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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 5, 1971
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
Dress codes on way out
AP News Special
School officials have just about
given up trying to enforce rigid
dress codes in many of the
nation’s classrooms. Even hot
pants draw little more than a
raised eyebrow in most places
these days.
An Associated Press survey
showed schools have abandoned
formal regulations—things like
no slacks for girls, no beards, no
mustaches, no long hair.
Instead, they’ve adopted gen
eral guidelines usually ordering
that the youngsters be in accord
ance wtih health regulations—
meaning shoes are a must—and
that their attire not be disrup
tive—no see-through blouses.
“We’ve become farily liberal,
reasonably relaxed and we urge
our students to use Common
sense,” said George Halface,
assistant superintendent of
schools at Hunterdon Central
Regional High School in Fleming-
ton, N. J.
“We believe parents are respon
sible for what students wear to
school. If it’s something terribly
disruptive, we ask them to
change.”
Asked about the supershort
shorts gaining popularity among
women across the country, he
replied, “Frankly, I prefer them
to tattered dungarees.”
The Charlotte - Mecklenburg
school system in North Carolina
adopted a general statement in
1967 prohibiting extreme styles
and grooming which may be detri
mental to the maintenance of
discipline and morale.
A spokesman for the school
district in Shawnee Mission, a
Kansas City suburb, said, “As
long as the style is not a dis
tracting one, we feel it is our
business to educate, not legislate
style.”
Who decides what’s distract
ing?
Many officials concede they
couldn’t stop the fashion trends
if they tried.
Charles Gilbert, principal of
the Upper Arlington High School
in Ohio, said, “We can’t be style
controllers.” As for hot pants,
he added, “It’s like the miniskirt.
We know we’re not going to stop
it, so we’ve decided to make it
the parents’ responsibility, to let
mom and dad decide what the kids
should wear.”
Students now can grow mus
taches, sideburns or beard of any
length and wear clothing of any
style as long as they don’t inter
fere with school activities.
When it comes to boys, the
biggest problem is hair and re
cent court decisions have cast
doubt on the school’s right to
control hair length.
U. S. District Court Judge
Charles Wyzanski Jr. ordered
Alan Bennett, 18, reinstated at
Westfield, Mass., after the youth
was suspended for growing a
mustache. The judge said it was
unconstitutional to try to regu
late the length of a student’s hair
—either on his head or his face.
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the night that our flag was still
there.”
Government workers watched
the demonstration from the peri
phery of the crowd. The temper
ature was in the low 60s, the sky
cloudless and the protesters good-
humored.
Passing motorcycle policemen
at one point, the marchers chant
ed: “Higher pay for cops;
Higher pay for cops.” The po
licemen all but applauded.
Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, the
target of the demonstration, ap
peared from time to time at the
window of his fifth-floor office,
pipe in mouth.
On Monday, bands of antiwar
protesters roamed the streets,
harassing workbound government
employes by sitting in the middle
of the street, blocking the road
with cars, throwing nail-studded
boards and other debris. With
4,000 federal troops augmenting
5,100 city police, the tactic failed
and mass arrests followed.
A similar attempt to stop traf
fic was threatened for Tuesday,
but failed to materialize. Dem
onstration leaders had targeted
four of Washington’s heavy-traf
fic' circles.
But the blocking attempts
failed, although 685 more were
arrested before the Justice De
partment march. Most of the
arrests were on minor charges
and involved individuals or small
groups and there was none of the
tear-gassing and billy-clubbing of
the previous day.
Morning traffic moved, if any
thing, faster than usual.
The President, who was at San
Clemente, Calif., during Mon
day’s demonstration, returned to
the White House Monday night.
“The President felt they were
dealt with appropriately,” press
secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said
of the way demonstrators were
handled
“The overall conduct and re
straint of the District of Colum
bia police in dealing with the
situation,” drew presidential
praise, Ziegler said.
But Ziegler declined to com
ment on the procedures under
which the demonstrators were
arrested. The procedures, short-
cutting traditional methods of
filling out arrest forms and pho
tographing prisoners with arrest
ing officers, have drawn protests
from demonstrators and their
lawyers.
Chief Judge Harold H. Green
of the D.C. Superior Court issued
a show-cause order requiring of
ficials to explain the mass arrests.
The American Civil Liberties
Union accused the government of
producing phony arrest reports
long after the demonstrators
were set up at the Washington
Redskins football practice field,
a jail exercise yard and a sports
arena.
The ACLU said government
lawyers filled out arrest forms
Monday night, inserting the
names of a few policemen at
random. Normally the name of
the arresting officer goes on such
forms, so he can be called later
to testify.
The ACLU asserted also that
police made indiscriminate ar
rests, sweeping up people who
were not part of the demonstra
tion.
The Pentagon announced Tues
day that 6,000 Army paratroop
ers and Marines brought in to
Washington would return to their
home bases that night. Some 4,-
000 other federal troops from
nearby posts remained at staging
HOUSTON OP) — A self-pro
claimed member of the Ku Klux
Klan was arrested Tuesday and
charged with placing a fake
bomb in the Studios of Pacifica
Radio in January of this year.
Pacifica, a non - commercial,
listener-sponsored radio station,
was bombed off the air twice in
1970 when explosives were set
at its transmitter, miles from
the downtown studio. No per
sons were hurt in the explosions,
which caused considerable prop
erty damage.
Charged Tuesday was Paul
William Morratto, 24, who told
reporters he was a member of
the United Klans of America, Inc.
The exact charges filed against
him were false information con
cerning the presence of a bomb,
a misdemeanor, and setting up a
fact situation which caused an
emergency vehicle to respond, a
felony.
The charges stem from a
gadget fashioned from an old ra
dio transmitter which was found
in the studios of the radio sta
tion after a telephoned bomb
threat on Jan. 16.
The fake bomb was found four
days before the station went on
the air after a real bomb had
knocked it off for a second time.
No arrests have been made in
the two authentic bombings.
Arson investigators with the
city fire department said finger
prints found on the fake bomb
were matched to Morratto, who
lives in the Houston suburban
city of League City.
Morratto told reporters he was
innocent of the charges. ‘‘They
are false,” he said, “but these
investigators have to check out
all leads and they are just doing
their job.”
He said “no terrorist activities
are going on locally” which are
caused by the Klan..
There have been over 20 inci
dents of bombings, shootings and
fire bombings in the Houston
area in the past two years di
rected against those on the left,
No injuries have occurred and
no arrests have been made in the
incidents.
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With the antiwar protests
which have been going on with
little interruption since April 24
apparently winding down, the
demonstration-weary capital faces
a counter rally Saturday.
Dr. Carl Mclntire, fundamen
talist radio preacher, is sponsor
ing a “U. S. March for Victory”
which is to parade along Penn
sylvania Avenue and rally on the
Mall. He said Tuesday he ex
pects the crowd to exceed that of
the April 24 peace demonstration
which drew a throng estimated
by police at more than 200,000.
Smathers, engineering students
given excellence awards at banquet
Dr. James B. Smathers, asso
ciate professor of nuclear engi
neering, and six A&M senior en
gineering students were honored
for excellence May 28 by the Col
lege of Engineering.
Dr. Smathers received the 14th
General Dynamics “Excellence in
Engineering Teaching” Award.
The certificate and $1,400 check
were presented by Henry Dvorak,
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Mr. Jones
chief scientist for General Dynam
ics in Fort Worth, and E. J. (Bud)
Horton Jr., engineering group
supervision, Fort Worth Division.
Senior Achievement Award
plaques were presented to Van
H. Taylor, mechanical engineer
ing major from Temple; Charles
H. Herder, chemical engineering
major from Weimar; Carlton W.
Karlick, industrial engineering
major from West; Larry V. Maci-
cek, mechanical engineering ma
jor from Hillsboro; Craig M. Han
sen, electrical engineering major
from San Antonio, and Harry L.
Hall, chemical engineering major
from Dallas.
The student awards are based
on academic excellence, leader
ship and participation in univer
sity activities, noted Awards
Committee Chairman Dr. Robert
S. Wick.
Engineering Dean Fred J. Ben
son conducted the program in the
Memorial Student Center.
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By Charles M. Schulz
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I CAN SEE THE HEADLINES HOW,
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SCHOOL BUS ‘ "“‘TAKE ME HOME.''
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