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He Who Loses Wealth Loses
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That Loses Courage Loses All.
Vol. 67 No. 248
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 18, 1973
WEDNESDAY—Partly cloudy.
Considerable cloudiness with
showers & chance of thunder
showers tognight. High 83, low
61.
THURSDAY — Considerably
cloudy. Showers & possible
thundershowers. High of 77.
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The referendum petition asking
for a student vote on the Student
Services fees allocations is still
circulating around the campus
with hopes to reach the 3,000 stu
dent signature goal by Friday.
Students developed the plan as
i compensation for the increase in
the hospital fee in order to keep
the total amount students spent
m fees the same as the 1972-73
icademic year.
This group, led by John Nash,
1972-73 senator from Law-Pur-
year, has developed a $15 Student
Services fee with a $1.50 user fee
for home football games. Students
could also opt to buy a six dollar
football season ticket under this
plan.
The cut in the Student Services
fee was taken out of the athletic
budget reducing it from $170,000
under the proposed $18 plan to
$100,000 under the $15 plan. Ac
cording to Nash this would cut the
Athletic Department budget
$14,500, including funds coming
in from the user fee option.
“Our aim is to keep the Student
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Pre-Registration Hassles
Slated To Start Next Week
Pre-registration for the 1973 fall semester will begin Monday
announced University Registrar, Robert Lacey. The registration
period which lasts until April 27 is restricted to students now
enrolled in the 1973 spring semester.
A pre-registration period the week of August 27-31 for
students now enrolled will also be for new graduate students,
Lacey added.
Pre-registration schedules for the fall semester are now
available at the Registrar’s office. Schedules for the summer
semester will be available Thursday.
Registration card packets may be picked up at the office of
the head of the student’s major. Lacey stressed ID cards will be
required to receive the card packet.
Services fee at the present level,”
said Nash. “If we had reduced
the allocations this much in other
areas, these would probably have
been wiped out all together.
“The $14,500 is a much smaller
percentage of the Athletic De
partment budget than of any oth
er budget,” continued Nash.
Nash said the budget he has
proposed on the petition is ex
actly the same budget recom
mended by the Student Services
Fee Allocations Committee to the
Student Senate with one excep
tion. This exception being a re
duction from the suggested two
dollar user fee per game to $1.50
fee.
The senate had discussed the
original plan at its April 5 meet
ing. During the meeting the sen
ate completely threw out the con
cept of an athletic user fee and
opted for the $18 Student Services
fee plan with no user fee. At this
meeting 37 senators approved the
$18 “Miori” plan and 29 opposed
it in a roll call vote.
“We feel the students deserve
the opportunity to vote on whether
or not they want a user fee and
let the students decide how much
emphasis is placed on athletics,”
said Nash.
Nash also pointed out that stu-
Date Set For Day Care
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The Student Government (SG)
sponsored Day Care Center will
begin accepting applications for
enrollment of children two to four
years of age on August 15 with
the official opening date of the
center set for August 20.
Children will be accepted on a
full time basis only and according
to a priority list set by the Center.
The top priority for accepting a
child is a single parent with a
child; second priority is if both
parents are attending school; and
a third priority is one parent go
ing to school while the other is
working.
The fourth priority is one par
ent going to school while the other
is at home and the fifth priority
is any special case.
Cost to attend the center five
days a week beginning at 7:30
a.m. and concluding at 5:30 p.m.
each day is $60 per month. This
includes one hot meat with a
morning and afternoon snack.
Children will participate each
day in organized and structural
play, according to Virginia Leahy,
chairman for the Day Care Cen
ter Board of Directors.
Mrs. Jack Inglias will be the
director of the center. Inglias has
had ten years previous teaching
experience and will be accepting
applications at the center begin
ning August 15.
‘‘The Day Care Center is oper
ated on the fees from the tuition
and donations,” said Leahey. “It
is a student-oriented program and
we have received much help and
donations from students.”
The center is also interested in
hiring a part time cook and two
part time helpers to work during
the day. Persons interested in
these positions should contact
Leahey.
Applications can be found in
the SG Office and may be turned
in there at this time. If anyone
would like to leave a $30 deposit
With the application, they should
contact Leahey.
The Center is located at 305
Wellborn Road near the Unitarian
Church.
The Board of Directors for the
Center consists of Chairman Lea
hey, Vice Chairman-Treasurer
Randy Ross, Secretary Dr. Ben
Crouch, Dr. Walt Stenning, Dr.
Sara Dawn Smith, Gary Drake,
Pastor Hubert Beck, Rita Keneipp
and Joe Sawyer.
dents buying a six dollar season
ticket would end up paying the
same as under the Student Sen
ate proposed $18 fee, except the
option to pay for the games
would be left up to the students.
“I think six dollars is a high
price to pay for students not
knowing what is happening,” said
Nash.
Lawyer’s
GI Talk
Thursday
Frank Mankiewicz of Robert F.
Kennedy and George McGovern
political fame will speak Thurs
day at Texas A&M University.
“Nixon and Beyond” will be the
subject of his noon Political For
um address in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom. Political
Forum Chairman Ed Jarrett said
admission to the 12:15 p.m. Man
kiewicz talk will be 25 cents per
TAMU student and 50 cents per
non-student.
The speaker was press secreta
ry to Robert Kennedy. He was
floor director and aide for Mc
Govern at the Democratic conven
tion.
A former syndicated columnist,
Mankiewicz also served as politi
cal director during the senator’s
presidential campaign. He earlier
had a comfortable California law
practice which lie left to join the
Peace Corps. In it, Mankiewicz
rose to the post of director of
Latin American programs.
He then accompanied Senator
Kennedy for two Senate years and
throughout his presidential cam
paign.
The Thursday Political Forum
speaker is considered “today’s
voice of the anti-establishment.”
Compiled By Fair Housing Group
Apartment, Tenants ’ Rights
Brochures Now Available
“Benevolent Arms—Apartment
Guide” and “Tenants’ Guide To
Legal Rights” will be available
for interested students during
pre-registration.
The two giudes, compiled by the
Student Government (SG) Fair
Housing Commission, are designed
to be aids to students in search
of off-campus housing.
The first of these publications,
“Benevolent Arms — Apartment
Guide,” is a list evaluating three
of the four major off-campus
housing. This includes University
married student housing, 31 apart
ment complexes and major mobile
home parks excluding houses and
duplexes.
Information for this publication
was obtained from a survey con
ducted during the Spring, 1973,
pre-registration of the off-campus
students. These students were ask
ed about their present and past
housing and asked to evaluate
both the landlord and facilities.
On the back of the eight-page
publication is a map of the area
locating housing units and ap
proximate Shuttle Bus routes.
The second publication put out
by the Fair Housing Commission
contains nine pages of pertinent
information needed before leasing
an apartment or other housing
unit.
The booklet discusses what one
should know before they rent, the
ins and outs of the lease, deposits
SIGN HERE FOR A VOTE is what John Nash is telling these students in his attempt
to collect 3,000 signatures to call a referendum on his proposed plan to cut services fees.
It would give students a user fee plan for athletics.
Federation’s After Sunday Review
Head Elected Corps Of Cadets ’
At Meeting Top Units Named
and protection as a tenant. Also
covered is eviction, landlord and
tenant responsibilities, University
married-student housing and ten
ants’ leagues.
A model lease is available at
the back of the guide for optional
use of the student involved.
These two publications will be
available for all interested stu
dents in the housing office, with
the Dean of Students, Dean of
Men and Dean of Women and the
Student Senate office.
Members of the Fair Housing
Commission are Chairman Barb
Sears, Ron Miori, Mike Ehrlich,
Jackie Heyman, Chris Lawson and
Ruth Bagnall. “Benevolent Arms”
is illustrated by Charlie Stinson.
Mrs. Lewis Gross of Dallas was
elected president of the Federa
tion of Texas A&M University
Mothers’ Clubs during the group’s
annual spring meeting here Sat
urday.
Mrs. Gross succeeds Mrs.
Henry G. Creel of Fort Worth,
who was elected vice president
at large. Elected to the num
bered vice presidencies were Mrs.
F. B. Royder, Dayton; Mrs. E. H.
Meadows, Austin; Mrs. Carlton
A. Westbrook, Beaumont; Mrs.
Frank Hoelscher, Alice; Mrs.
Corrinne Rice, Tyler; and Mrs.
Lewis Munson, Angleton.
Other new federation officers
are Mrs. Wallis Benedict, Corpus
Christi, recording secretary; Mrs.
Wilson Fryar, Dallas, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Fred L. May
Jr., San Antonio, treasurer; Mrs.
Henry C. Paine, La Grange, par
liamentarian; and Mrs. Robert
W. Hoelscher, Burlington, his
torian.
Mrs. Jack K. Williams, wife of
the TAMU president, was elected
honorary president.
President Williams addressed
the Aggie mothers, briefing them
on new programs and related
activities.
Entertainment was provided
by the Singing Cadets.
The federation is composed of
52 clubs located throughout the
state and supports the university
through fund-raising and other
activities.
Companies D-2 and E-2 and
Squadron 12 Sunday were named
top units of the 1972-73 Corps of
Cadets.
Company D-2 commanded by
Cadet Maj. William A. White of
Cleburne won the Gen. George F.
Moore Flag as the outstanding
corps unit for the second year in
a row.
Company E-2, commanded by
Cadet Maj. Timothy V. Coffey
of El Paso, received the Bruno
A. Hochmuth Flag for year-long
military achievement.
Cadet Maj. William R. Dixon
of Houston commands Squadron
12, recipient of the George P. F.
Jouine Flag for the best scho
lastic record.
Presentations at a Parents Day
review in Kyle Field ended a
year-long competition among 20
Army and Navy and 14 Air Force
ROTC units and the Aggie Bands
for the coveted awards.
The colorful review staged the
first time this year in Kyle Field
honored Vietnam prisoner-of-war
exes who attended TAMU and
the POW father of A&M senior
Bob Johnson of Plano.
The special reviewing digni
taries included Air Force Col.
Samuel R. Johnson; Maj. Alton
B. Meyer, 1960 Texas A&M
graduate; Capt. Robert N.
Daughtrey ’55 and Capt. James
E. Ray ’63.
Also honored at the review as
The AC&PA—An Easier Way To Make An 4 A’
By ROD SPEER
The ever-expanding market for
‘‘canned” term papers has swept
into the state and this new in
dustry has, by no means, by
passed the academic community
of College Station.
One such term paper selling or
ganization, the American Copy
righting & Publishing Associates,
opened shop a year ago in Hous
ton and has recently begun to
advertise on the A&M campus.
The firm is a retail outlet of
Termpapers Unlimited, Inc., of
Boston, which boasts having 30,-
000 term papers on file. Accord
ing to a recent article in the
University of Houston Cougar,
the company manager, Ward
Warren, is a 23-year-old self-
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
University National Bank
Adv.
made millionaire. Warren, the
article reads, estimates his firm
produces “90 per cent of all the
term papers in the country.”
AC&PA offers to research any
subject to any length for $2.95
per page. It sends a copyrighted
paper complete with bibliography
in seven days. Papers are usually
done on an undergraduate level
although the company will do
graduate and high school work.
The firm temporarily had an
A&M representative but the un
identified student reportedly back
ed down from “cold feet.”
AC&PA’s publicity efforts were
thwarted again when The Battal
ion’s business staff refused to
publish a small advertisement.
The company did manage to dis
tribute wallet-size advertising
cards at A&M dormitories.
Phony term papers are not of
great concern to Dr. Forrest
Burt, chairman of A&M’s fresh
man honors English program.
“A&M students are basically
honest,” he said. “We run into
less than one case (of plagiarism)
per section per semester.” Burt
said English classes are small
enough that teachers know their
students’ writing style and abil
ities. He added that plagiarism
is treated as stealing and calls
for expulsion from school.
Burt admitted that professors
can’t check all of a student’s bio
graphical notes. He said, how
ever, a student’s progress on a
term paper is checked by making
him meet certain deadlines for
note cards or bibliography cards.
“If a student is suspected of
plagiarism he is committed to
do ‘A’ work for the rest of the
course and on the final exam.”
Burt said he thinks it is pos
sible a student could get away
with submitting a phony doctoral
thesis but doesn’t think it could
happen at A&M.
In California it is illegal to
prepare term papers for sale or
distribution. There is no law
against this in Texas, however,
Rep. Larry Vick (R-Houston)
has introduced legislation into
the Texas House forbidding the
sale of research papers used to
get academic credit in an edu
cational institution.
Vick said mass produced term
papers are a challenge to the
validity of a degree given by an
educational institution.
Archie Jaudon, who recently
took over as manager of AC&PA,
said the purpose of the papers
is to save people the time of do
ing their own research. However,
he did admit that students could
retype the papers and submit
them for class work.
The term paper buyer signs
a contract agreeing not to sub
mit the “reference material” as
a term paper and not to use it
“in whole or in part in any man
ner” for course credit.
Jaudon said the company’s
main business is with college stu
dents although it does research
for professors and other com
panies. English and history
papers, he said, sell the best, spe
cifically Shakespearean and an
cient literature topics.
The Houston offshoot currently
has no competition in that area
except for strictly mail order
companies. Jaudon described En
cyclopedia Britanica as its main
competitor.
The market for term paper re
search is rapidly expanding, ac
cording to Jaudon.
If anyone’s interested, Term-
papers Unlimited will sell a fran
chise anywhere in the country
for $10,000.
Microfilm copies of all the re
search papers are in Washington
in case any diligent prof wants
to check up on a student’s work.
The Houston purchaser files are
closed to the inquisitive. “It is
like a checking account,” Jaudon
explained.
AC&PA advertises having a
“complete educational research
service including term paper
research, thesis research, etc.”
Termpapers Unlimited backs that
up with 3,000 writers who work
during the academic year and
make good use of the Library of
Congress. The company has a
1,200 page master list with 8,000
subject topics.
the 1973-74 Aggie Mother of the
Year, Mrs. Marjorie Elizabeth
Ramage of . Hooks, near Tex
arkana.
Company D-2, besides earning
the Moore flag, was runnerup for
both the Hochmuth and Jouine
awards. D-2 also won the best
company - squadron commander,
outstanding freshman and best-
drilled freshman awards.
Squadron 8 under Mike S.
Thun of Axtell was in the top
three for the Hochmuth flag.
Squadron 9, commanded by
Mark A. Cuculic of Center, was
second runnerup for the Jouine
flag, and Company L-l, under
Robert G. Flesher of Portland,
was in the top three for the
Moore flag.
The Sixth Battalion command
ed by Cadet Lt. Col. Larry D.
Harvey of Houston received the
President’s Flag for the battalion
or group with the highest scho
lastic standing. Company L-l
won the Gen. Spencer J. Buch
anan flag and plaque for the best
company-sized unit of engineer
ing students. The R. D. Hinton
award for the outstanding color
guard went to the corps staff.
Awards to the Fish Drill Team
will be given at the Maroon-
White spring football game next
Saturday.
In other awards ceremonies
Sunday, outstanding individual
cadets in the 1972-73 corps were
recognized. They were:
Bryan Reserve Officers Associ
ation saber to Corps Commander
Ronald L. Krnavek, Corpus
Christi;
N. S. Meyer-Raeburn Founda
tion saber to the outstanding bri
gade or wing commander, Col.
Fidel Rodriguez Jr., Bishop, First
Wing;
Texas Chapter, United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, award
to the top battalion or group
commander, Lt. Col. Dennis R.
Kuehler, New Braunfels, Third
Group;
Houston Reserve Officers As
sociation saber to the outstanding
corps officer, Capt. Richard B.
Hall, Bellaire, Company G-l;
George D. Mulloy award to the
junior selected as next year’s
corps commander, Sgt. Maj.
Charles S. Eberhart, Dallas,
corps staff;
Texas Society, Daughters of
the American Revolution award
to the junior selected as next
year’s deputy corps commander,
(See Corps, page 2)