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New Orleans Saints might be for sale See page 13 Dallas to play Seattle tonight in playoffs See page 15 .fry Texas ASM Battalion Serving the University, community Vol 79 No. 140 GSRS 0453110 16 Pages College Station, Texas ar memorial o get a home sin 4 to IS he f ac iieraik Plans have been finalized for both lawrenn lei ip OI ar y a n( | permanent sites for Tpxas A&M University’s World War I monument formerly located at the |i|u!rsection of Old Main, Jones, and feimar streets. ’’■Chuck Cargill, the university’s vice |pi sident for operations, said the IjMnnanent location for the granite Monument will be approximately 50 Beet south of the previous site, on the peryfti Hrihwest corner <j1 the main chill 00 tonsand adjacent to the area in s. |wl,ii h the Albritton Tower will be id his offe |e|ected. lost of "■Cargill s;tid the memorial's new hludearl'Wc is‘located in such a manner to do ,0 overft !i ‘ honor to the memorial and the men for selet® 1 ilhonors. ■ During (-onslruction of the 49-bell he hopes•'■rillon, th e monument will he tern- ,proval I Rnai'ily located between the Memo- day. IW®] Student (’.enter and Rucldei (ien- must i’ nceforiti 8 pin ax ter. next to the Future” statue. “Planned for the | its nicW ite Repai f jj ring the back inM -day d the job in s(S (f j ■ Temporary relocation of the mon- unient is expected within two weeks, complete with a suitable base. ■ Ceremonies rededicating the me morial will be conducted as part of a slecial Veterns’ Day observance Nov. Id after the monument has been inoved to its permanent location, Cargill said. I He said the permanent site was ifccotmnended by a committee com- losed of students, former students, faculty and staff. “We looked at all locations anyone suggested,” he said, “It was just the best judgement of the committee and it was unanimously chosen. “The new site, which will be incor porated into the overall concept for the Albritton Tower, will be aestheti cally pleasing and actually be more visible and accessible than where it was previously located.” Cargill said the area will be well landscaped and have indirect light ing. He pointed out that the previous site was not the original location for tfie monument. It was initially situ ated by Guion Hall, but the mon ument was moved and the old audi torium torn down to make way for the Rudder Center auditorium com plex. “I feel quite confident that practi cally all of the people who have voiced objection to relocation of the monument are unaware that itr was previously located elsewhere on cam pus — and I cannot recall any ad verse reaction when it was moved from the original site,” Cargill said. “In any event, we think we have an ideal site now that will do full justice to this fine monument,” he added, “and we think everyone will be pleased with the results.” Got some rice? Photo by BILL HUGHES Dance Arts Society adviser Lynn Berry and other society members perform a modern dance during dress rehearsal Wednesday night. The number, choreographed by Dance Arts teacher Paul Licce to “Brown Rice” by Shadowfax, will be performed tonight as part of the society’s annual spring show at 7:30 in Rudder Theatre. avid Kennedy found dead in hotel suite raised ikt 11 ^rformai neers tef the si sedli jug Foot 1ll$ Ti 1 ) 7:0 United Press International PALM BEACH, Fla. — David lennedy, 2B, who turned to drugs following the assassination of his fa- tlier Robert Kennedy, was found lead on the floor of his hotel suite ednesday. I There was no immediate indica- lon of the cause of death and Palm leach Police Chief Joseph Terlizzese laid “We have no evidence at this dime of any drug use. There was no tug paraphernalia in the room.” An autopsy was ordered later ednesday. Kennedy’s body was found in loom 107, part of a two-room suite, j>fdie Brazilian Court Hotel by a sec- Jetary who went to check on him af- p a telephone call from a woman identifying herself as “Mrs. Kennedy from Boston” said she was concerned that he had trot returned to Boston. Police said Kennedy checked into the hotel last Friday. The Brazilian Court is five miles from the winter mansion of Rose Kennedy, 93-year- old matriarch of the tragedy-plagued family, who spent the Easter week end there with several other family members. David was one of her 29 grandchil dren. In Washington, Sen. Edward Ken nedy, D-Mass., David’s uncle, issued a statement saying, “It is a very diffi cult time for all the members of our family, including David’s mother, Ethel, and his brothers and sisters, who tried so hard to help him in re cent years. “All of us loved him very much. With trust in Cod, we all pray that David has finally found a peace that he did not find in life.” A priest was called into Room 107 about 2:15 p.m., two hours and 45 minutes after Kennedy’s body was found, and left 10 minutes later. A few minutes after he left the body was brought out on a stretcher cov ered with a green drape. No family members were in evidence. The body was taken to the Palm Berach Medical Examiner’s office for autopsy. David was one of 11 children of the former attorney general, slain in Los Angeles in 1968 while running for president. Two of them have had serious problems with drugs. His brother Bobby Jr., elder by a year, was charged with heroin pos session last September in Rapid City, S.D., and entered a drug treatment program. David was an intern at the Atlantic Monthly magazine at the time of his death. His drug troubles surfaced on Sept. 5, 1979, when he was mugged and robbed of $30 outside the Shel ton Plaza hotel, which police de scribed as a rendezvous for drug peddlers and their customers. Neigh bors told reporters at the time that drug dealers knew young Kennedy well as “White James.” A month later, he checked into Mass&chussetts General Hospital in serious condition with a heart inflam mation which doctors said sometimes resulted from infection by improp erly-used hypodermic needles. He dropped out of Harvard in 1979 and on Jan. 18, 1980, Dr. Lee Macht, 42, a prominent Cambridge, Mass., psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School teacher, was fined $1,000 for improperly prescribing narcotic painkillers and soporifics for David. In was reported a few days later that the Kennedy family had hired a “street smart” drug expert to move in with David in a round-the-clock drug therapy program. The May edition of Playboy mag azine featured an article excerpted from a soon-to-be-released book en titled “The Kennedys” by Peter Col lier and David Horowitz, which blamed young Kennedy’s drug trou bles on tension with his mother, Ethel, after his father was killed. Thursday, April 26, 1984 Bryan man surrenders custody United Press International BRYAN — The father of a 6-year- old girl who was ordered returned to the racially mixed home of her mother by the LJ.S. Supreme Court Wednesday said he would not give up his legal battle. “No. No way,” said Anthony Si- doti. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of the child’s mother, Linda Si- doti Palmore, of Seffner, Fla., who married a black man after divorcing Sidoti in 1980. Palmore argued that it is unconsti tutional for family court judges to lake interracial marriage into ac count when making custody deci sions. A Florida family judge, however, said the child, Melanie, would be so cially stigmatized by remaining with her mother in a biracial home. The judge ordered the child returned to her father. But the Supreme Court agreed with Palmore. After hearing the news, Sidoti said: “I was disappointed, but we’ll just have to see what happens. We aren’t sure exactly what the decision means.” Sidoti’s attorney, John Hawtrey, indicated he, too, was not prepared to give up. “I have no comment until I have an opportunity to see the opinion rendered and an opportunity to pre pare a motion for rehearing,” Haw trey said. The Supreme Court decision said the custody ruling was unconstitu tional. “The effects of racial prejudice, however real, cannot justify a racial classification removing an infant child from the custody of its natural mother found to be an appropriate person to have such custody,” Chief Justice Warren Burger declared. “The Constitution cannot control such prejudices but neither can it tol erate them. Private biases may be outside the reach of the law, but the law cannot, directly or indirectly, give them effect.” The Sidoti’s were divorced May 29, 1980, and custody of Melanie was originally awarded the mother, but after she married a black man, Sidoti, 29, filed to reclaim custody. He contended that Palmore had “created a bad environment” for Melanie. IPECIAl EVENING eydinng with Sauce Messing ad • Buttf ■Tea ravy ce ol any liable AMU tends to ignore its students ho aspire to attend law school By KATHY WIESEPAPE Staff Writer Editor's note: This is the third in a hree part series about pre-law slu- lents at Texas A&M. Pre-law students are the invisible People of Texas A&M. They’re scat- ered throughout departments from lolitical science to petroleum engi neering. No records are kept of their professional goals. They have no departmental home, no united front. It’s easy for the ad ministration to ignore them. And ignore them it has. The Uni versity’s token attempt to meet their needs is a single, part-time prelaw coordinator in the general studies department. In fact, University officials have no idea how many students here are in terested in law school. ‘We've had a lot of students go to law school,” Associate Provost Charles E. McCandless said, but he doesn’t know how many. And he doesn’t know how many current stu dents have law school ambitions. William Rundell, assistant director of the University Honors program, doesn’t think the number of pre-law students here is very large. “If they were up front interested in that, they wouldn’t come to A&M,” he said. But he, too, has no cold hard facts. “This is all based on gut feeling,” he said. Garland Bayliss, director of Aca demic Services, said he didn’t think there was the demand for a full-time pre-law adviser at Texas A&M. Pre-law coordinator Hilary Jessup said there’s no way of obtaining sta tistics because students become inter ested in law at different points in their college careers. Numbers aside, these elusive stu dents do exist at Texas A&M. The Pre-Law Society brings together 125 of them. Thomasine Lowry, publicity chair man for the society, said the group’s purpose is to bring together people with the same interests. Since pre-law students are scattered across the Uni versity, they don’t have the access to each other that students in business or engineering gel through their col leges or departments. Vice President Karen Kellett said it helps to have the moral support of other students who want to go to law school. “You go through a lot of trauma,” she said. “People treat you like you’re different. ‘Oh, this is my friend Ka ren — she’s going to law school.’ Like you’re some kind of freak. “You make a lot of friends because you’re the same. You have the same interests, the same high academic standards.” The Pre-Law Society also provides a great deal of valuable information. “There are just a hundred things about law school you need to know,” Kellett said. How to apply, when to apply, when to lake the Law School Aptitude Test, how to do well on it, what the scores mean, what kind of grades are needed to get accepted to law school, what kind of undergrad uate courses pre-law students should take — the Pre-Law Society members talk about all of it. Many of the monthly . meetings feature speakers: deans, assistant deans or students from various law schools. The group also sponsors sev- eral trips to law schools each semes ter. Keith Cartwright, a member of the Pre-Law Society for the past two j years, said that in that time, trips have been made to law schools at University of Texas, Baylor Univer sity, Tulane University, Loyola Uni versity, and University of Houston. To Cartwright, the trips are the most important activity of the club. “They’re a lot of fun, for one thing,” he said. “The deans or asso ciate deans give us a tour, and stu dents are there to answer our ques tions. We sit in on classes — it’s a way of getting a feel for w hat it’s like.’ ? Kellett said the trips give her the opportunity to compare the schools she’s considering. Jessup, the adviser for the society, said the society also provides an in formal job network for legal inter nships. When positions with College Station lawyers open up, the Pre-Law Society members are the first to know. See PRELAW page Local • An A&rM professor died suddenly Wednesday morning in St. Joseph Hospital. See story page 3. • A $1 million project has been announced that will “beautify” the west campus. See story page 4. • Texas A&M has a free placement center for former students. See story page 5. • E.C. “Archie” Archambault, the 34-year old owner of three Taco Bells and Archie’s 39tf Hamburger Place, has plans to open restaurants in Midland and Odessa. See story page 6. State • Jesse Jackson is urging Texas voters to vote twice. See story page 8. World • President Reagan arrives in Peking today to a rare 21-gun salute. See story page 3.