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SAFE—State Sen. Bob Gammage emphasizes his point with a familiar baseball ges-
ire during Wednesday’s Political Forum presentation. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
Voiing Adults Deserve
[lights, Says Gammage
Texas Sen. Bob Gammage said
'ednesday young adults now
eognized by state law “earned
ad deserve’’ the rights formerly
[corded at age 21.
"These people can’t be treated
adults in some ways and as
lildren in others,” said the Hous-
Dn solon during a Political Forum
ddress at TAMU. He wrote leg
ation making 18 the age of
lajority.
Before Aug, 26, when Senate
ill 123 became effective, a 19-
ear-old could fly a helicopter
unship in Vietnam, get shot at
ad be responsible for shooting
ack. But he couldn’t own a car,
iammage said.
A 20-year-old Marine Corps
ergeant with a wife and children
raid drink anything he wanted
i Saigon, but was arrested in
louston for purchasing a six-
pack. The sergeant’s mother had
to be present for him to plead
guilty, the senator related.
“Those who use these rights in
a responsible, mature manner
have earned them and deserve
them,” Gammage said.
His legislation enables 18, 19
and 20-year-olds, among other
rights accorded legal adults, to
exercise contractual rights, serve
on state juries and consent to
medical treatment including abor
tions without parental consent.
Gammage described the com
plex path and in-fighting SB123
went through in the Texas Legis
lature to become law. He credited
aid from Sen. Grant Jones of
Abilene in getting the bill
through.
He also said Sen. William T.
“Bill” Moore of Bryan helped him
on several occasions, though
[&M Enrollment
Reaches Record
A&M enrollment reached a
word 18,520 this fall, for a
i364-student increase which
ikces it among the fastest-grow-
ng institutions in the nation.
Admissions and Records Dean
Sdwin H. Cooper said the fall
igures include 3,990 women, up
1,278 from 1972.
Current enrollment represents
il4.6 per cent increase over the
Ume period last fall.
TAMU’s 9.45 per cent increase
ast year placed it third in the
nation in growth rate among the
128-member National Association
if State Universities and Land-
Grant Colleges. The national rate
of growth for NASULGC institu
tions in 1972 was 1.8 per cent.
National figures are not yet avail
able for the current year.
Dean Cooper explained the
TAMU figures are based on en
rollment as of Tuesday, the fall
semester’s 12th class day, which
is the reporting date specified by
the Coordinating Board, Texas
College and University System.
Included in the A&M totals are
3,738 graduate students, or a 10.2
increase over last year.
Moore opposed SB123. Gammage
jokingly asked Moore to leave
Austin and visit Bryan during
several key stages.
“He told me he’d really like to
vote for SB123. ‘There’s nothing
wrong with it, but a couple of
Aggies came to me about it and
I can’t let ’em think they scared
me,’ Sen. Moore told me,” Gam
mage said.
The first-term District 7 sena
tor said no pressure was brought
against him as a result of SB123.
“I didn’t realize how much sup
port I had until I introduced the
bill,” he recalled. “They came
out of the woodwork. I had calls
from Aggies, Teasips and others.”
Gammage said two of three
letters concerning SB 123 were
favorable. Several calls all sup
ported him.
“I think most people recog
nized the validity of the legisla
tion,” he commented. “Further,
the lack of opposition was prob
ably an indication that most
people were already working with
and treating the 17 to 20-year-
olds as adults,” Gammage added.
“There are a lot of people in
the Legislature who presume to
know how the public feels about
issues,” he went on. “In reality,
they don’t.”
By VICKIE ASHWILL
The TAMU Student Govern
ment is again confronted with the
decision of whether or not to
join student lobbies on a state
wide and national level.
Presently under consideration
by the senate are the Texas In
tercollegiate Student Association,
the Texas Student Lobby and the
National Student Lobby.
External Affairs Committee
Chairman Barb Sears introduced
the possibility of rejoining the
three organizations to senators at
the Sept. 12 meeting of the body,
which will decide the point Sept.
26.
TSL, an affiliate organization
with TISA, would cost $5 to join
only after the school has joined
TISA. It would cost A&M $160
to rejoin TISA this fall.
Sears is a regional director for
the two organizations and is
chairman of a by-laws revision
committee. As a result of TISA
summer meetings there is a pos
sibility that TISA and TSL will
become consolidated into one or
ganization according to Sears.
Applications
Accepted for
4 SG Posts
“This organization would be
called the Texas Student Asso
ciation,” Sears said. “The main
purpose for such a consolidation
is to establish an organization
categorized as educational to on
ly review legislation and provide
information to member schools.
“TSA would not take a stand
on issues in order to remain tax
exempt, but would allow individ
ual schools to lobby on their
own,” continued Sears.
New programs for the school
year include one day conferences
sponsored by individual schools
with topics pertaining to various
SG projects. Individual campuses
would host the conferences and
be responsible for getting other
schools together to share infor
mation.
Sears said there would be little
or no cost to the delegate schools
involved.
“One day conferences are an
important part of the communica
tion aspect of TISA,” Sears said.
Plans for ’73-’74 also include
the establishment of a lobby in
tern program for university cred
it.
Sears mentioned that this pro
gram could be accomplished
through the establishment of a
problems course at each campus
allowing students to do research
at respective institutions. A sec
ond possibility would be to let
the University of Texas handle
the program, letting students
work in the lobby office while
going to school at UT.
In the past, TSL actively cam
paigned on issues such as mari
juana law reforms, 18-year-old
majority rights, abortion law re
form, tuition equalization and stu
dents on university board of di
rectors.
TISA will host a regional meet
ing at Sam Houston State Uni
versity this Sunday and will hold
its fall convention Sept. 28-30. In
terested students should contact
Sears.
Membership to NSL, based in
Washington, D.C., will cost TA
MU $275 or interested individuals
six dollars.
NSL is the only student lobby
on a national level with a mem
bership open to colleges, universi
ties, individual students and as
sociate memberships for high
schools. NSL hosts an annual
spring conference for all member
schools during which the dele
gates are instructed in the art of
lobbying on bills currently impor
tant to students and explained
the roles their congressmen play
concerning bills and committees
they are on.
Sears, Regional II representa
tive to the board of directors,
attended one summer organization
meeting.
“NSL is also working on a fair
ly extensive recruiting program,”
Sears said. “As a director, I have
been asked to work to recruit
schools in Region II.”
Sears said she would probably
work through TISA for recruit
ing purposes.
Although 1973-74 issues have
not yet been decided by a referen
dum vote of member schools, NSL
can look at past issues and re
sults.
Last year NSL worked to es
tablish the Basic Opportunity
Grants which restore much of the
educational funding system on the
federal level. NSL is supporting
a bill which would allow stand-by
fare for youth, aged and handi
capped. This resulted from a Civil
Aeronautics Board ruling that
youth fares were discriminatory,
causing its elimination.
NSL also joined with the AFL-
CIO to work against a sub-mini
mum wage bill allowing youth un
der 21 to be exempt from the
minimum wage or receiving a
sub-minimum wage of 80 per cent.
The bill that was passed allowed
universities to pay sub-minimum
rates.
Applications for the position of
campus projects chairman on the
executive branch of Student Gov
ernment are now being accepted.
SG President Randy Ross will
appoint the replacement for the
former chairman, Jim Cunning
ham. Ross said Cunningham re
signed of his own accord due to
academic and committee workload
pressure.
Campus Projects chairman is
the chairman of the SG Radio
Board, plans Aggie Muster and
Parents’ Day and works with
other programs such as Aggie
Mother of the Year and refrig
erator distribution.
Application will be available
through 5 p.m. Tuesday in the SG
office, Room 216 of the Memo
rial Student Center.
House Upholds Nixon Veto
Of Minimum Wage Measure
WASHINGTON tP> — The
House has upheld President Nix
on’s veto of a bill increasing the
minimum wage to $2.20 an hour
and extending coverage to 7 mil
lion new workers, including
household maids.
The 259-164 vote Wednesday
was 23 votes short of the two-
thirds majority needed to over
ride the veto. It gave Nixon a
perfect six-for-six batting aver
age in vetoes sustained this year.
GSC
Grad
The Graduate Student Council
will consider library expansion
md Texas A&M Book Store ma
terial selection policies as issues
tor revision in the coming year.
Activity cards for spouses and
graduate teaching assistant
awards are other points under
consideration.
to Examine
Complaints
Thursday in Room 231 of the
The GSC meets every other
MSC at 11:30 a.m. Dr. George
W. Kunze, adviser and Dean of
the Graduate College, is present
it the meetings, which are open
to all students.
Grad students are encouraged
to submit suggestions and ideas
►n a box on first floor of the
fibrary or through departmental
tepresentatives.
More information on these rep-
Usentatives will be published in
the Graduate Student Newsletter.
Newly elected officers for the
GSC are: Ray Skowronski. presi
dent; Bennie Leeth, vice presi
dent; Mike Kozak, secretary;
Sam Bays, treasurer; and Floyd
Bevers, publicity chairman.
The purpose of the GSC is to
present problems and complaints
of grad students to the admini
stration and work with them to
ward solutions. Not all of the
problems considered by the GSC
affect only grad students but may
concern the entire student body.
Council members have express
ed concern that some publications
are no longer being stocked at
the Book Store in the University
Center.
The GSC is a body of graduate
students elected from colleges of
the university which have gradu
ate programs. The members are
elected during the spring general
elections.
Nixon vetoed the hill on
grounds it would increase unem
ployment and add to inflationary
pressures.
After the vote, AFL-CIO Pres
ident George Meany said the de
feat of the bill “is in reality a
victory for exploitation and
greed.”
“The will of the majority has
been thwarted and the worst paid
workers in America will continue
to subsize their greedy employ
ers,” Meany said.
The bill would have hiked the
minimum wage from $1.60 an
hour to $2 this year and $2.20
next year.
A determined lobbying effort
by organized labor was unable to
cut deeply enough into the con
servative opposition to produce a
two-thirds majority.
Fifty-one Republicans deserted
the administration and voted to
override. But 29 Democrats off
set the loss, joining with 135 Re
publicans to give Nixon a com
fortable margin.
The vote, which wiped out a
three-year effort in Congress to
increase the minimum wage —
last raised in 1966 — left the
future of the legislation in doubt.
Nixon and most Republicans
who took part in the debate said
they would support a more mod
erate bill and urged the Demo
crats on the Education and Labor
Committee to bring one out
promptly.
But Rep. John H. Dent, D-
Pa., chairman of the subcommit
tee handling the bill, said he
would bring out a hill containing
Nixon’s recommendation for a
wage scale for teenage workers.
The lack of such a differential
was one of the major factors in
fluencing Nixon’s decision to veto
the bill.
FREE UNIVERSITY class registration was held Wednesday night in the Memorial
Student Center. Courses available ranged from childhood sexuality to gourmet cooking.
(Photo by Steve Ueckert)
White House Defends VP
Pressure on Agnew Denied
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
WASHINGTON UP)—A spokes
man for President Nixon strong
ly denied Wednesday that the
White House is putting any kind
of pressure on Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew to resign.
Deputy White House Press Sec
retary Gerald L. Warren labeled
as false news reports that say or
hint “a disposition by the White
House or the people in the White
House to force the resignation of
the vice president, or that the
White House is exerting pressure
on the vice president to resign”
or that the White House has been
the source of stories that Agnew
was thinking about resigning.
Earlier in the day, Vic Gold,
former press secretary to Agnew,
charged that top White House
aides Melvin R. Laird and Alex
ander M. Haig Jr. were encour
aging rumors and reports about
Agnew’s legal troubles so that
stories about Agnew would over
shadow the Watergate scandal.
“This is all calculated by the
White House to keep the Agnew
story alive,” Gold said in an in
terview. “I’m blaming the White
House staff at the highest level.
Mr. Haig and Mr. Laird.
“It is my contention that this
stuff about the vice president is
a great distraction from the Wa
tergate and the White House is
delighted with it.
“Isn’t it odd that three weeks
ago the country was talking
about the President resigning and
now they’re talking about the
vice president resigning? Some
people may think that’s a coinci
dence. Some people think that
storks bring babies. I’m not that
naive.”
J. Marsh Thomson, Agnew’s
current press secretary, acknowl
edged that individuals at the
White House might be encourag
ing the current furor over Ag
new’s possible resignation, but
he said he thought that anyone
who believed that this reflected
official policy was overreading
the signs.
“Under no circumstances do we
regard it as a conscious concoc
tion of anybody in the White
House,” Thomson said. “I refuse
to believe that it represents any
thing close to official policy. It
is rather the expression of priv
ate opinion.”
At his daily press briefing,
Parking Lots
Get Re-topping
Parking lots 1, 2 and 3 by the
Davis-Gary Hall will be re-top
ped this weekend according to
University Police Chief O. L.
Luther.
Luther asks that students be
out of the lots by 6 p.m. Friday.
Students may park their cars
in lot 40 on the east side of Kyle
Field or in lot 50, across from
the Zachry Engineering Center.
Chief Luther also said that if
the weather is good the parking
lots will be finished and ready
for use on Tuesday.
“Just as soon as a section is
completed and the contractors say
that cars can go on the asphalt,
students will be allowed to park
cars there,” Luther said.
Warren did reaffirm that Nixon
stands by his expression of con
fidence in Agnew’s performance
as vice president.
Meanwhile, the Denver Post
said that Agnew discussed a pos
sible designation in Denver Aug.
15, hut apparently convinced Re
publican party leaders he in
tended to remain in office.
Bill Daniels, a local business
man who is a Republican Nation-
ial committeeman, said Agnew
asked him face to face what he
should do.
“My direct answer to him was
that if you’re guilty, you’ve got
a problem,” Daniels told the Post.
“If you’re innocent, I would fight
it to my dying day.”
Agnew was in Colorado for the
opening of a new dam during
August and met with GOP state
officials. Agnew moved around
the meeting room in the Denver
Hilton Hotel, asking GOP lead
ers their opinions on the matter,
Daniels said.
Daniels said he felt the gen
eral impression was that Agnew
was advised to fight.