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BAYLOR SUPPORTERS apparently made a nocturnal visit to campus Wednesday and Thursday leaving behind their
anti-A&M propaganda. The statute of Sul Ross did not escape their wrath; it was found painted green Friday morning. Pictured
here is Hilary Zabel outside the TAMU printing center.
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By JACK HODGES
Staff Writer
The 85th District Court Grand
ury recommended that an Office of
Personal Bonds be established to
jaHier and review information on
iccused persons to see if they qual-
fv for personal bonds.
The presentation was heard by
ihe 85th District Court Thursday.
Personal Bond Offices can be es
tablished in judicial districts with
more than one county or in separate
^unties. They have to be approved
V commissioner court.
The Grand Jury was granted a
!0-day extension by District Court
Judge W. C. Davis Sept. 30 to con-
Itinue its study of bail bond practices
® Brazos County.
Mrs. Robert Cochran, grand jury
foreman, sa ; d the study was made
because there were some ine
qualities in the setting of bonds
when the charges were the same. ”
Other recommendations by the
jury read as follows:
—Bonding alternatives should be
thoroughly explained at the time of
the magistrate warning. The alter
natives explained should include
personal cash and bail bonds with
Yell practice
site moved
WACO—Midnight Yell Practice
has been moved to the Waco Con
vention Center instead of the origi
nal Midway High School location.
The Aggie Band and yell leaders
will assemble at the Convention
Center at 11:30 p.m. Friday. The
Center is located on Franklin Av-
sureties. (Sureties serve as a guaran
tee that the accused will appear in
court.)
—The judge, magistrate, sheriff
or other person whose reponsibility
is to accept or reject bail bondsmen
and investigate their financial stand
ing to ascertain if the person is qual
ified under article 17.11 of the Code
of Criminal Procedure.
Article 17.11 states that the
judge, magistrate or other officer
taking a bond shall require the
bondsman to show proof that he can
pay the money in case the person
they represent does not show in
court. The bondsman must have a
double amount of money or prop
erty in comparison to the bond in
order to make bail.
Also if a person has signed as a
surety on a bail bond and is in de
fault then he is disqualified to sign a
bond as long as he is in default. If the
surety is in default it is the clerk’s
Cooperative doctoral
agreement approved
for A&M and Baylor
duty to notify the sheriff, chief of
police or any other law enforcement
officer.
—Legislation be enacted requir
ing that all bondsmen be licensed as
stipulated in article 2372 p-3 of the
Code of Criminal Procedures which
presently applies only to those
counties with a population of over
150,000.
Most bondsmen in Brazos
County are not licensed.
—That running records be main
tained by both the sherifFs depart
ment and the bondsmen to indicate
the number and amount of bonds
outstanding, thus reflecting how
much a bondsman has committed at
any one time.
—That the court, judge, magis
trate or other officer who has the
responsibility of taking a bail bond,
accept the responsibility of raking a
bail bond, accept the responsibility
to enforce Article 17.11.
(See GRAND JURY, p. 5)
By MARY RUSSO
Staff Writer
John Chappelle resigned both as
Corps commander and as a student
at the university Thursday. Rickey
Gray, deputy Corps commander,
has stepped into the top spot.
“Personal reasons” were cited as
the cause of the resignations by Col.
Thomas R. Parsons, commandant of
the Corps. He had been in constant
communication with Chappelle for
48 hours before the resignations
were tendered. Parson’s secretary
said.
“Things had been mounting up
on John for some time. None of us
(the Corps Staff) really knew what
they were. He’s been gone for days
at a time. We didn’t know whether
he’d been going to class. We just
don’t keep that close of tabs on each
other,” said Gray, who had been
Chappelle’s roommate.
Chappelle has been cited as a
“dedicated young man” by Gen.
Ormond R. Simpson, assistant
vice-president for student services.
That statement was backed up by
Dr. Charles Powell, director of stu
dent affairs, and other adminis
trators.
Chappelle has also been criti
cized by Corps members who were
unhappy about his distantness and
his recent irritability, commented a
Coips staff member.
Chappelle’s treatment of women
in the Corps, dining policies, un
iform policiesand punishment have
perturbed Corps staff members. ^
Aside from this structure change,
Chappelle’s attitude of “what I say
goes, no matter how many think dif
ferently” also offended great num
bers of commanders.
As Corps Commander, Chap
pelle led the way to changes that
have also caused dissent among
commanders and other Corps
members.
Five of the seven members on
Corps Staff had asked Chappelle for
his resignation, but when it came,
“we were all shocked,” said Gray.
The reasons for Chappelle’s res-
JOHN CHAPPELLE
ignations range from family prob
lems to academics to personal
health, said a friend of Chappelle’s
who asked not to be identified. All of
these had become one “too big, too
bad” problem, Parsons said.
“He hadn’t been attending class
like he should, ” Dr. Douglas Stone,
head of the Management Depart
ment, said. Chappelle was a senior
management major.
“He’d lost class days due to hos
pitalization and hearing loss from
the bombing of his room earlier in
the semester,” Stone said.
With absences from class for
health and reasons that are common
to other campus leaders, plus trying
to sort out family problems involv
ing the health of close relatives,
Chappelle had fallen behind in class
work and grades, said Chappelle’s
friend.
“He left suddenly Wednesday
night. He came with a van and
picked up all his things,” Gray said.
Chappelle had been out of town for
several days before he left, accord
ing to Gray.
Gray said he hopes that his re
placement as deputy is filled by
RICK GRAY
another Corps staff member.
“If this should happen, that per
son would double up on duties un
less it got to be too much, Gray
said.
Corps policy will remain much
the same as it was under Chappelle,
but with a “few personal touches
said Gray.
“But this is only natural because
everybody’s different.”
Recently, there hasn’t been a
Corps commander resign, although
company, wing and battalion com
manders have been known to do so
often.
In leaving the university, Chap
pelle joins the annual numbers who-
resign. “Some 20 to 25 Corps mem
bers and 50 to 60 civilian students
resign from school during the first
term annually,” said Jerry Mainord,
civilian Corps adviser.
Simpson said he hopes that
Chappelle will return to school
sometime in the future. His Army
scholarship can be held open one
year, he said.
“If Chappelle chooses to do so, he
will need two more semesters to
graduate,” said Simpson.
By BARBARA WEST
Staff Writer
6 ^ ca ^ ern * c Council Thursday
PProved a proposed agreement for
Pot raid
nets two
in Moses
Two Moses Hall students were
r ested Wednesday about 4:00
■ m. by the University Police for
t'Tu 8 16 sma11 marijuana plants,
if,eia Resident Advisor Harr y
Although stories were varied
JsSd P ‘Tb Ving j n M ° SeS ’ Bl V m '
i ,i a ’ Ihe students were taken
nmk 6 ?^ m P us police station and will
eiv ta ^ en to court and
en light sentences. The police
not trying to mess them up. ”
oi . e ^ e Wa s an informer,” said
JT eld ’.“ that told one of the re-
eu advisors and then the police
rev 6 1 u ' Blnmfield declined to
v °lved” le names (d ^e students in-
J K niversity Police Chief O. L.
Dnc 6r Sa * d ’ arre sts were made for
stud 6 ” 1011 but did not say who the
sed entS Were or w hat they posses-
* nc ‘ dent is still under inves-
L,. f i 10n hy the campus police.
er refused further comment.
a joint Ph.D. program between
A&M and the Baylor College of
Medicine.
The agreement sets up a coopera
tive relationship for development of
graduate programs “for the purpose
of achieving more effective utiliza
tion of resources in meeting the
needs of graduate students enrolled
in either or both of the two institu
tions. ” Guidelines for administering
the program are outlined in the ag
reement.
The paper must be signed by
Graduate College Dean G. W.
Kunze and President Jack K. Wil
liams and their counterparts at
Baylor, Dr. Joseph L. Melnick,
dean of graduate sciences, and Dr.
Michael DeBakey, president of the
Baylor College of Medicine.
Also approved were new
graduate degree programs in
Bioengineering and Ocean En
gineering. If approved by the Coor
dinating Board for Texas colleges
the degrees offered in these fields
will include a Master of Science,
Master of Engineering and Ph.D.
Ten new graduate and under
graduate courses were approved by
the council while seven existing
courses were withdrawn. All the
withdrawn courses were graduate
level in Biology and Philosophy.
Recommendations for changes in
hours of theory, practice and credit
were approved for four Veterinary
Anatomy courses.
Six course title changes were pas
sed and one Wildlife and Fisheries
Sciences course was approved for
cross-listing under Marine Sci
ences.
An existing policy on minimum
hours required for a baccalaureate
degree was restated for greater ac
curacy and clarity. The policy states
that a student may, with permis
sion, use advanced ROTC courses
to satisfy the 128 hour minimum
providing he has already completed
124 credit hours, excluding P.E.
and advanced ROTC.
A list of December degree candi
dates was also approved.
Dr. Bonnie Stadelman of the His
tory department was accepted as a
nominee to replace Dr. B. M. Un-
terberger on the Library Council.
Unterherger asked to resign from
the position earlier this year.
C. SHAW SMITH, the Association of College Unions-International, president delivered the keynote address Thursday to the
Region 12 conference being held at TAMU. Smith centered his speech around “the three A’s” of the college union—atmosphere
of the union, activities in the union and the attitude of the students using the college union. The conference, attended by 491
delegates from Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, will conclude Saturday.
Bentsen, Muniz to talk on elections
Presidential, gubernatorial races represented
U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen of
Texas and Ramsey Muniz, the Raza
Unida candidate for governor, will
be featured by Political Forum in
separate events early next week.
Senator Bentsen of Texas will
speak at a Political Forum presenta
tion Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in the
Rudder Auditorium.
Bentsen, has recently been con
sidered a possible presidential can
didate for 1976.
The junior Senator from Texas
will speak on economic issues. He is
currently serving on two Congres
sional committees concerning
economics, the Senate Finance and
Public Works Committee and the
Joint Economic Committee.
Muniz will speak at a joint func
tion of the Committee for Aware
ness of Mexican-American Culture
(CAMAC) and Political Forum
Monday.
The Veteran’s Day speech, enti
tled “The Veteran in Texas,” will be
held at 8:30 p.m. in room 225 of the
MSC.
Muniz, running for the second
time in the state gubernatorial race,
will also hold a discussion on local
cable television at 7 o’clock that
night.
A Corpus Christi lawyer, Muniz
has taken a strong stand on the revi
sion of the state sales tax. He also
favors a strong consumer-oriented
utility control system to prevent
unwarranted rate hikes.
Complete state funding of public
schools is also advocated by the Raza
Unida candidate. Muniz feels that
each student attending public
school should be guaranteed a qual
ity education based on the student’s
needs.
The CAMAC and Political Forum
presentation will be free to the pub
lic.