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Dr Nope arrived at Rice in 1960 as Associate Professor of anthropology and chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Two years later, he was made a full professor. Presently, he is director of the graduate program in Behavioral Science. He has authored many scientific papers and

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written or edited, contributed to several books in man at play. His most recent article Norbeck says since the beginning of the industrial age Western society has suppressed play only now, are we starting to realize the penalties of that abnormal repression like sexual drives appetites for food

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and other innate impulses, the human proclivity to play requires both recognition and suitable cultural encouragement and control. Also, there were supposed to be uniform rules governing the elections in each college. And we found by through the election officials at each college that the substantial discrepancies between

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the times that the college polls were open and especially Richardson, they didn't even open at the time allotted also was college completely ran out of ballots for a period of time during the lunch ballot. Also, we found some discrepancies between the election rules given out by

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the election committee and the bylaws such as preferential vote in the honor council elections and petition deadlines the following deadlines. These are major contentions. Also, there was a candidate for the honor council president of the county of the votes in the capacity of election chairman. And

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it states in the bylaws that anybody running for the ballot is not supposed to have anything to do with the, the executive committee of the Greater Houston Convention. And Investors Council has instructed the executive staff of this council to look into the feasibility and the possibility

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of uh inviting the Super Bowl to Houston. Uh steps are being taken at this time. They, they are our, our staff is looking into uh this project and uh that's all we have at this time, we can advise further along as we get further into the

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project. Well, there will be stadium rental and we will retain income from the concessions and parking and also there could be some. Well, according to Mr Blanton, some favorable television publicity on a nationwide basis. The ad hoc committee for Rice Teber met last night to begin

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the task of organizing the elections of the local rice board of directors and of the representative to the state board of directors filing deadline for petitions for the E five members of the board. All of them had large members and the state board representative was set

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as six pm March 30th coinciding with the close of school for Easter break. The elections will be on Friday, April 7th. Each petition will require 25 signatures and each signer must have signed the original Teber petition. Voting is also open only to those Teber signers but

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copies of the original petition will be available to candidates and at the polls for any now wishing to sign the committee will have another meeting Monday March 20th at 10 PM in the founder and lecture lounge to finalize the election procedures. The committee urges all potential

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candidates and burg supporters to attend. This is Larry Leme. The news. The Rice baseball squad swept the conference opening double header today over stumbling S M U. The first game was all Mike Pettit until the seventh inning. The sophomore right hander breezed through the first six

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innings allowing only three hits. However, with two down in the final frame, Pettitte yielded up a walk in a single S M U second baseman Larry Jones then singled to right field but Rice catcher Len Shelby made an incredible leaping catch of Donny Brag's throw just

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at the instant S M US. Mike Anderson plowed into him. He applied the tag and saved the ball game for Pettit and the Rice one S M U nothing in the night cap. Brian Boynes grand slam home run faced Rice's most prolific offensive output of the

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season that blow providing the winning run in an 8 to 4 triumph. Art mcguire was the winning pitcher hurling five innings of scoreless relief. Rice is now tied for the Southwest conference lead with a 20 conference record checking baseball. This is Phil Jones, the news, I

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think that the University of Texas is probably going to be the stronger of the teams that are entered through the fact of their depth. We're the rice team is, uh, has a few boys that are hurt this at this meet. We have four that are out,

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Mike Kron who had cracked a bone in his foot this week and uh Simpson or uh Bill Cummins or half and, and uh Mike mckean will not compete. Now, some of the events that we think that are going to be real good even will be uh

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one is a half mile because the University of Texas has some real fine runners in it. Uh Bill and uh also the University of Houston has a real fine runner in our freshman, Mike mccall. Of course, we have Danny Dicky and Branson. So we feel the

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half mile will be one of the better events and also a three mile with uh Paul of Rice and Eric Sigmon from the University of Houston and Ricky Yarbrough from the University of Texas, probably the three best three model in the state. And of course, we

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feel that our field event people, Ken in the shot put and discus along with Dave Robertson, the pole vault, and Jim Pearson in the javelin along with Darrell Hughes and the broad jump. We think uh those will be strong events for right. So overall we're looking

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for a real good meeting. Thank you, sir. Election committee has ruled that the S A election held on March 14th, 1972 is invalid on the following grounds. The bylaws of the Student Association state that at least one central polling place shall not be open later than

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nine AM nor closed earlier than two PM on the day of the election, neither the Anderson Hall nor the R MC polls were open most of the morning on the day of the election. Therefore, the election results are invalid. The election will be rerun on Thursday.

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April six. The election committee is making these recommendations to the Senate for conducting the April 6th election. Number one, that filing for office shall not be reopened. Two candidates shall be allowed to spend up to $25 campaigning and shall be required to submit expense statements the

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day before the election. Three, that candidates will be allowed to campaign the week of April 3rd. For that. The bylaw allowing honor council candidates to publish articles in the threshold. Be eliminated. Shortstop Sheldon Kaufman tripled in the fifth inning to drive in two runs and dashed

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home moments later on a wild pitch providing the rice with what proved to be the winning run in their fourth straight victory this afternoon on the rice diamond. But the game was still very much in doubt until the eighth inning when John Jacobson poked a clutch

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single up the middle to chase home two big insurance runs. Jacobson had three hits in the game as did first baseman Bobby Potter and catcher Jay Temple senior Dave Pettit was the winning pitcher toiling seven and one third innings before handing the ball to his younger

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brother, Mike who finished up with an inning and two thirds of spotless relief. The final score, Rice, six S M U three. The win completed a clean sweep of the S M U series and leaves the soaring atop the Southwest conference with a three and zero

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record in conference play. Phil Jones, the news, a Christian college, the University of Texas, the University of Houston and Rice University clashed in a quadrangular track meet this Saturday. It was another close meet as Texas led Rice 53 to 52 a half going into the final

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event. The mile relay, Randy Filey led off in that relay but because of a poor hand off, the second man, Mike Forbes had to make up a 15 yard deficit with a tremendous effort. He did just that only to see his efforts vanish as Rice later

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felt behind leaving Texas the winner of both the race and the Meat. The final scores were Texas 58 Rice, 52 a half, a 45.5. And Houston 16 NCAA champion Dave Roberts of Rice was named the outstanding performer of the meat as he vaulted to his usual

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fantastic height of 17 ft to win that event. Freshman Paul guys ran a fast 13 minute 49 9/10 2nd three mile run to defeat major rivals Rich Yarborough of Texas and Eric Sigmon of Houston. In other track events, Randy Wadley sped to a 21 6 clocking

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to win the 220 yard dash in the field events. Kendell flung the discus 173 ft nine inches to win that event. While Darryl Hughes, a freshman from Yuma Arizona leapt 24 ft six inches to win the long jump. Jim Pierce won the javelin with a fine

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effort of 211 ft nine inches. Bary Dale, the news, the Rice University Burg or Texas Public Interest Research Group which recently signed a contract with the administration in which rice agreed to collect the Teber fee from interested students is now preparing to hold elections for the

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Rice local board. The duties of the burg local board here will be to act as a liaison between fee paying students and the state board to administer research projects on the local level and to help negotiate rice course credit for t work. Five local board members

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will be elected. The filing deadline will be March 30 th petitions with 25 signatures from people who signed the tex petition should be delivered to the desk in the office. The elections will be April seven th there will be a text meeting at 10 pm. Monday

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night in the library lecture lounge. Anyone interested in the election should attend? There is very little new in the suit. Mr Ruckelshaus has asked the justice department to file against our company. All of the issues raised are included in the suit filed by our company on

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November 11th, 1971 against Mr Ruckelshaus and other officials of EPA. Trial of that suit is still pending. The deadline date of June 1st 1974 which the EPA is attempting to force on the company for a replacement of the existing cooling system. Takes into account the absolute

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necessity of continued operation of the Cedar Bio plant to avoid a serious shortage of electric power in this area. However, this in no way affects the company's conviction that the closed cycle cooling system advocated by EPA is potentially damaging to the environment. Whereas our company's very

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extensive research shows that operation of the plant has in no way harmed at Trinity Bay. Although the bylaws call for preferential balloting to decide run offs. No procedure for it has been set up. President Hancock's suggestion. The system used by the faculty council was adopted under

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it all. First preference votes are counted to see if any candidate has a clear majority. If not, then the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated from the race and his votes are distributed among the other candidates according to who is the second preference

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on his ballot. This process is repeated until there is a clear winner in a contested election. The decision as to the validity of that election is first made by the S A election committee. The decision can be challenged in the University court and there is a

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deadline for contesting an election 72 hours after the closing of the polls but no deadline for contesting an election committee's decision since this could lead to the rather complicated situation of someone contesting the election committee's decision on the March 14 th election after the April six

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th one, the Senate set the deadline for contesting the committee's decision as one week from its publication in the thresher Jeff, the news, the Senate will request the chairman of the S A committees to submit by April 4th, a written report describing the activities of the

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committee issues and problems in its area and a suggested course of action for the next year. A similar report will be requested to the students appointed by the Senate to the university. Standing committees on the major actions of that committee and the areas for future student

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contribution. Revision of the Senate has received some discussion this year. Leon Reed suggested that a committee be appointed immediately to study the possibility of replacing the college presidents on the Senate with student senators ensuring student body voice in the amending of the constitution and the bylaws

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and consider considering loves secession. Referendum whether there should even be a Senate. Although such a committee was seen as necessary, there was some discussion as to whether the Lame Duck or the new Senate should appoint, it will be appointed now and anyone wishing to participate should

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contact the office by three PM Friday. The committee will present a preliminary report at the next Senate meeting and a plan for pulling student needs and interests in school wide student government before April four, Jeff lands the news. Well, the, the size of the stadium at

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one time and another argument was, it was, uh, you know, Houston is in the central time zone which makes it better or makes it more attractive from the television point of view. Also, people were pretty disappointed with the treatment they got in New Orleans last year

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as far as the hotels, jacking up their prices and so on. Think it will be uh, uh good for the be good for rice. We get a rental fee and we'll have the uh concession and parking income as well. And it'll be good publicity for rice

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too because last year at Super Bowl, they, uh, gave to lane 10 minutes to tell the history of the university and show pictures of the campus and so on. So I think it'll be good uh, publicity for rice too. Such arrogance by the majority of the

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committee members demonstrated conclusively that those in control of the party machinery have no intention of permitting the people of Texas to participate in any meaningful way in the Democratic Party conventions. Unless the State Democratic Executive Committee reopens this issue by April five, amends these rules to

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permit rank and file participation in the election of convention. Delegates. A substantial number of Democratic Party members will send a delegation to Miami Florida. Next July, the rules adopted Monday a week ago, centralized authority in the hands of the chairman making him a virtual dictator. They

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perpetuate the evils of the unit rule system. They create an Uncle Tom youth corp and gratuitously slap the young Democrats in some in substance. They embody the same elitist power broker approach to political decision making which the National Democratic Party's reform rules seek to banish to

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the dead past. And I came away with the feeling that it's going to take quite a quite a while before the the heady phrases of the joint communique talking about tourism and exchange of, of journalists, scientists and sportsmen is accomplished. Well, I think um coming back

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from China, one gets the feeling that it's going to take much longer than it seemed watching the visit on television. Thank you. The election committee has ruled that the balloting part of the March 14th esa election must be rerun April six. But now there's a petition

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asking that the entire election be redone all the way from filing for office. Jackie Keller of Jones who sponsored the petition explains why it was announced that one o'clock was the filing deadline for the offices and in the bylaws, it says that the deadline is three

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PM. So, um I think that's ground for reopening. The University Court will begin deliberating on the petition tomorrow during lunch at Richardson. If they rule in favor of it, this spring's essay election won't be completed for at least another month. Chip Lansdale, the news make no

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mistake about it. This was a clear appeal to baser instincts. Every thoughtful political observer knows that bussing has become an issue only because politicians, especially President Nixon wanted it to become an issue to follow Nixon's lead is truly sad. It once again demonstrates that the corporate

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conservative establishment which dominates the Democratic Party machinery in Texas will stoop in the tragic tradition of the shivers era to racism, to divide and conquer. These are transparently racist tactics, such behavior is irresponsible and it is reprehensible. The university court will try Jackie Kelly's petition Monday

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at noon during lunch and make its recommendations to the Senate. Kelly's petition asked that filing for the ESA election be reopened since filing was closed two hours before it was supposed to be. According to the S A bylaws, the SS election committee had previously refused to

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do this and has reset the balloting for April six. The state is tentative pending a decision by the court this afternoon. The court determined that it did have jurisdiction on the petition and held a preliminary evidence hearing in the hearings. A President Lou Hancock stated that

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no one had been denied a place on the ballot because the filing closed early since the Senate had accepted all late petitions. Hancock also stated he feels persons seeking to reopen the filing are doing so only because they were dissatisfied with the results of the March

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14th balloting, Jeff Lansdale. The news, I don't see any reason why they can't do it next September. Now, he said that I heard on the radio that he said that they're thinking, you know, it's possible to do it sometime next year. But the committee purposely set

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it up so that it would be inside all deadlines that were critical and so that the whole thing could go into effect next September in the, the next freshman class. Also, the thing about only freshman girls, I don't know where he got that the board must

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have told him because the report itself stated very clearly that there would be many upper class girls as many as possible to try and get each college to 50 50 as soon as possible. Neither the Bakers nor the Hansons gave any money to Baker Hansen. So

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if there's any trouble there, I think they can just change the names or something. I don't think that should be a major drawback in the whole situation in this situation. First thing is first thing is they agreed for me to try to work out a system

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that would provide for female students in two of the current colleges uh namely Baker and Hanson. But there are certain constraints that I have to meet. First, one of them has to do with clearing with the people whose names are the same as the colleges as

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to whether this would determine in some way or other, which I am preparing to do. I have a, a proposed meeting with one of them on April the third and the other. I haven't been able to get hold of him. Secondly, there is a question of

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transferability of people who want, would want to move out of one of those colleges under these circumstances. The word that I get from the, from the report and from the masters, I guess was that if they wanted to move out, they'd have to move off campus,

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I believe the board would not be willing to accept that as a requirement. Uh They would have to be transferrable to some other college. So that will have to be worked out. There is the question of the females who would go into the colleges, the way

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this thing is worded, it looks as if there would be only the incoming freshman girls who would uh have these openings. But I'm, I want to discuss the probability, the desirability rather that the makeup be of certain girls who, who wish to make the change who

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are in the sophomore, junior or senior class in either off campus or in one of the girls colleges. Now with a small number of freshmen girls provided their parents agree because you have to remember that these are not secure in the same sense that Brown and

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Jones are and there are parents, I'm sure who would not be willing to, to permit their freshman daughters to stay there. So we don't take them on campus and then assign them as is normally the case. Now, this so he gets involved in the entire fabric

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of how you make assignments and that has to be worked out. Now, those three things then suggest that I've got a good deal of work still to do. I think we've made the first step, a rather important step. I don't think at this point that it

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will be possible to do anything by September happy to have won the Meet Saturday night after the, uh, which I think was a big surprise was Baylor how strong they were in the meet Baylor had a total of 39 39 points to our 59 I think

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was a little below par because of some injuries. They lost Marvin Mills in the 2 20 again, which is a big to them, but we were quite pleased the way our team performed the first time in a few weeks. It didn't come down to the relay,

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but our relay did run quite well and we think it's going to get better in the season goes along, competition will be in Austin against the University of Texas and Texas A and M, which we the other part of the two strongest teams in the conference

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rather than our own. So it looks like that there might be a preview of the conference meets that will be held in a in May. Texas is seen as the greatest threat. We, our team has some quality points and certainly in and M there's also it

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should be one of the outstanding meats of the season for us. The university court recommended this afternoon that filing for the much contested student Association elections be reopened. They suggest that the filing deadline for a new election be three PM. April 6th. This would require suspension

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of an essay by law which calls for a 14 day filing period. The court suggested that the election then be held. April 20th. The S A Senate meets tomorrow to decide whether they will follow the court's recommendation. Chip lands the news right on March 27th, 1972

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the university court ruled on the petition submitted by Jacqueline Keller. In her petition, she claimed that an error had occurred during the filing for student association offices. It was alleged that as a result of the setting of a one o'clock deadline for the acceptance of petitions

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that the Student Association bylaws had been violated as the bylaws of the Student Association provide that such violations should be taken to the Senate Election Committee. A petition to this effect was made. The president petition came before the court on appeal from the election committee's dismissal.

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The court having appellate jurisdiction held a preliminary hearing in which to gather evidence. This hearing was held on March 24th, 1972. At which time, Lou Hancock and Jim Ray presented testimony to the court in opposition to the petition. The ruling of the court on the 27th

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of March came after the testimony of Rob Corte and Jacquelyn Keller for the petition. Further discussion and questions led the court to take these facts to these facts. One, the bylaws of the S A at the time of the past election required that A the filing

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deadline shall be three PM and B that no petitions could be accepted after that deadline. Two, the Student Senate elections committee first published and circulated the final deadline as one PM and second closed the filing at one pm. Third, the Student Senate acting A without prior

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notification, the student body and B accepted petitions for office at the, at the Senate meeting the night of the day that petitions for offices were to be closed. Questions that were brought up also show that the students in it could suspend temporary temporarily at the court's

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request. Selections of the bylaws. Thus, the university court held that the petition was valid and that the action of the Student Senate as well as the Elections committee had violated the Student Association bylaws. It is recommended. Therefore that first, the Student Senate suspend the rule regulating

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the time required for notification of the opening of the filing. Furthermore, that to the students in an open filing for all student Association offices, with the exception of thresher editor and university court chairman, and that these positions were correctly handled by the elections committee. That third

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adequate publicity be given the reopening of filing. The court defines adequate filing in that an article should be printed in the thresher announcements should be made at dinner at the dinner, at dinner at all of the colleges. That posters should be placed in prominent places, specifically

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those set aside by the election committee. And finally, that notice be placed in the boxes of the residents of the colleges. The filing should remain open until April six and that the election should take place on the 20 of April. And finally and fifth, the campaigning

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for officers should follow the prescribed regulations for a regular Student Association election. These recommendations are hereby submitted as the most appropriate action for the Senate, the Student Senate acting for the Student Association to take the court feels that this is the most just and adequate method

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of obtaining free and lawful elections. Their satisfaction level was as high as the juniors and seniors in the face of the fact that they had a much worse financial aid situation. They had uh uh 4 to 5. They were paying 4 to 5 times what the

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juniors and seniors were paying for tuition. Uh, 10% fewer students were getting aid than more freshmen last year and the aid they were getting was the same as freshmen were getting last year. Although they were paying more. So with their worst financial aid situation, they were

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just dissatisfied which might indicate that the freshmen that are getting admitted are better able to pay. One is a state court appellate procedure and the other is a federal court. The state court is, uh, to go first to Commissioner Edgar and then to the State Board

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of Education and then into the state courts if necessary. And the other is to go into the federal courts and to join with the motion that has already been filed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which has sought an injunction against the Harris County Board from

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creating this district. So we'll be following the appeal on both of those fronts. Well, we have, uh, some phony cards that were made up, I don't know by whom, but, uh, that's the purpose of trying to find out who exactly made up these phony cards. Uh,

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these cards would have had to have been made by employees or someone having access to the files there at the food stamp office because they were on file. And, uh, a check of these cards reveal that, uh, there was no such person and no such address,

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uh, as indicated on these cards. So we've gotten together, uh, with the Department of Public Safety and their handwriting division and as well as the Houston Police Department and we have some clues as to who might be. We know that there are several people. We just

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don't know how many. And hopefully as a result of the grand jury investigation, we'll come up with an answer on this question. We, we were discussing a, a proposal from the fine Arts Department for a degree of, of Bachelor of Fine Arts and we decided it

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wasn't quite worked out enough to act on. So we sent it back for further clarification and it will be acted on later. Dr Jim Watson, who has applied for the job is more qualified than Doctor Baker who's currently serving. And it seems like the commissioners who

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voted to have Dr Baker, uh man, his job are trying to hold out until he gets qualified. He's presently in school trying to get his papers squared away. The main thing is just the qualifications. Uh No, that isn't the main thing. We feel that there are

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a number of people who are qualified, but we have, have a black physician who is extremely well qualified in addition to being extremely concerned about the plight of poor people and their health problems, and we just feel that this job needs to be filled by someone

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who is concerned about the have nots one other very significant thing about this whole proposition is that there's not a single black director ahead of any department in the county or the city. And I think it's high time that the city starts including black folk in

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the total makeup of this, uh you know, the running of the city and the county. And I think this will be a step in the right direction. We have to exhaust our legal means through the lower courts. And once we do that, I believe that the

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state will issue a restraining order in case they don't, then naturally we would go back into federal court. These, these things have to be exhausted through the new ruling through your state court first. And the reason we went to federal court today was to try to

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get a restraining order, but also at the same time to stop the vice squad from harassing us until we can, uh, get an order. We want these cases tried and heard as soon as possible. We, we'd like to have an intermediate, an immediate trial on it

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and, uh, so we can get a ruling of some type. But in the meantime, we do need just a little bit of time to get these into court without them hanging us up too long. If they rule that, that it isn't anything vulgar or obscene about

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it, then national would stay open. What it is is a city violation they have filed on us. Uh of permitting lede dancing and we'd like to know what is, you know, what their rule would be on, what guidelines that they go by to define what loud

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is. We'd like to have a trial within 21 days if possible. The Student Association election committee met tonight to set a filing deadline and an election date for the new ESA elections. The filing deadline is at three PM Monday, April 17 and the election will be

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held on Tuesday, April 25 8 days afterwards, Jim Ray, former ESA election chairman tonight John Scott Butler of Baker was elected chairman to replace Ray. The Senate had suggested Friday April 21 as an election date but the committee felt this was a bad day to hold

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an election and set the date on the 25th. Jim explain the changes the committee made in its rules. Tonight, the election committee changed its own rules to agree with the bylaws that were adopted last night by shortening the period between the filing deadline and the election

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to eight days instead of the previous 14 days. Also, the committee changed the campaigning rules so that the campaigning period begins seven days before the election. Instead of eight days, all candidates will be allowed to spend $25 campaigning in this election. The committee is now making

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sure all its rules are in order and getting ready to do the normal work involved in an election. Jeff Lass, the news. Well, the biggest thing is that it's at the Astrodome. Um, we had it at a junior senior high school stadium last year where we

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all met in the stands and everything, which is kind of far for most of the people to come. Therefore, we only had, um, let's see, 1600 participants. And this year we're hoping for about 5000, but I think it's going to exceed that because there's more attention

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uh promoted by the Astrodome. The uh requirement as I understand it uh is built into the state merit system qualifications that the man who is the director of a county health department must have the degree of, of a master of public health. In addition to the

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MD, uh this doctor beer does not have and uh supposedly uh will not have it until December. I understand President Dr Philip Hoffman announced that he would not appeal County judge Bill Elliott's decision denying a license to serve beer on campus. Elliott had turned down the

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license on the basis of a city ordinance prohibiting the sale of beer within 300 ft of a public school. And a ruling by Crawford Martin Hoffman said that the odds against successfully appealing seemed very heavy and that the plan to serve beer in the university's center

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which he and the board of regions had endorsed might be reopened later, Jeff Las, the news, although the rate of increase in the nation's consumption of energy declined substantially. In 1971 energy consumption reached a new high. According to Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, preliminary estimates by the

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Interior department's US Bureau of Mines showed the nation's demand for heat, light and power in all forms required energy equivalent to 69 quadrillion British thermal units. Although consumption of nuclear energy was up 68% that source contributed only a fraction of the energy used by the nation.

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Most still comes from coal, natural gas, petroleum and hydroelectric power. Jeff Las. The news alternative to the proposed Trans Alaska oil pipeline is being considered by us and Canadian officials. The proposed alternate route would go directly from Alaska's north slope to the continental United States by

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way of the mckinsey River Valley. This would be in place of the controversial route from the north slope directly south across the Alaskan tundra to a tanker port approval for that route has been blocked by the Interior Department. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton said that the Interior

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Department is now reviewing the environmental impact statement for the Alaskan pipeline and has not yet decided whether to grant approval to the construction application. He added that such a construction would take far less time than the Trans Canadian route. Meanwhile, in the Alaska State Senate, a

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proposal for state ownership of the Trans Alaskan pipeline was defeated by a vote of 17 to 3. Republicans also defeated this time narrowly, a proposal to authorize the governor to negotiate for 20% ownership in the line ownership being vested in, in transit and Alaskan Authority, a

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publicly owned corporation. This is Larry, the News Houston congressman Bob Eckert and a bipartisan group of 37 other house members have introduced a proposal to end meat import quotas that were first imposed in 1964. The legislator saw the repeal as a necessary first step to the

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lowering of prices for such meats as hot dogs, hamburgers and cold cuts. This could also help the prices of more expensive meats. One of the legislators Democrat Charles Vanik of Ohio said he had found a 51% increase in the price of hamburger meat in Cleveland since

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the start of phase two last November 13th. Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz contended that rising food prices are being used to victimize the nation's farmers. He contends organized labor is getting off lightly. He points to the meat cutter who is paid $7 an hour shrewdly. He added

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that there could be no argument that prices have risen but if food is to be forthcoming, people will have to pay for it. This is Larry. The news authorities estimate that between 60 and 90,000 young people are gathered at and around Padre Island, Texas. This Easter

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weekend, the island some 20 miles north of Brownsville was to be the site of one of those rock concerts until the Commissioner's court ordered the concert moved some 45 miles away just outside of Harlington. But the campers, surfers and sun freaks come again this year to

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the island. Some from rice, many from Houston, Austin and out of state, it's quite simple. A dollar 50 buys you a 10 ft square campsite where you pitch your tent or park your VW microbus. But unless you have to crash at night, the beach is where

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everyone's at. Basking in the sun and boogieing under the stars from the Ponder Island, Texas. John Dor, the news, they're going to split the job between a dean. The school is gonna grow from the present 225 or a five year period to about 300. And they're

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bringing in David a crane from Philadelphia as the dean and um the school of architecture and uh Alan Ucci as the uh director, Major League baseball may be dead in Houston but college baseball continues and the Rice Owls entertain the Trinity Tigers today in a double

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header which started at one o'clock. Mike Pettitte will be going for the Owls with his 10.96 earned run average and Sheldon Kaufman leads the batters at 3 11. The Owls are now 9 to 11 for the season were picked last in the conference in the preseason

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polls and are now in fourth position. But this weekend they meet the big power Texas and a triple header two games on Friday in a single game on Saturday. This is Mike Ross. The news treatment facilities are not yet adequate. Part of the new Special Action

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Office responsibilities is to be certain to them. Um, a sufficient number of treatment programs so that no addict in the United States can claim that he is denied treatment. And I fully endorse this idea, believe that are addicted to drugs and do not commit other criminal

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acts should be true that as criminals are set a question about that and effective treatment programs spread throughout this country. The.