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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975
NSL marches on!
Usually in circles or going the wrong direction
WASHINGTON — The National
Student Lobby, a product of the
Sixties’ student activism, is $57,000
in debt, one
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month behind on
its staff payroll,
fighting annual
rumors of failure,
hiring a new ex
ecutive director
and hoping for a
better day.
Debts are such |
that any one of its
creditors could force the lobby into
bankruptcy. The current NSL di
rector, Authur Rodbell, said the
staff could earn $60,000 in a week
selling bumper stickers, but he’d
rather not do it that way. He is look
ing for student volunteers.
If the NSL does turn itself around
this year, and avoids predictions of
ruin, it will still have to solve the
problems of disenchantment and
philosophical differences in its di
verse membership.
NSL’s financial instability has
never recovered from a manage
ment decision to double the payroll
to cover full-time salaries for its
seven-member staff.
The $300 NSL receives from its
full-member schools and $150 from
half-members, along with a can
vassing operation in the District of
Just the facts, ma’am
Was Williams unresponsive? Decide for yourself
A funny thing happened on the
way to selecting next year’s Battal
ion editor.
President Jack Williams’ much-
touted committee system failed. Al
though two members of the Student
Publications Board, Dr. Gary Hal
ter and Student Body Vice Presi
dent of External Affairs John Nash
called for reconsideration of the
selection of James Breedlove, board
chairman Bob Rogers refused to call
a new meeting.
On Thursday, Feb. 27, Williams
said that of the two present candi
dates for Batt editor (LaTonya Per
rin and Will Anderson), one would
not be editor as long as he, Wil
liams, was president of TAMU,
even if it meant no student news
paper were published.
This comment was taken to indi
cate an animosity by Williams to
ward Perrin. On Friday, March 28,
Perrin went to see Rogers, associate
professor of journalism, for advice.
Rogers suggested she go to Wil
liams and ask what the problem was
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and “be frank” with him. After de
ciding on this course of action, she
asked Rogers if there were any
others who might be able to do the
job that he would suggest. They dis
cussed as possibilities Will Ander
son, Judy Baggett, Roxie Hearn (all
of the Batt staff), John Coleman and
James Breedlove. Rogers indicated
that he considered her as his prefer
ence of those discussed.
Before leaving, Perrin asked if
she could count on him for a re
commendation from Rogers for Wil
liams if he had any questions about
her professional qualifications. Ro
gers assured her that she could.
Perrin then had a similar conver
sation with C. J. Leabo, journalism
department head, in which he said
he considered Greg Moses, present
Batt editor, another good candidate
for the position. He, too, assured
her that she could count on him for a
recommendation on her profes
sional qualities for Williams.
The next week, Perrin went to
Williams’ office to see him about the
statement. She was told that the
quote had been misinterpreted by
not only those on the Batt staff, but
also by the university community as
a whole.
Williams indicated that he did not
have any particular objections to
Perrin being editor, but felt that to
try to clear up the issue at that point
would only make the problem
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Over spring break, Rogers was
announced as the new head of the
journalism department, effective
Sept. 1 and head of the Publications
Board, April 1. Leabo had earlier
announced that he was stepping
down. The Publications Board was
to be reorganized, with all faculty
members replaced. The students
were not to change because of ad
ministrative difficulties with such a
change so close to the end of the
semester.
At the Student Publications
Cbe Battalion
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or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of
the university administration or the Board of Directors. The
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Editor
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Assistant Managing Editor .
Sporfs Editor
Photo Editor
City Editor
News Editors
Greg Moses
. . Will Anderson
. LaTonya Perrin
. . . . .Roxie Hearn
Mike Bruton
. .. .Glen Johnson
Rod Speer
. . . .Barbara West
Douglas Winship
Members of the Student Publications Board are: Bob G. Rogers, chairman; Dr.
Gary Halter; Dr. John Hanna; Roger P. Miller; Dr. Clinton A. Phillips; Steve
Eberhard; Don Hegi and John Nash Jr.
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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College
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September through klav, and once a week during summer school
Reporters Paul McGrath, Gerald Olivier, Rose Mary Traverso, Steve Gray,
Judy Baggett, Alan Killingsworth, Sayeeful Islam, Cathryn Clement, Cindy Maciel,
Jim Peters, Don Middleton, Mike Kimmey, Jerry Geary, Jim Crawley, Jerry
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Photographers Douglas Winship, David Kimmel,
Gary Baldasari, Jack Holm, Chris Svatek, Steve Krauss, Kevin Fotorny, Tom
Kayser, David McCarroll.
Columnists . . . Bill Sheen, Mike Perrin, John Vanore,
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Board meeting on April 8 when the
board elected a new editor for next
year, four of the new appointees
voted for Breedlove. The tie
breaking vote being cast by Rogers.
The two voting student members
voted for Perrin as did one faculty
member. The third student
member abstained.
On the day following last
Tuesday’s vote. Halter was booed
from The Battalion office while he
crossed the parking lot. Halter went
to the office to talk to Greg Moses,
present Batt editor, and Rod Speer,
last year’s editor and present city
editor who had been the booers.
After learning of staff discontent
with Breedlove’s selection and the
possibility of a massive staff walk
out, Halter went to see Rogers and
asked to change his vote. He was
told that the process was already
complete (meaning Williams had
approved the recommendation) and
that it was too late to do anything
about it.
The recommendation had not
been approved by Williams. That
was done some time Thursday af
ternoon, Williams later revealed.
When other members of the Batt
staff learned Halter wanted to
change his vote, Gerald Olivier and
Mike Perrin talked to Halter at his
home that night.
Following that meeting, Halter
agreed to ask Rogers for a new meet
ing, Thursday morning. Perrin then
talked to Nash who also agreed to
request a new meeting.
The Batt talked to Halter follow
ing his conversation with Rogers on
Thursday. Halter indicated he
would not push for a new meeting to
avoid hurting the publications
board’s image.
“I made a mistake, and I admit it,
but not for publication,” Halter
said.
Batt staff members assumed Wil
liams would want the board to make
the best choice for Batt editor rather
than decline calling a new meeting
to help its image with the administ
ration. With this in mind, Olivier
and Douglas Winship, Batt news
editor, talked to Williams in his of
fice Friday morning.
“I don’t care what the present
Batt staff thinks,” Williams said, "1
received a nomination and ap
proved it. I’m not going to reverse
that because somebody talked to the
Batt staff and now wants to change
his vote. If Dr. Halter made a mis
take, he’ll have to correct it next
time. ”
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Columbia, account for the only in
come for the four-year-old lobby.
The approximately 175 member
schools of NSL are faced with a
choice, either put out the time and
effort needed to stabilize the organ
ization or abandon this form of col
lective lobbying.
The Washington-based lobby
started in April of 1971 as an out
growth of two California state lob
bies. The California lobbies were
supported entirely from student
government funds, and the campus
politicians still make up the core of
its membership.
Take the problems of individual
student governments and amplify
them to a national scale and you
have NSL, a former NSL director
commented. Long-winded orators
and heavy bickering over relatively
minor procedural points take their
toll on the effectiveness of the stu
dent workshops at the conference.
Political subgroups spring up and
vie for power within the organiza
tion, often downplaying efforts to
influence Congress toward student-
backed legislation.
Saturday, a representative of the
Third-World Caucus (a new name
for ethnic minorities) approached
the Texas delegation with a plan of
action he vigorously promoted and
emotionally defended. His enthu
siasm was not directed toward mi
nority legislation in Congress, but
to placing two minority represent
atives on NSL’s Board of Directors.
The lobby suffers from the basic,
inherent flaw of all student organi
zations — lack of continuity. Every
year, the membership picks new di
rectors, who may or may not be
familiar with the lobby and are ex
pected to step right in and provide
guidance. What continuity there is
must come from the other NSL
staff members, who can never be
sure of a paycheck.
An attitude of futility and frustra
tion toward NSL’s efforts is reflect
ed in A&M’s student government
representatives, who left the
conference Sunday night. The
weekend conference activities were
intended to prepare the delegates
for lobbying on Capitol Hill Mon
day and Tuesday.
John Nash, the outgoing student
vice president for external affairs,
said he was not interested in lobby
ing, since the only bill he was cot
cerned with has been supportedi
our local congressman, Olii
Teague. The bill would provide,
$1,500 tax break per student fot
parents. The new external affairs
vice president, Jerri Ward, did tall
to Teague Friday, but confined liei
discussion to possible topics for
A&M’s annual Student Conference
on National Affairs (SCONA). Slit
is planning chairman for SCONA
next year.
Carol Moore, one of NSL’s 18di
rectors and an A&M student, re
mained in College Station during
the conference due to a time con
flict and confusion with studentgov
eminent over the paying of her a
penses.
Both the A&M and Texas Teds
delegations have claimed the lobby, i
which they contend is controlled by
eastern schools, has not adequate!;
represented their campuses' feel
ings.
NSL staff members point to their
annual student referendum as their
indicator of student opinion. How
ever, there is a question as to how
reliable that indicator is. Rodbell
says he hopes member schools give
the referendum as much circulation
as possible (preferably through a
ballot at school elections). He ad
mits however, there is no guarantee
of adequate dispersal of the referen
dum. Rodbell has no record to tell
if a returned referendum represents
one student opinion or 1,000.
NSL is at a low ebb, but a formei
chairman of the NSL Board, Willis
Edwards, had a few words of opti
mism for conference delegates.
Every year, he said, when every
thing looks like it’s going to fall, we
come back and meet again and
lobby on Capitol Hill.
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