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Weather i Partly cloudy and mild Wednesday. Southerly winds 7-12 mph. Mostly cloudy Thursday becoming partly cloudy. High both days near 80. Low tonight 59. Cbt Bcittdliofi Inside Teague Pahlmann City Council .... Vol. 68 No. 105 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 16, 1975 Dunn gets top spot; election draws 2888 By JIM CRAWLEY Staff Writer Jeff Dunn was elected as Student Body President over senior Tom Walker in yesterday’s run-off elec tion. Dunn, junior, received 1546 votes as compared to Walker s 1342 votes. The total ballot count was 2888. In the vice president of Rules and Regulations race Duane Thompson outlasted Mary Ellen Martin to win the position. Thompson, sopho more, posted 1785 Votes with Mar-, tin getting 1042. Two races for senate positions are clouded by an error in the ballots. Shelley White, sophomore agricul- Center. Polls will open between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It was unclear if the Architecture senate race would be rerun and if so when. The Judicial Board should hold a meeting today or Thursday, said Barry Brooks, vice president of Cindy Wallace was the electorate’s choice for the position of class his torian. STUDENT BODY PRES IDENT JUNIOR Jeff Dunn Tom Walker 1546* 1342 V. P. — RULES & REG ULATIONS Duane Thompson Mary Ellen Martin CLASS OF 1976 SOCIAL SECRETARY Melanie Taylor Jenni Guido HISTORIAN 1785* 1042 Cindy Wallace Hank Maddux CLASS OF 1977 PRESIDENT Kelly DeWitt Terry Schul VICE PRESIDENT Gerard Pelletier Susan Fontaine Mike Cox Charlie Briggs TREASURER Jeff Dunn ture student, was incorrectly placed on the College of Architecture senatorial ballots instead of College of Agriculture ballots. White received 29 votes on the incorrect ballot thus complicating the Architecture races. Late Tues day an appeal was filed to have a rerun of the Architecture election. At press time, the Election Commission has rescheduled the sophomore Argiculture senate elec tion for Thursday. The Freshman Agriculture Society will hold the election at three campus locations. The locations are Animal Industries Bldg., Library and Harrington Duane Thompson student services and a member of the Election Commission. In class races, Kelly DeWitt de feated Terry Schul for the presi dency of the Junior class. Ken Don nelly won the Sophomore class pres ident position. His opponent was present Freshman class president Mark Scilio. The Class of 77 also had run-offs for vice president, treasurer and social secretary. Gerard Pelletier received the ma jority of the votes over his opponent Susan Fontaine. Mike Cox defeated Charlie Briggs for the position of treasurer. Next year’s social secret ary will be John Riddles. His oppo nent was Leslie Clarke. Cyndi Davis defeated Marty Hutchison for the position of sophomore class vice president. The new treasurer is Joan Marshall who defeated Russell Stanfield. The senior class of ’76 elected Melanie Taylor social secretary. TREASURER Joan Marshall Russell Stanfield 587* 507 Marty Clayton Bill Helwig Keith Merrick Gary Cooper Steve Smith Wayne Russell SENIOR $6.7 billion suggested House to decide education bill By ROD SPEER City Editor WASHINGTON — The U. S. House of Representatives will today consider a $6.7 billion bill to fund education, a bill which has been the focus of National Student Lobby (NSL) efforts in Washington this week. About 450 student lobbyists from around the country spent Monday and Tuesday talking with their local congressmen and senators about the bill and pushing for support for an amendment which would increase the bill by nearly a half billion dol lars. Convention delegates from Texas met with senators Lloyd Bentsen and John Tower and several Texas congressmen including George Mahon, chairman of the House Ap propriations Committee, which handled the education bill. Texas A&M’s two delegates, however, left Washington Sunday evening before the meetings. The amendment backed by NSL was offered by three members of the' appropriations Committee, Edward Roybal (D-Calif.), David Obey (D-Wis.) and Louis Stokes (D-Ohio). Included in the amend ment is a $110 million increase for Supplemental Educational Oppor tunity Grants (SEOG), of particular interest to the student lobby. SEOG is a grant aid program in tended for “exceptionally needy” undergraduate students. The $110 million would bring funding for SEOG up to this year’s appropriations level of $240 million. The appropriations committee, Roybal told The Battalion, Monday, decided to reduce spending for SEOG this year in compliance with Ml ' ' ' - Fred McClure Dan Kaspar Allen McCord David Cunningham Rae Wilkinson Les Spellings David Wilson SOPHOMORE Elections to he held on Thursday. COLLEGE OF AR CHITECTURE & EN VIRONMENTAL DE SIGN 295* 285 502* 306 409* 382 423" 341 71* 66* 57 38 29 25 Andy Need 21 These results will depend on a Judicial Board ruling. Kin Bush Tom Kollaja Doug Gates Randy Hohlaus Shelley White M. C. Bouzard Library Week brings folk music '€1 Photo by David McCarroll Performing in front of the library, three stu dents, (L to R on wall) Wini Kessler, Frank Hall and Hank Filing, provided entertain ment as part of Library Week. The week will end with a speech given by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus in room 108 of the Harrington Center on Friday. SOCIAL SECRETARY John Riddles 404* Leslie Clarke 374 CLASS OF 1978 PRESIDENT Ken Donnelly 566* Mark Sicilio 485 VICE PRESIDENT Cyndi Davis 597* Marty Hutchison 438 COLLEGE OF BUSI NESS Larry Marble 181* Donnie Payne 176* Clare Kelly 98* H«il Brunson 95 Brett Hamilton 88 John Lynch 79 Marcus Hill 54 Jane Terrazas 53 Ed Bloom 47 Scott Gregson 41 Jeff Hesla 32 Ricky Turrentine 30 David Binder 29 James Mensay 25 Vincent Wittig 23 Odis Styers 23 COLLEGE OF EDUCA TION GRADUATE Sandy Hood 16* (See SENATORS’, p. 8) NOW Brazos county chapter organizes By JERRY NEEDHAM Staff Writer The Brazos County Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) held a final organi zational meeting Tuesday night in which the 15 members elected of ficers. Harriette Kagel was elected pres ident of the local chapter. She had been the chief organizer in getting the chapter established. Other of- COLLEGE OF AG RICULTURE GRADUATE President Ford s request to cut fed eral funding to reduce inflation. Overall, in educational funding, the President wanted $1.2 billion knocked off last year’s appropria tions, with a $130 million decrease for funds for higher education. Al though Ford requested that Basic Opportunity Grants be funded al most twice last year’s level, he wanted several items in the bill, in cluding SEOG and aid to land grant colleges, eliminated entirely. The Roybal, Obey and Stokes amendment would increase aid to land grant colleges by $2.5 million more than the bill which passed the committee and will appear on the House floor today. Roybal said the aid to land grant colleges was part of the bill “for strictly political reasons. The Pres ident is probably right about not (See NSL, p. 6) ficers are Judy Wooten, vice presi dent; Carey Noveck, assistant vice president; Patrice Ash, secretary; and Don Campbell, treasurer. The newsletter committee will be com posed of Harriet Martin and Patrice Ash. Kagel said NOW is dedicated to establishing equal rights for both men and women. She said NOW is organizing rap sessions to discuss ideas and task forces to implement these ideas. The chapter is currently deeply involved in the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) recession bill now being considered in a Texas House sub-committee. The mem bers decided to circulate petitions in the Bryan-College Station sup porting the ERA. Other projects the local chapter is. working on are: investigations into the local criminal justice proce dures, checking into the local family planning situation and support of the Rape Crisis Center. According to a pamphlet written by NOW other goals of the organiza tion are the repeal of law which re strict women’s participation in the labor market, revisions of marriage, divorce and family laws to promote marriage as an equal partnership in all respects and social justice for all people regardless of race, sex or economic condition. Dues of $5 to $15 a year are re quired of members, but all NOW meetings are open to the public. The next meeting is April 30 at 8 p.m. at the University Lutheran Student Center. The presentation will include the history of NOW and a discussion of the goals and pur poses of the organization. Dominik question still unresolved By GERALD OLIVIER Staff Writer The situation on the controversial Diminik Street rezoning remains unchanged since last October. Harry Seaback, a Houston land developer, applied for a zone change on land behind the homes of Dominik Street residents. The change from single-family residen tial to apartment building district was heatedly opposed by the homeowners led by Tom Kozik. The residents submitted a peti tion bearing the names of 250 Col lege Station residents to the city council at the meeting where the vote was taken Oct. 21 on the change. If valid under the zoning ordinance (taken straight from the state law on zoning) the petition would require a vote of six of the seven members of the council to change the zoning. To qualify under this ordinance the petition must contain the names of 20 per cent of the property own ers adjacent to the land in question. It must also be presented to the city secretary prior to the meeting. Since the four-three vote passing the zone change would be insuffi cient if the petition were ruled ac ceptable, the council asked city at torney Neeley Lewis for a legal opinion. Lewis said the petition was not in accordance with the law since it was presented during, not before, the meeting. Dominik residents felt the spirit of the law, if not the letter, had been complied with, and hired their at torney, Brooks Gofer of Bryan, to oppose the move. There was talk of obtaining an attorney general’s opinion, but the meetings between Gofer and Lewis ended with talk. Seaback has recently filed for reorganization of his business in terest under the Texas bankruptcy laws. No apartments have ever been started behind Dominik and an at torney general’s opinion has not been sought. Kozik said, Saturday, the Dominik residents will be satisfied as long as no apartments are built in the area. Until plans to build in the area are begun, the residents are content to let the matter remain un resolved, Kozik said. The photo above of the brass lantern and pigskin chair, simi lar to those found in the MSG, was taken in an antique shop at Tlaquepaque, Mexico. These and other furnishings in the University are native to an area in Western Mexico. About 80 chairs (right photo) in the Rudder Conference Cen ter were found to be defective and are stacked in a basement storeroom in the MSG, awaiting return to their manufacturer. Workers encountered diffi culties during the installation of custom-made star-shaped lights in the Tower Restau rant. See related stories in this issue, pages 4 and 5. (Photo by Jack Holm, Glen Johnson and Jim Peters)