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Battaiion/PajiT A&M adopts new schedule for break March 10 See page 5 Listen to Willie Nelson: drive 55 mph on break See page 3 :t w'der to fo re ^ying ft was in est interests. 'u liave 'oo miici tOgivt, n the world •sake of protect! ti( market," he H | panese. Donald said the J appreciated a letj '-opening meii >y 'licjapanesejoii miese products^ a\ e won their pcs American mailt uality and price ( 'mss,” he said.] ' to be where tl» The Battalion Serving the University community Vol. 75 No. 114 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Thursday, March 11, 1982 Airline accused United Press International DALLAS — Allegations of a pat- ( ll! of tricks . poor )LIDS !y :ern of dirty tricks by American Air- 1 ines. designed to shoot down bitter rival Braniff International’s efforts to stay aloft, prompted a swift investiga- ed Press Inirniaraition by the Civil Aeronautics Board. IN—The Depan® United Press International n Resources ar learned of the allegations Wednesday hundreds ol and CAB officials in Washington and tom receivingl Dallas later confirmed they had inde- nergv hills, a pendendy been informed of the same i the agency d charges and had ordered an investi- mers Union,! gation. and 13 peopltc >Ameriean spokesman Paul Haney :i unable to a| said the allegations were ludicrous te Energy A> and ridiculous at best and ugly at Tiled the petitk worst. program, whilts^fcources said that American trig- ?d. is adminst gered a critical Braniff cash-flow cri- The petition. sislast week by dumping $9 million i change the worth of Braniff debts on the Airline eligibility foi Haring House in New York. The agency essentially is a bank that hand les the financial paperwork that I iankins, an; accompanies the use of airline tic kets. If Coast LegalFi To meet the demand, Braniff was counsel for forced to slash employee paychecks in itioners, said hall, which successfully raised $8 mii- ilv restricts eli. hoti in cash flow and helped Braniff >gratn to persrfi'Ii't the immediate crisis, sources Mare as of De s; iid i [p^he alleged ticket dumping also forced Braniff President Howard is said federj Putnam to fly to Washington and to the program jpublically lobby for a plan under ce to a much Mwlich other airlines would honor persons considtBraniff tickets if it went out of busi- ear pool ness, the sources said, nated that oi\ U.S. slashes Libyan aid, limits trade photo by Todd Woodard Oreo man ejected from meeting graduate student senator, was Speaker of the Senate Jeff Anthony to leave Wednesday’s senate Fred Seals, asked by meeting because of his violating a newly-enacted prohibition on eating at meetings. See related story page 4. Texans eligM am under ft can meet the us. icy to fund the ce program,' ility bills and* ics, comes fromj ;rn mentbutis the state aspai raise acuity in ‘83 budget, Vandiver says by Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff proposed University budget EBALL my clients weitl 1-stamp rolls mber cut-off | TDHR to IPJ Hankins ore they never mce even d ,le for the prof rcess to app 1( >r next year includes an average 8.7 mse who iverenjpercent faculty pay increase, Univer- r.” JRy President Frank E. Vandiver said also said the ^ Wednesday. tas yet to sel1 f , And faculty numbers and salaries > persons whojvvill not he cut back as long as Texas edfortheprojJBcM University’s share of the Per- 5 are just so'“ manent University Fund remains in- tell who is CT'act, he said. E Vandiver discussed the budget tas 60 days in*' dll( l its effect on the faculty at a meet- > the groupsIP'Kof about 75 members of theTexas Association of College Teachers in Rudder Tower. Ik I ' le proposed budget will not be- j&'ne official unless approved by the yFXas A&M University System Board ® Regents, and thus, Vandiver would w' discuss any further details about H| e budget. The board will meet on Icampus March 23. le a Mniauegal ‘ P ro P°sal for fiscal 1983 totals ill season long'ban $330 million. Of that, friends frale^wr’" rni *uon is earmarked for faculty y yourself w sal; >nes. scores will '< n well yourP L&Lf ‘ v games nt day-tO’^' l/vn L & L M ummer vacat k throughoul ittlefor first P Activities^ he tedious ^ fun — dra f choose sta^l >rs, and d ’and sB^'l Milwaukee’ aseball agai"? L,7 an > onc e a Playboy bunny and a eball, the- lce 0 fficer, was sentenced to life in sports ga' T ’ ee Jjjl ls ‘ >n f° r the shooting death of her nd $2.0° f° r ' ls an( L ex-wife, apparently be- uiebook »• s ‘ le wanted to end his financial I Tj le P ros ecution contended Mrs. Ifnibenek was motivated to kill L ris,lne Schultz last May because United Press International WASHINGTON — The U.S. ban on oil imports and most trade with Libya is described by U.S. officials as a calculated attempt to hurt, but not destroy, the Libyan government of Moammar Khadafy. The ban on Libyan oil, under con sideration for more than a year, and the prohibition on the sale of high technology gas and oil equipment was announced Wednesday by the State Department. It is expected the action will cost Khadafy about $150 million per month in hard currency at a time he is dipping into his financial reserves of $9 billion because of a glut in the in ternational oil market. Officials said the oil cutof f is not expected to have a measurable effect on U.S. consumers since the amount of Libyan oil the LInited States im ports is negligible and can be made up from Nigeria. The State Department issued a statement saying the oil cut and trade restrictions were imposed because of a continuing pattern of Libyan activ ity which violates accepted interna tional norms of behavior. The administration repeatedly has accused Khadaf y of sponsoring inter national terrorism. Earlier this year, it said it had evidence Khadafy dis patched hit teams to assassinate Presi dent Reagan and other U.S. officials. Citing threats to the Sudan, Soma lia, and North Yemen, a State Depart ment official said, Libya’s activities are worldwide and extend to financial support for left-wing governments and groups in Central America, in cluding the Nicaraguans. The specific sanctions, authorized in a proclamation signed by Reagan Wednesday, include: —Prohibition of imports of Libyan crude oil. That would not include pet roleum refined abroad. —Banning U.S. oil and gas tech nology equipment not readily avail able from sources outside the United States. —Requiring licenses for other ex ports, with the exception of food and other agricultural products, medicine and medical supplies. The ban on Libyan oil comes at a time, State Department officials said, when U.S. imports are less than 150,000 barrels a day — less than 3 percent of U.S. imports. Asked to list the effects, one official said, “Khadafy is going to have to sell that much oil to other buyers. “We think he will be able to do that,” the of ficial acknowledged, “hut he’s suddenly in a position where he has 150,000 more barrels a day than he had yesterday to sell and he’s been having trouble selling for the past year with everybody because his oil is overpriced. “It will cause him to cut the price of his oil,” the official said, which means less revenues coming into Libya with which to finance all these enterprises around the world.” Visitation team rates A&M, gives suggestions lot more average,” j||This will allow an average 8.7 per- teiit pay hike for faculty. However, andiver said, raises will not he uni- torni. I There are some that are zero, and Ex-bunny gets life for murder there are some that are ; than that, but that’s the Vandiver said. And the raises will not be the same for each college. “The differentiation in colleges — right now I’d like to say that there isn't any but that’s not true,” Vandiver said. “The differentiation ranges right now to about 5 percent and it’s going to get worse.” The way to keep salaries roughly equal, he said, is to ask the Legislature to provide more money for salaries and to keep the present structure of the Permanent University Fund. The PUF is income from land which the Legislature gave to the Uni versity of Texas and Texas A&M Uni versity. The regents of the University of Texas invest the proceeds. The fund now totals about $1.5 bil lion. Income from the fund is split, one-third to Texas A&M, two-thirds to UT. Vandiver reassured faculty mem bers that the hiring freeze he insti tuted in December was not intended to keep vacant faculty positions from being filled. “We’ve had all kinds of requests for hiring faculty since the freeze was put on in December ... 125 faculty posi- Dr. Frank E. Vandiver tions were to be filled and all of them have been approved,” he said. “One thing the freeze has done is to make everybody more aware of the fact that we’re going to have to use our re sources carefully, especially the hu man resources. “I did want you to know that ... requests to replace faculty have met with no problems at all.” Vandiver said the University’s most pressing need is for new equipment, especially computers. The University needs $29 million to bring its compu ter system up to par, he said. “We cannot now say that we are producing a first-rate student, a gra duate, who does not have some understanding of computing,” Van diver said. “If we don’t get computer money, it’s going to use up so much of our resources that it will finally hurt everything on campus.” Although the Legislature has so far refused to provide the money, he said, the University will ask for it again at the next session. He asked the faculty members, through the Texas Association of Col lege Teachers’ lobby in Austin, to help get more funds for computers and faculty salaries. Editor's note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on Texas A&M’s self-study program. by Sandra Kay Gary Battalion Staff As a part of the accreditation pro cess, through which Texas A&M Uni versity is recognized as a competent educational institution, the Universi ty must conduct a self-study every 10 years. The comprehensive study is dire cted on three levels — department, college and University. About 110 re ports are generated at these levels and are combined into one overall study and submitted to the Southern Asso ciation of Colleges and Schools, the body responsible for awarding accre ditation to the University. After examining the overall report, the Southern Association sends a visi tation team to the University. The team, made up of university profes sors, staff members and administra tors from other areas, examines the programs and the facilities dealt with in the self-study, said Dr. R.J.Q. Adams, coordinator of Texas A&M’s self-study program. Dr. R. William Barzak, editor of the program, said: “The (Southern Asso ciation’s) report describes generally the situation as the members of the team found it. While they’re on cam pus (some members of the team) will hold interviews — they may just stop you on the street sometime. Some body may come up to you and say, ‘Do you have any complaints?’ ... just sort of a random study.” He said others will want to schedule interviews with certain student gov ernment leaders, faculty and admi nistrators. From this, after reading all the documents and looking around the campus, each member of the visiting committee will draft his report. In addition to the narrative portion of these reports, which describes their impressions and conclusions, team members will make recommenda tions and suggestions, Barzak said. Once the visiting committee has made its recommendations, the re port goes to the University. “Then it’s up to the University administration — the president, vice presidents, the deans on down ... to act on the recommendations,” Barzak said. He said some recommendations will not be acted upon for various reasons. “The visiting team does not always know this or take it into considera tion, but as a state school we are con strained by certain factors that we have no control over — legislative au thority, budget limitations, the way we are funded and so on,” he said. “So there are some things we just can’t do even if we wanted to.” Adams said: “The hard (recom mendations) generally involve money. For example, it’s easy enough to say, ‘What (the University) needs is a $22 million laboratory building, please get one.’ That’s easy to say but difficult to do. “In the last self-study one of the judgments ... suggested that the lib rary physical plant was inadequate. The newest of the new library wings was a direct result of that. “Or the recommendations involve increasingly difficult kinds of philo sophical questions. When the need is pressing enough to get attention in the self-study, it is big and touches the lives of a lot of people and the very philosophies of how education works for the student, for the teacher and for the administrator. “For example, 20 years ago (the self-study) saying we ought to admit coeds, we ought to make membership in the Corps optional ... (was) a long range, big program which took a lot See STUDY page 14 Deadline to get in Voter’s Guide today Friday last day to reserve dorm space by students tivities 3404 ite, resented the fact her husband had a ke child support payments. Today is the deadline for student candidates to return their voter’s guide forms to The Battalion news room. The Voter’s Guide will be pub lished March 29 as a supplement to the student newspaper. Candidates seeking Student Sen ate positions will be listed by name, classification and position sought. All other candidates will be listed by name, classification, position sought and brief campaign information. Photographs of those running for yell leader, student body president and vice presidential positions also will be included. Those candidates must have their picture taken in The Battalion newsroom, 216 Reed by 8 tonight. A meeting for all candidates to dis cuss campaign rules and regulations will be held March 21 at 7;30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. Elections will be held March 30-31. Friday is the last day for students living off campus to reserve housing for the current semester, in order to be guaranteed housing for the fall semester. The 37 on-campus residence halls have the capacity to house 10,000 stu dents. However, 228 spaces are avail able. Any student taking 12 credit hours at Texas A&M University is eli gible for on-campus housing. Students who register and move on campus after Friday cannot be guaranteed a dormitory room for next semester and will have to put their names on the present waiting list. Housing applications for next semester that were received between April 1, 1981, and June 1, 1981, were entered into a lottery in July 1981 to determine their priority to receive housing assignments. Those room assignments will be made in April. Students who applied after June 1, 1981, will be placed on a first-come, first-served waiting list. The housing office will begin to accept applications for fall 1983 hous ing in November. inside Classified 8 Local 3 National 8 Opinions 2 Sports 11 State 5 What’s Up 7 forecast Today’s forecast: Foggy and over cast with a high in the low 80s; low tonight in the low 60s. Friday's forecast calls for mostly cloudv skies again with a high in the near 80.