Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1984)
! Cougars lose finale to Hoyas, 84-75 See page 9 Silver Taps to be held tonight at 10:30 p.m. Jury recommends life for son-killing mom See page 7 ^ Broct lous/’ J E :n ight io lull wld havt> i would It me out," ?ame,thi ■lings, ki m Linda li master si; tty Holt broken * tch in die: mo came s sacrifics hittingfo roundet t the din ) scored 6 ning over blocking ten deft; for the ffe Nebraska als witli! i started two runt I the gat ng and Hi litch. An Bear li mhmmw Texas A&M — ^ JM A The Battalion Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 124 CISPS 0453110 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 3, 1984 Polls show Mondale ahead in New York delegates race United Press International NEW YORK — Walter Mondale led Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson in two statewide polls Monday as the Democratic candidates stumped New York on the eve of the biggest pri mary so far in the 1984 presidential race. With 252 delegates at stake, New York City voters dominate the pri mary turnout. City elections board officials predict 50 percent of the 1.8 million registered Democrats will vote — up from 38 percent four years ago. Statewide, officials predict 30 to 35 percent of the Democrats will vote. Mondale wanted a big win in New York Tuesday and another next week in Pennsylvania to show he is the clear favorite of the big industrial northern states with their heavy Democratic vote. He told the Buffalo Evening News on the eve of the pri mary a loss in New York would mean his drive for the nomination is in trouble, but a victory would make him the candidate to catch. “It’s the shootout at the OK Cor ral,” he said. “If we lose, we’re in trouble. But if we win, they’re going to have to make a pretty good grab at our coattails to catch up with us.” Hart said a strong second in New York would be a good showing, espe cially since Mondale is backed by the Democratic establishment including Gov. Mario Cuomo and New York Mayor Edward Koch. Asked if he was sounding pessi mistic about his chances in New York, Hart said, “We came from far behind in this race. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, but if we have closed the gap as much as I think we have and we run a very strong second at the very least, which I think we will, then we will have done well. I think it will be a fairly close race.” Mondale, with a strong appeal to the traditional Democrats and Jewish voters who are a large component of the New York turnout, held the edge in two polls over Hart, who was run ning well among suburban and wealthier voters. Jackson could pile up his biggest vote of the year and was seen taking more than 20 percent of the vote in the three-way battle. The ABC-Washinglon Post poll, which tracks shifts in voting patterns over the closing days before the elec tion, said Monday that Mondale had 41 percent, Hart 30 percent and Jackson 22 percent, with a 6 percent margin of error. The New York Post said Mondale was leading Hart 47 percent to 38 percent and Jackson only 9 percent, with a 6 percent mar gin of error. But the Washington Post-ABC poll said Mondale was holding on to his lead or building, while the New York Post said Hart was closing the gap in the final hours before the vot ing. In the crucial battle for convention delegates, the latest United Press In ternational count gives Mondale 728 of the 1,967 delegates needed for nomination, while Hart has 440 and Jackson 101. There are 325 uncom mitted. Faculty to vote Wednesday Photo by JOHN RYAN International Week I Ravi Krishnan, a freshman pre-med major from Houston dem onstrates the harmonium, a musical instrument similar to an accordian, to Ed Guthrie, the assistant Director of Academic Services here. Krishnan was in the MSC as part of Interna tional Week By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Spring elections for Texas A&M’s Faculty Senate will be held Wednes day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Voting places will be located in several build ings on campus. A total of 53 faculty members have beeii nominated for the 28 available Senate seats. All faculty members can vote in the election, but faculty mem bers can vote only for Senate seats open in their colleges. The number of Senate seats open in each college and voting places for the colleges are as follows: •College of Agriculture — four open seats. Voting will be in the first floor lounge of Harrington Tower. •College of Architecture and Envi ronmental Design — one open seat. Voting will be in the Langford Ar chitecture Center gallery. •College of Business Administration — three open seats. Voting will be in the second floor lobby of the Blocker Building. •College of Education — two open seats. Voting will be in East Kyle for health and physical education de partment faculty, and in the First floor lounge of Harrington Tower for other college faculty members. •College of Engineering — six open seats. Voting will be in the Zachry Engineering Center lobby. •College of Geosciences — one open seat. Voting wilhbe in the Langford Architecture Center gallery. •College of Liberal Arts — Five open seats. Voting will be in the second floor lobby of the Blocker Building for English department faculty, and in the First floor lounge of Harring ton Tower for other college faculty members. •College of Medicine — one open seat. Voting will be in the First floor lobby of the Medical Sciences Build ing for College Station faculty mem bers. Temple faculty members will vote in the Student Union at Teagues Veterans’ Center, or at Scott and While Hospital. •College of Science — three open seats. Voting will be in the Academic Building rotunda. •College of Veterinary Medicine — one open seat. Voting will be outside die dean's office in the Veterinary Sciences Building. Sterling C. Evans Library also has one Senate seat open. Voting will be in 211 Evans Library. Iders, Swartzwelder ready for run-off race ; given li in singles 8 onovefiel 159 East*! r the W* 1 the lasM inis may# field held Sue# tomen’s 1 ^ lOp." 1 ; Indef jldasfo** April 15^ it 17; ^ By ROBIN BLACK Staff Writer btnorrow winds up the home letch in the run-off election for xas A&M student body president, [d both candidates are keeping a m grasp on their original cam- ign platforms. David Alders, speaker of the sen ate, and Grant Swartzwelder, vice pident for academic affairs, are gaged in a tug-of-war to get the w-uncommitled votes as well as the |8 votes that separated them in the il election. [Alders, who came out with a slim over Swartzwelder in the First ction, with 31.3 percent of the ■te as opposed to Swartzwelder’s 1.6 percent, said the election and in position of student body presi- |nt must be attacked with maturity credibility, something he said been lacking in the past. Swartzwelder’s concept differs somewhat. He said the past is impor tant in the choice of a student leader. “I think it’s vital that whoever serves as student body president has a proven record, showing that he has experience and knows what he’s doing to some degree,” he said. Alders has outlined Five main ob jectives in his campaign: • The advising system must be modified to allow students to gain personal, consistent and detailed ad vice regarding their educational op portunities. “This is not available in many of the colleges, and it’s something the students deserve,” he said. “I think this is something the administration recognizes as a concern, but with ev erything else they do, they don’t give it lop priority.” • Efforts to maintain the status quo with regard to senior final exam policy must be expanded so that Ag gies can continue to participate in a David Alders meaningful, timely commencement ceremony. “Aside from the issue of what the students want,” he said, “I think the administration should consider what this will do to the graduation ceremo nies. If seniors have to take final ex ams along with the rest of the student body, given the processing time in- Grant Swartzwelder volved, it’ll be a virtual ghost town around here when ceremonies are fi nally held.” • The curriculum of many degree programs must be enriched so as to allow students the freedom to engage in a complete educational experi ence. “I think having a broad education is important, even if that means ex tending degree programs such as en gineering to four and a half or five years,” he said. • The resources and facilities of the University library must be ex panded if Texas A&M is to increase its academic stature. “We should have the resources in the library to support the courses we teach,” Alders said. “Professors and students who want to do scholarly re search shouldn’t have to go to the University of Texas library to do it.” • Student opinions must be ad vanced capably and credibly on such issues as the construction of a new special events center, parking and traffic flow proposals and the expan sion of the Memorial Student Center. “We need to establish positive, consistent stands on these issues to increase the power of our input,” he said. An issue Alders is very interested in but hasn’t declared formally is the establishment of a graduate school placement center. He said the University should have a system for graduate school place ment similar to the job placement center because more and more stu dents are going into graduate studies after they receive their degree rather than immediately pursuingjobs. Swartzwelder’s campaign objec tives differ substantially from Ald er’s. • Registration — Use on-line reg istration to provide students with a copy of their schedule on that day. “We need a registration system where a student can hand their packet to someone sitting at a com puter, have their courses punched in, and walk away with a copy of their schedule,” Swartzwelder said. See RUN-OFF page 7. awyer appointed as special >rosecutor to investigate Meese In Today’s Battalion viiipir and chedu ,e p.m. i" in si#] sions ’ S andH United Press International WASHINGTON — Washington ivyer Jacob A. Stein was named as lecial prosecutor Monday to probe e financial dealings of Edwin Beese and charges of cronyism that Rive blocked his confirmation as at- frney general. [Acting on a request from Attorney neral William French Smith, a :cial three-judge court named |ein as an “independent counsel” flder the Ethics in Government Act investigate whether Meese violated |tycriminal law. President Reagan has nominated Jeese, a longtime friend and now Jhite House counselor, to succeed nith as the head of the Justice De- jtrtment and the nation’s top legal fecial. ■ Stein, 59, was given the authority | “investigate any allegation or evi- ■nce of violation of any federal iminal law by Mr. Meese developed during the indepedent counsel’s in vestigation.” The court also gave Stein jurisdic tion to prosecute any violations. Stein, a past president of the Dis trict of Columbia bar, has been in private practice since 1948, handling both civil and criminal cases. He also has teaching experience at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Among Stein’s more notable courtroom experiences was his de fense of Kenneth Parkinson, a lawyer for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President who stood trial for the Watergate coverup — the scandal that inspired passage of the Ethics in Government Act. Par kinson was acquitted. Stein is not the only Watergate-era lawyer involved in the Meese case. One of Meese’s three lawyers, Leon ard Garment, served as Nixon’s White House counsel during the Wa tergate era. “We’re pleased that the judicial panel has acted promptly and has ap pointed a distinguished lawyer as the independent counsel. We look for ward to cooperating fully with him,” Garment said. The naming of Stein is only the fourth time a special prosecutor has been named since the ethics law went on the books in 1978 with its provi sion to remove investigations of high- level government officials from the usual workings of the Justice Depart ment to avoid political influence. Meese had called for the indepen dent counsel to put to rest questions about his fitness for the job of attor ney general. Smith, in a formal request to the special court revealed last week, asked for the appointment of a spe cial prosecutor to conduct a fullb lown investigation of Meese’s failure to disclose a $15,000 interest-free loan that his wife, Ursula, obtained from longtime Meese associate Ed win Thomas and used to purchase stock. Thomas, his wife, Cretchen, and their son, Tad, all got federal jobs af ter the loan was made. Smith sought broad jurisdiction for the independent counsel to inves tigate Meese’s Financial transactions with several other individuals who received federal appointments; stock traded by Meese and his family, and special treatment for businesses in which Meese held a financial interest. He also asked for an investigation of Meese’s sudden promotion in the Army Reserve, which allowed him to get bigger pension benefits and his sworn statements about his knowl edge of the 1980 Reagan campaign’s use of President Jimmy Carter’s cam paign materials. Local • An A&M history professor will attend a confer ence in Russia. See story page 4. State • A court judge has threatened to release hun dreds of mental patients from their facilities unless action is taken to hire additional help to care for them. See store paged. National • Officials in Hobbs, N.M. are wondering what a piece of metal was doing in a bag of Doritos Corn Chips. See story page 4. • A jury has recommended a life sentence for a woman accused of drowning her paralyzed son to col lect on his life insurance policy. See'story page 7.