'Rocky' Takes Top Film Award Student Complaints Bring Changes in Bus
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LIE UNIVERS 1 DAILY VOLUME 52 NUMBER 115 Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Texas, Tuesday, March 29, 1977 EIGHT PAGES LCHD votes to hire ~ management firm By DEBBI WHITNEY does not help with the funding of the Pennington feels there will be no UD Reporter teaching hospital. Pennington said. pressure from 'Cech officials to keep the Lubbock County Hospital District The firm would save on operational same firm for the Tech hospital. board members voted Monday to costs and quickly bring in Pennington said the board will ask for accept the concept of having a administrative talents, he said, but the advice from Tech on the decision of a management firm run the Health savings would not be enough to firm, but that the actual selection will Sciences Center Hospital and set up a necessitate the firm's services without be entirely a board decision. special committee to negotiate with one the help of state funding. Input will be gathered from the Tech or more firms and report back to the Board of Regents, the teaching hospital board. Although Hospital Affiliates staff, the LCHD staff, Lubbock county Board Chairman Marshall International, Inc., operates Thomason commissioners and others in the Pennington said he expects the General Hospital in Fl Paso where medical profession concerning the committee to report to the board within Tech medical students are now trained, selection. the week with its recommendations. Ben Robinson was appointed db committee chairman with J.C. Rickman and Jack Flygare to also Sand shield serve on the committee. 'Rocky' takes This unidentified Tech coed found her own unique way to of plastic seemed to work well enough for this student. (Photo The Texas Senate Monday passed on combat the blowing dust which plagued the area Monday. by Dennis Copeland) second reading enabling legislation Others wore goggles, some sported sunglasses, but this sheet which gives the state the right to appropriate funds to the eight major teaching hospitals in the state. The top film award enabling legislation will be voted on third reading today. LOS ANGELES ( AP) — The late Presenter Sylvester Stallone, the The LCHD board did not decide on a Peter Finch, the messianic newscaster heavyweight contender in "Rocky," Student complaints bring specific firm, Pennington said, because of "Network," and Faye Dunaway, the was interrupted by the sudden the members felt a smaller group was hard driving executive of the same film appearance of Mohannad Ali. needed to make recommendations on scored Oscars as the best actor and "You stole my script!" the which firm will be chosen. actress at the 49th Academy Awards on heavyweight champion shouted. "Show "We are already behind in what we Monday night. me what you can do!" The startled need to do," Pennington said, but added "Rocky," the unknown slugger who Stallone feinted a bit with Ali before changes in bus routes that the second step of forming the almost won the heavyweight title, expressing his thrill at being on stage special committee was necessary. captured the movie championship for with a "100 per cent pure legend." Pennington would not comment on best picture and for direction by By BAGS GREYHOSKY off buses along the key," Wehmeyer effective the method is for the which firm, if any, had an inside track John Avildsen. "Evergreen," Barbra Streisand's UD Reporter said, "and if there aren't that many individual," Wehmeyer said. on the job. Jason Robards, the tough-minded love song in "A Star is Born" received As a result of student displeasure people making use of that area, we will Wimmer emphasized that students' Concerning the passage of the newspaper editor of "All The the Oscar for best original song. with the loop bus system, a proposal to discontinue the key route." complaints have brought the bus enabling legislation through the senate, Presidents' Men" and Beatrice "In my wildest dreams, I could never alter the present bus system has been At this time, one bus route will be run system to this point. "This is it," Pennington told reporters, "I am more Straight, the discarded wife of William imagine winning an Academy Award accepted by the university along the key. Wimmer stressed. "If we implement encouraged now than I have ever Holden in "Network," were named best for a song," said Paul Williams, who administration, according to Terry Wehmeyer said if the system proves this method, it stays for good. We can't been.- supporting performers. wrote the tune and accepted the award Wimmer, Student Association (SA) to be the most effective, the use of that go with this and then a few months later A management firm would not be Miss Straight's award was preceded along with Miss Streisand. president and author of the proposal. system will be continued. "We think complain to have it changed again." able to be retained, though, if the state by an event that delighted the audience. "I was going to thank all the little The provisions in the proposal Terry has worked very hard on the people, but then I realized I am the little provide for the opening of the proposal and that it has a lot of merit," people," the dimunitive Williams Engineering Key and allowance for Wehmeyer said. "The administration added. buses to run south on Boston Avenue to is willing to give it a try and to Group blames Spain for crash The award for best foreign language 15th Street, east on 15th to the loop; an implement the best system possible." SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, sentiment for independence from price speculation and which is not film went to the smallest country ever increase in the number of bus stops on With the new system, one bus route Canary Islands ( AP) — Little - known Spain. adequate to support heavy industry. to receive an Oscar, Ivory Coast. each route, and clear markings for with four buses will be made into two separatists on this chain of Atlantic Prospects for independence for the Island officials agree the water supply "Black And White In Color" won out each bus stop including wooden routes with two buses each. This islands have jumped onto the world islands, which make up two provinces should be one of the first problems over such heavyweight contenders as benches, display cases and overhead alteration adds another route to the stage with a time bomb that exploded in bound economically to the Spanish tackled by the government. France's "Cousin, Cousine" and Italy's shelters. system. an airport flower shop on the capital 1,000 miles away, are Another challenge to the Madrid "Seven Beauties." Wimmer said the projected date for Wehmeyer said the system proposed neighboring island of Grand Canary. considered miniscule even by the most government is an island unemployment Producer Arthur Cohn admitted that the new routes is April 11. by Wimmer will be good for the The explosion at the Las Palmas radical estimates. rate of 17 per cent, more than twice the he felt like Harry Truman reading that Fred Wehmeyer, associate vice students because it will be a partial airport diverted two Boeing 747 "It isn't dangerous yet, but it could national Spanish rate. Thomas Dewey had won the 1948 president for administrative services, return to the "front door" bus stop passenger planes to Santa Cruz, here on be," says Antonio Oyarzabal, who Oyarzabal says still another problem election. He added: "This kind of said the new system will be working method. He said the added bus stops the island of Tenerife, where they began his term as new civil governor of is a long string of broken promises by recognition and encouragement keeps under a trial basis, especially to will increase the time taken to go from collided. More than 500 people died in Tenerife by coping with three nights of Madrid. "We have got to establish the our industry fresh and alive and ever determine if bus service around the one point to another point across history's worst aviation disaster. antigovernment riots. Slogans in the credibility of the government," he says. creative." Engineering Key is necessary. campus. In a telephone interview Sunday from riots were signed by the MPAIAC. The government estimates less than 3 The musical scoring awards went to "We will be taking head counts of the "Depending on how fast you want to exile in Algiers, Antonio Cubillo, leader "These are a bunch of crazies," said per cent of the archipelago's 1.5 million Leonard Rosenman for his adaptation number of people boarding and getting get somewhere will determine how of the Movement for the Self - shopkeeper Juan Cabrera in Las inhabitants want independence. The of "Bound For Glory" and for Jerry Determination and Independence of the Palmas. "Nobody would vote for them, liberal news magazine Cambio 16 Goldsmith's original score of "The Canary Archipelago from Spain but the government in Madrid should roughly triples that estimate, saying Omen." MPAIAC, claimed it was his group pay more attention to our problems." about 150,000 people favor Haskell Wexler was selected for best Mackey testifies that planted the bomb in Las Palmas, One of the problems is a privately independence. including 60 per cent of cinematography with his moody, 1930s injuring eight persons. owned water system which is subject to the island's workers. "Bound For Glory." He had But he said the Spanish government previously won the Oscar for "Who's alone was responsible for the plane Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" collision, because it was the Spaniards In other awards Monday night, for increased funds who diverted the two jumbo jets to Commissioners discuss Danilo Donati won for best Tenerife to conceal the damage done to achievement in costume design for his By BAGS GREYHOSKY Other funding requests included Las Palmas.