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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 7, 1967
Six Amendments
On Nov. 11 Ballot
by Jim Earle SENATE TOPICS
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November has become a month for big decisions.
Next November the nation will decide the course of
foreign and domestic policy when it chooses a President.
And this Saturday Texas voters will have the oppor
tunity to either support or reject six amendments to the
state’s constitution.
With each individual’s vote hangs the balance of more
than $275 million worth of state programs, plus the oppor
tunity for state employes to represent institutions such as
Texas A&M nationally.
Brazos County residents will join with residents from
253 other counties in exercising their freedom of choice.
The day will also represent the opening of deer season,
which may keep some from the polls, and Veteran’s Day,
which may draw some veterans who will have an amend
ment for their benefit on the ballot.
Although Saturday provides a full and work-free day
to reach the polls, only a light to moderate turnout is
expected.
A public informed only that there is a great deal of
money involved in six proposed amendments to their state
constitution will not be enough to draw a first-day hunter
from the field or motivate a resident to vote.
To vote and vote intelligently an individually must
know and understand the issues at hand. For students
who will soon join adults with the right and responsibility
of voting, the issues in Saturday’s election are also impor
tant, for similar issues will be encountered in the future.
The six constitutional amendments on the ballot are:
• To authorize counties to place all their tax revenues
in a single general fund, rather than separate, special pur
pose funds.
• To let local political subdivisions which have hospital
districts spend tax money for mental health and mental
retardation services.
• To revive the veteran’s land program through an
additional $200 million bond issue, permitting war veterans,
including those of the Vietnam conflict, to purchase land
of a low-interest, 40-year-payback loan.
• To permit counties to pay medical benefits for their
law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty.
• To authorize a $75 million state bond issue (supported
by an admission fee at selected parks) for park land buying
and development.
• To permit non-elective state officials and employes to
serve on state and federal boards and commissions if there
is no conflict of duty.
An “X” will indicate your choice. VOTE.
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Three guys are already making arrangements for rides
to th’ Cotton Bowl!”
By Robert Gonzales
Through Corps Channels
Sound Off
Editor
The Battalion:
Monday afternoon at the close
of my classes I returned to my
dorm to leave my books, but in
stead of taking them directly to
my room I placed the attache case
containing them in the dorm
lounge. I then went to the hos
pital for some medicine and to
pick up my laundry. Approximate
ly 30 minutes later I returned to
find my attache case containing
my Physics and English texts, lab
book, slide rule, and two spiral
notebooks containing all this se
mester’s notes gone.
Needless to say I was shocked
in disbelief that they were gone.
I have three major quizzes this
week that will help decide whether
or not I return to Texas A&M
next semester. Without these ma
terials to study by it will be
difficult to make acceptable pass
ing grades on a quiz, especially
on a Physics quiz. I would greatly
appreciate the return of these
materials to me.
Ronald O. Barker
Editor,
The Battalion:
The carom billiard table in the
Recreation Room of the M. S. C.
has been in a state of desuetude
for lo these many moons. (You
could look it up, players).
Apparently it cannot be * put
in playing condition pronto be
cause necessary parts are un
available (you can’t hardly get
them any more,) and also be
cause labor has been so overbur
dened carrying all those signs
around while on strike.
Despite all these known dif
ficulties, cue pushers, ever op
timistic, believe that by making
a Herculean effort the table
could be made whole.
While no bulletins have been
issued and there has been no re
port of progress, hopes run high
that relief is in the offing.
Ed. Bloese
Only 15 more days ’til the larg
est bonfire in the world is lit by
the five yell leaders and the three
drum majors. Work on the huge
tree structure, which symbolizes
the burning desire to beat t.u.
and the underlying spirit each
student has for A&M will begin
this week and with the Cadet
Corps remaining here to cut and
haul logs. The cutting area is
located some 18 miles north of
College Station.
“Outfit assignments have al
ready been made,” Head Yell
Leader Neal Adams said, “and
we will be working towards an
85-foot high stack.”
Elments of the Corps will re
turn early from the Rice Corps
Trip November 18 so that work
can be continued Sunday and
greatest sensations to hit the
Texas A&M campus will be pre
sented by Town Hall in G. Rollie
White Coliseum at 8 p.m. All
cadets are urged to attend and
listen to MANTOVANI and his
orchestra play such movie themes
as EXODUS, MOON RIVER, and
WESTSIDE STORY.
This past Saturday was desig
nated as Sportsmanship Day in
the Southwest Conference. There
has been a growing interest in
the Southwest Conference Sports
manship Committee and there
have been questions on just how
it functions.
The purpose of the Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Com
mittee is to discuss any matters
pertaining to Southwest Confer
ence athletic contests, especially
the furtherance of sportsmanship,
and to evaluate the sportsman
ship of each member school.
The committee consists of an
executive secretary, who is select
ed by the student body of the
chairman school, and the members
of each school’s sportsmanship
committee. Each school sends four
voting representatives to the
meetings of the committee.
THE CHAIRMAN school of the
committee is the host school for
the Southwest Conference track
meet during the year in which it
is chairman. SMU is the present
chairman school. The chairman
ship is assumed on Jan. 2, and
relinquished after one year.
At least two meetings must be
held each year. The first comes
in the spring on the weekend of
the SWC track meet at the host
school. The second is in Dallas
immediately preceding the Cotton
Bowl game.
IN THE INTEREST of further
ing friendly relations and a spirit
of cooperation among the colleges
and universities of the Southwest
Conference, each conference
school, through the Sportsman
ship Committee, subscribes to
the following “Code of Good
Sportsmanship” and pledges to
prin-
endeavor to live up to its
ciples at all times.
1. Each member of competing
teams shall endeavor to:
a. Abide by fair and proper
means of conduct as de
termined by the rules of
the contest.
b. Treat contest officials
with due respect and ci
tesy and accept thei
ficials’ decisions wi
good spirit.
c. Be gracious in victory
defeat.
Members of the student boi
Bulletin Board
Be su
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TUESDAY
American Nuclear Society will
meet in Room 211 DuHerty at
7:30 p.m. Dr. Dvorak of General
Dynamics of Ft. Worth will speak
on “Research Reactors.”
MSC Bridge Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Business Administration Wives
Club will meet at £,'30 p.m. in the
Cushion Room of the YMCA.
Student American Veterinary
Medicine Association will have a
joint meeting with the auxiliary
in the MSC Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Cooke County Hometown Club
will meet in Room 109 of the Ag
riculture Engineering Building at
7:30 p.m.
DeWitt-Lavaca Hometown Club
will meet in Room 203 of the
Academic Building at 7:30 p.m.
Fashion Group of A&M Wom
en’s Social Club will meet at
Chapman’s Paint and Wallpaper
at 7:30 p.m.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3C of
the MSC.
Have
ewardir
shall endeavor to:
a. Avoid discourtesies of j
sort toward their oppj
ents, other visitors, t
spectators and be
hosts and/or guests at
contests.
b. Demonstrate respect farell, he
opponents, their sell
songs, and their traditij
c. Accept the officials'j
cisions with good spirit
The members of the Soij
west Conference Sportst
ship Committee should ust
committee to its fullest
tent in order to establish
ter school relations!
schools outside the confer^ an be
as well as in the confers) a y S Mr
THE DELEGATES to the«
lab
mittee evaluate, in accordsMire A
with the Sportsmanship Code, 1 hould
sportsmanship demonstrated
each school in basketball andij
ball. The school which displj
the outstanding sportsman! /ashing
according to the qualities
forth in the Sportsmanship ft &M N<
Barnacles cannot attach them
selves to objects moving more
than two knots, so fouling of a
hull usually occurs when the ship
is in harbor.
shall be presented the Sportsit
ship Trophy for that year. I ere scj
presentation is made amra ae. Soi
preceding the Cotton Bowl p iy class
in a ceremony on the field.
I might take this opportat
to commend the student body
Texas A&M for its outstamj een se.
performance in the area of spr tore si
manship this year and it is
in which we can take it; ) the 1
pride.
Monday. Civilian students will
guard the bonfire.
The fighting class of ’68 will
have a special interest in the
entire affair. This will be their
last chance to outscore t.u. Scores
of the past three occasions have
been 7-26 in ’64, 17-21 in ’65 and
14-22 in 1966.
News from the Memorial Stu
dent Center centers around talent
and entertainment.
Tonight from 7 to 10 in the
Singing Cadet rehearsal room in
G. Rollie White Coliseum, audi
tions will be held for any cadet
who is willing and wanting to be
in the MSC Talent Committee’s
Fall Production on December 16.
Sound Equipment and a piano will
be furnished. The Talent Commit
tee’s chairman is Mike Curd, who
is also a junior cadet in the Aggie
band.
Tomorrow night one of the
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