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‘Freedom Of Speech’ Is Every Man’s Right, Declares Smothers
By TED BORISKIE
Staff Writer
No man, regardless of color, can
put a stop to ‘freedom of speech,”
said Clay Smothers to a sparse
crowd in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom Thursday night.
Smothers, noted black conserva
tive, chided the small audience
for its manners. “I only get good
coverage when I address a violent
audience,” he said.
In speaking of his hosts, the
Black Awareness Committee,
Smothers said, “This is the first
black-oriented organization to in
vite me to speak, and one of the
few times I’ve been paid.”
Continually speaking out
against black militants, Smothers
said, “I’m not going to burn any
thing. I don’t even like to light a
match.”
“I love my country,” he said.
“The United States gave me birth.
Here is where I intend to live and
die, regardless of its injustices.
No white man can claim more
heritage and love for this coun
try than I can.”
“There is no such thing as black
pride,” he continued. “Pride
doesn’t come through color, it
comes through actions.”
A graduate of Prairie View
A&M, Smothers believes he has as
fine an education as anyone from
a larger school.
“Quality education comes only
to those who want it,” he said,
“regardless of the condition of the
school. You can’t bus someone to
a different school and expect them
to get a better education if they
didn’t want it in the first place.”
Nationally known for his op
position to busing and having re
cently led anti-busing demonstra
tions in Washington, D. C. and
Akron, Ohio, Smothers can’t be
lieve that busing is still used.
“Most whites are against it,” he
said, “and a recent Harris poll
showed only 45 per cent of the
blacks were for busing while 47
per cent were against.”
Smothers was part of a team
that inspected military installa
tions across the country recently.
“The racial situation is not as bad
as it appears,” he said.
Praising Nixon for his handling
of the Vietman war, Smothers
said McGovern could be dangerous
if he were allowed to cutback the
defense budget.
“We’re on our way to becoming
a third-rate power,” he said.
Having received 80 delegate
votes for vice president at the
Democratic National Convention,
Smothers said his next political
plan will be to run for attorney
general of Texas in 1974. It will
probably be on the Democratic
ticket, he said.
At the end of his speech,
Smothers was accused by a black
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Lacks Nixon
Scandal Issue
By The Associated Press
If the old political maxim is
true that “the people determine
the issues,” then a most curious
feature of the current presiden
tial race is not so much what the
issues are as what they are not.
Specifically, the scandal-in-gov-
crnment nonissue.
A Gallup poll in mid-campaign
indicated that “only a small per
centage of the electorate believe
corruption in government to be
one of the nation’s top problems”
and Sen. George McGovern has
been unable to get the issue very
high off the runway.
“I must say I’m puzzled,” a
dismayed McGovern said. “It
would seem that what has come
out would be enough to defeat
a president.”
"What has come out,” replied
a source close to President Nix
on's campaign, “are merely un
proven allegations not even di
rectly connected to the President.”
Putting aside the partisan in
terests of both camps, a brief
glance at history shows that the
howls of indignation that greeted
high-level improprieties in the
past, none of them directly con
nected to the president then in
office—fur coats, deep freezes,
five-percenters—plainly are un
heard today.
Americans in factories, office
buildings, rectories and homes
around the country were asked
why. They offered a variety of
reasons.
One was the startling discov
ery that the public is simply not
informed. Ray Morgan, a corre
spondent for the Kansas City
Star, interviewed 50 persons in
late September and found only a
handful acquainted with the de
tails of the alleged scandals.
The Rev. Theodore M. Hes-
burgh, president of Notre Dame
University, suggests the deeper
irony that it is the communica
tions explosion itself that is in
part responsible for the message
not getting through.
“We have been so engulfed for
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Aid- requesting organizations
that have applied for sharing of
Exchange Store profits and wish
to plead their case should assem
ble in the Serpentine Lounge of
the Memorial Student Center Oct.
31 at 7 p.m.
"We want those people to come
who feel that what they have sub
mitted on paper needs special
emphasis and those organizations
applying for the first time and
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Speed-up War Attacks
RAIN AND SUN combined to make this unusual photo taken midafternoon Thursday
by photographer Steve Ueckert from in front of the Krueger-Dunn commons. The day
was one of those cold, rainy days when it just didn’t pay to get out of bed.
Civilian Council Looks At
Offices For Residence Halls
The need for a university policy
concerning an office for each res
idence hall to conduct its business
was discussed t the Civilian Stu
dent Council meeting Thursday
night.
Presently, only about half of
the halls do have offices. These
offices are mostly vacant rooms
in the hall that have been set
aside for this purpose.
However, housing shortages ex
perienced this year are expected
to be even more acute next year.
This would force these rooms to
be used to house students.
A&M Television Station To Begin
Broadcasting Again In December
The A&M educational television
station expects to begin broad
casting again in December, re
ports Dr. Mel Chastain, ETV
director.
KAMU-TV ceased transmission
in March to move from Bagley
Hall, a building demolished to
make way for a new two-story
classroom building, to the new
ETV station southeast of Kyle
Field.
Dr. Chastain said all equipment
has been installed at the building.
All that remains is construction
of a 350-foot tower, installation
of a 28-foot antenna atop the
tower and conversion of a flori
culture building to house the
transmitter.
The tower and transmitter
facilities will be in Hensel Park.
Dr. Chastain said that work will
require approximately one month.
A Dallas engineering consult
ing firm, he continued, is com
pleting the engineering portions
of the Federal Communications
Commission forms asking for an
increase of power from 10,000
watts to 20,000 watts.
Dr. Chastain indicated the
forms will be completed within a
week. He will take the papers to
Washington, D.C., and walk them
through the FCC.
The antenna and transmitter
cannot be installed until the sta
tion receives FCC approval, he
added.
While wqrking toward the re
turn to normal telecasting, the
Educational Television Depart
ment has been producing closed-
circuit programs since the fall
semester began.
The university does have a
previous policy dealing with pro
grammed dorms which states that
each is entitled to an office. But
this does not cover many of the
hall which are not programmed.
Also discussed was the financial
aspect of this issue. Having a
room vacant would throw an
added expense on the other resi
dents who would have to pay for
it.
This rent loss would vary from
dorm to dorm, but would be about
$188 per semester or about one
dollar per resident per year.
These offices are used for stor
ing equipment and hall supplies.
It is also used to store a hall’s
quiz file if it has one.
A resolution was made asking
for the university to establish a
uniform policy giving each hall
an office. The resolution was
approved.
The Counciling Committee is
currently working on a new con
stitution for the council, convert
ing it to a residence hall council.
A dance will be held Friday
starting at 9 p.m. in Sbisa Dining
Hall. It will feature a soul group,
“The Ghetto Sounds,” and will cost
$2 per couple and $1.25 stag. The
dance is co-sponsored by the
Black Awareness Committee and
the Civilian Student Council.
By The Associated Press
Despite word that a peace
agreement between the United
States and North Vietnam is
near, Communist-led forces step
ped up their attacks across South
Vietnam on Thursday and Fri
day in what allied officials said
was an accelerated effort to
establish their presence before a
cease-fire.
The Saigon command report
ed 124 North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong shelling and terror
attacks across South Vietnam
during the 24-hour period ending
at 6 a.m. Friday. Sharp fight
ing erupted in the central high
lands and in the northern quar
ter of South Vietnam below the
demilitarized zone.
Democrats and Republicans in
and out of Congress universally
welcomed the prospect of a U.S.-
North Vietnam peace agreement
Thursday.
Democrats took the line that
peace might have been achieved
earlier, but if it comes on the
eve of the election, and helps
President Nixon, so be it.
Republicans joined in urging
that the United States not let
President Nguyen Van Thieu of
South Vietname stand in the way
of an opportunity for a cease
fire, return of American prison
ers, and U.S. withdrawal from
Vietnam.
President Nixon said Thurs
day that differences blocking a
Vietnam settlement “can and
will be worked out” in a way
that brings “peace with honor
and not peace with surrender.”
Speaking at two Appalachian
political rallies after a day of
rapid-fire developments on the
Vietnam peace front, Nixon said
settlement of America’s longest
war would mean that chances for
a generation of peace are “better
than at any time in this cen
tury.”
While Nixon delivered an op
timistic assessment on settling
final details of the impending
peace agreement with North
Vietnam, he offered no time
table. His chief Vietnam nego
tiator, Henry A. Kissinger, ear
lier in the day had said “peace
is within reach in a matter of
weeks, or less.”
Nixon brought a crowd of 3,000
jammed into the Ashland high
school gymnasium to its feet
when he said he is confident “we
can succeed” in obtaining “peace
with honor and not peace with
surrender.”
Aggie Band To Give Baylor
‘Thunder And Blazes 9 Show
The “thunder and blazes” spe
cialty of the Texas Aggie Band
will be part of the A&M-Baylor
football halftime activities Satur
day in Waco.
It will be the Aggie Band’s
fifth straight working weekend
and the first out-of-town per
formance since the season-open
ing drill at LSU. The A&M
bandsmen under Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams are halfway through a
nine-game season that has no
open weekends.
Produced by 288 musicians and
drum majors Alan H. Gurevich
of Valley Stream, N. Y., Richard
W. Minix and Richard B. Stone
of Houston, the Baylor game
drill will tax the band’s reserves.
Six Aggie bandmen are side
lined with injuries or for surgery
including a puff-lipped baritone
player assaulted last week in a
campus parking lot.
“One band director is almost
out with brain failure from battle
fatigue,” cracked Col. Adams, the
dean of SWC band directors in
his 27th season.
Adams has assistance this year,
however, from a former high
school director known around
Waco. The Aggie Band’s associ
ate director, Maj. Joe T. Haney,
fielded consistent award-winning
Black Cat bands at Mexia. He is
originally from Marlin.
Aggie Band music from the
stands will include pieces ar
ranged and composed by Maj.
Haney, which he helps direct.
In Campus ‘Mock Election’
President Nixon Soundly Defeats McGovern
Senator George McGovern suf
fered a resounding defeat at the
hands of President Richard M.
Nixon Thursday in the Political
Forum—Great Issues Mock Elec
tion.
There were approximately 1,700
votes cast, announced Mike Lind
sey, Political Forum chairman.
In the presidential race, Nixon
polled 1,338 to McGovern’s 309
votes. Six votes were cast for the
Socialist Workers Party team of
Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley.
John Tower won the senatorial
race with a 2 to 1 margin polling
1,100 votes to Sanders’ 505. Tom
Leonard of the SWP and Flores
Amaya of La Raza Unida ran far
behind with only 19 and 30 votes,
respectively.
Dolph Briscoe suffered a close
but surprising defeat at the hands
of Republican Henry Grover in
the Governor’s race. Grover polled
799 votes to Briscoe’s 703. SWP
candidate Deborah Leonard re
ceived only 36 votes and Ramsey
Muniz of LRU did slightly better
with 98 votes.
Incumbent Jesse James nar
rowly defeated Maurice Angly in
the state treasurer race. James
polled 770 votes to Angly’s 724.
LRU candidate Ruben Solis gath
ered 65 votes.
Both the constitutional amend
ments on the ballot passed over
whelmingly.
Amendment No. 4 which con
cerned revision committee con
sisting of the 63rd legislature,
pased 1310 to 306.
Amendment No. 7 providing for
legal equality regardless of sex,
race, color, creed or national ori
gin drew 1,430 votes in favor with
only 220 against.
Schmitz of the American Inde
pendent Party drew 12 write-in
votes for president and Wallace
received 11.
Aggies: Relax By Transcendental Meditation
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By DEBBIE HOLZEM
Staff Writer
If you notice a lonely looking
Aggie staring off into space, it
might be that he isn’t day-dream
ing, but is involved in the science
of transcendental meditation.
“Transcendental meditation, or
the science of creative intelli
gence, is actually an accredited
course at some universities,” said
Charlie Sennring at a recent
organizational meeting of the
A&M transcendental meditation
group.
“TM, practiced a few minutes
every morning and evening, gives
the body deep rest while the mind
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expands in awareness,” said
Sennring.
He said that transcendental
meditation is a process of direct
experience rather than one of in
tellectual analysis.
“Man only uses six to ten per
cent of his mind. With the ad
vances in science in our modern
age, this ten percent usage of the
mind just doesn’t cut it any more.
Man must expand the mind and
use it to its full potential.”
Through TM, he said, man can
achieve this goal.
The technique of TM allows the
attention to be drawn automat
ically to refined levels of think
ing, which are found by experi
ence to be increasingly pleasant.
The immediate result of this
process of refinement is that the
mind “transcends” the subtlest
activity of thinking, reaching the
source of thought, a state of pure
awareness.
Through proper instruction,
anyone can become familiar with
these subtler levels of thought
and directly contact the field of
pure creative intelligence. TM
expands the mind and heart and
makes available ones full poten
tial. Regular practice brings
about a balanced development of
all aspects of individual life.
Besides unfolding full mental
potential, the head of the trans
cendental meditationists on cam
pus said that TM can also im
prove health, social behavior, and
can ultimately lead to world
peace.
During TM, said Nancy Worst,
a TM follower who has been medi
tating for a year, the metabolic
rate of the body is reduced 16-20
percent, compared with the eight
to ten percent decrease during
deep sleep.
“Oxygen consumption, carbon
dioxide elimination, cardiac out
put, heart rate and respiratory
rate also all significantly decrease
while skin resistance greatly in
creases,” she said. “You can get
more rest during meditation than
during a deep sleep.”
She compared TM to other
forms of meditation like yoga and
hypnosis. “TM is easiest to learn
and practice, and takes less phys
ical strain.”
“Anyone can meditate,” said
Edgar Blackledge, another of the
speakers at the meeting. He out
lined procedures for learning the
technique, which was brought to
the world by Maharishi Magesh
Yogi. The course includes a
preparatory lecture, a short inter
view by one of the Maharishi’s
instructors, personal instruction
and check meetings.
A $45 fee is required by college
students wishing to learn how to
meditate. A student must also
make all meetings and not be
under the influence of prescrip
tion drugs.
The next meeting of the group
will be held tomorrow night at
8 in Room 146 of the Physics
building. Anyone is invited to
attend.
‘FORTY CARATS’ stars Pat Castle (left) Judie Chi-
mento and Mary Hanna put the finishing touches on the
Aggie Players’ production Thursday night. The opening
performance is slated for 8 p. m. Monday at the Consoli
dated Middle School Auditorium and will run through Sat
urday. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)