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by Edye Williams
Batulion Reporter
In a 170-111 vote, students attend-
■the Texas A&M Forum Wednes-
I ni^ht voted that the “Rudder
fountain preachers” did not violate
he[separation of church and state,
freshman Shelly Davies, opening
est.
Against the advice
: committees, the
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t down.
ftker in favor of the resolution,
jid allowing these speakers to use
idering both its pro» V ersity property and equipment is
the controversy funfliolation of the rights guaranteed
ned Parenthood nBhe First Amendment. Davies said
-• 1 hat commitir pfirst became aware of the situation
oved Planned Paret Ken she was embarrassed by one of
speakers.
obin Wranosky, opening speaker
|inst the resolution, said the First
lendment dealt with four free-
js: freedom of speech and ex-
he moral issues invoIvttBssion, freedom from fear, free-
hy of debate, Fleisherjom from want and the freedom to
,'nited Way is not the (whip God in your own way. Doing
hat debate. w with these evangelists would in-
1 pge on all of these rights, she said,
I/ V the exception of freedom from
o C C K r i
EWronosky said these evangelists
Ive nothing to do with the separa-
|n of church and state,” because
By are not University sponsored
flnts and anyone can speak as long
i|time and space are available,
ic attorneys said thf'Whe concluded with the statement
o ask U.S. District | Im m ost religions practice spreading
im Wayne Justices fe word to non-believers,
ng in DecembertodeoBxo s ii ence these speakers would
1 Hto tell them that they cannot do
at their religious convictions tell
m to do,” she said.
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After the opening statements, the
floor was opened to the audience for
discussion.
During the debate, audience mem
bers are free to walk across the aisle
from where they are sitting if they
change their opinions. At the end of
the hour the audience votes on the
resol7tion.
One audience member said be
cause tax payers built the University
and this was state property it should
not be used for these speakers. This
statement caused several students to
move from their seats and side with
those against the resolution.
Audience members in favor of the
resolution maintained throughout
the debate that “certain things in cer
tain places are offensive,” and that
these preachers should stay in chur
ches where they belong.
Several members even suggested
that these people speak in front of the
All Faiths Chapel instead of the steps
at Rudder.
Those against the resolution
argued that to ban these speakers
from the steps of Rudder would be
infringing on their freedom of speech
and expression rights. Most of these
comments followed the thought that
just because you were offended
doesn’t mean these speakers should
be banned from campus.
At one point the comments attack
ed individual people and one audi
ence member suggested that argu
ments be relevant to the topic.
Aggies win
The Texas A&M volleyball team got back
on the winning track Wednesday when the
Aggies defeated the University of Houston
in three games. Related story on page 11.
'iamatti discusses national college
by Wanda Winkler
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Battalion Staff
j^mericans have debated since George
ishington’s administration the role federal
vernment plays in education, the president of
lie University said here Wednesday.
[ President A. Bartlett Giamatti, a member of
te National Commission on Excellence in Edu-
lion, told an audience of mainly faculty mem-
s and community residences that the
Washington administration proposed a nation
al university that promoted national cohesion
and freedom.
Giamatti’s lecture, “The Role of the Federal
Government in Higher Education,” was the
second of three he will present this week as part
of the annual E.L. Miller Lecture Series.
The federal government has always been
“caught between keeping its hands off’ and
getting directly involved in education, Giamatti
said. It has “tried to catch the mood of the
American people.”
Federal aid to education is most direct in
times of national need such as war and econo
mic depression, Giamatti said.
Americans value education because it trans
mits culture to its children, Giamatti said. “It’s
somewhere between a right and a luxury which
is viewed as a path to social success.”
The national government has begun to pri
marily focus on equal opportunity and financial
aid for students, he said.
“The explosion of federal aid to students in
higher education,” he said, “is part of a larger
goal — to provide greater opportunity and ac
cess to higher education.”
Giamatti will speak on “The Role of Athletics
in Education” at 4 p.m. today in Room 204 of
Sterling C. Evans Library.
Seminars
discuss
majors
by Cathy Smith
Battalion Reporter
Choosing a career and dating have
something in common: both are ex
pected of you but no one tells you how
to do it, a counseling psychologist for
the Student Counseling Service says.
Texas A&M’s Student Counseling
Service began the first of six career
decision workshops Tuesday geared
to help students choose a major
course of study.
Dr. Fred Dorn, psychologist with
the service, said the workshops are
aimed at helping students choose a
field of study and dispelling doubts
about their decision.
The counselors ask students to
consider their values when making a
career choice, Dorn said. For exam
ple, is good pay more important than
job satisfaction or is it possible to have
both?
The workshops involve group in
teraction and group discussion with
Dorn and counseling psychologist Dr.
Anne Schroer.
The four-hour program is part of
the service’s three-tiered approach to
career development, Dorn said. First,
students can attend a one-hour in
terest clinic at which they are given an
interest test. The counselors interpret
the students’ answers and then sug
gest fields of study that correspond
with their interests, he said.
The career decision workshops
comprise the second level of career
counseling. The third level is the
career motivation program. This is a
six-hour program offered to scholar
ship recipients, Dorn said.
Interested students can make
appointments for career develop
ment programs through the Student
Counseling Service. There will be five
more career decision workshops
offered this semester, with 10 open
ings for each workshop, Dorn said.
They will be Oct. 4, 6, 18, Nov. 3 and
29 in the YMCA Building. The coun
seling service will sponsor the prog
rams in the spring also, he said.
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by Linda Griggs
hree RHA member ; Battalion Reporter
iteered to drinkbef® A Vocational Special Needs
ing, demonstrated program, one of 25 across the
ioI slows driver-r& country and the only one in Texas,
A machine, which & Is offered at Texas A&M.
ies of red and greens e Through the program, gradu-
used to demonstrait ate students with degrees in voca-
ts of alcohol. tional education and special educa
tion work together with handicap-
ich volunteer had i bed people to help prepare them
cohol content in thfl* for employment. This way both
mge that begins toil* groups of students get experience
n’s reaction time. 1 in the other field and receive a
n responded to lht ; combined degree — vocational
oushing a hand-tf and special education,
i or a brake, depends | “We work with all types of peo-
lashing light. Thepie who have trouble getting train-
previously tested A mg because of some kind of hand-
tad slower readout leap or disability keeping them out
of employment,” Dr. Linda Par
rish, coordinator of the vocational
Special education program here,
says.
The program, which began in
1976 for graduate students only,
has been enlarged to include
undergraduate students.
cFNSPOl ^ ave a * ot unc ^ er 8 rac * u *
ELKLttno ate students who are picking this
upas a support area and are taking
ourses in special education,” Par-
a BP rish said. As a result, a secondary
I special education program in the
I [educational psychology curricu-
* lum is being developed.
“This secondary education
program is unusual because most
special education programs
emphasize early childhood and de
velopment,” Parrish said.
As part of the program, gradu
ate students volunteer their time to
work under supervision with
handicapped people at Geranium
'unction, a horticulture house on
Texas Avenue that hires only
handicapped persons. They also
spend a day on campus under
handicapped conditions in order
to gaing some understanding of
the obstacles faced by the hand
icapped.
The Vocational Special Needs
Program is supported by three
grants. The Cross Disciplinary
Training Grant, the Texas Educa
tion Agency Grant and a grant
from the Governor’s Planning
Sundaf
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tas Av«-
Plaza.
S3HS
Council for Developmental Disabi
lities.
The Cross Disciplinary Train
ing Grant, given by the Depart
ment of Education in Washington,
helps support three students in the
program.
Three top students selected re
ceive $775 a month to study at
Texas A&M and get their docto
rate degree in this combined field.
The Texas Education Agency
Grant trains teachers in Texas on
the use of new equipment and
techniques for working with hand
icapped students.
This grant also pays for a state
wide lending library at Texas
A&M which contains more than
2,500 pieces of information in
cluding books, curriculum mate
rial, films, slides and software
which are made available free of
charge to teachers nationwide who
request information.
“We have the biggest collection
of materials that combines voca
tional and special education in the
nation,” Parrish said.
The grant from the Governor’s
Planning Council for Develop
mental Disabilities is for conduct
ing a national survey on how orga
nizations within special education
have spent the money given to
them by the federal government
and to see what activities they’ve
planned and whether they are pro
fitable.
“This makes sure we are not du
plicating each other’s efforts,” Par
rish said.
While the Vocational Special
Needs program trains students to
instill a positive attitude in hand
icapped people and to prepare
them for employment, Rusleen
Maurice, Vocational Adjustment
Coordinator for Bryan High
School, takes handicapped stu
dents in the high school and places
them in the community.
“We zero in on their strength
and do not sell them to employers
with skills they may not have,”
Maurice said.
Identification cards important
for entrance to football games
by Cathy Smith
Battalion Reporter
A Texas A&M student I.D. card
should be thought of the same way as
an American Express card: don’t
leave home (or for the football game)
without it, a Kyle Field gateman says.
Frank Kocman has worked at
Aggie football games for 32 years and
he says students have been forgetting
their I.D. cards for the last 13 years.
It was about 13 years ago that the
Southwest Conference passed a reg
ulation requiring students to present
their student I.D.s with their tickets to
get into athletic events, Kocman says.
Some students forget their I.D.s,
others have lost them, he says. It’s
amazing how many students can find
their I.D.s at home when they find out
they can’t get in without them, he says.
Students who have lost their I.D.s
can present their receipt for their new
I.D. to get into the game. However,
that’s about the only exception the
gatemen will make for students with
out a current I.D., he says.
Head gateman James Fickey agrees
that the main problem gatemen have
at football games is students not hav
ing I.D.s.
Often, one student will use an I.D.
to get in and then pass it through the
gate for a friend to use, Fickey says.
When such students are caught,
their I.D.s are taken away and taken
to the athletic director’s office. Stu
dents can pick them up on Monday,
after speaking with the assistant athle
tic director, he says.
A lot of students don’t understand
why they must show an I.D. when they
can show their fee slip or class ring to
prove they’re a student, but, Kocman
says, I.D.s are better proof since they
have the student’s picture.
One reason for the I.D. require
ment is money, head gateman Fickey
says. Student tickets are half-price.
Every non-student who gets in on a
student ticket costs the athletic de
partment $6, he says.
The unsuspecting visitor who
thinks he can use a student ticket also
is a problem, Kocman says. Non
students must purchase a $6 sticker to
use a student ticket.
Fickey says the gatemen’s main job
is to get the spectator into the game
quickly, with as little hassle as possible.
Reagan says Arizona a disaster area
United Press International
TUCSON — President Reagan de
clared Arizona a major disaster area
Wednesday, but some embittered
flood victims complained of the way
state authorities have handled the
storm crisis that left 13 known dead,
two missing, thousands homeless and
caused damage estimated at about
$300 million.
The declaration, which will bring
federal reconstruction funds to the
state, coincided with rising fears of
looting and disease in Arizona’s flood-
ravaged south. Police at Clifton near
the New Mexico border slapped the
debris-strewn copper mining town
with a 10 p.m.-to-dawh curfew to
ward off looters.
Plows clearing Main Street along
the San Francisco River left piles of
mud like snowbanks on each side.
Clifton’s water supply was under
going tests because of concern that
pollution could bring hepatitis and
other illness.
Although some residents had had
enough, others were determined to
stay.
Some Clifton residents have be
come severely distraught because of
bitterness about the loss of jobs from
the lengthy copper strike against
Phelps Dodge Corp. followed by the
loss of their homes to flooding, Gov.
Bruce Babbitt said.
At Avra Valley west of Tucson, two
men dressed in military fatigues and
apparently posing as National
Guardsmen tried to force people to
evacuate by warning of a non-existent
“wall of water” headed their way.
The death toll rose to 15 with a
report that two people were pre
sumed drowned after their vehicle
was swept Monday into the flooded
Gila River near Sacaton.
“It looks like in my opinion the
emergency is over,” said Santa Cruz
County Emergency Services Director
Mike Byers at Nogales. The county
adjacent to the Mexican border sus
tained at least $5 million in damage.
Many roads were impassable on the
4,000-square-mile Papago Indian re
servation near Tucson.
Pilots union chief asks for
immediate emergency action
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The leader of
the nation’s biggest pilots union asked
Congress Wednesday to take
emergency action to keep Continental
Airlines’ bankruptcy filing from
sparking a“wave of corporate lawless
ness.”
“Congress must act immediately to
E revent misuse of the bankruptcy
iws,” Henry Duffy, president of the
Air Line Pilots Association, told a
House labor subcommittee.
He appealed for emergency action
to “prevent the total collapse” of
labor-management relations in the
United States, saying of the Continen
tal bankruptcy, “This could spark a
wave of corporate lawlessness.”
Duffy, whose organization repre
sents 34,000 pilots employed by 45
airlines, said Continental asked for
bankruptcy protection last month so it
could do away with its labor agree
ments.
Continental, after suspending
operations for three days, resumed a
sharply reduced flight schedule. The
Texas-based airline abrogated its un
ion contracts, reduced wages and be
nefits by up to 50 percent and estab
lished emergency work rules.
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