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Vol. 67 No. 190
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^Scraping Bottom Senate Votes To Hire Legal Advocate;
Many students seem to be alarmed and upset over the A&M Board
of Directors recent decision to keep women on campus at A&M where
they belong, in the ‘finest possible facilities.’
Women, don’t be alarmed! After all, the total dollar figure on your
fee receipt is bound to increase sooner or later, and probably sooner.
But don’t worry, the board of directors is keeping you in the finest
possible facilities. Right?
The above may seem a slight bit ridiculous to come, but to others
the reality of it should bring to some, (and probably has) a hard and
bitter pill to swallow.
Those scraping the bottom of the barrel now to live in the
Krueger-Dunn facilities may find themselves unable to attend A&M if
education costs continue to increase as A&M President Jack K. Williams
has predicted they will.
We think the board should take a harder and closer look at the
situation than just informally discussing the matter. The matter is
deserving of the full board’s attention and having the opinion of only
the she of nine board members present at last week’s meeting should be
considered an insult to the students involved.
Why is it dorms like Fowler, Schumacher, etc., are fit for girls to
live in during summer semesters while they aren’t designed properly for
them to reside in during long semesters?
If these could be used for women to live in regularly, just think of
the increased female enrollment which would result from more women
coming to live on campus, not to mention the change in residential
atmosphere on the north side of the campus.
If removing men from Dunn Hall is done and concentrating women
in one area is added to that, we feel this would be a giant step
backwards for a university beginning to show a faint glimmer of social
progress.
Though we don’t necessarily advocate the sphtting of dorms
between men and women as is the situation in Dunn Hall, we do think
the residents of Dunn have illustrated that it is high time men and
women can live within at least dorm’s reach of each other at A&M.
People were afraid of airplanes when they were first invented, the
masses were against the use of the horseless carriage and now an
old-fashioned board of directors is trying to keep women from living in
good housing at reasonable costs.
Change!
Coronary Problem Cited
In Death Of A&M Senior
Discusses Car Care Center Funding
An A&M senior, scheduled to
graduate Dec. 9 died at approxi
mately 1:45 p.m. Thursday of
what university officials termed
a coronary problem.
Universtiy Police identified the
student as Wayne Webb, 22, of
Rt. 4, Pulaski, N. Y. Webb, a
recreation and parks major, died
in his room at Dunn Hall.
He had complained of stomach
and chest pains to a friend, who
called Webb’s roommate, Mike
Aswad of Binghampton, N. Y., at
the Recreation and Parks Build
ing across from Dunn Hall.
Aswad attempted to revive
Webb using mouth-to-mouth re
suscitation, police reported. An
ambulance bad been called, but
Webb was dead at the scene.
Webb is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen J. Webb of Pulaski,
N. Y. Services are pending.
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
The hiring of a legal advocate
for TAMU students was approved
Thursday night by a majority
vote at the shortest A&M Stu
dent Senate meeting this year.
The Senate Legal Rights Com
mission conceived the idea of a
student lawyer over a year ago
when it was found necessary to
request professional legal counsel
on many of its cases.
“Sixty cases needing the serv
ices of a lawyer have been brought
to the Commission so far this
semester,” said Paul Turner,
chairman of the commission. “We
want the lawyer to be full time
because we feel there will be a
substantial load limit to keep him
busy. He will also be given the
authority to restrict the case load
if the need arises.”
The lawyer’s salary, to be taken
from the Student Service Fees,
will be approximately $12,000 per
year. The cost per student under
the proposal is less than one dol
lar per year for the lawyer where
as individual expenses for an at
torney may be as much as $40
per hour.
The student legal advocate will
be able to counsel and litigate
students, their dependents and
recognized student organizations
requesting aid.
“The student legal advocate will
be on a one-year contract as a
pilot project,” said Layn© Kruse,
Student Government president.
“If we can see the project is not
being used or working out, we
can close the service after one
year.”
The Senate also approved an
additional $2,500 for Student Sen
ate use to be taken from the Stu
dent Service Fee Reserve Fund.
The budget is considerably less
this year as a $5,000 grant re
ceived in the two previous years
was not received this year.
“The Exchange Store Advisory
Committee did not feel the Senate
should get money from the Ex
change Store Allocations in order
that more clubs may receive allo
cations,”’ said Virginia Ehrlich,
Student Government treasurer.
“Therefore they suggested the
funds be taken from the reserve
fund.”
“The reserve fund from last
year is up to about $6,500,” con
tinued: Ehrlich. “And we will try
to turn the $2,500 supplementary
fund into an annual request.”
Kruse also brought up the fact
that University President Jack K.
Williams was given approval by
the System’s Board of Directors
to ask the State Legislature to
levee the hospital fee separate
from the Student Service Fee.
In essence, this would take $12
out of the Student Service Fee,
making it $18.
“I’m not in favor of an increase
in fees at this time,” said Kruse.
“However, I’m in favor of this
legislation to allow more control
of student service fees by the
Student Senate.”
Civilian Student Council First
Vice President Randy Gillespie
asked that the senate recommend
the allocation of $4,454 from the
student service fees for the fund
ing- of a car service center.
“Students have long needed a
place to work on their cars,” said
Gillespie. “The grease racks pres
ently located in Hensel Park are
being torn down due to construc
tion.”
The car service center would
be located near Easterwood Air
port in a quonset hut given to the
student government by Tom Cher
ry, A&M vice president for busi
ness affairs, last year to be used
as a car service center.
“At the present time, plans for
the quonset hut include four stalls
set up for minor repairs,” Gilles-
(See Senate Approves, page 2)
Dorms To Ratify RHA Constitution
Committee Sets 1973-74 Shuttle Bus Routes
Proposed route changes for the
spring semester and funding for
the 1973-74 academic year were
discussed in a meeting early
Thursday of the A&M Shuttle
Bus Committee.
Kent Caperton, committee chair
man, and Ed Davis presented a
schedule to the committee where
by the bus service for Route 2
would be expanded to serve the
Plantation Oaks apartment area.
This expansion would be within
the current contractual arrange
ment of 55 hours per week with
Transportation Enterprises, Inc.
“We have received more re
quests from the Plantation Oaks
area for expanded service and
trying to serve them is totally
justifiable,” said Caperton.
The recommendation, passed
unanimously by the committee,
will alter bus service beginning
Jan. 15, 1973 as follows:
Route 1:
One bus from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Route 2:
Four buses from 7 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Three buses from 1 p.m. to 7
p.m.
One bus from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Don Woods suggested the
Apartment Council be notified
before changes are definite in
order to get its opinion on the
changes.
The five buses will not run
on Saturdays, Sundays and holi
days.
Future funding of the shuttle
system as discussed earlier this
week with the Student Govern
ment Executive Committee would
be a combination of Student Serv
ices Fees and a user fee.
Based on an estimated 2,000
users, the user fee would be ap
proximately $18 per year aver
aged out to 5.6 cents per ride.
“Members of the Executive
Committee suggested the cost
should be more than this because
users reduce their gas costs, ve
hicle wear and have added con
venience,” said Davis. “We sug
gest the $18 price because when
students register, they will be
more likely to pay the lowest fee,
whether it be for parking or the
shuttle bus.”
“It must also be remembered
that the user fee is only covering
a small portion of the total cost,”
said Ron Holder of Texas Trans
portation Institute.
With this type of funding sys
tem, student users possibly would
have a parking sticker allowing
them to park on-campus in the
evenings and on holidays when
the bus is not in service.
The question of non-students
using the bus is still under con
sideration. It has been suggested
these users buy individual bus
tickets.
By LARRY MARSHALL
Managing Editor
The Civilian Student Council
voted Thursday night to present
its new constitution which con
verts the organization into a resi
dence hall association to students
for ratification.
The constitution would create
a new body, called the Texas
A&M University Residence Hall
Association (T A M U R H A). It
would serve essentially the same
function as the present council,
except deal exclusively with resi
dence halls and drop the civilian
designation.
The major controversy concern
ing the new constitution centers
around funding for the associa
tion. The new constitution states:
Section I. A semester member
ship fee shall be collected in co
ordination with the payment of
University fees from each mem
ber of the TAMURHA.
Section II. The TAMURHA
shall be allocated a minimum of
fifty cents per member. The re
mainder shall be apportioned to
the residence halls on a per-stu-
dent basis.
The residence hall fee will be
determined by the new associa
tion at a later date. It will be
approximately $5 per student,
which is commensurate with the
$5 fee already being paid by resi
dents in programmed halls.
Strong sentiment against hav
ing the mandatory fee was ex
pressed by several members of
the Council. John Shepherd, pres
ident of Dunn Hall, commented
about the growing number of
mandatory fees being assessed
students at A&M. He felt that
making this funding mandatory
would prejudice students against
the association.
The possibility of an optional
fee was brought up, but this
would hurt the overall program
and not be basically different
from what we have now, pointed
out CSC President Mark Blake-
more.
“The main thing we are con
sidering here is a funding method
for the association,” stressed
Blakemore. “This is not telling
the individual halls what they
jran and cannot do with the
money.”
If the hall decides to return
the whole amount to its residents,
they could do so aftering taking
out the 50 cents per student for
membership in the TAMURHA.
“They may decide to keep it
and use it for activities or dorm
improvements. We are not telling
them what to do with the money,”
stressed Blakemore.
Following the discussion, a mo
tion was made to present the
constitution to the halls for rati
fication. The motion passed the
Council by a 15-2 vote.
Beginning Friday, copies of the
proposed constitution will be dis
tributed in the halls for students
to review it. A copy of the present
CSC constitution will also be
available.
The individual hall councils
will then vote on the constitution
next week.
“If ratified, the constitution will
not go into effect totally until
next year, but we will fall under
its guidelines as much as possible
for the remainder of this year,”
said Blakemore.
America Needs A Renaissance Government,
Claims 'Mew Breed’ Congressman Riegle
Whether self-government and
democracy will work in the U.S.
is open to question, a new-breed
congressman said Thursday at
A&M.
Michigan’s Donald W. Riegle
claims America needs a Renais
sance in self-government that will
“get new people into the act.”
He suggested to a Political
Forum audience of 350 that pro
jections of present trends lead to
a “frightening” situation.
Among trends the malcontent
Republican member of the U.S.
House of Representatives cited
were election of President Nixon
by only 55 per cent of the voters,
an apparent lock-in of Spiro
Agnew for the 1976 nomination
and drift of power to the execu
tive branch of government, among
others.
“The mood of the 1972 election
was very discouraging to me,”
the 34-year-old solon said. “Vot
ers were rejecting McGovern, not
supporting Nixon. Fifty-five per
cent voted, which means 45 per
cent didn’t want to or weren’t
going to be bothered by voting.”
Textbook Exchange Service To Start
A Student Government project
now provides students with a way
to save money when they buy or
sell textbooks.
The Textbooks Exchange Serv
ice, a project endorsed by the
Student Senate, will eliminate the
middle man, or retail store in
textbook exchange and save
money for both the potential
buyer and seller.
A student wishing to sell a
textbook will call and give in
formation regarding the book and
a price, if he wishes. His name
and phone number will be given
to prospective buyers interested
in the book. When a book is sold,
the buyer and seller call and their
names are taken off the lists.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
The actual trading and pric
ing of the books is done between
the students. The Student Gov
ernment provides only the phone
numbers.
Chuck Cargill, manager of the
Exchange Store, endorses the
project and has provided a com
plete list of books to be used next
semester. He says he feels the
Exchange Store exists as a serv
ice to the students and the text
book exchange is a similar service.
The project is to be carried on
Dec. 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 from noon
to 6 p.m. and will be continued
Jan. 15-19.
Omega Phi Alpha members will
provide volunteer service and the
number to call will be 845-5111.
“If there is a lot of responses
to this,” said Fred Campbell, a
coordinator for the project, “we
will continue and possibly expand
this in the future.”
Riegle interpreted the turnout
as a loss of faith in self-govern
ment in general and politics
specifically. He believes that has
been the situation in the last three
general elections in America.
“Government is not working the
way it should and has become in
sensitive to people,” the anti-
Nixon solon stated. “Why not
decent candidates where it would
be a delight for either to be
elected? There is no reason it
should not be that way.”
Riegle sees no hope for 1976.
“The deck is stacked,” he
analyzed, “for the Republicans to
nominate a Spiro Agnew-type
candidate with Spiro Agnew-type
thinking. Nothing guarantees the
Democratic candidate will be a
sound, sensible, moderate indi
vidual.”
“If we don’t get that kind of
alternative, it seems likely Spiro
Agnew will be elected,” comment
ed the six-year legislator who
was in Houston earlier this week
to promote his book, “O Con
gress.”
Riegle predicted the Republi
can Party will become more con
servative and the Democratic
Party more liberal, while what
is needed is a combination of
both camps in each party to keep
them centered.
Reasons for the increasing
polarity, he said, include the cost
of running for public office which
limits the field to rich people or
people with rich friends and poli
tics dominated by members of the
legal profession.
“Of the 535 members of Con
gress, 301 are lawyers,” Riegle
pointed out. “That’s too many
lawyers. The country needs other
kinds of backgrounds. Diversity
is missing today. Congress should
include people from all walks of
life, young people and women.
Congress’ average age is the mid-
5Cs. Committee chairmen are in
their mid-70s.”
Riegle believes public-financed
campaigning is part of the
answer.
Gift Wrapping
Service Offered
By Student ‘Y’
A Christmas gift wrapping
service, offered by the Student
“Y” Association, will begin Mon
day said YMCA President Corky
Houchard.
“We offer it as a convenience
to the students,” said Houchard.
The service, which wrapped 1,200
Aggie Christmas gifts last year,
is free to the members of the
Student “Y” Association and for
25 cents a package for non
member Ags.
The non-profit service is
staffed by female volunteers and
will operate until Dec. 15.
“We can wrap a gift just about
any way you want it,” said
Houchard. “We also can wrap
just about any gift in one day.”
The gifts should be taken to
the YMCA office.
Student Senate Investigates
Telephone Rate Increase
UFO AT A&M? Not hardly. Turn to page two to find out what the strange object is.
The proposed telephone rate
increase in the Bryan-College
Station area is being investigated
by a Student Senate subcom
mittee.
The committee, chaired by
Terry Brown, is circulating sur
veys among student residents of
College Station to determine feel
ings on the issue. The hike would
affect only off-campus students.
The results of the surveys will
be tabulated by the committee,
said Brown. “I have received
about 100 of these surveys so
far, and about 85 per cent are
against.”
The committee will prepare a
resolution supporting the stu
dents’ position and present it to
the Student Senate at the next
meeting.
“If the Senate passes it, we
will take it to the College Station
City Council meeting when the
issue comes up,” said Brown.
“I am optimistic about the
council giving careful attention
to a Senate resolution,” com
mented. Brown.
“I think the increase will get
the usual three readings in the
Council and very careful atten
tion. I hope it will not be hur
ried through in one meeting like
the Bryan Commission did with
the utility increase,” commented
Brown.
General Telephone’s reason for
the hike is that it has not raised
rates since 1960. The company
is also planning a new installa
tion and improved services.
Opponents of the increase state
general poor service as the main
reason for being against it. They
do not want to pay more money
without an improvement in
service.
Booths will be set up next
Wednesday and Thursday for
off-campus students who have not
been contacted. These will be in
the Memorial Student Center and
the Library.
For students interested in at
tending the Council meeting when
the rate will be discussed, the
committee has provided a blank
at the bottom of the surveys.
Students should put their name
and telephone number down and
they will be contacted.
Members of the committee are
Brown, Randy Richards, Rochelle
Lindsey, Tom Taylor and Gary
Drake. Brown can be contacted
at 845-1780.