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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAR. 11, 1976
Bill Mauldin
v Love will come
1
Reagan has ‘no intention’
of folding campaign tent
No need to worry
The Student Senate is considering a resolution which
would support a ward system of election in College Sta
tion.
Their arguments in favor of the system are tenuous at
best. They say such a system would make the campus a
separate ward, and consequently, a student on the city
council would be guaranteed. So what?
Under the existing at-large method of selecting council
members students conceivably could be elected to all the
council posts. And that is particularly the fear that other
proponents of the ward system harbor.
Councilman Homer Adams strongly supports the ward
system saying it would prevent a minority, such as stu
dents, from taking over the council. His objections to
students? “I don’t think they’ve got any business here (on
the council) when they’re here for a limited period of
time. ”
He needn’t worry. This year only one A&M student
filed even though there were six council positions up for
election.
The ward folks also feel their form of representation
would insure the concept of one-man, one vote. Thus,
instead of six council representatives, each voter would
have only one. And would they really know that one
representative any better just because he lives across the
park rather than across campus?
Wards usually are found in large cities where there are
large ethnic blocs and neighborhood solidarity. Since Col
lege Station is a smaller town, albeit a rapidly expanding
one, the issue of redistricting would be a continual prob
lem. Minorities would rail against inequities and redis
tricting would become a political tool, just like in the
Texas Legislature.
As for providing a “well-balanced city council,” as the
proposed Senate resolution states, such would only be an
ideal. The black and Chicano population in College Sta
tion is not located in a particular area of town, but rather
scattered over several areas. Their voting power would
become non-existent. Students might be able to pick up
an additional seat from an apartment-dominated ward,
but who would be the candidate? A free choice demands a
choice. j p
Associated Press
President Ford’s advisers were
counting Ronald Reagan out of the
race for the Republican presidential
nomination Wednesday, but Reagan
said he has no intention of folding up
his campaign tent.
Reagan, who lost his head-to-head
showdown with Ford in Tuesday’s
Florida primary, and George Wal
lace, who finished second to Jimmy
Carter in the Democratic voting,
were already in Illinois trying to
build some momentum for the pri
mary there next Tuesday.
Reagan insisted his chances of
winning the nomination are undi
minished despite Tuesday’s loss.
“Getting 48 per cent of the vote in
New Hampshire and then 47 per
cent of the vote in Florida does not
mean that you fold your tent and si
lently steal away, ” Reagan said in the
north-central Illinois town of Ot
tawa.
Carter said in Peoria that only two
principal challengers remain in his
path to the Democratic nomination.
Wallace was not among them.
The former Georgia governor said
only Sen. Henry Jackson and Rep.
Morris Udall have been able to sus
tain their campaigns. “Wallace is not
a viable candidate and never has
been,’’ said Carter.
In Washington, the Ford camp
was saying with one breath that Re
agan has no chance now of being
nominated but that the President
was going to continue campaigning
at full steam.
Carter will be watched closely in
Illinois by Democratic voters and
leaders who want to see how much
support he has in the northern indus
trial areas, where both Udall and
Jackson have some strength.
Carter said his goal in Illinois was
to come in first next Tuesday, noting
success would prove “I can win
iillllElii
C onstruction
Editor:
I realize that progress and renova
tion must go on in spite of conse
quences to the society affected by
them, but must they be as pointless
as they seem? I am talking about all
the construction on campus.
Coming back from Christmas vac
ation I was looking forward to seeing
a couple of my pet sidewalk areas of
the campus completed. But, as I ap
proached one of my corners, I saw
that the other side of the walk was
torn up worse than the previous one.
I walked around; the whole campus
was worse than I had left it. Where
will it all end?
That first day on campus reminded
me of what I had seen in Tehran
(Iran). All the construction around
the city were either half-done, just
started or nearly finished; yet prod
uction on them had stopped. But the
workmen had a very good reason.
They couldn’t get the materials
needed to complete the jobs right
away.
I have no objection to constructive
renovation, but when I see struc
tures resembling a fountain and
glossy, colored little rocks that make
me slip and slide all over when wet, I
wonder what happened to progres
sive education. Our library could use
some more books.
Sometimes it’s necessary to reno
vate old buildings but to turn them
into stark, modernistic, sterile-
looking classrooms is depressing.
What ever happened to the ar
chitects who designed the old geos
ciences building and the animal sci
ence building? And, what is wrong
with a little dirt around our poor,
choked-off-looking trees?
Gayle Norman
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against opposition in an area having
voters of diverse backgrounds. ’’
Though Ford never said Reagan
could not recover from the Florida
and New Hampshire defeats, his fol
lowers clearly believe Reagan’s fail
ure to beat Ford in the first southern
primary will prove fatal.
Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., said
Ford’s victory in Florida effectively
ends Reagan’s chances at the nomi-
News Analysis
nation, reflecting the view of Ford
campaign manager Howard Calla
way, wbo said as the returns came in
Tuesday night, “I don’t see any way
for Reagan to win’’.the nomination.
And Vice President Nelson Roc
kefeller, who has taken himself off
the Ford ticket, was predicting Il
linois would be a “make or break
test’’ for Reagan after what he
termed a significant setback in
Florida.
But the Reagan campaign showed
every intention of fighting on. Sen.
Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., co-chairman of
the Reagan effort, said in Washing
ton, “The Reagan campaign is very
much alive and well. ’’
Laxalt said polls taken after what
he called “the President’s Santa
Claus visit’’ to Florida indicated
Ford had 51 per cent of the vote and
“we were able to capture nearly all
the undecided votes.”
Ford received 53 per cent of the
vote in the primary and picked up 43
GOP delegates to the national con
vention. Reagan won 47 per cent and
23 delegates.
The delegates were apportioned
by both parties under complex for
mulas based on the vote in the 15
congressional districts as well as the
statewide vote.
Although Laxalt said he thought
Reagan would do well to get 40 per
cent in Illinois, which would be his
fifth straight loss to Ford, he said it
was not necessarily essential that Re
agan win one of the early primaries.
Ford said in Washington he ex
pected Reagan “will be in the
ballgame up until the end” when the
Republicans pick their presidential
nominee in Kansas City in August.
“We aren’t predicating any of our
plans on my opponent dropping
out,” Ford said in an interview in his
Oval Office for four Chicago televi
sion stations. “We re planning the
whole strategy on the basis of we ll
be in there in Kansas City and we re
going to win, and what he does is a
matter of judgment for him.”
Reagan, meantime, was cam
paigning in downstate Illinois and
predicting he will lose the state next
Tuesday.
“Illinois?” Reagan said. “I never
expected to win there. In Illinois
there is a political hierarchy, a
machinery, that always goes to the
incumbent.
Reagan said he is pinning his
hopes for the nomination on West
ern, Southwestern states and the
“typical South. ”
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