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16-1, advanc- h. fop Ten were l, 13-4, Mai)- Antral Wash- Trinity, Tex, ton made the ip, from 19th y, with first •entheses and id on basis of 8-etc: fin (7) 187 ■yan ?ton 0 ing g the United :tion against official poli- rican govern- d not pass it matter to be e. We as gov- 3 of the re- ould be hau nt to govern- ould also re- e United Na- lution in De ng 1 countries ith Africa be- >olicies. uld hope the would do all matically to led the South t’s abhorrent theid policy, iked no. 3 in i States, told mittee of th( airs Commit- s in trying to hat he could mth African 'emment de an individual compete with ip team—be- he had made which it said Souvenir uding AM e ’69 with s. 8% x 9 tail. A con- 00. 1 No. 3 77017 satisfied isable® *PER 3 01201 t ELECTIONS DEBATE—Discussion was lively Thursday night during a special Student Senate meeting as Tom Fitzhugh (left), (Geos.) Nokomis (Butch) Jackson, Election Com mission president, and Senate Vice President Kent Caperton presented their views on consolidation of spring elections. (Photo by Jim Berry) State, Local Cooperation A Necessity, Dies Says By Tony Huddlestone Battalion Staff Writer Cooperation between state and local governments is a ‘must’ if the problems now facing Texas are to be solved, Texas Secretary of State Martin Dies Jr. told a meeting of the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas here Thursday night. "We must work together as never before if we are going to combat the new problems that are arising in Texas today,” Dies, a native of Hunt County, stressed. He added that Gov. Preston Smith had told him that any agency of the state government would assist any local government in finding solutions to these problems. He cited the drug problem as a major issue facing Texas. He used as an example Dallas Coun ty, where, he said, a recent sur vey had shown that 25 to 30 per cent of that county’s high school students were on some form of narcotic. “Any adult who would sell nar cotics to teenagers should be locked up for life, and have the key thrown away,” Dies, a grad uate of Stephen F. Austin State University, said. He added that these people should have no chance of pardon or parole. He appealed to the county offi cials to get tougher with these criminals so that Texas might be rid of this problem. “If we all work together and slap harder sentences on these peddlers, we can some day have the satisfaction of seeing Texas as the only state that can say Civilians to Attend Dorm Conference A&M will be represented at tbe Texas Residence Hall Asso- tiation conference in Commerce Ibis weekend by 21 students, in- Wing Civilian Student Council President Mark Olson. Representatives from most of Texas’ colleges, universities and junior colleges will attend the Friday, Saturday and Sunday meeting. It is preparatory to the Na tional Association of College and University Residence Halls con vention, a mid-March even in Lubbock. Discussion will center on residence hall living and ac tivities. The A&M contingent will seat a six-man panel moderated by Charles R. Hohizal. The Aggie panel will discuss student judi ciary committees. Residence hall presidents, oth er members of the CSC executive committee and several freshman assistants will be attending. Among hall presidents attend ing will be Pat Wertheim, Re tard; Bill Dubel, Hughes; Garry Mauro, Keithley; Hohizal, Mc- Innis; Olson, Moore; Edward Jameson, Hart; Phil Sadler, Law; Roy Dunnam, Puryear, and Charles Mueller, Walton. Council executive committee members to be in Commerce are Bill Scherle, Paul Ammons, Ed Donnell, Don Bouchard and Tom Henderson. Howard S. Perry, director of civilian student activities, will ac company the group. that drug abuse is a thing of the past,” Dies added. Welfare was another problem that Dies said needed to be solved before it got out of proportion. “We now have 240,000 people in Texas on welfare,” he said, “but if the state and county work to gether to create new programs, we can eliminate the majority of these people from dependence on the state.” He pointed out that Gov. Smith’s administration had passed more legislation in this field than any administration in history. He added that an exam ple of the new programs which would need county and state gov ernment cooperation was the Tex as Technical Vocational A c t of 1969. “This act will create new tech nical courses in our high schools and junior colleges for the 80 per cent of our high school graduates who do not go to college,” Dies (See Cooperation, page 2) Minister to Speak On Sex Revolution “The Sexual Revolution and the New Morality” will be dis cussed here Monday by a Great Issues panel composed of Rev. Lester Kinsolving, outspoken Episcopal minister on serious moral issues of our day, and A&M sociology professor Dr. W. Kennedy Upham. Admission to the 8 p.m. Great Issues presentation in the Mem orial Student Center Ballroom is free, announced chairman Tom Fitzhugh of Waco. The program is the second of a three-part seminar on “Man, Morality and Society.” The first part featured Dr. Thomas Unger- leider on drugs. Dr. Margaret Meade will speak in April. ‘Dear Computer.. Man Goes to the Source. Wins Case CHICAGO (A*) — Tired of bat- Bing with a computer over a parking ticket, Roger Fischer de- vided to fight fire with fire. He got his own computer punch card to plead his case. And it *011. It all started when the Chicago Traffic Violations Bureau claimed Monday Talk ibout Moon Canceled The Monday lecture here by Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, vice chancellor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has keen canceled. The noted scientist was sched uled to lecture on “The Origin of the Moon” during a visit spon sored by the Robert A. Welch Foundation of Houston. Dr. A. D. Suttle, Jr., A&M vice president for research, said Mac Donald has been notified he must he in Washington, D. C., Monday in connection with his recent ap pointment by President Nixon to the new Commission on the Con dition of the Environment. Fischer was the owner of a ticketed car. Not so, said Fischer. But he kept getting warnings of arrest anyway. In desperation, Fischer, vice president of Mid-Continent Screw Products Co., decided to bypass humans and deal directly with the traffic bureau’s computer. Using his company’s computer equipment, Fischer punched up cards that could only be read by another computer and mailed them to the traffic bureau. “To the computer:” his mes sage read, “Apparently the letters I have sent to the humans who try to control you are being disregarded and not being put into your disposal bank. I have written these humans three times, and they have not given you the proper information.” The letter described the park ing ticket incident and concluded: “Good luck. I hope you can make someone understand as ap parently human letters to other humans are of no use.” When Matthew Danaher, Cir cuit Court clerk, received a run out of Fischer’s letter from the computer, he prepared an answer, computer style. “Dear human,” it read, “at last I found someone who understands my language. You don’t know Cbe Battalion Vol. 65 No. 66 College Station, Texas Friday, February 6, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 Senate Consolidates Spring Elections By Dave Mayes One election instead of three will determine all student elective offices this spring, the Student Senate decided after an hour- long debate Thursday. The measure, introduced by No komis (Butch) Jackson, Election Commission president, set April 23 as the date when students are to vote on candidates for class, senate and Civilian Student Coun cil offices. Passed in a called session by a 42-17 margin, the present elec tion procedure provides for filing for all class offices to open March 31 and close April 9. Run off elections are scheduled for April 30. Under the old format, students voted first for class officers in one election, then for senate exec utive and CSC officers in an other, and then for senate repre sentatives from the colleges in yet a third election. Noting that the three election periods stretched from late Feb ruary to the middle of May, Jack- son said that this was too hard on not only the election commission, which must certify candidates, run the polling places and count ballots, but also on the students running for election. Senate Vice President Kent Caperton agreed, saying that a student could conceivably run for election all semester, losing in one election and then filing in an other, and so on. Jackson said length of time needed for the three election pe riods could not be shortened be cause the administration’s facul ty-staff Executive Committee had ruled that there be a 10-day wait ing period between the day filing closes and the day the election is to be held. Tom Fitzhugh (Geos.) opposed the measure, saying that an ob vious solution would be to ask the Executive Committee to shorten the waiting period to four or five days, and move up the election dates accordingly. He added that two elections were needed, one for senate executive and class officers and another for later election for senate repre sentatives. In this way, he said, good lead ers who lost by slim margins in the first elections would have a chance to be elected to the senate as representatives of colleges. Rick Reese, senate treasurer, introduced an amendment to Jackson’s proposal seeking to change the number of elections from one to two, adding that run offs for the first election could be held at the same time as the second election. Tommy Henderson (vp-CSC) challenged the validity of the amendment, saying it changed the intent of the motion and hence could not be considered a true amendment but an entirely dif ferent motion. Senate President Gerry Geist- weidt ruled the amendment was valid. When Henderson appealed the decision, senators turned down the appeal 36-24. Leading debate against the amendment, Caperton told sena tors that consolidating the spring elections into one would force candidates to commit themselves to one office and make them work to get elected to that office only. He added that because of the importance of a single election, there would be a larger voter turnout. Caperton reminded the senate that it was trying this for only one semester, and that things could easily be changed back to the old process should the new one fail. Other senators who spoke in favor of Jackson’s motion were Dennis Flannigan (vp-MSC), Bob Fried (vp-GSC), David Reynolds, (jr-Eng), and James O’Jibway (jr-BA). Reese defended his amendment by noting that a number of sena tors who had done their jobs well last semester were “losers” who had been defeated in last spring’s general election, but won senate seats in the later college repre sentative election. Fitzhugh called for a vote on the amendment. Geistweidt said his motion failed for lack of a second. When several senators (See Senate, page 3) Rudder Has Surgery; Condition Still Serious PRESIDENT RUDDER HOUSTON — A&M President Earl Rudder remained in serious condition this morning after an operation Thursday afternoon to remove a cerebral blood clot, a Methodist Hospital spokesman said. The hospital spokesman said that Rudder’s post-operative con dition was satisfactory, but his general condition is unchanged. Some 2,200 students Thursday, in a Student-Senate-sponsored project, signed a telegram to be sent to Rudder’s wife, Margaret, and their five children, who are in Houston to be with the pres ident. The telegram, Kirby Brown, senate recording secretary, said, expressed the sympathy of the student body for the Rudder family, saying that “the hopes and prayers of us all are with you.” Booths were set up at both Duncan and Sbisa Dining Halls and in front Of the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Volun teers, mostly from Davis-Gary Hall, manned the signing booths. A nickel per signature was charged to help defray the cost of the lengthy telegram. Rudder’s illness was first thought to be a heart ailment, how frustrating it is to deal with the humans that run me. All day long they feed me a bunch of punched-up cards and give me orders. Then when something goes wrong, they blame me. “No compassion, no love, just orders. Then you came into my life. You understand. You know that computers do not live by cards alone. As to your problem, you were right. It was a human error. “When the punchcard was made up from the traffic ticket, it was punched to read the wrong license number. I asked my human oper ator if he could get me off your back. He said he’d talk to a human prosecutor, who would talk to a human judge, who would drop the charge, and then they’d wipe my memory bank clean.” Danaher said the charge was dismissed. Laundry Refunds Students who have been as sessed fines by the Campus Laundry since Feb. 2 may bring their receipts to the laundry office for a refund, George Hartsock, manager, announced today. STUDENTS SEND REGARDS—Aggies gathered around the table in front of Sully Thursday to sign a telegram sent to A&M President Earl Rudder. Jimmy Spearow, left, was one of many volunteers helping with the Student Senate-sponsored project. (Photo by David Middlebrooke) when he was taken to a Bryan hospital on Jan. 29. When he failed to respond to treatment, he was taken to St. Luke’s Episco pal hospital in the Texas Medical Center. He was transferred to Methodist after the brain condi tion was discovered. CS City Hall Inspection Set Today An inspection of the new Col lege Station City Hall will be made this afternoon to determine whether or not it is finally com pleted. Ran Boswell, city manager, said today that contarctor W. H. Barsh of Waco and architect C. R. Watson of Bryan will examine the building. The $340,000 structure was scheduled for completion Nov. 27 but, according to Barsh, delay in delivery of materials and rain slowed construction down. At a special meeting Monday the City Council discussed invok ing a penalty clause against the contractor. Mayor D. A. Ander son said today that no plans have been made to do so, hut that a meeting between the city coun cil and Watson will be held to determine if such action would be justified. Boswell said today that even if the building is completed, the offices won’t be moved into right away. He said that none of the new furniture for the city hall has been ordered mainly due to a delay in obtaining bids from the furniture companies. He added that the final bid was obtained this morning and that as soon as the furniture was ordered it would start arriving. No official open ing date for the building has been set, he added. Environmental Meeting Draws 100 By Pam Troboy Battalion Staff Writer More than 100 students and faculty members attended the Symposium for Environmental Awareness at Texas A&M Thurs day night to express their con cern over environmental condi tions in Brazos County. Bob Fleet, wildlife science grad uate student, said the group’s objective was to popularize these problems and enlighten people about the problems which come with overpopulation. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Citing “runaway technology and engineering mentality” as contributing to the degradation of our environment, Fleet asked that interested people take time to solve these problems. He said that the purpose of the meeting was to get sugges tions from the floor on how to obtain the sumposium’s goal of public awareness. One man suggested that ecology programs be presented at local high schools and a student said that an Ad Hoc committee was needed to tell the Bryan-College Station city councils that the people were concerned with the problem. A Lutheran minister volun teered to ask the local clergymen to help with the project and a professor said he would do the same with the Chamber of Com merce. Another student suggested that someone ask the mayors to issue proclamations recognizing the proposed teach-in to he held April 22, and two professors said that they would talk to Mayors Anderson and Zuhik. Another said that he would send questionnaires to state and local politicians to determine their stand on environment and one man suggested that the teach-in be held in the Bryan Civic Audi torium to insure greater commun ity involvement. Ideas suggested previously were an appearance on the “Town Talk” show, presentation of a slide show, ecology lectures, dis tribution of reprints of articles, formation of a student committee for the assessment of environ mental displays and establish ment of a committee for action in the Student Senate, he said. Another meeting of the sym posium will be held sometime next week, Fleet said. The location and time will be announced later. Committee chairmen will describe committee projects at that time.