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College Station, Texas
Friday, April 23, 1971
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Student senators Thursday
night had a proposed increase in
he building use fee sprung on
hem, and they reacted by pass-
ng a resolution expressing their
‘extreme displeasure” over the
;eneral handling of the matter,
ipecifically the lack of student
nput.
Senators also passed resolutions
oncerning the Yell Leader Com-
nittee, pay for student body pres-
dent and vice president and ju-
licial reform, and voted to estab-
ish a student Better Business Bu
reau for next year.
Ed Cooper, assistant to the
jresident for student affairs, be-
;an his explanation of the pro-
iosed fee increase by apologiz-
ng to the Senate for coming at
such a late date.
A&M’s board of directors is to
ict on the proposal when it meets
iere next Monday and Tuesday.
Senators were particularly dis-
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“Meet the Candidates,” a chance
'or students to hear candidates
running for executive offices on
campus for the coming school
year, will be held on the main
drill field at 5:30 Tuesday.
Each candidate will give a five
u> iO minute speech explaining
his platform.
Candidates for Student Senate
president are John Sharp, Roger
Miller, and Bill Hamilton. Those
running for vice president are
Bill Hartsfield and Mike Essmyer.
Dave Goodlin and Barb Sears are
those running for recording secre
tary. Treasurer candidates are
Spike Dayton and Sam Roosth.
For parliamentarian, Tom Autrey
and Lewis Zingery are candidates.
Chairman candidates include:
Kirby Brown, Wayne Edwards
and Janies C. McLeroy — Issues
Chairman; Randy Ross and Dale
Foster — Welfare Chairman;
Bruce Clay and Wayne Horn —
Public Relations Chairman; Mike
Tiemann, Bill Darkoch and Layne
Kruse — Student Life Chairman.
Candidates for senators will not
be present to speak.
Questions will be allowed fol
lowing the speeches as time per
mits.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
pleased because only a few weeks
ago they had, at the request of
Management Services Director
Howard Vestal, approved a House
bill giving the board authority to
levy a $5 student center complex
fee beginning this fall. At the
time, Vestal had assured senators
there were no other new fees
forthcoming.
Cooper explained that not even
A&M President Dr. Jack K. Wil
liams had known about the build
ing use fee increase until Tues
day, and that Vestal had told the
Senate the truth as he knew it.
He attributed the problem to a
lack of communications between
administrators. The student center
complex fee will pay for operation
of the new complex, and the build
ing use fee hike would be used to
pay for construction bonds on
the project. Cooper said the prob
lem was those handling the bonds
told no one of their plans.
“You’ve been told that when
you buy a Cadillac you’ve got to
pay for the gas,” Cooper said.
“Well, you’ve approved paying
for the gas, now we need to pay
for the Cadillac.”
Allen Schlandt, director of au
dits and finance, was with Coop
er and explained that the new
MSC complex will involve $19
million in bonds. Through univer
sity reserves and aid from the
Association of Former Students,
he said, the total left to be fi
nanced is $6.5 million.
Cooper said the $6.5 million
comes down to $22.50 per student.
He explained $5 will come from
the fee increase, $5 will come from
tuition payments (Texas law
allows this, but limits it to $5),
and $12.50 will come from a re
distribution of the existing build
ing use fee.
Cooper said $1.50 of the $4 al-
loted to the library will go to
wards the MSC bonds; $1.50 of
the $4 coliseum allotment; $1.50
of the $4 Kyle Field allotment;
$4 of the $4 MSC allotment; and
$4 or the $4 auditorium (Guion
Hall) allotment.
In response to questioning.
Cooper and Schlandt assured sen
ators the redistribution will not
hurt any of the facilities affect
ed.
Schlandt explained that the
building use fee money goes to
retire bonds on the various build
ings. The amounts devoted to the
facilities were decided when bonds
for them were sold, he said. Since
then, more students paying the
same fee has created a reserve.
He said the additional enroll
ment allows the bonds payments
to be met at less cost per student.
In some cases, he said, facilities
have been paid for and the money that the committee should not tary Sciences Building, said his
alloted to them allowed to build
up a reserve.
He emphasized to senators that
no operating funds were being af
fected.
Cooper assured senators the ad
ministration plans to seek much
more student input in the future
and termed the present situation
“unfortunate.”
Bill Braddy (sr-Eng) said A&M
has been free from major campus
disturbances, and he thought per
haps the administration was ac
quiring the attitude of building
things and letting the students
pay for it. He said taking advan
tage of a cooperative student
body could leave the field ripe
for outside agitators.
Senate Vice President Roger
Miller later introduced a resolu
tion resolving that the Senate
“express its extreme disapproval”
of the way the fee increase was
handled, and asking the admini
stration to seek student input in
matters affecting students.
The resolution further asks
that student input be sought at
a time when it can affect final
decisions. The measure passed by
voice vote.
Issues Chairman Kirby Brown
told senators the Yell Leader
Committee, just before the Eas
ter break, had disqualified two
candidates for senior yell leader,
Brian Raines and Daryl Barrett.
Both are civilian students and
have long hair. Brown said the
committee’s action amounted to
depriving the students of their
right to choose whom they want
ed.
He claimed it is absurd to de
cide in a five-minute interview a
person does not have enthusiasm.
Most senators agreed with Brown
have the power of screening yell
leader candidates in advance, as
it now does.
Chairman Malon Southerland,
civilian corps advisor in the Mili-
committee is composed of the
deputy corps commander, a civil
ian Student Council vice presi
dent, Sanders Letbetter, assistant
(See Senate, page 4)
Nation’s top go-cart drivers
here this weekend for races
Some of the nation’s top rank
ed go-cart racers will visit the
campus Saturday as part of the
second annual Texas A&M Grand
Prix go-cart races.
The civilian weekend attrac
tion will begin at 9 a.m. in park
ing lot No. 50 across from the
new Engineering Building with
time trials being held for both
single and double engine cars.
The competitors will then be split
into two classes based on the
fastest times.
The first class will begin its
finals at noon, followed by a
special exhibition, featuring some
of the top ranked go-carts and
drivers in the nation.
At 1:15 p.m., finals for the
second class carts will be held,
and will be followed by the pres
entation of trophies to the first
three places for each race.
“It should prove to be an ex
citing afternoon,” Bill Shaw,
chairman of the go-cart commit
tee said. “All the drivers are
very impressive. Some of the
national champs are only kids,
and can handle those cars better
than most adults.”
The race will be immediately
followed by a powder-puff foot
ball game between Law Hall’s
Ramp Ten Girls and the Pur-
year Playmates at 2:00 p.m.
Gasoline for the race will be
donated by Rex McCall Enco at
North Gate.
GSC to complain
By GARY AVEN
Battalion Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Council
(GSC) voted unanimously Thurs
day to send a letter to A&M Pres
ident Dr. Jack K. Williams voic
ing their disapproval of the hand
ling of House Bill 573.
The bill before the state legis
lature gives the A&M board of
directors authority to help finance
Champ model airplane fliers
here for speed, stunt contests
The Texas A&M Model Air
plane Club (TAMMAC) will host
200 contestants this weekend, in
cluding many national champion
stunt and combat pilots, Chuck
Adams, club president, said.
Competition will be held from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both Sat
urday and Sunday, and will in
clude races, stunt flying and
aerial combat.
Many fliers will be seeking
world championships in the
speed competition, with expected
speeds of better than 160 miles
per hour.
Stunt flight will include spare
and round loops, figure eights,
and inverted flight competition.
Combat competition includes
two groups of competitors; a
slow category, which will be
flown at speeds of about 70 miles
per hour, and a fast category,
which will include planes flying
in excess of 130 mph.
Pilots include Riley Wooten,
the defending national combat
champion from Lubbock, and
George Aldrich from San An
tonio, holder of the national
championship for many years in
the stunt category.
All competition will be held in
parking lot No. 50, across from
the new Engineering Building.
the new Memorial Student Center
(MSC) complex with a fee to ex
ceed $10.
The bill was voted on and en
dorsed in the Student Senate, ex
plained GSC President-elect Ron
Tomas (Bio.), but the student
senators never had a chance to
find out how their constituents
felt.
“I feel the majority of the stu
dents would have been against
it,” Tomas said. “The majority
of the council voted (for the fee
increase) for the good of the
university, even though they were
personally against it. We’d like
to see future proposals of this
type in time to consult our con
stituents before we’re asked to
vote on them.”
“I found out,” said Vice Pres
ident C. A. Bedinger (Bio), “that
had the Student Senate not ap
proved it, the bill would not have
passed. I also found that the
university has reallocated the stu
dent services fees already appro
priated.” After the reallocation,
he said, each student will be pay
ing $55 (not all in new fees) a
year for the MSC, and that’s not
counting summer school.
But what really hurts is we
didn’t know about it until now,
he said.”
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hot,
cloudy
SATURDAY — Clear to partly
cloudy. Winds easterly 5 to 10
m.p.h. High 76, low 67.
SUNDAY — Partly cloudy.
Winds southeasterly 15 to 20
m.p.h. High 81, low 62.
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“HAVE SOME OF MINE,” Arthur Fiedler, conductor of
the Boston Symphony seems to be saysing as he offers a
sip of beer to a tiny dog, “Napolean,” at a party given for
him by West German foreign minister Walter Scheel. The
Boston Symphony is in Bonn on tour, performing “Peter
and the Wolf,” narrated by Mrs. Joan Kennedy, wife of
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Wirephoto)
about added fees
“What bothers me,” Herb Gers-
bach (Mgmt.) said, “is the real-
location of funds from the library
to the MSC.”
“That’s one thing I’d like to
y’all yell about at the Student
Senate meeting tonight,” Presi
dent Larry McGill (Vet. Path.)
said.
“I think President Williams will
appreciate that we’ve handled the
situation in a mature way,” Ernie
Davis (Ag. Eco.) said, “sending
him a letter instead of demon
strating and letting our eye
lashes grow long or whatever
they do.”
In other action, the GSC voted
unanimously to readmit this Bat
talion reporter to their meetings.
The Battalion has been barred
from the last couple of GSC meet
ings because, McGill said, “You
quoted a couple of guys right,
but what they said could have
gotten us into real trouble. It
took me a whole day just to keep
one thing you wrote from going
to print. And besides, (David)
Middlebrooke (Battalion editor)
flatly refused to let us review
your articles.”
Battalion: Why don’t you just
tell the GSC not to say anything
they don’t want printed.
McGill: That’s easy on items
that are on the agenda; we’ve
thought that over pretty good.
If wou’ll just stick to the agenda,
we’ll let you stay.
Battalion: I can’t agi’ee to that.
If something is said and I’m here,
and I think it should be reported,
it will be.
McGill: If that’s the way it’s
going to be, we may have to ask
you to leave.
Nevertheless, the vote was un-
amous to let this reporter stay.
Treasurer Kamaluddin Hyder
(F. Tec.) reported that after
balancing all accounts to date,
about $85 will remain in the
GSC’s treasury to finish out this
semester.
Bedinger noted that ballots still
have to be printed for the spring
elections from this fund and, he
said, this cost about $55 last
fall.
“We carried over about $200
this year and didn’t get our money
until November,” McGill said, “so
what are we going to leave for
the council next year? What it
all comes down to is we don’t
have a penny for the Graduate
College handbook.”
Hyder suggested leaving the
handbook for next year’s Council
to carry out, “since it’s so near
the end of our term.”
One of 16 will be Civilian Sweetheart
The 1971 Civilian Student
Sweetheart will be crowned Sat
urday night during the annual
Sweetheart Dance to be held im
mediately after Three Dog Night.
The dance will be held in the
Sbisa Annex, and will feature the
“Ghetto Sounds” from Houston.
Sweetheart nominees will be in
troduced in G. Rollie White Coli
seum during the Three Dog Night
concert intermission.
Representing Walton Hall will
be Terry Sue Wofford, a 19-year-
old blue-eyed blonde senior from
Oliver Wendell Holmes High
School in San Antonio.
Nineteen-year-old Marsha Elli-
Cathy Zachry
son will represent Hughes Hall.
The brown-eyed brunette is a
freshman at East Texas State
University.
Leggett Hall boasts blue-eyed
brown-haired Cindy Weisinger as
its sweetheart representative. She
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is an 18-year-old A&M freshman.
Green-eyed brown-haired Bar
bara Freundenberg is Utay Hall’s
choice. She is a 19-year-old soph
omore at Texas Lutheran College.
Representing Keathley Hall will
be 19-year-old Sharon Koch, a
brown-eyed brunette from Texas
Women’s University.
Sue Aler
Sut Ater is Mclnnis Hall’s
nomination. The blue-eyed brown
haired 17-year-old is a junior at
Westchester High School in Hous
ton.
Milner Hall will be represented
by blue-eyed brown-haired Cathy
Zachry, a second year student at
the University of Texas Dental
Branch in Houston.
Sue Hague will represent Hart
Hall. The 18-year old Veteran’s
Administration employe has
brown hair and brown eyes.
Puryear Hall’s sweetheart is
Ladonna Lewis. She is a 17 year
old blue-eyed brunette senior at
Janis Lidiak
Odessa Senior High School.
Representing Mitchell Hall will
be Peggy Dusek. The blue-eyed
blond is a 17-year-old junior at
Bishop Forrest High School in
Schulenburg.
Moore Hall brags of 17-year-
old Addy England. The blue eyed
blonde is a senior at Douglas Mac-
Arthur High School in San An
tonio.
Schuhmacher Hall will be rep
resented by blue-eyed blond-hair
ed Claudia Jackson. She is a 20
year old sophomore at Tarrant
County Jr. College.
Eighteen-year-old Margaret
Ann Price is Fowler Hall’s selec-
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tion. The hazel-eyed blond is a
freshman at Texas Tech Univer
sity.
Karen Jane Camport will rep
resent Moses Hall. The 19-year-
old green-eyed blond is a fresh
man at Southwest Texas State
University.
Law Hall’s choice is 17-year-
old Susan Rees. The brown-eyed
blonde is a senior at Thomas Jef
ferson High School in San An
tonio.
Janis Lidiak will be Crocker
Hall’s representative. She is a
19-year-old green-eyed blonde
haired freshman at Texas Wom
en’s University.
Sharon Koch