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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.”