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Nixon gets time on subpoena, report goes to House ■w-ith Atj (22-4), (224), •y of c rd disk;, i vis Jat rick Bn, 1 DavidH compitsj s the 4 with a j fedit n ner (2j| (22,4) | "dith L sh, LiiftjJ ■he bestt P ring’s ii Austin (50.(1) Ho Id (S) j:s only ( but of the t state tej probably J id the di*, WASHINGTON <A>>—A secret Watergate grand jury report fo cusing on President Nixon is to go to the House impeachment in quiry Tuesday. And the White House was granted more time on another matter—a subpoena for more documents. Lawyers for former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and Gordon Strachan decided not to go to the Supreme Court in a renewer attempt to deny the House Judiciary Committee the Weather Mostly cloudy today and Wednesday becoming partly cloudy and warmer tomor row afternoon. Possible rain Tuesday afternoon and eve ning. High today 61°. Low tonight 52°. High Thursday 72°. grand jury report and a satchel full of accompanying material. They lost that fight last week both in District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals. The deadline for delivering the report, set by the appeal court in its 5-1 decision, was 5 p.m. Mon day. At mid-day, U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica said that barring an application for Supreme Court review “the grand jury material will be delivered to the House Judiciary Committee at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.” The White House had a Mon day deadline to answer a sub poena issued March 15 by Spe cial Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski for one of the three Watergate grand juries. But over the weekend presi dential lawyer James D. St. Clair asked for more time and Jawor ski agreed to wait until Friday. “In agreeing to the White House request, Mr. Jaworski re emphasized the grand jury’s need for the material covered under this subpoena,” said a brief an nouncement from Jaworski’s of fice. Neither Jaworski nor St. Clair would say what is asked in the subpoena. But Jaworski complained to the Senate Judiciary Committee re cently that he had been denied 27 tape-recordings and other ma terial asked for earlier in the year. Jaworski’s predecessor in the job, Archibald Cox, was fired when he refused to agree not to pursue his quest for additional materials through the courts. The White House said that no consideration is being given to firing Jaworski should he attempt to force compliance for the ma terial. A spokesman for Jaworski said the subpoena did not involve the Watergate cover-up or White House plumbers cases, in which Che Battalion indictments were returned earlier in the month. In another Watergate-related development, United Auto Work ers President Leonard Woodcock called on Congress to proceed with the impeachment of the President. Woodcock had called for Nix on’s resignation following the Cox firing last October, but said he now prefers impeachment be cause the President’s quitting would only leave the “myth of a martyred President.” Today in the Batt Family planning Candidates Vol. 67 No. 367 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 26, 1974 J < 4 fej Zctt; V % I j ‘Building use fees’ rejected as fund-raisers for colleges )'S J STATE CHAMPIONS Fish Drill Team hit a brace as TAMU President Jack Williams pre sents them with their trophy. The FDT took their third state championship Saturday after beating off a strong attempt by Texas A&I. (Staff Photo by Gary Baldasari) g|| cement ngs. ids, gold, 1 1st loss, iwelry Store 2 te YOU CARE- PTING f $1.29 Battalion survey Candidates for student government or other leader ship positions often reach only part of their constituency during the campaign period. Consequently, often students go to the polls uninformed as to a candidate’s positions on vital campus issues. In an effort to reduce this problem. The Battalion requests each candidate for student office to answer by Friday a 12-point questionnaire posted in the Battalion office, Room 216 of the Reed McDonald Services Building. Due to space limitations only “yes”, “no” and “no position at this time” responses will be recorded. The results will appear in The Battalion April 2. & Candidates for SG posts interviewed Increasing the coverage of Stu dent Government elections, The Battalion is printing a series of interviews with all candidates for the executive positions this week. The interviews with candidates for each office will be printed together for ease in comparison. The Battalion encourages its readers to save the issues this week for handy reference April 4, the day of the elections. AUSTIN UP) — Constitutional Convention delegates rejected an attempt Monday to give colleges blanket authority to assess stu dent fees to finance campus con struction projects. The Finance Committee pro posed restrictions on “building use fees” which students pay with tuition when they register. But an amendment was pre sented to continue the use of such fees as a fund-raiser for colleges. The amendment was defeated, 65- 99. Rep. Walter Parker, D-Denton, said tuition plus building use fees “still give Texas students the best bargain in the United States.” He said the highest semester cost per student at a senior state- financed school is $189 at the University of Texas at Austin. By comparison, he said, a stu dent at Ohio State University pays $375 a semester and a stu dent at UCLA, which has no tuition, pays $322 just in fees. Dep Bill Munson. D-Denison, said Texas senior colleges had run up bonded indebtedness of nearly $500 million since 1965 when the legislature first author ized the use of building fees to finance construction. “There is no legislative con trol now over the building use fee bonds,” said Munson. AY ECIAL ) BEEF EAM ECIAL ENING DINNER Crabapple ssing :ee or Tea y of any le MSC shoots down showing By MARY RUSSO No show of “Pink Flamingos” was the decision of the Memorial Student Center Council Monday -ight. “Quality programming” became the point of conditioning during the rerun of the earlier Executive Committee debate. The Arts Film sub-committee had been moved in executive ac tion intitiate by Don Webb, presi dent of MSC, last Thursday. The action had been taken after Webb found the sub-committee was in debt somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 to $600. The committee has ordered $8,000 worth of films, overspending their budget of $3,000. Gate receipts should theoretically pay for the films. A resolution to show the film if preceded by a presentation on the film and followed by a question- aire, was offered by Bill Davis, president-elect of the Council. “Showing the film could pro mote educational debate and awaken people to what is and what is not art,” Davis said. “The MSC has to consider many things when dealing with program ming though,” Webb said after relinquishing the chair. “Things like how many people will be of fended by the showing of a film, or if students want to underwrite such presentations for a few or if such a program will enhance or damage the MSC’s reputation of good programming.” The controversy touched all bases again. Whether the showing of people eating dog excrement or visions of a 300-pound trans vestite can be considered art of high enough quality to meet MSC standards was discussed. Tim Manning, chairman of the Art Film sub-committee, contin ued to say that the film was made to make a statement. “Showing of unnatural acts every 9.3 seconds does not further the form of fine art or contribute to a feeling of good tastes,” John Wayne Stark director of the MSC said. (See FLAMINGOS, p. 3) He said the proposed provision would allow such bonds if the fees to finance them were restricted to one specific project, such as a gymnasium. Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, complained that such bonds are “a gaping loophole in the ‘pay as you go’ principle.” “ ‘Building use fee’ is a euphe mism for tuition—a back door to state debt, a back door to a tuition increase,” Doggett said. ★ ★ ★ The first vote was close enough, decided Rep. Dave Finney, that he planned to try again today to restrict how much money state government can collect in taxes. Constitutional Convention dele gates were expected to finish work today on the finance article, which they have debated for four days. Finney, a Fort Worth Demo crat who is a candidate for House Speaker next year, proposed Mon day to limit all state taxes to 6.75 per cent of the total personal in come in the state. This means state taxes could not be increased much over the present level because, said Fin ney, the tax yield is now ap proximately 6.4 per cent of in come. But Finney’s amendment lost, 79-84. He said he would submit it today as a proposal which the voters could consider separately from the new constitution the delegates are writing. If it were defeated it would not pull down the entire document, but if it were accepted it could be included in the constitution. On Finney’s proposal, Rep. Terry Doyle, D-Port Arthur, protested that “it gives to the comptroller power unheard of in any state government.” The amendment would direct the comptroller to estimate the total personal income, and the tax rate would be limited by his estimate each year. “The comptroller is an elected official,” said Doyle, “and the more conservative he is in figur ing what the legislature must work with, the more popular he is with the people.” Sen. Walter Mengden, R- Houston, claimed Finney’s pro posal was the “first opportunity the people have ever had to tell state government how much of their money government can take.” Those opposing Finney’s amendment, Mengden said, “have a strong bias against any effort to control government growth.” Another amendment which was rejected would have pro hibited any public money from being used to “influence the out come of any election of a public official or legislative matter.” Several delegates said they feared this would even prevent a college president from support ing the school’s request for state money to run the school. Black Awareness Week f eatures variety of activities Divine, a transvestite in ‘Pink Flamingos’ African customs, superstitions and art formed the nucleus of the Black Awareness Committee launching of Black Awareness Week. Last night’s presentation opened with Funsho Olugboye speaking on “African Marriage Customs.” According to Olug boye, the marriage begins with the betrothal of two children by an informal agreement of their parents. When he comes of age the groom asks the formal consent of the girl’s parents as the second step of the marriage process, then the dowry is decided upon. After the wedding, a woman can never remarry and she becomes the property of that house. When her husband dies, she is inherited by the head of the family. “Divorce is almost non-exist ent,” he concluded. An explanation of superstition in Africa was presented by Yemme. He explained the origins of superstitions about the eating of various animals, in particular, of a certain fish that once, sup posedly, quieted a crying child so his mother could finish her work. Today the people of this tribe do not eat this fish, he said. Nagib Brimah, President of the African Students Association, gave a slide presentation on the art of Africa. “Many people do not understand African art be cause it is so abstract,” he said. “This abstractness is due to the spiritual significance Africans at tach to their art.” The meeting concluded with two films on African life. The first was a portrayal of the Colonial aggression in Africa, and the second showed a detailed life of a liberated section of the country. Continuing Black Awareness Week, Harriet Murphy, member of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic mission to South Africa, will speak on the political climate of South Africa, Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. in Room 301 of the Rudder Tower. There is no ad mission charge for students with activity cards, all others are 50* at the door. Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., the University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. Funsho Olagboye Sudan Arts' Southwest will pre sent “The Voyage From Africa to America, through Skit, Poetry, and Song.” The show will be in Room 701 and there is no charge for students. Wednesday the BAG Talent Show will be given at 8 p.m. in the Rudder Center Auditorium, with the “Ghetto Sounds” from Houston at the Afro Ball on Friday. The ball will begin at 9 p.m., admission will be $2 pre sale, and $2.50 at the door. A picnic at Lake Somerville Saturday will wind up Black Ex perience IV. Participants will meet at the MSC to drive over together. The Black Awareness Com mittee invites all individuals to take part in the week’s activities, Robert Wooten, incoming BAG chairman said. “We are also trying to involve black students from Africa who are attending Texas A&M,” he said.