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: • .. be Battalion College Station, Texas Cloudy and cool Thursday, October 14, 1971 Friday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 78°, low 61°. Saturday — Cloudy, intermit tent rain. Southerly winds 10-15 mph, becoming northerly 15-20 mph. High 78°, low 67°. Ft. Worth Kickoff Time — 66°. Northerly winds 10-12 mph. 40% relative humidity. 845-2226 Fisher angers men in women’s lib talk Dr. Mauguerite Fisher answered questions and fended off jibes Wednesday night at |iier speech on women’s lib for Great Issues. (Photo by Joe Matthews) By SUE DAVIS News Editor A verbal battle over women’s lib developed Wednesday night during the question and answer session following Dr. Marguerite Fisher’s speech in the Memorial Student Center. The questions, coming from taunting males, had both Fisher and the students angry with each other by the end of the speech. Dr. Fisher, a political science professor at Syracuse University, was featured in a Great Issues presentation. Speaking to a near capacity audience in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, she em phasized the activities of the Na tional Organization of Women (NOW). The women’s liberation move ment originated in the 1840s and ’50s, Dr. Fisher said, when young country girls moved to the cities to work in factories. They were out on their own for the first time, she commented, and began to realize that they had a place in the world. The most important cause of the drive for liberation was the anti-slavery movement, Dr. Fish er said. “This would never have gotten off the ground if not for women,” she emphasized. “For the next 50 years, the leaders of the wom en’s liberation came from those who had experience in the anti slavery society.” Women at that time drew up a declaration of rights, Dr. Fisher noted. It included the right of University Police says Still more cars than spaces % DEBI BLACKMON Staff Writer The University Traffic Commit- ■ee doesn’t foresee any solution jn the near future to the parking problem that affects over 2,300 tudents and faculty members low wrestling for campus park- n f? spaces every weekday. Current parking problems stem rom the fact that there are not !n °ugh parking spaces for the lu ge amount of permits. There ' v «re 8,035 student permits and -.663 staff permits issued as of Sept. 10. ^ er e are 3,494 parking spaces ^ ^signaled for day students, civil- an dorm students, and Corps members. Staff make do with 5,198 parking spaces, most hav- n g individual reservations. Also included in the campus plan are some 1,711 spaces for miscellane- °us parking. ‘In the past, the department’s policy has held that more parking Permits than parking spaces eould legally be issued,” Morris Maddox, assistant chief of the niversity Police said, “since all foe students are not on the cam- P us at any one given time.” This year greater numbers of ormitory students have brought heir cars on campus,” Maddox continued. Today the campus parking fa- cilities are being taxed. There ar e 10,698 cars trying to park in Sotne 8,403 available spaces. Cars involved in the surplus are s bll paying the required $15 an nual parking fee, necessary for an y vehicle to be on campus pi*op- erty. The only long range plans for uture parking lots to relieve the Present pressure will be planned '-'lots to be built across the rail road tracks from Kyle Field, and Jarious extensions to the present °rps parking lot 24, and the new ormitory, scheduled for comple- t'on fall semester 1972. At the beginning of Septem- er we worked around the clock 0 keep students from blocking riveways and parking in the staff lots,” Maddox added. Traffic - parking regulations state all cars in parking lots 48 and 3i next to Kyle Field, 49 aiong Wellborn Road, and 9, the ay student lot by the drill field, j| mus t be cleared before 10 a.m. on football game days. This creates even greater congestion on weekends at football games. “Parking problems still present a problem,” said O. L. Luther, Chief of the University Police Department, Wednesday after noon at the last meeting of the Traffic Committee. To combat the ever-worsening situation, the University Police have attempted to zone all of the parking spaces on campus. A special Traffic-Parking Reg ulations handbook is printed by the University Police to notify all drivers of the special restric tions he will find on campus. The Traffic Regulations state that student vehicles are not to be taken from their assigned parking areas for the purpose of attending classes or for making other campus stops during busi ness hours. The University, in turn, also reserves the right to move or impound any vehicle operated or parked in violation of University Regulations. The owner of the vehicle will be required to pay the cost of moving, impounding and storing of such vehicles. This includes bicycles and motorcycles, both which are vulnerable to tick eting. Regulations posted on signs and curbs around campus apply at all times including holidays and intermission periods, along with business hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking in certain staff lots and streets is assigned on a pri ority basis by the Zone Admin istrators. A car with an overlay number cannot be parked in the random area near the lot unless the lot is full. Staff cars with regular permits must park in random areas on streets or lots that are not reserved. Employees, staff, faculty, and students are prohibited from parking in visitor places, but may park in the 30-minute spaces on the streets for short stops. Students receiving over six or more tickets will have his permit revoked and will be prohibited from driving on the campus the remainder of the semester. A penalty of $5.00 is added if the fee is not paid within 72 hours from the date of notice. This charge is additional to the original charge for the traffic violations. The penalty for viola tions are $2 for the first one, $4 for the second, $8 for the third, $16 for the fourth and $32 for the fifth. A total of $36,971 was paid in the school year 1969-70 for an assortment of nonmoving and moving violations, along with oth er penalties. In the year of 1970- 71, $27,713 was collected for vio lations. So far this year, $8,064 has been collected in September alone, accounting for over 2,178 various traffic tickets. This month’s total amount of tickets paid are almost double those collected in September of 1970 when the University Police collected $3928 for over 1,788 traffic violations. Students do have a say con cerning the tickets they receive. Upon receiving a ticket, a driv er who believes the notice is un warranted, may report to the University Police office where an appeal may be filed and his appearance before the Traffic Ap peals Panel scheduled. The appeal must be made within 72 hours from the date of notice. Any violator that does not make satisfactory disposition of his privilege within 72 hours will be prohibited from driving on the campus and his permit will be removed for the semester. Moratorium Day with rallies and is quiet teach-ins By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Antiwar groups sought to turn out a wide cross-section of the American population today with another round of rallies, teach- ins, vigils and marches on Mora torium Day to protest the war in Indochina. Opponents of the war planned a “peace fair” in Kansas City, a war tax resistance rally at the wage-price control office in Phil adelphia and a boycott of classes at the University of Missouri. At Ft. Bliss, near El Paso, Tex., plans for a boycott of the noon meal at the big military base were met with the rare an- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. nouncement that steak would be served for lunch. The Army also announced it would not allow soldiers at Ft. Bliss to use a base cemetery for a memorial service. Among other observances planned was a teach-in at Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy in Cambridge. Scheduled to conduct it was Daniel Ellsberg, who said he gave the Pentagon papers to the press. In the Bronx, John Kerry of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War was to lead a teach-in at the Horace Mann school. Mayor John V. Lindsay was scheduled to speak at a rally in Manhattan’s garment district. Demonstrations were also plan ned in New York City’s other women to vote and advocated the removal of legal injustices, she said. She gave examples of wom en having to give up their right to property and to their earnings when they marry. They were not allowed to make out wills or sign contracts, she added. “Women were classified with idiots, felons and the insane,” Dr. Fisher commented. A period of militancy lasted until after the Civil War, she said. It subsided until the years before World War I, when women again began actively seeking and finally won the right to vote in America, she noted. From 1920 until recently, the women’s lib movement subsided due to what Dr. Fisher referred to as the “sinister” influence of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. She admitted that perhaps the blame should be placed on Freud’s American translators. According to these translators, Dr. Fisher said, “the biology of women predestined them to jobs of reproduction, sex and cooking.” About five years ago, “a new phase of militancy” began, she said. Some of the reasons she gave were the decline in Freudian thought and the new population trends. She added that inflation has forced more women to get out of their homes and work. ,She estimated that half of the women between 16 and 60 are working. The civil rights movement made many women realize that they needed a movement for them selves, Dr. Fisher said. Two books also played a large part in starting the new phase of women’s lib, she added. They were “The Second Sex” by a French author and “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan, she noted. Women’s lib organizations soon began to appear, Dr. Fisher said. “The” main group is NOW, she emphasized. “We have had a very bad time with the press,” Dr. Fisher said, because they exaggerate the “lu natic fringe” in the organizations. “But do not judge a major movement in history by the lu natic fringe,” she added. NOW is promoting more wom en in public offices, Dr. Fisher commented. They also worked for the equal rights amendment that passed the House of Representa tives Tuesday, she said. Obstacle course being built for Army ROTC training Construction of a special train ing facility for the Corps of Cadets is under way just south of the main A&M campus. An obstacle confidence course consisting of 12 obstacles of vary ing difficulty will be located on a triangular plot between the Aggie rodeo arena and railroad bordering the west campus boun dary. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant, noted the Rudder’s Rangers, a special membership corps organization, is building the course. One part of the plot, made available by Gen. A. R. Luedecke when he was acting president and first approval was sought, is set up for administration of the Army Physical Combat Profi ciency Test (PCPT). The north end will contain the 300-yard long obstacle course laid out in a “V” shape. Capt. Charles H. Briscoe, Rud der’s Rangers company advisor, said the layout should be com pleted by Thanksgiving. Ranger company members under Steve Swanner have worked two week ends on it. Parsons indicated the project has U. S. Army approval and support including funds and heavy building materials. The Texas Highway Department dis trict office provided concrete cul vert, A&M’s Grounds Mainten ance Department, tools and ma chinery, and the 420th Engineer Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Joe G. Hanover, technical assistance to ensure the obstacles are structurally sound. Child care centers for working mothers are another goal of NOW, Dr. Fisher noted, as well as courses on women’s studies offered at all schools. “You should look at women's liberation as a long struggle for democracy in the Wester Hemis phere,” Dr. Fisher concluded. The floor was then opened to questions from the audience of enthusiastic women and antago nistic men. One male student asked Dr. Fisher why women should be paid as much as men when men have a family to support. A girl in the audience com mented that she saw no reason not to pay a woman as much when she helped support a family, too. Dr. Fisher added that many men die too soon from over work and that is a good reason for a wife to work. Another male student asked if the female menstrual cycle and the risk of pregnancy kept wom en from acquiring executive jobs. “You have one of the great minds—of the twelfth century,” Dr. Fisher answered. Dr. Fisher’s speech was inter rupted several times by applause, hissing and whooping. Most of the questions asked of her by men were rude and derogatory in nature. Sophs decide sweetheart to be A&M coed The Sophomore Class Council decided Wednesday night to select the sophomore sweetheart from A&M coeds only. They are the first group to do so. The proposal was made by Mark Blakemore, the final vote was 27 for and 18 against. The council also followed the precedent of the Student Senate in donating $50 to the Yell Lead er Committee to help pay for the sound system used at Midnight Yell Practice. Band blow of Viet Cong sappers up 5 U. S. helicopters boroughs, including the reading of the names in Brooklyn of the nation’s 45,000 Vietnam war dead. In the nation’s capital, Wash ington Labor for Peace and Fed eral Employes for Peace called on “Americans of all persuasions” to participate. They planned a three- hour rally across from the White House. Another rally, sponsored by the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, was planned for the steps of the Capitol. Many of the activities centered on college campuses. A noon peace march was expected on the University of Minnesota campus. In New York City, rallies were set for several college campuses, including Columbia, New York University, Manhattan College and Queens College. SAIGON (A 1 ) — Under cover of darkness, a small band of Viet Cong sappers slipped into an al lied base near Saigon Wednesday and blew up five U.S. helicopters worth $1.4 million. The sappers, trained to slip into bases and blow up equipment, got away. Two of them were sighted as they fled but there was no exchange of fire, the U.S. Command reported. The sapper attack was the first such assault on an Ameri can unit in the capital’s environs since January 1970, although there have been terrorist bomb ings against U.S. billets and other installations in Saigon it self. The sappers slipped undetected into the base camp at Di An, eight miles northeast of Saigon, and blew up the five helicopters with explosive charges. The U.S. Command reported two of the helicopters destroyed and major damage to the other three. The base at Di An is a South Vietnamese installation but it is used by U.S. helicopters which are currently providing support for government troops in the Cambodian border fighting. Internal security on the base is provided by American troops while the outside security is as signed to South Vietnamese. The attack apparently was part of a recently launched sapper campaign by the Viet Cong in the 3rd Military Region, an area that encompasses Saigon and 11 sur rounding provinces. Less than a month ago, a sapper team blew up 300 tons of ammunition at a South Vietnamese depot on the outskirts of Saigon. The last sapper attack against a U.S. helicopter installation took place at Lai Khe, 30 miles north of Saigon, July 27. In that attack, sappers blew up five U.S. helicopters. The U.S. Command also re ported that an unarmed U.S. re connaissance plane and its two fighter-bomber escorts were fired upon Tuesday while on a picture taking mission over North Viet nam. Two surface-to-air (SAM) mis siles were fired at the American planes, while they were about 85 miles northwest of the demili tarized zone, the command said. The planes were not hit, the command added, and they did not fire back — a departure from the usual “protective reaction” strikes by U.S. planes when fired upon or threatened over North Viet nam. It was the first time since July 10 that SAM missiles were used against U.S. reconnaissance planes over North Vietnam. The U.S. Command said the American fliers did not “visually observe” the missiles, indicating that they apparently tracked the 36-foot long “flying telephone poles” on their radar screens. The command also reported the loss of a sixth American helicop ter, a rocket-firing Cobra gun- ship shot down a half mile from U.S. Fire Base Pace near the Cambodian border where fighting has been under way for 2 1 /£ weeks. Two crewmen were wounded in the downing of the Cobra, a heavily armed and speedy heli copter. Its loss raised to 7,979 the total of U.S. aircraft of all types lost in Indochina in the war. Applications are being taken for seats on Student Senate Applications are being taken for the seven Student Senate seats created by the recently passed constitutional amendment. Offices open are: Pre-vet, one at large; Engineering, one at large, and one from each class excepting freshmen and Science, two at large. The last date for applications Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. is Friday at 5 p.m. They may be turned in at the Student Sen ate office in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Those applying must have the same qualifications as regular senators have. The applications will be screened by the Senate Executive Committee, chosen by John Sharp, Student Senate president, and approved by the Senate. mi