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Sharp Wednes day night challenged the new Senate to unify the campus and to work for the best interests of the university as a whole. Sharp made his comments dur ing the Student Senate’s annual awards banquet. Earlier in the evening, senior College of Liberal Arts Senator Tommy Henderson was honored as the outstanding student senator of 1970-71. “Anyone who doesn’t believe there is a corps-civilian split on the campus is dreaming,” Sharp told the audience. He challenged next year’s Senate — one which he said is 75 per cent corps in membership — to unify the cam pus, telling senators they have the power and responsibility to do so. He reminded them it also is in their power to “split the campus wide open” if they fail to act in “the proper manner.” He called upon student publications, par ticularly The Battalion and The Review, to aid in this unification. Henderson was given his award by Jim Stephenson, who is last year’s outstanding senator. Steph enson cited Henderson’s work on the Constitutional Revision and Rules and Regulations Revision Committees of the Senate, as well as his general interest and help in Senate matters. Stephenson also noted Hender son’s service the past year as president of the Texas Intercol legiate Student Association. Outgoing Senate President Kent Caperton received a watch and praise from A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams, and a standing ovation from the audi ence. Williams mentioned Caper- ton’s “tremendous” work the past year, and praised the Senate and other student government organi zations for their work. He said Texas A&M has a “tremendous student body and a tremendous student government.” In a short, emotional speech Caperton thanked his parents and Williams for the help and com panionship they had given him, and offered Sharp his help and best wishes for success. Caperton also presented a spe cial award to Senate Recording Secretary Bill Hartsfield, calling him “the hardest working, most reliable and dependable” senator, with “unparalleled” service. Other presentations were: Outstanding Class Senator Award — Randy Ross, freshman; Conflict marks foreign student life on campus By STEVE DUNKELBERG Confusion and disappointment are the bywords for most foreign students arriving at A&M for the first time. They don’t know how or where to turn, and each new avenue leads to another disillu sionment. The University sends the for eign student a pamphlet, “Infor mation for Prospective Students from Abroad” that is intended to familiarize him somewhat with A&M. The pamphlet states, in part: “A limited number of rooms in university residence halls are available, and applications for these rooms will be limited to un dergraduates enrolling in a Unit ed States college or university for the first time. “If a student in this category definitely wants a room ... he should make his request for the room as soon as possible. Students living in residence halls must eat at the university operated dining halls. . .” Due to this vague wording, many of the foreign students first hear of mandantory room and board regulations when they reg ister at the Housing Office. Hin dus, Moslems, and Jews are told they must eat in a dining hall that often serves food that con flicts with their religious beliefs, or make arrangements to have their meals off campus, while still living on campus. However, in order to receive Correction The Battalion erroneously re ported Tuesday that Brant A. Dennis in Managing Editor of the Review. He isn’t, Ned C. Muse is. permission to not pay board, the foreign student must go from door to door explaining his relig ious views to different adminis trators. “They make it sound like it is a great advantage to live on cam pus, and you better hurry and get a room,” George Halikas, a graduate student from Greece, said. “They don’t tell them they have to.” Ashok Kumar Jaini, a fresh man pre-med. student from India, found this particularly humiliat ing. “If our parents think we are mature enough to travel 20,000 miles to a country known for its gunfights and killers, like the killing of Kennedy,” he said, “I think we should he treated with more respect and less humilia tion.” Jaini wrote the Housing Office before coming to A&M, and ex plained that he was an orthodox Hindu, and could not eat beef. He received a reply from Charles F. Hornstein Jr., foreign student advisor, saying there would be no problem, due to the variety of foods served at Sbisa dining hall. Like many other foreign stu dents, the first he heard of the mandatory room and board policy was when he arrived at the Hous ing Office. Here he was told he must pay the board fee and eat at Sbisa like the rest. To receive an excuse from pay ing the board fee the student has to travel from office to office, starting with Hornstein and work ing his way up to Associate Dean of Student Affairs Don R. Staf ford, where he is given the waiver and told to return to Hornstein’s office. If the foreign student elects to accept the excuse from eating at the dining hall it just makes things more difficult for him, for now he has to make trips off campus three to four times a day to eat, then return to the campus. Where to eat is another problem. “I had many friends at apart ments, Jaini said, “but soon I began to feel as if I was a free loader.” Jaini did not choose to be ex cused. He now eats at Sbisa whenever his diet will permit, otherwise, he goes from place to place off campus finding differ ent places to eat. Housing Manager Alan Madley explained that the Housing Of fice, in cooperation with the For eign Students Advisor’s Office, is initiating a “new policy,” which they hope will clear up the sit uation. A letter from the Foreign Student’s Advisor’s Office will explain the mandatory loom and board policy and the exceptions that can be made for board fees. “If we have a lot of people re questing rooms next year,” Horn stein explained, “we might be able to allow them to live off campus. But, if the rooms are not filled, we will have to keep these people in the dorms.” Attitudes hurt the student from a foreign country almost as much as the policies. “Everyone feels we should be happy and grateful because we are in their marvelous country and attending their great uni versity,” Jaini complained. “They feel that all of us come from dirty, starving countries. If this place is so great, why do they give us the wrong impression?” ». 75# Layne Kruze, Liberal Arts soph omore; Tommy Mayes, Liberal Arts junior; and Mike Barrett, Science senior. Executive Committee Serivce Awards — John Sharp, Student Life Committee chairman; Kirby Brown, Issues Committee chair man; Jimmy O’jibway, Public Relations Committee chairman; Charles Hicks, Welfare Commit tee chairman; Eddie Duryea, treasurer; Mike Essmyer, parlia mentarian; Bill Hartsfield, re cording secretary; and Roger Miller, vice president (he also received a Spiro Agnew wrist- watch). Appreciation Awards — David ohlfi’rmao al ^aJohn Sharp, recently elected Student Senate president, gives his first speech to the morial Student Center adviser; Senate at their banquet Wednesday night. Outgoing president Kent Caperton and A&M George strake, who donated $5,- President Jack K. Williams listen. (Photo by Mike Rice) 000 to the A&M student body this year; Shy Hicks, MSC Stu dent Program Office secretary for the past three years; and Virginia Ehrlich, recently hired part-time Senate office secretary. Smith signs voting age amendment AUSTIN 'A*!—Texas’ ratifica tion of the federal constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 was signed by Gov. Preston Smith Wednesday. “I take pride in the fact that it was my privilege to recom mend to two legislatures that the voting age be lowered in Texas,” Smith said. Students from Austin College, St. Edward’s University in Aus tin, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Ar lington attended the signing. The signing was merely a for mality as only ratification by a state’s legislature is needed to approve a federal constitutional amendment. Texas was 21st among the 88 states needed for the amendment to become law. VC shelling civilian areas intentionally. South claims SAIGON <A>> — South Vietnam charged Wednesday that North Vietnamese troops have switched tactics and are shelling civilian centers in order to avoid casual ties they might suffer in attacks against defended military posi tions. The government advanced this theory amid a general lull in ground fighting but an increase in B52 bomber raids against the much-battered northeast corner of South Vietnam and in sensitive sectors of Laos. The government lodged a pro test with the International Con trol Commission against “intensi fied and indiscriminate” shell ings by North Vietnamese forces of civilian centers. A Foreign Ministry note to the commission said there were 151 shelling attacks last week in which 20 civilians were killed and 75 were wounded. “Extensive casualties suffered recently by North Vietnamese troops have compelled them to revise their strategy,” the note asserted. “They have cowardly resorted to shelling attacks aimed at various populated areas of the South where there were no mili tary installations in order to re duce their heavy losses of human life. “Thus, their indiscriminate mor tar and rocket shellings have re sulted every day in a large num ber of civilian victims, including women and children.” The B52 Stratofortress mis sions — equal to the two previ ous days together — were flown against North Vietnamese posi tions in the extreme northern part of South Vietnam along the Laotian frontier. Two of these raids hit just be low the demilitarized zone that divides the Vietnams where some outlets of the Ho Chi Minh supply trail feed into South Vietnam. The other three bombing forays struck a little north of the A Shau Valley, a major North Viet namese base of operations and transshipment area 28 miles southwest of Hue. Other B52 bombers continued the sustained pounding of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The U. S. Command disclosed that the bombers have been sup porting royal Laotian forces in northern Laos. The command did not say if the latest B52 raids were in northern Laos although a com munique said “U.S. aircraft flew combat missions in support of Royal Laotian forces in Laos.” Caperton gets UT fellowship Student Body President Kent Caperton is one of the first stu dents in the nation selected for Spy satellite launched CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. <A>) _ Under a mantle of secrecy, the Air Force rocketed a spy satel lite into space Wednesday to monitor Russian and Red Chinese missile tests and to provide al most instant alert of a long- range rocket attack. The 1,800-pound superspy would sound a 30-minute warn ing of such an attack. This is double the 15 minutes that pres ent radar systems give U.S. forces to prepare antimissile defenses and to launch bombers and mis siles in retaliation. The Defense Department clamped a secrecy lid on the launching. No advance announce ment was made, although infor mation about the launch gener ally w’as known in the Cape Ken nedy area. The Air Force issued a brief statement after liftoff stating merely that a satellite had been launched by a Titan 3 rocket. The rocket left its pad at 3:43 a.m. The Titan 3, is the largest rocket in the Air Force stable. The spy satellite is intended to replace a similar payload which failed to achieve a proper orbit last November when an upper stage did not fire properly. That satellite still is providing- some data but is useless as an around-the-clock missile monitor because it is not in a stationary orbit. The new payload was aimed to hover 24,000 miles above Southeast Asia. From this out post its infrared and other sen sors would keep constant watch on the launching pads and routes over which Russian and Red Chi nese missiles fly. a $3,300 fellowship at the Uni- verstiy of Texas’ new LBJ School of Public Affairs. Caperton, senior finance major from Caldwell, plans to earn a master’s degree in public admin istration. Approximately 40 students havb been selected for fellowships at the facility named in honor of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Notice! The Battalion goes on a weekly schedule after this issue. During the remainder of the spring semester and throughout the summer, The Battalion will be published and distributed each Wednesday. Regular Tuesday-through-Fri- day publication resumes Aug. 31. At home, in streets Americans rally against war BEAUTY EXISTS even in the most common things of day to day life. This Red-winged Blackbird glides effortlessly over cattails in its search for food. (AP Wirephoto) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands of Americans car ried antiwar sentiments back to the streets of their local com munities Wednesday in marches, rallies and stall-ins across the country. Crowds at the gatherings against the Indochina war and in memory of students killed last year at Kent State University in Ohio and Jackson State College in Mississippi were smaller than at previous antiwar gatherings. Scattered disturbances and ar rests were reported in various parts of the country, while in Washington, D.C., where the so- called “spring offensive” against the war began April 24, mass ar rests continued for a third con secutive day. A rally attended by an esti mated 20,000 to 40,000 persons at Boston Common was orderly and festive, although 7,000 police and National Guardsmen were massed in case of violence. Up wards of 150,000 persons attend ed the rally in the Common in October 1909. In New York City, about 10,- 000 people attended a rally in Bryant Park at the end of a day marked by widespread high school and college protest actions. About 50,000 persons attended a* similar protest in October 1969. Earlier, at Central Park, a gathering of 2,000 high school students came to an abrupt end when fist fights broke out as a group of black youths apparently tried to wrest control of a micro phone from white youths. Ven dors’ carts were overturned and looted during the fighting. In College Park, Md., state po lice — under orders from Gov. Marvin Mandel — used tear gas to disperse about 5,000 students from U.S. Route 1 adjacent to the University of Maryland campus. The blocking of Route 1 has be come almost institutionalized as a mode of protest. At least 14 persons were ar rested and three state troopers injured. Mandel had dispatched 500 po lice to the campus. Police said 29 persons were arrested on vari ous charges and four persons were injured, three of them po licemen. As police used tear gas to put down sporadic rock-throwing in cidents late into the evening, the govemor declared a state of emergency and called up National Guard units. He also clamped a 9 p.m. curfew on the campus and neighborhoods within a half-mile radius. In San Francisco, with the en tire 1,800-man municipal police force prepared for trouble, groups of no more than 1,000 demon strators were frustrated in at tempts to block traffic. An esti mated 175,000 persons partici pated in the Golden Gate Park antiwar rally last April 24. Police Wednesday reported 76 arrests and three injuries in clashes after a crowd looped back from the Bank of America build ing to the Standard Oil building, where they advocated disrupting businesses “profiting from the Indochina war.” At the latest Washington dem onstration, meanwhile, 1,200 of 3,000 persons who marched to the Capitol were arrested, bring ing to more than 11,000 the total number of arrests in three days. Another 1,500 to 2,000 persons — many of them government em ployes — held a peaceful noon time rally at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House. Earlier in the day, morn ing rush-hour traffic moved un impeded under the watchful eyes of 1,000 marines and Army troops deployed at bridges and traffic circles. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.