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Vol. 66 No. 36
College Station, Texas
Friday, October 30, 1970
SATURDAY — Clear. Winds
Southerly 5 m.p.h. High 74, low
47.
Kyle Field — Partly cloudy,
easterly winds 10-15 m.p.h. 67
degrees.
SUNDAY — Clear. Winds
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low 54.
845-2226
Free speech discussed
at Vietnam war forum
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
The right to free speech and
not the announced topic was the
subject of debate at the Soapbox
Forum on the war in Vietnam
Thursday evening.
A previous forum, scheduled
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., died be
cause of lack of interest. Only 12
students showed up.
Most of the students attending
the latter session argued about
whether the administration had
the right to restrict debate to the
forum sessions and whether the
forum was effective anyway.
“Let’s face it,” said Allan Giles,
a senior political science major,
“the Vietnam war in a dead issue.
We’re here to have freedom of
speech.
“If this forum is any indication
of the type spirit students on this
campus have about national issues
it’s pitiful.
“We’ve gt a long way to go,”
he said.
Sandy Breeder, a senior educa
tion major, agreed with Giles,
saying, “In my opinion, subject
is secondary. Foremost, we want
to be able to have a rally; sec
ondly, we want to discuss Viet
nam.”
“Maybe Hannigan (Dean of
Students James F. Hannigan) is
afraid we’ll blow something up.
I’m for blowing up Hannigan.”
His statement was followed by
laughter and applause.
Breeder later said he did not
intend for his remarks to be taken
seriously.
Students should stabilize their
ideas, Randy Dowdell, a senior
sociology major, said.
“Are you hot about the Viet
nam war or are you hot about
war in general?” he asked. “Fig
ure what you want, and then go
after it.”
“The administration,” he said,
“may be problematic, but that
doesn’t mean we can’t get things
done.”
The idea of whether or not
anti-war rallies are effective any
more also dominated part of the
sometimes lagging debate.
“Everybody goes and hears the
same damn thing,” Bill Maskal,
a senior in sociology, said. “You
wear the threads, oppose the war,
maybe even hassle with the cops.”
“Why not vote,” he said. ‘It
makes more sense. Or write a
congressman.”
“Don’t destroy the system, take
it over. It’s the easiest way.”
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it, and others, like movies.
“World War I would be an A—
movie,” he said. “Think of all
the good flicks about World War
I. And World War II, man, that
was fantastic, they’re still shoot
ing Japs on movie sets over that
one. Korea wasn’t much, but
there was some, like M.A.S.H.
and others. Call it B—. But
Vietnam, man, what a loser.
Nothing, no really good flick has
come out of there, it’s pitiful.
Can’t you see yourself sitting
home some day when your kid
runs up and asks you what kind
of movie you fought in and you
have to say C or D.”
“Maybe you’d like that, but not
me, man. No D grade flicks for
me.”
Others treated the subject less
Senate told
facetiously and quite differently.
“We should just go over there
to beat the hell out of those damn
gooks,” said Tom Nance, a fresh
man electrical engineering major.
“We shouldn’t stop fighting,
we should change the way we
fight it,” he said. “We should
win. I don’t care about democ
racy or communism or anything
else.”
In rebuttal to Nance, Ray
Keefe, a sophomore engineering
major, said he is certain the
United States can win the war.
“The other day,” he said, “I
read that the communists could
destroy the entire world. It
bothered me somewhat until I
found out we could destroy 12
worlds. So sure, we can win, we
can blow up 11 more worlds than
they can.”
Bill Maskal gives his views during Thursday afternoon’s
special soapbox forum on the Vietnam war. (Photo by
Randy Freeman)
Campus Chest collected $1,000
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Senate President Kent Caperton (left, standing) and Vice President Roger Miller con
fer during Thursday night’s Senate meeting while secretary Bill Hartsfield records Sen
ate debate. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Editor
The Student Senate Thursday
night, in a short, one-hour meet
ing, learned the Campus Chest
drive so far has collected $1,000
and was told selection of the
1970-71 Aggie Sweetheart has
cost $500.
Campus Chest Chairman R. B.
(Jerry) McGowen (pres. ’72) re
ported the $1,000 collected by
Campus Chest is approximately
one-third of this year’s goal. He
said collections after home foot
ball games were not going well,
and theorized game results might
be a contributing factor.
McGowen said Miss Campus
Chest hall and outfit competition
will begin in November. He also
reported the feasibility of selling
pieces of Guion Hall, soon to be
razed, to former students and
other interested people was being
studied. Proceeds of the sale
would go to Campus Chest.
Senate Treasurer Eddie Duryea
told senators he has paid $460 in
bills related to sweetheart selec
tion, and expects another $50 or
so to come in. He noted the $500
expenditure was $300 less than
the $800 spent last year.
“Still, that’s quite a bit,” Dur
yea said. He said in the face of
the expense, the Senate might
look into the possibility of bring
ing more of it to A&M.
“The last couple of years, and
this year, we haven’t had much
to work with, but things are
getting better every years,” he
said, to the accompaniment of
laughter.
Room rent in the Memorial
Student Center for the Texas
Woman’s University finalists,
Duryea said, totaled $80, and food
expenses came to $304. In addi
tion, he reported, another $70
has been spent on Sue Binford,
this year’s Aggie Sweetheart.
The expenses have been room
rent in the MSC and a subscrip
tion to The Battalion for Miss
Binford, he said. Duryea said the
Senate can expect to spend an
other $80-100 during the year on
Miss Binford.
Mike Essmyer, Senate parlia-
(See Senate, page 3)
Williams becomes president
of A&M system on Sunday
Dean gives editor more orders
By FRAN HAUGEN
Battalion Managing Editor
College of Liberal Arts Dean
W. David Maxwell has returned
two stories on black students,
originally scheduled to appear in
the first issue of The Review, to
Editor Janie Wallace with in
structions to delete . or validate
sections of students’ opinion.
Miss Wallace resubmitted the
stories to Maxwell after she took
out parts that he earlier this
month said were untrue or un
substantiated.
The stories in question are
"Black Students Rap,” a dia
logue of 15 black students, edited
by Miss Wallace and “A New Di
mension in University Responsi
bility,” commentary by Allen
Giles.
Maxwell said he initially
"flagged things that stuck out,”
but did not “make an exhaustive
listing” of what he felt was irre
sponsible in the articles.
Miss Wallace then took out the
parts Maxwell objected to and
submitted the articles to the
Student Publications Board Oct.
9. The board told her to resub
mit the articles to Maxwell.
Maxwell said the board’s ac
tion made it clear to him that “I
alone would have to say what
constituted irresponsibility.”
“I am censoring,” he said, “if
by that you mean not letting be
published what I consider unfair
or unsubstantiated. If you want
a less perjorative term, I’m ‘re
viewing’ The Review.”
Maxwell said it is his job as
dean to oversee the editorial con
tent of the publication.
“I’m not happy with the situa
tion, it’s not what I would desire
for myself,” he said, “but that’s
the way things are if or until the
situation changes.”
Maxwell said he is objecting
to empirical opinion, opinion
which can be verified, which is
printed without any verification.
If it is someone’s opinion that
the water tower is upside down,
I don’t think you should print
that it’s upside down, because
you can verify that it’s not, he
said.
“It was the basic irresponsibili
ty of The Review not to check
things that could be checked,” he
said. “If the incidents alleged
(specific cases of racial discrimi
nation by faculty members) ac
tually have occurred or do occur
the aggrieved students might not
realize this university and this
(See Review, page 3)
Voters to decide
amendments ’fate
Mock election set
by Political Forum
A student election will be held Monday to determine who A&M
students feel should win the major election involving Texas political
offices.
Students also will be polled on current issues including the liquor
by the drink controversy and the right of 18-year-olds to vote.
The election, sponsored by the Political Forum Committee of the
Memorial Student Center, will be held from 8 a.m.—5 p.m. Voting
booths will be set up at the Sbisa newsstand, outside the north door of
the library and the post office in the Memorial Student Center.
Students will be required to show activity cards. There will be no
age requirement for student voters.
By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
Texas residents who vote in
Tuesday’s general election will
be able to vote on seven proposed
amendments to the Texas Consti
tution as well as their favorite
candidate for office.
The first amendment on the
ballot will be a proposal to add
county and city judges to the
State Judicial Qualifications
Commission. This relates to the
removal, retirement, or censure
of Justices, Judges and Justices
of Peace under prescribed cir
cumstances. It would provide for
due process of law for all accused
judges.
The second proposal concerns
the law which prohibits open
saloons. It would lead to the
making of new laws regulating
the sale of mixed alcoholic drinks.
Whether or not to sell the mixed
drinks would be left up to local
voters.
The third amendment would
authorize the legislature to pro
vide by law for the establishment
of a uniform method of assess
ment of ranch, farm and forest
lands, which shall be based upon
the capability of such lands to
support livestock and to produce
farm and forest crops. It would
give tax benefits to corporations
and part-time ranchers and farms
as well as established ones.
The fourth calls for reconsti
tuting^ the State Building Com
mission which would act as a
three member appointive commis
sion. Terms of office would he
six years.
Number five would authorize
any county, on the vote of a
majority of its qualified property
taxpaying electors, to issue road
bonds in an amount not to exceed
one-fourth of the assessed value
of the real property in the county.
The sixth proposed amendment
would increase the value of the
homestead which is exempt from
forced sale from $5,0000 to
$10,000.
The last amendment would au
thorize the legislature to provide
for consolidating governmental
offices and functions and allow
ing political subdivisions to con
tract for performance of govern
mental functions in any county.
It would give the legislature the
power to pass special laws to per
mit any county government to
combine offices and services if a
majority of the voters so ap
proved. It would also allow
county or local governments to
contract with one another for
services under terms and condi
tions prescribed by the legis
lature.
Dr. Jack K. Williams officially
assumes the presidency of Texas
A&M University Sunday.
The 50-year-old former com
missioner of the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Uni
versity System, will be the 17th
president of the state’s first
public institution of higher learn
ing.
Dr. Williams was named on
Sept. 11 to succeed the late Gen.
Earl Rudder who died March 23
after guiding the university more
than a decade.
Gen. A. R. Luedecke, who has
served as the university’s acting
president, becomes executive vice
president, a new position.
Williams personally asked Lue
decke to accept the position to
form a top-level team incorpo
rating their academic, scientific
and engineering backgrounds.
For the past two years, Dr.
Williams has served as vice presi
dent for academic affairs for the
University of Tennessee System
in Knoxville. Earlier this year,
Peace Corps
he assumed additional responsi
bilities as chancellor pro tern for
the University of Tennessee’s
five-college Medical Units campus
in Memphis.
In addition to heading Texas
A&M, Dr. Williams will be presi
dent of the entire Texas A&M
University System, which in
cludes Prairie View A&M College
at Hempstead, Tarleton State
College at Stephenville and the
Texas Maritime Academy at Gal
veston.
The system also includes the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station, Texas
Engineering Extension Service,
Texas Transportation Institute
and the Texas Forest Service, all
headquartered at College Station.
Dr. Williams said he anticipates
no major changes, at least not
in the near future.
“Before I take any action, I
need to do some talking and a
lot of listening,” he noted. “I
want to listen and talk to all of
Texas A&M’s community inter
ests—faculty, staff, students, for
mer students and others.
“I like the purposes, aims and
ideals that undergird Texas
A&M,” Williams continued. “It
is the greatest of the land-grant
universities and I want to keep it
moving ahead. I feel any uni
versity that doesn’t study its
purposes and goals against the
perspective of modern life is only
marking time.”
The new Texas A&M president
said he believes in reasonable stu
dent representation in university
academic affairs, but added he is
firmly committed to strong execu
tive leadership.
Dr. Williams emphasized he is
interested in preserving—not de
stroying—Texas A&M’s unique
ness.
He stressed, for example, that
he totally supports Texas A&M’s
ROTC program.
Dr. Williams summed up his
view of Texas A&M by stating
it is—and should continued to be
—dedicated to a concept of edu
cation blended solidly with re
search and public service.
representatives 8-4 Vote ousts
recruiting here QSC president
Three Peace Corns renresenta- J-
Three Peace Corps representa
tives will be recruiting A&M stu
dents from Friday through Nov.
6 in the lobby of the Memorial
Student Center, according to Mar
lene Garcia, head of the repre-
senatives.
The group is mainly interested
in agricultural majors and veteri
narians. They are also looking
for engineers, education majors,
architects, business majors, and
graduate students.
In the agricultural group, they
are looking for four agronomists
and an animal science major
specializing in beef cattle. The
openings for the agronomists are
in Honduras, the opening for the
cattle specialist is in Ecuador.
Any member of the group, in
cluding Robert Elliott and Frank
Rodriguez, the other members, is
available to speak to any inter
ested groups.
Miss Garcia has served in
the Dominican Republic, Elliott
in Iran, and Rodriguez in Pana
ma.
By PAM TROBOY
Battalion Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Council
agreed Thursday by an 8 to 4
vote to accept the resignation of
Mickey Land as president.
Under constitutional proce
dures, Larry McGill automatical
ly assumed Land’s office, leaving
the vice presidency vacant.
The controversy of whether
Land, classified as a full-time fa
culty member, is qualified to
serve as president has occupied
most of the attention of the GSC
this year.
Land told the council that al
though he felt he was qualified
under the present constitution, he
was willing to resign if the mem
bers thought it in the best inter
ests of the students.
GSC by-laws state that a coun
cil member must be a graduate
student carrying no less than
eight hours. Land is classified
as a full-time faculty member
but is taking 13 hours of gradu
ate work by special permission.
The president and vice presi
dent must be elected “from and
(See GSC, page 3)
Stallings says
rumors untrue
Gene Stallings, head football
coach and athletic director, de
nied Thursday he will resign at
the end of the season.
Stallings’ contract wtih A&M
extends through the 1972 season
but there have been rumors that
he would resign or be dismissed
at the end of the season.
The Aggies have lost five
games in a row after winning the
first two.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.