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Cadet Slouch Jim Earle Listen up Page 2 THE BATTALI9 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Hl| Cooperation needed “It was hard to get used to th’ idea of Aggies holding hands with each other—but winning beauty contests is too much!” The inside view Editor: I’d like to point out what seems, to me at least, to be a glaring fault with the new Town Hall ticket dis tribution system. This fault can either be eliminated by an alternate solution, which I’m afraid I can’t provide, or widespread student cooperation. My point is this: What is to pre vent students from getting tickets because they think they might like to attend the concert, later decide not to go, and leave their tickets gathering dust in a drawer? The last day for students to pick up tickets for the Oct. 11 concert is Sept. 30, yet many students won’t make definite plans for the weekend until much later. Also, since dis tribution is on a first come, first served basis, students might be tempted to get tickets as soon as possible to make sure that they get one. Since the tickets are free, a stu dent has nothing to lose by getting one even if he decides not to use it. The losers will be those who really wanted to attend the concert and couldn’t get tickets. Therefore, I’d like to suggest that those who get tickets do so because they definitely plan to use them, and that if they later change their plans, they make an effort to get the tickets to someone who does want them. Lori Raesner ’77 Illegal parking Editor: Being upperclassmen here at Texas A&M University and of as sound mind and body as can be ex pected, we do hereby petition the respective authorities to pull their respective heads out of their respec tive places and hear us. Attention gallant men of the Uni versity Police Force. We consider it a great honor to be called on to pres ent the following horrendous facts to the attention of your ever present pad and crayons. Look at the “Disunity and battle” mark convention, says delegate This article was written by Jeff Dunn, who is Student Government Vice-President for Academic Af fairs and was a delegate to the Texas State Democratic Conven tion last Tuesday—Ed. The gavel met the podium thrity minutes late as Bryan’s Calvin Guest, the Chairman of the State Democratic Party opened the 1974 convention. Guest was faced with the usual diversity of Democrats ranging from the very liberal to the very conservative; and an air of dis unity and battle filled Austin’s Municipal Auditorium. It was interesting to note that Brazos County’s delegation (Guest’s home district) was seated in plush seats near the stage, and my delega tion (home of liberal Billie Carr) was seated in fold-away chairs at the rear of the hall. The convention progressed slowly and undeliberately, and my district’s delegation (Sen. Dist. 7) was the slowest. We finished seat ing our proper delegates (154) by 2:30 p. m. and then attempted to elect a chairman for our delegation while the convention sang “Texas Our Texas” and heard the opening remarks of the convention by Gov ernor Dolph Briscoe and Senator Lloyd Bentsen. District Seven never did complete a proper ballot ing for a permanent chairman, but we moved toward other convention business. When the convention recessed around 6 p.m. for the purpose of letting the convention committees meet, I left my delegation to attend the Resolution Committee’s hear ings where I presented to the com mittee a resolution on student ser vice fees. The TAMU Senate Ex ecutive Committee approved the drafting of this resolution, which in careful wording expressed our de sire to see students have complete control over the allocation of stu dent service fees. The arguments were philosophical in a way, ack nowledging that students are legal adults but also showing how the state law already provides for the separation of these funds from other university accounts, and the attor ney general’s position on what these fees should be used for. In short, the resolution is just one way that Student Government has been trying to establish meaningful student controls over student funds. We hoped that the Democratic Party would pass this, so we would be able to lobby for a law with a clear mandate from the party. The committee decided to hear only those resolutions that were ap proved by Senatorial District Con vention or personally handed to the committee by Calvin Guest. As the Student Service Fee resolution had not been approved by either, I sec retly slipped the resolution into Guest’s folder, not knowing at the time that they were the selected re solutions. The result was that the chairman considered the students resolution and discarded about 50 others. But like the 15 resolutions hand picked for consideration, all were tabled except one (concerning dis agreement over convention hous ing). The intent was to decide on the resolutions at the end of the hear ings, which lasted about three and one-half hours. However, before any of the previous 14 resolutions could be brought back to the table the committee chairman. Senator Peyton McKnight from Tyler ad journed the committee. McKnight made it clear as he cal led the committee to order that all 100 resolutions would be heard. He then adopted the restricting rules (“to save time”), and said he decided to chair his committee under his own rules and not those of Robert’s Rules of Order. Frustrated and bewildered over the entire proceedings, a minority report of five resolutions was pre pared, including the service fee re solution. But when it came time to present the minority report, the parliamentarian refused to let ifrget to the floor. Meanwhile, while I was trying to get support for the resolution a cru cial vote was being taken on the floor, and my alternate had taken my place. The problem was that my alternate was a member of my op position and our group noticed that she didn’t have the proper badge to take my place. Disagreements and arguments broke out, and in the end my group managed to get six De partment of Public Safety officers to escort her away. Because she was from my home precinct, she expres sed her discontent with me and my group, even though I was not pres ent and announced her intentions to defeat my delegate attempts in 1976. One of the first orders of business for the convention, the election of a permanent chairman, now began at 1 a.m., Wednesday and the calling of the roll began. This was the cru cial vote of the convention. Calvin Guest secured reelection as state chairman by defeating Leonel Cas tillo by a 57 percent margin. It was 2:30 a.m. before adjournment- —most delegates had left or were asleep in their chairs—soon the di verse groups of Democrats left the convention hall; some jubilant over victory, many suffering the frustra tion of defeat, but they were all Democrats, and proud to be a part of the Party of the People. PEANUTS Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building. College or of the uriter of the article and are not necessarily those of Station, Texas 77843. the university administration or the Board of Directors. The TheAssociatedPressisentitledexdusivelytotheuseforreproductionofall Battalion is a non-profit, self-supporting enterprise operated news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local by students as a university and community newspaper. 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I GOT THE NEUJ CAN OF BALLS OPEN LUITHOUT CUTTING MYSELF.' <SL- - BSU FALL RETREAT AT HIGHLANDS LAKES SEPTEMBER 20-21 COST $8.50 SPEAKER: BARNEY WALKER MUSIC BY: FRIENDS Sign up at BAPTIST STUDENT CENTER Located on College Main Behind Loupots maroon sticker parking lots around Davis-Gary Crocker, Schumacher and Walton halls. If you can see through your cool ray sunglasses it will become apparant that there are some green, yes green stickers in these upperclassmen lots. Now, we are men of compassion and understanding and realize you have all been busy riding around keeping cool and staying out of the rain. But please, consider our side, we have gone through two years of school, parking behind the Slut Hut and University Cycles. Now after paying $30 for maroon stickers, we feel entitled to a parking space on this side of the tracks. Please show us some concern and visit our lots pad in hand and plenty of pencils for at last count there were 97 in there, excluding girls. If you do not come soon, we will be forced to hijack you Cushman, pad and black crayon and get it on! WilUam Dale Dykes ’76 Jim Palmer ’76 Dan Barrow ’76 and 27 other upper classmen in Davis- Gary Hall. The binds, animals & flowers are dying to tell us... “Give a hoot, don’t pollute.” ^5 miD science lecture: There is time to reverse the tier; toward a dehumanized sod® James Spencer, C.S.B.,ofDefr will tell the TAMU audieij this Monday [% "We’re not yet a dehmar, ized society, but m'ii racing toward it at spaj age speed," he sill % “The gap seems tot* continually widening betoer our increasing technologic! ^ iameS j^ertcr SEPT 25 ALL FRITHS <.00 skill and the iitad*. quacy of our persorj and social performance there’s still timei reverse the trend. Si time to see that it’smt technology that reati shapes our lives. It's thingig that does it.” ~ PITCHER OF LONE STAR BEER DURING HAPPY HOUR open 2-12 weekdays 2-1 Saturday HAPPY HOUR 2-6 weekdays A h f Join Woodsy Owl’s fight against pollmion.lbday. M, 3606 s. College 822-91* 3 TAMU TOWN HALL YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES PRESENTS ANTON DEL FORNO GUITARIST TUES. OCT. 1, 1974 8:00 P.M. RUDDER CENTER THEATER TICKET PRICES A&M STUDENT W/ ACT. CARD FREE A&M STUDENT DATE $1.00 GENERAL PUBLIC $2.50 TOWN HALL SEASON TICKETS HONORED NO RESERVED SEATS MR. DEL FORNO WILL PRESENT A GUITAR WOM SHOP AT NO CHARGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF AM STUDENTS 8:00 P. M. MON. SEPT. 30 RUDDER CENTB THEATER. TICKETS NOW ON SALE MSC BOX OFFICE FIRST FLOOR RUDDER TOWER 845-2916 OPEN 9-4 MON.-FRI ANOTHER MSC ACTIVITY jofj3esrjpa|pers: Usq.^3 /SzCedalf "" Yourte epwrejyr Hjli frOTfl iwtr^ | t> 'V r Q ^ OP e h n:oo 7:30 Nar/-A°rtJO^d 315- umv£r,s 1 /(« Dr. J Hoyfr* 6ede Q/16-Sf/S jETver <j QQ M ^>0^, O nc 6 S . , s-TZpes S°l<) ■pf.cordaT'jr' 99 6’?e>