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-THI NORTH TIXAS DAILY
The North Texas Daily
Mth Year
North Tun >tatt Unlvartlty
Denton, Texas
ALL AMERICAN
and
PACEMAKER NEWSPAPER
Produced by North Texas State University Printing Office
TERRY KELLY
Editor
TOM KELLEY
Business Manager
Editorial statements of the North Texas Daily and readers' letters reflect the
opinion of the individual writer and not necessarily that of the Daily, its
adviser or the North Texas State University Administration.
Nixon Ignoring Law?
Army Hides Men,
Embargoes News
In the last several weeks in Indochina, the United States has appeared to
be engaging in a sharp escalation of the air war. But it was hard to really
tell what was going on there because no one would say exactly what the
position of the United States was.
For several months, U.S. fighter-bombers have been Hying missions in
support of Laotian troops fighting the Communists, and bombings of the Ho
Chi Minh Trail in the Laotian panhandle have never been heavier.
Recently, thousands of South Vietnamese troops began moving toward
the Laotian border in apparent preparation for an invasion. U.S. troops
have moved in to replace these South Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam.
While all this was going on, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. comman-
der in South Vietnam, ordered an embargo on news accounts of troop move-
ments in connection with the possible invasion. He also embargoed news of
the embargo.
Abrams may have followed orders to keep word of the movements from
leaking out, but the embargo failed. Details of the plan leaked out
from Washington. The details that leaked out caused many critics of the war
to question whether the administration was adhering to the spirit of the
Cooper-Church Amendment, which forbids the deployment of U.S. ground
forces or advisers in Cambodia.
These fears have been fueled by two incidents. The U.S. has set up a mil-
itary equipment delivery team to make sure that the Cambodian army
makes proper use of weapons given to it under American military aid. Are
these advisers or not?
The second incident was the discovery by a CBS news crew of a party
of American soldiers in civilian clothes carrying sidearms at Phnom Penh's
airport. Are these ground forces or not'.'
On the basis of official sources, it would appear that the Nixon adminis-
tration is not abiding by the provisions of the Cooper-Church amendment.
The Pentagon conceded that the members of the equipment delivery team
might show the Cambodians how to use the weapons it delivers.
State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey said the soldiers wore
civilian clothes by order of U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Emory Swank.
"This is a discretionary judgment," McCloskey said, "supported here in
Washington, that it seemed prudent, in the light of restrictions prohibiting
the presence of American ground forces and military advisers."
Congress has passed a law prohibiting soldiers in Cambodia. President
Nixon should obey that law. He should not try to hide the actions of Ameri-
can troops in Indochina, even though these actions may change his image
concerning the war.
BETTYb MLGASON
Office Seeks Minority Teachers
Schools Want Racially Balanced Staff
By HARRIET GREANEY
Special Reporter
At a time when most newly certified
teachers are having difficulty obtaining
jobs in the areas of their choice, there is
one type of teacher that is still badly
needed -teachers from the racial minorities.
The Placement Office, which aids educa-
tion graduates in finding teaching positions,
registers about 1,000 graduates a year, ac-
cording to Dr. Witt Blair, director of place-
ment and extension. Within this 1,000,
estimates Dr. Blair, there are 12 to 15
Negroes and even fewer Mexican-Ameri-
cans. The small number of racial minority
teachers who graduate from North Texas is
indicative of a national shortage, he said.
The shortage of such teachers exists be-
cause the demand for them has increased
sharply during the last five years while
schools of education have done little to re-
cruit them. Dr. Blair said. Among the fac-
tors responsible for the increased demand
are recent efforts of school systems to
achieve racially balanced staffs.
TWO NEW educational programs are
also causing schools to seek more teachers
from the racial minorities. Bilingual teach-
ing is being instituted at many schools.
and this requires more Spanish-speaking
teachers.
"Texas schools were required by law to
teach in English," Dr. Blair said, "but
that law was changeu two years ago. Now
Texas schools even have special funds to
promote bilingual teaching."
The recent establishment of many "inter-
city" schools is another program which has
increased the demand.
"IN THESE schools," Dr. Blair said,
"racial minority children are in a majority,
and teachers from the racial minority can
often relate to these children better."
"Minorities just haven't realized their
opportunities in the teaching field," he
said, "or I believe we would have more of
them in it."
A representative of the Pomona, Calif.,
school district visited North Texas last fall
seeking Mexican-American teachers for the
schools in his district. While here, the re-
presentative set up a spring interview sched-
ule with the Placement Office and met with
members of Los Chicanos, an organization
of Mexican-American students.
"WE HAVE several requests each year
from school districts thut will consider only
teachers from the racial minorities," Dr.
Blair said. The areas which have the great-
est shortage are South Texas and Califor-
nia, he said.
"I don't know why North Texas has so
many requests like the one from Pomona
since we have so few teachers from the
racial minorities to graduate," he said,
"except thai, being in Texas, we have a
great potential to supply such teachers."
DR. BLAIR said he was very much im-
pressed with the project of Los Chicanos
to find opportunities in teaching for Mex-
ican-Americans. He said he expects con-
siderable interest and response from the
group now that efforts are being made to
acquaint them with the problem.
Tito Guerrero, Karnes City graduate stu-
dent and president of Los Chicanos, echoed
Dr. Blair's hopes for the future of Mexican-
Americans in the teaching field.
Guerrero cited as the main reason for the
shortage of Mexican-American teachers the
fact that so few obtain college degrees.
" In Texas, 79 per cent of Mexican-Ameri-
cans drop out of school before they reach
high school," Guerrero said. "And only 20
per cent of the number that go to high
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Jobs for Minority Teachers
Dr. Witt Blair, director of placement and extension,
talks with a black student about a job opening in the
teaching field. Dr. Blair noted that, of the 1,000 students
who register in the placement office each year, only
about 20 or so are from the racial minorities. This short-
age exists, he said, because the demand for minority
teachers has increased sharply in the last five years while
the number of minority teachers has not increased.
school go on to college." Guerrero cited
several hardships imposed on them by the
educational system as the reason for the
high drop rate.
Most Mexican-Americans are already
aware of the shortage of Mexican-Amer-
ican teachers from their own experiences in
school, according to Guerrero.
Corporation
Gets Rich
In Flowers
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) Keith
Wilkinson, 16, hunched his shoulders
against the cold, smiled and returned the
peace sign given him by a young girl in a
passing car.
At his feet was a bucket of carnations
which he sells, singly or by the dozen, as
part of an enterprise called Flower Chil-
dren.
Before he landed in Little Rock, said
Keith, of Beaumont, Tex., he had hitch-
hiked through 38 states since April.
TO PROVIDE employment for people
like Keith, two Dallas, Tex., men Tom
Scott and Jerry Campbell, both 24, organ-
ized Scampbell-Cott Enterprises.
Scott said he and Campbell started the
business because several long-haired friends
who were staying at their apartment could
not find work. He said the long-haired
youth is a "better, harder working, more
dedicated employe."
A company spokesman estimated Flower
Children in a dozen cities sell about 100,000
carnations a week
IN THE Little Rock organization,
about 15 to 20 Flower Children aged 16 to
26 set up stands in vacant lots to sell the
carnations for $3 a dozen or 25 cents each.
John Wayne Suggs, IS, manager of the
Little Rock operation, said about 7,000
carnations are sold weekly.
There have been some problems.
Some of the youngsters complain the 20
per cent commission they receive ihey get
no salary is not enough. The company
spokesman contended the amount was fair
considering the youngsters had no invest-
ment in the operation and said the amount
of money earned depends on how hard the
individual works.
ANOTHER PROBLEM is drugs
There is a company rule banning any type
of drugs from the stands or the Flower
Children office.
However, while a newsman was talking
to one Flower Child another approached,
and asked about the possiblities of getting
drugs and was told of a contact.
The Flower Children often give away the
flowers and find it brings them more cus-
tomers.
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DAILY FEEDBACK
'Don't Limit Abortion
To Moralizing Alone'
Susan Touchstone, NT Box 5736, sopho-
more
My deepest thanks, Mr. Hight, for your
most enlightening diatribe concerning
abortion. We simple-minded women need
more strong men like you to explode psy-
cho-socio-economic arguments for abortion-
You have saved us with your inspiring mor-
alizing, for such arguments must surely be
disseminated by someone very evil.
I've been brainwashed into asserting that
an individual's body belongs to that person,
and that no one has any right to dictate his
input and output.
Sociological statisticians and scientists
like Dr. Paul Erlich ("The Population
Bomb") are lying when they warn us, that
since not everyone can or will practice birth
control, someday compulsory death con-
trol will be necessary. They even say that
too many people will endanger the existence
of all organisms. Photographs of hungry
children are lies, too, don't you agree?
Physicians have even tricked me into
believing that German measles, when con-
tracted by a pregnant woman, may result
in serious defects in her child, and that
pregnancy may mean death for women not
physically capable of child-bearing.
Your analysis of the "lady who had two
miscarriages in a row and suffered a ner-
vous breakdown" is clever indeedt for most
psychiatrists would require lengthy deli-
beration before positively correlating the
incidents, even if a cause and effect rela-
tionship seemed to exist I am confident
that you can also disprove the psycholo-
gists' theories that atrocities, physical
and psychological, occur because the child
is unwanted, that unwanted pregnancy (and
children) have negative psychological ef-
fects upon parents and that a woman who
has had one or more abortions can accept
her situation and actually avoid the "men-
tal disorders" of which you write.
I agree that "Everyone has a right to a
life of their own." However, I've been
indoctrinated with the idea that "right to
a life" includes the basic human rights to
adequate food, clothing, shelter, some
degree of love and guidance from parent
figures and enough room in which to de-
velop, as well as the rights to breathe and
possess a body which functions normally
not to mention a woman's rights to pursue
a career or education and have children
only if and when she chooses. That's a
rather long list, and a very erroneous as-
sumption.
I commend you, sir, for your incredible
feat: By dispensing with psycho-socio-
economic arguments, you have reduced
abortion to a moral question alone. Even
more amazing, you have made a moral
decision which you apply to others, not
yourself.
That you have answered a question
("Should I get an abortion?") which you, I
assume, are incapable of answering is surely
sufficient affirmation of your masculine su-
periority for any sensible and decent woman
Student Doubts Reason
For Sign-Out Procedure
Arthur M. Hackett, NT Box 8432, sopho-
more
"We are doing this primarily because we
will need to know which students are in the
dormitory in case of fire." I thought the bit
last year about "history and tradition" was
pretty funny, but this new excuse for
women's check out is really grade A ma-
terial. I wonder if Dean Ruth Causey
(North Texas Daily, feh. 3) has talked
with the Denton Fire Department? Why,
I ve heard that there are some fires in men's
dorms, and some fires actually occur at
hours outside those of II p.m. and 7 a.m.
As a matter of fact, I should be insulted
because, as a male, it is obvious that the
whereabouts of my body in the event of a
disaster is of no concern to her. Such ma-
lignant neglect. This neglect, however, is
not as great a concern to me as is knowing
that an administrator of this university is so
weak that she can't stand up and tell her
students the truth. The women of North
Texas are not so naive to miss the fact
that this school is intent upon keeping them
locked up at night.
Dean Causey realizes that if she gave the
real motives of the university, the students
would probably laugh at her. Or perhaps
the emotion would be closer to that of pity.
Williams Commends Daily
For Airing Soldier's Plight
H.E. Williams, 1414 Lindsey, Denton,
senior
I know you won't blow your own horn so
I'm going to blow it for you.
For readers that split early for the week-
end get a copy of Friday's Daily (that's
Feb. 5), turn to page two and read "Spec.
5 Discards Army Career." It's enlightening
and, unfortunately, representative. Granted,
Haley's case is more complicated than
some others.
An Air Force type I know is married, has
one child and is expecting another. He was
stationed at Cannon AFB in Clovis and the
powers that be told him he would finish his
tour (20 months) there. In January they
sent him to England without his family.
Pregnant women may not fly, or something
like that.
After the baby comes and his family is
allowed to join him, he will have to pay
the bill. Not because of distance. Not be-
cause he is at a Royal Air Force installation.
He doesn't rate travel expenses for his
family. He's only E-4. But he's still just
as married and just as human as the colo-
nel .. . isn't he?
Thanks for printing that story.
Freshman Suggests Way
To Divide Activity Fee
Michael A. Weichmann, 416 Jagoe St.
No. 7, Denton, freshman
Once again the Student Activities Union
(SAU) is lamenting the inadequate pittance
allocated for the majority of the student
population. Dividing the allotted $25,000
among NTSU students amounts to less
than $ 1.75 per person, and yet each student
must automatically pay a $30 activity fee
every semester. The apparent reason for
this lack of bread is the 71 per cent, or $25
or the $30, goes into the athletic kitty.
(Editor's Note: The $25 figure, quoted
from a story in The Daily last week, is
inaccurate. The Daily erred. The amount
for athletics is much less.)
When our money is spent on a 20 to I
ratio on the minority of our student body,
I think it is time for the whole student body
to step back and take an objective view of
what is best for the majority. It seems we,
the students, should have the option of
either dissolving organized intercollegiate
sports or initiating a revolutionary new
campus atmosphere.
College football has literally turned into
a big business, and I believe it lost much of
its original purpose in the process. One of
our players at the televised NT-Tulsa game
was given special notice by the commenta-
tor because he had not come to our school
on an athletic scholarship. As our coaches
will affirm, recruiting of players is a pri-
mary concern in college ball today, and
money is the means to that end in many
instances.
Presently, the construction of the Coli-
seum has been delayed because the physical
education department feels their program
would suffer by being incorporated into it,
but there seems to be no doubt that the
Coliseum takes precedence over the gener-
al student welfare.
It is sorely evident that NTSU is substan-
dard in both quality and quantity of health,
physical education and recreational facil-
ities for an institution this size. Most pro-
gressive high schools have superior facili-
ties and fewer students, too. The only sign
of progress showing at the present is the
temporary delay in the construction of the
already approved Coliseum to give passing
consideration to the construction of a sep-
erate building exclusively for the physical
training and recreation of the majority.
We at NTSU must even consider instal-
ling athletic facilities in our new UB. The
equipment for the last intramural power
meet had to be borrowed from a private
source because this university is not that
well equipped. Don't you think NTSU is
large enough to have a combination beauty
and reducing salon or a sauna or a steam
room or regulation handball and indoor
tennis courts or at least an indoor swim-
ming pool to replace our 1927-vintage
cement pond?
The abolition of organized sports in favor
of building a more living and cohesive stu-
dent body would place NTSU among the
most progressive and revolutionary uni-
versities in this area. Some universities have
already taken this step. Will we at NTSU
be free enough to break our long tradition
and develop our school spirit by supporting
such campus organizations as our outstand-
ing Debate Club or the I O'CTock Lab Band
or the University Players or KNTU-FM or
our award-winning North Texas Daily?
Tradition (read habit) should not be
made to constitute necessity. We should
have the alternative of spending the $500,
000 in our own best interests. We students
must take positive measures in developing a
more personable social and recreational
campus environment by confronting the
bare facts and voicing our opinions to a
student vote.
In any case I welcome sentiments from
my fellow students, pro or con. All I am
asking is that you be honest in making
your own value judgment and fight for
this opportunity lor more campus inter-
action, rather than sublimating it.
Student Seeks Tolerance
Of Richard Gill Memorials
James Rader, NT Box 5296, freshman
There are some people who may think
that disseminating the memory of Richard
Gill has gone too far. They say that per-
haps we may soon be seeing signs declaring
Richard Gill memorial trees or Richard
Gill memorial sidewalks. Try to understand.
people die every day for more nobler causes,
but Richard Gill died not only for football.
!le died because of football. Tolerate
those who supported him in his strive lor
death and are trying to redeem their guilt
in their own small ways.
Reader Blames Humans
For Computer Mistakes
Linda Mc( alia, 4741 Saturn, Garland,
graduate student
In reference to the "News Capsules"
article, "System Change Causes Business
Office Setback." please note that it was
not a computer that put the North Texas
Business Office five months behind.
A computer can only do what it has been
programed to do. II the humans who pro-
gramed it did not allow for monthly state-
ments ol expenses for each department,
then it is obviously their fault if such state-
ments are not produced by the computer.
In an age where computers have bene-
lited man so greatly, it seems strange that
so many people blame computers and not
the humans responsible for their mistakes.
Perhaps it is because the computer does not
have a "mind of its own" if it did, people
would probably be afraid to condemn some-
thing that would be so powerful and able to
defend itself.
Appreciators of tmie-saving devices
Unite!
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