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n es gat was | the hi he woJ ie coat;l be Bcittciiiofi Cool and wet Vol. 67 No. 34 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 27, 1971 Thursday — Partly cloudy to occassionally cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. Hiph 78°, low 62°. Friday — Partly cloudy, north erly winds 10-20 mph. High 67°, low 48°. Kickoff Little Rock — 61°, northwest winds 10 mph. 30% relative humidity. 845-2226 >. whos &Mi 'y siiKij 1 aeait,' get i look ai) ids anil J iave | 'e bolt it pla etho (Ehur Taiwan’s expulsion regretted by Nixon ■IM Worship ;chool •3;08 IO : 50A.M. THE WAGES OF SIN WERE NOT FROZEN! WASHINGTON UP) _ The United Nations’ decision to ex pel Taiwan will be respected by the United States, Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Tuesday, but the Nixon adminis tration regards it as “a most unfortunate precedent.” And some Congress members demand ed retaliation. “This administration deeply re grets the expulsion of the Re public of China and thinks the precedent is a most unfortunate one and will have adverse effects in the future,” Rogers said. Angry Senate and House con servatives urged a cut in U.S. contributions to the United Na tions and some members demand ed even more drastic action. Others called for continued sup port of the United Nations as the only hope for world peace. Declaring “We have a new ball game,” Sen. William B. Saxbe, R.-Ohio, moved to send the $3.2-billion foreign-aid au thorization bill, which contains $139 million for U.N.-related ac tivities, back to the Senate For eign Relations Committee. In moving to sidetrack the foreign aid bill temporarily, Saxbe noted that 42 of the 76 nations that voted to expel Na tionalist China and 12 of the nations that abstained from vot ing are listed as beneficiaries in the bill. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R.- Ariz., said the United States should quit the United Nations outright and send its headquar ters off to “some place like Mos cow or Peking.” Senate leaders of both parties, Democrat Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, said they have long believed the United GIG ’EM AGGIES! MINISTERS A.BRANNEN Dormitory improvements foreseen in near future LJ. GRUBBS [UST WHAT IS MEANT by all this we are not sure of. When read separately, they Take a lot of sense. When read together, they make sense too just a little bit differently, Bowever. Refrigerators, carpeting and cable-TV are in the future for dormitory students at A&M. These changes, and others, are being brought about by work done by John Sharp, Student Senate president, Gordon Pilmer, Civilian Student Council president, and Tom Stanley, Corps commander, in conjunction with administra tors. The group formed a committee endler says Campus students denied rights [Students will soon have all the pgal rights of an adult, except |n the campus, said Ed Wendler ia Great Issues presentation last A>ght in the Memorial Student fenter Ballroom. “The trend in law today is joward recognition of the 18-year- as an adult. He has already k en given the right to vote and fe rest is not far behind,” Wend- psaid. “But on the college cam ps many of his civil liberties are ping violated.” Society in the early 19th cen- lary devised a system to protect Ihe tutor from civil actions Igainst him, and this idea has pyeloped so that today it is the pin of all college students, said endler, executive director of pxas Intercollegiate Student As- piation. But this is changing. The reason for this reversal I s the change of the structure J our society and the change and I tainment of knowledge, physical Purity and civil responsibility so evident in today’s population between the ages of 18 and 25,” stated Wendler. On Texas’ campuses many stu dents’ rights are being violated, he said. He cited search and seiz ure as an example. “Your dormitory is your domi cile and cannot be searched with out a warrant,” Wendler said. Property owners, and in this case resident advisors, do have the right and duty to check when they think the property is being abused, but never to search a room, he explained. “On most campuses there is no such thing as a free press,” com mented Wendler. This is regards to handing out newspapers on a street corner. Each person should have the right to distribute freely on campus anything he wants to and should even be able to sell it if people will buy it, Wendler stressed. “The 18-year-old should have the right to live off campus if he wants to,” said Wendler. This should be up to him. This issue is actually turned around. The university should have to prove a student must live on campus and present a valid reason, he said. A valid reason is not the paying off of a bond or mortgage by the school, said Wendler. The Texas Intercollegiate Stu dent Association has established a separate, non-profit corporation with funding from private sources to help students in civil liberties cases. This organization is run by students and interested citi zens around the state. This group is currently working with several students involved in the disturbances at Prairie View A&M last February. There is a basic issue involved concerning a violation of their rights in actions taken later by the administration, said Wendler. The problem originates with the general condition of the Black in Texas, Wendler stressed. “When Prairie View was found ed, Texas was a totally segre gated society and Blacks were declared inferior by statute.” This, too, is changing as the Black attains equality in society, said Wendler, and we are working to further this goal. Ed Wendler to listen and react to student gripes and suggestions about their living areas. They took these and eliminated those that were unfeasible or economically impossible and recomended to the university that the improvements be made. For the most part, Sharp said, the university reacted favorably to the recommendations. Refrigerators were one of the main topics and one that is tak ing research before it can be im plemented. Almost sure to get permission soon to have refriger ators in individual rooms are civilian dorms 14-22. The older civilian dorms may have to wait for some time be fore they are allowed refrigera tors. The reason for this is that rewiring, running more than $25,- 000 per dormitory, will have to be done before the refrigerators extra power withdrawal can be allowed. The Corps dorms, and the civil ian dorms in that area, may have to wait as long as a year before being allowed refrigerators, the reason for this, Sharp said, is not that the dorms need rewiring, but that the power lines supplying that area are not capable of carrying the added load. Cable TV for black and white sets will be implimented as soon as the necessary administrative features are set up, Sharp com mented. The cable TV will probably be limited to black and white sets because of the electrical power draw. A color television set can draw more than 350 watts, or more than twice that of a black and white set. Also in the plans are the in stallation of 56 more drinking- fountains in dormitories, provid ing carpet on corridors and ramps of the dormitories, replacing all outside doors in the Corps area, placing weather-stripping on the doors of the newer apartment- style dormitories, and providing obscure windows and no-slip floors in the showers. Also provided for are a total reworking of lounges in most dormitories and the installation of furniture and light fixtures in others. States pays too big a share of the U.N. expenses and favor cut backs on that basis, not as pun ishment for Monday night’s vote to seat mainland China and oust Taiwan. But other senators cautioned against a punitive cut in the American contribution. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R.-Ill., said that would set a dangerous precedent, under which every time a U.N. member lost a vote it could retaliate by withholding funds. Men on both sides of the issue expressed disappointment and re gret at the expulsion of Taiwan. “I believe, however, that to re duce American support of the United Nations would be an in appropriate response to this un fortunate vote,” said Sen. Clif ford P. Case, R.-N.J. The White House x-eferred questions to Secretary Rogers. At the State Department Rogers told newsmen he hopes the United Nations won’t be weakened but he. pointedly told reporters the world organization faces a finan cial crisis and there is a problem “of whether the United Nations is living beyond its means.” “I think that may be the case,” he added. While noting there are some senators who think the United States is carrying too great a share of the U.N. financial bur den, Rogers denied the Nixon administration will attempt to retaliate against the organiza tion. Hensel Park area vandalism creates problems for TAMU Vandalism has been a real problem in Hensel Park, says Col. Logan Weston, coordinator of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) on campus. Hensel Park, an annex of the University, is maintained by the University and patrolled by the University Police. “The park has become a popu lar refuge for many students dur ing the week for club activities and ball games,” Weston said, “and many local church groups picnic there also.” “The amount of damage we have found done to the park ranges from chopped up picnic tables to broken cement water fountains. A heavy cement carved water fountain was found in two sections, broken from its stand, apparently by being hit by something,” Weston said. ‘We also cannot keep park benches. Of the 24 benches bought last year, all are gone,” Weston continued, “except the three that have been broken and thrown into the creek that runs through the park.” “The wooden play fort that was built by university students has been burned down. The wooden cannon that went with it has been run into the creek, and has been broken. One time, these play areas drew many chil dren,” Weston commented. The park includes areas for many various sized picnicing areas, complete with large barbe cue pits, running water and elec tricity. In the past, the water faucets have been broken off at the ground, the picnic tables dis mantled, cut up for firewood, (See Hensel, page 4) One campus radar unit is enough, but not for Aggies 1 david middlebrooke far as most people are con- radar is radar. All you , ea ly nee d is one set and you’re 1,1 business. The A&M Meteorol- 'Sy Department and its students 66 things differently. They use two radar units for ! eir °hservations, and like the l', ea So m uch they soon may have ' hr ee units. Using the two sets makes it r;ible for more accurate and , a Pid forecasts of precipitation,” ly a ’ n ed Department Head Dr. at H:e Moyer. lo { A&M has the only known set I dual-frequency radars. One operates on a wavelength of CI tt-> the other on a wavelength 0 cm. The antenna are tilted bhe same angle and can be synchronized so both illuminate e same part of the sky at the l Same time. e dual - frequency system 1st ^ 0recas ters, explained |i '°n manager Jim Lightfoot, |i, ause what one unit doesn’t I See the other ones. The 3 cm. sensitive to smaller rain- the 3 cm. unit’s signals, prevent ing them from being reflected back and seen. The Meteorology Department is awaiting completion of a 14- story, $7 million building on the College Station campus which it will share with the Oceanography Department. The radar antenna, when placed atop the new build ing, will be 10 stories higher than they are now—allowing a clear view and a 25-mile increase in the present 250-mile radar range. When ,, the department moves into the building, Lightfoot said, it will acquire a third radar unit which will operate on a wave length of 1.25 cm. Extravagant? Lightfoot doesn’t think so. He explained clouds are formed when moisture-saturated air cools by moving upward. Tiny water droplets form, colliding with each other and joining together as the air continues to move up and cool. After the drops become so large, the upward air drafts them and they I “lit is ^ an bhe 10 cm. unit and 1 1 detect light showers the r ^ er u nit will overlook. , s ?. n tll e other hand, Lightfoot )J ’ ID cm. unit picks up av V showers whose larger water flight completely absorb he said, can’t support break up. What T, new meteorologists don t know, Lightfoot said, is at what point the water droplets begin forming. The 1.25 cm. unit will University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. allow them to better observe the process and perhaps find out. Another way to think of how the 1.25 cm. unit will help, Light foot explained, is to realize the 10 cm. unit cannot “see” a cloud until it has a vertical measure ment of 7-8,000 feet. The 3 cm. unit can pick up clouds when they’ve grown to 3-4,000 feet, and the 1.25 cm. unit can pick up clouds only 500-800 feet tall. “This means we can look at what appears to be a large rain cloud and tell whether it has grown enough to provide rain,” Lightfoot said, “and we can tell whether the water drops are small or relatively large.” Lightfoot said there also is a possibility that a 1.25 cm. unit, which is fairly inexpensive, can enable a trained meteorologist to estimate the amount of rainfall in a given area. “This would be a great help,” he explained, “when you consider much of the state’s rainfall is not measured by rain gages— there aren’t any in many areas.” He said the Army’s Corps of Engineers and many cities are interested in the rainfall estimat ing possibilities, and will be in terested in what A&M’s Meteor ology Department finds out. The radar sets, as well as all other department facilities, are not primarily intended or used for research, interesting though it may be. The department is there to teach, and that’s what it places first. “Teaching the students is what we aim all activities toward,” Lightfoot stressed. “If anything gets in the way of helping the students, it goes out the window.” The department maintains a display case of functioning weather instruments, and keeps up-to-date maps posted in the classroom area so students can translate their classroom theory into the actual weather condi tions. “The weather station supports the educational program,” Light foot said. “Weather theory is pretty dry. The practical side gives the theory life early in the student curriculum. He can actu ally see theory in action. I think it helps the students do better.” Students also get a great deal of radar theory, wtih the weather station units used to reinforce it. But the theory is the more im portant part. “Radar may be a liar if it isn’t interpreted correctly,” Dr. Moyer said. “To interpret the theory is needed. It’s easy to make mis takes and students must realize the limitations of radar.” Wtih three sets, students will be better able to see what radar can tell them and what it can’t. IIIIHIH11mill ill RADAR NERVE CENTER IS seen here as technician Bob Kcrlick of A&M’s Meteorology Department checks the readings on the 3 cm. wavelength unit. Equipment for the 10 cm. unit is right of center. (Photo by David Middlebrooke)