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!!i BUSIER - JONES AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 CORBUSIER CHEVROLET CO. Serving for 32 'LfearA 500 South Texas Ave. Phone: 823-0061 Bryan ■ 3 Miles N. On Tabor Road \ Saturday: Sammy Smith Admission — Regular Price STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nite (ALL BRANDS BEER 25<J) J THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1971 Student Senate THE OLD THIRD WING BASH April 3 — Houston White House Motor Hotel Everyone Is Invited FOR TICKET INFO. CALL 845-1495 Buy one order at regular price, and receive 2nd order at ^ Ml PRICE! Bring Thit Coupon. Good Monday thru Thursday. Allies AUTHENTIC ENGLISH Wf 2700 Texas Avenue, Bryan (Continued from page 1) made for day student represen tation by living area. College and on-campus living-area represen tation also are part of the con stitution. The plan, explained by Issues Chairman Kirby Brown, would divide the B-CS area into living areas whose boundaries would be decided by the Senate. Each area would be allowed one senator, and two would be elected at-large by all students residing in Bryan. Two more at-large senators would be elected by all day students. Brown said cooperation with the Rgistrar’s Office would allow a student’s off-campus address and/or living area to be indi cated on his fee slip. Bill Clark (fresh) attacked the whole plan as ridiculous. He said it would not provide maximum communication between day stu dent senators an dtheir constitu ents, and claimed the college sys tem was as good a system of representation if not better. Thomas C. Fitzhugh III, MSC president attending as a proxy for Deputy Corps Commander Thomas Bain, said the proposed constitution was too long and shrould be shortened. He predicted the document, if adopted, would not work as well as the present constitution. He noted election filing ends Friday, and any change now in the system of representation would only cause problems. Charles Hoffman, proxy for Rick Briscoe (sr-LA), said it was the responsibility of next year’s Senate to consider the proposed constitution or any other new plan. It is the new Senate’s re sponsibility, he said, to consider any new form of government. Sam Buser (soph-LA) asked if the Senate defeated a document it had spent a semester studying, what could it point to as its semester’s work? He said it was no wonder students have little interest in the Senate. He urged senators to drop the twice- defeated proposal and get on to other business. Other senators argued a combi nation of living area and college representation would allow a student to know his senator lived near him, and would allow the senator to better represent prob lems of a particular area. Mike Barrett (sr-Sci) proposed an alternate mthod of represen tation which simply was a reduced number of senators elected by college and class (as is now done) and elimination of ex-officio posi tions. It was defeated. After much hassling and flar ing of tempers, the constitution went down by a 42-31-1 vote, seven short of the vote required to pass. Thirty of the negative votes were cast by cadets. Senate Secretatry Bill Harts- field recommended spring elec tions be postponed from April 15 to April 28. He said university regulations require 10 class days between the close of filing (this Friday) and the elections. Right now, he said, there are only nine days. He also said election turnout would be poor, since many stu dents will not return until the weekend after the holidays. Dis missal of mornnig classes April 16 for A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams’ inauguration is an other factor, he said. He said April 28 was needed to keep the elections out of Civilian Week. Election Commission President George Walton argued against the proposal, saying the Commis sion had set the election date and the Senate had no authority to change it. Caperton ruled the Commission was an administrative arm of the Senate and the Senate could rule on Commission actions. His rul ing was challenged, but the Senate upheld his position. After more parliamentary ma neuvering, with some personality clashes, senators passed Harts- field’s proposal 42-27-3. Thursda; LAW HALL’S Linda Lawrence sinks a basket for the Ramp 10 Girls, who defeated the Puryear Playmates Wednesday night 33-26 in DeWare Fieldhouse. (Photo by Mike Rice) Senate passes 18-year-old vote AUSTIN CdP) — Texas sena tors responded to Lt. Gov. Ben. Barnes’ plea Wednesday and vot ed 25-6 to ratify a Congressional proposal to lower the voting age to 18 in all elections. The measure now goes to the House, where a similar resolu tion was introduced but was not put to a vote. Senators also took the first step in making it easier for Tex ans to vote by deciding to debate a bill setting up a form of per manent voter registration. Sen. Don Kennard of Fort Worth announced four days of public hearings on the $492.5 mil lion House-passed tax bill will start Thursday afternoon. “After we review the bill as it is, we will start considering amendments and any additional tax raising ideas not in the bill now,” said Kennard, one of the Senate sponsors. Barnes told senators it would be a “very significant step” if they acted quickly to approve the congressional resolution to change the minimum voting age in the U. S. Constitution to 18. Barnes said five states already have ratified the proposal—Con necticut, Delaware, Minnesota, Tennessee and Washington. MSC chairmen named to posts Howard E. Creek of Abilene, Robert J. Lackey of Arlington and Miles A. Vincin of Baytown have been named to Memorial Student Center committee chair manships, rounding out the 1971- 72 organization. Vincin, a physics junior, will chair the New Tradition Singers. The MSC Recreation Commit tee will be headed by Creek, an environmental design junior and member of Squadron 4 in the Corps of Cadets. Lackey will head the Basement Committee, which operates a campus coffee house in the MSC basement on weekends. He is a management junior and member of Squadron 9. Other committee chairmen who will work under Council and Di rectorate President John C. Dac- us next year are Larry Brown, Washington, Aggie Cinema; Ver non Lewis, Seguin, Black Aware ness; Randolph Freeman, Hous ton, Camera; George W. Lock- wood, Fort Worth, Chess; David Dacus, Dallas, Contemporary Arts. Also, Sam Drugan, El Paso, Great Issues; Bunny Blaha, Houston, Host and Fashion; Ter ry Rowen, Killeen, Leadership; Paul Turner, Livington, Politi cal Forum; Jan Bertholf, Annan- dale, Va., Radio; Ben Thurman, College Station, SCONA XVII; Kirk Hawkins, San Angelo, Town Hall, and Jim Summers, Shreve port, Travel. PRISON REFORM Dr. George Beto Presently Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Huntsville Consultant, Presidents Commission on Law Enforcement Recipient of Texas Heritage Foundation medal for development of the educational system for the Texas Prison System. Thursday, March 25, 8:00p.m., MSC “Today’s young people are the best educated and most politi cally aware of any preceding gen eration,” Barnes said in a writ ten statement prior to the Sen ate vote. “They have the right to a voice in the making decisions which so directly affect their lives.” Sens. H. J. Blanchard of Lub bock and Henry Grover of Hous ton protested the quick vote on the 18-year-old proposal. “It is a bad precedent to ram something through the Senate without a chance to reflect,” said Blanchard. They voted with four other conservatives — Sens. A. M. Aik- ens of Paris, Wayne Connally of Floresville, W. T. Moore of Bry an and J. P. Word of Meridian against the measure. Thirty-eight states must ratify the congressional action within the next seven years for it to go into effect. The Senate voted, 22-6, to de bate a bill allowing a person to re-register automatically by vot ing at least once every four years in a party primary or November general election for state and county offices. The bill would allow year- round voter registration with a cutoff debate 30 days before an election. It will be pending business Thursday. Sen. Mike McKool of Dallas, the sponsor, said it has “more safeguards than any state in the union.” The Senate passed and sent to the governor a bill to allow city transportation companies to set special reduced fares for persons over 65, blind or disabled. It also passed to the governor a measure prohibiting state and local governments from seeking competitive bids in hiring attor neys, physicians, surgeons acl engineers. Two bills relating to the Hons ton Ship Channel were sent to the governor. One would change the name of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga tion District to the Port of Hous ton Authority, which carries wi it broader powers. The otk would allow the authority to establish safety rules for tit channel and to buy a boat to handle fires. The Senate amended and sent back to the House bills to revist Texas’ water code and to set oil regulations to protect persons working near high-voltage elw- trie lines. Senators agreed to a confer ence committee to work out dif ferences between the House ani Senate on a proposal raising tui tion for out-of-state student*. The House voted to raise it from $200 a semester to $700, and tli Senate raised it to $500. House members tentatively ap proved, 74-66, a bill enabling county commissioners — instead of the legislature — to set tk salaries of all county employes except judges and court reporters. The House rejected Senati changes in a bill giving injured workmen greater freedom ti choose their doctors and called for a joint House-Senate confer ence committee to write a com promise. The House version au thorized panels of doctors from which employes could choose. Senators left the choice wide open. House members tentatively ap proved a bill putting motorcycles under the same speed limits as cars. 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