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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1976)
CRAFT SHOP SPRING WORKSHOPS Jewelry, macrame, weaving, kite making, tatting, pottery, ke decorating, leaded glass, painting, chair caning, bike repair, dip & drape dolls, silkscreen, watercolor, lapidary, ead dough, sand terrariums, crochet, needlepoint. REGISTRATION BEGINS JANUARY 26, 1976 11:00 a.m. CRAFT SHOP, MSC 845-1631 Student Radio KANM staff to meet tonight Students interested in working with student radio KANM-FM should attend a staff meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Student Programs Of fice, MSC 216. Students do not need licenses, and no experience is required to work with the student-run FM sta tion. Experienced station stall' and those who signed up to work last semester also are urged to attend. ed byGyj class of 1979 get your dates now for the freshman Saturday, January 31 8-12 p.m. zachry Officials cite to close open records THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JAN. 22. 1976 Associated Press WASHINGTON — Officials at all levels of government are citing the new federal Privacy Act as requiring them to close off access to records formerly open to the public. And in most cases they are wrong, say offi cials responsible for administering the act. “Privacy is getting a bad name in some circles, simply because it is being confused with secrecy,” David F. Linowes, chairman of the Privacy Protection Study Commission, said in a recent speech. Linowes referred to a controversy over “press access to information in the hands of government officials and new constraints on that access im posed by officials who have either misinterpreted or failed to under stand what the Privacy Act require- s.” The commission chairman cited these examples of misinterpreta tions: “In some cities, police depart ments no longer let reporters read the police blotter; in some states, local officials are denied essential So cial Security information needed to determine welfare payments. In Washington, D.C., a government hospital refused to release details on the condition of an important public official, citing the Privacy Act as the reason. In Idaho, state employment officials refuse to give out Social Se curity numbers to state accountants going over the agency’s books. ” Linowes emphasized that the act “does not deny the press access to information it had before enactment of this legislation.” He added that the problem “lies not in the act itself but in the way some have chosen to interpret it.” Some critics of the Privacy Act dis agree with that last statement by Linowes. They blame Congress for doing a poor job of defining just what the act was supposed to do. “On the whole, the Privacy Act is not a well-drafted piece of legisla tion,” wrote one government attor ney at the conclusion of a 40-page analysis of the act. “There are many ambiguities, internal inconsistencies! and instances where the full effects of its provisions were not appreciated by its drafters.” The Privacy Act is one of two fed eral laws under which individuals can demand access to any records government agencies maintain about them. The other is the Freedom of Information Act. Are there cases where the two laws conflict? Where the Freedom of Information Act requires a govern ment agency to surrender informa tion, which the Privacy Act says must remain confidential? Each law contains a paragraph which attempts to avoid conflicts. The Privacy Act says it would not apply to information which could be released under the Freedom of In formation Act. And the Freedom of Information statute exempts from disclosure any material which would constitute “a clearly unwarranted in vasion of privacy.” But the government lawyer’s analysis concluded that “this ap proach ignored the fact that there are few categories of personal records for which clearcut decisions can be made as to whether their disclosures would constitute a clearly unwar ranted invasion of personal privacy. ” The 31st Instrumentation Sym posium will be held in Rudder Thea ter today until 5 p.m. The College of Education Cen tennial Assembly will be held in the Forum Theater until 10 p.m. today. New Agents Training will con tinue until 10 p.m. today in 501 Rudder Tower. The Lacrosse Club will meet at 7 tonight in 410 Rudder Tower. The Lacrosse Club will meet at 7 tonight in 410 Rudder Tower. The TAMU Sailing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in 301 Rudder Tower. The South Texas Tri-County HTC will meet tonight at 7 in 140 MSC. The Sophomore Class will meet today at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder Tower. News Briefs GRADUATION announcements for spring graduates may be ordered during a three week period begin ning Feb. 9. The orders will be ac cepted in Room 217 of the MSC, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m and 4 p.m. KEITH KINGBY, king of the American bicyclists, will visit here Jan. 27-28. Tuesday he will speak about bike safety, bike lanes and bikeways in Room 707 of the Rudder Tower. THE NATIONAL Conference of State Criminal Justice Planning Ad ministrators in San Antonio,yester day, voted that their respective gov ernors should decide about regulat ing handguns. Dissenting delegates called the move “a cop-out.” The Task Force had studied hand guns and their relationship to violent crime for the past year and proposed a federal law be written to either ban the handguns or tightly restrict them. JOHN HILL, deputy adminis trator of the Federal Energy Admin istration, said in Midland yesterday that the 1975 federal energy bill is imperfect and not a cureall for the nation’s energy problems. But he said that the bill is better tban Presi dent Ford’s original proposal and he regrets that people in the oil produc- SC0NA HOSTESSES NEEDED Is your life dull, unexciting and in general lacking something? Do you want to be a more enlightened per son? Looking for some way to make other people happy, to do something worthwhile for yourself and A&M? Then, come up to the SCONA cubicle in the MSC and sign up for an interview time to become a hostess for the twenty-first student conference on na tional affairs. Interview times must be scheduled by 5:00 this Friday, the twenty-third. This is your opportunity to become a part of SCONA and help other people from other schools find out about the “friendliest campus.” Sound like an ad for a computer dating service? You’re wrong, butwhat we’ve got to offer can’t be programmed be cause it all has to do with dealing with people. /Midnight Roses THE PLACE• TKCHRV ENGINEERING CENTER TICKETS MAY BE BOUGHT AT THE TOWER BOX OFFICE OR AT THE DOOR. ing areas are so hostile to it. Hill was in Midland to conduct a forum on the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975. GOV. DOLPH BRISCOE told the closing session of a conference! sponsored by the Texas Safety As-! sociation and the Highway Users Federation in Austin yesterday that state government can play a helpful role in traffic safety, but not a domineering role. He said that only the people can do something about the high traffic deaths. SOUTH AFRICAN military units have been ordered to pull out of An gola, U.S. intelligence officials re ported in Washington. The sources say that without the support of the South Africans, Western soldiers in Southern Angola will be unable to repel the more heavily armed pro- Soviet Angolan forces and their Cuban allies. THE THIRD anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion is being marked by a Washington rally and intensive lobbying in support of a constitu tional amendment that would ban abortion. Brush fire blazes, nears Nixon home, San Clemente Associated Press SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Wind-whipped flames swirled across about 2,400 acres of tinder-dry brush above this seaside resort, burning at least 21 expensive homes and ap proaching, at one point, the home of ex-President Richard M. Nixon. At least 12 persons were injured and hundreds fled their homes Wednesday as the fire spread from its starting point at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton right up to their back porches, firemen said. Fire damage to homes was estimated at more than $1 million. Fire officials reported after night fall that the blzae had been encir cled, but they wouldn’t predict how long it would take to control the fire. The blaze that swept down on var ious canyon housing developments came within iy2 miles of Nixon’s ocean-front villa, located on the coast about midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. Nixon was appar ently inside the house at the time. The fire would have to cross sev eral major thoroughfares, including the San Diego Freeway, to get to the former Western White House. GENTLEMAN’S QUARTER ANNUAL NEW YEAR SALE / The Gentlemans Quarter □in X UP TO 50% SAVINGS SUITS •SPORTCOATS • SHOES SWEATERS • SPORTSWEAR DRESS SHIRTS BY CARDIN & CASSINI |BankAmeric*ro| OPEN 9-6 MON.-SAT. 3705 E. 29th 846-1706 m 37I5 EAST 29-™ STREET 7 TciWtsl T CoU^Try 84 Ic Li TI ' ~)i it 0 iVt Vz pTrice J it||h!I!b^°o CtfirtajAs is l ! 4 Who 11 UIM-Tid -4o Coopo/is KENNETH & DAVID'S in Bryan-College Station - Ramada Inn, 410 S. 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