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Vol. 67 No. 225
College Station, Texas
Friday, March 2, 1973
FRIDAY — Considerable late
night & morning fog. Partly
cloudy & warm. High 77, low
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SATURDAY — Partly cloudy
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Concerns Levying Of Hospital Fees/
Student Senate Supports State Bill
E
CALIGULA DECLARES A FAMINE in Rome in this
icene from the Aggie Players presentation of “Caligula.”
fbe play is being presented at A&M Consolidated auditor-
um and will conclude its run Saturday night at 8 p. m.
Emission is $1. (Photo by Steve Krauss)
Student Senators endorsed the
basic theme of the Texas Bill
concerning the separate levying
of hospital fees in a roll call vote
of 39 to 15 Thursday night.
The bill, presently before the
State Legislature, would author
ize the A&M Board of Directors
to levy a hospital fee separate
from the Student Services fees if
it is passed.
“The original purpose of the
separation of the fees was to
allow more flexibility with the
Student Services fees,” said Ross.
“A&M has always charged the
$30 maximum Student Service
Fee allowed by the state, yet this
separation of fees would decrease
the Student Service in proportion
to the hospital fee.”
“The bill needs to be amended,”
said Virginia Ehrlich, treasurer.
Filing For
Student Posts
Ends Monday
Filing for student positions
closes Monday at 5 p. m. persons
interested in runnings for the
Student Government, Residence
Hall Association, class officer or
yell leader positions should file
in the Student Government office
in the Memorial Student Center.
RVs Going To Mardi Gras
The A&M Ross Volunteer Com-
lany leaves this weekend for
lew Orleans to provide the hon-
rguard for Rex, King of Mardi
Iras, in his Tuesday parade dur-
ng the festive annual celebration.
The RVs will form 120 strong
lehind Commander William D.
falker of Dallas as the first unit
n the parade. They will be pre-
eded only by King Rex.
Thrity seniors and 90 juniors
fill make the four-day trip, ac-
ording to Col. Thomas R. Bar
ons, commandant. The company
fill billet aboard the U.S.S. Nash-
ilie, a Navy ship docked just off
lanal Street in New Orleans.
A Monday reception and buffet
ponsored by the New Orleans
Club for Ross Volunteers
md their dates will be among
:adet activities. The Tuesday
)arade will start at 9 a.m. and
md at 1 p.m.
The RV Company’s participa-
fion in the Mardi Gras parade is
longstanding custom. An elite
|ionor military unit composed of
seniors and juniors in the Corps
>f Cadets, the Ross Volunteers
dso form the traditional honor
buard for the inauguration of the
Texas governor. The unit is the
>ldest student organization in
Texas.
Sponsors of the company this
year and accompanying the RVs
are Air Force Lt. Col. Roscoe P.
Thorpe and Army Capt. Mario
Macaluso.
The colorful Louisiana carnival,
called “the greatest free show on
earth,” consists of expensive,
glamorous private balls and a
variety of street parades. The
city dating back to the early
1700s decorates with traditional
colors of green, , yellow and pur
ple during the Mardi Gras sea
son, which coincides with the
European custom. Mardi Gras
literally means “Fat Tuesday,”
the day before Ash Wednesday
when the Lenten fasting season
begins.
The term is usually applied to
the two weeks before Shrove
Tuesday.
“The present hospital bill is one-
half million dollars and going up
all the time. There is nothing in
the bill to stop them from dip
ping back into student services
fees when they need the extra
money.
“An amendment should be
made to stop them under any
condition from using the Student
Services fees.”
The resolution, in ainended
form, reads as follows: “Be it re
solved that the Student Senate
hereby supports the separate
levying of hospital fees as pro
posed by the legislative bill, if
and only if the state legislature
amends the bill to preclude the
use of any Student Services fees
for the new health center.
“And, that the Student Senate
requests that it be consulted prior
to any efforts to increase the
Student Services fee above the
amount of reduction due to this
separation of fees.
“Be it further resolved that the
Student Senate requests that it
be consulted prior to any efforts
to increase the compulsory hos
pital fee beyond the limits set in
the bill.”
In other action, senators ac
cepted portions of part IV of the
Student Life section of the Uni
versity Rules and Regulations
handbook.
Proposed changes in the blue-
book section include the deletion
of the current policies concerning
dress and grooming of students
and faculty, cleanliness of a stu
dent’s room, and allowing refrig
erators and cooking appliances in
designated rooms with approval.
Debi Blackmon (off-campus-
under-grad) presented a resolu
tion for the establishment of an
in-depth publication to inform
the general campus of current
student affairs. The publication
would have a magazine format
and would be published five times
yearly with approximately 25
pages.
The proposal also asks for the
allocation of $7,205 from the Stu
dent Services reserve fund for
the 1972-73 year.
The magazine would be divided
into literary, student affairs and
student advising sections. Under
the last department would be
such items as an economic col
umn, letters, syndicated essayists
and a legal adviser column.
The Crisis And Referral Center
Committee brought a resolution
before the Senate asking the Sen
ate to recommend that at least
one full-time qualified psycholo
gist be added to the staff of the
University Counseling and Test
ing Center beginning the fall
semester of 1973.
The Senate accepted the reso
lution based on the following:
The present half-time psycholo
gist employed by the university
had 828 students referred to her
last year and that the money
for the cost of this psychologist
would come from the General
Operating fund controlled by Vice
President Tom Cherry.
Senators endorsed the proposal
presented by Darrell Baker (arch-
at-large) to encourage the par
ticipation of students during the
week of March 19-24, which has
been proclaimed as “Black Ex
perience 3” by the Black Aware
ness Committee, the Memorial
Student Center and Texas A&M.
The constitutional revisions
presented to the senate last week
were tabled 32 to 24 with two
abstentions. The changes include
wording and clarification prob
lems.
May Liberal Arts Grads
Can Register Activities
Liberal Arts Majors graduat
ing this spring may now file a
record of their activities in the
Dean’s office of the College of
Liberal Arts.
The program, initiated by the
Liberal Arts Student Council, will
enable the Dean’s office to com
pile a summary of every stu
dent’s life as an undergraduate,
according to William Wade, coun
cil president.
These lists will be used to bet
ter facilitate the task of respond
ing to inquiries from graduate
schools, professional schools, fel
lowship boards and employers
concerning the background of
particular A&M graduates in
whom they have an interest.
Participation in the program
is strictly voluntary but is in the
student’s self-interest, said Wade.
Forms asking information
about extracurricular activities,
academic scholarships, employ
ment experience, community ac
tivities, career intentions and
other information are available
from department heads.
Completed forms should be
turned into the Dean’s Office in
the College of Liberal Arts.
6 73- 6 74 Corps Heads Named
C. Scott Eberhart of Dallas has
been selected commander of the
A&M 1973-74 Corps of Cadets.
Eberhart will hold top rank
next fall as cadet colonel of the
corps. Melvin P. “Slim” Noack
of Walburg will be second in com
mand, as deputy commander, an
nounced Col. Thomas R. Parsons,
commandant.
Seniors hold cadet officer rank
in the corps, with noncommis
sioned officers coming from the
junior class.
Eberhart and Noack will suc
ceed the 1972-73 corps command
er, Ronald L. Krnavek of Corpus
Christi, and deputy commander
Wade F. Seidel of Brenham at
the May 5 Final Review. All new
cadet officers will be sworn in at
Abortion Is Now A Moral Issue,/
Claims Rep. Weddington Thursday!
Women no longer have to ques
tion the legality of abortion but
must make an individual moral
choice, Texas Rep. Sarah Wed
dington said Thursday.
She does not believe the Jan.
22, 1973, U. S. Supreme Court
ruling that Texas anti-abortion
law was unconstitutional will
“turn the state into an abortion
mill, such as New York.
“Procedures of abortion are be
coming available,” Rep. Wed
dington informed a Political For
um audience at A&M, “and the
matter now rests where it should,
with the individual.”
She said recently submitted
bills to allow 16-year-old girls to
get medical treatment for pre
vention of pregnancy is “in great
trouble. I doubt if it will go
through this legislature.”
“It does appear 18-year-olds
will get full legal rights former
ly accorded 21-year-olds, includ
ing the right without parent con
sent to have an abortion,” she
said. “The basic principle of the
Supreme Court ruling is simply
that whether or not a woman
continues a pregnancy is up to
the woman.”
The Austin representative,
first woman elected to the Texas
Legislature from Travis County,
argued the case before the court.
Texas and Georgia statutes
were ruled unconstitutional, she
indicated, “because they consist
ed of deprivation of privacy. The
finding did not deal with the
question of human life before
birth, because medical leaders
cannot agree on it.”
The state may, during the first
three months of pregnancy, regu
late who performs an abortion.
Regulations during the second
and third trimesters can be
placed by the state only on facili
ties and reasons for the life and
health of the individual, respec
tively, according to the Supreme
Court ruling.
Ms. Weddington pointed out
that several indictments against
doctors in Texas, New Mexico
and Oklahoma have been thrown
out.
Immediate use of abortion may
be another matter, she stipulated,
even though a doctor cannot now
be prosecuted, as before, for per
forming an abortion.
“A doctor will be cautious,” she
believes, “because he doesn’t
know how; he may not feel tech
nically competent. There is also
a limited supply of proper equip
ment.”
The lawmaker said there is no
law nor current case concerning
a married woman having an
abortion — or sterilization —
without the husband’s consent.
Hospitals usually seek the hus
band’s consent, even in a case in
which a woman was divorced and
had not seen her husband for six
years.
“Only the girl herself decides
if she will engage in a sexual
act,” Ms. Weddington said. “It
seems to me she should have the
right to protect herself.”
the start of fall semester classes.
An Air Force ROTC cadet with
a pilot category contract, Eber
hart is corps sergeant major this
year and a junior civil engineer
ing major.
Noack is the corps’ first Ma
rine Corps officer candidate chos
en for a top leadership position.
He also is on the corps staff this
year, as supply sergeant. Noack
is studying agricultural educa
tion.
“With the Naval ROTC pro
gram now in operation, Platoon
Leaders Class (PL cadets in the
Marine Corps program) will
share in opportunities for leader
ship positions,” Col. Parsons said.
Commands have previously gone
to Army and Air Force ROTC
cadets.
Eberhart and Noack were se
lected “on the basis of their rec
ords in the corps and scholar
ship” from a top group of can
didates, the commandant added.
They received approval of Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan
and President Jack K. Williams.
The junior cadets are both
members of the Ross Volunteers,
elite honor military unit. Noack,
son of Mr. and Mrs. August No
ack, Rt. 1, Georgetown, and a
1970 Georgetown High School
graduate, also is the Collegiate
FFA Chapter vice president and
member of Alpha Zeta, Phi Eta
Sigma, the Agricultural Student
Council and Agricultural Advis
ory Council. His father is a cen
tral Texas farmer-rancher.
Eberhart is a tw o-y ear
AFROTC scholarship holder,
member of the Student Senate,
Wings and Sabers composed of
military scholarship recipients
and Town Hall. The 1970 W. T.
White High School graduate’s fa
ther is a Texas International Air
lines pilot.
Both cadets are Distinguished
Students, with better than 3.3
grade point averages in the 4.0
system.
IRS Changes
Assistants ’
Tax Status
Salaries of college and univer
sity teaching assistants are no
longer tax exempt, the Internal
Revenue Service has ruled after
making a test case of a Texas
A&M graduate student serving in
such a capacity.
IRS District Director R. L.
Phinney of Austin formally noti
fied TAMU Graduate Dean
George W. Kunze of the new in
terpretation rendered by the fed
eral agency’s Washington office.
The test case involved a teach
ing assistant in chemistry. Dean
Kunze said the IRS . felt the
strongest case could be made for
a teaching assistant in that field.
“Based on an old ruling, some
teaching assistants were allowed
in the past to exclude their in
come,” Phinney noted, “but the
current position is that the in
come is taxable.”
The IRS director also pointed
out a large number of research
assistants are receiving taxable
income for research projects.
“Generally, amounts paid for
services pursuant to a contract
between the university and the
entity providing the funds are
taxable to the student,” he ob
served.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Aggies Lobby On Capitol Hill
By MIKE RICE
Editor
WASHINGTON D. C. — Texas
A&M students attending the Na-
lional Student Lobby’s Second
Annual Conference had the oppor
tunity to lobby among Congress
men from across the nation while
visiting Capitol Hill Thursday.
Delegates Layne Kruse, Mike
Rice, Barb Sears and Rochelle
Lindsey highlighted lobbying ef
forts with a one and one-half hour
talk with Cong. Olin E. “Tiger”
Teague (D-College Station).
The delegates expressed their
surprise afterwards that Teague
wouldn’t comment on issues being
lobbied for by the NSL such as
economic conversion, air fare dis
counts and higher education legis
lation.
Teague said he didn’t want to
comment too much because these
issues can still be changed tre
mendously by the committees
which they are in. The four said
they were somewhat taken aback
when Teague started the conver
sation saying that students never
think about where money comes
from and the priorities on which
it must be spent.
“He seemed to fit the pattern
of many politicians today,” com
mented one delegate. “Most don’t
seem to care any more about any
thing and don’t seem to care
whether they show this lack of
concern to their constituents or
not.”
Teague said the money issue
can’t be ignored. “People are
wanting so much that we may
have to initiate higher tax legis
lation, although I’m not for high
er taxes,” he said.
Teague, chairman of the House
Science and Astronautics Com
mittee, added that he felt the
nation’s space technology is ac
countable for a large part of the
U.S.’s economic growth. He said
that reshuffling of funds and
priorities alone would not solve
the problem of the 34-billion dpl-
lar deficit expected this year.
He also projected that 20-million
new jobs will be needed for Amer
icans in the next 10 years.
Kruse told Teague that Sen.
Ted Kennedy’s bill for economic
conversion would have a tremen
dous impact on research pro-
grams because more research dol
lars are necessary to solve urban
and mass transit problems, for
example.
The four also talked to Teague’s
staff workers and aides before
listening to one of Teague’s sub
committee hearings on jet air
craft noise reduction proposals.
Three NASA astronauts, John
Schweigert, Ron Evans and Gene
Cernan, bumped into the four stu
dents in Teague’s office to add
an interesting departure note to
the lobby venture.
An early afternoon reception
followed the activities with
Teague, allowing the Aggies to
discuss current issues and lobby
with different congressmen from
across the nation.
Among comments from Con
gressmen were included the
thought that Congress has acted
in an irresponsible manner with
dollar allocations in the past and
is now being forced to raise taxes
to off-set its past over-spending.
Cong. James Mann (D-S.C.)
said current Nixon impoundments
of funds are the fault of Con
gress, but that Nixon’s actions
were forcing the economy into
a false recession, only delaying
inflation.
Mann was generally critical of
the current priorities program,
but noted that one-third of the
gross national product from con
sumers goes into governmental
spending, “which is below many
other countries’ tax percentage
levels.”
The four chatted briefly at mid
afternoon with Cong. W. R.
Doage (D-Waco) who was pressed
with a committee meeting.
A full day of lobbying activ
ities was scheduled again for to
day with the delegates slated to
meet with Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
(D-Texas), Cong. Bill Archer (R-
Houston) and an aide to the hos
pitalized Texas Cong. Wright
Patman.
Buffet dinner in the Senate
Caucus Room and a talk by Cong.
Don Fraser (D-Monn) of the
House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs will wrap up the three-day
conference tonight. Regional cau
cuses will meet prior to the for
eign affairs dinner to elect re
gional representatives to the
NSL Board of Directors for the
coming year.
Final Score In Elephant Bowl: Zip-to-Zip