The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1970 Page: 1 of 4
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The North Texas Daily
Formerly The Campus Chat
53RD YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY. DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25. 1970
NO. 55
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Geer Explains
$30,000 Change
In Chilton Hall
By ROSE SHARP
Daily Reporter
Chilton Hall, present housing for
Greek social sororities, will be given an
estimated $25,000 to $30,000
refurbishing this summer in order to
provide better accommodations for male
students next fall.
Richard Geer, director of housing,
said the refurbishing will include rest
room improvements, additional
furniture for living room areas and
painting and reconstructing the present
cafeteria into a snack bar.
Geer said additional improvements
during the next three years will up the
total estimated refurbishing costs to
$100,000.
While the same basic physical format
will be retained for the dormitory, the
rest rooms will be among the dorm's first
improvements.
"We want to make the general bath
situation into something that is more
attractive and usable," Geer said.
HE SAII) DEFINITE improvement
plans will not be decidcd until a closer
survey is made of the situation later this
semester.
The housing director said furniture for
the Chilton Hall combined living-study
rooms will likely be brought from Terrill
Hall.
Interior painting is also in store for
Chilton.
"We're trying to get in some color,"
Geer said.
He said a color survey has been
conducted this semester in Oak Street
Hall to determine a more varied color
range. The traditional green and rose-
beige room colors might give way to
lavender or peach next fall.
About 15 colors were selected for
resident rooms in Oak Street. Blue,
green, yellow and pink have been used,
and the respective dorm residents, the
Dean of Students Office and the
Housing Director's Office will offer their
opinions for the four or five color choices
for next fall.
"BASICALLY, WE are trying to line
up some colors a student would be
interested in from a room standpoint,"
Geer said. "We want some colors that
will be pleasing to live with."
Refurbishing plans for Chilton Hall
also call for reconstruction of the present
cafeteria into a university-operated
snack bar serving short orders.
Geer said plans are being made with
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Mrs. Rachel Mays, director of food
service, to set up the snack bar.
"The hours of the snack bar will pretty
much coincide with the hours on
campus," the housing director said.
The Chilton Hall residents would eat
their regularly scheduled meals in the
Quads.
Geer said the $100,000 for Chilton
Hall improvements during the next three
years will include additional furniture,
hallway and entrance carpeting and
possibly air conditioning.
GEER SAID he anticipates North
Texas "having some of the finest halls in
the state in the end."
The housing director said West Dorm,
which houses male students, was
carpeted this year for the first time.
Although only living room areas,
entrance ways and hallways were
carpeted, he said unnecessary sounds
have been "cut down tremendously."
According to John Carter, vice
president for fiscal affairs, the
development of private study carrels and
a game room are also in the thinking
stage for Chilton.
Carter said the game room, which
would offer billards and table tennis.
would be available to residents in both
Chilton and the Quads.
"Whether or not these ideas will be
put into effect, at the moment, I can't
say," Carter said.
"ALL REMODELING and
rehabilitation will depend on the amount
of funds available for this purpose," he
said.
This amount will be known later this
semester.
"We will operate facilities through
Maj and at that time r.ee how much
surplus funds can be used for this
purpose," Carter said.
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earned by residence halls."
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being surveyed at the moment for
remodeling and improving, the vice
president said. "It will be accomplished g
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News Capsules
Campus...
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Woman Faces Treatment
After Dog Bite Monday
Mrs. Harland Haglcr, wife of history
professor Dr. Hagler, was bitten by a dog
Monday afternoon in the 1200 block of
Locust.
The dog is believed to be a 17 to 19 inch
male, part collie, with a rust colored head
with white belly and white tail.
The dog must be found by Thursday or
Mrs. Hagler will undergo rabies treatments.
Please contact KNTU-FM at Ext 208 or
372 with any useful information.
Controllers Organization (PATCO) said a
walkout will come Wednesday in a dispute
over transfer of three of its members from
Baton Rouge, La.
Carl Evans of Dallas, Southwest regional
coordinator for the controllers, said
Monday in Albuquerque that every major
airport in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas would
be shut down by the group's "withdrawal of
services."
The Albuquerque regional control center
handles "virtually every east-west flight" in
the nation, he said.
Paul Jenkel of Salt Lake City, a member
of the traffic controllers, directors, said the
disputed transfer of the three men is "a
deliberate attempt to break up a PATCO
stronghold at Baton Rouge."
USNT Senate Passes Proposal
Requesting Curfew Elimination
By JULIE BRASEL
Daily Reporter
A proposal calling for elimination of
curfews for all coeds of sophomore stadning
or above and for all freshmen girls with
written permission from their parents
received the unanimous approval of the
USNT Senate Tuesday night.
The bill, brought from committee by
Steve Peacock, Dallas senior, also called for
the allocation of a special dorm (or dorms)
for those freshmen girls without parental
permission for no curfews.
In other business, the senate sent two
referendum proposals for the April
USNT election to committees for study.
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THE PROPOSALS ask for student
opinion on North Texas' withdrawing from
the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) and
on increasing the student activity fee paid
each semester from $ I to $2.
John Stone, Texarkana senior, who
introduced both referendum issues,
commented that withdrawing from the
MVC might increase student interest in
North Texas' competitive athletic
programs.
The senate also approved measures
creating offices of associate vice-presidents
for USNT, recommending that the
university establish an office to coordinate
volunteer programs, and guaranteeing
freedom of access for reporting and
investigation for the North Texas Daily
Bills were defeated that called for a $ 118
appropriation for the USNT delegates fees
at the Washington Leadership Conference
and for putting up stop signs at Avenue (
and Sycamore Street.
OTHER NEW business included
proposals to change the university's name
to The Texas State University, to have
USNT affiliate with the United States
National Student Association next fall and
to tbcommend that a dorm be sold to the
state for classroom and office space.
The senate also voted to deny the Faculty
Senate's request for more nominations for
ombudsman USNT Vice-President Ken
Scarborough had informed the senate of the
Faculty Senate's request earlier in the
meeting.
The senate's action means that the
faculty Senate must recommend three
ombudsman candidates from among the
four nominations submitted by a USNT
committee last semester.
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USNT Board Schedules
Three April Elections
Three elections have been scheduled for
April by USNT's Flections Board.
Students will go to the polls Wednesday,
April I, to express their approval or
disapproval of two proposed constitutional
amendments and a special referendum
topic.
The amendments concern establishing a
joint ticket for USNT presidential and vice-
presidential candidates and changing the
USNT secretary's office from an elective
office to a full-time paid staff position.
The creation of a $10 student activity fee
to be used to fund construction of a student
union complex and a student-controlled
activity program is the subject of the
referendum issue.
Board Chairman To Speak
At TACT Dinner Meeting
Manuel DeBusk, recently appointed
chairman of the Coordinating Board, Texas
College and University System, will Ik the
featured speaker at a joint dinner meeting
of the NTSIJ and TWU chapters of the
Texas Association of College Teachers
(TACT) and American Association of
University Professors (AAU P) April 8.
The dinner meeting, open to all TACT
and AAIJP members and their spouses, will
be held at the Denton Country Club with a
social hour beginning at 6;30 p.m. and
dinner at 7:30 p.m.
DeBusk, who was appointed by Gov.
Preston Smith to replace Tom Sealy of
Midland, is a Dallas lawyer and former FBI
agent. His topic will be, "The Coordinating
Board and the Future of Higher Education
in Texas."
As the Denton Country Club can
accomodate only about 175, reservations
will be handled on a "first come, first
served" basis. Cost of the dinner will be $4
per person.
The general chapter meeting of TACT
previously scheduled for April 8 will be held
instead on April 15 at 4 p.in. in the BA
Auditorium.
Texas...
Nixon Eases School Policy
Favors Local Solutions
Court Sets Sentence
In Bookstore Theft
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Controller Strikes Threaten
Six Southwestern Airports
DALLAS (AP) Major airports in six
Southwestern states faced Tuesday a
threatened walkout by air traffic controllers
that could snarl airline traffic nationwide.
Leaders of the Professional Air Traffic
WASHINGTON (AP) President
Nixon sharply limited Tuesday the types of
school segregation he will act against. He
proposed instead $1.5 billion over the next
two years largely to upgrade the education
of minority group children in racially
isolated classrooms.
The President also de-emphasized and
criticized by implication the role of
federal enforcement officers in favor of new
reliance on good faith efforts by local
officials to end school discrimination.
The chief executive asserted schools have
been wrongly burdened with the major role
in creating a multiracial society.
The load must be shifted partially to
greater opportunities in jobs, business
ownership and housing, he said.
NIXON'S BROAD-RANGING review
of desegregation history and prospects was
contained in an 8,000-word statement. He
decided it was too long for a television
address to the nation, aides said.
The statement will shape future suits by
the Justice Department and administrative
desegregation actions by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The President said segregation of pupils,
North or South, solely because of
residential patterns—de facto
segregation is permissible.
Segregation resulting from past law or
official action de jure segregation "must
lie eliminated root and branch and it must
be eliminated at once," he said, quoting the
words of a recent Supreme Court decision.
THE PRESIDENT added that districts
can retain pockets of true de facto
segregation if they eliminate all vestiges of a ■
formally dual system of schools.
His interpretation of the law should
benefit a number of large Southern cities
that have a Northern pattern of
predominantly black schools surrounded by
black neighborhoods but a history of past
segregation by law
The President also made elimination of
teacher assignment by race government
policy for the entire nation.
The statement set no deadlines for action
and did not spell out how the government
would enforce its desegregation policy.
But administration officials hinted at a
news briefing there would be further
emphasis on court suits rather than
administrative termination of federal aid.
They reiterated the government's previously
stated deadline of next fall for elimination
of dual systems in the South.
THE PRESIDENT said he will ask
Congress within three weeks for $500
million in new education aid for the fiscal
year beginning July I.
It will finance "programs for improving
education in racially impacted areas, North
and South, and for assisting school districts
in meeting special problems incident to
court-ordered desegregation," he said.
The money, scheduled for an increase to
$1 billion in fiscal 1972, would be re-
allocated from other areas of the domestic
budget and "represents a further re-
ordering of priorities on the domestic
scene," the President said.
The money would go for new facilities
and personnel needed in desegregated
Southern systems and for enrichment and
experiments in "interracial experiences" for
de facto segregated schools.
THE PRESIDENT singled out local
officials for new responsibility in framing
desegregation plans for their schools.
"Primary weight should be given to the
considered judgment of local school
boards provided they act in good faith and
within constitutional limits," he said. "But
federal officials should not go beyond the
requirements of the law in attempting to
impose their own judgment on the local
school district." he added.
"One of the mistakes of past policy has
been to demand too much of our schools,"
Nixon said. "They have been expected not
only to educate, but also accomplish a
social transformation.
"CHILDREN IN MANY instances
have not been served, but used in what all
too often has proved a tragically futile
effort to achieve in the schools the kind of
multiracial society which the adult
community has failed to achieve for itself.
"If we are to be realists, we must
recognize that in a free society there are
limits to the amount of government
coercion that can reasonably be used," the
President said.
Nixon also reaffirmed his support for
neighborhood schools and criticized recent
court decisions that have required large
scale busing for desegregation.
The statement disclosed that federal
figures show the number of black children
in desegregatied schools in the South has
jumped to 40 per cent this year from 23 per
cent in the 1968-69 school year.
Donna Louise Walker, a former
University Store employee, was assessed a
sentence of a $1 fine and 30 days in jail
probated, in connection with the University
Store theft of $1,750
Miss Walker, 20, a Fort Worth junior,
pleaded nolo contendere to charges of theft
under $50.
Her plea to the charges was entered in the
county court-at-law on Feb. 26, l awhon
said
The probation period will be eight
months, according to District Attorney
John Lawhon'soffice.
About half of the $ 1,750 reported missing
during the Christmas holidays has been
returned, according to A B (Swede)
Swcnson, general manager of the store.
C harles Andrews, Department of Public
Safety investigator, is in charge of the case.
Andrews, who is stationed in Fort Worth,
said that the court action taken against
Miss Walker was the result of his agency's
investigation.
He added that there will probably be
more investigation in the case, and that the
DPS will check into an> other leads it has,
but that presently the case is at a standstill.
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Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi collected two
bathtubs of food Sunday in a food drive that will provide
a needy family with meals for Easter Season John
Preskitt and John Barnett, standing left to right, and
Suzanne Winter and Gay Word, kneeling left to right
were among the members who cooperated with the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in the drive
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