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Monday, April 15, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 up to a $10,0(1 1. I'exas student iate Education &M foisted al i’s death on the ally conducted ault lies not g on the tradii the system that it and everyone right. AlthouM directly at fan icourage the ■inates "motiva tire Texasi xas A&M, needit re that a Go pea ted. ill would notf [p students to i ut their actions.! 1 they dropandi the shower cere lack of respond part of thecadetj i person diesa punishment nee rely a probatedi (fops, sorry,! y the farm." about the hazing ist learn the val to teach us. 1 games—sent e must not dy. From now on j ■ we act. Thatin Dean Goodrich. sophomore j weekly columnist: ■HHHHj The annual Freshmen and Sophomore Mathematics . Contest will be held Wednesday, April 17, 1985 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM. Freshmen Contest will be in Room 216 Milner Hall and the Sophomore Contest in Room 216 Milner Hall. No Calculators - all test material will be provided. Prizes for winners of first place will be $190, second place $60, and third place $40. Prerequisite for Freshmen Contest is knowledge of calculus through Math 151 or equivalent, for the Sophomore Contest knowledge of calculus through Math 253 or equivalent. I All You Gan Eat - Daily Specials 4-10 p.m. Sunday Pancakes $1.99 All You Can Eat Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Saturday" C' „ ■ 1 Spaghetti , Shrimp bpecial Steak Dinner $1.99 $4.99 $4.99 All You Can Eat AH You Can Eat Complete president, Ranger Battalion Assoc.; James Eikner, secretary, Ranger Battalion Assoc.; Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver. Rudder’s medals, flags given to A&M for display atus? ■-limed “juniora ne sub-human® :1 his “outgoing gh school homer! 1 ne three years In go on as i, I’ve always add iletic ability, and Eddie Haa od grades in sclw ■r match that. Iso have ch; hags ofM&Msia Bill or “numberor >w displays his is comfortably memories. irshall as a bu mager in the day and new-fan owadays he’s a da Bell and an yoing, or y traded in, bull ts, shorts and -looking suits badge labelled'^ mber four”) am nation, a career , my brothers waal ter. 1 can’t thinb now they’ll reafo iday, annually, nere letter as < no longer cha| therly approval By RICKY TELG Reporter Ilie Purple Heart, Distin guished Service Cross and Legion of Merit medals belonging to Gen. James Earl Rudder, former Texas A&M president, were pre sented to die University Sunday in Rudder l ower. Other medals and flags were also included. Margaret Rudder, die gener al’s wife, said, “I can’t tell you how pleased I am that the University asked for the decorations, espe cially at a time that so many of his Ranger buddies could be here. “I’m so happy these medals will be here at the University he loved so well.” The decorations earned by Rudder during his 35 years of military service are on permanent display in the foyer of the tower, next to Rudder's portrait. During the ceremony Rudder was described as a multi-faceted individual by one of his former soldiers. “The young Earl Rudder was a man of action — a ‘can-do’ man,” said James Eikner, secretary of the Ranger Battalion Association and member of Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Battalion during World Warll. Retired El. Col. William Brady, president of the Ranger Battalion Association, said: “Earl always gave his best. He had a profound effect on us.” Rudder was the commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, which spearheaded the Normandy inva sion on D-Day in 1944. Eikner said Rudder was a tough disciplinarian, but that he was fair. “1 remember him saying, ‘Fun and games are over. .Those who make it, because some of you won’t, are going to be the best darned soldiers in the military,’ Eikner said. The Ranger Battalion, which trained in the states, was com prised of soldiers who were sin gled out for their physical and mental stamina and who had vol unteered for special, dangerous missions. “They even gave us I.Q. tests,” Eikner said. “You’ve got to be smart to do the things we were doing.” After training, the Rangers went to Great Britain to partici pate in commando raids with the British on occupied soil to pre pare for Operation Overlord — D-Day. “The Rangers were given a key assignment: reduction of the ene my’s weaponry at the most dan gerous spot in the invasion at Pointe du Hoc,” said Eikner. Rudder personally led the three companies which made up the attack, despite objections by military intelligence. “I don’t think I would be here today if he hadn’t led it himself,” Eikner said. In less than five minutes after hitting the beach, the Rangers were on top of the cliffs, Eikner said. Within 30 minutes, all the essential men of the invasion were up. The guns that the Rang ers were sent to destroy were put out of commission by 9 a.m. Eikner said Rudder was wounded twice during the three days before military relief ar rived. “He was wounded twice, but he would just go to the doctor and get it bandaged up,” Eikner said. “You never could tell if it both ered him. Of such actions are heroes made.” Rudder went on -to command the 109th Infantry , Regiment during the Battle of the Bulge. “We knew we would eventually have to share our commander with others,” Eikner said. “It didn’t suprise us when he went on to higher command and later to be president of this University.” Also at the presentation cermo- nies, A&M President Frank Van diver said that the medals were symbols of Rudder’s courage and devotion. “We all know the uncommon valor and the example they rep resent,” Vandiver said. “The medals are simply a symbol of a spirit, an unconditional devotion, not only to the country, but also to the University.” At INTERNATIONAL HOUSE of PANCAKES* RESTAURANT 103 N, College Skaggs Center University Committee Applications are now available in Room 219 Pavilion and Room 216 MSC. Deadline: April 17,1985 in Room 219 Pavilion. Jexas House committee Senior Weekend '85 April 26 & 27 Sr. Bash Fri. April 26 $5/couple Hall of Fame Sr. Banquet Ring Dance Sat. April 27 Sat. April 27 $25/couple $35/couple Aggieland Inn MSC & Rudder $60 package includes all three. Tickets on sale now at MSC Box Office All tickets are pre-sale Abortion hearing on tap Associated Press 4USTIN — House committee tembers return to Austin today for jyliat could be among the most emo- ional hearings of the session — a iroposal to restrict abortions. Also this week, work continues on 1986-87 state budget, the Senate ill look at setting up a “super Tues- iay” presidential primary, the douse will decide on a $120 million ee hike bill and a House committee hear about a proposed “sick The House State Affairs Commit tee agenda for Monday includes 11 abortion-related bills. Pro-life groups are working for passage of Rockdale Rep. L.B. Kubiak’s bill that would restrict abortions in the final three months of pregnancy. “We are bringing in several wit nesses who will give sworn testimony that will blow the lid off the abortion industry,” said Bill Price, president of the Greater Dallas Right to Life Committee. “After this shocking testimony of kickbacks, abuse and other irregula rities in the abortion industry, we be lieve that the need to regulate this business will be clearly established,” said Price. Pro-choice factions are lobbying against the Kubiak bill. A group of Houston residents sent coat hangers to lawmakers last week to remind them what might happen if the state makes it more difficult to get a legal abortion. ate and quite ill tnd I’m a >t when I pr a I was little. have any they available 1 ! id ride a bikewj longer makes 1 mother. mer camp, id. r braces anc ill have allergies- older brothers. years of expert o spend time if all...I love ^Taxpayers get $42,000 bill for White’s trip to Honduras GREAT ICE CREAM AND FOOD TAXPAYER’S SPECIAL i junior jourm ri ter for TheW Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Gov. Mark White’s temral American junket cost the Department of De- |erise about $42,000. from the National Guard's perspective, the publicity Reiterated by the three-day trip to visit training camps in Honduras and Panama was worth die expense. “We sure got enough coverage,” Joseph Hanley, a Spokesman for the National Guard Bureau in Washing ton, said Thursday al ter White returned home. Hanley said stories about the training exercises and [Hike's visa were aired on all three major television Networks and printed in countless newspapers, includ ing some oil be nation’s largest. I file proximity of the guard base camp in Honduras to the Nicaraguan border — 3 miles — was one reason pe trip attracted so much attention. Front White’s perspective, the trip could turn out to k a mixed blessing. It kept him in the news for days, Jut some reports included comments calling the trip a publicity stunt and a waste of the taxpayers’ money. I- Hanley said the only critical comments for the guard vas about the use of Hispanic guardsmen in a Spanish- Ipeaking region. The major expense for the federal government was transportation for White, his staff, Texas guard offi cials and a dozen journalists who accompanied him. Hanley and Col. Craig MacNab, an Army spokesman in Washington, were able to provide rough numbers on the cost of the big-ticket items. The journey involved about 13 hours of flying time for a C-130 Hercules troop transport that took the gov ernor from Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin to Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to How ard Air Force Base in Pananma and then back to Bergs trom. In addition, getting the White entourage to the re mote guard base camps required about four hours each for a Caribou C-7 troop transport airplane, a UH-l Huey helicopter, a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter and a Ch-47 Chinook helicopter. Hanley said it costs the government about $1,700 an hour to fly a C-130, not including crew salaries. The Caribou costs about $509 an hour and the Huey costs about $400 an hour, he said. According to Mac- Nah, the Blackhawk costs about $1,540 a hour to oper ate and the Chinook costs about $2,508 an hour. SWensen’s “MORE THAN YOU CAN EAT” FOR ONLY $ 3 9 (reg. $6.15 value) GET A 1/3 LB. 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