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VOLUME 64 Number 109
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1969
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New YP Position
Created By CSC
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
An additional vice presidential
post on the Civilian Student Coun
cil was created Thursday night
during a special Council meeting.
The post, to be voted on during
DR. JOHNSON
New Director
Announced For
A&M Library
Dr. Andrew J. Johnson, direc
tor of library services at Lamar
State College of Technology for
two years, has been named li
brary director here, according to
President Earl Rudder.
The 37-year-old Beaumont na
tive succeeds Dr. James P. Dyke,
who has resigned to become li
brary director at New Mexico
State University. Both appoint
ments are effective July 1.
Dr. Johnson, who also is a his
tory professor, joined Lamar
Tech in 1958 after serving three
years as an instructor at Schrein
er Institute in Kerrville. He lec
tured the past two years at the
University of Texas at Austin’s
Graduate School of Library Sci
ence.
He received his undergradu
ate degree at Texas-Austin,
master’s and Ph.D. at Indiana
University and another master’s
from the University of Chicago’s
Graduate Library School.
Dr. Johnson attended the Uni
versity of Chicago under a $1,260
scholarship from that institution
and a $500 scholarship from the
Texas Library Association.
He is a member of the Orga
nization of American Historians,
Texas Library Association and
the Association of American Li
brary Schools. He also is a
member of Phi Alpha Theta,
Beta Phi Mu and Phi Eta Sigma
honorary societies and was a
fellow of the Southern Fellow
ships Foundation in 1961-62.
Johnson is married and has
two daughters, Laura, 14 and
Letitia, 7.
the upcoming college Senate elec
tions, was created to help the
Council operate more efficiently,
according to David Wilks, CSC
president. Wilks had made the
proposal at an earlier Council
meeting, and presented it again
Thursday as part of an overall
constitutional revision.
Wilks noted that, due to fre
quent Senate meetings this year,
the Council vice president, also
CSC Senate representative, had
been forced to miss many Council
meetings. Having two vice presi
dents, he said, would allow one
to concentrate on Senate matters.
DAVID ALEXANDER, CSC
vice president-elect, will assume
the duties of the office termed
first vice president by vote of the
Council. His duties will be to
assume duties of the president
if necessary, chair a residence
hall committee and other commit
tees assigned him, and to serve
as Council communicator with
the National Association of Col
lege and University Residence
Halls.
The second vice president, to
he decided later this month, will
represent the CSC on the Senate,
act as liaison for the Council with
other campus organizations, and
help the president keep abreast
of student opinion.
REQUIREMENTS for the sec
ond vice presidential slot are a
1.5 overall grade point ratio and
civilian status at the beginning
of the semester during which a
student is elected to the office.
Councilmen also approved an
amendment that removes the
freshman and sophomore repre
sentative from the Council, but
adds both freshman and sopho
more council assistants.
The freshman representative
was eliminated, Larry Schilhab,
civilian chaplain, told the group,
because he was the only class
representative on the council.
Council assistants, he said, take
care of a freshman and sopho
more voice, although they will
have no vote.
UNIVERSITY Women’s Asso
ciation will have a representative
on next year’s council as a result
of a third amendment passed by
the group. Ernie Godsey, Hughes
Hall president, pointed out that
this special group representation
was allowed because the CSC is
primarily a coordinating body, not
a governing one.
The Council also made the
Corps representative a non-voting
member, since all members be
lieved that only civilians should
have a voice in Council activities.
Members hastened to add that
they thought that a Corps man
should remain on the council for
communications purposes, how
ever.
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Association. Your Sav
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BB&L —Adv.
Senate Overrules Panel,
Allows Mauro Candidacy
Presidential Vote
Set For May 14
SENATE CONFERENCE
Student Senate President Bill Carter, left, points out an item in the Senae constitution
to Parliamentarian Ron Hinds during debate over the eligibility of Garry Mauro to run
for Senate president. (Photo by Bob Peek)
Laundry Committee Raises
Bundle Size To 35 Items
Allowable size of student laun
dry bundles has been increased
to 35 pieces, effective the fall
semester of this year.
In addition, allowed number of
trousers has been upped to three,
and shirts to five.
The changes were noted Thurs
day by the Student Laundry
Committee at the recommenda
tion of a subcommittee appoint
ed to update current bundle al
lotments.
Committee members Phil Cal
lahan, Ross Oliver, David George
(committee chairman) and Da
vid Middlehrooke (subcommittee
chairman) met earlier this week
with George Hartsock, laundry
manager, to discuss possible
changes.
MIDDLEBROOKE told the
committee that his group had
decided to eliminate bathrobes
from the list of allowable pieces
and substitute an additional pair
of trousers. Hartsock assured
the group that few, if any, bath
robes were sent to the laundry.
In his report, Middlehrooke
also said the four-man group had
voted to add one extra shirt and
four small pieces to the allowed
bundle, bringing the total al
lowed to 35 pieces.
He noted that this would al
low the student to send in three
pairs of trousers, five shirts, two
sheets, one pillow slip, and 24
small items per week without
paying any extra charge.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE also
voted to eliminate Ban-Lon shirts
from the allowed bundle. This,
Middlehrooke said, is done be
cause the number received by the
laundry was small, and they
took longer to process than reg
ular shirts.
He noted that students could
still send Ban-Lons, but that
they would be charged extra for
them. The charge, he said,
would be determined by the laun
dry.
Howard Vestal, managment
services director, said at the
meeting that the university is
prepared to accept the recom
mendations, as well as a reorga
nization of the laundry ticket
suggested by the subcommittee.
THE NEW ticket would have
items such as the bathrobe de
leted, and space for marking
permanent-press pants added.
In addition, all items requiring
extra payment, such as bed
spreads, would be listed sepa
rately at the bottom of the ticket.
Oliver asked if it would be
possible to have a drop chute at
the Campus Cleaners station in
Dormitory 12. Vestal said that
the cleaners is owned and oper
ated by the Former Students As
sociation, but that he would
check into it.
Degree Applicants
Set New Record
A record 1,303 students have
filed for spring graduation
here, announced Admissions
Dean H. L. Heaton.
Heaton said this year’s grad
uating class includes 917 stu
dents seeking baccalaureate
degrees and 386 seeking ad
vanced degrees. Ph.D. candi
dates total 108.
Commencement exercises will
be conducted May 24.
This year’s graduating class
represents an increase of 183
students over the 1968 group,
the previous high, Heaton not
ed.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Managing Editor
Last week’s presidential run
ner-up Garry Mauro Thursday
came within a technicality of
becoming Senate president as
senators first cleared him of
charges of campaign violations,
debated whether such action in
itself made him president, and
then allowed him to run as a
candidate in a special presiden
tial election to be held May 14.
Filing for the Senate office
will begin today and end Tuesday
at the Student Program office,
Memorial Student Center.
After overturning a Monday
Election Commission ruling by
declaring Mauro innocent of
leaving campaign signs up past
a stipulated 48-hour deadline,
senators were told by Vice Pres
ident David Maddox that they
had just made Mauro 1969-70
Senate president.
Citing Section 6 of the Senate
constitution, “if a Senator be
comes ineligible . . . prior to the
first meeting in the school year
in which he is to serve, the run
ner-up shall assume the vacant
position,” Maddox said that since
Mauro has been found innocent,
as runner-up he has become
president.
A1 Reinert, winner of last
Thursday’s presidential election,
was disqualified Friday on the
basis of scholastic ineligibility by
the Appeals Committee upon re
ceiving a petition froin Civilian
Student Council President David
Wilks.
THE EXECUTIVE Committee
Monday upheld the Appeals deci
sion and directed the Student
Senate to hold another election
this spring.
Maddox supported his opinion
with statements by Richard Ber
nard, assistant to A&M' President
Earl Rudder, who believed that
the Executive Committee did not
know of the provision for succes
sion in the Senate constitution
when it directed the Senate to
hold another election.
Maddox’s statement brought a
storm of protests from a number
of Senators who said that they
did not know they were voting
for Mauro’s presidency, only for
his innocence. In the charged
atmosphere of heated debate,
Maddox was accused of withhold
ing information for political pur
poses and charged with playing
a “damned dirty trick” on the
Senate.
The vice president maintained
that he was only interested in
abiding by the rules in this in
stance, as he had been through
out the entire controversial elec
tion period.
Senate President Bill Carter
reminded senators that it was
the failure to abide by the rules
at first that had brought on, to
a large extent, the past two
weeks of charges, counter-charges
and appeals.
DEAN OF Students James P.
Hannigan, a member of the Exec
utive Committee, clarified the
situation when he noted that the
committee had taken the consti
tutional provision into account
before it had directed another
election.
Since the actions of the com
mittee take precedence over pro
visions in the Senate constitu
tion, he added, the Senate should
follow the committee directive to
hold another election.
The presidential election will
coincide with the election of sen
ators from the colleges.
Earlier, the Senate was told by
a proxy for Gerald Geistweidt
that he did not wish to become
Senate president by recommend
ation, as the Election Commis
sion had done Monday after dis
qualifying Mauro.
“In view of what has occurred
in the past two weeks, this meet
ing was the most difficult of
the year,” Carter noted after the
session.
“It was reassuring to see the
Senate take the type of respon
sible action it did tonight,” he
said.
In other business, Maddox in
troduced an amendment to the
Senate constitution removing the
power to ratify constitutional
amendments from the Academic
Council and placing it in the
hands of the student body.
RATIFICATION, Maddox ex
plained, would consist of a ma
jority of favorable votes from
students voting in a referendum.
Senator Paschal “Buzz” Red
ding wondered how practical rat
ification by such means would
be if the student electorate has
neither a copy of the present
Senate constitution nor informa
tion concerning new amend
ments.
He also suggested that a more
effective body to which to sub
task of the Senate Public Rela-
mit amendments would be a fac
ulty-student senate.
Maddox answered that inform
ing the electorate would be the
(See Senate, Page 2)
Splendor In The Mud—RV Juniors Make Their Move
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Ross Volunteer juniors drop rifles and head for RV senior Early
Davis. The order to begin the day's drill goes unheeded as the thirst
for revenge becomes paramount.
GOING, GOING . ..
A hapless senior is transported to a convenient mudhole as last
week’s RV Mud Day continues. Systematically, every senior RV is
chased down and dumped by the juniors.
GONE!
And another senior bites the mud. Obviously, the juniors don’t go
unscathed; but after months of pushups and “highport” jogging,
it’s worth it. (Photos by Monty Stanley and Bill Watts)