UT reverses decision, will offer Bible courses By MARTHA ASHE Daily Texan Staff The UT System has retracted an earlier decision to cancel Bible study courses planned for the spring semester, a System official said Monday. James Duncan, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, said while the UT Sytem in November had asked its universi­ ties to cancel Bible study courses, the deci­ sion was changed because of questions aris­ ing from a recent attorney general's ruling. In September, Attorney General Jim M at­ tox's office issued an opinion prohibiting state universities from hiring instructors who are chosen or whose salaries are paid by a religious denomination to teach relig­ ion courses. Don Brown, an aide to Commissioner of Higher Education Ken Ashworth, said the main problem with the attorney general's opinion is that it does not address the issue of whether state university credit could constitutionally be given for courses taught by religious organizations. Duncan said the confusion prompted System officials to tell System universities in December to disregard the earlier deci­ sion to cancel spring Bible study courses. "W e w rote the attorney general's office in December and asked for clarification of his ruling in relationship with the UT Sys­ tem " and the attorney general's office said changes were not necessary immediately, Duncan said. "W e expect to find out about it sometime this sem ester." "It's not a dead issue," Duncan said. "W e're in a status quo situation. The class­ es for the spring sem ester are going as scheduled." Brown said a set of guidelines on the specifics of offering Bible study courses should be issued by M arch. "W e hope the attorney general's office will work closely with the (Texas College and University) C oordinating Board to es­ tablish guidelines that will help universities constitutionally co u rses," retain Brown said. Bible A fter his Septem ber ruling, Mattox advised state universities in December, in a letter to A shw orth, to "b e cautious about taking any drastic action regarding existing 'Bible Chair' p ro g ram s." M attox said the in­ dividual colleges should decide what to do with their Bible study courses while waiting for the guidelines. The University offers grade credit for cou rses taught off cam pus by instructors paid and nom inated by the Biblical Studies Association. "T h ere never was a big problem at U T ," said Allan M cNicol, association chairman McNicol said while the association recom ­ mends instructors for the courses, anyone can apply directly to the University for the positions, and all recom m endations are subject to University approval McNicol said students may not realize the University is still offering Bible courses for the spring. "If you ask students, they think there's not going to be any courses taught this spring. I hat's what we're wor- ned abo u t." Besides deciding w hether universities can give credit for the courses, Brown said the attorney general's office also was con­ cerned w hether any changes would have a "severe effect" on elim inating some in­ structors' jobs. He said the attorney gener al s office was cone erned whether instruc­ tors might bring lawsuits if they lost their jobs. But Ashw orth said while the attorney general s office is aware of problems in­ volved with the decision and its effect on universities hiring faculty, the final guide­ lines would not be based on the number of teaching jobs that might be lost. "1 would assume they have an ap precia­ tion on the changing contract decisions (of universities)," Ashworth said. "But that would not freeze the court's decision " McNicol said Bible courses and instruc­ tors already have been scheduled for the spring sem ester for the University. I hese people are made available to the University free of charge and once we have our course accepted by the University, there may be* a contractual agreement Gramm-Rudman forces first cuts Associated Press W A SH IN G TO N — The gov rem - m ent will overshoot this year's defi­ cit target by som e $47 billion, forc­ ing cuts of 4.3 percent in dom estic program s and 4.9 percent for the military on March 1, Reagan adm in­ istration officials said M onday. The cuts would have been far larger had C ongress not limited them under a new budget-baiancing law to $11.7 billion for the rem ain­ der of fiscal 1986, which began last Oct. 1. Still, they w ere expected to pro­ duce m ajor disruptions throughout the federal bureaucracy. W hite House aide Larry' Speakes said the O ffice of M anagem ent and Budget had notified federal ag en ­ cies of the cuts necessary to carrv out the new Gram m -Rudm an budg­ et-balancing law. The law, w hose constitutionality is being challenged in federal court by a dozen m em bers of Congress and a federal em ployees union, seeks to reduce the annual deficit to zero by 1991 through a series of steps — beginning with a reduction to $l72-bilÍK>n in 1986 Under the act. the $1 i.7 billion in cuts are to be triggered if the esti­ mated deficit for fiscal 1986 — as calculated by the OMB and the C on­ gressional Budget Office — exceeds the 1986 target by $20 billion or more. The CBO and the OM B are to is­ sue their separate projections on the deficit W ednesday. However, offi­ cials at both agencies alreadv have said their reports would easily show congressional deficits high enough to trigger the cuts A official who spoke >niv on condition of anonym ­ ity said the CBO forecast of the defi­ cit will top S220 billion. Last year, the annual deficit soared to $212 bil­ lion. The OMB projection, to be based on slightly more optimistic econom ­ to ic assumptions, project a somewhat low er deficit fig­ ure than the congressional one. is expected An administration official who also spoke on the condition that he not be* identified said the OMB fore­ cast would be only slightly lower than the ( BO figure and would still come in "about $220 billion." "W e re pretty close together on this,' the official said. He said the age ncies .vere told of the 4.3 percent-4 9 per ent cuts for planning purposes so that figures to be1 plugged into ['resident Reagan's to be submitted to 1987 budget C ongress cm Feb 4 — could be up­ dated. A deficit of $22 billion would top the 1986 target by $47 billion Even though the 1986 cuts are amited to $11. 7 billion the higher-than-ex- pected dt ficit for 1986 m eans it will be even harder to make the 1987 re­ quirement for reducing the deficit to $144 billion. Earlier, the adm inistration sa.d Reagan - 1987 budget would in­ clude $50 billion in spending cuts to make that target. But that assumed that the deficit would be lowered bv 1987 to just under $200 billion Siege ends Morris Goen/Daily Texan Staff Austin police officers end a four-hour siege by leading South Austin resi­ dent Gustavo Melgar, 18, from the MBank Building at 11:50 p.m. Monday. Police said Melgar entered the building at 221 W. Sixth St. about 8:30 p.m. and barricaded himself in an eighth-floor office. Although the man claimed he was armed, police officers said they did not find a weapon after he surrendered to a police negotiator. Austin police Lt. Chris Walker said Melgar “rambled on about a variety of subjects” during the standoff. No one was injured during the incident. New study identifies U.S. hunger counties Findings show food stamp program failure Associated Press BOSTON — There are 150 coun­ ties across the United States, many of them in the Farm Belt, where poverty and restricted access to food stam ps leave large numbers of Americans without enough to eat, a new report shows. The finding that so m any of the nation's hungriest counties are in the Mississippi Valle^ and Great Plains states came as a surprise, said authors of the report, being issued Tuesday by the Harvard University School of Public Health and the Physicians Task Force on Hunger in America. They said much of the problem was because of the failure of federal assistance programs to reach the needy. "D esigned to prevent hunger in the nation, the food stam p program serves just over half the poorest citi­ zens for whom its benefits are in­ tended. This decline in the rate of coverage is taking place as hunger is getting w orse," the report said. A total of 668,000 people were found to be eligible for food stamps but were not receiving them. The Physicians Task Force on Hunger, which compiled the study, also issued a general report last year on hunger in America, calling mal­ nutrition a "grow ing epidemic'' that left up to 20 million Americans chronically underfed. In the follow-up study, "hunger counties" were defined as those where more than 20 percent of the residents live below the federally defined poverty level — now set at $10,609 for a family of four — and where fewer than one-third of eligi­ ble residents actually receive food stamps. the Using re­ that yardstick, searchers found that the critical var­ iable was participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food stamp program, which provides ex­ tra food-buying power for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the principal welfare pro­ gram. It is funded by Congress but administered by the states. In Mississippi, for example, one of the poorest states in the nation, the study found no "hunger coun­ ties" because of wide distribution of food stamps, while relatively pros­ perous Texas had 29, the highest of any state. Eureka County in Nevada was rated the worst with only 1.7 percent of the needy said to be re­ ceiving food stamps. In all, 150 "hunger counties," representing about 5 percent of all counties, were found in 24 states, 13 of them in the Plains or Mississippi Valley: Alabama, Arizona, Arkan­ sas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Min­ nesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Da­ kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vir­ ginia and W est Virginia. The researchers found no hunger counties in the 26 other states, in­ cluding the entire N ortheast, the Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii. Professor Larry Brown of the Har­ vard School of Public Health, who chairs the Physicians Task Force, said the findings would be used lat­ er this year to guide field investiga­ tions into why food stamp participa­ tion varies so widely. Brown said the study's methods were chosen to parallel the ap­ proach taken by the Citizens' Board of Inquiry into H unger in 1968, a U.S. Senate select committee in 1973, and a panel of doctors spon­ sored by the Field Foundation. Com pared to those studies, the current report claimed a resurgence of hunger following declines in the mid- and late 1970s. adm inistration Specifically, the authors criticize for the Reagan changing food stamp eligibility in 1981. Before then, families could be eligible for food stam ps if their gross income was below 150 percent of the poverty line; now , eligibility is limited to gross incomes below 130 percent of poverty. today WEATHER Good day sunshine — Tuesday will be sunny with afternoon highs in the low 70s, turning cooler with lows in the low to mid-40s There is no chance for showers and the winds will be southeasterly from 5 to 10 mph For complete local and na­ tional forecasts, see page 23 INDEX Around Cam pus...................... 23 18 Classifieds 23 Comics 23 Crossword 4 E d ito ria ls ............................. 15 Entertainment State & L o c a l.................. . 1 0 S p o r t s .................................................. 13 University 8 2 World & N a tio n ...................... . . . U.S. re-evaluates search e 1986 The New York Times W ASH IN G TO N — The Reagan administration said M onday that Iran m ight have been within its rights in forcing an American m erchant ship to submit to a search by armed Iranians in international waters near the Persian Gulf on Sunday. At the same time, the United States sent two Navy w arships to the G ulf of Oman where the freighter, the President Taylor, was docked in the United Arab Em irates port of Fu jaira. The vessel was boarded and searched on Sundav by seven Iranian officers and seam en, who were looking for signs that it was carrying military cargo for Iraq. The Iranians, who have been stopping neutral ships for the last five m onths to search for contraband destined for Iraq, Iran's enem y in a five-year-old war, allowed the President Taylor to proceed after a 45-minute search. No crew m em bers were injured or cargo damaged, the State D epartm ent and the ship's ow ners said. The ow ners said the ship was carrying cotton and was to pick up grain in Fujaira for delivery to India. The signals from the administration seemed contra­ dictory as it pondered how to deal with the incident Sunday as well as any future searches of American ves­ sels. If the United States decides that if will oppose anv such Iranian moves, it leaves itself open to a possible military clash with the Iranians in the event of a test of that police On the other hand, the American military presence in the Persian G ulf area is limited to three ships, which would have to be considerably augment­ ed if the United States decides to try to prevent the boarding of its m erchant ships. The Pentagon said a destroyer and a frigate had been sent to the vicinity' of the President Tayior, but refused to say w’hether force would be used to prevent the boarding of anv other American ships. But the W hite House and the State Department also issued statem ents that implied the boarding might have been justified "T h e rules of naval warfare have traditionally accord­ ed a belligerent certain rights to ascertain w hether neu­ tral shipping is being used to provide contraband to an thev said opposing belligerent AIDS quarantine defended as ‘last resort9 By DAVID NATHER Daily Texan Staff Opponents of a proposal to add "incorrigible" AIDS patients to a state quarantine list Monday said the proposed law would only scare AIDS victims aw ay from treatment that might help stop the spread of the disease. But Health C om m issioner Robert Bernstein continued to insist the law would be used only as a last resort against AIDS victims who refuse to stop having sex. The quarantine issue has pro­ voked heated argum ents on both sides since October, w hen Bernstein proposed the measure be added as "som ething else the arsenal" against AIDS. The state Board of Health is expected to vote on the proposal on Jan. 31. in At a public hearing on the issue M onday, several speakers, includ­ ing a national AIDS researcher from New York, said a quarantine would be ineffective. said Dr. Mathilde Krim, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Re­ search, the Department of Health should scrap the quarantine proposal and begin a public educa­ tion program instead. She said pub­ lic education is a better w ay to fight of the state quarantining AIDS vic­ tims is "very, verv frightening to u s." "This kind of insensitivity .. can­ not continue in this state," Nelson said. "You will drive an important segm ent of the population under­ ground, and we will not be able to help y o u ." Jim Harrington, legal director oi the Texas Civil Liberties Union, said the proposal "spells out no due pro­ cess protections w hatsoever.” "It is difficult to imagine that, in this day and age, an agency can still feel empowered to enact a rule which will indeterminately deprive a person of freedom and liberty without so much as a gesture toward due pro cess," Harrington said. Bernstein said he does not believe the proposal circum vents due pro­ cess of law. "I have to depend on our attorneys, and thev advise me that it's not an issu e ," he said. Gene Harrington, a m em ber of the Texas Human Rights Founda­ tion, said the quarantine would violate the individual's constitution­ al right to privacy because the D e­ partment of Health w'ould have to determine w hether sexual inter­ course had occurred and under what circumstances. AIDS is transmitted through an exchange of bodily fluids, most o f­ ten through sexual contact, shanng needles or blood transfusions in cases But Bernstein said the quarantine would be used onlv in which AIDS victims state publicly thev intend to continue having sex. í don i expect it would be used more than a half dozen times a year. This should not be confused with anv police actio n ," he said. "W e're not going to be snooping around on Sixth S tree t." Jam es Haughton, director of the Houston Health and Human Ser­ vices Department, spoke in favor of the proposal, saving existing stat­ utes do not allow individual physi­ cians to detain AIDS patients. "W e re not talking about the per­ son w ho's ill but is no threat to any­ one, Haughton said. "T h at's not what we re talking about at all." Several speakers said they were concerned the departm ent's AIDS Task Force had not been consulted about the proposal " It is our understanding that the AIDS Task Force has not met since 1984," said Emily Unterm eyer of the Austin AIDS Project. Dr. Robert Bernstein the disease because the "pool of consenting adults" can be told how to avoid contracting AIDS. A quarantine program would "unleash a Pandora's box of horror" and would direct public anger "at people fighting for lives," Krim said. their "Although at first it may seem to be based on logic and restraint, the proposed rule is biologically un­ sound, illogical and dangerous," she said. Bill Nelson, president of the Dal­ las Gay Alliance, said the possibility world & nation MIA sightings reported Associated Press W ASH INGTON — A top Penta­ gon official, condem ning private at­ tempts to locate m issing American servicemen in Indochina, said M on­ day the United States is making progress with its cam paign to deter­ mine what happened to the 1,797 Americans still m issing in Vietnam. the assistant defense secretary for international secunty affairs, told reporters the Pentagon has 95 "live-sighting re­ ports” of Am ericans on file that it cannot dismiss as fabrications. Richard Armitage, But he added that the V ietnam ese governm ent, in negotiations con­ cluded last w eek, has pledged to in­ vestigate those reports. The Viet­ n a m e s e b e g u n investigating reports from their own people involving the status of miss­ ing Am ericans, and they are allow ­ h a v e a ls o ing joint U .S.-V ietnam ese teams to conduct "m u ltip le” excavations at sites w here American planes are known to have crashed during the war, he said. Armitage repeatedly refused to discuss a published report Monday that at least one American had been captured in Laos last month while on a privately financed mission to locate missing servicem en. He said the State D epartm ent and Pentagon had received such a report and the State D epartm ent was investigating, "bu t we have no p ro o f." "But the U .S. governm ent is reso­ lutely opposed to private forays into Indochina,” Armitage continued. "W e feel that they can only harm the issue. They do not have the technical m eans nor the expertise to deal with w hatever they may fin d .” Armitage also dism issed allega­ tions contained in a private lawsuit in North Carolina, claiming Am eri­ can prisoners had been spotted in Vietnam and Laos as recently as last O ctober and that the U .S. govern­ m ent had done little to investigate. "W e are serious people engaged in a very serious effort,” Armitage said. "A nd I find allegations to the contrary to be absu rd ." In discussing the live-sighting re­ ports, Armitage said the United States had received 806 "first-hand Indo­ live-sighting reports" chinese refugees since the fall of Saigon in 1975. from All but 95 have been dismissed as either fabrications or reports involv­ ing men w ho have been accounted for. The rem aining 95, how ever, "a re under continuing investigation in an attem pt to confirm the infor­ m atio n ," he said. Israel OKs land arbitration Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel's govern­ m ent yielded M onday to Egypt's dem and for binding arbitration of a border dispute, hoping to improve relations with Cairo and encourage broader Middle East peace efforts. The 250-acre Taba beach resort on the Red Sea's G ulf of Aqaba and 14 other border points w ere left in dis­ pute when Israel withdrew from Sinai in 1982 after 15 years of occu­ pation following the 1967 Arab-Is- raeli War. After overcoming right-wing ob­ jections in his governing coalition during a tumultuous 12-hour m eet­ ing of senior Cabinet members, Prime M inister Shim on Peres tele­ phoned the new s to Egyptian Presi­ dent Hosni Mubarak. "W e have passed the main diffi­ culty. Now we will continue quickly and in a friendly w ay ," Peres was quoted by his spokesm an as telling Mubarak. Israel radio reported that Mu­ barak told Peres he was satisfied with the decision unanim ously ap­ proved by inner Cabinet, a com m ittee that decides foreign policy questions. the 10-member The radio said Peres and Mubarak might m eet as early as the first week in February. The last Egyptian-Is- raeli summit was in June 1981, a year before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon chilled relations betw een adversaries w ho the signed a peace treaty in 1979. longtim e In Cairo, M ubarak's senior politi­ cal adviser Osama el-Baz said initial This will make peace stronger, more promising and more stable.’ — Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister the Israeli decision reports of appeared positive but it was too ear­ ly to say when Egypt will return its ambassador to Tel Aviv. The Egyptian am bassador was re­ called in Septem ber 1982 to protest the Lebanon war and the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut by Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen. Israel withdrew most of its troops from Lebanon last year. Peres has said in the past that im ­ proving ties with Egypt, the only Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, could be a key in per­ suading Jordan to start peace talks. "This will make peace stronger, more promising and more stable," Peres, leader of the Labor Party, told reporters after the all-night ses­ sion. He said the decision should "p u t an end to the process of deteri­ oration" in relations with Egypt. To win approval from the right- wing Likud bloc, Peres accepted Li­ kud's conditions that arbitration of the Taba dispute be linked to Egyp­ tian efforts to improve ties between the two countries. Egyptian and Israeli officials have met several times without success in resolving the question of Taba, which was best known for its top­ less sunbathers until it became a po­ litical issue. Israelis run a privately owned hotel there. The Likud leader, Foreign M inis­ ter Yitzhak Shamir, said in a televi­ sion interview that conditions for arbitration of the border dispute w ere intended to "en su re that this time the peace will be a real p eace." Among the conditions announced in a Cabinet statem ent w ere the re­ turn of the Egyptian am bassador and im provement of ties in com ­ merce and tourism as soon as the two countries draw up the term s of reference for arbitration. The statem ent said both countries will have to decide on the num ber and identity of the arbitrators. Israe­ li officials refused to say whom Isra­ el would propose, but press reports said former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was a possibili­ ty The statem ent also called for an end to hostile propaganda and for equal access to the media by repre­ sentatives of both countries. Foreign Ministry officials said these dem ands were prompted by hostile barbs at Israel in the sem i­ official Egyptian press and by the refusal of Egyptian television to in­ terview Israeli am bassador M oshe Sassoon since he arrived in Cairo four years ago. The Cabinet decision appeared to longstanding argum ent resolve a betw een Peres' Labor Party and Sham ir's Likud bloc that threatened to topple the coalition several times since it was installed 15 m onths ago. Associated Press An Anglican bishop comforts the daughter of a slain rights activist. Reagan letter seeks anti-apartheid action Associated Press JO H A N N ESBU RG , South Africa — The State D epartm ent's top Afri­ ca specialist gave President P.W. Botha a from P resid ent Reagan on M onday, and a judge upheld an order barring black activ­ ist W innie M andela from her home. letter C hester Crocker, assistant secre­ tary of state for African affairs, ar­ rived to press the w hite-minority governm ent on apartheid and inde­ pendence for South-W est Africa. He gave Botha the letter from Reagan in a 90-m inute m eeting in Cape Town. Crocker, w ho made no statem ent, then m et for more than five hours with the foreign and defense minis­ ters. The C ape Argus new spaper re­ ported, w ithout attribution, that Reagan appealed for "decisive ac­ tion" on reform s in apartheid and on independence for South-W est Africa, also called Namibia, which South Africa controls in defiance of the United Nations. Crocker arrived Sunday from An­ gola, the M arxist-ruled country on Nam ibia's northern border. South Africa periodically sends military units into Angola in search of Nami­ bian guerrillas. troops A ngola's governm ent also claims fight that South African alongside Angolan rebels, while South Africa and the United States demand the withdrawal of approxi- matly 20,000 Cuban military person­ nel stationed in Angola. At Stutterheim in eastern Cape Province, a black policem an fired into a mob o f 1,000 blacks w ho at­ tacked his hom e with gasoline bom bs. Three people were shot to death, including a woman, police said. They reported anti-apartheid riot­ ing and stone throwing in six other centers of the country. About 1,000 people, nearly all of them black, have been killed in 16 m onths of vi­ olence. In Johannesburg, Judge Louis le G range upheld a Dec. 21 govern­ ment order barring Mandela from her home in the huge black tow n­ ship of Sow eto outside the city. He gave M andela, who has been in hiding near Johannesburg for nearly two w eeks, permission to ap­ peal to the Suprem e Court. M ande­ la was not in court for the hour-long proceeding. Her lawyers said they did not know w hether she would await the Suprem e Court decision or make to an oth er attem pt Soweto. Police arrested her both previous times she w ent to her home. return to Le Grange said in authorizing the appeal At issue here is the person­ al freedom of the individual, and I accept it is a matter of great im por­ tance and principle." Lawyers for Mandela argued that the order was "in h u m an " and tech­ nically invalid because, until police took Mandela from her home Dec. 21, the governm ent had ignored her living in Sow eto for five m onths in defiance of a previous order. The judge said Mandela had proved only that the police failed to establish her "unlaw ful presence" in Sow eto, or that they had show n "forbearance." U n d er the p re v io u s o rd e r, Mandela was banished for eight years to the remote town of Brand- fort. The new order says she can live in any black area except those of Johannesburg and neighboring Roo- depoort, which include her hom e and the nation's largest black tow n­ ships. She is to appear in court Jan. 22 on charges of violating the order. Security laws permit detention or restriction w ithout charge of activ­ ists working against apartheid, the race laws that reserve privilege for South Africa's 5 million whites and deny rights to the 24 million blacks. Angola charges renewed that South African troops are fighting in mixed battalions with rebels of U n­ ion for the Total Indepence of A ngo­ la, a pro-W estern m ovem ent know n by its initials UNITA. Both the Reagan administration and South Africa have linked the withdrawal of Cuban troops to in­ dependence for Namibia, a former German colony rich in minerals that South Africa has governed since World War I. The United Nations abrogated South Africa's League of Nations mandate in 1966. Its latest resolu­ tion, passed eight years ago, calls for a cease-fire in the 18-year bush war with guerrillas of the South- West Africa People's Organization to be followed by U.N.-supervised elections and independence. Angola says it needs Cuban help because South Africa has broken agreements to get its troops out of Angola and is backing UNITA. Search of hope Associated Press U.S. Army personnel sift through the remains of a Dec. 12 plane crash that killed 248 U.S. servicemen and eight crew members in Gander, Newfoundland, hoping to identify more than 130 remaining victims. Faulty cam era on Columbia cuts hope off Hailey photos Associated Press SPACE CENTER, H ouston — Columbia's astronauts pointed a camera Monday in the direction of H a lle /s comet, but the failure of a light intensifier meant their pictures may have missed the celestial body altogether. The seven-man Columbia crew, which includes a Florida congress­ man, spent much of their first full day in orbit trying to repair m echan­ ical malfunctions. In addition to the camera, they had trouble with a medical device, another astronom y instrument and a materials process­ ing experiment. On the ground, National A ero­ nautics and Space Administration officials indicated they would con­ sider shortening the much-delayed mission from five days to four. This would help NASA keep on its tight schedule of launching 15 shuttle missions this year, a flight director said. A stronaut G eorge N elson, a trained astronom er, tried to snap pictures of the com et using a light image intensifier, but discovered the intensifier was not working. In­ stead, he took the light device off the cam era and shot a series of 30- second exposures. Nelson said that he and astronaut Steve Hawley, w ho also is an as­ tronom er, searched the heavens for the comet, but were uncertain that they found it because it was ob­ scured by light from the moon. intensifier, the the com et is difficult to find," Nelson "W ithout said, "but I think we got it. We got five different exposures, but I'm not sure how bright they're going to b e." Nelson is scheduled to attempt a repair on the light intensifier on Tuesday and then photograph the comet again Thursday. If the inten­ sifier is still broken, he again will take long exposures. Alan Stem, a University of Colo­ rado scientist who is the principal investigator with the comet camera, said pictures without the intensifier would be only "about what a good amateur could do " The scientist said the intensifier amplifies light images 10,000 times and gathers in only eight minutes the amount of light that it would normally take all day to collect. The light data would enable scientists to study the structure and chemical composition of the comet, said Stem. Stem said a switch on the light intensifier apparently was turned on accidentally when the device was packed for the mission five to six weeks ago. Nelson found that the batteries had been drained, but the device failed to work even after fresh batteries were installed. Stem said the spent batteries had nothing to do with the failure of the device. Hailey's com et is approaching its nearest point to the sun. Experts said the ice in the speeding body is boiling off, creating a bright tail. Photographs from Columbia were to be the first ever taken from space of the comet while it is so near to the sun. Flight director Jay Greene said at a briefing Monday that he expected NASA officials to consider an early end to the Columbia flight. He said it is important to get Col­ umbia back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to start preparing it for an astronom y mission sched­ uled for launch March 6. Colum­ bia's launch for the current mis­ sion originally w as scheduled for Dec. 18 and a record seven delays before lift off Sunday have created a squeeze on the March mission and on preparations for a Jan. 24 flight by shuttle Challenger. "W e're tight on the next two mis­ sions," said Greene. He said a deci­ sion on shortening the flight should be made by Tuesday. From Texan news services Guatemalans see end of m ilitary rule GUATEM ALA CITY — Vinicio Cerezo, w hose inauguration as president Tuesday ends 16 years of military rule in Guatemala, said he will oppose U .S. efforts to isolate the leftist governm ent of Nicaragua. In a meeting with journalists at his hom e M onday, the president­ elect was asked w hether he would I yield to pressure from the Reagan adm inistration to isolate Nicaragua. | "I w on't, because isolation m eans ^ confrontation,” he want peace, which m eans discus- j sion, conversation, contacts and in- j tegration.” replied. "W e Cerezo, a 43-year-old moderate i Christian Democrat, said he plans a | meeting W ednesday with the presi- I dents of four other Central Ameri­ can countries, or their representa­ tives, to initiate peace talks for the region. He also appealed for financial and the United from moral support States and Europe. Cerezo was elected Dec. 8 in a runoff of a Nov. 3 election that did not produce a m ajority for any of the eight candidates. Yelena Bonner doing well after major heart surgery BOSTON — Yelena Bonner was in satisfactory condition Monday af­ ter m ajor heart surgery, and a hos­ pital spokesm an said it was uncer­ tain w hether she would be alert enough to call her exiled husband in the Soviet Union. arteries and Surgeons bypassed six arteries — three main three branches — which is "an unusual num ber,” said Martin Bander, spokesm an at M assachusetts Gener­ al Hospital. The bypass operation took more than four hours and ended about 12:30 p .m ., Bander said. He said Bonner would be at the hospital for eight to 10 days. "S h e was feeling very bad before she w ent into hospital and she was having trouble walking and breath­ in g ,” B o n n er's m o th er, Ruth Bonner, said. U.S. accused of intruding into church congregations W ASH INGTON — Two m ajor re­ ligious denom inations and four Ari­ zona congregations sued the United States governm ent M onday, assert­ ing that it had unjustifiably intrud­ ed on their services in its search for illegal aliens and those who help them. The suit, which the churches say is intended to "d efend the guaran­ tees of religious freedom ,” was filed in U .S. District Court in Phoenix. It charges that the governm ent, in au­ thorizing secret tape recordings of church services and infiltration of congregations suspected of harbor­ ing Central Am ericans, violated constitutional rights. The denom i­ nations involved are the American Lutheran Church and the Presbyte­ rian C hurch fU .S.A .). S e attle becom es refuge SEATTLE — The City Council voted unanim ously M onday to de­ clare Seattle a city of refuge for ille­ gal aliens in their hom elands, especially G uate­ mala and El Salvador. fleeing persecution The com prom ise resolution, ap­ proved 8-0, omitted language that would have restricted city em ploy­ ees from cooperating in the investi­ gation or arrest of Central American refugees seeking shelter in the Unit­ ed States. Critics of the sanctuary proposal have contended it would encourage disrespect for the law and divert at­ tention from helping the homeless. Supporters argued that war and terror against innocent civilians con­ tinues in Guatemala and El Salva­ dor, forcing refugees to flee for their lives. Some testified at hearings that the United States should suspend aid to those countries. Suicide case reopened CRO W N POINT, Ind. — Author­ ities have reopened the investiga­ tion of the death of a man whose skull w as broken by 32 hammer blows, bypassing local police who ruled the man had committed sui­ cide, officials said Monday. State police detectives have be­ gun a review of the evidence in the brutal April 6 death of James A. Cooley, 52, of Hobart, Lake County Prosecutor Jack Craw ford said. A public feud erupted in June be­ tween H obart police and the county coroner, Dr. Daniel Thom as, after Police Chief Law rence Juzwicki called the death a suicide and closed the case. Thom as said he viewed C raw ­ ford's decision as a victory and hopes for a state police finding of and the filing of criminal hom icide and the filing charges. Supreme Court to rule on maternity leave cut case whether states may limit voting in a political party's primary elections to voters who are mem­ bers of that party. The Connecticut law was chal­ lenged by Republican leaders who want to open their party's primary to unaffiliated voters. • Voted to decide by Ju ly whether the Reagan administration must curtail Japan's fishing rights in U .S. waters to retaliate for contin­ ued Japanese killing of sperm whales in the North Pacific. A lower court said a 1979 law requires such retaliation. • Said it w ill decide in a case from Colorado whether the confes­ sions of mentally ill criminal de­ fendants may be used against them. • Heard arguments in a Arkansas case that systematic exclusion of death penalty opponents from ju­ ries in capital cases violates defend­ ants' rights to a fair trial. • Agreed, in a Massachusetts case it was told could change the nation's political landscape, to de­ cide whether the government may regulate certain groups' spending in federal election campaigns. • Said it w ill decide whether Washington state may bar from general election ballots those candi­ dates who do not receive 1 percent of the vote in statewide primaries • Let stand a ruling that poor people who face jail terms in non- criminal cases are entitled to a law­ yer's help at taxpayer's expense. The lower court's ruling is now binding law in six states: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. • Refused to bar the public from attending a court hearing involving two Green Bay Packer football play­ ers who could be charged with sex­ ual assault in connection with an al­ in leged 1984. in Milwaukee incident • Turned down the appeal of a Texas lawyer who was forced to stop practicing law for six months because an advertisement he placed in a newspaper citing his rates for uncontested divorces did not say he was not certified as an expert in family law. • Set the stage for a potentially important antitrust ruling in a Colo­ rado case by agreeing to decide how difficult it should be for companies to challenge mergers of their com­ petitors. 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The court agreed to study a chal­ lenged California law requiring em­ ployers to grant leaves of absence to pregnant workers who request them, even if leaves are not granted for any other cause. returning The California law also generally requires employers to rehire work­ ers from pregnancy leaves, even if that benefit is not ex­ tended take leaves for other reasons. to em ployees who The law is being attacked by an unusual coalition — employers, feminists and the Reagan adm inis­ tration — as illegal sex discrimina­ tion. In the pregnancy-benefits case, the court must assess the 1978 Cali­ fornia law against a 1978 federal law , the Pregnancy D isability Am endm ent, that barred discrim i­ nation in employm ent based on pregnancy. The state law was challenged by the California Federal Savings and Loan Association in Los Angeles af­ ter state officials filed a complaint against Cal Fed for not putting re­ ceptionist Lillian Garland back to work quickly after she took four months off in 1982. Cal Fed's disability leave policy did not provide for such maternity leaves and authorized the savings and loan association to refuse to rehire employees who take any kind of leave. After a federal trial judge ruled against Garland and the state law, the 9th U .S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling. The appeals court said that Con­ gress, in enacting the 1978 law , in­ tended “ to construct a floor beneath which pregnancy disability benefits The maternity leave law is being attacked by an unu­ sual coaHtion — employ­ ers, feminists and the Reagan administration — as illegal sax discrimina­ tion. may not drop — not a ceiling above which they may not rise." The 9th Circuit court said states may pass laws that discriminate in favor of pregnant women, but may laws that discriminate not pass against them. The justices had been considering a case involving a similar law in Montana, and in that case the Reagan administration and feminist groups urged the court to rule that such state laws must bow to the 1978 federal law. “ Legislating on the basis of preg­ nancy as Montana has done might appear superficially to be beneficial to women, but in fact it has many harmful effects," lawyers for the National Organization for Women and other feminist groups said. “ At least some employers respond to such incentives by not hiring wom­ en ." The feminists and administration disagreed, however, over the 1978 federal law's effect. W hile the fem­ inists said employers w ill have to in­ crease the benefits given to non­ pregnant workers to match those given pregnant employees, Justice Department lawyers said Congress probably did not require leaves for all disabled workers. “ Congress repeatedly empha­ sized that it intended that employ­ ers be free to provide any level of benefits they wished — or none at all — so long as they did not use pregnancy as a criterion for allocat­ ing those benefits," the government lawyers said. In other matters, the court: • Agreed to decide in a Connecti­ CHRIST! $ 6 PER HR. + SALARY—EVENINGS/WEEKENDS APPLY TELA-SAVER SERVICES, INC. Dobie Center, G uadalupe St. tntrance 2nd floor, Suite 2 4 , Next to Unicom and across from G in n /s Copy Service. 5 6 2 1 5 0 Immediate Telemarketing Positions W alkina distance from campus For ambitious individuals with good Communications skills. Free Parking Available. 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In addition, this format allows' for the continuous revision and updating of material. Comple­ mentary copies are available. We look forward to working with you. PARADIGM BOOKS 407 W. 24th St. 472-7986 Page 4/The Daily Texan/Tuesday, January 14, 1986 editorials O p in io n s e x p r e s s e d in The Daly Texan a re those of the editor or the writer of the article and are not n e c e s s a rily th o se of the U niversity adm inistration the B o a rd of R eg e n ts or the Texas S tu den t P u b lica tio n s B o a rd of O p e ra tin g Trustees viewpoint Rainey lost, but UT won Mpies. any people hope they have the courage of their convic­ tions. Few of us, though, ever gain a chance to prove that courage. Fewer still, when tested, stand by their princi- Homer Rainey, the former UT president who died last month, was fortunately one of the latter group. He was one of the best men this University has known, its foremost champion of academic freedom. He was a native Texan, a Baptist minister, and a former baseball player. He was not an intellectual reactionary eager for martyrdom. He was, however, an administrator willing to fight regental med­ dling in the University's operation. When that fight meant sacrificing his job, he was willing. Rainey hoped the University would cultivate minds in an atmos­ phere of unfettered intellectual curiosity. The regents who hired him in 1939 apparently shared this vision. But during the following five years they were replaced by a different breed. The new regents were conservative businessmen, and they held a sharply different view of the University. It was a factory producing future employees, an institution to be run as tightly as their own firms. Two such opposing visions inevitably clashed. One side would have to go, and everyone, probably even Rainey, knew who. Events reached a climax in the fall of 1944 when Rainey called a general faculty meeting. He read a list of 16 grievances, but focused on two related issues. Was there academic freedom at the University, and could it be run free of regental interference? Three weeks after the faculty meeting, the regents fired Rainey, citing no reason. Student reaction was immediate. The day after the firing, 5,000 marched from the campus to downtown, bearing a flower-covered casket and a sign, “Academic Freedom Is Dead." More severe repercussions followed. UT's accrediting agency placed the school on probation, and the American Association of University Professors censured the University for nine years. The effect of these actions on the school's reputation was dramatic and long-lasting. The University became known nationally as a ha­ ven of xenophobic philistines. UT professor Joe Frantz has written that he still had trouble persuading students to come here 30 years after the Rainey controversy. Did any good come out of Rainey's firing? We hope so. Though later regents — notably Frank Erwin — have tried to control the UT administration, most seem unwilling to risk the controversy that di­ rect interference would cause. Because of the controversy surround­ ing Rainey's firing, the University was shamed into becoming a freer place. — Brian Z abcik Enroll in University of life H ey, we're back. And so are you. Great. Didn't preregister, eh? This is the last time you'll be able to blow off preregistration and still stay in school. Savor the experience as something you can tell your kids about. The Texan staff has been haunting campus for nearly a week. We've been conducting training workshops for our new staff — teaching them how to print counterfeit money and spell Quadaffi (no), Khadaffi (wait), Gadaffi (hey!), Khadafy (that's it)! As a new semester begins and 48,000 of us crowd inside this huge rubber room filled with Spanish architecture and too few parking spaces, we should be reminded of one of the greatest advantages to going to school here. It is the intense social education taught by the campus environment. The University is life, all sides of it, on a scale just slightly smaller than real. Attendance here is a ticket to participate in many lively undertakings. Many are taken for granted as worth far less than their true value. Example. Critics of student government say it is nothing but a ha­ ven for politicos furthering future ambitions. Historically, there has been no better training ground for aspiring political leaders than a pressurized student government at the flagship public university re­ siding in the state capitol. Would critics prefer elected officials who never worked a bill on the floor of a legislature? Would taxpayers entrust public funds to appropriators who had never dealt with a bureaucratic budgeting process? Would they prefer leaders who had never soothed ruffled feathers or spoken to a group larger than a speech class? Otherwise savvyless types would find their way into public office and make ignorant mistakes in a more potent setting. Here and now damage wrought by political crash and burns is confined to campus by the blast shields of Guadalupe Street and Interstate 35. The political scene is only a part of this fertile environment. Art, music, film, athletics, acting, dance, writing, science and even drag worms are what makes the University interesting. Its all here — take advantage. — Russell Scott "AHA, A 'LIBERAL ARTS' PB5REE! WHY NO FAR-RIGHT ARTS PEGRK? ANP WHY BACHELOR OF ARTS? OBVfOUSLY ANTt-FAMHY" U.S. anti-terrorism policy too simplistic Middle East politics con­ HOW TOMAKE ARAFAT [LOOK LIKE A MODERATE iff tinue to bring one un­ pleasant suprise after another. What 18 days ago passed for random violence in two Euro­ pean airports has now become a potentially explosive contest in power politics. And while the fi­ nal outcome is uncertain, the U.S. position does not seem to be far­ ing very well. The fundamental error of our government continues to be over­ simplification. In our anger, we have interpreted recent terrorism as the personal work of Moammar Khadafy. At last, we've found someone to blame. This position, however, is neither necessary, nor in our best interest. For, by focus­ ing on Khadafy, we have lost sight of long-range objectives and risk playing into the terrorists' hands. Consider: • A pattern is forming in Mid­ dle East terrorism. Italy, Austria, and Egypt, the victims of the most recent attacks, are all moderate states. Egypt is the only Arab country that has signed a peace treaty with Israel. Italy and Austria maintain diplomatic relations with Yassir Arafat's Palistine Liberation Or­ ganization. Caught between the West and various Arab causes, these nations are apparently being punished and pressured into a more radical stance. With both Arafat and Jor­ dan's King Hussein maneuvering toward possible negotiations with regional threat the Israel, moderates is growing. The U.S.-Libya feud has in­ creased pressure on moderate states to choose sides. to • U.S. threats strengthen Kha- dafy's position in the Arab world. Although Libya actively threatens many Arab leaders, it is still an Islamic nation, and many who or­ dinarily oppose Khadafy are now supporting him. For example, rad­ ical terrorists have attacked the government of Kuwait, a Western ally on most issues, and Yassir Arafat, yet both joined other Arab JEFFREY KANE 7EX4N COLUMNIST leaders by issuing statements sup- porting Khadafy this week. Even Eg/pt's Hosni Mubarak, who has threatened Khadafy with war, cannot afford to support the U.S. position. • Our European allies do not support our present stance. Eng­ land, France, West Germany, and Italy all have compelling reasons to resist Khadafy; none, however, will match our economic sanc­ tions. Perhaps we are right to be disappointed, but we should not be suprised. We chose our re­ terrorist attacks sponse to without consulting them, and they simply disagree. the even • Terrorism, state-sup­ ported terrorism, is merely a sec­ ondary issue in the Middle East. As difficult as this may be to ac­ cept, terrorism, with or without Khadafy's help, will remain a problem for a long time. Ultimate­ ly, we must deal with its source by formulating a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflicts, the Palestinian question, the widespread poverty in the region. These are the primary issues, and we must not lose sight of them. and While the United States is pre­ occupied with terrorism and Kha­ dafy's gloating, few seem to have noticed that Israel and Syria nar­ rowly avoided a full-scale war last month. Tensions run high in the Middle East, and the United States, caught between its Arab and Is­ raeli allies, has little to gain from their increase. But this is exactly the effect of our tough rhetoric. We raise Israeli expectations, pro­ voke Arab fears and leave no room for moderation. In short, we inadvertently risk pushing all sides one step further from the negotiating tables. Our government, it seems, has overreacted. Whatever the justifi­ cation, the fact remains that we have paid significant costs and gained almost nothing. Two weeks ago, radical terrorists and their Libyan backers provided a common enemy for a wide spec­ trum of nations. Today, the Unit­ ed States stands alone. Common interests are the basis of peaceful relations, and the re­ cent wave of terrorism provided a rare opportunity to unify our Mid­ dle East allies. Our unilateral per- suit of Khadafy has done just the opposite. So, while the outcome of the present political maneuvering is still unclear, a new danger ap­ pears. The additional threat of re­ cent terrorism lies in the response it provokes. For, in the end, our sparring with Libya may just fur­ ther the goals of the terrorists and delay any possibility of peace in the Middle East. Kane is an English junior. New leader gives hope to Guatemalans T he story goes that during the Gua­ temalan elections the riots would begin in the streets as soon as the American TV journalists finished breakfast and ELLEN WILLIAMS TEXAN COLUMNIST tag, the new government has the potential to stabilize the area and be a model for other strife-torn Central American nations. last fall, took their cameras outside. Two hours later, they'd all go back inside and watch it on the noon news. Tuesday the winner of that election, 42-year- old Vinicio Cerezo, one of an increasing num­ ber of Christian Democrats to be elected presi­ dent of a Central American country, takes office. As president of the first civilian govern­ ment after more than three decades of military rule, he and his country face serious challenges — leftist guerrillas, a military with extremist fringes possibly itching to regain power and a faltering economy. Guatemala, the country closest to the United States with any serious rebel activity, is vital to U.S. security. Guatemala lies sandwiched be­ tween two countries south of Texas and two countries north of Nicaragua. The United States periodically has interfered with the banana re­ public. Naturally, past interventions make the Guatemalans wary of outside meddling. So the United States can only adopt a wait- and-see policy concerning any military aid it may be tempted to give Guatemala to squelch leftist insurgents. Cerezo has said he doesn't want U.S. military aid. Indeed, if he took it, the money could cast suspicions about what the government owes its northern neighbor and whether it is merely a U.S. puppet, which it isn't. Just as Guatemalans worry about U.S. military influence, they will be equally or more suspicious of aid from a communist-backed country. More money for the Guatemalan military also means it would wield more power. However, the old regime — stung by criticisms for “human rights violations" and failed economic policies — is trying to clear its name by giving the new civilian democracy a chance to govern. So far the military appears willing to let the elected government take power, and many hope the transition will be as peaceful and suc­ cessful as the one that occurred in Spain 10 years ago. Since the military has held power for most of the average Guatemalan's lifetime, Cerezo will have to keep reactionary elements from staging a coup to regain control. Although during the past five years military leadership has been jug­ gled a destablizing number of times, the mili­ tary now seems to be relinquishing its leader­ ship role entirely. Cerezo also must keep the military from overzealousness — tens of thousands of Guate­ malans have disappeared or been killed in re­ cent years. However, the military is not the only party to blame. Leftist rebels certainly played a role in the killings. To the United States, Guatemala posed a classic chicken-or-egg question: do guerrillas terrorize the country because the military bru­ talizes citizens, or does the government seek out rebels to keep them from brutalizing civil­ ians? Are the thousands of Guatemalan refu­ gees (whom the United States won't accept) es­ capees of government oppression or of rebel terrorism? Increasingly the evidence points toward toward the latter. For example, the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre reported a few weeks ago that 16 Indians had escaped from guerrillas to the safe­ ty of a military outpost. The guerrillas, using the Indians as virtual servants, forced the group to feed and work for them. In villages, to ward off raiding guerrillas, fed-up civilians roam the streets with rifles, and at night armed civil guards keep watch. But the military has finally brought under control the more than two decades of leftist insurgency as evidenced by subsiding terrorist activity and military kill­ ings in the past few years. With the country in relative peace, Cerezo's government is blessed with legitimacy and a clean slate. The democratic elections, in which Cerezo won 68 percent of the vote, may have given the government the support it needs. Free of the sinister “human rights violations" The United States should nurture the fledg­ ling democracy to prevent another coup and to promote regional stability. While Guatemalans might be suspicious of U.S. military aid, the country needs and currently receives economic aid. The United States also is involved with “friendly" programs such as ones sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. One project that could stabilize Guatemala and improve U.S. relations is helping the coun­ try develop hydrothermal power, a resource that potentially could meet the country's power needs. At least one U.S. company is interested, but fears nationalization if it taps the hot water for profit. Besides economic aid, the United States can do little but watch, and let Guatemala's elected representatives run their government. Cerezo's economic policies probably will be enacted, be­ cause his party holds a majority in the Constit­ uent Assembly. His economic policies, though, could prove his downfall. After he was elected, Cerezo began talk of a tax increase. But one prominent Guatemalan businessman and university president writes in The Wall Street Journal, "He was quite confi­ dent in claiming that he can raise taxes because he has the support of the people, in contrast to the pfesent government's attempt to raise taxes that almost provoked a revolution last spring." To combat large-scale unemployment, low per capita income and a mounting deficit, the Cerezo administration ought to leave behind progress-numbing market regulation. It didn't work for the military, and it won't work for a democratic government, either. Cerezo has an opportunity to free his country from past mistakes. Successful economic poli­ cies could quiet the rebels — and thus the mili­ tary. But if Cerezo keeps the old regime's failed policies, and especially if he raises taxes, he may watch his government crumble. Williams is a Plan II junior. line Editorial m ere nit-picking When David Nather attacks ("Come on, ev­ eryone knows it's Hans M arx," Viewpoint, Dec. 10) my letter of more than 500 words in the Texan ("Conference an attack on U .S .," Fir­ ing Line, Dec. 10) which sharply faults the re­ cent conference "Forty Years of the Nuclear A ge," and the reporting of it, because I added a superfluous " s " to someone's name, what is he trying to do? Could it be that he is trying to distract attention from the slanders of the con­ ference and the sloppy reporting of the confer­ ence? Nather knows perfectly well that accuracy is not the same thing as perfection or infallibility. Nit-picking such as he stoops to shows not a regard for accuracy, but a disposition to ridicule anyone who tries to uphold quality standards. And that includes not just Accuracy in Aca­ demia, but also the Canons of Journalism and the Code of Ethics of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which prescribe accuracy as a prime journalistic goal. Hans Mark, University of Texas System Chancellor, and I have known each other's pro­ fessional work in physics for decades, and I am confident explanations or apologies for the su­ perfluous "s " would be quite superfluous to him. But now that my error has been noted and duly corrected in the name of accuracy, when will the Texan deal with its errors in reporting on Accuracy in Academia and the recent con­ ference? Or does the Texan expect that by straining at my gnat we will swallow its cara­ van of camels? Lawrence Cranberg General secretary, Accuracy in Academia Gays suffer discrim ination I am curious about what role Scott Scarbor­ ough could have played in history. It definitely would not have been that of Martin Luther King Jr., or any other person who looked past the generally accepted view to help build a more sane world. Scarborough's arguments against the Univer­ sity Council resolution enhancing University policy on discrimination (by including protec­ tion for persons of any "s?xual or affectional orientation") really hurt his chances for making the "Ten Most Sensitive, Modem, and Today- Kinda-Guys" list. Fortunately, in the past when a few have cried out, "Discrimination does not occur!", sensitive and progressive individuals have found the opposite and put measures into ef­ fect that rebuffed the "it's not real; it doesn't happen" attitude. Gays are discriminated against, Scott! If you weren't quite so scared of contracting AIDS yourself, you might interview a gay person or the subject. Those who argue against gay-rights legislation by saying AIDS would be more prevalent probably do not want sex education in schools, either. (More pregnant and sexually diseased teens, you know.) Scarborough may not believe that discrimina­ tion against gays occurs (even though his own attitude shows moral judgment against gays), but we are all fortunate that others go beyond long-standing paranoia and beliefs for the betterment of all. Marsha Belknap UT staff j c bend us your letters _ The Daily Texan welcomes submissions ol Firing Line letters. Because of limited space, we a r i 't piibfeh every letter submitted, but we will do our best. Firing Line letters should not exceed 250 words. Submissions should express strong opinions as clearly and succinctly as possible. Published submissions must be free of malice and li el. Personal controversy will not be tol­ erated. Profane language will not be printed unless it is pertinent. Please don't let these guidelines deter you. This is your newspaper; we want to print wji ‘ you have to say. U T m ic ro s c o p y s p e c ia lis t d ie s of p n eu m on ia a t 39 M icu/aiiy i cfAdii/1 uebudy, jd n u a r y . UT professor David Miller dies at 82 By DARRYL EWING Daily Texan Staff A philosophy f professor who worked at the University for 44 years died of heart failure. David Miller, professor emeritus of philosophy, died in his Austin home Wednesday. Miller, 82, was a noted scholar on theories of knowl­ edge and philosophical sociology. Miller began his career at the Uni­ versity in 19214 as an instructor in philosophy. He later was an associ­ ate professor and a professor of phi­ losophy before serving as chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1952 to 1959. Douglas Browning, professor of philosophy and one of Miller's stu­ dents in the 1950s, said Miller was a moving force in the growth of the department. "H e built the department to a point so that it could be easily be turned over to a younger person with no problem s," Browning said. p h iloso p h y , said M iller played an integral role in d ev elo p in g the g ra d ­ uate stu d ies p rogram in the d ep a rt­ m ent. " H e 's the p erson w ho laid the fou n dation for the grad u ate p ro­ gram at the U n iv ersity ," Pincoffs said. " H e also ad d ed to the national statu s of our p h iloso p h y d ep a rt­ m e n t." W inifred C on lon , an ad m in istra­ tive a ssistan t for the d epartm en t, said M iller w as on e of the m ost v isi­ ble em eritu s p h ilo so p h y p ro fesso rs. "H e w as a g u id in g force for the d e p a rtm e n t," said C on lon . "H e w as a resou rce that we all u sed in the d epartm en t. H e w as our elder sta te sm a n ." Brow ning said Miller had a stro n g im pact on each of his stu d en ts. "H e w as a very influential teach­ e r ," Brow ning said . "H e alw ay s stressed the im portance of the op en society. That w as im portant. He m ad e that c le a r." sor at the U niversity of H am b u rg in 1960, at K a n sas S tate U niversity in 1967 and at the U niversity of Miami in 1970. the H e taught at the U niversity o f stu d ied ex ten sively C h icago and with late social p sy ch o lo gist G eorge Edw ard M ead before com ­ ing to the U niversity. M iller retired from the U niversity in 1978. Miller was a m em ber o f the T exas Institute of Letters, an organ ization of o u tstan d in g au th o rs an d w riters. He wrote four bo oks on p h ilo so p h y , in cluding a book on M ead entitled Self, Language, and the World: The Philosophy of George Herbert Mead. Miller also w rote m ore than 40 a r­ ticles on vario u s asp e c ts o f p h ilo so ­ ph y Before his d eath he w as w ork­ ing on a fifth book op the so ciology of kn ow led ge. B row ning said M iller w as p re si­ d en t o f the S o u th w estern Philo­ sophical Society in 1947 an d was in ­ fluential in o rg a n iz in g the society. David L. MMer B row ning said w hen M iller w as d ep artm en t ch airm an , the d e p a rt­ m ent w a s g ain in g international sta­ tus. "H e p ro v id ed the fou n dation for the grow th o f the d e p a rtm e n t," B row ning said. E d m un d Pincoffs, p rofesso r of Miller w orked a s a visiting p ro fes­ Stephen Paul Meier the International Society of Cell Biologists. ' Meier earned a doctorate in zoolo­ gy in 1972 from the University of Iowa. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology in 1967 and 1969 from the University of Missouri. Meier was bom April 27, 1946, in St. Louis. For a fast, free skin analysis, come and meet the CLINIQUE COMPUTER. Clinique is a total system of skin care. And the very heart of the system is the Clinique Computer. 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Before joining the UT zoology staff in 1979, Meier was an assistant professor of anatomy at the Univer­ sity of Southern California School of Medicine. He also was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral re­ search fellow at Harvard Medical School. At the University, Meier taught freshman biology, developmental biology and graduate courses in electron microscopy. Meier earned a place in scientific history because of his vertebrate studies, Jacobson said. Using an electron microscope, Meier discov­ ered patterned arrangements of cells in the head, which he termed the somitomeres, skull as well as the rest of the body is segmented from the earliest stag­ es of development. showing that Meier's discovery was recently the subject of international sympo­ sia. Jacobson said the discovery con­ firmed observations first made by Goethe, an 18th century German scientist and poet. He said Goethe observed that the vertebrate was segmented, but his observation could not be confirmed until Meier's work with the electron microscope. Clark Hubbs, chairman of the De­ partment of Zoology, said depart­ ment employees were "devastated" by Meier's death. Hubbs said Meier's staff, under Jacobson's supervision, will com­ plete and publish the work Meier had started. A memorial service was held Fri­ day at the UT Faculty Center. About 100 people attended, including members of Meier's family, friends of his surviving daughter and facul­ ty from several departments. With the family's permission, two memorial funds have been ar­ ranged. The Kathleen Meier Educa­ tion Fund will help fund the educa­ tion of Meier's daughter, 17, a student at Anderson High School in Austin. The Department of Zoology has set up a Meier Memorial Fund as a tax-exempt contribution source for zoology scholarships. to Meier wrote numerous scientific articles and contributed six books. 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Mary mount College, Tarrytown, NY 10691 (914) 631 3200 The Study Abroad Office on Campus By RENEE ORDENEAUX Daily Texan Staff The U niversity Longhorn Band w ill receive the Sudler Intercollegiate Marching Band Trophy, a national award given for outstanding long-term performance, the band director said Monday. Glenn Richter, director of the Longhorn Band, said the Sudler Trophy is the "o n ly award of its kind" presented to a college band. A national vote of collegiate band directors de­ termines the recipient in a method similar to the selection qf football's Heisman Trophy winner, said A1 W right, spokesman for the John Philip Sousa Mem orial Foundation, which co-sponsors the award. The Louis Sudler Foundation in Chicago and the Sousa Foundation in W est Lafayette, Ind., sponsor the award. The foundations have pre­ sented the award each year since 1982. Although the award is presented annually, the trophy goes to the organization that has main­ tained "an outstanding college marching band program over a period ot many years," W right said. VN^pght said the award is unusual because it recognizes organizations that have displayed leadership and excellence consistently for a number of years. " I was there when D iN ino (UT band director from 1955 to 1974) was there and they were a great band then," he said. Both Richter and W right stressed that the award recognizes leadership and excellence over a long period of time, rather than outstanding performance for one year as other awards. The Longhorn Band is a "great band that's been great for long time, " W right said. Reagan Bohmfalk, elementary math education senior and a flag section leader for the band, said, "W e're really surprised ... but 1 think it's long overdue for all the hard work we d o ." Bohmfalk said college bands are "basically for fu n ," and do not have the opportunities that high-school bands have to compete. She said the award is especially exciting since it is a national. rather than a local, honor. Louis Sudler and his wife w ill present the tro­ phy at a U T home football game this fall, possi­ bly the Sept. 13 game against Stanford, where Richter said the Alum ni Band w ill perform. Pre­ vious band directors also have been invited to attend. Louis Sudler is a Chicago businessman and philanthropist who contributes to the Chicago Sym phony, as well as the Sousa Foundation, Richter said. Richter was appointed director of the 350- member Longhorn Band in Ju ly 1980, following the resignation of Tom Rhodes. The trophy, designed by the same firm that produces the Heisman Trophy, cost $12,000 and is passed each year to the new recipient, Richter said. 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Business experts who w ill make the forecasts and are faculty mem­ bers at the University include Rob­ ert W itt, acting dean of business ad­ m inistration and professor of marketing; Robert Mettlen, the bu­ reau's acting director and professor of finance; and Thomas Plaut, man­ ager of economic forecasting for the bureau. Individual interpretations w ill be made of the economy of each city, Plaut said. W itt, Mettlen and Plaut are to ap­ pear in Houston, Feb. 3; Dallas, Attention Members University Federal Credit Union Candidates Sought for UFCU Elective Positions The UFCU will hold elections In April to fill positions on the Board of Directors and the Credit Committee. The Nominating Committee solicits expressions of interest by members who would be willing to serve in one of these positions which, of course, are voluntary and unpaid. These positions require a major time commitment. 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CITY □ Austin □ Galveston □ Other: STATE □ Texas □ Other PHONE MEMBER □ Faculty □ Staff □ Student □ Retired □ Other: INTERESTED IN □ Board of Directors □ Credit Committee On a separate sheet of paper: Please describe your service, experience, and education which you feel would benefit UFCU members through your service. Please explain why you would like to serve UFCU members as one of their elected officers. Austin’s economy has undergone a slowdown because of the “down­ turn of high-tech” busi­ ness and the peaking of Austin’s construction in­ dustry. — Thomas Plaut, economic forecaster Feb. 5; San Antonio, Feb. 10; Aus­ tin, Feb. 12; and Harlingen, Feb. 13. Plaut said Austin's economy re­ cently has undergone a slowdown he blamed on the "dow nturn of high-tech" business and the peak­ ing of Austin's construction indus­ try, factors that are directly related to the national economy. Austin is experiencing reduced economic growth and employment, Plaut said. Plaut said he expects a large turn­ out for the sessions, and said each seminar should attract 200 or more participants. Mettlen said the sessions w ill be "in effect, carrying out the work of the bureau." Mettlen said both national and in­ ternational economic forces affect the Texas economy. W hile there is "no isolation" from the national and international economy, Texas does possess unique features in its econ­ omy that w ill be touched upon in the sessions, Mettlen said. W itt w ill be the master of ceremo­ nies at the breakfast sessions. The five breakfast sessions cost $25. In addition to the breakfast ses­ sions, the bureau is planning a more in-depth look at the economy with a daylong conference in Houston. The conference w ill last from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the fee w ill be $125. Houston's session w ill feature speeches by Robert Gough Jr., Data Resources senior vice president and economist, covering the U .S. out­ look; Plaut, with the Texas outlook; G. 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T hree in stru ctors will hold a p an ­ evalu atin g G orba­ el discussion ch e v 's d ifferences and h o w they af­ o KUT-FM fect Soviet lead ers' Jan . 21 at 6 :30 p .m uter Rutland, in stru cto r in g o v ern m en t; Sidney lan­ M on as, p rofessor of Slavic g u ag es an d h istory; and Robert G er­ m a n , visiting T om Slick P rofessor of W orld P eace in th e L yn d on B. Jo h n ­ so n School of Public A ffairs, are the p anel m em bers. "S in ce G orbach ev gain ed p ow er last spring, opinions h av en 't really crystallized to w h eth er he rep resen ts a new force in the lead ersh ip ," M onas said. th e W est as in P resid en t Reagan m et with G or­ b achev in a N ovem b er sum m it. No m ajor policy ad van cem en ts w ere m ad e, but both leaders said the dis­ cu ssion will lead to better under­ stan d in g betw een the tw o cou n ­ tries. reflect m ajoi cy. h >)j " W e sh ouldn 't think that he (G or­ b achev) necessarily looks upon the w orld or on the structure of gover­ n an ce in th e Soviet Union any dif­ ferently from those w ho elevated him to p o w e r," G erm an said. "H e 's very m uch a p rod uct of the system in w hich he has risen to the top. " H e 's m ore dynam ic in p art be­ cau se h e's you nger —- about 20 years — than his p red ecessors, and he's m ore willing to m eet with the p re s s ," G erm an said. G orbachev also g ets out m ore in the Soviet U n­ ion m aking ap pearan ces, which m akes him look like a "W estern pol­ itician ," G erm an said. ft h.v ¡I! ■« ¡¡. !< a d e r s ' t hat he T hou gh G orb ach ev b ro u g h t a c harige of t* 1 H t- -hin p >rtv no ft i n d i at ch an ges in p o licy ," G erm an said. G orbachev has show n som e "tok en gestu res like letting U .S. spouses leave the cou n try for visits before the N ovem b er sum m it, but he h asn 't let h undreds of th ou sand s of Soviet Jew s leave w h o seek to leave the cou ntry d o s o ," G erm an said. T h e s o c i e t y . " Rutland also said he thinks G o r­ bachev's "big play on the alcohol is­ sue will not profoundly alter the So­ v ie t S o v ie t govern m en t recently cracked dow n on alcohol abuse by raising prices and enforcing stiff penalties for al­ coholism . H ow ever, oth er Soviet leaders have m ad e similar attem pts, he said. W ith G orhn ch ^v c o n d o lid a ':ng ■ • . ‘ and >aid L u r d c t of the ap pointm en ts on Soviet poli­ cy is questionable because the ap ­ pointees also are a product of the sam e system as G orbachev. "I w ould tend to play dow n dif- ferences betw een G orbachev and previous leaders. He is better on TV, has a nicer wife, but he h asn't show n any difference from the o th ­ ers. H e's just y o u n g e r," Rutland said. M onas agreed . "It m ight do well to be a little skeptical. G orbach ev is m ore ed ucated , but I d o n 't think he'll be any d ifferen t," he said. Rutland said to im prove the Sovi- nomy, G orba chev ould re­ ? «. vi v- n agricuh m p ro g rrm would allow som e private i¿ rmtng. Rutland said other Soviet leaders have put similar program s into ac­ tion on a small scale, but the proj­ ects have never had m uch of an im ­ p act on the Soviet econom y. fhat # And the traditional com p etition f with China m ay keep G o rb ach ev ! from starting reform s such as allow - * ing private businesses and farm ing, • since the C hinese have in stitu te d! }* th em , Rutland said. M onas said som e reform s G orba-Í chev is p ressing have sh ow n a n ega-j tive effect. C racking dow n on ab­ sen teeism ca u sin g ! at work d ir mfort for the Soviet people, he* is aH Wl en it t il b .ppens at on ce it ist con straining on the people. 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State Dorm # Zip - / l r .—..... — is Houston your hometown? □ Yes □ No The Houston Chronicle Page 8/The Daily Texan/Tuesday, January 14, 1986 UT short of funds for student loans jy Daily Texan Staff KENNE7. Many students applying for fi­ nancial aid this spring will have to get m oney from sources other than the University, partly because of the several officials tuition said M onday. increase, Michael N ovak, director of stu ­ dent financial aid, said som e stu­ dents will have a difficult time re­ ceiving aid the University because "allocations are exhaust­ e d ." from N ovak said the tuition raise w as a factor in depleting funds, because the hike increased the number of students needing loans. for N ovak also said a new, more complex procedure students seeking Texas G uaranteed Student Loans helped make more students aware they were eligible to receive aid from the University or from the federal governm ent. George Torres, Texas Guaranteed Student Loan research analyst, also said the lack of funds mav have been caused by the recent tuition in­ crease, which raised resident tuition from $4 a sem ester hour last year to $12 this year. The hike calls for an increase to $24 a sem ester hour by 1994. The bill also sets aside 15 percent o f each resident studen t's tuition and 5 percent of non-residents' tui­ tion for financial aid. Torres said the am ount of money a school receives from the state for aid d e p e n d s on fin, ncial the school's size. A lso, som e universi­ ties reserve the funds for needy stu ­ dents and others dispense it on a first-come, first-serve basis, he said. Novak said although the Univer­ sity has a shortage of funds, there are still three possible sources of fi­ nancial aid. One possibility is the TGSL, a ser­ vice created by the Texas Legisla­ ture in 1979 to help students gain loans from banks and savings and loans. Don Davis, associate director of financial aid, said a second possibili­ ty for undergraduate students with­ out degrees is to apply for a Pell Grant through the American Col­ lege Testing service. Students can apply for the Pell Grant, from a federal governm ent fund, by filling out a family financial statem ent available in the financial aid office. N ovak said students can three expect a weeks. respon se within A third possibility for financial aid is the U niversity's employm ent re­ in which agencies ferral system , around cam pus post information about job opportunities on the bul­ letin board in the financial aid off­ ice. Novak said approxim ately 23,500 applications have been filed for fi­ nancial aid, and 12,000 have com ­ pleted the three-week mailing pro­ cess. Of these, 10,000 have been approved, he said. Registration! altered for fall procedure semester By BRENDA TELLO Daily Texan Staff Beginning with fall registration, continuing students at the Universi­ ty m ust either register in advance for upcom ing sem esters or go through late registration. The new registration process, adopted by the Registrar's Office, w as recom m ended by the Student Senate last fall, said Mike Allen, a s­ sociate registrar. The office has changed the name of pre-registration to registration, Allen said. Allen said students who do not register in advance during the allo­ cated times will no longer be able to register along with new students a w eek before classes. Instead, they will have to go through late registra­ tion and pay a $25 late registration fee, he said. N ew students will still be allowed to either register a week before classes or pre-register during orien­ tation, Allen said. The new registration process al­ low s continuing students to register in advance for sum m er classes. In previous sem esters, sum m er stu ­ dents were required to register a week before classes and could not pre-register. Approxim ately 33,000 students have pre-registered for the spring sem ester, Allen said. "If we had the remaining continu­ ing students and the readmitted in advance, students then we could im prove the student registered schedule and things would be more organ ized," Allen said. "Th e pur­ pose of this new procedure is to prom pt students to register early so that people can take care of their business in ad van ce." Students' Association President Scott Scarborough called the new process a "m uch more efficient pro­ cedure." Students' A ssociation Vice Presi­ dent Janie Perelman said early regis­ tration should be held more toward the end of a sem ester, because stu­ dents will have a better idea of what courses they need and want. Scarborough and Perelman said because students will not be able to register a w eek before classes, they should be granted a few extra dead days to prepare for final exam s. Continuing and readmitted stu­ dents will be given a week at the end of the spring sem ester to regis­ ter in advance for sum m er and fall classes. They will be given two other days to register in advance for the fall sem ester; there will be only one day allocated for late registra­ tion and one day for centralized adds and drops. Currently, students have two days of registration, two days of add s and d rops and one day of late registraion. The new registration procedure w as approved by the Student Sen­ ate last fall and w as m odified by the University Council before it w as en­ acted by the Registrar's Office. Advertising junior Warren White checks his spring semester course schedule while leaving the Peter T. Rawn Academic Center Monday. Drunken driving arrests, fatality numbers decline in 1985 By THANHHA LAI D aily T e xa n Staff The num ber of charges for driv­ ing while intoxicated on the Univer­ sity cam pus decreased from 38 in 1984 to 31 in 1985, while the number of public intoxication offenders dropped from 134 to 103, a Univer­ sity police official said. UT police Lt. Bill Best said the Po­ lice D epartm ent has not enforced any different regulation, and the de­ cline might be because of better public aw areness. than in 1984. An Austin Police Departm ent spokesm an said DWI charges in the city decreased from 3,655 in 1984 to 3,098 in 1985. But the number of col­ lisions to 33,138, while the number of fatali­ ties decreased from 88 to 74. from 31,229 increased Mike Cox, Departm ent of Public Safety spokesm an, said statew ide statistics for drunken driving are not available, but estim ated there were 200 fewer traffic deaths in 1985 The state Legislature in 1983 a p ­ proved several statew ide anti-DWI m easures. Although the figures show a de­ crease in DWr cases, a report by the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Lyn­ don B. Johnson School of Public Af­ fairs said a statewide information system is needed to track down drunken drivers more effectively. The report asked for legislators to adopt a system that would keep records of the offender's entire DWI process — from the arrest to pun­ ishment and/or treatment. "A t least se rio u s m is­ for dem eanors, there needs to be a way to track them d o w n ," said Robert Macdonald, planning and research for the highway depart­ analyst ment. "Som eone charged with it (DWI) in the Panhandle could have a clean record in Travis County. There is no way to kn ow ." In 1983, the Texas Legislature passed a series of stricter DWI laws, but M acdonald said not enough funding or personnel have been dedicated to these laws. No legislators from the Criminal Jurisprudence or Liquor Regulation Committee could be contacted to discuss the bill or the DWI informa­ tion system . M acdonald said the two bill pro­ rated m ost effective by visions county officials throughout Texas were the ability to bring a person to court when refusing to take the blood alcohol concentration test and the definition of legal intoxication as 0 .1 percent blood alcohol concen­ tration level. The use of videotapes was rated least effective. "If you get a good alcohol drink­ er, he can be a good actor and fool y o u ," M acdonald said. "By the time you get him on cam era, he's fine." 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To begin delivery, eall: Mike Lamb, 388-1797 or 1-888-392-9738, ext. 6744 Former UT President Homer Price Rainey dies By PAULA BLESENER Daily Texan Staff "Inasmuch as Dr. H om er Price Rainey has failed an d refused to conform to an d be gu ided by the laws, rules, regulations and policies o f the Board . .. i t is the judgm ent o f the Board o f Regents that the inter­ est o f the University does require the rem oval o f Dr. H om er Price Rai­ ney from his office." — Board of Re­ gents statement, Nov. 1, 1944. Former UT President Homer Rai­ ney, who was fired in 1944 after charging the UT System Board of Regents with manipulation and in­ terference, died Dec. 19 after pro­ tracted illness in a Boulder, Colo., nursing home. Rainey, bom in 1897 in the small East Texas town of Clarksville, was UT president from 1939 to 1944. His battles with members of the board culminated in a list of 16 grievances, including those accus­ ing the regents of firing three eco­ nomics professors for teaching New Deal politics and of failing to estab­ lish a graduate school in soureau- crats and socialists.” Rainey also accused the regents of censorship by banning John Dos Passos' U.S.A. as required reading in English courses and submitting to pressure from then-Gov. W. Lee "Pappy” O'Daniel. Rainey's firing touched off severe reaction from educators and stu­ dents and prompted UT Vice Presi­ dent J. Alton Burdine to resign. About 5,000 students marched be­ hind a black-draped coffin embla­ zoned with the words "Academic Freedom” to a Capitol protest rally. "The rally was essentially my idea, at least having it be a funeral,” said Helen Parolla, Rainey's daugh­ ter. "H e did want to be president of the University of Texas more than any job. He gave up the job that he wanted most for principles.” The American Association of Uni­ versity Professors censured thp I Ini- versity for nine years after Rainey was fired. The Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools also blacklisted the University. "Homer Rainey was a great per­ son and an East Texas Baptist preacher," said Ira Iscoe, director of the Plan II program, who came to the University two years after Rai­ ney left. "He was not some outsider ... He did a lot for academic free­ dom." The regents reacted to the ad­ verse national attention by holding a board election of a permanent president for the University. The board considered reinstating Rai­ ney, but on Jan. 26, 1945, voted 6-1 not to rehire Rainey for the post. "They had to do it because there was so much protest," Parolla said. "A great number of faculty mem­ bers left, especially in the humani­ ties and social sciences. They (the regents) felt threatened by social sci­ ences and liberal arts." Dudley Woodward Jr., chairman of the board, wrote a booklet to ex­ plain the board's failure to rehire Rainey. Woodward noted Rainey's lack of cooperation with the board and published excerpts from a letter he received from an anonymous federal government official who al­ leged Rainey had a history of waivering cooperation with the re­ gents as president of Bucknell Uni­ versity. The official wrote that during World War II, Rainey retained an economics instructor who was a "conscientious objector" before and during the instructor's trial on fed­ eral charges of failure to comply with draft regulations. The board dismissed the instructor and repri­ manded Rainey for not advising them of the situation when he learned of it eight months earlier. In 1946, Rainey ran for governor but lost in a Democratic run-off elec­ tion to Beauford Jester. H e b ecam e a p ro fesso r o f h ig h er ed u cation at the U n iv ersity o f C o lo ­ rad o in Boulder, w h ere he served as pro fesso r em eritu s until his d eath. R ain ey received an u n d erg ra d u ­ ate d eg ree from A u stin C o lleg e in S h erm an and earned a d octo rate in high er ed u cation from th e U n iv ersi­ ty o f C h icago. H e pitched m in or leagu e baseball for the H ou ston B uffalos in the T ex­ as L eagu e during his college years. Rainey served as p resid en t of Franklin C o lleg e in Ind iana in 1927 and Bucknell U n iv ersity in P en n sy l­ vania befo re b eco m in g d irecto r of th e A m erican Y outh C o m m ission in W ash in g ton , D .C . tw o R a in e y s u ffe re d s e v e r e stro k es five years ago, leaving him w ith d im inished intellectu al cap aci­ ty, Parolla said. H e also w as afflict­ ed with P ark in so n 's d isease and heart trouble. A fter breaking his hip last sp rin g, he w as confined to a w h eelch air. 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RIVERSIDE DRIVE 443-6303 (Townlake Plaza) M onday/W ednesday/Friday 9:00-6:00 Tuesday/Thursday 9:00-8:00 Saturday 10:00-6:00 & loca Page 10/The Daily Texan/Tuesday, January 14, 1986 Austin transportation program sought By DONNY JACKSON Daily Texan Staff More than 500 area residents d isag re ed M onday night on the proposed Austin w hether Transportation Study is the best plan for the city, although most agreed that Austin needs a trans­ portation plan. The public appeals varied from businesses asking the ATS Advi­ sory Policy Committee to hurry with construction of the roadway plan to neighborhood groups ask­ ing that the plan be halted because it calls for a freeway to go through their neighborhoods. O ther Austinites asked the com­ mittee to delay its vote and recon­ sider several parts of the plan. The ATS, which includes an ex­ panded roadway plan and transit system, is designed to m eet the in­ creasing needs caused by A ustin's projected growth through 2020. It was d e­ signed by CRS Sirrine, a Denver engineering firm. transportation According to the study, Austin will have a population of 927,000 in 2000, a 60 percent increase over the present population of 577,000. A population of 1.3 to 1.7 million is forecast for Austin in 2020. Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D- Austin and chairm an of the Policy Advisory Committee, said before the public hearing that many of the public's concerns about the plan are unfounded because the ATS is flexible. "It is definitely not set in stone,” Barrientos said. "It is a blueprint which can be updated at any tim e." Two of the roadway plan's ma­ jor features would require new construction. The outer parkway would include extensions of RR 620 and FM 973 to form a loop around the city, and MoKan park­ way would run parallel to Inter­ state 35 to the east. Arterial roads also would be constructed for these parkways. Much of roadway plan roads, al­ would use existing though some roads would be wid­ ened into freeways. An inner loop would be the dow ntown area by U.S. 183, Loop 360 and Ben White Boulevard. formed around the O ther roads which would be widened are U.S. 290, 1-35, Loop 1, RR 2222 and Koenig Lane. The widening of RR 2222 and Koenig Lane was the focus of much of the plan's first public hearing on W ednesday. Many neighborhood representatives said neighborhoods would be disrupt­ ed by the widening. The transportation plan will be enacted in two stages. Midterm goals will be completed by 2000 and long-term goals by 2020. Austin City Councilmember Sal­ ly Shipman, like m any critics of the study, complain ATS is not a transportation plan, but a road­ way plan w ith mass transit ideas included as an afterthought. The study calls for $1.87 billion to be spent on transit im prove­ than 88 percent m ents. More would be spent after the year 2000. ........... i i i m n m w MoPac Extension Outer Loop RR 2222 MoKan Austin police make major marijuana bust By KELLYE NORRIS Daily Texan Staff Austin police officers said M on­ day that 110 pounds of marijuana netted in one of the city's largest drug raids is "just the tip of the ice­ berg of A ustin's drug traffic." "This is our biggest raid in at least a year, maybe longer, and it's not very big w hen you think of all the other stuff that could be out there," said Austin police Lt. Pete Taylor. Acting on a tip from a police in­ formant, narcotics officers arrested Abel Anaya Jackson, 45, of 126 E. Laurel Lane, Gilbert Cuellar Jr., 38, of 2006 Bert Ave., and Victor Carde­ nas, 27, of 1323 Southport Drive Apt. B at 1:30 p.m . Saturday. Taylor said the suspects attem pted to d e­ liver 28 pounds of marijuana to an undercover officer at Cardenas' resi­ dence. "We had an inform er tip us off to these people earlier in the w eek," Taylor said. "W e contacted them Tuesday and arranged for the buy on Saturday. We asked them to d e­ liver 100 pounds of m arijuana to us." Officers discovered 80 to 85 pounds of m arijuana in the trunk of the suspects' late model Oldsmo- bile. Taylor estim ated the street value of the m arijuana at $140,000. The three suspects were charged late Saturday w ith aggravated deliv­ ery of m arijuana and were released after posting $10,000 bond each, court records indicate. Although Taylor said Saturday's raid was "a big one" for Austin offi­ cers, he said he believes the m en may be only a small part of a larger drug operation. He said officers are continuing to investigate the case. "We believe there are other peo­ ple connected with them, working with them ," he said. "W e're sure this is not all there is." A ustin's marijuana traffic, which Taylor characterized as "pretty heavy," has picked up in recent m onths, he said. "It's the end of the growing sea­ son in Mexico, and there's a lot of it now being brought into the coun­ try," Taylor said. "Like a last m in­ ute rush. But m arijuana has always been a big part of A ustin's drug traf­ fic." But state police officials said one of the reasons for the rise in mari­ juana traffic is the growing popular­ ity of domestic m arijuana. Once scarce, some officials now estimate domestic m arijuana accounts for up to half of street sales. "O ur officers have seized more domestic m arijuana this past year than before," said Texas Depart­ m ent of Public Safety spokesm an Mike Cox. "The quality is up, and people no longer w ant to take the risk of bringing drugs across the border with the increased crackdown on drugs," Cox said. "But Mexican m arijuana is still a big problem. With the economic situation dow n there, you can turn a pretty nice profit in this country." Transportation Plan for the Austin Metropolitan Area Daily Texan Map by Mark Greene "W hat we have is a roadway system designed to get people from Point A to Point B," said Shipman, also a Policy Advisory Committee member. "They didn't consider the value system of the community or the cost." Barrientos said the Policy Advi­ sory Committee would not vote on Jan. 24 as planned, but said there would not be a "substantial delay" before the vote. Shipman said she is worried ATS construction would be given priority and inner-city roadway construction would be delayed. But Barrientos said inner-city con­ struction would not be influenced by ATS because the ATS will be built with state and federal funds while the inner-city roads will be built with city money. Construction ow ner to challenge Honts for county seat By LISA BAKER Daily Texan Staff The first Republican to file for Travis C ounty Com missioner Bob Honts' seat an­ nounced his bid Monday, saying the recent 24 percent tax rate increase signaled finan­ cial irresponsibility within the office. Zack Dawes, a partner in Guy Dawes Construction Co., said, "There is some­ thing wrong at the courthouse. I intend to restore the term 'public servant' to this off­ ice." Dawes, 28, has served five years on the ‘There is something wrong at the courthouse. I intend to re­ store the term “public serv­ ant” to this office.’ ________ — Zack Dawes, candidate Travis County Republican Party Executive Committee as a Republican precinct chair­ man. He was a delegate to the Republican Party county and state conventions in 1982 and 1984. "We have been hit with a 24 percent in­ crease in the tax rate, coupled with the ex­ panded tax base and evaluations, resulting in a 35 percent increase in tax revenue in one year's tim e," Dawes said. "At this time w hen our county officials should be buck­ ling dow n on cost and eliminating waste in county governm ent, our commissioners aw arded themselves a salary increase." Dawes also said he wanted to continue "beefing up" Travis C ounty law enforce­ ment. The Travis County Sheriff's Depart­ m ent and county and district attorneys' of­ fices are "m oving in the right direction," but need staff increases, he said. Dawes said he would not make an issue of H onts' recent DWI trial. The Precinct 2 commissioner w as arrested Feb. 24, 1985, on MoPac Expressway by a Departm ent of Public Safety trooper. His first trial ended in a mistrial, but he was acquitted in late December by a New Braunfels jury after the trial was moved because of extensive pub­ licity. Honts said he plans to run again and would "welcome all comers to the race ... It looks like the Republicans will have a fairly healthy cat fight in their prim ary." He said his DWI trial probably will not affect his campaign. At least two other Republicans are con­ sidered potential candidates for the office, but only Dawes has filed for the Republican nom ination. Former Austin Electric Utility Commission Chairman Bruce Todd an­ nounced Dec. 10 for the Democratic nomi­ nation in the May 3 primary election. EVERY BOOK for EVERY CLASS at the BEST PRICES ONLY AT THE CO-OP ONLY the Co-Op has EVERY BOOK for EVERY CLASS! The CO-OP’s IBM 38 System provides the most current Book and Course information at all times. Just bring in your U.T. fee receipt when you buy your books, as books are arranged by department, course number and instructor. ★ The Co-Op has a very Liberal Return Policy! 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We think that raising (the passing grade) from the normal 70 to 75 was not an educational decision, but a political decision designed to assure that a prescribed percentage of teachers will fail," TSTA spokeswoman Annette Cootes said in a statement Monday. Cootes estimated roughly 12 percent of the state's teachers will fail the test, based on results of a similar exam teachers took in October. Teachers who fail must pass the test by June 30 to remain certified. "I'm sure if they want to fail 35 percent they can skew the test to do it," Cootes said. "If a certain num­ ber don't fail, they'll (board members) have egg on their face." Cootes said the minimum grade is "n o t realistic, not reasonable — it's unfair." The Texas Federation of Teachers, which has not ac­ tively opposed competency testing, also suggested the board's action may have been political. "W e're not alarmed by it," TFT Secretary-Treasurer John O'Sullivan said. "W e thought that a score of 70 would have been adequate ... Perhaps the (Texas Edu­ cation) commissioner and the state board were protect­ ing themselves from criticism from Rep. (Bill) Ham­ mond and (Lt. Gov.) Bill H obby." State Rep. H ammond, R-Dallas, is a member of the House Public Education Committee and a supporter of competency testing. upon my personal conviction that these standards are minimal." Hobby has said the competency tests might be too easy. State Board of Education Chairman Jon Brumley said the board's action was not politically motivated. "The board — so far anyway — is not worried about political repercussions," he said. "M ost of the (board members) thought that 75 was reasonable. Some thought 70 was, some thought 80 w as." In a Friday letter to the board recommending 75 for a passing grade, Texas Education Commissioner W.N. Kirby defended1 the minimum passing grade. "I realize this standard is above 70 percent, but sure­ ly college graduates charged with teaching children can answ er 41 items out of 55 on a minimum-skills reading test," Kirby wrote. "M y recommendations are based The Texas Education Agency estimates 5 percent of the state's teachers will not be able to pass the test by the June 30 deadline and will lose certification, includ­ ing 25 percent of black teachers and 10 percent of Hispanic teachers. "In the main, we think Texas teachers will do better than the TEA has predicted," O'Sullivan said. Both the rSTA and the TFT have sponsored work­ shop programs to help teachers with the test. Board member Emmett Conrad said he voted for 75 as a passing grade only after being assured the board would "spend whatever necessary" to help teachers who fail the March test prepare to retake the test. PACK YOUR LUNCH! Winter Clearance Sale' Sat Jan.11 - Sat. Jan. 18 ALL CLOTHING 10% TO 40% OFF All cale n d ars Vz price 3 9 ? ? 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