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Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 23, 1969 THE BATTALION the graduate By Tony Benedetto As we start yet another school year, this column bids a fond farewell to the West Texas sage wit of Mitty Plummer, the 1968- 69 President of the Graduate Stu dent Council, and says Howdy! to what I hope will be an always informative and occasionally con troversial setting-forth of my comments on life for the gradu ate student at Texas A&M. Al though mainly directed to the graduate student body, it is my hope that undergraduates will read the column regularly be cause there will at times be topics of interest to them, also. And we start right off with one. The Graduate Student Council will sponsor its annual Graduate Student Orientation from 3-5 p.m. Oct. 8, in Room 113 of the Biological Sciences Building. This meeting is especially for new graduate students and seniors contemplating graduate work here, but returning graduate stu dents and faculty are equally as welcome to attend. This meeting serves a three fold purpose: (1) graduate stu dents have the opportunity to become acquainted with the Dean of the Graduate College, Dr. George W. Kunze, and his staff, and with the members of the Graduate Student Council, your primary student govern ment body; (2) Dean Kunze ex haustively explains admissions procedures and degree require ments for graduation with the various advanced degrees; and (3) new graduate students will be given a brief campusology talk, primarily centered around football traditions, so that we will not have the unpleasantness we had last year simply because the new graduate students didn’t know any better. Refreshments will be served, and the meeting will be held no matter how bad the weather (it usually is). Perhaps this would be an ap propriate time to introduce my self and to say a few words about the Graduate Student Council. I am Class of 1968, I am working on my Master of En gineering and Doctor of Philoso phy degrees in Health Physics, a branch of Nuclear Engineering, and I am the President of the Graduate Student Council for the school year 1969-70. The Graduate Student Council is composed of one member from each college and six members from last year’s Council and is an advisory body to the Dean of the Graduate College and is ulti mately responsible for its actions to the Dean and to President Rudder. We hold meetings every other Wednesday at noon in the Mem orial Student Center for the stat ed purpose of trying to make graduate education at Texas A&M the best available any where, to include social and ex tracurricular fulfillment as well as academic achievement. If it has anything at all to do with graduate students, the Graduate Student Council is interested in it. If you think you have a legiti mate gripe or complaint about educational or extracurricular activities and procedures on this campus, please come to us and let us try to work something out. Dean Kunze is vitally inter ested in knowing the likes and don’t likes and the wants and don’t wants of the graduate stu dent body because he is responsi ble to the president and the board of directors for all aspects of graduate student life at Texas A&M. This concern is evidenced by the fact that Dean Kunze hasn’t missed a single Graduate Student Council meeting for the past two years unless he un avoidably had to be out of town or had an important commitment he couldn’t ignore. So please be assured that we are not now and do not intend to be the Dean’s puppets, telling him only what he wants to hear. For example, it was the Gradu ate Student Council which was instrumental in obtaining Option 3 of the Foreign Language Re quirement for the PhD. The GSC is subordinate to only one other student government body, and that is the Student Senate. The graduate student body is represented on the Sen ate by the Vice-President of the GSC, Bob Fried, and by 7 other members of the Graduate Stu dent Council. From time to time I will mention in this column items of Senate business which I feel will be of interest to gradu ate stufdents, and occasionally will urge your support of the GSC by attending Senate meet ings in large numbers for impor tant issues. And it looks like I will be calling for this kind of support very soon. As a matter of fact, I will be doing it in the next paragraph. It has come to my attention and that of several other mem bers of the Graduate Student Council that there will be a move to revise the football ticket dis tribution scheme this year. In the past graduate students were the first to pick up tickets, fol lowed in appropriate order by the undergraduate student body. We can predict with almost ab solute certainty that it will be proposed that graduate students will now pick up their tickets at the same time as the freshmen, the last day. You may rest as sured that the GSC has already begun to work on our rebuttal to this proposal. In line with this, the Graduate Student Councill will have a call ed meeting in Room 3-D of the MSC at noon on Wednesday, to discuss our defense and counter attack arrangements. All inter ested graduate students are urged and invited to attend and to contribute to the discussion if they wish. The agenda for the Senate meeting to be held Thursday has not yet been prepared, so we do not know for sure when this sub ject will come up. However, Sen ate agendas were published in The Battalion last year for sev eral days prior to the meetings and I believe that this excellent practice will be continued this year. So please read The Bat talion carefully for announce ments of Senate meetings and, if you are interested and concerned, attend the meetings. You are welcome as a spectator; our sen ators are all available to act as mouthpieces for your ideas at the meetings. Dave Mayes, editor, has asked me to contribute a column every week. I am going to try to crank it out every week but I’m not promising anything. All I am going to promise is that I am going to try to be responsive, objective, and progressive in all my dealings with you, both in this column and in my capacity as president of the Graduate Stu dent Council. So, until next col umn, adios my friends! Redistricting May Be Topic Of Third Legislative Session By Garth Jones Associated Press Writer When Texas legislators final ly departed Austin in early Sep tember after a regular and two special sessions many of them parted with: “see you in No vember.” But recent developments, or lack of them, make a third spe cial session over redistricting not quite so imminent. Some state officials are begin ning to predict, hesitantly, that the federal courts will let the matter rest until after the 1970 census. All of which makes most of the senators and representatives happy about the 1970 elections. Those unhappy are republicans who think they would have a better chance in a redistricting shuffle and the big city legis lators. Even if legislative redistrict ing takes place now, on the basis of 1960 census figures, the 1971 legislature likely would be rurally dominated also. The 1970 census figures that will give a big boost to the met ropolitan areas that have grown so rapidly the past decade will not be available until the late spring of 1970, long after the filing deadline for election of those 1970 legislators. The direct key to the Texas legislative redistricting problem lies with a three-member fed eral court in Houston which has before it a suit claiming the 1967 legislative redistricting law was discriminatory particularly to the big cities. This court also has the say over Texas congressional districts. The Supreme Court has al ready ruled, in a Missouri con gressional redistricting case, against overall deviation of more than 6 per cent population be tween districts. The pending Houston suit claims a variance of 24.2 per cent between the largest and smallest legislative districts. There is a variance of con siderably more than 6 per cent between congressional districts also. However, despite frequent pre dictions of a Houston court ruling in favor of immediate redistrict ing, there has been no word from the three federal judges. The suit is not even docketed for hearing on any certain day. Sen. Oscar Mauzy of Dallas, one of the originators of the suit, “still expects a hearing in about 10 days. “This court, like every other court, has a tre mendous backlog. It’s a little more complicated than the av erage case.” “You better get yaur vacation before the middle of November,” Mauzy advised a reporter. Some other state officials do not agree but they are hesitant to be quoted by name. “I think Mauzy and some of the others better be thinking what would happen to their dis tricts if there was redistricting and the Republicans got a better deal than the Democrats. You know there are some republicans in high places these days,” said one official. Another official said he thought the judges are taking a long prac tical look at the redistricting matter. Any boundary shuffling done now would be on the basis of outmoded 1960 census figures. Then before legislators elected under those rules could take of fice the 1970 census figures would be available and another reshuf fle would be in order. “But I’m not betting there won’t be a special session in No vember,” the official said. “I’ll just bet if there is one, it will be called by the federal court and not by the governor.” Che 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 MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press yeai .... sales tax. Advertising- rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; r; $6.50 per full year. All subscript!' Vdvertising rate furnished ons sub, $6 pe: jbject >jei t. school to 4% 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. CADET SLOUCH by Jim Eetrim Morning class attendance may rise at OU this semester. Lead ers at the school have at least a partial solution to the problem of parking space and long walks between classes. Their answer is a tram system, which operates on a schedule convenient to stu dents and staff members, includ ing those who commute from the married student housing units. The service begins at 7:45 a.m. and has its final pickup at the library 5 minutes after closing time. A blind student at SMU has been helped through law school for the past three years by friends who read to him for sev- eral hours, by tapes from lectures and by making his own Braille textbooks. “Before the semester I worked out a schedule to budget my time for studying’' class, ROTC, athletic and spare time! So far I used up my free time for the entire semester.” BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veteran* and Conventional Loan* ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 ATTENTION AGGIES! Are you tired of getting home the same old way? If so, why don’t you try something different & exciting! Take advantage of the American Airlines Youth Fare. It gets you where you’re going when you want to go, and at half the normal fare. Your Youth Fare Card is $3.00 and is available at Dorm 9 Room 301. Fly home after finals and relax in the friendly asmosphere of the American Astrojets. For those of you planning to fly to the Army game try flying the American way. If you need flight information, reservations, or a youth card, I will be available in the Travel Bureau at the MSC on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday after noons or you may contact me at 845-2967 Edward L. Rogers —’70 Campus Sales Representative American Airlines A Cleveland, Ohio, industrialist paid a New York stylist $100 to fly to his home to fit a $150 mink coaa for his poodle, according to the National Geographic Society. Welcome To The AGGIE DEN “The Home of the Aggies” Open 7 Days Weekly 8 a. m. till Midnight We Cash Aggie Checks (Next to Loupot’s) GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY Will have a booth lo cated in the east corner of the M.S.C. for new services and changes dur- the week of 9-22-69 thru 9-26-69 — 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. GOT TEXAS ASM UN,VERS,TY YOURS YET? <$everley Fraley tourd .... travel for pmfanoml mini errur call S4&3773 30 dux charge account available free Mirery of tkka Alemorutl Siwii'nt Ct uicr I.oi'hy ColL-gi Stolion * M2 Km/ Xtrctr —/ityM 1969-70 Directory AVAILABLE Local Banks Student Publications Dept. • Exchange Store • Shaffers University Book Store • MSC Gift Shop (An updated student section will be published about Oct. 24. It will be available free of charge upon presentation of the coupon included in the basic directory.) ATTEN'I 'OR. we r -h* «chool ikiy in th II hours o rt»ting an; forking in PEANUTS By Charles M. 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Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los icisco. ational Advertising s Angeles and San EDITOR DAVE MAYES Managing Editor David Middlebrooke Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Phil Brinker, Jay F. Goode, Pam Troboy, Steve Forman, Bill Vasen, Gary Mayfield, P. Harrison, Raul Pineda Columnists Monty Stanley, Bob Peek, John Platzer Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographers Bob Stump, Bob Peek Spores Photographer Mike Wright ““/hello, chuckt'X THIS i5 PEPPERMINT PATIY.J'MJUST CALLING ABOUT OUR FOOTBALL GAME 01/R TEAM HAG BEEN PRACTICING LIKE MAP... COUUTPOMe, PAGG PATTERNS', REP-0OSCTN6...<fOLJ KNOid, THAT SORT OF THINS... Tm. lag U. t. »o< Oi C 1*M> b r UnlMd P. NEW tr. He’s Ills "cal lis ami This lege gi spective tlie 196 "the to sionals’ top. And i long to era agr ed your what h lie has "Kid: lenged, Humble ed imp, amininj striving "Soir can kee satisfy for eve a p. «r»e F He. Ct Sealed joval of c feceive. j( Physic: iFM 60). Station, T October 16 ad ini read i it No. io texaa. 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