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College Station, Texas
Monday, February 21, 1983
Mondale joins
’84 hopefuls
United Press International
ST.PAUL, Minn.— Former Vice
President Walter Mondale enters the
Democratic presidential sweepstakes
today, beginning an 18-month battle
to keep his front-runner status in a
race where anything can happen.
The minister’s son from southern
Minnesota, who has spent 30 years in
public life, was scheduled to formally
announce his candidacy for president
in the state capitol in St. Paul.
Mondale, the best-known, best-
organized and best-Financed Demo
cratic contender, said he is not con
cerned about staying ahead.
“If I can’t stand the heat of being
the leading candidate for president, I
can’t stand the heat of being presi
dent,” Mondale said in an interview
with the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
“I am really starved for the oppor
tunity to speak out and be heard on
the issues that face this country,” he
said.
Mondale planned to begin his cam
paign with a 20-minute speech, then
fly to the Iron Range in northern
Minnesota to attack the Reagan eco
nomic program in an area of the
country where unemployment is
among the highest.
The rest of his opening schedule is
one that other Democratic conten
ders will repeat many times in coming
months: Iowa, where the First pre
cinct caucuses are held next Feb
ruary; New Hampshire, site of the
First primary next March; and finally
to Washington for a campaign rally.
Financial aid
A&M plans no cuts
nvestigation follows
lan march in Austin
by Kim Schmidt
Battalion Staff
At a time when the economy is in
recession and federal budget cuts are
imminent, the financial aid programs
here remain stable, a University ofFi-
cial says.
A1 Bormann Jr., assistant director
of the OfFice of Student Financial
Aid, said financial aid programs have
not been cut this academic year and
he expects they will not be cut for the
next academic year.
In fact, student financial aid admi
nistrator Ann Vivero said one part of
the aid program will include more
students next year.
The Pell grant program, formerly
called the Basic Educational Oppor
tunity Grant program, will be open to
about 400 students who were ineligi
ble to receive aid this ybar, Vivero
said.
Before 1981-82, the 400 students
were eligible to receive Pell grant
money along with Social Security and
Veterans Administration benefits. In
1981, requirements were changed so
that anyone receiving more than $500
in other aid was ineligible to receive
Pell grant funds for the following
year, Vivero said.
Since the average Pell grant given
is approximately $770, students were
unable to receive close to $306,800 in
aid in 1982-83, Vivero said.
The requirements, however, have
been revised again and those 400 stu
dents now will be eligible for Financial
aid for the 1983-84 academic year,
she said.
Bormann said the stability of
Financial assistance at Texas A&M can
be attributed to several factors.
One reason for aid stability is that
Texas A&M has a good balance of the
various programs available, he said.
“We have a healthy mix between
the three (institutional, federal and
state programs) so that federal prog
rams are not heavier in weight when
compared to the others,” Bormann
said.
This means that if federal cuts take
place, Texas A&M will not suffer to
any great extent, he said.
see student aid, page 6
Aid programs offered
United Press International
AUSTIN — Reports that a Hispa-
■man was beaten by police while
fing handcuffed on the ground dur-
ig a melee that followed a Ku Klux
pan demonstration at the Capitol
[ill be investigated by the city police
felartment.
■Mayor Carole McClellan, who
nnounced the investigation Sunday,
aid she would not prejudge any ac-
ions police took.
■McClellan said she had studied
apes of the incident made by Hous-
on television station KPRC.
■‘Anytime you see a film clip like
his it concerns you,” she said. “We
Bt to get the full picture. We want
Pmow what preceded it and what
f ent on around that.”
■About 400 city, county and state
pee ofFicers were confronted by a
chanting, rock-throwing crowd of ab
out 2,000 people, many of them stu
dents at the University of Texas, who
surrounded the 70 Klansmen during
their 10-block march Saturday from a
city park to the Capitol and back.
During the melee, law officers and
Klansmen were pelted with a barrage
of bricks, rocks, bottles and sticks.
Television tapes showed Paul Her
nandez, 36, of Austin being repeated
ly struck with billyclubs by officers as
he lay handcuffed on the ground.
Hernandez was treated for cuts
and bruises. Another 10 people —
including four police officers, five
other anti-Klan protesters and one re
porter — suffered minor injuries in
the scuffle, in which 13 people were
arrested.
Police Chief Frank Dyson declined
to comment on the incident and Her
nandez was not available for com
ment Sunday, but Abela Mancias, 29,
said she saw a policeman striking Her
nandez in the stomach with a bil-
lyclub. /
She said that when she tried to help
Hernandez, she was struck on the
head. Mancias said she observed Her
nandez lying on the ground handcuf
fed and being beaten by several
officers.
Police said earlier Hernandez re
fused to move back when told to do so
and assaulted an officer. He was
arrested on charges of simple assault
against a police officer and failure to
obey a lawful order.
Asked what the march accom
plished, Charles Lee of Houston, a
Klan grand dragon, said, “It showed
the decent people of Austin the kind
of filth that is on the streets here.”
Begin secures Sharon’s
appointment to key posts
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j United Press International
■FT AVIV, Israel — Former De-
Be Minister Ariel Sharon regained
°jtie of his old power by his reap-
•(gntment to two key Cabinet com-
n Bees, drawing charges the govern-
jint flouted recommendations of
■Beirut massacre inquiry.
^BThe opposition Labor Party Sun-
Bv called the Cabinet’s move “a
Hoikery of democracy.”
■’rime Minister Menachem Begin
^as the primary force behind Shar
i's reappointment to the five-man
Bering committee that sets Israeli
Btions in the U.S.-sponsored troop
yithdrawal talks with Lebanon, Israel
fad so said.
i|At its weekly meeting, the Cabinet
(Iso voted to reinstate Sharon on the
Ipsterial defense committee, which
‘idudes 15 of the government’s 19
'•'inistefs.
“I think Mr. Begin thought it’s
enough that he left the defense minis
try and he shouldn’t be fired from
these committees,” a senior official
said.
Commerce Minister Gideon Patt
defended the decision, saying it is “in
conceivable that a man like ‘Arik’
Sharon should be removed from the
system that formulates the defense
strategy of the state of Israel.”
Yossi Sarid, a Labor Party parlia
ment member, charged the reap
pointments were “a slap in the face
for the Kahan commission,” which
said last week that Sharon bore “per
sonal responsibility” for the massacre.
A Labor Party statement said Shar
on’s reappointment was “a continua
tion of the government’s tendency to
flout” the panel’s recommendations.
The Peace Now group said the
Cabinet had “shown contempt” for
the inquiry.
The commission, which investi
gated the Sept. 16-18 massacre by
Lebanese Christians, found Sharon
should have foreseen the danger of
sending Christians into Beirut Palesti
nian refugee camps and suggested he
resign or be dismissed.
The Cabinet approved the commit
tee’s report and said that it had fulfil
led its recommendations by removing
Sharon from his defense duties but
allowing him to remain a minister
without portfolio.
Although only one minister cast a
negative vote. Cabinet Secretary Dan
Meridor conceded five others
absented themselves. News reports
said the absent ministers chose to stay
away rather than defy Begin.
by Kim Schmidt
Battalion Staff
If you missed out on financial aid as
an incoming freshman, you still may
be able to receive money from a wide
variety of assistance programs at
Texas A&M.
Loan, scholarship, job and grant
programs are available for under
classmen who need Financial assist
ance.
The University offers two types of
loan programs — short-term and
long-term — to students interested in
borrowing money. The short-term
program allows students to borrow
up to $600 for school-related ex
penses. The loan must be repaid with
in six months at a 10 percent interest
rate.
Also under this program, students
may receive a 30-day, $30 loan for a
25 cent service charge. The small
loans may be used for purposes other
than those directly related to educa
tional needs.
Harvard
to speak
from staff and wire reports
Dr. Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Prize
winning physicist, will discuss a new
technique to pinpoint reserves of oil,
natural gas and valuable metals dur
ing a lecture here Tuesday.
Glashow, a physics professor from
Harvard and co-winner of the 1979
Nobel Prize in Physics, will discuss the
project at 2 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Texas A&M officials have contacted
Glashow about joining the physics fa
culty here.
The project would use near
massless subatomic particles called
neutrinos to X-ray large sections of
the Earth, Glashow says. The neutri
nos would be able to pass through the
entire mass of the planet, he says.
Dr. Peter M. McIntyre, an associate
Long-term loans, including the
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan and
the Hinson-Hazelwood state textbook
loans, also are available. Up to $2,500
can be borrowed under these prog
rams.
Scholarship money also is available
from the University.
Each year, upperclassmen are eli
gible for a scholarship through the
Spring Awards program. This scho
larship is based on financial need and
a student’s academic record at the
University. Applications are available
in the student financial aid office and
must be submitted by March 1.
Financial need is determined by
the College Scholarship Service after
it reviews an applicant’s Financial Aid
Form. FAF forms relate a family’s in
come and financial status to their abil
ity to pay for a college education.
FAFs must be filed no later than April
15 to receive money for the fall
semester.
Scholarships also are available
professor in the physics department
here, says the department is prepar
ing a proposal for a particle physics
laboratory in Texas. He says the lab
would contain a particle accelerator
that could be a source of the neutrinos
that Dr. Glashow will speak about.
A hitch in the neutrino technique,
however, is equipment. Glashow says
the process would require a particle
accelerator more powerful than any
thing that exists.
Neutrinos, first detected in 1965,
occur when a neutron — one of the
three major particles that comprise an
atom — decays into a negatively
charged electron and positively
charged proton. During the decay, a
certain amount of energy escapes and
is attributed by scientists to neutrinos.
physicist
at A&M
through individual departments. Stu
dents should consult department
heads about various departmental
scholarships for which they may be
eligible.
Another way to receive extra
money for school is to participate in
one of the job programs offered by
the University.
Students may take part in co-op
programs in which work and school
are alternated on a semester basis or
they may choose to work and go to
school simultaneously. If they choose
the latter, students may consult the
Financial aid office for job sugges
tions. Job openings are posted at the
office daily for both on- and off-
campus positions.
Grants also are available to ease the
Financial burden of earning a college
education.
Pell grants, which average $770 a
year, are available for 1982-83. The
deadline for grant application for this
school year is March 15 if a student
has submitted a FAF.
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forecast
Cloudy to partly cloudy skies today
with a high of 61 and a 20 percent
chance of showers. Winds from the
north at 10 to 15 mph. Partly clear
for tonight with a low near 41 and a
slight chance of rain. Clear to
part-
ly cloudy skies for Tuesday with the
high near 65.
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