Che Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 108
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 29, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
Election Panel Outlaws
Vote—Then Changes Mind
WATCHING CLOSELY—Graduate student Evelyn Dun-
savage (left) ^and M. B. Flippen, who filed protests with
the Election Commision, listen while others debate during
Tuesday night’s commission meeting. (Photo by Hayden
Whitsett)
Last week’s general elections
were invalid for 12 hours before
the Election Commission changed
its mind this morning and re
jected a protest it had approved
Tuesday night.
The protest, filed by sociology
graduate student Mike Miller,
charged that the balloting was
not secret and that voters were in
Runoff elections will be held
May 7 instead of Thursday, the
Election Commission ruled this
morning.
This will enable the commis
sion to hear further election
protests and also make final
preparations for the election,
commission President Nokomis
(Butch) Jackson said.
some instances forbidden to carry
handwritten lists of candidates
into the polls.
Commissioners Tuesday re
jected the charge concerning
hand-written lists, but validated
the claim that the voters did not
have enough privacy to mark
their ballots in secret.
According to Charles Hoffman,
who presided at the evening
session it was because of the non
secret ballot that commissioners
voted 4-2 to invalidate the results
of the entire election.
On election day, ballots were
filled out on open tables where
anyone could observe what marks
another voter was making Hoff
man said.
This morning the commissioners
reversed their decision after it
was pointed out that University
Regulations on elections stimulate
that only a candidate or election
commissioner could file a protest.
Senate President-elect Kent
Caperton argued for his own
election when, as a proxy for an
absent election commissioner, he
read the regulation to the com
mission, pointing out that Miller
was neither a candidate or a com
missioner.
Some of the other commission
ers weren’t sure this was true,
but Caperton said he had checked
the list of candidates and could
not find Miller’s name.
Steve Clark, who voted to allow
the protest Tuesday, suggested
that the commission wait until it
could check the lists for sure.
He also wondered whether
Miller had filed the protest on
behalf of a candidate. Caperton
said he had seen Miller’s protest
and that it had not mentioned
another person.
But no one could check that
either, because Charles Hoffman,
who was absent from today’s
session, seemed to have the only
(See Election, page 4)
A&M Board Members Increase
Parking Fees, Fines for Fall
Taylor, Bain to Command
1970- ’71 Corps of Cadets
Van H. Taylor of Temple was
named Tuesday to the top com
mand position of A&M’s Corps
of Cadets for the 1970-71 school
year.
Serving as deputy corps com
mander will be Thomas C. Bain
Jr. of Dallas.
Announcement of the two rank
ing corps members was made in
the office of Col. Jim H. McCoy,
corps commandant.
Member of the Army ROTC
and a mechanical engineering
major, Taylor serves as corps
sergeant major this year. He
has a 3.7 overall grade point
ratio. He is a member of the
Ross Volunteers, elite honor mili
tary unit; the Town Hall Com
mittee; the Student Conference
on National Affairs; and Pi Tau
Sigma and Tau Beta Pi, engi
neering honor fraternities.
Bain, an Air Force ROTC stu
dent and architectural construc
tion major, is a cadet technical
sergeant and scholastic sergeant
on First Group staff. He played
freshman basketball at A&M,
and has a 2.8 overall g.p.r. He
is a member of the RVs, Town
Hall and the Singing Cadets.
“These young men have a real
challenge ahead of them in pro
viding the leadership for a Corps
of Cadets of which students, par
ents and former students can be
proud,” McCoy said. “We look
forward to continued improve
ment in the corps next year and
feel they have the qualities to
make this possible.”
The commandant noted that
Taylor and Bain will be making
recommendations soon for major
commanders in next year’s corps.
He added that the new cadet col
onel of the corps and deputy
commander were selected on the
basis of “what they have done
and their understanding of what
needs to be done” to improve the
corps.”
Parking fees and fines for stu
dents, faculty and staff will be
higher this fall, the A&M Board
of Directors decided Tuesday.
The board also approved a rec
ord $126.9 million operating budg
et for the A&M University Sys
tem for 1970-71.
Acting on a Feb. 25 recommen
dation from the student-admini
stration University Traffic Com
mittee, the board adopted a $15
parking fee per year, an increase
of $5.
Board members also approved
a $12 rate for nine months, up
$3; $7 for a semester or trimes
ter; up $2; and $6 for summer
sessions, up $2.
According to a letter from T.
D. Cherry, vice president for bus
iness affairs, the university needs
about 2,149 more parking spaces.
He noted he had been told by the
system attorney that state ap
propriated funds cannot be spent
for parking facilities.
“This means,” he wrote, “park
ing fees and permit reinstate
ment fees are presently the only
means by which facilities may be
funded.”
The board approved a traffic
committee proposal to increase
parking violation fines to discour
age habitual offenders.
Under the new system, effec
tive Sept. 1, the current $2 re
instatement fee for the first vio
lation would be doubled for each
time for subsequent violations
through the fifth offense, which
would require a $32 payment.
On the sixth offense, the viola
tor’s campus permit may be re
voked for the remainder of the
semester.
Cherry noted that 6,913 tickets
were given for non-moving vio
lations last semester indicating
that “many are not attempting
to abide by present policy.”
The new budget represents an
increase of almost 10 per cent
over the current year, with all
major parts of the system receiv
ing record expenditures.
Operating budgets for educa
tional institutions of the A&M
system, effective Sept 1, are:
Texas A&M, $64,495,472, up $6,-
078,682; Prairie View A&M, $11,-
304,422, up $796,340; Tarleton
State, $4,731,433, up $670,868, and
Texas Maritime Academy, $1,-
019,822, up $214,301.
Contracts totaling $1,805,583
were awarded for 11 construction
and related projects and $419,010
was appropriated for 13 addi
tional undertakings.
Young Brothers, Inc., Contrac
tors of Waco, was awarded a
$188,500 contract for preparation
of Kyle Field for the laying of
artificial turf. The board also
transferred $114,200 from the
New Men’s Dormitory Reserve
account to supplement the $586,-
300 appropriated for the turf
project last February, raising the
total cost of the undertaking to
more than $700,000.
Other contracts included $83,-
(See Board, page 4)
In Selection of Next President
Faculty to be Consulted
Faculty and staff members will
be consulted in the selection of
the next A&M president, A&M
Board President Clyde Wells told
The Battalion Tuesday.
“We have asked the (A&M)
administration to work with the
faculty and staff in obtaining
thoughts or suggestions as to
who might be considered,” Wells
said.
No mention was made of seek
ing student consultation in the
presidential selection process.
He said that there has been no
target date set, but that the
board would “very soon” begin
work on the selection of the next
president.
Wells added that the choosing
of the successor to the late Gen.
Earl Rudder was the responsibil
ity of the Board Executive Com
mittee, composed of Dr. A. P.
Beutel, board vice president, H. C.
Heldenfels, L. F. Peterson, S. B.
Whittenburg, and the board chair-
Earlier this month the Student
Senate passed a resolution re
questing that it be consulted be
fore the next A&M president is
chosen.
The day before, on April 8,
the campus chapter of the Amer
ican Association of University
Professors urged the A&M Direc
tors to “enlist the aid and con
sent of the faculty” in both the
search for the new president and
the final selection.
MSC Budgeting System Questioned
Student Involved In Rally
To File Suit Against A&M
One of four students placed on
conduct probation for participat
ing in an unauthorized on-cam
pus rally April 15 says that he
will file suit against the univer
sity for denying him freedom of
speech.
Richard Worth said that the
American Civil Liberties Union
has appointed an Odessa lawyer
for his defense and that he ex
pects to file suit either at the
end of this week or the first part
of next week.
Worth said that .he, John Mc-
Auley, Bill Fischer and Tim Le-
gere had asked Acting President
A. R. Luedecke that their case
be-appealed to the Board of Di
records, but that apparently he
had taken their appearance be-
Thursday — Cloudy, partly
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showers. Southerly winds 10-20
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degrees.
fore him as their only appeal.
“We got a letter from Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan say
ing that Luedecke had rejected
our appeal and upheld him,”
Worth said.
The four were placed on con
duct probation following the
peace rally held on the parade
grounds. A Texas Ranger and
University Police arrested an
Austin man and took the stu
dents to the Dean of Students
Office.
About 300 students attended
thd rally which had been ex
pressly forbidden earlier that
day in a memorandum issued by
Hannigan.
By Fran Haugen
Battalion Staff Writer
Four budgets for 1970-71 were
approved at the first meeting of
the 21st Memorial Student Cen
ter Council amid questioning by
a new council member concern
ing the effectiveness of the stu
dent center’s budgeting system.
The council also approved a
list of prospective speakers for
Great Issues which included col
umnist William Buckley and
news commentator David Brink-
ley.
Budgets for the MSC Council,
MSC Directorate, Aggie Cinema
and Host and Fashion Committee
and the Great Issues speakers
list will go to the university Ex
ecutive Committee Monday for
approval.
Under the MSC budgeting sys
tem each organization not earn
ing all its funds asks the uni
versity to allocate a specific
amount of money for it. The
organization submits a budget
categorizing ways it will receive
its income and amounts it will
disburse during the upcoming
year.
Money is spent either through
purchase vouchers which with
draw money from the Fiscal Of
fice or through cash accounts
in the University National Bank.
Before money can be spent the
voucher or cash account request
must be signed by Secretary-
Treasurer J. Wayne Stark, the
committee chairman, and the com
mittee adviser.
“By the time someone gradu
ates, he knows the system,” coun
cil president Tom Fitzhugh said.
“Do you find your fiscal ar
rangements an impediment?” fac
ulty council member Dr. Richard
Waineidi asked. “If you tried
for 1,000 years, could you figure
out a more complicated system ?
It sounds like a swindler’s para
dise.”
Students, faculty members and
accounting experts have been
working to improve the system
for the last 20 years, Stark said.
“The purpose of the budget is
to help the program, and if you
don’t understand it until you
graduate, it’s not effective,”
Waineri said. Maybe it would
be better to have more revolving
accounts.”
Fitzhugh defended the system,
saying, “When you are working
with $12,000, it’s really helpful
to have everything categorized.”
Up until several years ago, the
student center organizations
didn’t know how much money
they would receive from the uni
versity, and this made budget
ing more difficult, but this year
the budget is stabilized, Fitz
hugh added. The Council and
Directorate is increasing its
budget 6% in accordance with
the 6% increase in student activ
ity fees, he explained.
Council Comptroller A1 Brad
ley, who presented the council
and directorate budgets totaling
$7,945, said that accurate records
of expenditures were not kept
this year because when checks
were signed “MSC Council and
Directorate,” it was sometimes
hard to tell whether the council
or the directorate had spent the
money.
Fitzhugh said he and other
councilmen had not yet proposed
the idea of a campus open “soap
box” forum to Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan, but that
they would probably have a meet
ing with Hannigan sometime this
week, after which there would
be “a definite report.”
The objective of the proposal,
Westmoreland Will Speak at Commissioning
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army,
will address newly-commissioned
officers May 23 during commis
sioning exercises.
The renowned four-star gen
eral’s A&M appearance will co
incide with spring commencement,
commissioning and Final Review.
Graduation of more than 1,500
students will be at 9 a. m., com
missioning of Army, Air Force
and Marine Corps officers at 1:30
p. m. and Final Review at 3:30
p. m.
The new second lieutenants will
receive their gold bars and hear
Westmoreland in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Westmoreland, 56, began his
34-year military career in a regi
ment of horse-drawn 75mm guns
at Fort Sill, Okla. At the U. S.
Military Academy, he was first
captain and regimental comman
der. The recent commander of
U. S. Forces in Vietnam, he
graduated and was commissioned
an artillery officer at the Point
in 1936.
The general served with and
commanded the 34th Field Artil
lery Battalion in the early stages
of World War II. He moved the
unit to Morocco, North Africa, in
the spring of 1942 and com
manded the battalion in combat in
Tunisia and Sicily.
Following attachment of the
battalion to the 82nd Airborne
and 1st Infantry Divisions, the
34th returned to its parent 9th
Infantry Division Artillery, of
which Westmoreland was named
executive officer in 1944. Fol
lowing D-Day, he fought with the
9th through France, Belgium and
into Germany.
Training at Fort Benning, Ga.,
after the war led to the Para
chutist and Glider Badges and
the general assuming command of
an 82nd Airborne outfit.
A native of Spartanburg Coun
ty, S. C., instructed at the Com
mand and General Staff College
and at the newly-organized Army
War College during the early
1950s.
He was promoted to brigadier
general at the age of 38 while
commanding the 187th Airborne
Regimental Combat Team in Ko
rea. While under Westmoreland’s
command, the unit was twice com
mitted to combat and during the
interim was in Japan as theater
reserve. He was awarded the
Master Parachutist Badge in
1953.
Following study in the advanced
management program of the Har
vard Business School, the general
was named Secretary of the Army
General Staff. In late 1956,
Westmoreland received his second
star at the age of 42, making him
at that time the youngest major
general in the army.
Westmoreland went from the
Pentagon to Fort Campbell, Ky.,
to command the 101st Airborne
Division “Screaming Eagles” and
then in 1960 to the superintend
ency of the Military Academy.
He became commanding gen
eral, STRAC and XVIII Airborne
Corps, at Fort Bragg, N. C., in
1963 and reported to U. S. Mili
tary Assistance Command, Viet
nam, duty in January, 1964. He
reported as deputy commander,
then became acting commander,
and within seven months was
made commander of MACV.
The general became Army Chief
of Staff on July 3, 1968. His
many decorations include the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Legion
of Merit and Bronze Star medals
with clusters and recognition
from Germany, France, Belgium,
Korea, The Philippines, Vietnam,
Thailand, Brazil, Bolivia and the
United Nations. Among West
moreland’s honors are five hon
orary doctors’ degrees, including
one from Howard Payne College.
approved by the council April 6,
is to provide an organized outlet
for students, faculty an adminis
trators to engage in free discus
sion, dialogue and to freely ex
press opinions on current issues
on a budgeted time basis.
In a directorate meeting be
fore the council meeting, recrea
tion vice-president Caren Conlee
announced the formation of a
new MSC committee, the New
Tradition Singers, a mixed chor
us sponsored by Mr. Robert
Boone.
The committee will be ap
proved by the council at the next
council meeting May 11, Miss
Conlee said.
Marital Sex
Topic Tonight
At ‘Y’ Forum
The Student ‘Y’ Association
will present the final Marriage
Forum program of the year to
night at 7:30 in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom.
Dr. Henry Bowman, retired
psychology professor at the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin, will
speak on “Sex in Human Rela
tions—Marital.”
Bowman spoke to an overflow
crowd last week on premarital
sex.
He is the author of Marriage
for Moderns, now in its sixth
edition and used as a textbook
for the family and marriage
course here.
The Colorado City resident also
is a member of the National Asso
ciation of Marriage Counselors.
Special Programs Committee
Chairman Ronald E. Owens said
Bowman will give a 45-minute
talk followed by a question-
answer session.
Unirernty National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.