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1,76 No. 105 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, February 28, 1983
staff photo by David Fisher
There she is. . .
ew Miss Texas A&M Theresa Jones has her crown
sewed to her head by former Miss Texas Sherri Ryman,
ft, and former Miss Texas A&M Gina Geiger. Jones
pmpeted with 19 other contestants in the annual
pholarship pagent sponsored by the MSC Hospitality
ommittee.
ueen visits U.S.
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United Press International
SAX DIEGO — The royal yacht
ing Queen Elizabeth II on her
isit to the western United States
ed north from Mexico Saturday
d a harbor greeting but the fes-
Iships awaiting her arrival did not
try well-wishers.
Four U.S. Navy ships — two
(ed missile cruisers, a frigate and a
loyer — were detailed to escort
oyal yacht and fire the traditional
in salute.
he Congress of Irish Organiza-
planned to launch at least five
i to join the welcoming flotilla
with a banner reading: “Get Out of
Northern Ireland.”
Opponents of Britain’s policy in
Northern Ireland and other political
groups, including Argentines unhap
py about their nation’s defeat in the
Falklands War, have announced de
monstrations throughout the state as
the royal tour progresses.
The queen was to come into view of
San Diego, second largest city in Cali
fornia, from the same point at which
Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo in 1542 became the first
European to sight the coastline. '
truthers
lorps of
to visit
Cadets
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Reporter
Ktress Sally Struthers, national
lirman for Christian Children’s
jd, will visit Texas A&M April 24
lugh April 26 to recognize efforts
the Corps of Cadets to sponsor
f children.
truthers’ visit is in response to a
(onal invitation from University
lident Frank E. Vandiver and Dr.
jert Scott Kellner, English profes-
■nd local CCF sponsor organizer.
F is a non-profit organization that
Is support starving children
t|ughoul the world.
A film crew will film Struthers’ visit
for an upcoming television spe-
n her work with CCF in the Un-
States and Africa,
he purpose of Struthers’ trip,
er said, is to recognize the Corps
Its efforts to sponsor children and
lert college students to the prob-
of world-wide starvation.
In her role as national chairman,
Final M-A-S-H episode to air;
record audience anticipated
United Press International
Not since the shooting of J.R. Ew
ing caught the world’s attention has
the television screen commanded a
bigger bandwagon than the one that
will roll tonight when “M-A-S-H”
ends its 11-year Korean War and goes
home for keeps.
With the final CBS episode, to be
aired from 8:30-11 p.m., EST, a new
species of party called the “M-A-S-H-
bash” will be born from coast to coast.
Even charity was climbing aboard.
In San Diego, a KSDO radio bash
promised 60 percent of its proceeds
to the March of Dimes and in Little
Rock, Ark., CBS affiliate KTHV-TV
urged viewers to join its “M-A-S-H-
bash” at $12.50 per celebrant on be
half of the Arkansas Children’s Hos
pital.
Not that profit for profit’s sake was
being ignored.
CBS, anticipating an audience
more closely resembling a horde, was
charging sponsors $300,000 per 30-
second spot for the wrap-up, and in
Nashville, MCA records prepared a
rushrelease for a Sam Neely single
titled “The Party’s Over (Everybody’s
Gone)” in honor of the departing
Nielsen champion.
Most of the bashes springing up
around the country, however, were
for pure fun and nostalgia.
In Fairfield, Ohio, a Cincinnati
suburb, the City Council voted 5-2 to
postpone its regular Monday meeting
so Mayor Donald Leroy and council
members could stay home and watc
Competing channels prepared to do
little more for the 2'/2-hour finale
than throw in the towel.
Towns connected in any way with
the stars of the show were first among
equals where “M-A-S-H-bashes” were
concerned.
Monday will be “Loretta Swit Day”
in Passaic, N.J., — hometown of the
lady who created Maj. Margaret “Hot
Lips” Houlihan.
At Fordham University, Alan
Alda’s old dorm room will be turned
into a facsimile of “the swamp” — the
tent in which he lived for 11 years on
the show as Hawkeye Pierce — and in
Toledo, Ohio, Jamie Farr’s home
town, party goers at Tony Packo’s cafe
will have their pictures taken with a
life-sized statue of Farr.
Playwright choked to death;
formal ruling still incomplete
United Press International
NEW YORK — Pulitzer-prize win
ning playwright Tennessee Williams
choked to death on a plastic medicine
bottle cap, an autopsy disclosed Satur
day.
Chief Medical Examiner Elliot
Gross said the cap was the sort used
on a nasal spray or eye drop dispen
ser. He said a formal ruling on
whether the death was an accident
would not be made for two or three
weeks after tests were completed to
determine if there were traces of alco
hol or drugs in Williams’ body.
“Why it (the cap) was there, I can
not say,” Cross said. “It was a very
rapid death. The autopsy did not re
veal anything unusual in regards to a
man of this age.”
Williams, 71, was found dead Fri
day morning in his suite at the Elysee
Hotel off Park Ave. Officials said at
the time death apparently was due to
natural causes.
“The cause of death is asphyxia
due to obstruction of the glottis, the
opening to the larynx or upper air
way, by a platic overcap of the type
used to cover the opening of a nasal
spray or opthalmic solution dispen
ser,” Gross said. He said Williams
died Thursday night.
Gross refused to say if the bottle
from which the orange-colored cap
came from was recovered.
Luminaries of the American thea
ter world mourned the death of the
man considered to be the foremost
playwright of his generation. In New
Orleans, residents of the famed
French Quarter draped a streetcar
named “Desire” in black.
It was Williams’ plays “A Streetcar
Named Desire” and “Cat On a Hot
Tin Roof,” compelling dramas set in
the playwright’s beloved South, that
won his Pulitizers.
Williams was acclaimed as the most
successful American playwright of his
generation, but it appeared for many
years he would be a failure.
After a series of heartbreaking set
backs, Williams found fame and for
tune on Broadway. In addition to his
two Pulitzer Prizes, he won four Dra
ma Critics Circle Awards and a Ken
nedy Center Honor.
A&M seeking Nobel laureate
by Kim Schmidt
Battalion Staff
Yale University has three, Harvard
University boasts eight, Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
has five, the University of Texas has
two, Stanford University claims 16,
the University of California in Los
Angeles boasts 14 and Tularje Uni
versity has one.
No, they’re not football coaches,
campuses or National Merit scholars
— they’re Nobel Prize winners.
Each of those schools, with a repu
tation as a prestigious, world-class
university, has one or more Nobel
laureates on its teaching staff. Texas
A&M, however, is not among them.
But administrators hope to change
this.
Since last fall, Texas A&M officials
have been talking to Dr. Sheldon L.
Glashow, a Nobel prize-winning
physicist, about joining the Universi
ty’s staff. The Harvard professor,
along with former Harvard professor
Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam of
Pakistan, won the prize for physics in
1979 for the explanation of the forces
that bind elementary particles of
matter.
Glashow, however, has not
accepted a position with the Univer
sity.
Officials of other universities say
that Glashow’s position is not surpris
ing because hiring a Nobel Prize win
ner is usually difficult.
“It is not very easy to go out and
hire a Nobel laureate,” said Francis
Lawrence, academic vice president
and provost of Tulane. “You are com
peting with a relatively large number
of universities for a very small num
ber of people.”
Most universities’ Nobel laureates
were on the staff at the time they won
their award.
Nobel Prizes are given out each
year for physiology or medicine, phy
sics, chemistry, literature, peace and
economics. The monetary prizes,
which now amount to about $ 100,000
for the winner of each category, are
awarded “to those who have, during
the preceding year, conferred the
greatest benefit on mankind.” No
more than three people can divide the
money in each field.
Despite the odds, Texas A&M
administrators still are trying to re
cruit Glashow.
Texas A&M administrators say
their main concern in recruiting a
Nobel laureate is to raise the quality of
education provided here.
Dr. Clinton Phillips, Texas A&M’s
dean of faculties said: “We’re not
looking for Nobel Prize winners just
to win some sort of race. We are in
terested in people who will help move
the frontiers of knowledge forward.
They may or may not be Nobel laure
ates.”
Like Texas A&M, most universities
agree that their policies are not dire
cted at hiring Nobel laureates speci
fically, but at hiring qualified person
nel in general.
University,” Phillips said.
Having a Nobel laureate would
have other benefits for the Universi
ty, he said.
Most umversites also agree that
while having Nobel laureates on the
staff cannot guarantee a quality edu
cation, they can be a good indication
of the quality of education offered at
the school.
“Having Nobel prize winners re
flects in general the high level of re
search and teaching going on at the
Struthers has been personally respon
sible for the sponsorship of 100,000
children, Kellner said.
The Corps sponsored five children
last year and is holding a drive this
week to raise money to sponsor four
more children, one each from the Un
ited States, Guatemala, India and
Africa.
Donation tables will be set up at all
dining halls and at the Memorial Stu
dent Center during lunch and dinner
hours.
The fund-raising drive is being
sponsored by Squadrons 5,6, 7 and 8.
Fundraiser coordinator Steve
Logan said the purpose of the drive is
to raise as much money as possible for
CCF. Logan said that while the Corps’
goal is to sponsor four children, he
hopes this year’s drive will net enough
money to sponsor more children.
The amount needed to sponsor a
child for a year is $218, which goes for
clothing, food and basic educational
needs.
Cause of Moses Hall fire
unknown, A&M police say
A fire that caused extensive damage
to a room in Moses Hall Sunday night
was probably electrical in nature, Uni
versity police say.
Officer Donald Pauler, who re
sponded to the alarm, said that the
exact cause of the fire is unknown, but
that it is being investigated.
The fire, which started shortly af
ter 6:15 p.m. in 233 Moses, blackened
walls and destroyed a mattress and a
stereo, which possibly was the cause of
the fire. There were no injuries re
ported.
Both Bill McSpadden and James
Seiler, residents of the room, were
gone when the fire started.
Eyewitnesses to the fire com
plained that it took almost 10 minutes
for the alarm to sound after the fire
was discovered and the alarm was
pulled.
Safety Officer Harry Stiteler said
that probably wasn’t the case.
“It may seem to be five to eight
minutes, but it probably wasn’t,”
Stiteler said.
He said that there is a two- to three-
minute delay on the alarm for a good
reason.
“We don’t like it (the delay),” Stitel
er said. “But our trouble is that with
the number of false alarms you have,
you have to put in a delay or it would
drive us crazy.”
If an alarm is pulled under the pre
sent system, a buzzer and a light go off
in the rooms of the head resident and
the resident adviser. They then have
two to three minutes to determine
whether there is a fire. If there is, they
can sound an alarm from their rooms.
If not, they can keep the alarm from
activating.
“It’s a good system, an excellent
system,” Stiteler said. “It’s doing what
it’s supposed to do.”
jovernors unsure of gas decontrol plan
B United Press International
Washington — Although g ov-
l)m S n the major Southwest gas-
“ucing states agree relief is
led from high natural gas prices,
| are unsure whether President
(gan’s decontrol plan is the
swer.
post are still reviewing the plan,
Bounced during the weekend and
cted to be sent to Congress today,
: if their states would benefit,
bagan wants Congress to remove
hols from all natural gas prices to
Uhem react to market conditions
while providing three years of protec
tion against higher consumer costs.
“Generally I support the presi
dent’s efforts,” said New Mexico Gov.
Toney Anaya, in Washington Sunday
to attend the National Governors
Association meeting. “But in review
ing the fine print, I may disagree with
some of the specifics.”
law placing diminishing price ceilings
on wells tapped after April 1977 with
the ceilings scheduled for elimination
in 1985. Gas discovered before April
1977 remained under price controls
under the 1978 law, but Reagan’s
plan would also free the so-called “old
gas” from price controls.
Anaya’s state is suffering a $185
million deficit — its first in history —
because of the depression in the oil
and gas industry some blame on the
current decontrol plan.
Gas prices are controlled by a 1978
“New Mexico is one of the produc
ing states that have had to subsidize
the consuming states. Basically it’s
turned into an energy colony for the
rest of the country,” Anaya said. “Re
sidents of New Mexico have to pay
more for natural gas produced in our
state than Californians pay for our
gas.”
Louisiana Gov. David Treen, a Re
publican, termed Reagan’s plan “in
novative” but said he would reserve
final judgment until he had time to
review it. He told UPI he was consid
ering introducing a resolution urging
the NGA to support the plan.
“Louisiana is the No. 1
I gasproduc-
ing state in the country and one of the
major consumers of natural gas,” he
said. “This plan recognizes the con
sumer problem.”
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh, a
Democrat, said he would withhold
reaction until he could fully review
the plan.
“We have been favoring phased-in
decontrol,” he noted, however.
Texas Gov. Mark White, also a
Democrat, said it was “a little early to
realize the full impact” of Reagan’s
plan but he believed “there’s a little
something in there for everybody.”
White said his state, not Louisiana,
was the nation’s top producer of natu
ral gas as well as the largest consumer
so any legislation would have to strike
a balance between the two to satisfy
Texans.
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Mainly clear skies today with the
high near 69. Light southwesterly
winds at about 5 mph. Clear skies
tonight and a low near 45. Sunny
skies and warmer on Tuesday with
the high reaching 72.
Attracting outstanding scholars
would help the University attract
first-rate students and could attract
more people to the graduate school,
Phillips said.
“For example, when a student is
advised on which graduate school to
attend an adviser might say, ‘Why
don’t you go to University X because
so and so is there and you could really
learn a lot from him.’”
Lawrence agrees that having a
Nobel laureate is a benefit because of
the prestige, publicity and academic
notoriety it brings to the university.
Phillips said that having a Nobel
prize winner on the staff would not
represent a drastic change for the
University, but rather a natural prog
ression in Texas A&M’s advancement
over the years.
“Getting a Nobel laureate would
just be an extension of where we’ve
(Texas A&M) been coming from in
the last few decades,” he said.