Alcoholism Tops Heroin As Drug Problem,
Says Commission
WASHINGTON The fed
eral drug commission today rated
alcoholism as America’s number
one drug problem. Heroin was
second. Marijuana ran far back.
The panel said government ef
forts to discourage drug use are
disorganized, based on public
misconceptions and possibly are
making matters worse instead of
better.
It called for a new federal
antidrug agency with sweeping
powers and a limited lifespan.
But it said the public, including
doctors, educators, communica
tors, distillers, brewers, clergy
and parents, must do even more
than government if America’s
drug problems are to diminish.
The findings were issued by
the National Commission on
Marijuana and Drug Abuse,
which spent $1 million and visit
ed 36 nations in a two-year in
vestigation of drug use for Con
gress and the President. Its
chairman is the former Republi
can governor of Pennsylvania,
Raymond P. Shafer.
The commission also said:
—Overuse of legal barbituate
sedatives, especially by house
wives, is “America’s hidden drug
problem.”
—Persons arrested for heroin
possession should be given treat
ment or counseling and jail or
fines imposed only if they refuse
or drop out.
—Most drug-information ma
terial is factually wrong and
shouldn’t be distributed. Future
material should be screened for
accuracy.
—Educators should consider a
freeze on classroom drug instruc
tion, much of which is shoddy
and may actually stimulate in
terest in drug use.
The 482-page report was the
second and final one by the rela
tively conservative panel, which
consists of nine members ap
pointed by President Nixon and
four by Congress.
A year ago the commission re
ported on marijuana, which it
found to be virtually harmless
to the casual user and to Ameri
can society* Thursday it reaf
firmed its recommendation, which
has been firmly rejected by
President Nixon and largely ig
nored by Congress, that criminal
penalties be ended for smoking
marijuana or holding small quan
tities of it.
In both reports the commission
reasoned that society shouldn’t
prohibit drugs merely because
they injure the user. To do so
would require prohibition of bar-
bituates, alcohol and tobacco be
fore all others, it said. Rather,
individuals should be free to
choose whether or not to use a
drug unless the substance causes
crime or other behavior that
hurts society.
Judged on that basis, the panel
said, “the most serious concern
in contemporary America should
attach to the use of alcohol and
heroin.
“Moderate social concern
should attach to the use of am
phetamines, barbituates, halluci
nogens, methaqualone and co
caine, the use of which is rela
tively well-controlled.”
Between ^alcohol and heroin, it
said, “alcohol dependence is with
out question the most serious
drug problem in this country to
day.” It is strongly associated
with violent crime, automobile
(See Alcoholism, page 4)
400 Expected To
Participate In
Ts Charity Walk
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 233 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 22, 1973 845-2226
Senate Tackles
Split
A GREEN EARTH can be made a number of ways as suggested by the artwork re
cently completed on a Dempsey Dumpster by senior Nick Jiga. The trash container is
located near the Academic Building by the new eight-story office building and has a
painting of Mickey Mouse on the back.
Black’s Influence, Power
Are Unlimited, Says Boney
3 Plans Ready For Athletics;
Apportionment Bill On Agenda
Over 400 persons are expected
to walk for charity in the Stu
dent “Y” Association’s “Miles for
Mankind” Saturday.
Each participant is asked to
find one or more sponsors who
will pay him for each mile he
completes over the 20-mile route.
“We set a goal for $10,000,”
said Corky Houchard, president
of the “Y." “We have $6,000
pledged but that figure could in
crease by Saturday.”
A&M President Jack Williams
and College Station Mayor Dick
Hervey are scheduled to begin
the walk at 8 a.m.
The walkers will begin at the
Zachry Engineering Center park
ing lot and walk along Texas
Avenue, the Highway 6 bypass,
Highway 30, Southwest Parkway,
Farm Road 2154 and F&B Road
before reaching their Hensel Park
destination. Each participant
can begin his walk between 8
and 9:30 a.m.
Restoration of a ward system
in College Station city govern
ment is one of the major plat
form points of City Council place
three candidate Sam A. McGinty.
The 21-year-old economics ma
jor from San Antonio is running
against the incumbent Don R.
Dale in the April 3 elections.
Presently all city council mem
bers are elected at-large. A ward
system would allow better geo
graphical representation, better
Forum Slates
Leary Speech
Political Forum will present
Dr, Herbert Fairfax Leary Tues
day in a special noon program in
the Memorial Student Center So
cial Room.
Leary, a chief law counselor
or legal aide for Ralph Nader
and Associates of Washington,
D.C., will discuss “Law in the
United States,” said Bill
Hatherill.
Hatherill is programs director
of the Marketing Society at A&M,
which is co-sponsoring the event
with the Noon Political Forum
Committee.
The Distinguished Professor of
Law at both the University of
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia’s
Temple University is currently a
nominee for the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
Student Election Board mem
bers Wednesday chose a stricter
constitutional interpretation in
their decision concerning the pro
test of literary material within a
campaign flyer.
Sam Bays (Grad.-Ag.) present
ed his complaints about the flyer
entitled “Save Money,” campaign
material for the election of Randy
Stephens as vice president of the
board.
The attack centered on two
statements within the flyer: “The
Senate can now charge you up to
$24 more per year if they choose”
and “Shariq Yosufzai introduced
legislation before the Senate to
reduce the civilian living area
representation.”
“I am petitioning Stephen’s pre-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Fifty per cent of the money
raised will go to the Overseas
World Service, an organization
helping underdeveloped nations.
Thirty per cent will help to build
a youth activities center in the
area and the remaining 20 per
cent will help renovate Hensel
Park.
Houchard said he will person
ally push Associate Dean of Stu
dents Howard S. Perry in a
wheelchair if the dean can find
sponsors to give him $25 a mile.
There will be a free steak fry
for everyone who completes the
walk and free cokes along the
way for all participants.
“This is the first time anything
like this has been attempted,”
said Houchard. “If it is a suc
cess, we hope to make it an an
nual affair.”
Anyone interested can pick up
forms in Room 102 of the YMCA
Building or call Keith Singleton,
845-4295, or Kerry Hulse, 845-
2550.
service to the represented area
and would guarantee representa
tion for each area.
“At this time,” said Ron Miori,
campaign chairman, “six out of
seven council members live with
in a short proximity of each
other.”
According to Miori, this par
ticular issue requires a city char
ter change which requires a com
munity referendum.
“With this type of system and
with the number of students reg
istered in this area and the poll
ing place on campus, students
will have a much better chance of
perpetuating a seat on the City
Council to give them continual
representation,” said Miori.
“I want to make sure that I
am participating in community
affairs instead of as a student,
infringing upon community af
fairs,” McGinty said earlier.
McGinty added that a majority
of the people in the community
either work for the University
or go to school here and he feels
the campus should have adequate
representation.
Other points in McGinty’s plat
form include a better city park,
a possibility of city funding for
a transportation system and a
student representative on the
council.
“I feel that not having a stu
dent on the council with taxa
tion like it is, is like ‘taxation
without representation,’ ” said
McGinty earlier.
rogative to include statements
within a flyer which constitute a
misrepresentation of the truth,”
said Bays.
“The Student Senate cannot ar
bitrarily increase Student Service
Fees but may only recommend
changes in the levy to the Ad
ministration and Board of Direc
tors,” Bays continued in defense
of his petition. “Also the legisla
tion to reapportion the Student
Senate introduced by a senator
representing the civilian living
area was the result of committee
action, not the individual initia
tive of that senator.”
Bays continued asking for a
remedy of the existing situation,
not to disqualify Stephens, but in
order to stop any damage the fly
er had already done to other can
didates.
“I suppose in a very technical
sense that the administration does
say what happens to Student Serv
ice Fees,” said Stephens, “but
By LARRY MARSHALL
There is no ceiling on the
power and influence a black can
achieve in society, said noted
black educator and psychologist
Dr. J. Don Boney Wednesday.
The major concern today is get
ting a better elementary and
high school system that will lead
to more college graduates,
stressed Boney. Even so, the
greatest increase in college en
rollment in the past five years
has been blacks, he noted.
Blacks have traditionally been
denied equal education opportuni
ties in this country, said the
Houston Independent School Dis
trict administrator. The average
black student has completed 9.2
years of schooling compared to
his white counterpart’s 12.1.
Boney’s first priority for im
provement is a better reading
program. Other areas for im-
anyone on campus would say the
Senate controls the fees.
“On the other matter I was only
trying to get across the point
that Yosufzai did support this leg
islation,” continued Stephens.
“Only 200 to 250 flyers have been
distributed and I feel very little
damage has been done if any.”
Acting Chairman Jack Barlowe
announced the committee’s deci
sion. “Since there are no regula
tions governing the material con
tained in a candidate’s campaign
literature it is the decision of the
Election Board that we can not
prohibit further distribution of
the flyer, we can not force the
candidate to collect all such flyers
nor force the candidate to secure
public clarification of the issues
involved.”
The Board did not approve or
disapprove the flyer but felt they
did not have the power to make
such a decision and recommended
Bays take it before the judicial
provement are making classes
more relevant to the black stu
dent, increasing vocational edu
cation and . special attention to
the disadvantaged and slow
learners.
Integration definitely provides
a superior learning environment,
Boney continued, but there is a
trend away from forcing this is
sue with the resultant busing and
toward improving the existing
all-black facilities. This is the
“Atlanta plan.”
“The city schools are combat
ing a depleting tax revenue from
the whites fleeing to the sub
urbs,” Boney said. “Presently
the federal government funds
seven per cent of the total oper
ating costs, but most experts
agree that about 30 per cent is
necessary.” But, he added, the
present administration is insensi
tive to these educational needs.
Poverty has been at the root
committee.
Curt Marsh (Soph.-Bus.) came
before the committee in a protest
against the rule prohibiting the
placement of eight and one-half
by eleven inch campaign posters
on dormitory entrance doors.
“Material is always placed on
dormitory entrance doors so stu
dents can see them,” said Marsh.
“Other students have told me that
a previous Election Board did al
low a distribution.”
“In a meeting last semester the
Board agreed to prohibit the
placement of literature on en
trance doors in order to keep the
litter problem down,” said com
mittee member Kim Westfall.
The Board held to the former
ruling against campaign litera
ture on entrance doors.
Speaking on the behalf of Yosu-
(See Board, page 3)
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust. Adv.
of the black man’s and other
minority’s problems throughout
history, Boney said. A decade
ago there were few people for
a poor person to compare himself
to, so he had a drive to improve.
But today he looks around and
sees other frustrated people, and
loses his motivation, he said.
Poverty has brought on despair
among these people, stressed
Boney, but motivation and a new
spirit would lead them out. “The
only difference between a poor
and a striving poor is hope,” he
emphasized.
The black has begun to be
aware of and have pride in his
culture, Boney said. He believes
there is a trend in this country
toward cultux'al plurialism. How
ever, “my hope is that we can
achieve a superior cultural en
tity among the cultures in the
country,” he stressed, “taking
the best points of all.”
Aggie Mother
Forms Ready
Nominations for Aggie
Mother of the Year are being
accepted until 5 p.m. April 5.
Nomination forms may be
picked up at the Student Pro
grams Office of the Memorial
Student Center. A photo may be
included with the nomination.
A selection committee, consist
ing of Layne Kruse, Virginia
Ehrlich, Ron Krnavek, Mark
Blakemore and Ron Bento, will
select the mother to be honored.
She will be presented a pin and
a bouquet at Parents’ Day cere
monies April 15.
Also included in the ceremonies
will be awards for academic ex
cellence, a tribute to fathers and
a tribute to mothers.
Mother of the Year is an hon
orary position for mothers of
A&M students. She is invited to
all major campus events but the
degree of participation depends
solely on her.
The reigning Mother of the
Year is Ruth Hunt of College
Station.
By VICKIE ASHWILL
A 21-page document incorpo
rating athletic fee options with
all the Student Service fee bud
gets will be discussed in the
Student Senate tonight.
The document, to be presented
by Student Senate Treasurer Vir
ginia Ehrlich at the 7:30 meeting
in Room 102 of the Zachry Engi
neering Center, includes three
alternative plans for the alloca
tion of Student Service fees.
“The proposals were based on
the fact that the hospital fee
would not be included,” said Stu
dent Government Vice President
Randy Ross. “The over-all con
cept of the Student Service fee is
to lower the amount of funds in
the reserve account.”
The first plan asks for $16 per
semester with a one dollar ath
letic user fee with $135,000 being
allocated from Student Service
fees to the athletic department.
Plan number two also has the
basic $16 fee with a $1.50 user
fee and $120,000 athletic alloca
tion. The last option is a $15
Student Service fee with a two
dollar user fee and a $100,000
allocation.
The proposal will be voted on
April 5.
Senators will vote on the Sen
ate reapportionment amendment
presented by Student Government
President Layne Kruse, Academic
Affairs Chairman Bill Hartsfield
and Rules and Regulations Chair
man Fred Campbell.
The proposal had failed in com-
With Dorm Skits
A Sadie Hawkins Dance at
Indian Lake will highlight ac
tivities during the Residence Hall
Association’s Spring Fling March
30 and 31.
A rock group, “First Cross
ing,” will entertain at the dance
which will last from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. that Friday night. A hay-
ride will be provided and dress
is country. The dance, as well as
all events during the Spring
Fling, is free and open to all
students.
Dormitory and outfit competi
tion will be featured in a field day
the following afternoon. Points
will be awarded for the various
events for the number of partici
pants and number of wins. The
overall champion dormitory or
outfit will receive $25 and a tro
phy.
Field day games and contests
include a coed two-man sack race,
the “Great Crate Race,” musical
water buckets (girls only), a pil
low fight (men only), coed egg
jousting, frisbee throwing, egg
toss, egg roll (with noses), bread
stuffing, tug-of-war, leap frog
race, a tricycle race and dorm
skits. Refreshments will b e
served.
The events will take place in
the quad between Walton, Davis-
Gary and the hospital from 11:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. The dorm skit
contest, however, will be in the
Grove at 7 p.m.
The “Great Crate Race” will
consist of four-man teams with
two girls and two boys pushing
anything that will roll. Points
will go to the fastest crate and
most original design.
Each dormitory participating
in the dorm skit contest will be
limited to one 10-minute skit.
mittee but is now being presented
as a separate bill. If the amend
ment passes the Senate and then
a student referendum, the size of
the Senate would be cut basically
in half in order to increase com
petitiveness within the Senate,
allow for increased invidiual par
ticipation and increase communi
cation within the Senate.
The proposal will cut the col
lege area representation in half
and double the living area ratio.
The freshman will remain the
same.
Campbell will also present an
election by-law for Senate ap
proval. The by-law proposal con
cerns accepting transfer students
to run for Student Senator in
their first semester at A&M.
Steve Wakefield will once again
present a car care center pro
posal which will give students a
place for students to work on
their cars. The facilities available
at Hensel Park are presently
being eliminated
The last presentation of the
University Rules and Regulations
handbook will be made tonight by
the Rules and Regulations Com
mittee. Part five of this series
includes matters such as updat
ing the number of students on
the Student Publications Board,
officially changing the name of
the Civilian Student Council to
the Resident Hall Association and
updating the Honor Code.
Kruse will also appoint the
three vacant judicial board va-
canies.
Props are optional and $25 and
a trophy will be awarded the
winner. Second place and a boo
by prize will also be given. Skits
will be judged on originality and
humor. Anyone wishing to en
tertain between skits can contact
Paul Gugenheim at 846-7283 or
845-1515 by March 28.
A slave auction of Krueger
women for field day events will
be held in front of the Academic
Building at 1 p.m. on Wednesday
and Thursday of next week.
No Tests, Says
AC Ruling On
Dead Week
Dead week will officially go
into effect this semester, accord
ing to regulation passed last se
mester by the Academic Council.
The policy states that during
the regular two semesters no ex
aminations may be given during
the week five class days prior
to the first day of final examina
tions. Exceptions to this rule are
courses carrying one hour of
theory, optional tests for special
credit and make-up tests.
All semester examinations are
to be given according to the
schedule published by the regis
trar’s office.
Students with scheduled exams
during this time period other than
the exceptions, should contact the
head of the department involved,
the dean of that college or the
Academic Affairs Committee in
the Student Senate.
Needs Charter Change
Council Candidate
Wants Ward Plan
Stephens Material OK’d
Board U pholds Campaign Rule
Spring Fling Set,
Field Day On Tap