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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1975)
Student association joins A former A&M student, Terry Brown, was elected interim presi dent of the Texas Student Associa tion after seven ballots and two re cesses of the TSA board of directors, Sunday in Austin. The TSA board, representing 10 Texas colleges and universities, along with a few school representa tives which stayed until the end of the overtime Sunday sessions, also merged TSA with the Texas Student Lobby. TSA and TSL now share the same board of directors but have separate presidents. The TSA-TSL merger will offi cially begin in April when the TSA general assembly elects a president who will then appoint a public af fairs director to replace the TSL president Current TSL president, Sandy Kress, will probably remain head lobbyist for the student group through the 64th Texas legislature. Brown, student body president of Sam Houston State, was elected unanimously by the TSA board im mediately following a lunchtime compromise which put his single opponent in the vice president spot. Tom Carr, the only delegate rep resenting Texas Tech, was nomi nated by TAMU Student Vice Pres ident for External Affairs John Nash. Texas A&M, University of Houston and, of course, Texas Tech backed Carr and dead locked the vote which required nine of the 10 votes present. TSA by-laws require a % vote of the full 12-member TSA board. TAMU Student Body President Steve Eberhard said he and UH Student Body President Rick Fine convinced Carr Saturday night that he should run for the TSA top post. Eberhard said he was not satisfied with the two original choices — Brown and Tommy Proctor from the University of Texas. “There are qualified people who won t run, like Nash and Quincy (Ollison, student body president, North Texas State),” said Eberhard. Proctor told the TSA board that he withdrew from the race ‘‘because nobody gave a damn. The TSA board also passed a re solution encouraging a standing committee to handle minority prob- lobby lems and represent minority in terests within TSA. The “third world” committee will help blacks, chicanos and American Indians, said resolution sponsor George Gonzales from Angelo State Uni versity. Gonzales refused a suggestion to include international students in the resolution. He said the commit tee would study the possibility and submit a report. The board then charged new president Brown to set up the com mittee. Rector Weather Mostly cloudy Tuesday be coming partly cloudy late afternoon and nite. Partly cloudy and mild Wednes day. High Tuesday 72; low tonite 45; high Wednesday 68. Che Battalion Friday is the deadline for interim editor applications. The interim ed itor will take responsibility for the issues of March 6 and 7. The Bat talion editorial board would prefer an editor from student organiza tions which deal with The Battalion on a day-to-day basis. Editor will be announced Feb. 17. Vol. 68 No. 71 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 11, 1975 Senate votes MSC ■ video budget request jj A whopping $21,170 was recom mended for a video tape project by the Student Senate, Thursday night. The money, from the student service fee reserve, was requested by the Memorial Student Center Council. The request met with much con troversy since three other large video tape centers exist on campus. Senator Roger Knight (off- campus, undergraduate) suggested postponement of the bill until the possibilities of cooperation were in vestigated. Mike Hatch, vice president of 2818 operations of the MSC, defended the request. “We have researched it as far as it can be — we’ve re searched all the ways we can save money.” There are no alternatives availa- We that are financially feasible. Hatch gave figures listing the use of KAMU video tape equipment at $58 per hour. Approximately 55 hours of use each year would be re quired. Over the ten-year period life span of the equipment, Hatch said the figure would be $31,900 or $3,740 more than the request. The allottment passed, 34 to 17. In other service fee requests, senators voted $480 to Arts and Crafts, $4,860 to the Basement Cof feehouse and $1,650 to public rela tions and free university. The senate voted not to purchase the Nutshell magazine for 1975-76. It also passed part two of the uni versity regulations revision recom mendations, which would make it possible for students to initiate a board plan at any time during the semester. Other blue book revisions re commend: Giving the classroom instruc tor the decision on food and bever age consumption in the classroom. Allowing any organization a balance over initial operating funds to deposit the overflow amount in an off-campus account. John Nash, student vice presi dent of external affairs, offered an amendment to delete the word “male” from yell leader qualifica tions, but his amendment was post poned after much criticism. “I think you’re trying to pull this thing across when there are a sub stantial number of people absent,’’said Suzanne Quinlan (off- campus undergraduate). “This is a very controversial and highly emo tional issue.” Five bills received first readings before the senate: • A study abroad program resol ution, sponsored by Raj Kent, (Law, Puryear; junior) recommends a foreign study program be initiated on a university-wide basis. • Mary Ellen Martin (sopho more, education) introduced a bill recommending.a plan for choice of professors, and appropriating $500 to cover initial costs. • Student service fee support for the Graduate Student Council was introduced by Joe Marcello (sci ence, graduate). • A bill calling for the closing of parking areas 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 22, 34, 35 and 53, and the subse quent opening of 490 replacement spaces is also sponsored by Martin. •Kent introduced a bill calling for a Student Business Council which would investigate all student fee in creases, research all student fee ex penditures and maintain records available to the student body. Tuesday, March 25 through Monday, March 31 are filing dates for spring elections. April 8 through April 15 are election days. Arts and Crafts center Students wanted at open house By ROXIE HEARN Staff Writer “It’s students who are going to make this place run,” said Karen Zantow, the new Arts and Crafts as sistant program director. Today’s open house for the new center in the MSC features a com bination of supply shop display gal lery, and workshop. Response, said Zantow, has been “fantastic — it’s just been great. ” The center, in the basement of the MSC, offers classes in jewelry, shag rugs, macrame, crochet, quilt ing, rug braiding, bread dough, copper enameling, pottery, origami (paper folding) and decoupage. “All but four of the classes are full,” said Zantow. “The response has been overwhelming.” The largest portion of the center is work space, open to students, fa culty and staff free of charge. It in cludes work tables, quilts and pot tery equipment. The supply shop, said Zantow, is not an attempt to compete with off- campus markets. “We don’t want to sell what s al ready sold in town, she said. “There’s plenty of crewel, need lework and yarns available; we re selling clays, wax, lead, solder and macrame cords.” Lockers are also planned for stu dents to rent for their finished pro ducts. “The center will provide a crea tive outlet that students haven’t had here on campus,” said Zantow. An exhibit gallery comprises the third part of the program. Artists from the community and the cam pus can display and sell their work. Exhibits will be scheduled by the month, said Zantow. She is one of five who work in the shop. Zantow is a fulltime staff member while Sally Johnson, Dave Boedeker and Louis Carrillo are parttime student workers. Martha Palmquist is a parttime worker from the community. Supplementary student service funds have been requested by the MSC to purchase a lapidary trim saw and leather tools. Zantow said she hopes the center will be operated under an arts and crafts committee of the MSC, ad ding, however, that student volun teers are still needed. President and Mrs. Jack Williams hosted a reception Friday night for all the In ternational Students who have joined A&M in the past year. The reception at the MSC ballroom was highlighted by a number of dances and songs from different parts of the world. About fifty invited United States students also attended. SCONA events underway Films, speakers highlight conference Possibilities of the third century in America will be topics of discus sion this week as the Student Con ference on National Affairs (SCONA) XX gets underway. Delegates from universities all over the U.S. will attend this con ference. The format will include speeches by speakers such as Milton Friedman, economist; James Grant, foreign affairs expert and Roy Cur tiss, microbiology professor from the University of Alabama at Bir mingham. Round-table discussions will pro vide a forum for student delegates to discuss their views of the problems and possibilities of the third hundred years. Two film sessions will be pre sented. They will be “Future Shock and “The Futurists’ on Wednesday and “En Face” on Fri day. Delegates from A&M will be Marjorie J. Neely, senior history major; Rita J. Martin, graduate edu cation major; Curtis W. Marsh, senior marketing major; Rickey A. Gray, senior political science major; Mark J. Probst, junior environmen tal design major; Oscar Zolezzi, graduate agricultural education student; Peter T. Kropf, junior chemistry student; and Fathallah Ben Ali, graduate student in urban planning. Other delegates are Thomas S. Walker, senior wildlife and fisheries major; John O. Tyler, senior philosophy and psychology major; Karen H. Clary, junior anthropol ogy student; Joseph A. Marcello, graduate chemistry student; John S. Weber, junior management major; Sid N. Pandey graduate education major; Jose A. Flaquer, economics senior, and Klaus D. Bauch, graduate industrial education major. Final SCONA delegates will be political science major; Lisa T. Frederick D. McClure, sophomore Swanson, freshman range science agricultural economics major; major, and Michael H. Gentry, Shannon D. Walker, sophomore freshman zoology student. SCONA XX SCHEDULE Wednesday 12 February 1975 9:00 - 1:30 p.m. Registration 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. RTCC Orientation & Lunch 2:00 - 2:50 p.m. 1st Round-Table Session 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. B. Bruce-Briggs 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. Reception for Speaker 5:20 - 7:00 p.m. “Future Shock” and “The Futurists” 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. Transportation to Faculty House 7:30 or 8:00 - 10:30 p.m. Dinner with Faculty Member (Possible cocktail party for RTCC & Staff After Dinner) Thursday 13 February 1975 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. 10:40 - 11:40 a.m. Coffee & Rolls (Breakfast) 2nd Round-Table Session Mr. James P. Grant “International Resource Allocation in the Future” 11:50 - 12:20 p.m. Reception for Grant 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Dr. Milton Friedman “The Future of Capitalism” 3:10 - 3:40 p.m. Reception for Friedman 3:50 - 5:15 p.m. 3rd Round-Table 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Corps pass-by 6:30 - 7:30 p. m. Dinner with Corps of Cadets 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Alan Steelman and Sam Steiger 9:10 - 9:55 p.m. Reception for Speaker 10:00 p.m. - ? a.m. Planned Party Friday 14 February 1975 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. 4th Round-Table Session 10:30 - 12:15 (approx.) Victor Ferkiss 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Box Lunch 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. “En Face” 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. 5th Round-Table Session 4:45 - 5:45 p.m. Roy Curtiss 5:55 - 6:40 p.m. Reception for Speaker 7:15 - ? Transportation to B-B-Que ? - 12:00 p.m. Square Dance & B-B-Que Saturday 15 February 1975 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Coffee 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. 6th Round-Table Session 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Brunch 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Joseph Coates