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Upcoming Texas Legislature Bill Crucial To Grad Students By TED BORISKIE Staff Writer 1 \e Texas Legislature plans to duce a bill this week which wo gai: is very crucial to A&M’s Graduate ounded Student Council, a badly c; ; The bill would permit graduate 5- students to choose their own re- ituay at tircment plan rather than having erence:: to mandatorily join the Teacher p.m, Retirement System of Texas |(IrS). “If a student works for the university as lab technician or teaching or research assistant, he must join the TRS,” said Dick Zepeda, president of the Graduate Student Council. “The TRS takes out six per cent of his salary and when the student graduates or quits his job he gets his money back but with only two and one half per cent interest.” Unlike the students, the faculty has an option to join either the TRS or a private retirement plan. The bill, if passed, would give students the same option. Under a private plan the state matches the student’s six per cent with an equal amount which can, in some cases, be withdrawn when the student leaves. In addition, the student can collect five or six per cent interest on his money. The main opposition to the bill will probably come from the TRS which stands to lose members if the bill is passed. “Only 15 per cent of those who join the TRS ever retire on it,” said Zepeda. “A retirement plan where only 15 per cent retire and the rest collect only two and one half per cent interest doesn’t seem very fair to me.” The bill is going to be intro duced in the House by Representa tive Larry Bales of Travis County and by Senator Charles Herring, also of Travis County, in the Sen ate. To support the bill, the GSC is planning to circulate a petition asking support. “We’re going to send a copy of the petition to all our department representatives,” said Zepeda, “and the GSC has a representative Off I «Ke Sta: 846I Che Battalion in every department. “There are over 3,000 graduate students at A&M so we should get over 3,000 signatures.” Paul Turner, a member of the student senate, has put the topic on the agenda for the next senate meeting, asking endorsement and then plans to ask endorsement from the GSC. For those wishing to see a copy of the draft before signing the Justice And Truth Are The Common Ties Of Society. petition, a copy is in the Reserve Room of the Library under EE 331. Zepeda urged anybody in favor of the bill to write his representa tive and senator urging support. “I personally see a lot of sup port,” said Zepeda. “This is one law out of so many that directly affects us; we should feel obli gated to make a stand.” WEDNESDAY — Consoderable cloudiness today & tonight. Slight chance of showers or thundershowers tonight. High 71, low 53. THURSDAY 69. Vol. 67 No. 208 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 31, 1973 Fair. High of 845-2226 Resolution Awaits Approval Women’s Housing Issue Faces Senate — II rid, Beit sted, date essstef By MIKE RICE Editor ~rs n Additional women’s housing ^ will be one of the main issues for debate in Thursday’s Senate few . w | The topic, a popular one to many students, will be presented to the Senate in the form of a resolution asking A&M President Jack K. Williams to do all he can to open up lower-cost housing for women on the civilian side of the campus. liThe resolution asking for ex- ■nded housing reads: Whereas, in 1972 Texas A&M Vlain n 19 ; STED nit basi emptofl rms - University housed female students on campus for a regular semester, and Whereas, in 1973 requests for on-campus female housing will far outnumber available alloted spaces, and Whereas, such an inadequacy will prevent the admission of significant numbers of high ly-qualified students of both sexes, and Whereas, femals students de sire and of right ought to have access to more economi cal housing in other areas of the campus, and Whereas, the further integra tion of female students into the campus will effect a more normal and healthier social atmosphere, therefore Be it resolver. That the Stu dent Senate of Texas A&M urges adoption of the pro- prosed allotment of lower- cost residence hall space for women for the fall semester, 1973. Fred Campbell, chairman of the Student Government Rules and Regulations Committee, will present the resolution to sena tors. Campbell said Tuesday he thinks most people want lower- cost housing to be available for men and women and residents of Krueger-Dunn want to keep the complex coeducational. Campbell said the current pro posal before A&M administra tors is to change Dunn Hall into a completely male facility while leaving Krueger to the women. In addition, three of the balcony- type dorms in the civilian area would be turned over to women. Student Government President Layne Kruse said the Senate will be asking administrators to al- fCONA Names Law Professor, fCC Commissioner As Speakers 30 B The outspoken commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, Nicholas Johnson, and Harvard law professor Dr. Arthur R. Miller have accept ed speaker roles for the 18th , Student Conference on National ' Affairs (SCONA) at A&M. g They join FBI acting direct- or L. Patrick Gray on the agenda for the Feb. 14-17 conference de examine the nature and ‘The Controlled So ciety.” h Miller, author of “The As sault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks and Dossiers,” will |H for the Feb. mi signed to ex;: ' #f, extent of “ discuss the implications of gov ernment data banks and dossiers at SCONA XVIII’s opening plen ary session Feb. 14. A look at “Federal Control and the Mass Media” will be pro vided by Johnson, the FCC of ficial John Kenneth Galbraith called “the citizens’ least fright ened friend in Washington.” Gray will discuss control of crime in a free society in a pre sentation scheduled Thursday noon (Feb. 15). Both Miller and Johnson are comparatively young men in their professions. Miller, 38, has been A&M Golf Course To Close For Renovation In February I The A&M golf course will be ^losed for renovation from Feb. 15 to about June 1, Wes Donald- ITSM son > chairman of the TAMU Golf .'^■BJourse Advisory Committee, an- jetrOflf nounced Monday. Qj||$ | Donaldson explained the orig- > inal plan called for keeping nine lN holes open throughout the reno vation project. Adverse weather , HI, Renditions, however, caused delays nd necessitated closing the en- ire 18-hole course, he added. each it 8 lirich Named o Give elch Lecture The annual Robert A. Welch lecture at A&M will be held at p.m. Thursday in Room 231 of the Chemistry Building. Guest lecturer will be Dr. Frederick R. Eirich, distinguished professor of chemistry at Poly technic Institute of Brooklyn. He will discuss “Chemistry and Me chanics of Elastomers.” The lecture is open to the pub lic, noted Gen. A. R. Luedecke, TAMU executive vice president, who serves as the university’s liaison officer for the Robert A. Welch Foundation. Dr. Eirich, who has published more than 135 scientific papers and articles, joined the faculty of the New York school in 1947. He previously taught and conducted research at the Universities of Melbourne, Cambridge and Vi enna. He earned his Ph.D. in 1929 from the latter institution. His major fields of interest are polymers, colloids, physical chem istry, biomaterials and rheology, pointed out Dr. W. O. Milligan. Dr. Eirich has served as editor of “Rheology” and as co-editor of “Colloid and Surface Science” and “High Speed Testing.” Under the revised plan, the en tirely renovated course should be playable by early June, Some special provisions were adopted by the committee due to the spring closing. Green fees for single play will be reduced by 50 per cent until the course is closed. Persons who have paid locker rental and club storage fees for the past semester will be per mitted to retain those privileges for the spring semester without charge. Although no university course memberships will be sold for the spring semester, Howard Vestal, director of management services, announced students, faculty and staff could participate in/ the quarterly membership at the Bry an Municipal Course. Vestal noted that this arrange ment would allow university per sonnel to continue to play on a membership basis until the cam pus golf course renovation is com pleted. a member of the New York bar 13 years. The Harvard professor serves in the President’s Of fice of Science and Technology, in on advisory group to the Na tional Academic Science Project on Computer Data Banks and is a member of the Secretary’s Ad visory Commission on Automated Personal Data Systems for the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare. Miller received his doctor of law at Harvard in 1958, his B. A. at the University of Rochester in 1955. Proponent of free public link to government through an “800” number and vocal opponent of an FCC-approved (5-2) long dis tance phone rate increase to AT&T last November, Johnson is a frequent dissenter with ma jority opinion of the FCC. The 37-year-old UT Law School graduate wrote a 72-page dis sent to the proposed ITT-ABC merger that resulted in withdraw al of the proposal by ITT. John son has many critics. “(Johnson) espouse(s) the kind of radical-liberal philosophy of permissiveness and self-flagella tion that has encouraged so many of our younger people to turn to pot,” Agnew claimed. “Nicholas the Terrible!” ex claimed William F. Buckley Jr., recent TAMU speaker. “Young, bright and charming.” After law school, J ohnson served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and taught three years at the Uni versity of California Law School at Berkeley. President Johnson named him to the Maritime Com mission in 1964, and in 1966 he was appointed to the FCC. He insists on defending the guiding principle of the FCC: the air waves belong to the public and any private party can obtain only a temporary license to broadcast material in the “public interest,” subject to the discre tion of the FCC. Johnson was the lone dissenter to the unprecented FCC threat to radio stations which broadcast drug-oriented rock lyrics. “Free individuals are frighten ing to occupants of an institution al world,” claims the author of “How to Talk Back to Your Television Set,” “but freedom is what it’s all about. leviate the problem of not enough women’s housing in hopes of solving several problems. “Since housing in Krueger- Dunn is priced along the most expensive in Texas, we want women to have a choice,” said Kruse. “In addition, men should have equal opportunity to live in the top-quality facility.” Kruse said that with an ex pected increase in enrollment for next year, A&M should be offer ing more housing to women and a positive decision would take pressure off the Housing Office by allowing more students to live off-campus. The Senate took similar action two years ago under Kent Caper- ton, now an assistant to Presi dent Williams. The Senate of 1970-71 sent a resolution to the Board of Di rectors, which also contained in it the spirit of better integrat ing coeds into all aspects of stu dent life and programs. The request, obviously, was turned down as housing was go ing to be available in fall of 1972 with the opening of Krueger- Dunn. The board’s feelings then were along the lines that it wanted women housed only in the “finest possible facilities.” Campbell said that all major student groups at A&M, includ ing dorm councils, will be con tacted within the next two weeks for their approval of the resolu tion. LET THERE BE TWO ... and it was as Cedric Joseph (24) looks to the heavens after tipping- in an errant shot dur ing first half action last night. However, it was not enough as the Aggies dropped a heartbreaking, one point loss to Texas Tech 68-67. See story page 7. (Photo by Steve Krause) Stennis Critically Wounded In Holdup WASHINGTON <A>) — Sen. John C. Stennis was shot during a holdup in front of his north west Washington home Tuesday night and underwent a lengthy operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for removal of two bullets. The hospital would say only that Stennis’ condition was stable. Stennis, 71, chairman of the U. S. policy in Vietnam, was shot as he alighted from his car, police reported. “It was just an ordinary street robbery, it appears to me,” said Inspector T. J. Wolfrey. He said the assailants got Stennis’ gold watch, wallet and 25 cents in change. Wolfrey said police had de scriptions of the assailants and were searching for two black men. They said the shooting oc curred at 7:40 p.m. Edward Jussely, Stennis’ press secretary, said one bullet hit the Mississippi Democrat in the left side of the chest just below the nipple. He said it traveled across the chest, piercing the stomach, the pancreas and the colon, and lodged in the right side. Another bullet struck the senator in the left leg. Jussely said Stennis did not go into shock. Wolfrey said Stennis was conscious and talking when the first officers arrived. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said President Nixon was informed of the shoot ing and was receiving reports on the senator’s condition. “He talked by phone with Mrs. Stennis at Walter Reed tonight and expressed his deep concern,” Ziegler said. The President has instructed the FBI to assist in every way possible in the case. A 1971 law makes it a federal crime to assault, kidnap or kill a member of Congress. That law allowed the FBI to enter the Sten nis case immediately. FBI Direc tor L. Patrick Gray III talked with Mrs. Stennis for 15 minutes at the hospital. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D- Wash., after talking with Mrs. Stennis and doctors, said the sen ator “offered no resistance” to the assailants. Jackson said Mrs. Stennis told police she heard “two pops” and then her husband’s voice calling “Coy,” Mrs. Stennis’ name. Jackson said Stennis walked into the house and told his wife “precisely what to do.” Police Lt. George Keene said he had no idea how Stennis was able to move the 50 feet from the curb to the house. Keene said Stennis apparently was accosted as he got out of his car, a late-model white Buick. Secretary of State William P. Rogers went to the hospital to console Mrs. Stennis and called her husband “one of the great men of our time.” Briscoe Slated To Address County Officials Confab Newly inaugurated Texas Gov ernor Dolph Briscoe will address the 15th Annual Conference of the Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association Feb. 7 at A&M. The conference is slated for Feb. 7-8 with headquarters at the Ramada Inn, according to Charles E. Lawrence, conference chairman. Ghana Power Industry Attracts Aggie University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Larry Brown has his electrical degree from A&M, but he plans to plug in a few more credits this spring in Ghana. The recent TAMU graduate will visit the West African coun try three months through the Independent Study Program of the the Experiment in Interna tional Living. While gaining firsthand cul tural knowledge, Brown will study and report on the electrical power industry in Ghana, a pro ject approved by the Electrical Engineering Department head, Dr. W. B. Jones. Dr. Robert D. Chenoweth will supervise. Ghana recently became a pow er-consuming nation, with the 1965 completion of the huge Ako- sombo hydroelectric project on the Volta River. “The project won’t be for de gree credit,” explained the TAMU graduate. “But it will go on my record and be of interest to a potential employer.” A Brenham High School grad uate who grew up at Washing ton where Texas’ Declaration of Independence was signed, Brown approached the project indepen dently. He was suggested as a summer EIL participant last year, but the son of Mrs. Alice Hutchin son, RFD 1, Washington, de clined. “Larry said he had a good summer job and might consider going during the semester,” ex plained Wayne Stark, MSC di rector. Brown worked for the South western Publishing Co. of Nash ville, traveling in Missouri, Washington, Wisconsin and Miss issippi selling Bibles. He will cover most of the $3,000 expenses to be incurred. Besides mastering the tough EE curriculum, Brown was ac tive at A&M in the Black Aware ness Committee, Community De velopment Program, chaired the Aggie Cinema a year, played in tramural sports and participated in the student chapter of the Institute of Electronics and Elec trical Engineering. He expects more than an aca demic report from his three months in the West African country that sits astride the Greenwich meridian. “I plan to get a realistic view of how things really are in Gha na, compared to what I have read,” he explained. “Africa has gained awareness, and is sud denly trying to develop its own sense of direction. I’d like to see if it is what the people want, and help them make it go their chosen way.” A Ghanian friend of Brown who attends A&M for environ mental design studies, Najib Bri- mah of Accra, made some sug gestions. “Najib suggested I get in volved with lower class people,” Brown related. “H says change will have more of an effect on their lives than anyone else.” The study program will involve homestaw with Ghanian family, work projects “such as building living quarters,” an independent travel period and participation in in a Contemporary Culture Sem inar at the University of Ghana, besides the independent study. The TAMU student who is backed for the trip by several faculty-staff members will have 10 days intensive study of the Twi dialect at the EIL orien tation school of Brattleboro, Vt., before departure Feb. 19. His group, consisting of seven students and leader Barbara Werner, will go to Accra via Brussels. Others in the group are from Queens, Cornell, An tioch, Skidmore and Richmond Colleges. There are five coeds. More than 600 county judges and commissioners are expected to be on hand for Briscoe’s first ad dress to a group of county of ficials since assuming office. The conference will address it self to the theme: “County Gov ernment — Dollars, Decisions and Directions.” Briscoe will talk on a “Road map for the Future.” Conference speakers will give special emphasis to the economic problems confronting government today. County officials will give extensive consideration to the ad valorem tax crisis that has re sulted from recent federal court decisions. An authority on the ad valorem tax situation in Texas, Jack Mc Creary, an Austin attorney, will be a keynote speaker at the con ference. Another keynote speaker will be Texas Asst. Atty. General J. C. Davis, whose remarks will high light several important laws af fecting the operation of county government. Dr. A. B. Wooten, director of the Texas Real Estate Re search Center at A&M, will dis cuss the role of land use in the future and its use as a foundation in the local tax situation. The Extension Service is joint ly sponsoring the conference along with the state’s county judges and commissioners association.