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voting rejected
POLICE CARS and a fire truck raced to Fowler Residence Hall, struck the window of Fowler 313, causing minor dam-
^Hall last night to extinguish an exploded window screen. A age and attracting a large crowd. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
home-made device, coming from the direction of Davis-Gary
Yell leaders elections will be held again as a
result of the ruling of the judicial board
Wednesday.
The board voted 7-0 to uphold the appeal
submitted by David White. The board had refused
Monday to run the election again because White
had not shown sufficient evidence of improper
voting procedures.
The decision of the board stated that any
election is considered legal unless reasonable doubt
can be shown that, due to improper procedures,
the results of the election might have been
changed.
The election board’s defense of election
procedures was presented by Larry Hoelscher and
Louie Gohmert. They argued that sufficient
evidence had not been shown that any candidate
would have had a different finishing place.
White presented evidence in the form of
signed statements from poll officials and individual
voters stating that some ineligible people were
allowed to vote.
Hoelscher and Gohmert contended that to
rerun the election would be damaging to the
people who had won the first election and would
not serve the cause of justice. They also pointed
out that there was no way of telling how many
people actually voted illegally in the election.
After a 20-minute deliberation, T. Mark
Blakemore, judicial board chairman, announced
that the board had decided to rerun the election.
Two members were absent from the voting.
The elections will be Wednesday with no
additions or withdrawals from the ballot allowed,
said Barry Bowden, election board chairman. The
polls will be in the MSC, the Library, Sbisa Dining
Hall and the Guardroom.
Bowden said candidates would be allowed to
spend an additional $35 for campaigning and that
no expense records would have to be turned in
until three days after the vote.
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selected from student poll
Two percent chance in 50 largest cities..
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. UP> — A
baby born this year in one of
America’s 50 largest cities has al
most a 2 per cent chance of being
murdered in his lifetime, accord
ing to a mathematically based
study released Monday.
Dr. Arnold Barnett, an instruc
tor in applied mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, told a seminar his study
shows that a baby born in 1974
is more likely to be murdered than
an American soldier in World
War II was to die in combat.
Barnett said statistics based on
the current murder rate also show
that a male baby born in one of
the 50 cities has a 3 per cent
chance of being murdered. In
World War II, according to De
fense Department statistics, less
than 2 per cent of the more than
16 million Americans who served
were killed in battle.
However, the murder statistics
are figured over a lifetime while
a soldier’s time in battle is very
limited and many soldiers never
get into combat.
Barnett said traditional homi
cide statistics compiled by the
FBI, which showed about 20,000
murders last year, are “mislead
ing and unsatisfactory” in pre
dicting the risk of murder because
they don’t relate the deaths to
the growing crime rate.
that the 250 people killed in At
lanta in 1973 seems a small num
ber compared with the 500,000
who weren’t. But he said “if this
rate continues, homicide will be
the cause of death of roughly one
of every 27 Atlantans born this
year.”
Barnett uses a model project
ing current homicide rates into
the future. Using that applied to
the current homicide rates, he
found that one of 79 persons born
in Boston this year could be mur
dered; one in 67 in New York;
one in 60 in Chicago; one in 82
in Los Angeles; one in 40 in
Washington; one in 35 in De-
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Panel voids lot 60 tickets
Barnett, who projected four dif
ferent rates with the aid of Dan
iel J. Kleitman and Richard C.
Larson of MIT, said the model
based on current crime rates is
optimistic.
Using a very pessimistic linear-
growth model based on an as
sumption that the murder rate
will keep growing as it has dur
ing the past 10 years, the figuers
give these possible murder rates:
New York, one in 17; Wash
ington, one in 16; Chicago, one
in 24; Los Angeles, one in 33;
Atlanta, one in 11; Miami, one
in 21; Detroit, one in 14, and
Boston, one in 32.
Barnett stressed that his fore
casts are based on the assump
tions the public attitude toward
homicide will remain the same,
and that homicide rates will not
go down.
The Traffic Appeals Panel
voted unanimously Tuesday to
void all day student tickets given
in lot 60 across from the Uni
versity Center.
University Center Manager
Chuck Cargill said Wednesday
he would look into the possibility
of chaining off sections in the
lot for day student use.
Cargill met with Campus Police
Chief O. L. Luther and Traffic
Appeals Panel member Ron Miori
to discuss the situation.
“Lot 60 was built as a com
ponent part of the University
Center,” said Cargill, adding that
it was now used for visitors
attending conferences and ran
dom staff parking.
Plans for the 409 space lot
include chaining off certain areas
for various conferences, said
Cargill.
“There will be times when the
lot will be full with visitors,” said
Cargill. “If it could be done, I’d
like to see the lot full all the
time.”
Luther said more day student
parking would be available Sept.
1, but conditions were presently
over-crowded.
Cargill, who has complete con
trol over lot 60, said there was
no satisfactory answer to the
parking problem.
“There are 9,656 parking spaces
on-campus. I think we owe visi
tors 409 of them,” said Cargill.
“Someone who books space in the
University Center can also book
space in lot 60.”
Cargill said he would look into
letting day students use at least
a portion of the lot for the re
mainder of the semester after
the chains were installed.
Miori said students with tickets
from lot 60 should appeal by
going to the University Police
headquarters in the YMCA build
ing. If they already paid for the
tickets, they should file for a
refund, he said.
By TED BORISKIE
The Doobie Brothers, Emerson,
Lake and Palmer and the All-
man Brothers were among the
performers chosen by the Town
Hall Selection Committee to pos
sibly appear at TAMU in the
1974-75 school year.
With the Town Hall program
ming coming under severe criti
cism this year, the committee
strove to provide the student
body with more appropriate se
lections for the upcoming semes
ters by distributing a survey to
allow the students to have a voice
in determining the acts brought
to campus.
Chicago led the voting with 824
with the Doobie Brothers and the
Allman Brothers runners-up with
722 and 656 votes, respectively.
John Denver tallied 598; Charlie
Rich, 528; Three Dog Night, 498;
Seals and Crofts, 492; and Emer
son, Lake and Palmer, 483.
“We had our problems this
year,” said Town Hall commit
tee chairman Doug Thorpe.
“There were so many date con
flicts and cancellations that we
got hardly any of the groups we
wanted. We hope to be a bit
luckier next year.”
The Doobie Brothers were the
committee’s choice to open the
Town Hall Sept. 13 with Black
Oak Arkansas pegged as an al
ternate.
The committee chose the All-
man Brothers to headline the
Oct. 11 show with Seals and
Crofts the second choice and Em
erson, Lake and Palmer a third
possibility.
The Earl Scruggs Review is
being requested for the Oct. 18
date while the committee decided
to try to create a double head
liner show consisting of two acts
from a list of performers includ
ing Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael
Murphey, Willie Nelson, Com
mander Cody, B. W. Stevenson
and groups of that type.
A similar decision was made
for the April 18 (RHA) date
when the committee chose to try
and get either David Crosby,
Graham Nash, Steven Stills or
Neil Young or any combination
of the four. Steely Dan was se
lected as the alternate.
The committee’s choices for the
other dates included: Nov. 1, the
Fifth Dimension with Gordon
Lightfoot as alternate; Nov. 15,
Paul Simon with Doug Kershaw
and Chuck Berry second and third
choices; Nov. 26 (Bonfire), Char
lie Rich with America as alter
nate; and Feb. 28 (Military),
Flash Cadillac with the Beach
Boys second choice.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
were the top choice for the flexi
ble date show with Henry Man-
cini and Chicago as alternates.
(See TOWN HALL, p. 4)
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Meir resigns again
‘The end of the road 9 !
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By The Associated Press
Premier Golda Meir of Israel
announced her resignation Wed
nesday in the midst of a domestic
political dispute and a month
long military conflict with Syria
on the Golan Heights.
“This time my decision is irre
vocable,” leaders of her Labor
party quoted the 75-year-old
leader as saying at a closed meet
ing in Jerusalem. “I have reached
the end of the road . .
They said she planned to sub
mit her resignation formally at
a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
That move would mean the
collapse of Israel’s government
that took office only last month,
and new general elections. How
ever, they probably would not be
organized for several months.
The party leaders said Mrs.
Meir had agreed to stay on as
head of a caretaker Cabinet until
the elections are held.
The major source of friction
within the government since the
war has been who to blame for
Israel’s being poorly prepared for
the October Arab attack.
Both Mrs. Meir and Defense
Minister Moshe Dyan threatened
to not take part in the recently
formed government, but after re
ceiving strong support to con
tinue, they changed their minds.
Their official reason was an
alleged military crisis on the
Syrian front.
In recent weeks, however, the
war blame issue again has put
pressure on the government.
Many blame Dayan for the war
errors that led to heavy Israeli
casualties, while others want the
whole government out.
There was no immediate indi
cation how Dayan would react to
Mrs. Meir’s resignation announce
ment Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday a high-
ranking Syrian delegation left for
Washington and informed sources
in Damascus said President Hafez
Assad was preparing to go to
Moscow on Thursday.
The seven-man delegation to
Washington, led by the army
intelligence chief, Maj. Gen.
Hikmat Chehabi, was to hold
talks with Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger on the pros
pects for a military disengage
ment on the Golan Heights front.
Assad is to spend five days in
Moscow talking wtih Kremlin
leaders, sources said. Major top
ics for discussion were expected
to include a peace settlement in
the Middle East as well as mili
tary and financial aid.
The Israeli -Syrian border
fighting on the Golan front con
tinued, and Syria charged that
the new commander of U.N. truce
observers in the Middle East, Lt.
Gen. Bengt Liljenstrand of
Sweden, was nearly hit by Israeli
shells.
A U.N. spokesman confirmed
that the commander and several
advisers had come under fire
while on their way to Jerusalem
after a familiarization tour of the
Golan Heights.
Buckminster Fuller
A man who has combined the
talents of a poet, inventor and
engineer will speak here April
16.
Buckminster Fuller will be the
guest of Great Issues at 8:00 p.m.
in the Rudder Center Auditorium.
Fuller, the inventor of the
geod.esic dome, has been described
as a man of tomorrow for whom
tomorrow never came. Some
times labeled a crackpot by his
earlier contemporaries, his meth
od of relating man to his environ
ment is gaining acceptance.
“His projects in environmental
design and architecture reveal
something of the real purpose of
the man,” said Mark Rankin,
Great Issues chairman. “He
seems to have a genuine interest
in his fellow human beings.”
“His presentations are spell
binding,” continued Rankin. “He
usually speaks without notes and
this gives his lectures vivacity.
Buckminster Fuller will probably
be the most exciting speaker this
campus has seen this year.”
Fuller described his philosophy
when he said, “I wasn’t doing my
own thinking because, according
to the rules of the game, I was
told I was impractical. So I tried
to open up again the valves of
sensitivity. I resolved to disci
pline myself not to talk to any
one else unless they asked me .. .
and then to give them my very
best insights.”
This Great Issues presentation
is free to all students with activ
ity cards and $1 is charged to the
general public.
Sen. Tunney
cancels talk
Senator John Tunney will
not appear on campus this
evening.
Due to the inability of Sen
ate to bring the Campaign Dis
closure Bill to a vote, Tunney
was unable to fly in Wednes
day.
Political Forum will try to
bring Tunney next fall, but he
has no more speaking dates
open before school ends for the
summer.
Michigan welcomes Nixon
SANDUSKY, Mich. (^—Presi
dent Nixon took the burdens of
Watergate to the campaign trail
for the first time Wednesday and
got a generally friendly recep
tion from a heavily Republican
farm area.
But even here, Nixon was
greeted by demonstrators who
apparently prompted him to ad
dress a crowd of several thousand
through the open roof of his
bullet-proof limousine. A special
platform had been prepared for
him.
The tour was made for James
Sparling, a Republican congres
sional candidate who invited
Nixon, but who said he wouldn’t
hesitate to vote for impeachment
if the facts warranted.
Republican leaders said after
ward they believed it had helped
Sparling, but local Democrats
claimed the visit could tiring home
Watergate to local voters and
help elect a Democrat to Congress
for the first time in 40 years.
Everywhere Nixon went during
the 57 - mile motorcade that
rambled through Michigan’s
“Thumb,” he was greeted by
cheering crowds that outnum
bered and outshouted protesters
calling for his impeachment.
When the President spoke, it
was on issues with appeal to the
area.
At the Tri-City Airport be
tween Saginaw and Bay City, he
told an estimated 5,000 persons
that the Democratie-controlled
Congress was holding up pro
grams that might help the area’s
sagging auto industry.
In the countryside, where navy
(See NIXON, p. 4)
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
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Run-off election polls open tonight until 6
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