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College Station, Texas
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Paul Brandon, a junior electrical engineering student
from Irving, examines a soldered glass piece filled with
vater during the craft show Tuesday by the Memorial
ptudent Center. The last day of the show is today with
Bother show scheduled just before Christmas.
igh court stays
utry execution
United Press International
IUNTSVILLE — U.S Supreme
[urtjustice Byron White late Tues-
in Washington granted David
iwboy” Autry a stay of execution
[sthan an hour before he was to die,
spokesman for Texas Gov. Mark
iiite’s office said.
The stay came an hour after the
i U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals de
led a similar stay request, ruling the
Wal was untimely.
Texas Assistant Atty. Gen. Leslie
enitez said Justice White granted
he stay on the basis on the “certificate
probable cause.” That means Au-
can pursue a full appeal to the
Irciiit court of appeals.
| Essentially, the justice said, Autry
lould have the time to argue his case
before the circuit court.
[ State attorneys had no further de-
on justice White’s action or the
jiration of the stay.
(Texas authorities said if Autry
tre not executed before dawn
lednesday, a new execution date
paid have to be set.
Ilhe stay promoted anger and dis-
Ipointment in a crowd of about 300
Ithered outside and awaiting the ex-
ution. The group chanted, “kill
n,”and “bull-—,” “bull—” in their
Iger.
Ijohn DeWitt, 55, a member of Pa
ints of Murdered Children, whose
Injamie, 26, was murdered by a rob
ber in April 1982, said he was “dis
appointed.”
“The system has not worked
again,” DeWitt said.
Rubb Brasher, 19, a sophomore at
Sam Houston State University, said
he believed justice had been denied.
“I’d like to know when justice will
be done,” Brasher said. “This guy
goes up, plays God by taking some
one’s life and gets out of paying his
penalty.”
The eight-page order by the 5th
Circuit denying the 29-year-old killer
a stay relied heavily on the U.S. Sup
reme Court ruling in the Thomas
Barefoot case decided earlier this
year.
In that case, the nations’ highest
court vowed to speed up the appeals
process in death penalty cases.
The circuit judges, who conferred
by telephone from three cities and
issued their ruling from New
Orleans, acknowledged they were
handicapped by a lack of time but
said, “This time pressure is a creature
of Autry’s delay.
Autry was found guilty of the April
20, 1980, shooting in a Port Arthur
Sak-N-Pak of clerk Shirley Drouet,
43. A jury decided Autry stole a six-
pack of beer and when caught shot
Drouet between the eyes.
Prosecutors claimed Autry left the
store but then returned after seeing
two men find Mrs. Drouet’s body.
College-corporate ties
slipping says Giamatti
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
The president of Yale University
said Tuesday that American universi
ties are losing trust with the corpora
tions that back them financially in re
search projects and vice versa.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of
Yale and a member of the National
Commission on Excellence in Educa
tion, told an audience of about 60 fa
culty members and a few students
that university-corporate relations is
one of the most important aspects of a
university’s success.
Giamatti’s lecture, “University-
Industry Relations,” was the first of
three he will present this week as part
the* annual Miller Lecture Series.
“It’s absolutely necessary for uni
versities to be financially backed by
large corporations in order to have
successful research programs,”
Giamatti said. “But there are definite
ly some disadvantages to this type of
working agreement.”
Two major problems face universi
ties and corporations when it comes to
subsidizing university costs for corpo
rate research, he said.
“The first of these problems is
there is usually a pact between the two
not to publish any research findings
until an agreement has been reached
as to who and how the information
will be made public,” Giamatti said.
“When a company makes a large
research grant, say about $1 million,
to a university, the university becomes
obligated and pressured to come up
with some answers through re
search,” Giamatti said.
Large monetary gifts create a lot of
competition within the university, he
said. It can hurt morale if one college
or department is constantly receiving
more funding than others.
Giamatti said another problem
occurs when a faculty member who
has been involved with university re
search branches out and does re
search for another company or begins
a private firm of his own.
It’s difficult to retain loyalty to the
university if there’s a chance to make
more money elsewhere, he said.
“If an architecture professor can
have a private firm why can’t a biology
professor have one?” Giamatti asked
the audience.
He answered the question by ex-
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staff photo by John Makely
A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University
plaining that biologists, chemists and
other researchers could be more valu
able to a firm because they have access
to more university-related informa
tion.
Giamatti will speak on “The Role
of the Federal Government in Higher
Education” at 8 tonight in Rudder
Theater and on “The Role of Athle
tics in Education” at 4 p.m. Thursday
in Room 204 of the Sterling C. Evans
Library.
Clinic funds nixed; service
called a public controversy
by Chris Thayer
Battalion Reporter
Brazos County’s United Way was
in a no-win situation this year when
requests for funding from this
year’s campaign came in.
Approving Planned Parent
hood’s request for funding would
offend anti-abortion donors. Turn
ing it down would offend suppor
ters of Planned Parenthood.
United Way President Don Hel-
Iriegel expressed his support of
Planned Parenthood and its health
service and education activities be
fore the board of directors voted
down its request, according to a Un
ited Way statement. The board de
cided that Planned Parenthood’s in
clusion would cause too much con
troversy.
However, denying Planned Pa
renthood’s request did not make the
controversy go away.
Sally Miller, Planned Parenthood
clinic director, said Planned Parent
hood didn’t ask for United Way
funding in order to start a con
troversy. The request was part of
the normal operations of the
Branch Advocacy Council.
The council is a group of volun
teers that looks for ways to raise
money for Planned Parenthood.
This was the first year the council
suggested asking United Way for
funding.
Planned Parenthood followed up
the the council’s suggestion because
it is a community organization and
provides a good service for the com
munity, Miller said.
The Brazos County United Way
board of directors felt public clamor
would have an adverse effect on the
local campaign if Planned Parent
hood was included in the campaign.
“Planned Parenthood tells about
abortion as one option in their pre
gnancy counseling,” Robert A.
Fleisher, executive director of Un
ited Way, said. “A segment of the
population finds that objection
able.”
T here is a history of controversy
in United Way Fund raising cam
paigns, which has included Planned
Parenthood, Fleisher said.
Of five Texas United Way agen
cies that funded Planned Parent
hood as recently as three years ago,
only two continue funding today be
cause of public clamor, according to
the Brazos County United Way’s
position statement. Of 600 similarly
sized United Way agencies, only 38
give money to Planned Parenthood.
But United Way’s decision to
leave Planned Parenthood out of
the campaign didn’t end the con
troversy. Planned Parenthood has
received a substantial amount of
donations from people who said
they were donating to Planned Pa
renthood instead of United Way this
year. Miller said.
The campaign drive has not been
going long enough to tell if dona
tions to United Way have decreased,
Fleisher said.
“We will never be aware of how
much is lost because of this con
troversy,” he said. “Some indi
viduals may choose to give some or
all of their donations to Planned Pa
renthood, but I am not aware of any
group efforts. There will never be a
way to measure the loss.”
The board’s decision to deny
funding for Planned Parenthood
came after three committees
approved its request.
When an agency applies for Un
ited Way funding, two standing
committees investigate that agency.
All of the committees are voluntary,
Fleisher said, to ensure that alloca
tions are deemed effective by the
public.
The first committee visited Plan
ned Parenthood and recommended
it to the second committee solely on
the basis of its programs, Fleisher
said. The controversy Planned Pa-
Local group to send protest letters
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M chapter of
Amnesty International, a worldwide
human rights organization, plans to
write letters to the Guatemalan gov
ernment to express concern over the
disappearance of Jose Rosal Paz, a
former Texas A&M student.
Rosal Paz, a 28-year-old agronom
ist from Teculutan, Guatemala, has
been missing from Guatemala City
since Aug. 12. He did graduate work
at Texas A&M from 1976 to 1978,
and is a member of the Association of
Distinguished Alumni.
When there is reason to believe
that someone has been taken into cus
tody by authorities and the author
ities deny an arrest has taken place,
AI considers the event a disappear
ance.
Nita Heimann, a member of the
Texas A&M chapter, said the group
will begin writing letters to the Guate
malan government, urging them to
look into Rosal Paz’s disappearance.
One of AI’s goals is to exert public
pressure on governments where pris
oners are believed to be held in viola
tion of their rights.
Along with the Texas A&M group,
others from around the world will
write letters concerning Rosal Paz,
Heimann said. AI chapters receive
appeals for letters twice monthly and
are constantly writing on behalf of
prisoners around the world, she said.
When a case comes to the attention
of AI, researchers at the group’s in
formation center in London make
sure there is substantial reason to
send an appeal. Heimann said the re
searchers are accurate in collecting in
formation because they want to main
tain their world-wide credibility.
Heimann said AI does not know
why Rosal Paz disappeared because
he didn’t seem to be involved with any
controversial political or religous
groups.
Heiman has written to the AI ur
gent appeal center in Colorado to get
an informational update on Rosal
Paz.
“Sometimes you will get an update,
but in a lot of cases you never hear at
all,” Heimann said.
Most people at Texas A&M did not
know or will not remember Rosal Paz,
she said, but the group wants to let
people here know that injustice where
human rights are concerned can dire
ctly affect them.
The Texas A&M chapter of AI
began in the spring of this year. It is
not associated with any political or re
ligious group.
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Quipping Ashby says A&M, UT like brothers
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
Houston Post columnist Lynn
Ashby said Tuesday night that Texas
A&M and the University of Texas will
become closer in the future and “get
along like brothers — Cain and Abel.”
He made this remark during a
speech at Rudder Theater that was
spotted with “good bull” insults
thrown to the crowd by the UT gra
duate who was named an Honorary
Aggie by the Association of Former
Students. The speech was part of the
MSC Great Issues program.
Despite his facetiousness, he was
sincere in saying that the two universi
ties will have to cooperate as each be
comes more specialized, due to eco
nomic factors controlling public edu
cation in Texas.
He said the universities already
cooperate “real well” when it comes to
the Permanent University Fund. The
fund now stands at $2.2 billion and
the revenue generated by that fund is
shared by only Texas A&M and UT.
Ashby predicted that in the future
Texas A&M will specialize in agricul
ture and engineering while UT will
handle instruction in areas such as
liberal arts, law, languages and the
fine arts.
Days when professors, as well as
students, will commute from UT to
Texas A&M as the two schools becom
es more specialized were also among
Ashby’s predictions.
Politics, logic and the benefits of
healthy competion between the two
universities demand that they remain
two separate schools, he said, reliev
ing any fears that he was suggesting
that the schools merge.
Both UT and Texas A&M have
curbed their growth by raising the
academic standards to get into the re
spective universities. Ashby com
mented that this may be counter
productive because as the schools are
made more exclusive, more people
want to get in.
Most of Ashby’s text, however,
dealt with the state of Texas as a
whole rather than just education.
This isn’t unusual given his back
ground.
After leaving UT with a bachelor’s
degree in journalism, Ashby went to
work for the New York Times. Since
1968, however, he has proven himself
as a viable commentator on Texas
problems, institutions and traditions
as a columnist for the Post.
It is generally agreed that Texas is
different from the rest of the United
States. Ashby gave three basic distinc
tions between Texans and other
Americans.
See ASHBY, page 16
Houston Post
with students
followed his speech.
Columnist
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staff photo by John Makely
Lynn Ashby talks
a reception that