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.”
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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.
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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.
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eferendum voting at MSC, library, Sbisa, Commons until 6 p.m.