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■ .. .... .•.-.V.*. .V.. . v: r.-.'i .-.--V.V.V • •: : ■ : ; v'-' : ’ • : ' ' '• : • ' . • ■ ■ • ' MSC Council Restructures Directorate By David Middlebrooke Battalion Managing Editor A new Memorial Student Cen ter Directorate structure was ap proved Monday night by the MSC Council. The new structure was pre sented by MSC Vice President Dennis Flannigan. Taking effect when the 1970-71 MSC Council and Directorate members assume office, the new structure, Flan nigan said, allows for future growth and development of the directorate. The directorate is composed of the chairman of all the MSC stu dent committees. The MSC Coun cil is the body responsible for organizing and directing student activities within the MSC. MSC Council officers also serve as officers of the directorate. Under the present system, the directorate officers are: presi dent, vice president ,executive vice president for programs, vice president for programs, executive vice president for operations, vice president for operations, finance chairman, and secretary. The president is in overall com mand, with the executive vice presidents and vice presidents be ing jointly responsible for work ing with all the MSC committees —15 of them. Under the new structure the officers will be: president, execu tive vice president, secretary, council comptroller, and vice pres idents for issues, recreation, en- MSC President Forms Due Friday All students interested in ap plying for the position of Mem orial Student Center president for the 1970-71 school year must ton in their applications by 5 p.m. Friday. Dennis Flannigan, MSC vice president, said that applications may be obtained at the Student Program Office in the MSC, and must be returned there. Applications for the chairman ships of the MSC Town Hall, SCONA or Great Issues Commit- lee must be submitted no later Ihan next Tuesday, Flannigan said. He also noted that the last day to apply for MSC vice presiden tial positions, of which there are five, and the Political Forum chairmanship is Feb. 27. Applicants for MSC president, Flannigan said, must have a 2.5 overall grade point ratio, a 2.5 for the previous semester, and must not be on any kind of pro bation. All committee chairman appli cants, Flannigan added, must have a 2.4 overall, a 2.4 for the previous semester, and also can not be on any kind of probation. Vice presidential applicants, Flannigan said, must meet the same requirements as presiden tial applicants. (See MSC, page 4) Mandatory Contraceptives Needed for New Morality Battalion Staff Writer Contraceptives should be man- latory for every unwed female between ages 13 and 35, Dr. Les ter Kinsolving told a standing- room-only crowd here Thursday night. His talk was part of a Great tssues-sponsored seminar on the Sexual Revolu tion and the New Morality. “Making these contra ceptives mandatory is the only way we can curtail the illegi timate birth rate in this country,” the former chap- to the late Bishop James Pike of California said. He added that by this he did not mean handing pills to every toed and telling her to go out and have intercourse. Rather, he noted schools, churches, and homes should teach children the proper use of these contraceptives so their misuse can be curtailed. These institutions have a re sponsibility to properly explain sexual behavior to the youth in our society, Kinsolving said. He added that this responsibility did not mean teaching that sex is bad if improperly used, but teach ing its proper uses. Kinsolving, a widely-read reli gious columnist, cited the use of injections to stop the spread of venereal diseases as an example of another problem that we must solve concerning sex acts by our youth. “In California alone, we spend $5.5 million annually to treat the syphilitic patients,” Kinsolving cited as an example of this rea soning. He added that in the fu ture injections would be perfect ed to a degree that they would completely eliminate venereal dis ease. He noted the development of an injection in California that would kill syphilis germs in rab bits in a matter of hours. In five years, he said, it probably would be available for human use. Kinsolving said he also favors abortion in certain cases. “Abortions should be legal in rape cases, known cases where the birth of the child can be harmful to the child or mother, and circumstances where the birth of the child would cause harm to its safety,” Kinsolving said. Kinsolving attacked critics of abortion by noting that doctors weren’t branded as abortionists when they performed hysterec tomies for cancer of the uterus, which was basically the same thing as an abortion. Sen. Word, Berkeley Official Will Speak Here Wednesday Texas Senator J. P. Word of Meridian, and Kenneth G. Goode, idministrator at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak Wednesday at Texas A&M in Political Forum presentations. A noon series speaker, Sen. Word will speak on “State Re stricting” in Room 2C-D of the Memorial Student Center, Charles Hoffman, Political Forum chair- ■Dan, said. The Meridian lawyer replaces Senator Ralph Hall in the noon series slot. Hall is in court seek ing a ruling that will allow him to challenge Gov. Preston Smith’s bid for a second term in the May 2 Democratic primary. Goode will discuss student un rest in an 8 p.m. presentation in the Ballroom. Admission is free, noted Hoff man. Word is a member of the senate conference committee on appro priations and chaired the redis tricting committee. He also is a member of numerous Senate standing committees, including finance, banking and insurance. Assistant chancellor for special programs on the explosive Berke ley campus, Goode has viewed activities at the institution since 1967. He was an extension di vision instructor in Afro-Ameri can history a year and moved to the UCB chancellor’s office in 1968 as assistant to the executive yic§ chancellor, Laundry Refunds Money Assessed For Late Bundles Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 67 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 10, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 tertainment, and operations. Under the new system, the total numiber of officers, thus the num ber of students on the MSC Coun cil, remains the same. The duties, however, are quite different. The president and secretary will still have the duties that their positions imply. The council comptroller will take the place of the finance chairman, with a name change being all that is involved. The big change occurs among the vice presidents. Now, the vice president is the number two man in the council, performing the president’s duties in his absence. The executive vice president, in the new structure, will have the same responsibilities that the vice president now does, and will also be directly responsible for overseeing finances and the an nual freshman open house. The executive vice president for operations is now responsible for directorate and council public relations and other duties as signed to him. The executive vice president for programs is respon sible for the evaluation and over seeing of the MSC programs. The vice presidents of operations and programs are responsible for as sisting their respective executive vice presidents. When the new structure goes into effect, the four posts will be done away with. Instead, there will be four vice presidents—one for issues, one for recreation, one for entertainment, and one for operations. The vice presidents for issues will be directly responsible for the Great Issues, SCONA, Politi cal Forum, Leadership, and Con- TEMPORARY REPLACEMENTS CHOSEN—A&M vice McKnight Jr. (second from right) following the special presidents W. C. Freeman (left), Tom Cherry (center), and board meeting Saturday at which the three vice presidents Horace R. Byers (right) talk with A&M board of directors were assigned A&M President Earl Rudder’s duties, members Ford Albritton Jr. (second from left) and Peyton (Photos by David Middlebrooke) Vice Presidents in Charge,Have 39 Years of A&M Experience Kinsolving said that he favored homosexuality as long as it didn’t infringe, on the rights of others or involve a minor. “I can’t see that homosexuality should be branded as taboo if two people wish to engage in it in the privacy of a secluded area, and no child is involved in the act,” Kinsolving said. Kinsolving denounced evangel ist Billy Graham whom he called “the prophet in sneakers,” for calling the youth of this country the worst sex rebelled group in history. He added that he could list several reigns in history where sex reigns were worst than the present. King Solomon and King David produced 1,800 illegitimate chil dren during their reigns, Kinsolv ing said. He added that he doubt ed any American youth could match that feat. Kinsolving was followed on the program by Dr. W. Kennedy, A&M associate professor of so ciology, who gave the sociologist’s point of view on the sexual revo lution. “The sexual revolution is an overturning of previous behavior patterns by the radical changes that people have gone through in the past generation,” Upham said. He added that the frankness of people today in talking about sex, and the greater amount of infor mation available to the people, are possible reasons for the change. The three vice presidents se lected Saturday to govern Texas A&M in the absence of hospital ized Earl Rudder bring a com bined total of 39 years of A&M administrative experience to bear on their new duties. The youngest, yet most ex perienced of the three in A&M affairs, is 50-year-old W. C. Free man, vice president and comp troller. A veteran of 23 years at the university, Freeman was given authority to act for Gen. Rudder in matters pertaining to the entire A&M System. The oldest at 63 and yet a relative newcomer to the univer sity, having arrived in 1965, Aca demic Vice President Dr. Horace R. Byers was placed in charge of academic affairs at A&M. Tom D. Cherry, 59-year-old vice president of business affairs, was given responsibility for con ducting all the university’s busi ness concerns. He joined the in stitution in 1962. All three administrators were chosen in a called meeting of the board Saturday morning. Direc tors deliberated for an hour in a closed session before opening the meeting and unanimously passing motions appointing the three men. The board’s resolutions made the appointments effective “until further notice.” Board President Clyde Wells of Granbury told The Battalion after the meeting that the designations made by the board were in keep ing with those made on previous occasions by Rudder himself when he was absent for extended periods. The next scheduled board meet ing is Feb. 23-24 at the university. A 1940 A&M graduate, Free man left his position as assistant state auditor in 1947 to rejoin his alma mater as auditor. He was named vice president and comptroller in 1965. Though seldom heard from on the A&M campus, Freeman, as system comptroller, is a familiar figure to members of the A&M organization, which includes four academic institutions and six ag riculture- or engineering-related state agencies. Freeman said Monday that he will exercise his additional duties as system president from his office in the System Administra tion Building. Dr. Byers joined the university as dean of the newly-formed College of Geosciences and was named academic vice president in 1968. A member of the Nation al Academy of Sciences, he re ceived his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley and master’s and doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Byers, whose office is in the Coke Building, said Monday he will carry on President Rud der’s “open door” policy with students. Cherry earned a master’s de gree at Texas A&M after receiv ing his undergraduate degree at Sam Houston State. After join ing the economics faculty in 1938, he left the institution five years later. In 1962, he returned to A&M as director of business af fairs, leaving behind a 17-year career with Trans World Airlines. He was named a vice president in 1965. Cherry also maintains his of fice in the Coke Building. After Second Operation Rudder’s Condition Remains Serious HOUSTON—A&M President Earl Rudder remained in serious condition this morning at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital but was continuing to convalesce satisfactorily, a hospital spokesman said. Rudder underwent surgery last Friday at St. Luke’s to stop stomach bleeding. The day before, at Methodist Hospital, he underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from the brain. The president was transferred Friday from Methodist to St. Luke’s where the abdominal surgery was performed. Both hospitals are in the Texas Medical Center. The St. Luke’s spokesman said the bleeding was under control and that Rudder was showing some improvement, but remained in serious condition. The spokesman also said a stress ulcer can appear in just a few days’ time when a person is under severe physical stress. Rudder first became ill Jan. 29. Last Wednesday he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while at Methodist. Beginning Next Semester Higher Parking Fines Planned Students who are assessed out- of-place (late) bundle charges by the Campus Laundry between Feb. 2-13 may take their laundry slip to the laundry office for a refund, laundry manager George Hartsock said Monday. The charge is being waived, he said, because some students were not aware of the change in laun dry days that became effective Feb. 2. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. By Chancey Lewis Battalion staff Writer Graduated parking fines of $2, $4, $8, $16 and $32 have been recommended by the student staff Traffic Committee, said Don Stafford, assistant dean of stu dents. He said the change was needed to ease the problem of more than 1,000 parking tickets issued each week by University Police. Bob Hase, Student Senate representative, said that research showed many traffic violators were habitual offenders, getting as many as five to seven tickets each semester. “Higher fees,” he said, “will not injure the honest student, but would cut down on repeated of fenders.” Stafford said other recommend ations of the committee were that lot 49 north from Main Drive be restricted to residence hall stu dents with more than 59 aca demic hours and that the lot south from Main Drive be divid ed equally between day students and civilian residence hall stu dents with 59 or less academic hours. He also said that the commit tee recommended Lot 9 be divid ed between day students and civilian residence students with more than 59 academic hours. “This division will reduce through traffic in the lot,” he said, “because the students will enter by separate color coded en trances. About 80 per cent of this lot is currently being used by residence hall students.” The committee also recom mended that lot 4, presently a day student lot, be converted into a faculty-staff lot, he said. “There are two reasons for this conversion,” he said. “Expansion of fiscal plant facilities will re duce the size of the lot and there is an increased need for univer sity employe parking in that area.” Stafford suggested that day students park in the lot to be constructed east of the new engi neering building or in the in creased space in lot 9. He said that the committee recognized that the most critical parking problem was day student parking. Another lot was also recom mended for civilian hall students, he said. It will be located across the tracks from Kyle Field. All suggestions must be acted on by the University Executive Committee, Stafford said, and fee adjustments approved by the A&M Board of Directors. University Police to Focus on Parking/ By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer The University Police are going to start cracking down on illegal parking permits in the next few weeks, Chief of Police Ed Powell said Thursday. bers are having difficulty in find ing parking places because the lots are full of students.” “We are getting four new pa trolmen,” Powell added, “and they will be used to help patrol the parking areas.” certain number of stickers,” he added. “That way a faculty mem ber will always be able to find a parking space.” Powell said that the main prob lem is illegally used or acquired faculty and staff parking permits. According to Powell, students have been getting duplicate stick ers from staff and faculty mem bers in the family so they may park in reserved lots. “The problem is getting so bad,”' Powell said, “that faculty mem- Powell also said that a plan has been submitted to the admin istration for the zoning of faculty and staff parking areas next fall. “What we will do,” said Powell, “is number the parking stickers and the parking lots. Then the only place a car can be parked is in the correct lot.” A few people have already been filed upon for violations, said Powell, one of them drawing a $15 fine. WEATHER Wednesday — Partly cloudy. Wind South 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 78, low 43. ‘We will also give out only a Thursday — Partly cloudy. Wind North 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 72, low 48. mam I I ■