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Vol 78 No. 44 USPS 0453110 20 pqges
College Station, Texas
Friday, October 28,1983
Jteagan defends military actions
i. United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
eagan, seeking to justify his use of
illitary force abroad, said Thursday
: ordered an invasion of Grenada
at of a belief that “the nightmare of
jr hostages in Iran must never be
ipeatrd.”
Reagan, in one of the most impor-
nt speeches of his presidency, link-
Ithe invasion of the tiny Caribbean
land and the presence of 1,600 U.S.
pops in Lebanon, insisting each re-
ects his determination to deter
rviet adventurism.
“The events in Lebanon and Gre-
adaj though oceans apart, are closely
dated,” Reagan said. “Not only has
loscpvv assisted and encouraged the
olerace in both countries, but it pro-
des direct support through a net-
ork of surrogates and terrorists.”
Reagan mourned the deaths of
ore than 225 American servicemen
lied Sunday in a terrorist bombing
Beirut, as well as at least eight
others who died in Grenada, but said
this “tragic price to pay” must not
weaken U.S. resolve.
“We cannot and will not dishonor
them now and the sacrifices they have
made by failing to remain as faithful
to the cause of freedom and the pur
suit of peace as they have been,” he
said in a speech from the Oval Office.
The calamity in Beirut and inva
sion of Grenada, both without parallel
since the Vietnam War, brought
Reagan under heavy pressure to de
fend his foreign policy in the midst of
anxiety at home and outright opposi
tion abroad.
Reagan reiterated that U.S.
Marines will remain in Lebanon as
part of a multinational peace-keeping
force, whose other members —
France, Italy and Great Britain — all
leveled criticism at his invasion of
Grenada.
While he acknowledged many
Americans are questioning this com
mitment of troops in light of Sunday’s
bombing, Reagan said the peace
keeping force has brought a degree of
stability to an area “vital to us and to
world peace.”
“Indeed, without the peace
keepers from the U.S., France, Italy
and Britain,” he said, “the efforts to
find a peaceful solution in Lebanon
would collapse.”
Reagan announced no new initia
tives. He said the United States would
step up its efforts on the diplomatic
front, but did not name a new special
envoy to replace Robert McFarlane,
his new national security adviser.
Reagan also said “we are doing our
best” to provide greater safety for the
Marines in Beirut. He again cited “cir
cumstantial evidence” suggesting a
breakaway group of Iranian-backed
Islamic extremists was to blame and
vowed: “Those who directed this
atrocity must be dealt justice. They
will be.”
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Battalion Staff
fin: request by Texas A&M to pur-
ase a .38-acre section of land will be
isidered today by the state Coordi-
tihg Board during its regular quar-
ly nieeting in Austin.
board’s Committee on Cam-
Planning and Physical Facilities
|».pn:ent .pproved the transac-
Fhursday.
Braand is on University Drive
MSto the College of Veterinary
line, W. C. Freeman, executive
thancellor for administration,
Snd consists of two lots with a
kould the University buy the
r id, Freeman says, the residents of
•s house will continue to live there,
ecific use has been determined
e land yet, he says.
|e board also will consider new
lity requirements for recipients
tuition equalization grants.
The new rules, made necessary by a
ler to the state appropriations bill,
itild c hange the residency require-
mts for future TEG recipients.
Under the new rules, only Texas
iidents and nonresidents who are
tional merit scholars, would be eli
te for the state-funded grants.
The new rule would apply to all
jants awarded after Sept. 1, 1983,
d all prior nonresident recipients
uld continue to receive the funds
■ they are enrolled in school.
The purpose of the tuition equali-
tion grants is to help qualified stu
nts meet the high costs of education
independent Texas colleges and
diversities.
In other business, the board will
insider a decrease in interest rates
pcertain Hinson-Hazlewood stu
dent loans. The proposed rate de
ease is from 9 percent to 8 percent.
The new rates, if approved, would
to all loans issued after Sept. 13,
3.
Hydrogen specialist
to lecture on energy
by Robin Black
Battalion Staff
Dr. T. Nejat Vezirogiu, director of
the Clean Air Institute at die Univer
sity of Miami, will discuss hydrogen
energy systems at 3 p.m. today in
room 23 1 of the Chemistry Building.
Vezirogiu, who was invited by the
Dr. John O. Bockris, head of the
Texas A&M Hydrogen Research
Center, will compare hydrogen ener
gy systems and systems involving fos
sil fuels.
Vezirogiu will be on campus just
one year after the hydrogen fuel
breakthrough wa&, made, by Bockris
and the hydrog gy 'research
team.
Bockris and Vezirogiu have been
close for a number of years, and work
ed together on the hydrogen project,
Debbi Smith, a chemistry staff assis
tant said.
“Vezirogiu is involved in basically
the same kind of research as Dr. Bock
ris, and is very well-known in the
field,” she said.
Bockris invited Vezirogiu to com
pare the two fuel systems for the be
nefit of the research here and because
of interest in the community on that
type of research, Smith said.
“The fact that Vezirogiu will be
tional Energy Awareness Week is en
tirely coincidental,” she said.
Vezirogiu, a native of Turkey, has
received degrees from the City and
Guilds College and the University of
London in mechanical engineering,
advanced studies in engineering and
heat transfer.
He joined the engineering faculty
at the University of Miami in 1962,
and two years later initiated the first
Ph.D. program in the engineering
and architecture school.
He also has been an invited lecturer
speaking here on the anniversary of ..Li countries ranging from the
the hydrogen project arid during na- ti.SzSfKTTib the Philippines.
Cindi Tackitt, Battalion staff
And they were singin ’
Johnny Blalock, left, a senior
agricultural economics
major from New Braunfels,
and Ted Trimble a junior
electrical engineering major
from New Braunfels
perform Thursday afternoon
in front of Rudder Tower.
Record home crowd anticipate-^. Saturday
The largest home crowd of the
year is expected Saturday when Texas
A&M hosts the SMU Mustangs at 2
p.m. Saturday in Kyle Field in what is
probably the Aggies’ most important
game of the year.
More than 60,000 fans are ex
pected as the Texas A&M team will
try to improve its record to 4-3-1 for
the season and 3-1-1 in conference
play.
No live national or regional televi
sion coverage is planned, but the
game will be shown on cable systems
in Dallas and Houston on a delayed
basis. Last year, the Mustangs whip-
p Texas A&M 47-9 before a CBS
television audience.
Saturday’s game will mark the first
time in three weeks the Aggies
Twelfth Man Kickoff Team will step
into action.
For more on the Texas A&M-SMU
game, see page 17.
No solution in sight, on or off campus
Parking continues to be a headache
by Jamie Hataway
Battalion Reporter
Illegal parking creates a major con
gestion problem in the Northgate
area, and efforts are being made to
flush the illegal vehicles out, the direc
tor of College Station city planning,
says.
Texas A&M students and em
ployees capitalizing on the free and
convenient parking in business,
church and empty lots should look for
new places to park because recom
mendations are being acted on to
dean up the area, director A1 Mayo
said.
Some areas in Northgate are creat
ing hazardous conditions, he said.
Mayo recently counted 300 to 400
cars crammed in an empty unde
veloped lot.
“If one of these cars caught on fire
out in the middle, there would be no
way for emergency vehicles to reach
it,” he said.
Mayo has been trying to contact the
property owner of the big lot behind
Skaggs, which has become a catch-all
for many student vehicles, but efforts
have failed so far.
“All he’ll (the lot owner) probably
do is run a cable around it to keep
them off,” Mayo said. He said it won’t
do anything to help the need for more
parking areas.
The city will post more signs dis
tinguishing one hour parking and no
parking areas. But many already are
posted and people park there anyway.
“The signs won’t work unless you
put the fear of the law into people,”
Mayo said. A uniformed police officer
needs to be hired to patrol the area for
best results, he said.
But an estimated budget of
$60,000 for that recommendation
probably will postpone action for at
least another year, Mayo said.
In the meantime, businesses and
churches have been asked to issue
parking permits to their employees
who should be the only ones parking
in the off-street lots. This will make it
easier to determine who isn’t sup
posed to be there, Mayo said.
But Dan MacGilvry, former chair
man of the now defunct Northgate
Committee, said the recommended
actions will only aggravate the park
ing problem in the short-run.
The Northgate Committee was
organized in October 1982 to deter
mine needed improvements for the
area. The final recommendations
were accepted recently by the College
Station City Council, and now the
moves are being made to clean up
Northgate, especially problems con
cerning cars.
MacGilvry, assistant dean of the
College of Architecture and Environ
mental Design, said solving the prob
lem will require cooperation of city
and University officials.
“There’s been a traditional battle
between the University and the city,”
he said.
Mayo agrees. He said there is a
see-saw effect in play between Texas
A&M and the city. As soon as the city
gets the illegal packers back on cam
pus, Mayo said, the University raises
fees, and sends them running back
out into the streets.
“The University unfortunately has
the idea that parking has to pay for
itself,” Mayo said. But there’s no way
this is feasibly possible, he said.
Seniors may lose their
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'e possible abolishment of the senior
Kemption policy, Jon R. Bond, Fa
ulty Senate member, said
Wednesday.
A special committee of the Faculty
enaie was formed in August to ex-
mine the senior exemption policy,
mnd, an associate professor of poli-
caljsrience, said.
I The committee will examine the
filiation requiring the exemption
f degree candidates from regular
mals, dead week and any problems
flat pay be associated with it, and the
Possible need to establish reading
ays between the last day of school
ndjfmal exams, Bond said.
The first issue the committee has
iegun work on is senior exemptions
tom finals, Bond said.
The committee is collecting faculty
nd student opinion to determine the
dvantages and disadvantages of the
policy, and to see what universities
comparable to Texas A&M are doing,
he said.
Questionnaires were sent to faculty
members, and weekly meetings are
held with representatives from stu
dent organizations such as the Stu
dent Senate, the Graduate Student
Council and the Corps of Cadets.
Nicole Williams, director of exter
nal affairs for the Residence Hall
Association, was one of the students
who met with the committee.
“They asked questions about the
senior exemption policy and I told
them my opinion,” Williams said. “I
also told them I thought perhaps the
way they were getting opinions from
the students was incomplete.”
Williams said student leaders are
not representative of the student
body because they are required to
have at least a 2.5 grade-point ratio,
and thus are not in danger of not gra
duating.
However, Bond said the commit
tee was not looking for a true repre
sentation of the student body.
“We invited the leaders of Student
Government on the assumption that
they are the most articulate and could
provide the strongest arguments,”
Bond said.
“Once we have finished collecting
the information, we will use that in
formation to come to some conclusion
whether or not the policy will be abo
lished,” he said. “Then we will make a
recommendation to the Senate based
on the information.
“If the proposal is accepted, or if it
is even proposed, the earliest seniors
affected will be those graduating in
1985, possibly 1986.”
Bond said he hopes to have a report
ready for the December Senate
meeting.
The committee then will look at
problems with dead week, Bond said.
It is possible no classes will be held
during dead week in the future, he
said.
Expansion is key
to research future
(Editor’s note: This is the last in a
five-part series on research at Texas
A&M.)
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
Expansion will be the key to the
future of research at Texas A&M,
says Feenan D. Jennings, director of
the Office of University Research.
Even though the undergraduate
programs within the University Sys
tem might be leveling off now, the
research and graduate programs
still are expanding, Jennings said.
An increase in research will cause
expansion of qualified faculty and
research funds.
Although all areas of research
will expand, three areas will be ex
tended highly. Those areas are
genetic engineering, which current
ly is being done by the Texas Agri
cultural Extention Service, high
energy physics by the physics de
partment and an ocean drilling pro
ject to be headed by Texas A&M.
Some of the research will be done in
conjunction with other universities.
Almost all other areas of research
will be extended, and some expan
sion will occur in colleges where re
search currently is not prominent
such as in the College of Liberal
Arts.
As part of the Target 2000 prog
ram, a committee is studying the re
search situation, and will make re
commendations on where research
should be expanded, Jennings said.
The expansion will have many
effects on the University other than
on research itself. The recruitment
of new' faculty is one of the major
effects.
Jennings said that with increased
research, the University will be more
appealing to highly qualified facul
ty, and the qualified faculty will
attract other researchers of equally
high caliber.
This “snowballing effect” already
is in process at Texas A&M, as is
evident by the current qualified fa
culty, he said.
See RESEARCH, page 16
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