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845-2226
Senate delays decision
on constitution 2 weeks
Spare part medicine’
leeds donors: Fletcher
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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.
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