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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.
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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
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Vol. 61 No. 353
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College Station, Texas
Friday, February 22, 1974
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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
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abuses of
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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)
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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