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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.”
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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.”
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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
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