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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
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hemistry course changes
^tould lead to resignation
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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.
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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.
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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.
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staff photo by Irene Mees
Ricky Klingbeil, a senior civil engineering major from
Garland, struggles with a computer terminal in the
Academic Computing Center.