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Vol. 67 No. 7
College Station, Texas
Thursday September 9, 1971
FRIDAY — Partly cloudy to
cloudy, afternoon thundershow
ers. Wind easterly 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 89, low 71.
SATURDAY — Partly cloudy,
high 88, low 68.
KICKOFF—Partly cloudy, high
86. Wind easterly 5 to 10 m.p.h.
Relative humidity 60%.
845-2226
Senate hears
rent complaints
from marrieds
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TAMPS
The Student Senate was re
quested Wednesday night to at
tempt to lower rents in college
owned apartments by a delega
tion of those living in the apart-
i ments.
Approximately 50 persons re
quested that the senate ask Pres
ident Jack K. Williams to “fol
low the spirit of the wage-price
freeze and freeze the rent on stu
dent apartments at the Aug. 1,
1971 level.”
Graduate student Charles
Johnson, spokesman for the
; group, said that most students
were not aware of the rent in
crease until just before school
began.
| “We knew the pay raises had
been frozen,” he said, “but hav
ing the rent increase appear with
: the same salary came as a shock.”
j The rent increases did not af
fect all the apartments. Those
raised were: new College View,
$115 to $125; old College View
(furnished), $48 to $55; old Col
lege View (unfurnished), $40 to
$45; and Southside, $52.50 to $60.
“A five dollar raise may not
seem like much,” said one wife,
“but when you live on a $300 a
month fellowship it becomes quite
a lot.”
Johnson acknowledged that the
university had a good legal stand
when it raised the rent, though
he said it came under a “real
shady, Mickey Mouse ruling.”
: The ruling said that if a high
er rent had been paid by at least
one of those living in an apart
ment complex then all others in
the apartments had to pay the
higher rent.
“In our case five people, one
per cent of those living in these
apartments, had the money to
pay the higher rent in advance.
This was enough to qualify un
der the ruling,” he said.
A&M had once interpreted the
price-wage-rent freeze as affect
ing the college apartments, John
son said, but that was before the
new ruling came out.
Johnson also said that their
case would be submitted to the
Dallas Internal Revenue Service
in hopes of receiving a ruling
more favorable to the students.
“We understand other univer
sities have the same trouble,” he
said, “it may be a big enough
problem to warrant more atten
tion on a national basis.”
“In case it does turn out that
way,” he added, “we are trying
to get the American Civil Liber
ties Union interested.”
The proposal was deferred by
the senate so that the university
could present its side of the ar
gument.
“This doesn’t seem to be a le
gal issue,” said John Sharp, sen
ate president, “but more of an
ethical one.”
The senate also studied a pro
posal made by Randy Ross, wel
fare chairman, to reapportion the
representatives allowed to some
of the colleges.
The proposal, in the form of a
constitutional amendment, calls
for the annual apportionment of
senators as equitably as possible
among the colleges. The appor
tionment would be made accord
ing to total enrollment of juniors,
sophomores, and freshmen dur
ing the fall semester.
The amendment also calls for
the ratio of senators to students
be set each year. Also, it pro
vides an equal number of senior,
junior, and sophomore senators
within each particular college.
Coupled with the amendment
was a resolution to change the
apportionment within five col
leges in order to have a more
equal representation between the
colleges.
“Some colleges have far too
many senators,” said Ross, “while
others don’t have near enough.”
The proposal asks for one more
senator to be added to the College
of Agriculture, four more to En
gineering, two more to Science,
and one more to Preveterinary
Medicine.
The only college to lose sena
tors would be Education, which
would drop from six senators to
three.
The new senators, which would
serve this year, are to be named
by the senate president, subject to
the approval of two-thirds the
Student Senate.
Education would continue to be
represented by six senators for
the remainder of the year.
The reason for the reapportion
ment is to maintain a balanced
senator to student ratio through
out all the colleges.
The colleges of Science, Agri
culture and Preveterinary Medi
cine will each receive at-large
senators. Engineering will re
ceive one senior, one junior, one
sophomore, and one at-large sen
ator.
The Student Senate also formed
a Sweetheart Revision Commit
tee to review the manner of se
lection and funding of the Aggie
Sweetheart.
The senate also approved the
members of the Business Rela
tions Committee. They are: Bar
ry Bowden, Mark Cuculic, Judy
McConnell, Paul Nauschutz,
Ralph Reed, Dudley Vickers, and
David Wagner.
THE DANCING SITUATION looked critical at the Univer
sity Women’s dance last night. The Greenhouse, a local
rock group, plays faithfully for the small audience. Appar
ently most men anticipated dancing with themselves and
failed to appear. An afternoon rainshower also took its
toll on the size of the crowd. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
Freshmen lose II-S deferment
UT newspaper subject
of a control controversy
AUSTIN <A>) _ University of
Texas regents and publishers of
The Daily Texan agreed Wednes
day on a settlement which should
do away with the need for a Sept.
20 court fight over the student
newspaper.
Regent Jenkins Garrett of Fort
Worth said lawyers for the uni
versity and for Texas Student
Publications, Inc., could work out
the technical details.
Garrett said a proposal by TSP
lawyer Joe Latting of Austin
gives regents control over TSP’s
assets, makes TSP subject to re
gent rules and gives the univer
sity president the final voice on
controversies between student ed
itors and the journalism faculty
over content in the paper.
It also insures, Garrett said,
that “day to day operation of the
paper will be under the control
of the students ...and safe
guards against censorship, which
was never the desire of the re
gents.”
Latting said the agreement
merely replaces the non-profit
corporate setup with two boards
of trustees—the regents and
TSP, and the student-controlled
TSP could still determine what
could be printed in the paper.
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By Bruce Black
A&M freshmen are no longer
eligible for the II-S draft defer
ment, Robert A. Lacy, registrar,
announced yesterday.
In a recent Selective Service
news release, registrars were
asked to halt all traffic of Fed
eral Forms 109, requesting a
draft deferment on the basis of
college enrollment.
President Nixon has asked that
all undergraduate deferments be
phased out, the news release
states. A bill of this type is now
before Congress and is expected
to become law next month, Lacy
said.
“I will still automatically re
quest a deferment for any upper
classman who is registered with
a local board in Texas and pro
vide a Form 109 to any out-of-
state upperclassman who requests
it,” he said.
Thirty semester hours are re
quired to attain an upperclass
man classification at A&M.
Under the proposed bill, stu
dents may still attain a student
deferment, but such action would
extend a person’s induction lia
bility to age 35.
The bill would also contain a
provision allowing students, if
called upon to serve, to complete
their present semester, or if in
tho last academic year, to gradu-
ate before entering the armed
services.
“The Selective Service System
feels that halting all II-S defer
ment requests until the bill is
decided upon is in the best inter
est of the student as well as the
local boards,” Lacy said.
“If the pending Selective Serv
ice legislation does not pass,” Dr.
Curtis W. Tarr, Selective Service
Director said in the news release,
“it would not be in the regis
trant’s best interest to obtain a
student deferment which would
extend his liability until age 35.
Should Congress change the leg
islation to provide for deferments
for new incoming freshmen,
which is most unlikely, applica
tions for deferments will not he
jeopardized by delaying their
submission until after passage of
the new law.”
All freshmen in the corps of
cadets will be unaffected by the
legislation, Col. Thomas R. Par
sons, commandant, said.
“Last year we had to wait un
til the first semester grades were
in before we could recommend a
freshman student for a defer
ment,” he said. “But as of Au
gust 20, we received word that
deferments could be issued to the
new freshmen.”
The corps student would re
ceive a I-D deferment as being
in the Army or Air Force Re
serve.
“It is my opinion that an act
such as the one before Congress
will be passed in the near fu
ture,” Parsons said.
Effect of drunks on society
far worse than pot smokers
FURNITURE FOR THE NEW DORMITORY is currently
undergoing a testing period by A&M students. This con
figuration, one of three possible tpyes, is designed for max
imum utility. The bed comes apart into singles and the
furniture, all of the same height, makes one long table or
a stack of drawers and desks. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
WASHINGTON <A>)_The Fed
eral Marijuana Commission, still
months away from its first for
mal report, is proceeding on the
hypothesis that drunks are a far
worse social problem than pot
smokers.
“We do know this: The most
severe drug-abuse problem we’ve
got in the United States is alco
hol,” the commission executive
director, Michael Sonnenreich,
told The Associated Press.
“Does marijuana turn you into
a foaming maniac? No. Is it
physically addicting? Well, all
the indications we have right now
is, no, it is not. We know that
alcohol is. But that isn’t the cri
terion of a danger. The danger
is social impact.
“We know certain things about
alcohol. We know about loss of
time on the job, break-ups of
families, impact on our medical
facilities. We know a greater
range of the problems of alco
holism. Nobody’s really tried to
assess, effectively, the impact of
marijuana.”
Sonnenreich, former deputy
general counsel in the Justice De
partment’s Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs, discussed
the first seven months work of
the National Commission on
Marijuana and Drug Abuse.
The commission, set up by
Congress to investigate all forms
of drug abuse and to recommend
New officer
joins Trigon
Army Lt. Col. Richard D. Bak
er recently assistant chief of
staff for force development in
the Pentagon, has been assigned
in the Military Science Depart
ment at A&M.
Colonel Baker is associate pro
fessor of military science and ad
vanced Army ROTC instructor
section chief, announced Col.
Thomas R. Parsons, comman
dant and PMS.
new laws as needed, is to report
on marijuana next March with
findings on other drugs due a
year later.
President Nixon has said he
will ignore any recommendation
to legalize marijuana use, but the
commission chairman, Raymond
P. Shafer, Republican former
governor of Pennsylvania, says
Nixon’s views won’t influence the
commission.
So far the commission has held
public hearings in Washington,
Chicago and San Francisco. In
closed sessions it has heard con
fessions from marijuana users.
The commission has let con
tracts with pollsters to conduct
a nation wide survey of what
2,500 Americans think about
marijuana. Other researchers
have contracted to study the
medical effects of marijuana, the
effects of jail terms on young
pot smokers and other aspects of
the problem.
The 13-member commission has
come to no conclusions yet, Son
nenreich said, adding that Shafer
has discouraged the other com
missioners from taking firm
stands that they might later find
hard to change if contrary evi
dence turns up.
But some things already seem
clear to Sonnenreich. “We prob
ably will not discover that mari
juana absolutely makes your eye
balls fall out and your nose quiv
er, nor at the same time are we
going to find that it is a harm
less drug. So the point is it falls
in a gray area.”
TIS in financial straits;
bankruptcy close at hand
DALLAS —Bankruptcy Ref
eree Dean Gandy has recom
mended that Texas International
Speedway near Bryan be declared
bankrupt and its assets absorbed
by Holloway Construction Co., a
major lienholder.
Bankruptcy trustee Talbot Rain
said there are indications of se
curities violations which may be
followed by a lawsuit. He did
not elaborate.
Rain had proposed a reorgani
zation plan for the speedway in
an effort to salvage the $6 mil
lion operation but his plan was
rejected by Gandy Tuesday when
it was shown the raceway could
not be saved.
The 770-acre raceway cost $6
million but only has had two
races since it opened 18 months
ago. The operation acquired some
1,500 creditors and indebtedness
of $5.56 million which it was un
able to repay.
The company’s debts included
$1,490,000 in promissory notes
with first, second and third liens
on the property.
John S. Tuschman of Houston,
financial analyst and real estate
manager who is president of
Speedway Associates, Inc., had
proposed a refinancing plan for
the speedway.
Tuschman had proposed get
ting a loan, secured by more than
1,000 acres of land adjacent to
the speedway, to pay off credi
tors.
He estimated Texas Interna
tional Speedway could earn $2
million in five years.
But John L. King, counsel for
Holloway, objected to Tuschman’s
financing plan and Rain’s reor
ganization schedule.
After ruling Rain’s plan was
unacceptable, Gandy ordered Rain
to attempt to sell the property
but was unsuccessful.
The speedway was built in
1969.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.