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I The Department of Modern Languages recognizes two outstanding French students See page 5 College Station, Texas The date of the Texas A&M — University of Texas football game has been changed to accommodate network television See page 3 Battalion Serving the University community Wednesday, May 4, 1983 Soviets offer match on nuclear warheads United Press International MOSCOW — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov made a new offer on limit ing medium-range missiles in Europe, saying for the first time that the Kremlin would cut its nuclear weaponry on a warhead-for-warhead basis with the West. Before Tuesday’s offer the Soviet Union had insisted on a missile-by- missile accounting in weapons reduc tion negotiations, although some of Moscow’s missiles have up to three nuclear warheads. The Soviets insist on counting the nuclear weapons of Britain and France in considering equalization of European forces, but the United States refuses to include those weapons because they are indepen dent of NATO stockpiles. Details were lacking but the Soviets appeared to remain insistent on the cancellation of NATO plans to deploy 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe late this year. Washington says the deployment will proceed if no agreement is reached at the Geneva arms talks. “The Soviet Union has stated readiness not to have in Europe a single missile and a single plane more than possessed today by NATO coun tries,” Andropov said Tuesday in a Kremlin speech for visiting East Ger man leader Erich Honecker. In Washington, a White House spokesman said that in response Pres ident Reagan ordered a study of pos sible shifts in the U.S. position when nuclear arms talks resume in Geneva next month. At a diplomatic reception at the White House Tuesday, Soviet Ambas sador Anatoly Dobrynin said, when asked whether Andropov’s proposal was new, “Of course, it’s new. Before we counted planes and missiles, now its warheads.” Members of the A&M Jazz Band entertain the musicians’ music away, but the four for a crowd in front of Rudder Fountain saxophones kept on playing. Tuesday at noon. The wind blew some of Minnesota man named in 1979 student slaying an guard'l Iiiskedav ed the In re plane. hemistry course changes ^tould lead to resignation imitree'siB *—' nmittees I by Karen Schrimsher I Battalion Staff lA Texas A&M chemistry professor aid “Mi ly 5 ^ will submit his resignation this \ on thefternoon if department head J.B. like tol» atow ‘ tz approves a recommenda- twereact® 11 to discontinue centralized ■aching in first year chemistry a I)einf urses - resicleniB ^ r - O’Connor says the First Franklin l ear Chemistry Program Review R<)Osevellip mm ‘ ttee has recommended that ^nvofjhemistry 101 and 102 be taught like I Repul j^her university courses, with re- n with c l u ' re ^ attendance within each class Bction. Professors would be responsi- He for testing and grading within their sections. H The courses are now structured so at students may attend any profes- r’s lectures at any time the courses Ite offered. Equivalent exams are Iven in all class sections. The stu- pnts are tested according to a list of ritten objectives, given to students at ie beginning of each semester. Natowitz says he has not received le final recommendations concern- gthe proposed change. He says he l^TT innot make any decisions until he 1^1 I is the final draft. ^ * “Right now there is nothing to be scided on,” Natowitz says. “No ac- )n is being considered yet.” The philosophy behind centralized teaching is that students can learn from textbooks and lectures, and may work with any of the faculty members who keep office hours, he says. “It is my personal feeling that stu dents benefit not so much from a teacher who is especially good or from being especially bright, but from being on the same wavelength with the instructor,” he says. “The best way to get them on the same wavelength is to let the students con trol the dial that tunes them in.” O’Connor was hired to start the program 10 years ago. Since then, first year chemistry courses have been taught under the centralized method. O’Connor says some faculty mem bers feel that the present teaching sys tem may make the courses too easy for students, and that decentraliza tion may put the course on a higher academic level. “I cannot see why there is any con cern over the courses being too easy,” he says. “Student evaluations have consistently shown that students rank these courses as difficult, or even more difficult than other courses they are taking.” Some professors may have hurt feelings because the students who are registered for their sections are going .to another professor’s lecture, O’Con nor says. “I think what is best for the stu dents is more important than a pro fessor’s ego,” he says. O’Connor says the recommenda tion is not a reflection of the feelings of the entire faculty or the depart ment heads. “If the decision is made to change the program, I would have no option with my own conscience but to res ign,” O’Connor says. “I do not want to be associated with a program that is less effective than the one we have “I think that other university courses would benefit from the type of program we have. That is why I feel that to change our program would be a step backwards.” O’Connor says if the decision is made to keep the present system, he will be happy to remain director of the first year program. But if Nato witz decides to change the program or won’t give him a decision today, he says he will resign. He says the reason for the deadline is the strain that the situation has put on his family. See CHEMIST page 15 by Stephanie M. Ross Battalion Staff College Station police have charged a Minnesota man with the October 1979 murder of a Texas A&M stu dent, but he may not be brought' to trial here for several months. Jeffery John Emery, 23, of New Brighton, Minn., was served a sealed indictment Monday and charged with the stabbing death of LeShan Ann Muhlinghaus, a junior journalism major at the time. College Station Police Capt. Ron nie Miller, who served the indictment to Emery, is in Minnesota working with police on the case. Jailed in St. Paul, Minn, on a burg lary charge since last week, Emery has been charged with five counts of burglary in Minnesota. Emergy may have to face the burglary charges be fore being extradited to College Sta tion. The timing is not definite, Col lege Station detective Gary Norton said Tuesday. Emery, who was not a suspect in the case until December 1982, was an ap pliance repairman at the time of the murder. He had been in the apart ment a few days before the murder to check a faulty thermostat. “We didn’t have any reason at that particular time to suspect him,” Nor ton said. Emery became a suspect when his now ex-wife went to Milwaukee police with information that her husband had killed someone in College Sta tion. The couple lived in College Station at the time of the murder. The case was put on hold because the Emerys were in the process of a divorce, and under Texas state law, husbands and wives cannot testify in court against one another. As his ex- wife, Mrs. Emery can testify against her husband on what she saw, not what he has told her. October 12, the day of the murder, Kathy Cunningham, Muhlinghaus’ roommate, found her body on the bedroom floor of their Travis House apartment at about 9:30 p.m. Reports conflict about the number of times Muhlinghaus was stabbed, but Nor ton said he counted 25 wounds. Cunningham had just arrived home from Montgomery Ward & Co. at Manor East Mall, where she was employed, when she discovered the body. Cunningham and her room mate worked together, and usually came home together, but Muhling haus had left work early that evening, at about 7:30 p.m., saying she felt ill. Muhlinghaus was a transfer stu dent from Richardson Junior Col lege, near Dallas, and had been at Texas A&M for two months at the time of her death. At that time, the murder was the first in the College Station area in over a year. Lebanese stall troop talks United Press International BEIRUT — Secretary of State George Shultz persisted today in his efforts to reach an agreement on foreign troop withdrawals from Lebanon but Beirut officials said chances of an early accord appeared dim. Shultz, on the 10th day today of his Middle East shuttle, received an apparent setback Tuesday when Lebanon announced leaders of the Arab world must be consulted before it could sign an agreement with Israel. But U.S. officials were optimistic as they talked to reporters aboard the plane that carried Shultz from Jeru salem to Beirut, where authorities said an explosion injured at least three people in the Hamra district Tuesday. The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said another blast occurred south of the town of Kafr Mabrakh in Lebanon’s Shouf mountains, wound ing three Israeli soldiers as they pas sed in an army vehicle. Shultz was trying to mediate dif ferences between Lebanon and Israel on an accord over the pullout of 30,000 Israeli troops, then the with drawal of 40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestinian forces. In Damascus, Palestine Liberation Organziation chief Yasser Arafat met with Syrian President Hafez Assad for the first time in nearly eight months, Damascus Radio and the PLO news agency, WAFA, said. Syria and the PLO agreed to coun ter Israeli moves to secure advantages in the Shultz mediated talks, the re ports said. - : -^ank extortion fails, lostages freed safely United Press International DALLAS — Police credited a cool- :aded banker’s wife held hostage in i automobile at gunpoint for seven iurs with the successful resolution a foiled extortion attempt. The suspect surrendered shortly ter Jo Goyne bolted from the car rrounded by patrol cars in a city tersection and ran to the safety of police Tuesday. inside Around Town 4 Classified 8 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 4 National 7 Police Beat 4 What’s up 7 forecast Clear skies today with a high of 83. Winds from the northwest at 5 to 10 mph. Clear tonight with a low near 57. Mostly sunny skies Thurs day with a high near 84. Alexander Davis was charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggra vated robbery and held on $200,000 bond today in the attempt to extort $450,000 from bank president Joe Goyne. Police spokesman Bob Shaw said the ordeal began for the Goynes Mon day night about 10 p.m. when Goyne let his dog out in the backyard. Davis was waiting with an automatic pistol, Shaw said, and held the couple and their two children hostage all night. Tuesday morning, the family drove with Davis to the Grand Ave nue Bank in east Dallas where Goyne reportedly withdrew in excess of $400,000 in cash for Davis. Davis left the bank with Mrs. Goyne and her two daughters — Erin Jones, 10, and Sean Jones, 7 — leaving Goyne at the bank. Goyne immediately called the FBI, which contacted police, Shaw said. Police located the car shortly after that and boxed the suspect in with another car behind him, Shaw said. Shortly after noon, about four hours after the standoff began, the suspect released the two girls, who had not been harmed. Davis set his gun on the dash and remained in the car for about 25 mi nutes after Mrs. Goyne’s escape, con tinuing to negotiate with police, be fore he surrendered. New degree draws computer buffs Editor’s note: This is the last story in a three-part series on computer ization at Texas A&M University. by Robert McGIohon Battalion Staff About 50 of the business stu dents who graduate May 7 will be presented degrees never before offered by Texas A&M — degrees in business administration with majors in business analysis. About 20 of those 50 graduates will receive these degrees. The rest will be double majors, with one major in business analysis and one in another business discipline. The Department of Business Analysis, which is in the College of Business Administration, has been at Texas A&M as long as the busi ness college. Before September 1982 it did not have an undergra duate major of its own, but was a service department that offered courses to business and other ma jors. A year ago the Coordinating Board approved a major in busi ness analysis and the first students registered in September. Despite the fact that it didn’t advertise the curricula, the new degree-granting department gen erated quite a bit of interest, Dr. Frank P. Buffa, interim depart ment head for business analysis, said. Some of that interest turned out to be misdirected, he said, but the final result was acceptance of 170 business analysis majors. An additional 100 students elected to have business analysis as a second major together with another busi ness discipline. The department drew students from throughout the University, Dr. George Fowler, business analy sis undergraduate adviser said. However, most students came from either from the College of Business Administration or from the Department of Computing Sci ences. He said they were all “wel comed with open arms.” But the department had a prob lem with students changing to business analysis for the wrong reasons, Fowler said. Some of the students switched to business analysis simply because the career opportunities are favor able. Of the 20 business analysis majors, all but one have received job offers — and at salaries above average for business majors. See COMPUTE page 15 staff photo by Irene Mees Ricky Klingbeil, a senior civil engineering major from Garland, struggles with a computer terminal in the Academic Computing Center.