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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle I Constitutional Convention :j:j Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 6,198) § fi f 1 Is ‘Only One State Away 9 Bulletin Board “Have you noticed how much more comfortable uniforms are than civilian clothes?” Three Observations Three brief comments on three complex situations (details, page 1): The League of United Latin American Citizens’ denunciation of San Jacinto Day “quaddings” would be almost humorous if it weren’t apparently sincere and if it weren’t involved with such a touchy issue as treatment of Mexican-Americans. Either the complaints of “harassed” Mexican-American students to off-campus listeners have been distorted and exaggerated, or Dean James P. Hannigan, Col. Jim McCoy, Corps Commander Hector Gutierrez and this newspaper staff are totally unaware of a major problem on this campus. (It should be noted that the people in that list have generally been the ones to whom similar problems are presented first.) The arrest of an SDS member and two associates for burglary early Saturday will probably have far-reaching effects, depending on the Civil Liberties Union’s examination of the case. One point seems clear: Quotes from Campus Security Chief Ed Powell such as those in Monday’s Bryan Daily Eagle (“We’re working on the assumption that the door was locked,” “You don’t have to catch them stealing anything if you catch them before they begin to steal”) will do little to dispel notions that paranoia is setting in around here. We’re not any fonder of violence or threats of violence than are the System directors. But neither are we fond of closed-mindedness. Refusal even to consider student grievances because of the terms in which they are couched may not reflect paternalism; but it can, and probably will, be interpreted as such, and very little good can come of that. Perhaps, however, the sudden furor will provide the impetus to release the Black Studies curriculum plans from their apparent oblivion; perhaps the “orderly, constructive change” the directors advocate will be easier to achieve now that the problems have come to light and the directors know that people care about them. For the sake of this university and its students, we hope that is the case. By JOHN CHADWICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON <A>)_Action by only one more state legislature is necessary to kick off a king-sized dispute in Congress over the Su preme Court’s one-man, one-vote rulings. The legislatures of 33 states now are listed as calling on Con gress to convene a constitutional convention, one short of the re quired two-thirds. Senate Republican Leader Ev erett M. Dirksen of Illinois, spearheading the drive, said Mon day he expects a 34th state to join the move soon. “WE’RE WORKING on it,” he told a reporter, but he declined to say which state legislature he is counting on. Aides of Dirksen said it ap pears the number of state legis latures petitioning for a conven tion to draft a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court rulings may reach 38 this year. The Iowa legislature became the 33rd last week. This prompted Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, D-Md., to issue a state ment Monday saying “If one more state calls for a constitutional convention, we could face a con stitutional crisis unparalleled in the history of the Republic.” ARTICLE V of the Constitu tion provides that “on the appli cation of the legislatures of two- thirds of the several states Con gress shall call a convention for proposing amendments.” But it doesn’t specify how dele gates to such a convention should be chosen. When and if a 34th state legis lature acts, Dirksen plans to in troduce a resolution providing for the convening of a constitutional convention — the first since the Constitution was drafted in 1789. AT THE SAME time he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would permit factors other than population to be taken into account in the ap portionment of one branch of state legislatures. It also would extend this to« city and county councils, school boards and other units of gov- Tonight On KBTX 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:30 12:30 Lancer Red Skelton Doris Day Tuesday night movie— “Curtain Call at Cactus Creek” TX Final News, Weather & Sports Tuesday night movie, Part II It Takes a Thief Alfred Hitchcock THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of MEMBER the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- The Associated Press, Texas Press Association supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter- prise edited and operated by students as a university and Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school rnm m tin! tv n eir tfrn her year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 4% lormnunuy neiLspaper. sales tax Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: LETTERS POLICY The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station. Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, Texas 77843. and must be no more than 300 words in length. They ~~ must be signed, although the writer's name will be with- The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for & b • , i »• . . , republication of all new dispatches credited to it or not. held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre- otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous spondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, ori ! in published herein. Rights of republication of all other c ■ ,, ,, C-. ,■ rr Ao.matter herein are also reserved. Services Building, College station, Texas /7S-13. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER £, rts . : ,?• Wh j t ®v College of Engineering; Dr Donald R. Managing Editor Dave Mayes leg a e o’f A D ir!fult°ure y Med,c,ne : and Hal Taylor ’ Co1 ' Sports Editor John Platzer —^ Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, .The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden IS:' 1 ..'? Sfe staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace Tony May, and once a week during summer school. Huddleston, David Mlddlebrooke —— 7,—7—rrT: 7777, rT7—rr:— Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographers .... Bob Stump Bob Peek Francisco. Sports Photographer Mike Wright KENTUCKY CENTRAL LIFE INS. CO. PROUDLY PRESENTS THE UNIVERSITY KEY PAT COOPER DESIGNED ESPECIALLY AS THE NEW CREATIVE AP PROACH TO LIFE INSUR ANCE FOR UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. JOE HOYLER I 331 University Drive North Gate — 846-8701 BOBBY MERRITT PAUL SMITH ernment and permit a variation of as much as 10 per cent be tween the most and the least populous congressional districts in each state. If Congress were to call a con stitutional convention it would stipulate whether amendments adopted at such a convention would require ratification by three-quarters of the state legis latures or whether they could be validated by conventions in three- quarters of the states. Article V leaves this option to Congress. Ratification by state legisla tures has been the method used on all past amendments and there is no general agreement among lawyers on the machinery for setting up state ratifying conventions. WEDNESDAY Aggie Christian Fellowship will meet at 5:30 p.m. in room 3-D of the Memorial Student Center. “Cooling It by Faith” will be dis cussed by Dr. Ed Blum. The affair will be a Western Roundup; dress will be casual, Lubbock - South Plains Home town Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. at “the shed” for a party and club sweetheart contest. Pulitzer Prize Winners Named NEW YORK CP)—The Los An geles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public serv ice Monday. A Times correspon dent, William Tuohy, was award ed the prize for international re porting. Edward T. Adams, 35, of The Associated Press, won the prize for spot news photography for his picture of a South Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong prisoner in the head. Other awards: Local reporting general—John Fetterman of the Louisville Ky. Times and Courier-Journal. LOCAL REPORTING, special —Albert L. Delugach and Denny Walsh of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. National reporting — Robert Cahn of the Christian Science Monitor. Editorial writing—Paul Green berg of the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial. Cartooning — John Fischetti of the Chicago Daily News. Feature photography — Moneta Sleet Jr., of Ebony magazine. Other Pulitzer winners in the arts field were: History—Leonard W. Levy for his book “The Origins of the Fifth Amendment.” BIOGRAPHY — B. L. Reid for “The Man from New York: John Quinn and his Friends.” Poetry — George Oppen for his volume of verse “Of Being Nu merous.” General Nonfiction — (1) Rene Jules Dubos for “So Human an Animal” and (2) Norman Mailer for “The Armies of the Night.” Fiction — N. Scott for “House Made of Dawn.” EACH INDIVIDUAL prize car ries a cash award of $1,000. The newspaper receiving the merito rious service award gets a gold medal. The prizes have been awarded annually since 1917. They were established in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and publisher of the New York World, who died in 1911. The trustees of Columbia Uni versity select the winners, based on recommendations by an ad visory board. Panels of judges nominate winners in each cate gory. THURSDAY Computer Science Wives Club will hold its PHT banquet at 7 p.m. at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Jimmy Hicks, 803 Glade. DR. G. A. SMITH OPTOMETRIST SPECIALIZING IN EYE EXAMINATION and CONTACT LENSES 105 NORTH MAIN Downtown Bryan DIAL 822-3557 STUDENTS (Continued From Page 1) cent of the Corps members are of Mexican descent. “No cases of harassment have been reported to my office by Mexican-American students,” commented Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. He added that the administration at A&M “is proud of its Mexican-Ameri can students, who have produced several student leaders in the past,” and that he could not see any credibility in the LULAC report. LET US ARRANGE YOUR TRAVEL... ANYWHERE IN THE U. S. A. 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