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Vol. 68 No. 88
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 12, 1975
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Experiment first in west Texas
This six-hundred pound steer is part of an
experiment being conducted by Dr. Larry
Varner at the A&M Research and Exten-
Center in Uvalde. A plastic window in the
steer’s side will aid scientists in studying
livestock digestive processes.
By DON MIDDLETON
Staff Writer
The largest service fee budget cut
for next year came Tuesday night in
the Athletic Department, which re
quested $219,000 but received only
$120,000.
Other significant cuts came in the
Intramural Department and the
MSG Student Programs whose
budgets were each cut more than
$50,000.
The Vocal Music Account, which
includes the Singing Cadets, the
Century Singers and Arion’s Chil
dren, had their entire budget of
$19,828 deleted from the Student
Services Fee Allocation budget.
The Student Service Fee Alloca
tion Committee met Tuesday night
to make final considerations of
budget requests by student organi
zations.
A total of $845,000 in Student
Services Fees is available for the
school year 1975-76. Requests from
student organizations came to
$1,111,369.
Club sports not under the juris
diction of the Athletic Department
will be receiving Student Services
Fees funds for the first time. The
committee approved a budget of
$16,000 for these organizations.
Club sports previously received
money from the Student Organiza
tions Board which allocates funds
from University Bookstore profits.
The committee also approved a
“User Fee” program for football
games, consisting of optional season
tickets at $ 10 and single game tick
ets at $2.50.
Curt Marsh, committee chair
man, will recommend the following
figures to the Student Senate to
night for approval.
★★★
Athletic Department $120,000
Club Sports 16,000
Intramurals 120,000
MSC Great Issues 16,200
MSC Political Forum 12,926
MSC Student Prog. 342,500
Can Judicial Board remove senators?
Not if Senate Rules and Regulations Committee gets its way
By CATHRYN CLEMENT
Staff Writer
The Student Judicial Board’s
right to issue a writ of mandamus to
astudent senator and to remove him
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to the senator that the board be
lieves he is not doing his job. But,
the power of removal woidd remain
with the Senate and the senator’s
constituents.
Twenty per cent of a senator’s
constituents must sign a referen
dum petition to remove him. The
problem with this constitutional
clause, the board and Tyler agree, is
that normally only 20 per cent of the
constituents vote. This means a
number equal to 100 per cent of the
voters must sign.
They agreed the clause could be
made more workable if it instead
stated that 30 per cent of the con
stituents voting in the last election
must sign a referendum petition.
Judicial Board Chairman Jerri
Ward and member Mike Perrin said
the board does and should have the
right to remove senators.
“Either guarantee punishment
MICHAEL PERRIN
board and John Tyler, vice presi
dent of the Senate Rules and Regu
lations Committee. There was not a
quonim so no official decisions were
made.
The rules committee is consider
ing a new constitutional clause spec
ifically stating the Judicial Board’s
duties. Last week, a proposal by the
board concerning the writ failed to
pass the committee.
Tyler said the Senate will never
allow the Judicial Board the power
to remove senators. He proposed an
alternative.
He would allow the hoard the
writ of mandamus. This is a warning
for violation of constitutional duties
or change the Constitution so there
can be no violation,’’ said Perrin. “I
will not compromise my princi
ples. ”
Member Sam Walser believed
that the right to remove was not as
important as the board’s ability to
provide a forum using a writ of man
damus. At such a hearing a senator
and constituent could confront each
other.
Ward suggested the Senate pro
vide channels of appeal, possibly
through a special committee.
Shannon Walker proposed that
the board keep its right but that the
constitution be changed to allow the
constituents to reinstate the senator
if they wished.
If the Judicial Board wins both
rights the procedure will be thus:
A constituent would bring his
complaints against a senator to the
board.
In a full hearing, both could
present evidence and the board
would either rule that there was no
basis for action or issue a writ of
mandamus.
If the writ was issued and a con-
JOHN TYLER
stituent complained that it was
being ignored, there would be
another hearing. It would deter
mine the removal of the senator.
Board members are planning to
attend the rules committee meeting
Thursday to further argue their
SAM WALSER
Maaruder
Student runs for council
JERRI WARD
Petition passers
lag on coverage
By JERRY GEARY
Staff Writer
“A lot of people who had prom
ised to send the petitions around
aren’t doing their job. ”
This is the consensus of both
Cecil Albrecht and Troie Ann
Pruett, the two senators attempting
to raise a general referendum that
would allow students to decide
whether or not the word “male
should be eliminated from the qual
ifications for Yell Leader.
Pruett believes that many people
who have wanted to sign the resolu
tion haven’t been able to because
there has been a problem in dis
tributing the petitions.
Distributing the proposal to the
students has been difficult because
the people entrusted with this job
have not carried out their task, says
Pruett.
The number of signatures col
lected so far has been below Pruett’s
expectations.
“We re not doing bad, but people
haven’t been exactly knocking at my
door,’ she said.
When asked if she thought en
thusiasm was fading for the petition,
Pruett answered, T don’t know, but
I think we can get enough signa
tures.’
For the remainder of the week,
Pruett will be able to judge student
interest in the resolution as she
plans to have the proposal displayed
on the first floor of the MSC so stu
dents will have access to it.
College Station has a prospective
city council member who is a
TAMU sophomore.
Greg Magruder, candidate for
place 5 in the April 1 election, said
Tuesday he is not running as a spe
cial interest representative for stu
dents, but as a representative of the
community.
Magruder said there is quite a dif
ference between the median age of
the city council and the median age
of the community. He said this
doesn’t imply that the older peoplej
have outmoded ideas but his elec-J
tion would achieve a better balancei
of outlooks among city councilj
members.
He is currently president of the
Residence Hall Association and a
member of the University Center
Board. As RH A president, he serves
as an advisory director of University
National Bank along with the Stu
dent Government president and
student Corps commander.
College Station is going to ex-
When classes end Friday, March 14,
TAMU students start spring break. Only vet
erinary medicine classes will meet during
March 17-21, and then only Monday through
Wednesday.
Vet majors get their spring break on
March 20 and 21. Those are also faculty-staff
holidays.
Classes resume March 24 at 8 a.m.
GREG MAGRUDER
perience deep growth pains if the
city council is not prepared with
feasible solutions to growth prob
lems as they arise, said Magruder.
He said he has the student’s point
of view but his is integrated with
concern for community matters.
University students, he said, make
up a sizable portion of the
community’s population and are a
major factor in the community.
Magruder expressed concern re
garding the city’s building codes
and zoning laws. Building codes
should be enforced to guard against
shabby construction, he said. Zon
ing laws should be enforced unless a
convincing argument can be given
to show that the proposed zoning
MSC Town Hall 45,000
Shuttlebus 55,320
Singing Cadets -0-
Student Government 20,400
Student Lawyer 27,462
Student Publications 70,000
Total $845,808
Can you trust them?
Your money is
in their hands
The hoard also discussed the
one-year tenure for members prop
osed by the rules committee. Mem
bers now have tenure until gradua
tion.
Many board members feel this is
a move to destroy the board.
By T. C. GALLUCCI
Staff Writer
There is a group of budding
politicians on campus. They are
headed for the ranks of senators,
governors and president. They are
members of the Student Services
Fee Allocations Committee.
The committee represents demo
cracy in that students decide how to
spend the money of their peers. The
committee listens to budget re-
This is a news analysis, it is
an interpretive article by a
reporter who attended the
student services fees com
mittee meetings.
quests and submits recommenda
tions to the Student Senate, subject
to approval by President Jack K.
Williams. Just like it’s done in the
real world.
Despite long hours of circular and
sometimes irrelevant discussion,
something worthwhile results.
A committee of ten students,
headed by Curt Marsh, is responsi
ble for distributing $885,000 fairly.
The students, selected by Marsh,
are representatives from Student
Senate, with the exception of Stu
dent Government Secretary Karla
Mouritsen. The committee, which
began budget hearings last week,
has been researching the 12 services
for four or five weeks, said Joe Mar
cello.
One committee member, Lisa
Swanson, slept through the shuttle
bus request and did not even attend
the decision-making meeting. In
the interest of fairness, however,
those who did attend made up with
interest and dedication what may
have been lacking in knowledge.
For five hours last night the
committee debated, argued and
feuded over allocations. Whether
that was a good or had sign could be
debated. No member present
would accept a statement or sugges
tion at face value. All ideas were
probed, pried and tom apart. If the
suggestion still survived, then the
committee was ready to listen to
substantiation. This is encouraging,
for it shows that decisions were not
made hastily without lengthy con
sideration.
What is questionable, however,
is whether this was intelligent de
bate, or discussion simply for the
sake of discussion. There were some
members (for example, Curt Marsh
and Carol Moore) who understood
the implications of each budget re
quest. Then there were some (one
of whom is Bob Shokes) who
thoroughly understood one situa
tion, but were not knowledgeable
on the other eleven. Then there
were some (Mouritsen and Rajesh
Kent) who seemed to relish creating
time-consuming disturbances, sim
ply for the attention.
For all practical purposes, the
committee is in control of the stu
dent services fees. Technically they
have only a recommending power,
but their figures have been un
touched for the past two years.
Theoretically, the committee is
powerless, as President Jack Wil
liams holds final approval power
over all allocations.
As one committee member com
mented, the setup is not a perfect
one, but it is the lesser of two evils,
the other evil being allocation by
administrators. Surely students
value their $19.80 enough to desire
more than a lesser evil.
With forethought, a lesser evil
can become a fair advantage. Using
more discretion in selecting com
mittee members could improve the
intelligence level of the panel.
Granted, the members spent a great
deal of volunteered time on this
committee, even so, more research
into the budgets was needed.
(See ALLOCATIONS, p. 4)
Dale says
change would benefit the whole
community, he added.
Magruder said the city needs to
develop a mass transit system so all
members of the community will
have access to all available facilities.
Magruder is running against
Larry Bravenec, a TAMU account
ing professor and incumbent on the
city council.
A&M leader
in research
Texas A&M University continues
to lead the state’s public institutions
of higher education in volume of re
search, with projects totaling
$37,208,811 for fiscal year 1974.
A survey by the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Univer
sity System, shows TAMU’s re
search expenditures represent
43.97 per cent of the total for the
state’s 26 public senior colleges.
TAMU also had the largest in
crease for the year, advancing
$3,590,585 over the 1973 figures.
“While the dollar value of our re
search effort is certainly significant
and indicates the size of our prog
ram, we feel the true value is in the
benefits which the public derives
from these endeavors, both now and
in the future,” noted TAMU Presi
dent Jack K. Williams.
TAMU’s research program in
cludes projects ranging from high
way safety to agricultural and
marine resources, as well as air and
water pollution studies and several
medically-related activities.
Ordinances slow
city development
The overall development of Col
lege Station will be hampered if the
city doesn’t update some of its ordi
nances, Councilman Don Dale said
Tuesday.
Dale, incumbent in Place 3, is
running against Bob Bell in the
April 1 council elections. Bell is
general manager of KTAM-KORA
radio stations.
“We have a control committee, of
which I am chairman, and we are
trying to clean up some of our ordi
nances that are not up-to-date like
they should be,” Dale said. “Updat
ing those ordinances is necessary to
control the orderly development of
our city.”
Among the ordinances needing
revision, Dale said, are the subdivi
sion ordinance, sign ordinance.
DON DALE
leash law ordinance and the city’s
thoroughfare plan.
Another of Dale’s concerns is the
city’s park development plans.
“The situation now is that we’ve
been getting pieces and parcels of
land for park use and we have just
not been doing anything with it, ” he
said. “There just aren’t any real
facilities for the people to enjoy.”
Dale said, however, that the city
acquired enough land two years ago
for a sizable park.
“I’m not discounting neighbor
hood parks but I’m saying what we
need to do is improve upon the
parks we have now,” he said. “This
has been sort of a sore spot with me
because they, keep hollering for
more park land but we’re not mak
ing use of what we have.”
Dale, a four-year veteran of the
council, said he felt he was qualified
for another term because of his con
stant involvement in city affairs.
T’ve lived here in College Station
for more than 28 years,” he said, “I
feel reasonably sure that I can still
dp a pretty good job. ”
Dale, an A&M graduate, at
tended South Texas Schol of Law
and is president of A&M Construc
tion Co. He is also owner of Dale
Construction Co. and a roller skat
ing rink, Pooh’s Park.
He and his wife, Elora, live at
1220 Orr in College Station. They
have four daughters, three of whom
attend Texas A&M. The fourth is
enrolled at Sam Houston State Uni
versity.