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Texas A&M irty pi :Efecti B Zacis r / p.a lond fs pprais Jobs in Serving the University community 76 No. 142 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 26, 1983 Dr. iotinst SO p.u ty at xaif-pti ember. hultz helps tideast talks i notkf United Press International IRUT, Lebanon — Negotiators rted little progress in talks on the Iravval of Israeli troops, but inon expressed hope the Middle visit of Secretary of State George tz would help break the dead- j for nietni tionroi ting of Without reporting progress Mon- lisienui on ^ e y i ssue 0 {' security, the sides decided to cancel further ons scheduled for this week, as tz prepared for high-level talks in non and Israel aimed at resolv- f tk If e r e n ce s. jlf no agreement is reached dur- pistour, we will resume the tripar- [negotiations after his departure Bithe region,” said Antoine Fattal, lid of the Lebanese delegation. iShultz will visit Lebanon Thurs day, and we hope it will help us achieve results,” he said. The 33rd meeting of the U.S.- mediated talks, held in the coastal town of Khalde, a Beirut suburb, cen tered on a U.S. recounting of areas of agreement and disagreement be tween Israel and Lebanon after four months of discussion. Phalangist Radio quoted a Lebanese diplomatic source predict ing Shultz’ mission would produce no agreement to withdraw 30,000 Israeli troops left in the country after last year’s invasion. Negotiators also hope to achieve agreement on the withdrawal of 40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestine Liberation Organization forces sta tioned on Lebanese soil. ourt confronts execution case Sharon Coulson, hostess of 15 Magazine for KAMU-TV, interviews Sally Struthers on Monday for an upcoming segment of the show. Struthers, sponsored by the Christian photo by Diana Sultenfuss r Children’s Fund and MSC Political Forum, was at Texas A&M to speak on world hunger. The show will air in three or four weeks. United Press International p*«ASHINGTON — Only four days tt ImfiB-it permitted the Alabama execu- 3orhoocB 0 fj 0 hn Louis Evans III, theSup- ■e Court is confronting a major tally |ath-penalty case that will set the toota®for executions nationwide, icate 1 Eleven hours before Texas inmate inginjmas “Andy” Barefoot was to be ti thei® u ted with a lethal injection Jan. orUMthe high court halted his execu- o otlifiB an d agreed to hear arguments takn lav 0 n a precedent-setting death l he lib Baity issue. ■The justices are considering how gearlifiJral appeals courts should handle :ided ajiiesis for stays of executions from an a- plates who have almost run out of lys to put off their death sentences. The procedural question has major repercussions for the 1,163 prisoners on death rows across the country. Many are about to exhaust the last of their appeals and are on the verge of a predicted tide of executions. Barefoot’s lawyers are challenging a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that would have sent the for mer oilfield roughneck to his death without having his appeals fully argued and considered by the appeals court. His lawyers claim the procedure is a legal shortcut that, if condoned by the nation’s highest court, could send condemned prisoners to their deaths more quickly — and perhaps by mis take. „ .,:l. ■■■■< ., .. . Student groups pledge $25,000 to sponsor village of children TVater damages 1 brority house Hi I® RV ixtensive water damage occurred inga fire at the Kappa Alpha The- pority house on Athens Drive this lining. The fire, which was reported to the lege Station fire department at t a.m., started from an undeter- ned cause on the second floor of three-story house. Fire officials said water pipes in the jllipiC 1 ' fse plil : iieiit ® jtaiidl* glitf r Mo* 1 Cba*' 1 j. Mi# house burst and caused extensive wa ter damage to all three floors of the house. All the fire alarms in the three- year-old house worked properly. The 39 residents will have to move out of the house. Some of the resi dents plan to find mote! rooms for the remainder of the semester, but most of the women plan to stay with friends. By Angel Stokes Battalion Staff “Compassion will end world hun ger,” says Sally Struthers, the Nation al Chairperson for the Christian Chil dren’s Fund. Struthers, who spoke in Rudder Auditorium Monday night, came to Texas A&M on Sunday and will leave today after touring the Veterinary Medicine Complex. She said that as a little girl, her grandmother “planted the seeds of compassion in my heart” and that is why she became a CCF sponsor as an adult. Struthers said that her grand mother — one of the original CCF sponsors — had the pictures of her sponsored children framed on her desk. After “All in the Family” became a top-rated show, Struthers — who played Archie Bunker’s daughter, Gloria — said she made more money in a week than she made in a month as a waitress or secretary and wanted to share it. “I decided to be like my grand mother and sponsor a child,” she said. She was a sponsor for two years before becoming National Chairper son for CCF in 1976. On her first visit to a CCF project in 1977, Struthers went to Guatemala. Families of six or eight lived in one- rpom houses made of cardboard or corrugated steel with no bathrooms, just a ditch of raw sewage, she said. “It was a terrible emotional experi ence,” she said. “I wasn’t prepared for what I saw.” She said that at first she cried and then got mad. “I’m determined to do everything I can to stop poverty,” she said. Since her first visit to CCF projects, she has made two other visits during the past 12 months. She was in Thai land last year and recently returned from Africa. While in Thailand, Struthers filmed a commercial in a slum. She said the houses were built inches above a swamp, where the people dumped their trash and fecal matter. “I felt sure I was going to vomit... I felt sure I was going to run out of there ... but I didn’t,” she said, “be cause I had to do that commercial for my 'family.’” She said her latest trip to Africa “opened my eyes and my heart more than the others.” Although there was a State Depart ment advisory urging all Americans not to enter Uganda, Struthers flew there during her trip to Africa to visit one of her children. She said she arrived at the airport excited to see her sponsored child, Damiano Wanambwa, but uneasy to be in Uganda. He had one of the most severe forms of malnutrition when she be gan sponsoring him, she said. “Thousands of kids are perma nently injured physically and mental ly each year from malnutrition,” she said. “Damiano was lucky.” Struthers said she believes that world hunger can be stopped — one child at a time. “There may be times when you can’t find help, but there is not a time when you can’t give help,” she said. Struthers was presented with a spe cial award from Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture for her work to end world hunger. The award was pre sented by Dr. H.O. Kunkel, dean of the college. A pledge from the Interfraternity Council and the Catholic Students Association at Texas A&M to raise $25,000 to sponsor a whole village was announced by Struthers at a press conference Monday afternoon in the Memorial Student Center. Struthers said that CCF will find a village of about 100 children in Col umbia for the sponsors. She said she came to Texas A&M because it was an opportunity to share her experiences with an audience that already was enthusiastic and involved with CCF. “If I can convince a few young peo ple, as they go out in life they will influence more ... and before you know it, your effort has quadrupled,” she said. City Council to alternate power by Robert McGlohon Battalion Staff The College Station City Coun- cil, after a special closed meeting Monday afternoon, voted unani mously to spend as much as $80,000 to study supplementary sources of power. The city’s only source of power now is Gulf State Utilities. The resolution authorizes the city manager to hire consultants to “study participation in a joint municipal power agency, and either in connection (with) or inde pendently to study alternative sources of electrical power supply.” The resolution states that no ac tions shall be taken that are incon sistent with the city’s contract with Gulf States Utilities. That contract stipulates that the city must buy all its power from GSU, Mayor Gary Halter said after the meeting. However, the contract expires in 1997 and Halter said that until then — if the city does buy its own generating facilities — it can sell the power to someone else. Another option is to sell the power to GSU and then buy it back, sav ing money in the process, he said. Halter added that the city also could buy the generating facilities from GSU, perhaps as much as one-fourth of the generating capacity GSU uses to provide pow er to College Station currently. The decision to go ahead with the study was reached suddenly, he said. The council has disco vered a potential source of alterna tive power and the potential needs study source to be acted upon quickly, Halter said. He declined to say what the potential is. The Council is not dissatisfied with the services of GSU, Halter said, but is concerned that College Station is entirely dependent upon an outside agency for its power. The purpose of Monday’s action is to prepare for the future, he said. “Our concern right now is that we don’t have any generating capacity,” Halter said. Not only would city-owned generating faci lities make College Station more self-sufficient, he said, but it would also result in lower electricity bills in the future. “If I didn’t think it would save some money — 10, 15, 20 years down the road — I wouldn’t do it,” he said. Jordan says A&M less conservative because of growth etting bill sponsor pponent to 'take a needs walk’ United Press International tSTIN — A parliamentary rule lagged a preliminary vote on legaliz- fj fe parimutuel betting in Texas, but |e bill's sponsor said he may wait un- la few of his opponents leave town More trying again. ] Last week the Senate gave tentative |>proval to a bill by Sen. Ike Harris, [Dallas, that would legalize parimu- el betting on horse races if voters 'prove of the gambling in a state- de referendum. But Harris fell several votes short fthe number needed to give the bill final passage and forward it to the House. Harris was prepared to try again Monday, but he left the bill pending because he could not gather enough votes to suspend a parliamentary rule that governs when bills can be consi dered. The parliamentary rule stipulates that a two-thirds majority of the sena tors present — 21 if all are in attend ance -— must vote to consider a bill before a vote on final passage can be taken. Harris said only 20 senators were willing to vote for consideration of the horseracing bill. However, Harris said if one of the measure’s opponents is absent from the Senate later in the week, the 20 votes would be sufficient to suspend the parliamentary rule and bring the bill up for a final vote. Harris said he would either try to convince one of the bill’s opponents to “take a walk” when the vote is con ducted or would simply wait until one of the opponents is absent because of other business. Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on 1983-84 Student Body President Joe Jordan and his goals for Student Government. by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff Conservatism has been a major weakness of Texas A&M, but the Uni versity has become more open- minded, says Joe Jordan, newly elected student body president. “I’m not saying that (the conservat ism) is bad,” Jordan said. “I think I’m pretty conservative myself, but I think there’s a tendency to not be as innova tive sometimes as we could — to be a little bit too pragmatic.” But the University has become less conservative because of its rapid growth, he said. “The University as a whole had to be more open-minded and accept some things because of the influx of people,” Jordan said. He said Target 2000 — a program that defines problems the Texas A&M System may face in the next 20 years and recommends solutions — is a positive step toward coping with the growth. The only way to handle the press ures is to define the problem and see what the pressures will be, Jordan said. “They’re headed in the right direc tion by setting up that committee,” Jordan said. “They realize the Uni versity is growing at a rate where they need to have planning 15 to 20 years in advance.” To deal with the problem of a small minority student enrollment, the University must start by defining the problem, he said. Jordan said most of the minority students he has talked with say there is nothing negative or derogatory ab out Texas A&M that discourages them from attending the University, but they don’t feel that there is much for a minority student to do in College Station. “If that’s the problem and not the atmosphere of the University itself, if the University is committed to en hancing the recruitment of minority students, then they need to take that into consideration,” he said. Jordan said he would like students to be able to work with the administra tion on matters that concern the en tire System. “What I would like to see, and I think we’ve headed in that direction this year, is more communication and input from the student level to the Texas A&M Board of Regents through the chancellor,” he said. Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen on Thursday approved a student com mittee that will deal with such System- wide problems as minority recruit ment and fee increases. Jordan will serve on the committee. The chancellor supported the com mittee because it will offer students an opportunity to have input into System issues that affect the University, Jor dan said. A committee representative will attend regents’ meetings and will be called on by Hansen when the com mittee wants to speak on an issue or make a proposal. Jordan said he believes regents will listen to the committee, and said the committee may be better than having a student on the board. see JORDAN, page 12 Senior rings now available Senior rings ordered through Feb. 4 are available at the ring clerk office. Students may pick up senior rings in 119 Pavilion between 8 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. To pick up their rings, students must have a Texas A&M student I.D. card and a receipt from the ring purchase. inside Classified 7 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 4 National 8 Police Beat 4 Whafsup 11 forecast Partly cloudy skies today with a high of 81. Southerly winds near 15 mph. Mild tonight with a knv of 62. A 20 percent chance of showers Wednesday morning, turning partly cloudy in the afternoon with a high near 84.