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be Battalion College Station, Texas Hot, humid, windy Thursday, September, 10, 1970 Friday — Partly cloudy, east erly winds 5-10 mph. High 92, low 71. Saturday — Partly cloudy, cloudy, afternoon rain or thunder showers. Southeast winds 10-12 mph. High 89, low 72. Kickoff — 84 degrees, southeast winds 5-10 mph. 65% humidity. No rain. Telephone 845-2226 Intensified building overcrowds parking STUDENTS CONFER with Gov. Preston Smith Wednesday afternoon during his visit here to present awards for the Texas Community Improvement Program conducted by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Daily Eagle newsman Bob Robinson listens as Tommy Henderson (foreground), student senator, Roger Miller, Student Senate vice president and Kirby Brown, Issues Committee chairman, question the governor. (Photo by David Middlebrooke) W estmoreland accused of dereliction in charge ilc 15c ft. McPherson, Ga. <^p) — An Army sergeant filed charges Wednesday against Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmore land accusing him of dereliction and failure to control troops in Vietnam. The charge filed in military court by Sgt. Esquiel Torres, 22, of Brownsville, Tex., came in con nection with pretrial hearings being conducted for three of 10 soldiers accused in the alleged massacre at My Lai. The charge against Westmore land was disclosed by Charles L. Weltner, Torres’ civilian attor ney. If Civilians to discuss )S t open dorm system By BILL O’CONNOR Battalion Staff Writer The feasibility of extending the open dorm system, that is allow ing students to bring female guests into their dormitory dur ing specified hours on weekends, to all civilian residence halls on campus will be discussed by the Civilian Student Council (CSC) tonight at 7 in room 3-D of the Memorial Student Center, CSC president Mark Olson said. Olson believes the CSC can assist individual residence halls in acquiring this system by act ing as a possible arbiter with the administration. Olson said the appointment of 52 students to fill the ranks of the CSC’s eight committees, in cluding Female Recruitment, Menu, Public Relations, Laundry, Handbook, Environmental Study, | I vjj',, p Civilian Dress, and Civilian Week- Weekend Committees will he de bated. The appointment of seven sen ior student members to the Civil ian Honor Council, which makes recommendations to the dean of students about the severity of punishment dealt to those who violate the honor code, also will be discussed, Olson said. A report from the newly form ed Female Recruitment Commit tee is also expected, Olson said. Olson said applications will be distributed to dorm presidents for the starting of a Sophomore As sistance Program. This program will allow the six sophomores selected to act in an aide capacity to the CSC Executive Committee and Council. The students will have full speaking privileges, but will be seated afe non-voting mem bers. The charge signed by Torres states that he has no personal knowledge of the alleged massa cre. “However,” the charge con tinues, “as I understand the law ... a commander is responsible for the conduct of his troops. Based upon my understanding of the findings of the Peers-Mc- Crate inquiry, I believe that Gen. Westmoreland is responsible for whatever casualties were inflict ed upon Vietnamese civilians at My Lai hamlet on March 16, 1968.” The Peers-McCrate inquiry cited by Torrest was an Army investigation into the alleged massacre. It was headed by Lt. G. William R. Peers. Weltner disclosed the charge during a news conference after a hearing for Torres. Weltner said copies of the charge have been mailed to sec retary of the Army Stanley Re- sor, Westmoreland’s immediate superior. Earlier, Col. James A. Hagan, the military judge hearing Tor res’ case, refused to allow his at torneys to subpoena top Army commanders to testify in Torres’ trial. Hagan had been asked to or der testimony from Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Resor and Westmoreland. By LEE DUNKELBERG Battalion Staff Writer Sore feet and hot tempers have been the rule around campus parking lots lately due to the crowded conditions, and day stu dents seem to have suffered the most. “We’re in real good shape as far as the dormitory students,” Morris Maddox, assistant chief of University Police, said. “It’s the day students we’re having trouble with.” According to University Police, day student lot number 4, located off Spence Street by the MPC warehouse, and parts of number 8, which is near the cyclotron, were reassigned to staff areas. Construction of the new library mall, and expansion of the Ocean ography and Meteorology Build ing made the relocation neces sary. “We lost 20 spaces in lot 17 (located by the Animal Indus tries Building and the Oceanogra phy and Meteorology Building) with the expansion of the Ocean ography and Meteorology Build ing,” said Maddox. “There were another 20 spaces lost when Hub bard was closed permanently for two years until the building (the new Oceanography and Meteor ology Building) is finished,” he added. Maddox also said that a great deal of parking space was taken up by the new library mall. “We’re building a new 1,000 car lot east of Bizzell and south of Farm Road 60, that’ll relieve Students must relocate cars before game Students are reminded of park ing regulations concerning home football game parking, University Police Chief Ed Powell said Wednesday. All student vehicles must be moved from parking lots 48, 49, 30, 31, and 9 to parking areas north of Ross Street by 10 a.m. on home football game days, he said. These lots are both adjacent to Kyle Field and G. Rollie White Coliseum, the civilian and day stu dent lots running parallel to FM 2154 and the lot on Old Main Drive behind Henderson Hall. Cars can be moved to any lot north of Ross Street, preferably No. 8 which is the lot behind the Petroleum Engineering Building and running beside the Cyclotron Building, Powell said. our day student pressure a whole lot,” Maddox explained. Com pletion is tentatively scheduled for the first of October. He also said day students were being allowed to park along Routt, south of Houston, and along Throckmorton, south of Routt, to the “No Parking” sign. “We also have a dirt lot across from G. Rollie White that they (day students) can use as a dry weather lot,” Maddox explained. Lots have also been split to make room for more students. Maddox pointed out that lot 9 by Henderson Hall, had been divided in half, providing 200 more spaces for day students. More room has also been made for freshman parking by split ting lots. Lot 49 (maroon) by Farm Road 2154, was divided in half to gain 200 additional spaces for freshman parking. Both of these splits were pos sible because juniors and seniors were not filling the lots, accord ing to Maddox. “If we can get more freshmen in this way, we will move up 75 or so more, but we’ll try to keep eight or 10 spaces available,” Maddox said. Maddox detailed future plans saying that a new parking lot west of Farm Road 2154, by the Rodeo Center, would house all dormitory students, and all on- campus parking would be just staff and day students. “These are long range plans,” he added. “It may be two years, it may be five years before they are finished.” As for the complaint of not having enough room for dormi tory students to park, Maddox said, “We have plenty of room for these students if they’ll look for it. If they’ll take their car down after five o’clock, when the day students have left, and leave it there, they’re in good shape.” % SEA OF TRAFFIC greets College Station police officer at the intersection of South Col lege and FM 60 as the 5 p. m. rush traffic gets under way Wednesday. One problem created by the volume of motor vehicles is where to put them all during working hours. (Photo by David Middlebrooke) Traffic committee votes extra day student parking By SUE DAVIS Battalion Staff Writer The Traffic Committee voted Wednesday to finance work in parking lot 33, near the A&M laundry. They will have old stripes and numbers removed and restripe 14 new places there. Faculty from lot 5, on the north side of the campus, will be moved to 33, making more places for day students. Cost is estimated at $750. Members of the committee con sist of five representatives from the administration and seven stu dents. From the administration are R. A. Diebel, R. T. Perry, E. A. Powell, D. R. Stafford, Chair man, and D. E. Williams. Stu dent members are A1 L. Bradley, Michael M. Essmyer, Joe N. Kor- negay, Lawrence D. McGill, Da vid L. Moore, Roger P. Sindt, and Michael D. Smith. The Traffic Committee advises the administration on all matters concerning traffic regulation and enforcement, assignment of Tonight at 7:30 Senators to vote on forum The Student Senate will hold its first meeting of the year Thursday night at 7:30 with final organization and new issues being the main points of discussion. Kent Caperton, Student Senate president, said he will inform the senators of some new ideas drawn up in summer meetings of the ex ecutive committee. The Senate will be discussing several new issues as well as two issues which were proposed at the end of last year, Caperton said. A new system that will allow senators to communicate effec tively with their constituents will be proposed, he added, a system Graduate students to get orientation CONTESTANTS in the Miss America pageant in Atlanta City, N. J., stroll on the boardwalk Wednesday. The attrac tive Misses New Mexico, Janis Lynn Jones; Texas, Phyliss George; Oklahoma, Judy Adams; and Arkansas, Donna Connelly, pause to wave at the camera. (AP Wirephoto) An orientation program for all graduate students will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Biological Sciences 113. Sponsored by the Graduate Stu dent Council, the meeting will feature Dr. G. W. Kunze, dean of the Graduate College. Dr. Kunze will explain degree plans, committees, language re quirements and petitions at the session. He will also outline the general structure of the college and explain the procedure for filing applications for assistant- ships. Wayne Brungard, CSC com munications chairman, said that all members of the council will be present at the meeting to answer questions. A questionnaire will also be passed out at the meeting which can be returned through campus mails. These questions will be answered on a special television program on KAMU later this month. in which the senators of each col lege will be meeting with admin istrators, faculty, and students of that college in scheduled meet ings not less than twice per se mester. The Senate will be voting on a proposal made by the Great Issues Committee last spring which would provide a free speech area on campus. The soapbox forum is called by Caperton “the most progress ive step A&M has taken in years.” The objective of the forum is to provide an organized outlet for university students, admini strators, faculty, and staff to en gage in free discussion and dia logue, and to freely express opin ions on current issues on a budg eted time basis, he explained. If passed, Capetron said, final details will be worked out by the Student Senate and the Great Is sues Committee soon. Roger Miller, Senate vice pres ident will propose that a subcom mittee of the Student Publications Board be formed to keep the board informed of student views toward The Battalion and other publications. A joint Senate effort will be discussed concerning an all-uni verity weekend to be held Oct. 8-10. John Sharp, chairman of the Student Life Committee, will pre sent the proposal to the Senate. The weekend will emphasize unity and togetherness of the whole school in backing the football team, Caperton said. Caperton said he will be striv ing to organize committees this year so Senate meetings will be more efficient in time and in dis cussing important matters. He said he wants to give the Senate a new role: Be a respon sible student government making progressive changes while work ing with the administration and most important, the students of Texas A&M. A new plan, he said, is for the Senate executive committee to walk through a different dormi tory each week and talk with stu dents, Caperton said. spaces, fees, and improvements. They also identify future prob lems and gather traffic-survey information from the student body and staff. Work on the new lot 50 near the new Engineering Center was scheduled for completion August 15. This new lot, which will pro- vite 1,000 spaces for faculty and day students, will feature envir onmental design, including land scaping and sidewalks. The lot is expected to cost al most $300,000. Fees for parking stickers were higher this year because money is needed for the new lot, Asso ciate Dean of Students Don. R. Stafford said. The fees are about the same as those charged at other colleges, but A&M students have more parking privileges than most college students,- he added. State funds cannot be used for parking lot work. A new lot has been planned at the entrance to the golf course. It will provide 36 parking spaces for staff and 50 spaces for golf course patrons. This will leave spaces for day students along Bizzell Street. Plans for a lot across the rail road tracks will be discussed at a later meeting. It would be used for freshmen and during football season. At this time, A&M has 8,153 parking spaces and 12,636 cars have been registered. The num ber can be broken down as fol lows: Junior and senior dorm students, 3,4447; freshman and sophomores dorm students, 1,876; day students, 4,462; athletic stu dents, 63; and staff, 2,788. This is a rise of over 1,500 from last year. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.