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Vol. 66 No. 116
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 28, 1971
Thursday — Cloudy. Winds
southerly 10-15 mph. Hitfh 88°,
low 71°.
Friday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy, afternoon rainshowers.
Winds southerly 10-20 mph. High
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By DAVID S. MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Editor
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Directors Tues
day morninp gave its stamp of
approval to proposals which re
arrange fee distribution sched
ules, raise the building use fee
and establish a new $5-per-se-
raester fee.
The board did not reconsider
the women’s on-campus housing
issue, as had been expected.
Board members may, however,
take up the matter at their June
meeting.
The building use fee increase
will be $5 per semester, as ex
plained to the Student Senate
Thursday by Ed Cooper, assist
ant to the president for student
affairs. The fee increase will take
place beginning with the fall se
mester.
The increase is needed to fi-
Board honors
3 professors
Three long-time A&M profes
sors, Dr. John H. Milliff, Ed
ward S. Packenham and Arthur
D. Adamson, have received emer
itus status from the institution’s
board of directors.
Milliff, who will enter full re
tirement Aug. 31 after 39 years
of service, is professor of vet
erinary anatomy. He is a re
cipient of the Faculty Distin
guished Teaching Award and
the Texas Veterinary Medical As
sociation Teaching Award.
Packenham retired from the
Accounting Department last year
after 23 years of service. Dur
ing the latter part of his tenure,
he was a member of the gradu
ate faculty and took an active
part in the executive develop
ment programs and financial
management conferences.
Adamson served as professor
of health and physical education
and swimming coach for 32 years.
His swimming teams were con
sistent winners and his water polo
team was twice national cham
pion. He was the first South
west Conference coach elected
president of the College of Swim
ming Coaches Association. He
was elected to the Helms Hall of
Fame in 1956, the Texas Pool of
Fame in 1967 and received the
1BC4 Texas Interscholastic Swim
ming Coaches Award.
All three appointments are ef
fective Sept. 1.
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“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
nance a $6.5 million bond sale the
board authorized Tuesday. The
bonds cover construction costs of
the MSC expansion which are not
being funded from other sources.
The increase itself, however,
does not provide enough money to
meet the bond payments—another
$17.50 is needed, Allen Schlandt,
director of audits and finance,
told the Senate Thursday. He said
$5 of the $17.50 will come from
student tuition payments.
Schlandt explained Texas law al
lows a university or college to re
distribute up to $5 of a student’s
tuition fee in this manner.
He also explained the other
$12.50 needed will come from a
reshuffling of the present build
ing use fee distribution, a reshuf
fling approved by the board,
Tuesday.
Under the plan, $1.50 of the $4
going towards the payment of
library bonds; $1.50 of the $4 go
ing to the coliseum bonds; $1.50
of the $4 going towards Kyle
Field bonds; $4 of the $4 going
towards auditorium (Guion Hall)
bonds; and $4 of the $4 going
towards MSC bonds will be re
allocated into a fund to pay off
the $6.5 million in bonds sold
Tuesday.
Schlandt emphasized Thursday
the funds taken from the other
facilities are not operating funds,
but funds being used to pay off
bonds on the facilities. The cuts
are possible, he said, because the
fee rates were established when
enrollment was smaller. Today’s
higher enrollment means less per
student can pay the same bonds,
he said.
He also explained all of the
MSC and auditorium fees can be
reallocated because the bonds on
the structures have been paid off,
and the money has been accumu
lating in a reserve fund.
Acting under power granted
them by a recent act of the Texas
legislature, board members ap
proved the levying, beginning with
the fall semester, of a $5 student
center complex fee.
The fee will be used. Manage
ment Services Director Howard
Vestal told student senators last
month, to pay for equipping,
staffing and running the new
MSC facilities once they are built.
Student leaders had been of the
opinion the board would recon
sider its February decision to
house women on campus begin
ning in the fall of 1972, and move
the date up to this fall.
Student Body President Kent
Caperton talked with board mem
ber William Lewie Jr. of Waco
during a recess in proceedings.
Caperton later told The Battalion
he is of the impression the board
wishes to further consider the
matter, and may act one way or
another at its June meeting.
He said he understands board
members want to further study
the security possible in present
residence halls, and the cost of
converting one for coed occu
pancy.
“Frankly, I’m afraid the board
is trying the old ‘kill the matter
by putting it off’ trick,” Caperton
said. “I’m concerned by the reluc
tance of the board to assume its
responsibility to house coeds.”
In other business, the board:
Awarded a $278,119 contract to
the Basin Construction Company
of Odessa to construct the head
quarters building for the A&M
Agricultural Research and Exten
sion Center at San Angelo.
Awarded contracts totaling $7.8
million for the additions to the
MSC.
Appropriated $67,000 for par
tial renovation of Texas A&M’s
Law and Puryear Residence Halls.
Confirmed a $24,135 contract
to Brazos Valley Nursery-Florist
of Bryan for landscape planting
at nine Texas A&M facilities and
$17,924 to R. B. Butler, Inc., also
of Bryan, for construction of a
new diving tower at Wofford Cain
Pool.
Authorized Texas A&M Uni
versity officials to again nego
tiate a contract with Texas Air-
motive Company for ROTC flight
training.
Approved a Tarleton State
proposal to offer a student health
service and insurance plan iden
tical to the one operated at Texas
A&M.
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S1UDENT SENATE presidential candidate John Sharp speaks to a meager audience
at the “Meet the Candidates Rally" Tuesday. Most of crowd left after the rock group
Gypsy Moth, engaged to draw some listeners, stopped playing. (Photo by Randy Free
man)
Hometown vote OKed
Nixon broadcast by House for iinder-2 Is
live Thursday
WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Nixon will hold a White
House news conference that will
be open to live radio and televi
sion coverage Thursday at 9 p.m.
EDT.
The session in the East Room,
will precede a presidential de
parture about 12 hours later for
an abbreviated trip to Califor
nia and the Western White
House. A prime purpose of the
flight will be to welcome back
the First Marine Division — the
last to return from Vietnam.
Nixon originally had consid
ered spending a week on the coast
but now will be coming back to
( Washington next Monday and
holding a meeting with Republi
can congressional leaders the fol
lowing day.
Nixon’s latest news conference
at the White House was on March
4, but on April 16 he held a
question-and-answer panel ses
sion with representatives of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors and White House cor
respondents of the Associated
Press and United Press Interna
tional.
Press secretary Ronald L. Zieg
ler gave no indication Tuesday
that the President was prepared
to produce any major announce
ments at the one coming up
Thursday. Ziegler said Nixon
would go directly to questions.
The press secretary told ques
tioners that the shortening of the
California trip did not actually
mean a change in plans because
there had been only talk that the
President would spend five or six
days at his home by the sea at
San Clemente, Calif., and never
any formal firm decision to re
main on until May 6.
Nor would Ziegler say that the
shortened trip was related to the
protest demonstrations slated for
the national capital.
‘Y’ discussion topic Thursday
legal results of drug abuse
W. Dee Kutach, assistant direc
tor in charge of treatment for
the Texas Department of Cor
rections, will give the third and
final program in the Texas A&M
Student Y Association “Drug
Abuse” series Thursday.
The program begins at 7:30
p.m. in Rooms 3A-C of the Me
morial Student Center.
Kutach, former A&M employe
in the Basic Division, will ex
plain the legal consequences of
drug abuse.
Previous speakers included a
psychiatrist and four young in
mates from the corrections sys
tem.
AUSTIN IJP) — Young people
and women got their way in the
Texas House Tuesday.
House members voted 99-40 to
ratify the proposed U.S. consti
tutional amendment enabling 18-
year-olds to vote in state and
local elections. Senators approved
the amendment 25-6 on March 24.
Rep. Frank Calhoun of Abilene
Library open
around clock
during finals
The library will remain open
around the clock May 10-12 for
students’ final exams study use.
Spring semester, finals begin
Monday, May 10, and conclude
Saturday, May 15.
The three-day 24-hour schedule
will provide quiet study condi
tions after normal library hours,
pointed out Richard L. Puckett,
public services coordinator.
He said the checkout desk will
close at 11:30 p.m. as usual. The
reserve reading room will re
main open until midnight, rather
than 10:30 p.m. May 10-12.
Puckett added that the library’s
open shelf materials can be used
in the building during the after
regular hours period.
The special schedule was set
up on a trial basis last spring.
Response and care observed by
users led to the 24-hour schedule
being repeated this year, Library
Director John B. Smith said.
said Texas was the 21st state
to ratify the amendment.
Another 17 states must ap
prove the amendment before it
can become part of the constitu
tion.
A federal law already gives
18-year-olds the vote in elections
for national offices, such as pres
ident, U.S. senators and repre
sentatives.
Just in case the other states
are slow in ratifying the amend
ment, the House also approved
138-9 a state constitutional
change enfranchising 18-year-
olds for state and local elections.
The measure now goes to the
Senate, which passed a similar
measure several weeks ago.
Before approving the measure,
however, the House added a pro
vision that would require col
lege students under 21 who are
supported by their parents to
vote in their hometowns.
The provision was offered by
Rep. Harold Davis of Austin, a
city where a get out the vote
drive by University of Texas stu
dents earlier this month threw
a scare into some conservatives.
“A lot of young people are
suspicious of the establishment,
and I suppose we are the estab
lishment. It is not surprising,
and their suspicions are well-
founded,” said Rep. Neil Cald
well of Angleton, an opponent of
the Davis amendment.
The House voted 119-25 for a
Senate-approved measure called
the “women’s right amendment”.
The action puts the state consti
tutional change on the November
1972 ballot for a final decision
by the voters.
The amendment states, simply,
that “equality under the law shall
not be denied or abridged be
cause of sex, race, color, creed or
national origin.”
Entertainment show to feature
local spiritual singing group
A local group, Zion Jubilee, will
take “Entertainment Now” into
the world of the Negro spiritual
at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on KAMU-
TV.
Zion Jubilee has recorded on
Jewel Records and been featured
throughout Texas. The group
marks its 12th anniversary in
June.
More recent performances by
the group have included Dallas,
Lubbock, the Music Hall in Hous
ton and Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Zion Jubilee also has a regular
monthly program on KORA ra
dio of Bryan.
Channel 15’s “Entertainment
Now” showcases talented per
formers in almost any phase of
entertainment. Bob Robinson and
Dave Williams of the A&M edu
cational TV staff are constantly
looking for new r talent. Anyone
interested in auditioning should
call one of them at 846-1526 for
an appointment.
The inquiring Battman
What do you think of the weekly ‘inquiring Battman?
Clifford Broyles
senior
“The inquiring Battman is well
worth the space it takes up. It
gives people a chance to express
their views on things they nor
mally wouldn’t get a chance to.”
Hayden Whitsett
sophomore
“As little as possible.”
Sue Davis
sophomore
“It’s funny.”
Alan-Jon Zupan
graduate
“The weekly student opinion
poll is definitely worth the ef
fort, especially if pertinent and
timely questions are asked con
cerning events at Texas A&M.
At least now questions are asked.”
Fran Zupan
senior
“I like it because it brings out
what some students think on im
portant issues. It gives the per
son who isn’t an editor or stu
dent leader a chance to voice his
opinion. The Battman makes in
teresting reading, but can pro
voke thought and discussions
which will effect decisions made
on campus.”
Patrick Fontana
senior
“It has the potential of pre
senting a true cross section of
student opinion. However, be
cause of fear of pre-publication
censorship, some of the stronger
opinions—whether they be valid
or invalid logically — were not
permitted to be published.”
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David Middiebrooke
senior
“I think it has been a fine
feature, and the staff of The
Battalion should be commended
for the thought, time and energy
it has put into making the feature
as interesting and relevant as it
has been.” (Photos by Alan-Jon
Zupan)
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