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Pagre 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 4, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Ags Commended For Aiding Viets “Better watch Professor Jekyll—they tell me there’s a radical change in his jovial, good-natured disposition after th’ last day when you can drop a course!” Another Issue Seen By YERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN — Legislative com mittee appointments now have cleared the way for lawmakers to get down to the real business of the 61st Texas session. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes announced 27 senate committees which as sured increased power for lib erals, urban areas — and the pre siding officer. Speaker Gus Mutscher followed up two days later with a sweep ing reshuffling of all major House panels, leaving only three chairmen in their old places of authority. Barnes picked veteran Senators Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo and William T. (Bill) Moore of Bryan to head the “Big Two” senate committees — finance and state affairs. Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, however, remains as fin ance vice-chairman and head of the working sub-committee which actually conducts hearings on the budget. EL PASO Sen. Joe Christie, prospective sponsor of a constitu tional amendment to legalize sale of liquor by the drink, heads the constitutional amendments com mittee. Aikin is chairman of the education panel which probably will handle important school leg islation. Sen. Charles Herring of Austin heads the jurisprudence commit tee; Sen. Tom Creighton of Min eral Wells, water and conserva tion; and Sen. J. P. Word of Meridian, nominations. For Busy Senate All 45 chairmanships in the House went to veterans of two or more terms of service. The new semester shapes up as a busy one for the Student Senate. Dissatisfaction with the computerized regis tration system will probably keep Senators’ attention fo cused for the first few weeks. Questions on parts of the fee-increase plan loom large. The Committee on Educational Procedures and Excellence is due to report its findings on the feasibility of adding pass-fail courses and published faculty- course evaluations. The no-candidate speaker policy dispute promises to continue smouldering among Senators whose interest in politics remains strong even during non-election years. Finally, the Senate’s own politics should get interest ing, particularly in the race for president. For the fifth time, Rep. W. S. (Bill) Heatly of Paducah will be chairman of the budget-writing, appropriations committee, and Rep. Ben Atwell of Dallas will chair revenue and taxation which originates tax measures. Only other chairman retained by Mut scher was Rep. John E. Blaine of El Paso, liquor regulations. In short, Senators need a new cause to ponder like Raquel Welch needs blind dates. But we ran across an item in the Daily Texan the other day which we’d like to toss out for their information: “HOUSTON—The principle of faculty and student con sultation in the selection of administrative officers was en dorsed Friday (Jan. 31) by the University (of Texas) Sys tem Board of Regents. “The amendment of the Regents Rules and Regulations stated that the Chancellor shall appoint the chief adminis trative officers of each of the component institutions and ‘expects the Chancellor or chief administrative officer . . . to consult in the selection process with representatives of the student body.’ ” REP. RAYFORD PRICE of Palestine, who came to the legis lature with Mutscher in 1961, has been designated chairman of the busy House state affairs panel. Rep. R. H. Cory of Victoria, who headed state affairs last session, is in charge of the rules commit tee which controls the flow of legislation to the House calendar. Rep. Tommy Shannon of Fort Worth directs the House admin istration committee with offices close to the speaker and his top staff assistants. BILLS PASSED — Even while awaiting committee assignments What's Happening At The MSC By PAT LAFFERTY Once again the world famous Harlem Globe Trotters return to A&M for another hilarious per formance. Tickets for the 8 p.m. exhibition can still be purchased at the Student Programs Office of the MSC. room 3B of the MSC. You don’t have to know how to play to attend. The Great Issues Committee is planning to follow up its five-part study of the relationship of the cities and minorities, entitled “The Urban Crisis: The People and the Cities,” with an Urban Crisis Conference. The confer ence is expected to draw about 40,000 visitors with proposals for specific solutions to be drafted by 200 civic officials from the nation’s leading cities and A&M student leaders who will partici pate in the Conference. Also tonight, interviews for executive positions on the MSC Council and chairmanships for SCON A XV, Great Issues and Town Hall will be reviewed by the Nominations Committee with re sults to be announced next week. Bulletin Board The University Lectures Com mittee, co-sponsored by the Great Issues Committee, will present Charles Siepman speaking on “Freedom of Speech and Censor ship” at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Ballroom. The Oxford graduate, an authority in the field of com munications, was once vice-presi dent of the British Broadcasting Corporation and is presently Con sultant in Communications to the Ford Foundation. WEDNESDAY B.A. Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Courtesy Room of the Bank of A&M. All wives of Business Administration stu dents are invited. THURSDAY Chemistry Wives Club will have Listen Up The MSC Chess Committee urges interested Aggies to at tend their weekly Friday night meetings regularly scheduled from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.r Editor, The Battalion: Several months have passed since you published the letters about the poor telephone service in this area. Anyone who thinks the service has improved could disillusion himself by trying out a few of the pay phones along Texas Avenue. Or he could just drop by and try to make a call on the phone that was installed in my home exactly one week ago. R. L. Morris ’70 a “Tupperware Party” at 7 p.m. in the second floor party room of the Casa Del Sol, Stasney Street. Please bring guests and outside orders. All Chemistry faculty and student wives are invited. Houston Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 321 of the Physics Building. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 8:15 p.m. in front of the Memorial Student Center. Picture will be made for Aggieland. Wear coats and ties, Class “A” or midnight. during the third week of the ses sion, legislators boomed through two bills of a semi-emergency na ture. SATURDAY American Veterinary Medical Association Student Auxiliary will hold a Valentine’s Dance from 9 p.m.-l a.m. at the new K. C. Hall, featuring The Barons. Dress will be semiformal. For further information contact Mrs Sue Wright at 846-5032 or Mrs Sue Clayton at 846-7391. i £ BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivr iters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-sup ported, non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Mail subscriptions full 93.50 All >cr semester; $6 pei ubseriptions subject school to 3% year; 36.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 3% sales tax. AdvertisinK rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building:. Collegre Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Boa Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. Arts ; F. S. White, Coll ts ; Clark, College < lege of Agrricult Bowers, 'mte, college of Engineering: D; of Veterinary Medicine; and Hal ege Dr are: Jim of Liberal The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the republication of all new dispatches credited to it otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spon origin published herein. Rights of republication of a. matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. use for or not spontaneous ion of all other aid R. I or, Col- at Texas A&M is except Saturday, .... September through during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Asset or Represented nationally by National Educational Adver sing ice*. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Services Francisco EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor Johfe Platzer City Editor Mike Wright News Editor Bob Palmer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlebrooke Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographer W. R. Wright First passed was a $905,815 ap propriation measure to forestall a welfare cut (in aid to dependent children), to assist growing jun ior colleges and to help finance legislative and governor’s office operations this year. A fund transfer of $35,000 headed off a $28 cut in aid to needy families. Governor’s office got $130,000 for new personnel, equipment, travel and postage. Colleges got $335,- 815, the senate $325,000 and House $115,000. Second bill urged by Gov. Pres ton Smith increased retirement benefits of some 6,500 retired state employees an average of 10 percent. Minimum benefit would be raised from about $30 to $50 a month. A retirement boost for elected officials will be the sub ject of a separate bill. SENATE REFORMS RULES — Senate lost no time in adopt ing rulebook reforms designed to curb free-wheeling conference committees and to relax its own secret-vote provisions. They voted 25-6 for new joint rules. Most dramatic change would limit conference commit tees named to adjust differences between House and Senate bills to doing just that — rather than writing totally new legislation behind closed doors. The House has yet to act. Senate later approved 30-1 re visions of its own operating pro cedures which for the first time direct open committee hearings on appointments by the governor (unless a majority of the nomi nations committee votes for ex ecutive session). Among other bills introduced in the House and Senate are: • A proposal by Sen. Criss Cole of Houston to make air and water pollution a misdemeanor offense — for corporation as well as in dividuals. • A Texas Meat Inspection Law, sponsored by Sen. Jim Bates of Edinburg. (Without a state act, the federal government will take over meat inspecting in Texas.) • Rep. Dick Cory of Victoria wants to abolish common-law marriage and permit divorce be cause of unsolvable discord be tween husband and wife. • Liberals will try again for a minimum wage with a bill spon sored by Reps. Raul Longoria and Lauro Cruz setting a state min imum of $1.10 per hour. • Senator Bates also has a bill prohibiting private clubs — in cluding country clubs — in “dry” areas (based on his premise that if an area votes to be dry, it ought to be completely dry). • Sen. V. E. (Red) Berry of San Antonio wants to extend until 2 a.m. every day the time in which alcoholic beverages may be sold. (Such a bill passed in 1967 but was vetoed by Gov. John Connally). • Affirmative action is expect ed on the industry-labor compro mise bill to increase the maxi mum weekly payments under the Workmen’s Compensation system to $49. • Reps. Hilary Doran of Del Rio and Guy Floyd of San An tonio will run with a bill exempt ing Texas from Daylight Saving Time. A&M students have been com mended “for their heartfelt con tribution to the Vietnamese” in a letter from a soldier serving half a world away in Vietnam. Writing to Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, Army Spec. 5 Jack T. Repd thanked the stu dent body for their “thoughtful ness” in contributing $2,100 to ward rebuilding an orphanage in Hue. The money had been raised last spring when the 12,000-member student body, led by the Student Senate, agreed to forego one eve ning meal served in both univer sity dining halls. “Actions such as theirs d6 much to bolster the spirit and morale of the fighting men in Vietnam as well as greatly en hance relations between our two countries and their peoples,” Reed wrote. He said he was moved to write when he saw an article on the Aggies’ project appearing next to another story about thousands of student antiwar protesters demonstrating in Washington in the Stars and Stripes, the ArmetJ Forces newspaper, “The vivid comparison the left and right afforded 1;| article, graphically shows value of one as opposed ts usefulness of the other,”« letter added. Atlantic City, largest ol! Jersey’s resorts, plays host,: million visitors a year, inti; vactioners and those whoi: the numerous conventions there. Greyhound Bus Lines 1300 Texas 823-8071 Inexpensive Charter Str ice for student groups classes. Group accomodations arranged. • Representative Cory wants a code of ethics for teachers and a state commission to enforce it. Senators also were authorized to announce how they voted on conformation of appointments. LEGISLATION RAINS IN — Bulk of legislation proposed by Governor Smith — and a lot he didn’t ask for — in his first mes sage to the 1969 Legislature already has rained into hoppers of both houses. • A proposal by Rep. Neil Caldwell of Alvin to require cities and counties to designate the right of way at intersections and put up traffic signs within two years to establish blame in acci dents. Constitutional amendment pro posals would lower the voting age to 18, shore up women’s legal rights and authorize horse track betting on a local option basis in Bexar and Harris Counties. • Representative Caldwell also would prohibit games, puzzles and other advertising techniques such as those used by gas sta tions. There has been a shortage in only one field. Nobody is rush ing forward with tax ideas. Al though that may soon be the sub ject of a new address to the Leg islature by Governor Smith. Hayakawa Sees ‘Nazi’ Tactics In Militant Students’ Actions WASHINGTON UP) — Student militants are using tactics that helped the Nazis rise to power in Germany, acting President S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College told Congress Monday. But while the soft-spoken se- illusioned about the ability of government to govern, the time is ripe for a dictator . . .” Haya kawa said. “There is no SDS dic tator in the wings that I know of but creation of doubt is an important goal for them.” BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Lout Lyn J the Si Ton. ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Are. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 II FUN WORKING IN EUROPE GUARANTEED JOBS ABROAD! Get paid, travel, meet peop!: SUMMER and YEAR ROUND. 20 countries, 9 paying job cats gories offered. 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Travel W manticist defended his use of po lice to pacify his strike-torn cam pus, he said also, “In a sense, the issues behind most present trou bles are valid.” He advocated better educational opportunities at all levels “even at enormous expense.” Hayakawa told a House Educa tion subcommittee that revolu tionary groups like the Students for a Democratic Society have a basic purpose “to create doubt on the ability of administrators to administer, of governments to govern.” This is the sort of thing Adolf Hitler’s followers did when they were brawling street groups, Hayakawa went on — “They created doubts about the ability of courts to administer the laws, officials to function, government, to govern.” “When enough people are dis- Tonight On KBTX 6:30 National Geographic 7:30 Red Skelton 8:30 Doris Day 9:00 That’s Life 10:00 News, Weather and Sports 10:30 It Takes a Thief 11:30 Alfred Hitchcock ATTENTION! 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