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be Battalion More warm, humid days in store w runs viil V 0 1. 65 No. 117 College Station, Texas Thursday, May 14, 1970 Friday — Cloudy, intermittent rain and thundershowers. Wind South 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 84, low 71. Humid—uncomfortable. Saturday—Cloudy, intermittent rain and thundershowers. Wind South 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 84, low 71. Humid—uncomfortable. Telephone 845-2226 « Los Antii Wilson to ary of the a lintf hornet an Fosteri Jim Wynn >y Bill Grali lowed Toni d base. ;led home I first run, r walked tingled himj tephenson presented outstanding senator award at banquet y PAM TROBOY ' 1 ' battalion News Editor (i arm tml balked to SI ord then sti on Ted Si e seventh ii ■un of the a $' Jim Stephenson (sr-LA) was e " iL ra *Ji lamed outstanding senator dur- ng the annual Student Senate wards Banquet Wednesday light. President Gerry Geistweidt also iresented Bill Hartsfield (’73), hitting stra| )avid Moore (soph-BA), Marcus lill (jr-Ag) and Collier Watson sr-Life) with awards as out- I landing senators in their class. Stephenson has been deeply in- olved in senate affair's this year, le was a member of the consti- utional revision committee, and e introduced and succeeded in assing a statement of students ights and responsibilities. He also was a proponent of the chool court system the senate ebated early in the school year. Dean of Students James P. [annigan, Associate Dean of Students Don R. Stafford and ci- ilian corps Advisor J. Malon Sutherland were given apprecia- m awards. Geistweidt passed the senate’s avel to president-elect Kent Ca rton and charged him to main- ain and build on the constructive ad productive student body gov- mment that was his legacy. “Student interest and partici- ation has been at an all time high this year,” he said. “Stu dents are more concerned and have been putting greater de mands and pressures on the sen ate. This means the senate must assume a greater role. “The senate must guide care fully the role and direction of the campus, not the state and the nation,” he said. Geistweidt said that student government was not the place for condemnation of national pol icy but for the expression of opinion on life at A&M. He characterized the ’69-’70 senate as a “do something senate” that had contributed to faculty- student cooperation in many areas. During his term in office, Geistweidt said the senate had gone into the area of community affairs, established a Legal Rights Commission and conducted Oper ations Feedback and Jericho to increase the senate’s relevance. Caperton said that he was re sponsible to those who were for and against him in the recent elections but most of all he was responsible to those who had not voted. He said student opinion polls, referendums, a senate newsletter and representation by living areas were being contemplated for next year to learn what the students really wanted. He announced that members of the executive committee had al ready voted to spend one evening a week listening to student com plaints and requests. An election revision committee has been appointed and will make its report early next fall, he said, and plans for the reevaluation of the roles of the standing com mittees are being made. “We must adjust our system to the changes which have oc curred here,” Caperton said. “We must go forward together — in partnership.” Caperton presented Geistweidt with a watch for his work on the senate and the audience gave him a standing ovation. The members of the outgoing Senate Executive Committee members were also given certi ficates for their work. Kent Ca perton, Ronnie Adams, Richard Reese, Kirby Brown, Collier Wat son, Jerry Bramlet, Lee Crawley and Marc Powell were honored. Others receiving awards for outstanding service were Shy Hicks, Donna Witt, Jo Scanlin, Fay Yates, Charlotte Gay, Dale Foster, Jackie Kirkey, Tom Stone, Mike Holley, Sandi Flannigan and Elizabeth Chapman. Each Senator was given a cer tificate of appreciation and a service key. Lubbock declared a disaster area PROUD SMILE—Student senator Jim Stephenson (sr-LA) beams with joy after being- presented with the outstanding senator award at Wednesday night’s senate awards ban quet. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) By TOM DeCOLA Associated Press Writer LUBBOCK, Tex. —- A severely damaged skyscraper remained a target of concern Wednesday as this stricken city sought to re store order after what some have called Texas’ most destructive tornado. Meanwhile, President Nixon ruled that Lubbock is a disaster area — making it eligible for special federal funds. The tornado killed at least 21 persons and injured 350 or more when it struck Monday night. Authorities said there could be more bodies in the rubble or in automobiles still under flood- waters. Reese Air Force Base authori ties named the 21st victim of the vicious twister Wednesday. She was Mrs. Ola Belle Hatch, 77, of Lubbock who died in the Reese AFB Hospital of injuries suffered in Monday night’s storm. Official damage reports passed the $100 million mark and seemed headed toward unofficial esti mates of $200 million in losses. The presidential declaration authorizes use of federal funds for relief measures in several other cities and towns on the South Plains and in the Texas Panhandle. The twister knifed an eight- mile-long path through this South Plains city of 170,000. This also means relief for vic tims of a series of tornadoes that struck from Plainview to Claren don April 17-18 as well as for the giant twister that hit Lub bock. The federal money can be used for housing, unemployment com pensation for victims and recov- Reactor available for use by surrounding colleges TAKES CHARGE—Outgoing Student Senate President Gerry Geistweidt (left) presents 1970-71 president Kent Caperton with his symbol of office and turns the senate over to lim during Wednesday night’s senate awards banquet. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) A&M’s nuclear reactor, one of the busiest in the nation, has taken on a new responsibility: to provide research and instruc tion to colleges within a 150-mile radius of College Station. Dr. John D. Randall, Nuclear Science Center director, reports a new Atomic Energy Commission contract with the center provides funds for use of the reactor by students who normally would not have the opportunity to use the multi-million-dollar facility. Four Prairie View A&M gradu ate students this week became the first to visit the center and use the reactor for graduate in struction. One other student group had materials irradiated and sent to their school classroom, Dr. Randall said. Prairie View’s experiment in cluded using the reactor to ir radiate material and measuring the half-life when it decayed. “The AEG pays for the reactor use and consulting service,” Dr. Randall said. “The only costs to the college or university is trans portation and meals, if neces sary.” He added the expanded pro gram makes senior and junior col leges eligible to use the facility. However, its primary use will be for graduate studies and oc casionally for advanced under graduates. Since beginning operations in January, 1962, the center has pro vided radioisotopes, irradiation services and research facilities for numerous A&M scientists, other universities and industries and for A&M’s nuclear engineer ing undergraduate and graduate degree program. Dr. Randall said the reactor can be operated continuously at any power level up to 1,000 kilo watts, or it can be pulsed to 1,500,000 kilowatts for approxi mately one-hundredth of a second. Dr. Charles Urdy, professor of chemistry at Prairie View, said he is highly enthusiastic about the program. Members of his class taking part in the experiment this week were Nelson Patter son of Cleveland, Ohio; Samuel Byrd Jr. of Waskon, Texas; Felix Osuji of Owerri, Biafra, and Mrs. L. P. Ghangurde of India. ery work, including public and private facilities hit by the storm. The 20-story Great Plains Life Building worrying authorities is in the heart of downtown Lub bock. It suffered heavy damage, particularly to a huge section of its brick outer wall. A large crack was visible through that area. A cursory investigation aroused fears that at least the east wall was in danger of fall ing and the building was cor doned off to all but owners and inspecting engineers. “The building is falling,” civil defense sound trucks warned late Tuesday and ordered every one from the vicinity. The warn ing was rescinded later. Meanwhile, power and water crises eased as Canadian River water was pumped in to fill the city’s mains. The Canadian is the main source of city water, but pumps damaged in the tor nado failed, and Lubbock went to emergency water conservation. Power was being restored. Lubbock’s hospitals apparent ly passed the crisis with enough beds now to accommodate storm victims. The official injury list exceeded 350, with nearly 100 still in hospitals late Wednesday. The Red Cross said 430 homes were destroyed, 462 suffered ma jor damage and another 662 were damaged to a lesser degree. Red Cross officials estimated that some 3,000 persons of an estimated 4,800 left homeless were sheltered Tuesday night in the Municipal Coliseum. Others took refuge with friends and rel atives. Lubbock’s major streets re sumed a semblance of order Wed nesday as most of the debris was cleared away. Most traffic sig nals were inoperable — many were blown down — but police reported no accidents despite throngs of sightseers. There were still plenty of re minders of the storm, apart from the obvious sight of damage. Telephone company workers still faced restoration of service thousands of phones that were out of order Wednesday, but the service had improved appreci ably. Weary policemen continued to work extended shifts under con trol of the city’s emergency op erations center, but the looting problem appeared to have dis sipated. Some 430 National Guardsmen patrolled the area. All the searching was not coq.- fined to the rubble of destroyed buildings. Kent, Cambodia protests continue 9 39 59 29 29 3 lv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Student 7 protests against the lighting in Cambodia and deaths •t Kent State University sim mered at many colleges today but Here were new outbursts of dis sent elsewhere on the nation’s Opuses. i An estimated 100 to 200 stu- J fets were arrested at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacks- •urg this morning after state Mice used a pickup truck to i full open a door students had T Gained when they occupied a f sinpus building. , The students, angered because T allege officials refused to close lie school in support of the anti- v ar protest, allegedly caused con- y S'Jerable damage to the building. Those arrested were ordered to f'ck up their belongings, get off % campus and stay off. At Ypsilanti, Mich., a state of Urgency was declared after a melee on the Eastern Michigan University campus. During it, a fete police official charged that Undents were using slingshots •o shoot steel balls at police. tkarmrity National Bank "On the eide of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Eighteen youths were arrested, making a total of about 85 ar rested there since Monday. The emergency order by Gov. William Milliken included bans on the sale of liquor and gaso line in cans or bottles. Tensions calmed after the order was is sued at 1:30 a.m. and all was re ported quiet on campus today. At San Diego State College in California, police moved in late Tuesday night and arrested 32 demonstrators who had held a building since Monday. The stu dents removed chains from doors to let the police in and went quietly. In Denver, National Guards men, most of them carrying un loaded rifles, occupied the Uni versity of Denver campus while a shantytown christened “Wood- stock Nation West” was torn down for the second time in three days. A police official said anyone trying to rebuild the shantytown would be arrested. At Princeton University in New Jersey, a dud fire bomb was discovered at the Institute for Defense Analyses building, operated under Defense Depart ment auspices and the target of earlier antiwar demonstrations. An hour later a fire labeled “def initely suspicious” broke out in another building, but caused lit tle damage. At Tucson, Ariz., a group of youths including some Universi ty of Arizona students tried to detain a bus load of Army in ductees, and after the bus drove off entered the induction center and scattered pamphlets. At the University of Maine, 2,500 students volunteered to give blood for servicemen in Viet nam to show that their primary concern is saving lives. An Air Force medical team could process only about 800 Tuesday, but an officer said they might return to the Orono campus to process the rest. Earlier antiwar protests at Smith and Amherst colleges in Massachusetts apparently inspir ed a decision by the President’s daughter, Julie, and her husband, David Eisenhower, to stay away from their colleges for the rest of the term and avoid graduation ceremonies. At Fairfield University in Con necticut, about 150 striking stu dents, occupied two campus build ings, bolted doors, and were still sitting in this morning. Two suspicious early morning fires were reported in the Re serve Officers Training Corps building at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Disorders continued at the Uni versity of South Carolina, where 100 persons were arrested. The arrests Tuesday night at the 13,000-student campus in Co lumbia, S.C., were made after students threw bottles, bricks and firecrackers at city and state po lice, backed by National Guards men, who were imposing a 9 p.m. curfew. / Law enforcement officials used tear gas and clubbed sev eral students. Two guardsmen received minor injuries. The student strike information center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., reported today that 266 colleges and universi ties were on strikes of indefinite length. Draft Director Curtis W. Tarr said in Washington that a ma jority of the nation’s students have turned against the Viet nam war and the Nixon admin istration because of the dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia. His office announced that stu dent draft deferments will not be jeopardized by the campus strike# and closings. Strikes at many of the nation’s 1,500 four-year colleges and at other educational institutions be gan last week to protest Nixon’s decision to send American com bat troops into Cambodia and the deaths of four Kent State Univer sity students shot as National Guardsmen attempted to quell a disorder. All but a small number of the campuses were never officially closed or have been officially opened. However, unofficial stu dent strikes and protests have continued on many campuses with impacts of varying degrees. Striking students engaged in a variety of antiwar activity, in cluding demonstrations, leaflet ting, lobbying, withdrawing mon ey from banks, urging workers to strike for peace, and cashing in U.S. savings bonds. The New Mobilization Com mittee to End the War in Viet nam announced in Washington that GIs at 22 military bases will stage antiwar demonstrations this weekend to coincide with Armed Forces Day Saturday. The announcement said organizations (See Students continue, page 2) Preregister or lose fall room reservation, Madeley warns Students who have reserved campus housing for the fall semester must preregister for classes or have their names removed from the room roster, Housing Manager Allan M. Madeley warned Wednesday. The only exception is students who have been prevented from preregistering by the dean of their college. “Students who do not preregister may find it extremely difficult to reserve a room for the fall since they will be in competition for rooms with all other students not now in school,” Madeley pointed out. Preregistration continues through Friday. Current students will not be able to register again until the week of Aug. 24. Finals schedule Final examinations for the spring semester, 1970, will be held according to the following schedule: Series Classes meeting MWF8 Classes meeting MWF12 Classes meeting TThSFl Classes meeting MWTh2 Classes meeting MWF9 Classes meeting MSTThlO Classes meeting TF2 or TWF3 or TThF3 Classes meeting MWF 10 Classes meeting TThl 2 Classes meeting M4TTh 11 Classes meeting MWThl Classes meeting TTh9F2 Classes meeting MWF 11 Classes meeting TF1 Date Hour May 25, Monday 8-10 a.m. May 25, Monday 11-1 p.m. May 25, Monday 2-4 p.m. May 26, Tuesday 8-10 a.m. May 26, Tuesday 11-1 p.m. May 26, Tuesday 2-4 p.m. May 27, Wednesday 8-10 a.m. May 27, Wednesday 11-1 p.m. May 27, Wednesday 2-4 p.m. May 28, Thursday 8-10 a.m. May 28, Thursday 11-1 p.m. May 28, Thursday 2-4 p.m. May 29, Friday 8-10 a.m. May 29, Friday 11-1 p.m.