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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, February 23, 1973 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Batt News Summary By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States and Cina Thursday took a major step toward full diplo matic relations with the establish ment of liaison offices in each nation’s capital. Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger told newsmen the agree ment, worked out in his recent trip to Peking, is an important step toward normalizing relations with the Communist regime. gram was not a handout or a ransom but rather a long-term investment in tranquility for Indo china. The presidential adviser told a White House briefing Thursday that his four-day visit to Hanoi “was part of an attempt to move from hostility to normalization” and was not intended to work out an economic aid program. Extension of this status is part of the agreement initialed by the United States and the U.S.S.R. on trade and lendlease matters. WASHINGTON — Henry Kis singer has joined the push by President Nixon for postwar aid for Hanoi, saying that the North Vietnamese reconstruction pro- WASHINGTON — The package of trade legislation President Nix- in wil send to Congress is ex pected to contain a provision granting the Soviet Union most favored nation status in tariff matters. WASHINGTON — Ending doubts about his plans, President Nixon told Congress Thursday that he will submit a tax-reform bill this year. In his State of the Union mes sage on the economy, Nixon dealt with the subject in only one sen tence: “I shall recommend a tax program that builds further re forms on those we achieved in 1969 and 1971. Grad Council Petitions State To Change Retirement System “Not only does the freshman class have the prettiest sweethearts, but you’re the only class that still has sweet hearts!” Senate Holds Roll Call Vote On Shuttle Bus Proposal Student senators held a roll call vote Thursday night on the shuttle bus proposal which pass ed 54 to 22 with one abstention. The proposal calls for a combi nation Student Services fee and user fee in order to finance the eight bus system. The $42,000 to be allocated from the Student Services fees to supplement the buses is still subject to approval of the Senate. Senators for the bus system are: Virginia Ehrlich, Bill Harts- field, Barb Sears, Steve Wake field, Stephen Robinson, Marty Clayton, Chuck Friesenhan, Russ Van Hellen and Sam Bays. Nick Jiga, Mike Meyers, Ted Paup, Curt Marsh, Ron Miori, Bill White, Penny Ball, Mark Cuculic, Bill Darkock, Rudy Bernhard, Skip Heffernan, John Pledger, Tommy Porter, Phillip Schraub and Randy Stephens. John Ebner, Cathleen Schnat- terly, Coy Morris, Steve Eber- hard, Mike Klem, Troy Prater, Harmon Rogers, Jan Miller, Pam Faulkner, Gary Drake, Burton Hermann, Judy McConnell, Glen Head, Charles Soncrant, Vidal Gonzalez, Jeff Murray, Randy Richards and Jackie Heyman. John Nash, Tom Locke, Scott Steffler, Glen McDugle, Shariq Yosufzai, Joe Arredondo, Sandy Aboud, Lynn Brundooge, Bill Fisher, Kathy Morgan, Jennie Guido, Michael Thomas and Chris Lawson. Those against the proposal are: Fred Campbell, Barham Fulmer, Darryl Baker, Juan Gonzalez, Reenie Turk, Dale Stewart, Rob ert White, Jeff Stone, Paul Turn er, Robert Olmstead and Scott Eberhart. Mike Ehrlich, Rochelle Lindsey, C. A. Wain, Debi Blackmon, Gra dy Blakley, Tom Taylor, Gary Reger, Rod Brand, William Wade and Jeff Dunn. The one abstention came from Gerald Betty. The Graduate Student Council will send a petition urging revi sion of the Teachers Retirement System to the Legislature Mon day. “We would like all registered voters to sign it,” said Dick Ze peda, president of the GSC. The current law requires grad uate assistants to join the TRS, which withholds six per cent of their pay. The state matches this deduction dollar for dollar and holds it until an employe retires under the plan. When he retires the state returns the matched funds plus 2.5 per cent on the total accumulation. A survey by the University of Texas revealed that only 15 per cent of the employes covered by TRS retire on the plan. Conse quently, they receive the money withheld plus the interest with no matched funds. The petition endorses a law proposed by Larry Bales, repre sentative of Travis County, and Charles Herring, State Senator from Travis County. The new law would make the TRS optional with a private plan. The alternative plan would still withhold six per cent of an em ploye’s salary but he could collect matched funds and interest after a shorter designated period. Westbrook Here For Program Burt Speaks At CEEB Conference Professors should have greater input into College Entrance Ex amination Board programs, Dr. Forrest D. Burt of A&M declared here at the CEEB’s annual South western regional meeting. Dr. Burt, chairman of the fresh man English program, was the first professor ever invited to speak at the CEEB conference, now in its ninth year. His speech, entitled “Students Are Not For Sale,” gave the pro fessor’s point of view in college placement, exemption and credit for high school graduates on the basis of their CEEB test scores. Burt stressed the importance of being aware of the professor as the central figure in a testing program and the benefits to be gained in involving him in the program. “Realize that courses do not remain static but change as the students change,” he pointed out. “Only with the professor as the key to the program will the stu dent benefit.” “Above all, recognize that equivalency testing is not equiva lent to a course,” the associate professor added. “As with other human experiences, all cannot be measured. For example, how do we measure what we learned from our father, our mother, our major professor?” John H. Westbrook, first black athlete to play football in the Southwest Conference, will be featured in a three-day religious program Monday through Wed nesday at the All Faiths Chapel. The noon hour services include folk singing groups and free sandwiches and drinks. Westbrook is consultant in inter-racial ministries for the Na tional Student Ministries Depart ment, Southern Baptist Conven tion. A native of Elgin, he went to Baylor without an athletic schol arship and made the football team. Westbrook graduated from Baylor in 1969 and attended Mid western Baptist Theological Sem inary in Kansas City. Reservations Taken For Ski Trip Reservations will be taken un til March 1 for the Memorial Student Center Travel Commit tee’s New Mexico ski trip dui’ing the spring semester holiday. The event will include three days skiing at Santa Fe and one day at Taos, according to Gerald Stoermer, committee member. Only A&M students, faculty and former students are eligible for the March 9-15 trip. A $55 charge includes roundtrip fare and five nights lodging. Regis tration will be limited to 33. Information is available at the MSC Student Program Office, 845-1515. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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EDITOR MIKE RICE News Editor Rod Speer Women’s Editor Janet Landers Sports Editor Bill Henry Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey ALLEN FACTORY DIRECT PRICES Oldsmobile On Cassette and 8-Track Cadillac Tape Decks SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is FREE CATALOG standard equipment” Tapes Unlimited 2401 Texas Ave. P. O. Box 4043-T 823-8002 Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103 Mike Shay will have copies of the petition until Monday and can be reached at 845-7441. Shay, secretary of the GSC, has collect ed 650 signatures as of Thursday. “Representative Bales feels the law has a good chance in the House, but it will need more sup port in the Senate,” said Zepeda. Another retirement plan, pro posed by Representative Bill Pres- nal of Bryan, would offer alter natives of the TRS or no program at all. The petition was the major is sue on the agenda for the GSC meeting Thursday. In other action, the GSC voted to hold elections in the spring on the same schedule as the student general elections. Filing for GSC representatives for each college will end March 5. WASHINGTON — The average worker’s buying power was clob bered last month by the highest rise in grocery prices in a gen eration and by steep new social security taxes. As January’s cost of living rose 0.3 per cent the average worker’s buying power declined 1.1 per cent, the Labor Department re ported Thursday. LOS ANGELES—The govern ment conditionally rested its case against Daniel Ellsberg and An thony Russo Thursday but said it would present last-minute tes timony next Tuesday about fin gerprints flown here from Saigon. The government called only 10 witnesses in four weeks of tes timony trying to prove espionage, conspiracy and theft charges against Ellsberg and Russo in connection with the leak of the government’s top secret war study. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED AGGIES ... DON’T DELAY! 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