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Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1971
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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. There now are no speed
limits for motorcycles.
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