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Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MAR. 9, 1976 Staff spaces remain iinnniiin Editor: One day about two weeks ago I got a ticket for parking in the same space I had been using since the beginning of the semester. It seems that the sign saying “Staff” had been neatly moved over two rows in Lot No. 7 beside the cyclotron and instantly the students lost 50 parking spaces. I realize that the parking fee I pay each semester only guarantees me the right to look tor a parking space, not have one. But considering the number of student cars on campus versus the number of available spaces it seemed the meanest of ad ministrative moves to take 50 needed spaces from the students and hand them over to those faculty and staff who may have had their parking places eliminated elsewhere on campus because of construction. It is clear from viewing this park ing area every day for the last two weeks that those displaced facul ty/staff either do not know about or are singularly uninterested in using those spaces, for they remain largely unused (more than half empty) every unused Florida battleground soggy for primary test STAFF OR STUDENTS? Parking area 7, staff parking, was recently expanded but the new spaces aren’t used photo courtesy of Rolando Santos By SANDY RUSSO Battalion Staff Writer The leadership gap on college campuses is said to be cyclic. Some years there are more people qualified for office than there are slots available. Other years the scene looks like the wind-swept Sahara — void of life, let alone competent life. There are ways of avoiding the gap- voice and power via presidential ap pointment. The communications department has devised a way to fill the gap at the Battalion by requiring journalism majors to work as writers, photo graphers and editors for the paper. In this way any future editor will have some exposure to the workings of the Battalion, providing at least a speaking acquaintance with its oper ations. Every organization has developed some sort of system to fill the gaps, but there have been, are and will be breakdowns. Sometimes the mate rial is available to fit the form, some times it’s not and that’s where the problem lies. —Sanford Russo The MSG avoids it by inbreeding with inhouse selection of officers and chairmen each year. Unless there is a strong desire for new blood among the nomination committee, the old philosophy will perpetuate itself. This year there was a push for new blood because the MSC president elect John Oeffinger was a johnnie- come-lately to the MSC and avoided the constant beat of the MSC drum in his ears for four years. Another answer to the gap prob lem is the director of student ac tivities’ freshman leadership class. A group of 20 freshmen, chosen by the deans of the colleges, meet weekly and are lectured and toured about the campus. The program director, Dr. Carolyn Adair hopes that a com- radery will be formed within the group and “future campus leaders’’ will cooperate more among them selves and with the administration. "IT’S A WIRE FROM FOR? — HE SAYS THERE ARE LEAKS, AH? HE WAMTS TO HELP OS (JET TO THE VERY BOTTOM...' The overwhelming complaints from those involved in the class are they aren’t being shown the work ings of the University and they don’t talk enough among themselves to promote interaction. Student Government, like the MSC, is self-perpetuating. People start as freshman senators or execu tive aides. If they are not re-elected, and have become part of the “in group ”, they are appointed to execu tive positions, like judicial board chairman or executive director. Because nearly a third of Senate seats are vacated many university committee seats are available, the aspiring leader can hold a position of Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are tUose of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the university administration or the Board of Regents. The Battal ion is a non-profit, self-supporting enterprise operated by stu dents as a university and community newspaper. Editorial policy is determined by the editor. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Servi York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. 'Hie Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods. Sep tember through May, and once a week during summer school. Mail subscriptions «ire $16.75 per semester; $33.25 per school year; $35.00 per full wear. All subscriptions subject to 5% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. ^Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, "Texas 77843. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and are subject to being cut to that length or less if longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit such letters and does not guaran tee to publish any letter. Each letter must be signed, show the address of the ivriter and list a telephone number for verifica tion. ' The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatched credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of reproduction of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Bob G. Rogers, Chairman; Dr. Gary Halter; Dr. John Hanna; Roger P. Miller; Dr. Clinton A. Phillips, Jeff Dunn, Tom Dawsey and Jerri Ward. Director of Student Publications: Gael L. Cooper. Acting Editor News Editor City Editor Contributing Editors Sports Editor Photo Director Staff Writers Carolyn Blosser, Ray Daniels, Pat Edmondson, Tony Gallucci, Lee Roy Les chper, Jerry Needham. Roxie Hearn T. C. Gallucci Jim Peters Sandy Russo, Steve Gray Paul McGrath Douglas Winship Ml [nl FOR SOPHOMORES & JUNIORS Yearbook Makeup Pictures Through March 12 at UNIVERSITY STUDIO NORTHGATE day. Perhaps those students who re sent the arbitrary loss of their park ing area would join me in a protest before the Traffic Panel on Tuesday, March 9 at 5:35 p.m. in the Confer ence Room of the Student Programs office in the MSC. If enough people showed up the protest might not be altogether futile. Students might be allowed some small impact on the decisions that affect them. Suzanne Ness Spoiler Leadership gaps need filling Editor: To borrow some of the words of a well-known Colorado River exter minator and car salesman, Leon Black was sorta like a cockroach. It wasn’t so much the food he et, but what he fell in and spoiled. Bob Boriske (The exterminator and car salesman Boriske refers to is Darrell Royal — Ed.) Not guilty Editor: On Thursday, March 4th the Bat talion carried an article on the Stu dent Senate meeting of the night be fore. The article written was an adequate presentation of the news but, one of the picture additions was a contextual misrepresentation. The Senate meetings are gov erned by Robert’s Rules of Order, a parliamentary guide to voting and debate procedures and I feel that I needed to explain and refute the im plications given to you from the Bat talion’s story. I was reading Robert’s Rules of Order and was looking up informa tion pertinent to debate on the floor, therefore I feel that I was guilty by context only. Basically I wanted to clarify my position and indicate that I am working for your interests in the Student Senate. Scott Gregson Senator — Moore, Davis- Gary, Moses By LARRY HOBBS Associated Press A second matchup between Presi dent Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan was the focus of today’s pres idential primary in Florida. Three of the leading Democratic candidates hoped to strengthen their position for their party’s nomination. Only a smattering of last minute campaigning — and perhaps some rain — was expected today as Florida officials predicted less than half of the state’s 3.4 million eligible voters would bother to go to the polls. At least four of the six candidates who sought support in Florida were elsewhere — or headed out of the state — as the polls opened. They were concentrating on other upcom ing primaries. The Republican balloting was seen as an important test of Reagan’s chal lenge to Ford. Though 11 Democrats were on the other side of the ballot, only four went after votes. The primary featured the first Deep South test for Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia governor who won the New Hampshire primary. Washington Sen. Henry Jackson, fresh from victory in Massachusetts, could spoil the Wallace-Carter matchup. Lou Frey, Ford’s campaign chief in the state, said the President would carry the state, though narrowly. “If you get 50 percent plus one, you’re a winner,” he said. “If you don’t, you’re a loser.” Reagan predicted a close race, dis counting talk that a loss to Ford would severely damage his effort. Whatever happens, he said, “there won’t be any folding of my tent and slipping away.” “I’m in this all the way to the Re publican national convention in Kan sas City,” Reagan told about 1,000 supporters in Champaign, Ill., as he began a five-day campaign swing through the state. Ford beat Reagan in New Hamp shire with less than half the vote, carried Massachusetts where neither News Analysis candidate campaigned and won Vermont where Reagan was not on the ballot. Both Wallace and Carter pre dicted triumph in the Democratic race. “Tm not going to get into a per centage guessing game,” Wallace said during his final Florida paign swing. “Of course, theit well-organized effort againstfo Wallace because I did so wj Florida in 1972. ” Hewonwitliil] cent of the vote four years ago. Replied Carter: TllcutCov, lace down below whathedidin which 1 think would be a very defeat for Gov. Wallace.” Jackson, meantime, saiditda really make any difference happens because his opponents already lost the long run, “Do] know who stopped GeorgeWi and Jimmy Carter?” he Miami luncheon. “I did, inJIi chusetts. 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