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Vol, 75 No. 126 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, April 5, 1982
Argentina captures
last British marines
United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —
Argentine troops captured the last six
Blitish Royal Marines holding out on
the Falkland Islands but faced hostil-
itJfrom the remaining 1,800 English-
spjpaking residents, news reports said
today.
■In London, British Foreign Secret
ary Lord Carrington and two de
puties resigned following harsh critic-
isija in Parliament for allowing Argen
tina to capture the South Atlantic is
land chain.
■The six British marines were sur
rounded by Argentine troops Sunday
night in a cave on Soledad Island and
surrendered without a fight, the
Argentine news agency DYN said.
The marines, reportedly the last
British soldiers remaining on the is
lands seized by the Argentine forces
last Friday, were taken to the Falk-
lands capital of Port Stanley, the news
agency said.
A blackout was imposed Sunday in
the Argentine coastal town of Com-
odoro Rivadavia fronting the Falk-
lands 450 miles away in preparation
for a threatened British attack.
Both nations adamantly vowed to
go to war over the islands, although
reports indicated the United States
would try to aid in a peace pact before
a 40-vessel British armada now steam
ing toward the islands can reach and
repel the Argentine force.
The aircraft carriers HMS Invinci
ble and Hermes left Portsmouth har
bor today to head the British fleet on a
two-week voyage to the captured
Crown Colony in the South Atlantic
8,000 miles away.
ubert, other scholars,
to speak at graduation
Commencement for Texas A&M
University will be May 7 and 8 in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
tammencement for degree candi-
s in the colleges of agriculture,
iciences, liberal arts and the Gra-
e College will be at 2 p.m. May 7.
eorge P. Mitchell, Class of ’40
■ president of Mitchell Energy and
^Mopment Corporation of Hous
ton! will deliver the commencement
address.
At 7:30 p.m. May 7, degree candi
dates in the colleges of architecture,
engineering and veterinary medicine
will be graduated.
Dr. Herbert H. Reynolds, presi
dent of Baylor University will be the
speaker.
At 9 a.m. May 8, commencement
will be held for degree candidates in
the colleges of business administra
tion, education, science and from
Texas A&M University at Galveston.
The speaker will be Dr. Frank W.R.
Hubert, chancellor of the Texas
A&M University System.
The College of Medicine will con
duct commencement at 2:30 p.m.
June 5 in Rudder Theater.
The speaker will be Dr. Frederick
C. Robbins, president of the Institute
of Medicine of the National Academy
of Science in Washington D.C. Rob
bins is a winner of the 1954 Nobel
Prize in Physiology.
staff photo by Eric Mitchell
She doesn’t look pleased
Beth Mounce, senior animal science
major from Welborn, shows her opinion
of the outcome in one of the class
competitions she entered in the
Equestrian Park Horse Show hosted by
Texas A&M University on Sunday.
Mounce went on to take second place
in the Pleasure Hunt Seat class later in
the day. The event was held at
Equestrian Park.
tudent body president: new year critical
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
The student body has taken a long
shot in selecting its Student Govern
ment representatives for next year,
says Student Body President Ken
Johnson.
“None of these people have the
yied-and-true track record that you
an feel confident about,” he said.
[Mike Lawshe and Pat Pearson have
never proven themselves .”
Lawshe and Pearson face each
bther in a run-off Tuesday for the
position of student body president.
Though Johnson expressed
Boubts about both candidates, the de
cision has been made, he said. “I just
(link the students should consider
[he real meanings of the issues these
andidates are running on before
hey go to the polls again.
“I would like to express my dis
appointment in the student body. I
hink they’ve been sandbagged, and
hey don’t know what they’ve gotten
hemselves into.
“At first I didn’t think it would be
appropriate to get involved in the
ampaign,’’Johnson said. “I’ve always
felt that in the long run, right would
prevail. Well, it is my opinion that
fight has not prevailed. Able and
hualified candidates have not been
put into a run-off for these positions.”
It is the importance of the upcom-
ng year that makes the student body
Becision even more critical, Johnson
aid.
“This is a very important year be-
ause it’s the chance to finally deal
jvith decision makers,” he said.
“With the new vice president of
Icademic affairs coming into office,
Itudent Government needs to get in
here and show them what it’s all ab-
futand explain things to them before
ney get things explained to them
rom another perspective.”
The upcoming state legislative ses-
lion, expected to deal with the Perma
nent University Fund and a possible
aition increase, also needs the atten-
Bon of a good leader, Johnson said.
Johnson expressed specific doubts
Ibout both candidates.
“The people that are behind Pear-
on bother me,” he said. “We’ve
jlready seen Mr. (Greg) Hood’s lack
|fjudgement — that’s not particular-
' a reassuring point.” Hood, a chief
learson supporter, was suspended
Tom the University last semester for
(rawing a saber at the Southern
[lethodist University football game.
“Pat’s been in the Senate a couple
)f years,” Johnson said, “but he’s al
ways been pretty quiet.”
Johnson disapproves of candidates
Although Pearson has become
more agressive this year, Johnson
said, the legislation he has introduced
and supported has not reflected the
mainstream of thought.
Pearson has called for an increase
in academic programs, such as a stu
dent advisers program.
“It’s vague enough to sound mar
velous,” Johnson said.
Pearson also wants University
academic policies to be unified.
“It’s not like he has come up with
this brainchild,” Johnson said. “It’s
been well established in the system.”
Johson said he also is amazed by
Pearson’s plan to develop crime
awareness.
“I’d love to see Pearson’s plan —
the rationale for enforcing the Aggie
Code of Honor,” he said. “I bet it’s
something that we do as individuals
— we choose to lie, cheat or steal.”
Mike Lawshe is using a reactionary
campaign ploy, Johnson said.
“When he goes out and asks people
‘What can you say Student Govern
ment has done?’, they see it in The
Battalion, and they read about it, but
they can’t remember, because there
are more important things in their
own lives,” he said.
“But we don’t pursue it any further
to find out the real substance to the
issue.
“It can be successful through a
Rapport is
important,
Lawshe says
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Rapport with the Texas A&M
administration is an important quality
in a student body presidential candi
date, Mike Lawshe said.
Lawshe is in a run-off for the pres
idential position with Pat Pearson.
The run-off will be held Tuesday.
“I feel it’s important for the stu
dent body president to have a rapport
with the administrators before taking
office,” Lawshe said.
“I know Jack Fritz, president of the
Former Student’s Association be
cause I’ve worked with him on Class
Council over the past two years.
“I’ve also worked with Dr. Charles
Samson on a one-on-one basis, and in
the last three years, with Malon
Sutherland, so, even though my con
tinuity isn’t with Student Govern
ment, it is with the administration, ■
and I feel that’s important.”
Many people think the Texas A&M
University System Board of Regents
are against the students, Lawshe said,
and don’t listen to student opinion. “I
think they do,” he said.
“They’re very receptive to what the
students want, and they will listen to
you, if you present yourself in a prop
er way — not a radical way.”
Student Government should deal
with broad issues, Lawshe said.
“When you’re talking about Stu
dent Government, I think you should
be talking about broad things that are
going to affect all students,” he said.
“The way I understand it is that
Student Government can’t do any
thing, all we are is recommendation to
the administration. When we do
Mike Lawshe
make a recommendation, they should
take a stand on the issue.”
The Residence Hall Association
should deal with dorm planning and
programming, Off Campus Aggies
should deal with off-campus prog
rams and the MSC Council should
handle student activities, Lawshe
said.
Many bills debated in the Student
Senate this year did not concern all
students, he said, and were not im
portant enough to be bills.
“If a senator sees a problem, he
should go to a student vice president
in the correct area.”
Student Government should deal
with policy, Lawshe said. Committees
can do some things without first de
bating them on the Senate floor.
Lawshe said several issues face
next year’s Student Government.
The University needs to be fairly
represented at the state Legislature’s
1983 session, Lawshe said, because
issues dealing with increased tuition
rates and the Permanent University
Fund will come up, and the opinion of
the students must be heard.
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Pearson for
ban against
Hilton offer
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Banning the building of a proposed
University Hilton on campus is the
most important problem facing-stu
dents today, Student Body Presiden
tial candidate Pat Pearson says.
Pearson is in a run-off for the posi
tion of student body president against
Mike Lawshe. The run-off will be
held Tuesday.
Pearson, a junior political science
major from San Antonio, said he is
bitterly opposed to the construction
of any type of private enterprise on
campus. The corner of University
Drive and Texas Avenue has been
suggested as a site for a University
Hilton.
“When I look at open polo fields
and when I see the Systems Building
from a distance, I realize the old
Aggies preserve Texas A&M the way
it is for a reason,” he said.
“It has stood for 104 years without
any private businesses on it because it
wouldn’t look like Texas A&M; it
wouldn’t carry the integrity of Texas
A&M if they were built.”
Pearson said students should form
a group to present opinions to the
Texas A&M University System Board
of Regents, “telling them this, how we
feel, and we don’t want it any diffe
rent.”
Pearson proposes working with the
business community and city council
to acquire private land for the hotel.
Pearson said he believes Student
Government should become involved
in areas that concern the individual
StUfat.,,.,
Pat Pearson
“I don’t think that previously the
student body president has effectively
conveyed the needs of students,” he
said.
Student Government must
address a problem of excessive stress
on research, Pearson said. The quali
ty of education students receive at the
University is affected directly by the
quality of teachers in the classroom,
he said, and therefore some teachers
should be rewarded solely for their
teaching skills.
“Let’s keep the good teachers like
we keep the good researchers,” he
said.
Pearson also proposes having
underclassmen and transfer students
turn to student advisers for specifics
concerning classes.
“I have a list of deans and advisers
that have guaranteed that they will
back this program and help train stu
dents for it,” he said.
Pearson said Student Government
also should be responsible for coordi
nating and promoting academic
programs, such as the University quiz
file and tutoring services, and should
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campaign, but in getting thejob done,
it wouldn’t hold water for a minute.”
Johnson said Lawshe’s assessment
of the Student Senate’s work has been
superficial.
“He says there has been a lack of
direction in that the Senate spends
thirty minutes debating from one
issue to the next, seldom toward a
tangible goal,” he said.
Johnson said it was natural for a
group the size of the Senate to have
differing opinions.
“I think what he’s done there is he’s
construed a natural process into
something that’s wrong.
“You’re going to find that whenev
er you get into a competitive situation,
so I think that’s an unfair accusation.”
Lawshe also has complained of a
lack of Senate enthusiasm.
“The frustration the system has
known as a whole has affected all of
us,” Johnson said. “Any time we have
trouble up in the higher echelons —
the board level — or anytime we
undergo problems, we all walk
around campus with not a real
pleased or enthusiastic attitude. So I
think that’s a pretty weak point.”
Policy changes are a different situa
tion, Johnson said.
“Most of the issues that we’re talk
ing about now have been issues for 10
years — some longer, some shorter,”
he said.
“Policy is something that evolves.
Rarely will you find administrators or
anyone else that will be willing to
make those hard, cold decisions that
will stop something and start some
thing new.
“So you have to have perserverence
and continuity and consistency from
year to year to continue those fights.
Lawshe has said he wants Student
Government to become involved in
real issues, rather than candy caper
issues, and thereby develop a sense of
pride in the work of the Senate.
“This is the prime example of his
sandbagging attempts in his cam
paign,” Johnson said.
“He wants everyone to wear suits to
the Senate meetings, which of course,
most of the people do anyway.
“I’m more concerned with them
going to committee meetings and
showing up at meeetings and contri
buting intelligent conversation and
debate rather than coming in just a
suit.”