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Vol. 80 Mo. 136 GSPS 045360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 19,1985
enate committee
Ks Contra funding
Associated Press
I WASHINGTON — The Republi
can-led Senate Appropriations Com
mittee voted 15-13 Thursday to ap
prove President Reagan’s plan to
release $14 million in aid to Nicara
guan rebels, but many committee
members said they would vote
against Reagan’s proposal on the
Senate floor.
■ The vote threw doubt on the sur-
fvability of a compromise Contra
funding plan worked out earlier
among House and Senate Republi-
Hin leaders and which reportedly
had Reagan’s approval.
I For the moment, the president
won a significant victory in the com
mittee, which sent the $14 million to
the floor for a vote Tuesday. The
1 ilan faces considerable opposition in
|)th chambers of Congress and is
given little chance of passage in the
House.
Many members of the committee,
including Republicans, said they
would vote against Reagan’s propo
sal on the floor, although they sup
ported it Thursday for procedural
reasons.
Republican leaders tried unsuc
cessfully to find ways to amend Rea
gan’s plan, which as a special appro
priations measure was difficult to
change in committee. But the rules
governing debate in the full Senate
are expected to allow the possible
compromise to replace the original
Reagan proposal.
Under Reagan’s plan approved by
the committee, the $14 million
would be provided as food, clothing
and medical assistance for a 60-day
cease-fire period. After that, Reagan
could divert the money to weapons
and ammunition if the Nicaraguan
government, in the president’s
judgment, fails to negotiate seriously
with the rebels seeking to overthrow
the leftist Sandinista regime..
Earlier, senior Republicans, in
cluding House GOP Whip Trent
Lott of Mississippi, said the presi
dent had acceptea an alternative un
der which the possibility of military
assistance to the Contras would be
eliminated for the time being. Lott
said that under the alternative plan,
all $14 million would be allocated to
humanitarian aid.
For weeks, Reagan had insisted
that the military aid was critical to
applying pressure on the Sandinista
government and slowing its path to
ward close alliance with Cuba and
the Soviet Union.
Gramm asks peers to vote
against costly amendments
Associated Press
1 WASHINGTON — Texas Sen.
Phil Gramm called on his colleagues
I Thursday to let go of their “pet pro
jects’’ and join him in voting on the
floor next week against any amend-
; meat to the budget that would in-
j crease the federal deficit.
■ “I think it’s the kind of approach
we’ve got to have if we’re going to
deal with the problem (of the defi
cit).’’ Gramm said. “If each of us are
j simply going to vote to add on
spenaing for our pet projects or for
programs that are politically sensi
tive, the whole budget is going to
come unraveled.
“If anybody wants to offer an
Amendment to take money away
from one area of the budget and
give it to another, I certainly will
consider it. But I’m not going to vote
for any add-on that raises the deficit
and jeopardizes the budget and the
recovery.”
He told a news conference that he
would start looking for compatriots
on Monday.
“I felt that I ought to make a deci
sion that I was going to stay with the
process and vote against all add-ons
that raise the deficit before I went
out and tried to ask other people to
make a similar commitment,”
Gramm said.
The budget is a suggested spend
ing level designed to guide the ap
propriations process. Appropria
tions committees write the Ibws that
actually determine how much the
See GRAMM, page 6
Photo by WA YNE L. GRABEIN
Toe' Away Zone
This sign serves as a warning to anyone who may park their
shoes for longer than two hours in the wrong spot They
could be ‘toed’ away.
fluster ceremony
Aggie remembrance scheduled for Sunday to feature Gen. Simpson as speaker
S Aggie Muster, a remembrance of
fallen Aggies, will be field at Texas
A&M and at 400 other places
around the world Sunday. The serv
ice here, at 3 p.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum, will feature speaker Lt.
Gen. Ormond R. Simpson and the
presentation of a U.S. flag.
jl Muster speeches are an important
: part of the ceremony, and finding
the right speaker to deliver an
inspiring message can be difficult.
( The student Muster committee
asked President Ronald Reagan to
| Speak at this year’s Muster. Al
though the committee got further
Ifonsideration than most organiza
tions, it was turned down.
I Jerry Dingmore, a member of the
| Muster awareness subcommittee,
; says the committee’s next choice was
i Lt. Gen. Ormond R. Simpson.
■ “We were so pleased when Gen.
1 Simpson agreed,” Dingmore says.
[•“He had been recommended to us
numerous times. Because of his in-
Bolvement with COSGA (Confer-
f ence on Student Government Asso
ciations), students at A&M and at
| other universities have told us what a
moving speaker he is.”
This year’s Muster will include the
presentation to the University of a
U.S. flag made by Jerome A. McDa-
vitt while he was in a prison camp
during World War II. McDavitt was
one of 25 Aggies who in 1942 mus
tered under Japanese fire on Corre-
gidor Island in the Philippines.
In 1883 Aggies began celebrating
San Jacinto Day, and Muster, by
gathering to reminisce about the
days spent at Texas A&M, says Por
ter Garner, field director for the As
sociation of Former Students.
In the early 1900s, Aggies held a
track and field day April 21. The
event was cancelled in 1903, and stu
dents rebelled against the adminis
tration because classes were sched
uled for that day. The cadets
promised to celebrate San Jacinto
Day in the future.
However, since the Corregidor
ceremony, Muster has evolved from
a happy happening to a serious cere
mony.
In 1923, former students began
meeting in College Station to hold
Muster. Since then the campus cere-
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Muster is an annual gathering of Aggies all over the world to
honor former students who have died in the past year.
money has become the largest and
most elaborate Muster.
The March 1923 issue of The
Texas Aggie magazine told former
students: “If there is an A&M man
within 100 miles of you, you are ex
pected to get together, eat a little
and live over the days you spent at
the A&M College of Texas.”
Musiters were held in Guion Hall,
on the site of Rudder Tower, until
the Memorial Student Center was
built in the 1950s.
During the 1950s and early 1960s,
Musters were held in front of the
MSC.
“Of course, there will be musters
all over Texas,” Garner says. “But
this year Aggies will muster at sea on
the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and
in Germany, where there will be a
record four musters.”
To reach its attendance goal of
9,000 people, the committee is try
ing new ways to inform the public
about Muster, Dingmore says.
“Sen. Phil Gramm is making pub
lic service announcements on TV,”
Dingmore says. “These TV an
nouncements, in addition to radio
announcements, are making the
f iublic more aware of Muster and in-
orming them as to what
means.”
it really
$G fighting an image problem: leaders
K Editor’s note: This is the third ar-
| tide in a three-part series on the role
| of Texas A&M’s Student Govern
ment.
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
I Student Government at Texas
A&M University has an image prob
lem, and communication is the way
to solve it, Student Government’s
leaders say.
I “We’re not here just to put some
thing on our resumes,” says Sean
Royall, A&M’s student body presi
dent. “We have to convince students
licit we are here to try and make a
difference. We have to convince
j jhem that we are here to represent
students and to establish programs
that would benefit students.”
Student Government must go out
to the students and find out what
they want, says Eric Thode, speaker
pro tern of the student senate.
“Right now is the time for us to go
out and actively enlist student aid,
ideas and opinion, and then do
something with it,” he says. “We
want to show students that we do
care about them.”
One of the ways Student Govern
ment plans to solicit input is through
the Student Senate’s Project Visi
bility, Thode says.
“We plan to send out senators to
talk to student organizations and
clubs that have 100 people or more,”
he says. “We also plan to send out
letters to smaller organizations say
ing ‘We really need you to let us
come and speak.’ ”
The Senate sent letters to about
500 organizations and clubs last
year, but received only 15 responses,
Thode says.
“This year we are going to be a
little more assertive in our efforts,”
Thode says.
Student Government is planning
to establish new methods of commu
nication, Royall says:
“We have a new director of com
munications. Under that person, we
will have people working on student
relations.”
Student Government also is plan
ning to put up a dozen new bulletin
boards around campus so students
can find out what Student Govern
ment is doing, Royall says. And the
organization plans to set up rooms
where students can meet and talk to
their senators, he says.
Student Government’s issues and
grievances meetings will be moved to
dormitory areas to attract greater
student involvement, says Carol Elli
son, Student Government’s vice
president of student services.
Issues and grievances meetings
are held so students can express
their views on Student Government.
The meetings formerly were held
in Rudder Tower.
Ellison says issues and grievances
meetings will be held on the Monday
before Senate meetings.
Beginning this fall, students will
be able to acldress the Senate during
its meetings, Ellison says. A bill al
lowing this was passed in March.
Linder the bill, students may
speak for three minutes but must re
serve a time slot with the Student
Government secretary one week be
fore the meeting.
“We want to let the students know
that Student Government is trying to
get out to them,” Royall says. “We
want to sell Student Government to
the students.”
44 Corps’
awards
presented
Award given in honor
of Bruce Goodrich
An official list of the winners of 44
Corps of Cadets awards was released
Thursday by the the Corps’ com
mandant’s office. The awards, in
cluding two new awards, the Olin E.
Teague Award and the Bruce Good
rich Award, were presented during
a ceremony April 14.
The awards are:
• Corps Commander Recogni
tion — Charles H. Rollins III
• Deputy Corps Commander
Recognition — Paul Davis
• Outstanding Major Unit Com
mander— Gregory J. Lengyel
• Outstanding Battalion/Group
Commander— Mark D. McGraw
• Outstanding Company/Squa
dron Commander — Bryson H.
Price
• Outstanding Cadet Staff Offi
cer— Gregory L. Bowen
• Outstanding Scholastic Officer/
Sergeant I— Russ S. Kotwal and Wil
liam T. Rich
• Outstanding Scholastic Fresh
man — Keith McKnight
® Outstanding First Sergeant —
Charles E. Hall
• Outstanding Battalion/Group
—John M. Higgins
• Freshman Awards:
a. Best Drilled — David B. Wegg
b. Outstanding—John E. Mitch
ell
• Sophomore Awards:
a. Best Drilled — Richard D. Hall
b. Outstanding — Garland W.
Wilkinson
• Lulie Huey Lane — Eric M.
Smith
• Reserve Officers — Brad G.
Perrier, Toby W. Burke, Gregory F.
Stephens, Victor D. Lopez, Michael
R. Barrett, Scott F. Alderink, Bruce
R. Cox, Marty E. Wilson
• Daughters of the American
Revolution — Marc D. McCoy, John
Pistone, Alexander P. Karibian,
Marshall H. Nauck
• Brazos S.A.M.E. — Douglas A.
Swanson, Henry A. Wercham, Gre
gory J. Lackey, Edward L. Rich
mond, Carl W. Tong, Steven R.
Chesley
• VFW — John B. McMahon,
Todd J. Eagle, Kevin L. Lastrapes,
John F. Ripley, William C. Maples,
Richard D. Hall, Eradio E. Uresti,
John M. Higgins, Kevin G. Laugh-
brum
• SECNAV Distinguished Cadet
— Charles Rollins III
• DOA Superior Cadet — Dave
Stephens, Jeff P. Hanson, Amanda
L. Schubert, Steven K. McKnight
• College of Business Adminis
tration Scholarship — Gregory J.
Stephens, Jeffrey J. Johnson
• Admiral Robinson Association
— Samuel D. Schick
• USNA Alumni Association —
Walter T. McAndrewsJr.
• Naval Reserve Association
(Houston Chapter) —John T. Mat-
kin III
• MCROA — James G. Sisk, Aa
ron L. Dennis, Michael V. Franzak
• Houston Military Affairs Naval
ROTC — Kimberly A. Karrick
• Air Force Association — Paul
A. Griffithjr.
• American Legion — Paul C.
Hurley Jr., Mark S. Curtis, Thomas
A. Satterly, Frank C. Janik Jr., Gre
gory J. Lengyel, Russell D. Feller;
(Academic Achievement) — Robert
Cunningham, MatthewK. Davis, Da
vid C. Waugh, Thomas Belleville,
Karl N. Krotzewr, Curt Van De
Walle
• National Sojourners — Kent H.
Hamaker, Eric M. Smith, John B.
Dickson
• Retired Officers Association —
Kevin W. Simpson, Dan R. Keech,
Jay D. Moreit
• American Defense Prepared
ness Association — David C. Hill,
Mark D. McGraw, John K. Mays
• March to the Brazos Individual
—James Newberry II
• Ranger Recognition Award —
David E. Thompson III
• Hanes Award — Allen Chick
• Ensign Mike Beech — Charles
W. Rock '
• Willcox Award — Curt A. Van
De Walle
See Awards, page 6