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Thursday, January 29, 1987/The Battalion/Page 13 A/arped by Scott McCullar r AM. m , going To C&K DINNER WHILEJ NO ONE'S HEKE TO STOP N\E... V£P. DESPITE. WHAT HAPP£-NEV last t/me, C/\lA. WE HAD TO BUR'V ALL THE PANS AFTER THE LAST ONE.. I VO N’T CAKE. I'M COOKING A CHINESE DINNER. WHAT DO Waldo by Kevin Thomas .. SO I'M SENDING YOU OUT TO FIMD ME ONE' Engineer denies marijuana use before crash BALTIMORE (AP) — Rick Gates, the 39-year-old Conrail engineer whose locomotive caused the fatal Amtrak train crash Jan. 4, denies smoking marijuana in the cab that day. “No!” Gates said when asked whether he smoked in the cab with brakeman Edward Cromwell, longtime friend. Gates added, “What 1 do on my own time is my own business.” ,He declined to elaborate. Blood tests which were taken from Cromwell and Gates after the accident showed that both had traces of marijuana in their systems at the time of the crash. Federal investigators have said there was “a sufficient amount” of marijuana to indicate recent or chro nic use. In his first interview since the acci dent that killed 16 people, the 14- year veteran engineer said a psychia trist has been helping him deal with the guilt of surviving the worst acci dent in Amtrak history. Senate (Continued from page 1) all departments do what most de- paitments were doing anyway. |It simply formalizes the serious invlolvement of the faculty in the ap pointments of department heads,” Gabion said. ^■ormerly, there was no unifor- mijv among colleges in their depart ment head selection processes, he said, but each college had its own rules and guidelines. Now the proc- essishould be homogeneous, he said. “It’s clearly the case that for many lepartments, this is no change,” Talon said. “It has long been the :ase that in many departments the acuity members have been very in- olied.” Perhaps the most controversial ection of the document deals with hep periodic evaluation of depart- nent heads by the faculty. Department heads will be eval- lated in the second and fourth years >f their service and at least once ev- ry four years after that. Depart- nent heads who are now incumbent nust be reviewed within two years. At the end of the evaluation proc- ;ss, a poll of the department’s fac- tlty will be taken to decide whether he head should continue in office, vith the poll’s results being relayed othe dean. Dr. Stephen Fuller, a professor in the Physical Education department, said faculty members should agree with the document. “Anytime they’re given more in put, they’re happier,” Fuller said. “In general, I think this would have to be a morale boost for the fac- idty.” Dr. Leonard Ponder, chairman of the Faculty Senate Planning Com mittee which developed the original document, said the Senate is very pleased with the document in its fi nal form. "Basically, this is the same docu ment now that it was when we origi nally approved it,” he said. Ponder, who is head of the Physi cal Education Department, said no one should be worried about this document, and the only people likely to be nervous are department heads and deans. “The main criticism I’ve heard is that any time you don’t know who your boss is, you’re going to be ner vous,” Ponder said, “and that’s how some department heads feel now. But they should relax. If they’re doing a good job, they’ve got noth ing to worry about.” Hall arrives back in U.S., apologizes for actions MI AM 1 (AP) — Soldier of fortune Sam Nesley Hall returned to the United States Wednesday from Ni caragua and apologized for the ac tions that got him arrested on spy charges. Hall, whose captors said they were freeing him because he was mentally unstable, was admitted to a Veterans Administration hospital. Officials said he would spend a few days there, but they declined to discuss his condition. “I just have one thing to say to the Nicaraguan people,” Hall told re porters before boarding a flight in Managua to Costa Rica on Wednes day morning. “I’m sorry I tried to ambush them.” Hall was accompanied by an attor ney, Gary Froelich of Dayton, Ohio, who said his client should receive a full physical and psychological ex amination. “He is greatly in need of rest and recuperation after the 49-day prdeal he has endured,” the attorney said. “This has included considerable lack of sleep, strain of interrogation, iso lation, dehydration and confine ment.” His mother, Ann Hall, said in Dayton, Ohio, that she talked with him by telephone for about five min utes and that Hall said he would have to stay at the Miami hospital for at least three days for a medical problem that he did not discuss in detail. “I think it was anemia or some thing,” sh^ said, adding that her son had not told her previously of any such condition. Mrs. Hall said she did not ask him about the mental problems referred to by the Nicaraguans, “but I think he heard about it and he was very upset about it.” Nicaraguan officials said they were releasing Hall, 49-year-old brother of Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio, because he showed signs of mental instability. Last month, they permitted cap tured American mercenary Eugene Hasenfus to return home despite a 30-year sentence for aiding the Con tra rebels* who seek to overthrow Ni caragua’s leftist government. At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said of Hall’s release: “They should have done it earlier.” Tony Hall’s congressional office in Washington released a statement saying that while the congressman had encouraged his brother to talk to the media in Nicaragua, now that he is free in the United States his brother’s problems are a “personal family matter.” —' IN Business Career 1987 Freshman & Sophomores encouraged to attend First Presbyterian Churcl 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 /• , Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. 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