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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1977
Page 3
Top of the News
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
A bill introduced March 3 in the
state senate would make it a mis
demeanor for college regents to ap
prove gay students’ organizations.
Senate Bill 800 was introduced by
Sen. Walter H. Mengden, Jr. (R-
Houston). The bill is directed at any ■
member of the governing board of a
state-supported institution or an
administrative official at such an in
stitution who formally recognizes or
allows use of campus facilities to a
jgroup whose purpose is to promote
the interests of homosexual indi
viduals .
A person violating this act could
be punished by a fine of up to $500,
confinement in the county jail for up
to 30 days, or both.
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The bill was introduced three days
after the Gay Student Services Or
ganization (GSSO) filed suit against
Texas A&M University in an effort to
become a recognized student or
ganization.
“He doesn’t like queers!” said Art
Kelley, Mengden’s administrative
assistant, when asked why the
senator introduced the bill.
Mengden was unavailable for
comment.
The bill has been referred to the
Senate Education Committee. Sen.
Oscar H. Mauzy, chairman of the
committee, now must decide when
or if to place it on the committee’s
agenda for consideration. He was
unavailable for comment, but one of
his aides said no hearing on the bill is
presently anticipated.
Mengden introduced the same
bill in 1973 and 1975. Kelley said the
bill was not brought out of the com
mittee for consideration by the Sen
ate either year.
Dr. John Koldus, A&M vice pres
ident for student affairs, yesterday
said that he had not read Mengden’s
bill, so he couldn’t comment. He did
say that the bill seemed to support
A&M’s stand on the GSSO issue.
Mauzy’s aide said that Mengden
was well known in the legislature for
his introduction of repressive legisla
tion. Recently, Mengden came out
in favor of the move to rescind the
Equal Rights Amendment, which
was passed in Texas in 1975.
Campus
Research aid passes
$37 million mark
Support for research at Texas
A&M University pushed past the
$37 million mark in February, the
highest total ever for mid-year.
New research received aid valued
at $3,265,718 last month, placing
the cumulative for the first six
months of the fiscal year at
A&M to hear
Libertarian
76 candidate
Virginia farmer and 1976 presi
dential candidate Roger MacBride
will speak March 22 at Texas A&M
University in a Political Forum
presentation.
“Libertarianism in the U. S. will
be his topic.
MacBride ran against Carter and
Ford last year on the Libertarian
Party ticket, a “third party” choice
)neofllt n 40 states. He is a pro-capitalist
s at the md says he believes Americans
ours, heighould make more decisions them-
elves about their private lives.
A Princeton and Harvard-trained
ittorney, co-creator of the NBC-TV
leries “Little House on the Prairie,’
$37,190,613, said research director
Dr. Robert R. Berg.
The September through Feb
ruary total—more than $4 million
above the same time last year and
nearly $10 million more than for the
same period two years ago.
Largest amount of February aid
went to the College of Engineering,
Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion and Texas Transportation Insti-|
tute, which shared $1,348,105.
Other support included a total of
$923,793 for the College of Agricul
ture and Texas Agricultural Exper
iment Station while the College of
Geosciences received $444,861;
The College of Science, $359,013;
the College of Liberal Arts,
$121,987; the College of Medicine,
$40,459; and Center for Energy and
Mineral Resources, $27,500.
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ROGER McBRIDE, 1976
Libertarian Party candidate for
U.S. President, will speak in
Rudder 701 at 8 p.m. on March
22. A reception will be held af
terward in MSC 205.
Texas
LA RAZA UNIDA party has
filed a federal lawsuit against
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, Attorney
General John Hill, and several
state and federal agencies. Jose
Angel Gutierrez, national chair
man of the predominantly
Mexican-American party, said
yesterday that the suit will allege
repression of the party. Gutier
rez, county judge of Zavala
County, said harassment by gov
ernment officials ranged from
Briscoe’s blocking of a $1.5 mil
lion federal grant awarded for a
cooperative farming venture in
Zavala County to alleged
monitoring of Raza Unida by the
CIA.
National
“MOONIES,” young follow
ers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon,
show “little or no awareness of
the outside world,’’ testified a
psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Ben
son, after examining them. Ben
son gave the testimony yester
day in San Francisco before
Superior Court Judge S. Lee
Vavuris on behalf of the parents
of five children. The parents are
seeking custody of their sons and
daughters for 30 days so they can
be “deprogrammed ’ by the
Freedom ofThought Foundation
in Tucson, Ariz. The “Moonies,”
ranging in age from 21 to 26, are
challenging the guardianship
petitions by their parents who
are from New York.
“SUPERPIG,” a mechanical
device weighing some 4,000
pounds, will inspect the 800-
mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline by
running through the pipe, de
tecting dents and wrinkles, an
Interior Department official told
members of the House Interior
Committee yesterday. If the de
fects are not found, big problems
will result when oil starts speed
ing through the pipeline at
speeds up to 35,0000 gallons per
minute.
A COURT DECISION out
lawing all joint newspaper-
broadcast ownerships in the
same town will be appealed by
the Federal Communications
Commission. The decision
struck down FCC rules allowing
most existing newspaper-
broadcast combinations to con
tinue unless “the evidence
clearly discloses a cross
ownership in the public inter-
est.
THE NUMBER of banks with
problems swelled to 384 this
week despite improving eco
nomic conditions, today said
Robert Barnett, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation chair
man. One-hundred fifteen of.
them are in the two most seri
ous categories. Based on experi
ence since 1973 outlined in the
FDIC annual report, eight of the
banks will fail and three others
will be forced into mergers with
stronger institutions. The
number of seriously troubled
banks has dropped from a peak of
128 last spring to 115.
A FEW CLUES have been
found in the killing of boxing fig
ure Howie Steindler, model for
the crusty manager in the movie
“Rocky, who was grabbed by
three men, shoved into his own
car, beaten and suffocated.
Steindler, 72, managed a
number of fighters, including
World Boxing Council feather
weight champ Danny “Little
Red” Lopez and his brother,
welterweight contender Ernie
“Indian Red” Lopez, and man
aged the Main Street Gym.
Steindler was kidnapped as he
arrived at his home in Encino in
the suburban San Fernando Val
ley Wednesday night.
World
THOUSANDS of heavily
armed “mercenaries” have in
vaded Zaire from Angola, placing
eight American Methodist mis-
sionaires under arrest, the U.S.
Embassy reports. Zaire said it
had “retaken” two of five towns
in a counteroffensive. The em
bassy said the missionaries—
including five women — were
being held in Kapanga, one of
five villages captured.
IN ROME, parliament has in
dicted two former defense minis
ters on charges of accepting
bribes from the American Loc
kheed Aircraft Corp. Luigi Gui,
a Christian Democrat, and Mario
Tanassi, a Social Democrat, will
be the first cabinet officials to be
tried before the Constitutional
Court in postwar Italy. After a
week of debate by a joint session
of parliament, the indictments
were voted yesterday.
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TOP DRAWER
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” Thefc mthor of three books that combined
vith three he edited for over a mil-
ion sales and battler of bureaucracy
intranun n Vermont, MacBride made history
;tics. Ht n the 1972 Republican convention,
thingsi He bolted and cast the first vote
iver for a woman in the history of
lie U.S.
The MacBride vote went to
ibertarian Party presidential can-
iidate Theodora Nathan.
His books are “The American
Sectoral College,” “Treaties Ver-
us the Constitution” and “A New
lawn for America.
Political Forum Chairman Lynn
Hibson said the free MacBride pro-
;ram will be at 8 p.m. in Rudder
lower 701.
Knowledge is your best
protection.
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Town & Country Center
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Fhoto contest
)ffers $50 prize
Set the shutter speed, adjust the
bcus, and remove the lens cover.
The MSC Camera Committee of
Texas A&M University has an
nounced Salon ’77, a photo contest
with a $50 prize.
Color and black-and-white prints
will be judged April 16-17. Besides
the $50, a “Best of Show’ plaque,
and first, second and third place
tibbons will be awarded in each of 12
categories.
Student photographers may enter
no more than two prints per cate
gory, at 75 cents a print. All entries
must be mounted and turned in by
April 12.
Winning photographs will be ex
hibited April 17-May 7 at the MSC
Gallery.
More information and entry
blanks are available from the Cam
era Committee in the MSC Student
Programs Office or by calling 845-
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