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■MBHMMMnHHBHBI MSC director says working with students is a great career — Page 3 MM Beakley changes from timid freshman to senior leader — Page 7 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I The Battalion Vol. 81 No. 47 (JSPS 075360 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, Novembers, 1985 Bush: President needs power over spending Associated Press 1 DALLAS — Restoration of the wesidential power to determine the itints of federal spending is vital to lining in the federal budget deficit ■d repairing a budget making locess that is fundamentally flawed, Vice President George Busn paid Monday. ■Bush tola a general session of the ■S. League of Savings Institutions [Convention here that a constitutional Tiendment for a balanced budget, a (residential line item veto ana the o-called Gramm-Rudman deficit re- luction act were the best way to liminate an imbalance of budgetary lower he said had existed since 974. Jin that year, the Budget Control Kjld Impoundment Act passed by ■ingress effectively eliminated the president’s power to impound fed- £ral funding — or refuse to spend jfeney appropriated by Congress — ■ding to present federal spending dial s out of control, Bush said. | He said the act was intended to jive Congress the tools to decide and Sontrol how large overall spending See President, page 5 Finger Lickin’ Good Regina Trzeciak, a junior animal science major from Austin, weighs Foghorn, the largest newly hatched chicken in the poultry feeding lab Mon day afternoon. To the left is a wastebaslcet for the Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ less fortunate chickens, which is just as well since Foghorn and chickens like him eventually will be come the main ingredient for fried chicken when they are fully grown. Proposal provides teaching incentive ‘Star Wars’I inked to disarmament of nuclear arms Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Reagan says the United States will not erect its “Star Wars” shield against nuclear weapons until Amer ica’s missile arsenal is abolished. However, the White House took B ains Monday to explain that the United States will not disarm unilat erally and would expect the Soviet Union to scrap its weapons also. In an interview published Mon day in Moscow, barely two weeks be fore his summit in Geneva with Mik hail Gorbachev, Reagan firmly linked deployment of Star Wars witn nuclear disarmament. “We won’t put this weapon, or this system, in place, this defensive sys tem, until we do away with our nu clear missiles, our offensive mis siles,” Reagan said. “But we will make it (Star Wars technology) avail able to other countries, incluaing the Soviet Union, to do the same thing.” Reagan’s statement suggested for the first time that Star Wars technol ogy would not be deployed until U.S. nuclear weapons are dis mantled, but White House officials insisted that was not the case. Presidential spokesmen Larry Speakes and Edward Djerejian said Star Wars, known in the administra tion as the Strategic Defense Initia tive, envisions reducing nuclear weaponry in stages as components of the defense system are installed. While insisting that Reagan’s com ments were clear on tne point, Speakes said Star Wars would be de ployed even if Moscow refused to go along with disarmament and the United States felt it had to keep its missiles. “Certainly, if we get the technol ogy we’d be prepared to deploy it,” Speakes said. “But first, we’d express a willingness to discuss it with the So viets and others, about sharing.” He accused the press of trying to “play games” about what Reagan actually said. The president made his com ments in an interview conducted last Thursday by four Moscow journal ists who unabashedly challenged the president on U.S.policy, particularly on Star Wars, and criticized some of his responses as being “unbalanced See ‘Star Wars,’ page 6 By JENS B. KOEPKE Senior Staff Writer 1 A plan that would have college Baduates teach for four years in re turn for payment of college tuition Is receivea the support of educa tors at Texas A&M and around the country. ■The idea was proposed by Frank ffewman, president of the Educa- |on Commission of the States, in a wport for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. | The program is modeled after the Reserve Officers Training Corps, jfewman says.. ■After the freshman year, students many major could apply for the tea ching fellowships, he says. Students would receive $3,000 (er year and their college would get 1,000 to help offset the added cost of the program. |They would spend one weekend )er month training for a summer as- ig;nment and for postgraduate tea- ling. nFor a small summer stipend, New ton says, participants would help jhildren who had performed below “One of the real problems that has been going on in ed ucation is that we’re having trouble attracting enough people.... It’s an economic incentive, so that we can en courage some more creative and bright people to go into a profession that traditionally has not paid as well. ” — Nancy Kochuk, NEA communications specialist. grade level in reading and/or math reach their grade level or beyond. The students would be supervised by a college professor. Upon graduation, students would be assigned to a school at the regular beginning teacher’s salary with the obligation to teach one year for ev ery year they received the fellowship. The program could be sponsored by national or state governments or by individual school districts, New man says. Similar programs have existed in Texas, says Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of A&M’s College of Education, but none have been as comprehensive. Corrigan says the program has _ Low turnout expected at Texas polls today Associated Press the AUSTIN — A tenth of state’s 1 million voters are ex pected at the polls today to decide ion 14 proposed constitutional amendments, including a water plan billed as crucial to Texas’ fu ture. The $1.4 billion water package ps split among Propositions 1 and 2. The first amendment would au thorize $980 million in state bonds to raise money fpr reservoirs, pipelines, treatment plants and flood control projects. It also would set up a $250 million insur ance fund to back local water bonds. Proposition 2 would authorize 00 million in bonds for low-in terest loans to farmers who buy water-saving irrigation equipment. The statewide ballot also in dudes these proposed constitu tional amendments: • Proposition 3 — Allowing cit ies to spend public money to relo cate or replace certain water lines on public property. • Proposition 4 — Allowing roceeds from sale of Permanent chool Fund land to be used to buy other land. • Proposition 5 — Authorizing the Legislature to mandate serv ices that must be offered by a hos- ' district and set requirements a resident must meet to qualify for services. • Proposition 6 — Allowing state prison officials to trade in mates with other states. • Proposition 7 — Allowing Chambers County to keep its six justice of the peace precincts. • Proposition 8 — Authorizing the Veterans Land Board to issue an additional $500 million in bonds. The proceeds would be used to increase the veterans hous ing assistance fund. • Proposition 9 — Authorizing the Legislature to require state agencies to get approval to spend money in a manner other than set out by lawmakers. • Proposition 10 — Authoriz ing the Legislature to issue $500 million in general obligation bonds to help farmers and ranchers buy land. • Proposition 11 — Allowing judges to correct indictment mis takes that could lead to reversal of convictions in criminal cases. • Proposition 12 — Allowing Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to an swer state law questions raised by federal appeals courts. • Proposition 13 — Creating the Judicial Districts Board to re apportion state district courts. • Proposition 14 — Abolishing certain countv offices in Andrews, El Paso, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Henderson and Randall counties. several advantages over existing plans: • It starts the students early with a built-in summer experience. • The program guarantees the school system a group of teachers. • Teachers in critical-need areas (math, science, bilingual and special education) are provided. • The training period while the students are in college ensures qual ity teachers. • It establishes Financial incen tives for college students. “The focus in the state and the na tion has been on the new teaching requirements, but without the finan cial incentives, you’re not going to get the kind of people who can meet the requirements,” Corrigan says. “So the school districts end up hiring people on emergency permits who are not licensed to teach the subjects that they were hired to teach.” Texas hired over 5,800 teachers on emergency permits in 1983, he says. Corrigan says that Newman’s plan could work as a voluntary state-wide program and would be attractive to universities like A&M because it would provide a link to urban schools. Because of the increasingly ur banized society, he says, universities are always looking for ways to give their students an urban teaching ex perience. Mary Futrell, National Education Association president, says, “We sim ply have to do more to attract people into teaching if we are to meet the coming teacner shortage. Colleges and universities have to explore new approaches, and I think this idea has a great deal of merit.” The NEA predicts that by the See Teaching, page 6 Shultz, Shevardnadze plan summit agenda Associated Press MOSCOW — Secretary of State George P. Shultz met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard nadze for nearly eight hours Mon day to plan the agenda for this month’s U.S.-Soviet summit meet ing, which is expected to focus on arms control. Shultz arrived with a letter from President Reagan to Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, but its con tents were not disclosed. Shultz and Shevardnadze talked from noon, through a “working lunch,” until about 7:40 p.m. at the elegant Foreign Ministry annex. Rozanne Ridgway, U.S. assistant secretary of state for European af fairs, refused to characterize the meeting or say whether progress was made. “We went through the whole agenda and everything on it,” she said. Shultz was to meet today with Gorbachev, whose call for a 50 per cent reduction in American and So viet nuclear weapons was followed by a new U.S. arms control offer an nounced by Reagan last Thursday. Shultz planned to hold a news conference after meeting with Gor bachev and depart Moscow tonight, said Ridgway and Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman. Shultz told reporters before arriv ing in Moscow that the United States and Soviet Union were still “quite a distance apart” on strategic arms control issues. As outlined by a senior U.S. offi cial Sunday, the U.S. proposal calls for a ceiling on American and Soviet strategic bombers and a freeze on deployment of medium-range nu clear missiles in Europe. AIDS anxiety Fear of contracting disease from transfusions is increasing By JO STREIT Reporter from blood transfusions nas in creased in Bryan-College Station, according to a local hospital. St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan re ports an increase in the number of inquiries from patients anticipating a blood transfusion who want family and friends to donate blood before an operation or want to donate their own olood. St. Joseph Hospital averages four to five inquiries a month and refers interested patients to the Waco Red Cross, since any blood donations by family and friends must be given in Waco, says Joanne Gray laboratory manager at the hospital. To date, none of St. Joseph’s pa tients have elected this alternative, she says. A Newsweek poll in the Aug. 12 issue, reported two out of every five respondents report that they, or their friends, have taken precautions against catching AIDS — including refusing elective surgery that would require olood transfusions. The Newsweek publication also reported that AIDS, the disease that attacks the body’s immune system, has already claimed the lives of half the nation’s 12,000 victims. Most deaths occur within two years of di agnosis. The Aug. 5 Editorial Research Reports published that the total number of victims is doubling about every ipc Stc and researchers antic- in the United year, >ate 250,000 cases Jtates by 1990. Two percent of the reported cases involve people who received transfu sions of AHDS-contaminated blood, according to the report. Among this risk group, hemophi liacs are the most susceptible because they rely upon a blood-clotting agent derived from the blood of scores of donors, the report says. Bea Sneed, an epidemiologist at the Texas Department of Flealth, says the department lists seven deaths due to AIDS in the Brazos County since 1981. Of the seven vic tims, one was a hemophiliac. Gray says that despite growing concern about contracting AIDS, the chances of getting AIDS from blood transfusions are extremely rare. In fact, Gray is so confident of St. Joseph’s blood supply that she de cided not to donate ner own blood before a recent operation. “I trust the blood here,” she says. “A lot of people asked me if I was going to donate my own blood, but I said no. With all tne time and extra expense involved, it would have been ridiculous.” Yet many patients remain scared. “I think people are unaware that all the blood (tested for St. Joseph) has been tested for AIDS virus and has come back negative,” Gray says. Marsha Herring, director of pub lic relations administration for Hu mana Hospital, says no information on the fear of contracting AIDS from blood transfusions is available from the hospital. Before the Public Health Service approved the first commercial test for AIDS virus in March, donor screening was the best protection that blood-collecting agencies could offer. Now, nearly all agencies use the AIDS virus test called the HTLV-III test. Before March the odds of con tracting the AIDS virus from a trans fusion were 1 in 100,000, but the new test is expected to cut the odds to 1 in 4 million, according to the Editorial Research Reports. The same publication reported the test does not diagnose tne dis ease nor does it indicate whether a person is carrying the virus. Rather, it tests if the donor has been exposed to the AIDS virus. Of all the blood tested in this area for AIDS virus by the Waco Red Cross, which supplies the blood needs of St. Joseph Hospital, none have registered positive, Gray says. Supreme Court to hear appeal of gay rights case Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Su preme Court, setting the stage for a major gay rights ruling, said Monday it will decide whether the sexual activities of consenting ho mosexual adults are constitution- allyprotected. Tne justices said they will review Georgia prosecutors’ appeal of a ruling that, if upheld, could undo the sodomy laws in about half the states. Their ruling is expected by nextjuly. “This is potentially a momen tous case, a watershea,” said Kath leen L. Wilde, the Atlanta lawyer for a man challenging Georgia’s sodomy law. Michael Hardwick, a self-de scribed practicing homosexual, was arrested by Atlanta police in 1982 on charges of committing the crime of sodomy with another man in his home. Hardwick sued Georgia officials in 1983 to overturn the sodomy law, even though prosecutors had decided not to seex an indictment against him. U.S. District Judge Robert H. Hall threw out Hardwick’s suit, ruling that the constitutional claims had been rejected by the Supreme Court when it upheld Virginia’s sodomy law in 197o.