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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’
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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.
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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.
(Photo by Gary Baldasari)
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