Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 3, 1970 THE BATTALION
Guest Editorial
Talk not enough
Several months ago there were a number
of bumper stickers around town urging
citizens to “support your local police.”
Clearly, that idea is a good one. Without
citizen support, the police cannot function.
But bumper stickers are cheap and talk is
cheaper.
If support of the police does not go
beyond slogans and speechmaking, it does not
go far enough. The support needed by police
forces now demands more than that.
It will cost more tax money. It will
require some time, effort and inconvenience
from those citizens who are witnesses to
crimes or who have information on criminal
activity.
As recent headlines attest, police forces
across the country are now the target for an
organized-campaign of terrorism and assassi
nation. Shootings, stabbings and bombings are
now almost a daily feature of the newspapers
and news broadcasts that the citizen sees. In
most cases the violence is directed at the
police, either by unprovoked attacks on
patrolmen or by attempts to destroy police
stations.
The citizen who shrugs off this turn of
events with a what’s-this-world-coming-to
remark is a mediocre citizen. The citizen who
dismisses this terrorism as the policeman’s
problem is stupid.
The police are the victims of these
attacks, but the ultimate goal of these
terrorists is to destroy our system, to
pulverize the whole framework of laws, courts
and democratic government. The patrolman
on the beat is killed by the terrorists because
he is the nearest symbol of our system.
Make no mistake about that. The radical
terrorists have made their methods and goals
as clear as words can say and actions
demonstrate. In killing lawmen, they are
trying to kill the rule of law.
The terrorists have declared war on
society, not just on the police who are
charged with enforcing society’s laws. If the
police lose that war, society loses it.
For those citizens who are proceeding
under the mistaken assumption that the
policeman’s struggle with the terrorists is no
cause for civilian’s concern, a more recent
bumper sticker bears a pertinent point:
“If you don’t like the police, next time
you’re in trouble call a hippie.”
—The Dallas Morning News
Lead-free gas powers
winning Clean Air car
PASADENA, Calif. CP)—A car
powered by lead-free gasoline was
declared over-all winner Wednes-
dy night in the Clean Air Car
Race, a marathon cross-country
test of automobile pollution and
performance.
The winner, a Mercury Capri,
was judged the most efficient in
controlling pollution while main
taining a standard of perform
ance in the 3,600-mile trip from
New England to Pasadena which
AUSTIN 0P>—Dean John Silber
was fired this summer because
of his “intense opposition” to the
division of the Arts and Sciences
College of the University of
Texas, acting President Bryce
Jordan said Wednesday.
Jordan sent a letter to all fac-
Greenhut to present
paper to congress
Dr. M. L. Greenhut, distin
guished professor of economics,
and two of his former students
will present a paper Sept. 12
during the Second World Con
gress of the Econometric Society
at Cambridge University in Eng
land.
The former students are Hi
roshi Ohta, on leave from Aoyama
Gakuin University at Tokyo, and
Dr. Michael Proctor, assistant
professor of economics at Purdue.
Dr. Proctor received the doc
torate in economics from Texas
A&M in August.
The paper is entitled “On the
Stability of Alternative Market
Area Shapes and Sizes Under
Conditions of Competition in Eco
nomic Space.”
Bulletin Board
THURSDAY
A&M Soccer Club will meet at
7 p.m. in MSC room 2C.
MONDAY
Texas Aggie All-Star Bowling
League will meet at 7:30 in MSC
rooms 2A-B for an organiza
tional meeting.
TUESDAY
Rugby Club of A&M will meet
at 8 p.m. in room 2C of the MSC
to elect officers.
ended Sunday.
It beat out other internal com
bustion entries and cars with en
gines that ran on propane gas
and steam.
Judges did not announce what
pollution control devices—if any
—the car carried. A post-race
seminar was scheduled Thursday
to establish what was learned
from the race.
The winner was entered by
students from Wayne State Uni-
ulty members to explain his
position in the dismissal of Silber
in July.
Chancellor-elect Dr. Charles Le-
Maistre had ordered Jordan to
divide the college into three sepa
rate colleges with three deans.
Jordan said he felt it would
have been “entirely appropriate”
for Silber to oppose the plan as
a faculty member, but “entirely
inappropriate” for him to do so
as an administrator.
Jordan said he discussed the
situation with the system admin
istration for “several days.”
Silber was fired one week be
fore the division was approved
by the regents. He made an hour-
long argument against the plan
before the board in Corpus
Christi.
An “Encounter Luncheon Se
ries” is being planned by the
Religious Workers’ Association of
Texas A&M. The series will pro
vide an opportunity for partici
pants to discuss some religious
concerns of our time, according
to the Rev. Hubert Beck, secre
tary of University Lutheran
Church.
Faculty and students are in
vited to the series, Rev. Beck
said. They begin Sept. 8 and will
be held at noon.
Scheduled for Tuesday are “En
counters With the Bible.” The
meetings will be led by the Rev.
Walter Allen, Rev. Beck, and the
Rev. Phil Kirby. They will be
held at the Wesley Foundation.
versity in Michigan. The car
captain was Richard A. Jeryan.
Crew members were Brian Ger-
aghty, Dan Harmon and Mike
Riley.
Co-winners in Class 1, for in
ternal combustion engines, were
the 1970 Chevrolet Nova from the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Mass., and the alcohol-powered
1970 American Motors Gremlin
from Stanford University.
There was no winner in the
steam-powered field. The winner
in the turbine class was the 1970
Chevrolet truck from the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology.
The crew members of the MIT
truck were Michael L. Bennett,
Stanley Bone, George K. Negoro
and Dieter R. Herrmann.
The winner in the electric
classification was the homemade
sedan from Cornell University
driven by students Mark Hofman,
Jane Hersey, Foster Hinshaw and
Peter Lord.
In the hybrid electric classifi
cation winners were the 1970
American Motors Gremlin from
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
and the homemade car entered
by the University of Toronto,
Canada.
The cars were judged on the
basis of the amounts of automa-
tive emissions pi’oduced, perform
ance and ability to make it from
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The cars left MIT Aug. 24,
with most of them arriving at Cal
Tech last Sunday night.
Those attending should bring
their own lunch.
“Encounters With the 20th
Century” will be held on Wednes
days at the Coffee Loft in the
UCCF Building. These will be
topical and under varied leader
ship. A 25-cent lunch will be
provided by the United Christian
Campus Fellowship.
University Lutheran Student
Center will be the site of “En
counters With Theology” on
Thursdays. Rev. Beck, the Rev.
Elmer Holtman, and Rev. Kirby
will lead discussions and reviews
of books on theology.
The sessions will dismiss in
time for everyone to attend 1
p.m. classes, Rev. Beck said.
Plan opposition reason given
for firing of UT college dean
A&M employe group plans
noon religious programs
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Plane in
AUSTIN (A*)—The Department
of Public Safety said Wednesday
night that an unoccupied Piper
Tri-Pacer aircraft was flying
over Sherman after the plane
took off by accident from a
Gainesville airport-
The DPS spokesman said the
pilot had hand-propped the air-
a hurry
craft and it took off without
him.
i “I know it sounds unbelievable,”
said the state policeman, “but
that’s the report we have.
“The plane apparently was
trimmed ready for flight and
just took off. Last report we had
it was over Sherman flying east
at 110 miles an hour.”
Debate scheduled
on direct vote bill
WASHINGTON CP>-—A consti
tutional amendment to abolish the
Electoral College and choose the
President by direct popular vote
is the Senate’s next order of busi
ness.
But backers see little chance
of putting it into effect in time
for the 1972 election, even if it
survives what promises to be a
long, hard fight in the Senate.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana scheduled
the proposed amendment for de
bate after the Senate returns
Sept. 8 from a Labor Day recess.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D.-Ind., chief
Senate sponsor of the direct elec
tion plan ,told a reporter “It is
going to be tough” to win the
necessary two-thirds majority, but
he said he and other supporters
are prepared “to stay here until
hell freezes over to get a vote."
The proposed amendment vas
approved by the House last Sep.
tember by a 339-70 vote ani
subsequently was endorsed by
President Nixon. He earlier baj
expressed doubt it could be ap
proved by Congress and ratified
by the states in time for the 1912
election.
The Senate version requires
ratification by three-fourths of
the states to be completed by April
15 of next year for the amend-1
ment to apply to the 1972 election. I
The House set a Jan. 20 deadline,!
The amendment is being
brought up at a time when there
already is a heavy backlog of
other legislation that Senate lead
ers hope to dispose of before
Congress recesses around Oct. 15
for the November elections.
Senate plan
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called meetings will be announced
well in advance, Miller said.
“Meetings are definitely open,”
Miller said. “We encourage any
one who has an interest in stu
dent government or in specific
issues to attend meetings.”
Miller also praised the admin
istration for the atmosphere of
cooperation which has been pre
valent so far this year.
“Everyone is extremely pleas
ed with the cooperation from the
administration,” he said. “It is
easy for us to work together.
There is continuous effort on both
sides for good communication,
and there is optimism about suc
cess of Senate plans for this
year.”
Some of the goals and plans
of the Senate are an All-Univer
sity weekend, a community rela
tions committee, a Former Stu
dents Advisory Board, an Aca
demic Excellence Committee, work
toward a pass-fail system, and
more student involvement on uni
versity committees.
The Executive Committee met
FOR
BEST
RESULTS
TRY
BATTALION CLASSIFIED
several times this summer to plat
for the year and set priorities
and goals. In addtion, groups of
Senators worked on their owt
toward deciding this.
“The Student Senate will not
be a nine-month deal this year,”
Miller said, “because we already
have a three-month head start.”
1970
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Allen sets record
David E. Allen of Waco made
a flying start in Texas A&M’s
Air Force ROTC flight instruc
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Allen, 21, started the FIP
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it and began flying at Easter-
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His rapid advancement is prob
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gram, according to Col. Keith C.
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“It shows a lot of good motiva
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motive instructs Allen, a senior
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