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Student group holds international games See page 6 Horsemen's group hosts special school See page 4 Bill Yeoman pleased with Coogs' defense See page 10 The Battalion Serving the Gniversity community Vol. 80 No. 33 USPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Monday, October 15, 1984 Photo by PETER ROCHA Watchful eyes Texas A&M place kicker Alan Smith gazes game winning 57 yard field goal against at the Astrodome scoreboard after missing a Houston. The Cougars downed the Ags 9-7. Dorm sign-up starts By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer Dormitory students will be partici pating in sign-up for spring on-cam pus housing this week. Dormitory students will have the opportunity to reserve their dormi tory space from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday with their hall’s staff. The housing office schedules sign-ups during mid-semester so it can inform waiting list students of their housing status for the next se mester, Tom Murray, housing serv ices supervisor, said. “It’s late enough so that most stu dents know tenatively what they are going to do,” Murray said. Presently, there are 450 men and 406 women on the housing waiting list. Murray said about 60 to 85 per cent of the waiting list students ac cept an on-campus space when they are offered. All dormitory students must par ticipate in sign-up even if they are not planning to return to on-campus housing. Any student who fails to paticipate in the sign-up will lose his on-campus space for future semes ters. Those riot planning to return must participate in order to ensure correct processing of the housing deposit refund. Deposit refunds will he issued in January after December check-out procedures are completed. Students have five options when they sign up for spring housing: • Reserve the current room for the spring semester. • Request a room change within the same hall for the spring semes ter. • Request a transfer to another hall on campus for the spring semes ter. • Request a refund of the hous ing deposit because you no longer require housing for the future. • Inform the housing office that you will be co-oping for the spring semester and wish to reserve a space for the Fall 1985 semester. Students requesting room or hall changes will have to fill out a request card when they go through sign-up. Those requesting changes will be no tified of their status by Nov. 1. If the request is denied, their currfent space will be reserved. If students decide to cancel their room reservations, they must notify the housing office by 5 p.m. Dec. 3. Failure to do so will result in the for feiture of their housing deposit. The only exceptions to the dead line are for students academically or medically restricted from returning the next semester. To cancel the reservation, stu dents must notify the housing office in 101 YMCA Building in person or in writing. Student s who first cancel their re servation and then change their minds may be able to get their space back depending on when they notify the housing office of their decision. Students who were not living on campus as of Friday will not be eligi ble to reserve a space for the spring. Those students will remain on the spring waiting list and receive a spring housing status letter later. Parties agree on age issue Polls say Bush winner United Press International Democratic and Republican cam paign chieftains said the same thing Sunday about the age issue — it isn’t one — but split over the importance of the TV debates in influencing the choice between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. With just 22 days to go before Americans pick a president, Rea gan’s pollster predicted a landslide victory. Democratic officials, with their candidate gaining ground, ar gued the “volatile electorate” at last is responding to Mondale. The presidential candidates, with the final televised debate — a for eign policy confrontation in Kansas City — one week away, stuck to Sun day traditions. Reagan relaxed at Camp David before returning to the White House; Mondale gave a paid radio address. Their running mates, Vice Presi dent George Bush and Rep. Ger aldine Ferraro, played on different stages as the dust continued to billow from their debate last Thursday and Bush’s off-the-cuff remark he made about the confrontation, which polls show he won. Ferraro, although under the weather with a cold, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” She said she still opposes last year’s Grenada in vasion on principle. Bristling a bit, Ferraro said firmly that she “can do whatever is nec essary to protect this country,” in cluding pushing the nuclear button if she became president. In his radio address broadcast from Minneapolis, Mondale gave a preview of the second debate, char acterizing Reagan’s policy as, “If there’s an arms agreement, oppose it. If there’s a dangerous weapon, buy it. ... If there’s a crucial fact, don’t learn it.” In a pair of TV talk shows, the heads of the Reagan and Mondale camps sparred over the issues in the waning weeks of the contest. A key concern for the 73-year-old Rea gan’s aides is the question of his age. Neither Mondale nor his top aides directly have raised the issue, but other Democrats have. James John son, Mondale campaign director, ap pearing on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley,” said Sunday: “I don’t think (age) is going to be an issue. We’ve got so many other is sues ... war and peace ... who will stand up for the average family.” Richard Wirthlin, Reagan-Bush polling director, said on ABC he does not believe “age is going to be any more a factor than it was in 1980.” Wirthlin asserted the first debate had little impact on voters, saying that nationwide, “We show about a 16 point lead today, which is what it was the Saturday going into the de bate.” Runoff results The results of the freshman runoff elections held Thursday, Oct. 11 are as follows: • Class of ‘88 president—Dion Laurent • Class of ‘88 vice president — Spence McClung • Class of ‘88 secretary —Mike Harper Congratulations to all. Taps played for six killed in crash of WWII plane United Press International HARLINGEN — About 500 peo ple listened to taps at a prayer serv ice Sunday for six members of an airplane preservation group who died in the crash of a World War II vintage seaplane. Four other people aboard the plane were being treated Sunday for severe injuries suffered when the twin-engine PBY-6A seaplane slammed at an estimated 125 to 150 mph into about 18 inches of water in the Laguna Madre, then Hipped up side down and split into several pieces. Officials of the Confederate Air Force said the plane’s pontoons ap parently caught a sandbar or hit bot tom while making a simulated land ing near the Texas coast for the benefit of a photo plane that was fly ing in front of it. Members of the CAF — a 25-year- old patriotic organization that oper ates the world’s largest collection of World War II aircraft —gathered in a hangar before the start of Sunday’s Airsho ’84 performance to pray for the crash victims. The dead were identified as Ken Allmond, 60, the co-pilot, from Tyler; Bobbie Schutz, 55, historian, Kilgore; Robert E. Ennis, 60, Con cord, Calif.; Joseph Cromer, 65, ex ecutive officer, Tyler; William “Joe” Dacus, 58, procurement officer, Jacksonville; and Dr. Oliver Patter son, 66, Sapulpa, Okla. Hospitalized at Valley Baptist hos pital were the pilot, Doug Hall, 37, Longview, in stable condition; Jerry Gardner, 41, engineer, Tyler, in sta ble condition; Dan Shields, 34, fi nance officer, Tyler, in guarded condition, and Homer Schutz, 60, Kilgore, husband of the dead woman and deputy safety officer, in critical condition. “They left this life doing what they loved,” said Navy Capt. Leo Mc Donald, chaplain at the nearby Ma rine Military Academy, who pre sided over the brief prayer service. “They knew the risks and they took them because this was important to them — upholding the spirit of the Confederate Air Force. We mourn their passing, but we praise God for giving us the gift of their lives.” Students' trial date set By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Four Texas A&M students in dicted in connection with the death of a cadet will be tried before a Bra zos County court of law Oct. 26, said a spokesperson from the court ad ministrators’ office. The trial is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. Junior cadets Anthony D’Alessan- dro and Jason Miles, of Houston, and Louis Fancher III, of San Anto nio, were indicted by a Brazos County Grand Jury Sept. 28 on charges of criminally negligent hom icide and hazing. Senior Gabriel Cuadra, of Houston, was indicted I the same day on charges of hazing and tampering with evidence. The students were indicted in connection with the Aug. 30 death of Bruce D£an Goodrich, 20, a trans fer student from Webster, N.Y. Goodrich collapsed and later died after participating in an off-hours exercise session conducted by three junior members of his outfit, Com pany F-l. D’Alessandro, Miles and Fancher, former members of Company F-l, are represented by Bryan attorney W.W. “Bill” Vance. Cuadra, former personnel officer of Company F-l, is represented by Bryan attorney Henry “Hank” Paine. Cuadra re signed from the Corps of Cadets af ter Goodrich’s death. County Attorney Jeffrey Brown will prosecute the case. A spokesper son from the county attorney’s office said it is uncertain whether all four students will be tried together. Criminally negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor, carries a pun ishment of up to one year in prison and a fine or up to $2,000. Hazing, carries a punishment of up to 10 days in jail and a fine of $25 to $200. Three-day conference will explore bond between humans, their pets By LINDA ROWLAND Reporter The Delta Society’s annual three-day conference on interac tions between people and animals begins today at the Aggieland Inn in College Station. William F. McCulloch, D.V.M., co-chairman of the conference, said about 200-300 health care professionals from all over the country will attend. The conference, entitled “The Interaction of People, Animals and the Environment,” is co sponsored by the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and the Texas Veterinary Medi cal Association. It is open to all faculty and students with an A&M identification card. “The title of the conference, is actually the purpose of the Delta Society,” said McCulloch. “I believe the psychological and human health benefits of the human-animal bond cut across all professions.” He said that those studying or teaching sociology, psychology, veterinary medicine and parks and recreation will probably be especially interested in the con ference. McCullouch said the confer ence will include lecture sessions and workshops covering the rec reational and therapeutic effects of the human-animal bond in our environment. “Over 50 percent of house holds have pets they love and en joy,” he said. “Yet one thing we are starting to see ... they’re also valuable for our own human health — both physically and mentally.” Although the program will in clude technical topics, some will be geared toward general pet owners, McCullouch said. A lecture on Tuesday will fea ture dog and cat training. Mat thew Margolis, author and exec utive director of the National Institute of Dog Training of Cali fornia will speak at 9:30 a.m. He trains dogs for television com mercials and movies. McCullouch said the confer ence also will introduce new re search on the human-animal bond. For instance, research find ings indicate petting an animal temporarily lowers your blood pressure. “It is developing into a new in terdisciplinary field of research,” he said. “And it is becoming more legitimized because of encourag ing preliminary research find ings.”