The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 15, 1970, Image 1
■j ... . .-.v\ „ , , * .... «... .. • ■ • * ... .-I' • ••• ■ Che Battalion Cloudy, hot, humid Vol. 66 No. 9 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 15, 1970 Wednesday—Cloudy, rainshow- ers and thundershowers. Wind Southeast 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 88, low 74. Thursday—Partly cloudy. Wind Southerly 10 to 12 m.p.h. High 92, low 71L. BATON B:OUGE—Partly cloudy Wind Southeast 8 to 10 m.p.h. 80°. Relative humidity 75%. Telephone 845-2226 MSC selects two, discusses contracts By FRAN HAUGEN Battalion Managing Editor Senior environmental design student Robert Riggs has been named chairman of the Contem porary Arts Committee, and sophomore psychology major James W. Collins has been se lected Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate vice- president for recreation and the MSC ex-officio member to the Civilian Student Council, Tom Fitzhugh, MSC Council and Di rectorate chairman, announced Monday . They will fill positions held by Ron Petty (CAC) and Caren Conlee (VP, recreation) who both resigned. ,',xv '■ NEW MISS AMERICA is Miss Texas, Phyllis George, brown-haired beauty from Denton. The TCU senior, who measures 36-23-36, is shown during Friday night’s swim suit competition. She was crowned Saturday night in Atlantic City, N. J. She had earlier expressed doubts about winning, saying she was afraid her body “wasn’t feminine enough.” (AP Wirephoto) In other business the MSC Council discussed the possibility that acts announced for Town Hall may be cancelled because the acts have not signed the contracts, the 1971 ski trip to France, plans for SCONA XVI and problems which may arise with construction of MSC addi tions. “There is a daily selling of Town Hall tickets to concerts not on contract,” J. Wayne Stark, secretary-treasurer of the council, said. “We do not have a signed contract on several productions. I would rather not identify them. This is tricky business, every day trade trouble. The odds of them being cancelled is probably infinitestismally small. Still the possibility makes the Town Hall chairman nervous.” Stark explained that the per formers* contracts, complicated documents—some of them run ning eight pages—are handled through agents. The contracts have been signed by Town Hall and have been sent to the enter tainers. The council voted to require a bond with the travel agency in charge of the Jan. 3-13 ski trip to Chamonix, France. The bond will guarantee full recovery of travelers’ money should the agen cy or the airlines become finan cially insolvent. Group Travel in Chicago now is handling arrangements for the trip. The agency is also sponsor ing groups from 14 other uni versities. The council also decided to ask the university to sponsor the trip through the MSC Travel Com mittee. Fitzhugh and Travel Commit tee Chairman Gary Martin plan to “walk” the proposal through administrative channels tomor row, because of the immediate need to get proposal approved. Last year’s ski trip was open to students, staff and their fami lies. University of Houston stu dents also could participate. This year’s trip will not in clude students from UH, but may include former students as an “affinity group.” “We need a group keenly inter ested and capable to work with us,” Stark said. Dave Mayfield, SCONA XVI chairman, reported on SCONA’s financial drives and a rough out line of the conference. “I’m not at all pessimistic,” Mayfield said. “I think we’ll be able to meet our budget. The tight money situation seems to have hindered us a little. We lost Sears Roebuck Corp.’s spon sorship of the smorgasbord on the last night of the conference. That was $1,700 to $1,800 worth. On the other hand, we picked up $1,300 to $1,400 from increases in donations from previous spon sors. “We have collected $10,652 to date, $1,500 is promised, plus $3,- 000 we’ll get from registration fees. We are about $6,500 from our goal.” General topics for the confer ence are the role of youth in poli tics, the new education, the new capitalism and the new ethics. John Dacus announced that de tailed architectural drawings for the new MSC will be submitted to the board of directors Nov. 15. The construction will occur in two distinct phases, he added. First, the bowling alley will be torn down, and Student Pro grams Offices, the post office, the Exchange Store and former Students’ Association offices will be constructed at the back of the building. After this is completed, part of the side will be torn down, and student center food services, the ballroom and upstairs meeting rooms will be rennovated. Ten speakers submitted by Great Issues were approved — one with a proviso. Don Mauro, executive vice president, said he would like to hear someone oppose proposed speaker woman’s liberationist Mary C. Seger, whose suggested topic is “Women in Revolt.” Bill Webster, vice president in charge of issues, said the sugges tion would be referred to the Great Issues Committee. In other business, the title “vice president, entertainment” was changed to “vice president, programs” in order to “bring more decorum to the title.” The Black Awareness Committee was placed under the programs vice president, Jack Abbot. SiiBHHnnnH FAST ACTION seems called for as Aggie halfback Steve Burk (42) breaks for an 18-yard gain during Saturday night’s 41-14 victory over Wichita State University. Burk earlier scored the first Aggie touchdown of the game. Story, page 5. (Photo by Steve Bryant) Lawyer criticizes j udge during traffic case By PAM TROBOY Battalion Staff Writer The first College Station jury trial in 20 years was marked by heated exchanges Friday between defense lawyer Charles Brink of Houston and Municipal Judge Phillip Goode. Stephen L. Baker, a junior his tory major from Houston, was found guilty of passing in a no passing zone on SH 6 at Holliman Drive. He said after the verdict he will appeal to the county crim inal court in Bryan. “This is the poorest display of justice and criminal procedure I have ever had a client subjected to,” Brink said after the trial. “Judge Goode did not even follow the code of criminal procedure.” Police officer John D. Miller testified Baker crossed a yellow stripe to pass and passed another car within an intersection on Aug. 30. Baker claimed he did not cross the stripe and that he was un aware that Holliman Drive inter sected SH 6. Miller testified that he saw the rear wheel of Baker’s car “clip” about two feet of the yellow stripe, but Brink claimed that the police officer would be un able to see a tire two and a half feet under Baker’s car in the dark from about 48 feet away and Ex-correspondent to talk on Soviet-Sino disputes Former foreign correspondent Loyal N. Gould will be the open ing speaker Wednesday for the 1970-71 University Lectures Series, with a presentation en titled “Chinese-Russian Border Disputes.” The admission-free lecture will be held at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Gould was named chairman of Wichita State University’s Jour nalism Department this fall after serving four years at Ohio State University, where he organized and directed an international journalism program. He previously served six years as a foreign correspondent, for eign news editor and United Na tions correspondent for the Asso ciated Press and a year as for eign and national network cor respondent for NBC. He helped cover the 1968 presidential cam paign for National Educational Television (NET). Gould’s top assignments includ ed coverage of the World Eu charistic Congress, building of the Berlin Wall, Geneva Confer ence on Disarmament and Laos, and the Vietnam War. He also is the author of numerous syndi cated news stories, book reviews, articles and books dealing with national and international af fairs. traveling at 58 miles an hour, as he had earlier testified. During Baker’s testimony, he said he had requested a jury trial last Tuesday. “Judge Goode told me: ‘That’s just ducky. We love jury trials here.” Baker also said Judge Goode had required a $100 cash bond before his release. Judge Goode broke into Baker’s testimony to say that although he had made that statement, and was willing to swear himself in and testify to that fact, he had asked for a surety bond, not a cash bond. A surety bond can be put up by a registered bonding company, an insurance company or anyone owning property. Brink claimed after the trial that Goode’s offer to swear him self in and testify was “rank, reversible error.” Before making his summary to the jury, Brink moved the charges be dropped because the complaint was defective, because no evidence had been introduced to prove the law in question was “on the books” or that the offense was committed in College Station. He also cited two decisions from the Court of Criminal Appeals that (See Lawyer, page 3) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. The inquiring Battman What’s your view concerning the campus parking? Tom D. Bonn senior “There are about 90 parking spaces on Senior Row, but almost 150 seniors who live on that side of the quad own cars. The Tri- gon parking lot is usually one- third empty daily. Why can’t these parking spaces be used?” Bryan Fox senior “I don’t believe it is fair that more parking permits are sold than there are spaces available. Some limit on parking permits should be set.” Bruce MacPhearson sophomore “They sell parking spaces they don’t have and say that no room is no excuse. That is a fraud on the students. The poor fish who doesn’t know gets stuck for seven dollars for no space.” David Clark senior “It’s hell ... I can’t imagine how the day students ever make it.” Vicki DuBard freshman “In order to get to class on time, one needs to start looking for a parking space a good twenty minutes ahead of time.” Ronald B. Smith fifth-year “It seems the parking planners pick spaces according to chance and not with regard to need. A day student can get here at 7:40 a- m. and still have to park in North Zulch.” Carolyn Lamp junior “I think the on-campus park ing is terrible. Unless you get here at the crack of dawn, there just isn’t a parking place left.” (Photos by Patrick Fontane)