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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.
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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.
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