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You’ll get $400 off the purchase price, or a 90-day deferral on your payments, as a graduation present from us. After all, graduating from college is no small achievement. We’re proud to offer you one of your first rewards. Allen Olds Cadillac is an Equal Credit Opportunity Company. Aggies bring this ad in for addi tions savings Come in and see us today. Allen Olds Cadillac, Inc. 2401 Texas Ave. Bryan, Tx. 779-3516 CJ Allen‘47 Page lOTThe Battalion/Monday, Apnl 27, 1987 World and Nation PLO finds unity under Arafat after session of compromise ,82 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Palestinians’ “parliament-in-exile” ended a stormy session Sunday with the PLO reunited under Yasser Ar afat, but with a Middle East peace settlement looking more remote than ever. For the first time since its split four years ago, Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion, and his leading Marxist rivals, Nayef Hawatmeh and George Ha- bash, appeared hand-in-hand and smiling as the 18th meeting of the Palestine National Council came to a close amid prolonged applause. But the bitter dissension between hardliners and Arafat-led moderates that was aired during the five-day session suggested the PLO’s new found unity is fragile and subject to constant upheaval. Arafat once again survived con certed efforts by Syria’s President Hafez Assad and Syrian-led radicals to oust him, but he paid a heavy price, bowing to demands that he abandon his relationship with Egyp tian President Hosni Mubarak. An earlier, informal agreement would have allowed Arafat to main tain his relationship wilh Mubarak in violation of an Arab boycott imposed after Egypt signed a 1979 peace agreement with Israel. In exchange, Arafat had to drop all attempts to negotiate future peace settlement underaji danian umbrella. Apparently with strong back from Syria and the host governait of Algeria, Hawatmeh and Ha on Saturday abruptly upped ante: to maintain the PLO's * found unity, Arafat would havt accept a Palestine National Co«j command to abandon relationship with Egypt. D tc The final agreement was dorsed early Sunday by allthePli rival factions and confirmed Arai as chairman. McLI onstratc istratior at CIA ing rusl suburbs niencinj There v Ther lence ii nated tl Student President (Continued from page 1) not in the best interest of the school or the student body,” Alders said. “And then student input is needed. “But I was basically the opposite of a reactionary president. I really worked with the administration.” It’s this kind of attitude, Cook said, that has brought the student body presidency to the position of being able only to weakly influence instead of control. “If they had the influence they should, they could have stopped se nior finals,” Cook said. “They could have put a student on the Board of Regents, developed a real quiz file for all students, set up tutorial serv ices, more laundry facilities. “The student body president gets a lot of unearned, undeserved re spect from the administration, stu dents and elected officials. What he should be doing is paying hack the students for his position. Starting to earn it.” Dr. Murray Milford, former speaker of the Faculty Senate, said when he was speaker he didn’t have any actual power either, but his in fluence was tremendous. “While I didn’t have any power, I felt I had the weight of the Senate behind me on any issue we dis cussed,” Milford said. “And I think the student body president has simi lar power — though I think he would certainly have more power if he was elected with 25,000 votes in stead of 4,000. "I think he has enough txtwer, though he is handicapped by the lethargy of the students." The only extra power a student president could legitimately hope for would be more influence, lie said, but never more legislative power. “The fact that the Student Senate doesn’t even show r up at meetings also handicaps the president,” he said. “If students aren’t interested, we don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the student perspective because there doesn’t seem to be one.” Sims claims the student body pre sidency is a destroyer of idealism and that he has come to grips with the fact that his only political strength is his ability to sweet-talk those truly in power over to his way of thinking. “As far as coercive power, the power to sway the opinions of lb who do make the decisions,then person with the most ability to that is the student body preside: Sims said. “So I have their ear,ai suppose there’s power in that." When a student politician atti an adversary to the administrate and gets too pushy, he lessens i hances of getting what he wants said. against Americ; It wa: of the a replete ing, par ing ant section i gions, a CIA; said tha the firs Pc "Cook and I have a fundamt: disagreement,’’ he said. “I thinb do nothing but erode your base power when you go into a id power mode.” Milford said that rather thani with a student politician trying claim more power, administn would prefer to ignore him. But Cook sticks to his guns sisting that students are m formed when they believe tin president can make a difference der the current rules, but a mils termined, forceful student co completely change the officeto of real and lasting power. “Nobody’s going to give us p er,” he says. “We’re going tobasi go in and take it.” mi Boar versitie; enrollni Texas 1 the Sei Bill tuii AA ■McDonakl's DRIVE-THRU .SERVICE MCDONALD’S INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS University Drive Hwy 21 Texas and S.W. Parkway Manor East Mall AA ■A/tc Donalds f ■ I® BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING DORM POINT STANDINGS The Dorm point standings as of April 22, 1987 are as follows. Points are figured by taking total points accumulated and divid ing by the number of students in the dorm. Overall dorm winners will be announced at the Intramural Awards Banquet on May 6. WOMEN’S DORM (A 250 +) 1. Keathley 2016.5 28^ = 7.10 2. Haas 957 270 = 3.54 3. Fowler 605 284 = 2.13 4. Neeley 538.5 270 = 1.99 5. Underwood 283.5 302 = .94 6. Krueger 319.5 474 = .67 7. Mosherl. Moses 341 674 = .51 MEN’S DORM (A 250 + ) 1. Moses 6929.5 254 = 27.28 2. Crocker 2502.5 254 = 9.85 3. Dunn 4427.5 474 = 9.34 4. Davis-Gary 2265.5 254 = 8.92 5. Walton 2389 336 = 7.11 6. Aston 3326 484 = 6.87 7. Moore 1700.5 254 = 6.70 8. Hart 1329 284 = 4.68 WOMEN’S DORM (AA 250 +) 1. Clements 4127.5 238 = 17.34 2. Spence 2568 222 = 11.57 3. Briggs 1928.5 222 = 8.69 4. Legett 1536 192 = 8.00 5. Hobby 1025 240 = 4.27 6. Hughes 542 188 = 2.88 7. Gainer 329.5 = 1.48 222 8. McFadden 40 = .17 240 MEN’S DORM (AA 250-) 5191.5 1. Puryear 196 2151 = 26.49 2. Law 206 1366 = 10.44 3. Mclnnis 156 1384.5 = 8.76 4. Schumacher 188 436 = 7.36 5. Hotard 113 = 3.86 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS McDonald’s Intramural Highlights is sponsored in the Battalion by your local McDonald’s Restaurants at Uni versity Drive, Manor East Mall on Hwy 21 and on Texas Avenue. Stories are written by Genni Miller, graphics are by Mike Cantrell and photos are by Mark Figart. All-University Champions Congratulations to the All- University champions in the following activities: Free Throw Most Free Throws-Larry Kalbac, Michelle Whitwell Consecutive Free Throws- Robert Childress, Michelle Whitwell Team-Men That’s On Ya! Women Throw-Ups CoRec Lemon Heads Homerun and Baseball Hitting Men Jason Huff Women Lisa Coley Softball actions winds down this Sunday. Check out the action! Intramural Golf Driving Range Grand Opening The Grand Opening of the Driving Range will be Thursday, April 30 at 3 p.m. Driving Rangeislo- cated at the Intramural Sports Center, west of the Frank G. Anderson Varsity Track. Dr. Frank Vandiver will give the opening remarks followed by Vice President for Student Services, Dr. John Koldus and Health and P.E. Department Head, Dr. Leonard Ponder. President Vandiver will officially open the Driving Range by hitting the first golf ball. Anyone attending the grand open ing will have the opportunity to hit a complimentary bucket of balls, there will also be concessions on sale to interested golfers. We hope to see you there! Footnotes - Ail-University finals for Volleyball Triples will be on Wednesday, April 29 beginning at 5 p.m. in 303 Read Building. - All-University finals for Innertube Water Polo will be on Thursday, April 30 beginning at 7 p.m. in the P.L. Downs Natatorium. - Softball All-University finals will be held Sunday, May 3 at the Penberthy Fields barring rain between now and then. If it does rain,it will affect all games scheduled. Team captains should check the bulletin boards across from racquetball courts 1 & 2 in the Read Build ing. - The Intramural Awrds Banquet wil be held Wednesday, May 6 in 401 Read Building. Dorm Reps, Athletic Corporals and Intramural employees should RSVP by May 1 in the Intramural Office. - Archery Doubles will be held Tuesday, April 28 in 304 Read Building. There are still times available to shoot at 7 and 9 p.m. Indivi- dauls can sign up at the site. tiJ-jLm A m; House i boards to set di Dr. \ cellor fi velopm minimi boards todoub The commit floor vc Marl cation lative S' dent C Iowa la out sue! state bo by 70 ] days aft closed, fegislai he said. 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