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Thursday, April 23, 1970
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Candidates Define Issues
At Senate Election Rally
ELECTION FOES—Kent Caperton (left) and Bill Maskal,
candidates in today’s election for Student Senate President,
speak during a political rally Wednesday on the drill field
across from the Memorial Student Center. (Photo by Bob
Stump)
By Tom Curl
A political rally on the eve of
today’s student elections showed
that the main issue of the cam-
pain this year is not a corps-ci
vilian spilt, but instead a choice
mainly between conservatives and
liberals.
The choice is perhaps most ob
vious in the race for the presi
dency of the Student Senate. In
the absence of a candidate from
the Corps of Cadets, the choice
lies between Kent Caperton, head
of the controversial Fifth Wheel
Committee^ and Bill Maskal, a
member of the Campus Commit
tee of Concern. The dress and
ideas of the 16 candidates who
spoke at the rally showed that
perhaps the contemporary ques
tion of “establishment” versus
“student activism” has reached
the A&M campus.
Gerry Geistweidt, current pres
ident of the Student Senate, open-
Litter Major Polluter,
Sen. Blanchard Warns
Concentration of large num
bers of people in small areas is
the key factor behind the in
creasing amounts of litter pol
luting our water, air and land
scape, State Sen. H. J. (Doc)
Blanchard of Lubbock said here
Wednesday.
People consume, and most con
sume more than their share,
Blanchard said, but technology
has not reached the point where
consumables are packaged in
readily disposable containers.
“The ladies like their purchases
attractively packaged, but the
problem is how do we get rid of
the packaging,” he told a Politi
cal Forum audience.
“A family of three,” he claim
ed, “produces more garbage in a
month than can be contained in
a two-auto carport.”
Other areas are also at fault,
Blanchard told the standing-
room-only crowd of more than
200. Petrochemical complexes in
Harris County and along the Gulf
coast contribute, he said. Dis
posable beer bottles average 30
cents each to pick up from along
highways, he explained, where
the full bottle costs 35 cents.
Milk shake plastic containers
do not deteriorate, nor do lolli
pop sticks, he added. A high
level of cellulose content in Gulf
of Mexico Waters worries the
fishing industry and oceanogra
phers. It can be traced to toilet
tissue, he said.
“I’d be willing to bet more than
half of you — and I have to in
clude myself — don’t have trash
receptacles in your cars,” Blan
chard challenged. “So tissue pa
per, cigarette butts and trash
litter the landscape.
“The tiny tip of a filter ciga
rette is a real problem,” he add
ed. “It is very difficult to get
rid of.
“We want nice things,” the
senator observed. “But we are
not willing to pay the price to
keep this country a healthy place
to live.”
Part of the solution is aware
ness and we must start at the
elementary school level making
people aware of pollution prob
lems, he said.
“You can talk about pollution
of our air and water, but if you
don’t do something, it’s no solu
tion,” Blanchard warned.
200 Hear Officials
B-CS Environment
Discuss
Problems
By Pam Troboy
Battalion News Editor
Earth Day Activities in Bryan-
College Station came to a close
Wednesday night when about 200
citizens gathered in Bryan Civic
Auditorium to discuss envi
ronmental problems.
A panel of 10 local and state
officials gave their views of the
ecological situation and than ans
wered questions from the audi
ence. The program was adver
tised as a discusion of local prob
lems, but the only local issues
that were raised came during the
question period.
The program, sponsored by the
Symposium for Environmental
Awareness, Brazos County League
of Women Voters and American
Student Suggestions Wanted,
250 Told During Symposium
By Fran Haugen
Earth Day activities Wednesday
at Texas A&M showed that stu
dents are integral, if not major,
components in the solution of
pollution problems and popula
tion control.
Dr. Donald Dunlop, assistant
to Secretary of the Interior Wal
ter Hickel, told a crowd of about
250, mostly students, at the Sym
posium for Environmental Aware
ness in G. Rollie White Coliseum,
that government administrators
trying to find answers to ecolog
ical problems welcome students’
suggestions with “open hearts
and open minds.”
He stressed students’ abilities
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
to educate the public about en
vironmental concerns.
“Student work is the reason
that about 500 members of the
Department of Interior are speak
ing on college campuses today,”
he said.
The Student Committee on Pol
lution of Environment (SCOPE)
was organized by the Department
of the Interior when students be
gan writing the department for
an answer to the question, “What
can I, as a student, do to help?”
Dunlop said.
That students can educate the
public about “ecocatastrophes”
was illustrated by A&M students
participating in the Earth Day
symposium.
“How many years can the gar
bage pile up before it is up to
(See Student, page 2)
Association of University Women,
began with an award-winning
slide show prepared by the Forum
for Environmental Studies, an
architecture society.
Dr. Richard Baldauf, wildlife
science professor, called for the
reexamination of attitudes about
the environment and expressed
the hope that this is the “begin-
ing of a new era.”
“We have come to realize that
not everything is better just be
cause it is bigger,” he said, “and
that it is not necessary to have
everything just because we can
do it. Some people have realized
that our affluent society has be
come an effluent society.
“The problem is a local one,”
he said. “Any changes must start
with us.”
Dr. Betty Unterberger, history
professor, introduced the members
of the panel, each of whom gave
a three-minute statement.
“I called myself an ecologist
before it was the thing to do,”
Dr. Rezneat Darnell, professor
of oceanography and biology,
said, “but environmental problems
are not new. The ancient Romans
complained about the quality of
their environment.”
The overriding problems, he
said, is that chemical materials in
nature pass through cycles that
must be completed for the next
generation to survive. Ecologists
are worried that the chemicals in
the air will stop these cycles.
ed Wednesday’s rally with a plea
for objective selection of next
year’s Senate officers. He com
pared the candidates and the of
fices to a high-powered weapon.
“The desired qualities of a stu
dent body officer are like the at
tributes of a high-powered rifle;
the candidates are riflemen and
the offices they seek are the ri
fles,” he said.
Geistweidt emphasized that the
power of the offices must be used
Too many people think legisla
tors can pass laws and solve the
problem, he remarked. The state
can create ordinances, he said,
but it has few means of enforc
ing them. He also noted that
cities and counties have been
given the authority to enforce
cases of industrial pollution of
air and water, made unlawful by
passage in 1967 of the Texas
Pure Air Act.
He said that centralization of
the responsibility for enforce
ment is needed. He noted that
Texas has no controls on auto
emission.
“I admit the state needs this
control,” he said. “We can pass
such a law, but the legislature
can’t insure its enforcement as
things stand.”
Solutions, while complex, can
be reduced to two elements, he
said.
“They are awareness on the
part of people of the pollution
problems and research. A kind
of answers in the latter area
has been investigated and solved
by the makers of Pepsi Cola.
They’ve developed a bottle that
will burn up completely and not
have any toxic effects,” he said.
Polls will remain open today
until 8 p.m. Students may vote
in the Memorial Student Center
basement, Sbisa newsstand,
Dorm 2 guard room, the north
entrance of the library and at
a mobile poll.
The mobile poll will be at the
North Gate post office from
7:30-11 a.m., the Architecture
Building 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. and
the Student Apartment Office
(Quonset Hut) 4:30-8 p.m.
Student identification cards
and spring activity cards are
needed to vote. Graduating sen
iors may vote for Student Sen
ate, University Women and
Civilian Student Council execu
tive committee positions, and
Election Commission president.
Graduate students may vote
for all those offices and for
Graduate Student Council mem
bers.
carefully to avoid their abuse and
that the best “riflemen” should
be the ones elected.
“Traditions of loyalty, brother
hood and sanity are not necessari
ly impedients to progress,” he
told a growing crowd of 500 to
600.
Caperton led off the campaign
speeches of the candidates by
levelling a blast at persons who
tried to deviate from the cam
paign issues, an obvious refer
ence to the criticism of the Fifth
Wheel Committee. The group has
been the object of complaints by
numerous people because of its
alleged attempt to “take over”
campus politics.
Caperton, emphasized, however,
that he did not mean his criticism
to be aimed at his opponent,
Maskal. He added that Maskal
had been primarily concerned with
various campaign issues. Caper
ton added that most of his cam
paign time has been spent try
ing to convince students that
they can and should participate in
student government.
He chided the assembled stu
dents for the poor turnout in past
elections and called for a better
response this time.
“It’s hard to expect the admin
istration to respect us when we
can’t even get 30 per cent of the
students out to vote,” he remark
ed.
He added that students are cur
rently the victims of a “plugged
up bureaucracy” and an ineffec
tive student government.
Maskal, the other presidential
candidate, came to the stage
wearing a work shirt with his
campaign symbol of a clenched
fist for student power stencilled
on the back. The reaction of the
crowd showed that he had many
supporters present.
In opening, he apologized for
his nervousness at the speaker’s
podium.
“I guess it’s because this is a
bad place to speak on a Wednes
day at Texas A&M University,”
he commented to the sound of
laughter from the crowd. It was
an obvious reference to the stu
dent rally that was broken up by
University Police last week when
an unauthorized speaker appear
ed.
Maskal presented a paraphras
ed version of the first amendment
to the Constitution in supporting
his program of student involve
ment in the administration of the
university. He advocated that all
student activity fees be allocated
by the Student Senate and called
for an immediate investigation
of the office of the Dean of Stu
dents, James P. Hannigan. The
investigation would ostensibly be
conducted by a joint committee of
students, faculty and Acting Pres
ident Alvin R. Luedecke.
He attacked university policies
in the area of freedom of speech
and the press.
“How can you have the ex
change of free ideas if you have
nothing, if you have no rights,”
Maskal demanded.
He urged the assembled stu
dents to vote so they can “show
the administration you give a
(See Candidates, page 3)
Caperton Favored
By 53 Per Cent
Kent Caperton was favored
Wednesday to win the presidency
of the student body by 53 per
cent of 503 students questioned
by a student polling group, ac
cording to Julio Richer.
Richer said Caperton was the
choice of 269 students; Bill Mas
kal, 149. Eighty-five others
were undecided or indifferent.
Of these, 478 students said
they will vote today, 10 said no
and 15 were indifferent, he said.
The poll was conducted in
Moses Hall, Dorms 2 and 4, dur
ing the election rally and in two
classes.
Richer said that the poll was
an accurate prediction of the out
come of the presidential race,
but that he doubted that many
people would really vote.
He plans to conduct an after
election poll during the go-cart
race Saturday.
The complete results of the
poll will be in the reserve room
of the library this week under
Business Analysis 666, William
Saitta.
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Men, Not Boys” Can Live
With Sexual Frustration
CSC to Elect
Outstanding
Councilman
The Civilian Student Council
will elect the outstanding coun
cilman for 1969-70 at an 8 p.m.
meeting tonight, according to
Mark Olson, president.
The meeting will begin an hour
later than usual because of the
general election, he said.
Selected from all members of
the council except the president,
the outstanding member’s name
will remain a secret until the
council banquet in May, he said.
Olson said the council would
also discuss the possibility of
establishing a committee to re
cruit outstanding women stu
dents.
In other business the CSC will
discuss the NACURH summer
conference, Former Students As
sociation faculty awards, a con
stitutional amendment and the
banquet, he said.
By Fran Haugen
Battalion Staff Writer
A man can learn to live with
sexual frustration, but a boy
can’t, the author of “Marriage
for Moderns” told an audience of
about 200 at the third presenta
tion of the Marriage Forum Se
ries sponsored by the Student
“Y” Association.
Dr. Henry Bowman, who spoke
on “Sex in Human Relations:
Premarital,” will conclude the se
ries next Wednesday with the
topic of sex within marriage.
“It is an assumption that sex
ual restraint is dangerous, espe
cially for men,” Bowman said.
“Have you ever heard of a man
with a strong sex drive who tried
to restrain it and blew up or
passed out? There is no danger.
Even married man doesn’t have
complete freedom. What if he
and his wife are separated?”
Another assumption many have.
Bowman said, is that sex is a
toy.
“This is expressed by Hugh
Hefner of Playboy Magazine, he
said. A playboy is one who plays
with sex and treats women as
things. Many have swallowed this
hook, line, sinker and fisherman.”
People should evaluate their
sexual behavior in terms of their
sexual goals, Bowman said. Most
people hold happy marriage as
a major goal, he added.
Sex is something more than a
toy or a means of mere physical
release; it is something which
can be built into a mature mar
riage relation, Bowman said.
“Before the wedding all a cou
ple has to go by is what they
say to one another,” Bowman
said. “In a wedding people stand
up to be counted. How could a
girl be sure what a guy means
if he omits that last step in total
commitment?”
Bowman asked the women in
the audience if they could be sure
about a man who refused to take
this step. Some of the 15 women
half nodded in agreement.
“I’m not looking at it from a
girl’s point of view, but I think
you’re wrong,” a senior cadet with
a wedding ring on disagreed. “I
don’t see why there can’t be total
commitment without marriage.”
“In the wedding a man doesn’t
tell her he loves her in the moon
light, in the lamplight or in no
light, he tells her in front of
people,” Bowman replied. “Pre-
Sex
marital sex is incomplete,
shouldn’t be shortcircuited.”
In premarital sex relations the
girl gets hurt most, and until a
way is found to make men preg
nant, it’ll be one-sided, Bowman
said.
Petting limits dating time, and
keeps couples from becoming ac
quainted as people,” Bowman
said.
“Men can’t seem to realize that
there are women who want to be
relaxed on a date, not always on
guard,” he explained. “A man
doesn’t want to be dominated by
a woman, but he’ll push her as
far as she’ll go and then usually
abide by her standards. Why
can’t men set standards of their
own? What kind of men are we?”
Rights Statement
To Get Senate Nod
Student Senators will meet at
8 p.m. tonight in the Library
Conference Room to take final
action on their Statement of Stu
dent Rights and Responsibilities.
To be presented by Jim Ste
phenson (sr-LA), the statement is.
a virtual rewrite of all university
regulations concerning student
life. The senate passed major
sections of the statement in its
last two meetings.
Also on a crowded agenda is
a discussion of the “Parade Field
Incident,” an occurrence last
Wednesday in which University
Police broke up a peace rally that
the university deemed unauthor
ized. Since then, four students
who participated in the rally
have been given conduct proba
tion.
The senate is also scheduled to
consider possible disposal of the
grease rack in the College View
Apartment area, suggestions on
alternatives to Bonfire, and sen
ate reapportionment.
On-Campus Civilian Students
With Dates May Eat at MSC
Civilian students who live on
campus and have dates for this
weekend may eat in the Me
morial Student Center Cafeteria
Friday night through Saturday
night, paying only for their
date’s meal, Civilian Student
Menu Board Chairman Pat Wer-
theim reminded Wednesday.
Wertheim said that 5-day
board students may eat in the
MSC Friday night by showing
their validated student identifi
cation card. Seven-day plan stu
dents can eat the Friday night
meal and all three Saturday
meals on their ID cards, he said.
He emphasized that only those
board students with dates will
be allowed to make use of the
arrangement. A student’s date
must be with him when he eats,
Wertheim added, noting that a
mother or sister is not considered
a date.
Students using this arrange
ment, Wertheim said, may select
whatever i terns they wish to
make up a balanced meal. This
includes, he said, a salad, an
entree, two vegetables, a des
sert, and small items such as
bread and butter. Dates, he said,
may choose whatever they wish,
with the student paying for her
meal.
Civilian Week
Activities
Tonight
7:30 a.m.-8 p.m
5 p.m.
6 p.m.
8 p.m.
Elections—Sbisa newsstand, Library, MSC
basement, Dorm 2
Mud Football, Horseshoes—Intramural Field
Pool Tournament—Aggie Den
Spades, Chess Tournaments—MSC
5 p.m.
8 p.m.
8 p.m.
Friday
Mud Football—Intramural Field
Dance—KC Hall
MSC Basement Coffee House—MSC
Individual Hall Activities
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