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WE MAY BE THE ONLY female telephone installer-
repairer in town, but we try not to act like it’s too big a
deal. Barbara Poncik, a mother of two children, is the only
woman in this area working for the telephone company as
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before transfering to the higher-paying field job. (Photo
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By LATONYA PERRIN
Staff Writer
Student representation on the Student Senate could
be cut next year by 14 votes.
The Student Senate voted Tuesday night to lower the
number of voting positions in the new constitutional revi
sions. The revision will be presented to the students on
the referendum this spring. College representation will
be lowered by 10 and living area by four if the proposal
passes. The positions will be apportioned by population.
An amendment to change representation to 60 college
votes, five freshmen and five executive committee mem
bers—omitting all living area votes—was narrowly de
feated after lengthy debate.
“Most people feel closer to the people in their classes
than those in their living area,” said Senator Ron Miori
(business).
Other revisions included specification of the duties of
senators including involvement on Student Government
projects and a requirement of gaining 15 names on a peti
tion to run for senator or 50 to run for executive positions.
The Senate voted unanimously to accept a contract
from American Publishers for new campus maps. The
maps will be distributed free of cost to the students as
advertising will pay the cost of printing.
A resolution asking that the scope of the County and
Road District Highway Fund be expanded to include mass
transit or other modes of transportation was tabled after
some debate.
Vice President Shariq Yosufzai yielded the chair to
Speaker Pro Tern Jan Faber due to “personal involvement”
(See SENATE, Page 4)
WASHINGTON UP) — A sub
poena commanding President
Nixon to testify at the California
burglary trial of a former top
White House aide has gone to the
special Watergate prosecutor for
further action.
After being delayed in the mail,
the subpoena finally reached the
District of Columbia Superior
Court clerk Tuesday and he im
mediately sent it to acting U.S.
Atty. Earl J. Silbert for action.
Silbert promptly bucked it to
the special prosecutor’s office.
A spokesman for special prose
cutor Leon Jaworksi indicated the
matter would be referred rou
tinely to the D.C. Superior Court
for a decision on whether the
President’s testimony is essential
and, if so, whether he can be
required to obey the summons.
A White House spokesman has
said the President “would re
spectfully decline to appear . . .
on constitutional grounds.”
The possibility remained open
that Nixon would consider writ
ten responses to questions.
The subpoena, requested by
former presidential aide John D.
Ehrlichman, was issued Feb. 1
by California Superior Court
Judge Gordon Ringer. It was the
first time a state court judge had
ordered a President to testify in
person at a trial.
Ringer ordered Nixon to appear
in court on Feb. 25 and April 15.
Ehrlichman and two other for
mer White House aides are
charged wtih burglary and con
spiracy in connection with the
break-in at the Beverly Hills,
Calif., office of Dr. Lewis Field
ing, Daniel Ellsberg’s psychia
trist. Ehrlichman also is charged
with perjury. AH pleaded in
nocent.
MOSCOW <AP>—Soviet police muscled into a
Moscow apartment Tuesday and arrested Nobel
Prize author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissi
dent writer’s wife reported.
In a statement prepared in case of his arrest,
Solzhenitsyn said that if he was sent to a labor
camp he would give his captors only one choice:
“to kill me quickly.”
Mrs. Solzhenitsyn said her husband was con
fronted by seven “rough” men just inside the
door of her apartment. A counselor from the
state prosecutor’s office named Sverev showed
a document authorizing use of force to take him
into custody, she said.
“I won’t go,” she said Solzhenitsyn told them.
“I have explained why. I won’t go unless you
take me by force.”
The mother of Natalya Svetlova, the novel
ist’s wife, said the police then dragged him off.
Mrs. Solzhenitsyn said the prosecutor’s office
told her four hours later her husband was under
arrest.
In his preparatory statement released to
Western newsmen by his family a few hours
after his arrest, the author of “Gulag Archi
pelago” wrote that if a Soviet court sentences
him to another labor camp term, he “will not
work one half-hour for my oppressors. In this
way I leave them the sole responsibility of being
saught out in the open: to kill me quickly
because I have written the truth about Russian
history.”
The statement, believed to be Solzhenitsyn’s
last before his arrest, included a promise to
refuse to cooperate in any way with his captors,
judges and jailers.
The 1970 Nobel laureate stated: “In advance
I declare that any tribunal of common law on
Russian literature or any of its books, on any
Russian author, to be incompetent.
“If any such tribunal is called against me,
I shall not go there on my own legs. I shall be
taken there with my hands bound in a police
van.”
A 1,500-word excerpt also was released to
newsmen Tuesday from an unpublished section
of the over-all work of which “Gulag Archi
pelago” is a part.
The published work deals with Soviet labor
camps from 1918 to 1956, but a few pages in
the final section deal with the period up to 1968
when he finished writing the entire work.
In the excerpt released Tuesday, the author
said Soviet law is “powerful, slippery and unlike
anything else on earth known as the law.”
He charged that some laws are applied retro
actively to some defendants while persons who
gave false testimony during the Stalinist purges
went unpunished and now are “basking in the
golden sunset of their days.”
Since publication in the West of “Gulag
Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn has been attacked in
the press, criticized on radio and television and
caricatured in posters as an enemy of “every
thing the Soviet Union holds dear.”
He has twice refused to honor summonses
to appear for questioning. “I refuse to acknowl
edge the legality of your summons and will not
come for an interrogation to any state organ,”
he said in a statement Monday.
In his statement Tuesday, the author said
that if called before a tribunal, “I shall reply to
none of its questions. Condemned to incarcera
tion, I shall not submit to the verdict unless
manacled.
“Once incarcerated, having already sacrificed
my best eight years at forced labor for the state
and have caught cancer there, I shall not work
even one half-hour for my oppressors.”
Solzhenitsyn’s fight to recover from disease
was recounted in his book “Cancer Ward.”
(See ‘SOLZHENITSYN,’ page 4)
Medieval instruments return
Court musicians played upon medieval instruments to
please their lords. Collegium Musicum will do the same
for TAMU audiences Monday.
Town Hall is bringing the group, which will perform
in the Rudder Center Theater at 8 p.m. The event is free
for students with activities cards and $2 for general ad
mission.
The Collegium plays such instruments as the sackbut,
chalumeau, viol and crumhorns to recreate the actual
sounds of times long gone. Using music searched for in
nooks and crannies, the group also plays compositions from
the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
The Collegium, from the University of Texas Music
Department, has traveled through Mexico and California
receiving warm and enthusiastic welcomes.
This will be Collegium’s second visit to the TAMU
campus as part of the Young Artist’s series. Tickets are
on sale in the Rudder Center Box Office, open 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
‘Quack Shack’ made into classrooms
Students going to old hospital for classes, not excuses
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
Students now walk up the steps
to the old University Hospital to
go to class, not to get excuses
from them.
Labeled “Quack Shack” by the
students who used its facilities,
the old building is presently being
remodeled for office and class
room use.
“We’re trying to make it as
functional and useful as possible,”
said Logan B. Council, director
of the University physical plant.
“By the end of the spring semes
ter the building should be in its
final configuration.”
Remnants from the past still
haunt the old hospital like chip
ped and faded walls, the lake
scene photo in the deserted lob
by, porcelain and brass door
knobs and various graffiti.
One sign reads as follows:
“NURSE’S STATION (abandon
hope all ye who) ENTER HERE.”
Doctors’ offices and patients’
rooms now hold architectural
students or workmen with paint
brushes. Ward four houses the
“Cheerios Kids,” a group of archi
tectural students who, on some
mornings eat cheerios in class.
“Here We’ll Build the College”
written in 1963 by Ernest Lang
ford, professor emeritus of archi
tecture, claims the old hospital
“is the first hospital in the world
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
to be equipped
throughout.”
These semi-famous shower
stalls are now being converted
into offices for professors.
College of architecture, home
economics research, business af
fairs, grounds maintenance, jani
torial service and a laundry sta
tion have all been assigned to the
building.
“We’re fixing it up tempora
rily to accommodate various ad
ministrative functions in the Uni
versity,” said Gen. Alvin R. Lued-
ecke, TAMU executive vice presi
dent.
“It seems that everyone is
growing a little bit. Just as soon
as someone moves out of some
place, someone else needs it,”
Council said.
Cost of the original wing was
$57,754.71 (in 1916) and the east
wing, added in 1973, totaled out
at $89,230.16.
Council would not comment on
the cost of the construction and
said this was because he was. un
able to determine costs of various
items to be used in the building
at this time.
Luedecke commented that the
old hospital remodeling was not
a major construction job. “My
only concern is that it doesn’t be
come one,” he said.
Council said both the east and
west wings of the hospital were
undergoing repainting and re
lighting where necessary.
“The upstairs will be air condi
tioned,” continued Council. “And
with showers we are getting ready to pour a
handicap ramp by the ambulance
entrance next week.”
Council said the elevator, in
stalled with the original wing,
would remain in service for those
persons who are handicapped.
“It’s a good strong building,”
said Council, “with no major
structural faults. It’s hard to set
a date as to when it will be torn
down, but it will probably be used
for at least five years.”
Leudecke wants the old build
ing to go down before then.
“I hope we only have to leave
the building up one to two years,”
he said.
SCONA prepares
largest program
The largest SCONA program ever held is at
TAMU this week.
Lectures, round-table discussions and films
are the main events available to students here.
Almost all SCONA activities are free and open to
the public.
Students who can’t attend the speeches can
see them on KAMU-TV, channel 15 UHF.
The keynote address by Alice Rivlin will be
shown Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., followed by a live
telecast of William Ruckelshaus’ speech at 8:30.
Abba Lerner will be televised live at 8 p.m.
Thursday, followed by a videotaped broadcast of
William Clements at 9.
The William Anders, Raymond Wright and
Mike McCormack panel will be shown on KAMU
at 9 p.m. Friday.
Hans Morgenthau’s speech can be heard Mon
day at 9 p.m. with a recap of the conference sched
uled for viewing Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
KAMU is TAMU’s educational tv station.
A major portion of the work at SCONA goes
on at roundtable discussions in which the delegates
meet in small groups.
Students interested in listening in on the
round table sessions are invited to do so. These
will meet for two hour periods, Thursday at 8:30
a.m. and 2 p.m., Friday at 8:30 a.m. and 1:30
p.m. and Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Roundtables will
be held in the Rudder Tower rooms 308, 305 A and
B, 402, 404, 407 A and B, 410, 502, 504, 507 A and
B, 510, and 604 A and B. Students can come and
listen, but cannot participate in the discussions.
Films will also be shown to help people visual
ize some of the topics better. Urban problems,
military spending and energy aspects are possible
problem areas covered. Films will be shown in
Room 301 of the Rudder Tower at 3:30 p.m. Fri
day, free of charge.
All speeches will be in the University Center
Theater.
OLD HOSPITALS DON’T DIE, they just fade away into classrooms. Prof. John Fairey
and his environmental design class survey their new surroundings as they meet in the old
university hospital building. (Photo by Rodger Mallison)
Wednesday
2 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
Thursday
1 2:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
8 p.m.
Friday
10:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Saturday
11:30 a.m.
Alice Rivlin “Reordering American
Priorities”
William Ruckelshaus “Environment vs.
Energy Needs” (Great Issues presentation, in
conjunction with SCONA)
Hans Morgenthau “Shifting Emphasis in
Foreign Policy”
William Clements “Changing Budgetary
Priorities and Our National Defense”
Dr. Abba Lerner “Reordering Economic
Priorities Free vs. Controlled Economy”
William Anders, Raymond Wright, Mike
McCormack (Panel Presentation) “Emerging
Energy Priorities”
Barbara Williams “Changing Budgetary
Priorities and the Needs of the People”
Dr. Daniel Bell “Changing Personal Prior
ities” (invitation only—brunch will also be
served)