Streaking craze reaching campuses across nation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
What do you say to a naked
streaker? Not much — as long
as he keeps going.
“It’s when they stop some
where that we take action,” said
)avid L. Johnston, University of
lassachusetts public safety di-
ctor.
Not all school authorities are
as lenient as Johnston, but cam
pus police generally have not in-
erfered with the groups of stu
dents, racing across campus in the
nude, trying to keep up with the
latest college fad.
There have been scattered ar
rests, generally when the streak
ing spilled onto city streets and
interfered with nonstudents.
“If streaking is the most seri
ous problem ahead, we’re going
to have a pretty uneventful
spring,” said Paul Ginsberg, the
dean of students at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
Johnston said streaking is bet
ter than “throwing bombs and
fighting police. I see this as in
dicative of a change back to nor
malcy, a return to traditional stu
dent behavior.”
Two Missouri streakers man
aged to speed through a police
station and escape arrest. “They
caught us by surprise,” said one
policeman who watched dumb
founded as the two men, wearing
nothing but boots, raced through
a St. Louis stationhouse early
Tuesday.
About 90 students, led by a
coed, got into the act at West
Chester State College in Penn
sylvania late Monday night,
streaking from dorm to dorm and
winding up at the campus recrea
tion area, where a brass band
from the school of music played
“Hey Look Me Over.”
An estimated 100 young men
and a few women ran naked
through the streets and danced
on rooftops at Memphis State
University on Monday night. Po
lice blocked off the streets, but
made no attempt to arrest any
one. “I could have caught 20 of
them if I had wanted to,” said one
policeman, “but I just don’t like
the thought of wrestling with a
naked man.”
There was a more serious side
to the problem, however.
Two students, both male, were
arrested in Athens, Ga., after a
streaking incident watched by a
crowd of about 1,000. City police
complained that some onlookers
threw rocks and bottles at patrol
cars. Tear gas was used to break
up the crowd.
One young man was charged
with indecent exposure and posted
$53 bond for his release; the oth
er was accused of disorderly con
duct and resisting arrest and had
to post $105 bond.
Jack Reese, chancellor of the
University of Tennessee at Knox
ville, said a streaking incident
Monday night resulted in interfer
ence with traffic, property dam
age and personal injury.
One onlooker was injured v by
a firecracker and a few others
suffered minor cuts and bruises
in the melee that spilled onto
city streets.
The student newspaper, the
Daily Beacon, said in an edito
rial:
“For the university’s sake,
don’t streak. The game was fun
while it lasted, but let’s stop
while we’re still ahead.”
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Che Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 359
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 6, 1974
Streakers, as the name implies,
are fast. Too fast for campus po
lice. Policemen there will begin
to use cameras to catch streak
ers in the act. Rather than at
tempting to chase down the
streaker through a crowd of
streakees (spectators), officers
said arrests would be made from
the photos.
UT police Chief Donald Cannon
explained that a streaker could
not control who sees him. “We
do feel very strongly about it,”
he continued. He concluded by
saying that parents who have
small children on campus would
not want their children exposed
to streaking.
Despite such warnings and im
pending enforcement with cam
eras, streakers continue to amuse
themselves.
Malls, walls, outdoor eating
places, fountains highlight
proposed landscape plans
By KATHY YOUNG
Editor’s Note: This is the first of
two articles outlining the changes
in the proposed campus landscap
ing plan.
TAMU will get a facelift in time for
her one hundredth birthday.
Malls will flourish instead of cars, and
outdoor eating areas will adjoin some of
the malls. Two additional fountains will
decorate the campus according to the pre
liminary landscape plan which is now in
the detailed planning stage.
TAMU Board of Directors approved the
preliminary plans and authorized detailed
planning, said Gen. A. R. Luedecke.
“THE ENTRANCES to the campus will
be more clearly defined,” said Luedecke.
This process includes removing all the trees
in the medians in Main Street, the west
entrance to the campus. Luedecke said,
“The trees must be removed because they
obscure the view to the center of the
campus.”
A combination of iron fence and low
masonry wall spaced with shrubs will run
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Building to the Post Office along Univer
sity Drive. The wall-like structure will
range from seven feet to four feet and will
separate the university from the North
Gate business area, according to Luedecke.
The main entrance to the campus will
be defined more clearly with an 18-inch
wall along Bizzell Street. The south en
trance to TAMU will be denoted by a low
wall along Jersey Street.
The interior plans of the campus in
clude the addition of malls located in front
of Sbisa, and between the Chemistry Build
ing and Mechanical Engineering Shops. The
main mall and people area will be in the
present mall between the library and the
agriculture building, said Luedecke. New
additions to the mall will include trees,
benches, and a centrally located water
sculpture, Luedecke said.
THE MALL in front of Sbisa will in
clude an outdoor cafe with tables and
benches beneath trees. The cafe will serve
not only those on the board meal plan but
those who buy or bring their lunches.
Another outdoor eating facility will be
located in front of the creamery. Spence
Street will be removed and the area land
scaped with an open trellis under which
tables and chairs will be placed so that ice
cream lovers can sit while they eat.
Another addition to the campus is a
raised oval green space directly behind the
Systems Building. Luedecke said this was
to be added for looks. He said students
could cross it but not lay on the grass.
THE CORPS dorm area will receive the
addition of a series of brick arches at the
entrance as well as 16 flag standards. The
dorms will get new doors and a brick arch
above each entryway. The area will also
be landscaped with highly colored flower
beds.
The Grove Theater and Milner Hall
will remain but the old water tower will
be replaced and the Class of ’38 water
fountain may be moved to the courtyard
of All Faiths Chapel.
Many of the old concrete based lights
are being replaced with modern globe lamps.
The old lamps will remain from Houston
Street to the west entrance and at the
front entrance.
Student leadership positions
filing open until March 20
Today
Filing for all student leader
ship positions begins today and
continues through March 20.
All candidates running for
office should follow all campaign
rules listed in the University
Rules and Regulations handbook.
Positions open include student
government, class officers, yell
leaders and Residence Hall Asso
ciation positions.
No campaign material may be
posted or distributed before
March 16. At this time signs on
mounted stakes may be placed in
four places.
These areas are: 1. the grassy
McRoberts ruled ineligible
for student body president
By MARY RUSSO
Staff Writer
Larry McRoberts, a possible candidate
for student body president, was ruled in
eligible Tuesday by two decisions made by
the Judicial Board.
In a setting of five hours full of debate,
questions, and deliberation, two cases were
ruled on.
Because of the opening of filing, the
decisions had to be made Tuesday. The
seven J-Board members, Mike Perrin, Don
Hegi, Russell Hamley, Gwynn Flynt, Chet
Edwards, Steve Kosub, and Chairman Mark
Blakemore, considered the validity of mid
term grades averaged in with cumulative
grade point ratios, and an internal con
sistency of the constitution on the rights
of the student who is satisfactorily pro
gressing in academics.
The first case was brought against the
Election Board’s decision to allow midterm
grades to be considered in over-all gpr of
a candidate. Rules and Regulations Chair
man Curt Marsh found this objectionable
on the grounds that the Recommendations
Committee on Midterm Grades said the
report should not be used in considering
awards, offices, or honors. This group was
headed by Edwin Cooper, Dean of Admis
sions and Records.
The reports should be used for counsel
ing purposes only, according to the com
mittee report. The fault found with mid
term grades is that they are likely to be
inaccurate in portraying a student’s real
grade in a course. A good midterm report
can get a student off scholastic probation
or a bad one can make a student pick up
and get with studying, said the report.
The only case where the midterm report
is directly mentioned in University regu
lations is filing by transfer students and
first semester freshmen. University regu
lations never mention the report in other
position filing.
The major contention brought forth by
Marsh was upperclassmen have established
a gpr which is indicative of the grades
they will make in the future, not some half
semester report that might indicate a little
extra push for one group of majors.
The Board upheld Marsh’s appeal on
University Regulations Section 68 saying
the Registrar’s classification of students
and reporting of over-all gpr is final and
that at no time has the cumulative report
included midterm grades.
Because McRoberts is a few hundredths
of a grade point from the 2.5 minimum gpr
for campaigning for a Senate Executive
position, the averaging of a midterm report
might have rounded his over-all gpr up.
McRoberts claimed that it would.
The second case was one filed because
of discrimination McRoberts found in the
Constitution saying that students maintain
ing a 2.0 were fully privileged students
in every respect but running for an Execu
tive Committee position.
Some 40 percent of students are left out
of the running because of falling below the
2.5 gpr requirement. McRoberts contended
that this is not “promoting the general
welfare of the student body.”
Arguments were made by student gov
ernment officials that a “buffer zone” of
.5 was established to “protect the student,
the Senate and the general student body.”
“There is a need to set a standard and
the 2.5 gpr is a reasonable one, giving an
official a little leeway in case study time
cuts effect his grades,” said Randy Ross.
The Board ruled, in the first split de
cision ever passed by the group, that the
Board has the right and responsibility to
hear appeals on inconsistency within the
Student Body Constitution.
They found no inconsistency between the
2.5 over-all gpr requirement and the Pre
amble of the Constitution, and that said
requirements is “promoting the general
welfare of the student body.”
The Board finished the majority opinion,
saying it was beyond the jurisdiction of the
group to interpret the United States Con
stitution, as McRoberts asked privileges
and liberties guaranteed in that document
be considered.
area north of Duncan, 2. the
grassy strip beside parking lot
35 (across from Krueger-Dunn),
3. the area across from Sbisa be
hind the sidewalk on Houston
Street, and 4. the area along the
sidewalk between Bizzell and La
mar streets and Military Walk
and Houston Street.
Indoor campaign material may
only be placed on bulletin boards
and can not be larger than 8>/2
by 11 inches. One exception to
this rule is that material of any
size may be placed on a residence
hall door with the residents’ per
mission.
A maximum of $60 may be
spent on a campaign by Student
Government executive committee
members. A maximum of $35
may be expended by each candi
date for all other offices.
Technically, filing for student
offices is open illegally.
The University Rules and Reg
ulations dealing with student elec
tions require notification of the
opening of filing to be printed in
The Battalion three class days
before the actual opening.
Due to internal communications
break-downs in the Battalion
staff, the story on filing was
melted back into lead, rather than
printed in the Friday Battalion.
Randy Ross, student govern
ment president, Barry Bowden,
election board chairman, and
Mark Blakemore, judicial board
chairman, decided to stick to the
original schedule.
“We’re going to have to stay
on schedule,” said Bowden. “Any
change would throw everything
into a turmoil.”
He explained the three-day rule
was to make sure students knew
when the opening and closing
dates were, and said he thought
the objective had been carried out
despite the shortened notice.
Filing continues through the
Wednesday after Spring Break.
Spring Break occurs in the mid
dle of filing this year, due to
school starting late.
Shuttles to end? p. 5
Spearchucker p. 8
Baseball loses p. 6
Weather
Partly cloudy and warm
Wednesday and Thurs
day. Winds from the
south 8-20 m.p.h., occa
sional gusts to 25 m.p.h.
Both days 83°.
Senate to consider
student-adult status
Student Senators will be meet
ing tonight despite a delay in the
mail keeping Senators from re
ceiving their agendas.
Senators will meet in Room 701
of the Rudder Center Tower at
7:30. Academic Regulations revi
sions will be voted on during the
session.
Presented by Academic Affairs
Chairman Steve Eberhard, the
academic regulations resolution
calls on the University to recog
nize 18 year olds as having reach
ed the legal age of majority and
to change regulations to protect
students against arbitrary and
ambiguously stated rules. These
changes include the acceptance of
a mid-semester grade resolution
and a liquor on-campus resolution.
External Affairs chairman
Barb Sears is presenting an Am-
track resolution to the Senate. In
essence, the resolution is to let
Amtrack administrators know
that TAMU students want their
service.
Rules and Regulations Chair
man Curt Marsh will present Uni
versity Rules and Regulations
handbook revisions and constitu
tional revisions to the Senate.
Blue Book revisions are pro
cedural changes done each year
and usually include disciplinary
changes. The constitutional revi
sions are the “amendment two”
revisions which were rejected by
the student body in the referen
dum last week.
At that time the revisions were
presented in a package; Marsh in
tends to break these changes into
separate proposals to be voted on
by the student body April 4.
These amendments include al
lowing persons to serve in more
than one branch of government,
establishing an executive director
for campus projects and changing
the veto override of the Senate
to majority rather than two-
thirds.
The question of optional laun
dry service will also come before
the Senate. Under this proposal
service would be changed from a
one-day to a two-day return; stu
dents who waive the semester fee
and send pieces of clothing at
their convenience would be charg
ed the commercial rate.
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