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Invasion of privacy increasing
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975
Page 3
By ROXIE HEARN
Staff Writer
The widespread use of social sec
urity numbers has increased the in
vasion of privacy in the United
States, said U.S. Representative
Barry M. Goldwater Jr. in a Political
Forum appearance Monday night.
“Using a social security number,
a person can be traced from cradle
to grave without his knowledge or
consent,” he said.
Mines expensive
State would lose
Strip mining of lignite in Burle
son County would cause an esti
mated loss of $2.15 million a year in
agricultural income to that county.
According to a preliminary report
released by Save Texas Agriculture,
Timber and Ecosystems from
Stripmining (STATES), the state
could lose an estimated $122 million
annually. STATES, an ad hoc or
ganization, has said the money
would he lost by removing other re
sources.
STATES said fishing and hunting
areas in the state would be ad
versely affected by strip mining.
Portions of pine wood forests could
also be destroyed.
At present, there is no legal re
quirement for strip miners to re
claim land. State Rep. Buddy Tem
ple of Diboll has introduced a hill
which would require strip miners to
reclaim land. H.B. 656 would also
assure Texas landowners that their
land could not be stripped without
their specific written agreement to
strip mining, rather than a mere
lease of their lignite, sand, gravel
and other minerals.
State Sen. Lloyd Doggett of Au
stin has filed an identical bill (S.B.
66) in the Senate.
The loss figures compiled by
STATES are based on the 1974 re
port of the Bureau of Economic
Geology, information from the Uni
versity of Texas, agricultural land
figures in the 1967 U.S. Census of
Agriculture and payments for ag
ricultural products in the 1973 re
ports of the Texas Department of
Agriculture and U.S. Department
of Agriculture statistics.
Goldwater, a three-term Repub
lican from the 20th Congressional
District in California, spoke on the
Right of Privacy Act of 1974 which
was signed into law January 1, 1975.
Goldwater claims principle re
sponsibility for writing the act.
“We have lost our sense of the
true meaning of personal privacy
beyond keeping strangers out of our
house,” he said.
But what about the strangers who
have unlimited access to your per
sonal records? Goldwater asked.
He stressed that he was not op
posed to science and technology,
“but we must insure the superiority
of men over machines.
“Science had been dedicated to
the search for wisdom. Now they try
to control it.
The bill deals only with the gov
ernment and not the individual,
Goldwater explained, but he still
called its effects “far-reaching, sig
nificant.”
The bill outlaws any personal data
Network television
overlooks Aggies
APPLICATIONS FOR MEETING ROOMS
IN THE UNIVERSITY CENTER COMPLEX
FOR RECOGNIZED STUDENT ORGANI
ZATIONS, CLUBS, AND GOVERNING
BODIES WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE
1975 FALL SEMESTER (AUG. 16 —DEC.
31) IN THE SCHEDyLING OFFICE, 2nd
FLOOR, RUDDER TOWER BEGINNING
AT 8 A.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975. AP
PLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED
IN THE SCHEDULING OFFICE. RE
QUESTS WILL BE CONFIRMED BEFORE
THE END OF THE SPRING SEMESTER.
After a look at the current TV
shows, it’s apparent they’re catering
more and more to racioethnic
minorities with one notable excep
tion — Aggies. And it’s not for lack
of material.
The “Branded” series, for exam
ple, could be converted into the
story of an otherwise proud Aggie
returning to his hometown after the
last Turkey Day game.
Or there’s “The Waltons,” which
portrays life in Walton Hall. Only in
this version, the Great Depression
is a place, not a period in time.
There’s also “Voyage to the Bot
tom of the C,” the story of an unsus
pecting freshman who fell into the
hole of the Memorial Student
Center construction years ago. The
poor fellow apparently burrowed
into the post office last year and was
captured while jousting the coffee in
the snack bar. “Fantastic Voyage” is
its sequel in which he describes a
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AGRONOMY SOCIETY meets at 7:15 p.m. in rm.
105A of the Agronomy Bldg.
BASEMENT COMMITTEE will meet in the Base
ment at 8 p.m.
MECHANIZED AGRICULTURE CLUB meets at
7:30 p.m. in the Power and Machinery Lab.
NURSING SOCIETY meets at 7 p.m. in Rudder rm.
504.
AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATIONS CLUB
meets at 7 p.m. in rm. 004 of the Reed McDonald
Bldg.
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY meets
at 7:30 p.m. in room 305 Fermier to elect next
year’s officers.
WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTS meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Bar
celona party room.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS will
elect officers at 7 p.m. in the Architecture Au
ditorium.
THE LIBRARY presents W. R. Downs to speak on
the space program at 7 p.m. in rm. 226 of the
Library;
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY will present Wil
liam Henning to speak on the SI DA at 3 p. m. in
Fermier rm. 305.
THURSDAY
CEPHEID VARIABLES meet in the conference
room of the MSC Student Programs Office at 6:30
p.m.
SAN ANGELO HOMETOWN CLUB meets at 7:30
p.m. in Rudder rm. 604.
BRAZOS ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY will pre
sent a program on photographing birds at 7:30
p.m. in rm. 112 of the Oceanography bldg.
BRYAN COUNCIL OF STUTTERERS meets at
8:15 p.m. at the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY meets at 7:30 p in. in room 607
of the Rudder Tower to elect officers.
MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY sponsors a symposium
on cancer from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m. in the MSC and
on the 3rd floor of the Rudder Tower.
A&M/COLLEGE STATION AMERICAN LEGION
meets at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Bank of A&M
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zoo of animals’ heads watching him
from a cliff while he winds his way
through a herd of iron-legged cows.
His release and subsequent tour of
the changed campus prompts his
book “The Old Man and the C.”
The campus postal system could
be portrayed in “Mash” and also
“Many Happy Returns.
And there’s “Friday Night at the
Frolics.” On second thought no.
Please, no.
For the administration there’s
“Shaft.” The possibilities are limit
less.
Police and lawyer shows are at the
pinnacle of their popularity and rep
resenting Campus Security is “Bul
let, Bullet, Who’s Got the Bullet”
and “Ticket to Ride and Do Any
thing Else.” And worth mentioning
is the award-winning AMC News
whitepaper “Crime Rides a Bicy
cle.”
“The Bold Ones’ is about super
jocks running across the b.q. drill-
field on a football weekend.
For those stuck here on weekend
“ AMC’s Wild World — of Sorts” has
some exotic sports,
For example, there’s the Interna
tional Quadding Championships in
which medals are awarded to
specialists in frequency, duration
and adverse weather categories.
Coming up in April is the
12-Hour Term Paper Typing
Marathon.
systems whose existence is secret
and an individual must be informed
of what is on record and where, he
said.
The person must be informed of
the timeliness of the data involved,
and how it will be used.
Permission must be granted by
the individual for transfer of infor
mation for purposes other than orig
inally intended, he said.
It also forbids the use of the social
security number for any other pur
pose than expressed by law.
It provides for a Privacy Commis
sion which will research and report
back to Congress in two years with
recommendations of making or not
making legislation.
Goldwater says he opposes efforts
to give the Executive Branch “un
necessary power.”
He described himself as a conser
vative, saying, “A liberal tends not
to be concerned with a concentra
tion of power in government.
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