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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, January 27, 1972
An analysis
CADET SLOUCH
by Km eorie Xhe future of having liquor on campu
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
Editor
The right to legally have li
quor on campus is developing
into an issue that may endure
for quite awhile on the TAMU
campus. It is one that undoubt
edly has a large amount of stu
dent support and may have just
as much opposition from the ad
ministration.
The students of TAMU are not
the only ones concerned with
having booze on their campus.
Other universities in Texas are
raising the issue and one, the
University of Houston, has al
ready allowed liquor on campus.
UH is the first state school
to allow liquor on campus. Their
policy contains three main
points:
1) Alcoholic beverages can be
consumed on campus as long as
persons are not in violation of
state laws.
2) Beer can be sold only in
the University Center, again un
der state laws.
3) The university will take no
responsibility for those pieople
who violate state laws.
University of Houston students
argued that no person should be
abridged his right to drink under
the jurisdiction of state laws just
because he is a university stu
dent.
In each of the points used in
the UH policy, the state law
clause appears every time. Aside
from the standard applicable
laws such as minor in possession
of alcoholic beverages and drunk
in a public place, there is an
other that could mean the end of
liquor on any campus in the
state.
This is Article 666-25a of Ver
non’s Texas Penal Code which
permits a city or county to pro
hibit the sale of alcoholic bever
ages within 300 feet of a public
school.
Though this law is not now
being used by the City of Col
lege Station or Brazos County
in respect to A&M it could con
ceivably be enforced.
Too, according to Crawford
Martin, Attorney General of
Texas, the University of Houston
is a public school. To quote from
him:
‘Tn view of the primary object
of the Liquor Control Act, and
considering the consequences of
a contrary construction, it is rea
sonable to conclude that the Leg
islature intended the words “pub
lic schools’’ to encompass all
public schools, of all educational
levels; therefore, it is our opin
ion that the University of Hous
ton is a “public school’’ within
contemplation of Article 666-25a.
If tax supported universities and
colleges are not to be deemed
“public schools” as herein con
sidered, the Texas Legislature is
the proper body to make such a
provision.”
So where does that leave
A&M? Possibly in the lurch. It
would seem that if liquor were
to be prohibited within 300 feet
of a public school then the liquor
would certainly be prohibited
within the school, even if the law
doesn’t say that.
The true settlement to this
facet of the booze on campus
problem must come from outside
the university either in a ruling
by Martin or a court ruling.
Assuming that it is legal for
liquor to be on campus, what are
the chances for students getting
the Board of Directors to allow
it?
Without a poll of the board it
is impossible to answer this
question. Getting a yes or no
answer from each member of the
board would probably prove im
possible, but knowing the board’s
past behavior and some of their
current thoughts we can come
up with a likely solution.
No.
If it were to be at all possible
to convince the board of chang
ing this rule there would have
to be used some of the best
proofs and firmest support of
university officials in high
places.
The proof would be hard to
come by. The UH policy has not
been in existence long enough for
the board to consider it as a
valid example. Also there is no
proof that having liquor on cam
pus will not lead to more viola
tions, not that any laws are now
strictly enforced anyway.
Don’t count on any support
from higher up either. President
Jack K. Williams has already
said that he will not support
such a policy, and where Wil
liams goes, the rest of the uni
versity is sure to follow.
If the policy were to bee*
part of the regulations it
not be too soon. Probably
only changes of mind the ki
would make on a matter like:
would also be on a one-t&i
basis with changes in the pe<
on the board.
So when will you be able
keep beer in your newly acqii
refrigerator? When you®
off campus.
North Viets rap peace plan
“I don’t think it’s possible to get this much in my head
in one semester!”
The student opinion
The just released Student Senate Opinion Poll, after more than a
month of tabulation, has actually done nothing more than to reinforce
most previously held ideas.
The reason for this lies in the replies and in the nature of the
opinion poll.
We have learned that students still favor the Bonfire, still want
the laundry and think that the Aggie Sweetheart should be selected
(Continued from page 1)
Thieu and refused to give up its
commitment to the latter. On
the contrary, it sought by every
means to impose on the South
Vietnamese people the U. S.-
created Saigon puppet regime, its
so-called “constitution” and its
‘laws’.”
The Viet Cong delegation in
Paris said Nixon’s speech was
“filled with electoral propa
ganda.” The Viet Cong added
in a statement: “It sought on
one hand to conceal the policy
of prolongation and extension of
the war of aggression followed
by his administration, and on
the other hand to continue to
avoid a serious response to the
legitimate demands of the South
Vietnamese people.”
A spokesman for the Cam
bodian government, which re
ceives U. S. aid in battling the
North Vietnamese and Viet
Cotton named Welch prof
from. A&M coeds only.
Of course one tbuld say that such revelations come as a surprise,
but not if time is t«kch',fp study the campus even superficially. Asking
these questions does serve a purpose in making as sure as possible just
what the students think, but when only one third of the students
answered the poll, that becomes somewhat unreliable too.
The only two questions that an answer could not easily be gaged
is that of the War Hymn and the credit union. In these cases the
opinion poll fulfilled its purpose.
The remaining questions shouldn’t have been asked to begin with.
A shuttle bus services is already being planned, there is to be a new
university health center, and a phone call to The Battalion editor would
have informed the compilers that the “Batt” editors are not going to
give up their weekend to produce a Monday paper unless they get a pay
raise.
The next time such an opinion poll is run, more thought should
be given to the questions. There are much better questions that time
and money could be spent on.
Dr. F. Albert Cotton has joined
the A&M faculty as the Robert
A. Welch Professor of Chemis-
That
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five ad
If you haven’t reached page five yet, when you do you will notice
a letter, run as an advertisement, from the A&M band.
The letter should be read for it is a reply to a column about the
band that ran in the sports section.
The purpose of this editorial is to make clear that the letter is
being run this way at Col. E. V. Adams’ wish and not in the regular
letters to the editor column. The Battalion did not refuse to print the
letter, we did refuse to the print the letter in its full length.
We did this because the letter is much longer than our specified
length, so long in fact that it would have taken up much of this page to
run it. This is the only reason it is being run as it is.
try, announced TAMU President
Jack K. Williams.
The National Academy of Sci
ences member previously taught
and conducted research at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology for 17 years.
Dr. Williams noted the new
Robert A. Welch professorship
honors the Robert A. Welch
Foundation of Houston. The
foundation, of which the late W.
T. Doherty was president at the
time the professorship was estab
lished, has supported TAMU re
search programs with grants to
taling more than $5 million since
1956.
Dr. A. E. Martell, head of
TAMU’s Chemistry Department,
said Dr. Cotton will continue to
pursue research in inorganic and
biological chemistry, with par
ticular emphasis on preparative
and structural organometallic
chemistry, metal-metal bonding,
fluxional molecules and protein
crystallography.
In addition to the National
Academy of Sciences, Dr. Cot
ton is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, American Crystallo
graphic Association, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the American Chemical So
ciety.
Cong, said Cambodia welcomed
Nixon’s proposals, particularly
the provision for guarantees for
Laos and Cambodia.
The spokesman added that
there could be no peace in Cam
bodia until 65,000 to 70,000 ene
my troops withdrew from Cam
bodia, emphasizing: “Other
wise, there might be peace in
Vietnam but not in the rest of
Indochina.”
Pote Sarasin, a senior member
of Thailand’s ruling national ex
ecutive council noted that Nix
on’s plans “seem to be a reason
able resolution to end the con
flict.”
Since Thailand is plagued by
Communist insurgents, Pote said
that any cease-fire must be
linked to guarantees of “non
interference in the internal af
fairs of all southeast Asian coun
tries.”
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