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
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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