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Vol. 65 No. 86
College Station, Texas
Friday, March 13, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
University Women
Denied Senate Seat
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
The Student Senate, after
Hitirsday struggling 1 through its
longest and most emotional de
late of the year, refused to budge
Irom the stand it took last week
i denying an ex-officio seat to
a representative of University
Women.
Senators actually approved the
constitutional amendment pro
posed by senate secretary Kirby
Brown by a margin of 41-20, but
this was 13 votes short of the
number needed to pass the meas
ure required by the three-fourths
majority.
The debate evoked mixed emo
tions among the participants:
There were shouts of rage from
Kent Caperton when he sensed
the senate verging on hypocracy.
There was the voice of UW vice
18-Y ear-Old V oting Age
Approved by Senators
I; John Chadwick
issociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON UP> — The
mate, after overwhelmingly
(proving a proposal to lower
le voting age for all elections
18, moved today toward final
ition on extending the Voting
ights Act another five years.
The extension of the basic
stop
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)B5 act, which is aimed at
guaranteeing Negro voting rights
in seven Southern states, has
been bitterly opposed by Dixie
senators and differs sharply with
a House-passed version support
ed by President Nixon.
In approving lowering the vot
ing age 64 to 17 Thursday, the
Senate also set up another likely
battle with the House, where New
York Rep. Emanuel Celler, chair-
Censure
System
Billy Buchanan
ittalion Staff Writer
A resolution calling for the
mediate censure of the Texas
(M University System was
ibmtted by the Texas A&M
oung Democrats at a state
leeting in San Antonio this past
eekend.
The resolution was one of sev-
ral platforms presented by the
4M YD’s at the Young Demo-
rats Clubs of Texas state con-
ention.
However, some members of the
ilitical organization who did not
Itend the convention have told
e Battalion that the local YD
fipter has been taken over by
embers of the Campus Commit-
! of Concern (CCOC).
According to Richard Worth,
club member, the resolu-
l|n called for the immediate
insure of the A&M System by
Young Democrat Clubs of
xas for discriminatory prac-
es against minorities and fe-
lale students and repression of
e freedom of speech, assem-
1 and the press.
.Other platforms included a
solution for immediate troop
thdrawal from Southeast Asia,
per cent troop reduction in
urope, recognition of the gov-
mment of mainland China, a
ilicy concerning the contribu-
on of 1 per cent of the gross
tional product of the allied na-
ins to underdeveloped countries
rough the World Bank of the
nited Nations, and a resolution
arging the “low profile” de-
ription of U. S. foreign policy
as “another public relations
term to lull the American people
into thinking all’s right with the
world,” Worth said.
W’orth, who was elected second
vice president of the state or
ganization, said that there were
three reasons why the delega
tion presented the platforms to
the convention.
“I have seen good legislation
presented and passed before the
Student Senate and then turned
down by the administration,” he
said.
Another reason was that “the
censure was from an organiza
tion not recognized on campus,”
he said.
“This way we felt the admin
istration would be unable to, so
to speak, squash us,” he con
tinued.
“With action like this, there
might be action taken by the ad
ministration and some of these
things disproved or changed,” he
added.
These resolutions were pre
sented to the platform committee
of the state YD’s. They were ac
cepted by the platform commit
tee and will be voted on by the
state executive committee of the
YD’s in Austin on either March
24 or April 4, Worth said.
Chairman of the 25-member
A&M delegation was William M.
Maskal.
A Sunday edition of the San
Antonio Light stated “Maskal
charged A&M currently has only
150 Negroes enrolled, out of a
population on campus of 14,000.
(See YDs Ask, page 3)
man of that body’s Judiciary
Committee, has vowed to fight it
relentlessly.
Celler will be chairman of
House conferees when the time
comes to reconcile the House and
Senate voting rights bills.
If enacted, the 18-year-old pro
posal will make an estimated 11
million young people eligible to
vote as of Jan. 1, 1971. Georgia,
Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii
now permit persons under 21 to
vote.
The Senate rejected protests
that the Supreme Court might
rule the amendment unconstitu
tional after 18-year-olds voted in
the 1972 elections, thus throwing
the next presidential balloting
into confusion. Sen. James B.
Allen, D-Ala., lost 72-15 on an
amendment to defer the effec
tive date until after 1972.
The vote for the voting age
amendment, proposed by Demo
cratic Leader Mike Mansfield,
was more lopsided in the Senate
than had been anticipated, .win
ning the votes of some senators
who had spoken against it.
Republican Leader Hugh Scott
of Pennsylvania, for example,
voted for it although he had told
the Senate it was unwise and
unsafe and might imperil the
chances of extending the Voting
Rights Act.
The chief argument against it,
however, was that a constitu
tional amendment is required to
lower the voting age; that Con
gress had no power to act by
simple legislation.
The fight over the voting
rights legislation deals with a
House-passed bill recommended
by President Nixon. It applies
nationwide in seeking to prevent
Negroes and other groups from
being denied their voting rights.
Civil rights forces feel it is weak
er than the 1965 law and could
blunt the enforcement drive in
the South.
Scott and Sen. Philip Hart, D-
Mich., countered with their meas
ure extending the 1965 act.
The 1965 act permits suspen
sion of literacy tests and use of
federal registrars upon a court
finding of discriminatory denial
of voting rights and also pro
vides for advance federal ap
proval of voting law changes.
president Mary Hanak that seem
ed to tremble as she defended the
effectiveness of her organization.
There was the forceful delivery
of UW adviser Mrs. Patricia Self
who fielded questions with con
viction.
And there came from the audi
ence the hesitant titters and loud
guffaws that moved senate presi
dent Gerry Geistweidt to admon
ish some senators to stop acting
like “gibbering idiots.”
The controversy centered on
the nebulous term: “representa
tion.”
Proponents of a UW senate
seat, which would allow members
of University Women (theoretic
ally, every woman on campus) to
choose their own delegate to the
senate, argued that for the senate
to be truly “representative” it
must be able to hear the voice
of the coed.
Dennis Flannigan (vp-MSC)
said that the senate’s other eight
ex-officio members, which include
him as well as representatives
from the Civilian Student Coun
cil, Graduate Student Council,
YMCA, The Battalion, Head Yell
Leader and others, actually repre
sent special interest groups.
For the senate to be representa
tive, he said, the senate must also
provide a seat for UW, an organ
ization that represents more than
1,000 women.
Opponents of the UW seat ar
gued that because the women’s
organization is such a fledgling
group, and because its officers
are appointed and not elected, it
cannot truly speak for the women
on campus.
Allen Janacek (sr-Engr) want
ed some assurance that UW would
elect its officers in some campus
wide elections, rather than have
them appointed as they are now.
“This is also setting a danger
ous precedent,” Charles Hoffman
(jr-LA) said. “What is to keep
other interest groups from asking
to be admitted to the senate?”
Lynn Odom (sr-BA) agreed,
suggesting that if University
Women could have an ex-officio
seat, so could football players.
Jim Stephenson (sr-LA) re
minded senators that if they deny
a new interest group the chance
to have a voice in the senate, they
will be quilty of “pointing the
finger at the administration, and
not looking in the mirror at our
selves.”
“But we just allowed the col
lege of Education to have six
representatives,” John Harris
(grad) replied, “and more than
half the student population there
is coed. If there aren’t women
on the senate next year, it’ll be
because they flat don’t want it!”
he maintained.
Senators did track on an amend
ment to Brown’s proposal, that
the UW representative be the
vice president of the organization
until this spring’s elections, at
which time the representative
would be elected at large.
(See University Women, page 2)
COED DEBATE—Kent Caperton (second from right), senate vice president, advocates
adding an ex-officio University Women representative to the senate during Thursday
night’s Student Senate meeting. Gerry Geistweidt (right), Senate president, Kirby
Brown (center), senate recording secretary and (from left) senators Collier (Doc) Wat
son, Dave Mayes, Rick Reese, Ronnie Adams and John Grumbles listen. (Photo by David
Gawthorpe)
Pianist to Perform
Tuesday in Bryan
Misha Dichter, widely-hailed
young pianist, will play Tuesday
in Bryan-College Station through
the Rotary Community Series.
The Bryan Civic Auditorium
performance will begin at 8 p.m.
Dichter was originally sched
uled to perform at G. R. White
Coliseum.
In his exploitation of the piano,
Dichter has been credited by a
Los Angeles reviewer with “flex
ibility and meaningful beauty”
not encountered since Rachmani
noff.
In 1966, the young virtuoso
brought a Moscow audience to its
feet shouting “Bravo Dichter!
Bravo Dichter!” at the Third In
ternational Tchaikovsky Compe
tition. As he was announced
second-prize winner, women wept
and pressed flowers into his
hands.
Dichter was immediately
signed by S. Hurok and RCA Vic
tor and consolidated a formidable
reputation through subsequent
appearances in North America
and Europe. After his debut
with the New York Philharmonic,
the New York Times reported “a
bear hug from Leonard Bern
stein and an ovation from the
capacity audience were Misha
Dichter’s rewards for a brilliant
debut.”
Late last spring, he returned
to the Soviet Union for a major
tour by special invitation of the
Ministry of Culture. He played
to sold out audiences which would
not let him leave the stage.
Dichter came to the U. S. at
the age of two when his parents
settled in Los Angeles. His first
piano lessons came at the age
of six.
The master of Rachmaninoff’s
“Rhapsody on a Theme of Paga
nini,” Stravinsky’s “Three Move
ments from ‘Petrouchk a’,”
Brahms, Schubert, Scarlatti and
Shostakovich, and many others,
Dichter has been described as
capable of “anything he wants
pianistically.”
‘Happening,’ Film on Agenda
For Festival 70 Monday Night
Aggie Mother
Of Year Forms
Now Available
Festival 70 will be devoted to
a happening and experimental
films Monday night, according to
Tom Ellis, festival chairman.
Richard Byrne, head of the de
partment of radio, film and tele
vision at the University of Texas
at Austin, will present a light
show at 6 p.m. in the Assembly
Room of the Memorial Student
Center, followed by Genesis II in
the ballroom at 8 p.m., he said.
Ellis said that Byrne will
transform the rectilinear space of
the room into a totally different
environment through a slide
show. He will use sensory de
vices such as a slide projector
and music.
Genesis II is a collection of
short experimental films, he said.
They range from social satire to
purely technical films.
Tuesday the Kenwood Players
will present improvisational thea
ter in the MSC Ballroom at 8
p.m., he said.
The players, from a small pov
erty-pocket area in San Antonio,
write and produce their own
plays, Ellis said. The grade
school youngsters relive their so
cial experiences, they try to
understand each other better.
Nominations are now being
taken for Aggie Mother of the
Year.
Applications are available in
the Student Program Office in
the Memorial Student Center,
from Student Life Committee
Chairman Collier (Doc) Watson
or from Selection Committee
chairman David Moore.
A standard application form
has been developed by Watson
and Moore to insure a fair selec
tion.
Ellis said that the players per
formance had been moved up
from March 19.
Watson stressed that informa
tion in addition to that required
application may be sub-
by the
mitted.
Soviet Official Tells Great Issues Audience
5ALT Talks High on U.S.-Soviet List
FDT Seeks Third
In a Row Saturday
By Pam Troboy
Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks are “very high on the
agenda” of Soviet-United States
relations, a Soviet diplomat said
Thursday night during a Great
Issues presentation.
Yuli Vorontsov, deputy ambas
sador of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington, and Dr. Wilbourn E.
Benton, political science professor
at A&M, shared the stage for the
second of a series of U.S.-East
European Relations Seminars be
fore a packed audience.
Benton confined his comments
to the Vietnam issue while Vo
rontsov touched on Soviet policy
throughout the world.
Vorontsov said that the SALT
conference scheduled for next
month in Vienna would be very
difficult, because it “touches the
heart of defense of both coun
tries, but we hope to achieve
concrete success.”
He said that the aim of Soviet
policy is to have better relations
with the U.S., because “we have
to deal with each other whether
or not we like each other.”
Vorontsov said that the Soviet
Union is the third closest neigh
bor to the U.S. and each has
enough military capability to
destroy the other in 30 minutes.
The two have no issues to dis
pute as far as the countries as
nations are concerned, he said.
Ideology and international prob
lems divide them, he explained.
“We want negotiations not con
frontations,” Vorontsov said. “We
don’t think we have already done
everything possible. Our countries
must work harder each year for
friendly relations.”
He said this might be done by
working out bilateral trade agree
ments, scientific cooperation and
the exchange of citizens.
“We must cooperate more fully
and positively to settle inter
national disputes,” he said. “At
the present time, the Soviet
Union and the U.S. are in active
negotiations to settle the Middle
East Crisis.
“We can help these nations to
come to terms on a peaceful
basis,” Vorontsov said. “We hope
to have a situation where all can
live in peace. The Soviet Union
is not against the Israelis, we’re
against Israeli aggression and
methods of achieving peace. We
hope to report success in due
time.”
Vorontsov said that Europe was
a source of great concern to his
country, because half of the So
viet territory lies in Europe and
that is “where we’ve experienced
aggression.”
“We cannot condone any change
in the European balance of pow
er,” he said. “The Czechoslovak
ian crisis was very serious to the
Soviet Union. It could have taken
the country from the Warsaw
Pact to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. That’s why we took
such drastic, surgical action.
“If anything happens in Europe
that is serious,” Vorontsov said,
“we will react seriously. When it
concerns NATO, it is your busi
ness and when it concerns the
Warsaw Pact, it is ours.”
He said that the Soviet Union
is working with the United States
for a European Conference that
“could clear the air.”
“We are ready to be patient in
Asia,” he said. “You have very
serious problems there. In 1968
we were successful in bringing
the parties to the negotiating
table. We hope you’ll be able to
work the problems out.”
“Vietnam overshadows all oth
er U.S.-Soviet problems,” Benton
said. “This is not a mere civil
(See Salt Talks, page 4)
Eight drill teams will attempt
Saturday to relieve the Fresh
man Drill Team of the Texas
A&M Invitational Drill Meet
master trophy, won by the Ag
gies two years in a row.
The sixth annual meet spon
sored by the commandant’s of
fice and Association of Former
Freshman Drill Team members,
will begin at 8 a.m. on the Mem
orial Student Center parade
ground.
Dr. Horace R. Byers, academic
vice president, will make awards
at about 5 p.m. after each team
has gone through inspection,
basic and fancy phases of the
competition.
Competing for trophies in each
phase and the 48-inch high mas
ter trophy will be teams from
Arkansas State, Prairie View
A&M, Rice, Tarleton State, Tex
as A&I, the University of Hous
ton and University of Texas at
Austin Army and Navy units.
Tarleton State’s Wayne-Wright
Debutantes, a coed unit extended
a rousing welcome in previous
appearance here, will give an ex
hibition drill at 1 p.m. The Tar
leton coeds’ performance will lead
off the final phase of the compe
tition, according to Steve Nich
ols, Fish Drill Team 'Association
president of Crystal Lake, 111.
He said the Prairie View A&M
sponsored corps may perform at
the conclusion of the fancy
phase.
The association president not
ed that some teams will be stay
ing on campus for the first time.
They will be quartered in Gainer
Hall.
Judges for the day-long com
petition will be personnel of the
U.S. Marine Corps Officers Selec
tion Program in Austin.
A&M’s Freshman Drill Team,
seeking an unprecedented third
straight A&M meet champion
ship, is commanded by Beverly S.
Kennedy of Austin. The team
has appeared in several Cadet
Corps march-ins to football
games, Veterans Day and Mili
tary Day reviews and in exhibi
tion at the annual Dallas Mili
tary Ball.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
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