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New SG committee hears grievances Engineering students designing race car See page 3 See page 4 Alabama charms the Aggies again See page 7 HPIW Texas A&M | w—mumn.. - w A The Battalion Serving the University community 81 No. 37 GSPS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas Monday, October 22, 1984 Rain, Rain, Go Away n,o,ob r peterrocha Saturday’s rain turned Kyle Field into a big green Slip ’n fans who remained to watch the game. Nearly four inches of Slide, but the rain failed to dampen the spirits of some Aggie rain fell in the first three quarters of the game. Hearings end, TAMU dismisses 3 junior cadets By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Three Texas A&M students were notified of their dismissal from the University Friday following the con clusion of University hearings con cerning the Aug. 30 death of Bruce Dean Goodrich. Junior cadets Anthony D’Alessan dro and Jason Miles, of Houston, and Louis Fancher III of San Anto nio were vocally notified of the Uni versity’s decision Friday. Senior Ga briel Cuadra, of Houston, also was vocally notified of disciplinary action to be taken against him. The students are expected to re ceive written notification early this week of the actions to be taken against them. After receiving written notification, the students will have three days to appeal the decision to a University panel. Attorney W.W. “Bill” Vance, who is representing D’Alessandro, Miles and Fancher, said Sunday that he will decide on futher actions after his clients receive official written notifi cation of their punishment. “Contrary to what has been in the news service, they have not received official notification yet,” Vance said. Vance said that Bill Kibler, who conducted the University hearings, did not cite a specific reason for his decisions. Kibler is assistant director of student affairs at A&M. Attorney Henry “Hank” Paine Jr., who is representing Cuadra, was un available for comment. The disciplinary actions follow a series of University hearings con cerning Goodrich’s death. The hear ings began Sept. 11 and were con cluded last week. 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. All 17 junior and senior cadets who were members of Com pany FT at the time of Goodrich’s death appeared during the Univer sity hearings. During the course of the hearings, Kibler told The Battalion that Uni versity officials could not discuss dis ciplinary actions taken against stu dents due to a federal law that protects students’ privacy. Students involved in University disciplinary actions are entitled to personal and written notificafion of any actions taken against them, Kibler said. According to University regula tions, dismissal is a separation of the student from the University for an indefinite period of time. The regu lations state that readmission to the University is possible in the future, but no specific time for a decision is established. Dismissal ranks second in severity among the three major actions (ex pulsion, dismissal and suspension) which may be taken against students. All four students were indicted Sept. 28 on charges of hazing by a Brazos County Grand Jury. D’Ales sandro, Miles and Fancher also were charged with criminally negligent homicide, and Cuadra was charged with tampering with evidence. GSS: civil rights being suppressed By KEN DORSEY Reporter ■ The Gay Student Services (GSS) ’ spoke to students by Rudder foun- Itain claiming Texas A&M is suppres sing their First Amendment rights. ■ “There is a blatant discrimination of civil rights going on here,” Ann Robbins, a member of GSS said at the assembly Friday sponsored by SjW.A.M.P. (Students Working Pjpinst Many Problems). ■ When A&M refuses to be an open forum and recognize an organiza tion, Robins said, they are violating |that group’s civil rights. T hey are pnoi allowing freedom to speak and through this infringement, the abil ity to assemble is also abolished. ■ Lenny DePalma, president of an off-campus gay organization called Alternative, said since A&M refuses to recognize the GSS organization, fGSS is not allowed to distribute flyers on campus or to announce when their meetings will be. ■ “When they are not even allowed to use campus buildings it is a clear : denial of their equal access to public buildings...remember, gays pay Itaxes too,” DePalma said. “When they are not allowed to hold a meet ing in a classroom or a place that I thev’ve paid for, that is a denial of their freedom of expression. ■“You’ll notice that none of those ptrguments mention anything about Ireiligion because essentially this is not a [religious argument once it goes into the courts.” ■ A lot of arguments against letting EGSS on campus are prevalent, Rob bies said. ■T don’t think very many of them have any value,” she added. ■ GSS is not a social organization. It lis a service organization which pro- fevides important services for every- t one, not just gay students, Robbins "said. The most important thing for GSS is that they have a place to as semble, DePalma said. It has cost GSS several thousands of dollars in the past few years to try and find places to meet. However, once a stu dent organization is recognized, meeting rooms on campus become available free of charge. Another reason GSS seeks recog nition is the importance they find in correcting the misinformed views raised against the organization. In the past several years, there have been instances of violence and cases of harrassment with no rea sonable justification, DePalma said. “We are not child molesters...we do have a purpose, yet people con tinue to hate us,” he said. For this reason, GSS wants a fo rum. This would enable them to ed ucate people, DePalma said. Finally, GSS would like to provide services that are not readily avail able. For instance, DePalma said, a roommate service is needed badly on campus. GSS is capable of providing this type of service for students who are gay or for students who discover they have a gay roommate. Most students who are already in GSS do not need the counseling the organization has to offer simply be cause they have already accepted how they are, which is the hardest part, President Marco Roberts said. GSS wants to provide counseling services for the students who are afraid. “It is not really going to make all that much difference to the campus life when GSS is recognized. When we do get recognized, and we proba bly will be, that’s going to be a victory for freedom and a victory for Amer ica and American ideals. That is something we can all be proud of,” Robbins said. Presidential debate a draw United Press International DALLAS — President Reagan may have nabbed all the laugh lines and fended off the crippling gaffes, but neither he nor opponent Walter Mondale were clear victors in Sun day’s Kansas City debate, said Dallas newspaper television analysts. “I think it was unfortunate for Mondale, that. Reagan had all the laugh lines,” said Ed Bark, critic for the Dallas Morning News. “I think that’s what people will re tain. I don’t think it’s easy to be per sonable about foreign affairs. Rea gan did well enough to slow down any Mondale momentum.” Steven Reddicliffe, critic at the Dallas Times Herald, said Mondale did not score against Reagan the way he did in the first debate. “From watching some of the post debate analysis, I think the network people were surprised Mondale didn’t score a second TKO,” Reddi cliffe said. “But I think there’s no way Reagan would have been the same way or as poorly prepared as he was in the first debate.” Bark said Mondale looked tired. “He had huge bags under his eyes. I don’t know what he was doing during the day,” Bark said. “It cer tainly wasn’t as obvious during the first debate.” Reddicliffe thought Mondale looked a bit like Bob Newhart, the comedian. “But that’s okay,” he said. “I like Newhart.” Reddicliffe said the first debate was more interesting. “I didn’t think it was nearly as in teresting as the first debate” he said. “I think it may have had something to do with the issues. “Foreign policy usually isn’t as in teresting as what goes on around the corner. The first debate was about what goes on around the corner.” The victor? “If people pay any attention to prognosticators,” said Bark, “then it seemed that Mondale may have won but not by enough.” Said Reddicliffe: “I thought the debate was much closer than before. In the first debate, Mondale was knocking the ball out of the park ev ery time. Rain floods area, delays events By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer Severe weather swept across most of Texas over the weekend causing local street flooding in the Bryan- College S tation area along with some inconviences for several campus- oriented activities. Almost Anything Goes, a fund -raiser for United Way, was called off for the second time this year, and bonfire cut was postponed until next weekend. College Station police reported several motorists who stalled due to heavy rains that temporarily Hooded local streets, but they said they had received no reports of any weather- related injuries late Sunday. Officials are blaming at least 15 injuries and two deaths on the severe Texas weather. San Patricio County Sheriffs De partment spokesman Bobby Nunez said many residents of Sinton and Odem fled their homes due to se vere flooding, but had returned late Sunday. “The residents were forced to shelters in high school gyms after the towns received 15-20 inches of rain during a four-hour period Fri day,” Nunez said. “Richard Robling, of Odem, died Friday when he fell off the back of a tractor as he tried to escape rising water.” Forecasters expect continued cloudy skies for most of the week with high temperatures near 80 and lows around 60. Cause of CIA plane crash debated United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadoran military sources Sunday- confirmed a CIA plane that crashed and killed four Americans smashed into a mountain a few miles north east of San Salvador. The bodies of the four American employees of the CIA who died in the early Friday crash were flown out of El Salvador late Saturday, air port authorities said. Radio Venceremos, the leftist guerrilla clandestine station which Saturday broadcast a rebel claim that guerrilla anti-aircraft fire downed the CIA plane, called the U.S. gov ernment’s version of the crash “to tally absurb.” U.S. officials said the plane went down in a heavy rainstorm and den ied it had been hit by enemy fire. Salvadoran military officials posted on Cerro Picacho, 3 miles northeast of San Salvador, said the plane crashed into a grove of coffee trees 500 yards below the peak of the 5,800-foot mountain. National guard troops prevented journalists from getting near the wreckage. Military helicopters shut tled troops, who searched the crash site, back and forth from a special air force reconnaissance unit, military authorities said. The Salvadoran military men fa miliar with the operation would not give details on what type of plane had crashed or exactly what the re connaissance units searched for, cit ing security reasons. Civilian pilots said they had re ceived orders from military authori ties on Friday, the day of the crash, not to fly within 6 miles of Cerro Pic acho until further notice. The U.S. Embassy has refused to go beyond a statement released Fri day saying the plane crashed in a rainstorm while attempting to track arms shipments from Nicaragua to El Salvador. The heavily guarded Cerro Pic acho is a major government commu nications facility with antennas on its peak. There has never been any evi dence that it is a rebel stronghold. Radio Venceremos, in a broadcast Sunday, expanded on the rebel claim that anti-aircraft gunfire shot down the CIA twin-engine plane fly ing over an army sweep in northeast ern Morazan province. The rebels said the gunfire hit the plane while it was flying in the vicin ity of the Morazan villages of Joa- teca, Guacamaya and El Mozote, all about 80 miles northeast of San Sal vador, causing the plane to veer off toward the central zone of the coun try. t “The version that the State De partment is giving that the death of the four advisers was the product of an accident caused by a storm is to tally absurd,” Radio Venceremos said.