THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 2, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
UT chairman backs
more university power
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AUSTIN UP) — A university
president should have the power
to order off campus any person
he thinks is bent on disrupting
the school, Frank Erwin, chair
man of the University of Texas
system regents, said Monday.
Erwin testified before the
House Criminal J urisprudence
Committee on a series of camp
us unrest bills introduced by Rep.
Dean Cobb of Dumas.
Cobb said the president of
Prairie View A&M, Dr. A. I.
Thomas, told him the bills are the
tools Thomas needed last week to
curtail the burning of Prairie
View buildings.
“Eight known agitators that
came from other areas of the
state or from out of state were
involved in events at Prairie
View prior to the burnings,” Cobb
said.
Dr. Pat Nicholson, vice presi
dent of the University of Hous
ton, supported Cobb’s bill author
izing the banning of “trouble
makers” from campus for up to
14 days.
“We think it is fair legislation.
It is not repressive,” Nicholson
said.
“The only reason I can figure for us being in the dark
is that it makes it easy for Earle to draw a cartoon!!”
The bill was referred to a sub
committee.
Another bill by Cobb would al
low school security guards to de
mand the identification and busi-
News reports of Laos war
slanted, Pentagon asserts
WASHINGTON <A») — A Pen
tagon official criticized Monday
the news accounts of the allied
offensive in Laos, asserting they
are focusing on South Vietna
mese defeats rather than suc
cesses.
In discussing with newsmen
the abandonment of South Viet
namese fire bases in Laos, the
spokesman, Jerry W. Friedheim,
said:
“I think it hasn’t always been
reported that they (the South
Vietnamese) had moved into 10
or 12 or 14 various places and
the only thing I seem to see re
ported is that they have moved
out of two or three places.”
Could it be, a reporter said,
that correspondents in South
Vietnam weren’t kept fully ad
vised of all South Vietnamese
operations ?
Friedheim replied that report
ers “have been rather thoroughly
taken into conferences” with
South Vietnamese and U. S. mili
tary commanders, and added:
“It just seems to me that the
emphasis has been on places they
(the South Vietnamese) have left
rather than places they went.”
Friedheim. deputy assistant
cific news organizations.
Until Thursday, the U.S. com
mand in Vietnam barred Ameri
can correspondents from flying
into Laos aboard U. S. helicop
ters by invoking a Defense De
partment regulation that bars
government aircraft from com
peting with commercial airlines
in international flights.
ness of anybody on campus. It
drew mostly critical questions
from the committee last week.
“These bills are not going to
be used against people walking
on campus looking at trees and
birds,” Erwin said.
He recalled the demonstration
on the Austin campus last spring
that “resulted in a march in the
capitol and the breaking of wind
ows and terrorizing of capitol
employes, and a pitched battle
with police at the foot of the
grounds here.”
Nine fires have been set in uni
versity buildings in the last two
years, Erwin said.
“These are not fanciful things,”
he said.
Guards on the university tower
can identify known troublemak
ers through binoculars, he said.
Cobbs’ bills would give univer
sity officials the power to control
these people, he said.
Under present law, “they can
tell you to go fly a kite, that
it’s public property. Ask them
who they are, and they give you
some more four-letter words,” he
said.
On the identification bill, Er
win said “a bunch of bearded
people” came up to ROTC stu
dents last fall and sbot them with
water pistols.
Their identities remained un
known until officials received a
photograph of the episode, he
said.
“Unfortunately, it turned out
four of thhem were teaching as
sistants at the university,” he
said.
Asked if the teachers still were
at the university, Erwin said:
“They are not, but we are being
threatened by the AAUP (Ameri
can Association of University
Professors) for violating their
academic freedom.”
doned as weapons to maintain
order on campus. The U. S. 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals has laid
down nine steps that must be fol
lowed before expulsion can be en
forced, he said.
“They (troublemakers) take us
to federal court on everything,”
Erwin said. Nine suits are pend
ing against him now, he said.
“And the American Civil Lib
erties Union apparently has an
unlimited supply of lawyers to
defend them,” he said.
After Erwin finished, Rep.
Billy Williamson of Tyler said:
“In East Texas my people say,
‘Thank God for Frank Erwin’.”
“Thank you. There's some dif
ferent views,” Erwin said.
Williamson said students are
being used by “subversive ele
ments to destroy our educational
institutions.”
Also referred to subcommittee
was a Cobb bill that would au
thorize a school to order a stu
dent dismissed for disruptive ac
tivities to stay off campus for a
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, deputy
secretary of defense for public
affairs, did not identify any spe-
However, no commercial air
line and few Vietnamese helicop
ters were available to take re
porters into the battle area. The
restrictions were not invoked
during the Cambodian incursion
last May.
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Secretary of Defense Melvin
R. Laird announced Thursday the
restrictions had been lifted and
U. S. newsmen would now be per
mitted aboard American helicop
ters.
Erwin said suspension and ex
pulsion have been virtually aban-
TONIGHT
E. T. Society will meet at 7:30
p.m. in room 104 of the M.E.
Shops to elect officers for next
year.
AHE will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 207 of the Engineering
Building to hear a talk on logis
tics and transportation.
WEDNESDAY
Semper Fidelis Society will
meet at 7:30 p.m. on the front
steps of the MSC to have Aggie-
land pictures taken.
SCOPE will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in room 3B of the MSC to plan
for Earth Day.
Host and Fashion Committee
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2A
of the MSC to select a new
executive committee and discuss
coming events.
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