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be Battalion Dost Thou Love Life? Then Do Not Squander Time, For That Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of. College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 25, 1973 Wednesday — Partly cloudy. High 87, low 53. Thursday — Partly cloudy. High of 85. 845-2226 Hill Blasts Nixon Moves iday treet) ,IFE v ES f nt to do th. St s. Tt:XAS ATTORNEY GENERAL John Hill blasted Tuesday recent White House actions on impoundment of funds in various programs going on in states. He said Pres ident Nixon has failed in his duty to faithfully execute the law. Texas Attorney General John L. Hill said here Tuesday the President, “’by imposing his own policy preferences over those of Congress, has failed in his duty to faithfully execute the law, and has far surpassed his predeces sors’ assertions of power.’’ Hill discussed “Presidential Im poundment of Funds” and the possible impact of the President’s actions on Congressional powers and domestic programs at a noon Political Forum presentation. The attorney general called Presidential impoundment “a matter of great significance and importance to all people of the United States.” Hill’s office has challenged Nixon’s impoundment of funds for pollution control in the State of Texas vs. Ruckelshaus, which is now pending in federal courts in Austin. The state is suing to collect $164.6 million in anti pollution funds allocated to Tex as but impounded by Nixon as part of his cutback in national spending. “Nixon has forced domestic programs to bear the heaviest burden,” Hill pointed out. The rural environmental assistance program, rural electrification ad ministration, housing production and mortgage credit and com munity development programs have all been cut by Nixon. The President also impounded $2.5 billion for federal-aid high way programs, but the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has since ruled that this impound ment was illegal. Nixon has cited Article II, Sec tion 3 of the Constitution, which gives the President the duty to “faithfully execute” the laws as his authority for action. He also claims that the statutory debt limit, the limitations of existing tax laws, and his responsibility to maintain a stable economy mandate that he impound funds, according to Hill. Hill said Nixon relies on a theory of inherent executive pow er to impound funds. “It seems to me this goes be yond the Constitutional limits,” he questioned. “Even though the debt limit provides that obliga tions shall not exceed $465 billion, the mandatory language is not an implicit grant of unfettered executive discretion to cut where the President chooses.” Congress at one time consid ered granting the President total discretion, in debt limits, but re jected this proposal, Hill recalled. Many of Nixon’s budget cuts are explained away by citing the debt limit statute, Hill said, and “some are curtailed or terminated without any explanation. These actions, based on such flimsy authority, must be brought under Congressional control, for the sake of the American people af fected.” “The question is,” according to Hill, “whether or not the Presi dent of the United States can simply say ‘that program is out’.” Nixon also has justified his actions through his power to con trol inflation under the Economic Stabilization Act, Hill contended. “However, this act cannot cannot be used as a license to take the budget in any direction you want in the name of the country’s economy,” the attorney general stated. Hill quoted David B. Frohn- mayer of the University of Oregon Law School, who said, ‘Congressional power, like chas tity, is rarely taken by force, seldom lost, and almost always given away.” The attorney general said the courts alone could not solve this problem simply by declaring Nixon’s actions unconstitutional, and that “Congress must act to reassert its constitutional pre rogative in budgetary matters.” By his doctrine of inherent executive power, Hill said the President has turned statutory “shalls” into discretionary “mays,” thereby ignoring the will of Congress. “Ours is a Constitutional sys tem of government, and any in conveniences created by that fact must not be resolved by extra- legal actions taken for the sake of expediency,” Hill challenged. “The dimensions of executive power have reached crisis pro portions. We must bring it back into our Constitutional system, or see that system seriously im paired.’ John L. Hill Petition Signatures Obtained; More Issues On Board Agenda 38 ROXC Studen t s NamedCommanders ly VICKIE ASHWILL A plan proposed to the TAMU System Board of Directors is iskingfor a $19 Student Services ! ee, but a petition asking for a •eferendum on the topic and sug gesting a $15 fee has circulated imong students, and apparently gotten enough signatures. Student Government President Randy Ross received a copy with nore than the required 2,837 stu- lent signatures today and has itarted procedures to have a stu- ient body vote. Ross said he would give the letition to the Judicial Committee n order to get a certification hat the signatures are valid and rom there would begin to organ- ze an election. “A referendum is considered ,n election as defined in the con stitution,” continued Ross, “which requires the Election Board to sublicize the election at least 10 ilass days prior to the election. This would put us in the middle )f finals.” An election requires the special ruling of the Judicial Committee .o hold it earlier, said Ross. Environment Eorum Slated for Thursday Texas State Representative Lane Denton (Waco) and Presi- ient Cher White of the Environ mental Action for Texas will speak as a part of Environmental Forum Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium. “Better Laws for a Better En vironment” will be the topic of he two speakers presented by he Environmental Action Coun- :il of Brazos County. The forum s for the purpose of introducing ■o the public environmental leg- slation now up for action in the Texas Legislature. Issues now under discussion in he Texas House are the Texas Snvironmental Quality Act (HB i46), Texas Land Resources Act (HB 1431), Texas Environmental Agency Act (HB 1556), Texas bounties Environmental Protec- ion Act (HB 5220), Environmen- ial Protection Act of 1973 (HB 105), Texas Surface Mining Rec lamation Act (HB 614) and Hike and Bike Trails Act (HB 1195). Denton has been a member of the House since 1971 and is pres ently in the Education, Human Resources and Elections Com mittees. White, on the other hand, is from Austin and has been active in commercial and educational television and has worked in Washington, D.C., as an analyst of government relations and eco logical issues. She was the for mer president of the Texas En vironmental Coalition. “I’m playing a fair game and the students involved understand that,” said Ross. “I just have to go by the procedures.” Ross also commented on the $19 Student Services fee to go before the Board of Directors May 1. “The A&M Student Govern ment (SG) is one of the few university student governments that has the right to recommend how the Student Services fees are spent,” Ross began. “Several other schools don’t have a say in the matter and don’t know where the money goes.” He continued to say that the suggestions made by the SG are highly respected, but they are just suggestions and President Jack K. Williams and the Board do have the final say in the matter. In closed sessions with Dr. Williams, Ross said it “was tough going for awhile to keep the athletic budget down to the OKd 12-5 Drug Bill To House Moves Floor AUSTIN 6P> — The House Criminal Jurisprudence Commit tee voted 12-5 Tuesday night for a bill that would make first offense marijuana possession a misdemeanor punishable with a jail term up to six months and a fine up to $1,000. The bill now goes to the House floor for debate. A Senate Jurisprudence sub committee voted 4-0 for a bill that would make possession of up to four ounces of marijuana, first offense, punishable by a jail term up to seven days and a fine up to $200. That bill now goes to the full committee for debate. The House committee voted 10-8 for an amendment by Rep. Ron Waters, D.-Houston, that would allow persons previously convicted on marijuana charges to be resentenced. This would affect more than 800 prisoners at the state peni tentiary at Huntsville and 20,000 persons on probation, according to Rep. Jim Mattox, D.-Dallas, who will carry the bill on the House floor. Mattox asked for an attorney general’s opinion on Waters’ amendment. He said it might infringe on the powers of the governor and the Board of Par dons and Paroles. The committee voted 14-3 to ask for the opinion. The committee voted down, 12-5, an amendment by Rep. Bill Sullivant, D. - Gainesville, that would break down marijuana possession into amounts: up to two ounces, up to 90 days and up to $500; two ounces but less than six, up to six months and up to $1,000; six ounces and over, two to 10 years. It voted 10-7 to table an amend ment by Waters that would have made second offense marijuana possession a misdemeanor, pun ishable by up to one year and up to $2,000. Second offense would be a felony, punishable by a 2-10 year prison term. An amendment by Mattox that would allow judges to reduce felony drug convictions to mis demeanors punishable by up to one year in jail and up to $2,000 failed on an 8-8 tie vote. Mattox said such a provision probably would be in the new penal code and the same flexibility should be given to judges in drug cases as in theft or burglary or assault cases. The committee rejected, 14-5, an amendment by Rep. John Hoestenbach, D. - Odessa, that would keep marijuana possession a felony, but reduce the penalty from two years to life to two to five years. It also rejected, 11-6, a Hoes tenbach amendment making sale of marijuana punishable by a minirhum of five years in prison instead of two to 10 years. It voted 14-3 against a Hoestenbach amendment that would take out of the bill all other drug law reforms. Begins Tonight recommended $170,000 by the Student Senate.” “We presented the views of the students and our concern with the Athletic Department and succeeded in keeping that allocation the same,” Ross said. “The Athletic Department is going to have to tighten its belt next year like everyone else and hopefully have a good reason.” The extra money, Ross pointed out, will be put into a reserve and help take care of the Memorial Student Center facilities. “Students are going to have to compromise with the administra tion,” concluded Ross. “Overall, students are paying the amount the Student Senate endorsed.” In order to compensate for the proposed $19 Student Services fees, a suggestion will go to the Board to allow Dr. Williams to levy a fee of $14 per student per semester and $7 per summer session for the hospital pending the adoption of current Senate Bill 188. This bill, when finally passed, will authorize the Board to set a separate student hospital fee for payment by each student, not to exceed $15 per semester and will go into effect Sept. 1, 1973. According to the suggestion from Vice President of Business Affairs Tom Cherry and Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, “Students taking less than six semester credit hours during each semester of the regular session or less than three semester credit hours during each term of the (See Petition, page 5) Company and squadron commanders in the 1973-74 Corps of Cadets have been assigned. Army and Air Force junior cadets selected for the commands will be cadet majors. They were recommended by the new corps commander, Scott Eberhart of Dallas, and approved by the university. Corps organization next fall will include a Naval ROTC battalion, with commanders coming from the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Course (PLC) and Army ROTC programs. Naval science was initiated at TAMU last fall. It will have NROTC cadets at the senior command level in 1975-76. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, commandant of cadets, announced the 38 cadets chosen for the unit command assignments. Naval ROTC units and their commanders are Company H-l, Patrick D. Veteto, Tennessee Colony; Company N-l, Mark A. McLean, Burkburnett; Company C-2, Robert W. Sneed, Longview, and Company E-2, Mark W. Lenneville, San Antonio. Army unit commanders are Company A-l, David I. Friedli, San Antonio; B-l, Griffith L. Lasley, Stratford; C-l, David R. Fette, Muenster; D-l, John H. “Doc” Shroff, Los Angeles; F-l, George A. Frels, Houston; 1-1, James A. Greenwood, Mercedes; K-l, John P. Imhoff, Dallas; L-l, James M. Pavelka, Waco; M-l, Alfred M. (Max) Glaess, Suphur Springs. Also, Company B-2, Randall T. Hagler, Dallas; D-2, Gary L. Gooch, Houston; F-2, Barry D. Bowden, Kenedy; H-2, James D. McClenan, Houston; 1-2, William A. Bergfeld, Conroe; K-2, Michael A. Krause, Austin, and L-2, Michael W. Wilson, Alvin. Air Force ROTC squadron commanders are, for Squadron 1, Wesley K. Gass, San Antonio; Squadron 2, Gary D. Phillips, Austin; 3, Gary L. Buis, Sugar Land; 4, Gary L. Sauer, San Antonio; 5, Danny L. Holt, Fairbanks, Alaska; 6, Steven E. Chapman, Nocona; 7, Mark A. Dulaney, Houston. In addition, Squadron 8, John M. Turner, Dallas; 9, Richard W. Cole, Alamo; 10, William M. Fraser, Texas City; 11, Jack E. Miller, Dallas; 12, Michael E. Ruff, Dallas; 13, Andrew G. Whitmire, Madisonville; 14, Martin F. Litteken, Wichita Falls; 15, Steven C. Schkade, Giddings, and 16, David A. Williams, San Antonio. Company-size units making up the Texas Aggie Band will be commanded by Leon R. Bennett, Lufkin, and Pat L. Phillips, Hart. They will head the Maroon and White Bands, respectively. Regents Boost Services Fee At UT-Austin AUSTIN bW — University of Texas regents approved a man datory student services fee Tues day for UT-Austin that would raise most student’s fees from $23.75 per semester to $28. The “sliding scale,” which will go in to effect next fall, will vary ac cording to the number of hours a student takes. Students will be charged $3.50 per semester credit hour up to eight hours. Students registered for more than eight hours will pay $30, the maximum fee. The fee is used to support stu dent services that include the UT Health Center, shuttle bus opera tions, student government activi ties and publication of the stu dent newspaper, the Daily Texan. Summer school students will have to pay a minimum of $10.50. In other action, the. regents approved a $1 increase in ticket prices for home football games from $6 to $7. Prices for the traditional UT-Oklahoma game in Dallas will go from $7 to $8. —Approved a bachelor’s de gree program in criminal justice for UT-E1 Paso. —Approved final plans for the new University of Texas Medical School at Houston at an estimat ed cost of $27,847,000. —Awarded contract for con struction of a Child Health Cen ter at the UT Medical Branch in Galveston, $8,299,500 offered by Southwestern Construction Co. of Houston. —Cut the size of a building addition at the UT Cancer Cen ter in Houston in half because of the shortage of federal funds. The project will include the ad dition of sixth and seventh floors to the existing M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. Dracula’s Terror As Horror Story Unleashed Unravels By KENNETH STROEBEL Staff Writer Dracula is coming. Mark S. Scott will unleash an armor-piercing stare on an un suspecting audience when the Aggie Players present “Count Dracula” tonight, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday nights at 8:00. John Steele is director of the comic adaptation of Ted Tiller’s three-act play. Another junior education ma jor, Nanette Zeig, is assistant director. “Count Dracula” is the first full-length play Steele has di rected. Last week he was chosen for an acting and singing role in the nationally recognized out door musical “Texas” to be per formed in Palo Duro Canyon. The story concerns the Count’s quest for the heroine’s blood in order to become a vampire, and the attempts made to stop him. Dr. Arthur Seward operates the English asylum in which the comedy unfolds in the 1930s set ting. Aileen Wenck plays Dr. Sew ard’s sister Sybil, and captures the essence of her personality in the line, “My mind is absolutely vacant.” Dr. Seward, played by Lynn Lawhon, is the exasperated ob ject of Hennessey’s affections. She is another of the residence’s personnel, played by Pat Lock- stedt. They are assisted to a cer tain degree by Westley, played by Holly Faison. “She’s a real weasel,” declares Hennessey of Renfield, another deserving resident. Played by Kay Slowey, Renfield enjoys eat ing flies, and predicts, “The mas ter is coming to drink your blood.” The master, in the play and in his abilities, is Mark Scott. In addition to the characteristic slinking and dipping of Dracula, Scott shows other tricks, such as producing lighted cigarettes from thin air. In his role as Count Dracula, he lives in nearby Cas tle Carfax—alone. The Count’s eyes widen, blaz ing into space as he announces, “I have my own plans for the heroic Mr. Harker.” David Hines plays the ill-fated Jonathan Har ker, an occasional visitor of the asylum. He is suitor to the heroine, Mima Murray, played by Cheri Linquist. Mina begins to behave strangely after walking with the Count in the rose garden. And what mystery would be complete without a German scientist? In this case, it’s Hein rich Van Heising, played by Jim Marks Dennis. Van Heising is a rare disease specialist called to study Mina’s peculiar behavior. Guion Hall was a fallout shel ter converted to a theater. In 1965, it also became headquarters for aspiring student writers, ac tors and directors looking for an audience to try their talents on. When the building was razed in 1970, the Aggie Players relo cated the Fallout Theater pro gram and its sign at an old army (See Dracula’s, page 6) LUST FOR BLOOD will be the topic of the three-act play by Ted Miller, “Count Dracula,” as presented by the Aggie Players beginning tonight. Showtime is at 8:00 in Lecture Room 1 of the Zachry Engineering Center.