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I, Aggies saw Varsity’s horns off in basketball game See page 15 Husband likes dorm life in women’s residence hall See page 4 The Battalion Serving the University community 75 No. 101 USPS 045360 18 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, February 22, 1982 eftists battle Military drive H United Press International AN SALVADOR, El Salvador — list guerrillas staged lightning cks in eastern El Salvador to divert ;esirom a 1,000-man government mlve backed by artillery and .-supplied helicopter gunships, ly commanders said. G|errillas Sunday killed at least tsoldiers on an island off the coast Usulutan province in a surprise ick, to counter a 1,000-man milit- sweep 20 miles to the west, army cers in the port of La Victoria said. They said army reinforcements e rushed to the island by boat and hed the rebels to the other side of 'island after all-night combat. Col Sigfrido Ochoa, directing the |§man military drive near the city >an Vicente, 36 miles east of the B, said his troops killed 20 rebels wo days of Fighting. Bee U.S.-supplied UH1-H Huey icopters fitted with machine guns ifed the hills north of San Vicente, miles east of the capital, while army artillery pounded guerrilla positions, residents said. Ochoa said one of the rebels shot Saturday was believed to have been a Cuban mercenary, but he said the man died while being flown to San Salvador for medical treatment. A guerrilla bomb early Sunday rip ped out the side of a bridge on the coastal highway outside the city of Usulutan, capital of the province, officials said. However, single-lane traffic was still able to pass over the crossing, they said. In the capital, Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas, head of the San Sal vador archdiocese, said March 28 elections for a constitutional assembly “can become a beginning for a solu tion” to the country’s political vio lence. “If there isn’t any mechanism that once and for all can make sane this systematic violation of human rights, the discontent will continue in much of the population and w 7 ill generate the field for new rebellions,” he said. Taking advantage of a good day staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal Keith Saathoff, a first year Veterinary Medicine major from Hondo, studies his medical physiology book while getting a sun tan outside his dorm. Sunday’s sunny weather was a pleasant change after a rainy Saturday. “It’s pretty hard to study when the day is so beautiful,” Saathoff said. Governor appoints Vandiver to defense, technology council by Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff Gov. William P. Clements has appointed University President Frank E. Vandiver to an advisory council on defense and technology. Vandiver was one of more than 20 people appointed last week to the Texas Aerospace and National De fense Technology Council created by Clements in September. The governor gave the group sev eral specific tasks, which include promoting research in Texas, bring ing aerospace and defense firms to the state and persuading Congress to maintain and expand Texas military bases. Terry Young, a public relations officer for the council, said Friday that when the council was formed, it was expected to concentrate on attracting new research and defense contracts to the state. However, he said, members say Texas faces a shortage of engineers and scientists and training new ones is one of the state’s most pressing needs. So the inclusion of prominent educa tors on the council was the logical move, he said. The council’s executive committee already has visited Washington to brief the Texas congressional delega tion on its activities, Young said. The full council will meet for the first time in March. A spokesman said Vandiver had just learned of his appointment and wanted to become more familiar with the council before discussing it. Paul Thayer of Dallas, chairman of the board of the Vought Corp., chairs the 37-member council. Hot checks Class to counsel first offenders staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal Tecton ophysics Gary Robbins, a graduate student and geology department faculty member, collects some rock samples lying behind the Geosciences building for the Geology 320 class which he teaches. by Robert Curlin Battalion Reporter To combat hot checks in Brazos County, the county attorney’s office now requires that all first offenders who wish to avoid prosecution attend an eight-hour class. Classes offered by the National Corrective Training Institute are de signed to help people understand why they write bad checks and how to avoid doing so in the future, said Joyce Lewis, regional coordinator for the Institute. If an offender fails to pay the store’s bad check fine, the store store can turn the check over to the county attorney who can then prosecute. With the NCTI program, a first offender must repay the store where he wrote the bad check as well as any required fees, including the $35 fee for the class, Lewis said. The county attorney’s office halts prosecution efforts after the offender has attended class. The program not only helps the offender, but also reduces the back log in the attorney’s office, Lewis said. Class members participate in indi vidual projects and group discussions prompted by questions such as “What is a criminal?” Lewis said discussions are often detailed because none of the participants see themselves as cri minals. “Writing bad checks is like a ‘closet crime,”’ she said. “If you write a bad check and you know it’s bad, that’s stealing. Another class project is a small group discussion about why indi viduals write a bad check in the first place. “Very seldom is it for something they need, but for something they want,” Lewis said. “Each individual tells what it cost them to write the bad check, as far as restitution and fees.” Lewis said class members then try to define the risks and benefits of writing a bad check. “The only benefits are free goods and services for a short period of time,” she said. “The risks highly out- weigh the benefits.” Lewis said most participants start out angry. They are often under quite a bit of stress and feel they are there because of circumstances beyond their control, she said. Group discussions help offenders realize they are not the only ones who have a problem with hot check writing and their attitudes usually change, Lewis said. One or two classes are held each week at the Brazos Center, depend ing on the number of offenders they have, Lewis said. The Institute also has a program dealing with multiple bad check writ ing offenses as well as one covering shoplifting, Lewis said. Courses in different culture to enrich education . Program to offer ‘Camp’ in Italy by Julie Farrar I, Battalion Reporter pThousands of freshmen become ’riented to life at Texas A&M Uni- ersity during Fish Camp sessions lelri each summer in Palestine, Texas. This summer some freshmen fffl learn all about Aggieland during i four-week program in Italy, i Sponsored by the College of Liber- il Arts, the program will offer a uni- |ue Fish Camp experience and at the ^ lime time allow students to earn six lours’ credit while touring the Italian ’ ttuntryside. i“lt should give them an enriched co^\ 20^ educational background to prepare them for the remainder of their stu dies in a way that most of their peers have not been prepared,” said Dr. Candida Lutes, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Each student will register for two of several courses to be taught by Texas A&M faculty, she said. Courses are world literature, western civilization, art history survey, introduction to philosophy and philosophy of reli gion. Students will attend classes for the five-week period and live in dormi tories at the Italart Study Center near Florence, Lutes said. The center, sur rounded by hills and vineyards, is a former monastery now used only by foreign study groups. “The center has been taking stu dent groups from the United States for the past 10 years,” she said. “Right now, a group of Texas A&M environ mental design students is there.” In addition, plenty of time will be set aside for tours, sightseeing and cultural exchange, Lutes said. Trips to Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice are planned, she said. While touring these cities, students will visit historical and architectural sites including homes of several re nown philosophers, she said. Many of the tours will be conducted by native Italians with advanced degrees in art history and other related subjects. Students also may travel some on their own, Lutes said. Transportation will be provided so students can visit surrounding areas to shop, sample the cuisine or simply enjoy the Italian culture. Estimated cost of the trip sche duled for June 21 through July 23 is $2,000. Student killed Michaeljohn Freeman, aTexas A&M University sophomore, was killed and three others were injured Sunday morning in a two-car, head-on colli sion on FM 60. Freeman, 20, from Groves, was returning home following a dorm party off FM 2818 when he crossed over from the eastbound lane of FM 60 and hit an oncoming car driven by Ivan Ira Issac, a freshman from Fort Worth, in the westbound lane. Issac, 19, is listed in fair condition in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph Hospital. A passenger in F’reeman’s car, John Edward Buckle of Houston, is also in fair condition at St. Joseph. A passenger in Issac’s car, Dana Rao, 20, from Dallas, was treated and released with a sprained ankle. inside Classified 14 Local 3 National 9 Opinions 2 Sports 15 State 6 What’s Up 13 forecast Today’s forecast: Sunny and warm becoming clear and cool tonight with a high today in the upper 80s; low tonight in the mid-50s. Tues day’s forecast calls for pardy cloudy skies with continuing warm tem peratures.