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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.
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Traffic accidents claim
lives of 2 A&M students
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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
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[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.