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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 16, 1983
Cookie crew: A lonely job
Mike Davis, Battalion staff
Sherri Garrett, a freshman general studies for the Student Y cookie crew committee,
major from Richardson, sits alone at the manned the cookie table for three hours,
9 W j t li« bonfire site Tuesday. Garrett, subchairman despite the lack of workers at the stack.
ouse official resigns
bllowing sex scandal
United Press International
rWASHINGTON — The chief page
of (he House, James Howarth, res
igned Tuesday moments after the
House ethics committee recom
mended he be Fired for having sexual
relations with a 17-year-old female
page.
I Howarth submitted a written one-
sentence letter resigning immediate
ly, said Aileen Foley, administrative
itssistant to James Molloy, doorkeeper
of the House and Howarth’s boss.
\ The ethics committee’s recommen-
iation grew out of a lengthy investiga-
lon, which earlier found that Rep.
ferry Studds, D-Mass., had engaged
in sex with a male page and Rep.
Daniel Crane, R-Ill., had done so with
afemale page. Both still are serving in
Congress.
The committee announced that it
lad voted 11-0 in closed session to
recommend that Howarth, 30, be dis
missed because of sexual activity with
i page under his supervision in the
spring of 1980. But the committee
also voted 11-0 to absolve Howarth of
charges that he showed favoritism to
the unnamed page.
Howarth had kept his title as chief
of pages but worked in the documents
room pending the ethics committee
investigation. He could not be
reached for comment.
“The committee finds that
Howarth’s violation constitutes a most
serious one,” a committee statement
said. “The House has a special re
sponsibility to the teenage pages it
employs.
“This responsibility is discharged
through the individuals who super
vise the pages. Howarth occupied a
central position in the hierarchy of
the Doorkeeper’s Office responsible
for supervising pages. His title made
that fact clear: majority chief page.
“It was Howarth, acting in the
name of the U.S. House of Represen
tatives, who was responsible to work
to protect the well-being of the pages,
fnstead, he did the opposite.
“In this context, Howarth’s miscon-
[Ouf until Final Review
Cadet gets suspension
-e
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Staff
I Ajunior has been suspended for a
i semester from the Corps of Cadets
[ after admitting fabricating a story
f about saving a woman from three
; attackers.
Col. Henry C. Hill, acting Com-
[ mandant of Cadets, says he has
I approved a Cadet Court recommen-
I dation to suspend Clarence “Bud
dy” Brown from the Corps until Fin-
f al Review in Spring 1984.
Brown said he will leave the
b Corps this week to begin his period
of suspension.
“I’ll be back (in the Corps),” he
id. “I’m just waiting for Final Re
said.
Brown’s commanding officer,
Russell Jones, said it’s difficult to tell
how the suspension is affecting
Brown. He will be fine “if he can put
this (the situation) in the back of his
mind and go on with everything,”
Jones said.
Corps Commander Preston
Abbott said others can learn from
Brown’s actions and remember that
“neither A&M nor the Corps toler
ate lying, cheating or stealing.”
Brown said a cadet constantly
must be aware of his actions and
thoughts because people closely
watch the Corps.
“You’ve always got to be on your
toes so you don’t go and step into a
10-foot pit,” he said.
“It’s not very fun going up before
a court alone,” Brown said. “But it
(his actions) deserved to be brought
up to their (members of Cadet
Court) attention.”
Brown, a health and physical edu
cation major, said he will not appeal
the Cadet Court’s decision because
“you (a cadet) can’t go any higher
than Col. Hill.”
Six run in race
for Senate seat
by Brigid Brockman
Battalion Staff
Six candidates are in the race for
the Republican and Democratic
nomination to succeed Sen. John
Tower for the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm from Col
lege Station faces U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
of Lake Jackson and Houston oilman
Rob Mosbacher in the Republican
primary for nomination to the Senate
seat.
In the Democratic primary, for
mer U.S. Rep. Bob Krueger of New
Braunfels, U.S. Rep. Kent Hance of
Lubbock and state Sen. Lloyd Doggett
are battling for the nomination.
The primary for both parties will
be May 5 and if a runoff is necessary it
will be June 2.
The first day to file for the primary
is Jan. 7, 1984. Therefore, other can
didates could enter the race before
the filing deadline of Feb. 6.
According to a Dallas Morning
News-Gallup Poll released in Novem
ber, Democrat Krueger holds a slight
lead over Republican Gramm, but a
large number of voters are unde
cided.
Among Democrats, Krueger leads
with 38 percent, Doggett has 12 per
cent and Hance has 6 percent, with 44
percent undecided.
Among Republicans, Gramm has
46 percent, Paul 16 percent and Mos
bacher 4 percent, with 34 percent un
decided.
The current Republican candi
dates:
• Phil Gramm was elected to the
Congress in November of 1978 as a
Democrat, and was re-elected in 1980
and 1982. After being removed from
the House Budget Committee last
year, he switched to the Republican
Party and regained his seat through a
special election.
Gramm has fought consistently
against the abuse of federal social
programs, and he says he believes his
background in economics and his
strong belief in free enterprise will
help him play an important role in
government.
Gramm joined the faculty of Texas
A&M in 1967, becoming the youngest
full professor in the history of the eco
nomics department. He taught at
Texas A&M through 1978.
See SENATE, page 14
Proclamation praises
Village of Hope drive
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
The Texas Senate issued a procla
mation commending Texas A&M for
the Village of Hope project it is spon
soring through the Christian Chil
dren’s Fund, a non-sectarian charity
organization.
The proclamation was mailed to
Dr. Robert Scott Kellner, sponsor of
the project, after it was read into the
Senate record Nov. 4.
Part of the proclamation reads:
Einstein
“PROCLAIMED, That the Senate of
the State of Texas hereby commend
the extraordinary selflessness and
generosity of all Texas A&M students
who have striven to make the Village
of Hope a concrete reality and wish
them much success in working to
wards the fruition of their project.”
The Village of Hope project is an
effort by the student body of Texas
A&M to feed needy children in a vil
lage in Colombia. The goal of the pro
ject is to eventually make the village
self-sustaining by offering technical
and agricultural assistance.
The proclamation, introduced by
Sen. Kent Caperton of Bryan, began
with the words: “The optimism and
hope that epitomized the original
Peace Corps volunteers of the early
1960s has been re-created through
the spirit, determination and enthu
siasm of the students of Texas A&M
University.”
Scientist’s U.S. move fhe only choice’
a P ;i g .
repeatedly in sexual relations with a
17-year-old page under his supervi
sion — constitutes egregious and rep
rehensible conduct.”
The committee said Howarth
admitted having a sexual relationship
with the page, but said the relation
ship started in the fall of 1980 after
she was no longer a page.
However, the page and four room
mates testified the relationship began
in the spring of 1980 when she still
was working in the House.
“The page testified that during
April and May 1980, she began
spending nights at Howarth’s apart
ment,” the committee statement said.
“She testified that they engaged in
sexual relationships on those occa
sions.”
The committee said Howarth gen
erally would pick her up at her apart
ment in the early evening or at 2 to 3
a.m. after he finished work at a
second job in a bar in nearby George-
by Edye Williams
Battalion Reporter
From a scientific point of view, the
United States was the only plausible
choice Einstein had when deciding
where to go when he fled Germany,
Dr. Gerald Holton said here Tuesday
night.
Dr. Holton, sponsored by the Uni
versity Lecture Series, is a professor
of physics and professor of the history
of science at Flarvard.
Many factors contributed to Ein
stein’s westward move, he said, in
cluding the fact that the situation he
was researching was already being
simulated at California Tech. At that
time, a great recruitment campaign
was instituted by members of Cal
Tech’s faculty in an attempt to make it
the supreme physics research center.
Holton said it was the only logical
choice because while Einstein was still
unknown, he had written a letter to
Dr. George Ellery Hale — the fore
most American astronomer at the
time — asking for an opinion of an
experiment he thought would prove
his theories.
After his first visit to the U.S. in
1921, Einstein wrote an essay about
the country with which he had fallen
in love. Holton said this only made
matters worse for him in Germany.
Not only was he a Jew but he was now
labeled an “enemy lover” by his fellow
Germans.
Holton said this only added more
discontent to the already unsatisfac
tory life he was leading in Germany.
The only area that satisfied him was
his work.
Holton summed up his speech by
labeling Einstein one of the “new
Americans” who combined with the
“old Americans” to create modern
physics.
Following his speech, Holton clar
ified the question of Einstein’s move
from California to Princeton.
The published reason was that Ein
stein had been persuaded that his
help was needed to establish a new
physics faculty for fresh minds at
Princeton University, Holton said.
At Cal Tech Einstein was constant
ly invited to parties, forcing him to go
out almost every night. His wife loved
it, but he hated it.
The Princeton staff promised Ein
stein that if he made the switch, he
would be left alone to conduct his re
search without the interruption of
parties. Holton said this was the
added factor that brought Einstein to
Princeton.
Dr. Holton co-edited a book enti
tled “Albert Einstein: Historical and
Cultural Perspectives” last year and
serves on the “Albert Einstein Papers”
University Press Editorial Committee
at Princeton University.
He has received numerous awards
and honorary degrees, belongs to
many professional organizations and
serves on the editorial boards of sev
eral scholarly publications. He cur
rently is serving on the Albert Ein
stein Peace Prize selection board and
was awarded the Jefferson Lecturer
award in 1981.
Correction
The caption to a picture in Mon
day’s Battalion incorrectly identified
the memorial on west gate. The
monument is a WW I memorial.
The Battalion regrets the error.
Black candidate
loses in Boston
United Press International
BOSTON — City Councilor
Raymond Flynn defeated former
state legislator Melvin King Tuesday
in King’s bid to become the first black
mayor in Boston’s 353-year history.
Voters turned out in large num
bers Tuesday despite gray, damp
weather. Election officials expected a
record turnout — as much as 70 per
cent of the city’s 288,986 registered
voters — by the time the polls closed.
Meanwhile, police were investigat
ing an incident Monday night in
which a ball bearing was fired
through the window of a King cam
paign office.
It was at least the fourth violent
incident in an otherwise peaceful
campaign in a city once torn by racial
strife.
A police spokesman said a metal
ball, either thrown by hand or flung
from a slingshot, pierced a street-level
window at King’s office in the city’s
Brighton section late Monday. None
of the 25 workers in the basement
office was injured. Some thought a
bullet had been fired.
Police searched for a white male
suspect who witnesses said shouted
racial epithets and ran into a nearby
bar after the incident.
Among those casting ballots were
more than 66,000 blacks and other
ethnic minorities, many voting for the
first time in an election where the
minority vote, at 23 percent of the
total, could be a strong factor.
Front-runner Flynn, 44, a political
moderate whose power base is in
white ethnic neighborhoods, cast his
ballot at an elementary school in his
Irish-Catholic South Boston neigh
borhood.
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forecast
Cooler tonight with highs today in
the mid- to upper 70s.