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Bill introduced to replace lost ticket books
Student Senate fills vacant seats
By FRANK SMITH
Staff Writer
A bill calling for the Athletic De
partment to provide free replace
ment of lost or stolen student sports
ticket books was introduced in the
'exas A&M Student Senate
Wednesday night.
If passed, actual implementation
of such a bill would be up to the Ath
letic Department, said sponsor Mark
Browning.
; Browning suggested the possibil
ity of placing serial numbers of lost
ticket books on a “hot list” to protect
the department from abuse of the
proposed policy. But he said he
nasn’t yet consulted with anyone in
the Athletic Department concerning
the bill.
i The Senate also heard the intro
duction of a bill calling for measures
' intended to increase the security of
Gainer Hail has about 120 residents lacking representa
tion in the A&M Student Senate. The Senate is consid
ering a bill that would include Gainer residents in the
Kreueger-Briggs-Spence constituency
students’ personal belongings while
they eat at Sbisa Dining Hall.
Sponsor Greg Gorman said that
the 90 lockers currently in Sbisa fre
quently are filled, especially during
the high-traffic time between noon
and 1:30 p.m. The bill calls for the
addition of either more lockers or vi
deo monitors in Sbisa, if not both.
The Senate also heard the first
reading of a bill designed to provide
area representation in the Senate to
a group currently living without it.
Beverly Roznovsky introduced
the bill, which would temporarily
add the non-cadet residents of
Gainer Hall (Dorm 5) to her area
constituency, which already includes
Krueger, Briggs and Spence halls.
Roznovsky said that Gainer, which
has been converted from a Corps
dorm to one housing both cadets
and non-cadets, has about 120 resi
dents lacking area representation.
The cadets are represented by Corps
senators. The non-cadets in Gainer
are not.
Johnson said Monday the bill
would provide for the non-cadets of
Gainer to be part of the Krueger-
Briggs-Spence constituency until the
Senate goes through its annual re
apportionment in the spring.
In other business, the Senate
filled six seats while announcing new
vacancies in four others.
The new senators, approved by
general consent, are: Richard Bar
ger, geosciences at-large; Lisa John
son, Mosher-Underwood; Jeff
Baker, Off Campus Ward II; Brett
Shine and Todd Latham, Ward III;
and Steve Beck, Ward IV.
Applications for the four new va
cancies will be taken through next
Friday, Laurie Johnson said.
Johnson said one open seat is
available in each of the following:
education at-large, graduate-agricul
ture, Ward I and Ward IV.
Leary urges audience to ‘think for yourselves’
By MEG CADIGAN
Staff Writer
I “Most of you have not been taught
flow to think,” Dr. Timothy Leary
laid in a Wednesday lecture.
I Think for yourself and question
^authority was the message of the lec-
IBure by Leary, a former Harvard
fcrofessor and pyschedelic drug ex-
■foerimenter.
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right red tie and tennis shoes, L-
ary told about 900 people in Rud
der Theater not to protest authority,
Dut to “sit at the feet of authority and
say ‘Hey, what’s going on?”’
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and have to Figure it out yourself,”
he said. “It’s easy to say ‘tell me what
to do.’”
Leary outlined what he calls “the
tiistory of thought.”
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He divides thought history into
four stages: oral tradition, hand
written tradition, printed books and
electronic computers.
One's level o gence, Leary
said, depends on what stage one has
reached.
Regarding oral tradition, Leary
said knowledge is passed on by
word-of-mouth.
“Therefore, the smartest person is
the oldest person,” Leary said.
He then spoke about handwritten
tradition, which he said was con
trolled by the few who could write
during the feudal period in Euro
pean history.
“You were a heretic then if you
thought for yourself,” Leary said.
Leary compared books, the third
stage of thought history, to hand
held computers.
He said that when Guttenberg in
vented the printing press 1456, no
one thought books would be widely
used because the majority of people
couldn’t read.
The success of the printing press
can be attributed, Leary says, to the
adaptation of people to new technol
ogy — reading.
“Books led to an incredible explo
sion of knowledge,” Leary, author of
24 books said.
The next area of thought Leary
addressed was computers.
“Computers are a technique for
helping you think,” Leary said.
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ers at first, said computers are a new
technology that, given time, people
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