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Vol. 66 No. 15
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 24, 1970
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Rainshowers and thunder
showers. Winds southerly 10-12
mph. High 86 degrees, low 68
degrees.
Saturday—Partly cloudy, after
noon thundershowers. Winds
southerly 10-20 mph, becoming
northerly 15-20 mph in the late
afternoon. High. 88 degrees.
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Parking study
seeks remedy
By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
Campus Security is presently
working on the parking problem
md will soon be coming up with
solutions, Chief of Security Ed
Powell said Wednesday.
The main problem is that many
people are having trouble finding
space for their cars in certain
lots. Day students seem to be
having the biggest problem, he
said.
A total of 8,153 parking spaces
are available on the campus. Ac-
eording to the number of permits
issued by University Police and
the number of spaces on the park
ing guide map for each classifi
cation, the following breakdown
has been compiled:
For day students, 2,030 spaces
are available, but 4,462 permits
have been issued, meaning 43 per
cent of the day students have
space aavilable. For maroon per
mits, there are 2,102 spaces, but
3,447 permits have been issued.
Sixty-one per cent of juniors and
seniors have space available.
Twenty-five per cent of the soph
omores and freshmen have space
available. For staff, 3,745 spaces
are reserved for the 2,788 permits
issued. One hundred and thirty-
four per cent is available space
for faculty and staff parking.
These figures do not include
two temporary lots for day stu
dents Powell said. One is on the
dirt lot behind Guion Hall and
the other one is down the road
in front of the president’s house.
Both Powell and Don R. Staf
ford, Associate Dean of Students,
agree that Texas A&M still has
a lesser problem than most
schools.
“A&M is more liberal in park
ing rules than any other school
I’ve seen,” Powell says.
Some schools don’t allow cars
to drive through the campus it
self, he said.
Stafford says that many com
plaints stem from day students
saying they have to walk too far
to class. He says no students have
to walk any farther than most
dormitory students do from their
rooms.
Powell said that his men are
making two checks a day in the
parking lots. They are counting
empty spaces, finding many in
certain lots.
On Monday, his men observed
several lots with several spaces
available during peak hours. Lot
47 had 10 to 20 spaces available
most of the day. On Wednesday,
66 spaces were observed at 10
o’clock a.m. with 228 spaces ob-
(See Parking, page 4)
Dean to speak
at CSC tonight
PYTHON IN HER PURSE suits Vera Veralda, 20-year-old
philosophy student from Milan, Italy, just fine. She shuns
the usual paraphenalia and carries the three-foot python,
Zarathustra, with her. Miss Veralda claims the snake eats
once a month, does not dirty the apartment is very silent.
(AP Wirephoto)
The University stand on serving alcoholic
beverages at dorm functions and university rulings on
the open dorm system will be explained to hall
presidents at the Civilian Student Council Meeting in
room 3D of the Memorial Student Center at 7
tonight.
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan and
Associate Dean of Students Don R. Stafford will talk
about the serving of alcohol and the open dorm
system. They also will field questions from the
presidents, Mark Olson, CSC president, said. Olson
said if student attendance was great, the meeting
would be moved to larger facilities in the MSC.
Olson said several dorm presidents who desired
the open dorm system, allowing students to bring
women guests into their residence halls during
approved hours, thought that Moore Hall, the only
dorm having the system, had to complete a one-year
trial before the system could be expanded. This is
false, Olson said, adding that other halls could apply
now. Stafford will explain the procedure each dorm
must follow to get the system, as well as the
requirements for having it instituted, Olson said.
Major concern
Nixon in 1972,
Appointment of seven senior students to the
Civilian Honor Council, the body that makes recom
mendations to the dean of students concerning
disciplinary action to be taken against students who
violate the A&M Honor Code will be made, Olson
said.
Appointment of 52 students to CSC com
mittees and the selection of the six sophomore
assistants, who will act in an aide capacity to the
executive committee, also will be made.
The largest organizational effort yet for civilian
participation in the 1970 Bonfire will be shown by a
diagramatical chart, prepared by Olson, who will
serve again as civilian bonfire chief.
All-University Weekend will be discussed to
promote interest in co-hall activities, Olson said. This
includes possible activities between civilians, Univer
sity Women, the Corps of Cadets and black students.
Reports from the Female Recruitment Com
mittee, which is preparing a brochure as well as
planning visits to various high schools, and the
Civilian Handbook Committee, which has a rough
draft of the handbook assembled, will follow, Olson
said.
Caperton to attend conference A ? new states
in Washington over weekend
Student Body President Kent
Caperton and Academic Vice
President Dr. Horace R. Byers
will be in Washington, D. C.,
this weekend to meet with top
Nixon administration officials,
Caperton announced Wednesday
night.
Caperton said the meeting, a
President - to - Presidents confer
ence, is being sponsored by the
Association of Student Govern
ments, a national group, to foster
communications between the ad
ministration and universities.
“In order to attend,” Caperton
said, ‘‘a school’s president or next
highest official and its student
(body president both must go.”
Caperton said the group will
meet and talk with officials such
as Daniel Moynihan, presidential
counsellor, Melvin Laird, defense
secretary; Walter Hickel, interior
secretary; William Rogers, secre
tary of state; and John Mitchell,
attorney general.
Other officials present, he said,
should include Dr. Harry Kissin
ger, presidential counsellor on
foreign relations; Dr. Terrell Bell,
acting commissioner for educa
tion; Peter Muirhead, associate
commissioner for higher educa
tion; and Dr. Curtis Tar, director
of the Selective Service.
President Nixon tentatively is
scheduled to speak to the dele
gates Sunday morning, Caperton
said.
In a letter of invitation, the
ASG said the meeting was being
held to show the “vital need for
two people involved with the prob
lems and misunderstandings on
their individual campuses to work
together with the nation’s leaders.
“For the leaders whose de
cisions not only effect the future
of higher education but the future
of the nation must come to gen
uinely understand the substance,
not just the symbols, of the
young. Likewise, America’s youth
must learn to penetrate beyond
the superficial symbols of estab
lished leadership.”
“Needless to say,” Caperton
commented, “I’m looking forward
to the trip very much. I plan
to stop by and visit the Texas
legislators while I’m there.”
The student body president also
said he was looking forward to
his planned Monday meeting with
Dr. Jack K. Williams, recently
appointed A&M president. Wil
liams will not assume his new
duties until Nov. 1, but he will be
on campus Monday and Tuesday
for the scheduled meeting of
A&M’s board of directors.
Williams, the first commission
er of the Coordinating Board, has
for the past two years been
academic vice president of The
University of Tennessee System.
Basement to host
circuit performer
Senate approves bill to have
tv, radio politics limited
WASHINGTON <A>)_The Sen-
Date approved Wednesday land-
Diark legislation to curb the cost
of political broadcasting, but a
Republican leader raised the pos-
libility of a presidential veto.
The measure, approved by the
House last week, was sent to the
White House on a 60 to 19 roll
call vote with 18 Republicans
voting against it.
Republicans threw up numer
ous reasons for opposing the bill
before the final vote but carefully
avoided mentioning what Demo
crats say is the real one: That the
GOP, with its campaign coffers
virtually overflowing, is not
anxious to help the financially
ailing Democrats.
The bill, a compromise worked
out between House and Senate
versions, would limit spending on
political broadcasts to seven cents
per vote cast in the last general
election or $20,000, whichever is
higher, for candidates for presi
dent, vice president, senator, con
gressman, governor and lieuten
ant governor.
It would become effective 30
days from enactment, but even
if President Nixon does not cast
a veto he probably will allow the
full 10 days he is permitted be
fore signing it, thus making it
ineffective for this fall’s elec
tions.
The bill provides that primary
elections would be covered start
ing in 1971 with a spending limit
half that set for general elections.
Presidential and vice presidential
candidates would be exempt from
the primaries limitation but not
the over-all limit.
Another provision requires that
broadcast stations make political
broadcast time available to politi
cal candidates at the same rate
as the lowest rate charged any
regular advertiser.
The bill also would suspend
the equal time provisions of the
Federal Communications Code for
presidential and vice presidential
candidates, opening the way to
television and radio debates
among the top candidates.
At airport
Seniors
Keith Sykes, one of the national
coffee house circuit’s top folk
singing performers, will do his
thing at the Memorial Student
Center Basement Oct. 8-10.
Sykes’ three-night stand with
the Basement will coincide with
All-University Weekend and con
clude after the Texas A&M-
Texas Tech football game.
A Saturday matinee also will
feature the 22-year-old Sykes who
sings his own material, an
nounced Basement chairman Gary
Reid of Stanton. The final per
formance will follow the 7:30 p.m.
game.
Reid said the Basement fea
tures local talent regularly on
Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.
to midnight.
Sykes has been on the national
coffee house circuit three years.
The Memphis-born songwriter
and performer let the urge to “do
his own thing” take hold in 1965.
He left Tennessee the following
year on a hitch-hiking tour
around the nation, then went to
New York.
Sykes played Holiday Inns and
bars until age 19, and, (after
auditioning for the circuit, per
formed at The Gaslight, The
Bitter End and The Village Gate
in New York as well as the coffee
house circuit.
His album, “Keith Sykes” for
Vanguard Records, contains all
original.
The songs reflect his love of
nature and concern for conserva
tion. Described by Sykes as
“people music,” his style reaches
for the sky and trees to “sing as
the air blows free on a clear coun
try day.” He generally avoids
political issues though Sykes has
one song about Spiro Agnew.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. <A>) —
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
said Wednesday “It wouldn’t dis
turb me in the slightest” if
President Nixon dropped him
from the Republican ticket in
1972 as long as Nixon can be re
elected.
Agnew also declared “there is
no doubt that the country is not
being handled on an even basis”
by federal courts on school segre
gation matters, but said the Nix
on administration is unable to
get the “clarifying decisions” it
seeks until it can restore “even
balance” to the Supreme Court.
The vice president’s comments
were made during taping of a
television interview by four news
men before he left Memphis,
Tenn., for Indianapolis, third and
final stop on a two-day campaign
swing.
Asked on the interview pro
gram about the outspoken posi
tions he has taken, Agnew said,
“The unquivocal positions I have
taken have given me my fans
and have given me my detrac
tors.
“I don’t look on myself as
soaring on a blanket of populari
ty,” he went on, adding that he
is not “looking with stars in my
eyes toward something else.”
He said he is trying to do the
best he can as vice president but
that the important thing is to re
elect President Nixon in 1972.
“Whether I’m part of that or not
is virtually unimportant,” he
continued.
In a speech prepared for de
livery here for Rep. Richard L.
Roudebush, the GOP candidate
against Democratic Sen. Vance
Hartke, Agnew praised the con
gressman for his strong views
against campus militant and in
favor of President Nixon’s Viet
nam policies.
He accused Hartke of having
“taken a stand with the radical-
liberals on the side of permis
siveness.”
Black Awareness Committee Chairman Shelton Wallace
during discussion at Wednesday night’s organizational
meeting. (Photo by Bob Cox)
Black group plans
to attend meeting
to stand between fans, plane
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Ed E. Powell, chief of University Police, has added a new twist to
the senior line. In an effort to help control the crowd that meets the
Aggie football team when it returns from the away games, Powell is
stationing senior students, civilian and corps, along the outside of the
fence seperating the crowd from the plane.
The senior students are to keep the crowd behind the fences until
the plane is completely stopped and the door opened.
“We can’t handle the crowds with the amount of policemen we
have,” Powell explained, “without the cooperation of the people
there.”
“If they will just stay behind the fence until the door of the plane
opens, they can form their lines, or whatever they want. We’re just
trying to save someone’s life,” Powell added.
In the past, crowds have started pressing around the plane before
the engines were cut off. Powell expressed concern about the possibility
of someone being pushed into the engines.
“Things got so bad last year the agency chartering the flights
threatened to cancel until the situation was corrected,” Powell said.
Powell also asked for the cooperation of faculty and students in
removing expired parking stickers. He explained that regulations require
all outdated permits to be removed. He cited two reasons for this.
“If people accumulate a whole bunch of parking stickers, they
can’t see out of their windows. The stickers blind them. Also, four or
five stickers make it difficult for us (the University Police) to decipher
whether there is a valid sticker on the car,” Powell explained.
The University is issuing a few tickets for failure to remove these
stickers, according to Powell. They would prefer if people would
remove them before getting a citation, however.
“We’re pleading with people to take them off,” Powell
emphasized. “We do give tickets, but we don’t like to.”
The Black Awareness Commit
tee will send five delegates to
New Pro ’71, a public relations
club meeting here Saturday, Shel
ton Wallace, committee chair
man, said at the committee’s
meeting Wednesday.
Wallace outlined plans for an
introductory program to be held
soon, through which the Black
Awareness Committee hopes to
involve more students in the prob
lems on and around the A&M
campus.
NTSU students
protest firing
DENTON, Tex. t!P)—Between
100 and 150 students gathered in
front of the North Texas State
University administration build
ing Wednesday to protest the fir
ing of a graduate assistant.
An estimated dozen policemen
and campus security officers
were dispatched to the demon
stration site. The officers left
after talking to school officials.
A university spokesman said
the demonstrators protested the
dismissal of Mrs. Elizabeth Duke,
a part-time teacher and graduate
student in the English Depart
ment.
University administrators met
for nearly four hours Wednesday
in a formal hearing requested by
Mrs. Duke. A decision was not
reached at once.
Individuals of the 19 members
present gave examples of some
of the problems that may be dis
cussed. Those mentioned included
social atmosphere of the students,
the campus not being the friend
liest, and the way the administra
tion seems to answer questions
by asking another, such as: “We
know you have a problem, what
are you going to do about it?”
One committee member said
since administrators get paid,
they should know what to do to
solve problems.
Members also brought up the
problem of the unequal balance
of corps-civilian rule on campus.
Wallace said he believes when
a program of this type is held,
the committee could begin to work
in the areas of lessening student
apathy and get students on this
campus to help each other.
The committee then considered
rules to govern selection of a
sweetheart.
Wallace announced more defi
nite plans for the committee’s ac
tivities would be worked out at
the next meeting, tentatively
scheduled for Oct. 7.
Committee members concluded
the meeting by moving to express
their appreciation to Hugh Mc-
Elroy for the job he is doing and
for representing the black stu
dents of A&M on the football
field.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
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