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4 id ,eague playofl I’s. rth Swansu ati-New Yoti itional Leagit Che Battalion Weather Vol. 67 No. 295 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 9, 1973 TUESDAY — The weatherman forecases a beautiful day today ith no precipitation exjected. The skies will be partly cloudy, the temperature mild, and a soft, southerly breeze will keep everyone cool. The high today will be 88° with a low tomorrow morning of 73°. Enjoy it! It Is Easier To Fight For One’s Principles Than To Live Up To Them. Agnew ‘Hangs On’ 7:35 - 9:40 an In WAN” (PI SESDAY am mia Former Battalion Editor Tom- alifornia Invi. |ny DeFrank said the Vice Presi- o Tournamem dent is in worse shape than the and Saturday, President and Agnew was “hang ing in office by his fingernails.” DeFrank, Washington corre- pondent for “Newsweek” maga- ine, said to the 21st annual Tex- s Junior College Press Confer- |nce Sunday that Agnew lawyers re using every device and means ;o prevent or delay indictment by j^rguing that a Vice President annot be impeached or get a jjfair trial because of publicity by the press. 8 “Newsweek” received a blanket subpoena from Agnew’s lawyers gor its coverage of the Agnew af fair. DeFrank was assigned to the Blgnew story for “Newsweek,” end he expects to be specifically liamed in a subpoena sometime next week. Although Agnew said he would Riot resign if indicted DeFrank felt he would resign because he is a “proud man who wouldn’t be lumiliated by being the first Vice resident to be arraigned for riminal charges. “In a way Agnew’s problems jhave been a blessing in disguise Ifor Nixon because a lot of people have forgotten that the President isn’t in very good shape either,” ecording to DeFrank. “It is a major miracle that he is still in office after all that has happen ed,” he added. The “happenings” included “Watergate, the Nixon tapes, se cret bombing of Cambodia, wire- tap on his brother, houses in San Clemente and Key Biscayne, and the worst inflation in history.” DeFrank asked, “Why hasn’t the President been impeached?” He feels that there are many rea sons why: “because impeachment frightens many people off as it seems like a coup d’ etat which isn’t supposed to happen in a de mocracy” and because we elect a President for a fixed term. Also it would seem like a slap in the face for those who voted for him. He added that “there are those who think it is all just politics” but he said “it wasn’t politics but a gross abuse of political power.” “I am not saying the President should be impeached. I will say that there are still enough doubts that impeachment needs to be giv en serious thought,” said DeFrank of Nixon. He said that the House of Representatives was taking an “irresponsible attitude” by not considering impeachment because “they don’t want to lose their seats in ’74 and they don’t want Agnew.” DeFrank told of a meeting that he had three weeks ago with a member of the Democratic lead ership of the House of Represen tatives who said “I wouldn’t vote to impeach Richard Nixon even if he walked out of the West Wing of the White House and machine gunned the first six people he saw.” DeFrank also said that Nixon will not release the tapes even if the decision goes against him, and feels that he may be able to defy the Supreme Court and get away with it. He said that Nixon would “limp through his last three years lacking leadership and that it was a real tragedy for the man, his family and the country. “The break-in isn’t what did it, but rather the coverup.” After that the administration had no credibility, according to De- Frank. :35 • 9:40 SUNDAY 7:35 -9:40 :r” V” (PG) 7:45 P. M. N HERD’ m. TOINT” 7:45 P. M, ood RIFTER" n. OR ME” 1:45 DISE” In spite of all the bad that has come out the Watergate De Frank said he thought there was a “sil ver lining if you looked for it.” Before Watergate we took demo cracy too much for granted, said DeFrank. H also hoped it would result in campaign spending laws and the realization that Presi dents are just common men and fallable. He also felt it would re sult in a large Congressional turn over in ’74, a bad year for incum bents according to DeFrank. Fin ally, DeFrank said that Water gate halted for the time being the anti-press campaign that had be gun in 1968. DeFrank was followed by Lynn Ashby, Houston Post columnist, who gave an insight into the re alities of day-to-day journalism. Ashby started at the University of Texas as a pre-med major, but later changed to journalism “Writing is so much fun, it’s im moral to get paid for writing. (See Agnew, page 3) NEWSWEEK Washington correspondent and former Battalion editor Tommy DeFrank said he feels Vice Presi dent Agnew will resign rather than face arraignment by a court. DeFrank spoke Sunday night in the Rudder Confer- ense Tower meeting of Texas Junior Colleges. PollutionTopic Of Free U Talk “What Individual Students Can Do About Pollution” will be dis cussed at the Free University session on “Biological Aspects of Social Problems” Wednesday. Dr. Raphael Quinn, assistant professor of environmental edu cation in the Wildlife Science De partment, will be guest lecturer at the 8 p.m. program in Room 146 of the Physics Building. Dr. Johannes van Overbeek, professor of biology, is coordina tor of the course. Topics for future programs in clude: “Control of Insects By Biological Rather Than Chemical Methods,” Oct. 17, with guest lecturer Dr. Gordon Frankie, assistant professor of entomol ogy; “Genetics of Human Re sistance and Vulnerability to Disease,” Oct. 24, with guest lecturer Dr. Norbert McNiel, pro fessor of genetics, and “Wines: Their Use and Production,” Oct. 31, with Dr. van Overbeek. Topics for the last two lectures, Nov. 7 and 14, have not yet been determined. Former Battalion Editor DeFrank Has Anniversary LYNN ASHBY, Houston Post columnist, described the lighter side and harsh realities of the journalistic profes sion following Tommy DeFrank’s Sunday night talk. Peace Studies Replace Student War Protests By The Associated Press For an increasing number of college students the study of peace has replaced the protest of ar. Today, 50 colleges and univer sities across the country offer major or minor programs in peace studies. Five years ago, at the height of the anti-war move ment, only one school offered such courses. At the University of Pennsyl- I vania, students can obtain a doc- 1 torate in peace science. A year ago Colgate University estab- I lished the first professorship of ; peace. This fall, 300 campuses are us ing peace studies material, ac- i cording to the Institute for World Order in New York City. Spokes- ! men said the institute receives [ some 250 inquiries per month from junior and senior high schools, which are also establish- I ing courses of study. “Our problem and excitement t is that interest is growing so rapidly. It’s been happening since i about 1970,” said Franklin Wal- | lin, institute president. Proponents of such studies don’t discount the power of pro test. They point to the Vietnam war and public opinion’s role in the American withdrawal. But they are hopeful that the peace education movement will go be yond Vietnam. The growing interest in peace studies stems in part from frus tration of some who participated in the protests of the 1960s. Joe Fahey, acting director of Manhattan College’s Peace Studies Institute, said of protest in the 1960s: “I realized that the problem of war was much deeper than the Vietnam war and protests were not enough to stop it. We de- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. cided to make peace our career.” Others see peace studies as part of a growing worldwide con cern, building over the past few decades. “These peace studies programs are part of a global, political and social movement. The bright, moral, pragmatic minds are co alescing. We may be at a mo ment in history where it’s pos sible to abolish war,” said Saul Mendlovitz, director of the World Order Models Project, an effort by teams of researchers around the globe to find better ways to live. How does one study peace? Courses vary greatly in sub ject matter, but most start with the premise that war is not in evitable, practical solutions can and must be found. “The nature of the liberal arts program has been that war is an acceptible means of conflict reso lution. It’s become a predominant myth in society,” said Chuck Ap pel, a 20-year-old senior at Man hattan College. “But you’ve got to teach that nonviolent resolu tion is the best way to solve prob lems.” The peace science approach is also interdisciplinary. One course may include math, history, gov ernment and psychology — in a rounded technique of problem solving. “In the past, sociology, eco nomics, each had its own piece meal approach. We felt the problem of world conflict requires a full attack,” said Walter Isard, chairman of the peace science de partment at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Professors also stress that courses take a rigorous, unemo tional look at world problems, and that facts and understanding — not rhetoric — are their tools. Courses range from the Uni versity of Colorado’s “Sociologi cal Analysis of Revolution” to Harvard College’s “History and Theory of Non-Violence.” Lalit Aggarwal, 29, the first candidate for a doctorate in peace science at Penn, is trying to de velop a universally applicable framework for solving conflicts at all levels, urban to interna tional. As an architect and city plan ner, he felt solutions to urban disputes very inadequate. “But it’s not enough to just say, ‘I don’t like it.’ One should be able to suggest a possible al ternative. The program has helped me put my ideas in a more rigorous, precise form,” said Ag garwal, who plans to work with an international agency when he completes his degree. By GREG MOSES Tommy DeFrank’s Sunday night speech came exactly seven years after he was dismissed as Battalion editor. DeFrank began his short term as editor in the fall of 1966. On Sept. 21 of that year he published a letter to the editor from a wife of a vet student which, according to the “Texas Observer,” sparked the contro versy that led to his dismissal. The letter was signed “Vet Wife” and disputed statistics printed in the Battalion on donations. The Battalion had printed that contributions by Aggie exes in the Bryan-College Station area to A&M exceeded contribution funds of previous years. The author claimed that her husband, still in school, contrib uted to the fund and she knew of several similar cases. She concluded that the statis tics were invalid since exes were not the sole contributors. Less than a week later letters to the editor were stopped by the administration. The next day DeFrank sub mitted an article authored by himself about political forum to be published in the Battalion. DeFrank noted in the article that due to delays within the administration speakers would not appear on the forum agenda until the spring semester. Jim Lindsey, director of publi cations, approved the article and DeFrank went to meet with the late Gen. Earl Rudder, president of A&M. returned to the press and found the article removed. Lindsey said the article was “premature and not fair to the administration.” The questionable part of the article seemed to be a quoted statement from the Great Issues Committee chairman Steve Ko- vich which read: “If we keep putting it off and don’t make a decision on forums soon, we won’t have them at all this year.” On Sept. 27 DeFrank pre sented his case to the A&M Board of Directors, which decided that policies of student publication should be handled by the admin istration. Rudder then told DeFrank that he considered A&M the publisher of The Battalion and the Student Publications Board the editors- in-chief. On Sept. 29 the masthead of The Battalion showed Lindsey as editor and Lane Stephenson as assistant editor, with DeFrank listed as student editor. Steph enson was Lindsey’s assistant in University Information. (Both have remained in their positions.) Other college newspapers be came interested in the situation and a few A&M students began protesting. A petition was circulated which called for student control of the paper or disavowal of The Bat talion as a student newspaper. Rudder appeared before the Student Senate on Oct. 6 to dis cuss the issue. He did not allow the press to cover the meeting but, according to the Texas Ob server, he said The Battalion should be run as any other re spectable paper is run and the administration had to decide whom to trust. “I think the answer is rather obvious,” said Rudder. “The president must put his trust in older people, rather than stu dents.” The next day DeFrank along with his managing editor and sports editor were dismissed from the paper. The entertainment editor resigned. Aussie to Perform Chaucer Rob Inglis, noted Australian actor, will present his solo per formance of Chaucer’s Canter bury Tales Thursday. The one-man show will be held in Rooms 225-230 of the Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. Selections to be presented in clude the Prologue, the Wife of Bath Prologue and Her Tale, the Tales of the Pardener, Nun, Priest and Miller, a section of the Knight’s Tale and an excerpt from the Monk’s Tale in Middle English. Inglis uses a table and four chairs to create the situations of 29 Chaucer characters “be cause the audience in theatre, must use its imagination.” His costume is medieval, fashioned after Chaucer’s own. in “Hamlet,” Falstaff, the King of France in “Henry IV,” and Beadle in the musical “Oliver.” As a playwright, Inglis has had his play, “The Hands,” presented on BBC-TV and his musical, “A Rum Do!” received a Royal Com mand Performance in Brisbane. His most recent work is “Erf,” another solo performance. It seeks to trace man’s journey from fear of nature to domination of nature. Tickets for The Canterbury Tales are $2 for students and $3 for patrons. After the meeting DeFrank He has also played the Ghost State Rep Johnson to Talk For BAC-Political Forum Texas Representative Mrs. Ed die Bernice Johnson will speak Thursday at A&M. The first black woman in Dallas history elected to the Texas Legislature, Johnson was a central figure in a recent dis pute that brought new emphasis on equal opportunity employment in Texas. Rep. Johnson’s Thursday talk, on her view of state politics, will begin at 12 noon in Rooms 225 and 226 of the Memorial Student Center. The presentation is spon sored by the MSC Black Aware ness Committee in conjunction with Political Forum. BAG Chairman Aaron Donatto said students will be admitted free. Non-student admission will be 50 cents per person. Johnson’s dispute with State Comptroller Robert Calvert over hiring practices led last month to new procedure in state agen cies’ budget applications. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby announced that all state agencies will be required to submit reports on hiring prac tices when they present budget requests. He said a little known provision of the current state appropriations bill prohibits ex penditure of funds by any agency that does not comply with equal employment opportunity guide lines. Elected to the 63rd Legislature after a prominent career in med icine, Johnson was chosen vice chairwoman of the State Demo cratic Convention last year. She also was the State Democratic Executive Committeewoman from the 23rd Senatorial District and served on the National Demo cratic Credentials Committee. She served on the House State Affairs, Calendar and Human Resources Committees. Formerly of Waco, Johnson studied nursing at St. Mary’s Col lege of the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind. She received the nursing degree at TCU, working through an edu cational grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Further academic training in education and psychology was taken at North Texas State. Johnson studied with leading psychiatrists and psychoanalysts and has been widely sought as a consultant on sensitivity train ing, transactional analysis and group psychotherapy. During 15 years with the Veterans Administration Hos pital in Dallas, she was chief psychiatric nurse and recognized with the hospital’s Sustained Superior Performance Award in 1971. Rep. Johnson has served in numerous other civic and busi ness responsibilities. ROCK MUSIC AT LAST—Student Government FM radio (107.5) went on the air at 4 p. m. Monday. Here John Herndon, managing and program director for SG radio pre pares to cue up a record for air play. Students subscribing to the services of Midwest Video Cable can receive the sta tion, the equipment for which is cost-free to students. 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