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Kruse, Chairmen Propose Plan
To Cut Senate Seats By Half
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
How effective can a Student
Senate be when over one-fourth
of the incumbent senators have
been appointed by the Student
Government president during the
year?
The fact that Student Govern
ment President Layne Kruse has
appointed 19 out of the 83 Senate
seats with eight more in jeopardy
is just one reason for leaning
toward the acceptance of the pro
posed constitutional amendment
to reduce the size of the Senate.
“We want to decrease the size
of the Senate to make it more
workable and better informed,”
said Fred Campbell, Rules and
Regulations Committee chairman.
“Presently it is too large to be
an effective body.”
"The communication between
the Senate and executive commit
tee was really weak this year,”
said Bill Hartsfield, Academic
Affairs Committee chairman.
The amendment, if passed with
a two-thirds Senate and student
body approval, would basically
cut the size of the Senate in half
and would become effective with
the spring election 1974.
“Some people argue that we
should wait another year before
we bother with the size of the
Senate,” said Hartsfield. “But if
it is decided with the spring elec
tions this year it won’t affect
anyone for another year.
“We want the students to de
cide on this amendment as well
asaJJ other constitutional amend
ments during the spring elec
tions,” continued Hartsfield. “It
is at this time we have the great
est student input on Student Gov
ernment matters.”
“This Student Senate would be
much more objective and less
politically conscious about the
best size for the Senate,” said
Kruse. “Next year elections will
be coming up that will affect
those making the decision.”
All three pointed out that sev
eral positions within the Senate
either have no one running or no
one running against them.
“People tend to consider an
office more important with more
competition,” said Campbell.
“With the added competition,
a student would actually have to
get out and campaign for his
position,” continued Hartsfield.
“They are really going to have
to care about what they are
doing.”
The increased competitiveness
would possibly increase the qual
ity of the Senate, said Kruse.
“This amendment preserves the
concept of having both a living
area and college representation,”
said Hartsfield. “We are not try
ing to judge which is a better
system of representation at this
time.”
“In the long run, it will be
easier to hold representatives
accountable for decisions they
make,” said Campbell.
“The amendment would allow
increased participation of indi
vidual student senators, allowing
each senator to become more in
volved with the Senate and reso
lutions would have more of a
proper hearing,” commented
Boney To Speak
Tonight For BAC
Dr. J. Don Boney, Houston
schools instructional officer, will
lecture at 8:00 tonight in the
Black Experience III program
under way this week.
The HISD official will discuss
education and its relevancy to the
black experience.
A public-free event, the talk
will start in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Assembly Room, an
nounced Black Awareness Com
mittee chairman Wayne De-
Vaughn.
Dr. J. Don Boney
The MSC is also the scene of
other Black Experience III ac
tivities this week, including a
Thursday performance by the
Bryan High School Stage Band
and an exhibit of African arti
facts and materials from the In
stitute of Texan Cultures.
Dr. Boney recently called se
curity a top school priority. The
Houston Independent School Dis
trict chief instructional officer
said, “If you don’t cool down the
schools and get some order, noth
ing is going to happen education
ally.”
He is a certified psychologist
and formerly was associate dean
of the College of Education at
the University of Houston.
Black Experience III has lined
up Wednesday for “Soul Food
Day” in the TAMU dining halls.
On Friday, the Chocolate Glass
Band of Houston will provide
rhythm and rock music for a
9 p.m. to midnight dance at the
KC Hall on Leonard Road in Bry
an. Tickets at $2.50 per person
are available at the Student Pro
gram Office in the MSC or from
BAC members.
A 3 p.m. Sunday worship serv
ice at the All Faiths Chapel will
conclude Black Experience III.
Kruse.
The proposed revision states
that 25 senators will represent
the college areas on the basis of
the percentage of the number of
students enrolled within each
college. Each college will still
have equal class representation
from the sophomore to the gradu
ate level if possible with re
mainders being elected at-large.
The living area representation
ratio will be doubled from one
senator to every 500 to one for
every 1,000 on campus, except for
the Corps of Cadets. Corps repre
sentatives are apportioned in the
same manner with class repre
sentation.
The off-campus representation
will also be increased to one for
every 1,000. Freshman senators
are to be elected at-large by the
freshman class with the ratio the
same as it is now, one to every
500.
“The freshman senator ratio
will remain the same as we feel
the freshmen do not have the
opportunity to vote on their
representation except at this
time,” said Campbell.
A TWO-WHEELER AUCTION was held Tuesday by
the A&M Wheelmen in the Grove as which netted over
$300 for bikes most people would think a person couldn’t
give away. Money from the sale is going to the campus
chest. Club secretary Karl Jackson was auctioneers for the
event.
Emphasis On Speed, Accviracy
‘Magic’ Check-Out System
Coming In Exchange Store
Rudder Lecture Series Set
With Dr. Seaborg Speaking
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, former
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission, will discuss “A Nu
clear Decade 1961-71” at the sec
ond annual Rudder Lecture Se
ries beginning Monday at Texas
A&M.
The three-part presentation will
beheld at 8 p.m. Monday through
Wednesday in the Zachry Engi
neering Center auditorium.
Dr. Haskell Monroe, vice presi
dent for academic affairs and
Rudder Lecture Series Commit
tee chairman, said Dr. Seaborg
emphasized his talks will be non-
Sweetheart
Forms Ready
For Juniors
Applications will be available
starting tonight for Sweetheart
of the Junior Class, announced
Class Secretary Penny Ball.
Forms will be passed out at the
class meeting being held at 7:30
p.m. in Room 303 of the Physics
Bldg.
Tickets for the class ball being
held in the Sbisa Dining Hall
annex at 9 p.m. Saturday (March
31) are available at the MSC
Student Programs Office for
$7.50. The price also includes
tickets to the class barbecue to
be held at 12:30 p.m. the same
day at Hensel Park.
Sweetheart applications are due
at 5 p.m. next Wednesday in the
Programs Office and up to six
finalists will be picked. The win
ner will be picked at the semi-
formal dance. Music will be pro
vided by “Excitement, Inc.” of
Louisiana.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
technical.
“We anticipate Dr. Seaborg’s
talks will center on the problems
of relating the world of science
to the realities of government and
politics,” Dr. Monroe noted.
Supported by the Association
of Former Students, the lectures
honor the memory of James Earl
Rudder, TAMU president for more
than a decade prior to his death
in March, 1970.
The admission-free lectures are
intended to bring to the campus
each year a scholar of renowned
insight and experienced talent,
Dr. Monroe pointed out.
Dr. Seaborg, co-recipient of the
1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry, is
currently University Professor of
Chemistry and associate director
of the Lawrence Berkeley Labo
ratory at the University of Cali-
fornia-Berkeley. He was chancel
lor of that institution for three
years prior to accepting the AEG
chairmanship in 1961. He returned
to Berkeley in 1971.
Seaborg served as president last
year of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
and is now chairman of the AAAS
board of directors. Since 1966, he
has been president of Science
Service, an organization devoted
to the popularization of science.
Since its inception in 1959, he has
chaired the steering committee
for the Chemical Education Mate
rial Study, a program that has
revolutionized high school curric
ula.
Dr. Seaborg has served five
Presidents. He was AEC chairman
under Presidents Kennedy, John
son and Nixon and served under
President Truman as a member
of the AEC’s first General Ad
visory Committee and under
President Eisenhower on the Sci
ence Advisory Committee.
As AEC chairman, Dr. Seaborg
visited over 60 foreign countries.
In 1963 he headed the U. S. dele
gation to the USSR for the sign
ing of the “Memorandum on Co
operation in the Field of Utiliza
tion of Atomic Energy for Peace
ful Purposes” and was in the del
egation to Moscow for the sign
ing of the Limited Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty. In September 1971, he
was president of the Fourth Unit
ed Nations Conference at Geneva
on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic
Energy.
He was the principal speaker
at the dedication of TAMU’s Cy
clotron Institute in December,
1967.
During World War II, Dr. Sea
borg headed the group at the Uni
versity of Chicago’s Metallurgical
Laboratory which devised the
chemical extraction processes used
in the production of plutonium for
the Manhattan Project.
Computerized book numbers, ers. The NCR 280’s will be used
automatic calculators and “mag* in conjunction with color-coded
ic” wands will be featured in the tags which will be prepared and
placed on each textbook.
The tags will contain the
book’s price, the course in which
it will be used, the book section
department and the book’s Inter
national Standard Book Number
(ISBN).
Upon checking out, the cus
tomer will place his books on a
counter and the wand reader will
pass over each tag. The tag in
formation will be shown on the
terminal and the terminal will
automatically compute sales tax,
show total of the purchase, and
compute change due the cus
tomer.
All data contained on the tag
plus the transaction codes keyed
on the terminal will be recorded
and saved on a magnetic tape
for inventory purposes.
The ISBN, which is the focal
point of the tagging system for
the new Exchange Store, is a
standardized book numbering
system used throughout the
United States. The number con
tains a group identifier, a pub
lisher identifier, a title identifier,
and a check digit.
The information captured
through the NCR 280 system will
be used to update the Exchange
Store’s master book file and to
generate sales reports. The mas
ter book file will be accessed to
produce inventory reports, pur
chase reports and sales reports.
With the new system, the Ex
change Store management will
be able to find the quantity of
books in stock for a given course
without physically counting each
book on the shelf.
The new system, according to
Exchange Store manager Chuck
Cargill, will be used only in the
book section of the Exchange
Store when it is relocated in the
new Memorial Student Center
complex.
The new equipment is part of
a system of book pricing and
inventory that will speed check
out time and prevent incorrect
pricing.
The heart of the new check-out
equipment will be 10 National
Cash Register NCR 280 Retail
Terminals with wand tag read-
More Names
Listed For
A&M Elections
Two names have been added to
the list of those running for of
fices in the March 29 Spring
Elections.
Alan Higgins is a candidate
for the Rules and Regulations
Committee chairmanship and
James Wilson Jr. is running for
the graduate spot in the Senate
for the College of English.
The Battalion inadvertently
left out the names of the stu
dents running for at-large post
representing the College of Geo
sciences. Gary Couples, Edward
Kitchen and Jeff Stone are com
peting for the office.
Also Kent Bettizworth is vy
ing for the Corps of Cadets jun
ior senator post and David Cham-
plin is running for the College of
Architecture’s senator. Candidates
should contact Steve Vincent at
845-4682 if their names weren’t
printed in Tuesday’s paper.
book section initially. The book
section will be separated from
the remainder of the Exchange
Store facilities.
Azaleene Covey, manager of
the Memorial Student Center
Gift Shop since 1962, has been
named manager of the Exchange
Store.
Mrs. Covey succeeds Charles
R. C“huck” Cargill, who has
been named manager of the new
university center.
She will be responsible for the
operation of the university book-
store, including the soon-to-be-
opened facility in the University
Center and all of the bookstore
branches.
Ag Band
Performs
F riday
The Texas Aggie Concert Band
will perform the first time in
public Friday in a free presenta
tion sponsored by the Bryan Pub
lic Library.
The new organization com
posed of 75 members of the Tex
as Aggie Band was formed this
spring.
The “Star Spangled” concert,
at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Civic
Auditorium, will feature patriotic
anthems, military marches, pop
ular music and symphonic pieces.
The evening of music comprises
this year’s “Family Night” event,
an annual public-free presenta
tion of the library.
Maj. Joe T. Haney, associate
director of the Aggie Band, will
direct the special group in an
11-number program including
“M arch Militarie Francaise,”
“Cole Porter-A Symphonic Por
trait for Concert Band,” “Great
Themes from Great Italian Mov
ies,” “Introduction and Fantasia”
and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
On the popular side will be
“Sounds of the Carpenters,” a
symphonic arrangement of the
Carpenters’ top-selling hits.
Some of the featured soloists
will be Paul Herrington and Tim
Clader, flute; Marty Glass, clari
net; Steve Moore, Daniel Vrla
and Mark Wright, percussion;
Mark Herrington, oboe; Steve
Kosub, trumpet; Cliff Simmang,
French horn; Robert Townsend,
baritone, and Dennis Kelly, alto
saxophone.
Moore and Townsend are All-
State Band musicians. The Ag
gie Concert Band, an extra-cur
ricular activity for bandmen, also
includes a number of all-region
and all-district performers.
“This is something the men
want to do and enjoy doing,”
commented Haney, who also di
rects a 17-piece stage band. They
also are members of the Texas
Aggie Band, directed by Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams.
The stage band will play a free
concert at the Grove later this
spring and at the April 20 All-
Sports Banquet for the TAMU
Athletic Department. Both or
ganizations welcome inquiries
about appearances.
Kruse Recognized By TISA
As Top Student President
Student Government President
Layne Kruse was recognized as
an outstanding contributor by a
student body president to the
Texas Intercollegiate Scholastic
Association last weekend.
Four other student body presi
dents were recognized at TISA’s
three-day convention at the Uni
versity of Houston.
According to External Affairs
Committee Chairman Barb Sears,
the main purpose of the conven
tion was to elect officers for the
following year although there
were also some workshops and
speakers.
Sears was elected to the board
of directors for this region which
also gives her a director’s seat
in the Texas Student Lobby. She
is also on the National Student
Lobby’s board of directors.
Keynote speakers included Sec
retary of State Mark White and
Ron Waters from the Texas Leg
islature.
White spoke mainly about a
proposal under consideration
which would change the primary
election dates from April with
run-offs in May to August with
run-offs in early September.
“This type of action would
lower campaign costs for per
sons running for office,” said
Sears, “and basically make
things easier on the politician.”
Waters, 22-year-old Houston
representative, spoke to the dele
gates representing schools on
marijuana reform.
Darwin McKee, present Stu
dent Government president at
Austin College, was elected by
the delegates for 1973-74 TISA
president. McKee will be a law
student at the University of
Texas next year.
(See Kruse, page 7)
‘Night Gallery’ Host To Speak Here
Rod Serling
Tickets went on sale today for
Rod Serling’s April 10 talk at
A&M.
A playwright and author whose
works have treated the man-eat-
man nature of society, Serling
will speak in a Great Issues pres
entation coinciding with Civilian
Student Week.
Serling’s topic will be “Impact
of Mass Media on Today’s Socie
ty.”
The host of NBC-TV’s imagi
native “Night Gallery” and the
long-running TV series “The Twi
light Zone” will speak at 8:15
p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in G.
Rollie White Coliseum, according
to Great Issues chairman T. C.
Cone.
The Residence Halls Associa
tion is assisting Great Issues for
the program.
Serling’s appearance here will
fulfill a special interest of the
prolific TV writer. His company
commander in World War II was
an Aggie and “I’ve always want
ed to see Aggieland,” Serling
said.
TV’s most outspoken authority
on “the devious ways of televi
sion censorship” according to
Time Magazine, Serling con
stantly bickers and contends with
networks, ad agencies and spon
sors on what he could say and
scraps with directors over how
to say it.
Yet Serling served TV, Time
credited, “with some of the most
tightly constructed, trenchant
lines it has ever spoken.”
One example is “Requiem for
A Heavyweight,” winner of six
Emmy Awards including one for
Serling himself. It was the first
original 90-minute drama written
expressly for television.
Other TV credits include the
current Night Gallery series and
the Hallmark Hall of Fame’s “A
Storm in Summer” screenplay
and, for Universal Pictures’ TV
“World Premiere,” “The Dooms
day Flight.”
The MGM screenplay “Saddle
The Wind,” Warner Brothers-
Seven Arts’ “Seven Days in
May” and 20th Century Fox’s
“Planet of the Apes” also carried
Serling credits. The latter was
co-authored with Michael Wilson.
The 48-year-old New York na
tive has also published three an
thologies of short stories from
The Twilight Zone, two from
Night Gallery and other books.
Serling still writes the current
“Gallery” series, a feature film
a year and, in between two books
and the book for a musical, takes
to the lecture circuit for a dozen
speeches a year across the U. S.
Serling enlisted in the U. S.
Army Paratroopers the day he
graduated from Binghamton, N.
Y., high school. During three
years in the Pacific with a demo
lition-assault platoon of the 511th
Parachute Infantry, he was run-
nerup for the division feather
weight boxing championship.
This exposure to prize-fighting
led to “Requiem for A Heavy
weight.”
The first writer to serve as
national president of the Acade
my of Television Arts and Sci
ences, Serling has won numerous
other awards, including the first
Peabody Award given a writer.
(See ‘Night Gallery,’ page 2)
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