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[5 move n ix i; The Battalion Serving the University community nley, who had caughtoi isses in his proeareerk unday, caught six iants for 88 yards. ve never been so t," he said. “This wasi me on full down situatioi makes it a lot easier. Ill tant for me to get in ay instead ofjustthetliiif situations. ou get a feel for the ga® feel for the quarterback ;y said. “I know Drew# have been playing wd xlaying the whole gai gave me confidence," hnson, meanwhile, n > happy. He has ma 1 • of expressing his dis|»s it not starting and D» bowing did nothelpu Vol 78 No, 15 USPS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas es bi ne was possible right p Matthews might be roe aekle or backup Moll step in. street floodingcausedd dies to abandon theiri which were without ]» I meet at homes tom de films of the Oilers'ta a row, a 40-28 decision tsburgh Steelers Sundr lat game, even with ako ,nce, the Oilers’offensn live running the ball.! iell gained 40 yards And the Band marches on.. stafT photo by Mike Davis The Aggie Band bugle rank and drum majors waded vs * Texas A&M half-time drill. The rest of the band through the water Monday to learn the Oklahoma State stayed dry by practicing music in the Evans Band Hall. s said a decision would! fuesday as to who will rting quarterback ?lers all enrollment hits record high by Brigid Brockman Battalion Staff While enrollment of 36,840 at ffexas A&M is a record high, this y Anderson; the nuirfear’s increase was the smallest per- ss-catching of secondfftntage since 1965. There was a 1.97 r l )ac k Walter Abercrfhcrease over fall 1982 when enroll- d the play of center viticm was 36,127. T I Associate Registrar Donald Carter says the preliminary count of 36,840 indicated he was |nas taken on the 12th class day, which ed that the offense is the official reporting date to the :o settle for four field(|tate Coordinating Board, ban touchdowns in their Edwin H. Cooper, dean of admis- lonsand records, said the increase of [only 713 students this fall is the result ability to convert thd 0 f a successful enrollment manage- idped in the first Ve wanted to put thcii l zone, hut the fact dial 1 oung man with the att the field goals in help rably Dent plan instituted in the fall of 182. Texas A&M more than doubled its hrollment during the 1970s, making I one of the fastest-growing major :rson, a second-yearvele j | fY /-\ V/ ■ * | 11^ verted field goals to' 1 ^ V ^ md 22 yards. pv • Russians crombie had twobigff ght a 30-yard toucMd im Stoudt and also ran >r another score United Press International BEAUMONT — The board of the ITexas Restaurant Association [pproved a resolution Tuesday call- gon its 5,500 members to stop sell- g Russian products in protest to the iviet attack of a Korean jetliner car ing 269 people. Don Crane, a restaurant owner in said the team sutfelbeamont, presented the resolution to us “bumps and bruises T«press our strong contempt of such ne, but only one seiii| 0v ert and ruthless actions” in the Rookie defensive badifjowning of a commercial Korean air- suffered a sprainedail» ner by a Soviet warplane on Sept. 1. opening kickoff, and# 11 269 passengers, including a U.S. Heelers had three W all in the fourth quart le team had started u ms substitutions, am :y may have resulted® ifidence. initial prognosis is ill be sidelined six tori! congressman, were killed. Board members said the incident nderscored the Soviet Union’s “lack f regard for human life.” inside Around town 7 Classifieds 10 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 11 State 5 Whafsup 10 Forecast istly cloudy and cool today with a percent chance of rain. Tem- ratures will be in the 70s, drop- ig to the 50s tonight. The Air Supply concert scheduled r Friday in G. Rollie White Col- sum has been postponed indefinite- because one of the lead singers has jryngitis. MSC Town Hall represen- itives currently are trying to find out he concert will be rescheduled or celed. universities in the nation during that period. Steady enrollment increases g romp ted the Texas A&M Board of egents in the summer of 1981 to adopt a plan to control Texas A&M’s growth. Beginning last fall, entrance re- ? |uirements for freshmen and trans- er students were changed. Transfer students need a higher grade-point ratio, and freshmen need higher Scholastic Aptitude Test scores than before. Higher scores are required for all new students — except those in the top quarter of their high school graduating class. The Scholastic Aptitude Test is an state-accepted measure of the abilities of high school students in math and English. Cooper said there would have been about 2,000 more students now than if the new requirements hadn’t been put into effect. The total enrollment at the Univer- stiy has increased, but certain colleges within the University have experi enced more growth than others. “Business and engineering have been hard-pressed for room,” Coop er said. “The student-faculty ratio has been hurt because of so many stu dents.” Cooper said the results show that the enrollment management plan is working. The colleges that needed to decrease their enrollment have done so, while enrollment in other colleges has increased. The number of students accepted to the College of Business Adminis tration in the fall of 1983 was down 3.16 percent from last fall. The Col lege of Engineering was down 9.44 percent, but the largest drop was in the College of Geosciences where the number of students accepted was down by 24.35 percent. The largest percentage increase was in the Col lege of Liberal Arts with a 2.81 per cent increase. Texas A&M isn’t the only Universi ty that has started toughening entr ance requirements. The University of Texas raised its entrance require ments for freshman and transfers in Fall 1982. Shirley Binder, director of admis sions at the University of Texas, said its enrollment management program is successful because enrollment there has decreased by about 400 students since last fall. The 1982 fall enroll ment was 48,039. see Enroll, page!4 staff photo by Guy Hood Clayton speaks Billy Clayton, Jr., former Texas Speaker of the House and former student of Texas A&M converses with Kelley McRae, a senior bio-medical science major from Bonham at the fall barbeque of the Saddle & Sirloin Club held Tuesday night. Clayton was the featured speaker at the annual banquet. Bubble United Press International HOUSTON — David, the world’s oldest survivor of untreated severe combined immune deficiency dis ease, is 12 years old today and is celeb rating inside the sterile cocoon he has endured since birth. David, whose family name has been withheld to protect his privacy, will be surrounded by family and friends outside his plastic bubble at home as he enjoys Holy Communion, birthday cake and gifts. boy 12 “His gifts will include video game cartridges, electronic toys, adventure books and ‘Return of the Jedi’ items,” Baylor College of Medicine spokes woman Susannah Moore Griffin said. One of David’s most recent ven tures into the outside world was attending a special showing of “Re turn of the Jedi” movie at a local thea ter. He watched from his portable iso lator “bubble” which fits into a van. He also has begun learning to play a miniature electronic piano, Mrs. today Griffin said. David spends most of his time at home in a four-compartment isolator occupying his family’s living and di ning rooms. In June and December, he spends a week at Texas Children’s Hospital for tests and the isolator is thoroughly cleaned. Two rooms of Baylor’s Clinical Re search Center at Texas Children’s Hospital are reserved year-round for David. Wednesday, September 21,1983 Medical school gains reputation by Ronnie Crocker Battalion StafT Texas A&M has long been known for excellence in engineering and agriculture but now is gaining a repu tation for excellence in another disci pline — medicine. For the third straight year, 100 percent of the Texas A&M medical school graduates passed the state licensing exam. The Texas A&M class was the only one in the state to achieve the 100 percent passing ratio. The exam, known as the Feder ated Licensing Examination or FLEX, must be passed by all new physicians to be licensed by the state of Texas. While none of the actual scores are made public, Elvin Smith, associate dean of the College of Medicine, says that the Texas A&M scores were at the top of the state. He also says that graduates have taken other national exams and scored quite high compared to gradu ates of other schools. A survey of directors of physicians residency programs in which Texas A&M graduates now are enrolled yielded many compliments and favor able comments on their preparation and performance, Smith says. Tne Texas A&M Medical School, newest in the state, has now gradu ated three classes of 32 students. Last year the number of students admitted was raised to 40 and this year was raised to 48. The opening of the new Medical Sciences Building allowed for the lar- er class sizes but plans now are to old enrollment at the current level, he says. Tne students, however, are only partly responsible for the school’s growing respect, he says. The medical school has a unique advantage at being located on the campus of a ma jor high-technology university. Smith says the school wants to be art of the technology and apply that nowledge to medical problems such as the diagnosis of patients and the treatment of disease. Another group is working with people from the engineering and architecture departments to develop ways to make society safer for the elderly. see Medical, page 14 Compromise calls for Marine stay j in the Middle East United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan reluctantly agreed Tuesday to sign a long-sought compromise congressional resolution that will allow U.S. Marines to stay in Lebanon another 18 months but restrict their role. The agreement, drafted to head off a confrontation over the escalat ing U.S. military role in Beirut and terms of the 1973 War Powers Re solution, was announced almost simultaneously by Reagan at the White House and House Speaker Thomas O’Neill on Capitol Hill. The compromise resolution was introduced by Senate Republican leader Howard Baker just hours after it was outlined. Baker asked for “ex pedited proceedings” and the mea sure was immediately sent to the Foreign Relations committee. Reagan said he would sign the agreement despite “substantial reser vations about parts” of it. Some law makers also expressed reservations, but most predicted it will pass. Reagan, before flying to South Carolina to help raise campaign money for conservative Sen. Strom Thurmond, said he would sign the measure if it remains unchanged from the version he saw Tuesday. Officials said the pact calls for Con gress to declare that Reagan should have invoked the War Powers Resolu tion following the deaths of two Marines among the U.S. peacekeep ers Aug. 29. Two more Marines have died in shelling since. The resolution gives Congress the authority to order troops home with in 60 days if they are under attack or face imminent hostilities. O’Neill asserted that under the agree ment, worked out in a week of nego tiations, Reagan “does acknowledge the war powers act in our opinion.” “The signature of the president, no matter what his disclaimers are, is ack nowledgement of the war powers act,” he said. The Marines’ mission would be de fined in terms of their participation in the multinational peace-keeping force and their presence would be re stricted to the Beirut area under the pact. But the provision also would be fle xible to allow U.S. involvement in “such measures as are necessary to protect the Marines.” This would per mit the use of naval artillery and tac tical air support. In framing the compromise, offi cials noted Reagan’s opposition to a strict interpretation of the war powers act’s timetable provision and belief that presidential prerogatives should not be usurped by a requirement for congressional approval. They said there was virtually an unwritten agreement that Reagan would be publicly reluctant about signing the compromise. “While I have substantial reserva tions about parts of this resolution, reservations which I made clear to the leadership,” said Reagan, “I am pleased that this agreement among the congressional leadership support ing our presence and policies in Leba non has been reached. “And I would be willing to sign the proposed resolution, while express ing my reservations, if it is passed in the form that has has been presented to me this morning.” In saying he would accept the plan, however, top House Democrat O’Neill indicated there was “grave concern” among some House mem bers about keeping the Marines in Lebanon so long. He noted the “deal” is subject to the approval of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the full House. Shordy after the announcement by Reagan and O’Neill, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Cle ment Zablocki, D-Wis., met with Democrats on his panel to clear the agreement. He predicted they would approve it despite some misgivings. “Of course, not everybody is happy about it,” Zablocki said. But, he said, “I believe it is a good compromise because whether the administration admits it or not it rec ognizes the . war powers act.” Floods knock out power in several campus buildings The heavv rains that hit College Station Monday caused flooding and power outages in several buildings on campus Monday evening, but every thing was back in order by early Tues- day afternoon and no major damage was reported. Joe Estill, director of the physical plant, said the buildings worst hit were the Teague Research Center, the Data Processing Center, the Civil Engineering Building, the Doherty Building and both buildings of the Langford Architecture Center. He said water in the basement of the older section of the architectural center shorted out an electrical panel that controls the electricity of the other affected buildings. He said power went out after 5 p.m. Monday, and physical plant workers spent the evening pumping water out of flooded buildings and trying to dry out electrical equipment. Workers had the water out of all of the buildings and the power back on in all but three buildings before mid night, Estill said. The Civil Engineering building, which is being renovated, and the architectural center buildings did not get power back until about noon Tuesday.