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Vol. 67 No. 161
College Station, Texas Friday, October 6, 1972
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Approves Traffic Resolution Also
Senate Gives Approval To NSL
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Despite disagreement among
ftte Cret seVora l A&M student senators
l Shoo Thursda y t* 16 Senate voted
49f27 by roll call to join the
cn (v,. National Student Lobby.
—4; ^Lobbies exist because issues
come up in the government that
ipertain to special groups,” said
Barb Sears, chairman of external
affairs, in justifying the case be-
ifore the Senate.
NSL has supported issues such
Jaslthe Hatfield Amendment, the
[i§-year-old vote, Child Day Care
and Development Centers, and
sub-minimum wage for students.
In the lobby’s first year, it spent
at least half of its time support
ing the Higher Education Bill,
according to Layton Olson, execu
tive director of NSL.
“The Student Senate must pay
$210 for membership in the NSL,”
continued Sears, “yet it is the
two-thirds majority of the stu
dent body which will be repre
sented.”
Several senators pointed out
there would be unfair representa-
ilabama Convicts Perform Own
ISurgery, Use Rag Bandages
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. <A>> —
«^t>nditions are so bad in Alabama
prison hospitals, a federal judge
|KBaid Wednesday, that convicts
Hterform surgery and rags are
^Bsed as substitutes for bandages.
UlJ. S. District Court Judge
M. Johnson Jr. ordered
^^^■prlson authorities to take im-
^Ot) med ^ a ^ e steps to provide adequate
medical care for all inmates and
also to put rigid controls on nar-
Local Performers
To Be Featured
By ‘The Basement’
;; The Basement will feature all
local A&M performers Friday and
Saturday night, according to Da
vid Pfannestiel, Basement com
mittee chairman.
_|;Pfannestiel noted this policy
“ as a direct reversal of the past
'po|licy.
■‘Last year, as members of the
National Coffeehouse Circuit, we
had to bring in outside groups,”
he said. Now we can give Aggies
a chance to perform, making us
mlich more student-oriented than
we have ever been in the past.
Aggies now handle every aspect
of the Basement operation.”
^Friday and Saturday nights will
feature John Roby III, who has
played the Houston clubs, includ
ing Sand Mountain; J. P. Jones,
featured at clubs in El Paso; and
“The Group,” a new folk-rock
group.
S“Roby and Jones are seasoned
performers,” said Pfannestiel,
“and The Group is new, but sev
eral of its members have also
had club experience.”
Any individual interested in
performing should contact Pfan
nestiel.
The Basement operates from
p.m. to midnight Friday and
Saturday nights. Located on the
lower level of the MSC, admission
is 50c.
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cotics to stop “drug abuse” with
in the penitentiary walls.
Johnson, in a 12-page decision
and an accompanying four-page
order spelling out what prison
officials must do, said penal au
thorities “have clearly abused
their discretion” in denying prop
er medical treatment to the al
most 4,000 inmates in custody.
Neglect of the basic medical
needs, he said, “could justly be
called barbarous and shocking to
the conscience.”
State Prison Commissioner L.
B. Sullivan was out of town and
unavailable for comment on the
court’s findings.
Prison hospitals are so badly
understaffed, the court said, that
untrained civilian employes and
prisoners alike routinely perform
tasks for which they are not
equipped.
“Unsupervised prisoners,
without formal training, regular
ly pull teeth, screen sick call
patients, dispense as well as
administer medication, including
dangerous drugs, take X-rays,
suture and perform minor sur
gery,” the decision said.
And, it continued, evidence
showed a “chronic shortage of
medical supplies throughout” the
prison system and “rags have
been used as a substitute” for
bandages and for gauze sponges
during surgery.
“Not only are prescription
drugs frequently unavailable,
especially those for relieving
pain,” Johnson said, “but simple
items such as aspirin and ant
acids have been lacking in some
prisons for weeks at a time.”
Johnson also criticized the
absence of psychiatric treatment
for psychotic and other mentally
disturbed inmates.
Johnson ordered prison author
ities to provide psychiatric care,
regular medical checkups and to
allow only medical personnel to
administer drugs.
tion of the student body since
many students do not vote in stu
dent elections.
“Why should we be unfair to
the percentage of students who do
vote?” retorted Rochelle Lindsey.
“We should give these students
the chance to be represented fair
ly in the national government.
Those who do not vote obviously
do not care either way.”
“It is much more effective if
we speak to the government as
a whole instead of writing a few
individual letters to our congress-
(See Roll Call Results, page 3)
men. We should not sit back and
watch life go by but take a stand
as a whole body,” concluded Lind
sey.
In the middle of the NSL debate
Fletcher Kelly motioned to have
a student body referendum to de
cide whether or not to join the
lobby.
“We’re the best informed group
on campus and we’re certainly
qualified to vote on the lobby
without the opinion of the stu
dent body,” said Paul Turner.
The motion was defeated 71 to
two.
A resolution concerning uni
versity traffic regulations was
presented to the Senate by Wil
liam Wade and passed with a
vote of 54 to 17.
The resolution entails the pur
chase of a $900 mobile radar unit,
erecting additional speed-limit
signs on campus with a set speed
of 20 m.p.h. and painting cross
walks where necessary, with
funds being taken from the Park
ing Facilities Account.
“The cost of a radar unit over
five years is $175 per year,” said
Wade. “We need something now
to enforce speed limits on campus
in order to protect the rights and
safety of pedestrians.”
Police Chief O. L. Luther said
bikes would be under radar en
forcement rules, as some bikes
do travel at a rate above 20 m.p.h.
The Senate accepted the ap
pointments for vancancies as
appointed by Layne Kruse, Stu
dent Government president. Jeff
Stone, geology major will fill the
Geoscience position at large; Tom
Taylor, economics major, fills the
off-campus undergraduate posi
tion; and Pam Faulkner and
Charles Soncrant fill the two off-
campus graduate positions.
At the same time it was noted
by Kruse there was a vacancy
open for one graduate in the col
lege of Agriculture. Filing for
this position will remain open
until 5 p.m. Thursday.
Krueger-Dunn residents will
also have the chance to vote for
a senator from each dorm Oct. 18
in the Commons from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m. An activity card and ID
will be required to vote.
The Day Care Center Constitu
tion and By-Laws were presented
to the Senate by Virginia Leahey,
chairman for the Day Care
Center Committee. The Senate
will vote on the constitution at
its next meeting.
The Senate will also vote on
the procedure rules for the elec
tion of Memorial Student Center
representatives and class officers.
These were accidentally left out
of the rules and regulations hand
book for this fall.
COEDS AND CONSTRUCTION are forced to put up with each other for the present
as a storm sewer is being put in place in front of Dunn Hall. School officials claim most
of the work will be finished by Oct. 14.
Bus Group
Cites Lack
Tables Increases,
Of Availability
Media Center Goal Is To
Help Students Communicate
By DOUGLAS KIRK
Communication is the bag of
the educational media center, that
unknown dream-world from which
a few A&M’ers manage to get
camera equipment, sound equip
ment and 16mm films.
Perhaps a few Ags have heard
of the place, but outside of that,
the EMC is simply the great flash
bulb in the sky.
Under the direction of Wendell
Jordan, the EMC provides the lab
facilities for Educational Tech
nology 405 and the graduate
course, Audio-Visual Communica
tion 613. He is assisted by gradu
ate assistants, Nolan Mathews,
Bob Pratt and Dave White. The
strings of the operation are tied
together by Susan Heussner, the
secretary who temporarily trades
equipment for your signature.
The EMC has single lens reflex
35mm cameras, B o 1 e x movie
cameras, slide projectors, movie
projectors and sound equipment
for check-out to ET 405 students.
However, this equipment can also
Ross Volunteers To Initiate New Members
: Ninety A&M juniors from the
Corps of Cadets will be sworn
into the institution’s oldest cam
pus organization, the Ross Vol
unteers, at a banquet Tuesday
night in the Memorial Student
Center.
Initiation ceremony speaker
will be Sheldon J. Best, 1963
TAMU graduate now director of
legislative affairs for United Air
lines in Chicago.
The 1972-73 RV Company will
Include 32 active seniors for a
otal membership of 122. William
Walker of Satin, commander,
as charge of the banquet.
Junior cadets selected for the
elite honor military unit, first
formed in 1887, will be announced
Tuesday. RV juniors are selected
by the company’s senior members
on the basis of character, military
■ achievement, academic standing
and extracurricular activities.
Best, 31, received a B.A. degree
in history and government from
TAMU in 1963 and was commis
sioned through the U. S. Marine
Corps’ Platoon Leaders Class.
While at Aggieland, Best was
senior year. He also was a mem
ber of numerous student organi
zations and was selected for Who’s
Who in American Colleges and
Universities.
Best’s four-year Marine Corps
tour included assignments at Pen
sacola, Fla.; Quantico, Va.; Camp
LeJeune, N. C.; Camp Pendleton,
Calif.; Ft. Penning, Ga.; Albany,
Ga. and Vietnam. He was exec
utive officer and platoon com
mander for the 1st Force Recon
naissance Co. in Vietnam, a spe
cial unit similar to the Army
Green Berets working at the di
rection of USMC Commander,
Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt.
His awards include a Presiden
tial Unit Citation, Navy Unit
Commendation, Vietnam Para
chute Insignia and various other
awards for a tour from October,
1965, to September, 1966.
Best joined United in 1967 when
he entered the marketing and
services management program.
He has held positions as staff
assistant to the vice president
for sales and services, operating
chief of United’s Los Angeles res-
throughout United’s system.
A native of Miami, Fla., Best
resides with his wife, Carolyn,
and three daughters in Elk Grove,
Ill.
be checked-out by students of
A&M when not in use by the class.
The equipment is checked-out on
a priority basis for a few days
at a time, or in special cases, the
secretary can sometimes be con
vinced that you need the equip
ment for up to a week.
Equipment available for use
within the facility are copy
stands, a laminating press, a
tracing table, film splicer and
editor, equipment to make class
room transparencies, a 35mm
slide duplicator, a video tape re
corder-camera-monitor set up and
even a recording room.
Super 8 movie film and 35mm
film as well as other popular
film can be bought from the EMC.
There are educational movies for
check-out, and artist Yvonne
Fares is available for faculty,
staff and student use.
The artist does silk screening,
fliers, brochures, booklets, post
ers, laminating, letter heads, book
covers, certificates and other odds
and ends for anyone other than
Education students at a rate of
$4 per hour.
The EMC also has a blue-print
machine and a pj-imary typewriter
and occasionally tapes popular
campus guests and makes the
recordings available to students.
The EMC is located in Building
D behind the Services Building.
The motion to add a shuttle
bus to the Plantation Oaks route
was tabled by the Shuttle Bus
Committee early Thursday.
“Two major reasons held the
committee back,” said Kent
Caperton, chairman. “The most
important of these is the lack
of availability of another bus.”
Bob McMann, representative
from Transportation Enterprises,
Inc., pointed out that the only
available bus for at least three
months is the spare bus.
“If the spare bus were used on
a route of its own and another
bus broke down, there would be
nothing to replace it,” continued
McMann.
The second reason which led
to the tabling of the motion was
pointed out by Charles Powell,
dean of men.
“The present shuttle system is
a pilot project that could be better
evaluated at the end of the se
mester,” said Powell.
The results of a bus needs sur
vey conducted by Dr. Don Woods,
committee member, were also pre
sented at the meeting. Out of the
157 responses to the question
naires, 109 said they had at least
one vehicle. Fifty-one said they
presently rode the bus to the
campus. The busiest hours were
before 8 a.m. and after 12 p.m.
Ed Davis, committee member,
said he is looking into the use
of parking fees to supplement
long-range funding on the buses.
“It is possible students could
pay a bus fee and no car fee or
at least a reduced parking fee
for part-time campus use,” said
Davis.
“The majority of the traffic
panel thought it was a good idea
to use the parking fees to supple
ment the bus system,” added
Woods, chairman of the Traffic
Panel.
There have been no more com
plaints concerning reckless driv
ers or open doors on the bus while
it was moving, said Wendell Har
ris, TEI representative, at the
conclusion of the meeting.
‘M-A-S-H’ Shown Tonight In Grove
“M * A* S * H,” 20th Century
Fox’s irreverent look at war, will
be presented tonight and Satur
day in the Grove by the Aggie
Cinema.
Pauline Kael of the “New
Yorker” has hailed this movie as
“the best American war comedy
since sound came in.”
Admission to the movie is 75
cents for an A&M student or his
date, and one dollar for all others.
Donald Sutherland, Elliott
Gould and Tom Skerritt star in
“M* A !|t S :| \H,” which is the in
spiration for a new CBS tele
vision series of the same name.
The three stars are army
surgeons who develop a lunatic
life-style in order to function and
keep their sanity amid the every
day horrors encountered in a
mobile army surgical hospital
(M*A !|, S !|! H) during the Korean
War. They are skilled and dedi
cated in their profession, but they
are equally skilled in making a
shambles of army bureaucracy.
Among the other players who
share or are victims of their
antics at the Army base are Sally
Kellerman, the rigidly strict head
nurse whom they transform into
a warm human being; Robert
Duvall, the overly pious major;
Jo Ann Pflug, another nurse, suc
cinctly described as “the sexiest
in military history”; and Rene
Auberjonois, the compassionate
chaplain.
Nine professional football stars
turn actors for the first time
in a wild football sequence
which figures prominently in
“M !l, A*S*H.” The pro-gridders
were assembled by former Kansas
City Chiefs all-pro defensive
halfback Fred Williamson. In
volved in the “game,” in addition
to the stars, are Howard Wil
liams and Ben Davidson of the
Oakland Raiders; Jack Con-
cannon, John Myers and Tom
Woodeschick of the Philadelphia
Eagles; Timmy Brown of the
Baltimore Colts; and Buck Buch
anan and “Supergnat’ Nolan
Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Texas World Speedway Opens
Fall Racing Season Saturday
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Opinion Poll
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manager at Ontario (Calif.) In
ternational Airport, regional man
ager of legislative affairs and
regional director of government
affairs in the Eastern Region.
He currently is responsible for
directing and coordinating state
and local government relations
Krueger-Dunn residents have
evaluated their complex’s design
and construction through a Stu
dent Senate questionnaire.
The results of the questionnaire
were discussed Thursday after
noon by the planning committee
for the construction of the other
half of the complex.
Out of the 600 people polled
among the 948 residents, 70 per
cent said they felt closet space
is adequate. The committee noted
• many had mixed feelings on the
way the space is distributed, how
ever.
Bob White, architect for Krue
ger-Dunn, said the problem of
shirt and coat sleeves hanging out
of doors can be remedied by either
adding two inches of space depth-
wise, or moving the hangar rack
back two inches.
Approximately 88 per cent of
the polled students objected to
the noise level in between floors
and rooms.
White said the solution needs
to be solved two-ways, with a
possible increases in the thickness
of the insulation board between
suites and the addition of room
carpet or increase in concrete
floor thickness.
“In the long run,” said White,
“it would be better to put carpet
because of the tremendous cost
increase which would result in
adding concrete to the design.
“If the carpet were replaced
two or three times within a 40-
year period, the university would
still do better than breaking even
as compared to concrete costs.”
Another major topic on the
questionnaire involved opinion on
present window size and possible
changes.
The committee voted unanim
ously to suggest to university of
ficials an increase of eight and
one-half inches in window width.
Another solution was mentioned
by White, who said it would be
easy to change to a two-window
theme for all rooms, but would
effect the aesthetic value of the
dorms.
In other decisions made by the
committee, it was agreed com
modes should be partitioned off
with a door from the rest of the
bathroom, floor tile color should
be changed to a lighter one, addi
tional storage space will be made
for toilet articles and the lavatory
should remain the same.
The committee also said more
laundry space and additional iron
ing boards should be provided in
the laundry rooms, study carrels
Texas World Speedway will
open its fall schedule this week
end with the ARCA 300 Royal
Triton stock car race.
Qualifying for all 40 positions
will begin Saturday at 1 p.m. at
the speedway. Pre-race cere
monies will start at noon and the
green flag for the race falls at
1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Is Basis
Changes
should be sound-proofed with car-
else.
pet and drafting rooms should be
converted to sewing rooms in the
girls dorms.
General consensus said more
grass and trees need to be pro
vided in the general layout of the
courtyard areas, while making
lounge chairs available to all
dorm courtyards.
A&M President Jack K. Wil
liams has said all changes which
can possibly be made will receive
every consideration.
Members on the planning com
mittee include Mike Meyers, Steve
Wakefield, Carol Silverthorne,
Dean of Men Charles Powell,
Dean of Women Toby Schrieber
and Management Services Direc
tor Howard Vestal, project co
ordinator.
A&M students can purchase
tickets at the MSC for $3, which
is a reduction of the gate price
of $5.
“We want to get A&M students
interested in our track,” public
relations supervisor Alvin Jones
said. “We are planning to do a
lot more things with the track if
we can get enough students in
volved in our program.”
This race will be the first of
two for the speedway this fall
and if it loses money on both
races, the current owners are
planning to pack their bags and
move the race circuit somewhere
“We want the program to be
here,” Jones adds. “It is a per
fect locality for a large group of
people to be able to participate.
College Station itself isn’t a large
town but there are surrounding
towns that can feed in this local
ity. We like it here and we’d like
to stay.”
Drivers from nine different
states and one from Canada be
gan practice rounds this after
noon at 1 p.m.
Entries include ARCA super-
stars such as Iggy Katona, 57-
year old two-time winner of the
Daytona ARCA 300 from Willis,
Michigan, Andy Hampton of
Louisville, Ky., the second man
ever to win at Daytona twice and
Ron Hutchinson from Keokuk,
Iowa, the 1972 ARCA National
champion.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.