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Vol. 66 No. 39
College Station, Texas
Thursday, November 5, 1970
FRIDAY—Partly cloudy, winds
Southerly 10 to 12 m.p.h. High
71, low 39.
SATURDAY — Partly cloudy
to cloudy, winds: Southerly 10
to 15 m.p.h. High 71, low 41.
DALLAS — COTTON BOWL—
partly sloudy, winds: Southerly
10 to 20 m.p.h. 66°.
845-2226
UTILITIES CONSTRUCTION between the Memorial Stu-
dent Center and Guion Hall renders another section of
the campus impassable to students and motor traffic. The
work is both to install new utility pipes and begin work on
expansion of the MSC. (Photo by Patrick Fontana)
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Federal drug laws’ changes
told by campus rights group
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By SUE DAVIS
Battalion Staff Writer
In a recent issue of Playboy, a
poll was taken on the percentage
of college students using narcot
its. The poll covered two hundred
rollege campuses. Of the students
iho were polled, 34 per cent oc
casionally used marijuana and 13
per cent used it frequently.
Sixteen per cent occasionally
used amphetamines and two per
tent used them frequently. Occa
sional users of barbituates num
bed 14 per cent of the students
polled and one per cent used them
frequently. Ten per cent used
LSD occasionally and one per cent
tied it frequently.
"These figures effectively show
tke dramatic increase in narcot-
(AMU seeks
ho(or parts
KAMU-TV has begun audi
tions for Israel Horovitz’s play
Mid television production “The
Sugar Plum,” station employe
Seth Rossman announced Mon-
7.
Rossman said he is looking for
>man and a woman who are or
wk like they are between 18-20
fears old.
Those interested should contact
M at 845-5611, Rossman said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
ics among the college students of
the ’70s,” Ed Hargett, member
of the Legal Right Commission
(LRC), said Wednesday.
The national laws recently have
undergone some important
changes due to the passage of the
Nixon anticrime bill, Hargett
said. The two most important
changes are the addition of the
“no knock” clause and reduction
in federal marijuana penalties,
he added.
Police now have the right to
enter a household without notice
if they suspect possession of
drugs.
The law was passed to prevent
the destruction of evidence. A
warrant must be obtained before
entrance.
“Although the law currently
applies only in Washington, D.C.,
it will probably serve as a model
for future state laws,” Hargett
said.
The second important change
is that marijuana possession has
been reduced from a felony to a
misdemeanor when handled by
federal agents. The federal law
applies only when a person is
caught crossing state lines with
drugs.”
“Federal laws are much harsh
er for use or selling of more dan
gerous drugs,” Hargett said.
Violation of state narcotics
laws (selling, possessing, traf
ficking) in Texas is a felony car
rying a two-year to life sentence
in a state penitentiary.
“This law includes marijuana
also and punishment is much
harsher than the federal law,”
Hargett commented. “Penalties
vary tremendously in Texas for
first offense marijuana charges,”
he added, “but two to five years
probation is the most common.”
The code adopted at A&M is in
line with state laws, Hargett
said. Suspension is recommended
for possession of or being an ac
cessory to the possession of an
illicit drug or narcotic either on
or off campus, in addition to any
legal penalty the student might
incur.
“Such suspension usually fol
lows indictments for, not convic
tion of, drug possession, but pol
icy may vary in individual cases,”
David Reynolds, chairman of the
LRC, said.
Cadets to host
football team
The Corps of Cadets will pass
in review for the Aggie football
team at Duncan Hall when the
Aggie gridders will be guests of
the Corps for the evening meal
tonight.
After the review, the players
will divide into groups of two or
three for each squadron and com
pany for the meal.
This will allow students to get
to talk individually with the play
ers and help boost support with
the first official corps trip of the
year to the SMU game Saturday.
Yell practice will be in front
of Henderson Hall at 10:30 p.m.
Punishment for violators in the
past has been suspension for the
remainder of the semester plus
one full academic semester. If the
violation does not occur on cam
pus, the student may be allowed
to finish the semester, Hargett
said.
The student does have the right
to appeal suspension or dismissal
to the Disciplinary Appeals Panel.
He may have counsel consisting
of another student, faculty mem
ber, or attorney.
“The LRC recommends that a
student stay away from drugs
entirely,” Reynolds said. “How
ever, should he run into trouble
with narcotics laws, he will need
a competent attorney. Besides
providing assistance with on-
campus disciplinary machinery,
all the commission can do in these
cases is help him find one.”
Friday last
day for room
reservations
Friday will be the last day for
residence hall students to reserve
for the spring semester, rooms
they now occupy, according to Al
lan Madley, housing manager.
Those failing to reserve a room
will go on the lists with every
one else trying to get on campus,
Madley said. There are currently
more people requesting rooms
than there are rooms available,
he added.
Election gives
Nixon Senate
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WASHINGTON <A>)—A slight
ly more conservative Senate with
views somewhat closer to Pres
ident Nixon’s positions has
emerged from the 1970 elections.
But the Democrats retail sol
id control of the branch of Con
gress that has been the adminis
tration’s biggest thorn.
Thus the President and his fel
low campaigner, Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew, were denied the
big victory which they sought in
an all-out effort to win Republi
can control of the Senate.
The outcome means, among
other things, that Democratic
committee chairmen who are
anathema to the administration,
like Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark.,
head of Foreign Relations, will be
doing business at the same old
stand in the 92nd Congress con
vening next January.
While it will not change the
over-all picture, one Senate race
was still undecided, a nip-and-
tuck battle in Indiana between in
cumbent Democrat Vance Hartke
and Republican Rep. Richard L.
Roundbush. Hartke held a slim
lead but it may be several days
before the outcome is known, and
a recount is likely.
Pending the Indiana outcome,
the Senate lineup for the new
Congress stands at 53 Democrats,
44 Republicans, one independent,
Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., of Vir
ginia, and one Conservative, Sen.-
elect James L. Buckley of New
York.
In the present Senate there are
57 Democrats and 43 Republi
cans.
The Republicans made a net
gain of two seats, with victories
in Tennessee, Connecticut, Mary
land and Ohio partly offset by
losses in Illinois and California.
If Roudebush wins out in Indiana,
the GOP pickup would be three.
Three of the Republicans who
captured Democratic seats are
considerably more conservative
than the men they will replace.
These are Rep. William E. Brock
III who defeated veteran S'sn.
Albert Gore in Tennessee, Rep.
Robert Taft Jr., who will replace
the retiring Sen. Stephen M.
Young in Ohio, and Rep. J. Glenn
Beall Jr., who ousted Sen. Joseph
D. Tydings in Maryland.
In Connecticut there probably
will be less change. Rep. Lowell
P. Weicker Jr., a moderate Re
publican who has not always fol
lowed the administration line, will
replace Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, of
ten a maverick Democrat and a
Nixon supporter on foreign policy.
The switch to a more conserv
ative hue is not confined to states
where Democrats were ousted.
The Democrats held a Texas
seat in surprisingly easy fashion
but the victor, former Rep. Lloyd
M. Bentsen, is well to the right
of the incumbent Sen. Ralph Yar
borough. Bentsen beat Yar
borough in the Democratic pri
mary.
On the other hand, Democratic
liberals will replace conservatives
in Illinois and California. Adlai
E. Stevenson III took the Illinois
seat by trouncing Sen. Ralph T.
Smith, and Rep. John V. Tunney
cut down Sen. George Murphy in
California.
In addition, Lawton Chiles, who
held a Florida seat for the Demo
crats, is considered more moderate
than the conservative he will suc
ceed, retiring Sen. Spessard L.
Holland.
The Nixon-Agnew style of cam
paign also may have hardened the
positions of the dozen or so Re
publican liberal senators who of
ten have opposed administration
stands in the 91st Congress.
Several of these showed their
displeasure with Agnew’s attack
on Sen. Charles E. Goodell in New
York by rushing to that state to
speak out for Goodell.
The new Senate will be enliv
ened by the return of Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota, who has
promised he will renew the active
role he played for 16 years, De-
fore he left his seat in 1J65 to
become vice president.
Humphrey, who lost a presi
dential Did in 1968, succeeds the
retiring Democratic Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy. He said he has no
plans to seek the party’s top nom
ination again in 1972.
Humphrey’s 1968 running mate,
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, scored
an impressive third-term victory
with 62 per cent of the vote in
Maine. Unlike Humphrey, Muskie
has made it clear he is strongly
interested in seeking the White
House two years from now.
Another Democrat often men
tioned as a presidential contend
er, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
rolled up 63 per cent of the vote
in winning reelection in Massa
chusetts. Kennedy has said re
peatedly he will not run for presi
dent in 1972.
Democrats believe they also
have two potential new political
stars in youthful victors in Illi
nois and California-Stevenson, son
of the 1952 and 1956 party presi
dential nominee, and Tunney, son
of the one-time heavyweight box
ing’ champion.
It was hard to fin,d a trend or
dominant issues in the results.
63 freshmen seek
election to 9 posts Third board
payment due
Sixty-three freshmen have filed
for nine offices that will be filled
in class elections Nov. 12, accord
ing to Mike Wiebe, elections com
mission chairman.
Five senators, a president, vice
president, secretary-treasurer and
social secretary will be elected, he
said.
Those filing for senator are
Gary L. Buis, Keith Clanahan,
Bill Clark, Darrell L. Cobb, David
Corley, Luis D’Gornal, Owen Ev
erett, Jan Faber, David Fette,
Steve Gouge, Barry Hards, David
Higdon, Danny Holt, Richard C.
Huddleston, John Humble, John
Jamison, William R. Jung, Scott
Kacy, Buddy King, Emil Kirberg,
Mark Lenneville, John Mackey,
Lee Morris, Manuel Reta, Randy
Ross, Mike Ruff, Barb Sears,
Robert Spearman, Scott Steffler,
Robert Van Rite, William Vernon
Wade, Pete Wilson and Charles
M. Yarbrough.
Those running for president in
clude Tim Bauer, T. Marke Blake-
more, Steve Kolle, Randy Maness,
Jim Miller, Bill Peel, David Ridge
way, Mark E. Rowe, Alan School
craft, Doc Shroff, Randy Thomas,
Joe Thompson, and Steve Waring.
Candidates for vice president
are Kelvin Bean, Mike Collins,
John Humble, Tim Hutcheson,
Roger Saenz, Gerald M. Stoermer,
David “Bones” Sugarek and Don
A. Webb.
Those filing for secretary-trea
surer are Colleen Bourland, Wil
liam Fair, James K. Goode, Jim
my Laferney and John Rosen
baum.
Richard Chaplin, Manuel Reta,
Wayne Sneed and Chris St. John
filed for social secretary.
by Wednesday
The third board installment for
the 1970 fall semester is due on
or before next Wednesday in the
Fiscal Office, located in the Rich
ard Coke Building.
Payment is $85 for students on
the 7-day board plan and $76 for
those on the 5-day plan. Failure
to pay by Wednesday results in a
$l-per-day fine, up to $10.
If a student has not paid with
in 10 class days after the due
date, the Fiscal Office will rec
ommend to Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan that the stu
dent be dropped from the rolls
of the university for failure to
pay fees.
Cadet Corps changes style to accommodate today’s student
Making Texas A&M’s Corps of
Cadets fit the needs of today’s
'allege student while maintaining
“leadership lab” qualities
Ws the thesis of the 1970-71
l0 mmander.
Cadet Col. Van H. Taylor of
^mple sums the position briefly
‘id simply. “Nobody is going to
the Corps but itself,” he
‘sserts.
Prom there, Taylor and corps
toff try to blend reasonable
Egress and growth with a sens-
to retention of meaningful tra
ctions in directing activities of
foe 2,649-member organization,
discomposed of 20 Army ROTC
'srnpanies, 14 Air Force ROTC
hadrons and the Texas Aggie
snd.
The job is complex, with 14
toff members, five major unit
'ommanders, 10 battalion and
!roup and 34 company and squad
ron COs—all 20 to 22 years old—
learning, testing, trying and util
izing the decision-making proc
ess.
“Taylor has the tools for the
job,” said Frank K. Nicolas, staff
assistant to the commandant of
cadets, Army Col. Jim H. McCoy.
“His strong points are tenacity,
purpose, a level head, mature
logic and an open personality.
He makes no decision without as
sembling all the pertinent facts.”
McCoy noted Taylor, a senior
mechanical engineering major
who was a Distinguished Student
his first four A&M semesters,
put together the corps “think
tank” at Camp Arrowmoon last
year.
“The Corps of Cadets or any
unit within it reflects the per
sonality of the commander,” the
colonel said. “A good measure of
Taylor’s ability is that at this
stage of the school year, the
corps has lost only half the num
ber of freshmen that it had at
this time last year.”
The route to that achievement,
bringing about corps growth and
strengthening corps living rou
tines that develop leadership im
portant to the armed forces and
tomorrow’s leaders in business,
industry and government, Taylor
believes, lies through cutting out
the “ridiculous” and emphasizing
the positive facets.
“The corps is more than cap
able of growing,” the four-dia
mond insignia wearer stated. “But
we must point specifically at the
rewards a college student can
reap but at the same time allow
him to get the college education
every other student is getting.
“It does not require extra ef
fort, but it’s worth what the
cadet puts in,” Taylor added.
The son of a Veterans Admin
istration Hospital official gets
support from his contemporaries
and, he said, the commandant’s
office, Military Science and Aero
space Studies Departments and
unit advisors.
Cadets brief visiting dignitaries
on the corps and conduct weekly
orientations for faculty-staff.
“As far as understanding the
enormity of the problems that
face the corps and the things
that have to be done to improve
and build it up, Van is one of the
finest corps commanders we’ve
had,” observed Thomas C. Fitz-
hugh III, corps information of
ficer.
“In translating what he knows
has to be done into getting it
done. Van puts in considerable
time, effort and thought,” Fitz-
hugh went on. “He involves the
major commanders more and
takes their opinions into consider
ation. It opens him up to more
criticism from them, but the unit
and higher COs apparently take
the decision more readily.”
Taylor indicated the reduction
from eight to five per cent in
freshman attrition can be traced
to several factors.
“The first day, we met them
and their parents and treated
them as guests,” he explained.
“Seniors and juniors ‘whipped out’
(met) the new fish.
“They are expected to learn
the same amount of campusology,
but it’s spread over a longer
period of time. The major em
phasis is on scholastics. The fact
is that the high school graduate
today is more intelligent and
capable than 15, 10 or even five
years ago,” Taylor added.
“He wants to know ‘why’ and
deserves a straight answer. As a
result, we’re trying to find and
eliminate those ridiculous things
from the daily routine and keep
those that build leadership and
character,” the cadet colonel con
tinued.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Homer
S. Hill, 1940 A&M graduate who
spoke here recently, underlined
for Taylor the importance of the
latter.
“He was pleased that we’ve
kept up one thing I’ve always
considered most important—meet
ing our people with a firm hand
shake and looking them straight
in the eye,” Taylor described.
“It’s served a purpose to Gen.
Hill, and look where he is.”
The corps commander, who also
works on Town Hall and the Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs (SCONA), is an active
senior in the Ross Volunteers
and member of the Student En
gineer Council, Pi Tau Sigma and
Tau Beta Pi, said more effort is
made to enforce call-to-quarters
conditions.
“Meetings after 7:30 p.m. have
been cut out and the cadet has
no obligation other than as a
student after that time each eve
ning,” he said.
“We’re on inspection 24 hours
a day, by state citizens, former
students, the faculty and staff
and civilian students right here
oh the campus,” Taylor said. “So
qutside the corps area, whipping
out policy is relaxed and fresh
men don’t have to give answers
to upperclassmen’s questions that
might embarrass him if there’s
a coed near.”
Taylor said he feels the chal
lenges and advantages offered by
corps membership far outweigh
(See Cadet Corp, page 2)
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