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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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
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has an unkempt beard and bj
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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. Rollie
White, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY
India Association,
Oceanography-Meteorology 112,
7:30 p.m.
Aggie Football, TAMU vs. Kansas
State, Kyle Field, 4 p.m. (Corps
March-In, 2:50 p.m.).
Aggie Cinema, The Eiger Sanc
tion, Rudder Auditorium, 9 p.m.
Floriculture Club, Plant Sale,
Floriculture Greenhouse and MSC,
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Rugby, Parade Grounds, 9:30
a.m. (women’s), 10:30 a.m. (men’s),
12:30 games.
SUNDAY
Senate Welcome Back Picnic,
Sommerville, 4-8 p.m.
Executive Committee, MSC 216,
4 p.m.
MONDAY
Scuba Club, G. Rollie White 267,
9 p.m.
Polo Club, Animal Industries 215,
8:30 p.m.
Voter’s Registration, MSC first
floor, 9 - 5 p.m.
TUESDAY
Beta Alpha Psi, Rudder 410, 7:30
p.m.
Sports Car Club, Rudder 701,
7:30 p.m.
Texas Student Education Associa
tion, MSC 226, 7 p.m.
Student Campus Planning Advi
sory Committee, MSC 216T, 7:30
p.m.
Recreation and Parks Club, Rud
der 404 , 7:30 p.m.
Academic Affairs Committee,
MSC 216 B&E, 8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Senate, Harrington 204, 7:30
p.m.
New Faculty Coffee, MSC 206,
3-5 p.m.
Sports Car Club, Rudder 701,
7:30 p.m.
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