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he Battalion DS il, 75 No. 63 Pages Serving the Texas A&M University community Tuesday, December 1, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High 62 High .. .65 Low 48 Low .. .50 Chance of rain. . . .. . 10% Chance of rain . 10% 30! MLY maid 1® EVERY J.S.-Soviet rms talks egin today United Press International ENEVA, Switzerland — U.S. and let arms negotiators, citing the high stakes” in talks to halt the far arms race, imposed a total news lout on negotiations to limit ium-range missiles that could des- Europe. ,S. chief negotiator Paul H. Nitze, and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. sinsky, 74, Monday opened the first s talks between the two superpow- in 2V'> years and Nitze described r meeting as cordial and busines- tlnlike the glare of publicity sur- iding the restart of the arms cut i, the first official session today on ling intermediate-range missiles succeeding parley will he held ir a total news blackout of the sensi- data discussed. stakes are very high for all of [Nitze said in a statement approved Soviet counterpart, he details of the negotiations must lept inside the negotiating rooms. ]statement cautioned against using [talks for a “propaganda war” that I ruin negotiations, sduring SALT I and SALT II nego- jons between 1969 and 1979, the public announcements will involve [date and place of the meetings, said A 20-member U.S. negotiating land the 34-member Soviet delega- fwere participating in the first ses- fc talks come after a 10-month war (lids between the Reagan adminis- luand Moscow, with Reagan accus- the Kremlin of fostering terrorism lying, and Moscow contending 'an was a cold war warrior intent on leanns race. On his arrival Friday, promised to be “tough although unable. he arms cut talks also come in the of the biggest pacifist demonstra- in Europe since World War II with jesters decrying the possibility of a |ted nuclear war fought between the superpowers on their territory. he Soviets currently have 630 flium-range missiles in Europe and United States has none. To balance [situation, NATO plans to deploy 572 hing-2 and Cruise missiles. \C v available isis. The 1M- iot be taldei ntil March. nal Sports Of: is open uni igh Thursday Fridavs. attalion ditor -nominated Members of the Student Publica- is Board unanimously re-nominated gelique Copeland as editor of The ttalion Monday night. The nomination is subject to approv- )y Dr. J.Yl. Prescott, vice president •r academic affairs. tall izers 'okes ts Crushers pa-Kegs’ icga N T S 1 icga s to all the« Staff photo by Greg Watermann Hipped Off Football trainers Jeff Davis, left, and “Radar” Ricke examine a spot along the 49-yard line of Kyle Field where someone removed a piece of Astroturf approximately 4 inches wide and 15 feet long. The strip was torn up on a seam, which will make it difficult to patch and may require an entire 5-yard strip of replacement turf. University Police Captain Jack Bruce estimated the damage to be about $3,000. He said the crime is considered to be criminal mischief and the police are still looking for the thieves. $1.2 million presented to A&M By SHERYLON JENKINS Battalion Reporter A $1.2 million gift from the Ella C. McFadden Charitable Trust Founda tion of Fort Worth has been presented to Texas A&M University. The gift, which comprises 50,000 shares of Southland Royalty Stock, brings the total financial support of the University from the late McFadden’s trust to approximately $5 million. One-third of the donation, or appro ximately $400,000, will he given to the University’s Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise. The free enterprise center, associated with the College of Business Administration, is supported entirely from private contri butions. Dr. Robert Walker, vice president for development, said the remainder of the money has not yet been allocated. However, he said it probably will be used for scholarships as it has been used in the past. Walker said 40 scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $1,800 a year and 12 President’s Endowed Scholar ships worth $2,000 each have been awarded this year from the trust. The 1 trust was established through McFadden’s will in 1965 to be used as a private fund to support charities. Wal ker said. “We owe a great debt of graditude to trustees of the trust for the vital support they have given to students at Texas A&M,’ Walker said. McFadden Hall, a women’s dorm which opened in the 1980 fall semester, was named in memory of McFadden for her contributions to the University. A native of Kentucky, she came to Fort Worth from New Orleans with her husband in 1933. She was one of the chief benefactors of Texas Wesleyan College and in 1963 she received an honorary degree from Texas Women’s University. Although McFadden has no specific ties to other Texas universities, her trust contributes to several Texas insti tutions of higher learning including Texas A&M and Texas Tech University, Walker said. Supreme Court hears aliens’ rights debate Copeland, a senior journalism and mputer science major, ran un posed for the .staff position. She has ved as editor during the summer ses- |n and this fall semester. Reflecting upon her previous semes- ras editor, Copeland said: “More and bre students are turning to The Batta- n as a place for their voices to be ard. The discussion and debate of Jinions helps keep this University pwingand healthy. I’m glad this is one the services The Battalion can offer ixas A&M.” In previous semesters, Copeland has brked for The Battalion as a reporter, Jsistant city editor and managing litor. [The board selects an editor every mester. Candidates for the position |ust have worked for The Battalion or ather professional newspaper, or live taken 12 hours of journalism pises including Journalism 203, 204, W 402. They must maintain at least a [0 grade point ratio. | Members of the board include Chair- lan Bob Rogers, head of the Depart- lent of Communications; Dr. Carolyn [ uair, director of student activities; Dr. division Inti ‘°^ ert Barzak, associate professor of the “Wall® Gary Halter, associate pro- Hithor Walt [ essor °f political science; and Dr. John p.'U Banna, assistant professor in parks and Tk “w*r reation - ctorious. Set | Student members of the board in- :1 that a Walt® jlude Jeff Bissey, a junior chemical en- i All-Univers : pneering major and executive vice last year, bj [resident for Student Government; me both teat Todd Hedgepeth, a senior in journalism arm met in tl M public relations officer for the corps; pindy Heep, a junior health education pajor and vice president of public rela tions for the MSC Council and Dire- teams uf |torate; and alternate Buzz Steiner, a junior journalism major. United Press International WASHINGTON — The Supreme Courtis facing one of the/ most politically sensitive issues of its 1981-82 term in a case that shapes up as a historic test of the rights of illegal aliens ill the United States. Attorneys for the state of Texas clash today with lawyers for the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund in a debate be fore the justices focusing on whether states must provide free public education for children of illegal aliens. Perhaps the key to the case concerns whether the Consti tution’s Equal Protection Clause applies to illegal aliens — something the Supreme Court has never addressed/ The Equal Protection Clause -— a basic tenet of American constitutional law — has been interpreted by the high court to mean there can be no discrimination in the enjoyment of personal liberty, the acquisition of property and in the appli cation of the law. The controversy before the justices stems from a 1975 Texas law that cut off state funds to local public school districts for the costs of educating the children of illegal aliens. The statute, however, allows districts to refuse to admit such children or to charge them tuition. Since most illegal aliens are poverty-stricken, a tuition requirement effectively prevents their enrollment. Lower federal courts have declared the Texas law unconsti tutional, prompting the current appeal by Texas and several local school districts. The strongest denunciation of the statute came from Judge Frank M. Johnson of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, who concluded; “Denying a person a basic- education is tantamount to insuring that the person remains at the lowest socioeconomic level of modern society.” Texas argues the case raises a problem of pressing national concern, since the number of “unlawful aliens residing in our country has risen dramatically. Beside Texas, the dispute has particular importance for states with large numbers of illegal aliens, including California, Florida and New York. Texas is warning the justices that their resolution of the controversy will have ramifications “far beyond the immedi ate question of education for undocumented alien children. Federal regulations now bar states from providing un documented aliens with food stamps and certain other types of federal assistance, including Medicare and Medicaid. While these regulations are not directly raised in the case, Texas contends that its outcome will certainly affect the power of the states of implement federal policy and quite possibly the power of the federal agencies as well. Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund President Vilma S. Martinez responds: “At issue here is the very basis of who we are as a society ... the school house door is also the door out of poverty and into full participation in this society.” The high court will hand down a decision in the case by next July. NASA considers reusable rockets for space transport United Press International WASHINGTON — The space agen cy is considering developing a new generation of unmanned reusable rock ets to supplement the space shuttle as an orbital transport in the late 1980s and 1990s. Dr. Hans Mark, the deputy adminis trator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adrtiinistration, said the new launchers would use solid rocket boos ters developed for the space shuttle. Such rockets, he said in an interview Monday, would be able to launch heavy payloads at relatively low cost. Like the boosters used by the shuttle, the new rockets would parachute into the sea to be recovered for use again. Mark said three of the shuttle’s 2.5- million-pound thrust booster rockets could place 125,000-pound payloads into low orbits around the Earth — twice the weightlifting capability of the shuttle. He said two boosters would fire first and then the third would take over at high altitude. Such a rocket combination might he used to carry large structures into orbit or serve as tankers hauling fuel or water, he said. The water could be broken down in orbit to make hydrogen and oxygen — a prime rocket fuel that could be stored in gaseous form in huge orbit al balloons. When the shuttle was in the planning stages 10 years ago, NASA said the shut tle would replace all but the smallest of the nation’s unmanned satellite laun chers. But Mark said it is generally agreed now that more modern, recover able unmanned rockets also will be needed. Mark said he and NASA administra tor James Beggs favor development of a manned orbiting space station as the nation’s next major space project. He said the agency should have a firm space station plan to present to the president within two years. Mark said the government also is con sidering changing the way the shuttle is operated in the future. Once the reus able rocket plane becomes fully opera tional in three to five years, he said, it should be controlled from the launch sites in Florida and California and not at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “It’s even broader than that, ” he said. “There’s a very real question as to whether NASA should be the agency that runs the shuttle.” One option, he said, would be to set up a corporation like Comsat to operate the shuttle fleet. Another would be to have the shuttle operated by the Air Force. Three Texas A&M sophomores will be honored tonight at the last Silver Taps ceremony of 1981. Students to be honored are David Wayne Badgett, 21, a sophomore in animal science from Center; Pamela J. Penick, 20, a sophomore in agricultural economics from De Soto and Wiley Keith Jopling, 19, a sophomore in agricultural economics from Nacogdoches. In respect for the tradition, the student affairs office requests that all lights on campus be turned off from 10:20 p.m. to 10:50 p.m.