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Fentative fee allocations
hanged, cut by Senate
SCONA XVII Program
Thursday
5-6 p. m. Review-Drill Field
7:30-8 Singing- Cadets-Ballroom
8:30-10 Dr. Earl J. McGrath
10 Social Gathering
Friday
9-10 a. m. Fourth Round-Table Session
3-4:15 Dean Lawrence E. Fouraker
4:15-6 Fifth Round-Table Session
JOHN CURYLO
The Student Senate voted
f rsday night to accept in
nciple a student services fee
ication proposal calling for an
ional Aggieland, a cut in the
OJlging Cadets’ funds and fi-
mUjlncing of four magazines of
^jlderit Publications to be paid
by the respective colleges.
The same motion sent the al-
ation proposal back to com-
ttee for consideration of an
tional athletic fee or inclusion
the YMCA in this plan, to be
Oil it to the Board of Directors
Jjl use in making up their an
al budget.
The revision of the fee alloca-
n is necessary due to the in-
ase in funds for the hospital,
lich is in the expansion and
provement stages.
Two plans for distribution of
the fees -were discussed. The
main points of contention were
optional athletic fees, the Sing
ing Cadets and the Student Pub
lications reorganization.
“I think this proposal (inclu
sion of athletics, a cut in Sing
ing Cadets and the new Student
Publications setup) is a good
compromise between commit
ments we have to the new hos
pital and desires by the athletic
department,” John Sharp, senate
president said afterwards. “It is
one hundred percent in the stu
dents’ best interests.”
The plan, calling for cuts from
the original proposal of $13,407
Singing Cadets, $18,000 from Stu
dent Publication and $50,698 from
Memorial Student Center facili
ties, passed by a roll call vote of
72-3. Voting against the measure
were Spike Dayton (Treasurer),
Judy McConnel (,Sr-Ed) and Mark
Cuculic (Jr-Eng).
“I think the Aggieland should
be optional,” Sharp said. “Dr.
Jack Williams has expressed a
desire to keep the annual regard
less of the optional sale. Also,
I think the YMCA should be ex
cluded and put in another area
for funding.
“This plan is feasible,” he con
tinued. ‘It has worked well at
other schools. Because of the re
sponsibility shown by the Stu
dent Senate, they should have
jurisdiction over the allocation
with the single approval of Dr.
Williams.”
The question of a reduction in
funds allocated to the Singing
Cadets was argued for a good
portion of the meeting. James
McLeroy, Issues Committee chairs
man and vice president of the
Singing Cadets, and Niels Jen
sen, the group’s business mana
ger, defended their organization
to no avail.
“Last year was our first year
on a budget,” Jensen explained.
“In drawing up this year’s budg
et, we underestimated our ex
penditures. Right now, we’re
very close to a deficit.” Kruse, life committee chairman.
“Our job is to raise the public He questioned the proposal of
image of A&M,” McLeroy said. increasing their allocation by
The two pointed out that the - $1.50 per student per semester,
university benefits from Singing after the plan calling for the op-
Cadet appearances.
Bruce Clay, public relations
chairman, argued that the Sing
ing Cadets do not directly bene
fit the students. He said that
their outward good was not a
student service. The applause of
those present decided the issue.
Corky Houchard, YMCA rep
resentative, outlined the services
of his group. He emphasized
that their activities were not
classified as entirely religious.
Such things as Changing World
Events, Fish Camp, Hensel Park
steak fries, securing speedway
jobs for students and spirit signs
were brought up as benefiting
the student body as a whole.
“Non-members can partici
pate,” he said, “so our dues col
lections do not help us pay for
these things. We are one of the
few organizations on this cam
pus oriented toward freshmen,
and they are important people.”
The optional athletic fee drew
some strong remarks, too, the
main attack coming from Layne
tional fee had been passed over.
“Because of inept management
over there, they are going to call
on student organizations to bail
them out,” he proclaimed. “I
think the athletic department
should be the ones to consider
cutting their budget.”
Another question left unan
swered was that of the student
handbook project, designed to in
corporate the various booklets
explaining A&M that are dis
tributed to incoming freshmen.
Barb Sears, recording secre
tary, said that the handbook
would cost about $6,000. This
would include the cost of printing
5,000 copies and paying the peo
ple who work on it, minus the
advertising revenue.
“This is a benefit to all the
students,” she said. “We need to
cut somewhere to fund it.” Hou
chard pointed out that the YMCA
prints enough handbooks for the
freshmen at $800, and that half
the estimated cost of the senate
(See Service, page 2)
Students needing
better perception
Londonderry bus driver
kidnapped and executed
MAY BE AN ECOLOGY STATEMENT or just terrible
riving but it is an oak branch sticking- out of a bulldozer’s
rhaust stack. Poor driving must not be discounted be-
tose the dozer is at the construction site across from The
i/jj xchange Store, location of at least two amusing bogging-
D* >wn incidents in past days. (Photo by Robert Williams)
|| Saturday’s A&M-TCU game
xpected to be total sellout
$
The A&M-Texas Christian bas-
ttball game in Ft. Worth Sat-
rday is expected to be a sellout,
ports information director Jim
lamer said Wednesday.
Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, with
capacity of 7,232, is made up
fitirely of reserved seats. The
ituation is similar to football, in
hat the tickets sold to students
re reserved, and everyone who
toys a ticket is guaranteed a
eat.
"We expect a full house,” Gar
ter said. “In fact, I’ll be sur-
irised if there are any tickets
eft by noon Saturday.”
He added that the tickets are
»ow on sale. This is comparable
o last week’s Southern Method-
st game, since numerous people
Vere turned away. SMU sells
general admission tickets in ad
vance, so it is possible at both
the schools that the visiting stu
dents might not get in if ad
vance demand for seats is great
enough.
A&M’s policy is to sell re
served seats in advance and then
itot general admission tickets on
a first-come-first-serve basis the
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
day of the game. This gives the
visiting school an equal chance
to be admitted to the game.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
GT*) — Terrorists dragged a bus
driver away from his screaming
passengers Wednesday night in
Londonderry and executed him
in the getaway car. A British
soldier was slain near Belfast,
bringing Ulster’s death toll in
2^ years of violence to at least
245.
In Newry, Bernadette Devlin
and 25 other Roman Catholics
won a court victory by gaining
postponement of a hearing on
charges that they participated in
illegal marches. Placard-carry-*
ing crowds cheered the decision.
Gunmen pulled 47-year-old
Thomas Callaghan, a part time
militiaman in the Ulster Defense
Regiment and a Catholic, from
his bus in Londonderry’s Creg-
gan district. His body, shot
through the head, was dumped
later at the edge of a road on
the other side of the city.
The soldier died when terror
ists riddled a jeep with machine-
gun fire. He was the 51st Brit
ish trooper to die in Northern
Ireland’s factional strife.
Earlier Wednesday, a bomb
was found aboard the ferry
Duke of Argyle, which brought
300 British soldiers and an equal
number of civilians to Belfast
from England. The 40-pound
suitcase bomb, powerful enough
to destroy a five-story building,
was found half an hour before
the ferry arrived and was de
fused at the dock.
The case involving Miss Dev
lin and other Catholic leaders,
including Social Democrat and
Labor party chief John Hume,
was put off for a month.
There were tumultuous scenes
outside the Newry court when it
adjourned the case. The court
said the lapse would allow pas
sions to cool and permit the
gathering of evidence.
The defendants are accused of
taking part in an illegal march
in Newry 10 days ago to protest
the killing of 13 Catholics in
Londonderry’s “Bloody Sunday”
when British paratroops broke up
a Catholic parade.
Convictions for illegal march
ing carry a six-month jail term.
Across the border in the Irish
republic town of Dundalk, seven
men — including two Irish Re
publican Army officers were
freed of charges of illegal pos
session of arms.
The dropping of the charges
was seen in Belfast as evidence
that in the emotional climate
created by Londonderry’s “Bloody
Sunday” the IRA has been
granted room for maneuver.
The judge said there was in
sufficient evidence to try the
men who were arrested after a
border shootout between British
troops and snipers.
The role of the university to
day is to lift the student above
minor disturbances and give him
a better perception of what con
stitutes success in life, said Jos
eph Rhodes Jr., in the second
keynote address of SCONA
XVII Wednesday night.
Rhodes, the only student mem
ber of the Scranton Commission
named by President Nixon in
1970 to study campus unrest,
directed his speech to the need
for educational reform.
“We have been talking about
educational reform for a long
time, my studies of the 19th
Century show people saying very
similar things about Boston and
Cambridge in the 1860’s as we
are saying about Texas A&M to
day,” Rhodes said. “This reform
is a well recognized problem and
we cringe when we hear it.”
A good look at the way things
are is necessary. “It is a diffi
cult task to disassociate personal
experiences from the general
condition and this brings on
what I call the ‘pizza-world’
problem. That is trying to de
termine if the feeling of discom
fort is from something you ate
or the condition of the world,”
commented Rhodes.
“The most difficult fact of life
we have to face in America to
day is change itself, society does
not go through major changes
very often and we are now,”
Rhodes said.
“These changes create all
types of problems in America.
Culture canges on an extremely
long cycle where as institutions
change on very short cycles. At
a university the student sees
these issues as pressing and
wants to do something, but the
national culture sets the trend
for this country,” Rhodes com
mented, “and it does not respond
to the cyclic changes as a uni
versity does.”
Society is sometimes overtaken
by hysteria and irrational be
havior when the people want a
change; sometimes this is quiet,
sometimes it is violent, he said.
“This problem can progress to
the point where people question
what they see, that is terrible.
One part of society is pointing
out a problem, interested in solv
ing it, and another cannot see
it, saying what problem ? I do
not see any,” Rhodes said.
“The most notable reflection
of mass hysteria today is this
Clifford Irving-Howard Hughes
affair. Think about it, we are
the most powerful nation on the
planet and we spend 10 minutes
a night on national news for
weeks telling about this scandal
involving some billionaire. That
is hysteria,” Rhodes noted.
“But do not confuse this, I do
not mind seeing people throw
themselves down in front of cars
because we invaded Cambodia,
that is not hysteria, that is pa
triotism,” Rhodes said.
The issue of change directly
affects personal morals. Each set
of values fits into the capacity of
the whole, the social culture, and
the limit of how much society
can tolerate is changing, Rhodes
said.
Mass hysteria relates to many
different actions. “No question
while on the Scranton Commis
sion surprised me more than
when Gen. Davis asked me why
I was so worked up over the
death of four students (Kent
State) and did not get upset
because of the 55,000 people who
are killed on America’s high
ways each year,” he said.
The role of the university is
to provide the student with a
framework, an education to en-*
able him to see over society and
plot a successful course, Rhodes
said.
To higher education
Cosand discusses
federal aid
Two year TMA program
will be instituted this fall
Students planning - professional careers in the merchant
marine may spend the first two years of study at their local
community college, beginning this fall.
The special program, first of its type in the nation, is
being offered by the Texas Maritime Academy, part of
A&M’s College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Resources.
Students participating in the program would attend a
summer session at TMA following their freshman year, go
on the academy’s summer training cruise the new year and
enroll at the Gaveston school for the final two years of
study.
Dr. William H. Clayton, TMA’s acting superintendent,
said students successfully completing the four-year program
earn degrees in marine transportation or marine engineer
ing.
TMA graduates have average starting salaries of $1,200
per month, serving as third mate or third assistant engineer
on commercial vessels. Physically qualified graduates may
also receive commissions in the Naval Reserve, Coast Guard
Reserve, Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental
Sciences Service Administration.
Dr. Clayton, who also is dean of the College of Marine
Sciences and Maritime Resources, said students interested
in the new TMA program should contact the academy prior
to their freshman year to determine the courses to be taken
while enrolled in community college.
Federal aid to higher education
was discussed by Dr. Joseph P.
Cosand, Acting Deputy Commis
sioner in the Office of Education,
Wednesday afternoon in the Me
morial Student Center ballroom.
Cosand was the first of six
speakers who will appear in the
Student Conference on National
Affair’s four day program. This
years conference deals with “The
Impact of the University.”
President Williams introduced
SCONA XVII program by ask
ing that the conference try to
“separate wisdom from foolish
ness” and “show the good points
of universities as well as the bad
ones.”
Cosand has been a member of
the Carnegie Commission for
Study of Function, Structure and
Finance of Higher Education
since 1967.
“It is the best of times and it
is the worst of times for higher
education,” the Deputy Commis
sioner began. “Higher education
has been forced to change in the
last few years,” he continued, “but
the change has been for the bet
ter.”
Cosand believes that colleges to
day are in great need of federal
aid. He wonders if colleges can
escape federal control if granted
the money they need. “Many col
leges are in financial trouble to
day because of federal grants that
dried up,” he said.
Students as well as colleges are
very dependent on governmental
aid, according to the Deputy
Commissioner. “In the last year
over one million students borrow
ed over one billion dollars under
the Student Guaranteed Loan
program,” he said. He added that
two million of the eight million
students currently enrolled in in
stitutes of higher education bene
fit from some kind of federal
aid.
Cosand feels that a dilemma
exists in America in stating one’s
goals and sticking to them. Nine
ty-two per cent of the parents
polled in a recent survey said they
would like their children to re
ceive at least a bachelor’s degree.
The students reacted identically.
“And yet not near this percentage
of students will receive bachelor’s
degrees,” he emphasized.
The deputy commissioner be
lieves that too many colleges want
to be universities and too many
two year or career colleges want
to be four year institutions. He
said that colleges should set cer
tain goals for themselves and
stick to them. “This striving for
expansion has often hurt the qual
ity of education offered,” he
stressed.
Cosand favors the concept of
a “university without walls” that
would be characterized by a flex
ible curriculum and the free ex
change of students between par
ticipating schobls. “This idea is
relatively new in America,” he
said, “but has been practiced by
the University of London for a
hundred years.” He hopes that
SCONA will support this type of
higher education.
According to a report by the
Newman Commission for Higher
Education, degrees are made too
available for the rich, young,
white man. Cosand stressed that
equal opportunities are needed for
the poor, minorities groups, wom
en and workers, as well as the
middle-aged, elderly and war vet
erans.
Dr. Joseph P. Cosand called for better perception of
success in university students as he spoke Wednesday for
a SCONA keynote speech. (Photo by Mike Rice)