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Good
Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 58 years
It's Friday
October 9, 1981
Vol. 58, No. 9
Mubarak orders change
in Sadat’s burial spot
CAIRO, Egypt (UPI)—President-
designate Hosni Mubarak ordered
Thursday that the body of his slain
predecessor, Anwar Sadat, be buried
next to the tomb of Egypt’s unknown
soldier instead of in a separate
mausoleum, sources close to
Mubarak said.
The source said burial at the tomb
was “the greatest honor” that could
be paid to Sadat, who was
assassinated within sight of the same
tomb Tuesday by a killer squad led by
an officer identified as a Moslem
fanatic.
Defense officials identified the
assassins as four Egyptians led by a
revenge-seeking soldier whose
brother was arrested in Sadat’s
crackdown a month ago.
Mubarak, unanimously nominated
by Parliament Wednesday night to
succeed Sadat, also ordered a
simplification of the funeral ar-
rangements in order to ease the pro-
blem of guarding the foreign
dignitaries who will attend the
funeral.
Mubarak vowed Wednesday night
to “never deviate” from the policies
of Sadat.
“We will march along Sadat’s path
in tribute to his memory and prin-
ciples,” the 53-year-old vice president
said in accepting the sweeping
parliamentary nomination, to the
presidency.
“We will never deviate from it.”
The nomination will be put to the
public in a national referendum next
Tuesday—three days after Sadat is
given a state funeral on Satur-
day—and Mubarak will be sworn in
the following day, Egypt’s official
media said.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
will head the American delegation,
which also will include former
presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald
Ford and Richard M. Nixon.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, Sadat’s partner in the
U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace
process, will be among the foreign
guests. He created an extra security
problem by insisting on walking while
in Cairo because of the Jewish sab-
bath.
The government has not announced
the time of Saturday’s funeral,
although official sources said it was
likely to start around 11 a.m., 5 a.m.
EDT.
The body of the slain president will
be taken from the morgue of the arm-
ed forces hospital to a small mosque
nearby for prayers attended only by
relatives, close friends and
associates, officials said.
The body then will be flown by
helicopter to the grounds of a sporting
club where mourners will form for a
900-yard procession to the tomb of the
unknown soldier.
The tomb is housed in a hollow
pyramid facing the reviewing stand
where Sadat was shot Tuesday while
watching a military parade.
Sale of AW ACS affected
WASHINGTON (UPI)-President
Reagan’s embattled AWACS arms
package for Saudi Arabia was caught
in the crossfire of Tuesday’s
assassination of Egyptian leader An-
war Sadat. Whether it was helped or
hurt wasn’t clear.
Sadat was killed in an attack while
reviewing troops on the outskirts of
Cairo.
One opponent to the sale of the
radar planes said the death of Sadat
pushed the entire question of Middle
East policy “back to square one.” But
a conservative senator said the
assassination had changed his mind
and he now supports the $8.5 billion
AWACS deal.
Senate Republican leader Howard
Baker called for a “moratorium” in
the AWACS debate “until we have
had a chance to digest the enorminity
of this event.”
The Senate is the main bat-
tleground for the controversy, which
has pivoted around Israeli opposition
to the sale and questions about
whether sensitive American
technology would be safe in the hands
of the Saudi monarchy.
Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., an op-
ponent of the sale, said Sadat’s death
will lessen its chances for approval
because the assassination “will rein-
force to the American public the in-
stability of certain Arab
goverments.”
Both houses of Congress must re-
ject the proposal in order to block the
sale. Substantial pro-Israeli opposi-
tion in tne House seems to make its
veto there likely.
Several congressmen, including
Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., called
for Reagan to withdraw the proposal
temporally to allow for an assessment
of the post-Sadat Middle East.
Rep. William Broomfield, of
Michigan, the ranking Republican on
the House Foreign Affairs Committee
and an opponent of the sale, said, “If
the news is correct, you don’t have to
worry about AWACS ... because then
we’ll be back to square one in the Mid-
dle East conflict.”
Just passing through—
Although he found his stay at Lamar University
hospitable, this visitor to campus Tuesday morn-
ing had to be on his way to bigger and better
things. He crossed Port Arthur Road to hop the
next Kansas City Southern freight train to Kan-
sas City, Kans.
Photo by IAN MARTIN
Regents approve funding schedule, new home
By DAVID HARRINGTON
UP Managing Editor
The Lamar Board of Regents ap-
proved an anticipated fund balances
schedule presented by Lamar presi-
dent Dr. C. Robert Kemble Thursday,
and also approved plans to in-
vestigate constructing a new
presidential residence.
Also approved by the regents were
proposals for a revision of academic
promotion policy and a new two-year
respiratory therapy certificate pro-
gram.
In the fund balance sheet presented
to the regents, available funds were
pointed out by showing the amount of
money from each financial
source—the parking fund, the ad
valorem tax, the combined fee bond
and the combined fee fund—sub-
tracted from the September 1981
balance allotted by the state.
A total of $5.9 million in minimum
funds available was estimated after a
total expenditure of over $3.8 million
was subtracted from a total
September 1981 balance of $9.8
million.
This funds-available amount will be
combined with nearly $2 million in
money expended which has not yet
been spent to invest in two-year cer-
tificates of deposit at approximately
13-percent interest. The $2 million
that is unspent comes from money for
such items as construction, Kemble
said in a later interview, since pay-
ment for construction is not paid all at
once in advance, but in installments
as certain stages of construction are
finished.
The money invested will then ac-
crue nearly $2.1 million over the two-
year CD period, making a total
reserve fund of $8.06 million, accor-
ding to the funding report. Five
million dollars will be taken out of
that fund for emergency building fun-
ding (used in cases of buildings
destroyed or damaged, for example,
and the remainder will go into addi-
tional projects above and beyond
what’s already approved by the Coor-
dinating Board.
“It (the funding balance program)
doesn’t solve long-term financial pro-
blems,” Kemble told the regents,
“but it gives us a good sense of where
we are in funding for the next two
years.”
In an interview with the University
Press, Kemble said the program
points out two things. “One,” he
said,“we’ve managed our money well
and are in a good short-term position.
Second, it does show a need for the
legislature to take action on replace-
ment of the ad valorem tax fund so we
can make a better, cost-efficient long-
term program.”
Plans for the new presidential
house are to have it built on campus in
a location separate from the existing
facility, Dr. Andrew Johnson, vice
president for administration and
planning, said at the meeting.
The plan was chosen from among
three options drawn up by the
Buildings and Grounds Committee of
the Board of Regents, Johnson said.
The first option was to try and make
major renovations on the house Kem-
ble currently lives in, built in 1940
when the school was Lamar Junior
College, at an estimated cost of
$150,000, including dislocation costs
involving leasing a house for the
president to live in during construc-
tion time, plus moving and storage
costs. The other option was to tear
down the old house and build the new
structure in its place; a project
estimated to cost around $300,000, in-
cluding the cost of removing the old
house and building the new one.
The new house, according to the
proposal by the regents, should not
exceed $250,000, and the size of the
structure will only be as much as the
existing structure. “The new house,
however, will be built with the proper
design for the next 20 or 30 years,”
Johnson said. “The new house won’t
necessarily be bigger; it will just be
more efficient.
The existing building, he added,
will be moderately renovated at a
cost of $15,000 and used for a yet-to-
be-decided academic purpose similar
to the conversion of a campus
residence to the Office of University
Housing.
At the meeting, Kemble told the
regents that he wished not to be ac-
tively involved in the planning of the
new house, saying a president
“should not get involved in the discus-
sion and planning of the presidential
home. This should be designed by the
university and not by the president.”
Other items meeting with regents’
approval include the expansion of
Parking Lot 16, located between Mor-
ris Field and the Alumni House,
because the land there, formerly
privately owned, had been purchased
by the university.
Also, a new degree offering—a two-
year associate of applied science
degree—in respiratory therapy was
approved by regents, plus a review of
a promotion policy for faculty and ad-
ministration at Lamar was approved
for future study.
A policy stating that monies
donated directly to the university will
be place in the Regents Development
Fund to provide money for projects
not normally funded by state ap-
propriation was passed by the
regents.
Finally, a move by the Coordinating
Board to revise a 1977 policy on
special scholarships by allowing state
monies to be used in place of universi-
ty funds when matched with federal
monies was also passed.
Anwar Sadat’s death evokes reactions
By NANCY LAWRENCE
o( the UP staff _
American and foreign students
attending Lamar University had
mixed emotions about the
assassination, Tuesday, of Egyp-
tian president Anwar Sadat.
A few American students replied
that they didn’t care, but the ma-
jority expressed their sorrow, say-
ing that this country had lost a
faithful ally, and that the world
had lost a friend and peace-maker.
Among foreign students, reac-
tions were mixed, with many feel-
ing that Sadat’s death would bring
about a good change for Egypt and
other Middle Eastern countries.
One graduate student from
Taiwan (Republic of China) had
an unusual and interesting reac-
tion.
“People from different countries
have different opinions,” Juang
Yu-jen, graduate student in
business adminstration, said when
asked how she felt about the
assassination of Sadat.
She said she feels very sorry that
many students from the Mid Eas*
are happy about the assassination.
“I talked to other Chinese
students about this problem,” she
said. “We do not like that Sadat
was killed, because he did a lot of
peaceful things for Israel and the
Mid East. We like peace—we like
peace. Students from the Mid East
say they don’t want peace. They
say Sadat did a lot of things wrong.
They say everything he did was for
the American people, and the
American government.”
Juang said she didn’t really
know how to feel about the at-
titudes of Middle Eastern
students.
“I’ve only been in this country
one year,” she said. “When I was
in my country, I thought that he
was doing a very good job for
peace. If he hadn’t negotiated with
Israel, there would be no peace.
“His country would have been
suffering with fighting like other
countries such as Iran and Iraq.
“After I came here, I kept in
touch with friends from the Mid
East and now I am not sure that he
was doing the job that people
wanted him to do—so I changed
my mind. I changed it to more sub-
tle ways.”
Juang said that she feels that
Sadat was killed because he
negotiated peace with Israel, or,
she said, perhaps the Russians
were to blame.
Juang said that political pro-
blems exist, too, in Taiwan, but the
Chinese people are more sensitive.
“You see, in my country,” she
said, “we are forbidden to keep in
touch or communicate with people
from mainland China.
“When I came to this country, I
met some students from mainland
China, and although we are from
different governments, we have a
very good relationship.
“In our freedom here, we are
just like brothers and sisters. It is
like two brothers who are living in
separate houses, but in the next
generation they go out and they
meet each other, and they still
have a very good relationship.”
Juang said that Taiwan has two
problems: over-population and
lack of natural resources. “If we
combined together with mainland
China,” she said, “we would have
more land and more natural
resources. Someday we will com-
bine, but we will combine in a very
peaceful way—not by fighting or
because we are forced to do so.
“Maybe it’s just an idea, but it is
the way the Republic of China and
mainland China students living
here feel—it is the way of the
younger generation.”
See IN CAMPUS VIEW, page 4
1
Judge O’Connor didn’t wait long
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sandra
Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court’s
newest member and its first woman,
didn’t wait long to jump into the
court’s work.
In fact, it took her just 48 minutes of
sitting on the highest tribunal to inter-
rupt an attorney with a question.
Attorney John Silard was vigorous-
ly making his points about the errors
of the Interior Department in its oil
and gas leasing practices when he
was disturbed by a woman’s voice
from the bench.
Mrs. O’Connor’s inquiry to
Silard—representing the Energy Ac-
tion Educational Foundation in a suit
A two-month delay in the in-
stallation of telephones in Stadium
Hall is scheduled to end Saturday
evening.
The Bell Telephone Co. will be
working on the installation of the
phones Saturday, Bruce
Stracener, director of university
housing, said Thursday.
He said the reason for the delay
has been “the telephone company
had to get a permit from the Texas
against Interior Secretary James
Watt—came after seven other
justices had peppered the attorney
with questions.
Silard, a lawyer addicted to
finger—pointing and handwaving,
was in the midst of replying to
another question when Mrs. O’Connor
broke in.
“If I may just complete my
thought,” he said, and finished his
response. Then he turned toward the
new justice to take her question,
which involved the state of
California’s stake in the case.
The court held no special ceremony
to welcome its new member as she
Highway Department to lay the
cables under the highway (Spur
380).”
This permit had to be approved
through Austin, Stracener said,
and this has taken time.
Several telephones have been in-
stalled temporarily to help with
the problem, he said. These phones
operate off of extensions of Car-
dinal Stadium phone lines.
*
moved into the chair at the far left of
the bench reserved for the court’s
most junior member.
About the only visible change was
on the small printed slips given to
spectators to show the seating of the
members. In previous terms, the
diagram pinpointed “Mr. Justice
Thus-and-so.” The new slips simply
list the members as “Justice.”
After about a dozen at-
torneys—roughly half of them
women—were admitted to practice
before the court, oral arguments
began on cases previously accepted
by the justices.
Inside_
Iceberg to arrive, page 2
Campus reaction, page 4
LU to battle Indians, page 5
Weather_
Weekend weather calls for
scattered showers and
thunderstorms today. Lows will
be in the mid- to upper-60s
through Sunday. Highs will be
in the mid to upper-70s today.
Phones to be installed
in Stadium Hall Saturday
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