Page 4 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1975
Over the wall
UT gets first woman
as student president
Roommates share apartment only
Mixed male, female roommates more prevalent
By CYNTHIA MACIEL
Staff Writer
Except for the well-known fact
that everything is costing more
these days, there is no obvious
stream of continuity among the ex
change newspapers I read this
week.
At the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AT AUSTIN, they have elected
their first woman student body pres
ident. Carol Crabtree won the
runoff election, defeating Bill Ware.
Crabtree polled 3,281 votes to
Ware’s 2,328.
★★★
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
AUSTIN administrators gave final
approval to the Texas Student Pub
lications Board of Operating Trus
tees to proceed with a nonbinding
April 9 preferential poll which
should aid in the selection of the
next editor of The Daily Texan.
The results of the original Feb. 12
runoff election were thrown out by
the board after it was learned
editor-elect Bill Garland had drop
ped a journalism course required of
all editor candidates.
★★★
The Student Senate at THE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AU
STIN appropriated $700 for the con
tinued publication of a black student
newspaper for the next two months.
Subject to approval by the Texas
Student Publications Board, The
Blackprint, sponsored by The
Blacks organization, would be dis
tributed as a Daily Texas supple
ment.
★ ★★
Five male SOUTHERN
METHODIST UNIVERSITY stu
dents celebrated the arrival of
spring by running through the
freshman quad in their birthday
suits.
Carol Tobin, an SMU junior said,
T was standing outside in front of
Morrison Hall when some fireworks
went off and these guys came streak
ing through the quad, beating their
chests and laughing. ”
The director of Traffic and Safety
department said that no charges
have been filed and no complaints
have been received.
★★★
A court ruling declared TEXAS
WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY housing
regulations unconstitutional. A stu
dent filed suit last year, charging the
university with discrimination
against women.
Unmarried women under 23 are
required to live in the residence
halls. There are no such rules for the
21 men attending TWU.
The court ruled unanimously that
the school could not treat women
Schools
will lose
state aid
A one-day regional school boards
workshop, cosponsored by the State
School Boards Association and the
TAMU Department of Educational
Administration is scheduled April
28.
A three day workshop for school
business officials will be held the
prior week April 23-25.
Discussion will range from use of
school facilities, program budgeting
strategies and educational data to
information processing.
It is the first of three workshops
for business officials. Others are
planned in July and September.
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Three members of a panel discus
sion at THE UNIVERSITY OF
OKLAHOMA predicted the legali
zation of marijuana.
The panelists were Dr. Alfonso
Paredes, director of the Oklahoma
Alcohol and Drug Research Insti
tutes, Phil Horning, American Civil
Liberties Union Lawyer and Bill
Jones, OU police chief.
The panelists agreed that mari
juana is less of a problem among
young people than alcohol. Paredes
said that marijuana research does
not absolve the drug of any harmful
effects.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mary
Walker, a lawyer, and Jeffrey Wise,
a marketing executive, share an
apartment, but say they aren’t in
terested in the cohabitave comforts
suggested by close quarters.
Walker, 26, says there is high-
voltage shock value in her relation
ship with Wise.
She casually mentioned to a date
that the person with whom she
shared her apartment was a man,
and the reaction was immediate.
“The guy freaked out,” she said in
an interview. I told him there was
no romance involved but he just
couldn’t handle it. Finally, I told
him if he was going to be so uptight
about it, then he was obviously too
narrow-minded and I didn’t want to
see him again.”
Wise, who’s engaged to be mar
ried to a Texas woman, said his fian
cee doesn t mind his living with a
woman “for the time being.”
Lori Rock, 21, found her non-sex
relationship with roommate Jim
Cole, a divorced project engineer,
“a little bit scary.”
“My mother told me I should put
a lock on my bedroom door,” said
Lori, adding that she acquired Cole
as a new roommate because the
previous male couldn't afford his
share of her $325-a-month rent.
“I really prefer men as room
mates,” she said. "It means fewer
hassles. They’re more independent
and reliable. Girl roommates seem
to get into horrible fights. ”
Cole doesn’t like male room
mates, and is a trifle anxious about
what awaits him in his new situa
tion.
T don’t really know how I’m
going to react with Lori because I’m
human. It seems to me that one
shouldn’t shy away from a situation
because something might happen
he said.
The Marin Roommates agenn;
which specializes in finding peopi (
who want to share living expenses,
reports that many applicant
wouldn’t mind romanceless
apartment-sharing.
"Sometimes a girl will say sit
prefers a man because he’s cleane
around the house or because It's
usually out a lot,” said Gilliu
Woodard, who runs the agency,
And sometimes a man will prefer!
woman because he says she's
cleaner.”