i ! !i V i r ■ . i Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1976 5 felony charges dropped Schnabel pleads guilty Associated Press AUSTIN — After a year in the headlines. Senate Secretary Charles Schnabel has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in exchange for dis missal of five felony indictments against him. Schnabel’s lawyers, Roy Minton and Charles Burton, worked out a deal with Travis County Dist. Atty. Bob Smith. Schnabel pleaded guilty yesterday to facts he never denied — that he sent Senate secretaries to the University of Texas to help with track meets. Schnabel was fined $2,000 and given a one-year probated sentence at the suggestion of the district at torney. That was part of the agree- ment. , , , , Minton put Schnabel on the stand, and the 43-year-old secretary testified he never profited person ally from any act he performed in his 20 years in office, including the acts charged in the five felony indict ments. Schnabel sent five Senate sec retaries to type “heat sheets at the Texas Relays in 1975 and assigned another secretary to the UT sports information office for four months in 1974. Schnabel says lending one state agency’s employes to another agency is unusual but not unprecedented. But the district attorney said it was “an unauthorized exercise of his offi cial powers,” a violation of the Penal Code. By pleading guilty, Schnabel avoided a long felony trial at which he likely would have been convicted of the lesser crime anyway, because he has always admitted sending the secretaries to UT. The charges to which he admits are among five allegations in a felony indictment charging him with official misconduct. Schnabel’s attorneys at tacked the indictment, saying was really five indictments in one. A de fendant can be tried only on one in dictment at a time. One of the charges against Schnabel involved placing a parking garage operator on the Senate pay roll to pay for Senate secretaries’ temporary parking places during re novation of their Capitol offices. Schnabel says it was an oversight that no money had been appropri ated originally. A longtime track buff and an offi cial timekeeper for the Texas Relays, Schnabel asked UT sports publicists last year how news coverage of the annual meet — this part of the coun try’s biggest — could be improved. He was told sports writers had dif ficulty learning which athletes had qualified for the finals in their events and what their lane assignments were. But the UT sports information office did not have typists to get heat sheets finished quickly. Schnabel said he would furnish the typists. He then offered to pay Senate secretaries for overtime they had earned — but could not receive in cash — if they would volunteer to type the sheets. Linda Willis, Shirley Hearn, Be verly Johnson now Mrs. Beverly Evans, Gail Hibbs and Josylin Dis kin volunteered. Four of the women worked 6% hours one night, getting $50 each in extra pay. In 1974, two other large track meets were held in Austin in addi tion to the Texas Relays — the USA-USSR Junior Olympics and the NCAA national championship track meet. Schnabel sent Deborah Denny to work in the UT sports information office for four months on materials for those big meets. She was paid $2,440 for that work. In traction Chuck Braden is in satisfactory condition today at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan after his collision with a car at the corner of First and Louise streets in College Station yesterday. Braden, a Bryan high school sophomore who Ratlulion photo by Kevin tut I lives at 3906 Windowmere, sustained a elbow and a compound fracture in therightlej The driver of the car, which Braden struckwitl his motorcycle, said that Braden tailed toyielJ at the intersection. IVeti ph Briscoe wants to stop grad, prof overflow (Continued from Page 1.) opportunity to good jobs than some univer sity degrees. “I have talked about this problem for over a year. Now it is time we begin to do something more than talk. I do not believe in a rigid government plan that controls all of the educational programs offered. I do not believe in an inflexible government plan that restricts choices made by stu dents. I do believe that using the mar ketplace is always a better way to match up supply and demand. Government plans never have been as effective as the mar ketplace. “But we have to do something. I do not propose merely to go on talking about these problems. Therefore, I have met on this subject with Harry Provence, Chairman of the Coordinating Board, Kenneth Ashworth, Commissioner of Higher Edu cation, and Marlin Brockette, Texas Com missioner of Education. I have taken five steps to begin to deal with these problems that I have discussed for so long. “First, I have requested the Coordinat-; ing Board to issue every spring a series of press releases describing employment op portunities in our State. These releases will particularly describe the situation in those fields where we are overproducing; graduates and fields that offer good em ployment opportunities. This information will help students to stay out of those fields where we are producing too many graduates. This information will help our young people to make decisions about their educational plans after high school that can lead to good jobs. And when students stop enrolling in certain fields, then appropriate adjustments will follow inside our colleges and universities. Adjustments will be made in terms of both funding and staffing. “Second, I have requested the Coor dinating Board and the Texas Education Agency to be sure that this information on employment is put in the hands of every high school counselor in Texas and is shared with local school boards, Parent Teachers Association, and school adminis trators. I also want it placed in the hands of every career counselor in our colleges and universities. These people can guide our young people out of the fields where we are producing too many graduates and into fields where they can find productive and rewarding jobs. “Third, I have asked the Texas Educa tion Agency and the Coordinating Board to evaluate the standards for the preparation of teachers and other professional school personnel. I have asked these agencies to do this in order to insure an adequate and balanced supply of personnel for our State school system. “Fourth, I have directed the Coordinat ing Board to exercise its powers to prevent the creation of additional colleges and uni versities and to restrict the approval of additional degree programs in such fields as teaching, law, and journalism and other fields of oversupply. I have further di rected that board to restrict approval of additional Ph.D. and doctoral programs. Everyone knows that this country is over producing college teachers now and there are thousands more in the pipelines in the schools still waiting to graduate. Just to give one example, one of our universities in Texas advertised for six new positions in English and received over 1600 applica tions. As I have said before, this is a waste of human resources as well as the taxpayers’ funds. In addition, I have directed the Coordinating Board to eliminate and with draw degree programs where they cannot be justified at taxpayers’ expense. “Fifth, I have asked the Coordinating Board to make special efforts to see that the resources of our fine private colleges and universities are taken into account when new public degree programs are proposed. We must protect this part of our educa tional system which provides education for over 75,000 students in Texas. “I feel confident we can expect the full cooperation of our private industry and businesses in helping us to make the em ployment marketplace work better. I am ssioi ider Hist inarv In li sure business leaders in Texas willldj see that reliable information on jobopj ® ( tunities flow to our colleges and univa ties. “I expect every educationalleaderial state to reexamine their programs. In them to find out whether theyaresen the people who want to find jobs and* 11 ' 31 ' people who will hire them. I want to our marketplace for jobs and gradj work. “We have built a higher education tern in Texas to be proud of. Ithasqa and it is available within 50 miles of per cent of all of our people. Wenow to be certain that it is serving all thep and not just fulfilling the ambitions egos of faculty members, board and administrators.” ichai ‘Vet hum irtlar Mc( tterir. ecor. em ishi Book about class of ’65 reveals startling truth « . .1 lit. .1 11 _ i tA C1T\/ 1 i* I w r l-» f o /-w-vm/***- fV A v hie r'lir Hf WOlllfl N f 111 f 1 H K V - (‘ 1 Prin dams &M The' By BILL GARDNER Associated Press PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Thank heavens for Lany Tyler. Ele ven years out of high school, the former cheerleader and homecom ing queen is still a winner. But it’s been a rocky road for many others in the class of ’65 at wealthy Palisades High School. It was this class that Time magazine spotlighted in a 1965 cover story about the new generation of “smarter, subtler and more sophisticated kids’ heading into a “Golden Era” of education. Then came the Vietnam war, the draft, the drugs, the demon strations. It was a hard time to grow up, “Pali” grads found. “A lot of tremendously sad things have happened, said David Wal- lechinsky, one of two 65 Pali grads who tracked down 350 of the 504 people in their class and wrote a new book titled “What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?” “I was definitely disappointed finding out what had happened to the class,” agreed co-author Michael Medved. “The process of doing the book was horribly depressing.” Medved and Wallechinsky tell the stories of 30 students in their book. Many of the tales are bizarre, but the authors say they chose a representa tive sample. ‘“It was not our intent to portray a freak show,” said Medved, who added that many of the strangest stories were not included in the book. They didn’t write about the top student who is now a professional psychic, the alcoholic attorney, the heroin addict, the popular student whose marriage broke up after he was shot by his wife, the medical student who tried to commit suicide, or either of the two students who went underground and cut off all contact with their families and friends. “It came to the point where we were actually looking for a normal person to balance the book, Medved said. There are some ordinary people and some success stories in the book. Lany Tyler, the most popular girl in school, the Homecoming Queen and cheerleader, earned a Ph.D. and now teaches history at Princeton. It s a relief to read about her. And the car-crazy leader of a pres tige gang of tough guys and athletes is a self-made millionaire with a chain of clothing stores. One of the other students remembers him as “the only person in high school who bought a cover for his car. He would park it and put the cover on it, and then sort of pat it. The class tough guy, recalled by others as a “bully” and an “enor mous, frightening character” mar ried a girl from the class and settled down into a real estate career. Medved and Wallechinsky were “as tonished. They were also amazed at the changes in one of their friends, de scribed by a former teacher as a H rlln Iseec Aloi squeaky-clean, patent-leather! with plastered-down hair. He has an unkempt beard and bj and wears scraggly old clothes at! I0 ^ er homemade cabin in the Norfa§ California countryside. He _ few plants and lives with a girlil ni wanders around nude. And there was the class' who kept a running list of men! had slept with. “I counted425, then I stopped counting.” She cently got a bit part in a movie. FRIDAY Town Hall, Bo Donaldson, Maxine Nightingale, G. 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