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Thursday, April 14, 1983
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head of arms control
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United Press International
WASH INC; TON — Supporters of
Kenneth Adelman, President
Reagan’s controversial choice to head
the nation’s arms control agency, pre
dict Adelman will be approved lay the
Senate, but only by a few votes.
“I have a feeling he will be con
firmed,” Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Charles Percy
said Wednesday.
Senate Republican Leader Ho
ward Baker said he also expected con
firmation today “by a small margin.”
The Senate’s vote comes more
than three months after Reagan
chose Adelman to replace Eugene
Rostow, 69, who was f ired as the head
of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis
armament Agency by the president
following a series of policy differ
ences with other administration of fi
cials.
Today’s vote was preceded by a
generally lackluster debate that began
'Tuesday. Adelman’s critics said be
lacks the experience and stature for
the important arms control post and
is not genuinely committed to arms
negotiations with the Soviet Union.
Adelman’s supporters defended
him as a bright and capable member
of the administration who has per
formed well in several previous gov
ernment posts.
And they said Reagan should have
the man of his choice as director of
the arms control agency.
During Wednesday’s debate, Adel
man’s critics compared him to In
terior Secretary James Watt, another
controversial administration
member.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
said Adelman is not qualified lor the
arms post and Reagan “might as well
have named James Watt to be director
of ACDA.” ‘
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,
said, “The real question is the pre-
rogative of the president to select peo
ple who share his ideas and
approaches to foreign policy."
“ The president wants him. He is
qualified. Why shouldn’t he have the
job?” Thurmond said.
Percy, R-Ill., an Adelman suppor
ter, warned against any ef fort to send
the nomination back to committee, as
some senators have suggested.
Percy said the committee already
has held three long hearings on Adel
man’s nomination and committee
members have run out of questions to
ask the nominee.
The Foreign Relations Committee
voted, 9-8, against the nomination
Feb. 24, but then voted, 14-8, to send
it to the Senate with an unfavorable
recommendation.
The arms control agencv, which
operates under the guidance of the
State Department, supplies logistic
support for U.S. arms negotiating
teams, verifies existing arms agree
ments, studies arms policies and over
sees international arms transfers.
In the last 25 years, the Senate has
rejected only three nominations sub
mitted by a president. But only 18
nominations, like Adelman’s. have
been .reported to the Senate this cen
tury with committee recommenda
tions for rejection.
cit A&M
staff photo by Guy Hood
Program aids recruiting
for A&M grad school
John Hopewell leads Wayne Helton down
J»me Aggie “rapids” behind the Texas A&M
ffresident’s house. Hopewell, a senior
geography major from Wolfeboro, N.H., is
a member of the MSC Outdoor Recreation
Committee and Helton advises the group.
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alesa silent during a
[tve-hour interrogation
United Press International
[DANSK, Poland — Former Soli-
|ty leader Lech Walesa said he
mo information to Polish author-
}(lining a live-hour interrogation
hilled a “neat trick'' to divide the
Iks of Poles loyal to the banned
[in.
[The 89-year-old former chairman
lie union complained af ter he was
ased from custody Wednesdav
government misrepresented his
meats in an attempt to weaken
standing with union activists.
tValesa was taken to Gdansk militia
[((quarters under threat of force bv
e armed policemen,
fhey wanted to know more about
disclosure this week that he held
:edays of talks with leaders of the
clarity underground to plan lu-
strategy. “From start to finish I
refused to give any answers," Walesa
said.
“They asked me eight or 10 ques
tions,” he said, ticking off his police
interrogator’s attempts to discover
which of the underground leaders
was involved with Walesa.
“‘Did the meeting take place? Who
took part in the meeting? Where was
the meeting held?
Walesa said “as a f ree man” he had
the right to meet with anyone he
pleased, “as long as the meeting has
no criminal intent.”
Eventually, after a threat to sum
mon his wife, Danuta, for separate
questioning, Walesa was released. He
was held for live hours.
Then he heard Polish television
and radio announcing to the nation
he had been released only “after (an)
explanation.” and an official report
he “did not confirm" his meetings
with the underground.
To Walesa, that sounded like he
had been cooperating with the au
thorities.
“Of course I neither conf irmed nor
denied" the reports he had met with
the underground, he f umed. “I didn’t
answer at all.”
“It was cunning, tactical, they used
a neat trick,” he conceded.
I he clandestine meeting he joined
last weekend was Walesa’s own neat
trick on the authorities, however — a
gamble that they would not retaliate
by arresting him.
Poland’s Communist government
is anxious to show the rest of the
world it is returning to normal after
upheavals of the past 16 months of
military rule, mass arrests and econo
mic chaos.
by Connie Edelmon
Battalion Staff
The number of applications pro
cessed in the Graduate College is up
40 percent from last year, a Texas
A&M graduate recruiter says.
“That is one of the biggest in
creases of any school in the country,”
recruiter Jack Ivins said. Much of the
credit is due to active recruitment of
netv students, he said.
Before 1979, there was no central
point for a coordinated ef fort on gra
duate student recruiting as there is
for undergraduate students.
Ivins’ position was created in the
graduate school to coordinate the
efforts of all the University’s depart
ments. Ivins, along with representa
tives from various departments, visits
schools in Texas, Louisiana, Arkan
sas, Oklahoma and New Mexico each
year. Last year the group visited more
than 60 schools.
The visits serve two purposes,
Ivins said. In addition to talking with
prospective students, Texas A&M
professors visit with professors at
other schools to explain graduate
programs offered by Texas A&M.
“People in the Southwest realize
that A&M has grown tremendously in
size and number, but they haven’t
realized the growth of the academic
programs, particularly at the gradu
ate level,’ Ivins said.
Although the number of applica
tions processed has increased 40 per
cent, actual enrollment for fall 1982
was 5,677, only a 6 percent increase
over fall 1981. Ivins said he has to
work hard to convince students to en
roll here.
The largest graduate programs are
agriculture, with 1,456 enrolled; edu
cation, 1,052; and engineering, 975.
In another recruiting program,
Ivins uses graduate entrance exami
nation scores. When a student takes
the Graduate Record Examinations,
his scores are sent to at least three
schools. The GRE is offered live times
a year. Ivins said he receives about
1,500 scores alter each lest.
After receiving the scores, Ivins
adds them to applications already in
the office and sends those applica
tions to the proper departments.
Some of the scores are from people
who don’t intend to apply at Texas
A&M. Ivins said he sends a letter and
an application to those who score at
least 1,000 on the GRE but have not
applied to I exas A&M.
“We get tremendous results from
this,” he said. “We’ve talked to a lot of
these students who have registered
(with A&M), and they say (the reason
they came here) is ‘the personal
touch.’”
Ivins said he tries to send the letters
within 48 hours of receiving the
scores. Students receive the scores the
same day the office does, and Ivins
said many of the students are im
pressed by being contacted so soon.
Many students say Texas A&M is
the only school that contacts them and
shows interest, he said.
Another recruiting program in
volves a minority report, made by the
Educational Testing Service every
year. The report is a listing of minor
ity students with their school, major,
grade point ratio and graduate in
terest. T he recruiting office sends let
ters to prospective students and noti
fies the proper departments here.
Almost all graduate students are on
some type of financial aid, Ivins said.
Assistantships and fellowships also
are used to draw graduate students to
Texas A&M; he said. 1 his year, each
department was allotted $.1,200 a
month for assistantships in teaching
and research, Ivins said. Salary levels
are determined by each department.
“It’s tlie only way most people come
to school,” Ivins said. Most of the de
partments of fer different types of fel
lowships, including dean’s awards,
scholarships and awards from cor
porations and businesses.
The advantages of having a large
graduate school are mainly in re
search, Ivins said. However, it is the
University that should decide how
large the graduate programs should
be.
“If they tell us to stop recruiting,
See RECRUIT, page 14
[an is killed
[from fall off
oilrig in Bryan
A man was killed Wednesday ab-
olit 2 pan., when he fell from an
oilrig located at Dodge Street in
Bivan. Ronald Thomas fell appro
ximately 60 feel onto the platform
ol the rig.
I Thomas, 28, was taken to St.
|jj)seph Hospital in Bryan, where
he was pronounced dead on arriv
al. He had received two broken
(arms, a broken leg, a ruptured lung
and head and chest injuries.
T he rig Thomas was working on
is owned bv McMurray Petroleum
of Bryan.
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forecast
Blear to partly cloudy today with a
high near 70. Winds from the
northwest at 12 to 20 mph. Becom
ing cold tonight with the low
leaching 87. Mostly clear skies Fri
day with a high near 69.
Candidates protest election
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
Two candidates in the recently en
ded student elections plan to meet
with the vice president of student ser
vices today to protest the way the elec
tions were run.
The elections were beset with dif f i
culties, including the omission of
three names from the ballot, a four-
day delay in posting the results, poor
voter turnout, long lines at the polls,
poorly marked polling places and too
few polling places.
Junior yell leader candidates Tom
King and Russell McCaskill plan to
present that list of complaints to Dr.
John Koldus, Texas A&M vice presi
dent for student services.
Election Commissioner Les Asel
said most of those problems came
down to a lack of workers and funds,
but said he did make mistakes.
King and McCaskill complained
that there were not enough candidate
lists at each poll, causing long lines
and discouraging voters.
Asel agreed, but said he corrected
that problem in time for the run-off
elections.
King and McCaskill said there were
not enough polls open — most not
ably, the polls planned for the MSC
bus stop and Sterling C. Evans Lib
rary and a poll at the Commons.
Asel disagreed with King and
McCaskill about the poll in the Com
mons.
McCaskill said that while there was
a poll in the Quad, available for easy
access by the Corps of Cadets, there
was no similar poll in the Commons
and said that the students living there
had to go elsewhere to vote.
See ELECTION, page 14
Off-campus housing outlook
good; dorm situation same
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Reporter
While the on-campus housing
situation for the fall semester is not
significantly different from last year,
lower rents and increased availibility
of off-campus housing are making
the outlook for students more prom
ising, housing officials say.
,In the past few weeks, students in
residence halls have been signing up
for dormitory rooms, requesting
room or hall changes, or deciding not
to stay on campus.
“T he total numbers (of student
spaces in residence halls ) aren’t signi
ficantly different than last year,” said
Ron Sasse, associate director of stu
dent affairs.
1 he number of incoming fresh
men who applied for the space has
increased over last year, Sasse said.
Spaces given to returning students
and transfer students are on a first-
come, first-serve basis.
The number of available spaces
may increase, Sasse said, because the
final cancellation deadline for all re
served spaces is June 1. Many stu
dents sign up for their rooms until
they decide what to do and several
decide to move off campus, Sasse
said.
He said the number of students
who initially sign up to move off cam
pus increased this year.
Louann Schulze, coordinator of
the Off-Campus Housing Center,
said the outlook for fall off-campus
housing is promising because of lower
rental rates and the increasing num
ber of apartments and condomi
niums.
Thirty of the 120 complexes that
list their rates with the off-campus
center have lowered their fall rates,
Schulze said. Figures for other com
plexes will be available in a few weeks.
The increased number of apart
ments and condominiums also is an
advantage for students, Schulze said.
In addition to greater selection, she
said, the surplus has caused managers
and owners to be more competitive
with rental rates.
Many management offices are
more flexible in the length of leases,
offer extra benefits to students and
now allow children and pets.
In the past, the center recom
mended that students have their
plans made and leases signed for the
fall semester by June 1. Now students
can wait until the end of the summer
to decide, Schulze said. But to be safe,
she added, students should make
plans by the middle of July.
Whafs up duck?
photo by Ken l)oi\se\
Amber Thessen, 18 months, sneaks a peak at baby
ducklings that were at the Reveille Oaks Child
Development Center in Bryan.