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Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 16, 1969 THE BATTALIONAP News Analysis
No Radical Change Expected In Supreme Court Rulings
By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON US) — The resignation of Abe Fortas doubles President Nixon’s opportunity to change the personnel of the Supreme Court in his first year.
But it doesn’t mean Nixon will be able to color the court conservative — even if he puts up two conservatives to succeed Fortas
and retiring chief Justice Earl Warren.
Contrary to a widespread belief, the court’s active liberalism does not hang on a 5-4 thread.
More importantly, many of the Warren court’s major decisions are largely irreversible.
SCHOOL segregation cannot be made lawful again, malapportionment of state legislatures Icannot be made constitutional
By MONTY STANLEYOn the front page of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma Daily last Saturday was a photo depicting a violent scene, with tanks, soldiers, fire, smoke, and all that kind of stuff. The caption under the picture read: “DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS—Black students seized the president’s office at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Friday morning. But picture has noth-HP ing whatsoever toflP JPdo with the action r| *in Texas. It de-| --itiL * picts a scene from ^ **one of the two . kmovies which are being shown by the Kenetic Arts series May 9-12 in Dale Hall.” Now that’s real journalism.
★ ★ ★The University of Minnesota’s
Students for the Preservation of the American Republic (SPAR) had a flag-burning of their own last week. The target in their literal fighting of fire with fire was a Viet Cong flag, while a tape recorder played “God Bless America” and the American flag waved behind the speakers at the rally, the other flag was placed on a flag pole and wood alcohol was poured on it. A member of SPAR then struck a match to the flag. Fragments of the flag were caught in the wind and blown toward the wodden doors of the building where the display was being held. When the Student Activities Bureau counselor ran over and started stomping out the flames of the stray pieces, the wind blew more pieces onto his slacks and his “whole right side” became engulfed in flames. After the flames were extinguished, he turned to the SPAR leader and commented, “I’m afraid you’ve had your last rally.”
★ ★ ★May 4 begins TCU/Ft. Worth
Week up in that area, in which the university and the community “celebrate their dependence upon each other.” Several businesses have donated billboard space to advertise the fact, merchants are using window displays to show off their own “purple and white spirit,” and many civic clubs are sponsoring luncheons to properly
start off the celebration. Said the chairman of the observance, “I am pleased with the opportunity that this annual observance provides for the community to make known more forcefully and dramatically its support of this fine institution.” Meanwhile, closer to home, it is rumored that Friday marks the organizational meeting of the Society of Cheery Waitresses, Helpful Store Clerks, and Merry Merchants of Bryan- College Station. Plans presently call for a 1 o’clock luncheon in a North Gate phone booth.
While most people at TCU complain about lack of parking spaces, at least one person did something constructive about it, at least for herself—she set up a sign in a parking space which reserved that space for her.
★ ★ ★The College Star reports that
“A loose coalition of the campus activists at Stephen F. Austin State College are picketing the Skataram a Roller Rink at Nacogdoches for its segregationist admission policies.” When representatives tried to enter the establishment, they were turned down by the owner because their group contained Negroes and “long-hairs.” Said the Star, the owner “openly admits” segregationist policies.
At Southwest Texas State (now University, not College, incidentally), the Art Department has come up with a way for harried students to ease their tension- distorted minds during final week. It is a psychedelic “environmental chamber,” begun last semester by an art design class and finished by this semester’s class. It will include rooms of mirrored surfaces and flashing lights, op art, a slide, a revolving platform, and black-light displays, all accompanied by recordings of weird sounds in the background.
★ ★ ★At this time of the year, I’d
like to just settle back and reminisce about the good times I’ve had and wish everyone a hearty goodbye like other columnists in school newspapers across the country. That’s what I’d like to do, but I’m not going anywhere, so it would sound kind of stupid.
Patterson To See Apollo 10 Launch
Prof. James Patterson, director of the Research and Graduate Center, School of Architecture, is the second A&M staffer to receive an invitation to attend the Apollo 10 moon shot at Cape Kennedy Sunday.
It was announced earlier Maj. Gen. Alvin R. Luedecke, associate dean of engineering, who also serves as engineering research coordinator, would attend the event.
Patterson’s invitation comes through the Medical Branch of NASA as a result of the health services research being conducted at the Research and Graduate Center here.
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NLF Avoids Rejection Of Nixon Peace Plan
unless the Constitution itself is changed, and the states cannot escape the force of the Bill of Rights.
The rights of criminal defendants could possibly be shaved by the appointment of “strict constructionists.” But here, too, it would be extremely difficult to undo much of what has been done.
Justice William O. Douglas, the court’s most liberal member, observed last October: “A constitutional decision in the court is always open to change.”
BUT, DOUGLAS added, only the nomination of “some Stone Age guys” could alter the 16- year work of the Warren court.
Indeed, it is not certain that Nixon will settle on two conservatives to step in for Warren and Fortas.
In fact, in this most unbelievable of the court’s 179 years, it even is not inconceivable that the Republican President could name Democrat Arthur J. Goldberg, a solid liberal, for one of the spots — his old one.
Goldberg was talked off the bench by President Lyndon B. Johnson four years ago to make way for Fortas.
HIS RETURN could lend credence to the nonpartisan posture the administration has taken publicly in the Fortas matter.
Politically, it would remove a potential Democratic candidate for a New York Senate seat and could make Nixon a more agreeable figure in liberal circles. And it would fit the pattern of recent decades that the court include a Jew.
It is more reasonable to assume, though, that Nixon will look to the right. Likely candidates include such conservatives as former Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell and two federal appeals court judges, Henry Friendly and Warren Burger.
By MAX HARRELSON Associated Press Writer
PARIS <A>) _ The Viet Cong’s National Liberation Front delivered a mild-sounding a t ta c k Thursday on President Nixon’s proposals for a Vietnam solution, but appeared to be carefully avoiding rejection of the President’s eight-point plan as a whole.
At the same time, Nort Vietnam’s official radio also attacked the Nixon program, saying that the plan “is not to end the war of aggression, but to replace the war of aggression fought by U.S. troops into a war of aggression fought by the puppet army of the United States” — meaning the South Vietnamese.
IN BOTH cases, the attack centered on that section of the Nixon proposals which insisted upon mutual withdrawal of all outside troops from South Vietnam. There was a hint of caution in this, suggesting that Hanoi and the NLF might explore the Nixon
proposal further at or after the 17th full-scale session of the Paris talks Friday.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Nixon’s chief negotiator, was flying back from Washington to present the President’s plan formally to the other parties in the talks and to repeat the President’s statement that Washington welcomed the NLF initiative in putting forward its comprehensive 10-point plan at last week’s session.
ALTHOUGH THE variety of proposals — the Hanoi ‘4 points,” the NLF “10 points,” the American “8 points” and the Saigon “6 points” — left the opposing sides as far apart as ever on some key issues, conference observers said the initiatives might at least get the talks off dead center. The sides remain at opposite poles on such questions as the mutual troop withdrawals and an eventual political settlement.
Hanoi radio, using a “special interview” commentator to get
across its rebuttal, underscored the gulf between the sides by insisting that if Nixon wants peace, it could be achieved “by the United States ending its aggression against Vietnam and unconditionally withdrawing all U.S. troops from South Vietnam.” This illuminated a major snag in the talks — the insistence of Hanoi that the Americans pull out unilaterally, without any conditions.
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Aggie Christian Fellowship will meet at 5:30 p.m. in rooms 3-D of the MSC. Topic: “A Freudian Psychologist Looks at Christianity.”
MONDAYIndustrial Education Wives Club
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TUESDAYAmerican Veterinary Medical
Association Student Auxiliary will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Medallion Room of the Bryan Utilities Building, 300 S. Washington Ave. in Bryan. Dr. R. H. Davis, of the Department of Phy
siology and Pharmacology, will speak on “The Organization and Maintenance of the Veterinary Pharmacy.”
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