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in some cases, be withdrawn when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
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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
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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
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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
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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.