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Vol. 67 No. 84
College Station, Texas
Friday, February, 25, 1972
Friday and Saturday — Cloudy
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ew constitution, service fees pass
py HAYDEN WHITSETT
or
In perhaps its most important
eting of the year, the Student
ate approved both the new
stitution and the student serv-
fees allocations.
Both have been the subjects
|g{ many previous meetings and
lometimes heated feelings.
In secret ballot, proposed by
|Randy Ross, chairman of the
fdfare committee, and approved
the senate, the constitution
ased 54-23 with one abstention.
Ik proposal needed a two-thirds
| majority, or 53, to be approved^
For final approval, the stu-
Ident body must approve it in
referendum by a simple majority.
The new student government is
liimilar to the current senate in
many ways but radically differ-
ll ent in others.
The greatest difference lies in
the apportionment of Student
Senators. In the current system
all the senators, except the exec
utive committee and ex-officio
members, are elected from col
leges. Freshmen senators are
elected at large.
The new apportionment plan
still retains the college system
for 50 senators but has living
area representation included.
The living area representation
for civilian and off-campus stu
dents is done on approximately
a one-<to-500 ratio. The exact
ratio would fluctuate with popu
lation and dorm sizes.
Apportionment for the Corps
of Cadets is done differently.
Each of the sophomore, junior
and senior classes will have two
senators regardless of Corps
population. Any increase in the
size of the Corps will result in
at-large senators appointed on a
one to 500 ratio.
Structurally, there are major
changes as well.
The three branches will be
similar to the U." S. Constitution
— executive, legislative and judi
cial. The Student Body presi
dent will be the executive head,
and the job of presiding over the
Senate will go to the Vice presi
dent.
“The President’s job this year
is legislative and administra
tive,” explained John Sharp, sen
ate president. “They need to be
separated, so that everyone can
do a one hundred per cent job.”
The president will also have
the power to veto legislation by
the Senate. The veto can be
overridden by a two-thirds vote
in the senate.
Though more than 20 changes
had been made in the constitu
tion since it was presented, there
were still proposed changes
Thursday night.
Scott Williams (Sr-LA) felt
that the off-campus representa
tion should be done on one to
1,000 rather than half that.
“I just don’t think the major
ity is that interested in A&M,”
he said.
His proposal got nothing but
opposition from the rest of the
senate and died for lack of sup
port.
The senate, in a state of gen
eral confusion most of the night,
almost ended up voting for the
constitution before it intended to.
A motion was made to end de
bate and vote on the proposal
made by Williams. Williams had
not made an actual motion how
ever, so the call for the previous
question ended up applying to an
earlier proposal calling for a
vote on the entire constitution.
Many senators started to vote
thinking they were voting on
Williams’ proposal.
After several explanations the
senate finally understood well
enough to defeat the measure.
When the final vote did come,
the reaction was relatively sub
dued.
The student services fees allo
cations became the next order of
business with Spike Dayton,
treasurer, presenting the budget.
Accepted without too much
controversy was a $2.00 increase
to the Student Center Complex
fee. The increase, in the words
of senate officers, is nothing
more than a legal way of adding
$2.00 to the services fee.
The bulk of the argument
came about the athletic appro
priations. The proposal given by
Dayton and later approved by
the senate budgeted $170,000 to
athletics. The figure, as com
pared to the athletics allocation
for last year — $89,000 was
thought much too high by some
members.
Resistance to the athletics
budget strengthened when Day-
ton said that due to “certain
idiosyncrasies” by new head foot
ball coach Emory Bellard, the
amount would have to be higher.
' Among the idiosyncrasies were
new helmets for all the players,
rather than chipped or used ones.
Dayton would not, even when
questioned directly, relate the
cost of the “idiosyncrasies” or tell
what all of them were.
Most of the presentation Day
ton chose to ignore any questions
that threatened the athletic de
partment’s position.
“Well, I guess Dayton rail
roaded that one,” was all Sharp
had to say after criticism was
raised following the vote.
Also considered at the meeting
was a proposal to have course
section and professor listings in
cluded in the computer pre-regis
tration system.
The proposal, which was not
voted on, asked that “the class
schedule published prior to pre
registration include a list of
courses, sections, and professors
instructing each section.
The system also provides for
“time-blocks” to be available to
students. Receiving permission
to “time-block” is currently dif
ficult for the average student
who does not work part-time.
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“I think the athletic department
ought to be happy as hell.”
That was Student Senate Pres
ident John Sharp’s reaction
Thursday night after the fee
allocations proposal was passed,
giving the athletic department
$170,000 from student services
fees for next year.
The plan, presented by Spike
Dayton, treasurer, followed with
two exceptions the original sug-
fv:! gestion of the administration re
garding various organizations’
allowances.
Late in the meeting, Layne
Kruse, life committee chairman,
discovered that the amount to be
allocated to the athletic depart
ment was $5,000 more than the
administration had suggested.
Kruse tried in vain to have this
money given to MSC-Programs,
since they were given less than
was in the original plan.
"I was backing the administra
tion, because that’s all ($165,000
to the athletic department) that
Dr. Jack Williams and Tom Cher
ry and everybody else wanted to
give them,” Kruse explained af
terwards. “I think MSC-Programs
could be helped by that money.
I was trying to support the ad
ministration, not cut down the
athletic department.”
“I think it would have been a
serious mistake for the senate to
have cut the athletic department
allocation,” Dayton said, “since
this is the first year under new
leadership. They have to be given
a fair chance to work without
their hands being tied.”
The plan passed by the senate
still has to meet the approval of
the administration, including the
Board of Directors at its meeting
next week.
“There may be some objections
to the way we allocated the fees,”
Sharp said. “I can’t say where
this opposition would come from,
but I do know that we have
proven that if the students are
given ample time, they can do a
better job of distribution than the
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Williams asks fans
to exercise restraint
A&M President Jack K. Williams has personally appealed
for exceptionally good sportsmanship by all persons attending the
A&M-Rice basketball game here Saturday.
“All of us are keenly aware of unfortunate incidents which
have marred some games elsewhere this season,” Dr. Williams
said. “We must remember that we represent A&M men through
out this state and beyond its borders, and we must be extra
careful to ensure that our conduct is above reproach.
“We have an excellent opportunity Saturday to set an
example—an example of enthusiastic support for our fine
basketball team and, at the same time, courtesy for visiting
players, game officials and guests,” the president added.
business office can, keeping in
mind the interests of the student
body.”
Sharp emphasized that even
with the increase in the total
amount of money the students will
be charged to register for school,
A&M has a better situation than
other schools.
“Our fees are twenty to thirty
dollars less per year than those
of any other state school that is
in the Southwest Conference,” he
explained. The only other schools
besides A&M which are state
supported institutions and mem
bers of the SWC are the Univer
sity of Texas at Austin, Texas
Tech University and the Univer
sity of Houston.
The approval of the new con
stitution pleased Sharp, in that
the senate spent the entire second
semester last year having pro
posed constitutions defeated. The
new document must have the
approval of a majority of the
students voting in a referendum
Tuesday.
“I think the turnout will be
strong,” Sharp said, because it’s
something they’ve looked at for
two years, and they know they
need it.
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A&M POLO CLUB MEMBERS are now practicing for
the National Intercollegiate Championships to be held in
Darien, Conn., March 11-18. The Polo Club is sponsoring a
gymkhana Saturday at their grounds on FM 2818 to raise
money for the trip. They are about $400 shy of their $600
goal. Horses will be furnished at the meet, so only team
members will go. Steve Sterquell, team spokesman, believes
the club has a good chance of winning. They will be com
peting against Yale, Harvard and other Ivy League teams.
Members of the Aggie team are Sterquell, Sonny Lonsford,
Mike McCleary and Dennis Sipos.
Regardless of Taiwan
Nixon, Chou talk of diplomatic ties
PEKING (JP) — After four
closed-door sessions with Chou
En-lai, President Nixon was de
scribed Friday at aiming at even
tual restoration of full diplomatic
relations between the United
Old ‘ivory - tower’ university
is phasing out, Long says
The old “university as an ivory-
tower” approach is on the way
out as student involvement in
technological fields grows, Dr.
hank Long, director of Cornell
University’s Program on Science,
Technology and Society, said in a
Great Issues presentation Thurs
day.
There is a growing interaction
between the university community
and the world as students become
more and more involved instead
of being separate, Long said.
“It is the role of the university
to be the originator of ideas with
the students acting as a mechani
cal connections between the world
and the faculty,” Long comment
ed.
Technology has far surpassed
the development of science in this
country. The United States spends
University National Bank
H 0n the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
$25 bilbon to $27 billion on re
search each year and only $3 bil
lion to $4 billion of it goes to
science. The rest goes to technol
ogy, he said,
“People used to think of tech
nology as the thing that permit
ted national growth and expanded
the world, but now there is a
great emphasis on the secondary
impacts of it. The belching smoke
that comes from a factory chim
ney for instance,” Long said.
Some of the obvious benefits
of these secondary impacts are
the greatly increased efficiency
fn agriculture and the improve
ments in national health. Today
it takes fewer men to produce
more food than ever before. This
is one of the factors responsible
for the rural to urban movement
of people.
'‘Also, the impact of technology
on the quality of life cannot be
ignored,” Long stressed. “Chlori
nation of our water supplies for
instance.”
“The U. S. has had a lot of
economic problems lately and in
creasing doubt about industry. A
lagging industry is a serious in
flation threat to a country. For
the first time we have presiden
tial attention focused to this prob
lem,” he said. He has established
a task force to study this and
make some recommendations.
The university has a definite
role to play in all of this, Long
stressed. Too long the fields of
technology and science have been
by themselves. They need to be
integrated with the other social
and applied sciences so all can
cope with problems better.
The university is the ideal place
for this to happen. It has all
these segments centraly located
and students who want to and
even demand to be involved, he
said. This movement will not
drastically change university pro
grams, but be more of a slow
movement toward a more relevent
and meaningful place in society.
States and mainland China —
whatever the repercussions in
Taiwan.
An informed American source
said Nixon and Henry A. Kissin
ger, the President’s national se
curity affairs adviser, are talking
with Chou about big-picture is
sues involved in establishing what
the premier has termed “normal
state relations.”
While the top American and
Chinese leaders formulated broad
policy, Secretary of State William
P. Rogers, his Chinese counter
part Chi Peng-fe and their asso
ciates were working out nuts-
and-bolts questions of how to ef
fect summit policies.
While no U.S. officials involved
in the talks would discuss mat
ters of substance, there was good
reason to believe Nixon and Chou
had embarked on setting up cul
tural exchanges, limited tourism
between the two countries, a sys
tem for handling Chinese-Ameri-
can trade and means for estab
lishing regular contacts short of
full diplomatic relations involving
an exchange of ambassadors.
While no one would talk about
the means likely to be employed
in continuing the dialogue be
tween the two nations on a diplo
matic level, there would be prece
dent for establishing consular re
lations without setting up em
bassies. Britain, for example, has
recognized mainland China for 22
years—but it continues to have
a consulate on the Nationalist
Chinese island of Taiwan.
One American in a position to
know said Nixon ultimately seeks
full and formal diplomatic ties
with China’s Communist govern
ment. However, he emphasized
that the path in that direction
would have to be navigated a step
at a time.
Rogers and his Chinese counter
part were conducting significant
talks aimed at carrying the proc
ess forward in practical ways,
this informant reported.
In the matter of diplomatic re
lations, the question of the Na
tionalists is not easy to resolve,
since Nixon has said he has no
intention of abandoning Taiwan.
Nixon spent three more hours
Thursday in private conversations
with Chou. In their four sessions,
they have been together 12 hours,
but much of this time was taken
up with the translations of in
terpreters.
Presumably, somewhere along
the line the vexing subject of
Indochina has come up. Unless
one side gives, little can be ex
pected. Chou made plain before
Nixon came to China that the
U.S. peace plan was unaccept
able. Nixon has said aspects of
the Vietnam war were on the
agenda.
In far off Paris, North Viet
nam and the Viet Cong walked
out on the peace talks Thursday,
protesting recent U.S. bombings
of North Vietnam. Conference
sources saw the walkout as a
token of North Vietnam’s inde
pendent stance in any bargaining
between Nixon and Chou on Indo
china.
Thursday evening Chou was
host in the Great Hall of the
People to the Nixons and mem
bers of their party at a two-hour
dinner. The menu featured Peking
duck, China’s most vaunted deli
cacy.
Presumably, Chou and Nixon
exchanged toasts, but what they
said was not known because the
American press was excluded
from the private dinner. As a
consolation prize the leaders of
China’s official press treated vis
iting reporters to a duck dinner
at the Restaurant of' All Com
bined Virtues.
Friday is the Nixon’s last day
in Peking, before going on to
Hangchow and Shanghai. The
Chinese arranged for them to
visit Peking’s Forbidden City, a
65-year-old royal enclave now
known as the former imperial
palaces.
Once reserved for emperors and
their families and servants, the
(See Nixon, page 2)
High school drill team competition
will be held March 18 at TAMU
High school drill teams have
until Feb. 29 to enter the State
Championship Meet March 18 at
A&M.
TAMU officials said a dozen
teams have entered the competi
tion.
The Marine Corps’ famous Si
lent Drill Team will make a
demonstration appearance.
Texas Adjutant General Maj.
Gen. Ross Ayers approved the
March 18 competition as the state
championship for high school
teams. The annual A&M Invita
tional for college and university
teams the following weekend,
March 25, will also determine the
state championship. Entries for
the senior meet should be made
by March 4, indicated Col. Thomas
R. Parsons, TAMU commandant.
His office and the Association
of Former Fish Drill Team Mem
bers chaired by Charles D. Lisner
of Tyler co-sponsor the annual
meets. Student members of the
association, all of whom marched
on the national champion Fresh
man Drill Team during the last
four years, will judge the high
school meet.
General Ayers indicated in
terest in teams from West Texas
and the Panhandle also participat
ing in the high school state cham
pionship meet. Teams from La
redo, Houston, San Antonio, Dal
las, Austin and Killeen have com
peted since 1969.
Inquiries and applications
should be addressed to Lt. Col.
T. A. Ritchey, Military Science
Department, Texas A&M Univer
sity, College Station 77843.