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FALIOi ) coiiii a .315 ai, “eond at) Towed it went 181 •Kht for i turn to« Jekend wk on Cougi ;s begins, Campus Pubs— Number Grows Across Nation By The Associated Press For generations of college stu dents, a cold beer meant a trip to the local “college” bar or spirit ing a bulky brown bag into the dorm. But times are changing. Spurred by widespread lower ing of the legal drinking age, colleges across the country are opening places on campus where students can drink. Almost with out exception, they simply are called “the pub.” Most of the campus bars serve only beer and wine. Twenty-five cents for 12 ounces of beer is standard, a price usually slightly lower than off-campus establish ments. College officials hold the liquor licenses in most cases, but student organizations own and operate a few. Princeton University opened a pub last month. It’s located in an old library building next to the new library. “They come pouring out of there and over here like lemmings at 11 o’clock,” said Bernard Gavin, the university official who runs the pub. Like most campus pubs, the Princeton establishment sells pizza and sandwiches. It has pool tables, live music on week ends, and even a female students’ bouncer. On an average Satur day night, students go through 15 kegs of beer. “The university decided it would rather provide a place here for the kids to drink instead of having them drive someplace else,” said Gavin. Since 1971, when the voting age in federal elections was low ered to 18, the legal age for drinking alcoholic beverages has been lowered in 19 states. An other dozen states are expected to do so by July. A recent survey of 429 col leges, roughly one-fifth of those in the nation, found that 102 have a place on campus where students can drink. They range from a beer tap in the cafeteria at the University of Northern Iowa to a full bar atop the new student union building on the University of Wisconsin’s Mil waukee campus. Forty-one per cent of the schools with bars did not have them four years ago. The survey was conducted by Robert Rainville, director of the student union building at the University of Rhode Island. Although some campus pubs run on a break-even basis, most are making money. The survey indicated the colleges expect to make an average profit of $4,500 a year on beer and wine sales. Many said they will use the money to underwrite the cost of campus food services. Most of the colleges said there had been little opposition from local residents or parents of stu dents. To no one’s surprise, they reported that 89 per cent of the students favored having a place to drink on campus. A sampling of bars near cam puses indicated no great loss of business because of the opening of on-campus pubs. Bar opera tors said students apparently have a beer or two at school, but leave campus for any serious drinking. They also noted that the present generation of stu dents adopted the habit of leaving school to drink before on-campus pubs became common. ^jj Wage Increase Proposed jiff WASHINGTON OP) — The " ^ Nixon administration Tuesday proposed that the minimum wage be increased from $1.60 an hour to $2.30 over a three-year period. The proposal was coupled with a request for a lower wage for teenage workers that produced sharp criticism and some dis comfort for Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan at a congres sional hearing. The administration’s wage in crease proposal calls for a rate of $1.90 upon enactment, $2.10 a year later, $2.20 in 1975 and $2.30 in 1976. The rate for farm workers, now $1.30 an hour, would go to $1.50 upon enact ment, then to $1.70, $1.85 and $2.00 in annual increases. Brennan, who opposed a youth differential when he appeared before the Senate Labor Commit tee for his confirmation hearing last January urged Congress Tuesday to adopt one. “Since I’ve been involved in looking into this job I see a prob lem in youth employment,” Bren nan told Rep. John H. Dent, D- Pa., chairman of the House Lab or Subcommittee, who reminded him of his Senate testimony. At that time, Brennan had said of teenage workers: “If they are going to perform the same responsibilities, I do not see why there should be any difference in the rate.” “I don’t consider this your pro posal,” said Dent of the new rec ommendation, “but that of an administration that shows little concern for those who need it most.” Brennan remained silent. Brennan’s testimony was de nounced by AFL-CIO President The Best Rose-Bush, After All, Is Not That Which Has The Fewest Thorns, But That Which Bears The Finest Roses. GIVE IT THE GAS and listen to it play. That’s all it takes to operate A1 Cheney’s internal combustion organ on display on the second floor of the new MSC. The organ :an really play and is powered by a V 8 engine. Views Clash Kleindienst Says Privilege Unlimited Cbe Battalion George Meany, who said he was aghast “that Brennan has aban doned the trade union principles he espoused for all of his life be fore coming to Washington.” In a strong statement, Meany said Brennan — “this life-long union man” — in his first ap pearance on legislation before Congress “presented the discred ited line of the United States Chamber of Commerce.’ The youth differential issue blocked an increase in the min imum wage last year when the House approved a bill contain ing one and the Senate passed a bill without it. A compromise For Fall Semester could not be worked out. Dent said the new proposal was a step backward because it would apply a lower rate to workers under 20 while only those under 18 would have been affected by last year’s bill. However, the administration would limit the reduced wage to 13 weeks for 18- and 19-year-olds and to 20 weeks for workers under 18. The rate would be 85 per cent of the minimum for the older youths and 80 per cent for the younger ones. No more than six workers, or 12 per cent of an employer’s work force, would be hired at the youth rate. Bus User Fee Set; Cards Necessary Vol. 69 No. 244 College Station, Texas April 11, 1973 Students may opt to register for the 1973-74 Shuttle Bus serv ice for $9 per semester during pre-registration and late regis tration if the plan is approved by the Board of Directors. WASHINGTON (A*) — Atty. 'fin. Richard G. Kleindienst testi- ied Tuesday that under the con- titutional separation of powers ingress cannot compel anyone n the executive branch to testify ir produce documents against he will of the president. At a hearing marked by sharp s'clashing views with Democratic enators, Kleindienst also pre- icted that any legislation passed •S' Congress to limit a president’s •ssertion of executive privilege fould be struck down by the iourts. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D.- ame ’ ehairman of one of three •enate subcommittees conducting e hearings jointly, said no ••evious administration had as- • er ted in as broad terms the right ’ e president to refuse infor- a tion to Congress. Kleindienst said that under e sacred doctrine of the sepa- a >on of powers,” the president ' 38 not ^tended to be an instru ct of Congress and must have . SCre lon to determine what in flation in the executive branch be made available. •t the Watergate bugging affair in mind, the question also was raised of whether a presi dent could refuse to permit an aide to testify if a congressional committee was investigating criminal activities of which it believed the aide had knowledge even if he was not involved. Kleindienst not only said a president has this power but also told the committee that the proper forum for the investiga tion and prosecution of crimes is the grand jury and the courts. Kleindienst repeatedly empha sized that President Nixon, while refusing to permit his aides to be called before congressional committees for questioning, has said they will appear if sum moned by a grand jury. Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., D.- N.C., chairman of the Senate’s Special Watergate Investigating Committee, said he doesn’t think that “executive privilege under any circumstances covers wrong doing.” He also said that a grand jury investigation is conducted by attorneys who hold office at the pleasure of the president and its proceedings are secret. Adams Dinner Ticket Sales Housing Ready For Students, xi^vci ouics ]\| os t Complicated Procedure Ends 1 hursday * J The Housing Office has com- next fall with the rest of the thrnne-h FriHnv Anvil A A Thursday noon deadline has been set for buying tickets to the Friday appreciation dinner for Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, Texas Aggie Band director. Tickets at $5.25 each for a 10-ounce strip sirloin dinner are on sale at all Bryan and College Station banks and savings and loan associations. People on the Texas A&M campus can get tickets at the Association of Former Students offices. The dean of Southwest Confer ence band directors, Col. Adams and his wife will be honored for his 27 years as head of the famed Texas A&M organization. The banquet will be in the west wing of Duncan Hall, at 7:02 p.m. Persons attending should use the south door, across from the drill field. Members of the 1972-73 Aggie Band, former bandmen and stu dents of Texas A&M, friends and people who want to thank Col. Adams are joining in the event. The Housing Office has com pleted its scheduling for dorm students to sign up for rooms next fall. Office director Allan Madeley said the reservation schedule this year is the most complicated ever for his office, but belives room reservation completion will be pulled off without too much trouble. He added that his office has received almost 1,200 total re quests for women’s housing next fall or the maximum number the University will be able to house. There is no waiting list yet for women’s housing, he noted. Students in all dorms except Hughes, Keathley, Fowler and the women residents of Dunn have until Friday to register for their present rooms with their resident advisors or forfeit their priority to students who sign up for rooms on a first-come, first- served basis starting Monday. Crocker Hall Rooms 101-110, 201-210, 301-310 and 401-410 will be used to house civilian students next fall with the rest of the dorm being utilized by athletes presently living in Fowler Hall. The counselor for Crocker, Rick Crow, in coordination with the Crocker Hall Council, will de termine this week which students now living in the dorm may live in the specified rooms next year. The other residents of Crocker, and civilians in Fowler Hall, and students in Keathley and Hughes Halls may reserve roms in avail able dorms next Monday through Wednesday. Women in Dunn will be able to reserve empty rooms in Krueger and rooms in Fowler, Keathley and Hughes Halls dur ing the same period and on the same basis. Women who do not sign up for rooms in the four dorms available will most likely be un able to obtain a room on campus for the fall of 1973. A limited number of changes from one hall to another will be authorized for' the fall and stu dents wishing to do so should register Thursday, April 19 through Friday, April 20. A stu dent who has reserved his old room may change to a new one during this period if he so desires. Students who register for rooms but don’t pre-register for classes in the fall will have their rooms cancelled unless their fall pre-registration is blocked by their academic dean. Rooms will not be held beyond July 25 for students who have not been cleared for all registration by that time. A student who reserves a room but later decides to cancel it must personally notify the Hous ing Office by July 31 in order to receive a refund of room deposit. This includes students who cancel to become day students. Cancel lations after July 31 will result in a forfeiture of the deposit. Any student appearing on the academic drop list published dur ing the summer will be auto matically cancelled upon receipt of the list unless the student has furnished proof of reinstatement prior to that time. Under this plan, special cards will be issued to students signing up for the service which has been expanded to serve the North Gate area. These cards will be re quired for boarding the buses. Shuttle Bus users will be al lowed to drive an automobile to the campus and park during the evening hours when bus service has been curtailed for a vehicle registration fee of $1.50 per semester. Riders will be divided into spe cial categories including hus band-wife, faculty-staff and oc casional riders. Husband-wife riders are those riders to the campus, one of whom must be a student. The couple will be allowed to register for the services at $12 per sem ester. Faculty-staff riders may use the service for the required fee of $22 per nine months. The op tion will be made available to them as part of the vehicle reg istration mailout handled by the University Police Office. Occasional riders may purchase a coupon book at the cashier’s window in the Fiscal Office at ten rides for $1.50 for students and $2 for nonstudents. Coupon books will also be available at the University Police Office dur ing the hours the Fiscal Office is closed. Applications Ready For Government Censorship Blasted Jobless Serling Hits Obscenity ‘wtr ,sKiE Rod Seriing spoke to Great issu < ' "‘ft at G. RollieM job” because is “ V’ c L eator ° f TV ’ S f admitted a disl t V and P^lic C N‘ ght Galle sition of? mt ° a tempi , campus guest fcei iff 15 y ears bui 0{ |' advertantly, a cer borebodTn Serlinff ’ of str f. 0 °b of a ma Serlin g ln8 ' Sma11 chil C\ proved to be lUdren h°ri hlS ima8 ' e : fro m th 0 had not bing erwhn snia11 , middle-a >thing reSSed a fGar C,M" ally » real Emmy Bat >kinr^7~— H * T ^ a P leas ure winner said movies play a great part in spanning the generation gap. “There is a new candor, a new frankness in films,” the drams - tist said. “Many people are of fended by sex in the movies but sex, like it or not, is a part of oui time. “If pornographic films offend you, the best thing to do is to ignore them. Censorship is not the answer. Films are not cleansed by edict or legal mus cle.” Serling pointed to the difficul ties of choosing a censor and said that no one is “so wise, so moral, so right” that he can decide what everyone is to see. “Censorship begins as a moral issue but ends as a political is sue,” he said. “The censors feel that an act of love, legally sanc tioned, can be damaging to the young. “A young mind may conceiv ably be more damaged by what comes out of a rifle barrel than by what happens on a mattress in a motel room.” Serling attacked television for its abundance of violence. “If a Martian were to come here and sit down for an evening of watching television as a cul tural guide, he would think the bullet was the single instrument of political discourse, mugging was the national pastime and violence was the hallmark of the national state,” the dramatist said. He viewed television as trying to be a commercial media and an art form at the same time. “You can see Sir Lawrence Oli vier playing Hamlet and turn the channel and see Lawrence Welk playing himself. Weather WEDNESDAY — Increasing cloudiness today & tonight. Chances of showers. High 69, low 55. THURSDAY—Chance of show ers. High of 71. “You get such programs as ‘Let’s Make A Deal,’ a study in avarice and greed; ‘The Dating Game,’ where a mini-skirted beauty contest runner-up asks ridiculous questions to three yo yos lusting after her body and the residual prizes that go with it; and the Miss America contest which packs as much excitement as a Pillsbury bake-off.” Serling charged that the result of television was a home in which the housewife is more concerned over the price of hamburger than 7,000 persons killed in a village in Cambodia. “Television is the only medium that can compare the agony of Vietnam with the heartbreak of psoriasis,” he said. “It doesn’t really matter that I stand here and talk to you to night,” he said. “It’s not impor tant that you sit there and listen to what I say. It will never be important as long as there is hunger, war, violence and mis trust in the world. (See Jobless, nace 2) VIETNAM AND PSORIASIS were common factors in Rod Serling’s presentation for Great Issues Tuesday night. Serling took pokes at everything from Nixon to the Miss America contest in his humorous talk. SG Positions trative positions in the executive branch of the Student Govern ment (SG) beginning Thursday. Four positions will be appoint ed by SG President Randy Ross including the chairmen for the Services Committee, Public Re lations, Election Board and cor responding secretary. Applications must be in the Student Programs Office located on the second floor of the new MSC by 5 p.m., April 18. The Services Committee chair man handles Aggie Muster, Aggie Mother of the Year, the blood drive and the refrigerator pro gram. The position title may be changed to Campus Projects pending the results of the ref erendum held last week. Recorder and parliamentarian for the Student Government, pending referendum results, will be appointed by 'the vice presi dent. Recorder requires the abil ity to take minutes of the Student Senate meetings and Executive Committee meetings. Applications for these posi tions are to be filed by 5 p.m. Tuesday. “On the side of Texas A&M.” U niversity National Bank Adv. )>