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College Station, Texas
Friday, May 16, 1969
THE BATTALION
AP News Analysis
No Radical Change Expected
In Supreme Court Rulings
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON US) — The
resignation of Abe Fortas dou
bles President Nixon’s opportun
ity to change the personnel of
the Supreme Court in his first
year.
But it doesn’t mean Nixon will
be able to color the court conserv
ative — even if he puts up two
conservatives to succeed Fortas
and retiring chief Justice Earl
Warren.
Contrary to a widespread be
lief, the court’s active liberalism
does not hang on a 5-4 thread.
More importantly, many of the
Warren court’s major decisions
are largely irreversible.
SCHOOL segregation cannot
be made lawful again, malappor
tionment of state legislatures
Icannot be made constitutional
By MONTY STANLEY
On the front page of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma Daily last
Saturday was a photo depicting
a violent scene, with tanks, sol
diers, fire, smoke, and all that
kind of stuff. The caption under
the picture read: “DEEP IN THE
HEART OF TEXAS—Black stu
dents seized the president’s office
at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas Friday
morning. But
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movies which are being shown
by the Kenetic Arts series May
9-12 in Dale Hall.” Now that’s
real journalism.
★ ★ ★
The University of Minnesota’s
Students for the Preservation of
the American Republic (SPAR)
had a flag-burning of their own
last week. The target in their
literal fighting of fire with fire
was a Viet Cong flag, while a tape
recorder played “God Bless Amer
ica” and the American flag waved
behind the speakers at the rally,
the other flag was placed on a
flag pole and wood alcohol was
poured on it. A member of SPAR
then struck a match to the flag.
Fragments of the flag were
caught in the wind and blown
toward the wodden doors of the
building where the display was
being held. When the Student
Activities Bureau counselor ran
over and started stomping out
the flames of the stray pieces,
the wind blew more pieces onto
his slacks and his “whole right
side” became engulfed in flames.
After the flames were extinguish
ed, he turned to the SPAR leader
and commented, “I’m afraid
you’ve had your last rally.”
★ ★ ★
May 4 begins TCU/Ft. Worth
Week up in that area, in which
the university and the community
“celebrate their dependence upon
each other.” Several businesses
have donated billboard space to
advertise the fact, merchants are
using window displays to show
off their own “purple and white
spirit,” and many civic clubs are
sponsoring luncheons to properly
start off the celebration. Said
the chairman of the observance,
“I am pleased with the opportun
ity that this annual observance
provides for the community to
make known more forcefully and
dramatically its support of this
fine institution.” Meanwhile,
closer to home, it is rumored that
Friday marks the organizational
meeting of the Society of Cheery
Waitresses, Helpful Store Clerks,
and Merry Merchants of Bryan-
College Station. Plans presently
call for a 1 o’clock luncheon in
a North Gate phone booth.
While most people at TCU
complain about lack of parking
spaces, at least one person did
something constructive about it,
at least for herself—she set up
a sign in a parking space which
reserved that space for her.
★ ★ ★
The College Star reports that
“A loose coalition of the campus
activists at Stephen F. Austin
State College are picketing the
Skataram a Roller Rink at Nacog
doches for its segregationist ad
mission policies.” When repre
sentatives tried to enter the es
tablishment, they were turned
down by the owner because their
group contained Negroes and
“long-hairs.” Said the Star, the
owner “openly admits” segrega
tionist policies.
At Southwest Texas State (now
University, not College, incident
ally), the Art Department has
come up with a way for harried
students to ease their tension-
distorted minds during final week.
It is a psychedelic “environmental
chamber,” begun last semester by
an art design class and finished
by this semester’s class. It will
include rooms of mirrored sur
faces and flashing lights, op art,
a slide, a revolving platform, and
black-light displays, all accom
panied by recordings of weird
sounds in the background.
★ ★ ★
At this time of the year, I’d
like to just settle back and remi
nisce about the good times I’ve
had and wish everyone a hearty
goodbye like other columnists in
school newspapers across the
country. That’s what I’d like to
do, but I’m not going anywhere,
so it would sound kind of stupid.
Patterson To See
Apollo 10 Launch
Prof. James Patterson, direc
tor of the Research and Gradu
ate Center, School of Architec
ture, is the second A&M staffer
to receive an invitation to attend
the Apollo 10 moon shot at Cape
Kennedy Sunday.
It was announced earlier Maj.
Gen. Alvin R. Luedecke, associate
dean of engineering, who also
serves as engineering research
coordinator, would attend the
event.
Patterson’s invitation comes
through the Medical Branch of
NASA as a result of the health
services research being conduct
ed at the Research and Graduate
Center here.
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NLF Avoids Rejection Of Nixon Peace Plan
unless the Constitution itself is
changed, and the states cannot
escape the force of the Bill of
Rights.
The rights of criminal defend
ants could possibly be shaved by
the appointment of “strict con
structionists.” But here, too, it
would be extremely difficult to
undo much of what has been
done.
Justice William O. Douglas, the
court’s most liberal member, ob
served last October: “A consti
tutional decision in the court is
always open to change.”
BUT, DOUGLAS added, only
the nomination of “some Stone
Age guys” could alter the 16-
year work of the Warren court.
Indeed, it is not certain that
Nixon will settle on two conserv
atives to step in for Warren and
Fortas.
In fact, in this most unbeliev
able of the court’s 179 years, it
even is not inconceivable that the
Republican President could name
Democrat Arthur J. Goldberg, a
solid liberal, for one of the spots
— his old one.
Goldberg was talked off the
bench by President Lyndon B.
Johnson four years ago to make
way for Fortas.
HIS RETURN could lend cre
dence to the nonpartisan posture
the administration has taken pub
licly in the Fortas matter.
Politically, it would remove a
potential Democratic candidate
for a New York Senate seat and
could make Nixon a more agree
able figure in liberal circles. And
it would fit the pattern of recent
decades that the court include a
Jew.
It is more reasonable to as
sume, though, that Nixon will
look to the right. Likely candi
dates include such conservatives
as former Atty. Gen. Herbert
Brownell and two federal appeals
court judges, Henry Friendly and
Warren Burger.
By MAX HARRELSON
Associated Press Writer
PARIS <A>) _ The Viet Cong’s
National Liberation Front deliv
ered a mild-sounding a t ta c k
Thursday on President Nixon’s
proposals for a Vietnam solution,
but appeared to be carefully
avoiding rejection of the Presi
dent’s eight-point plan as a
whole.
At the same time, Nort Viet
nam’s official radio also attacked
the Nixon program, saying that
the plan “is not to end the war
of aggression, but to replace the
war of aggression fought by U.S.
troops into a war of aggression
fought by the puppet army of the
United States” — meaning the
South Vietnamese.
IN BOTH cases, the attack cen
tered on that section of the Nix
on proposals which insisted upon
mutual withdrawal of all outside
troops from South Vietnam.
There was a hint of caution in
this, suggesting that Hanoi and
the NLF might explore the Nixon
proposal further at or after the
17th full-scale session of the
Paris talks Friday.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge, Nixon’s chief negotiator,
was flying back from Washing
ton to present the President’s
plan formally to the other parties
in the talks and to repeat the
President’s statement that Wash
ington welcomed the NLF initia
tive in putting forward its com
prehensive 10-point plan at last
week’s session.
ALTHOUGH THE variety of
proposals — the Hanoi ‘4 points,”
the NLF “10 points,” the Ameri
can “8 points” and the Saigon “6
points” — left the opposing sides
as far apart as ever on some key
issues, conference observers said
the initiatives might at least get
the talks off dead center. The
sides remain at opposite poles on
such questions as the mutual
troop withdrawals and an even
tual political settlement.
Hanoi radio, using a “special
interview” commentator to get
across its rebuttal, underscored
the gulf between the sides by in
sisting that if Nixon wants peace,
it could be achieved “by the Unit
ed States ending its aggression
against Vietnam and uncondition
ally withdrawing all U.S. troops
from South Vietnam.” This il
luminated a major snag in the
talks — the insistence of Hanoi
that the Americans pull out uni
laterally, without any conditions.
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TONIGHT
Aggie Christian Fellowship will
meet at 5:30 p.m. in rooms 3-D
of the MSC. Topic: “A Freudian
Psychologist Looks at Christian
ity.”
MONDAY
Industrial Education Wives Club
will meet at 8 p.m. in the Medal
lion Room of Bryan Utilities.
All members are requested to be
present to elect the new officers
for next year. Margaret Groves
will present a program on her
collection of foreign dolls. Each
member is to bring a favorite
prepared recipe for a Tasting Bee.
TUESDAY
American Veterinary Medical
Association Student Auxiliary
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Medallion Room of the Bryan
Utilities Building, 300 S. Wash
ington Ave. in Bryan. Dr. R. H.
Davis, of the Department of Phy
siology and Pharmacology, will
speak on “The Organization and
Maintenance of the Veterinary
Pharmacy.”
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