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.■ mm;-' JHim;wci»WTrwinrrmi mn— 1 —i r—r-r* — n*****^-^***^ cr-r-r^.-*-^ ^' s ^ : .-»vC,.x.*u The Mandela Committee Student group protests apartheid ■ ' A&M cheers for Texas Ags hope Horns sweep Houston Page 9 rexasASM — ^ M. ^ 1 ^ ^ ^ I nc Dcittdlion Serving the University community |Vol. 80 Ho. 146 GSRS 045360 22 pages in 2 sections College Station, Texas Friday, May 3, 1985 S. Senate cuts Reagan defense buildup ■ Associated Press WASHINGTON — A rebellious jenate voted Thursday to pare the iministration’s defense buildup by 17., billion over three years and ■Hide full cost of living benefits to ^■ral retirees as it shredded a inul- billion-dollar deficit-reduction aliage endorsed by President Rea- an. “Tor once, grassroots America has flout over the military industrial Hplex,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R- jwa, said as he and Sen. Mark Hat field of Oregon won approval for their plan to hold the 1986 rise in Pentagon spending constant with in flation. The Pentagon buildup has “cre ated a new set of welfare queens — defense contractors,” Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said. The 80- 18 vote restoring full retirement benefits for civil service and military workers as well as veterans was ex pected, coming one day after the Senate voted to scrap a proposed curtailment of Social Security oei fits. iecurity bene- It left the original Republican budget in tatters, with further ef forts likely to restore proposed cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and nu merous other federal programs. Even so, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole vowed to “revisit” seve ral of the programs already voted on and said that rather than spelling the end of efforts to reduce federal defi cits, it was just the beginning. But at the same time, he served notice on the president, attending an economic summit meeting in West Germany, that Republicans had tried their best but w r ould have to try something other than the original approach. It provided a 3 percent after-inflation increase for defense, and cut deeply into many domestic programs. In voting for what Hatfield termed a “historic” change in de fense, the Senate spurned a trans- Atlantic • lobbying campaign by the traveling president. And Dole ap parently considered seeking to re verse the vote, only to drop the idea because he noted it was “five min utes after midnight in Bonn, too late for calls to come over.” Grassley and other advocates of the provision said it would have no impact on national security, but was aimed at rooting out waste and inef ficiency at the Pentagon. But Sen. Barry Goldwater, R- Ariz., charged it has “become sort of a fetish with my colleagues in Con gress that die only place we can re duce deficits is in the defense (bud- get). “ Too many Americans in a posi tion of leadership want to return to a policy of weakness . . . isolationism,” said Goldwater, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The defense amendment was ulti mately accepted without a recorded vote. But that was a mere formality, following a tense 51-48 roll call on which senators refused to table, and thus kill, the proposal. The Republican budget plan orig inally was crafted to reduce federal deficits by $295 billion over three years, largely by making deep cuts in numerous domestic programs and eliminating others entirely. gold I .ibraryopen r M hours for rtnd. H inals week thoM *ta ’ By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer ■ ■he Sterling C. Evans Library of- ;rs students a 24-hour extended fldule for finals week, beginning lai 4. The library opens at 9 a.m. ■ will remain open until May 10 at plin. Although the building will he In, library services such as the re- eile reading room and circulation epartment will be running on the sual schedule, “Basically, we’re just keeping the uiding open so students will have a Be to study,” said Evelyn King, as- stant director for collection inter relation. “We’re not changing the * "ours on anything else.” Several other campus services will Iter operating hours during finals /eek. ■he library night shuttle, which isltally runs from the West Campus jacking lots, will not operate during inals week. ■We just can’t find drivers on a oluntary basis during finals,” said )avid Gutierrez, the chairman of he night shuttle program. Catherine Vincent and Amy Roberts look at the path of destruction taken by Robert’s car lying in the background, Thursday night. The accident occurred at the intersection of University and South College Avenues. Robert’s car jumped the curb and plowed through the fence by Zachry Engineering Building. No one was seriouly injured. SG study group to keep fighting tuition increase By KAREN BLOCH City Editor T exas A&M students may he pay ing three times as much tuition per semester hour when they return to College Station in the fall. But Chris Gavras, tuition coordi nator for the Texas A&M Student Government Legislative Study Group, says the Legislature is using a tuition increase to fund higher ed ucation in the face of proposed bud get cuts. But the students’ tight against this increase isn’t over yet, fie says. The Texas Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would raise tuition for residents, nonresidents and graduate students attending state- supported colleges and universities. The bill calls for an increase in tu ition from the present rate of $4 per semester hour to $12 per semester hour in the fall. If passed by the House, it will go up to $16 per se mester hour for the next three years and increase $2 every two years after that until it reaches $24 per semester hour in 1995. Tuition for nonresidents would triple from $40 to $120 per semester hour this fall and would remain at $ 120 for the next year. Resident tuition for medical and dental students would increase to $1,219 for the 1986-87 school year while veterinary students would pay $800. Nonresidents would pay four times as much. Law students would pay a resident tuition of $36 per semester hour in 1986-87 while non-resident law stu dents would pay $ 150 per semester. Gavras says because of a proposed blue-ribbon Select Committee on Higher Education, the hill could be changed at any time. “T he increase is pretty steep (in the Senate version),” he says. “There’s no question that students will be affected by it. “A gradual increase would have been better for residents and nonre sidents. This bill is especially hard on See TUITION, page 8 flhe University shuttle service for iff campus students will run n|ough May 10. The outer routes Igthose transporting students from tafnpus bus stops to apartment com- )lexes —will stop at noon, but the rafk and ride from the parking lots vill continue normal operations un it (i p.m. IJpuncan Dining Hall will close af- elthe May 8 evening meal, and the jOnimons Dining Hall will close af- e| the May 9 evening meal. Sbisa ivil! remain open until 7 p.m. Mav 10 ■The MSG bookstore will maintain ts usual schedule, as will the MSC ‘ Jeter ia. Committee reaches agreement on water plan Associated Press AUSTIN — House ami Senate conference committee members reached a long-sought compromise Thursday on a $1 billion statewide water plan aimed at improving water supplies and flood control. Sen. John Montford, D-Lubbock, presented a peace pipe to Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Lubbock, after confer ees approved the water legislation they have been negotiating since February. The water plan would provide money for water use and conserva tion projects around the state. The compromise plan should go to both houses next week for a vote. If it passes and is signed by Gov. Mark White, it will be put before vot ers in November. Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, for weeks has fought what he says is a lack of adequate protec tion for coastal areas. “I had a commitment to support the conference committee before, and 1 am living up to that commit ment,” TYuan said. Other conference committee members said the compromise plan is a good first step toward conserva tion and management of the state’s water resources. “What we’ve done is pass a bill and put forth a constitutional amend ment to the people,” Craddick said. “They’re the ones that are going to win in the long run,” he said. “It's 'going to help the state, and we’re not going to have to see another drought in order to move the House and Sen ate and the people.” In general, the plan calls for: • $190 million in bonds for state loans for water supply projects and water quality projects. • $200 million for flood control projects. • $400 million for state partici pation in water projects. • A $250 million bond guarantee program in which the state would lend its backing to local bonds issued for water projects. The conference committee had been under pressure from legislative leaders and the governor to reach agreement on some kind of statewide plan. House Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth, praised the compromise reached Thursday and predicted that “the House will quickly concur.” New computer system to simplify registration By ED CASSAVOY Staff Writer Those dreaded registration ■ line-ups and repeated trips to ■ drop-add may he a thing of the ■ past with the installation of a new ■ computer system, says a Univer- ■ sity offical working with Texas I A&M’s new Student Information ■ Management System. Cade Adams, supervising the ■ development of the SIMS com- ■ outer system, says A&M plans to I nave the computer system work- ■ ingby the beginning of the Fall se- ■ mester. It will allow students to ■ correct and update their class ■ schedule immediately, he says. The system will allow students ■ to leave registration or drop-add I with a confirmed schedule, Ad- ■ ams says. They will not be re- ■ (juired to return to the line-ups ■ tor later confirmations, he says. Instead, A&M students can, I beginning with open registration I Aug. 5 (and later with delayed I registration Aug. 26), go to the jB first floor of the Pavilion and have the SIMS computers help with their schedule. “Students will sit down with a terminal operator,” Adams says, “and they immediately will know whether a certain class is open or closed. “They then can try for another section (with their adviser’s ap proval) and can get a print-out of the results.” Adams says the advantage of the system is it allows students to know immediately which classes they have confirmed on their schedule and how much their fees will be. Adams says 30-40 computer terminals will be installed. Each terminal will have an operator who will type in the student’s schedule information. “This first phase is to make sure all the software is working properly,” Adams says. “Phase two in the project would be for the eventual expansion of the sys tem to the rest of the campus.” The expanded system is See SIMS, page 8 Chemist joins A&M Nobel Laureate hired University News Service A Nobel Prize-winning chemist now working in France will become the first Nobel Laureate to join the Texas A&M faculty on a full-time basis, University President Frank Vandiver said. Sir Derek Barton, a Fellow of the Royal Society who shared the 1969 Nobel Medal for adding to the un derstanding of basic chemical struc tures, will hold the rank of distin guished professor at A&M, Vandiver said. He said Barton will officially join the faculty Sept. 1 hut will be on leave without pay during 1985-86. He will begin work on a full-time ba sis Oct. 1, 1986. Vandiver said he an ticipates that Barton will make visits to the campus during this year. Barton is currently director of the Institute de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, part of a national re search center near Paris. “There is practically nothing one can do today in chemistry which is not in some way related to the con cepts Dr. Barton first made well known,” Vandiver said. “We are ex tremely proud to have such a cele brated scientist join our faculty.” He is the third Nobel Laureate to be affiliated with A&M’s faculty hut the first on a year-round schedule. Dr. Sheldon Glashow, a medal-win ning physicist, and Peace Prize win ner Dr. Norman Borlaug, a soil and crop scientist, divide their time be tween A&M and other institutions. Vandiver noted that the Universi ty’s chemistry department already ranks among the best in the nation with a productive faculty, which counts among its members a winner of the National Medalof Science and another who is a Fellow of the Royal Society. We’re prepared to make some ad justments in light of the state’s cur rent monetary shortfall,” he said, “but we’re determined to go to great lengths to make them in areas that do not adversely affect our efforts tOi attract and retain top faculty — and we are certainly not going to pass up the opportunity to obtain the serv ices of someone of Sir Derek Bar ton’s stature.” His work in conformational the ory analysis enabled scientists to bet ter understand chemical reactions and aided determination of the ar rangement of atoms in certain mole cules. University Dean of Science John P. Fackler says, “It is interesting to note in how many different fields See NOBEL, page 8 Phil Gramm not speaking at graduation U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm told The Battalion Thursday that he will not speak at Texas A&M’s grad* nation ceremony Friday. Gramm was scheduled to speak at the 7:30 p.m. commencement for un dergraduate degree candidates f rom the College of Geosciences and the College of Engineering, A spokesperson from Gramm’s local office told The Battalion that the senator was detained in Washington. Commencement for the Col- : leges of Agriculture, Architecture and Environmental Design, and Education will be held at 2 p m. Friday. Degree candidates from the Colleges of Business Adraini- tration. Liberal Arts, Science atrd Veterinary Medicine will grad uate at 9 a.m. Saturday. The ceremonies will be in G. Rollie White Coliseum.