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ay P'ay.Of vi^ II sin glegit d oubleheaj e III • Confer® be Playei */»h Jominguet’jj 'v''i Bids in for city seats Three out of five College Sta tion city government seats, up for re-election in April, are presently unopposed. Seven persons have filed for the five positions and filing ends March 1 at 5 p. m. The only contested races are for places four and five. The place five position was vacated by the death of councilman R. D. Rade- leff, and it will be up for re-elec tion next year. Thomas R. Chan ey, associate with the Richard- Smith Company, is opposed for the position by Gloria Martinson, a part-time student and practical nurse. Place four candidates are Charles F. Johnson, agency mana ger for Fidelity Union Life Insur ance, and Jim Gardener, a profes sor of urban and regional plan ning at TAMU. 0. M. Holt, a retired professor of agriculture-education at the University of Texas, is the only person running for mayor of Col lege Station. Incumbent Homer B. Adams, an agent for North American Van Lines is running unopposed in place two. City Attorney James H. Dozier is running unopposed for place six. Elections will be held April 2. Old Exchange Store lounge delayed again By MARY RUSSO Staff Writer More delays than could ever be expected have plagued the opening of the Old Exchange Store as a student lounge. Now that the building has been completely renovated, the ceilings lowered, the floor replaced, vending machines installed, mural painted, furni ture on its way and transformer in, the lounge should be open. Wrong. A steam pipe burst earlier in the week causing a four- to six-week delay in an expected March 1 opening. “We have to replace all the plumbing in hopes of preventing damage to the building. It’s an old building, built in 1916, and heated by radi ators. The plumbing must be in good repair or the heating won’t work,” said Ron Haggin, de signer in the office of the physical plant. Cbe Last spring, the building was vacated when the Exchange Store moved into the new Memorial Student Center Complex. The Student Senate recommended a lounge for all students be built in the empty structure with full recreational services and a snack bar. The University committee to investigate the matter was (and still is) composed of Don Carter, director of registration; Ed Davis, assistant director of management; and two students. Students serving on the committee have in cluded Randy Ross, Steve Wakefield, Sam Walser, Bill Davis and Frederich Mach. The building was completed enough to hold spring pre-registration this year, yet it is still not ready for student use. ' One thing that has delayed student use was the installment of a 6,000-watt transformer which had been ordered early in the summer. When asked which manufacturer the transformer had been ordered from, Maintenance said that they would check. The next day the transformer, which hadn’t been expected for two more weeks, arrived. Furniture was another reason for the grand opening’s delay. Ann Harper, interior decorator for the University, selected the furniture, much of which is molded plastic pieces from Evans Monacle at a cost of $40,000. “It’s a seller’s market in the furniture manu facturer’s eyes. We put the purchase out on bid and got about a 30 per cent discount off the retail price. This furniture should be really practical for the area because of its mobility,” Harper said. The furniture, ordered in early fall, still hasn’t arrived. A group of environmental design students, Beth Ussery, Anne Darnaby and David Wyckoff, helped with the furniture choice and mural on the west wall. “If there was more money the project would have been completed earlier,” one of the students said. Eating facilities in the lounge will be handled by vending machines serving hot and cold food or food which can be heated in micro-wave ovens. The machines arrived around Feb. 12. “The situation of the lounge deems it un worthy of a snack bar. Funds are inadequate to finance such a measure and generally, vending machines could handle the job just as well. It would take double the funds, $50,000, to build such an operation. Besides it would cause a fire hazard,” Ed Davis said. When the lounge is finally open, there will be another place for students to go to study in a contemporary atmosphere, like every other lounge on campus. But unlike any other lounge on campus, it will be closed down for pre-registration, about four months a year; during the summer, for freshmen conferences; and, according to Robert Lacey, registrar, maybe even for drop and add. Who cares if hair is long or short or sprayed or frayed or partly grayed ‘cause we all know that hair ain’t where it’s at.—Frank Zappa Impeachment Battalion does not hin g e Vol. 61 No. 353 • • College Station, Texas Friday, February 22, 1974 pplies . $ 1.98 . $19.98 t and bulb. on illegal acts WASHINGTON UP)—The House Judiciary Committee, investigat ing the possible impeachment of President Nixon, was advised by its staff Thursday that impeach able offenses need not be crimi nal acts. The advice, quickly rejected by the ranking Republican member of the committee, was contained in a staff memorandum explor ing in general terms the consti tutional grounds for impeachment of a president. In its most significant find ing, the memorandum states that criminal law is not applicable to the process of removing a presi dent from office. IT LOOKS LIKE THE END of “Beginnings,” billed as Col lege Station’s first tent revival, as discouraged revivalists gather up the remains. Thursday’s high winds proved too “The criminal law . address itself to the presidential power,” memorandum. “In . does not abuses of ” says the an impeach- much for the fabric structure, but the show must go 0T ^ a , the meeting was moved to the First Baptist Church. (Bno by Gary Baldarari) ment proceeding a president is called to account for abusing powers which only a president Constitutional revision fails to change Permanent Fund Today possesses. Chairman Peter W. Rodino, D- NJT., and Rep. Edward Hutchin son, R-Mich., at a news confer ence at which the memorandum was distributed, made it clear it in no way reflected the commit tee’s position on the crucial ques tion of what constitutes an im peachable offense. Rodino called it a useful tool that would help the members make up their individual minds when it comes time to vote on whether grounds exist for im peaching Nixon. Hutchinson said “it speaks to the committee, it does not speak for the committee.” And he left no doubt that it did not speak for him. “It supports a broader con cept of impeachment than I would think wise in dealing with a president,” said Hutchinson, who added that he believed crim inal behavior should be required before a president was removed from office. But the memorandum stated there is nothing in the 400-year history of impeachment in Eng land, the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention or the precedents of the House to sup port the narrow view espoused by Hutchinson. Turning specifically to the standards against which a pres ident must be judged, the mem orandum states that no precise criteria can be listed. “However,” it says, “where the issue is presidential compliance with the constitutional require ments and limitations on the pres idency, the crucial factor is not the intrinsic quality of behavior but the significance of its effect upon our constitutional system or the functioning of our govern ment.” (See Abuse of power, p. 2) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. AUSTIN —Repeated attempts to spread the wealth from the Permanent University Fund failed Thursday, once with a little help from Texas Constitutional Convention President Price Daniel Jr. Daniel refused to cast a tie-breaking vote and make surplus income from the fund available to all schools in the University of Texas and Texas A&M Systems. The vote was 82-82 on an amendment allow ing regent or directors of the two systems to spend as they saw fit any of the fund’s earnings that remain after servicing their bonds. As it stands, the leftover money can be spent only at UT-Austin and the main TAMU campus at College Station. Bonds could be issued against the fund, however, for buildings, equipment and library books at any school in the two systems. Politically potent alumni and governing boards of the UT and A&M systems have staunchly opposed any further changes in the use of the fund. The amendment appeared at first to be headed toward passage when a motion to table it failed, 77-86. But several legislator-delegates then spoke against the amendment. “This is something that will be a big squabble in every session of the legislature, with every school coming in and wanting to divide this fund up,” said Rep. Wilson Foreman, D-Austin. “I know you have been talked to and had your arms twisted on the floor” during the time con- (See Constitutional revision, p. 3) W£U B/66£Z S / / MSC calendar p. 3 Kidnappings p. 4 UT preview p. 5 Afdr Naked across groups run campuses Weather Fair and cool Friday with a northwesterly wind 8- 14 m.p.h. High today 59°. Continued fair and cool tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 41°., Warm er Saturday with a high of 67°. Policewomen feminine, say officers By LATONYA PERRIN Staff Writer The two university policewomen say that they would like for people to realize that they are still femi nine. Both Mary Helen Gaas, 23, and Nancy Preslar, 21, emphasize that they feel it is important for people to realize even though they are in what has been a pre dominantly male field they are still women. “I don’t like for people to take the attitude that since I’m in a man’s field I just have to take it like a man,” said the pretty, brown-haired Gaas. Preslar and Gaas explained that they were hired last August when more women moved onto campus. They say they know of no plans to hire more women for the force. “We were hired primarily to handle any problems the women on campus might have, but we have re ceived very few complaints,” said Gaas. “The resident advisors seem to do a very good job of solving any problerhs that the girls cannot solve themselves,” said Preslar. Since they have had few duties with the women in dorms, Gaas and Preslar have assumed the same duties as the other policemen have. They patrol, give tickets, and investigate disturbances. For night patrol they have a male policeman in the car with them. Both women are interested in going into probation as well as police work. They look upon this job as a good training ground for their future plans. (See Policewomen, p. 3) POLICE OFFICER NANCY Preslar is not wielding a ray gun from a science fiction novel. The device is a radar gun used to check for speeders. Preslar is one of two women on the campus police force. (Photograph by Alan Killingsworth) A quick glimpse of the real thing flashed past residents of Keathley, Fowler and Hughes dormitories Thursday night as a group of streakers made a brief appearance. “We were scared to death,” said one of the marauders, who claimed he and six others ran naked through the girls’ dormitory area about 10:15 p.m. “We were running like hell, yelling and screaming—after all, what good is it if nobody sees you?” A witness to the incident, Laurie Koenig, president of Keathley residence hall, said the streakers “ran through so quick you could hardly see them. They were whooping and yelling—by the time I got outside, they were almost gone.” She said they seemed to be wearing briefs. “Everybody was laughing that was out there,” said a male witness. “We got the idea from a school paper at SMU,” said the streaker spokesman. “It was great. We decided we’re just as good as any other school, so we could do it, too.” He said each streaker carried a pair of gym shorts in his hand, “in case of some tragedy.” “We’ll probably strike again,” he warned. The streakers made their getaway by climbing into a waiting auto. * * * A 21-year-old Southern Methodist University senior was arrested early Wednesday after streaking nude across SMLPs Freshman Quad. , According to articles in the SMU newspaper, “The Daily Campus,” “I was standing by the bicycle racks when I saw him run by with nothing but socks and tennis shoes,” a freshman girl said of the streaker. “It was so hilarious.” After his apprehension a crowd of over 500 students gathered in the Quad. Bare legs, bras and even bare buttocks were hanging from surrounding dormitory windows following the streaking incident. Security officers’ attempts to capture other streakers were hampered by the crowd. At 1:15 a.m. the crowd linked arms to protect four students who were undressing in a fountain in front of the Quad. In another incident, a girl in a nearby dorm disrobed in front of a window while the crowd cheered her on. The “Campus” said that the original streaker has left the university after paying a fine of $27.50 for disorderly conduct. Basketball yell practice at 10 tonight in civilian quad