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Battalion
Serving the University community
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 9, 1982
A hand from the handicapped
staff photo by Eric Mitchell
Stephen Tips, a senior mechanical
engineering major from San Antonio,
gives Todd Kronshage, a newly elected
junior yell leader, a hand up after
Kronshage took a spill during
Thursday’s wheelchair basketball game
held in honor of Handicap Awareness
Day. Tom Joseph, head yell leader for
the 1982-83 school year, looks on with
amusement.
bm Joseph chosen as
head yell leader ‘82-83
by Randy Lemmon
Battalion Reporter
HTom Joseph, a junior agricultural
economics major from Hamilton, will
be head yell leader for 1982-83.
Joseph was nominated by the Head
Yell Leader Selection Committee,
and final approval was made Thurs
day by Vice President for Student
Services John J. Koldus III.
1; Joseph, the only returning yell
leader, said he will work closely with
the other newly elected yell leaders to
become as tightly knit a group as pos
sible.
■ Senior yell leaders for 1982-83 are
Joseph, Jon Burt, a junior agricultu
ral economics major from Rosser, and
Charlie Childs, a junior civil en
gineering major from Tyler.
Junior yell leaders are Todd Kron
shage, a sophomore accounting ma
jor from Spring, and Jeff Crofton, a
sophomore industrial distribution
major from Tyler.
|i| The selection committee consisted
of Chairman Thomas R. Parsons, di-
Ifector of the University Police De
partment; Charles Thornton, associ
ate athletic director and Don D.
Albrecht, assistant director of Stu
dent Activities.
p Three students also served on the
committee: Beth Castenson, a junior
health education major from Bryan;
Dale Collins, a junior economics ma
jor from the Virgin Islands; and
Kevin Shandera, ajunior biology ma
jor from Houston.
The 1982-83 yell leaders have
targeted public relations and serving
as ambassadors for the student body
and former students as areas of
emphasis next year.
Some of the yell leaders' plans for
next fall include attending as many
sports as possible, including women’s
basketball and the men’s swim meets,
Joseph said.
The yell leaders plan to continue to
hold Thursday yell practices at Kyle
Field, he said.
Childs said the new yell leaders
plan to keep yell practices fun, clean
and in good taste next fall.
Joseph said: “We would like to eli
minate the reputation of the yell lead
ers as being figure heads, but rather
take the opportunity to show the
highest standards and moral charac
teristics of the University.
“(The yell leaders) ... get a lot of
attention from both the students and
old Ags, and thus, the way we behave
is a reflection of the entire University.
“It will be a real test to see if we can
keep strong enthusiasm among the
students with the seven home games
next fall.”
Mike Thatcher, the current yell
leader, and Joseph are scheduled to
meet with Texas A&M Athletic Dire
ctor and Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
to discuss the role of the yell leaders
and how effective the Twelfth Man
can be.
Tom Joseph
Crofton said being a yell leader in
volves more than just attending sports
activities. Duties of junior yell leaders
include making sure the game whites
that the yell leaders wear are cleaned
and taking care of all the finances.
The yell leaders are optimistic ab
out the fortunes of the Texas A&M
football team — they already have
made plans to reserve a room in
Loew’s Anatole Hotel in Dallas for
New' Year’s Dav, 1983.
Argentines mobilize
as Haig begins talks
United Press International
Argentina ordered a general mobi
lization of nearly 100,000 reservists
today to counter Britain’s blockade
threat and Secretary State Alexander
Haig headed for Buenos Aires in an
attempt to prevent a war over the dis
puted Falkland Islands.
Bulletins read over commercial
radio stations throughout Argentina
told reservists to report to their units.
Hundreds of volunteers signed up
for duty as the predominately Catho
lic nation observed Good Friday.
A partial callup of the reserves was
announced Wednesday, but the men
were told to stand by for further
orders. Today’s announcement
affected all young Argentines who
performed their obligatory military
service last year and includes almost
100,000 men, military sources said.
The government ordered bus and
other public transport companies to
give the reservists free rides to their
military bases.
During more than five hours of
talks in London, Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher told Haig Argentina
must withdraw and restore the Falk
land Islands Argentine troops seized
April 2, to British rule, British offi
cials said.
Afterward, Haig said the very de
tailed talks left him impressed with
the firm determination of the British
government to win back the islands in
the South Atlantic, which have been a
British colony for 149 years.
In Buenos Aires, President Leopol-
do Galtieri vowed Argentina would
fight to keep the islands 450 miles off
the South American nation’s coast in
an area believed to contain one of the
World’s richest untapped oil reserves.
“We will listen to Secretary Haig,
hut we are willing to repel whatever
attack if the mediation effort fails,”
said Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa
Mendez after briefing Galtieri on his
talks with Haig in Washington earlier
in the week.
Haig was scheduled to arrive after
an 18-hour flight from London late
tonight.
British Defense Minister John Nott
announced a blockade would extend
200 miles from the Falklands. He said
British forces would “shoot first” at
any Argentine ship that violates the
war zone to resupply 9,000 occupa
tion troops on the islands.
Governor refuses to let
pipeline in Washington
United Press International
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. John
Spellman, bucking prtrssure from oil
firms, the federal government and
other governors, has refused to grant
a construction permit for the North
ern Tier pipeline because of fire and
environmental dangers.
Thursday, Spellman vetoed the
$2.3 billion proposal to provide a 42-
inch, 1,500-mile pipeline from Port
Angeles, Wash., to Clearbrook,
Minn., for Alaskan crude oil. Appeals
from the Energy Department and the
Northern Tier Pipeline Co. are ex
pected.
“If the nation needs oil in the Mid
west and it has to come from the West
Coast, and if it needs oil for defense
purposes, it had darn well better have
a project that is practical and feasible
and can be built,” Spellman said
Thursday. “This is not such a pro
ject.”
Puget Sound is a national treasure,
he said, “and I cannot allow the
Sound, its delicate ecology, or the eco
nomy and lifestyle it supports to be
come endangered.”
Spellman emphasized his decision
was not a ban on oil pipelines. A well-
designed project with proper safe
guards could be built, he said, sug
gesting the marine terminal could be
located away from a populated area
and the underwater crossing of Puget
Sound could be avoided.
Among those critical of Spellman’s
decision were Govs. Tom Schwinden
of Montana, John Evans of Idaho and
Albert Quie of Minnesota. The prop
osed pipeline would cross all three
states.
Schwinden said Spellman’s deci
sion has adverse implications for the
oil refineries in Billings, while Quie
called the decision “parochial and
shortsighted.”
Both Northern Tier and U.S.
Energy Secretary James Edwards,
who strongly lobbied for the pipeline
on national security grounds, have
laid the groundwork in recent days
for a court challenge of Spellman’s
decision.
“Having so far invested 6-and-a-
half years of work in trying to gain
approval of the project, and with
1,400 permits already issued and only
one to go, Northern Tier will con
tinue its endeavors,” said Northern
Tier board chairman Cortlandt
Dietler.
Edwards, who tried in vain to talk
to Spellman about the pipeline after
the state’s Energy Facility Site Evalua
tion Council voted to recommend re
jection of the project two months ago,
said he was “deeply disappointed” by
the decison.
Spellman said he was skeptical ab
out the national security needs for the
pipeline.
“If that were a legitimate issue, I
might have heard from the secretary
of defense and the president, but the
only person I heard from was the
head of the Department of Energy,
an entity of the federal government
sinking into oblivion,” he said.
Blood drive give impressive results
Ags get blood credits
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
Blood drives are so successful at
Texas A&M University that any
Aggie — any time, any place — can
request free blood credits, says a stu
dent who helped coordinate the
blood drive.
During the Wadley Blood Bank
drive, which ended Thursday at 9
p.m., 2,159 pints were collected.
Maura Hanley, blood drive director,
said she was impressed with the re
sults since the spring drive usually
doesn’t net as many units as the one in
the fall.
In response to the generosity of
Texas A&M students, blood credits
are given to all Aggies who request
them, Student Government secretary
Debby Drushel said.
Any former student, current stu
dent or faculty member is eligible.
The credits can be used to help not
just people directly associated with
the university, but also their relatives
or friends.
To request credits, Aggies should
contact the Student Government
office as soon as they know of the
need, Drushel said. Student Govern
ment will contact the Wadley Blood
Bank, and the personnel there handle
the paperwork with the hospital in
volved.
No limit exists on the number of
units that can be requested by any one
person, Drushel said. In fact, Student
Government usually gives unused
credits to charity at the end of the year
— a valuable gift since the cost of a
transfusion ranges f rom $35 to $100.
The Wadley Blood Bank, based in
Dallas, comes to die Texas A&M cam
pus in the fall, spring and summer.
Last October, when 2,200 units were
collected, the Aggie Blood Drive was
Wadley’s largest regular drive in the
nation.
Blood collected at Texas A&M is
transported every two hours to Dallas
by AirLifeLine, a group of volunteer
pilots. The blood, especially the
platelets, is extremely f ragile, Hanley
said, so getting the blood to the main
center as soon as possible is impor
tant.
Some of the collected blood is used
for research and producing cancer
drugs, Hanley said. Open-heart
surgery requires large quantities of
blood, and much of the 500 units used
daily in the Dallas area are used for
that purpose.
‘Great’ auction doubles last year’s
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
The Great KAMU-TV Auction,
yhich concluded Thursday night,
raised a record-breaking $41,533 for
the public television station.
The auction was the station’s
fourth annual sale. Last year, KAMU
made $23,279 through the auction,
j his year’s total was nearly double last
year’s and exceeded the original goal
bv more than $1 1,000.
I Part of the money goes to KAMU-
FM; the rest is used for television
programs. While Texas A&M Uni
versity pays KAMU-TV staff salaries
and facilities, the station has to raise
money to buy its programming, Sta
tion Manager Rod Zent said.
“Our programming bill will be ab
out $118,000 this year,” Zent said.
“We get part of the funding from the
auction, much of the rest from the
three times a year when we ask for
donations.
“We also get money in grants from
the Corporation for Public Broad
casting, and it’s important that we do
well at our auction and pledge activi
ties — the more money we raise, the
larger the CPB grant is.”
In September, station officials set a
goal of $30,000 for this year’s auction,
but they exceeded that goal by more
than $1 1,000. KAMU’s general man
ager attributed the auction’s success
to a variety of factors, principally
volunteers’ efforts.
“We had over 500 items to auction
off this year, as opposed to about 440
last year,” General Manager Mel
Chastain said. “It would have been
impossible to obtain that many items
and run this successful an operation
without the volunteers.”
total
Chastain said 300 to 400 volunteers
helped out at the auction. They did
everything from soliciting donations
from local businesses to answering
telephones.
“We also ran the auction for seven
days this year,” he said. “Last year it
went five days. And we didn’t know in
September that we’d have a lake-side
lot to auction off.”
The lot Chastain referred to is a
tract on Lake Conroe. It was the auc
tion’s biggest money-maker: it
brought in $10,000.
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State 4
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cool with vari
able cloudiness and a 30 percent
chance of rain; high today in the
mid-70s; low in the mid-50s. Satur
day’s forecast calls for cool temper
atures with a chance of drizzle.