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Election results
osted at MSC
midnight or later
Results from today’s spring
general election will be posted no
sooner than midnight.
Election Board Chairman Bar
ry Bowden said results will be
posted on the glass windows on
the outside of the Student Pro
grams office and on the doors
nearest the main desk at the
Memorial Student Center.
Students will be voting for Stu
dent Government executive offi
cers, Student Senators, Residence
Hall Association executive offi
cers, Graduate Student Council
and yell leaders.
Also on the ballot will be six
amendments to the Student Body
Constitution on the following
topics:
1. Establish a Student Execu
tive Director to be responsible
for the administration of on
going Student Government
projects.
2. Combine the Student Senate
Executive Committee and the
Student Body President’s Ex
ecutive Committee into a
single Student Government
Executive Committee.
3. Delete Constitutional Refer
ence to Student Body Presi
dent’s Advisory Council.
4. Change the vote requirements
needed to override a veto by
the Student Body President
of a Senate Bill from two-
thirds to a majority.
5. Have University Committees
appointments approved by a
two-thirds vote of the Student
Senate rather than not ap-
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proved at all.
Delete reference in Constitu
tion to separation of powers.
Polls will remain open until 6
tonight. Students are required to
have an ID and an activity card
to vote and in order to vote for
the senator from their college,
they need their fee slip or their
mid-semester grade report.
Polling places will be open at
Sbisa, MSC, Library, guardroom,
Krueger-Dunn Commons, Zachry
Engineering Center, the Veteri
nary Medicine School and the
married student apartments.
When you ain’t got nothing, you got
nothing to lose—Bob Dylan
so saidt
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Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 373
College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 4, 1974
LAST-MINUTE CAMPAIGNING and a forum before the vice-president of finance, Curt Marsh looks on. (Photo by
people attract a small crowd by Sbisa Wednesday evening. Steve Ueckert)
Tom Taylor is the center of attention as his opponent for
Today
Ashby speaks out p. 3
Student radio p. 4
Legislative pay p. 5
Koldus bans ‘Flamingos’
Weather
Partly cloudy and cooler
Thursday with a high of
73°. Northerly winds 10-
15 m.p.h. gusting to 30
m.p.h. Low tonight 43°.
Fair to partly cloudy Fri
day. High tomorrow 77°.
No precipitation.
Hearst joins SLA
by taped message
By LATONYA PERRIN
“Pink Flamingos” was banned from
the facilities of TAMU Wednesday by
Dr. John Koldus, vice president of Stu
dent Services.
The Memorial Student Center Coun
cil ruled March 25 that the Arts Film
Series could not bring the film as part
of their series. It was judged by the
Council to be in keeping with neither
the committee’s nor the MSC’s objec
tives and questionable as to its artistic
content.
Koldus told his decision to two mem
bers of the A&M Student Chapter of
the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) and their adviser. Marty Ho-
kanson, Elias Guerrero and Dr. Man
uel Davenport were the three repre
sentatives.
“I want it to be understood that the
decision is competely mine based on
reviews that I have read and the warm
feeling I have found concerning the
nature of the film,” said Koldus later.
Immediately before the meeting with
Hokanson, Guerrero and Davenport,
Koldus held a meeting for discussion be
tween Charles Powell, dean of men;
Howard Perry, vice president of student
activities; J. Wayne Stark, director of
the Memorial Student Center; and Ho
kanson, Guerrero and Davenport.
Davenport said that two main argu
ments arose during the meeting. These
were that the MSC should determine
programming for all organizations
which program for the whole university
and that Koldus must make the decision
for the particular program under dis
cussion. Hokanson and Guerrero added
that the intent of the ACLU was a
third important issue in the meeting.
“We were shocked,” said Guerrero,
“we thought that the issue was already
settled.”
The two students explained that the
reason they thought the question was
settled was because Koldus told them
on Tuesday last week it would be all
right to bring the film. The students
were to pick up a letter from Koldus
that Thursday.
“When Marty went to pick up the
letter, the secretary told him that dif
ficulties had come up and that Dr. Kol
dus would meet with us later about
them,” said Guerrero. Koldus was out
of town until Monday.
The student ACLU representatives
said that they have not had time to de
cide if they will take action or what
action would be appropriate. The stu
dents cited shock as the main reason
to consider what to do. They said they
had not expected to be turned down and
were not repared to deal with the re
fusal at this point.
“I think that we must all think about
it a while before a decision can be made
on it,” said Davenport.
Koldus said that he did not know if
there was a way to appeal his decision.
He said that he would not be upset if
someone were to seek one as it is their
right.
Guerrero and Hokanson pointed out
that one of the arguments used by some
of the students on the MSC Council was
that any other organization could bring
it and now that argument is proved
false.
Davenport, Guerrero and Hokanson
agreed that Koldus had been extremely
honest with them, but that he was
caught between the students and the
administration.
“This place is run more ike Greece or
a Banana Republic than a university,”
charged Guerrero. ‘These are very real
issues—and where is the Student Sen
ate?”
SAN FRANCISCO (^—Patri
cia Hearst, the newspaper heiress
who was dragged screaming from
her apartment two months ago,
renounced her family on Wednes
day and declared she was joining
her terrorist kidnapers as a rev
olutionary.
“I have changed—grown. I’ve
become conscious and can never
go back to the life we led before,”
said the tape-recorded voice iden
tified by her parents as that of
the 20-year-old Patricia, whose
life had been held against de
mands for millions of dollars of
free food for the poor.
The sudden declaration, one day
after a sign that her release by
the mysterious Symbionese Lib
eration Army appeared imminent,
left Patricia’s parents stunned and
disbelieving.
“Personally, I don’t believe it,”
newspaper executive Randolph A.
Hearst said after hearing the
tape. “We’ve had her 20 years,
they’ve had her 60 days, and I
don’t believe she’s going to
change her philosophy that quick
ly or that radically.”
“If it is her choice to become
a member of an organization like
this, we still love her,” he added
Hearst’s wife, Catherine,
agreed, telling newsmen outside
the family’s home near here: “I
know my daughter very well . . .
I know my girl. She would never
join any organization like that
without being coerced.”
The couple, whose life for the
past eight weeks had shifted from
desperation to often-expressed
hope, spoke only those words, an
swering no questions from the
cluster of newsmen gathered in
front of their home. Their brief
statements were carried live by
local television stations.
On the tape, which also car
ried death threats by the SLA
against three so-called “enemies
of the people,” Miss Hearst said
she was speaking her own mind
and had chosen to “stay and
fight.” Her freedom, therefore,
became no longer a matter of ne
gotiation, according to an SLA
leader who also spoke on the
recording and said she could
leave at any time she wanted.
The SLA voice indicated as well
that the abduction of Patricia
Hearst would be the group’s last
(See HEARST, p. 6)
Bent horseshoe nails part]
of sidewalk craftsmanship
By CLIFF LEWIS
The ancient tradition of the
sidewalk craftsman came to
TAMU Tuesday, kneeling on the
sidewalk by Sbisa beneath a hot
sun and a lot of blond hair.
Where he sat in the shade,
bending horseshoe nails and
wrapping them together with
wire, a small crowd gathering,
wondering what this was that was
happening on the campus. His
simple jewelry was displayed on
a blue ground cloth.
“This kind of work gives me
a sense of creativity and the
chance to scrutinize people,” said
Click Shannon. “I find that
jewelry gives people a sense of
security. And I find that no
matter how hard I try, I still
need money to live.”
Shannon knelt on the sidewalk
and tried to keep his display
cloth from blowing away. He’s
been around the world, he said,
and he makes sandals and tye-
dyes and plays banjos on street
corners. But Tuesday he was
making his jewelry.
“There’s a story behind this
jewelry,” he said.
“It started in Sweden, where
the wife of King Frederick III
liked the shape of horseshoe nails,
so she got the royal blacksmith
to experiment around with them.
“So this blacksmith moved to
Crete, where there were all these
people living in caves that had
Nixon to pay $465,000 in taxes
Money said owed for past four returns
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) — White
House officials say President Nix
on, facing a federal tax bill for
about half his reported net worth,
probably will be forced to borrow
some money to make the pay
ments.
Nixon announced through aides
Wednesday night he would pay
some $465,000 in back income tax
es and interest. He acted after be
ing told privately a day earlier
that the Internal Revenue Service
calculated he owed on extra $432,-
787 in taxes before interest for his
first four years in the White
House.
The President’s net worth as
of last May 31, was put at $988,-
522 in disclosures Nixon made
four months ago. His cash assets
were put at $432,874.
A White House source, asked
how Nixon proposed to meet a
taxes-and-interest bill of about
$465,000, said the President would
use some resources and probably
borrow the balance.
The White House announcement
said the IRS report contained no
suggestion of fraud on the part
of the President.
IRS contended Nixon improper
ly claimed deductions for business
expenses and a controversial gift
of his vice presidential papers to
the National Archives.
The federal tax collectors also
held that the President failed to
report taxable capital gains on
sales of a New York City apart
ment and part of his land at San
Clemente, Calif.
- The tax agency, which once
gave the Presidency an okay on
past filings now challenged, also
was said by Nixon aides to have
found he should have reported as
taxable income some federally-fi
nanced improvements to his Cal
ifornia and Florida estates, and
the value of air flights made by
relatives and friends on military
aircraft.
The White House announce
ment that Nixon would pay the
(See PAYMENTS, p. 5)
crew cuts and hairy legs. He’d
never seen such hairy legs, and
he really dug that, so he gave
them these nail bracelets free.
“Now the horses on Crete
flipped out when they saw these
nail bracelets because they’d only
seen the nails in horseshoes be
fore. Pardon me, yes sir, I’ll sell
it to you for five but it really
should go for seven. Now, let’s
see . . .
“Oh, so there was a decree
passed inducing all humans wear-
ing this jewelry to put paper bags
over the nails whenever they
were around horses, so the horses
wouldn’t go crazy.
“And this was the origin of
the horse-nail contraceptive.” His
thick mustache spread across his
face, and he was laughing.
Shannon really should have had
permission from the concessions
commission under the office of
Howard Perry, assistant to the
Vice President of Student Serv
ices, in order to sell his wares
on campus. But he didn’t, and
luckily he didn’t get the fact
brought to his attention. He just
attracted the attention of curious
students. “Every campus needs
to have a little color added,
right?” he proposed. “I’ve always
had a dream for selling jewelry
around cowboys.”
University National Bank JEWELRY MAKER Click Shannon applies his artistic bent by
“On the side of Texas A&M.’ : a horseshoe nail in front of Sbisa Tuesday. (Photo by Gary
Adv. Baldasari)
Voting in Spring Elections closes today at 6 p.m.