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Vol. 65 No. 69 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 12, 1970 Telephone 845-2226
To Ease Campus Unrest
New Approach Needed
By Tony Huddleston
Battalion Staff Writer
New college frameworks are
needed if the problem of campus
unrest is to be solved, a Berkeley
administrator told a Great Issues
audience Wednesday night.
Dr. Kenneth E. Goode, assist
ant chancellor for special pro
grams at the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley listed the es
tablishing of minority academic
departments, the placing of stu
dents on university administra
tive boards, a broadening of en
trance requirements and a better
cooperation with surrounding
communities as examples of these
frameworks.
“T h e non - establishment of
these principals has caused stu
dents to find colleges and univer
sities lacking and inadequate and
forced them to riot and protest,”
Goode said. He added that he
supported any kind of student
protest as long as it was within
the boundaries of the U.S. Con
stitution.
“How can we adequately teach
the student the true history and
social structure of the world if
we don’t show the character and
conditions of the minority?”
Goode said. He added that at
Berkeley not only were Afro-
American studies taught, but
American Indian and Latin Amer
ican studies as well.
Goode said that he thought stu
dents should be placed on college
administrative boards because the
issues and decisions that these
boards make directly affect the
students.
“Students want to voice their
ideas on how their tax money is
spent, the types of instructors
they desire, and the rules and
regulations that govern them,”
Goode said. He added that he
supported students who protested
for these principles because they
made the university a greater in
stitution for learning the true
picture of student problems.
“Students are tired of being
treated as computer numbers,” he
said. “They want to be treated
as individuals as specified by the
due process clause of our consti
tution.”
He added that he expected to
see riots and protests until stu
dents received these rights. He
cited the successful riots and pro
tests at Berkeley as examples of
the success students have had
with the riot method in obtaining
demands.
“Entrance requirements must
be based on the type of environ
ment a person comes from,”
Goode said.-'He listed as an exam
ple a black from a ghetto who
couldn’t pass a test given in an
atmosphere of a white culture,
but who was highly culturally ed
ucated in his own language.
He added that by the changing
of requirements, he did not advo
cate lowering standards for quali
fied students. He proposed that
secondary schools between the
high schools and colleges be es
tablished to prepare these stu
dents to meet the normal require
ments of the college.
“College administrators must
encourage students to express
their sentiments on issues to com
munity leaders,” Goode said. He
added that city government offi
cials must listen to student opin
ion because students are citizens
(See New Approach, page 3)
G. I. SPEAKER—Dr. Ken
neth Goode speaks Thurs
day night on student riots.
(Photo by David Gawthorpe)
WEATHER
Friday — Cloudy, intermittent
light rain in the morning becom
ing partly cloudy in the after
noon. Winds: Easterly 10-15 mph,
becoming northerly in the after
noon, low 37 degrees, high 52
degrees.
Saturday — Partly cloudy.
Easterly winds 10-15 mph. Low
37 degrees, high 54 degrees.
Rudder: Unchanged
HOUSTON—A&M President Earl Rudder remained in
crious condition this morning, a St. Luke’s Episcopal
lospital official said and he was continuing to improve.
Rudder, a retired Army major general, suffered a stroke
ast week, then underwent operations to remove a blood clot
ram his brain and to stop a bleeding ulcer which, the official
aid, was brought about by stress.
The official said that the bleeding was under control and
liat Rudder was continuing to convalesce satisfactorily.
Redistricting ‘Biggest Problem’
.
For Legislature Next Year
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
The biggest problem the Texas
legislature faces is redistricting
for proper House and Senate rep
resentation next year, a veteran
Texas lawmaker said here Wed
nesday.
Sen. J. P. Word of Meridian
said that judicial districts also
may need redistricting, but the
issue probably will not come be
fore the legislature until a spe-
dal session in 1971.
“The courts tell us Texas must
be redistricted on the one-man,
one-vote principle,” the former
senate redistricting committee
chairman told a Political Forum
noon series audience.
Any attempt must be based on
census figures, and the latest
population count is now being
made, he said.
“The legislature has already
been advised by the Bureau of the
Census that the 1970 census will
not be available during regular
session next year,” Word explain
ed.
The A&M speaker, substituting
for State Sen. Ralph Hall who
Was awaiting court ruling Wed
nesday on his attempt to run for
governor, said working out re
districting in a special session
will pose problems.
“When special sessions are
called for legislation on specific
items, strange and weird things
have been known to happen,” he
observed, “but the courts prob
ably will not grant an extension,
so the special session will be
necessary.”
Previous redistricting attempts
in Texas have failed because the
legislature has not been acquaint
ed with the rules, Word said.
“We try to arrive at a redis
tricting solution that will meet
the test of the courts and haul it
to the courthouse, where they ap
ply a test and throw it out be
cause it’s unconstitutional,” he
described. “We’ve been through
this two or three times.”
He said that the state now has
325,000 people per legislative dis
trict with a 10 per cent deviation.
“In one case,” he cited 1 , “ap
portionment is being contested
because of .0674 per cent devia
tion. The courts threw out one
plan because it deviated by six
per cent.”
Having latest census figures
may not be an answer either,
Word said. Though it will indi
cate Texas’ population has grown
by 20 per cent in the 1960s and
Harris, Dallas and Bexar Coun
ties are the largest population
centers, the ’70 census “will be
good for about three minutes aft
er it is made,” the solon said.
He noted that House Speaker
Gus Mutscher has asked that a
study of population trends be
undertaken.
“The hardest thing about re
districting is getting 21 out of
31 votes in the Senate,” he said.
“We do, as a rule, allow each
house to do as it pleases in re
districting itself. The problem
with this is that no legislator is
going to cut his own throat.”
Each house takes an active
part in the revision of Congres
sional districts, he added.
Word said, that in 1967 as
chairman of the Senate redistrict-
ing committee, he reviewed Rep.
Olin Teague’s district, which in
cludes College Station.
“His district runs from Dallas-
Fort Worth to the Gulf Coast
in a narrow strip along the Braz
os River and some people in
Dallas felt they should be in
another district,” Word said.
“However the Dallas Chamber
of Commerce appeared before the
committee, requesting to be left
in his district.”
“Now, Rep. Teague is a good
friend of mine,” Word continued,
“but they didn’t want to be in
his district just because he was
a good congressman. He happens
to be chairman of the House space
appropriations committee and the
Dallas area has many space in
dustries.”
Dallas-Fort Worth was left in
Teague’s district, he said.
“Many people are concerned
about rural-urban differences,” he
said, “but they are not all that
great any more. However if we
go to single member districts,
we’ll be opening up a new can
of worms, because we’ll be break
ing up continuity of interest.”
Word said that the Supreme
Court advocates representation
strictly by population, without
consideration for county or city
lines or special interest or ethnic
groups.
“When the districts are drawn,”
he said, “they ought to provide
accurate and adequate represen
tation of what the people want.”
$20 Parking
Fee Proposed
For Next Fall
By Hayden Whitsett
Battalion Staff Writer
A plan to raise to $20 next
year’s parking permit fee was
approved Wednesday by the A&M
Traffic Committee.
The current parking permit fee
is $10 a year.
Don R. Stafford, associate dean
of student affairs, recommended
the fee increase to help finance
new parking lots. Stafford said
the fee would pay for the entire
year and that any one leaving
during the fall semester would
be allowed to redeem the permit
for its remaining value. No re
demption will be possible in the
spring semester, he said.
Final approval of the measure
will come after it has been sub
mitted to the Board of Directors.
The committee also heard
reasons why parking code viola
tors’ cars should be towed away
and have a heavy fine levied
against them.
Dr. John W. Allen, acting head
of the Economics Department,
proposed that the University
Police tow away violators of the
parking codes and require them
to pay for the tow-away as well
as pay a heavy fine.
Allen said that a $25 tow-away
charge and a $20 fine would prob
ably be enough to prevent a
student from repeating a viola
tion. He added that he believed
that if violations were made
often enough the student or facul
ty member should lose his parking
permit, and if the violations were
excessive he should be suspended
from the university.
The committee, composed of
both students and administrators,
expressed the belief that while
it would be an effective means
of preventing violations, they
considered it to be excessive.
Allan also proposed that re
served parking space be sold to
faculty and staff members for
$40 to $50 a year. He added that
the price would probably assure
that only those needing the per
mit would buy a reserved spot.
Chief Ed Powell of the Univer-
siyt Police said that there were
not enough parking spaces avail
able to make this quite as simple
as was thought. Powell added
that there will be a limited num
ber of reserved parking spots
available to those who qualify.
The proposals came on the heels
of figures on tickets given out
during the past semester by Uni
versity Police. Stafford, who read
the figures to the committee, said
that during the period of Sept. 1
to Jan. 30, 6,913 parking tickets
were given out and a total of
$13,866 in fines was collected
from them.
Penalty fines amounted to $2,-
829 for 464 tickets and $222 for
74 moving violations. The total
came to 7,451 tickets and $16,917
in fines.
Stafford said that, while the
number was in keeping with the
previous years, he still regarded
it as an exorbitant amount. He
said that the facts showed that
there were many students who
were apparently repeat violators
of the parking codes and didn’t
care.
In other action involving park
ing lots, the committee approved
the proposal to asphalt parking
area 22, located south of the Bio
logical Sciences Building. The
paving should be done during
spring break, and will help to
alleviate the dust and mud prob
lem prevalent in that lot.
The committee postponed action
on the construction of a car pool
lot for state vehicles in the Aca
demic Building area and the con
struction of a lot in the Civil
Engineering Building area for
students and equipment until
further investigation can be made.
NASA Scientist Says Life
May Be Present on Moon
By Paul Recer
(AP) Aerospace Writer
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. <A>) —
Dormant life held in check by
poisonous chemistry may exist on
the moon, a space agency scientist
said here Wednesday.
Spore-like organisms which may
have traveled through space to
the lunar surface and kept from
growing and reproducing by the
toric effect of moon dust, Dr.
Vance I. Oyama, of the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration’s Ames Research Center,
said at an aerospace medical
seminar here.
“I think life is possible in the
lunar regolith surface material
but it would be in stationary
form,” he said. “It would be in
suspended animation, so to
speak.”
He said the moon may be a
testing ground for the theory of
transpermia, a concept formulated
in 1865 which said formant life
forms move through space and
settle on planets and other bodies.
The possibility “is extremely
remote,” he said, “that the moon
could have originated life. The
moon can only be a repository for
collecting the debris of the uni
verse and it could be a measure
of the concept of transpermia.”
Dr. Oyama and other scientists
at Ames tried for weeks to revive
any micro organisms in 50 grams
of the Apollo 11 moon samples.
They place the soil in several
types of growth medium and in
several types of atmospheres. No
life was found in the soil, not
even Earth micororganisms which
would normally be expected to
have been discovered in such an
experiment.
Dr. Oyama said a cat-ion ex
change was discovered during the
testing and suggested this may
have prevented any growth in the
lunar material.
A cat-ion exchange, he said,
would provide toxic elements
which would kill micro organisms.
A cat-ion pronounced CAT-I
ON is a metallic element—such as
chromium, titanium or nickel—
which has its atoms charged posi
tively and is stripped of some of
its electrons.
“Cat-ions have destructive
properties on micro organisms,”
said Dr. Oyama. “The moon ma
terial could be self sterilizing for
terrestial organisms.”
“If there were life in the uni
verse and it did impact on the
moon and survive the impact,”
he said, “just the process of try
ing to grow that organism out
from the moon soil would result
in these toxic elements overcom
ing that life.
Because of this, he said, any
organism on the moon could be
grown by scientists only after it
is separated from the lunar soil.
Finding the organism, however,
is the major difficulty..
“The overwhelming problem
right now is the . size of the
sample we’re getting in relation
to the size of the moon,” Dr.
Oyama said.
Campus Groups to Be Asked
Tonight for Teach-In Support
Campus organizations will be
asked tonight to give their sup
port for an on-campus environ
mental teach-in, Bill Voigt, co
ordinator for the Symposium for
Environmental Awareness, an
nounced Wednesday.
Voigt said that all campus or
ganizations are invited to attend
the session at 7:30 p.m. in the
auditorium of the Architecture
Building.
“The Symposium,” Voigt said,
“was endorsed Wednesday by the
Forum for Environmental Studies
(FES), a departmental club in
the College of Architecture. The
FES, headed by senior architec
ture major, Joe Flores, was called
the Design Student Society last
year.
This action, Voigt added, is a
step toward gaining administra
tion approval of the teach-in
scheduled to be held around April
22.
After starting off slowly in
January with only 15 or 20 stu
dents at the first meeting, the
second, last week, was attended
by more than 100. Students, min
isters, and professors gave sug
gestions on how a campaign may
be waged against pollution.
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Aimed at Professionalizing 9 the Organization
Cadet Corps Revises Underclassmen Regulations
By George Scott
Battalion Staff Writer
Student leaders in the Corps of
Cadets have revised regulations
governing underclassmen in an
effort to “professionalize” the
ROTC organization, Corps Com
mander Matthew R. Carroll said
Wednesday.
Carroll noted in an interview
with The Battalion that major
changes involved easing of re
quirements of freshmen and soph
omores in meeting upperclass
men, dining hall conduct, study
procedures in cadet rooms and
haircuts.
These changes were recom
mended by unit commanders be
cause of concern for losses from
cadet ranks between the univer
sity’s fall and spring semesters,
Carroll said.
Figures released by Carroll
show that 692 students left the
Corps during the past semester,
and of that number 215 left the
university.
Freshman attrition was set at
34 per cent of their class, and the
sophomore loss was 16.2 per cent,
according to the report.
The Corps lost 349 freshmen to
civilian ranks and 124 cadet
freshmen left A&M. There were
91 sophomores who became ci
vilians, and 16 who left A&M.
By comparison, the report
showed that during the fall se
mester of 1968, the Corps lost
31.5 per cent of its freshmen and
14.8 per cent of its sophomores.
In the 1967 fall semester, there
was a loss of 40.5 per cent and
24 per cent respectively of the
two classes.
“It is too many people to lose
though, and that is the reason we
made the changes,” Carroll said,
although acknowledging that this
semester’s loss was not too differ
ent from past years.
The revisions, effective this se
mester, were outlined by Carroll
as follows:
• Freshmen may now greet
upperclassmen the same way
sophomores do. When freshmen
introduce themselves, they will
continue to say their own names
with “fish” in front of them, as
in “Howdy, fish Jones is my
name, sir.” Outside the Duncan
area, freshmen will no longer
have to ask upperclassmen their
hometown and academic major
when they meet or “whip out” to
them.
• In the dining halls, sopho
mores can now talk at the table
and freshman may no longer give
“meal service,” that is, serve food
to, upperclassmen.
• Study periods have been ex
tended to a 7 to 11 p.m. period
compared to the old 7:30-10:30
p.m. time. Freshmen no longer
See Corps Revises, page 3)
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