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Vol. 66 No. 77
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 12, 1971
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Walton collects
requests for
POW release
Over 375 letters asking' for the
release of American POWs in
North Vietnam have been col
lected by Walton Hall as a public
service project.
Each of the letters, most of
them handwritten, will be paid
for by Walton, hall president
Leon Drozd said.
“We are trying to show that
an effort has been made in this
direction,” he said.
Topics are releasing injured
prisoners, publishing the names
of the prisoners, allowing an ex
change of mail, providing for im
partial inspections of prisoners’
facilities, and providing a proper
diet and medical care, Drozd
added.
Walton will be collecting letters
— stamped and unstamped — at
three different places Tuesday,
Drozd said. They are the Corps
guard room, the Memorial Stu
dent Center, and in front of the
Academic Building and Sbisa
Dining Hall.
Centrex, Batt
grieve
CSC
Mrs. Alton Myers, wife of a former student who has been missing in action for four
years, looks over letters protesting the treatment of American POWs with Leon Drozd,
president of Walton Hall. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
By DOUGLAS GIBBS
Battalion Staff Writer
In two separate motions, the
Civilian Student Council Monday
night voted to send letters of
grievance to the General Tele
phone Co. of the Southwest and
The Battalion.
Other business included an in
vestigation of the campus park
ing problem and the difficulty of
gaining permits to live off cam
pus.
Criticism was leveled against
General Telephone, suppliers of
the campus Centrex system, for
its policies concerning long dis
tance calls and method of bill
collecting.
CSC President Mark Olson cit
ed the company for “using A&M
as an agent to collect bills for
GSC refuses to seat elected student
By GARY AVEN
Battalion Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Council
voted nine to seven to refuse a
seat to Carl Lahser (Biology De
partment representative) Thurs
day, who was elected to the GSC
in the December election.
Vice President C. A. Bedinger,
(Biology Dept.), election commit
tee chairman, said Lahser was
qualified last December when the
election was held, but since then,
he has become disqualified.
“To he a member (of the
GSC),” Bedinger said, “according
to the bylaws, you must be a
bonafide graduate student with
a grade point ratio not less than
a 3.00. His is 2.86.”
Graduate College Dean George
Kunze said the Graduate College
erases all previous grades in fig
uring the GPR of a graduate stu
dent and only considers those
courses applying to the degree
program, but the Registrar’s Of
fice counts all courses taken at
A&M in figuring the GPR.
Lahser said he would submit a
degree plan that would make him
qualified, if the GSC would seat
him.
“I’ll resign next week if I’m
not eligible then,” he said.
Lahser said the whole difficulty
was due to his failure to file a
degree plan.
“I’ve got a degree plan ready
to go in now that shows a 4.0,”
Lahser said.
Lahser claimed there is no fix
ed policy for graduate students
figuring their GPR, and they are
not required to show a GPR until
after their second semester.
“It appears to me,” President
Larry McGill (Vet. Path.), said,
“that some of the courses you
took off were in your major field.”
“If the laws of Texas apply,”
Lahser said, “and I’ve been elect
ed, I must be seated.”
“He was eligible at election,”
McGill said, “but if one of the
members fell below a 3.0 GPR,
he would be asked to resign.”
“He would be on probation,”
Kunze added.
Herb Gersbach (Management),
made a motion to table the ques
tion until the next meeting when
Lahser said he would have things
straightened out.
“We need to determine his eli
gibility today,” Bedinger said.
“Tabling the question is just put
ting off the issue.”
The motion to table the issue
was defeated seven to nine.
“I know Carl personally,” Bed
inger said, “I hate to do this, but
I know Carl and what courses
he’s had. I feel the courses he
would drop would be a subterfuge
to keep his seat.”
The motion passed nine to seven
to refuse Lahser a seat and he
was asked to resign.
Bedinger apologized that this
action was taken in open council
and asked if Raymond Skowron-
ski (Biology) who trailed Lahser
in the election could be seated.
McGill said that would be de
cided by the Executive Council.
Lahser read a letter to the GSC
Aggie Player tryouts Monday
for spring production ‘Ghosts’
Aggie Players tryouts for Hen
rik Isben’s “Ghosts” will be held
Monday.
Readings begin at 7:30 p. m. in
Room 205 of Building “J” for five
parts. The production is sched
uled for March 29 to April 3,
Director C. K. Esten said.
Bob Wenck, who will direct
“Ghosts,” said rehearsals will
start Wednesday, Feb. 17.
Isben’s play, written in retort
to criticism of his “The Doll’s
House,” deals with the story of
a woman who gave in to social
pressure, stayed with her immoral
and promiscuous husband and is
forced to raise a son who is victim
of his father’s excesses.
Parts in Ibsen’s play are Mrs.
Alving, heroine who stuck with
her now-dead husband; Regina
Engstrand, maid to the widow
who is fond of Oswald Alving,
physically and mentally affected
by conjunctival syphilis; Pastor
Manders, minister who advised
the widow to stay with her hus
band, and Jacob Engstrand, Re
gina’s carpenter father.
Wenck said that personnel also
are needed for sets, lights, cos
tume, properties, house-publicity
and sound, crews.
asking them to ask for a point-
by-point list of the policy toward
graduate students. This list would
be placed in the student hand
book. He said he made this re
quest in view of his own experi
ence.
He was a graduate assistant,
he said, but he was dropped from
assistantship when he fell below
a 3.00 GPR without getting any
notice or severance pay.
“Students are not supposed to
be responsible to anyone but a
set of written rules,” Lahser said..
But the graduate student is sup
posed to know a number of things
by instinct.”
Lahser added that he is not
asking for aid in regaining his
own assistanship; he said he just
wants to bridge a lot of muddy
water.
phones they should not have hook
ed up in the first place.”
“I received a letter that said
I would not be admitted back to
school if I didn’t pay my phone
bill,” Council Secretary Shelton
Wallace said.
The letter is being sent to the
company’s San Angelo office be
cause “nothing would happen if
we sent it to Bryan,” Olson said.
The second letter will be sent
to A&M’s student-written news
paper The Battalion, to protest
selection of content and problems
in submitting articles.
Walton President Leon F.
Drozd Jr. said, “I’ve submitted
numerous articles, and I don’t be
lieve more than four were pub
lished.”
Suggestions for improvement
of news reporting ranged from
Fernando Gianetti of Schuh-
macher’s call for a “change in
emphasis,” to Olson who said, “I
wish I had the money to make
our own. If we did, we’d tell it
like it is.”
Discussing the haphazard dis
tribution of the paper, Keathley’s
John Shepard said, “We put ours
in the trash can to stop them from
blowing away. Maybe that’s where
they belong.”
Battalion Editor David Middle-
brooke later said he had no knowl
edge of “numerous articles” be
ing submitted, and so far as he
knew neither did his staff.
“Everything that we’ve gotten,
we’ve printed,” Middlebrooke
said. “I’ll grant we haven’t al
ways done it the way the CSC
or the hall presidents would have
liked us to, but we did what we
thought was best.
“As far as the distribution
goes,” he continued, “that’s an
area not under the control of me
or my staff.”
Internationals meet Monday
C. A. Bedinger, vice president of the Graduate Student
Council, calls for a vote which refused to seat Carl Lahser.
Photos by Gary Aven)
The International Student Asso
ciation of Texas A&M University
will hold its first meeting of the
semester Monday night to vote
on its new constitution.
The association will meet at
8 p. m. in the Assembly Room
of the Memorial Student Center.
Each country will send a delegate
as a voting representative.
Under the constitution, mem
bership would be open to all
foreign students attending Texas
A&M and other students who sub
mit their names to the organiza
tion. Associate membership is of
fered to any non-student who re
quests membership.
The purpose of the association
is to strive for greater under
standing among the students of
all nations attending Texas A&M,
without supporting any particular
ethnic, religious or political cause,
and to promite the participation
of the International Students in
university life.
The organization would provide
services such as international stu
dent orientation at A&M, solu
tions of possible religious con
flicts, provision of a medium for
cultural exchange and a means
of setting up social activities.
Fernando Giannetti of Argen
tina, will be the chairman of the
association until the group elects
officers.
That there is no parking prob
lem on the A&M campus was the
conclusion drawn by Larry Hen-
sen, Mitchell Hall president, from
a study he presented on campus
parking. Hansen said most of the
trouble about campus parking is
the fault of the students.
“Some students would rather
risk getting a ticket and parking
near their class, than parking in
a designated area,” he said.
He claimed the cry that “there
are more permits issued than
spaces available” is true, but ex
plained that the University Po
lice take the following factors
into account:
1. Most of the staff is not on
campus at any one time, and sev
eral of them get duplicate per
mits put on more than one car,
park just one on campus.
2. Many day students come in
car pools and, due to class sched
ule staggering, are not all present
at the same time.
3. Most veterinary students
have day permits.
4. Not all dorm students have
their cars here all the time.
5. Some students leave school
after the fh’st semester (268 left
this semester), and their names
are not dropped from the list.
In other business, Olson ex
plained why it is so hard to ob
tain permission to house off-cam-
pus.
“I spoke with Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan,” he said,
“and he would like to grant per
mission to all who desire to live
off campus, but it is not possible
at this time because of economic
reasons.”
He said the university must
keep a certain number of people
in the dormitories at all times,
and the only way to do that is
by selective issuing of off cam
pus permits.
“The time to apply for off-
campus housing,” Olson said, “is
in the fall, when there is a 100
per cent dorm occupancy.
The council also voted to ar
range a committee to amend the
dress code regulation which
frowns on the wearing of school
jackets displaying awards.
Olson closed the meeting by
commenting on the improved par
ticipation by members of the
council.
“If we expect to accomplish
anything, we’ll have to do it in the
next four meetings,” he said.
The next meeting will be held
Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Univer
sity Lutheran Chapel, 315 N.
Main.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
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The inquiring Battman
What’s your opinion of the gay liberation movement?
Tom Harrover
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people do together privately by
mutual consent is their business
and no one else’s.”
Terry Browning
junior
“Theyre perverts. YtoraosexM-
ahty goes against the staiAard
concepts of social Yiie. It under
mines the society! It’s warped!”
Charles Joachim
senior
“I think it is abnormal, and I
don’t aprove ot it. But it is a
tree world and \ guess a person
can do whatever turns him on.”
Skip Schleider
freshman
“Gay liberation Front should
not he allowed at A&M. because
A&M has a reputation of putting
out men, and 1 feel that this move
ment takes away from this repu
tation.”
Gary Lewis
senior
“The house my wife and I live
in has too many windows for me
to he a stone thrower. Different
strokes for different folks — to
each his own.”
Joe Markham
senior
“These people have problems
and need help.”
Eric Sampson
freshman
“Live and let live.” (Photos
by Patrick Fontana)