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Battalion Serving the University community Accident on Wellborn staff photo by Eric Evan Lee An accident at the corner of Jersey Street and Wellborn Road Camaro. College Station Fire Department paramedics attend to Wednesday evening involved drivers of a van, a Mustang and a the driver of the Camaro, who was injured in the crash. limit dies in Senate Fax cut United Press International WASHINGTON — President Bgan doesn’t have to bother to veto Democratic bid to limit Friday’s tax tto$720 per family — the Senate tady scrubbed the attempt. Reagan, who had pledged repe- idly to veto the measure if proved, said after the 55-45 Senate vote Wednesday: “I can put my veto pen away.” The Republican-controlled Senate killed a proposal to put a cap on the final installment of Reagan’s three- year, 25 percent tax cut. Senate Republican Leader Ho ward Baker of Tennessee, who three years ago called the ambitious tax-cut program a “riverboat gamble,” Wednesday urged his colleagues to defeat any attempt to limit the final stage of the tax cut. “It would ill serve the people of the United State by tinkering with the only long-range tax program that we have had since I’ve been here and that’s 17 years,” Baker said. A vote two days before the tax cut was to take effect would “be a bad time indeed to change the plan that has served us so well,” he said. Only three of the 54 Republicans voted in favor of curbing the tax cut, which the Democratic-dominated House approved, 229-191, last week. Only four of the 46 Senate Democrats defected to vote against the bill. Thursday, June 30,1983 Teller system installed soon by Scott Griffin Battalion Staff Construction has begun on four automatic teller machines to be placed under the stairwell between the Memorial Student Center and Rudder Tower. The units have been expected since the Texas A&M Board of Re gents authorized contract negotia tions for the machines last fall. University controller Robert Smith said the units, two PULSE and two MPACT machines, will provide 24- hour banking service for students be ginning in the fall. “We hope to have them up, instal led, tested and de-bugged when the fall semester starts,” Smith said. While he said these are the only Student effective United Press International WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Wednesday ordered into effect on Friday a new law denying federal financial aid to students who fail to register for the draft. In a one-paragraph order, the jus tices lifted a Minnesota federal judge’s injunction that would have blocked the law from taking effect and would have permitted young men to continue to collect student aid even if they had not registered. The order, although temporary, makes it likely the law will be in force at least through the summer and into the fall, when college students begin the new school year. The reason is the high court is due to adjourn for its summer recess in the next few days and will not have a chance to act on the draft case until it resumes work in October. The order stays the Minnesota judge’s injunction “pending the time ly docketing and final disposition of the (government’s) appeal in this court.” The government already has announced its intentions to appeal di units proposed, Smith said more might be installed if demand is high enough. Smith said local banks who sub scribe to either PULSE or MPACT will participate in the system. Earlier this year. Smith said one advantage of the machines would be the reduction of long check-cashing lines on campus. He said another be nefit would be the availability of money after check-cashing hours. While local banks completed final arrangements on the project in March, Smith said construction of the machines was delayed until summer to avoid heavy traffic around the MSC that might interfere with con struction. aid law Friday rectly to the Supreme Court the Min nesota ruling declaring unconstitu tional the new military service re quirement. The requirement was enacted by Congress last September to induce more young men to fulfill their legal duty to register for draft eligibility within 30 days of their 18th birthday. The new law, with its July 1 effec tive date, was challenged by six anonymous Minnesota students who said they have not registered and were in danger of being denied finan cial aid for college this fall. On review, U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop in St. Paul ruled the law violates the students’ rights against self-incrimination and also unconsti tutionally punishes people without a trial. Last week, Alsop issued a perma nent injunction keeping the law from taking effect nationwide. The Justice Department immedi ately turned to the Supreme Court to dissolve the injunction, arguing it would “irretrievably deprive the Un ited States of a valuable tool to prom ote maximum compliance” with draft registration. eacher exchange with Prairie View renewed by Jennifer Carr Battalion Staff People in New York commute to eirjobsevery day. Now Texas A&M lofessors can commute too — in a idling exchange program with airie View A&M University. Dr. Clinton A. Phillips, dean of tulties at Texas A&M, said the ex- jinge of professors will be advan- geous to both universities. In addi- >e to providing each school with »expertise and allowing profes- iisto “recharge their batteries” by idling in a different environment, said, the exchange will allow stu nts the opportunity to become in- fed in the learning process with topic of another race. The program, which was success ful when it began in 1981-82, involves professors from each university traveling to and from the other school twice a week for classes and office hours. The program was discon tinued for the 1982-83 school year after a change in the Prairie View administration. However, both schools are re entering into the program with en thusiasm this year, Phillips said. Ear lier this summer Prairie View Acade mic Vice President Dr. William Moore, his special assistant and the deans of education and liberal arts met with Phillips to reaffirm their in terest in the program. Phillips said this time he would like to synchronize the two schools’ calen dars and professors’ class times so all the Texas A&M professors can travel together. He said the chance for pro fessors in different disciplines to spend that time together is another advantage to the program. The only real problems in the program are mechanical ones like finding extra office space for visiting professors’ office hours, he said, and familiariz ing professors with the procedure for getting supplies and other teaching necessities. Although a one-on-one switch is desired — history for history, English for English — other trades are possi ble if a school can’t spare the faculty from a particular discipline. Professors are chosen based first on their desire to participate, then on how well they can adjust their sche dules to the trip. Phillips said each department will choose its best pro fessors and submit them to the admi nistration for approval. Professors who are selected to par ticipate in the program are desig nated as system professors. They are awarded a plaque, Phillips said, and extra pay for the extra work involved. He said professors from all colleges are interested in the program, but only four or five will be able to partici pate. Dr. David W. David, assistant dean of education, participated in the program two years ago as a professor, and coordinated the program for the college of education. He is coordinat ing the program again this year. It is his job, he said, to announce the opportunity, receive willingness form professors to cooperate and properly channel all the arrangements. He said there are several reasons why the program has some special advantages for the department of education. The college’s graduates serve the total population, David said, and no interaction with minorities may create a void in their preparation. The col lege is required by law to include a multi-cultural component in its curri culum, and David said he feels the exchange program complements this requirement. It would be hypocritical not to have minorities as a part of the program, he said. In addition, the program will help alleviate some of the criticism leveled at Texas A&M for not having adequ ate minority faculty. While exchange professors from Prairie View are not considered Texas A&M faculty, they do increase student involvement with minority faculty, he said. David said he had good rapport with the faculty and students at Prairie View when he taught. And while he didn’t keep in constant con tact with all the professors from Prairie View, he said, he knows of one particular professor who did an out standing job here and was very well received. University burs differ for holiday Many University facilities will be feed for the Fourth of July holiday ■''will have altered hours. The Sterling C. Evans Library Jill be op n Monday from 9 a.m. to ’pm. The Medical Sciences Library *111 be closed. The following Memorial Student ‘-enter areas will close at 5 p.m. Fri- and remain closed until early [iiesday: Rudder Tower, Craft W Association of Former Stu- fets, barber and beauty shops, fekstore and sweetshop, Braley fevel, browsing library, general jjfice, MSC main desk, the Student Vrams Office and the Visitors formation Center. MSC locations closing earlier fei 5 p.m. are the bowling and !i®es —4 p.m., Food Services — 3 4, MSC Box Office — 4:30 p.m., *ISC snackbar — 2 p.m., the post jjlice window — 3 p.m., Student We Center—4 p.m., the Tower WjRoom— 1:30 p.m. and the Cguest rooms — 2 p.m. The MSC and the MSC main desk 'ill reopen at 4 p.m. Monday. Western hostages threatened with death United Press International NAIROBI, Kenya — Relief work ers and diplomats hoped Wednesday to reach a compromise with secession ist guerrillas in Sudan threatening to kill five Western hostages, including two Americans, if their demands are not met by July 6. “We are in contact with the guerril las once a day by radio and we are holding the line open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. in case they want to talk,” said A.R. Checkly of the Africa Inland Mission, one of the agencies involved in the negotiations. The guerrillas of the Southern Sudan Liberation Front — a black secessionist group struggling for in dependence for southern Sudan from the predominantly Arab and Moslem north — have set July 6 as the final deadline. They are demanding $189,000 in cash, 150 sets of clothing and shoes and air time on the Voice of America and British Broadcasting Corp. radio networks. The hostages were identified as John Haspels, 36, of Lyons, Kan.; Ron Ponder, 29, of Clermont, Fla.; Martin Overduin, 31, from Komoka, Ontario; Willem Noort of Holland, and Alois Tscheitd of Germany. The five were kidnapped Thurs day when their aircraft touched down in Boma National Park near the Ke nyan and Ethiopian border in north east Africa. Another aircraft with six other aid workers — including the wife and three children of Haspels — was held briefly but then was permitted to fly back to Nairobi carrying the ransom demands. Sudanese President Jafaar Numeiry has claimed the guerrillas are supported and armed by Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy in a bid to topple his regime. PLO rebels strengthen control in Lebanon United Press International Palestinian rebels seeking to oust Yasser Arafat today consolidated their control over Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and pushed toward the ancient city of Baalbeck, the last major stron ghold of Arafat’s loyalist guerrillas in central Lebanon. Beirut Radio said the fighting broke out Wednesday and continued through the morning in the second straight day of artillery and mortar battles between rival Palestine Libera tion Organization factions. The radio reported heavy fighting today near the Bekaa Valley village of Taanayel but there were no reports of casualties or whether Syrian troops were supporting the anti-Arafat guerrillas. The fighting further consolidated the rebel’s control of the central Be kaa Valley, leaving the bulk of Ara fat’s troops isolated in northern Leba non near the port city of Tripoli, 50 miles north of Beirut. On Wednesday, PLO dissidents overran a medical post manned by Arafat’s troops in Bar Elias and pushed north of the Beirut-Damascus Highway toward Baalbek, the last ma jor position of Arafat loyalists left in the valley. Arafat remained isolated at his new headquarters in Tunisia during the fighting. In the Beirut suburb of Baabda, U.S. envoy Philip Habib met Wednes day with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who said the PLO mutiny underscored the need for all foreign forces to leave Lebanon. “This situation threatens the safety of the land and people, posing danger on the peoples’ properties, interests and further infringing Lebanese sovereignty,” Gemayel said. Syria has rejected the U.S.- mediated Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal accord, which calls on Israel to withdraw its 30,000 troops if Syria and the PLO also pull their forces out of the country. Syrian President Hafez Assad ex pelled Arafat from Damascus last week for accusing his regime of back ing the anti-Arafat rebels and trying to destroy the PLO. Arafat said the Syrian troops, who controls most of eastern and northern Lebanon, back ed the rebels in overrunning PLO positions in the central Bekaa Valley earlier this week. The mutiny against Arafat’s leadership of the PLO began six weeks ago among members of his A1 Fatah guerrilla group, the largest of eight PLO factions. The rebels, led by Col. Said Musa, charged Arafat had become too mod erate and was planning to withdraw PLO forces from Lebanon rather than fight a new war against Israel. inside Classified 4 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 4 National 10 forecast Partly cloudy today with a 20 per cent chance of thundershowers and a high of 95. Tonight’s low near 75. Partly cloudy Friday with a high near 96. For the weekend, partly cloudy and warm with a slight chance of thundershowers.