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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, January 28, 1972 CADET SLOUCH Listen up by Jim Earle JPr3.1SC “Wouldn’t it be easier to Avrite several short letters occasionally instead of writing only one long letter a semes ter?” Editor: Soon, we the students at TAMU will be receiving our own grades. We will have cable T.V., carpet ing and refrigerators to accom modate our lives in the dorms and, conceivably, one of these days, the students 21 and over may be able to go to the MSC for a cold beer to relieve the ten sions after a long day in class. We are already enjoying im proved dining hall conditions and expanded menus. Visitation hours are longer than they used to be and, thanks to a challenge, the laundry service is again in- one-day and out-the-next. Still in early stages are plans to modify registration so that we can request specific sections knowing the times and instruc tors of that section in advance. Also, somewhere in an obscure sub-committee, a move is being considered to curb the Physical Plant’s habit of closing a dorm every spring to consolidate the room vacancies. At all levels, administrators and students alike are studying ways to improve weekend activi- Bulletin Monday Junior Class Council will hold a meeting in Room 304 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. All junior representatives are urged to attend. Host and Fashion will meet on the front steps of the MSC at Unemployment enemy: WASHINGTON <A>) — Jobless ness has become the great eco nomic enemy, President Nixon said Thursday. He assured Con gress he is determined to defeat both unemployment and inflation, and reported “the outlook is bright” for success. In his annual Economic Re port to Congress, Nixon quashed with finality the hints by some officials of an early end to Phase 2. Price-wage controls will be en forced, he said, until the goal of “reasonable price stability can be maintained without controls. “We will persevere until the goal is reached,” he promised, “but we will not keep the con trols one day longer than neces sary.” The report, third and last of the major presidential messages to the new session of Congress, announced a strong business ex pansion in the final quarter of 1971. Real output rose 6 per cent in annual rate, twice the rate of the preceding six months. Gross national output will rise by nearly $100 billion in 1972, or more than 9 per cent, to a total of $1,145 trillion, the mes sage said, and two-thirds of the record gain will be real, not just inflation. “1972 begins on a note of much greater confidence than prevailed 6 or 12 months ago,” the Presi- Barnes threatened on change made in House redistricting —AUSTIN, Tex. (A>)_A top aide for Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes said Thursday that two state repre sentatives, unhappy over House redistricting changes, threatened Barnes last October with an em barrassing appearance before the House Investigation Committee. Robert Spellings, executive as sistant to Barnes, said the lieuten ant governor did not take threats “seriously” and took no action himself. “It all happened in the heat of the arguments over the redistrict ing bills,” Spellings said. “Tem pers were high and everybody’s feelings were on their sleeve.” Spellings, who had a key part in drawing the Senate and House redistricting plans approved by the Legislative Redistricting Board, said that Reps. Bill Clay ton of Springlake and Jim Slider of Naples, both floor leaders for Speaker Gus Mutscher, threaten ed to call Barnes before the House General Investigating Commit tee that looked into the legisla tive aspects of the stock fraud scandal. Spellings said the threats in volved mostly changes made in the disti'icts of Reps. Jim Nu gent of Kerrville and Slider. Both are members of the House inves tigating committee, which has never made public a report on its findings. “To the best of my memory there has been no real threat made to me or to a member of my staff,” Barnes said Thurs day. “If I ever said anything like that I just don’t remember it,” Clayton told The Associated Press.” . . . The first knowledge I had about this was when I read about it in the paper.” “Personally I am convinced that Mutscher never threatened Barnes nor myself nor that he was aware of any threats made, despite some published reports,” Spelling said Thursday. “I doubt seriously that either Reps. Clayton or Slider meant anything serious by their state ments.” Spelling said Barnes did not take Spellings’ advice to “call a press conference and tell every body about these threats . . . He took it in the course of the events that were happening at the time.” He said Barnes never mention ed the matter to Mutscher, so far as he knew. The Legislative Redistricting Board — composed of Barnes, Mutscher, Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin, Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong and Comptroller Rob ert S. Calvert—was forced by the state constitution to redistrict both the Senate and House. The 1971 legislature made no effort to redistrict the Senate and the House bill passed was declared illegal by federal court. Spellings said Barnes, with the knowledge of Martin, gave Spell ing the job of drawing up the Senate bill first, then of drafting a House bill after one offered by Mutscher and House members “was obviously as unconstitution al as the old one.” However, Mutscher and a number of House leaders did not like the Spellings version and there was a confer ence Oct. 20 in Mutscher’s office. He said there were no threats made at the time and several House members congratulated him on the drafting job. The next day it was discovered the new House map has 151 dis tricts, instead of the 150 author ized by the constitution and it had to be changed again. “Friday Oct. 22 I had a call from Bill Clayton and he said J. M. Nugent was mad as hell because his district was changed, particularly because Uvalde coun ty was added, “Spellings said. “He said Slider was unhappy also . . . Then he said something like ‘I’m afraid Barnes is going to get called before the House Inves tigating Committee if these changes aren’t made.’ I don’t re member the exact words but it was obvious he would be subpoe naed just to embarrass him.” Later, Spellings said, Slider called Barne’s office and told a staff member he was “mad as hell” and “said he was going to subpoenae Barnes if his district is not changed.” It was then that Spellings rec ommended that Barnes call a press conference and tell all. “He (Barnes) was mad too but he didn’t think the press con ference was a good idea,” the aide said. be Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, and no more than 300 words in length, signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to l.is ten Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Sewices Building, ('allege Station, Texas 77843. double-spaced, Thev must be Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. W. E. Tedrick, College of Agriculture; and Layne Kruse, student. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San F ran cisco. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 6% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatchs credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley News Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor John Curylo Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry given administration, students ties, thus making A&M a seven- day-a-week learning experience. The new Dean of Men (Dr. Charles W. Powell), has already indicated his personal belief that seven day students make better headway toward success. A&M is a better university to day than it was yesterday. To morrow, it will be even better. The days of suppressing young people because they happen to be students are drawing to an end, and who do we thank? fellow students. Not just any students, but the ones who are repeatedly using their energy and resources and sticking their necks out to push appropriate reforms. A “thank you” doesn’t seem enough for the long, long hours that are spent in small, overcrowded offices and dorm rooms weighing proposals and alternatives and mapping out strategy. We thank the men with open doors like Dr. Powell, Mr. Eu gene C. Oates, Director of Civi lian Student Activities and, de spite what the lower military echelons proclaim about “chain of command,” Colonels Thomas R. Parsons and Robert F. Cross land, who have always had their doors open as well! The whole “front office” of Texas A&M is this way. Ask around and you’ll find that few schools of this size afford the students so much di rect communication with admin istrators and faculty. Also, we need to thank our If you don’t think a “Thank you” is enough, then add “What can I do to help?” There is a Peace plan backlog and enough work for everyone. This is the what and the why of my request. The who is fur nished daily by The Battalion. In case you don’t remember, or maybe didn’t read in the first place, the people who are stick ing it on the line and could use your support in making A&M’s tomorrow an even better one are Student Senate leaders like John Sharp, Barb Sears, Mike Ess- myer, Randy Ross and Layne Kruse; Student Council leaders like Bill Shaw, Jim Mobley, Bill Hatherill and Richard Peavey; and class leaders like Randy Maness and Terry Brown. (Continued from page 1) Porter emphasized Nixon’s plan was meant to be “ as flexible as possible, so that we can speed the negotiations.” Board “We will endeavor to respond to any questions you may have or any clarifications you may seek with respect to the proposal, which is a serious attempt to meet those proposals already brought forward by your side,” Porter said. There are others too, but not nearly enough for a University this big. So think about it and consider what your part should be. Let the student leaders get some feedback—then they’ll be able to do a better job. And, if you’ve got a gripe about A&M, bring it either to one of them or to one of those open doors I men tioned earlier. This University will be better tomorrow because of what we, you and I, do today. Jerry Campbell 7:15 p.m. for the Aggieland pho to. A Mam’selle meeting will fol low with a special speaker. Tuesday Wildlife Biology Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of BSBE. Nixon dent said. “Output is rising at a rate which will boost employ ment rapidly and eat into unem ployment. There is every reason to expect this rate of increase to continue... “We are converting the fear of perpetual inflation into a grow ing hope for price stability . . . For the first time in over a decade, the United States is mov ing decisively to restore strength to its international economic posi tion. “The outlook is bright, but much remains to be done. The great problem is to get the un employment rate down from the 6-per-cent level where it was in 1971... “Six per cent unemployment is too much, and I am determined to reduce that number significant ly in 1972. The jobless rate rose to 6.1 per cent in December. Nixon said the 1971 tax cuts and the massive budget deficits he announced in Monday’s fiscal 1973 budget mes sage will provide an upward thrust for the economy. 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