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Vol. 66 No. 87
Approval
civil trial
AUSTIN <A>> _ The Senate
Jurisprudence Committee approv
ed a series of bills Tuesday that
would revolutionize civil trials in
Texas, but it deefated a bill that
would permit 9-3 jury verdicts.
The approved bills now go to
the Senate floor for action.
The bills, by Sen. Oscar Mauzy
of Dallas, would have a profound
effect on automobile collision
eases.
Supporters said the bills would
clear crowded court dockets and
hitve no effect on automobile in-
aurance rates.
Opponents said they would fur
ther clog the dockets and surely
raise insurance rates.
Mauzy’s main bills would:
—Authorize 9-3 jury verdicts.
—Knock out contributory neg
ligence as a bar to recovery.
—Repeal the automobile guest
statute.
Jim Kronzer, Houston law
yer, told the committee that Tex
as’ 1876 Constitution authorized
9-3 verdicts in civil cases and
misdemeanor crimes.
But the constitution also left it
up to the legislature to require
unanimaus verdicts if it chose,
and it did.
THE FIRST PHASE contract for a new office and class
room buildin has been awarded to M.V.T. General Con
tractors of Bryan. An artist’s conception shows the unique
pillars for the eight-story structure. Set for eraction
northeast of the Academic Building, the new facility will
house several academic departments and provide offices
for faculty and staff.
Sen. Church to
Sen. Frank Church of Idaho,
co-sponsor of the controversial
Constitutional amendment to limit
use of ground troops in Southeast
Asia, will speak here Thursday.
Church will be presented in a
Political Forum noon series ad
dress in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, announced
Charles R. Hoffman.
The title of Church’s address
is “Foreign Policy and the Gen
eration Gap.”
Students, faculty-staff and area
patrons will be admitted free to
Political Forum, Hoffman added.
The public-free policy is made
possible by patronage subscription
of the MSC committee’s programs.
Recognized in the areas of con
servation and international af
fairs, Church co-sponsored the
Cooper-Church Amendment that
sought to limit U. S. involvement
in Southeast Asian conflicts.
The senator is acclaimed an
outstanding public speaker.
Church keynoted the 1960 Demo
cratic National Convention and
has more than 14 years experience
in the U. S. Senate.
He is a 13-year member of the
College Station, Texas
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given on
changes
Neither the legislature nor
mtuli-member courts such as the
Texas Supreme Court could op
erate effectively under a unani
mous vote rule, yet we expect
juries to, Kronzer said.
Under present law, separate
fact questions are submitted to
juries, including one that asks
if the plaintiff was in any way
himself negligent.
No matter what the answers
are to the other questions or
how much money the jury says
it would take to compensate the
plaintiff for his injury or loss,
a “yes” answer to contributory
negligence prevents him from re
covering a dime.
Even if the jury thinks the
plaintiff is 5 per cent respon
sible and the defendant 95 per
cent responsible, the plaintiff gets
nothing.
Only Texas, North Carolina and
Wisconsin still have this system,
Kronzer said.
Mauzy’s bill would adopt the
comparative negligence rule, per
mitting the defendant to discount
the plaintiff’s recovery only in
proportion to the plaintiff’s con
tributory negligence.
Dist. Judge C. L. Ray of Mar
shall spoke against the guest
statute, which requires a gratui
tous guest in a car to prove the
driver was grossly negligent be
fore the guest may recover dam
ages for injuries.
Courts have interpreted such
things as driving from zero to
60 miles an hour in two blocks
in a residential neighborhood or
70 miles an hour through a de
tour area as not being grossly
negligent, Ray said.
LOOKING OVER THE INDIA EXHIBIT in the Memorial Student Center are Jan Bowen,
a sophomore english major, and Dave Herzik, a senior in history. The exhibit is all part
of a week reviewing the history and culture of India. It will culminate in an “India
Night” Sunday at 7:30 p. m. in the MSC Ballroom. (Photo by Larry Martin)
Rally cancelled pending board meeting
A rally for on-campus women’s
housing which was to be held in
front of the Academic Building
Thursday at 1:30 p.m. has been
canceled until after the April
open meeting of the board of
directors.
Many students have voiced
strong objections to the recent
board decision delaying on-cam
pus women’s housing until Sep
tember of 1972.
“The rally was called primarily
to call attention to points the
Board of Directors has not made
known to the student body,”
Ranee Palmer, a graduate stu
dent in urban planning said Tues
day.
Palmer and Allen Giles, junior
political science major, are re
sponsible for initiating the rally.
“If the students knew some of
the things the board of directors
is not telling them,” Palmer con
tinued, “we thought we could
initiate action such as a peaceful
march on the (System) Admin
istration Building.”
The rally was postponed due
to a plea from Kent Caperton,
Student Senate president, who
hoped to talk to the board before
any further controversy on the
“girls on campus by ’71 move
ment could be stirred up.
“There is still a good chance
the Board might reconsider the
opening date,” Caperton said, “I
wouldn’t want to jeapordize such
a consideration in any way.”
“If the board okays housing
for women next year and makes
known the points they have pre
viously kept from the public,
there will be no need for the
speak Thursday
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. As chairman of its Sub
committee on International Or
ganization Affairs, the Idaho leg
islator has become well known for
independent views on American
foreign policy.
“His writings and lectures in
this area have attracted growing
attention at home and abroad,”
Hoffman said.
He was a delegate to the 21st
General Assembly, the youngest
member of Congress ever to
serve in that capacity. Church
also has been an observer or dele
gate to numerous international
conferences throughout the world.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Stanford, he was a member of the
Board of Editors of the Stanford
Law Review. In 1956, at age 32,
Church defeated former U. S.
Sen. Glen Taylor in the Demo
cratic primary and then beat in
cumbent Republican Herman
Welker for the U. S. Senate seat.
He was re-elected in 1962—the
first Democratic senator in Idaho
history to serve two consecutive
terms. He was again re-elected in
1968.
rally,” Palmer said.
Palmer and Giles said they be
lieve they have tremendous sup
port from all student types on
campus: corps, civilian, blacks
and even the cowboys.
“The real purpose of the rally
is to dramatize the opinions of
the majority of the students,”
Giles said.
The pair plans to contact ma
jor newspapers in the area — the
Houston Post, The Houston
Chronicle, The Dallas Morning
News, and others — and make
student sentiment on the prob
lem of women’s housing known,
they continued.
Their intention is not to re
cruit women for A&M, they said,
but simply to making the space
available.
“The parents of most prospec
tive women students want the
protection provided by a dormi
tory during their freshman year,”
Palmer said.
“The argument now is that
there is not enough room on cam
pus for female housing in ’71”,
he said, “but there is a large per
centage of students on campus
now wanting to move off who are
unable to. If we can get some
of the men off campus, we will
have room for women.”
The rally is planned to be a
strictly informative gathering in
which the issues involved will be
stated, and women will be invit
ed to give their opinions on the
housing situation, he added.
“It’s definitely going to be a
peaceful thing,” Palmer said.
“We’re not radicals.”
The rally is designed to pre
sent the facts to the students,
draw up and sign a petition and
discuss possible action such as a
peaceful march, he explained.
“Coed dormitories are a way
of life in other schools,” Giles
said, “A&M is ready for women
on campus.”
Approval of tuition hike
draws students 9 protest
AUSTIN UP)—The House Appro
priations Committee voted Monday
to raise college tuition rates, and
imediately got protests from col
lege-age groups.
The committee approved a bill
by Rep. Grant Jones, Abilene, that
would raise state college tuition for
residents of Texas from $50 to
$135 a semester, based on the aver
age 15-hour course load of most
students. Non-resident tuition
would be upped from $200 to $705.
The bill, which Jones says will
raise $110 million to $115 million,
will be debated by the full House
Wednesday, probably before the
$430 million general tax package
is laid out for action.
“We strongly urge the legisla
ture to resist a tuition increase,”
A&M senior Tom Henderson, Texas
Intercollegiate Student Association
president, said Monday night. “We
also urge students to take a per
sonal interest in the matter and
write their senator and representa
tives and tell them of their (the
students’) objections.”
Henderson also said he believes
the measure is intended to be puni
tive as well as to raise money. He
said he so believes because the
tuition hikes exceed those re
quested by Texas Gov. Preston
Smith.
Richard Burns, president of the
Texas Student Education Associa
tion which claims 7,000 college stu
dent members, issued a statement
saying Jones’ bill “places higher
education on the inflationary list
and provides an excessive increase
in tuition rates at the expense of
the students.”
The Texas Young Republican
state headquarters released a state
ment condemning the tiution in
crease proposed by Gov. Preston
Smith last week from $50 to $125
a semester.
“This tuition increase could cause
financial hardship for thousands
of students and deny others the
opportunity for a college educa
tion,” said a resolution passed by
the executive committee of the
Young Republicans.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
The inquiring Battman
What do you think of Bryan-College Station movies?
Daniel Noyles
freshman
I “I get tired of groad flicks in
a hurry. I wish they would bring
I good movies — ones you can take
I a chick to.”
Roger London
junior
“I think that on the whole most
of the movies are of poor quality
and content. Few are worth the
admission price.”
Charles Hicks
senior
“Most of them are suitable for
Aggie audiences — mostly sex,
mostly childish.”
Dan Monroe
freshman
“The theaters concentrate too
much on the “groad” flicks, but
there are some good ones — may
be once every two months or so.
The best theater is the Palace and
the worst is the Queen.
Emily Kay Edwards
sophomore
“I think more recent movies
should be brought here — it would
make more for the owner for one
thing. For instance, I watched
Spencer’s Mountain on TV the
same night it played here.”
Kirby Brown
junior
“Movies in the B-CS area are
of three basic types: (1) those of
the children’s variety, (2) those
of the less than average clothing
(i.e. frolic), and (3) those of the
immediate post—“Elvis” era.”
Warren L. Gillespie
junior
“Bryan-College Station theaters
seem to get more than their
share of cheap, second-rate flicks.
I’d like to see more movies that
contain a plot and first rate
photography.’ (Photos by Patrick
Fontana)
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