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Streakers catch probation ‘Minimum punishment’ handed out KATHY YOUNG taff Writer Istreakers got struck wtih conduct pro- tion. Dr. Charles W. Powell, dean of men, with the streakers Wednesday night ound 7 p.m. in a tv room in the Krueger- Commons and informed them of their Itus. Dean Powell had no comment to make put the meeting, as he said it is against . law to reveal disciplinary action against Idents. I Powell did say that indecent exposure is a violation of the law. He said the streaking incident was brought to his atten tion by the resident advisors of Krueger- Dunn. Powell said 20 or so (23) males were involved in the incident which had many witnesses. He also said that a slight scuffle occurred between several of the streakers and a student when the streakers crowded the student and his date. Powell said he conducted personal inter views with each of the streakers, consulted the RAs, made a tentative decision and then discussed it with the RAs to see if they agreed. Mark Williams, head RA of Dunn, said that the RAs met with Dean Powell and that they “totally agreed with his discip line.” Streakers at SMU and Baylor were fined and removed from the universities. “The minimum amount of punishment was given to cure the situation,” Powell said. The streakers had no comment after the meeting but were overheard telling friends, “We all were on conduct probation, but one guy got a letter in his file.” our en- iby born Krueger irly Friday " tir > A baby was born in Krueger Store Kdence Hall early Friday brning. The new mother’s roommate lied an ambulance but the baby !ared on the scene before they Freedom is simply being able to choose your own cage—Ric Hasten 846-i orth Gal Mother and child are doing well, oompibrding to reports, but they “ not be returning to TAMU is spring. Cbe Battalion o&jtruLa-fe-c/y\® (XCAo-o-w r t ., '' i : ' u r C (Xvixp^as kM+voU yurvw V I ( ■ m i Vol. 67 No. 356 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 28, 1974 solitary Weekend features 111 marching, dancin g, concert Saturday will find the Corps of (dels front and center at its dished best for Military Day ac- Ities. The uniformed Aggies’ will be kept busy, either hdiing or dancing, friday and Saturday night |ces are planned. The corps, led related story, page 3. play in one wing of Duncan Hall and rock and roll will play in the other for the Friday dance. By combining the Air Force and Com bat balls, cadets and their dates have the choice of either type of music. It starts at 10 p. m., after a 7:30 p. m. Town Hall performance by Roy Clark and The Sound Gen eration at G. Rollie White Coli seum. The Military Ball will be a more formal Saturday event. It starts at 9 p. m. and will employ the second floor of the MSC. Postal service to charge ten cents lor letter mmi ICON LEI £\u Vjw ' r - 1 i 5 * M ' If Kkf Cadet Col. Scott Eberhart of las, also will present a forma- that was at one time part of jfootball halftime each fall. Hhe full corps block “T” will gmat 1:30 p. m. on the Memor- 1 Student Center drill field. At |. m. review will also showcase h| Cadet Corps. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Ed- ard B. Meyer will take salutes. ' in. Meyer is personnel procure- t director at Marine Corps dquarters. TAMU officials to in him in the reviewing line will tide Col. Thomas Parsons, mandant; Col R. F. Crossland, fessor of aerospace studies, Col. C. E. Hogan, professor of al science. arsons Mounted Cavalry and Fish Drill Team will perform r the review. I am personally looking for- jrd to the ‘T’ formation,” Col. sons said. “It will be fun to them do it. We aren’t sure len it was last formed.” lorps members approached the mandant with the idea, and nd Col. Parsons, a 1949 A&M duate, was the only individual the Trigon who knew the “T” i s “PROFESSIONAL REAL PERSON” Ric Hasten, poet, phi- I Country and Western music will losopher and minstrel, makes a three-pointed answer during I a session with a journalism class. He brought his own brand mil University National Bank of audience experience to various groups throughout the day, ■ "On the side of Texa* A&M.” ending with a concert at the Unitarian Center. (Photo by P If Adv. Steve Ueckert) eagan to refuse swap f prisoners for Hearst HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. OP)—California Gov. maid Reagan says he would refuse to release r o prisoners whose freedom may be the ultimate [nsom demand by Patricia Hearst’s kidnapers. “It would be the wrong thing to do,” Reagan d newsmen Tuesday in Sacramento. “If you rt doing anything of that kind, it would be e opening prison doors. It would make kid ping a very common occurrence.” Reagan said there would be no legal way he luld comply with any demand to free Joseph pniro, 27, and Russell Little, 24. Under execu- Ve clemency, he can grant pardon to convicted timinals, but he has no authority under state »w to free persons awaiting trial. Remiro and Little are being held at San Quen- ii Prison on charges of murdering Oakland chool Supt. Marcus Foster last November. Both len have pleaded innocent. The Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist oup that says it is holding Miss Hearst, claims sponsibility for Foster’s murder. The SLA iso has referred to Little and Remiro as members. Miss Hearst, 20, was abducted Feb. 4. Her ther, Randolph A. Hearst, is editor and presi- mt of the San Francisco Examiner and the earst Corp. People in Need, the $2 million food distribu tion program that Hearst set up at the kidnapers’ demand for free food for California needy as a precondition for negotiations for Miss Hearst’s release, geared up to dole out more bags of groceries Thursday. Violence and confusion that marked the open ing of the food giveaway last Friday caused director A. Ludlow Kramer to cancel plans to resume distribution Tuesday. Reagan criticized the thousands of persons who accepted the free food as “aiding and abetting lawlessness.” “I regret that the people are willing to take that food,” he said. “I think it would be great if everyone would refuse.” In its last message Thursday, the SLA de nounced Hearst for offering only $2 million and said if he didn’t add another $4 million in 24 hours it would cut off all communication with the family. Hearst said he couldn’t afford the extra money, but the Hearst Corp. said it would pro vide the $4 million if Miss Hearst first were released unharmed. The SLA also said if Hearst didn’t meet the new demand, Miss Hearst would be held indefi nitely as a prisoner of war for what it said were crimes her parents had committed in service of the corporate establishment. WASHINGTON <A>> _ It will cost 2 cents more to mail a letter or postcard after midnight Fri day. And before long people will be paying more for mailings from their book or record club, mer chandise from mail-order houses and, in some cases, magazines and newspapers. The new cost for first-class mail will be 10 cents, for airmail 13 cents and for postcards 8 cents. The cost of mailing a one- pound bundle of books or records will go up to 30 cents over five years, an increase of 14 cents. As an example of magazine costs, the Postal Service estimated that mailing the Reader’s Digest will go from the current 4 cents a copy to 8 cents a copy in three years. The new stamps are available now. The Jefferson Memorial re places former President Dwight Eisenhower on the nation’s basic stamp. Publishers can choose to ab sorb the increased costs dr raise advertising rates instead of sub scription rates, but a spokesman for the Publishers Association said publishers are expected to pass along the increases to sub scribers where possible. The publishers association and other bulk mailers still are trying to convince the Postal Rate Com mission to trim the increases. But Postal Service officials see no chance the commission, which must grant final approval to rate changes, will act before Saturday. The Cost of Living Council ear lier had delayed the increases for two months, saving mail users $236 million. The Postal Service will ask Congress to make up the money. The service contends it needs the money for operating expense increases and a modernization program which has increased cap ital expenditures by five times since Congress ordered the Postal Service to become self-supporting. The Postal Service expects the rate increase to enable it to be come self-supporting in fact next year. MS FOUND IN A POST OFFICE in the Krueger-Dunn Commons was posted by Dean of Men Charles Powell’s office to discourage TAMU’s fastest growing sport, streaking. The maximum fine provided by Texas law for indecent exposure is $200. (Photo by Kathy Young) Nixon denies order; Ehrlichman refuses single charge bargain Nixon WASHINGTON (^—Lawyers for President Nixon have defended his refusal to appear as a witness at a California state trial on the grounds that no court, state or federal, can order a Presi dent to testify in person. If a President was forced to appear in court, his lawyers argued in a brief filed Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court, “his inability to perform the duties as the chief executive would threaten the security of the entire nation.” The argument filed by James D. St. Clair, the President’s chief Watergate lawyer, was directed as much to appearances in a federal as a state court. Nixon disclosed Monday night that he had rejected a request from a Watergate grand jury to testify. St. Clair’s brief was issued in response to a California Superior Court judge’s order directing Nixon to appear as “a material and necessary witness” at the trial of former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman. The subpoena, issued by Judge Gordon Ringer in Los Angeles, was forwarded to the District of Columbia court for a decision on whether Nixon must comply. “In the 187 years since our Constitution was adopted no court, federal or state, has held that the President of the United States can be com pelled to testify in person in compliance with a summons,” St. Clair wrote. Attorneys for Ehrlichman have until March 8 to file their argument supporting their request for the President’s appearance. In related developments, The Associated Press learned Tuesday that the special Watergate prosecutor’s office has decided that any action on alleged presidential involvement in the Water gate scandal should be up to the House impeach ment inquiry rather than a grand jury. The House judiciary committee disclosed that John Doar, chief counsel for the impeachment inquiry, has sent a letter to St. Clair requesting White House tapes and documents. I Details of the request were not disclosed but the letter was based on a summary given the committee by special prosecutor Leon Jaworski of material he has received from the White House. Ehrlichman WASHINGTON (A 1 )—John D. Ehrlichman re ceived and turned down an offer within the last two weeks to plead guilty to a single charge in return for his cooperation with Watergate prosecutors, his attorney said Wednesday. If he entered the plea, said lawyer Frank H. Strickler, Ehrlichman was promised he could avoid more serious charges, expected shortly from one or more of the three Watergate grand juries. Strickler said he expects President Nixon’s former domestic aide, already facing trial in Los Angeles on state charges, to be indicted in more than one Watergate case. Ehrlichman was offered an opportunity to plead guilty to a charge of violating the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding. He was in charge of the group that broke into Fielding’s office in September 1972 searching for Ellsberg’s records. SUCH PLEA-BARGAINING would have in volved a promise to cooperate with investigators and to testify for the government at any future trials. Ehrlichman’s former assistant, Egil Krogh, accepted a similar deal, pleading guilty to the civil rights violations charge. He has begun serving a six-months prison sentence at Allen- wood, Pa. Ehrlichman is scheduled to go on trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 15 on state charges of burglary, conspiracy and perjury. Two other members of the White House Investi gations Unit, known as the plumbers, also are scheduled for trial there. Asked if the testimony sought from Ehrlich man included presidential involvement, Strickler said, “It’s only fair to say that we know of nothing that would have satisfied a prosecutor along these lines.” Ehrlichman’s California lawyers are seeking the testimony of President Nixon to support their contention that Ehrlichman was acting in the interests of national security in the Ellsberg case and that the plumbers unit had presidential sanction. WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT’S testimony, Ehrlichman’s lawyers are expected to ask dis- misal of the charges on grounds they are being denied evidence available to prosecutors. Kunstler scheduled William Kunstler did not come to A&M as a guest of Student Council on National Affairs. He was uninvited by SCONA chairman Steve Kosub for “non-political” reasons. Nevertheless, Kunstler will be here Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rudder Auditorium, due to the American Civil Liberties Union. The student ACLU invited Kunstler to come here after seeing a story in The Battalion announcing Kunstler’s cancellation and his offer to come if any group wanted him. The Brazos Valley ACLU helped the effort by donating funds. Consequently, there will be no admission charged for the event. Kunstler is a controversial criminal lawyer who has defended such luminaries as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, the Berrigan brothers, H. Rap Brown and the Chicago Seven. He is now defending the Wounded Knee Indians. Today Congressional pay p. 2 TWS concert p. 3 Baylor preview p. 6 Weather Partly cloudy and warm Thursday. Southerly winds 8-16 m.p.h. Today’s high 73°. Tonight’s low 59°. Continued partly cloudy and warm Friday with temperatures in the mid 70’s. J eferendum voting at MSC, library, Sbisa, Commons until 6 p.m.