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I) fv- ...■■■r—1.11 I.IU.II.) , II.1*11.1.. • - • - ■ ■ ■ ■ ' '' v Lw ^ : . y :: ■: J '■ ' : : : ' ■ c ^, ,• • • ^TCr^ v ><•-. ^ r. ■> mm*m .•>: - n :. \ , S' i ^ W& - S , '•</''> '/''s Kenfs No. 7 Ags cruise to championship Page 8 The Battalion Vol. 80 No. 118 GSRS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Monday, March 25, 1985 SG candidate accused of overspending By JERRY OSLIN Stall Writer ■ Two Texas A&M students Hied a Hmplaint with the Student Govern- ■ent’s election commission on Bhursday accusing Sean Royall, a candidate for student body presi- dnit, of exceeding the limit for cam- |iugn expenditures. ■ But late Sunday night one of the fludents, Karl Brock, informed the Battalion that he had met with Roy- Bl and decided that Royall had not 4 in over the spending limit. ■ Brock said he had looked at some ql Royall’s spending receipts and at Bi itemized list of expenditures and Becided that Royall had not ex- Beded the $300 spending limit. ■ The original complaint to the lection commission, signed hy Brock and Terry Leeper, charged Biat Royall had spent more than the Bgal limit of $300 on campaign Biaterials for the Student body presi- Bential election set by the election iommission. I Brock, who is on the campaign ■tail of presidential candidate Brett Shine, said he filed the complaint be cause he wanted to see a fair elec tion. The election commission rules state that a candidate who goes over the limit will be disqualified from the election. Royall denied spending more than $300 and said the accusations were politically motivated. "It’s a shame when people can’t campaign on the issues and have to stoop to other things to win an elec tion,” Royall said Thursday. Brock delivered the complaint to the election commission Thursday morning. The complaint contained price estimates from local printers that estimated the cost of Royall’s printed campaign materials to be more than $300. Election commission rules say ex penditures “must be consistent with accurate local retail values as deter mined by the election commission.” After a closed meeting hy the elec tion commission on Thursday af ternoon, Jim Collins, co-commi- sioner, said “the evidence is little ion commission By JERRY OSLIN Staff Writer A candidate and a former can didate for student body president have been linked to an attempt b\ two Texas A&M students to pres sure the Student Government’s election commission into disqual ifying Sean Royall from the presi dential race. Karl Brock and Terry Leeper, two Texas A&M students, filed a complaint with the election com mission Thursday accusing Sean more than heat say and rumor.” Collins also said that Royall would not he disqualified before the elec- Jl, a candidate for student commission, candidates for stu dent body president may not spend more than $300 on cam paign materials. Brock, a member of Brett Sftine’s student body presidential election committee, also released a copy of the complaint to the Battalion on Thursday. , See Pressure, page 7 lion because the commission does not have the power to force a candi date to release his receipts prior to the election, and that the commis sion has no way to he sure if a candi date overspends. Under the rules of the commis sion, winners of all elec tions are re quired to present itemized expense accounts and spending receipts within two days after the elections. All other candidates must turn in itemized expense accounts upon re quest of the election commission. Royall said he would turn in his receipts to the election commission only if all the other presidential can didates turned in their receipts. “If the other candidates turn in their receipts. I'll turn in my re ceipts,” Royall said. “I don’t have anything to hide, but 1 don’t think I should have to turn in my receipts just because someone has chosen to single me out.” I Tie complaint by Brock and Leeper stated, “It has come to my at tention through observation and re search that candidate for student body president, Sean Royall. has by far exceeded the campaign expendi ture as set forth by the election com mission.” It also said, "The purpose of our letter is to ask for Mr. Royall’s imme diate disqualification from this elec tion.” Brock said he suspected Royall of overspending because of the “excep tional” quality of his printed materi als. “Royall’s flyers and brochures are head and shoulders above everyone else’s,” Brock said. The complaint included copies of price estimates from three local printing shops that gave cost esti mates of Royall’s printed campaign materials. Two of the printing estimates priced 1,000 of Royall’s brochures, 2,500 of his two-colored flyers and 100 of his push cards (the business cards that are put in plastic holders and worn as badges). The first print shop estimated the printing costs to be $318.50. T he See Accusation, page 7 04 V\ Danzinger out of contention for president The Tail End Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y Vintage warplanes were all lined up at Easterwood Airport this weekend for a show put on by the Aggie Wing of the Confederate Air Force. Pictured are Navy F4U aircraft. A raffle was held and winners received rides on the planes as a prize. By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Jeff Danzinger withdrew Sunday from the campaign for student body president of Texas A&M University. Danzinger will support Brett Shine, a junior finance major, in his bid for student body president, he said. Danzinger, a junior political sci ence major, said he withdrew from the campaign because he missed four days of campaigning due to the March 21 death of his grandmother. Danzinger said he decided to withdraw and support another can didate for the good of the election as a whole. He said his decision to back Shine came after considering the goals and experience of each candidate. "Brett Shine and 1 are old friends,” Danzinger said. “We’ve worked together, and our platforms are very much alike. “In fact, at the beginning of the campaign, we were somewhat con cerned about that.” The similarity of their campaign platforms simplified his decision to support Shine, he said. “Now I’ll be helping him out as much as 1 can,” Danzinger said. Though his presidential cam paign has been cancelled, Danzinger still plans to participate in Student Government during 1985-86. The role he’ll play depends on who wins the election for student body president, Danzinger said. He is considering positions rang ing from student senator to adminis trative posts. Candidates for student body pres ident include Shine, Madelon Yanta, Bob Stephan, Mike Cook and Sean Royall. New chairman election scheduled Regents to meet today, Tuesday By KIRSTEN DIETZ Staff Writer The Texas A&M Board of Re gents will elect a new chairman and discuss the establishment of a Center i tor the Study of Cell Surfaces at t their monthly meeting which began ’ today at 8:30 a. m. H.R. “Bum” Bright, of Dallas, is finishing his second term as chair man of the board and said Saturday that he hasn’t given any thought to serving another term. The chairman will be elected at the board’s formal meeting Tuesday morning at 8:30 The Committee for Academic Campuses will discuss the formation of a Center for the Study of Cell Sur faces, which would be established by the College of Medicine. The center would be interdepart mental and allow collaborative re search between several preclinical departments in the college, between the preclinical and clinical campuses of the college and between other de partments in other colleges. It would require no additional state or Uni versity funds. In other business, the Planning and Building Committee will award design contracts for the modification of the U.S. Department of Agricul ture Building, for the addition to the A.P. Beutel Health Center and for the renovations of the Halbouty Ge osciences Building, the Herman Heep Building and the Biological Sciences Building. Military may change medical licensing policy Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Penta- i gon’s top health official, armed with a survey showing roughly 20 percent , of all military physicians don’t have valid state medical licenses, has drafted a directive that would re quire all active-duty doctors to se cure such accreditation. A state license has never been mandatory for physicians who move directly from medical school into military service. That would change under the new directive, which will ultimately affect more than 3,500 military physicians, dentists and clin ical psychologists. Dr. William Mayer, assistant sec retary of defense for health affairs, informed the surgeons general of the Army, Navy and Air Force of his decision last week during a closed- door meeting. He agreed to discuss the matter late Friday, saying he ex- E ected his directive to be signed by •efense Secretary Caspar VV. Wein berger and take effect by summer. Physicians already working for the Defense Department will be given a grace period of up to three years to gain the accreditation, de pending on their current assignment and whether they’re posted overseas or aboard ships. The directive will apply immediately to new doctors seeking to enter the service, how ever. Mayer asserted the overall quality of military medical care “is in my judgment superior to the national community standard.” Nonetheless, Mayer said the large ol p! working without valid state licenses surprised military people as well as The directive comes at a time when the Pentagon has had to con front several well-publicized mal practice claims, as well as critical in ternal audits released over the past four months that have criticized mil- • itary hospitals for failing to adequa tely investigate newly hired health professionals’ backgrounds. “Since much of medicine is still an art that has to do with the patient’s feelings about who’s taking care of him, the so-called doctor-patient relationship, we think it’s important enough that it (the requirement) needs to be added,” Mayer said. “We’ve established now that a va rying percentage of active-duty pro fessionals, ranging from about 15 to 30 percent depending on the service and at different times, don’t have an active current medical license. It runs probably about 20 percent overall. W 7 e’ve decided that it would be wise to make sure everybody has a license.” Mayer’s directive will apply to doctors, dentists and clinical psy chologists as well as nurses, although his survey discovered virtually all military nurses already hold state li censes. According to the Pentagon, there are approximately 13,000 doc tors, 11,300 nurses and 5,000 den tists on active duty. The number of clinical psychologists was not avail able, but the total was said to be fewer than 180. Using Mayer’s overall estimate of 20 percent without valid state li censes, that would mean some 2,600 military physicians and 1,000 mili tary dentists are practicing without state accreditation. Mayer declined to provide hard figures of the numbers of unlicensed physicians for each service. Correction On Friday, T he Battalion in correctly reported the date of the International Students Associa tion's food fair. It will he Wednes day at 7 p.m. The Battalion regrets the er- ‘Carnival’ musical cancelled University News Service The presentation of the musi cal “Carnival,” scheduled for to night, has been cancelled. Announcement of the cancella tion was made jointly by rep resentatives of the Memorial St _i- dent Center, which was coordinating activities for the event, and the Tarleton State University Fine Arts Department, which was staging the show. They said the high cost of the production necessitated a nearly lull house in the 2,500-seat Rud der Audiotorium, and early ticket sales were below expectations. Spring break, at Texas A&M last week and at Tarleton this week, were cited as possible con tributing factors to sales. The production would have in volved the transportation and housing of about 100 Tarleton students and faculty who com prise the “Carnival” cast and crew. Ticket refunds, being made from the MSC Box Office in Rud der Tower, began at 10 a.m. to day.