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College Station, Texas
Thursday, December 11,1986
iesel gets
Nobel
oce prize
I; mo, Norway (AP) — Holocaust
TOor Elie Wiesel, an American
iter and human rights advocate,
jeiled the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
.■dlesday and said the honor be-
jgeci to all survivors of the Nazi
illcamps and their children.
Ifliwegian Nobel Committee
* w 113 ” Egil Aarvik gave Wiesel
Hid medal and diploma at cere-
| Hs in Oslo University’s Aula
1 Hii Hall attended by 800 peo-
I Hcluding King Olaf V and gov-
I Hnt leaders. The prize also in-
idtj $290,000.
ft| m award was “in recognition of
ip|rticular human spirit’s victory
:riie powers of death and degra-
■ I, and as a support to the rebel-
|a. inst evil in the world,” Aar-
HBd.
H Nobel prizes for physics,
Hfttry, medicine, economics and
B Hire were presented Wednes-
I i HStockholm, Sweden.
n a departure from tradition,
H’s teen-age son, Shlomo Eli-
Has invited to join his father on
■ Hdiurn for the awarding of the
izr
Hiously moved, the 58-year-old
h Hi asked the king’s permission
sa\ a brief blessing. “Thank you
■ Hrd, for giving us this day,” he
I.
In in emotional speech, Wiesel
■ H‘Do I have the right to rep-
I H the multitudes who have per-
|d? Do I have the right to accept
Heat honor on their behalf? I
rao No one may speak for the
Id,!no one may interpret their
pated dreams and visions.
■is honor belongs to all the sur-
|iors and their children, and
lough us, to the Jewish people
■diose destiny I have always
|ntified.”
^sel said it “would be unnatural
I not to make Jewish priorities
n: Israel, Soviet Jewery, Jews
Jb lands . . . but there are oth-
Jmportant to me.”
■aid Palestinians were a people
whose plight I am sensitive but
e methods I deplore when they
See Nobel, page 14
Rain Stance
Students wait for a shuttle bus Wednesday af
ternoon at the Gen. Ormond R. Simpson Drill
Photo by Doug Driskill
Field! The cold weather should contimie today,
with snow or sleet predicted for Wednesday night.
students sue UT over newspaper distribution
AliSTIN (AP) — A conservative student
|0U|) asked a federal court Wednesday to strike
1 Ha University of Texas rule controlling dis-
ibutlon of its publication on campus.
■ officials said there is no effort to control
|tejit of the monthly paper, the Texas Review,
|th< only intent of the rule is to limit commer-
Hicitations on campus.
|U.S District Judge James Nowlin said he
ulcl make a decison after legal briefs are sub-
ItediiyDec. 17.
Iisan Dasher, Texas Civil Liberties Union at-
ley. said the Texas Review Society had
Bped its earlier claim the university rule vio-
Bguarantees of freedom of the press.
The student group has an advisory board
ailed by Ernest Angelo Jr., Midland, a national
Bblican committeemen. Other board mem-
te include Bill Clayton, former Texas House
speaker; Kent Hance, an unsuccessful candidate
for the Republican gubernatorial nomination;
and Karl Rove, political consultant who was a top
campaign aide for Gov.-elect Bill Clements.
The society, which publishes the paper about
six times each school year, has been distributing
the paper at a table on the West Mall where so
ciety members also try to recruit new members.
The UT administration ruled that because the
Review carries commercial advertisements,
mostly political ads, it must be distributed from
unmanned receptacles at a site about 75 feet
from the West Mall.
The new distribution site is in the same area
with an unmanned box for distribution of the
Daily Texan, the student newspaper which also
carries commercial advertisements.
“We believe our distribution will be drastically
reduced if we have to go to the new area,” said
Mike Smith, managing editor of the paper. “Also
it will hurt our membership. We get many re
cruits from talking to students at the table after
they see a copy of the paper.”
Publisher Drew Coats said the Review, which
publishes about 5,500 copies an issue, could not
compete at the new location with the Daily
Texan, with its circulation of 43,000.
“We have to control commercial solicitation on
the campus, not the free flow of ideas,” said Ron
ald Brown, UT vice president for student affairs.
Glenn Maloney, assistant dean of students,
said, “If we allow the , with ads on the West Mall,
we would have to allow other student organiza
tions to distribute commercial information.”
The Daily Texan distributes about 1,000 cop
ies at the location UT has assigned to the Review,
Maloney said.
CIA director
gives House
new testimony
Casey denies knowing profits
of arms sales were transferred
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Di
rector William Casey, in five hours
of secret, sworn congressional testi
mony, denied Wednesday that he
knew the profits from U.S. arms
sales to Iran were being transferred
to Nicaraguan Contra rebels, law
makers reported.
But Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla.,
chairman of the House Foreign Af
fairs Committee, said Casey did of
fer specifics “with regard to a lot of
information which we did not have
on the record before” concerning
the unraveling scandal that has en
gulfed the Reagan administration
Fascell added, “When all of the
dots are eventually linked on this, it
will be, I won’t use the word incredi
ble, but it certainly will be extraordi
nary.” He added that he hopes the
whole story will be uncovered soon.
Rep. William S. Broomfield of
Michigan, the senior Republican on
the committee, said, “The good news
is that Mr. Casey was pretty candid
with us and none of what he had to
say in any way indicates that the
president knew or should have
known of any wrongdoing.
“The bad news is that what Mr.
Casey told us indicates serious errors
of judgment by senior CIA person
nel. That needs to be corrected.”
Casey testified as Republicans and
Democrats sparred over whether
congressional committees investigat
ing the Iran-Contra connection
should grant immunity from pros
ecution to key witnesses who have
refused to discuss what they know.
One of those witnesses, Vice Adm.
John Poindexter, President Reagan’s
former national security adviser,
met for only about 10 minutes be
hind closed doors with the House
Intelligence Committee. Previously,
Poindexter has cited his Fifth
Amendment right against self-in
crimination in refusing to testify be
fore the House Foreign Affairs
Committee and the Senate Intelli
gence Committee.
Rep. Robert Roe, D-N.J., said
Poindexter again invoked the Fifth
Amendment in his appearance be
fore the House Intelligence Com
mittee.
That panel also heard secret testi
mony from Robert M. Gates, the
deputy CIA director, whom Roe de
scribed as “very open.”
Robert McFarlane, Poindexter’s
predecessor as Reagan’s national se
curity adviser, also testified.
Roe agreed with other legislators
on various committees that as the
amount of testimony being collected
grows, new questions arise.
“I think a lot of the issues . . . are
beginning to be cleared up,” he said.
“But other issues are being exacer
bated and beginning to unfold.”
On the other side of Capitol Hill,
the Senate Intelligence Committee
met briefly as yet another witness de
clined to testify.
Sen. David Durenberger, R-
Minn., the committee chairman, said
Robert Dutton, an associate of re
tired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard
Secord, invoked his Fifth Amend
ment rights. Secord, now a private
businessman, has been identified as
a key contact in the arms deal and
with the Nicaraguan rebels.
Durenberger said his panel still
cannot determine what happened to
all the profits from the Iranian arms
sales. Asked if he was sure any of the
money actually went to the Contras,
he said, “I couldn’t prove it.”
Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine,
said the Intelligence Committee has
“a pretty clear picture of the Iranian
side — what went there, how much
money, who knew. But we’re much
less clear on the Contra end.”
While the congressional probes
continued, a government official
who insisted on anonymity said a
federal grand jury in Miami is exam
ining evidence of gunrunning and
Neutrality Act violations allegedly
committed by Contras and some
American backers.
The official said the grand jury in
vestigation started last month, but
was not connected to other probes
into the transfer of money from the
Iranian arms sales to the Contras.
GSU wants
full PUC
to hear case
AUSTIN (AP) — Gulf States Uti
lities Co. has asked the full Public
Utility Commission, rather than a
hearing examiner, to hear its request
for an emergency rate increase.
Without the emergency relief to
taling $82 millkVi in Texas and $100
million in Louisiana, Gulf States
can’t pay its debts in early March, the
company said Wednesday.
Hearing examiners had set Dec.
30 as the starting date for hearings
on the emergency request. Nor
mally, examiners take testimony in
rate cases and present a report and
recommendations to the three PUC
members for a final decision.
oans become harder to get more expensive
Student loans, scholarships hit by tax reform
pitar’s note: This is the second
rnm c part series on the possible
Kfs of federal tax reform and the
mkidget crisis on financial aid at
■k&M. This section deals with
»ge.s in the rules for scholarships,
wand charitable donations. Bat-
Hstaff writer Amy Couvillon
nbuted to this article.
By Sue Krenek
News Editor
federal tax reform is expected to
kfloans the most common form
ent financial aid, but reform
ard on the heels of changes
ike many students ineligible
the: nation’s largest loan pro-
J Guaranteed Student Loan
Htn became need-based in Sep-
bet and Newsweek magazine re-
Hhat up to 400,000 students
be turned away from the pro-
nlationwide.
3ft Benson, director of student
ncjal aid at Texas A&M, esti-
Hthat about 2,000 of A&M’s
Hurrent GSL recipients will no
ef qualify for a loan.
I'd although his office still hasn’t
ived details of the tax reform
Benson estimates that changes
ting scholarships and charitable
Hlbns will place even more
H>n the already-stretched loan
fram.
diblarships and grants tradition-
Program cuts may decrease minority grants
By Amy Couvillon
Staff Writer
A state minority grant program
was cut 6 percent in the summer spe
cial sessions, and changes in alloca
tion procedures may make fewer
grants available to minority students.
Texas A&M was able to absorb
most of the fiscal 1987 state fund
drop through use of funds from
other sources. Only three minority
students were eliminated from the
grant program this year, but Texas
still has a budget deficit, and the fu
ture remains uncertain.
Grants are becoming more diffi
cult to get, said Barry Davis, asso
ciate director for A&M School Rela
tions, and many students who would
have qualified for grants are now
having to turn to loans and other
programs.
The State Scholarship for Ethnic
Recruitment, like many Texas pro
grams this year, lost statewide fund
ing in the budget cuts.
“When you talk about getting
black and Hispanic students, you’re
talking dollars —just like with any
other student,” Davis said. He said
this program, a need-based achieve
ment grant for first-time minority
students, is not a big factor in mi
nority recruiting, since it is awarded
after most students are already en
rolled at A&M. Grants of this type
are used to give students a financial
boost in their first year.
“You’re going to get students who
are already coming here anyway,”
Davis said, “and you’re going to help
them.”
But this grant was one of the pro
grams caught in the Texas shortfall
gap. The program usually gets
$250,000 each year, said Mack Ad
ams of the Coordinating Board,
Texas College and University Sys
tem. However, Adams said in a
phone interview, the Texas Legis
lature cut the statewide budget for
this program to $234,990 — a drop
of 6 percent. A&M’s share of the al
located money dropped from
$20,000 to $18,800.
Adams explained that after the
application deadline, there is usually
money left over from schools that
did not use all of their allocated
money, and schools can re-apply for
grants to help more students. But,
See Grants, page 14
ally have been tax-deductible in
come. Under the new law, however,
only tuition, mandatory fees and
books may be deducted for schol
arships and grants given after Aug.
16. Such living expenses as room
and board now are considered taxa
ble income.
Benson says this is a problem be
cause students could end up losing
many of the benefits of the schol
arship through higher tax bills. And,
he says, he’s not sure how the gov
ernment will set the amount that can
be deducted for tuition, fees and
books.
“Probably they’ll set a standard
deduction,” he says. “It would be
very difficult to do on the actual
amount spent because of the paper
work, the receipts that would be re
quired and the possibility of fraud.
Either student financial aid or the
fiscal office probably will have to
document what’s taxable based on
the University’s estimated student
budget.”
In addition, far fewer schol
arships and grants may be available
as private donations fall in the face
of the new tax law and the sagging
economy. Reform eliminates much
of the deduction for charitable do
nations, making them less attractive
as tax shelters, and Newsweek On
Campus reports that universities are
bracing for a drop in donations
when the law takes effect in 1987.
The A&M Development Founda
tion says that so far this year it has
raised $62.1 million in private gifts,
with $4.2 million earmarked for
scholarships. Dennis Prescott, ad
ministrative coordinator for the
foundation, says that while devel
opment officers are concerned
about the possible effects of tax re
form, they don’t foresee a large drop
in contributions.
“We have confidence in our
alumni base,” he says. “We’ve weath
ered tough economic times before
and still had growth in our dona
tions.”
But, he says, the development
foundation is encouraging alumni to
donate this year, because donations
will be less beneficial to alumni next
year.
Dr. Robert Walker, A&M vice
president for development, says do
nations are especially vital because of
the state’s troubled economy.
“With the state cutting back on
funding, private gifts become even
more crucial to the University’s mis
sion,” he says. “This is evidence that
every dollar is important; every con
tribution adds up.”
Those scholarship dollars are es
pecially important at A&M, where
scholarships account for more finan
cial aid awards (2,742 in 1984-85)
than any other form of aid except
the GSL program. Benson says this
aid is particularly vulnerable because
most scholarships are funded by pri
vate industry, which has been hit
hard by economic troubles.
Benson says the changes in taxa-
See Financial Aid, page 14