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lAttempts to increase student
ghts dominated the actions of
pinNMMhfaJ S tudent Senate last fall with
passages of a liquor resolu-
i>n, a lenient absence policy and
mid-semester grade report reso-
tion.
^ co««,8«,J^ an y Senate resolutions never
S.L^Jffii^ched fruitation, however, as
icy were held up or killed by
liversity administrators,
fjust because the Senate pass-
: a resolution does not mean it
u be working within two
feeks,” said Randy Ross, Student
■'Rmment president.
e liquor resolution, which
led for official approval of li
on campus, following prece-
established at other state
ersities, did not pass the Board
irectors. According to Ross,
Senate is still investigating
working on the proposal.
Senate passed an absence
y resolution which would do
with required attendance in
, in order to protect students
grade devaluation. It is also
| being worked on.
^ e Senate approved a mid-
nppllicnffr imes ^ er £ rade report resolution
1 “ t * PP ^ Inch asked that mid-semester
jades be sent only to freshmen,
udents on scholastic probation
phose who have a grade of D
IF in a course. It has not yet
_!ceived administrative approval.
Ibelieve something good will
He from it,” said Ross.
Met HotTniB j n t ramura i Council to the
Bate was set up last fall. The
Hicil did extensive work for in-
Hnural facilities and more work
kc*s (tin progress,
ff^, (The textbook exchange is in
ieration now. According to Ross,
)e exchange is going well and
Ebooks are being sold.
A resolution calling for the pub-
cation of student evaluations of
fchers has not been successful.
of the TAMU Bookstore.
Most of the Senate’s time this
semester will be spent allocating
student ^service fees, but Ross said
there are many other things for
the Senate to discuss.
It plans to hire a student attor
ney within the month to kickoff
the term.
More student services including
a car care center and birth control
facilities will come up for Sen
ate consideration this semester.
The idea of spouse activity
cards for the wife or husband
who is not a student will be dis
cussed. More help for off campus
students in the form of lunch
cards will be another idea for
the Senate.
Being able to choose professors
before signing up for a course
will also be introduced in the Sen
ate.
Ross said a student bill of
rights would be beneficial to the
students. He said this may also
come before the Senate this
spring.
A TAMU scientist will play a
major role in the Viking Project—
an attempt to place the first U.
S. lander on the surface of Mars.
Dr. A. T. Young, a physics re
searcher in the Physics Depart
ment, is actively engaged in de
sign and testing of special cam
eras which will beam detailed pic
tures back to earth from the red
planet’s surface.
Funded with a research grant
from NASA-Langley Research
Center in Hampton, Va., Dr.
Young’s work will involve test
ing and calibration of the special
facsimile cameras used on the
Viking Lander.
“The Viking Project will be
similar to the old Surveyor Pro
jects which preceded man to the
moon,” Dr. Young noted. “The
project will involve two separate
craft, one an orbiter around
Mars and the other a lander which
will photograph the planet’s sur
face and perform several experi
ments.
“The cameras on board will be
placed about five feet apart and
will give the lander the ability to
take stereo photographs. This will
enable us to accvurately measure
distance and size of objects being
photographed.”
He said a soil scoop will be in-
Role of political executioner
fought by Sen. Goldwater
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ry Goldwater, R-Ariz., says lib
eral columnists are “trying to set
me up” as President Nixon’s po
litical executioner.
Goldwater said he won’t play
that role.
At the same time, the 1964 Re
publican presidential candidate
says he has private polls showing
Nixon and Watergate’s unpopu
larity will cause a 10 per cent loss
of votes to Republican candidates
this fall.
And he said should Nixon step
aside for any reason, “I can see
nothing wrong with Jerry Ford
becoming President.”
“I don’t say that to urge the
President to resign or to urge his
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2 months
ny questions have been raised
'wuutc' nnrfo,' the administration about the
r^'Vir.ppKSi.h jiluations, but Ross says there
till a chance for the resolution
ore work is done,
tudent Government Radio,
!ch went on Midwest Video
ilecast this fall, will continue
perate on the cable this spring,
plans are being made to move
broadcast.
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WASHINGTON UP) — The un
restricted flow of Arab oil to the
United States may resume in less
than two months as a result of
the Egyptian-Israeli troop agree
ment, Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger indicated Tuesday.
“I have every reason to believe
that our success in the negotia
tions mark a major step toward
ending the oil embargo,” Kis
singer told reporters.
He laid out no specific time
table, but he said “I think in more
ambitious terms,” when asked if
the boycott end was linked to the
final implementation of troop sep
aration along the Suez Canal.
Kissinger’s report was one of
several optimistic signs on the
subject Tuesday.
At a news conference in Al
giers, President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt indicated that the Arabs
should alter their oil embargo of
the United States because Wash^
ington “has adopted a new poli
cy” in the Mideast.
“There is a significant, though
not total, change,” Sadat said.
“For every change in the Ameri
can position, it is necessary for
the Arabs to make an identical
change toward the United States.”
In Israel, Premier Golda Meir
won parliamentary approval for
her agreement to pull Israeli
forces back from the Suez Canal,
clearing the way for separation of
the Egyptian and Israeli armies
to begin Friday.
According to the agreement
signed last week, Egypt and Is
rael must complete the disen
gagement within 40 to 60 days.
The process is expected to start
Friday.
This means Arab oil could be
on the way to the United States
no later than the end of March.
And Kissinger appeared to signal
a much earlier resumption when
he answered “yes” to the ques
tion: Do you expect the embargo
to be lifted before the agreement
is finalized?
Although optimistic, the secre
tary injected words of caution and
warning in his first news confer
ence since returning from his
peacemaking Middle East trip.
“Failure to end the embargo in a
reasonable time would be highly
inappropriate and would raise
serious questions of confidence in
our mind,” he said.
However, when asked if Ameri
can force might be considered to
overcome a continued boycott,
Kissinger responded, “I don’t
think the embargo will go too
far.”
The secretary opened his news
conference by taking a question
on the role of the United States
in enforcing or otherwise guaran
teeing the Israeli-Egyptian troop
settlement.
“We are not guarantors in the
sense of formally enforcing” the
agreement, Kissinger responded.
While it is obvious, he contin
ued, that the United States would
be involved politically in the event
of renewed fighting “in a legal
sense there is no obligation the
United States has taken to en
force the agreement.”
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impeachment,” he said in a recent
interview. “It’s just that we have
a good man in the vice president
and there would be no transition
problems at all.”
In an interview, Goldwater was
asked to assess the change that
some perceive in him from the
humiliated loser of the Republi
can right wing 10 years ago to a
respected spokesman of his party
today.
“I don’t sense the same thing
that some of the press seem to
sense, that the Republican party
is looking at me as an elder states
man or one of their patriarchs
. . he said and added: “I think
there’s just a lot of the press try
ing to egg me into saying, ‘Re
sign Mr. President,’ and I’m not
about to do it.”
“I think they’re trying to set
me up,” Goldwater said of press
predictions that his outspoken
criticism of Nixon’s handling of
Watergate will cause him in the
end to head a delegation of party
and business leaders calling for
the President’s resignation.
“The liberal columnists who are
figuring I might fall for this,
saying, ‘Damn it, I can go down
in history.’ ” he said. “Well, I
don’t want to go down in history
that way.”
“I wouldn’t do it without some
concrete evidence,” he said. “I
have not seen anything yet that
would force me to say, T think
this man has to go.’ ”
“And I say that,” Goldwater
said, “even though I can sense a
very strong feeling right here on
the hill and you’re going to see it
more and more, that many Re
publicans would like to run this
year without Mr. Nixon.
“But I believe my loyalty is
first to the country and not to
the Republican Party and I think
that it is best served by helping
this man as long as there is any
indication that he deserves it.”
eluded on the lander, much like
the apparatus used on the Surve
yor Moon landers. The photos pro
duced during the project are ex
pected to be slightly less in qual
ity than the human eye, but com
parable to those from a good
snapshot camera.
Color capability also will be fea
tured on the cameras, allowing
scientists to determine just how
“red” Mars is. No film will be
used in the cameras they will not
be television-type instruments.
“The cameras will produce fac
simile pictures,” Dr. Young ex
plained. “The ‘lens’ will measure
each segment of the landscape be
ing photographed. The electrical
impulses will be stored on mag
netic tape in the lander and trans
mitted to the orbiter as it passes
over.
“The orbiter will in turn store
the signals until it is in prime
transmission position to earth,”
he continued. “This rather long
path from the lander to Mars is
being taken because of low elec
trical power on the lander.”
He said the lander will be pow
ered by small nuclear batteries
which will not have the power
to make high-strength direct
transmissions. The batteries,
which have been used on Moon
landings and other space projects,
will have much longer life than
conventional storage batteries.
“We cannot rely on solar ener
gy for the lander,” he went on,
“because suspected duststorms on
the planet’s surface would inter
fere with the solar collectors.”
Preliminary tests on the Viking
cameras will involve photograph
ing samples of minerals and other
objects thought to be on the plan
et’s surface, giving scientists a
point of comparison with actual
appearance. Studies will also in
volve star photography, since ce
lestial navigation techniques will
be used to determine the craft’s
exact position on the planet’s sur
face.
The project is funded with $71,-
945 for initial studies, according
to Texas A&M Research Founda
tion officials. The Viking Project
has a tentative late-1975 launch
date, with an arrival on Mars in
the summer of 1976, according to
Dr. Young.
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