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Tl4 x ^4f M D ^4-4- , 12 _ M The Battalion il, 82 No. 35 GSPS 045360 16 pages College Station, Texas Friday, October 17, 1986 f Sian Soviet ‘refusenik’ released, arrives in U.S. al and SI WARK, NJ. (AP) — David i jifarb, an ailing Soviet “refuse- kland friend of reporter Nicholas illoff, arrived in the United Ifjls Thursday evening after iinerican industrialist Armand merarranged his release, lie geneticist’s wife, Cecilia, also ■berated suddenly from the So- ■Jnion after a two-year unsuc- luleffort to emigrate to Israel. Tie couple was brought to the fed States aboard Hammer’s pri- ijet, which landed at Newark In- Itional Airport shortly after 5 i.CDT after refueling in Iceland. At the airport to meet Goldfarb and his wife were his son, Alexan der; his sister, Nina Shurkovich of Rockville, Md.; Daniloff and his wife, Ruth; and Dr. Kenneth Prager, who was on hand to examine Gold farb. Also on hand were two U.S. Cus toms officials and a State Depart ment representative with visas for the Goldfarbs. Alexander Goldfarb had gone to the superpower summit last week end in Iceland to appeal for the re lease of him and his wife. Goldfarb, 67, reportedly rejected a KGB overture in 1984 to frame Daniloff. His son said Goldfarb was suffer ing from diabetes and was virtually blind. Alexander Goldfarb, an assistant professor at Columbia University, said Hammer, the board chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., had called him about 8:30 a.m. CDT from the plane “and said that he has just left Moscow and he has on board my parents.” In Moscow, Goldfarb’s daughter, Olga, said she was delighted and stunned by the development. “I know I sound a little bit crazy, but this was all so quick,” she told The Associated Press. “We said fare well and it was very emotional. Now we’re just sitting here and thinking what will happen next.” A State Department spokesman, Pete Martinez, said “we welcome the resolution of this case.” Hammer, explaining his role in a telephone call form the airplane, said he had asked Anatoly F. Dobry nin, the former U.S. ambassador to Washington, “if I could take Dr. Goldfarb with me.” The industrialist was visiting the Soviet Union for a showing of his art collection. Dobrynin called back a few hours later. Hammer related, “He said, ‘Permission granted pro vided the doctors let him go.’ ” The industrialist said he went to the Wishnevsky Institute, where Goldfarb was being treated, and met with Dr. Vladimir Kuzin, who told him Goldfarb was in excellent condi tion. But Goldfarb said he would not leave without his wife. Hammer said he made another call to Dobrynin, a key Kremlin ad viser on U.S. affairs. “Dobrynin said, ^ mm 1, T „ ' ' - f® P Photo by John Makely Making Waves Swimmers get some exercise by doing laps at Wofford Cain Pool Thursday afternoon. The circles in the background were created by the use of a special mirror lens. vdents must move cars from nine lots Fish Lot must be cleared before game By John Jarvis Reporter More than 3,300 parking spaces nine campus parking lots need to cleared for football parking on ime football game weekends, says fob V att, director of security and Bfu of the University Police De- iriient. All nine lots need to be cleared of Idem vehicles by 10 a.m. on these Ikends, according to Section 8 of I University Parking Regulat ions. Hots to be cleared are PA 37, PA i,PA 48, PA 49, PA 56, PA 60, PA I PA 63 and PA 69. Wiatt says the regulation requir- raelis bomb uerilla bases n Lebanon SID0N, Lebanon (AP) — A Men Israeli jets attacked Palestin- jbguerrilla bases near this ancient ■Thursday and a missile de- ®yed one of them. The raids came by after a bloody grenade attack Jerusalem. Journalists saw the plane explode dirash into a valley four miles wheast of Sidon. A local Arnal mi- a cpmmander said one pilot was ed and his men captured the ier, but Amal’s leader denied Wnir any Israelis. Hanese radio stations said Is- 'tli troops moved in by air behind fartillery barrage from gunboats (search for survivors of the Phan- i F4-E, the first Israeli plane lost igLebanon in three years. Heli- |>tei gunships hovered over the pat nightfall. ptie-run Beirut radio said bombs !< 1 tuckets from the Israeli attack ■four people and wounded 10 IhlMieh Mieh Palestinian refugee fnp on the city’s southeastern out- Irts. Witnesses said three formations of Hr jets each, Phantoms and Israeli- bit kfirs, flew in from the Mediter- See Bombing, page 16 ing students to move their vehicles from these lots has been in effect since 1978. Six of the nine lots surround Kyle Field. The exceptions are PA 49, PA 56 and PA 63. PA 49 is located be hind Gain Hall, and PA 63 is next to Olsen Field. But Wiatt says the main parking lot involved is PA 56, which makes up half of what commonly is called the Fish Lot. PA 56 has almost 920 spaces, including motorcycle park ing spaces. PA 37 and PA 46 are for reserved staff members only. PA 62 is a com bination random staff/day student lot and the other parking lots are for day students. Wiatt says the University Police Department is not responsible for clearing the lots on the home foot ball weekends. That job belongs to the Athletic Department, he says. Wally Groff, associate athletic di rector for finance, says the Athletic Department has been in charge of those parking lots on home football weekends since 1968. He says the Athletic Department began using the lots in 1968 to pro vide parking spaces for members of the then-new Aggie Club. In exchange for their contribu tions, Groff says, members of the Aggie Club are given priority tickets and parking passes for these lots. Groff says about 80 percent of the people that park in these spaces on these weekends are Aggie Club members. The rest, he says, are press members and Athletic Depart ment staff members. He says the only parking lot that students vehicles are towed from on these weekends is PA 62. The vehi cles are towed to the grassy area be tween Kyle Field and the railroad tracks on the other side of Wellborn Road. The students are ticketed, but are not charged for the towing, Groff savs. Students who receive parking tickets for not removing their cars from the lots by the 10 a.m. deadline may not go to the Students’ Legal Department for help with the tick ets. According to Jeri Saulsbury, se nior secretary of the Students’ Legal Department, the department is re stricted from helping students with intra-University legal problems and from helping students in court cases against other students. Saulsbury says students have to go off campus to get legal counsel if the students have a protest about getting a ticket in one of the restricted lots for the home football games. ‘Permission granted,’ ” Hammer added. After a final family reunion at the airport, the Goldfarbs boarded the plane. “He’s in good shape,” Ham mer reported. Alexander Goldfarb said Ham mer told him his father was well enough to sip some champagne and watch the movie, “My Fair Lady,” aboard the jet. After Daniloff s arrest on Aug. 30, the younger Goldfarb accused the Soviet secret police of trying in April 1984 to persuade his father to hand Daniloff incriminating documents. Subpoena issued for frat official Hazing case goes to grand jury AUSTIN (AP) — A national fra ternity official who refused to talk to law officers has been subpoenaed in the investigation of the drinking death of a University of Texas fra ternity pledge. Freshman Mark T. Seeberger, 18, of Dallas, was found dead in his dor mitory room on Sept. 18 after drink ing an estimated 18 ounces of rum. State District Judge Bob Perkins issued a subpoena Wednesday for Joe Seibert, education and lead ership consultant in the national of fice in Indianapolis of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Seibert was told to appear before a grand jury Monday. Seibert interviewed members of the UT chapter the day after the al cohol-poisoning death of Seeberger. He has refused to tell prosecutors about the interview, authorities said. Jim Connolly, trial chief of the Travis County district attorney’s of fice, said Seibert was in Austin the day Seeberger went on what was de scribed as a “ride” Sept. 17 with two other pledges, three fraternity mem bers and a female UT student. A ride is a fraternity practice in which pledges are driven far from campus and let out to make their own way home. Published reports have said the Phi Kappa Psi pledges on the ride were ordered to drink. Connolly said Seibert told him the fraternity members he interviewed after Seeberger’s death told him what happened to the pledge. Connolly said Seibert said he wanted to see the national fraterni ty’s lawyer before talking with Con nolly. On Tuesday, Seibert told Con nolly that he had been advised by the attorney not to talk with prosecutors. “They have . . . refused (to coop erate),” said Terry Keel, assistant district attorney. “Therefore, this (subpoena) process was used.” Connolly said Seibert would not be protected under a Fifth Amend ment right against self-incrimination because he wasn’t involved directly in the incident. Faculty losses not severe, figures show By Sondra Pickard Senior Staff Writer Despite concern at Texas A&M that faculty are being lured to higher salaries in more prosper ous states because of the eco nomic situation in Texas, statistics show that some areas of the Uni versity aren’t suffering significant faculty losses. In a recent column in The Bat talion, President Frank E. Van diver said A&M is losing faculty — “all too often the best and the brightest.” “Other universities are luring them away with better salaries and offers of support,” he wrote. “And on top of that, we are hav ing great trouble hiring replace ments.” However, estimates from the 10 colleges within the University show that 58 faculty members have left since Fall 1985 for higher salaries or better positions at other universities. A few col leges lost a significant number, . while others have lost only two or three — a relatively normal oc currence. These estimates do not include visiting professors, in structors, or lecturers whose jobs are temporary by nature^ By comparison, statistics from A&M Faculty turnover statistics By Sondra Pickard Senior Staff Writer The following statistics compare faculty turnover in each college over the past two academic years. They estimate the number of faculty that have left for higher salaries or better positions at other universi ties. The statistics from Fall 1985 to Fall 1986 are esti mates from each of the 10 colleges, while those from Fall 1984 to Fall 1985 were compiled by the A&M Of fice of Planning and Institutional Analysis. The College of Education has seen a significant number of losses — all of them recent. The college has a total of 150 faculty and 10 have left within the past three months. Only five faculty left from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of the college, is worried especially about filling positions at a time when the undergraduate teacher education program is experi encing rapid growth. The program has increased by 40 percent over the last four years and 100 more stu dents will be student teaching this spring. “If you couple our losses in faculty with our tre mendous increase in students,” Corrigan said, “it cre ates a real crisis.” The College of Business Administration, with 147 faculty, reports losing eight so far this year, compared to a total of eight losses from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. Thirteen faculty have left the College of Liberal Arts this year for reasons other than retirement, and 15 left from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. The liberal arts college has a total of 280 faculty. Liberal arts college officials were unable to determine how many left this year spe cifically for higher pay at another university. the A&M Office of Planning and Institutional Analysis show 76 facultv left from Fall 1984 to Fall 1985.' Over the past year, university faculty members across the state have been dealt a relatively bad hand of cards. To reduce spending, the Board of Regents was forced to cut the University’s budget by 7 percent in March. As a result of the cuts, a temporary hiring freeze went into effect, and va cant positions could not be filled except for emergency cases. Although they have now been saved, for many months faculty members who work less than 12 months per year thought their sick leave benefits would be elimi nated. A 1985 appropriations bill from the Texas Legislature had threatened to do away with the benefits. And at the federal level, the fate of the primary retirement plan used by most Texas higher education employees, the Texas Optional Retirement Program, still appears dim. The national tax reform bill recently passed in cludes a clause which could make the ORP illegal, causing about 30,000 administrators and faculty at 95 colleges and universities to lose a retirement plan aimed at their specific needs. In an attempt to address the adverse series of setbacks con fronting faculty, the Board of Re gents allocated $3.3 million of the Available University Fund to supplement faculty salaries and counteract offers out-of-state of fers. During its second special ses sion, the Legislature mandated no across-the-board salary in creases for faculty, but merit in creases were allowed in certain cases. Clinton Phillips, A&M dean of faculties and associate provost, is confident that the situation will improve. “I happened to be quite opti mistic,” Phillips said. “I don’t think things are going to be nearly as bad as most think. “This state has one of the low est tax rates. There’s plenty of room to increase taxes a bit, not really burden the taxpayers and still maintain a high-quality edu cation system.” Phillips said there hasn’t been a significant increase in lost faculty, although some have left for other universities. See Faculty, page 16