Page 2 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 picture has noth-HP ing whatsoever toflP JP do with the action r | * in Texas. It de-| --itiL * picts a scene from ^ ** one of the two . k 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. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre spondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Mail subscriptions are full year. 56.50 year ; sales The Battalio Texas per tax. 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Veterinary Medicine; and Hal Taylor, Col ts ; ark student newspaper at Texas A&M is Station, Texas daily except Saturda The Battalion, published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Ed Services, Inc., New York City, Chicag Francisco. lucational Advertising ago, Los Angeles and San EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Thm Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlebrooke Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographers Bob Stump, Bob Peek Sports Photographer Mike Wright 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 ) _ 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. Corps Brass for Final Review now at LOUPOTS CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “It’s just a rumor, but I’ve heard that sometimes when you go across the stage and they give you a diploma tube, there’s really no diploma in it! There’s probably no truth to it and even if it does happen, chances are slim that it would happen to you, so don’t worry about it!” Bulletin Board 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.” NEED CASH Money Gone After 9 Months of School? Then see us for a personal loan. Take advantage of our prompt, confidential loan service now. UNIVERSITY LOAN COMPANY 317 Patricia (North Gate) College Station, Texas Telephone: 846-8319 Mance Lipscomb TONIGHT 8:30 P. M. (Folk - Blues Singer) COFFEE LOFT No Admission Charge TONIGHT 8:30 P. M. Dwarfe< drag th Heyerd: dria, 16