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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY 0 UME Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Monday, November 24, 1969 NUMBER 60 Student Life committee sends bills to Senate By WALTER CLARK THE REMAINDER of the seats would be seating. the committee ruled the card Staff Writer reserved seats for student body. starting at section only be used at Dads Day and the 50-yard line for a 41.1 per seat drawing up Homecoming and be placed in the end zone The Senate Student Life committee to six tickets with an ID system yet to be section. approved an athletic seating program for determined The reserved seats would be the football games. passed a Birth Control sold on a weekly basis. The committee also approved a Birth Act and recommended a spring seminar on The remainder of the seats that are not Control Act. The act urged the President of racism Thursday night. sold as reserved seats would be distributed the Student Body take steps to ensure that The seating plan calls for a combination on a first come first serve basis at the the Health Center shall provide birth of reserved and non-reserved seating. The game. control information and materials to all reserved seats will cost the students $1 per The committee recommended the college students associated with the Tech seat per game in addition to the student reserved tickets be sold Tuesday through campus. The act would include married service fee they pay now. The additional Friday night each week on a first-come students as well as single students cost is to absorb the cost of setting up the first-serve basis. reserved seating program according to the The committee also recommended the In other action. the committee approved a Student Life Committee. campus police act as overseer to ensure bill recommending a seminar on racism be THE FIFTH DIMENSION—An audience estimated group less one of its members, who was ill, appeared reserve seats remain reserved set for this spring. The point of the seminar THE ADDITIONAL COST would be is to expose racism as a sickness and to at well over 6,000 persons watched, clapped and in Lubbock sponsored by KSEL. (Staff photo by painting the numbers on the seats and IN FINAL ACTION on the athletic promote understanding through education. cheered The Filth Dimension Friday night in the Bruce Ott) printing of tickets. The ticket office already Municipal Coliseum. The five member pop singing sets aside 10 hours per week to sell student Faculty-Administration Breakfast tickets. Under the new plan. the ticket office would still operate just 10 hours. Senate rejects Haynsworth The student section has a capacity of 15.000 seats. Under the plan. if an average of half the student seats were reserved over Faculty reluctant a six home-game season. the athletic office would have an additional 145,000 to absorb Nixon dealt severe the cost of reserve seats. The students will not have an opportunity to make comments to express themselves in a referendum on this issue. Faculty members were apparently education said. "I don't know a thing about reluctant to comment on matters to be it. I don't care to discuss it.- IT HAS BEEN acted upon by the Student discussed at the first Faculty and congressional rebuff Life Committee and will be acted upon by Administration Breakfast Dec 2. ONE FACULTY member whose assistant the Student Senate It will then be acted Several topics were discussed by the fall apparently pushed the wrong button on his WASHINGTON ( AP I—The Senate dealt should leave the court and return to private Fortas, who resigned from the court last upon by the Athletic Council and then to the faculty council Nov. 13 and the council telephone was overheard to say, "I don't President Nixon his most severe life. I do not think I should attempt to decide May amid controversy over his dealings President who will then pass it on to the passed a resolution expressing -disgust at want to talk if she's from the University congressional rebuff Friday by rejecting his that question in the emotion of the with convicted financier Louis B. Wolfson. Board of Regents the name chosen for Tech and .still feel Daily. Tell her I'm not here." nomination of Judge Clement F. moment." was denied the chief justice's post in 1968 Mrs. Ruth Sturtz. athletic manager. said the name is wrong." When questioned about ideas he might Haynsworth Jr. to the Supreme Court. Word of rejection came to Haynsworth when a filibuster developed on the Senate the Athletic Council would accept any of the The breakfasts are results of a request bring up. Ronald Schulz. professor of Coming in climax to a three-month via radio and a telephone call from Nixon floor. proposed proposed plans passed by the made to the administration by the Faculty speech. said "I just got the invitation dispute, the rejection was on a 55-45 roll and he said of it: Senate. Council for informal meetings. yesterday 1Thursday and haven't thought call-10 vote margin which surprised even "MANY WHO FAVORED Fortas. who Reserved - and - unreserved seating, all- much about it. those opposing the 57-year-old nominee. "THE RESOLUTION is an unhappy one thought charges against him were reserved seating and lottery seating were "THESE BREAKFASTS are to be very 'It's a nice opportunity for the faculty Nixon's defeat was due in large part to for me, but for our country's sake I hope the unwarranted. looked on it i the Haynsworth among the plans proposed by the Student informal," said Glenn E Barnett. and administration to get together refusal of many Republican senators to debate will prove to have been a cleansing nominations as getting even," Mitchell Life Committee. executive vice president. "Their major informally I think it will improve follow the President's wishes. Seventeen of agent which will smooth the way for the The committee recommended a purpose is to allow members of the faculty communications.'' them joined with 38 Democrats to deny President's next and later nominees. sai'nd'dA on the other hand,- he added. combination of reserved and unreserved and selected members of the confirmation. Twenty-six Republicans and Backers of the nomination attributed the "some who opposed Fortas last year seating determined for each game. The administration to visit informally WILLIAM SANDEL, associate professor 19 Democrats—all but one from Southern or defeat in large part to the opposition of wanted to avoid the appearance of the committee would reserve section 122 for concerning the University." in industrial engineering, said. "I Border states—supported Haynsworth. organized labor and civil rights groups who double standard—even though the two cases campus recognized organizations. The This breakfast will be the first in a series. understand it as what we see that can be argued that Haynsworth's rulings in the are not at all alike. capacity in section 122 is 2.400 and is to be Approximately 20 members of the faculty corrected in the institution. I haven't come IT TOOK ONLY II minutes to complete Circuit Court often were antilabor and had Mitchell conceded that organized labor distributed on a first-come first-serve basis will be invited to each breakfast They are up with any ideas as of now. the tally in a hushed Senate chamber where impeded desegregation in the South. mounted an effective nationwide campaign for a SI per seat. asked to make suggestions and bring up Some faculty members, such as Dr. the only sounds were muted "oohs" and that caught the administration forces off ideas concerning improvement of the Eugene Foerster, associate profe:sor of agricultural engineering, answered. "I "aahs" from the crowded galleries as one MANY OF THE senators who voted nay guard. University after another of the dozen previously said Haynsworth had shown lack of "I presumed they (labor unions) would EE department haven't even thought about it. - uncommitted senators voted against sensitivity to the canons of judicial ethics not be overjoyed" with the Haynsworth When asked about the breakfast she is Other faculty members invited to the confirmation. by acting on cases in which he had had some nomination, he said. "But I didn't think they considered for invited to attend. Mrs. Mary M. Boswell, breakfast were out of town or otherwise The biggest response came when direct or indirect financial interest in one of would mount such a nationwide campaign assistant professor of home economics unable to be reached . Republican Leader Hugh Scott of the litigant companies. against him." Pennsylvania, symbol of Republican None accused Haynsworth, a wealthy MITCHELL INSISTED again the Justice national grant fragmentation, cast "nay" vote, disclosing man, of any dishonesty or corruption, but Department had thoroughly checked the Man-made moonquake, his stand for the first time. they argued that he had failed to keep South Carolina judge's background before Tech's electrical engineering department It was only the 10th Supreme Court himself clear of even the appearance of forwarding the recommended nomination is being considered for a grant from the nomination in history to be rejected in the unethical conduct. to Nixon. National Science Foundation. results amaze scientists Senate. Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of The only surprises to emerge in Senate Members of the foundation were on Tech President Nixon said in a statement he Michigan, whose early opposition turned Judiciary Committee testimony, he said, campus Thursday and Friday for a sight had expected Intrepid's crash to produce regrets the Senate action—and thinks the out to be one of the costliest setbacks to the involved Haynsworth's ownership of stock visit to investigate the department before SPACE CENTER.