THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1974
Delegates discuss educational legislation with Bentsen
By VICKIE ASHW1LL
:ral Staff Writer
tt«I§ WASHINGTON, DC — Twelve
sU Rational Student Lobby delegates
Wlij with Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen
bbti to discuss and lobby for priority
; issues Monday afternoon.
| Ten of the twelve students were
f ' S from Texas colleges, including
SS '*Barb Sears, John Nash and
Carol Moore of the Student Gov-
lv ®| er nment, and Rod Speer and
Vickie Ashwill, of The Battalion,
are at the NSL Conference this
week for TAMU.
four from TAMU, and two were
Texas residents attending Tulane
Univtersity.
Bentsen, an avid supporter of
educational legislation, said he
had legislation concerning the
abolition of the “means test” for
students in middle-class families.
The “means test” was imple
mented in March 1973 after pass
age of the 1972 Education Amend
ment, requiring families, regard
less of income, to demonstrate
a need for a Guaranteed Student
Loan from banks.
“I think we’re in good shape
concerning the abolition of such
a test,” said Bentsen. “It will be
helpful and it is necessary to
knock out the “means test” sys
tem.”
Bentsen said his legislation
would not affect the other stu
dent-aid programs directed pri
marily at the poor.
Students mentioned the “severe
money crunch on campus” to
Bentsen, noting the seven per
cent increase in tuition and fees
during the past ten years.
“Obviously I want to keep tui
tion rates down,” said Bentsen.
“I imagine I will support an in
crease in work-study funds but
I can’t dedicate myself to any
item I haven’t studied.”
Bentsen also said he had en
couraged bankers to make the
loans available to students and
had worked on legislation a year
ago to try to clear up some of the
red tape for both the bankers and
the students.
Bentsen said he was leaning to
ward supporting grants to stu
dents rather than to schools,
thereby giving the student a
choice as to which school he
wished to attend.
“Some Texas colleagues in the
House say I am making a big
mistake,” said Bentsen.
The Big Thicket was another
priority issue brought up by the
delegates during the meeting.
“I think we can get it done,”
said Bentsen, in a reference to
making the Big Thicket a na
tional park. “I’ve got to push it
through to get it done. Obvious
ly the Senate and the House are
going to have to give on this is
sue, but I would rather see a
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compromise than no bill.”
Early Senate legislation said
the park should not be more than
100,000 acres. Bentsen would not
comment on what his compro
mise for the size of the park
would be.
“If I made a public statement
of compromise, I could lose all
my bargaining power,” he said.
“I want to go into Congress with
as strong a position as possible.”
Bentsen also said he had not
studied NSL’s position on stand
by discount fares for the aged
and youth on airlines, bus and
train transportation. He said he
could not justify special legisla
tion for special groups, but that
he would look into the stand-by
proposal.
Full minimum wage for stu
dents was supported by Bentsen.
“A full day’s work, a full day’s
pay,” he said.
Radio-TV ask
right to cover
WASHINGTON <■«*> — Exec
utives of three networks and pub
lic broadcasting have urged Con
gress lo all radio-television cover
age of its sessions.
“Make the proceedings of Con
gress available to broadcast co
verage on the same basis as they
are available to other news me
dia,” Arthur R. Taylor, president
of Columbia Broadcasting System,
urged the Senate-House Commit
tee on Congressional Operations.
Elton H. Rule, president of
American Broadcasting Compa
nies, said “freedom of informa
tion is indivisible. There should
not be two standards, one for the
printed press and another for the
electronic media, particularly to
day when television news is recog
nized as the single most important
source of information on what is
happening in government and
politics.”
As the committee opened a
second day of hearings into how
Congress can get the public ear,
C. Edward Little, president of
Mutual Broadcasting System, said
an obvious answer is for Congress
to open all its committee meetings
and its floor debates to micro
phones and television cameras.
Radio and television reporters
are allowed to cover House and
Senate sessions with pencil and
paper but cameras and micro
phones are banned.
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have its picture taken at 5 :45 p.m. at
the MSC fountain. Dress casual.
WEIGHTLIFTING CLUB will meet at 7
p.m. in the G. Rollie White Coliseum
weightroom.
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Texas carpenter unions at 7 :30 p.m. in
the Zachry Engineering Center.
SPORTS CAR CLUB will meet at 7:30
p.m. at Mimosa Room, Old College Sta
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SAILING CLUB will meet in Room 504
of the Rudder Tower at 7:30 p.m. to
see the movie “Sailmaker, A Man and
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PHILOSOPHY CLUB will present Ric
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Rudder Tower.
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Aggieland picture will be taken and
plans for spring party will be dis
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Room 404 of the Rudder Tower at 7 :30
JUNIOR CLASS COUNCIL will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 229 of thee MSC
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