Committee Checks Leaders' Grades

Inside Monday: Yell leaders’ presence necessary, p. 2. Anti-abortionists don’t show sup The Battalion port, p. 4. Monday, January 23, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611 Metcalfs men lose again, p. 8. College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Committee checks leaders’ grades By KIM TYSON mittee shall have an overall grade point “We aren’t sure whether well have Battalion Campus Editor ratio of at least 2.500 at the time of their problems with senators saying they won’t Grade qualifications for student gov election or appointment and post at least a sign to have their grades released,” King ernment members will be checked, says 2.000 GPR during their term of office.” said. Allison King, vice president of rules and (The Battalion incorrectly reported this as Paterson said he though most members regulations. “during their first term of office in a story would sign if they felt the requirement was King said Friday she set up a credentials last Thursday.) justified. He said the fact that both the committee to check mid-year grade aver constitution and the University Rides and “Members of the student senate must ages, after rumors circulated that certain regulations have grade requirements student leaders do not meet grade have an overall grade point ratio of at would make students feel this was jus least 2.250 at the time of their election and standards required to hold office. tified. maintain a 2.000 GPR during their term of Tom Paterson, the committee’s chair Eugene Lyles, assistant student legal office.” man, said he plans to issue waivers to all adviser, said that legally the grades can’t student government members at Wed King had previously not acted, she said, be checked without consent but that refus nesday’s student senate meeting. because she felt it was not her delegated ing to have their grades checked would The waiver would permit the registrar’s duty. She said she also plans a constitu make students eligible for removal by the office to see if grades meet the minimum tional by-laws revision to formally tell stu judicial board. The judicial board has final requirement stated in the constitution. dents that student government is respon authority to rule on constitutional Grades cannot be checked without written sible for seeing whether their grades meet violations. consent according to privacy laws regard academic standards of their offices. A writ of mandmus was filed Thursday ing access to personal records. King said Paterson will report directly ordering King to act, but was withdrawn The constitution states, “All members of to her, and that she will report his findings after she announced she had set up the the student government executive com to the senate. committee. Begin blasts Sadat’s speech Israel won’t attend talks United Press International Secretary of State Cyrus Vance returned Atherton is remaining in the Middle East. JERUSALEM - Israel says it will not at to Washington Sunday from a Middle East He will continue working on a statement tend military talks in Cairo, bringing all mission. A senior official aboard his plane of principles that was under discussion in direct negotiations with Egypt to a halt. said direct talks woidd resume in one week Jerusalem, But a senior U.S. official predicts the two to 10 days with the United States acting as nations will resume peace talks within 10 mediator. He said the rhetoric of both In Sadat’s speech Saturday, he called for days. sides would cool and the talks eventually total withdrawal from land occupied by Is Prime Minister Menahem Begin, after a would progress slowly and quietly. raeli in the 1967 war and recognition of 3 1/2-hour cabinet meeting Sunday, an The official, who could not be iden Palestinian rights to self-determination, nounced Israel would postpone the depar tified, also said the United States “would two points repeatedly rejected by Israel. ture of its delegation to the defense minis be willing to take a look at” Sadat’s request ters’ conference in Cairo. He said it was for sophisticated American weapons, in Begin said Israel is interested in a “suit because of Egyptian President Anwar cluding fighter planes. able atmosphere for the calm conduct of Sadat’s tough speech Saturday. U.S. Undersecretary of State Alfred negotiations.” In his speech, Sadat told his Parliament Egypt would fight “until the end of the world” if Israel refuses to withdraw from captured Arab land. He asked for sophisti cated American arms, like those included Russians complete in Israel’s arsenal. “Before the Eqyptian people’s assem bly, President Sadat made an extremist, aggressive speech and addressed ul first in-space docking timatums to Israel that are totally unac ceptable,” Begin said. United Press International Cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Begin today was scheduled to address MOSCOW - The Soviet Union has ac Georgy Grechko “conducted observations the Knessest, Israel’s parliament, on the complished another space first by docking and control over tethering and linkup,” stalled peace moves. Sadat was meeting a pilotless space capsule with a manned it said. with Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel orbiting space laboratory. The Soyuz 26 cosmonauts blasted into to “reassess the situation,” the official The Progress 1 linked up with the space Dec. 10 and boarded the Salyut Cairo daily Al Ahram said. Salyut 6 space station early Sunday, deliv Dec. 11. They were joined Jan. 11 by the ering fuel and other supplies to two Soyuz Soyuz 27 cosmonauts, making history’s Begin s announcement Sunday, which 26 cosmonauts now in their seventh week first double space docking. halted all direct negotiations between in orbit. The operation gave the Soviets at least a Egypt and Israel, followed Sadat’s surprise The official Tass news agency said it was temporary lead in space shuttles over the recall of Egyptian delegates from a foreign Battlaion photo by Jamie Aitken the first time a robot spacecraft had carried United States, which will not launch its ministers’ meeting in Jerusalem last week. out an automatic docking to deliver first shuttle until next year. The U.S. shut Despite their harsh statements, both supplies to a manned station in orbit. maintenance workers fill a wheelbarrow full of tle will regularly ,carry men, equipment sides left open the possibility of resuming But it was not thought to involve a and satellites to and from orbit on missions peace talks. leaves gathered in front of the Academic Building. breakthrough in technology because the lasting up to a month, while the Soviets Soviets are believed to carry out even the are concentrating on long-term stays in dockings of manned capsules by ground space. 'rimary, caucus season limited control. Tass said that after unloading fuel, life “The mutual search, rendezvous, support and scientific materials from the tethering and linkup of the spacecraft was Progress, the cosmonauts will reload the carried out automatically with the use of robot craft with their waste and it will be onboard radio-technical means and com sent into the dense layers of the atmo Party reforms favor Carter puting devices,” Tass said. sphere to burn up. United Press International limit the primary and caucus season, wipe As it stands now, at the end of two long frame in 1976 are forbidden to move out WASHINGTON - Any Democrat think- out often-mischieveous, cross-over days of debate: side it in 1980. The primary-caucus period g of challenging President Carter for the primaries and devise a complex system for The 1980 Democratic caucus and pri in 1976 was more than 20 weeks. Carter Congress to battle arty nomination two years from now can delegate allocation. mary season should run 13 weeks from the partisans were all for this one. nd little to cheer about in the work of the Now the reforms go to the Democratic second Tuesday in March to the second The ruling will have no bearing on so- arty’s special panel on delegate selection. National Committee for routine review. Tuesday in June. A special exemption for called “beauty contest” primaries that do The 58-member Winograd Commission The process was not smooth, and there New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation pri not award delegates. over Panama treaty enciled in the final changes on two years were frequent complaints that the lan mary was expected, however. States that To win delegates in future primaries or of reform work Sunday. It managed to guage was inexplicable. selected delegates in that 13-week time caucuses, a candidate now must exceed an United Press International legislation has been stalled with some of escalating threshold of vote percentages - WASHINGTON - Formal action on the the treaty’s best-known opponents in the another Carter-backed move. In 1976 that Panama Canal treaties was beginning this vanguard. threshold was 15 percent of the vote. It week in two Senate committees. But at As a result, it appears the Senate may be also was optional. In 1980, the threshold least one senator thinks the issue’s shock tied up all week on the proposed sweeping Scotland police find five will be 15 percent up to the second Tues waves already are causing delaying tactics overhaul of the archaic statutes. day, go to 20 percent by the second Tues on the Senate floor. The House planned action on 14 bills day in May and rise to 25 percent thereaf Ratification preliminaries on the canal this week, almost all of them routine. The ter. For primaries, the thresholds are accords were the major business of the major one - if it clears the Rules Commit mandatory.

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