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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1974)
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High tomorrow >ff as hJN * ir st tuul 2 with tfc ; I 22-team ^ lnd andni : Grant ew plates ih in ti, e .; Che Battalion Today in the Bait Wheelchair day Impeachment Hoover falters Aggies vs. UT p. 3 p. 5 p. 6 P.7 Vol. 67 No. 385 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 25, 1974 ‘Increased SG input’ goal set by Eberhard hd real ..; Thomas,' the relays ( as a t«j- • nd his/,. n Kansas kelson anj | Increasing Student Government juad watt, jinput into administrative deci- ' n d of fusions is one of the goals of Stu- ent Body President Steve Eber- ard. “SG is limited to only making ■fecommendations on the admini- trative level,” said Eberhard, idding that in the field of serv- ces, SG had pretty much author- )avid p4 Ky- naged Eberhard said this power could daces, J P e increased with the placing of vaults ol students on the athletic council, ;he Academic Freedom, Tenure and Responsibility Panel and the Student n kept mts performisj ir ter still a )d day iiul with a tosl ed the da . to tab 1 more stu dents on Publications Board. Jt the TE! Article It* Station, Ts Enrique Lof An all student review board ivould be justifiable, said Eber hard, in terms of programming and programs which might other wise be censored. “On The Battalion,” said Eb erhard, “only students should have final control. I don’t in any way think the administration has authority to stop the presses.” Eberhard presented his own perspective of things which would be happening next year in the various SG committees during Wednesday’s Senate meeting. Items not under any particu lar committee as yet include co educational housing, a care care center and a gynecologist which would be coordinated with a fam- | ily planning center, said Eber hard. The following is a list of items | to be worked on in the various | committees, said Eberhard: Academic Affairs: The publi- | cation of evaluations of profes sors and student choice of pro fessors. External Affairs: Increasing city relations with the possibility of putting a student on the city council, working on problems common to all schools in the TA- MU system and association with the National Student Lobby' and maybe the National Student As sociation. Finance: Investigating what happens to the interest on the reserve money, consideration of user fees and the coordination of the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate, Resident Hall Association and SG to w’ork for a credit union. Rules and Regulations: The ini tiation of a student judicial sys tem with the possibility of acting as a grand jury or a student court system. Also under this committee will be the sale of liquor on-campus, election code reform, SG Radio, the on-campus parking problem and the initia tion of cut-rate long distance tel ephone calls for students. v% ■ I * m Steve Eberhard Senate seat applications available Applications for three exec utive positions and three sena torial seats in the Student Government are now available. Tom Taylor, SG executive director, said he would begin taking applications for pro grams director, information director and election board chairman. One of the vacant graduate seats is an off-campus posi tion. The other two are from the colleges of Engineering and Agriculture. -Students ap plying for these seats must have a minimum GPR of 2.25. All applications will be available in the SG Office on the second floor of the MSC. They will be available from 8 a.m. Wednesday until noon Tuesday. (See SG APPLICATION, p. 4) Senate passes resolution on Goble’s ousting Fall parking rate hike proposed 1 for thil You wii ade. Ant Weai The traffic panel voted Wed nesday to double the rates for parking registration in order to discourage parking on campus next fall. The resolution is tentative, pending the approval of the Board of Directors. “The main thing we wanted to do was somehow to limit demand on parking,” said Chris Lawson, member of the panel. “We de cided that we are definitely not going to try to meet the demand for parking . . . we will be about 3000 spaces short next year,” he said. Lawson explained that the panel is making the parking rate about equal to the rate for shuttle-buses, which should help discourage on-campus parking. Students will be given parking stickers at will, mentioned Law- son, but they will have to ration parking spaces among them selves. “When a student is issued a sticker he will not be guaran teed a place to park.” The decision was reached after voting down other proposals such as not allowing freshmen to park on campus, he said. Another reason for the increase is to generate revenue for park ing lots being built on the other side of the railroad tracks, Law- son said, but added that no mat ter what happens, parking spaces will be insufficient next fall. Strong exception was taken by the Senate to the removal of Steve Goble by the Student Publications Board. The resolution passed by the Senate Wednesday night cited the reduction of efficiency of The Battalion and the lack of consid eration of the welfare of the stu dent body as reasons for their concern. “The Board showed that it was acting vindictively when it reject ed Chet Edwards’ amendment to allow a week to find a replace ment of Steve Goble and demand ed that it be effective immed iately,” said John Nash, SG vice president for external affairs. The decision to adopt the reso lution was reached after the Sen ate had questioned Jim Lindsey, director of University Informa tion and chairman of the Publica tions Board, and Lane Stephen son, assistant director of Univer sity Information. Goble was also allowed to speak before final de cision was made. Participation on the paper by persons other than students in the area of advertising and the rules covering hiring and firing of staff were main points brought out in the question period. “The intent of the Rules and Regulations and the by-laws of the Publications Board is that no non-student be allowed to work on the paper,” said Lindsey. When he was asked who inter preted the by-laws of the Student Publication Board, Lindsey said the Board did. Steve Eberhard, president of the Student Government, told the Senate the type of programs he planned to follow next year. The announcement is required by the constitution. In other action the Senate elect ed Marty Clayton to the position of speaker of the Senate. The positions of speaker pro-tem and parliamentarian will be filled at the meeting next week. The university committee ap pointments will be discussed by the Senate next week as well. Eberhard said that the flood of last - minute applications have caused the process to be slowed. The Senate also approved a new senator from the College of Agri culture. Buster Williford received the appointment to the empty graduate seat. Pat Hearst ‘willing robber’ 2XPRESSING SOME of her own poetry, Besmilr Brigham pauses to emphasize a point in the Harrington Educational Center Wednesday. Brigham is poet-in^residence for the Bry an Public School System, a position supported by the schools, he Texas Art Commission and the National Endowment for he Arts in Washington D. C. She visits classes, reads her )oetry and gives suggestions to student poets. (Photo by Steve Ueckert) me SAN FRANCISCO UP) _ Pat ricia Hearst declared Wednesday she had willingly joined her Sym- bionese Liberation Army “com rades” in the violent robbery of a San Francisco bank, according to a police officer who received the taped message. In the tape recording, received through an anonymous intermed iary by police community rela tions director Rodney E. Williams, Miss Hearst reportedly once again declared her allegiance to the ter rorist band and discounted her parents’ suggestion that she had been converted by brainwashing. “What I believe was Patty’s voice said it was ridiculous to be lieve she wasn’t in on the bank robbery of her own free will, that other SLA members were holding guns on her,” Williams told re porters. “She denies that she’s brain washed. She says she took part in the bank robbery because she wanted to take part,” Williams added. The police chief said the taped message was accompanied by a torn portion of Miss Hearst’s driver’s license—a device the SLA has used to authenticate past “communiques.” The tape recording was under study by FBI agents, who had no immediate comment. If authenti cated, the message would be the first from the kidnaped newspap er heiress since April 3, when she renounced her family and an nounced she was joining the SLA as a revolutionary. Williams said the tape and li cense were in a brown paper pack- Candidates speak to students Presnal, Joyce, Hardee take stands By KATHY YOUNG Representative Bill Presnal, in cumbent in the race for state legislature in Brazos and Rob ertson counties, and his two opponents, Lloyd Joyce and Sparkey Hardee, spoke on cam pus last night. Fifty attended the political gathering in the Rudder Tower. The candidates’ debate was sponsored by the TAMU Demo crats and Dr. Claude Davis, associate professor of environ mental design, acted as mediator. Each candidate gave a 10-minute speech followed by a question and answer period. Presnal said he was running on his proven record. “It is im portant that we return seniority and experience to the legisla ture.” Sparkey Hardee said his objec tive is to supply facts to the voters and then “the people can decide what is best for them/’ He also charged that Joyce was “an illegal candidate and not eligible to run since he is a city council man.” Sparkey also came out for the legalization of horse racing and betting as an additional source of state revenue. He proposed a tax on every barrel of oil that goes out of state rather than tax essentials such as food, clothing, and property. Lastly, Lloyd Joyce answered the other candidates. He claimed he is a legal candidate because he has not accepted pay for his city council job. He added that he was against horse racing in Texas. In answer to Presnal’s stand on seniority he said, “Seniority plays a part but does not determine the success of the representative or what will be done.” Joyce noted three issues in the campaign, public school finance, the constitution and honesty in the government. The Millican Dam issue was skirted by Presnal who said he had not had to make a decision yet because it was not a state issue. Hardee favored a dam to the north of the present projected site while Joyce stood against the (See CANDIDATES, p. 4) Bill Presnal Sparkey Hardee age which also contained a red poster depicting hands and a closed fist. Also in the package was a brief letter to a community action group, the Western Addi tion Project Area Committee, ask ing that the bundle be hand de livered to either one of two local radio stations. The stations, KSAN and KPFA, have received communiques from the SLA in the weeks since Feb. 4 when Miss Hearst was dragged screaming from her apartment in Berkeley. Williams said a second voice on the tape identified himself as Cinque, the purported leader of the multiracial guerrilla group. JIM LINDSEY, director of student publications, addresses He denounced the citywide police the Student Senate Wednesday. (Photo by Alan Killings- hunt for the black “Zebra” killer worth) or killers of 12 whites in the past six months. “He said the Zebra operation is just another way for black people’s names and addresses to be put into federal computers,” Williams said. The police have been stopping and searching hun dreds of young black males in the massive manhunt. Williams said that in the tapes, Miss Hearst again called herself “Tania,” the name of a woman who fought with revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia. “She said it’s ridiculous that Patty Hearst is being made to seem an innocent girl. . . ” Wil liams said. He said Miss Hearst criticized her fiance, Steven Weed, who has denounced the SLA. “She said it was ridiculous to think she would come running to him. She said she was not inter ested,” Williams said. “She said he is mouthing a lot of FBI rhetoric about the whole situation. As for Weed, if she never sees him again, that’s fine,” Williams added. Williams, who serves as a liai- sion between the police depart ment and community activists, said the taped message made no demands. He said he had notified the FBI and added they would decide what would be done with the tape. Williams said he had picked up the taped message from an un identified friend who called him earlier in the day. (See POLICE, p. 4) Sissy attacks Briscoe campaign as ‘nothingness’ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Frances Farenthold attacked what she called Gov. Dolph Bris coe’s “calculated nothingness” Wednesday while Briscoe listed endorsements by 21 Texas news papers. Mrs. Farenthold, Briscoe’s oppo nent in the Democratic primary, campaigned much of the day in the congenial surroundings of two Austin college campuses. “I don’t have anything per sonal against the incumbent gov ernor—it’s just his ineptness and and his calculated nothingness that bothers me,” she said in a speech at predominantly black Huston-Tillotson College. She softened a stand from her 1972 campaign and said that while the Texas Rangers would be around a majority of Texans wanted them done away with, “I will not use them as personal bodyguards .... If you’re from South Texas, you cannot help but be familiar with the Rangers’ reputation, and it should not be perpetuated.” Mrs. Farenthold also planned an appearance at the University of Texas at Austin and issued a statement in that city saying if she were governor she would call an immediate special legisla tive session. Such a session should include bills on school finance, increases in teacher retirement benefits and a cost-of-living pay raise for state employes, she said. Briscoe issued a statement en umerating endorsements from both large daily and small week ly newspapers. “In this day when the news media have done such an ener getic and candid job of overseeing the business of politics and gov ernment, it is particularly grati fying to find such a representa tive group of Texas papers sup porting my re-election,” Briscoe said. He said his administration had “sought to unify Texas toward the common goal of progress. “I have sought to make state (See FARENTHOLD, p. 4) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv.