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Vol. 67 No. 339
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 30, 1974
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> NOTHING UNDERNEATH the masking tape John Hollaway is pulling off Sbisa Hall.
He and fellow-worker Peter Adams are merely patching leaks, from a 12-foot high scaffold,
in the old building. The masking tape is applied to bricks prior to caulking. (Photo by
Gary Baldasari)
MSC grass use
inHonse’posit Personal choice
Teague to run
for 16th term
lain
Local Congressman Olin E.
’eague has announced that he
will run for re-election to the
Sixth Congressional District.
^ I Teague was elected to the 79th
J [Congress and has served ever
:«ince.
? Teague assumed the chairman
ship of the Science and Astronau
tics Committee with the advent
of the 93rd Congress. Under the
rules of the House of Representa
tives Teague had to give up the
irmanship of the Veterans Af
fairs Committee, however, he re-
. mains on that committee as its
A H ra ^ n ^ member and is chairman
^ of the Subcommittee for Pensions
and Compensations. T e a g u e's
! other duties in the House include
the powerful chairmanship of the
Democratic Caucus. The caucus
| chairman is included in the lead
ership of the House and it makes
im! Teague their representative on
the National Democratic Commit-
idemiC |v Teague serves on the House
! Committee for Standards of Offi
cial Conduct and is a member of
course 1°^ House and Senate’s
Technology Assessment Board.
I “I am presently focusing my ef-
dies
| forts towards the passage of a
solar-energy bill that should help
in solving the long range energy
I crisis,” Teague said.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas AAM.”
Adr.
Long-standing tradition knelt before the altar of inevitable
change last night as the Memorial Student Center Executive
Committee voted to leave use of the grass around the MSC up to
individual discretion.
The MSC grounds had previously been considered a memorial
to Aggie war dead and use of the grass, or even walking across it,
was forbidden by policy.
Adherence to that policy had become noticeably less strict in
recent years.
The decision may have gone against overwhelming student
opinion.
Randy Ross, Senate representative, said, “The Student Senate
talked about this last semester and 95 percent were ^n favor of
memorializing the grounds, with the underlying factor of not
walking on the grass understood.”
Professor Robert Rucker, landscape architect, said, “There
shouldn’t be grass that students can’t walk on around campus
anyway.”
After lengthy debate, the committee voted 11-3 to open the
grounds to use.
Currently much of the grounds is torn up by construction in
the area.
IN A CLOSED SESSION later, the committee dismissed Arts
Committee Chairperson La Tonya Perrin from her position.
Perrin was attacked for not handling her programs, mostly
films, through H. W. Gaines, MSC coordinator of programming.
Detractors charged this lack of communication led to poor publicity
and a lack of information to the proper outlets.
Perrin told The Battalion she found out the meeting would
consider such allegations less than an hour before the meeting
began.
She was dismissed by a 12-0 vote, with Don Webb, MSC
president, abstaining.
In other action, the committee:
APPROVED THREE SPEAKERS for Great Issues. Joachim
Schelien, a German journalist, will speak on European-American
affairs Feb. 7; John J. McKetta and Thomas Halbouty will give
opposing views on the energy crisis in the noon lecture series.
William Kuntsler, the controversial lawyer whose scheduled
SCONA appearance has been canceled, was suggested as a speaker.
GI chairperson John Hoover said Kuntsler had been rejected as a
choice before SCONA invited him.
VOTED TO UNDERWRITE the Spring Leadership Trip
against the wishes of student members of the committee.
The trip will expose student leaders ahd four students from
each college to a metropolitan city’s entertainment at a minimum
cost. Participants pay $30 for a $125 weekend.
President to be subpoenaed
in California burglary trial
LOS ANGELES <A»)_John D. Ehrlichman
asked Tuesday to have President Nixon sub
poenaed as a material witness in Ehrlichman’s
burglary and conspiracy trial. The judge
agreed to issue the unprecedented order.
Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer ruled
that President Nixon is a material witness
in the California case against Ehrlichman
and two other former White House aides,
Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy and David
Y oung.
Ringer said he would authorize a subpoena
commanding Nixon to appear at a Feb. 25
pretrial hearing and at the April 15 trial.
Ehrlichman lawyer Douglas Dalton deliv
ered the three-page proposed subpoena to
Ringer Tuesday afternoon and said Ringer
probably would not sign it until the end of
the week.
“This is prepared right out of the statute,”
Dalton said. “But he the judge, said he
wants to study it very carefully.”
He said the judge probably would send
the document by registered mail to the court
in Washington after it is signed.
The White House declined comment until
it receives the order, but a defense attorney
said one of Nixon’s attorneys had declined
to have the President appear voluntarily and
had told him he would advise Nix<^n against
testifying.
Later White House sources indicated the
President would decline to appear personally
as a witness.
“This will be the first time in history,”
Ringer said, “that a state court, exclusive of
the federal court, has issued this kind of
process directly to a president of the United
States.”
“The court is persuaded that the honorable
Richard M. Nixon is a material witness for
the defense. . . . The court will sign and issue
a properly prepared certificate . . . command
ing the President, the honorable Richard M.
Nixon, to testify before this court.”
Nixon is sought by the defense to testify
about the establishment of the secret White
House investigations unit known as the plumb
ers and as to what instructions he gave it in
regard to an investigation of Pentagon papers
figure Daniel Ellsberg.
It is the 1971 break-in of Ellsberg’s psy
chiatrist’s office that caused the indictments
against Ehrlichman, Liddy and Young, and
attorneys are seeking to show they are only
acting as law enforcement officers in any
action they took.
Ringer also ordered former White House
aide Egil Krogh to testify. Krogh is to begin
serving a six-month federal prison sentence
next week in connection with the 1971 break-
in. He was indicted with the other three in
the California case, but was separated from
it after pleading guilty to a related charge
in Washington.
The break-in was carried out by persons
hired by the plumbers.
Pulitzer poet,
Brazil ’77 set
Monday night
An entertainment double-head
er is planned for next Monday
night as Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet Gwendolyn Brooks and the
Latin-style sound of Sergio Men-
des and Brazil ’77.
Brooks will have a free pre
sentation of “Pictures from the
Ghetto” at 7 p.m. in the Univer
sity Center Forum. Monday morn
ing she will read at Bryan High
School at 9, and she will hold an
informal session and a short
course in poetry writing at 2 p.m.
in Room 601 of the Rudder Tow
er.
At 8:30 Monday night Sergio
Mendes and Brazil '77 will ap
pear in the University Center
Theater.
From the South Side of Chica
go, Brooks writes about people
she knew and the world around
her. Among her award winning
collections of poetry are “Annie
Allen,” “The Bean Eaters,” and
her most recent, “Aloneness.”
Brooks has been named poet
laureate of Illinois and she has
worked as a book reviewer, editor,
teacher and lecturer. All these
qualities will be explored in her
stay at A&M.
Mendes has returned to his
“original beat of popular tunes
with the rythmns of Brazilian
music, female vocals and particu
lar instrumentations.”
A&M booked the group after
the release of its newest album,
“Love Music,” which is well on
its way to a gold record.
Tickets for Mendes are avail
able at the Rudder Center Box
Office. Student tickets are $3 and
$4 and non-students can buy tick
ets for $4 and $5.
Gwendolyn Brooks is sponsor
ed by the Black Awareness and
Arts Committees and Sergio Men
des is sponsored by Town Hall,
all committees of the Memorial
Student Center Directorate.
Exchange closes
It may be the first time anyone ever heard of Aggies who didn’t need
money.
Yet between $1,800 to $2,100 in checks languished unclaimed in the Book
Exchange Program, according to director John Tyler. The checks belong to
students who sold books through the program.
“About 700 unsold books also remain in the Student Programs Office of
the Memorial Student Center,” Tyler said.
The books and checks must be claimed between 12:30 and 4:30 Thursday
afternoon.
“We can’t be responsible for the books after Thursday because we won’t
have a room anymore,” Tyler said.
Tyler said the program had been a success in its first semester, selling about
30 percent of $10,000 worth of books it handled.
He explained that a large number of freshman texts, especially freshman
English texts which are not being used this semester, had affected program
statistics.
Tyler brought the book exchange idea to TAMU after learning of a similar
operation elsewhere, during a Texas Student Lobby meeting, he said.
Gerald Ford
to address
May grads
Vice President Gerald R. Ford
will be the spring commencement
speaker at Texas A&M Universi
ty, according to TAMU President
Jack K. Williams.
“We are honored that Vice
President Ford will bring an ad
dress to our graduation class,” Dr.
Williams said, “and we look for
ward to welcoming him to the
A&M campus.”
TAMU officials are predicting
a record 2,000 students will re
ceive degrees at the May 11 cere
monies, including approximately
400 graduate students.
THE KEY TO THE ENERGY CRISIS is research, according to Dr. Edward Teller,
who spoke on technological solutions to the energy crisis last night. See related story,
page 4. (Photo by Rodger Mallison)
Educator cites inequalities in higher education
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)—A junior
college president told a Texas
Constitutional Convention com
mittee Tuesday that equal educa
tional opportunity should extend
to his students as well as to public
school pupils.
Dr. J. W. Cady of Texarkana
College said there are vast dif-
Testimony will be taken through
Feb. 2 concerning the higher ed
ucation provision of the proposed
Texas constitution, section 7-10.
Persons wishing to appear be
fore the Convention Education
Committee should contact Dan..
Kubiak, chairman of the education
committee at 512-475-2648 as soon
as possible to be placed on the
agenda.
ferences between the kind of
education given by rich districts
and those without strong tax
bases.
Taxable property per student
ranges from $3 million per stu
dent at Western College in Sny
der, to $30,000 at Ranger Junior
College, Cady said, and tax rev
enue varies from $3,000 per stu
dent at Galveston’s College of the
Mainland to $58 per student at
Blinn College in Brenham.
“It is obvious we don’t have
equal educational opportunity for
people who attend junior colleges
because of the wide variation in
values and taxing effort,” Cady
told the Education Committee.
The panel is wrestling with a
proposal to place in the Texas
Constitutional a commitment to
“equal educational opportunity
for each person in this state.”
Rep. Ray Barnhart, R-Pasa-
dena, asked if Cady wanted to
make the state responsible for
providing the same level of edu
cation at each of the 47 junior
colleges.
“No, sir. Complete equality is
impossible. I’m saying there
should be more effort at equali
zation than there is now,” Cady
said.
But he also asked: “Why should
the student at Ranger or Texar
kana have less quality of com
munity college education than a
student at Dallas or San Antonio
or Western College?”
Mary Levberg of the Texas Civ
il Liberties Union said “the full
burden of school finances should
be on the state.” He endorsed
the statement on equal education
al opportunity and said it was
broad enough to permit some
school districts to provide enrich
ment from local tax funds.
Dr. David Bloch, a University
of Texas at Austin botany pro
fessor, opposed the views of his
board of regents and asserted the
income from the Permanent Uni
versity Fund should be spread
among all senior colleges and uni
versities.
The fund’s $30 million annual
revenue now is given two-thirds
to the University of Texas at
Austin and one-third to TAMU.
Bloch said this makes the
state’s other schools “poor rela
tions” and works against UT Aus
tin “because of its preoccupation
with bricks and mortar instead
of teachers and students.”
Income from the fund now can
be spent for limited purposes
mainly servicing bonds for con
struction of buildings.
Oil industry lobbyist Bill Ab-
ington urged , the Legislative
Committee to reject the Consti
tutional Revision Commission
proposal that would allow open-
ended legislative sessions.
“People don’t want a legislature
that is in session all the time,”
said Abington, one of the so-call
ed “Big Four” lobbyists. He sug
gested 140-day sessions in odd-
numbered years and 30 to 60-day
fiscal sessions in other years.
Rep. Ben Bynum, D-Amarillo,
told Abington there “is talk that
big business will oppose” a new
constitution, regardless of its con
tents.
“I think the industry I represent
its leadership recognizes the need
for constitutional revision ... I
think we are good citizens of this
state, and we want to have the
best government we can have,”
Abington replied.
The Finance Committee receiv
ed a detailed plan from the Texas
Farm Bureau for assessing farm
and ranch land on its productiv
ity. A five-member land assess
ment commission appointed by the
governor would determine prop
erty values, and local govern
ments would apply their own tax
rates.
“If we can make a little money,
we’ll cover you up with food,”
said Pearson Knolle of Sandia.
Speaker Price Daniel Jr., con
vention president, reminded the
legislator-delegates Tuesday that
Wednesday is the deadline for in
troduction of proposals.
One proposal introduced Tues
day, by Rep. Hawkins Menefee,
D-Houston, would limit interest
rates to 36 per cent per year.
He said this already is the ceil
ing in 46 states.
Texas’ small loans law permits
effective rates of 240 per cent
per annum on small short-term
loans.