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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1974)
'.'r/iv i Indians protest skeleton display opportuJ play I -» most oil les donj Persot-j licago ' >n itej selling :t negotL n money,‘I Norm 1 more | hell of | Presideai >f the ? a cod n “arrivij s signin ( [ stars md Pail rterbacl Cowboys' aig Mi sd some “ronto Hi a sign hramm, the te«| w sue iroven," AUSTIN (A*)—A student group called AINT is on the warpath over a reconstructed Indian burial site that displays a skeleton in the University of Texas’ Memo rial Museum. To American Indians Now Texans, it’s a question of rever ence for the dead. But to museum director Bill Newcomb, an anthropologist who writes the authoritative work on Texas Indians, it’s more like a question of academic freedom. AINT is laying plans for a campaign to do what it failed to accomplish in a talk with New comb—get the Yellowhouse Can yon skeleton and grave out of the museum. The UT-Austin student senate adopted a resolution Wednesday night urging removal of the skeleton. “It is in bad taste and objec tionable. The grave is less than 100 years old and of very little value except as a novelty for children,” said Burke Armstrong, an AINT member and student senator. “Several years ago other Indian groups received satisfaction on demands made to museums that they respect our dead, and our requests are modest in compari son,” Armstrong said. Newcomb said he offered the group an alternative when it *\ fr •to by 6 N S M ter ider 74 \der ER 7f| }der 'der Che Battalion Vol. 67 No. 378 College Station, Texas Friday, April 12, 1974 visited his office about two weeks ago. “It seemed to me that if they really wanted publicity and to do the American Indians some good, we were prepared to work with them wholeheartedly in a good presentation of Indian problems on the fourth anthropology floor. We would move the skeleton to make room for the exhibit,” New comb said. “They were to talk it over and come back and communicate with me in some way, I thought,” he said, but the AINT delegation never returned. Newcomb said the AINT mem bers did not protest a nearby group burial exhibit containing several skeletons. He also dis puted their contention that the Yellowhouse Canyon skeleton was less than a century old, saying it was dated by a revolver, manu factured in the 1950s and 1960s, found with the bones. “I don’t mind being cast as a villain by self-styled Indians. People will protest virtually everything we put in the museum if we let them,” Newcomb said. “I don’t think a lot of them are socially or biologically Indian,” Newcomb said. He said the exhibit is of con siderably more importance than as “a novelty for children.” “This Yellowstone Canyon skeleton was an actual case of what bones can tell you. If we hadn't gotten it, it would have eroded out of the canyon wall and the bones would have been scat tered over 15 or 20 miles. Also, it does show a rather interesting way that the southern plains Indians had of disposing of their dead. It does have an educa tional impact,” Newcomb said. DR. THOMAS CARLYLE JONES of Harvard Medical School spoke before approximately 100 professors and students at Thursday night’s University Lecture Series. Dr. Jones’ pre sentation, “Man and Disease—The Search for Animal Models,” included a slide series. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) Another appeal entered Appeals of the elections are not yet over. Barry Brooks has filed an ap peal because he was not allowed to remove his name from the ballot for the yell leader run-off. Brooks said he filed his appeal with T. Mark Blakemore, chairman of the judicial board today. Blakemore said he did not know of the appeal because he had been out of town and had not checked the box where appeals are filed. Brooks said he requested the removal of his name and was told he could not withdraw from the race. The election board announc ed after David White won his appeal earlier this week that there would be no changes in the list of candidates. Over 1,800 vote in Thursday’s run-off Over 1,800 students turned out for the general spring election run-offs Thursday. John Tyler was elected vice president for rules and regula tions with 1,358 votes while Susie Brewer followed with 461. In the Graduate Student Coun cil, Joseph Marcello will represent the College of Science with six votes. Kuni Tatsumato followed with four votes. Voters also made final decision on class officers as follows: (* winners) SENIOR CLASS secretary-treasurer : Ronnie Maddox Susan Carstens social secretary: thon 262* 171 secretar James Anthony 224* Jeaninne Paletta historian: Rick Boudreaux John Moore JUNIOR CLASS president: Phillip Bohlmann Mark Machala vice president: Charlie Snyder Steve Smith secretary-treasurer : Vito Ponzio Mark Harrington social secretary: Mike Squires Sally Solmer SOPHOMORE CLASS president: Kelly DeWitt Carolyn Johnson vice president: Paul Lombardino Bill Irwin secretary-treasurer: Mike Cox Randy Gonzalez social secretary: John Riddles Sandy Guillory 222* 191 274* 264 268* 240 138 240* 269* 243 499* 180 384* 279 403* 260 350* 317 The Aggiecon will present “War of the Worlds,” “Silent Running,*” “Things to Come,” “The Thing,” “It Came From Be neath The Sea,” “Curse of the De mon,” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” at 6 p. m. in the Rudder Auditorium. The films will run non-stop. A free talk period with several authors is provided Friday at 9 p. m. in the Conference Tower Room 601. Saturday’s schedule in the MSC includes 10 a. m. panel discussion on “The Shape of Women to Come” and at 11 a. m. Harland Ellison will read one of his stor ies. At noon, Hal Hall will talk about TAMU Library’s Science Fiction collection. Keith Laumer will speak at 1:30 p. m. Howard Waldrop will speak on “Custers Last Jump” following that. A1 Jackson will then speak on “Black Holes and Space Ships over Si beria.” At 3:30 p. m. the authors will assemble for a lesson on what to do after you written a story. Saturday night’s movies begin at 6 p. m. and include “Them,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Jason and the Argonauts,” “20 Million Miles From Earth,” “Robot Monsters From Outer Mars,” “Invasion of the Star Creatures” and “Plan Nine From Outer Space.” Admission to the convention for the weekend is $1.50. A $1 ticket for a single day is available. Tab les in the Dealers’ Room are $3.50. Ticket and Table reserva tions may be placed at the Ce- pheid Variable cubicle in the Stu dent Programs Office or with con vention organizer Bob Stahl at 822-7796. ■ . Today Boyle convicted ‘Fatness’ study Xudo c(u6 Weather Partly cloudy to clear Friday afternoon. Winds from the south 5-10 m.p.h. High today 83°. Low tonight 60°. Con siderable cloudiness Sat urday morning, clearing in the afternoon. High Saturday 85°. President receives Judiciary Committee rejects RSIT' WASHINGTON <A>>—The House Judici ary Committee rejected a last-minute White House compromise offer Thursday and voted to subpoena all of the tapes and documents it has requested from President Nixon. The subpoena, approved by a 33-3 vote, directs the President to respond by 10 a.m. on April 25, four days after Congress re turns from its Easter recess. All dissenting votes were cast by mem bers of the Republican minority. The committee’s order came despite an offer from James D. St. Clair, the Presi dent’s Watergate lawyer, to deliver some of the material requested within a few days. But St. Clair had refused to make an immediate decision on all of the material the committee had requested in a letter de livered to the White House last Feb. 25. Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., who had supported many White House requests at committee sessions, called St. Clair’s offer “entirely too equivocal.” He then voted in favor of the subpoena. However, Rep. Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the committee, voted against the subpoena. Later he said he opposed it because it is not enforceable and because the White House had indicated it would turn over all or most of the material the committee is demanding. “It doesn’t seem to me as though it was necessary to issue a subpoena today,” Hutchinson said. Besides Hutchinson, others against the subpoena were Charles E. Wiggins of Cali fornia and Trent Lott of Mississippi. If the White House should defy the subpoena, the Judiciary Committee would have several alternatives. One would be to prosecute its subpoena in the court as the Senate Watergate committee is doing with its subpoena for tapes. A committee law yer said the committee could ask the House to cite the President for contempt or sim ply determine defiance of the subpoena to be an impeachable offense. Before the final vote, the committee subpoena compromise agreed unanimously to make its demands for some conversations more specific. St. Clair had called John Doar, chief counsel for the impeachmmit inquiry, and offered to deliver the tape? sought on Feb ruary and March conversations if such a delivery would “avoid issuance of a sub poena.” But Doar said St. Clair also told him that if all of the items requested on Feb. 25 were subpoenaed, the committee would get nothing until the President had decided on a response to the entire subpoena. When asked by a Republican member, Rep. Tom Railsback of Illinois, “are you recommending that we subpoena all those things you requested?” Doar replied: “My recommendation is the committee issue a subpoena for all six items.” Doar said that was also the view of minority counsel Albert Jenner, who is out of town. The subpoena was altered to give more detail about the committee’s request for (See TAPES, p. 4) McVew bids students adieu An advisory lawyer who has helped the students of TAMU for over two years will be bow ing out at the end of this se mester. Elmer McVew, a local law yer, was asked by Student Sen ate in 1971 to aid TAMU stu dents with legal problems. Students were screened by the Legal Right Commission to make sure that only students with legitimate problems could get in touch with him. Mr. McVew has remained anonymous, known only as a telephone number, and has given his time to the univer sity as a free service. A full-tinie lawyer, paid by TAMU, will replace him. He will be presented with a token of appreciation by Barb Sears and Gwen Flynt. All run-off winners are required to submit an expense account to the Election Board within three days following the election. April 4 winners are also to turn in ex pense accounts as soon as possible, said Barry Bowden, election board chairman. A third election will be held Wednesday for yell leaders. Bow den said people could vote accord ing to the date they entered the University or according to their academic standing. He said yell leader candidates must follow the same rules set up for the April 4 election. Bowden added that no additions or with drawals will be allowed but candi dates will be allowed to spend an other $35 on their campaign. Win ners must turn in an expense account three days after the elec tion. Polls will be open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Guard Room, Krueger- Dunn, Sbisa, the Memorial Stu dent Center and the library. Stu dents will need their ID, activity card and fee slip or mid-semester grade report to vote. Panel discusses student censorship t.-rm *' • ' ! - FICKLE WEATHER came to A&M yesterday bringing rain irl the morning and sun in the afternoon. This weekend’s weather promises to be as unpredictable. (Photos by Alan Kill ings worth and Steve Ueckert) Censorship and prior restraint will be discussed by a panel of students, faculty and administra tors Tuesday night. The panel discussion hosted by the TAMU chapter of ACLU will be at 7:30 in the Rudder Center Theater. Students on the panel will include Don Webb, ex-presi dent of the MSC; Rod Speer, edi tor of The Battalion; Tim Man ning, ex-chairman of the Arts Film Series; Steve Eberhard, president-elect of the student gov ernment and Michael Perrin, stu dent government judicial board member. Administrators and faculty on the panel will include Dr. John Koldus, vice president of student services; Lane Stephenson, asso ciate director of university infor mation and Dr. Manuel Daven port, head of the philosophy de partment and advisor to the stu dent ACLU. The topic of discussion will be, “Who has final authority over university programming?” ACLU President Marty Hokanson said that the panel will discuss not only censorship as it applies to programming on campus, but also the prior restraint in connection with student newspapers. Moderator of the panel will be Hokanson. Audience questions will follow the discussion. courses Unusual offer alternatives By LYNNE EDWARDS A student rummaging through the catalog before preregistra tion may relax. Buried in that huge catalog are courses in most departments that are relatively non-technical and open to all students. Introduction to Forestry (F.S. 101) is a two-credit course with one of lecture and a three-hour lab weekly. “We hope to instill in the student a concern for this natural heritage, an understand ing of the multitude of valuable uses of the forests and a desire to promote sound forest manage ment for the benefit of all,” said Robert R. Rhodes, instructor of the course. Field trips are part of the course. The Range Science Department offers courses like Fundamentals of Ecology (N.B.S 205). It at tempts to show the relationship of plants, animals, microbes, man and the environment as one inte grated unit, explained Dr. Fred Smeins. A three-hour lab (N.B.S. 215) can be taken along with the lecture course. Flowers and Plants used in In terior Design (Hort. 203) covers various ideas in floral design such as Chinese, Egyptian, Victorian, American and free form. Robert H. Rucker teaches this course which also includes making cor sages, flowers for weddings and interior plants. Eva L. Zweifel teaches Intro duction to Recreation and Parks (R.P. 101). The one-hour lecture course deals with the subject as a profession and a career. Extra curricular activities are part of the course. Dr. Robert S. Hurley teaches Human Sexuality (H.E. 342). “Sex is not something we do but something we are,” is the basic concept of the course. Sexual roles in society, love relationships, mar riage and reproduction are other topics taught. Sorry, no lab with this course. Individual, Marriage and the Family (Soc. 315) covers some of the same ground. “Our objec tive is to assist individuals in lay ing the foundations of intimacy, responsibility and integrity through evaluating attachments to members of the other sex,” said W. Dee Kutach, instructor of the class. Dating, marriage, child rearing, managing a house and sexuality are included. Parliamentary Procedure (Pols. 309) is a one-hour class dealing with a “how to” of getting things done by this specialized proce dure. Dr. Paul Van Riper, depart ment head, teaches the class. The English Department offers several courses in linguistics. “The aim of Ling. 205 is to intro duce students to the richness of the human language and its role in the communication process,” said Dr. Helmut Esau, coordina tor of the team-taught class. He also teaches Phonetics and Pho- nemics (Ling. 311). This class concerns the mechanics of speech and the construction of a lang uage. The role, function and respon sibility of the mass media are examined in Introduction to Mass Communication (Jour. 102). Dr. David R. Bowers said current practices of newspapers, televi sion, radio, magazines, movies and books will be studied. (See ALTERNATIVES, p. 4) University National Bank “On the side of Texas AAM.” Adv. /