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College Station, Texas Thursday, November 16, 1972
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Ruling Sets ‘First’ For Transferees
By KARL JACKSON
Staff Writer
Confusion and misunderstand
ing cloud the issue of the missing
paragraphs deleted from the
1971-72 University Rules and
Regulations booklet.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan recently unearthed
seven paragraphs that should
have been included in the newest
edition of the rules and regula
tions. His memo, printed Nov. 7,
contained several of the para
graphs that are in direct conflict
with the Judicial Committee’s
ruling on the eligibility of sopho
more transfer student Sandy
Aboud for her position on the
Student Senate.
Thanksgiving Candlelight Meal
To Be Served Separate Days
The traditional Thanksgiving
Candlelight Dinner for TAMU
students will be served twice this
year. Duncan area residents will
feast this evening in response to
a request from the Corps of Ca
dets to reschedule the meal to
avoid conflict with Bonfire work.
Krueger-Dunn residents and
Sbisa area students will celebrate
the traditional meal on Tuesday
night as has been the schedule in
previous years.
Dining hall managers an
nounced the following menu for
the occasion: Relish tray, assort
ed olives, pickles and kumquats,
roast young Vermont turkey
breast, oyster dressing, giblet
gravy, chilled cranberry sauce,
marshmallow sweet potatoes and
English peas with water chest
nuts.
Also included is tossed green
salad, thousand island dressing,
olde fashioned pumpkin pie with
whipped cream, fresh apples,
oranges and bananas, hot pan
rolls, milk, coffee, and tea.
The committee voted 9-0 that
Aboud was eligible and qualified
to hold the office of Senator in
the Student Senate. The ruling,
which came on Oct. 23, set a prec
edent for all transfer students,
who, up until that time, had not
been allowed to run.
One of the paragraphs Hanni
gan maintains should have been
included in the regulations says,
“A transfer student must attend
Texas A&M University as a full
time student for either one long
semester or two summer terms
before he becomes eligible to file
for an elected student office.”
‘‘At no time was the Judiciary
fully aware of the missing para
graphs,” Hannigan said. He de
scribed the process that the Blue
Book changes went through.
Suggestions are taken from the
student body for possible changes
in the regulations. Several poten
tial changes were approved by the
University Executive Committee
and given to the University Aca
demic Council for review and ap
proval. Both of these groups are
made up of deans, department
heads and other important uni-
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Tonight’s Senate Agenda
versity personnel.
After several potential changes
were approved by the Academic
Council, they were then passed to
the Student Government and the
Senate Rules and Regulations
Committee. The committee had
the power to change the rules to
fit the newly adopted constitu
tion. Somewhere in chain the
seven paragraphs were either
intentionally or unintentionally
omitted.
“We hoped that we were get
ting those corrections out in time
to prevent any rulings on those
issues, but apparently we were
too late,” Dean Hannigan said of
the Aboud ruling.
Bill Hartsfield, Council for the
defense in Aboud’s hearing, and
member of last year’s Student
Senate said, “We sent over to the
Academic Council a new section
on changes for the senator elec
tions only. Apparently they re
moved the paragraphs about the
Yell Leaders and the Memorial
Student Council by mistake when
they removed the old senators’
election procedure.”
There is still some controversy
with the paragraphs concerning
transfer students. It was brought
out in the hearing that it was the
“spirit and intent” of last year’s
Student Senate to allow transfer
students to run for Senate seats.
It was maintained that they
had left out the “previous semes
ter” clause intentionally and this
was supported by a signed state
ment by Mark Blakemore, one of
the members that revised the
Regulations for ’72-’73.
Another question has arisen as
to one paragraph that contains
a definition of grade point ratio
which states, “Only the record
made in course work for which
the student was registered in this
institution shall be used in deter
mining his grade point ratio.”
If this were translated literally,
transfer students would not have
established a GPR at A&M at the
time of election, as in Aboud’s
case.
“I provided them (the Election
Committee) with a GPR on her,”
said Registrar Robert Lacey, “as
specified from another institu
tion.”
Lacey urged that he did not
supply the committee with an of
ficial GPR from A&M, because
as yet, and up until the end of
the semester, she does not have
one. Election day, Lacey released
Aboud’s mid-term GPR to the
Election Committee.
It was this mid-term GPR that
the Judicial Committee accepted
as valid and declared her eligible
to hold office. Mid-term GPRs
are used only in freshmen Senate
elections.
The $3 bicycle registration fee
approved by the Traffic Panel
last spring will be put before a
Student Senate vote tonight at
7:30 in Room 102 of the Zachry
Engineering Center.
“The vote is simply to get the
Senate feeling on the Traffic
Panel’s recommendation in order
to get an indication of how the
student body feels,” said Layne
Kruse, student government presi
dent.
If the Senate turns down the
$3 plan they will then vote on
either of two alternative plans of
$2 or $1.50 registration fee.
A proposal by the Legal Rights
Commission of the Student Gov
ernment will be put before the
senators for discussion.
The proposal was worked on
this fall by the Commission and
simply calls for the hiring of a
full-time attorney to represent
any and all A&M students on any
legal problem they have.
“This lawyer will be restrict
ed,” said Kruse, “in that he can
not handle cases against the Uni
versity or students at A&M.”
“The lawyer would be provided
as a university service like hos
pital and medical care to handle
student problems with the com
munity such as landlord, traffic
and consumer problems,” contin
ued Kruse.
“Right now the Legal Rights
Commission has a lawyer for ad
vice over the phone, but they
want more than that. This law
yer would have the power to liti
gate in court,” said Kruse.
The lawyer would be funded
through the Student Services Fee.
One more part of the yell lead
er policy will be put to the Senate
for a vote concerning the struc
ture of the yell leader committee.
According to Campbell, these
changes include the relieving of
the screening responsibility from
the committee, increase of stu
dent members on the committee
from two to four and a two-thirds
approval from the Senate to re
move a yell leader from his posi
tion.
(See Senate, page 2)
Officials Warn Students
About School Vandalism
Texas A&M and University of Texas at Austin adminis
trators issued a joint warning Wednesday that students
will be suspended for acts of vandalism on the campus of
the rival school.
The long-standing policy agreement between the UT
regents and Texas A&M board of directors was re-em
phasized as students at both universities prepare for the
annual Thanksgiving Day football game in Austin.
TAMU President Jack K. Williams and UT-Austin
President Stephen H. Spurr emphasized any student “who
gof?s to another campus with the intent to paint or other
wise deface statues, buildings or other property or commit
any other act of vandalism” will be suspended for at least
one semester.
Monitoring System Development For Vehicles
May Bring Police Protection Improvements
TOIL AND TROUBLE are the basic ingredients being
used by most students working on the 1972 bonfire. Work
ing on the stack as the junior above is doing is demanding
both in muscle and rest. (Photos by Ray Franklin)
Warriors, Cadets In 99.3-Mile Run
Electronics to automatically
monitor police patrol cars can be
used in law enforcement to im
prove protection, service and ad
ministration, police and city offi
cials were told Wednesday at
A&M.
Researchers said development
of an automatic vehicle monitor
ing (AVM) system can result in
more efficient response to emer
gency calls, instant location of
any car, greater protection for the
patrol officers and minimum two-
way voice radio communications.
TAMU’s Center for Urban
Programs and the Texas Crimi
nal Justice Council hosted approx
imately 50 municipal officials and
representatives from private in
dustry for a one-day conference.
Dr. Steve Riter of TAMU’s
Electrical Engineering Depart
ment pointed out- in the opening
presentation the AVM system can
be used for a variety of city ve
hicle control situations, including
fire and sanitation services.
All the equipment and technol
ogy is available, Riter pointed out,
and it can now be built into a
system to meet individual muni
cipal needs.
The basic idea involves a trans
mitter located on each car send
ing out a radio signal collected
by a measurement station and re
layed to a computer or display
board at the dispatching control
center.
Riter estimated the “inexpen
sive” AVM system utilizing a
display board would cost $200,000
Students To Run Marathons To UT
and could later be built into a
sophisticated system.
The expensive system would
cost about $700,000 for cities that
already have computer capabilities
and some advanced communica
tions networks.
His estimates included equip
ment and engineering-installation
costs.
Riter said a study showed it
cost $100,000 to $200,000 a year
to keep a patrol car and officers
on metropolitan streets. He re
ported a Los Angeles AVM-type
study of patrol car activities re
vealed the city could reduce the
number of cars by seven per cent
without changing efficiency.
That seven per cent reduction
repx-esented over $1 million in sav
ings, he contended.
Emergency calls, Riter related,
also have been studied. The facts
showed during slow periods dis-
patchers, selecting cars at ran
dom, 27 per cent of the time sent
a car that took longer to respond
than one closer to the scene.
Meg McDonough
Meg Plus Denver To Equal
A Special TAMU Attraction
Walton Hall Warriors and
Corps of Cadets sophomores will
each be involved in marathon runs
to show support of the Aggie foot
ball team in its Thanskgiving Day
game against Texas.
Walton Hall president, Bill
Ouren of Hampton, Va., said 25
Walton students will participate
in the 99.3 mile endeavor.
They call it the “Second Walton
Hall Fightin’ Texas Aggie ‘Beat
Hell Outta t.u.’ Marathon.”
The first runner will cross the
Austin city limits at 5 a.m. Mon
day. A papier mache Maroon and
White torch will be passed to the
next runner four miles south of
State Highway 71.
Cars bearing signs will precede
and follow the runners by a half
mile, according to Paul Szatkow-
ski of Irving. He is in charge of
marathon arrangements, with
Ouren and James Goode of Wei
mar. Another auto will imme
diately follow the runner. The
route will pass through Bastrop
and Caldwell.
“We hope to improve on the
11 hours the run required last
year,” Szatkowski said. “It will
take something better than a 6 1 A-
minute mile to beat it.”
The cadet sophomores will be
gin their run to Austin after the
Tuesday bonfire. Two-man teams
carrying a banner will run l l / 2
miles each in the all-night mara
thon that is expected to reach
Austin’s Eastwood Park at mid
afternoon Wednesday, the day be
fore the A&M-Texas football
clash.
The banner will proclaim “Beat
the Class of ’75 Hell Out of t.u.”
It will be carried once around
the bonfire after the Tuesday yell
practice concludes.
Route of the run will be from
the Duncan drill field, site of the
Aggie bonfire, through Caldwell
to U.S. 290, Elgin and Austin.
They call the 18-hour effort “Op
eration Pegasus.”
The 300 cadets participating in
the event will assemble at East-
wood Park and run in a group
into Austin, around Memorial
Stadium and back to Eastwood
Park for a yell practice. A parade
permit was obtained for the ven
ture.
The coordinator of the event,
sophomore John Oeffinger of
Houston, said the group has ob
tained support from several firms
that will pay a dime per mile.
The corps sophomores exepct to
raise about $1,000 for the Campus
Chest, a student senate-operated
fund that provides TAMU stu
dents assistance in time of need.
Cadets coordniated the 108-mile
marathon with the Department of
Public Safety and city officials of
Caldwell, Elgin and other towns
through which it will pass.
Safety trucks will precede run
ners by 100 yards and trail them
by 50 yards. They also will have
safety reflecting tape on their
caps and backs, explained Steve
Eberhard, publicity chairman from
New Braunfels. Trucks will de
posit two-man running teams at
iVa-mile intervals along the route.
Participating cadets will wear
fatigues, soft caps and combat
boots for the run.
Yell leaders will continue to be
elected by their respective class
es, according to the results of the
referendum conducted Wednesday
by the Student Senate.
The statement “the three sen
ior and two junior yell leaders
should be elected by their respec
tive classes” received 648 votes.
On the other hand, the election of
yell leaders by the entire student
body only received 439 votes.
The referendum also gave the
results of the run-off election for
freshman class president and
vice-president.
Greg Knape won the position of
Riter added the instant loca
tion system also offers advan
tages on which a dollar value
cannot be placed, such as public
confidence, officer protection and
savings in property because of the
protection.
freshman class president with a
majority vote of 293, while Philip
Bohlman received only 152 votes.
Stephen Smith took the vice-
presidential position with 238
votes, while Andrea Hur finished
with 191.
“The run-off election was held
as none of the candidates in these
two positions held a majority vote
in the original freshman elec
tion,” said Steve Vincent, chair
man of the election board.
National Student Lobby ques
tionnaire totals will be done at a
later date by the Student Senate
External Affairs Committee.
Meg McDonough will appear
with John Denver as a TAMU
special attraction Nov. 21 in G.
Rollie White at 8 p.m.
The girl from Crystal Lake,
Ill. claims that her recent LP is
“the biggest door I’ve walked
through.” McDonough wrote the
lyrics and tunes to many of the
songs on the album herself.
“ ‘On the Shores’ was one of
the first tunes I wrote when I
got out here to California; it
started as a closing of a letter to
my sister and another friend of
mine back home,” said McDo
nough.
She wrote “Don’t Worry Mama”
after talking to her mother on
the phone and “Guitar Picker” in
a “fit of madness.”
Other songs McDonough wrote
include “Song Without A Story,”
“Room and Board,” “Vintage,”
“Pocketfull” and “Kevin Jane.”
“ ‘Kevin Jane’ was written on
the spur of a moment when I was
alone and in the land of mem
ories,” she said.
McDonough worked with Bob
Monaco, Jim Golden, Barry Fas-
man and Don Sciarotta on her
album. “Without them it would
have been . . . just doing an al
bum—but they had faith in me
and I had faith in them.”
As for John Denver, all she has
is good things to say about him.
“When I first saw John Den
ver, I liked the way he looked on
stage—needless to say I was
knocked-out by ‘Country Roads.’
But when he opened up his mouth
and actually said such beautiful
things! I was sitting on every
word that came out of his mouth
—he was great.”
Tickets for an A&M student
and date general admission are $2
and other student general admis
sion is $2.50. Patrons are $3 and
reserve seats are $3.50.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Referendum Results Given