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Election list hassle developing
By ROD SPEER
Staff Writer
A subcommittee of the Election Commission met in an unofficial
and closed meeting Monday night to discuss charges that two
candidates in the spring elections had circulated lists of candidates that
were “good” for the Corps and civilians.
The entire commission had met earlier in open session. The
five-man subcommittee then withdrew to the room of David Moore,
commission chairman, to meet privately.
The group refused to let anyone else into the Room. In one case,
Moore told a Battalion reporter, “You have five seconds to get your ass
out of here,” as he casually swung a golf club.
Moore informed the Battalion reporter there were not enough
members present for a quorum. Therefore, the meeting was not subject
to the Texas Open Meeting Law, he added. Mark Blakemore, a
commission member, said that no decision would be made at the
meeting. Moore told the reporter after the open meeting that “evidence
we’re unsure of’ was to be discussed at the closed session.
“We might have another open meeting,” Moore said, “but then
again, we might not.” He continued that a lot of the information to be
discussed in the closed meeting would not be of interest to the student.
“I don’t care what the Battalion writes about me, I’m getting out
of this place May 6th,” Moore said vehemently.
One list in question read “These candidates are good for the
Corps” and gave a listing of all the corps candidates. A similar list was
made regarding civilians. The controversy concerned placing candidate’s
names on lists without the candidates’ permission.
Earlier Blakemore, had told The Battalion editor that two
candidates in last week’s general elections were believed to have been
passing out the lists.
The two, said Blakemore, were Terry Brown and Jerry Arterburn.
Brown, currently freshman class president, is in a runoff with Louie
Gohmert for sophomore class president. Arterburn was defeated by
Barb Sears for the position of External Affairs chairman of the Student
Senate.
According to Blakemore, neither would say who had prepared the
lists in the first place.
He added that he thought the Election Commission would have to
invalidate the elections the two were involved in to some extent or the
other.
But Terry Brown, one of those who is suspected, has denied any
knowledge of such an action.
“I don’t know anything about it,” he said early Tuesday morning.
“It would seem kind of stupid for me to be seen passing about lists,
especially one having to do with Corps candidates.”
Brown is a civilian.
“I’m in a runoff Thursday and I don’t know what this is going to
do,” he added.
Jerry Arterburn was not immediately available for comment.
Blakemore later said that the evidence against the two was all
hearsay. He also said that he did not beHeve there was enough evidence
to decide who was guilty.
In the open meeting a complaint concerning the Keathley-Hughes
voting site running out of ballots for Keathley-Hughes student senator
was discussed. Tom Locke, who lost that election by three votes,
submitted the complaint.
The ballots were unavailable at 6:30 p.m. and from that time on
voters were informed of the problem. Voters were given the option of
voting in another poll site or marking their choice for dorm student
senator on the general election ballot.
Locke requested a recount of the vote. The election commission
granted him a recount but felt that another election was not necessary.
The commission will meet tonight at 9 in the Donn 2 Guardroom
to consider the protest of Bill King, a runner-up in the Junior Yell
Leader contest.
Blakemore said that protest centered around the “opinion poll or
election that’s held in the Corps” to decide who will run in the yell
leader election.
The “poll” is a form of straw vote that sometimes takes place to
determine who shall run in order to keep the candidates in the Corps
from splitting the vote.
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Clear
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warmer
Tuesday, April 18, 1972
Wednesday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Afternoon rainshowers.
Southerly winds 15-20 mph. High
88°, low 67°.
Thursday — Cloudy, thunder
showers. Southerly winds 10-15
mph. High 83°, low 68°.
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Hunt, adopted mom of students,
named Aggie Mother of the Year
Mrs. Ruth S. Hunt, adopted
Mom to hundreds of A&M stu
dents, was named Sunday the
Aggie Mother of the Year.
As an employee at a College
Station convention center, she has
befriended students and exes who
headquarter at the Ramada Inn.
Mrs. Hunt was the first person
to say “howdy” to President Jack
Williams when he arrived in Sep
tember, 1970. She is known for
always wearing Maroon on days
of A&M athletic events.
The 1972-73 Aggie Mother of
the Year was introduced at a Stu-
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itudy by Mike Hatch (left) and Clay Smith. The cars were open to inspection in the civil-
area quad as part of Civilian Week. (Photo by Mike Rice)
alb, authority on China,
la ted for Great Issues
Bernard Kalb, CBS News’ expert on Asia, will
•9(1 P 51Wednesday at A&M University on “The Trip
o China With The President.”
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Kalb will be presented at 8 p. m. in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom by Great Issues.
Admission is free to students, faculty-staff and
he public, reminded T. C. Cone, 1972-73 Great
ues chairman.
Kalb’s unique perspective on Asia comes from
e distillation of a decade and a half of living in
ina. He has reported the changing and turbulent
(sian scene from Pakistani Kashmir to South Viet-
am.
In recent years he was headquartered in Hong
Cong as CBS news bureau chief until his recent
eturn to Washington, D. C.
Because Kalb has spent the major part of the
ast 20 years out of the country, mostly in South-
ast Asia, he quipped that the U. S. is a foreign
Assignment for him.
The broadcast veteran appears as Washington
ahchor man on the CBS Morning News with John
[art. He has numerous awards including the 1969
verseas Press Club award. A February, 1968
roadcast, “Viet Cong,” on CBS Reports received
itation. Kalb has several exclusives.
The latter included an interview of Nguyen Cao
[y for a special “Face the Nation” in August, 1967.
le made the notable “non interview” with Chinese
A&M war vet to speak at Aggie Muster
Communist Premier Chou En-Lai before the entire
diplomatic corps in Indonesia in 1968. Posed with a
Kalb question on Vietnam, Chou smiled and walked
off to his car.
The former New York Times correspondent also
was one of several reporters who interviewed the
Communist Chinese leader during Chou’s visit to
Cambodia.
When the Chinese delegation came to New York,
Kalb and Walter Cronkite flew to Paris to accom
pany them. Kalb conducted interviews on the re
turn flight which were broadcast by CBiS.
Kalb also had several exclusive interviews with
Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, including one with
the prince and American prisoners there in 1968.
Following Red China’s push into India’s Hima
layan territories late in 1962, just after Kalb joined
CBS News, he was the . reporter for the hour-long
CBS Reports: “The War at the Top of the World.”
In World War II Kalb served with the U. S.
Army in the Aleutians. He edited a newspaper for
troops stationed there and in Alaska. He also wrote
and broadcast a daily 15-minute radio news program
for the armed forces.
Kalb in 1961-62 held a Press Fellowship granted
annually to an American foreign correspondent by
the Council of Foreign Affairs. His article, “I
Remember Da Nang,” appeared in Saturday Re
view.
Runoffs scheduled April 20,
election chairman announces
Runoff elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 20,
said David Moore, election commission chairman.
Senior class president candidates are Bill Darkoch and Hank Paine.
Running for vice-president arc Jim Green and Russell Phillips.
Candidates for secretary-treasurer are Robert Grady and Robert Lee.
Jerry Elmer and Juan Gonzales will contend for Memorial Student
Center representative.
Running for junior class president are David Carpenter and Ray
Huffines. Vice-presidential hopefuls are Mike Turner and Gary Sauer.
Candidates for MSC representitive are Ray Marshall and John Pledger.
Sophomore class president candidates are Terry Brown and Louie
Gohmert. Running for vice-president are Jess Bowman and Dan
Anderson.
The civilian student council 2nd vice-president position is between
Roland Love and Paul Gugenhein. Running for secretary are Bill Suter
and Ralph Howy.
In the College of Business, Ken Walsh and Paul Ammons are
running for the graduate post.
In the College of Education, Robert Lee and Bill White will vie for
the senior position.
Running for Pre-Vet senator are Robert Olmstead, Carol
Silverthorne and Mike Klem.
A fee slip and student identification card will be necessary to vote
in the upcomming runoff.
dent Senate Parents Day program
and was honored at a Corps of
Cadets review Sunday.
Mrs. Hunt succeeds Mrs. Ruth
H. Hewitt, Memorial Student
Center director’s secretary at
TAMU, as the honor mother. The
presentation coincided with Moth
er’s Day in the past, but is now
made early to be included in the
A&M school year.
Announcement was made by
Layne E. Kruse, Senate student
life chairman who cited Mrs.
Hunt’s warm personality and ca
pacity for helping students. The
Senate, chaired by John Sharp
of Placedo, presented her a dozen
roses and Class of ’72 pin en
graved with the title.
Mrs. Hunt was among more
than a dozen honor mother nom
inees. Two hundred student sig
natures appeared on her nomina
tion to the Student Senate selec
tion committee. Corps Deputy
Commander Jack Carey of Car-
rizo Springs, Corps operations
officer James Ham of Fort Worth
and senior Terry Browning of An
drews headed her nomination.
Browning is a bellman at the
Ramada Inn, where Mrs. Hunt is
cashier.
“The Aggie Mother of the Year
usually becomes involved with
Texas A&M because she has a son
in school here,” Ham commented.
“Ruth did it because she didn’t
have a family, so she just adopted
all Aggies. She has a place in her
heart for each one. She calls us
‘her boys’.”
Mrs. Hunt came to College Sta
tion in 1967 from Henderson
where she grew up. Shortly after
starting work at the Ramada as
a waitress, she met some Aggies
who took her to the Thanskgiving
game bonfire, Browning related.
“After that she really got gung-
ho about A&M and adopted the
Aggies as her family,” he added.
The honor mother’s son James
is an extension assistant editor
and photographer in the Agri
cultural Communications Depart
ment. He( his wife Janis and
children Dianna and David reside
at 2605 Todd, Bryan.
A member of the Association
of Former Students and Brazos
County A&M Club, Mrs. Hunt has
been provided a ticket and trans
portation by students to every
Corps Trip and home football
game since she arrived. She main
tains a bulletin board on campus
activities near the Ramada main
entrance and averages more than
a cake a week for birthdays of
students.
Civilian Weekend
“The Last Picture Show” author 01*1*01*8 lively j J£lC0
to speak f or Contemporary Arts
Larry McMurtry, author of the
book and screenplay for the
movie “The Last Picture Show,”
will speak Wednesday at A&M
in a Contemporary Arts Com
mittee lecture.
Until recently, the noon speak
er in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Assembly Room taught in
the English Department of Rice
University.
He also wrote “Horsemen Pass
By” which became the movie
“Hud.” Other works by the au
thor are “Leaving Cheyenne”
and the recent “All My Friends
Are Going To Be Strangers.”
A Houston columnist called
McMurtry “the only writer of
note to spring” from Texas. He
now resides in Washington, D. C.
McMurtry taught off and on for
17 years at Rice.
McMurtry’s lecture is free to
TAMU students with activity
cards. Admission for all others
is $1, announced Contemporary
Arts chairman David Dacus.
Civilian Week activities cul
minating in a “Rare Earth” per
formance and sweetheart presen
tation dance Saturday will keep
A&M’s 9,000 civilian students
busy through April 22.
A girls’ “dig for a brick” con
test, greased pig scramble, a mo
torcycle race on the campus east
entrance street and the popular
“Las Vegas Night” are among
activities planned for the week
by the Civilian Student Council.
The agenda is coordinated by
Margaret Shaw, wife of council
vice president Bill Shaw, and Da
vid Ater, Mclnnis Hall president.
Today and Wednesday resi
dence hall day activities include
the girls’ dip into a mud puddle
for bricks, a “wet newspaper”
(See Civilian, page 2)
On July 5, 1968, a land mine
i South Vietnam tore off Army
't. Larry B. Kirk’s legs and
art of his right arm. His dog
ags were blown away. Several
haplains administered last rites.
The mine that ripped Kirk’s
>ody missed his spirit. He lived
o prove a casualty of war is not
casualty of life.
Larry Byron Kirk, 32, Dallas
»ative, A&M graduate, war am-
>utee was selected by the U. S.
f aycees as one of America’s Ten
lutstanding Young Men of 1971.
Kirk returns to A&M Friday
as featured speaker at the an
nual Aggie Muster in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. His topic is
'The Aggie Heritage.”
The campus Muster is one of
more than 500 held around the
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
world by A&M students and exes
to honor Aggies who died during
the past year.
It includes the traditional roll
call of the deceased, in which a
comrade answers “here.” Uni
versity students and officials will
participate in the 5:30 p.m. pro
gram headed by Layne E. Kruse,
Student Senate student life
chairman and president-elect of
the A&M student body.
Kirk was honored by the Jay-
cees for outstanding courage
while undergoing treatment and
his work as a director of seven
civic boards in Aurora, Colo.
Jaycees claimed he is an in
spiration to all disabled men.
Kirk attended A&M from the
fall of 1958 through the fall of
1959 before enlisting in the
Army. He was first assigned to
the 82nd Airborne and later was
with the 10th Special Forces in
Germany. He turned down Offi
cer's Candidate School to return
to A&M in 1964 and complete
bachelor degree requirements in
business administration.
While at A&M, Kirk was a
member of the Fish Drill Team*,
played freshman football, was a
member of the General Moore
Award company in 1959 (Co. C-
2) and 1966 (Co. H-2). He was
in charge of the bonfire cutting
area in 1965.
He was a distinguished mili
tary graduate in 1966, accepted a
regular Army commission and
completed Ranger and Jump
Master School. Reassigned to
the 82nd Airborne, he went to
Vietnam in 1968.
After only three months in
Vietnam he had won the Air
Medal and two Bronze Stars for
bravery as a combat platoon lead
er. The land mine ended his
Army career dream.
Since the battlefield wounds,
Kirk has spent six months in
bed, nine months in a wheel
chair and undergone 10 opera
tions. He is able to walk with
the aid of crutches and pros-
theses.
While at Fitzsimmons Army
Hospital in Denver, Kirk helped
raise $42,000 to bring relatives
of disabled veterans to the hos
pital for Christmas.
Kirk and his wife, Jacqueline,
and two daughters make their
home in Aurora, Colo., where he
plunged into civic affairs. He
has been a dynamic force on sev
en boards of directors for vari
ous organizations, including pres
ident of the Denver A&M Club,
Aurora Jaycees and Colorado
Cares for POW’s and MIA’s.
An effective speaker, he has
lectured on such topics as ecol
ogy, low-flying aircraft noise,
Vietnam and POW programs. He
has been a Red Cross director
over three years.
In addition to civic work, Kirk
was manager of a Colorado com
pany whose assets grew from
$40,000 to $300,000 in less than
two years. He currently is exec
utive vice president of the Colo
rado Jaycees, a non-paying full
time job.
Last year he was selected one
of Three Outstanding Young Men
of Colorado by the Colorado Jay
cees. The Ten Outstanding
Young Men of America honor is
given to a man between the ages
of 21 and 36, a member of the
Jaycees, who distinguished him
self by service to his fellow man.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
New committee positions
now open to applicants
Student government commit
tee applications are being ac
cepted in the student senate of
fice until April 26.
Three new positions, created
by the newly adopted constitu
tion, are open. These include:
The student elected board
chairman, who will be respon
sible for the administration of
the elections of class officers,
student senators, yell leaders,
student government officers and
all special elections.
The public relations commit
tee chairman, who is responsi
ble for coordinating and assist
ing with the publicity for stu
dent government activities.
The services committee chair
man, who will handle such proj
ects as the Blood Drive, Campus
Chest, Parents Day and other
assigned projects.
These three chairmanship are
open to any student and all in
quiries about them will be wel
comed at the student senate of
fice or by Layne Kruse.
Also, nine positions on the
student body judicial commit
tee are open. This committee
has judicial review in all cases
of constitutional interpretation
and procedures. It is a study
committee of the judicial pro
cedures in effect at A&M and
is responsible for the legal
rights commission.
The nine members will in
clude two sophomores, two jun
iors, two seniors, two graduate
students and a chairman. The
members cannot be in the stu
dent senate or members of the
student government executive
committee. They must have an
overall grade point ratio of 2.25
or higher.
All of the appointments will
be subject to the approval of
two-thirds of the student sen
ate.