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'Hwi hr. ,ctices befe lma ge coJ The University Laundry Com mittee has found that 60 per cent the ^I 0 f on-campus students favor an ■^juries, ed Thursda, ief scrimnij ifcnse again and then 4 j linst the Poll Shows Majority Want Optional Laundry For ’74 plaguedoptional laundry service after tl >e case tk 'p the defer] ■be offense, 10 were J 1 various ai Ricky Seek mstring; ] (f v 'th a spraj m right hal! with a pu| <i- team le|: with a pinl ; second-l ' ent Kmei persons random polling- of 385 earlier this semester. According to John Nash, stu dents who opt not to use the service would be saving about $15 for females and $25 for males. Residents wishing to continue use of the service would pay three to five dollars in addition to the $15 or $25. While 54 percent of the men were willing to pay $5 extra for laundry service, 69.5 per cent of the women were against any such fee. “Of course,” said Nash, “these percentages would probably de crease somewhat with women moving across campus where self- service laundry equipment is not as readily available.” Nash said two types of optional service could be considered. One would be set up on a commercial basis where students would pay each time they sent laundry. The second consideration would be similar to the service available now, only students would decide whether or not to use the laun dry at the beginning of the semester. “A commercial laundry would necessitate a considerable rise in price,” said Nash. “Each day the amount of input into the laundry would be unknown, creating the rise. “On the other hand, the second option would be considerably cheaper and could be easily im plemented.” Nash continued to point out that the laundry has indicated it would be happy to go optional, as workers have grown weary of student complaints. The laundry service is self-supporting and the change would nqt affect it too much. “At one time, the laundry sys tem was beneficial, especially to the Corps,” said Nash. “Now many take their laundry home or have their own particular way they want their laundry to be handled.” Nash felt that a portion of the 60 per cent of the residents pre ferring an optional service would probably continue use of the service. “I think some of these students just could not see mak ing others pay for something they didn’t use. “The program is one that will take time to put into action but we would like to see it happen by the fall semester of 1974,” said Nash. The program must be first brought before the Student Sen ate, which in turn, if it accepts the optional idea, can recommend it to the admnistration. Laundry Committee members include Nash, Jane Logan, Slim Noack, Jimmy Griffith, Juan Gonzalez and Tim Jordan. Che Battalion If We Had No Faults, We Would Not Take So Much Pleasure In Noticing- Them In Oothers. TUESDAY — Fair & windy this afternoon. Increasing cloudiness. Easterly to south easterly winds of 8 to 15 m.p.h. High 65, low 43. WEDNESDAY — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Southerly winds of 10 to 15 m.p.h. High of 70. College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 10, 1973 845-2226 Republicans, Democrats Get Campus Recognition and the ... . T*r**£; - Jr—; SUNSHINE PROVIDED a welcome break in the weath er Monday and opportunity to study in relaxing cool spring weather. Concentration on the text may have been a hard thing to do as a result, however. (Photo by Steve Ueckert) Uy GREG MOSES Staff Writer The Young Republicans Young Democrats became first political organizations recog nized on campus last week. Dale Foster, president of the A&M Young Democrats, has been working toward campus recogni tion of his organization for the past three years. He was unsuc cessful because the Board of Directors had ruled against parti san politics on campus. The Board recently rescended its restrictions on political groups. Foster credits this reversal to a new A&M voting precinct and a gradual change in the administration’s position on student political organizations. The Young Democrats have had an organization for students in College Station for the past 10 years. With an active member- Own r ink Boycotters Attacked Con voca tion Spea kerCla im s Consumers Eating Cheaply vor ?Y 0. ns A University of Illinois official here Monday night took a poke lat the meat boycott, saying that consumers have been paying rela tively low food prices since the days of World War II. And now that farmers—stock- men in particular—are getting a [fair return on their investment, consumers are “howling to high heaven,” said Dr. Karl E. Gard ner, associate dean of the UI Col lege of Agriculture. The dean was the main speaker during A&M’s annual Agricul- | tural Convocation attended by students and faculty in the Col lege of Agriculture. Purpose of the session each year is to recognize outstanding students and an honor professor, and to hear speakers discuss various facets of agriculture. During the war, and especially in the three or four years after World War II, agriculture did fairly well, Gardner said. Then during the 1950s and 1960s, wages of factory workers, white collar workers and laborers gal loped away from farm prices. He pointed out that construc tion wages led the list and more than doubled in the 1960s decade alone. Meanwhile, agricultural prices went up maybe 20 per cent. “Americans ate cheap,” the speaker said. “Now a ‘correc tion’ is taking place, and urban ites are howling to high heaven. A few housewives think their meat boycott is a new idea. Who doesn’t boycott what he feels is too expensive?” Gardner emphasized that agri cultural prices go up, and then they come down again. “Wages, on the other hand, have not come down in the life time of any of the students pres ent,” he explained. “It was only three or four years ago that beef cattlemen and hog raisers were keeping their books in red ink. How few news articles make this clear to the public.” G a r d n e r’s talk was titled “What’s Ahead for Agricultural Graduates,” and said the outlook is “pretty fine at present.” “I see no reason to suspect that the current situation in agricul ture is entirely a temporary one. I feel that it should extend into the future. This is not to say that we shall not see ups and downs in prices. But, these vari ations will take place at a higher plane than we have previously seen,” the dean said. Gardner added that he believes the percentage of graduates who return to farming and ranching will hold its own and might in crease a little. ship of 60 and a total member ship of 700, it is among the five largest Young Democrat groups in Texas. The recently formed Young- Republicans, which gained uni versity recognition a few days before the Democrats, have an active membership of 30. “Because we are so new, few people know that a Republican organization exists here,” said Rus Miller, public relations chair man for the club. “Now that A&M has its own precinct, we will have to handle primary elec tions.” Both Miller and Foster hope that campus recognition will help expand their clubs’ membership. “Our membership grows during election yeais,” said Foster. “The Young Democrats were active in last year’s elections. We had in dividual committees set up for each candidate in the primaries and campaigned for the general elections.” The Young Republicans, spon sored by Dr. Gordon McNeil, “will work to politically educate voters at A&M and initiate them into party politics,” said Miller. “We plan to bring Republican state legislators to campus next fall to talk to students.” The Young Democrats also plan to bring state and national politi- New Computer System Goof Blamed For Ticket Notices Arabs Bomb Israeli’s Home NICOSIA, Cyprus (Ah — Two groups of Arab guerrillas bombed an apartment building Monday where the Israeli ambassador lived, then shot up an Israeli air liner parked at the airport. About 12 hours later Israeli commandos, apparently landing from helicopters, raided Palestin ian guerrilla installations in and near Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon. Dozens of Palestinian Arab guer rillas were reported killed or wounded in the Lebanon raids. The Israeli military command did not say whether the raids were retaliatory, but Israel in the past has struck swiftly at Pales- Banking is a pleasure Bank & Trust. at First Adv. tinian guerrilla camps in Leba non in response to terrorist acts. At Nicosia the Arabs fought gunbattles with Cypriot police at the apartment building and with Israeli security forces and a po liceman at the airport. The government said one of the attackers, wounded in the head, died in a hospital. Three other Arabs and a Cypriot po liceman were wounded. No one was hurt in the bomb blast at the three-story apart ment building. The police said they found a note indicating that the Arabs intended to hijack ah airplane. It was not immediately known if the group had any ties with the Black Septembrists who car ried out the Olympics massacre and the slaying of two U.S. dip lomats and a Belgian envoy in Sudan last month. It was the fourth attack on Israeli diplomats abroad since September and the first major Arab-Israeli encounter on Cyprus, a Mediterranean island with deep troubles of its own. Security was tight here after a weekend of bombings carried out by members of Gen. George Grivas’ underground army which seeks to force union of Cyprus with Greece. The first fatal cas ualty of Grivas’ four-month cam paign came during a gun battle Monday morning in the village of Koutrafas. Police gave this account of the Arab guerrillas’ attacks: A group of Arabs drew up in a car in front of the Israeli resi dence, a three-story apartment house. One ran up to the front door and left a bag of explo sives there. He then rushed back to the car, but Cypriot security guards opened fire as the car started away and three of the Arabs were seized. The bomb went off, tearing- open the front of the building and blasting out the rear wall on the ground floor, so that it looked like a tunnel. The Israeli ambassador, Ra- hamin Timor, said later he had left his residence on the third floor for his office just before the blast. cal figures to campus as speakers next fall. “Most of this spring has been spent organizing for the Young- Democrats of Texas Convention which will be held at the Astro- world Hotel in Houston from the 27th to the 29th of April,” said Foster. “We will take 60 dele gates to the convention to give our organization its necessary representation. We also have one state officer and four other members on the state executive committee,” said Foster. The convention will honor the late Lyndon B. Johnson, and his family will be there to receive recognition in his honor. The Young Republicans sent Beau Schaborough, president of the club, and Carol Moore, execu tive vice president, as delegates to a state convention in Dallas. Schaborough and corresponding secretary Allison Berry were named District Five committee man and woman. They will work as liaisons for clubs in the area. Moore will represent the A&M club at the national convention in Atlanta this July. Both organizations would like new members. The Young Republicans plan a meeting April 29 at 9 p.m. but have not set a place for the meet ing. Membership dues are $3 a year. The Young Democrats meet the last Thursday of each month but have not named a meeting spot for this month. Dues are $2 a semester or $4 a year. Media’s Impact Subject For Serling Discussion A computer operation recently set up between the University Police Office and the Data Processing Center has caused several thousand students and faculty to be billed a second time for traffic and parking tickets received since the beginning of the year. University Police Chief O. L. Luther said that approximately 4,000 notices were sent out by the computer, some to people owing fines, but most to persons already having paid them. The computer system, originally projected to be in operation Oct. 10, 1972, was put into operation just this April. Luther said he’s not surprised at the mistakes and said that, students with genuine bills should take them directly to the Fiscal Office in the Coke Buiding. Students receiving notices, but already having paid their fines, should bring notices to the University Police Office in the YMCA Building along with their 1972 license numbers to have the matter cleared up. Students without parking permits will also receive bills under the system after the University Police check license plate numbers with the Department of Public Safety in Austin. Luther noted that if the fines or notices aren’t cleared up before pre-registration or graduation times, students will be blocked from doing so by the Fiscal Office. Final semester grade reports will also be withheld by the Registrar’s Office. A second mailing is scheduled within the next two weeks and Luther said he doesn’t know what to expect on this one. People owing fines will receive mailings every two weeks until the matters are solved with his office or the Fiscal Office. TV’s “Night Gallery” and “Twilight Zone” creator, Rod Serling, will speak tonight through sponsorship of the Great Issues committee of the Memorial Student Center. He will discuss the impact of mass media on today’s society. The 8:15 p.m. program will be in G. Rollie White Coliseum, announced Great Issues Chairman T. C. Cone. A prolific writer, Serling spe cializes in the effects of unusual circumstances on humans. The long - running “Twilight Zone” series and NBC-TV’s “Night Gallery” of which he is on-screen host are tension-produc ing tales of inner man and outer space. Serling also wrote high-scoring TV dramas “A Storm in Sum mer,” “Requiem for a Heavy weight” and “Patterns.” The New York native wrote “Seven Days in May” and “Planet of the Apes” for the big screen. A partial list of his honors ranges over television’s most prestigious awards. He received six Emmies for TV’s best dra matic writing. His shelves also hold four Writers’ Guild Awards, two Sylvania Awards, the Chris topher Prize and the first Pea body Award ever given to a writer. ship evercised over television. It makes executives, sponsors and producers wary. He says it is because “they know I’m temperamental, irras- cible, controversial—and a per fectionist. They deliberately put into my contracts that I am only allowed to yell so loud.” Serling’s TAMU visit will ful fill a long-term goal. An Army parati-ooper in the Pacific during World War II, his company com mander was an Aggie. “I’ve always wanted to see Aggieland,” Serling told Cone. Tickets to the Serling talk are 50 cents general admission and $1 reserve seat for TAMU stu dents with activity cards. All others are $1.50 general admis sion and $2 reserve seat. Sign-Up Starts For Those Wanting Same Rooms Residents of Krueger, Hart, Hotard, Law, Legett, Puryear, Walton, Moore, Moses, Davis-Gary, Mclnnis, Schumacher, Utay, White and male residents of Dunn who want to reserve their present rooms or another room within their hall should contact their resident advisors by April 13. Applications for day student permits will be accepted until April 18. Applications will not be accepted after April 18 until the close of pre-registration. Students under 21 must have their parents send permission for off campus living by U.S. Mail to Mr. Ed Morris in the Housing Office before their applications will be considered. Students without day student permits at Fall room sign-up should reserve rooms to avoid losing room priority. Those not qualified for a day student permit by April 18 will be required to pre-register as residence hall students. “The networks hate to work with me,” Serling says. “They hire me . . . then close their eyes.” He is an acknowledged expert on the devious means of censor- Ag Photographers Sweep 31 Awards Dani People Film Topic Of ‘Dead Birds’ A full-length color feature film, “Dead Birds,” will be shown free to all interested students Wednesday night at 7:30 in the main auditorium of the Zachry Engineering Center. “Dead Birds” presents a pho tographic and ethnographic study of the DANI people made in the early 1960’s by David Rockefeller and a team of anthopologists sponsored by the Robert S. Pea body Museum. The DANI peo ple, from the highlands of New Guinea, are still using a Stone Age technology. Camera Committee photogra phers won 31 awards in the Me morial Student Center group’s Salon ’73, with Richard C. Gunn capturing the top color prize. Four other schools shared prize ribbons. East Texas State took the lion’s share from the annual intercollegiate photo con test. Salon ’73 winners are on ex hibit this week in the Universi ty Library. Gunn had the best of show color print. A subtle-color photo titled “Alone,” it pictures a bi cycle rider on a bridge over a fog-shrouded river. Environmental Design Profes sor Roy C. Pledger had the run- nerup best of show black-and- white, a family-type portrait. It placed first in the adult and family portrait category, one of 15 in the contest. He also won two second place ribbons and a third. bons, all in color photography. He had firsts in female glamour and animal portraiture, and a tie for first in child portraiture. The physician also had seconds in ani mal portraiture and hunian in terest. Bruce Lawrie led other TAMU first place winners. The engi neering technology senior from San Antonio had firsts in fe male glamour and still life. He also had a second in female glamour. Sophomore journalism major Debi Blackmon of Bryan placed first in the black-and-white land scape category. She also had two third places. William N. Seelig, civil engi neering graduate student of Rockville, Md., had the top print in black-and-white animal por traiture. The best nature black- and-white entry was by Michael T. Postek, botany graduate stu dent from Miami, Fla. The film is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and An- fhronoloErv. A local M.D. affiliated with the MSC committee, Dr. Antonio B. Fleitas, collected the most rib- “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. ■ —