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v vvj;*# Che Battalion Warm and cloudy Vol. 66 No. 123 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 12, 1971 Today — Cloudy, partly cloudy. Winds northerly 12-15 mph. East erly tonight and tomorrow. High 75°, low 59°. Tomorrow— Partly cloudy for both days. Maximum upper 70° middle 60°. 845-2226 lion of famm supplies, y health needs- jr service. enate knocks board delay on coed dorms laffer’s i TERRACE UGS k 6 South 5701 DELIVER! The new Student Senate passed a resolution Thursday night say ing that the Board of Directors had not assumed its responsibil ity to the students by delaying action on the reconsideration of on-campus housing for women. The resolution stated, “that the Student Senate feels that the Board of Directors, by not acting on this very important matter, has not assumed its responsibil ity to the student body, and that the Student Senate expresses its extreme displeasure with the Board of Directors and regrets its lack of action on this impor tant issue. {ENT T NOW LEiS Ned apartmenti e. near Shiplfl (I, $130. ScM ust 15. Call S' I! wo brick apart* ms, central lit Two blocki 3-8181. ,r<i. Summer* able. Call te bedroom juple only. W STUDENT! iew apartmeati rned for state o live. Loti activities, teria located find all of il y Acres. Am' led student!, •here, yet t«r campus, t call 823dHI 8 or 846.5i0t Company, reet, Bryan Apartments room nfurnished 35-$145 I A N ENTS Bryan & rrsity ; i : ome r. & Unfur. Courtyard EASE Apt. I ittt —C ^SE Parking lots, traffic pattern will change Changes in the campus traffic and parking situation must be made due to construction, accord ing to Associate Dean of Stu dents Don R. Stafford. The change most affecting stu dents is the conversion of lot 9, located next to Main Drive and ®1 behind Law Hall, to a day stu dent lot, Stafford said. It is currently part day stu dent and part junior-senior park ing space. Stafford said the situation will be balanced by extending the upperclassman section of lot 49 to Main Drive. Some of lot 49 iscurrently underclassman parking. Affecting the staff of the Me morial Student Center will be the loss of lot 39 on Clark St. due to construction, Stafford said. The lot will be replaced by block ing off part of lot 49 between Fergusson St. and Main Drive for the staff. About 73 spaces will be replaced, he said. Lamar St. will be made dead end to west moving traffic at the comer of Houston and La mar, he added. Parking will be extended to both sides of Lamar and signs will be placed warning of the deadend. Houston from Main Drive to the Memorial Student Center will be converted to one-way south. The remainder of Lamar will be come one-way east. Parking will be on both sides. All changes become effective May 30. Room change sign-up now Civilian students who were un able to secure the hall of their choice during the fall semester sign-up period may fill out a change request form at the Hous ing Office till May 14. The room availability situation will be reviewed during the sum mer and requests for change will be given full consideration, de pending upon the housing require ments for incoming freshmen. “They’re killing this by delay ing it,” said Sam Drugan (Sr- Sci). “It’s so obvious we ought to protest their action only to show them that we haven’t been quietly fooled.” David Moore, president of the Election Commission, said the Senate ought to table the reso lution in order to “give the Sen ate a better position when talk ing with the board.” Speaking after Moore, John Sharp, Senate president, said that “it was worded on a very strong basis, it’s not so strongly worded now.” The resolution still put the idea across well, Sharp said. Tony Best (Sr-Eng) urged pas sage of the resolution on the basis of opinion polls taken last semester. The polls, he said, showed strong favor for wom en’s on-campus housing. The resolution passed 49-5. In other action, the Senate ap proved the recommended Student Service Fee Requests for next year. The recommendations, con siderably lower than requested in some instances, were made by Tom Cherry, vice president for business affairs. Spike Dayton, Senate trea surer, recommended approval be cause “it probable won’t make any difference one way or the other.” The requested fees for 13 dif ferent campus organizations totalled $1,324,576. Recommend ed by Cherry was $853,940, the estimated income for next year. Sharp appointed two mem bers from the sophomore class to serve on the Election Commission next year. They were Mark Blakemore and Randy Madison, one civilian and one in ROTC. Taylor wins Rudder Award • P ( Jol of lost hny RcifJl Van H. Taylor of Temple, cadet commander of the Corps of Ca dets, has been named the first recipient of The Brown Founda tion-Earl Rudder Memorial Out standing Student Award. The award, which includes a monetary gift of $5,000, was pre sented at commencement exer cises Saturday. Established with a $100,000 grant from The Brown Founda tion of Houston, the award will be presented annually to an out standing graduating senior who exemplifies the qualities and traits of the late Gen. Earl Rud der. Rudder, who served as presi dent of the university 11 years, died March 23, 1970. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Taylor, 1701 South 57, Temple, majored in mechanical engineer ing. He has earned Distinguished Student honors for academic ac complishments and participated in numerous extracurricular ac tivities, in addition to providing student leadership for the Corps of Cadets. In guiding the cadets this past year, Taylor initiated several pro grams which, university officials pointed out, have strengthened and enhanced the Corps. Taylor was instrumental in organizing a “think tank” con ference in which cadet leaders, along with faculty, staff and alumni representatives, evaluated all aspects of the Corps and sug gested means for improving vari ous portions of the program. Ideas stemming from the con ference led to an improved re tention rate of freshmen and sophomores within the Corps, de velopment of a leadership training program for sophomores and re vision of the organization’s regu lations book, The Standard. Other results of the conference includ ed organization of separate units for pre-medical students and re vision of the unit disciplinary system. Taylor received endorsements for the award from deans, indi vidual faculty members, repre sentatives of the School of Mili tary Science, fellow students and former students. malie, 5c qt, 69 Gal AY- i jor braii' 5 original:' Reserved Exhausb [Filters. Pumps, L Needed lASt 3.60 m y cars 2ET0RS K IT ■VI pment rs ange =rators =ch. saler rarts an, Tejai ’32 _ryan mkt K* A %, Clyde H. Wells, president of A&M’s Board of Directors, passed out the diplomas Satur day to many happy, relieved, and probably hungover graduates. Just how they kept all the diplomas straight, we don’t know. DURING FINALS WEEK the urge to hit the bag usually In this instance it was the library, scene of many hours occurs during those carefully planned-out study hours,— study. (Photo by Larry Martin) regardless of where the often complaint victim is located. Pakistani student says Pakistani Aggies facing death By GARY AVEN “Two hundred Aggie exes are in danger of being exterminated,” Kamaluddin Hyder said in a Bat talion interview. “The West Pakistanian army is killing all the leaders in govern ment, the universities and the communities in East Pakistan,” Hyder said. “Already, over 10,000 have been exterminated in my home town alone, Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan. Their goal is to wipe out the intelli- gencia, and this includes over 200 Aggie exes.” Hyder, treasurer of the Gradu ate Student Council, asked the council last week to adopt a reso lution condemning the actions of West Pakistan and asking Presi dent Nixon to boycott all foreign aid to Pakistan until the “civil war” is over. The council is con sidering the matter. Filling in the history, Hyder said that India (for Hindus) and Pakistan (for Moslems) were set up as states in 1947. Then, he said, the important thing was independence from Great Britain, and Pakistan was set up with two Wings separated by a thou sand miles of India. A military dictator from the East wing took over, but to avoid an uprising, he promised that free elections would be held, Hyder said. The people became more and more dissatisfied as the years passed and he made no effort to provide elections. Finally, when he could control the people no longer, there was a coup and one of his subordinates took over. He also promised free elections, and he finally got around to providing for them. Free elections were held in Pakistan last November, Hyder said. It was a landslide victory for the East Pakistan majority party, he said. They won 167 out of 169 seats on the national Par liament. “I myself could not believe that the military dictator would be so liberal as to hold free elections and turn over his power to the people or let control of the coun try pass from West to East Paki stan,” Hyder said. “Then on Feb. 11 of this year, just before those elected were to take office, the dictator moved the Pakistanian army into East Pakistan and took over. All the soldiers in the Paki stanian army are from West Pakistan. “It was & full scale invasion on unarmed civilians,” Hyder said. “And the arms used to slaughter those civilians were given to Pakistan by the United States to defend it against communism. All foreign reporters were ex pelled so the world would not know what is going on. Reports have leaked out that as many as 50 professors at the university at Dacca have been killed. The students are understandably up set. The troops killed a whole dormitory of students while they slept.” “This is not the end of it,” he continued. “The problems are get ting worse. The government has rejected the aid for the victims of the famine in the aftermath of the typhoon that struck last fall. As a result, as many as a million people may die.” “There is no communication with East Pakistan,” he said. “The 22 students from East Paki stan that are now attending Texas A&M have no way of knowing what has become of their fami lies. Their support money that their families were sending has stopped coming. And they did not know what would become of them when their visas expired. Pakistan is not renewing any visas, and there was fear that when their visas expired, they would be sent home, back to that slaughter house.” “I led a delegation to President Williams,” Hyder said. “He was very sympathetic. He said he would try to keep us ’til this thing is settled, even though our visas might expire, and not let us be sent back to the slaughter. He also came out on his own and said he would try to scrounge some money so we won’t starve.” Hyder confessed to being bi ased and urged the Graduate Student Council to “pass humani tarian recommendations for for eign students as an expression of sympathy.” He also urged them to encourage stopping all aid to West Pakistan to bring about some pressure on them. And he concluded, “Please remember those who have been killed or persecuted in your prayers.” GSC hits at new fee increase “I feel with this letter we ac complished the goal we set out to accomplish,” said Graduate Student Council (GSC) President Larry McGill (Vet. Path.) at last week’s regular GSC meeting. The letter he referred to was sent to President Jack K. Wil liams by a unanimous council, voicing their disapproval of the handling of House Bill 573, which appropriated funds for the new Memorial Student Center addi tion. “We talked it over with Ed Cooper and requested that we get student input on matters concern ing them before it is put to a vote,” McGill said. “We have a reply from Williams already, and he said from now on, they will tell us exactly the way alloca tions will take place.” McGill said Williams was as upset as anybody because he promised that the $5 increase in student services fees would be all. “Another $5 was passed in ad dition to this,” McGill said, “and he is embarrassed and burned up about it. This other money was taken from the building use fee.” “Vestal said there was a $30 ceiling on the building use fee, but he misinformed us,” Ernie Davis (Ag. Eco.) said. “Cooper said there is no limit on the building use fee.” Vice President C. A. Bedinger (Biol.) said that Vestal was prob ably used by someone who want ed the bill passed and was mis informed. “Well, we aren’t misinformed now,” McGill said, “and I still think everyone realizes you get a good education for the money at A&M.” In other business, Bedinger said that the Student Services Fees Allocation Committee, of which he was a member, hadn’t met all year. The first meeting was called, he said, two days be fore its recommendations were due. “I am dissatisfied. I told them I couldn’t serve on a committee that handled its business that way. Whoever was in charge shirked their responsibility. The members of next year’s GSC ought to take it upon themselves to see that this isn’t repeated next year.” The preliminary results from the questionnaire sent out in the last GSC newsletter are in, Roger Sindt (Ag. Eco.) said. “Out of 3,000 graduate stu dents, 217 responded,” Sindt said, “so we think it was a success be cause only 186 voted in last fall’s elections.” The preliminary re sults are: Is the language requirement (for the doctoral degree) an in tegral part of the program? Yes 16 per cent; No 81.5 per cent; No response 1.8 per cent. Do you think such a group as the Graduate Student Council is functional and needed? Yes 83.8 per cent; No 10.1 per cent; Un certain 0.4 per cent; No response 2.7 per cent; Needed but not functional 2.7 per cent. Who is your Graduate Student Council representative ? Do know 53.4 per cent; Don’t know 46.4 per cent. “People who respond to such questionnaires differ significantly from the general population,” Bedinger said, “so this doesn’t mean much.” In his Library Committee re port, McGill said that some grad uate students are having diffi culty finding adequate study fa cilities in the library. He said he is trying to arrange for more study carrols for graduate stu dent, but locker space is available to graduate students in the li brary with only a short waiting list. Few of them know of this, he said. Freshman still r in critical state Michael L. Leiser, a freshman paralyzed in a Thursday accident, remains in critical condition in Houston Memorial Hospital. Leiser’s condition “is basically the same,” according to Dr. Ken neth L. Nelson, university hos pital director who was in touch with Houston hospital officials Monday. Nelson accompanied the 19- year-old Squadron 9 cadet during early Friday transfer to Memo rial. Leiser fell from the roof of Gainer Hall in the Cadet Corps area. His spinal cord was severed in two places, among other in juries, resulting in paralysis from the waist down. The son of Air Force Col. and Mrs. Louis G. Leiser of Colorado Springs, Colo., is now in the neu rological intensive care unit at Memorial Hospital. Leiser will be transferred to a Colorado Springs hospital as soon as praticable. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.