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Applicants must be full-time women students with a 1.2 overall grade point ratio, Miss Whitehead said, and they must file in the Memorial Student Center Pro grams Office by 5 p.m. Wednes day. “The five-member committee will continue several programs and activities initiated this year,” Miss Whitehead said. “These will include a fall orientation for women students, help with Bon fire, work with the MSG commit tees and other campus groups, and development of new programs in keeping with the Association’s aim of providing leadership for women to become involved in stu dent activities here.” Major projects on which this year’s committee is still working include a fashion show, to be held here Saturday in conjunction with the MSC Fashion Committee, and a handbook for coeds, to be pub lished in time for the fall semes ter, she added. Grad Invitations Available May 16 J Invitations ordered by May graduates may be picked up be fore May 16 in the Memorial Student Center Game Room, an nounced Miss Jo Scanlin of the Student Finance Center. She said the room will be open and attended on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 6 p.m. Miss Scanlin indicated extra graduation invitations will go on sale on a first come, first served basis at 8 a.m. Monday in the same location. Finalists For Vanity Fair Announced By JANIE WALLACE Battalion Staff Writer Thirteen finalists for Vanity Fair were announced Wednesday by James Creel, editor of the Aggieland. The six winners will be selected at the Student Publications Ban quet May 16, Creel said. The finalists who were all nom inated by members of the senior class are: Blue-eyed blonde Linda Jane Coleman is from Fort Worth. Her escort is Barry Powell. CAROLYN Kay Compton from Dallas will be escorted by William P. Murphy. She has blue eyes and frosted hair. Escorted by Bob Turney, Kay Hicks is from Beaumont. She has brown hair and blue eyes. Green-eyed Susan Howes from Denton has black hair. She will be escorted by Stephen Holditch. A resident of College Station, Shirley Aiyi Jarvis has brown hair and hazel eyes. Her escort is Michael Curd. Cheri Long, a brown-eyed bru nette, is from Bryan. Her escort is Mike Long. Brown-eyed Susan Meyer, who will be escorted by Buster Adami, is from Austin. She has brown hair. A HAZEL-EYED blonde, Carol Nelson is from Wolfe City. She will be escorted by Tom McWhir- ter. Escorted by Walt Dabney, Mary Frances Ruble is a blue-eyed blonde. She is from Austin. A resident of Laredo, Melita Ruiz has green eyes and brown hair. Her escort is Hector Gutier rez, Jr. Mary Ann Taylor ,who is from Waco, has hazel eyes and brown hair. Her escort is Ronald Tef- teller. Blue-eyed blonde Karry Kay Thompson will be escorted by A. Roger Matson. She is from San Marcos. Cynthia Leigh Turner, who will be escorted by Alan J. Brum baugh, is from Waco. She has brown hair and brown eyes. THE FINALISTS were selected by J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center; Dr. William Gibbons, head of the Political Science Department; Gene Stallings, athletic director and head coach; Ed Cooper, direc tor of civilian student activities, and Gene Sutphen, owner of Aggieland Studio. Everyone who submitted entries may pick up pictures in room 217 of the Information Services Building, Creel added. CYNTHIA TURNER CAROLYN KAY COMPTON SUSAN MEYER LINDA COLEMAN „*#J mJ' CAROL NELSON m MELITA RUIZ KARRY THOMPSON Cbe Battalion VOLUME 64 Number 108 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Legislators Continue Talks Aggies Briefed On ‘Drop, Pin’ * Significance On State Appropriations Plan By TONY HUDDLESTON Past premarital sex experiences should be discussed by both par ties before deciding on marriage, Kathy Heldman, last year’s Aggie Sweetheart, said Wednesday night at the final “Man Your Manners” presentation. “Both the boy and girl should admit their experiences before marriage, and if any guilt is felt by either party after they have talked, they should not marry,” Miss Heldman added. Miss Heldman was one member on the panel concerned with ro mance to marriage. The other members were Jennifer Johnson, Margaret Trussell, and Lynn Ste phens. Mrs. Nancy Newton, ad viser to the Texas Woman’s Uni versity delegation, was panel moderator. Each of the girls took a special area to explain prior to the ques tion and answer period. MARGARET explained that “ ‘dropping’ indicates a want to go steady” attitude among college students. “Being dropped could lead to bigger and better things, maybe,” she added. Lynn said that being pinned is a time factor—time between being dropped and being engaged and a time for planning for the future. She said the time to give a pin is after two or three months of dating. Lynn explained how the pin could be used in devious ways. “The pin can be used as a substitute for an engagement ring when future in-laws don’t approve of an engagement. And a pin is a lot easier to give back than an engagement ring,” she said. SHE ADDED that it was at this time that both parties should meet the other’s family, and begin to discuss future plans. Lynn, in answer to a pinning question, said that a pin carries one important obligation. “Don’t date others even though great distances may separate you.” This brought hissing and cries of “sucker” from the audience. Kathy pointed out that an en gagement should follow a long period of acquaintance, and be at least three months long. She added that it was at this time that closer family ties begin. “You have to get along with your in-laws sooner or later,” Mrs. Newton added. JENNIFER pointed out that in the past weddings have been bound rather strictly by tradition. Currently, however, a wedding can be as formal or informal as the participants want it. The panel in a unanimous vote agreed that a wife can work after marriage. The four commented that they thought this gave the wife greater security and also gave the wife an opportunity to (See Aggies, Page 2) AUSTIN (A 3 ) — Houston-Sen- ate negotiators on state appro priations planned to meet again today while government leaders continued their behind the scenes talks about a possible tax-avoid ing one-year budget. The conference committee on a $5.7 billion general appropria tions bill got down to work, final ly, Wednesday afternoon on a two-year money bill. Gov. Preston Smith, Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes and House Speaker Gus Mutscher planned to meet sometime today, and there was speculation Smith might hold a news conference outlining his views on a one-year budget that Barnes and Mutscher have been trying to sell him on. Smith has often stated he thinks the state constitution re quires two-year budgets, al though the state operated for the past two years on annual budgets passed at the insistence of for mer Gov. John Connally. IN WEDNESDAY’S conference session, Senate negotiators were split over a House proposal to give all state judges a $2,000 pay raise. Both houses gave the 182 dis trict judges a $1,000 raise, to $19,000, in their original bills. The house , bill gives appellate judges a $1,000 raise, while the Senate measure provided them only $500. Sen. A. R. Schwartz, Galves ton, missed the meeting because of treatment of a sore back. He ‘Militant Moderate’ Notes Paradoxes IN SESSION Outgoing- Graduate Student Council president Mitty Plum mer takes a break for refreshment in a GSC meeting Wed nesday as Dr. G. W. Kunze, dean of the Graduate College, glances over a brief in the background. (Photo by Bob Peek) Benedetto Elected President Of Graduate Student Council Tony Benedetto was elected president of the Graduate Student Council for the 1969-70 school year during a council meeting Wednesday. The council also discussed prob lems between graduate students and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Benedetto is a graduate student representative on the Student Senate this year and a member of the Election Commission. Albert R. Fried, chemistry graduate student, was selected as the council vice-president for 1969-70. Fried also is a graduate representative on the Senate this year. Lawrence McGill, veterinary pathology graduate student, will serve as council secretary next year. Michael Raphael, graduate mechanical engineering student, is next year’s treasurer. Raphael is serving his first term on the council and comes from Lebanon. After the meeting was officially over, students discussed IRS problems with Dr. G. W. Kunze, dean of the Graduate College. The main problem concerned stu dents having to pay social secur ity and teacher’s retirement taxes on graduate fellowships and as- sistantships, a tax the graduates believe is unfair. While nothing definite was de cided, Kunze said he would check further into the situation and talk more with the IRS people. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L. By TONY HUDDLESTON Battalion Staff Writer A four-term veteran of the Texas House, Rep. Tom Bass of Houston told the Political Forum Wednesday that he needed no excuse for apparent inconsistency in his voting record. Bass, labeled a militant moder ate by his colleagues in the House, defined his political position as the 10th most liberal or the 10th most conservative of the 19-mem ber Houston delegation to the House, which he is chairing this session. “My deskmates in the House define my views as a maverick or one who votes inconsistently,” Bass added. “Neither side can count on me to vote any certain way for sure. A check on my voting record over the past eight years might show me leaning toward the liberals for a while, then heading off on a tangent.” “SEVENTY per cent of my votes are cast from a practical point of view,” he pointed out. “Twenty percent reflects the de sires of the constituents in my district and 10 per cent are my personal feelings.” Bass pointed out that as a “mil itant moderate” he is for reform, progress and change, provided it stays in the framework of exist ing laws. “I’m a revolutionary in that I think a number of things could be improved, but moderate be cause I don’t believe in destroy ing the framework of our laws if it doesn’t work the way I think it should,” he pointed out. “There are times when a legis lator must decide for himself that either the public or his constitu ency be damned,” Bass said. BASS CITED an example of moderacy from his legislative ex perience. “During this session, the 60th Legislature Appropriations Com mittee was so outspoken that it was purged,” Bass said. He added that for this reason he relinquish ed his position on the committee in exchange for membership on the rules committee, which he termed as almost equally as pow erful as the appropriations com mittee. “Not even most government professors are aware of the role of the rules committee,” the Uni versity of St. Thomas at Houston political science professor com mented. “Much of its power is its authority to place bills that come out of a committee on a calendar.” Bass said that he was a firm advocate of non-violent protest. “I do not condone riots and other destructive acts by minority groups, but I do feel that we should listen to their problems and try to find solutions as long as they protest in a lawful man ner. HE NOTED that change is gradually coming to our existing legal framework. “Our laws are changing because -we are gradually beginning to understand our problems better,” he added. SUSAN HOWES reportedly is against any more money for the judges and could cast a tie-breaking vote to scut tle the $2,000 pay raise proposal. House members passed and sent to the Senate a bill extend ing the hours for sale of alcoholic beverages to 2 a.m., seven days a week in all counties with more than 300,000 people—Bexar Dal las, El Paso, Harris and Tarrant. Taverns in other counties could have the new hours if their com missioners courts or city councils approved. A tavern would have to obtain a $100 annual license to take advantage of the proposed curfew. Present curfew is mid night every night but Saturday, when alcoholic beverages may be sold until 1 a.m. The House also passed, 118-23, and sent to the Senate a bill put ting Texas consumer credit laws in line with the federal “Truth in Lending” Act. A'; 1 SHIRLEY JARVIS Rule Clarified By A&M Board Of Publications By DAVE MAYES Battalion Managing Editor The S t u d e nt Publications Board Wednesday clarified a rul ing it had made last May con cerning editorial staff succes sion in all six student publica tions. The Board also nominated the 1969-70 editors of The Battalion, summer Battalion, Aggieland, Agriculturist, A&M Review, En gineer and Southwestern Veter inarian. Jim Lindsey, board chairman, said the new editors would be announced at the May 16 Student Publications Ban quet, pending approval by A&M President Earl Rudder. The new ruling, recommended by Lindsey, urged editors of the university’s student publications to “fill subordinate positions with underclassmen who will be avail able to apply their experience in more responsible posts the fol lowing year.” “While desiring to give stu dent editors the maximum amount of freedom, the board reserves the right to intervene if a majority of its members feel an appointment is obviously con trary to the best interests of the affected publication,” the state ment added. Positions to which the ruling should apply, the board agreed, are the managing editor or as sociate editor on all publications, and the news editor, city editor and assistant sports editor of The Battalion. The ruling clarified an earlier (See Rule, Page 6) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.