i exasAtr/n ^ ^ w ji The Battalion Serving the University community /ol. 80 Mo. 147 USPS 045360 16 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 8, 1985 -■ £inal Review (harks end, beginning By JAY BLINDERMAN Reporter “Down in front, down in front K,” a parent yelled from the nds at final review on Saturday af- jiioon. Those words were re- j ated by parents, friends and speo ors, eagerly awaiting the start of e activities that would bring to a » another year of activities for e Corps of Cadets. I Spectators crowded on each side tne grandstand, which was filled h parents of Corps staff mem- rs, special guests, and reviewing acer retired Lt. Gen. Ormond R. Inpson. I Pie event officially started at 3 111., when members of the Corps lean to “step off’ from the Quad- Ifgle, but the rows of khaki pants I n white gloves did not appear on leTnain drill field until twenty min- I es later. I Three F-4 fighter planes flew over lie drill field in tribute to the 1984- 385 Corps, starting the day’s cere- lOtiies. Final review takes place in two Bients. In the first part, review is mciated by parents of Corps staff nd.the reviewing officer. The 15-member Corps staff led ||lprocession of 42 units past the lyiewing stand. At the end of the irocession, the units “fall out” and hef'sergebutts” return to the dorms a put on their boots. The other members of the Corps Iso return to their dorms to change nto their new uniforms, signifying he start of a new year and an ad- ancement in Corps classification. -Second review started one and a lalf hours after the first review was inished. This procession was led by the lew 18-member Corps staff, includ- ng the first woman to be a member ifthis group. The staff led 40 units psta new reviewing stand, a wall of dead elephants” — the outgoing se- liors. No airplanes flew over the field or the second part of review, but hat did not matter. The ear-to-ear imilesof the seniors and the new of- icers were entertainment enough for the spectators who braved the 90 legree heat of the day. Democrats say farmers require price supports Associated Press WASHINGTON — A dozen con gressional Democrats on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes in U.S. farm policy. The Democrats said the changes would offer suffering farmers higher incomes at the expense of about $13 billion more on consumer food bills. The changes proposed by the Democrats would include sharply higher government price supports for commodities like wheat and corn, together with provision for farmer-imposed curbs on produc tion. Sponsors contended the changes would help get rid of price-depres sing surpluses and give farmers a way to earn their way out of the cur rent financial stress in rural Amer ica. Texas Agriculture Commissoner Jim Hightower appeared at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol with congressional sponsors of the mea- Water sure, which he called “a new idea in agriculture.” “What we’ve been doing for the past 12 years has not been working,” Hightower said. “Everybody agrees with that. Unfortunately the propo sals for the 1985 farm bill that have come forward thus far out of the ad ministration and elsewhere work only for taxpayers or farmers, but not for both/’ The legislation is sharply at odds with a stack of other suggested farm bills being proposed to replace the law that expires Sept. 30. Those bills, for the most part, would reduce price supports in order to make U.S. commodities more competitive in the export market. “This is the only bill that would in crease net farm income immedi ately,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D- lowa, the bill’s primary sponsor. He said higher commodity prices might further cut into the volume of al ready slumping U.S. farm exports, See FARMERS, page 8 Senate OKs bill allowing rights to be reappropriated A last look was given to the Class of ’85 boot line as the senior cadets lined up for Final Review Saturday. The second time around Photo by JAIME LOPEZ the seniors were reviewing officers for the incoming seniors, the Class of ’86. The sec ond review is held without freshmen cadets. Associated Press AUSTIN — Amid debate reviving memories of the long court light over Stacy Dam in West Texas, the Senate approved Tuesday a bill that would allow unused Texas water rights to be reappropriated. The bill, by Sen. John Montford, D-Lubbock, was sent to the House on a 29-2 vote. “This is a bill to try to prejudice the holders of old water rights,” said Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, who with Sen. Oscar Mau- zey, D-Dallas, opposed the bill. “The purpose of this legislation is merely to restore a workable state policy on handling water permits and prevent waste of water,” Truan said. “If the state supreme court’s ruling is allowed to stand there will be no more reservoirs built in Texas.” Montford said his bill originated from the long controversy over a permit for Stacy Dam on the upper Colorado River, which would furn ish water to Abilene, San Angelo, Midland, Odessa and Big Spring. The permit was approved by the Texas Water Commission although testimony showed the amount of wa ter in the Colorado had already been appropriated, on paper. The Lower Colorado River Au thority filed suit claiming the permit would decrease the amount of water available to LCRA lakes by 15 per cent. The Texas Supreme Court overruled lower courts by saying that since all available water had been appropriated on paper, the state had no right to issue a permit for Stacy Dam. Later, the LCRA and Stacy Dam builders reached an agreement in See WATER, page 8 (0 Out-of-state students may qualify for tuition-hike waivers By JUNE PANG Staff Writer ■ r Out-of-state students who cur rently qualify for in-state tuition may Be forced to pay non-resident tuition beginning next fall. Wk bill approved by the state Sen ate on May 1 would triple college tu ition and change the conditions that 0 exempt non-resident students from paying out-of-state tuition. 3 0 According to Jim Yancy, a legis lative aid to Sen. Grant Jones, D-Abi- lene — the sponsor of the bill — only three groups of non-resident stu dents would be qualified for the exemptions under the bill: • Professors, teaching assistants, research assistants, their spouses and their children. • Students who receive a compet itive academic scholarship of $200 or more. • Students who are in any branch of the U.S. Armed Service. Currently, non-resident students who work 20 hours or more for an institute of higher education on aca demic related work may pay resident tuition. The bill would disallow that exemption, Yancy said. The bill exemption would also that allows nullify the a non-resi dent student who is married to a Texas resident to pay in-state tu ition. According to Donald Carter, asso ciate registrar of admission and re cords ofTexas A&M, a non-resident student has to be the following in or der to be a resident; independent from his parents, 18 years or older, and employed full time for 12 months prior to going to school in Texas. ‘It’s felt that non-residents whose parents are not tax-payers for state’s nigher education should pay their share,” Yancy said. “We’ve given ed ucation to both residents and non residents. With the shortfall of state funds, we finally decided non-resi dents should pay their share.” The bill would raise out-of-state tuition from the current $40 per se mester hour to $120 next fall. Non resident tuition $120 per hour. woyld remain at rms race cost discussed at conference The bill has been approved by the Senate and will be sent to the House for approval. If the House concurs, the bill will take affect this fall. Otherwise, a con ference committee will be drawn from both the House and the Senate to reach an agreement. rijU S 1 /*** TM-vlIrv' Phil wamm Grim predictions made at Cassandra By MICHAEL CRAWFORD Senior Staff Writer Kf The cost of the arms race with the Soviet SJnion may reduce the United States to Third World nation status, and Americans have re- ! signed themselves to a future which, they feel, they cannot control. B Those were some of the predictions leveled against world leaders by participants in Texas A&M’s Cassandra Conference which con cluded Tuesday afternoon. 1 Ken Watt, University of California profes sor of zoology and environmental studies, says he has developed a global economic com puter simulation. This simulation differs from earlier attempts to predict the world’s economic future, Watt says, because it ignores areas stressed by most ecomomists. V “We want to be able to account for almost all the year-to-year variation in the key eco nomic indicators, using none of the things that economists look at,” Watt says. “We’re doing this in terms of the real stuff.” But the information developed by the com puter doesn’t always agree with traditional thought. Watt says some of the lessons disturb him. “One of the things that has been a terrible revelation for me is that wars are not a terrible accident, but that they are a normal working- out of the normal operation of the system . . . ” he says. “There’s a kickback effect after a war which leads to a depression. So a depres sion is a response to a previous war.” The same factors which cause a depression after a war, cause an expansion of the econ omy before the war. Knowing that, Watt says, leaders can cause wars in order to boost their economies and direct attention away from do mestic problems. According to Watt, that’s the way World War I started. Most students have been taught that the first world war started with the assasination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian radical. That interpretation of history, Watt says, is incorrect. Instead, he says that the war began when countries realized that their economies were stagnant and that they needed a war to bring them out of the slump. The assasination provided an excuse for lead ers, particularly those in czarist Russia, to use patriotism to stop the flood of protests taking place in their cities. Because of treaties in the area, Watt says, what started out as an eco nomic solution became a humanitarian night mare. More than one million American sol diers went to Europe after the United States entered the war in 1917. “Within a matter of days,” Watt says, “90 percent of all the people on the planet were involved in a war. Not because of the assasina tion of the Archduke Ferdinand, but because nation states were using war as a means of dealing with an economic crisis.” But the war cycle which forces govern ments to spend more money on armaments during war, may cripple the United States in peacetime. Watt says. The U.S. government is spending billions of dollars a year on military equipment in order to balance what the Rea gan administration calls the enormous buildup in Soviet military might. Spending like that may finance protection for a nation of paupers, Watt suggests. With the United States and the Soviet Union reduced to poverty, nations such as Ja pan, China and Brazil would become the lead ers of the future. But predicting things like the country slid ing into poverty often leaves people feeling as though they have no control over their desti nies, a Dartmouth College adjunct professor says. Dana Meadows co-authored a book 15 years ago called “Limits to Growth” which sparked a controversy in political and eco nomic circles. The book stated that growth was not always beneficial and that natural re sources were limited. What appeared to be See CONFERENCE, page 8 The Battalion ret _ „ that U.S, Sen. Phil Gramm woi not speak at graduation ceremo nies held Fn4af<1 . V However, Phi! Gramm was able j to speak at Friday's commence^ mem ceremonies M ixmaaikM „ Larry Meal, Gramm’s press see- i Tuesday that tia! report