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reject to raise money for the
Olympic Games, are offt-
ly under way following Stu-
it Senate approval Wednes-
night of the Aggie Olympic
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St in which students will com
pete in Olympic-style games
lithan “Aggie twist.’’ The tena-
ve date for the event is Febru-
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must meet to run for office. The
bill also specifies the grades
these students must post at mid
term while they are in office.
The purpose of the
games is to involve stu
dents and raise money
for the Olympic Games
at the same time. The
Aggie games will be
structured along the
same lines as the Olym
pic Games.
Diane Baumbach, speaker
pro tempore, introduced the bill
and recommended that it be
passed onto the rules and reg
ulations committee for study.
The Senate unanimously voted
to have the bill researched be
fore being reintroduced for fin
al approval.
If a bill concerning the re
quirements is passed, it must be
approved by two-thirds of the
student body as a referendum in
the spring elections so it can be
come an amendment to the Stu
dent Government constitution,
Baumbach said.
In other business, Senate
Speaker David Alders declared
11 senate seats vacant. The seats
declared vacant are in Ward II,
Ward III, Ward IV, an en
gineering junior, University
apartments senator and the
McFadden/Haas/Hobby/Neeley
senator.
Alder said the internal affairs
committee will have appoint
ments for the vacant positions by
the next Senate meeting.
The newly appointed fresh
man aids also were introduced
during the meeting. This year
Student Government has 70
freshman aids.
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by Tricia Parker
Battalion Reporter
)ff Campus Aggies
nounced its new apartment
ncil presidents for 29 com
ixes in the area at its Wednes-
| night meeting.
Stacey Roberts, vice presi-
Jit of OCA, said apartment
Aicil presidents act as liaisons
tell towef* itween students living in apart-
■nts and the activities on
Bipus.
■Presidents set up everything
■m carpools and pool parties
iy opinion abouipBjflgg^pgj w i t |j managers, she
aosed AlbrittonP
said. They also set up parties and
intramural sports between com
plexes, she added.
“It’s a way to get not only the
apartment council presidents in
volved but to get everyone in
volved and to make the com
plexes more of a community,”
Roberts said.
Members of OCA won’t miss
out on cutting logs for bonfire
either.
Mike Golloday, OCA’s bon
fire chairman, said the group
will cut again this weekend. It
also will sponsor an all-you-can-
eat hot dog roast, Saturday
Oct.22 at the cutting site, Gollo
day said. Tickets will be $2, he
said.
OCA also will sponsor a street
dance October 29, from 8 to 12
p.m. at Culpepper Plaza and will
donate the proceeds to the Un
ited Way.
Other events scheduled by
OCA include a car wash for bon
fire on from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Saturday at the Exxon station in
Culpepper Plaza. The group
also will sponsor a bake sale
Monday and Tuesday and a keg
party for OCA members on
either Nov. 5 or 12.
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Columnist discusses life
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
If you read the Houston
Post, chances are you’ve seen
the column by Lynn Ashby
that runs Monday through
Friday in the News-Features
section.
And if you read the col
umn, you’re likely to see
almost any topic — from traf
fic problems on Katy Freeway
to a slogan campaign for spe
cial edition license plates com
memorating the upcoming
Texas sesquicentennial.
Wednesday morning
Ashby told a group of Texas
A&M journalism students,
“I’ve got the best job in jour
nalism.”
Ashby was in town to parti
cipate in Tuesday’s MSC
Great Issues program.
He said he likes his job be
cause writing a column allows
him more freedom than do
general assignments.
His day usually starts in the
mid-morning hours watching
television and reading the
newspaper to see if anything is
going on that might be col
umn material.
If something interesting
comes up, he asks himself sev
eral questions to see if he can
do something with the topic:
• Is there anything new to
be said about it?
• Has a column already
been done on it?
• What approach should be
taken with it?
This must be done daily,
Ashby said, because he writes
on a day-to-day basis.
Being a columnist involves
special demands that other
journalists don’t experience,
he said. For one thing, “you
have to be a self-starter,” he
said.
Ashby said his job is diffe
rent from that of the reporter
who comes in every morning
and is given an assignment.
Deadlines also present a
special problem for col
umnists, he said. A columnist’s
page is not as flexible as the
news page — if a story doesn’t
get done, another can be used
in its place.
The columnist, on the
other hand, is given a certain
amount of space to fill. “If I
don’t do it, it doesn’t get
done,” Ashby said, and there’s
a large blank space on the
page.
Although column-writing
never gets easier, “the longer
you do it the more you know
how to do it,” he said. For ex
ample, he said that through
experience he now knows who
to call to get questions
answered.
Ashby didn’t begin as a col
umn-writer, however. After
graduating with a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from the
University of Texas in 1962,
he went to work for the New
York Times.
In 1968 he was hired by the
Post as a general assignment
reporter, and then as an assis
tant city editor.
In 1971 Mickey Hers-
kowitz’s column was ex
panded to seven days a week,
and Ashby was selected to
write two of those columns.
That continued for about six
months until Herskowitz left
the Post. Ashby then was
asked to write seven columns
each week.
That lasted for only two
weeks before the load was re
duced to five a week, where it
now stands.
Ashby said he doesn’t miss
reporting much because
whenever he gets the urge to
do some, he gets his pencil and
pad and does interviews and
other types of reporting.
About journalism as a
whole, he said although there
is a lot of sloppiness in the
media, “very few companies
put out a product that has so
few mistakes” —especially for
the amount of news that is car
ried every day.
“But,” he reminded the stu
dents, “people only remem
ber the mistakes.”
Ethics in technology discussed
by Michael Raulerson
Battalion Reporter
Ethical questions that deal
with the changes in technology
over the centuries is a fairly new
approach to looking at the issues
of appropriate technology, Dr.
Bruce E. Seely, a panel member
of the Appropriate Technology
Group, said here Wednesday.
The ethical questions to
which Seely referred were those
presented during the panel dis
cussion by Dr. James H. Copp, a
panel member from the sociolo
gy and rural sociology depart
ment.
Copp presented questions
dealing with the results of tech
nology on society. He referred
to his questions as questions
without answers.
directed to the change
or nature of a commo
in quality
Tocfity as
affected by new technology. He
questioned whether the quality
of the commodity increased or
decreased as a result of new pro
cesses.
He addressed the question of
the workers who are affected by
technology. Advances in tech
nology in agriculture may cause
some of the workers to be re
placed by machines such as the
cotton picker.
Copp next Questioned the re
sults of technology on the orga
nization of industry. He said
agricultural technology has
seemed to lead to larger produc
ing units and the displacement
of the family farmer.
The large production units
have greater capital needs in the
agricultural case, so new people
are involved in the decision
making in production. As a re
sult, the banker gets involved
and it becomes hard to deter- sions, the farmer or the financial
mine who is making the deci- institution, he said.
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