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The Chains Of Habit Are Too Weak To Be Felt Until They Are Too Strong To Be Broken. Thursday and Friday — Prob able winds 5-10 mph. High 88, low 63. Early morning haze. Clear by noon. No chance of rain. Battalion College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 11, 1972 NSL Supports Legislation Education Amendments Jeopardized Ilk IER FDIC PATRICE MUNSEL, center, joins her host in singing ‘Good Friends” in the musical Applause. Two perform ances are scheduled in Bryan Sunday. Song And Dance Show To Play At Bryan Auditorium By VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer The Education Amendments of 1972, supported by the National Student Lobby last spring, may be in danger until 1974 unless Congress acts on higher educa tion appropriations this fall. The A&M Student Senate vot ed to join NSL at its Oct. 5th session. NSL is a registered lob by organized in 1971 and is the only student lobby on a national level. NSL successfully lobbied for the Education Amendments signed into law June 23, 1972, authorizing over $2 billion per year in the new education pro grams for the three years end ing in 1975. Actual appropriations must be made this fall in order for the new student aid programs to be funded. If this session of Con gress does not act on these ap propriations, an emergency con tinuing resolution will be passed which will fund only last year’s programs. If this happens, funding for the new programs would be set aside until the 93rd Congress considers it for 1974. The ad ministration may veto this edu cation bill even if funding is vot ed for 1973 on the grounds that too much government spending is inflationary. Profiles on every Senator and Congressman were sent by NSL Sept. 30 to all U. S. colleges and universities. The profiles con tain each legislator’s vote or posi tion on 10 student related issues. For example, in the House of Representatives 11 out of 23 Texas representatives were for the 18 year-old-vote. Nine Tex ans were for higher education funds, one was for the Vietnam Fund Cut-off and three were for the minimum wage increase. These four issues were also sug gested by NSL. Democratic representative for the Brazos County area, Olin Teague, was against the above issues with the exeception of the 18-year-old-vote. In the Senate profile both Tex as senators, Democrat Lloyd Bentson and Republican John Tower, were against the Vietnam Hatfield Amendment. Both were for the Equal Rights Amendment while only Bentson was for the Harris Amendment for higher education funds. NSL is also fighting for the continuation of youth fares on airlines. The U. S. Civil Aero nautics Board is preparing to announce its decision on discount fares for persons 12 to 21. Sev eral airlines, many of which are in favor of the fares, are not expecting the CAB to continue the youth privilege. The House recently passed a bill allowing employees to pay students 80 percent of the regu lar minimum wage. This rate would be $1.60 if the full rate is $2 per hour. NSL is opposing this bill as it was designed to benefit certain users of low-paid youth. This issue is to come before a House- Senate conference committee. Rent Stabilization Regulations applying only to off-campus housing now clearly state that rent control guidelines (allowing a 2% per cent increase per year) apply to rental units and not the number of persons in that unit. This unit-by-unit clarification was favored by NSL since it pre vents landlords from using the loophole of increasing rent when an additional person moves into the apartment. It should also be noted that Texas is among 20 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (NSL supported). Eighteen additional states are needed to approve the amend ment. Students Told To Move Cars From Railroad Tracks Area The Tony-winning song-and- dance show “Applause,” starring Patrice Munsel, will play two per formances Sunday in the Bryan Civic Auditorium. “Applause” goes on as a TAMU Special Attraction at 2:30 p.m. The musical about the back- stage maneuverings of a self- defending stage favorite will play again at 8:30 p.m. in the Rotary Community Series. Patrice Munsel stars in the famous central role of a popular stage actress who must fight schemes of an ambitious former protege trying to overthrow her. First told in a 1950 movie, “All About Eve,” “Applause” was a 26-month hit in New York. The 1970 Tony Award winner was re viewed as having “one of the best books in years.” “It has a welcome, lovely cyni cism about show business,” wrote , Clive Barnes of the New York Times, “and the Betty Comden- : Adolph Green book has preserved that cynicism. . . .” & C-\ Junior College Journalism Awards Named McLennan, Tarrant County and Grayson County Colleges claimed top magazine and year book awards of the Texas Junior College Press Association in con vention at A&M. Patrice Munsel proves in the musical she is one of the few great Metropolitan Opera Com pany singers whom audiences “can listen to with their eyes open.” She has appeared with success in such popular musicals as “Kiss Me, Kate,” “Can-Can,” “The Sound of Music,” “Hello Dolly” and “Marne,” among oth ers. With her in the touring com pany directed by Ron Field are Virgil Curry of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “1776” tours, as a famous film and stage director who is Miss Munsel’s heart-inter est; Ed Fuller as the steely pro ducer; Diane McAfee in the role of the insidious interloper; Lisa Carroll, Stephen Everett, Bryan Spencer and Pia Zadora. The “Applause” cast also in cludes 24 other actors, singers and dancers. Michael Rose will lead the orchestra. Director Field directed and choreographed the original Broadway production. “Applause” comes to Bryan through William C. Cohen and Edward H. Davis, who also pre sented recent touring companies in “1776,” “Company,” “Prom ises, Promises,” “Cabaret” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” TAMU Special Attractions and Rotary Series presentations are arranged through the Town Hall committee of the Memorial Stu dent Center at Texas A&M. Ro tary season tickets are good for the 8:30 p.m. performance only. Texas Form Students Statewide Meet To Lobby Students from Texas colleges and universities met in Austin Sunday to discuss the organiza tion and operation of a state wide lobby for students’ interests. “The lobby is in the formation stages right now, and we will meet again early in November to decide on issues for the lobby to support,” said Layne Kruse, A&M Student Government presi dent. The meeting was attended by Kruse, Student Government Vice- president Randy Ross, External Affairs Committee Chairman Barb Sears, Terry Brown, Tom Locke and 36 other Texas stu dent leaders. The lobby will be an affiliate of Texas Interscholastic Students Association and will have an in terlocking directorate with the Association board, Kruse noted. The members of the lobby board of directors were elected at the first meeting. Each school elected to the board will repre sent a geographical region, Kruse said, and the University of Hous ton represents A&M. Members of the board are the University of Texas at Arling ton, Texas Tech, Our Lady of the Lake and St. Edwards. Baylor, West Texas State, Southwest Texas State and Houston are in terlocking members of both boards. The next meeting of the lobby is set for early November. “We hope to have a regional meeting before then to plan and discuss issues to present to the lobby for support,” said Sears. The lobby is in the formative stages right now, Kruse said, and A&M is basically interested in seeing that each school in it is fairly represented. The president of the lobby is Hugh Moore, a second-year law student at Texas. Students parking their cars near the railroad tracks adjacent to FM 2154 have been asked to remove their vehicles, announced University Police Chief O. L. Lu ther Tuesday afternoon. Luther said he received a letter from the Texas Highway Depart ment Monday saying it had received complaints about the parked cars next to highway right of way. “The land there belongs to the state highway department and the railroad,” said Luther. “If students don’t remove their cars soon, the city and the railroad both have jurisdiction to remove the cars.” Luther said he would begin putting up blockades to the en trances to the right of way areas starting Thursday and asked that students try to have their cars removed by then. He said his de partment would help students in any way possible to find substi tute parking. W. J. Byford, District 17 Main tenance Engineer addressed the letter to Luther and stated rea sons why the Texas Highway De partment was forced to ask for automobile removal. “The parked vehicles obscure sight distance on the approach streets and create a potentially dangerous pedestrian situation. There are ‘No Parking’ signs along FM 2154 and the railroad company has ‘No Parking On Pri vate Property’ signs.” Copies of the letter were sent to College Station Police Chief Melvin Luedke and Councilman Don Dale. As far as bicycle registration is concerned, Luther noted that 5 p.m. Tuesday (yesterday) was MSC Directorate Defines N ew Committee Requirements The Directorate Budget Study Subcommittee of the 23rd Memor ial Council and Directorate has listed the requirements for form ing new MSC committees. The stated scope of a proposed organization merits its formation if a duplicate of this committee does not exist on campus. There must also be evidence of a desire by a significant number of stu dents for instigation and continu ing the service that the committee will be able to provide. created a someone he is not late, have te next in ; running More than 200 junior college journalists and faculty represent ing 29 institutions attended the two-day conference. Awards in magazine, year book and newspaper work were presented at a Tuesday luncheon, final conference event. The student organization elect ed Scott Miller of Cisco Junior College president for the coming year. Odessa College student Mary Armstrong was elected vice president and Anne Hudson of Angelina College in Lufkin, sec retary at the 20th TJCPA con ference. A faculty organization, the Texas Junior College Journalism Association, affiliated with TJCPA chose Gary Green of Grayson County College its pres ident. Serving with Green will be vice president Lynnell Jack- son, San Antonio College, and secretary Larry Thompson, West ern Texas College at Snyder. Winning magazine and year book in Division I, under 2,000 enrollment, were. published by McLennan Community College in Waco and Grayson County Col lege of Sherman, announced Dr. David R. Bowers. Best magazine in the 2,000 and over enrollment Division II was by Tarrant County Junior Col lege-Northeast. The Fort Worth system’s South Campus turned out the best yearbook. Other award winners were, for maga zine, San Antonio, Tarrant Coun ty South and Del Mar College, and yearbook, San Jacinto Col lege and Texas State Technical Institute at Waco. Fish Footballers Placed On Conduct Probation To form a new committee, the Council requires groups to have at least two advisors and a candi date for chairman. Unless otherwise specified by the MSC Council Executive Com mittee, the committee must dem onstrate that a minimum of 0.2 per cent of the student body dur ing the semester will become active charter members of the organization. The committee must present a written statement of purpose and structure to the Directorate and the Council Executive Committee. All requirements must be sub mitted to the MSC Council Execu tive Committee through the MSC President during the fall or spring term. The Council Executive Commit tee will evaluate the application and make suggestions. The com mittee will then be assigned to an appropriate vice-presidential category. The committee may be required to submit a written structure. If accepted, and assigned to a VP, the committee is a trial member for two years to prove the need for its existence. The Budget Study Subcommit tee has also made recommenda tions for budget allocations. The subcommittee listed four points to be considered when mak ing budget allocations. They are scope of program and impact of program, including the need and demand for the program in the university community. Other points are mechanics of the program and the committee method, including the committee’s structure and relations to the Ex ecutive Committee. Each committee chairman or his representative will present a brief assessment of the commit tee’s programs v/hen the Execu tive Committee studies his budget request. the deadline for registering bi cycles. Luther added that only about 520 bikes or roughly one-fifth of the total number estimated in use on the A&M campus have been registered. He said he did not know exact ly when his department would be gin issuing tickets for people who had not registered bikes but hoped it would be soon. Nine bicycles were reported stolen to Chief Luther during the past 15 days, while one bike had been recovered during that same period. “To my knowledge not one of the stolen bikes has been regis tered with the university,” said Luther. He noted that three registra tion tags, numbers 0070, 0123 and 0140 have been stolen from bikes. Any students who experience this difficulty are asked to come back to the University Police Station to re-register at no extra cost. SCONA XVIII, Student Groups Request Speakers Potential speakers for SCONA XVIII, the Association of Mexi- can-American Students and the Black Awareness Committee have been approved by the Memorial Student Center Council. SCONA XVIII will invite ap proximately 23 professional men, prominent in widely diversified fields. Some of those invited to speak include Anthony Burgess, author of “Clockwork Orange;” Milton Friedman, a Federal Reserve economist and proponent of Tais- sez faire’ policy; Patrick L. Gray, director of the FBI; Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massa chusetts; and Arthur Miller, a noted author. Others requested include Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock; Ralph Nader, consumer lobbyist; Robert Townsend, author of Up The Organization; Nicholas John son, Federal Communications Commission commissioner; Rollo May, a noted psychologist and author; and Charles Westoff, noted educator and author. The Association of Mexican- (See SCONA XVIII page 6) Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. —Adv. The three students questioned and released Saturday by the University Police Department for alleged damage to cars parked in front of Krueger and Dunn Halls, have been placed on conduct probation, announced Dean of Men Charles Powell. The students, Kent Krueger, Dennis Smellser and Bruce Welch, met with Powell Tuesday afternoon to discuss their situation with the university. Powell also said he would like to point out an error in the investigation report turned into the Dean of Students’ Office. He noted that only four cars were damaged by the boys instead of seven, as the police had indicated earlier. “There were damages to these cars,” said Powell, “but these were not a result of any actions taken by these boys Saturday morning.” Powell said this conduct probation status would have no bearing on whether they could play football, although he admitted the whole team will probably suffer as a result of the boys’ actions. “As far as we’re concerned, the boys can play football and we hope they ‘beat the hell’ out of who ever they play,” said Powell. He said the boys were being held responsible for paying all repair costs out of their own pockets and only they are accountable. Head Aggie football coach Emory Bellard assured Powell he too would take action to head-off any further incidents. Filing For Freshman Offices Begins Filing for freshman senator positions and class offices began Monday and will continue through Oct. 20. Applications should be placed in the Student Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center. One senator will be elected for each 500 freshmen. All freshman senators must have a 2.25 grade point ratio at mid-term. Class officers of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and social secretary must have a 2.0 gpr at mid-term, according to Jack Barlow, a member of the Student Election Committee. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. RICK EUBANK applies the finishing touches to a big, black three denoting the third floor of Crocker Hall. This is one part of a redecoration project completed this week end. RON YOUNG, aided by Wes Barton and David Keeling, paint the walls a bright gold in Crocker Hall. The doors and frames were painted black.