Campus
A barrel-racing clinic will be sponsored by the Texas Aggie
Rodeo Association Sunday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 pm at the Aggie Arena.
Charlie and Nancy Palmer of Bryan will be instructing. The
Palmers train Quarter horses and specialize on barrel racing. They
will help riders and their horses with any problems they might have.
There will be a $3 charge. Aggie Rodeo Club members may
attend free.
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The Campus Chest Fund netted $466.33 from donations
taken after the Ole Miss game. Donation barrels were manned by
members of Alpha Phi Omega.
Short-term non-interest student loans and grants for Aggies in
financial need are available now.
For more information, contact Student Government Office at
845-3051 for an interview appointment.
Today’s weather is mostly clear and sunny with south
westerly winds at 7-10 mph. The expected high for Wed
nesday and Thursday is 86. The low tonight will be 71.
There will he less fog tomorrow morning, again becoming
clear later in the day.
City
An emergency joint executive session of the Bryan and
College Station City Councils has been scheduled for Thursday at 1
p.m. at Briarcrest Country Club.
A discussion will be held concerning possible litigation resulting
from the phone rate increase request. The meeting is closed to the
public.
As of9 p.m. Tuesday, the cities of Bryan and College Station had
not yet heard from General Telephone Company concerning the
counterproposal tendered to the company on Monday.
The cities of Bryan and College Station offered General Tele
phone 20 per cent of the requested $1,073,193 phone rate increase.
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A change in mailing address was announced Friday by the
Brazos Valley Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center.
The new address, effective Monday, is P. O. Box 1256, Bryan,
Texas 77801.
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The A&M Consolidated School Board will hold a public
hearing tonight at 7 on the explusion of a student.
The hearing, which was requested by the student’s parents, will
be in the board room of the Special Services Building at 1300 Jersey
St.
The board will also meet in executive session following the
hearing.
Texas
Six persons were qualified Tuesday in Lubbock for a
panel from which a trial jury will be selected for the long-
delayed wiretapping trial of the Hunt brothers.
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Senator Ernest Hollings, (D-SC) said Tuesday in Houston
that failure of government and industry to work together in solving
energy problems could lead to nationalization of the oil industry.
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A federal judge Tuesday threw out the Dallas school desegre
gation plan, calling it unconstitutional. See inside, Page 10.
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The Castroville town marshal was charged with murder
in the Sunday shotgun slaying of a Castroville man.
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The trial of Judge O. P. Carrillo in Corpus Christi stalled
Tuesday for some back room legal maneuvering.
National
America will be stuck with high unemployment and rising
prices for years to come, said the Congressional Budget Office Tues
day. See inside. Page 7.
President Ford declared in a surprise news conference that
the courts have not paid enough attention to a recent law which
stipulates that busing be used only as a resort in school desegrega
tion. See inside, page 9.
A panel of five officers Tuesday began hearing a challenge
to the military’s ban on homosexuals by Air Force Technical Sgt.
Leonard P. Matlovich, 32, a decorated 12-year veteran who admits
he S gay. See inside, Page 6.
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CIA Director William E. Colby told the first open hearing
of the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday that the agency spent
$3 million on developing and maintaining a supply of deadly poisons
despite a presidential order to eliminate the stockpile. See inside, Page 9.
World
Despite President Ford’s plea for quick action, congressional
approval of the Sinai peace accord may be delayed another two weeks
as the House joins the Senate in demanding full disclosure of related
U.S. commitments. .See inside. Page 3.
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Secretary of State Henry Kissinger declared Tuesday that
another boost in foreign oil prices could seriously jeopardize U.S.
relations with oil-producing nations. See inside. Page 7.
The economic commission of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries met Tuesday to consider whether to recommend
a boost in oil prices. See inside, Page 7.
Battalion
Copyright© 1975, The Battalion
^ Vol. 69 No. 10 College Station, Texas Wednesday, Sept 17, 1975
Doctor seeks
hospital help
By PEGGY INGRAM
Battalion Staff Writer
Sheets claim
wash rip-off
By T. C. GALLUCCI
Battalion Staff Writer
On Monday, four doctors
examined 493 students at the Uni
versity Health Center here.
Yesterday, however, the student
load was visibly lighter, said Dr.
Calude B. Goswick, director of the
center.
On an ordinary day, he said, stu
dents would be strewn all over the
waiting area, not only in the 37
chairs there but on the floor as well.
Except for an occasional throng,
however, students evidently fil
tered into the hospital Tuesday.
Some still had to wait hours, but
generally students were seeing the
doctors sooner than usual.
“We just didn’t anticipate this pa
tient load and we re basically work
ing at overcapacity,” said Goswick
of this new school year. “Sometimes
even leaning space has been used
up (in the lobby),” he added.
“Believe it or not, we’ve had few
complaints, said Goswick.
But to lighten the average daily
load of 400 to 500 students, Goswick
requested and was budgeted
enough money to hire another full
time doctor.
He can’t say how soon the new
physician will join the staff though.
Goswick is checking national and
state classified ads, has conducted
three unsuccessful interviews, and
mailed eight letters of invitation just
last week.
And although doctors always are
at a premium, Goswick says he feels
sure he will locate a quality doctor
for the $26,000 starting salary.
“More doctors are becoming
more disenchanted with private
practice because of Federal gov
ernment controls and regulations,
(See DOCTOR, Page 3)
Mimeographed sheets have been
placed on the fourth floor bulletin
boards of David-Gary Hall proc
laiming:
“Fellow stoonts! We are victims
of a faulty, under-handed laundry
system. Not only do they rip and
rip-off our clothes, they have fooled
us into believing their services this
year are as equal as last year’s!”
The leaflet then gives an itemized
list of increases. The figures are ob
tained by dividing last year’s costs
by this year’s and subtracting 100
per cent.
The arithmetic on the sheet is
correct, but the figures used as last
year’s costs are not.
I can understand a 17 per cent
increase in prices,” said Bill
Lukefahr, junior, who wrote up the
leaflet and placed it on the fourth
floor bulletin board of Davis-Gary.
“What I can’t understand is that
I’m paying $5 more a semester for
laundry and I still can’t get a load of
clothes washed without paying extra
every time,” he said.
“The 40 per cent and 100 percent
increases really took me by sur
prise. I think a lot of people are
going to be forced to go oft the op
tional laundry. I’m going to next
semester, because I can wash my
clothes off campus cheaper than I
can through the laundry system.”
“I feel like they are trying to pull a
fast one on us. I have to wait two
days to get my clothes back, and
even then sometimes I have to wait
until that afternoon in long lines.
“I was really impressed by the
laundry in my freshman year; now I
think the services have really gone
downhill,” said Lukefahr.
“The prices did increase, said
Clinton R. Williams, asst, manager
of University Laundry. “The prices
increased for the same reason your
food and gas have increased. Infla
tion.
“Every product we use increased
in price, the main one being
utilities. Our soap, gasoline and
salaries have all risen. To use an
example, when we used to pay $2 to
$3 for a roll of wrapping paper, we
are now paying $8.50 to $9 for the
same roll,” Williams said.
The laundry bundle prices have
increased 13 per cent. Whereas last
year the maximum bundle allowed
was $1.77, this year $2 worth of
cleaning is allowed per load.
The Lukefahr leaflet states that a
load of clothes containing three
pairs of pants, six shirts, seven
drawers, one towel, one washcloth,
two sheets, one pillowcase, one
laundry bag, seven pairs of socks,
one pair of cutoffs and one T-shirt
cost $1.76 last year, one cent under
the maximum.
This year, due to price per article
increases, the same load costs
$2.70, 70 cents more than the al
lowed rate.
Having this same load of clothes
washed over a period of 18 weeks
would result in spending $12.60
more than the standard $35 laundry
fee.
Rogers’ appointment protested
UT Senate, SHAFT vote strike
From Associated Press
and Battalion staff reports
AUSTIN — The university of
Texas Student Senate voted early
Tuesday morning to endorse a plan
ned student-faculty strike this
Wednesday.
The strike was planned by the
Students Helping Academic Free
dom at Texas (SHAFT) to protest
the recent appointment of Dr.
Lorene Rogers as university presi
dent.
Richard Daley, SHAFT member
and chairman of the Student Gov
ernment Environmental Protection
and Improvement Committee, said
Tuesday night, “We (SHAFT) are
currently meeting to discuss
strategies for the rally and strike
Wednesday. We plan to have a
program of speakers from the legis
lature and are printing leaflets to
promote the strike.”
Daley added that plans are being
formulated for round-the-clock pic
keting of the university.
The rally will be held Wednesday
at noon with the strike to follow.
Daley said the strike is planned to
last until Rogers resigned as univer
sity president. To support the
strike, SHAFT is asking all students
to boycott their classes or to carry on
discussions in their classes about
academic freedom and rights.
SHAFT represents a coalition of
eight campus organizations working
with the cooperation of the Student
Government and many professors,
Daley said. Steve Coleman, a Stu
dent Senator, was elected chairman
of the group and heads a steering
committee that determines policy
and action to bfe taken.
Daley said the strike had consid
erable faculty support, because dur
ing a meeting Tuesday afternoon,
“They voted almost unanimously
not to give penalties to students who
missed class in protest, and to en
dorse all responsible actions of
SHAFT.
“Many professors won’t he con
ducting classes at all,” Daley said.
Dr. Irwin Spear, a biology profes
sor, disagreed with Daley’s view
point.
“We think it’s (the strike coun
terproductive, Spear said. “We
discarded that notion at the very
beginning. We have an obligation to
teach.
However, over 650 faculty mem
bers demanded Tuesday that Ro
gers resign after hearing English
Professor James Kinneavy state that
a special 12-member student-
faculty committee had unanimously
rejected Rogers as president on four
separate occasions.
“While the faculty does not claim
the right to name the president, it
does assert that a person whose cre
dentials have been carefully re
viewed by a representative faculty-
student advisory committee and
found wanting should not be thrust
upon it,” said the resolution read by
Kinneavy.
“This is one case in which there is
clearly a violation of academic free
dom, sid English professor Neil
Megaw. “It’s inconceivable that the
regents would simply shrug oft
3,000 hours of faculty-student input
that went into the presidential
selection process.”
Rogers was promoted to the pres
idency last Friday by a vote of 5-3.
She had been acting president since
the firing of Dr. Stephen Spufr last
fall.
The three regents who voted
against Dr. Rogers appointment
have appealed for support for the
new president.
“To deny her this opportunity
would not serve the cause for which
we have labored hut would encour
age trial by combat and breed chaos
whenever there is a temporary
loss,” the statement said.
It was signed by Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson, Dr. James Bauerle and
Thomas Law.
Dr. Rogers said she had to choose
between starting the presidential
search all over because the commit
tee could not agree with the major
ity of the regents or accepting the
appointment without approval of
the committee.
T believe I made my decision in
the best interest of the university,
she said.
“I hope we can join together in
transforming the present conflict
into the pursuit of quality and diver
sity that should characterize this
university,” she added.
Bill Parrish, a law student who
was on the presidential search
committee, said Dr. Rogers “was
not, had not been and never would
he a candidate for the presidency in
the eyes of the students and the fa
culty.
Washington columnist Jack Anderson gestures, smiles and grimaces during Merry-Go-Round” gave a dynamic presentation which the Rudder Center
his Tuesday night Great Issues Presentation. The author of “Washington Auditorium audience rewarded with a standing ovation.
Columnist Anderson says
Press represents governed
By LORI RAESNER
Correspondent
The purpose of the press in
America is to be “the watchdog of
the government,” said Washington
columnist Jack Anderson in a Great
Issues speech Tuesday night.
Anderson is known for his inves
tigative reporting and exposes of
political crimes. His publishing of
the grand jury testimony in the
Watergate incident led to the resig
nation of several Nixon Administra
tion officials.
“Our founding fathers intended
that the press should represent the
governed rather than the gover
nors,” he said. “This means that you
need not rely on the government for
information.”
Anderson estimated that 90 per
cent of secret government docu
ments contain information the pub
lic is entitled to have.
Anderson said he finds out about
illegal governmental activities from
government employees.
“These people let me know what
an official is doing, not just what he
says he is doing,” he said.
Anderson said he believes the
worst thing Richard Nixon did in the
Watergate incident was to claim
that the only thing he did that any
other President had not done was to
get caught.
“This is an obscene lie,” he said.
“I have worked with other Presi
dents, and I’ve studied history, and
I know that most of the Presidents
have tried to serve the people.”
Anderson spoke lightly of the
Watergate break-in, calling it a
fourth rate burglary and saying it
would be a comic opera if set to
music.
“The most important thing of all,
though, is that the democratic pro
cess worked at the height of Water
gate,” he said.
Anderson criticized the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the
Central Intelligence Agency for
keeping files on private Americans.
He read portions of files on Rock
Hudson, Groucho Marx and Ralph
Abernathy. The Abernathy file re
corded a conversation that Aber
nathy told Anderson had taken
place between he and his wife in
their bedroom.
“If they can do it to Abernathy,
they can do it to you,” Anderson
said.
“When the FBI and CIA violate
laws they are supposed to uphold,
that’s a serious matter,” he added.
“When I found out about it, I wrote
about it.”
Anderson said he also opposes
crimes that may not be illegal, refer
ring to millionnaires who take ad
vantage of tax loopholes to avoid
paying Federal income taxes.
“In 1971 Nelson Rockefeller paid
no Federal income taxes at all, he
said. “You and I were actually pay
ing his taxes for him. That’s like giv
ing him welfare.
Anderson said the purpose be
hind all his efforts to expose crime in
government is to achieve reform.
“Hopefully, when we expose
these crimes we will get reforms and
the abuses will stop, he said.