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Good
Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 57 years
It’s Wednesday
April 8,1981
Vol. 57, No. 44
Pre-advisement offers
early payment option
By MARVIN MONTGOMERY
of the UP staff
There will be a few new twists to pre-
registration, which begins April 13 and en-
ds April 24.
A student will be able to pay for classes
in advance, be assigned to specific sec-
tions of required courses and receive a
preliminary schedule during pre-
registration.
“We want students to make ap-
pointments to be preadvised for summer
and fall,” Elmer Rode, director of ad-
missions and records, said today.
Pre-registration serves two purposes,
Rode said. First, it puts the student on the
right track for graduation. Second, it will
speed up the ultimate registration process,
by doing it in advance.
These changes in pre-registration are an
experiment for summer 1981, Rode said.
The system’s summer results will be
evaluated for the feasibility of a regular
semester program.
“We are not only allowing (currently
enrolled) students to be advised for sum-
mer but we will allow them to be assigned
to specific sections of courses,” Rode said.
Pre-registration begins with the student
visiting his adviser’s office. The courses
recommended by the adviser will be writ-
ten in the advised course section of the
computer registration form.
"There will be a space for summer I and
summer II on the form,” Rode said.
After the courses have been decided
upon the student must take the form to
each department in which he will have a
class and get a class label.
When all the necessary labels have been
collected, the student is advised to take his
form to 108 Wimberly Student Afffairs
Building where his schedule will be en-
tered into the computer. The student will
then receive a preliminary schedule and a
schedule of fees.
Fee payment will be from May 4-13 and
May 26-27, Rode said. The last day to pay
for summer session II is July 6.
“Students not paying for pre-
registration by May 27 for summer session
I and July 6 for summer session II will for-
feit the pre-registration and will start
anew with the next registration,” Rode
said.
Students on financial aid should check
with the financial aid office in advance of
registration.
"If a student has paid for pre-
registration and withdraws before the
semester begins, he will get a 100 percent
refund,” Rode said.
Only those students who have definitely
decided on their course loads for the up-
coming sessions should pay in advance.
Rode said. “If you have any doubt, you
should wait until June 1.”
Inquiry focuses on Hinckley
Court orders mental tests
United Press International
WASHINGTON—John W. Hinckley Jr.,
just nine days ago a little-known drifter, is
now the focus of an FBI inquiry and a bat-
tery of mental tests—both exploring his
alleged attempt to kill President Reagan.
Hinckley, 25, of Evergreen, Colo., un-
derwent psychiatric examinations Mon-
day while the FBI stepped up its search for
information about the suspect, described
by his parents as “a sick boy.”
An FBI spokesman said the agency is
gathering all the background it can about
Hinckley, who arrived in Washington Mar-
ch 29 — one day before Reagan was shot
outside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
He is charged with the attempted
assassination of Reagan and with
assaulting Secret Service agent Timothy
McCarthy. No charges have been filed yet
for the shootings of White House press
secretary James Brady and policeman
Thomas Delahanty.
“Our early analysis was that this was
the act of a single gunman, and we have
developed no information to counter that,”
chief FBI spokesman Roger Young said
Monday.
Young said every lead is being “literally
covered on receipt.”
Hinckley is at a federal correctional
facility in Butner, N.C., for up to 90 days of
court-ordered mental tests.
Sources sqid Hinckley’s psychiatric
examination began late Friday after he
was visited by his parents, John and Jo
Ann Hinckley. The elder Hinckley is a
wealthy oilman.
Little if any information about Hinckley
is being made available because of
Privacy Act restrictions.
But it is known he is confined to one
room in an empty eight-wmg complex un-
der 24-hour guard. His room has a bed,
toilet facilities and a bulletproof window.
He has no contact with other inmates.
Law enforcement officials believe Hin-
ckley may have acted out of an obsession
for 18-year-old actress Jodie Foster. A let-
ter found in his Washington hotel room af-
ter the shooting said. “Jodie, I would aban-
don this idea of getting Reagan in a second
if I could only win your heart.”
Medical experts will attempt to deter-
mine if Hinckley committed the offense as
a “result of mental disease or defect,
lacked substantial capacity to appreciate
the wrongfulness of his conduct or lacked
substantial capacity to conform his con-
duct to the requirements of the law."
Last Wednesday, Dr. James Evans, a
court-appointed psychiatrist, found Hin-
ckley competent to stand trial. But a
federal judge ordered government and
defense psychiatrists to have equal access
to him for an in-depth evaluation.
No need for alarm —
Beaumont firemen attempt to reach the Eighth Floor of Gray Library Saturday while
testing equipment.
Photo by TOM NEWTON
Legal betting called
mental health hazard
United Press International
AUSTIN—Prostitution, loan
sharking, increased alcoholism,
bankruptcy and mental illness will
result from legalized parimutuel bet-
ting in Texas, warn church and law en-
forcement leaders.
Glenn McLaughlin, a retired Depart-
ment of Public Safety officer and now
secretary of the Texas Police
Association, said, “This is anindustry in
which the problems greatly exceed any
benefits that wili be derived from it."
“Gambling is not the only issue,”
said the Rev. Richard Freeman,
representing the United Methodist
Churches of Texas. “Human suffering
caused by gambling also is the issue.”
Freeman said he has been testifying
since 1964 against proposals to legalize
parimutuel betting on horse races in
Texas. He told the House State Affairs
Committee, “The facts have never
changed. The poor suffer, the poor suf-
fer the most.”
He said evidence collected in other
states shows payments on loans and
credit purchases decline during the
racing season, and said gambling has
been linked to divorce, alcoholism,
bankruptcy and mental illness.
“Those things are good emotional
arguments, but they have no basis in
fact,” responded Rep. Craig Washing-
ton, D-Houston, sponsor of the bill.
Washington said the bill could produce
a minimum of $35 million annually in
additional tax revenue for the state.
Both the House and Senate conducted
public hearings on the parimutuel bet-
ting bills Monday.
Murph testimony continues
Official calls fear of Russian invasion ‘absurd
Birdfeed
picnic set
April 15
Birdfeed, the annual campus-wide pic-
nic, will be held Wednesday, April 15, from
4 p.m. until dark, Paul Evans, Birdfeed
committee chairman, said today.
The picnic will take place on the softball
field located adjacent to main dining hall
and McDonald Gym.
Hamburgers and hotdogs will be served
from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m., Evans said.
Cost will be $3.41 for anyone who does not
have a meal card. Students with a meal
card may use the card for the picnic. All
dining halls will be closed during those
hours.
Evans said that students, staff or faculty
can bring a sack lunch if they do not wish
to buy the meal.
Beer will be served, beginning at 4:30
p.m., and is free to anyone, whether they
purchased a meal. Identification will be
required, Evans said.
Games will begin at 4 p.m. and continue
through 6:45 p.m., according to Vicki
Adkins, games chairman. Games include
sack race, tug-of-war, three-legged race,
donut grab, pie-eating contest, egg toss
and watermelon seed-spitting contest.
Competition will consist ol taculty. staff
and students.
From 5:30 p.m. until 6 p.m., there will be
a break from games so that candidates for
the offices of Student Government
Association president, Setzer Student Cen-.
ter Council president and Governing
Board chairman may give campaign
speeches.
The band Interstate 10 will play during
the picnic.
"This is a giant inter-campus picnic and
we just want to go out and have a good
time,” Evans said.
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United Press International _
WARSAW—Deputy Premier Mieczslaw
Rakowski derided as “absurd” fears that
the Soviet Union was preparing to invade
Poland despite reports of fresh troops
joining the Warsaw Pact war games in and
around the embattled nation.
But in Bonn, West Germany, where he is
attending a NATO meeting, Defense
Secretary Casper Weinberger Monday ac-
cused the Soviets of already conducting an
“invasion by osmosis,” with the in-
timidating war game maneuvers that have
been extended indefinitely—two weeks af-
ter they were scheduled to end.
"If somebody thinks the Soviet leaders
are waiting for the chance to intervene, he
is deluding himself iaan absurd fashion,”
Rakowski told the French newspaper Le
Figaro in an interview published Monday.
But Rakowski, who negotiated the
agreement with Solidarity that averted a
general strike last week, warned that a
general work stoppage could bring about
famine “after a few days” and “provoke
uncontrollable demonstrations.’’
Rakowski, however, said the Soviets
continue to have confidence in the Polish
United Press International
LIBERTY—It is a study in contrasts:
the minister’s wife, part-time newspaper-
woman and mother of two children bat-
tling the Dairy Queen waitress her socially
and politically prominent brother
married.
At stake are two preschool children
whose father was shot Jan. 19 by their
mother.
Jean Daniel Murph of Richardson plan-
ned to continue her testimony Thursday in
her efforts to gain custody of Franklin
Baldwin 3, and Marion Price, 1.
Mrs. Murph and her Disciples of Christ
minister husband, who says he earns
$26,000 annually, say they feel Vickie
Daniel is an unfit mother following the
shooting of former House Speaker Price
Daniel Jr.
“In light of what happened, that she
killed Price, we wanted to know what to do
with the boys,” the Rev. David Murph
testified Monday.
And what they did was file suit to gain
Communist Party to control events inside
Poland.
“You must consider that the Soviet
Union is really interested in having
relations with Poland founded on mutual
confidence and friendship,” Rakowski
said.
But the views in other capitals did not
appear as rosy as Rakowski’s in-
terpretation.
In Berlin, the East German news agency
ADN said fresh units, troops and tanks,
rackets, artillery and communication
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custody of the two preschool children of
the troubled four-year marriage of Vickie
and Price Daniel.
“Price was gone. We were uncertain
about her stability and ability to be a
mother at this time, after one parent killed
another,” said Murph as the custody tug-
of-war entered its fourth week Monday.
Mrs. Murph, a 38-year-old mother of two
children who works part-time putting out a
newspaper for the North Texas com-
munity of Coppell, says she had a good
relationship with her brother’s second
wife. And she says letters to be entered in-
to evidence this week will show that.
Mrs. Daniel, 33, told UPI Monday the
Daniel family, headed by former Texas
Gov. Price Daniel Sr., is out to get “every
last penny I have.”
Mrs. Murph testified that Mrs. Daniel
asked her for money shortly after Mrs.
Daniel was arraigned on a murder charge
in her husband's death. Mrs. Daniel claims
self-defense. Her trial is scheduled for Oc-
tober.
troops poured in to join the Soyuz 81
maneuvers.
The ADN agency said East German Par-
ty leader Erich Honecker told the troops
participating in the war games it was their
duty to “put a stop to the activity of all
enemies of Socialism.”
In Washington, State Department
spokesman William Dyess said the Soviets
have violated the Helsinki agreements of
1975 by threatening armed intervention
and that they may be breaching the accord
by not announcing military maneuvers in-
volving more than 25,000 troops.
Mrs. Daniel has testified her husband
beat her, abused her and her children, and
had both homosexual and heterosexual
lovers.
But in testimony Monday, Mrs. Murph
testified that three days before Daniel was
shot, Vickie Daniel told her she could
“promise” Daniel was not a wife-beater.
Mrs. Murph testified she had spoken
'ith her brother and sister-in-law on Jan.
14, two weeks after Mrs. Daniel filed for
divorce, and suggested the two separate.
Two days later, she said they spoke on the
telephone for an hour and a half and she
asked Daniel to move out of his ranch
home outside Liberty.
“But Price said ‘You don't have to worry
about that. I’m not a wife beater,”’ said
Mrs. Murph. “Vickie said ‘Jeannie, I can
promise that.’”
Mrs. Murph testified she visited Mrs.
Daniel, who was hospitalized for hysteria,
the day after Daniel’s funeral and Mrs.
Daniel told her: “You know I didn’t mean
to do it. You know I didn’t mean to do it."
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