Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1984)
Faculty absentee voting begins today See page 3 Aggies sweep three in SWC baseball See page 13 Akeem lifts Coogs over Wake Forest See page 13 Texas A&M ^ V 0 The Battalion Serving the University community i/ol 78 No. 118 CJSPS 0453110 14 pages College Station, Texas Monday, March 26, 1984 lection ebate tonight ■All five candidates for student Icly president will participate in a lebaie tonight in Rudder Tower. ■Thedebate, galled by its organizer, “n ire of a forum,” is at 7 p.m. in b01 Rudder. It will begin with each can- ■date presenting bis views in four nr utes or less, followed by an hour o| questions from a moderator, and Sinding up with 10 to 15 minutes of ■estions from the audience. Student Kdy President Joe Jordan is the saieduled moderator. ■The debate is sponsored jointly by Tim Kappa, the Junior honor so- Ifiv, and the Student Goverinent Election Commission. BDavid Glimp, a member of the Bection Commission and liason In n Tau Kappa, is in charge of the ■bate. The groups will supply Jor- ian questions to ask the candidates, irawn from issues which Glimp said include: K* the faculty senate and Student 'Government’s involvement with it. curriculum changes and the ^proposed core curriculum. I •parking. I • business affairs, specifically the Wanned special events center, and iOpcrational funding of the Memorial Student Center. I * the state legislature, including the Permanent University Fund, and tuition. I • the candidates’ planned admin- ijration, its structure, direction, and Ibals. ■^1 • minority students, specifically hecks, at Texas A&M. Q| f Glimp said “When I planned this, purpose was to provide students ^ |w[th the opportunity to hear the can- •mbdldates and tbeir positions on issues, 'fand to help students make an in- n formed decision. B“We tried to steer away from an N jopportunity for personal attack, but I pink all the candidates are mature S^iKiough to be above that any way.” O B He said that all five candidates ex- jpressed a desire to participate in the ^/debate, but said that their attendance Q isn’t mandatory. ^ IThe candidates for student body mresident are David Alders, Diane Baumbach, Keith Carmichael, Jay ^.Holland, and Grant Swartzwelder. \jB Admission is free, and, Glimp fn ; added, encouraged. Hart wins Montana; turns to New York bubbles Photo by RONNIE CROCKER Who doesn’t remember the joy of blowing bub bles? Bryan Bearden, a sophomore in Squad ron 8, does as he joins in the fun. Squadron 8 sponsored a day of fun, games and picnicking with local foster children Sunday at Hensel Park. A Traffic accidents claim lives of 2 A&M students 71 By TRICIA PARKER Staff Writer Two unrelated traffic accidents claimed the lives of Glenn C. House and Elizabeth A. Reeves, both Texas A&M students, this weekend. House, 20, and his date, Sheila Marie Melody, were returning from a sorority dance in Austin early Sat urday morning when House’s Audi 4000 flipped over and slid into Town Lake, officials said. Both deaths were ruled drownings by Travis county medical examiner Dr. Robert Bay- ardo. House, a junior petroleum engi neering major from Houston, was a resident of Walton Hall. Friends said House was easy-going and well liked. He was an avid waterskier and snowskier and was interested in weightlifting as well. He was chaplain of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and attended bible study in Walton Hall. Melody, House’s date, a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at the University of Texas , also was killed. Funeral arrangements for the pair are pending. Elizabeth A. Rgeves, 20, suffered severe internal injuries when the 1982 Buick Regal she was driving was struck by a tractor trailer at the intersection of Highway 30 and the East Bypass Friday afternoon. Reeves, a freshman biortiedical sci ence major from Denison, was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan but later was flown by helicopter to Methodist Central Hospital in Dallas where she died early Saturday. Reeves was the first chair oboe player for the Texas A&M Sym phonic Band and a member of the Brazos County Symphony as well, a friend said. The funeral is at 2 p.m. today in Denison. United Press International Colorado Sen. Gary Hart captured Montana’s Democratic county cau cuses Sunday, taking most of the state’s rural areas and splitting the vote with Walter Mondale in several labor strongholds. Officials said Hart would receive 11 of the 19 delegates at stake and Mondale will receive 8 delegates. It would bring the former vice presi dent’s overall delegate total to 673 and Hart’s to 393. With all 53 caucuses reporting, Hart received 6,810 votes for 49 per cent, Mondale had 4,942 votes for 35 percent, Jesse Jackson received 714 votes for 5 percent, and 9 percent of the caucus participants, or 1330, had no preference. Although Mondale’s organization had started campaigning early in the state. Hart recently added money and manpower to his effort. Both candidates campaigned in New York Sunday. Montana Democratic Party offi cials said at least 7,000 people were expected to participate in the cau cuses, which were held in sites rang ing from schools and hospitals to ho tels and civic organization. Mondale and Hart both devoted Sunday to courting New York Demo crats for that state’s primary, with the two rivals engaging in such tradi tional campaign tactics as going on walking tours of New York City. “I think discrimination and de spair is a sin,” Mondale told about 350 members of the Metropolitan Community Methodist Church in Harlem, in an attack on President Reagan. “We need to have a president who knows that the deadliest of all possi ble sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit,” he said, before going to a Manhattan delicatessen to woo voters as he strolled under rows of salamis and cheeses suspended from the ceil ing. Hart took his campaign to a work ing-class neighborhood in Queens, telling patrons of an Irish tavern he favors a “united Ireland.” Later, he used a Young Israel din ner in Manhattan, also attended by Mondale, to blast the former vice president for his readiness to commit troops to the Persian Gulf to keep oil supplies flowing. “This apparently means he is pre pared to continue the United States’ reliance on oil supplies from the unstable Persian Gulf and be subject to foreign policy blackmail that en tails,” Hart said. Jackson began a three-day cam paign swing through Connecticut Sunday, telling a university audience in Bridgeport he would put pressure on South Africa to end its policy of racial segregation if he is elected president. He hopes to generate a record number of minority voters in Bridge port, Hartford and New Haven, the state’s three largest cities. “Our cam paign has been from the people up, not the endorsers down,” he said. Hart — who lost to Mondale in the Kansas caucuses Saturday and was trailing both Mondale and Jackson in the race for Virginia delegates which will be completed Monday — got some good news from Connecticut on Sunday. A poll of 521 registered Demo crats who said they plan to vote in Tuesday’s Connecticut primary showed he holds a substantial lead over Mondale. The poll, conducted between Tuesday and Friday by the Univer sity of Connecticut’s School of Social Studies for the Hartford Courant, found Hart favored by 48 percent, with Mondale supported by 28 per cent. Jackson trailed with 5 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent. A win in Connecticut would rep resent a sweep of the New England states for Hart, and would restore some resurgence to his campaign be fore the pivotal New York primary April 3. Hart, Mondale and Jackson all planned to visit Connecticut Monday to woo voters before the primary. The Connecticut poll also found a high number of undecided voters in the state —H9 percent — reflecting the volatile nature of the 1984 Demo cratic presidential race. iLeftist rebels hamper Salvadoran election 13 ■ Unwed Pres, International Reagan administration has helped runoff among the top two Finishers lion, some given rides in government Empresas Modulates, the company 15 ballot boxes, affecting N N p 71 O' 0 £ O' V 3 O' c CfQ 0 C/5 I SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador [Leftist rebels Sunday raided towns, burned ballots and forced suspen sions in voting, complicating a presi dential election hampered by a con fusion-wracked electoral system and dnationwide blackout. I In the country’s first free presi dential election in 50 years, Salvado- nns were choosing among eight can didates. Each promised different pplutions to end the nation’s civil war, launched by rebels in 1979 to topple the U.S.-backed government. I Turnout in the election, which the Reagan administration has helped fund and considers a crucial test of its Central American policy, was re ported lighter than in 1982, when about 1.5 million Salvadorans voted for a constituent assembly. The leading candidates were Jose Napoleon Duarte, a former presi dent and candidate of the moderate Christian Democratic Party; Roberto d’Aubuisson, of the extreme-right Nationalist Republican Alliance and Francisco Jose Guerrero of the con servative National Conciliation Party. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, as expected, a runoff among the top two finishers will be held, probably in May. Sun day’s results were not expected for three days. Despite pledges of non-interfer ence by some rebel leaders, military officials said at least six soldiers and two rebels died Sunday when guerril las attacked towns in eastern El Salva dor in an effort to disrupt voting. Officials said polling was sus pended in at least 45 villages and hamlets in five provinces where the insurgents are most active. Many voters in those areas went to the polls under heavy army protec tion, some given rides in government trucks, others watched over by sol diers as they hiked long hours from villages. “We are here because we believe that through voting, peace can be found in El Salvador,” said Cleofas Cranadas, 38, who walked to Socie- dad, a town in the rebel stronghold of Morazan province, 79 miles east of San Salvador. Voting was hampered early in many areas by delays in ballot box deliveries and other logistical prob lems. Salvador Hidalgo, an executive at Empresas Modulares, the company that computerized the country’s vot ing list, said rebel disruption of roads were responsible for delivery delays outside San Salvador. He said chaos at polling stations in the capital was caused by confusion among election officials. There were scattered charges of election improprieties. A spokesman for Rene Fortin Magana, presidential candidate of the Democratic Action Party, charged that members of a “uniden tified party” stole ballots from “some 15 ballot boxes, affecting some 7,500 voters in San Salvador.” Further problems were caused by a blackout that engulfed 80 percent of the country after rebels bombed nine high voltage power transmission towers Saturday, officials said. Despite the manifest problems, conservative Rep. Jack Kemp, R- N.Y., one of 30 U.S. observers sent by President Reagan to monitor the election, said, “It looks to me like the people of San Salvador and El Salva dor are repudiating the efforts by the guerrillas to disrupt the elections.” Regents to decide on fee hikes ByED ALANIS Staff Writer The Texas A&M Board of Re gents began its three-day meeting ISunday, and before the board ad- purns on Tuesday it will have con sidered proposed increases for 17 fees students now pay. During Sunday’s session the board |eard proposals to create a depart- [tent of speech communication and eater arts, and to establish a bache- br’s degree in speech communica- jon. The proposal would involve se- rating these programs from the nglish department and expanding Item. It’s a degree program we should avehad 15 years ago,” Texas A&M president Frank Vandiver told the Bard. Texas A&M is currently the only major institution of higher learning in the state that does not offer a de gree in speech communication. Back ers of the project say it will not pre sent competition for other schools in the state, but rather that it will stimu late increased cooperation between Texas colleges and universities. The board also reviewed plans for the proposed new Systems Adminis tration Building. A detailed scale model of the building was presented, showing how the building would be situated on its proposed location at the northeast corner of the main campus. With the support of the rest of the board, Regent Planning and Build ing Committee Chairman Joe C. Richardson suggested the site for the - new building be moved to an avail- able site near Easterwood Airport. Since the building will serve the entire Texas A&M University Sys tem, the regents decided it did not belong on the Texas A&M main cam pus. The northeast corner of campus is the only large open area left for de velopment on the main campus, and it wias decided it could be utilized for something more pertinent to this particular campus. The site near the airport will en hance the planned research park and help in the further development of the west campus. The 52,800 square foot building has been designed in such a manner as to reflect the rich past of Texas A&M as well as the fu- - lure course the University System is taking. The Planning and Building Com mittee also discussed some immedi ate plans for the west campus. These include more spaces in parking an nex 71 and landscaping to tie the existing buildings together for easier pedestrian access. A main entrance to the west cam pus is also planned. It will be a mir ror image of, and directly across from, the west entrance to the main campus. In sessions today and Tuesday the board will consider several fee in creases, including those for residence halls, married student apartments, board plans, parking permits, shuttle bus passes and student service fees. In Today’s Battalion Local • T here will be only three polling places for to morrow’s campus elections. See locations page 4, • The College of Science is sponsoring career workshops this week for science-related jobs. See story page 5. State • The president of Rice will retire in 1985 after 14 years with the university. See story page 6. • Is “Marrrrrvin Zindler — Eyewitness News” worth $1 million? See story page 7. • A neighbor of death row inmate “Candyman” Ronald Clark O’Bryan says there is no question in his mind that O'Bryan is guilty. See story page 12.