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Freshman Mark Fitte signs a petition protesting the
oposetf tuition increase as freshman senator Randy Ross
iks on. The petition, sponsored by the Student Senate,
s3,811 signatures. (Photo by Larry Martin)
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uition protest gets
1,811 signatures
Water quality board gets
tough stand on pollution
The Texas Water Quality
Board is being forced into a get-
tough policy on pollution to meet
state water quality standards,
Hugh C. Yantis, executive direc
tor of the board, warned munici
pal utility workers Wednesday.
“We have not had the results
people demand,” Yantis told 800
men attending the 53rd Texas
Water Utilities Association
Short Course here.
“Our former role was to be
patient and take you by the
hand,” Yantis said. “Yet there
has not been compliance with a
reasonable program.
“Don’t you believe in the
state’s program? Don’t you be
lieve in clean water?” he asked.
Yantis said most of the waters
in Texas are in “fairly good
shape” but the population is
growing much faster than water
quality progress.
Yantis added that roughly 50
percent of the municipalities and
industries are not meeting the
minimum state goals.
Texas has a self reporting sys
tem, Yantis said. Approximately
half of the agencies that should
report pollution problems are not
reporting, he said.
Yantis termed his speech a
“frustration report.”
He explained the main prob
lems today are overloaded col
lection systems and treatment
plants, underpaid and under
trained plant operators and in
difference by city councilmen
and taxpayers.
“What good is it to build a
multi-million dollar treatment
plant when the collection system
won’t bring the waste to the
plant?” Yantis said.
He claimed he was addressing
many “future past friends” be
cause he plans to get tough about
pollution.
Ten speakers addressed the as
sociation’s general session Wed
nesday morning in the Memorial
Student Center.
W. R. (Dick) Bryan, director
of community relations for
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.,
Akron, Ohio, reported “there is
no responsible, and I emphasize
responsible, industry today that
does not accept the responsibility
to clean up its acts.”
The past-president of Lions In
ternational said his Lions Club
world travels a year ago showed
there also needs to be a cleaning
up of the political and social en
vironment in the world.
Bryan admitted the current
problems in Northern Ireland,
the Middle East, Southeast Asia
and other parts of the world are
just as demanding as the pollu
tion problems.
He challenged the utility work
ers to start speaking up for the
things they believe in and to
speak out against the things that
are bad, including political, so
cial and pollution injustices.
San Antonio Winston Church
ill High School junior David W.
(Dickie) James, son of San An
tonio City Water Board training
administrator Clarence E. James,
suggested the utility profession
improve its image and begin a
recruiting program aimed at
youth.
“Is there any less challenge to
provide a fresh water supply for
the life-blood of a community
than landing two men on the
moon,” James asked.
He is the first teenager to ad
dress the conference. James also
has completed two adult exten
sion courses in utilities offered
by the Engineering Extension
Service, part of an educational
pilot study organized by James
and his father.
Eric Johnson, executive direc
tor of the American Water
Works Association in New York
City, said “water for people
must have the highest priority.
Fish kill pictures seem to be the
best example for sewage im
provements.
“We don’t want people kills,
however, to emphasize the need
for better water standards.”
Johnson said Texas water
quality has progressed at a
greater rate than most other
states.
A. F. Vondrick, president of
the Water Pollution Control Fed
eration, said pollution problems
haven’t changed much since the
early 1900s.
He asked why plant perform
ance is measured by what per
cent of waste is taken out of the
water, when measuring what per
cent of waste is put into a
stream would he a better per
formance record.
Noting the federation began in
1928, Vondrick said it has only
been in recent years that the ma
jority of people have taken pol
lution seriously.
“We’d better do something
now,” he declared. “Pretty soon
people will get used to the prob
lems and little will be accom
plished.”
Marriage, honeymoon debated by panel
A petition protesting the recent House of Representatives
roal of the tuition increase bill had 3,811 names on it Wednesday
Hand was due to be circulated in the Memorial Student Center this
ming in hopes of getting more.
The petition is sponsored by the Student Senate.
Tommy Henderson, president of Texas Intercollegiate Student
tciation, a group fighting its approval by the Texas Senate, said that
142-page document would be presented to Sen. Bill Moore today in
(in.
Representative Bill Presnal of this district voted for the increase.
Henderson, Tom Mayes, and Bill Scherle, all from A&M, will
ify against passage today before the tuition sub-committee of the
ate Finance Committee.
The bill would hike tuition to $7.00 per semester hour on
lent sutdents with a $60 minimum. Non-residents would pay
1,00 per semester hour with a $400 minimum. Residents and
residents taking fifteen hours would pay $105 and $705 respec-
ly. Public junior college students will pay at least 60 percent of
itfour-year college students would.
Wee are cracking down
n MSC area parking lots
University Police will crack the Exchange Store next to the
Mi on students who park Radiological Safety Building next
ound the Memorial Student week.
inter and then go to class, it
is announced in the University
affic Committee yesterday.
Chief Ed Powell of University
lice said that two patrolmen
tssed in civilian clothes and
0 uniformed policemen will
tool the area around the MSC
irting Monday morning.
All parking spaces around the
ident center are reserved for
aff members or 30-minute park-
? for students.
Day students may park in part
lot 48-B, the dirt lot behind
t site of old Guion Hall, facing
Rollie White Coliseum, start-
1 sometime next week. Addi-
Mal staff parking spaces will
i Wade across the street from
The committee also discussed
placing a coating of jennitite, a
protective agent which checks the
wearing away of asphalt, on the
first third of lot 50, across the
street from the new engineering
building, next week.
Jennitite is an organic chem
ical used on paved surfaces, to
prevent the asphalt from bub
bling and cracking.
In other business, the com
mittee has sent a request for an
additional 700 parking spaces to
be added to lot 24, the junior
corps parking lot, by September,
1972 for the new dormitory. The
new spaces would quadruple the
size of the existing lot.
By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
Discussions of the honeymoon,
practical application of the honey
moon and marriage itself were
the main topics in the fourth and
final part of the “Y” Association
sponsored “Man Your Manners”
program Wednesday night.
Speaking to the overflow crowd
in the Biology Lecture Room were
three panelists from Texas Wo
man’s University and Mrs. Patri
cia Self, A&M women’s counselor,
acting as moderated for the pro
gram.
Panelists were La Rona Ross,
senior from Garland; Lynn Ste
phen, senior from Dallas, and Mrs.
Susan Moore, a junior from An
drews, Texas. Each led off •the
program with a five or 10 minute
speech on some subject concern
ing marriage.
What a honeymoon should be
like and accomplish was the first
topic mentioned and Miss Stephen
led off the program by telling the
crowd her views. Many times be
ing interrupted by the Aggie
whoops and laughter, she kept
on and gave her talk.
“I believe the honeymoon is a
tradition with a purpose” was
Stephen’s opening remark and
heavy laughter resulted.
Regaining confidence, she con
tinued with “The purpose is mak
ing the transition, from single to
the “we” relationship.”
“It is a time for the married
couple to get to know each other
even better than they did before,”
she added. More whoops and
laughter.
“It can be as big of a honey
moon as you want it to be or can
afford it to be as far as length,
time, etc., goes,” she said. Laugh
ter has now reached the all time
high.
“After a big wedding ceremo
ny, the honeymoon should be the
COLLECTION DISPLAY of Belgian Art books opened Wednesday during a visit by
lie Belgian consul-general of Houston. Examining one of 250 books in the display
*ithDr. H. Matsaert (left) are Academic Vice President Horace R. Byers and Library
jiredor John B. Smith. The collection will be exhibited through March 27.
moon was Miss Ross. Comment
ing that the couple should actu
ally try and keep the honeymoon
going all through married life,
she gave some things to remem
ber to the audience.
“The couple should consider
before marriage the financial side
of marriage and whether the wife
should work or not work.”
“A big problem area for newly
weds would be the question: Who
spends the money? I believe the
husband should manage the mon
ey but not control it,” Miss Ross
said.
“Another problem area would
be the question of who’s boss of
the family.”
“The most successful marriage
is when there is a 50-50 boss sit
uation. The least successful is
when the wife controls the fam
ily. This would be very had and
would probably send the husband
to the hospital,” she said.
“If you talk it over with your
fiancee before marriage on the
subjects I have told you about,
your honeymoon should be able
to continue for a long time,” Miss
Ross concluded.
Some questions were then ask
ed with sex being the major sub
ject.
“Does sex play a big role in
marriage?”
“It plays an important role but
it should not be the reason for
marriage,” said Miss Stephen.
“It is totally wrong because
sex shouldn’t be toyed with,” an
swered Miss Stephens to the ques
tion: “What do you think of a
wife who uses sex as a weapon
to get her way.”
Mrs. Self answered the last
question regarding venereal dis
ease.
“How would you break the news
to your wife that you had VD?”
“I think the woman could be
understanding if the marriage had
been build on unity beforehand,”
she said.
The start of the Marriage For
um Series was announced at the
program. Wednesday, March 17
will be the first. “Transitions in
Married Life” will be the topic
of the 7:30 speech in the Assem
bly Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
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Aggies watch and react to the “Man Your Manners” panel discussion on marriage
and the honeymoon Wednesday night. (Photo by Larry Martin)
A&M gains NSF grant
for 26 grad traineeships
time for relaxation and getting
away from all the people.” Not
as many whoops this time but
still a few.
“The honeymoon should be the
time for the couple to begin their
new life and talk about plans for
their new life. The honeymoon
shouldn’t be packed with sight
seeing and excursions. The couple
should try to be together as
much as possible and talk things
over,” Miss Stephens concluded.
Laughter has finally started
calming down as the program
progresses.
Mrs. Moore then gave her talk
on the practical results of the
honeymoon. She and her husband
didn’t have a formal honeymoon
immediately after the ceremony
but waited two months to take
theirs.
“We found it to be much better
for us financially,” she said.
She warned the audience to re
member that the first year of
marriage is coming up so use
what money you have reasonably
on the honeymoon.
“Remember that the first night
is very frightening to some people
and the hardest transition is the
“I” to “We” problem.”
“The honeymoon shows you
what you have to do, so now you
have to do it,” Mrs. Moore said.
Heavy laughter again.
Speaking on what the marriage
should be like after the honey-
Off-campus
permits are
being issued
Off-campus housing permits for
Texas A&M’s Fall, 1971, semester
should be applied for now at the
Housing Office.
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley said current residence
hall students who wish to live off
campus next fall have until March
26 to make application.
After March 26, applications
from undergraduates will not he
accepted until the close of pre
registration, he added.
Fall pre-registration will he
April 26-30.
“Single undergraduate students
who have not received day student
permits by March 26 must pre
register as residence hall students
and should reserve rooms during
the room sign-up period to avoid
loss of room priority,” Madeley
said.
He noted that permission for
single undergraduate students to
live off campus will be granted
only for very unusual circum
stances.
Students under 21 must have
written parental permission, but
such permission does not guaran
tee approval.
Uni vanity National Bank
"On the side of Taxae AAM."
—Adv.
A&M has received a $103,109
National Science Foundation
grant to support 26 graduate
trainees for 1971-72, announced
Graduate Dean George W.
Kunze.
Graduate students from 30 de
partments are eligible for the
traineeships.
Dean Kunze said the NSF
awards include 18 nine or 12
months grants beginning Sept. 1
and seven 12 - week summer
traineeships for graduate teach
ing assistants.
The 18 traineeships include six
for new or first-year students,
eight intermediate continuation
traineeships and four terminal
year awards.
Students must be from ap
proved departments and citizens
of the United States. Students
currently on NSF Traineeships
do not automatically continue
during 1971-72 and must sub
mit applications, the dean added.
Applicants for summer trainee-
ships must have had, at the be
ginning of his traineeship tenure
not less than one academic year
of experience as a graduate
teaching assistant.
Eligible departments are aero
space engineering, agricultural
economics, agricultural engineer
ing, animal science, biochemistry
and biophysics, biology, chemis
try, chemical engineering, civil
engineering, economics, electrical
engineering, entomology, forest
science, geology, geography and
geophysics.
Also, industrial engineering,
meteorology, nuclear engineering,
oceanography, petroleum engi
neering, physics, plant sciences,
poultry science, range science,
WASHINGTON <A>>—The Sen
ate gave swift, 94-0 approval
Wednesday to a proposed consti
tutional amendment to lower the
voting age to 18 in state and
local as well as federal elections.
Approval by the House is ex
soil and crop sciences, statistics
and wildlife and fisheries sci
ences.
A memorandum giving com
plete details on the traineeships
is being prepared by the Gradu
ate College for distribution to
department heads.
Applications must be sub
mitted to the Graduate College
by March 26. Awards will be
made by April 9.
“The competition for these
awards is keen and high GPRs
and GRE scores are necessary for
students who are to be considered
for awards,” Dean Kunze said.
pected next week or shortly
thereafter, and then the amend
ment will be submitted to the
states for ratification. Thirty-
eight of them must ratify to make
the amendment effective.
(See 18-year-old, page 4)
Senate unanimously approves
18-year-old vote amendment
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