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Vol. 66 No. 93 College Station, Texas Friday, March 12, 1971
Cloudy
with
rain
FRIDAY — Scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Low to
night 62.
SATURDAY — Partly cloudy
and warm with southerly
winds. High 80, low 60.
845-2226
Constitution slayed;
falls 2 votes short
The Student Senate considers a roll call vote on the constitution after it had been de
feated the first time Thursday night. Those with hands raised are voting against a roll
call vote. (Photo by Larry Martin)
Ph.D. language requirements
draw graduate student’s gripes
By GARY AVEN
Battalion Staff Writer
Sayeed Hasan (Ind-Eng) said
at the Graduate Student Council
(GSC)) meeting Thursday that
the foreign language require
ments for Ph.D. candidates should
candidates should be re-examined.
“Many feel the ETS doesn’t
test the real ability to translate
a language,” he said.
The ETS (Education Testing
Service) test, often called the
Princeton Test, is a language pro
ficiency (grammar and compre
hension) test that all Ph.D. can
didates must pass. There are
three alternatives: six to eight
Sayheed Hasan tells the
GSC Thursday that foreign
language requirements for
Ph.D. candidates are mak
ing students and teachers
unhappy. (Photo by Larry
Martin)
Dr. Pepper aided in the treat
ment of one of Baylor Univer
sity’s junior mascots during the
past two weeks at the univer
sity’s Small Animal Veterinary
Clinic.
Dr. Pepper, not a staff vet
erinarian but the popular soft
Three Texas A&M students ar
rested last week for possession
of drugs have been suspended in
definitely, James P. Hannigan,
Dean of Students, announced
Thursday.
Hannigan identified the stu
dents as Richard N. Mathis, 20,
of Jacksonville, Ark.; George C.
Reeser, 19, of Beaumont, and
August William Lentz, 18, of
Houston.
The trio was arrested late
Thursday in three separate uni
versity dormitories by University
Police. Lentz and Reeser were
both freshmen civilian students,
while Mathis was a sophomore
in the Corps of Cadets attend-
Univenity National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M."
—Adv.
extra hours outside the major
and a language reading exam;
a writing and speaking exam; or
reading exams in two different
foreign languages.
Only French, German, Russian
in some departments Spanish are
acceptable, Secretary Jeanne
Snider (Ocn.) said.
“Many teachers,” Hasan said,
“feel the ETS deprives them of
the right to grade the language
ability of their students. The
Graduate College doesn’t accept
the grade given by the language
department as proof' of profi
ciency.”
“We have complained before
that it’s set up like it is,” Presi
dent Larry McGill (Vet-Path)
agreed.
“Proposals had been made to
alter the language requirements,
making it optional to the depart
ment heads,” McGill said. “But
they (the administration) were
going to raise the requirements
in other areas. This went to the
Academic Council, but they never
accepted it. And then the Execu
tive Council zapped it.”
“Many other good schools have
no language requirements,” Ha
san said.
“I recommend that we set up
a commission to get the facts as
to how the language requirement
is handled on other campuses,”
Treasurer Kamaluddin Hyder
said.
Hasan was the only member
of the council who would volun
teer to serve officially on the
commission.
In the Traffic Committee re
port, Secretary Jeanne Snider
drink, was used to settle the bear
during examinations.
A 15-month-old female black
bear named Delilah was admitted
to the clinic Feb. 27 suffering
from a skin condition and loss of
hair. She is one of several mas
cots for the Baylor Bears athletic
ing A&M with an Air Force
ROTC scholarship.
Mathis and Reeser were
charged and jailed for possession
of marijuana and Lentz was
charged and jailed for possession
and sale of dangerous drugs. All
three were free on $1,000 bonds
each last weekend.
J. D. Gossett, criminal investi
gator for the University Police,
said Thursday that the drug
problem on this campus was be
coming a serious one.
“We are going to be more ob
servant in the future in this prob
lem because it is becoming more
serious every day,” Sergeant
Gossett said.
“The problem is here to stay.
We can’t get rid of it, but we
can contain and control it,” he
said.
warned that plainclothes police
men are watching the MSC be
ginning at 7 a.m. for students
who park there and walk from
there to classes.
“Don’t park in service vehicle
spots,” she added. “Nor in front
of dumpsters. They come around
at night, and you’ll always get a
ticket. You can park in service
vehicle spots at night, but leave
your trunk up to signify that
you’re loading. If you park in
the spaces around the Cyclotron
where there aren’t any parking
signs and you get a ticket, ap
peal it.” Jeanne is on the Appeals
Court.
“They are going to start giv
ing pedestrians traffic tickets,”
Jeanne said, “if there are pedes
trian walks open, and they don’t
use them.”
Hyder said the GSC newsletter
was tentatively scheduled to come
out April 1. He called the news
letter the only way the GSC can
communicate with all the gradu
ate students and urged that GSC
funds be used to mail it to every
graduate student who' lives off
campus. Hyder also asked that
any articles for the newsletter
be in before the next GSC meet
ing (March 25).
Ernie Davis (AgEd) suggested
that the newsletter contain a
questionnaire to find out what
the graduate students thought
about various issues.
“We included a questionnaire
before,” President McGill remind
ed the council, “But we never did
study the results.”
Ernie Davis (AgEd) asked that
the fight be continued to get the
consideration section for those
teams.
Drs. Richard Heller and Gene
Gowing treated Delilah.
“She was easy to handle only
when given a Dr. Pepper to
drink,” Gowing said.
A case of Dr. Pepper was kept
near her cage to settle her nerves
when she became excited. The
bear became very nervous when
around people and disliked the
presence of dogs, Gowing said.
“The 100-pound bear was fed
a diet of high-quality dog food, a
normal diet for any captive bear,”
Heller explained.
A skin biopsy revealed Delilah
had a chronic bacterial skin in
fection. An autogenous bacterin
was prepared from cultured bac
teria taken from her body.
The bacterin, in the form of a
vaccine, is to be injected to de
velop an immunity to the infec
tion, Heller said.
Other medications given Deli
lah included a hormone prepara
tion and a fatty acid diet treat
ment.
Delilah was released from the
hospital this week under the care
of Dr. E. K. Lamb, a Texas A&M
graduate with a small animal
practice in Waco.
A&M staff veterinarians have
treated most of the Southwest
Conference school mascots at one
time or another, a College of Vet
erinary Medicine spokesman re
ported.
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
Battalion Assistant Editor
The Student Senate defeated
Wednesday night a proposed new
constitution by a vote of 48 for
and 26 against, one and a third
votes short of the two-thirds
present and voting required to
pass it.
The constitution has been under
consideration by the Senate for
over a semester.
The main reason for the de-
who wish to sit at football games
moved to better seats. He said he
wants the first five rows on the
upper deck for the consideration
section.
“It’s like voting against apple
pie because it’s a tradition to
stand up at football games,”
Mickey Land (Educ) said. “Don’t
misunderstand. I’m for it.”
Carolyn Adair (Educ Admin)
said the Complaints Committee
is asking for input.
“Not enough people know about
it,” she said. “If you have any
thing you’d like to know, let me
know, and I’ll find out.”
By DOUGLAS GIBBS
Battalion Staff Writer
Replies to student gripes about
centrex phone service were given
by officials of the General Tel
ephone Co. at Thursday’s Civilian
Student Council meeting.
Other issues discussed included
the student newspaper. The Bat
talion, civilian student weekend
and the proposed constitution.
Representatives from both Bry
an and San Angelo offices of the
telephone company appeared in
response to a letter written by
CSC President Mark Olson listing
student complaints.
Olson read the letter he wrote,
its reply, and a letter from Pres
ident Jack K. Williams that as
sured A&M would not be used as
an agent in bill collecting.
Bill Irwin, of the Bryan Of
fice, spoke for the phone compa
ny and addressed answers to the
problem areas Olson mentioned
in his letter.
Billing procedures that leave
some students with a backlog of
calls from several months are
caused by the frequent dorm-to-
dorm, room-to-room movement of
A&M students, according to Ir
win. He urged students who move
to contact the telephone company
directly, since the University ac
cepts no responsibility to do this.
Irwin said complaints that too
little time is allowed student to
reply to mailing statements had
no foundation.
Prompt delivery of bills was
assured him by the San Angelo
mailing office and the College
Station post office, he said, and
repeated billings actually allow
a 17-day reply period, before fur-
No class set
inauguration
morning, 9-12
Classes will be dismissed dur
ing the inauguration of Dr. Jack
K. Williams, April 16, announced
Dr. Horace R. Byers, academic
vice president.
Dr. Byers said classes will be
dismissed from 9 a.m. until noon.
The ceremony installing Dr.
Williams as 17th president of the
university begins at 10 a.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
feat was due to the proposed
system of representation appor
tionment in the Senate. The new
constitution provided for 26 sena
tors to be apportioned among the
colleges according to the total
enrollment.
It also called for one or more
senators to come from living area
districts to be apportioned an
nually by the Senate, trying to
keep the ratio as close to one
senator to 750 students as pos
sible.
Five senators (as is now done)
were to be elected at large from
the freshman class immediately
following fall mid-semester grade
reports.
The current system has 53 sen
ators selected from the colleges,
nine executive officers, five fresh
men, and 10 ex-officio members,
a total of 77.
Steve Hook (soph-Sci) spoke
for most of the assenting sena
tors when he said, “Certain fac
tions here in the Senate are wor
ried about their prominence, their
power on this campus, rather
than the students. They are put
ting a minority above the whole.”
All those voting against the
proposal were cadets, a group
that would lose much of its cur
rent representation in the Stu
dent Senate if the reapportion
ment section of the constitution
was passed.
Kent Caperton, president of the
Senate and a strong supporter of
the constitution, said afterward
ther action is taken by the com
pany.
In response to voicings against
the telephone contracts, Irwin
said $21,000 plus in unpaid bills
has been attributed to A&M stu
dents since 1968, when the serv
ice was first installed.
Bill investigations are handled
so that “if you deny a call, that
call is removed from your bill
until investigated,” Irwin said.
Concerning the charge that the
university is used to collect phone
company bills, he flatly stated
“the University does not assist
us.” However, Irwin regretfully
admitted that for a 60-day period
during the summer of ’70 several
students were told by phone com
pany officials that disciplinary
action would be taken by the uni
versity if phone bills weren’t paid,
due to a mistake over what turn
ed out to be tentative approval
of such a program. The approval
Juniors’ dates
can be entered
for sweetheart
Entries for the 1970-71 junior
class sweetheart are now being
accepted, Class President Jerry
McGowen of Mansfield has an
nounced.
Juniors wishing to enter their
dates for sweetheart should con
tact Mary Hanak, Richard Till
man or Carl Olson. Deadline for
entries is March 20, McGowen
said.
Ten finalists will be chosen by
a selection committee. The ’72
class sweetheart will be picked
by ballot at the Junior Ball, a
March 27 event in Duncan Hall.
McGowen said continuous play
ing bands will be featured at the
7:30 to 12:30 p.m. dance, Which
will be semi-formal. The bands
are “The Gripping Force” and
“Sundance.”
“The Gripping Force,” Fort
Worth organization formerly of
Shreveport played at one of the
dances for Gov. Preston Smith’s
inauguration in January. The
band has a new Decca Record re
lease coming out in May.
“Sundance” plays out of San
Antonio and has a new hit single,
“He Gives Us All His Love.”
that the defeat “makes it almost
impossible for us to get this in
this year.”
The constitution would have to
be ratified by the students in a
general election before it could
take effect.
“If this thing is going to work
we’ve got to give it a chance, and
that’s what I think some of the
people here are afraid of, giving
it a chance,” Tommy Mayes, (jr.-
LA) said of those opposing the
proposal.
Caperton pleaded with the sen
ators to put aside feelings of
loyalty to one side or another and
“to look at the document as a
whole.”
“Certainly it’s a compromise,”
Cap6rton said vehemently, “but
it’s a step up to a new system of
representation. The change is
necessary because the old way
just isn’t working.”
One large topic of dissension
was the 10 senators apportioned
to off-campus students. Caper
ton harangued the Senate, com
menting that “51 per cent of the
students live off-campus and
we’ve got to quit treating them
like outcasts.” He later apolo
gized for sermonizing.
Before the Senate considered
the constitution as a whole, Mike
Essmyer, parliamentarian, moved
to amend the new constitution’s
apportionment system to 50 sen
ators distributed among the col
leges and have at least five fresh
men as senators along with four
was withdrawn by the university
when the program was defeated.
Irwin asked for specific in
stances of rudeness to substan
tiate the claim of insufficient
service from Bryan officials.
We want to work with you to
get the service you want and we
want to provide,” Irwin added.
Commenting on the company’s
efforts to answer student com
plaints, Olson commended the
company highly for its response.
Also present at the meeting was
A&M Vice President Tom D.
Cherry, who praised the council
for its work on the problem and
challenged them to find solutions
to phone company problems
amongst themselves.
Olson reported on a conversa
tion he had with Dave Middle-
brooke, editor of The Battalion,
in which Olson suggested The
Battalion do less editorializing,
and stop “pitting the corps
against civilians.”
According to Olson, Middle-
executive positions. His proposal
was much the same as the pres
ent system.
“We just had a motion made
that was taken off the top of his
head. He just made it up, pulled
it out,” Tommy Henderson, (sr.-
LA) said of Essmyer.
“I’m getting g tired of go
ing around and around with this
thing,” he said, “you’ve had your
chance to change it and now in
the last minute you come up with
this.”
“For a month and a half you’ve
been coming to the meeting and
bitching. You’re just tearing it
down, not offering any construc
tive ideas,” Charles Hicks, wel-
far ecommittee chairman, said.
After a five-minute recess to
find out how many votes were
needed to carry the amendment—
and to let tempers, which were
rising, cool down—the proposal
was defeated, 21 for and 53
against. For a moment it looked
as if the amendment might have
carried but as the end of the roll
was called, the nays pulled ahead.
After more debate on the con
stitution as a whole, Steve Hook
called for the previous question
and a roll call vote was taken
on the whole proposal, which was
defeated for the first time, by
the same vote that later defeated
it again.
The second, and final, defeat
ing vote came after most of the
Senate seemed dissatisfied with
(See Senate, page 3)
brooke replied that most editorials
are written to clear up miscon
ceptions, and that he would talk
to his reporters about editorial
izing.
“He’s got a few reporters that
seem to miss a few facts,” Olson
said. “This seems tragic, I would
hope he would select them a lit
tle bit better.”
Olson said Middlebrooke pledg
ed full co-operation of The Bat
talion with Civilian Weekend.
“They know we are out on a
limb,” he said.
In closing, Olson said, “I don’t
sympathize with David Middle
brooke, but he made sense and
talked rationally.”
“To the best of my knowledge,”
Middlebrooke said later, “our
news stories do not carry edi
torial bias—in fact, we work damn
hard to make sure none is pres
ent.
“I find it interesting,” he said,
“that people are reluctant to
(See Civilians, page 2)
General Telephone Division Manager Bill Irwin speaks
before the Civilian Student Council Thursday night. He
said that over $21,000 in unpaid telephone bills has been
attributed to A&M students since 1968. (Photo by Larry
Martin)
Dr. Pepper prescribed
for calming jittery bear
Arrested students
now out of school
Civilians hear Centrex official,
discuss Battalion, constitution