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.-.v..v-•> •'.v.V '..•.••' ■•‘A'- Battalion Clear, windy, colder College Station, Texas Friday, February 26, 1971 SATURDAY—Clear with winds at 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 68, low 42. SUNDAY — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds southerly at 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 71, low 44. 845-2226 Senate delays decision on constitution 2 weeks Spare part medicine’ leeds donors: Fletcher . $1.00 /E81c DUT A WATER 1.00 81c N THE FOR D INTO COLOR. Dr. Joseph Fletcher By HAYDEN WHITSETT The Student Senate Thursday night delayed voting on the pro posed constitution and passed the recommendations of a Silver Taps committee on who Silver Taps should be held for. Voting on the constitution was delayed for two weeks on the recommendation of Kent Caper- ton, Student Senate president. “We’ve really been besiged by a lot of questions and opposition from organizations,” Caperton said as he explained his request for the delay. “I think two more weeks will give use adequate time The Student Senate voter registration drive has been ex tended to Sunday night. Forms may be picked up at the main desk in the Memorial Student Center, and must be filled out and mailed by each student to his own tax assessor- collector. to answer any complaints,” he said. Most of the meeting was taken up by discussion and explanation 26 senators will be apportioned the preliminary fall grade re- of the constitution and proposed changes. Nothing in the consti tution was changed at the meet ing. The new constitution would organize all full and part-time students at A&M into the Stu dent Association of A&M. Its objectives are listed to act as the official voice of the students, promote the welfare of the stu dents, assist in the determination of University policy and provide a liasion between faculty and administration and students. According to the constitution, annually as equitably as possible among the colleges according to fall semester enrollment. One or more senators are to be elected from living area dis tricts established by the fall semester enrollment. The ratio of senators to students in the districts is to be a close to one to 750 as possible. This is the first time any sen ators have been elected from the living areas. Five senators are to be elected from the freshman class immed iately following the issuance of ports. Apportionment by population drew most of the remarks during the discussion. “I don’t think that how we reapportion is going to get to the students any bet ter,” said Ray Kopecky (Jr-Eng) “We are giving the most apa thetic students 10 students, the day students, and that means we are giving one fifth of the senate to them.” His remarks were countered by Sam Drugan (Jr-Sci) who said that more than 50 per cent of the leaders in the Memorial Stu- (See Senate delays, page 2) GSC thanks dean, limits party BRUCE BLACK ittalion Staff Writer People are faced today with a adly lack of organs and of liv- i donors, Professor of Medical thics at the University of Vir- nia Medical School Dr. Joseph eteher said Thursday night. “Shouldn’t we be screaming om the housetops for more do ited tissue instead of worrying wt how to destroy it in bur- 11”, Fletcher asked. Speaking on the moral and eth- al aspects of organ transplants, itcher said that in many cases, tors do not have a moral right it to try a transplant. “We are wasting, and immoral- so, our vital body parts self- My when we are alive and even ore selfishly when we are dead,” said. He continued, saying “spai-e irt medicine” is still in its lunger stages, but is definitely ire to stay. "It was once quite frequently ated that the human body is orth only 87 cents in its resi- lal qualities,” he said, “but now body has become worth quite a t in respect to its life-saving pacities.” Fletcher used New York City an example, where he said, ere is a constant waiting list leek policy hange takes lace Monday Editor’s note: Since this story as printed Wednesday, the Fis- il Office has informed us of rors serious enough to mislead Udents. As a service to the stu- int body the story is being re- dnted, with the errors corrected. A new policy on returned leeks will go into effect Mon- ay, Controller R. Clark Diebel as announced. Under the existing policy, an atomatic $3 charge is placed on ay returned check, increasing to after 10 days, j If the check is not acknowl- iged by the student after 10 ays, or if any student has three becks returned, his campus beck-cashing privileges are sus- anded for as long as he remains 1 A&M, Diebel said. The same policy will hold after londay except for an increase in barges to an automatic $5 and 10 after 10 days. > The new policy is being put ato effect soley to discourage ludents from writing hot checks, Assistant Controller Robert iiuith of the Fiscal Department kplained. Any check returned fecause of a banking fault will penalize a student in any 'ay. The Fiscal Department receives a average of 300-350 hot checks ach month, Smith said. As of Feb. 8, over $15,000 in lot checks had been received by be university, Smith said, and attempt at collection on them being made. He said $6,600 of he amount has been “charged iff” as uncollectable. of 50-100 in need of kidney trans plants. “There are quite often enough kidneys at hand which are not therapeutically available,” he said. He cited cases of persons who have promised organs, and after death the family refuses permis sion for a transplant. Persons wishing to donate or gans upon death may obtain a wallet-size card from the State Department of Heatlh stating an agreement to an organ transplant, he said. The body was once thought of as a form of religious material ism, Fletcher said. “Many believed that a dead per son robbed of an eye or other organ, would go on to ‘whatever comes next’ crippled, maimed or blind” he said. The present loss of faith in immortality should enhance the overcoming of fear in donating body parts, he continued. “However,” he said, “the old (See Spare parts, page 3) By GARY AYEN Battalion Staff Writer The Graduate Student Council (GSC) passed a resolution una nimously yesterday thanking Dean of the Graduate College George W. Kunze “for his effort and success in formulating and implementing a modern system of graduate records at Texas A&M University.” In other business, Student Sen ate President Kent Caperton ex plained the proposed revisions in student government at A&M to the GSC and urged its support; the council voted to send out a Prairie View toll $50,000 Early morning violence at Prai rie View A&M College caused an estimated $50,000 in damage Thursday. President Alvin Thomas blam ed the trouble on three or four “real professional” agitators. Prairie View is part of the Texas A&M University System. After unsuccessfully demanding the resignations of Thomas and three deans, nearly one-fourth of the 4,000-member predominantly Negro student body marched from Thomas’ home to the cam pus and burned a police security building, wrecked the college ex change store, looted the campus laundry, smashed windows in two dormitories, and overturned and burned a campus security patrol car. By midmorning, most of the students were back in classes. There also were reports the stu dents were protesting cafeteria and exchange store prices. A senior from Baltimore said there also was discontent over a 10:30 p.m. curfew for women students and over the student newspaper and student govern ment being controlled by the ad ministration. Thomas said the newspaper basically is a public relations out let for the college while the stu dent government is designed to teach students democracy. Thomas traced the troubles to last week’s dismissal of 200 or so students for academic failure. Many, he added, were members of an organization that had been outlawed from the campus, Peo ple for Afro-American Life. This was not Prairie View’s first experience with campus vio lence. Some 22 persons were in dicted by a Waller County grand jury after a football player was stabbed to death and three cam pus buildings were burned March 29, 1969. Dr. T. R. Solomon, dean oi' students, traced the new violence to the Black Panthers. “We feel some outsiders from the Black Panther organization are in on this,” Solomon said. Solomon said the People for Afro-American Life are really Black Panthers in disguise and that the Black Panthers had start ed their attempts to organize on campus at the beginning of the fall semester and have been at it ever since. Solomon said the group was dis satisfied with the administration because of a contention it was not sufficiently oriented to Neg ro awareness. There were no arrests and Thomas said no students would be expelled unless convicted of a crime resulting from the inci dent. He said the investigation of the situation was being turn ed over to the FBI and state police. Dr. Jack K. Williams, president of both Texas A&M and the Tex as A&M University System, told The Battalion he is inisisting criminal charges he brought against students known to have participated in the disturbance. He said he believed the dstruc- tion of buildings and a car took the students’ actions out of the prank category. Thomas was scheduled to meet with student leaders today. He spent yesterday evening meeting with faculty and staff member^. bulletin prepared by their Com munications Committee to people who write to the Graduate College for information; delegates were selected to attend the Spring Leadership Conference in Hous ton. The GSC voted in the extended session to have its annual party opened only to GSC members and their guests. Ernie Davis (Ag.Eco.) said that in the past, of the more than 3,000 graduate students who could have come to the annual GSC plarty, only about 20 couples showed up. Considerable expense is involv ed, he said, so the GSC voted to invite GSC members and their guests only this year. They also voted to finance the party out of their own pockets, in the words of Vice President C. A. Bedinger (Bio.), to avoid a reflection on themselves. The resolution thanking Dean Kunze refers to his work in de veloping a computer program and a computerized information file to help faculty and graduate stu dents retrieve graduate student records previously difficult to ob tain. GSC Treasurer Kamaluddin Hyder (F.Tec.) said the records, previously time-consuming and exasperating to obtain, have been delivered automatically, directly from the computer, to graduate students and faculty for the past three semesters. Hyder said Kunze was applaud ed by educators from all over the country for his work on the program. Student Senate President Kent Caperton explained the proposed revisions in student government, now being considered by the Stu dent Senate, as an attempt to separate the legislative from the executive branch of student gov ernment. Then, he said, A&M students need to start a judicial branch. “If student government has been inefficient in the past,” Ca perton said, “it’s because it’s bad management to have one branch look after so many things. This is why it’s, ineffective. I think I’ve neglected the legislative as pect.” Caperton said under the new plan, students would vote by living area instead of by colleges. Off-campus students would elect their representatives at-large, he said, because it is nearly impos sible to divide them into living areas. Caperton said some people wanted to give day students less representation, arguing that they aren’t interested anyway. “I am opposed to this,” Caper ton said. “The one man-one-vote principle is proven, and I’ll stick to it.” The revision plan would remove ex-officio members (which grad uate students are) of the Student Senate from the legislative and put them in the executive, he said. In other words, they would loose their seats on the senate. Dean Kunze asked how the graduate students could bring a bill before the senate after they lost the right to speak on the floor. “Graduate students could bring a bill through the President’s Ad visory Cabinet,” Caperton re plied. “The Student Association President has the right to speak on the floor of the senate. Or just go to a meeting, stand up and say, T ask that the rules be suspended so I can make a pre sentation,’ No one I know of has ever been turned down.” (See GSC thanks, page 3) Graduate Student Council President Larry McGill reads a resolution thanking Dean of the Graduate College George W. Kunze for implementing a modern system of records at A&M. (Photo by Gary Aven) Olson promises exciting Civilian Week-Weekend University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Waiting for the meeting that moved, Battalion reporter Cherlyn Perkins, her husband David (left) and Tim Ingra ham of the Aggie Cinema wait in MSC room 3D for the CSC to meet. Because of communications snafus, the three were unaware the CSC was meeting in the Lutheran Student Center as part of an attempt by the CSC to find a suitable meeting place for next year when the MSC renova tion will be taking place. (Photo by Bob Cox) By CHERLYN PERKINS Battalion Staff Writer Civilian Week-weekend prom ises to be more exciting than ever before, Civilian Student Council (CSC) President Mark Olson said Thursday night. Olson said that the CSC is al most doubling last year’s $4,000 budget in an effort to “attract more civilian students to the events taking place April 9-24.” Highlights of the weekend will be a casino on Friday, the Three Dog Night in a Town Hall per formance and the Sweetheart Pre sentation dance following Town Hall Saturday, Olson said. Prices for the events depend on student residence hall activity cards. Olson explained that if a student holds a fall activity card, the entire weekend which would cost $15 may be purchased for $9. |If a student holds both fall and spring residence hall activity cards, the cost will be $8, Olson said. If only the spring card is held, students will pay $12 for the week, he added. “The new thing for this year is the casino,” Paul Ammons, CSC treasurer commented. Leon Drodz, committee chairman for the weekend, came up with the arrangements after the group decided on the idea from attend ing the 1970 National Associa tion of Colleges and Universities Residence Halls conference (NA CURH) held at Texas Tech. “The casino will take up the entire second floor of the MSC and will feature all types of games,” Ammons continued. Au thentic gambling tables will be used and “Aggie loot” will take the place of money. Saturday the Civilian Sweet heart will be chosen from the 17 residence hall sweethearts and presented at the dance at Sbisa Dining Hall. The present Aggie Sweetheart, past Civilian Student Sweetheart and members of the CSC will act as judges. Other events during the week include a car show on Monday; Residence Hall Day, Tuesday; Aggie Muster on Wednesday along with a luncheon honoring student-oriented faculty members and Academic Day. Finals for the intramural com petition held throughout the week will be Thursday, and the Aggie Cinema is hosting a Grove movie that night. Unlike previous years there will be no barbecue due to “logistics and finances,” according to Am mons. The money will be used for the other activities. * •* * *'■••* ■ ‘.J *-••• m •