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| Freshman Class Organization Under TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1979 # ST Fn fforts. Barnes 4 jith 24 tackles part of the | Freshman 7 class organization under way a problem at ecause junior By ANNE MAGNER Public relations, activities and hart may not committee network, so they can find tentative, Hunter said. and will be If they approve it, it will be put The idea to revert to staff Writer finance committees were set up in out what each committee wants and subject to approval by the rest of the traditional class structure He > to an injury case a class event needed to be before the 70 “interested” freshmen - This year’s freshmen have class — get organized,” Hunter said. freshman at subsequent meetings. who attended the Labor Day actually formulated about a year ice. Freshmen planned before the final formal or, rather, the first organized class A meeting of the Organization Only 13 of the Organization meeting. ; ‘'om Eaton are structure was ready, Hunter said. 2 Bottie Phillips, student activities rior Raymond structure at TCU in years. Council last Thursday yielded a Committees’ 21 members showed After they approve the The Organization Council was also coordinator, drew up the formal em. The structural organization of the tentative plan for the formation of up for Thursday's constitution constitution, it will have to be set up to write a class constitution, proposition for a freshman class, s secondary group began at a Labor Day an executive board. writing meeting. Three articles of approved by the entire class, Hunter meeting attended by about 70 and will be abolished after that the document were actually written which was approved last spring. nd more ex- The group has initially selected said. “We hope to build in more school freshmen. Under the advisement of constitution is approved. al defensive the traditional class hierarchy with and Hunter said the committee She stressed that approval of the lovalty and pride,” Phillips said. sponsors - Don Mills, director of Hunter emphasized the tran- hoped to finish the whole thing at a gs has to be a president. vice president, secretary entire class is really what the “You start talking about fresh- Housing, and Bonnie Hunter, sitionali nature of the class’ meeting Monday night. m knows it. and treasurer, Hunter said. The committees are seeking. The men and realize thev're all alone student ' development coordinator, structure, adding that no deadline , the team has board also will include the Getting approval of the con- freshmen already involved want the freshmen organized themselves had been set by the students to have until they get here. Having a e.”” He said, chairpersons from the three stan- stitution will be a 3-step process, everyone to participate, she said, into standing committees of about the final structure organized. freshman class to belong to gives we're ready to ding committees. Hunter said. The document will be emphasizing that all class meetings 16 members each. “Their purpose for now is to be a them an immediate group af- The group's decisions are only offered to the executive board first. are open to any freshmen interested. filiation.” she explained. > e, the offensive City-wide expansion forces ECO ng, lay to cut back on campus services every two months, the group is only in Tom Brown, ie against the By MONICA ANNE KRAUSSE Jarvis, mid-October, will be their biggest reconsidering its priorities. when Majid Editor Brachman and a few offices, Austin project this semester, Austin saa. Originally, ECO collected said. umphries both A handful of students decided to recyclable materials from most of Specific ways of spending that st two minutes start recycling at TCU three years the dorms and office buildings on Most of the group's effort is spent money are decided at the group's ogs ended the ago because they wanted to make campus, on the “ECO hut” which. with monthly meetings, Austin said. The earning an average of $20 ado College 1- conservation as easy as possible for per load of papers and beverage TCU’s permission. members built next meeting will be this Sunday at ug Johnston on-campus students. cans each week. last year on a corner of the Daniel 6 pm. in the home of Dr. Jim The Environmental Conservation Mever Coliseum parking lot. Fort Rurak, the group's faculty adviser. t of the vear. Today the group earns at least Organization, currently 30 Worth residents drop off bundles of four times that amount, ECO Austin said ECO eventually wants members strong, runs the only president paper there regularly. ield is located Diane Austin said Sunday. to train some of its non-TCU ttishman Lard continuous recycling operation for ost of it comes from material ECO still tries to promote recyclers to begin a seperate Fort t to the in- Fort Worth residents. Now, with firmed in by non-TCU people. awareness on campus. Energy Worth program in order to free 100,000 pounds of paper to handle As a result, ECO is now recycling Conservation Week. scheduled for ECO for more on-campus work. Congress says no relief in sight for Texas coast oil spill victims CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — began threatening ‘lexas beaches. Marine and Fisheries Committee. Texas Attorney General Mark _ Texans suffering financial losses By mid-August. heavy deposits of Even if the “superfund” bill White savs a suit against Mexico rom a Mexican oil spill can expect thick brown muck soiled hundreds passes this vear, Breaux said he did remains a “last resort” for little immediate monetary help of miles of shoreline. not know if it could be made recovering losses and cleaning up from Washington, despite two days The clean-up has cost $85,000 retroactive to cover losses from the the spill. Both White and jegal of congressional hearings on the daily. It is being paid by federal world’s largest oil spill. scholars told the committees in- subject. funds. However, private business Many coastal businessmen are dividual American citizens could “The idea that the federal and individual losses are not dissatisfied with the Small Business sue either the Mexican government government is just going to open the covered bv any federal’ grant ind Administration program that has or PEMEX. Treasury to guarantee a profit to program. made maximum $100,000 loans But Breaux said. I just can’t see anyone is not going to happen, I An oil spill relief fund of $200 available for relief from oil-spill that individuals could have hopes to hope,” Rep. Ray Roberts, D-Texas, million has been approved by the related losses. recover any damages within their Jesign said after hearing pleas for help U.S. House several times. but has lifetime.” from coastal residents and stalled repeatedly in the Senate. That program appears the onh During the two-day hearing. the businesses. “1 feel the oil spill liability fund is assistance available in the committees heard near from state and -5103 “The only place we get money is clearly aimed at exactly the tvpe future, several congressmen said. federal officials. environmental from your pocket,” he told one situation we have in Texas,” said Breaux cautioned against being groups, coastal residents and witness Sunday. Rep. John Breaux, D-La., chairman overly optimistic about suing representatives of SEDCO. the HEART TO HEART — Julie Haworth, who works in the Child Develop- Tourism has dropped an average of the House Water Resources Mexico or PEMEX, the Mexican Dallas-based company that leased ment of Lab School of the Department of Home Economics, chats with her 50 percent since raw crude oil Subcommittee, which held joint national oil company that owns the PEMEX an offshore rig used at the voung charge. The school has a waiting list through 1982. from a blown-out Mexican well hearings with the House Merchant runaway oil. runaway well. Funt brings own brand of ‘people watching’ to TCU Candid Camera,” to Ed Landreth By CINDY NORMAN Funt said the show's “victims” refuse are “those in the wrong place He said the Cornell University complicated to very simple. “We News Editor auditorium Thursday night as part are asked permission to use films at the wrong time with the wrong psychology department uses his have an entire film on the way TCU’s Howdy Week. made of them as soon as they are ple.” films to illustrate aspects of human people lick postage stamps.” he Anyone who has ever wondered “The joy of Candid Camera is notified of their unwitting stardom. P Ford also showed clips of his 1968 nature. and that “Candid Camera” said. how the typical American would people-watching,”” Funt told They are paid 850 if a film clip is film, “What Do You Sav to a Naked clips also are used for laugh the rapy Funt said that there are no real react to a talking mailbox, a car students, guests and faculty used, $15 if it is not. in Lady?” in which a nude woman hospitals that treat the “typical” Candid Camera people. that splits in hail or to an armchair members. “They never do what you Funt said that the most receptive appears in various ‘ordinary’ chronically ill. with human arms, should talk to expect.” area of the country te “Candid The facial expressions picked up by situations. The show pavs $50 for everv Allen Funt. He's been “catching Between film clips, Funt an- Camera’ is the South. He cited “The the camera are the key to ‘Candid basic idea behind the film,” submitted idea that thev use, Funt people being themselves” in strange swered questions from the audience. Southern women in particular, Funt said, “was the new sexual said.
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