said University recognition of the
GSSO would create more understand-
inibetween homosexual and heterosex
ual students and dispel myths.
Dr. William Simon, a sociologist at
the University of Houston and former
senior researcher at the Kinsey Insti
tute, said recognition of th GSSO might
king about an “attitude of liberaliza
tion” at Texas A&M.
Also testifying for the GSSO, Patricia
Woodridge, one of the plaintiffs in the
suit, said that none of the members of
the University administration tried to
assist the organization’s members or
protect them from danger.
The only counseling group members
received was from professors, Wood
ridge said. The personal counseling ser
vices then offered by the University
only told the gay students to change
their ways, she said.
The group requested University rec
ognition in April 1976, a request which
was denied the following month.
Three GSSO members fded a federal
civil rights suit against the University in
February 1977. Named as defendants in
the case are: Dr. John J. Koldus, vice
president for student services; the late
Jack K. Williams, former president of
Texas A&M; Clyde Freeman, Texas
A&M System executive vice chancellor
for administration; and the System
Board of Regents.
However, under federal rules of pro
cedure, Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver automatically replaces Wil
liams as a defendant in the case, Wise
man said.
The GSSO is seeking compensation
for damages resulting from the refusal of
recognition, court costs and legal fees.
Reagan may veto
stop gap bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress may be
walking straight into a presidential veto,
now that a Senate committee has fol
lowed the House in rejecting new
budget cuts.
The full Senate will decide whether
toeontinue the march today when it acts
on a stop gap spending bill designed to
keep the government running past mid
night Friday.
The House approved the measure
Monday, after rejecting a proposal by
Republican leaders to cut almost $4 bil
lion from already-reduced domestic
spending.
The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee handed President Reagan a similar
hlowTuesday, despite a written appeal
from Reagan saying he was prepared to
meet Congress halfway by accepting
smaller cuts than he originally wanted.
The panel passed its version of the hill
by voice vote and sent it to the Senate
floor without the additional cuts.
This increased the likelihood Reagan
would veto the measure. Congressional
Republican sources suggested the pres
ident may want to do so to prove he can
enforce his economic program.
Reagan said he would accept a 5 per
cent across-the-floard cut in domestic
spending similar to the one rejected in
the House. He said that would provide a
substantial share of the reductions in
fiscal 1982 that he had proposed.
The panel did reject, 18-8, a proposal
by Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., to cut 2
percent from domestic and military
programs.
Mattingly said his plan, which would
have authorized the administration to
select the exact cuts, would have re
duced fiscal 1982 spending by $6 billion
to $9 billion. It also would have affected
entitlement programs which Reagan
does not want to tamper with now.
Leaders of the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees argue they
have already come close to meeting
Reagan’s goals. They have produced
numbers, disputed by the administra
tion, which they say prove their conten
tion.
The overall measure, which staffers
estimated would provide approximately
$415 billion in funds, is designed to
keep the government running past mid
night Friday when its existing approp
riations expire.
Staff photo by Rose Delano
Standing zone
Charlie Stegemoeller, a sophomore industrial engineering major
from DeSoto, doesn’s seem to realize he could get a ticket.
Stegemoeller was waiting for his ride in front of the Chemistry
Building.
Attempted rape
in dorm reported
By ANNE OLIVER
Battalion Reporter
An attempted rape in Krueger Hall
Tuesday morning has led to a complete
investigation of the incident by the Uni
versity Police.
At 3 a.m. Tuesday, a female student
was studying in a carrel on the fourth
floor of the women’s dorm when she was
approached and threatened by a white
male wearing a pair of panty hose over
his face, according to a University police
report.
The man turned out the lights in the
carrel and threatened the girl with a
knife, police reported. The woman then
screamed and the man fled, police re
ported.
Two students said they saw a man run
out of a hallway in Krueger and followed
him outside. They later described the
man and a vehicle he drove from the
parking lot.
According to their description, the
man is approximately 19 years old, 5-
foot, 9-inches tall and about 160 pounds
with brown or dark ear-length hair. He
was wearing a yellow T-shirt which was
stuffed to make him look like a girl, and
a pair of blue jeans, the students re
ported.
Detective Will Scott, who has been
assigned to the case, said he plans to
hypnotize the victim and possibly one of
the witnesses to get a better description
of the man.
Jane Zarwell, head resident of Krue
ger, said University police were called
immediately and responded to the call
within five minutes.
Zarwell said no extra security mea
sures will be taken in the dorm other
than her emphasizing to residents the
importance of being cautious at night
and locking the doors to their rooms.
Resident advisers already patrol the
halls of all residence halls each night as a
security check.
Police have not been able to deter
mine how the man entered the build
ing. However, Zarwell said a couple of
possibilities have been discussed.
The dorm’s four outside doors are
locked each evening by resident advis
ers; however, the doors are not actually
locked unless each person opening the
door pulls it shut behind himself.
First woman mayor
elected in Houston
United Press International
HOUSTON — Kathy Whitmire, the
first woman mayor of the nation’s fifth
largest city, stampeded over her oppo
nent to take a commanding lead and
attributed her success to a campaign
that unified the city.
Whitmire, an accountant and a two-
term city controller, received more
than 62 percent of the vote Tuesday, as
compared to her opponent Harris
County Sheriff Jack Heard, 63, who re
ceived just over 100,000 votes.
“We are making an effort to unify this
city,’’ Whitmire said. “We offered the
kind of campaign that brings people
together instead of dividing them. We
have offered them all the opportunity to
see a city better managed.
People are interested in their tax
dollars and I think that’s why they were
willing to elect a controller to he the
city’s next mayor. ’
In phone calls on election night,
Whitmire was promised the support of
both Mayor Jim McConn and Heard.
McConn came in a poor third two
weeks ago, in a 15-way race for the city’s
chief executive’s job, which pays better “I
than any other mayor’s position in the
country. ■■
Whitmire said she was flattered by |
McConn’s phone call when he told her f
he had voted for her. McConn told
Whitmire he would work with her.
Heard called Whitmire to concede
the election and congratulated her for
her win. In a phone conversation less
than two hours after polls closed. Heard
promised to help the new mayor and
told her he was not bitter.
“We re be here and we re still gonna
serve. I may have lost the race, but I
also lost the flu,’’ Heard said. He had
been ill in the waning days of his cam
paign.
U.S. tells Japan to increase imports
United Press International
TOKYO — Washington issued an un
precedented written warning to Japan
to import more U.S. products or face
the threat of “virulent protectionism in
reprisal for Japan’s record trade surplus,
the U.S. Embassy said today.
The letter told Japan its plans for an
emergency import program were insuf
ficient and instead proposed removing
tariffs from 29 items and dropping non
tariff barriers that have prevented U.S.
sales in Japan.
Japan consistently has exported more
to America than it has bought, but this
year’s surplus is estimated at a record
$15 billion, with next year’s surplus a
possible $18 billion to $20 billion.
“The United States believes that li
mited, short-term emergency measures
which do not address some of the fun
damental problems ... will not meet the
potential serious and damaging political
damage abroad which could result from
a growing trade imbalance,” U.S.
Embassy spokesman William Maurer
said.
The Japanese foreign ministry said
the unprecedented letter told Tokyo
their proposed “emergency” imports of
aircraft, rare metals and other items to
reduce surpluses with the United States
and Europe could only he a “quick fix
that would not solve the problem.
The U.S. letter proposed Japan re
move tariffs on 29 items, including beef,
oranges, plywood, computers and com
puter parts. It also called for removal of
non-tariff barriers, by simplifying stan
dards and testing and by speeding up
customs clearances.
Two interest groups debate born-again politics
John Duncan
American Civil Liberties Union
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion StafT
A debate on born-again politics and
the Moral Majority’s right to a voice in
government set representatives of two
special interest groups at odds Tuesday
in Rudder Theater.
Fred Mason, executive director of
the Moral Majority in Texas, and John
B. Duncan, executive director of the
Texas Civil Liberties Union, voiced
their opinions in the debate entitled
“Born-Again Politics; the Moral Major
ity vs. the American Civil Liberties
Union.”
Sponsored by MSC Great Issues, the
debate focused on the statement that
the Moral Majority is “imposing its own
brand of morality on the American
citizen against his will. ”
Duncan said that while his organiza
tion respects the right of the Moral Ma
jority to express its beliefs as a political
organization, the ACLU opposes a sub
stantial proportion of the Moral Major
ity’s platform.
“We do believe that if it (the Moral
Majority’s platform) is enacted into law,
it would amount to setting up a religious
state in this country that is not unlike
that which has been set up in Iran,” he
said.
Duncan, defending his claim, cited
programs supported by the Moral Ma
jority, including one asking that volun
tary prayers and Bible readings in pub
lic schools be reinstated.
“We have had a long tradition in this
country of separating our religious be
liefs from our public affairs,” he said.
“And to come in and say we are going
use our public schools as a means of
religious indoctrination ultimately
means that you are going to wind up
with a state advocating a particular
brand of religion.”
Mason countered by saying school
prayer has been a tradition just recently
disbanded and that no one has been
hurt by it.
“It has been a tradition for over a
period of almost 150 years ... that peo
ple have been allowed to have voluntary
prayer in school, he said.
As for state influence that religion in
public schools could bring. Mason said
Christian believers have had influence
over the schools until recent years
“when our Supreme Court has taken
some rather liberal rulings regarding
this activity in school.”
But, he said, in spite of some recent
unfavorable court rulings, “I believe re
ligious people ... should certainly parti
cipate in their government.
“There is a separation illusion cre
ated by a liberal element ... that reli
gious organizations have no right to par
ticipate in their government. It is the
duty and responsibility of every Amer
ican citizen, if they have a grievance or
problem to make ... to assemble and to
present these grievances to their gov
ernment.
Mason said Jerry Falwell established
the Moral Majority because he and
others decided to take a stand against
the moral decay of America.
“We too have a right to say what
direction we’d like to see our nation
follow. We gave a forum to the people in
order that they might speak out,” he
said.
Fred Mason
The Moral Majority