The Battalion/Page 5 Faculty Senate to consider financial policy |: The A&M Faculty Senate will meet today at 3:15 p.m. in 601 Rud- der Tower. || The Senate will hear a special ad dress from Vice President of Aca demic Affairs Gordon P. Eaton on the proposed change in the financial support policy of international stu dents. H Eaton will explain a new Univer sity policy adopted in August by the Graduate Council. The council rec ommends that the Faculty Senate also adopt the policy. |i The policy says: H “The University will defer the awarding of assistantships (or like fi- |:|ancial assistance) to an interna tional graduate student until the stu dent has demonstrated the appropriate English language skill levels needed to carry out the duties of the assistantship and is registered in TAMU for at least nine semester credit hours during the regular se mester or four semester credit hours during a summer term.” nil) hi R The Senate will not vote on the item at this meeting, dealing I 2 at 1 Debate oil.! (continued from page 1) £ UUlS all Iffi inti*! ■ Mondale said. “The president says if you want to know what his ■ program is for the next four ■ years, look what I proposed in the | past — so you know what’s going to happen.” Reagan responded that he only proposed reductions backed by Democrats in the House when the Social Security program was going broke. “A president should never say never ... but I’m going to break that rule ... I will never stand for a reduction of Social Security bene fits," Reagan said. “That very commitment was made in 1980 and what was pro posed was a reduction,” Mondale fired back. “The people know what happened.” “The most outrageous thing of | this campaign and the one in 1980 ... is that somehow I’m going to pull the Social Security plug out from under the elderly,” Reagan said. “Let’s lay it to rest [once and for all. I told you never.” The two clashed on the deficit. Mondale saying Reagan had no plan and would be forced to raise taxes after the election while the president hit his challenger on his pledge to raise taxes. [ It was the first of two debates i between the candidates. The sec- |ond confrontation, on foreign | policy issues, is scheduled for Oct. 121 in Kansas City, Mo. Vf.'tffli; Ship is show ■ houn 1 g" “When we find the ships, they will be excavated, restored and put on display (in Jamaica’s pro posed museum),” Smith said. [ wa!* 1 “We’re focusing on one particular place where I feel sure the ships are.” To survey the waters around ; Jamaica’s northern coast, archae- ologists used a magnetometer, 1 which measures subtle changes in the earth’s magnetism caused by man-made features such as iron objects or buried stone founda tions. idl e rent* eted ^ cleru lt nni' iTiafj an ^in moress. ► Tt «st up ae. 3 ■y user 1 ' 3 = bin f - the down their search an ging for the remains. ey d began dig- 5 15% DISCOUNT with current A&M I.D. (repairs not included) Use your student discount to purchase a diamond for your class ring. (and let us set it for you) DOUGLAS JEWELRY Culpepper Plaza 212 N. Main g College Station Bryan ^ 693-0677 822-3119 < S 3! i ATTENTION: AGGIES \ Now that you have decided to come to the best college in the country ... why not come to the best hairstyling shop in the country Come see the professionals at Create that special look For that special you BILL'S STYLE SHOP 215 Univ. Dr. (next to Campus Theatre) Appointments available Mon-Fri 8:00-5:30 Sat 8:30-3:30 (continued from page 1) voyages, and since 1982, Smith has spent his summers in Jamaica looking for the buried caravels. Last summer, he and a crew of about 10 worked were there for al [ f two months until they narrowed After the device detected mag netic signals, a sonar device that penetrates soft sea-bed sediments was attached to a boat, and the area was again searched. The remains of the caravels are covered with sediment deposition from the sea and land. This soft deposition “covers the remains that are there so that oxygen • doesn’t get to them. “Everything that we excavate has to be kept wet until it can be treated in the laboratory, because if it dries out, it’s destroyed,” Smith said. Allowing the remains to dry out could cause them to shrink or deteriorate, he said. Smith said he and the rest of the crew have had to put their ef forts on hold through next spring because of academic obligations, but they plan to resume their search next summer. “If we don’t Find (the ships), we’ll have done some very careful research, and we’ll be able to tell the Jamaican governmen t the his tory of the north coast of the is land,” Smith said. “But I think we’ll find them, and it’s only a matter of time.” HOUSTON ADC A - •DOWNTOWN -ALMEDA -DEERBROOK •GREENSPOINT -MEMORIAL -NORTHWEST •p ASAD EN A -SAN JACINTO -SHARPSTOWN -WEST OAKS -WILLOWBROOK AMCTIM- -barton creek square -highland mall SAN ANTONIO: BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION: •“!“