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College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 6, 1982
Diplomacy hoped
to end fighting soon
United Press International
Argentina and Britain, stung by
heavy military losses, returned to in
tense diplomacy today to settle the
bloody aispute over the Falkland Is
lands with the help of the United Na
tions, the United States and Peru.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina put
the economy on more of a war footing
Wednesday, then called for an im
mediate ceasefire and said U.N.
mediation was the most appropriate
path to settle the conflict.
“I have to be cautious, but I have
some reasonable hope,” U.N. Secret
ary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
told reporters after announcing
Argentina’s positive response to his
intervention.
Amid the flurry of diplomatic
activity, both Britain and Argentina
reported no new outbreaks of fight
ing in the Falklands.
In Washington, British Ambassa
dor Nicholas Henderson met with
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
and delivered his country’s response
to a separate U.S.-Peruvian proposal
for a cease-fire and troop withdrawal.
“In my opinion, the Haig efforts
are the most helpful basis for achiev
ing a settlement, but I do not exclude
anything else and certainly not the
United Nations,” British Foreign Sec
retary Francis Pym told Parliament
Wednesday.
But Argentine U.N. delegatejorge
Herrera Vegas disagreed because
Washington sided with Britain.
“It would be very difficult for Gen.
Haig to be an honest broker any
further in this matter,” he said.
A diplomatic official in Washing
ton said the heavy casualties on both
sides in the South Atlantic fighting
has made diplomatic activity more in
tense and urgent.
“I think this is a very sensitive
period in the crisis,” Haig said, but
declined to elaborate.
A spokesman for the British U.N.
mission said Britain informed Perez
de Cuellar “we are urgently studying
his proposals. We hope to respond
very soon.”
In London, Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher was under growing
pressure from Washington, NATO
allies and a nation shocked by at least
30 deaths and 50 injuries in Argenti
na’s attack on the HMS Sheffield
Tuesday.
Military analysts said the British
fleet may have withdrawn from near
the Falklands while hunting two
Argentine submarines lurking inside
the 200-mile exclusion zone around
the islands.
Free enterprise center
educates in economics
Grads: go directly to G. Rollie
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
? Degree candidates should arrive at
j».' Rollie White Coliseum at least 30
ninutes before commencement,
Vssistant Registrar Don Gardner
ays.
r Gardner is coordinating the com-
nencement activities.
| He said degree candidates should
fjsemble on the third floor of the Col-
seum; signs will direct participants to
he proper area. The candidates then
! proper
1 be line
lined up and taken to the Col
in floor.
The first commencement cere-
ny, at 2 p.m. Friday, will be for
raduating seniors in the colleges of
igriculture, Geosciences and Liberal
Irts, as well as for master’s and doc-
oral degree candidates. The com
mencement speaker will be George
Mitchell, general chairman of the
Target 2000 Project and business ex-
- ecutive.
The Target 2000 Project is a com
mittee established by the Texas A&M
System Board of Regents to study
problems the System may face in the
next 20 years and to recommend solu
tions for those problems.
The 7:30 p.m. ceremony will honor
graduating seniors from the colleges
of Architecture, Engineering and
Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Herbert
Reynolds, president of Baylor Uni
versity, will deliver the commence
ment address.
Degrees will be awarded at 9 a.m.
Saturday to graduating seniors from
the colleges of Business Administra
tion, Education and Science, as well as
those from Texas A&M University at
Galveston. System Chancellor Frank
W.R. Hubert will give the commence
ment address.
The ceremonies should last about
two to two and a half hours, Gardner
said. The Friday afternoon ceremony
will have the smallest number of de
gree candidates — about 800 — be
cause “hooding” the doctoral degree
candidates consumes so much time.
Hooding refers to the process of
placing a cowl over the candidate’s
shoulders.
The other ceremonies each will
honor about 900 to 1,000 graduates.
Gardner said the Coliseum holds
about 5,000 guests. Graduates may
bring as many guests as they wish, but
seating is on a first-come, first-served
basis.
by Julie Farrar
Battalion Reporter
If you have trouble understanding
the daily stock market report, don’t
know what the Gross National Pro
duct is and don’t have any ideas about
how to curb inflation or balance the
national budget — you’re not alone.
Several studies done in the last de
cade indicate many Americans know
little about these topics or other eco
nomic issues.
Because of such misunderstand
ings, the State Legislature passed a
bill in 1977 requiring economic edu
cation programs for children in
Texas primary and secondary
schools. The courses now are in
cluded in public school curriculums.
To help teachers and school dis
tricts comply with the law, Texas
A&M established the Center for Edu
cation and Research in FVREE Enter
prise, Dr. Larry Wolken, a Texas
A&M economics professor, said.
Since its establishment in Septem
ber 1977, the Center actively has
assisted public schools throughout
the state with teacher training, de
velopment of instructional materials
and curriculum planning.
As the associate director for econo
mic program development, Wolken
plays a leading role in one of the Cen
ter’s major programs, the American
Economy Institute.
The institute, a four-week work
shop held each summer at Texas
A&M, allows public school teachers to
earn five hours of graduate credit —
three in economics and two in educa
tion.
“Many teachers have had little or
no economic training,” Wolken said.
“We cover the basic concepts and try
to show ways to naturally infuse eco
nomics into the courses they are
teaching.”
Dr. Sharon Colson, assistant dire
ctor of the Center, said the institute
will host 50 teachers at its session in
June.
“We send invitations to every
school district in Texas and they send
in their applications,” she said. “En
rollment is limited to 50, so we discri
minate on the basis of teams. We
would rather train groups of teachers
than individuals, because a core of
people are more likely to go back and
be a nucleus for change.”
Since some school district repre
sentatives cannot attend the work
shop, the Center also offers a Free
Enterprise Extension Service, Colson
said. The service is provided to public
schools for in-service training of free
enterprise teachers.
Wolken said the service always is in
high demand.
“Right now we have more districts
than we can handle,” he said. ” In the
past year we went to El Paso, Hous
ton, Corpus Christi, Brownsville,
Abilene and Dallas.”
But the extension service is not li
mited to Texas schools, Wolken said.
The center has been asked to present
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Faculty, staff receive awards
University faculty and staff members
will meet at 2 p.m. today in Rudder
Auditorium for the largest faculty-
staff meeting of the year.
During the meeting, 18 faculty and
staff members will be recognized for
outstanding achievement in teaching,
research, student relations, con
tinuing education/extension and gen
eral staff or administrative work.
The awards, funded by the Asso
ciation of Former Students, include a
gold watch, a plaque and a $5,000
check for each recipient.
Selections for the awards are made
by a secret committee composed of a
representative from each college, two
former students, student representa
tives from Student Government, the
Residence Hall Association, the Gra
duate Student Council, the Corps of
Cadets, the MSC Council, two at-large
student members, one representative
from each of the experiment stations
and extension services, one from the
Office of University Research and
one from the Office of Continuing
Education.
Dr. Clinton A. Phillips, dean of
faculties, serves as chairman for the
committee.
Computer whiz kid
freshman says University computer system is accessible to anyone
by Laura Williams
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University is unable to
prevent people who have access to a
Computer linked with the Data Pro
cessing Center from tampering with
[he University computer system,
James Hallers II says.
: Hallers, 19, a freshman computer
icience major from Houston, was
arrested and charged last week with
tampering with government records,
a third degree felony. He was re
leased on $300 bond Thursday.
! He is being investigated for using
iis home computer to change grades
n University computer files. Home
terminals can be hooked up to the
University computer system by con-
cting the DPC.
No disciplinary action has been
aken by the University.
“But, here at the University, you’re
ailty until proven innocent,” Hallers
said. “There are two people they
alleged I changed grades for that I
don’t even know.
James Haliers
“I’m not able to get into any file
that anyone else taking a computer
science course can’t get into. They
have no security system on this com
puter.”
Hallers said he found and opened
computer files for Chemistry 101 and
102 files while scanning the list of files
in the University computer system.
“The chemistry grades are put on
user discs because the DPC told them
to put them there,” he said. “Students
are mainly on user discs, so I’d say the
files are pretty much public.
“They were labeled by their course
and section number, so anyone could
figure out what they are. That was
one of the brighter moves on the part
of the DPC.”
Hallers said he only saw chemistry
grades and test answers, not those of
any other courses.
Dr. Dick B. Simmons, director of
the DPC, said Hallers could not have
entered the chemistry file without us
ing a password other than his own, or
without intentionally working out a
strategy.
“He worked very hard to get into
that chemistry file,” Simmons said
Wednesday. “He used over $250 of
time out of other accounts. I also
know that he has been into other sys
tems.
“The chemistry department did
not have (the grades) in the most se
cure place, but he knew what he was
doing,” he said. “Where they put
them is not their problem, though.
They were just very lax with their
security procedures. The files are not
accessible to any student using the
computer.”
Dr. Rod O’Connor, director of the
first-year chemistry program, investi
gated the possibility of scholastic dis
honesty after he was informed of stu
dents’ access to chemistry files.
Hallers said: “There were four
people who truly knew what was
going on, and the guy who told Dr.
O’Connor (about me) was messing
around with us. I think I’m getting a
pretty bad deal because I could tell
you of at least eight people I know
who are getting into files like I am.”
O’Connor recommended to Uni
versity officials Friday that Hallers
should receive an F in his chemistry
class and should be dismissed from
the University.
Hallers said: “I talked with Dr.
O’Connor Saturday for several hours,
and Sunday he suggested to some
officials that I be allowed to finish out
my semester.”
O’Connor said Tuesday that Hal
lers still is enrolled in his class and will
be allowed to complete the semester.
Hallers’ final grade in the class will
depend on the outcome of the investi
gation, which has been complicated
by other names surfacing in the inves
tigation of illegal access to computer
files, O’Connor said.
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