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Ids and Steve e good yean San Diegos I question, xcited aboni ot, but who i League, the id away the ern division, h talent, the) j down somf could win in right now- , too: With iken, Jr., Ed- i Singleton, ad Gary Roe- imes are yon u? could steal ii was stronger ; department Tie Tigers' der than the sir pitching rven if Rollie it back, aertson been ve picked the k to me likea ers. i Division, I ly finishing ; Sox. “Ami is this club “What hit 's their pitch- Students divided on death penalty Lover's Lane killer fights execution Former Army agent suspected of spying See page 3 See page 6 Texas ASM — ^ *« A The Battalion Serving the University community Vol78Mo. 126 GSPS 0453110 20 pages in 2 sections College Station, Texas Thursday, April 5, 1984 Alders declared winner of run-off By ED ALANIS Stall Writer With 55 percent of the vote, David Alders has oeen declared the winner in the run-off election for student body president. “A lot of students worked hard on iscampaign, but it was worth it be cause we had such an outstanding candidate," said Fred Billings, Ald ers'campaign manager. T thank everyone who supported me in my campaign and worked so for me, it’s their victory too,” Alders said. Alders is a junior agri cultural economics major and has served the past year as speaker of the Student Senate. One of Alder’s major goals for next year will be to work with the Faculty Senate to come up with a compromise on the senior final ex ams controversy. Alders has 'main tained throughout his campaign that he will fight to preserve the status io so that seniors can have a timely id meaningful graduation cere- ony. Having served as a student rep resentative to the Faculty Senate, Alders says he is especially qualified to work with that body. He says cred ibility and maturity are the keys to successful negotioations with the Fac ulty Senate. Alders has also ex pressed his opinion that the Faculty Senate might know better than stu dents what is required for academic excellence. “Faculty members have their en tire careers wrapped up in this Uni versity, while students are here for only four or five years,” Alders said during a debate with his opponents. “They care about students, and they know what is best academically,” he said. Alders also plans to work towards modifying the advising system, so that students can obtain personal, consistent and detailed advice re garding their educational opportuni ties. Advancing student opinions credi bly on such issues as the construction of a new special events center, park ing and traffic flow proposals, and the expansion of the student center complex will also be one of Alders’ main goals. The polls closed Wednesday with Alders beating his opponent, Grant Swartzwelder, 1,309 votes to 1,058. Other run-offs included the race for vice president of academic af fairs. Tom Urban won out over Jim Collins, with 53 percent of the vote. Lori Hielscher won the run-off for RHA treasurer, and Lisa Byerley won the run-off for OCA secretary. Next year’s senior class social sec retary is Debbie Patterson, and Dee Dee Sykes won the run-off for class of‘85 treasurer. Keith McBride won the race for class of ‘87 president, and Carol Elli son won the race for vice president of that class. Jayanthi Kasiraj and Ronda Duck- ers were both elected as graduate senators at large, and Jeffery Kleck was elected as engineering represen tative to the Graduate Student Coun cil. Turn out was low for the run-offs, with only 2,391 students voting. The majority of votes were cast by fresh men. Over half of the votes were cast by students living on campus. David Alders International Aggies show their stuff By SARAH OATES Stall' Writer The Arab shiek placidly ensconced onhisornate gold cushions, smoking anvgeelaand dressed in a long, flow- abai and wearing an agal on his head, would ordinarily he an odd sight in the Memorial Student Center lobby. But this week, with the colorful sights and sounds of Texas A&M’s th annual International Week cul- ral displays swirling around his ioth,the shiek blends in perfectly. “It’s great,” said Fadi Elayoubi, a freshman mechanical engineering major, participating in the event. Elayoubi, dressed in a traditional cos tume from Jordan, his home coun try, helped represent the “Arab 1” booth. The cultural display booths kicked off a week of various events designed to make students aware of the many cultures represented at Texas A&M. The week is sponsored by the Inter national Students Association. Booths in the MSC lobby display traditional arts and crafts, costumes, foodstuffs and religious artifacts from 35 different cultures. Slide shows and films also are presented, in the hopes of giving visiting stu dents “a free trip around the world.” Visitors to various booths can have their names written in Indian, feel the luxuriant fur of a Peruvian al paca (the alpaca is described as a cousin to the llama), look at Norwe gian sealskin slippers, religious masks from Java or stuffed piranhas from Brazil. “I think Texas A&M is very good,” said Jan Jernes, president of the “Norsemen,” the Norwegian stu dent’s association. “It’s kind of spe cial for our club to be here,” Jernes said. He explained that the 18-mem- ber club was formed one minute be fore the deadline to apply for taking part in International Week. “Everybody I’ve met here has been very friendly and nice,” Jernes said. “There’s been a lot of interest in our stand.” Lisa Loeffler, a graduate student and member of the Peruvian Student Association, said, “This is sort of like public relations for other countries. It’s a chance to show Americans dif ferent cultures.” A dinner of international cuisine was offered Wednesday night as part of International Week, and a talent and fashion show at 8 p.m. Friday in Rudder Auditorium will wrap up the week. “We have 16 different, traditional talents,” said Amer Ben-Ali, vice- president of the Arab Students Asso ciation and director of the talent show. He said the talent show will in clude traditional songs played on Japanese bamboo instruments, songs sung in Vietnamese and Puerto-Ri- can dancing. “This is a very good chance for American students to know what’s going on and to meet and commu nicate together with foreign stu dents,” Ben-Ali said. “I love the traditions at A&M,” he said. Ben-Ali, a sophomore majoring in industrial distribution, said he heard of the University through his four older brothers, who all came to Texas A&M from their home coun try of Libya. Twenty-four countries will be rep resented in the fashion show. Fash ions displayed will include the kurta, a traditional Pakistani dress worn for wedding parties, and the kameez, an other type of Pakistani dress. The International Students Asso ciation began planning and organiz ing this week’s events last September. The Association received an annual allocation from the MSC of $5,000, all of which was put into Interna tional Week. Reagan discusses planned Soviet treaty Chemical weapons ban proposed President Ronald Reagan United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan called on Moscow Wednes day to accept a global ban on the pro duction, possession and use of all chemical weapons as a step toward ridding the world of “these terrible weapons.” In a statement opening his 23rd formal news conference, Reagan said he is -sending Vice President George Bush to Geneva later this month to present a draft treaty to the Soviets at a meeting of the U.N. committee on Disarmament. Reagan said the proposal — de scribed by U.S. officials as more com prehensive than a chemical weapons ban offered earlier by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko — will in clude “bold and sound” procedures to ensure compliance by both sides. Reagan stressed that the United States must maintain and upgrade its chemical arsenal to offset an exten sive Soviet arsenal, repeating the ar gument he has used in discussing other weapons limitations plans. “Without a modern and credible deterrent,” Reagan said, “the pros pects for achieving a comprehensive ban would be significantly dimin ished.” Reagan has asked for $1.1 billion in his fiscal 1985 budget for chemical warfare projects. Again accusing the Soviets of us ing chemical and toxic agents in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan, Reagan said, “The shortcomings of earlier chemical weapons treaties have been made tragically clear in re cent years.” “The use of these terrible weapons also has serious implications for our own security,” he said. The administration also has ac cused Iraq of using chemical weap ons in its long and bitter Persian Gulf War with Iran in violation of a post- World War I international agreement banning their use. Announcement of the proposed treaty signaled the start of a new campaign-year peace offensive by Reagan, whose foreign policy has been under attack by Democrats, stung by defeat in Lebanon and threatened by stalemate over Central America. In keeping with the peace theme, Reagan also expressed hope the Sovi ets will resume talks on limiting me dium-range nuclear missiles and strategic arms. Both negotiations have been suspended since late last year. T here had been hints earlier the United States might propose a ban on chemical weapons. Questions about assuring compliance, however, have been a stumbling block, and Reagan repeated, “Verification of a chemical weapons ban won’t be easy.” But, he said, such a treaty “can bring the day closer when the world will prohibit all chemical weapons. Faculty Senators elected By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Unofficial winners of the spring Faculty Senate election were an nounced Wednesday evening by the Senate’s election committee. Newly-' elected senators will begin their offi cial duties after being certified at the May Senate meeting. Run-off elections for three unde cided seats — one each in the colleges of education, engineering and sci ence — will be next week. Dr. Wil liam Perry, chairman of the election committee, said each college will de termine its own run-off election date and voting locations. Results of the run-off elections will be announced April 13, Perry said. Election winners and their depart ments are as follows: • College of Agriculture: Place 2, Murray H. Milford (Soil and Crop Sciences), Place 3, C. Richard Shum- way (Agricultural Economics), Place 5, James D. Smith (Plant Sciences), Place 10, Keith A. Arnold (Wildlife Fisheries and Sciences). • College of Architecture and Environmental Design: Place 1, Claude D. Davis (Building Construc tion). • College of Business Adminis tration: Place 1, George C. Fowler (Business Analysis), Place 2, Charles M. Futrell (Marketing), Place 4, Clin ton A. Phillips (Finance). • College of Education: Place 3, Gayle Schmidt (Health and Physical Education). • College of Engineering: Place 1, John H. Painter (Electrical Engi neering), Place 5, Louis J. Thompson (Civil Engineering), Place 8, B. Don Russell (Electrical Engineering), Place 9, W. Mac Lively (Computer Science Division), Place 16, James K. Hennigan (Industrial Engineering). • College of Geosciences: Place 2, Brann Johnson (Geology and Geo physics). • College of Liberal Arts: Place 2, R. William Barzak (English), Place 3, John J. McDermott (Philosophy), Place 4, Jerry C. Gaston (Sociology), Place 6, Mark B. Busby (English), Place 11, Jon R. Bond (Political Sci ence). • College of Medicine: Place 3, James O. Morse (Pulmonary Disease Section, Temple VA). • College of Science: Place 4, Ar thur E. Martell (Chemistry), Place 10, A. Lewis Ford (Physics). • College of Veterinary Medi cine: Place 5, Ronald W. Green (Small Animal Medicine and Sur gery). • Library: Place 1, Julia M. Rholes. The College of Education will have a run-off election for Place 6 be tween Leonard D. Ponder (Health and Physical Education) and Douglas J. Palmer (Educational Psychology). The College of Engineering will have a run-off election for Place 14 between James T. Rollins (Petroleum Engineering) and Walter L. Bradley (Mechanical Engineering). The College of Science will have a run-off election for Place 11 between Ronald A. Bryan (Physics) and James P. Henderson (Mathematics). About 40 percent of the eligible voters participated in the elections. Perry said. In colleges with uncon tested nominees, participation was lower, but most colleges had “respec table” participation, he said. Jackson gains order to impound New York City voting machines In Today’s Battalion United Press International NEW YORK — Democratic pres idential candidate Jesse Jackson Wednesday obtained a court order impounding all voting machines throughout New York City, charg ing the vote in Tuesday’s primary “may be unlawfully tampered with.” Jackson, who came within one percentage point of beating out Sen. Gary Hart for second place in the state in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary, said in court papers, “The results ... will be ex tremely close and may be depen dent upon the results of the elec tion within certain election districts which are controlled by and friendly to petitioner’s opponents in said election.” Walter Mondale won the pri mary by a wide margin. The stakes were high in New York with the largest single dele gate prize so far. The outcome will likely have a major impact on next week’s Pennsylvania primary. More than a million Democrats voted in New York, which selected 252 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. State Supreme Court Justice Jawn Sandifer in Manhattan or dered the New York City Board of Elections to impound and seal all voting machines. The judge sched uled a hearing for Thursday morn ing. In a supporting affidavit, Jack- son said “there is a realistic danger” that the machines and other voting material, including paper ballots, identity cards and voter registration cards “may be unlawfully tampered with, altered or destroyed” if the material was not sealed, Local • The Texas Clipper, Texas A&M’s training ship at Galveston, will set sail for Europe June 2 with a shipload of hopeful Aggies. See story page 4. • A survey shows that Brazos Beautiful Inc. has helped make Bryan-College Station about 40 percent cleaner than last summer. See story page 4.