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The maroon cube is on sale in the Memorial Student Center. itterrand, on visit to Israel, ays state right of Palestinians United Press International lERUSALEM — French President jmcois Mitterrand, clashing openly Prime Minister Menachem Be- , criticized the Camp David auton- ly plan and called for the right of lestinians to negotiate their own jte. Mitterrand, on the last day of his visit today was touring a Crusader cas tle in Acre that defied Napoleon’s army in 1799, punctured the diplo matic amity of his visit Thursday with a Knesset speech asking for negotia tions between Israel and the Palesti nians. “The dialogue supposes that each party can go to the limits of their rights which, for the Palestinians, like for others, can at the right moment signify a state,” Mitterrand said dra matically to Israel’s parliament. At a later news conference Mitter rand, the first French president to visit Israel, said the Camp David autonomy plan espoused by Israel will not solve the future of the 1.2 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. “I do not share the view that that autonomy will provide a solution to the Palestinian problem,” Mitterrand said. “Whether this is really the answer, history will tell us.” egents committee considers /arious campus improvements by Cindy Manicom Battalion Reporter Campus housing applications for the 1983 fall semester will be accepted, by mail or in person, begin ning Nov. 1, in 101 YMCA. Previously, housing officials accepted dormitory applications in April, 17 months prior to a student’s enrollment in Texas A&M Univer sity. The new date will limit the accept ance of applications to 10 months in advance, and housing officials say this will reduce the number of dormitory room assignments made to students who are unable to accept them. High school students applying for housing 10 months prior to enroll ment will be seniors, instead of juniors, and should have a better idea of where they truly want to attend college, said Dena Todd, supervisor of housing services. “Most students are thinking more about college their senior year in high school, not their junior year, and by accepting applications in November instead of April all students (who want housing at Texas A&M) will have a more equal opportunity to apply,” Todd said. “Also, high school students will have taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test 10 months prior to the 1983 fall semester and will know if they are eligible or not to attend A&M.” High school students must be accepted by the University by March 15 to receive a dormitory room assignment in April. All applications received between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15 will be entered in a computer lottery to be held in April. Through a random sample program, each will be assigned a number that will determine the order in which ap plicants will receive rooms assign ments. Applications received after Dec. 15 will be placed on a first come, first served waiting list. Students can apply for housing and be placed on the wait ing list at any time after Dec. 15. Although an application is entered into the lottery, housing space is not guaranteed to the applicant. Whether or not a room assignment is made depends on how many dorm rooms are filled with returning students and whether an applicant is accepted into the University. Also, only 80 percent of the avail able housing vacancies go to entering freshmen while 20 percent of the vacancies are reserved for returning and transfer students, Todd said. The lottery system was used for the first time with housing applicants for the fall of 1982. Those who applied between April 1 and June 1, 1981, were entered into the lottery held in July. Room assignments for those stu dents will be next month. Those who applied after June 1 for fall 1982 housing space were, and will continue to be, placed on a waiting list. Clements and Underwood halls, women’s dormitories built last year, bring the total number of residence halls to 37 — 19 women’s halls and 18 men’s halls. The 37 residence halls provide housing for 10,000 students. Of the 32,479 students enrolled this semester, 9,772 live on campus; 228 dorm spaces are vacant. Any stu dent may apply and move into these dormitory rooms throughout the cur rent semester but will not be guaran teed housing for the fall semester. In an effort to make the most accu rate number of dormitory room assignments, housing officials consid er the number of unclaimed rooms each semester for the previous five years. Using these figures as a guide line, they estimate the number of rooms that will not be claimed in the fall and make room assignments based on those figures. “Last fall, we were way off on our calculations of no shows because of the number of new residence halls, but this year there will be no new' resi dence halls and our number should be consistent with last year’s number of no shows,” Todd said. by Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff IA contract for a new roof on the All jiths Chapel was reported Thursday a committee of the Texas A&M liversity System Board of Regents. Planning and Building Committee embers also discussed a preliminary £sign for a new sign at Olsen Field, full board will decide at its next eting March 23 whether to accept |e committee’s recommendations. On January 26, University Presi- knt Frank E. Vandiver awarded a |2,650 contract to Port Enterprises c. of Port Lavaca, calling for a new ■iminum roof to be installed at the ^apcl which has been damaged by ater because roof leaks. Physical Plant Director Joe J. Estill said the contractor has guaranteed ^mpletion of the roof within 90 days the start of construction. No date ^s been set for beginning the pro- t, but he said it should be soon. I The committee also heard a sug- tion that a new sign be erected at en Field. The field’s present sign is photo by Diana Sultenfuss Regent Norman N. Moser, from DeKalb, chairman of the Service Units Committee, reads an agenda item to the planning and building committee of the Board of Regents Thursday. small and mainly hidden by trees. C.E. “Pat” Olsen, for whom the field is named, has offered to pay for the erection and maintenance of a lar ger sign. The committee saw an inital drawing of the sign, which w ill consist of cast bronze letters, about four feet tall, similar to the sign outside the Animal Food and Science Center. The committee approved the idea and voted to send Olsen a letter of thanks for his generosity to the Uni versity. Other projects discussed at the meeting include the renovation of the on-campus residence of the vice pres ident for student services and hot- water improvements to Keathlev. Fowler, Hughes, Mclnnis and Schu macher halls. The committee then went into ex ecutive session to discuss land acquisi tion. After that meeting, the commit tee met with the Service Units Com mittee to hear a report from Bruce Miles, director of the Texas Forest Service. Miles discussed the need to replace east Texas’s forests, which are being cut down rapidly. The $5-billion lum ber industry is the ninth largest in Texas, and while large corporations are replacing the trees they cut, small landowners are not. He said for every nine private acres harvested, one is replanted. Reports say rebel director escapes officials United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Military officials said they captured the Nicaraguan man cited by Secret ary of State Alexander Haig as a dire ctor of rebel forces but refused to comment on reports he had escaped. Haig told the House foreign oper ations subcommittee Thursday “a Nicaraguan military man was cap tured in El Salvador, having been sent there by the FSLN (Nicaraguan San- dinista leadership) to participate in the direction which is so evident of this guerrilla operation from Nicar agua.” But later, CBS News quoted Salva doran authorities as saying the Nicar aguan cited by Haig escaped when he was taken to the Mexican Embassy in San Salvador to identify a suspected embassy contact with the Salvadoran rebels. The Nicaraguan was escorted by military police, but as the embassy door opened, he was snatched away by someone inside the building, Sal vadoran Defense Minister General Jose Guillermo Garcia told CBS. The network quoted an embassy spokes man as denying the story. Garcia said the Nicaraguan, Legda- mis Anaxid Gutierrez, was captured three or four days ago after observa tion by security forces. Gutierrez admitted going to El Salvador for sub versive work, he told CBS. R iollege of Business names egent Texas exec of year The Texas A&M College of Busi- less has named John R. Blocker of •iouston Texas Business Executive of Year and is honoring him at a rivate luncheon on campus today. Blocker, Class of ’45, is president f Blocker Energy Corporation and ubsidiary companies, and vice chair- nan of the Texas A&M University iystem Board of Regents. His selection for the award is based >n recommendations from corporate ifficers throughout Texas. Each ear, the College of Business presents the award to an executive ot a Texas- based firm in recognition of his out standing professional performance. Blocker will discuss effective busi ness practices in his speech to mem bers of the College of Business and interested students at 2 p.m. today in 102 Academic & Agency Building. The regent also serves on the Board’s Committee for Academic Campuses and the College of Busi ness Advisory Committee for Execu tive Development Programs. Fun Run to help handicapped by Cheryl Maynard Battalion Reporter Saturday marks the second annual Fun Run, a 10-kilometer (6.2 mile) run sponsored by the Student Y Asso ciation. Registration forms are available in 216 MSC. A $6 entry fee is required and all proceeds will go to the Special Olym pics for the Multiple Handicapped. “The run ties in with the competi tion and recreation theme of the Spe cial Olympics,” said Mary Lou Munin, spring project chairman for the Stu dent Y. The Fun Run will begin in front of G. Rollie White Colliseum at 9 a.m. Check-in and delayed registration will be held from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. Participants in the run will receive a t-shirt, and trophies will awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place runners. Door prizes, donated by Athlete’s Foot, Champs, The Foot Locker and The Loading Zone will be awarded before the run. Orange drink and water will be supplied to the runners and first aid will be provided by the Texas A&M Emergency Care Team. “We’re encouraging the entire community to suppiort the run,” Munin said. “Those who cannot run the entire distance can walk part of or the entire 6.2 miles." Last year. 108 pieople entered the run and Student Y donated $200 to the Spiecial Olympics. Judging by the number of pieople already signed up for the run, Munin said Student Y probably will be able to contribute ab out $300 this year. inside Classified 6 Local 3 National 6 Opinions 2 Spiorts 9 State 4 What’s Up 8 forecast Today’s forecast: Mostly cloudy and cool with a 50 piercent chance of rain and a high in the mid-50s; low tonight in the mid-30s. Satur day’s forecast calls for cool tempier- atures and a 30 p>ercent chance of rain.