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The Fight For Newsperson’s Rights Topic Of NSL Talk
Note: The following is by Edi
tor Mike Rice, who is attending
he National Student Lobby Con
ference as a delegate in Wash-
ngton D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stu
dents attending the second annual
'lational Student Lobby Confer
ence here were told Wednesday
that exposure of government
wrong-doings are the main cause
of the continuing fight for news
ie. ft pt||, persons’ privileges.
Approximately 100 of some 500
students from across the nation
were given an opportunity to find
out more about the controversial
issue in part of the three-day con
ference which began yesterday on
the George Washington Universi
ty campus.
Representing Texas colleges
are delegates from Texas Tech,
Texas Women’s University, Rice
University, University of Houston,
St. Mary’s University, Texas
Lutheran College and Texas A&M.
Other A&M delegates are Layne
Kruse, Barb Sears and Rochelle
Lindsay.
Cong. Ed Mezvinsky (D-Iowa)
told students attending the news
persons’ privileges session that
the press has come to Congress to
define how free it really can be.
He is a member of the nine-man
sub-committee studying over 40
proposals for press “shield laws.”
Expecting the matter to be re
solved as early as mid-March,
Mezvinsky said he thinks that
President Nixon will veto a full
“shield law” decision.
The proposals being studied by
his committee express either un
qualified absolute or qualified
freedoms for media workers. One
form gives unlimited freedoms
while the other type sets restric
tions. Mezvinsky said he leans
in favor of the bill proposed by
Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Cal.)
which would give unlimited free
doms and at the same time cover
state and federal proceedings.
Twenty-one states currently
have absolute freedom laws in
effect.
“If we qualify the freedoms and
news persons get put into jail
as a result, then we would be
better off with no law at all,” he
said. “The press of today is no
where near as irresponsible as
that of the time when the nation’s
constitution was effected.”
Mezvinsky said absolute press
freedom should be viewed as a
guarantee of a free flow of in
formation to the public and not
Che Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 224
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 1, 1973
845-2226
1/ 7:30 Meeting Tonight
Senate To Discuss Hospital Fee Issue
The Texas bill concerning the
separate levying of hospital fees
will be voted on at the Student
Senate meeting tonight at 7:30
in Room 102 of the Zachry Engi
neering Center.
"The purpose of the resolution
is to see if the senators are in
favor of the legislature passing
the bill or not,” said Randy Ross,
Student Government vice presi
dent.
The bill, if passed by the Legis
lature, will authorize the A&M
Board of Directors to levy and
collect from each student a com
pulsory group hospital fee.
“It is hoped that the Student
Services fee will go down in pro-
rtion to the hospital fee,” said
Ross. "Yet at the same time the
bill will allow more flexibility in
the allocation of the Student
Services fees.
"The bill is a technical matter
and the Senate must justify in
their own minds what they are
looking for.”
Senators will also vote on part
four of the Student Life Section
of the University Rules and Reg
ulations handbook.
Proposed changes include the
deletion of the entire section con
cerning dress and grooming of
students and faculty members,
and the deletion of part four and
five of “House Rules” concerning
cleanliness of a room and room
damages.
Another change would include
a revision of the food in residence
halls policy to read, “Refriger
ators and cooking appliances are
allowed in designated rooms only
when they meet the specifications
set by the Dean of Students.”
Debi Blackmon will present a
proposal to the Senate to ask its
approval of the creation of a stu
dent oriented publication.
“The magazine would be di
vided into three main sections,”
said Blackmon earlier. “These
would be literary, student affairs
and student advising.”
The resolution also asks for
the allocation of $7,205 from the
Student Service Fee Reserve
Fund for the 1972-73 school year
to help establish the publication
for the 1973 fall semester.
Bill Hartsfield, academic af
fairs chairman, will present the
changes in the constitution as
prepared by the Constitutional
Evaluation Committee for a vote.
The changes include wording and
clarification problems.
CAC Film Series To Show
H 3D Horror Film Friday Night
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The Contemporary Arts Film
Series will present “Eyes of
Hell," a 3-D horror show at 7 p.m.
Ags Act Like
Gentlemen, Says
’essie Panel
“Aggies have the reputation for
being gentlemen,” said Peggy
Carroll, a Tessie member of the
third Viewpoint Panel held Wed
nesday night.
The Panel, which was composed
of five coeds from Texas Wom
en’s University, discussed man
ners and dating behavior for
Aggies and their Tessie dates.
“Each party should be consider
ate and not expect too much from
a blind date,” said Carroll. “An
other good thing to do is to let
your (Tessie) date know what
she’s in for during the weekend.”
Tessie Robin Stillings stressed
that, “Aggies should be courteous
to their date even if you don’t
like her.” “You can be honest but
you don’t have to be blunt,” she
added.
“You have to understand and
respect the girl’s opinions,” said
Pam Layton, “and consider all as
pects of the date.”
Cheryl Hahn said that one of
the most important aspects of
dating is “communication.” “If
you run into a fast working girl,
you just have to communicate.”
Most of the Tessies fully sup
ported the Aggies, both members
of the Corps and civilians.
“There is no discrimination at
TWU between CT’s and non-regs,”
said Pam Brown. Stillings added,
“We feel that we appreciate the
Aggies more.”
The third Viewpoint Panel
made up of TWU coeds will meet
next Wednesday night, at 7:30
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom. This panel will
contain Becky McCreary, former
Aggie Sweetheart.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Friday in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
The group will provide souve
nir glasses at the door for view
ing the film which deals with a
psychiatrist who is given a ritual
death mask by one of his patients,
before the patient commits sui
cide.
Directed and produced by Julian
Roffman, “Eyes of Hell” also fea
tures Jim Moran in an introduc
tion to 3-D effects and horror se
quences by the noted cinema
scholar and theorist Slavko Vor-
kapich. “Eyes of Hell” is the only
16mm 3-D film on the movie
market today.
Skeptical of warnings that the
mask possesses supernatural pow
ers, the psychiatrist, played by
Paul Stevens dons the mask. Ac
cording to Film and Television
Daily “He goes through horrify
ing frenzies, comes to conflict
with his devoted fiancee, Claud
ette Nevins, and goes on a se
ries of rampages. The ending is
one of wit and surprise.”
The Los Angeles Times said in
reviewing the film, “In the grue
some division, this picture is real
ly very good.”
Admission will be 1.00 for stu
dents and $1.50 for non-students.
THE OLD POST OFFICE in the Memorial Student Center came to a merciful end
Wednesday. The rubble will be cut up with acetylene torches and hauled off. All postal
business is now handled by the new facilityacross from G. Rollie White Coliseum. (Pho
to by Gary Baldasari)
Powell Explains Housing
Situation To Dorm Groups
In an attempt to clear up the
confusion over next year’s hous
ing situation, Dean of Men
Charles Powell and Kent Caper-
ton, assistant to President Jack
K. Williams, met with the dorm
councils of Hughes and Keathley
Halls Wednesday.
The Board of Directors in a
recent decision de signated
Hughes, Keathley and Fowler
Halls for the possible use of
coeds next year.
The dorms will be filled as
needed, Powell said. “The current
order of priority is Hughes,
Fowler and Keathley, though
nothing is permanent at this
stage.”
Dunn Hall will be for male stu
dents only.
Caperton asked the students
not to view the situation simply
as relocated residents. He sug
gested they look at the overall
plan for the growth of the uni
versity.
Specifically, Caperton stressed
the plan to increase female en
rollment. “We haven’t had a firm
commitment until the last year or
so,” he said.
Caperton mentioned that the
Krueger-Dunn complex was origi
nally intended for men only. It
was changed on President Wil
liams’ suggestion.
Williams also pushed for the
split of Dunn into male and
female in order to provide the
maximum possible housing for
coeds.
“President Williams is working
toward a coed universtiy,” Caper-
as a press privilege. Without
sources of information, which
could be suppressed by a restric
tive ruling, government can’t be
exposed,” he said.
Richard Seigler, administrative
aide to Cong. A. Bell (R-Cal.),
who has introduced a similar bill
to Cranston’s, said the recent
newpersons jailings are the result
of a “calculated effort by the
Nixon Administration to restrain
freedoms.
“People are trying to annex the
press as an investigative arm of
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the law,” he said. “Law enforce
ment would really be enhanced by
allowing the press to have a full
avenue of freedoms.”
Mezvinsky said that the basic
issue in deciding whether the U.S.
is going to move government into
a democratic process is the press
freedom’s bill.
He added that if university and
college papers were discredited
and other newspapers were faced
with controls, the net effect would
be a government without restraint
or checks.
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Kennedy Proposal
Backed By NSL
By MIKE RICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Econom
ic conversion—what does it mean
and who would it affect?
These are just two of the ques
tions facing U.S. congressmen aft
er Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass)
re-introduced a bill to adjust gov
ernment spending priorities. It is
a bill currently being endorsed
and lobbied for by delegates to
the Second Annual National Stu
dent Lobby Conference here.
Kennedy’s bill, supported by
Sens. John Tower and Lloyd Bent-
sen of Texas, would increase fed
eral expenditures for research and
development in civilian areas, thus
creating jobs and markets for
technology-based workers and in
dustries.
Reuben McCormick, former stu
dent body president at the Uni
versity of Kansas, told delegates
that the U.S. is presently spend
ing nearly one and one-half times
as much money on defense as it
is on education.
While saying that he critically
questioned what the priorities of
the nation are, he noted that Pres
ident Nixon is withholding funds
partly because Congress over
spent in its budgeting.
“We need to relentlessly attack
our military program,” he said.
“By cutting back, nearly 10 bil
lion dollars can be re-directed.
Many programs will be financially
starved to death because of in
flation if this isn’t accomplished.”
Kennedy’s bill, if passed, would
establish a program under the
National Science Foundation to
administer the funds spent in the
civilian area.
The proposal is being studied
by the House Science and Astro
nautics Committee, chaired by
Cong. Olin E. (Tiger) Teague of
College Station.
Another issue backed by the
A&M delegates and the NSL is
the proposal to retain stand-by
air fare discounts for individuals
21 years old or younger and peo
ple 65 or older.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
recently ruled against the dis
count retention because the great
demand for tickets forced airlines
to purchase more airplanes, thus
raising their regular passenger
fare prices. This brought cries of
discrimination and unwarranted
subsidization of the discount fare.
A bill by Sen. Frank Moss (D-
Utah) and Cong. John Moss (D-
Cal.) is asking for retention of
discount rates while at the same
time requesting that airlines not
be allowed to raise their prices
to “balance the books.”
Airlines officials are supporting
the proposal mainly because their
flights are averaging 45 per cent
empty.
POW Releases To Resume
Again Shortly, Rogers Told
ton said. “Female enrollment in
creased about 50 per cent last
year,” he continued.
Powell presented a 10-year plan
for housing.
Two more dorms similar to
Krueger and Dunn will be built
and, according to Powell, will
alleviate most of the housing
problems for coeds.
Powell continued, “We are
moving into the 20th century,
and you will have more choice
where you live.
“A&M will not be in the dorm
building business in five years.
More students will be able to live
off campus as the area can sup
port them,” he concluded.
Caperton stressed that relocat
ed students will be presented with
as many options as possible.
PARIS <AP)—Secretary of State
William P. Rogers won uncon
ditional assurances Wednesday
from North Vietnam that it soon
will resume releases of American
war prisoners, a U.S. spokesman
reported.
At the same time, American
and North Vietnamese diplomats
headed toward agreement on
terms of a declaration to give in
ternational backing to the month-
old Vietnam peace accord.
In a day of hectic backstage
diplomacy, there also were signs
to suggest the Vietnamese Com
munists sought and got promises
from the Saigon government of
greater security for Communist
peacekeeping delegates in South
Vietnam.
The Communist side had been
expected to release a second
group of more than 100 U.S.
prisoners of war early this week
in keeping with the Jan. 27 agree
ment on Vietnam. In holding up
the release, the Communists
claimed the other side was not
abiding by the cease-fire and was
failing to provide for the safety
of the Communist peacekeepers.
By North Vietnamese reckon
ing, 422 American prisoners re
main to be released.
Although a pattern of compro
mise appeared to have emerged
on the prisoner issue, Robert J.
McCloskey, spokesman for the
U.S. delegation, emphasized that
Rogers himself had made no bar
gain with North Vietnam. Rogers
was given the North Vietnamese
assurances on prisoner releases
during a 30-minute session with
Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy
Cargill Named Head Of MSC Complex
Chuck Cargill
Charles R. “Chuck” Cargill,
manager of the Exchange Store
at A&M since 1965, has been
named manager of the university
center, President Jack K. Wil
liams announced Wednesday.
Cargill, 41, will have responsi
bility for the operations and man
agement of the three-building
complex, including the Conference
Tower, Theater Arts Center and
Memorial Student Center.
He will schedule and set up the
various meeting facilities and
will oversee maintenance and cus
todial operations for the center.
The new university bookstore and
branch stores, barber shop, bowl
ing lanes, billiards room and guest
rooms will also come under Car
gill’s direction.
“We are extremely pleased to
have the opportunity to promote
a gentleman of Chuck Cargill’s
caliber into this position,” noted
Howard Vestal, director of man
agement services. “He has had
over 20 years of experience in
organization, management, budg
eting and personnel and will pro
vide vital expertise in the man
agement of this expanding por
tion of the university.”
Vestal noted one of Cargill’s
primary responsibilities will be
coordination with various program
offices in the Center, such as MSC
Programs, Continuing Education,
Former Students and Food Serv
ices.
Cargill, a 1953 TAMU business
administration graduate, joined
the university in 1961 as a coun
selor for the Corps of Cadets.
He had previously been an area
sales manager with Sears, Roe
buck and Co. and had owned and
operated a home and automobile
supply business in Caldwell.
In 1963, after receiving a mas
ter’s degree in business admini
stration from A&M, he joined the
university’s Industrial Economics
Research Division as a research
economist.
Since becoming manager of the
Exchange Store in 1965, the Ed
dy, Texas native has increased
store sales and profits by over
50 percent, thus providing great
er support for the over 80 student
organizations subsidized by store
profits. Vestal said.
In addition to his professional
activities, Cargill has been active
in various community organiza
tions. He is a member of the
board of trustees for the Bryan
Hospital and an active member
of the First Baptist Church of
Bryan. He is a Mason, Shriner and
is active in former student or
ganizations.
Cargill and his wife, Lee, live
at 3401 Spring Lane, Bryan. They
have two children, David, 15 and
Diana, 14.
Trinh, McCloskey said.
As the two were meeting, an
other conference was taking place
— between the foreign ministers
of the two rival South Vietnam
ese regimes, Tran Van Lam of
Saigon and Mrs. Nguyen Thi
Binh of the Viet Cong’s Provi
sional Revolutionary Government.
McCloskey said he did not know
what was discussed between
them.
Science Fiction
Seminar Slated
A science fiction seminar fea
turing authors Jack Williamson
and Chad Oliver will be conducted
by the Cepheid Variables Friday,
Saturday and Sunday at A&M.
Fans from Houston, Austin and
Dallas are expected, according to
Brad Ellis, president of the TA
MU club. Several activties are
planned at the Memorial Student
Center.
Williamson, whose “Darker
Than You Think” is an SF staple,
will speak at 1 p.m. Saturday in
the Assembly Room.
A panel discussion involving
Oliver, anthropology professor at
UT-Austin, “Sandworm” fanzine
editor. Bob Vardeman of Albu
querque, N. M., Williamson and
several fans who have had stories
published will follow.
An SF movie classic, “Barbarel-
la” starring Jane Fonda, will be
the convention feature film, Ellis
said. It will show at 9 p.m. Fri
day in the Ballroom and 7 and
9 p.m. Saturday in the Assembly
Room.
A Contemporary Arts Film Se
ries presentation, “Eyes of Hell,”
also is scheduled Friday in the
Ballroom at 7 p.m. It is a 3-D
16mm. movie about an ancient
ritual mask. CAC films admit by
season pass or $1 per student and
$1.50 per non-student. CAC pa
trons remaining for the seminar
movie will be charged $1.
Admission to seminar activities
will be $1 per day at the door or
$2.50 for all three days if tickets
are purchased in advance. Ellis
said Cepheid Variables members
have them or tickets can be ac
quired by writing Box 5475, Col
lege Station, 77843.
Other activities include a 9 a.m.
Saturday general session on sci
ence fiction in the Ballroom.
Paintings and art by various in
dividuals will be displayed in
Room 2-A, the seminar dealers
room.