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f Liquor, Mid-term Grades on Senate Agenda The TAMU Student Senate will take a stand on the contro versial issue of liquor on-campus tonight at 7:30 in Room 102 of the Zachry Engineering Center. Senate bill 20-(5) asks for a change in University policy which would allow the possession and private consumption of alco holic beverages in the resident halls. Presently the administration has handed down a selective en forcement policy which unoffi cially allows liquor in the dorm rooms. If the Senate approves the proposed liquor polity it will be sent to the Board of Directors for a final decision. Specifically, the resolution would permit alcoholic beverages in all campus housing facilities as long as the person is 18. These beverages would only be allowed to be consumed in the rooms and must be maintained in some form of covering or wrapper when out side the rooms. Sale of liquor would be pro hibited and all on-campus liv ing facilities would be subject to alcoholic beverage possession limits as defined by civil law. Previously Rules and Regula tions Chairman Curt Marsh said, “If the administration does not want to enforce the rules as they exist, we should not have them.” Marsh also said that since Senate Bill 123 had declared all persons 18 years and over to be full adults in Texas the propos al is reasonable since “virtually all A&M students are over this limit.” Keith Tyler will present a res olution concerning mid-semes ter grades to the senate for dis cussion. The resolution recommends to the administration that in “the future, mid semester grades be mailed only to the freshmen stu dents, students on scolastic pro bation and students who have a grade or ‘D’ or ‘F’ in a course.” The resolution states that fac ulty members should be encour aged to make mid-semester grades available to the students either by posting them or some other manner. Reasons supporting the pro posal includes undue pressure on students during “mid-semester quiz week,” 70 per cent of the faculty being against such pro cedures, these grades are often inaccurate and are used as a basis for determining various scholastic awards and admission to graduate schools. Senators will vote on an or ganizational proposal for the stu dent handbook as presented by .External Affairs Committee Chairwoman Barb Sears. Presently the handbook has no structure and the resolution, if passed, will put the book under the jurisdiction of the Student Publications Board, Sears said. The resolution also asks that the release date for the hand book be set for the beginning of the summer to allow use of the publication for the summer ori entation sessions. Treasurer David White is pre senting an appropriations reso lution for the book exchange pro gram for $175. The service was operated last year as a telephone operation but will be extended this year to be operated out of three meeting rooms in the Student Program’s office, White said. “People will leave their books and students can buy the books directly from the exchange cen ter. Checks will be mailed to the appropriate persons at the be ginning of the spring semester if their books were sold,” said White. Funding will be needed for forms, publicity and other mater ials for the operation of such a program, according to White. Another proposal before the Senate tonight will ask for its endorsement of a program to in form students on what they can do to conserve energy. According to Greg Johnson (Eng.-Soph.) the program would (See SENATE, Page 3) Cbe Battalion Vol. 67 No. 304 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 24, 1973 North VietNamese Nobel Appointee Says ‘No’ to Prize SPSP By DICK SODERLUND Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM (A>>—North Viet nam’s Le Due Tho informed the Nobel committee Tuesday that he cannot accept the peace prize he shared last week with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Tho’s reason was that fighting still goes on in Vietnam. “. . . Since the conclusion of the Paris agreement on Vietnam, the U.S. agreement on Vietnam, the U.S. and the Saigon administra tion have continued to commit very serious violation of many es sential provisions of the agree ment,” he said. “The Saigon administration has, with U.S. support and encourage ment, carried on its war activities. Peace has not been really re stored in South Vietnam.” But the Hanoi Politburo mem her who negotiated the Vietnam cease-fire with Kissinger added that he would consider accepting his half of the $120,000 prize once “guns are silenced” in South Viet nam. Announcement of Tho’s present rejection of the prize came from Hanoi as the Swedish Royal Acad emy of Sciences ended the 1973 series of Nobel awards by nam ing scientists from the United States, Japan, Britain and Ger many winners in physics and chemistry. A foreign-born American, a Japanese working in America and a young Briton shared the physics prize for their discoveries con nected with the generation of power through superconductors. Their findings are practically ap plied in measurement and transis tor techniques. Japanese Leo Esaki, 48, and Norwegian-born American Ivar Giaever, 44, shared half of the $120,000 prize for pioneering in vestigations into electronic phe nomena called “tunneling,” where runaway particles penetrate bar riers like a ball passing through a wall without leaving a mark. The two researchers work in New York State for IBM and General Electric. The academy gave the other half of the prize to 33-year old Brian Josephson who, as a 22- year-old student at Cambridge’s historic Cavendish Laboratory, predicted new and unexpected phenomena in supercurrents in a theory named the “Josephson ef fects.” The chemistry prize went to 52-year-old Prof. Geoffrey Wil- (See North Viet, page 5) LIGHTS WERE FLASHING around the University Center Tuesday night as a spark apparently started a fire in the wall of the uncompleted student lounge area of the MSC. Two students, Bruce Mills and Joe Pelletier, spotted the blaze while driving down Houston St., alerted police and almost extinguished the blaze themselves. The event did draw a large crowd of on-lookers. (Photo by Gary Bald- asari) Nixon Gives Them Up... Tape Release Ok’d By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON <A>>—President Nixon capitulated Tuesday and agreed to surrender Watergate- related tapes and documents to a federal judge. The abrupt and astounding turnabout came about two hours after the House of Rep resentatives took the first formal steps toward impeachment. White House chief of staff Al exander M. Haig Jr., the Presi dent’s top aid, discounted the seriousness of the impeachment move. But he said Nixon’s rever sal reflected a realization that there was a threat of grave con sequences developing in the wake of recent events. Nixon has cancelled a nation wide radio and television address 2nd Mid-East Truce Sought By UN on the issue, originally scheduled for 8 p.m. tonight. “This President does not defy the law,” Nixon’s lawyer told Wa tergate Judge John J. Sirica in will comply in full with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order requiring him to deliver White House tapes and related papers. Nixon’s earlier refusal to com ply with the order led to his firing of special Watergate pros ecutor Archibald Cox and precipi tated a crisis of confidence in- his admiinstration. The decision to turn over the tapes was expected to ease the clamor for impeachment. But House leaders decided to go ahead with their earlier decision to be gin a Judiciary Committee pre liminary investigation to deter mine whether grounds for im peachment exist. There also was growing support in both houses of Congress for legislation to establish a special prosecution force to replace Cox and assure its independence from the White House. Meanwhile, the President’s so- called compromise plan to give the Senate Watergate committee an authenticated summary of the tapes evaporated when Haig told newsmen at the White House that the offer had been withdrawn. Nixon’s agreement with the committee leaders appeared tenu ous at best almost from the time of its announcement Friday night. And it was clouded further Tues day when committee lawyers ap pealed Sirica’s decision to throw out their lawsuit seeking the tapes. Then the panel’s chairman, Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., sent a telegram to the President saying his understanding of the propo sal, to be put to the full commit tee Thursday, was far different from that described by the White House. After Haig announced termina tion of the agreement, committee chief counsel Samuel Dash ques tioned whether the President’s of fer “was really a ploy.” “Obviously, we will now have to meet recognizing that this of fer was not made in good faith,” Dash said. “I don’t think the President has heard the last from my committee.” Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R- Tenn., the committee vice chair man, said he still hoped some sort of arrangement could be worked out with Nixon to ob tain the tapes. Haig and presidential attorney Charles Alan Wright told a news conference late Tuesday that the White House had miscalculated the public outcry over the tapes issue. “ . . . the President concluded after very painful and anguish ing discussion with me, with his counsel, that the circumstances were sufficiently grave” to re verse himself on the tapes issue, Haig said. The President’s sudden reversal took many of the principals by surprise. Even Wright, who announced (See Tape Release, page 5) Sophomores Attempt World Record The sophomore class of A&M will be attempting to break a world record Oct. 30 when it holds a volleyball marathon to raise money for the year’s activities. The marathon begins Tuesday afternoon and will continue through Sunday midnight, Nov. 4. The game will be round-the- clock play, rain or shine, in the Grove until 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, when it will move inside to Deware. As the teams in the Grove quit, another group will be gin playing in Deware. Under NCAA rules, there will be two teams of six on the courts at all times. Interested students are encour aged to join the marathon and obtain a sponsor to donate a cer tain amount for every hour he plays. Sophomores will attempt to break the previous world record of 125 hours held by the Grace Baptist Church Youth on July 31, 1971. They hope for 150 hours of continuous play. According to Mike Alford, class president, the officers have been in touch with the Guinness Book of World Records for publication of the new record. Alford also encourages interested sophomores to attend the next class council meeting, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. in Room 504 of the Rudder Confer ence Center. Liquor Policy OK Doubtful The TAMU Board of Directors will probably be one of the last to accept an on-campus liquor policy, says Student Government President Randy Ross. Ross said that if the Senate passes the on-campus liquor resolution he will do his best to get it through all the channels and present it to the Board. “Most student leaders are By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel and Egypt agreed early today to a second cease-fire, ef fective at 1 a.m. EDT, the Israeli command announced. There was no immediate an nouncement from Cairo, but Israel said its chief of staff had “or dered the armed forces on the Egyptian front to lay down arms as from 7 o’clock this morning.” Moments after announcing the truce, Israel reported that in fighting between the first and second cease-fires its troops ex tended their beachhead on the west bank of the Suez to Port Suez, at the southern end of the canal, and to Adabiya, 11 miles south of Suez on the coast. The Israelis said this advance surrounded the Egyptian 3rd Army east of the canal and cut all communication routes be tween Port Suez and Cairo. Israeli press reports said 20,000 Egyptian troops and 200 tanks Were caught in the encirclement. Egypt, meanwhile, reported that fighting intensified late Tuesday, especially west of the canal, as a result of the “enemy pushing new reinforcements.” Both Egypt and Israel had or dered their troops to stop fighting late Monday afternoon in re sponse to a U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution adopted ear ly Monday. But hard fighting continued Tuesday on both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts, and the Secur ity Council issued another cease fire appeal Tuesday afternoon. The second resolution urged the Arabs and Israelis to return to the positions they held at the time of the first cease-fire and also asked U.N. observers to be sent to the battle fronts. The Israeli command said Maj. Gen. Ensio P. H. Siilasvuo of Fin land, the chief of the U.N. truce observers, contacted Defense Min ister Moshe Dayan early today and Dayan asked him to transmit a proposal to Cairo for a 7 a.m. cease-fire. Israel said the Egyptians’ af firmative response was received at 5:45 a.m., an hour and 15 min utes before the cease-fire hour. Syria, meanwhile, had said it was studying the first cease-fire resolution, and U.N. Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim an nounced Tuesday night that Da mascus had agreed to accept the resolution “on the basis that it means withdrawal of Israeli forc es from all Arab territories occu pied in June 1907 and thereafter, and on the basis of guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian peo ple.” The Syrian state raidio an nounced the government’s action and Foreign Minister Abdel Ha lim Khaddam’s message to Wald heim in a broadcast early today. $2 Million Dairy Contribution To Campaign Fund Exposed IT’S A GOOD TIME FOR EVERYONE at the Free University Pickin’ and Sing-in’ class. Here, David La Rue gets ready to rip through “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver. (Photo by Charles Coppage) WASHINGTON bP)—-The dairy industry promised President Nix on $2 million in re-election contri butions two weeks before the President imposed import quotas on ice cream and other dairy prod ucts, it was disclosed Tuesday. The promise was contained in a letter sent to Nixon Dec. 16, 1970 by Patrick J. Hillings, law yer for the Associated Milk Pro ducers, Inc. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated Press, Public records show the quotas were imposed Dec. 31, 1970 by presidential proclama tion. “This letter discusses a matter of some delicacy and of signifi cant political impact,” Hillings said in the opening paragraph. He said the milk producers’ group had donated $135,000 to Republican candidates in the 1970 mid-term elections and said the group was working to set up “ap propriate channels for AMPI to contribute $2 million for your re- election.” In the following paragraph. Hillings noted that the U. S. Tar iff Commission had recommended quotas on dairy products almost three months before. “No presi dential proclamation has been is sued,” Hillings said. “The problem is this. The dairy- industry cannot understand why these recommendations were not implemented very quickly. The longest the Democrats ever took to implement a Tariff Commis sion dairy recommendation was 16 days,” he said. Deadline Soon For Absentees Persons wishing to vote absen tee ballot in the Nov. 6 Texas election must do so before Nov. 2. According to Texas law absen tee balloting must close four days before the election. Persons registered out of the county must write their county clerk to request a ballot and in structions. After receiving the ballot he may vote but should not sign it unless before a notary public. If the person resides in the community in which he is reg istered he must vote absentee at the county courthouse before the deadline. A notary public is available in the Memorial Student Center at the front desk. aware that the board will prob ably vote against it,” said Ross. “I’m sure they will come around in time, but they are a conserva tive board. “I think that the Board feels it should promote a conservative image since TAMU is based on a conservative background,” con tinued Ross. “They feel they owe it to the students, parents and former students to project such an image.” Ross said that if he were al lowed to vote on the issue in the Senate he would vote yes even though he recognized both the pros and cons of the issue. “If the senate and the students want the issue to pass the Board they’se going to need a very strong vote in favor of the change. A simple marginal vote won’t make that much influence on the Board as to what the stu dents want,” Ross said. “I just want everyone to un derstand what they are voting on.” The selective enforcement TAMU President Jack K. Wil liams set on the issue ought to work out great for all students, continued Ross. “Conceivably if a student has liquor in his room he can do so as long as he does not abuse the privilege,” continued Ross. Ross defined “abusing the pri vilege” as disturbing a room mate’s study or sleeping habits. If the person was labeled as a disturbance he should then be disciplined by the residence ad visor as anyone abusing the pril- vilege of living in a dorm. “As a matter of principle, the Senate owes it to the student body to take a look at this issue,” said Ross. “Some of the Sena tors are really for this issue but on the other hand, other Senators have mellowed since the selective enforcement ruling.”