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Vol. 66 No. 121
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 6, 1971
FRIDAY—Cloudy, intermittent
rain showers and thunder
showers. Wind south 15 to 25
m.p.h. High 86, low 72.
SATURDAY—Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind north 15 to 20
m.p.h. High 74, low 68.
845-2226
Work toward unity,
Sharp tells Senate
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By DAVID S. MIDDLEBROOKE
Newly elected Student Body
President John S. 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.