The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1971 Page: 1 of 4
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The North Texas Daily
55TH YEAR NO. 43
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1971
Karen Busts
To Limelight
In Playboy
Male students reluctantly call her “the
big one that got away.”
Karen Christy, 20-year-old former North
Texas student, has given the university the
biggest coverage - all 38-23-36 worth it
has received since Joe Greene made Play-
boy’s All-American football team and
Phyllis George won Miss America.
Miss Christy is another “Miss” for
North Texas’ collection of beauties- Miss
December in Playboy magazine.
The eyes of Texas have been focused on
the North Texas campus the past two years
since two former students. Miss George and
Janis Bain, won Miss Texas titles and
Elaine McLendon won Miss Tall Universe.
But the eyes of the nation will be turned
this month to the centerpiece of the maga-
zine.
The 5 foot-6, dark-eyed, blonde beauty
attended North Texas in 1969, majoring in
commercial art. However, Miss Christy
dropped out of school and went to work in
Dallas following her freshman year. She
lived in Kendall Hall
The Abilene native was working in Dallas
when friends persuaded her to take part in
Playboy’s Bunny hunt when it was in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area. John Dante, the
bunny director, saw her and invited her to
go to Chicago to work in the club there
One of the magazine's photographers
noticed her and asked her to pose, and
Miss Christy made the Christmas edition
of Playboy.
Look’it That!
It s not every day you get to see a North Texas Ex—especially in the flesh
And Charles Johnson, left, Dallas senior, and Steve Taylor, Carrollton
sophomore, don’t mind They are casually gazing at Karen Christy, Playboy's
December Playmate, and a former North Texas student
Court Reporter To Speak
To Students Tuesday
Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram will speak to Sigma Delta
Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, the professional
journalism societies, Tuesday at 8 p.m. in
the “carpet lounge" on the third floor of the
Union Building
Sanders is the court reporter for the Star-
Telegram, and a 1969 graduate of North
Texas. While attending North Texas, he
was one of the editors of the Campus Chat
and also the Yucca.
The lecture is open to the public at no
charge, according to Rennetta Davis, Fort
Worth junior and president of Theta Sigma
Phi
Sigma Delta Chi pledges will be initiated
at the monthly meeting of the Fort Worth
Professional Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi
at the Petroleum Club in Fort Worth at 7
p.m Monday. Dinner will he provided for
the North Texas members and pledges.
Fall pledges are sally Smith, Daiias
sophomore; Hmd Hescock, Dallas senior;
Jim Williamson, Arlington sophomore;
F.velyn Fisher, Winnsboro junior; Nikki
Busby, Denton sophomore; Joe McAnally,
Mabank junior; Joyce Dancy, Marlin
junior; Bruce Jackson, Denton senior;
Steve Monk, Denton junior; Dick Fischer,
Denton sophomore; Rennetta Davis, Fort
Worth junior; and Kenneth Molberg, Fred-
erick sberg sophomore
Plane Crashes, Burns
On Lake Dallas Shore
LEW ISVILLE (AP) A Swedish-
built aerobatic plane crashed eight miles
east of here on the shore of Garza-Little
Him reservoir Thursday afternoon killing
its two occupants.
Denton County Sheriff Wylie Barnes
said the two men in the plane could not be
identified The machine burned on impact
obliterating its registration number.
A witness said the two-seater plane ap-
peared to be stunting just before the crash.
It had looped, gone into a spin, dived and
cut its motor, when it suddenly flipped over
and crashed, going up in flames, he said
County sheriffs officers, assisted by
other law enforcement agencies, are investi-
gating the cause of the crash and trying to
establish identity of the victims.
Gunter Sells Records
In Fight for Big Thicket
In its drive to prevent areas of the Big
Thicket forest region from being stripped
by lumber companies. Reaction Against
Pollution (RAP) has raised over $ 150 this
week from the sale of Dr. Pete Gunter’s
record, “The L.ast Big Thicket Blues.”
Money raised from the record, being
sold by RAP at a booth in the entrance of
the Union Building, will be used to purchase
land priced at $200 an acre, in the Big
Thicket, Nancy Coomer, Seattle graduate
student and RAP member, said.
Dr. Ciunter, chairman of the philosophy
department and president of the Big Thick-
et Association, cut his record in an attempt
to raise money to buy areas of the Big
Thicket and donate them to a proposed
national park there.
"This may be the last chance to do any-
thing to save parts of the thicket from the
lumber companies and developers,” he said.
Dr. Gunter’s record is being sold to stu-
dents for $2 and to faculty members and the
public for $5.
Dr. Gunter said that his record is not the
important thing. “People are not actually
buying my record," he said “They are
really donating money to save the Big
Thicket.”
The forest region that once spread over
nearly three million acres has been reduced
to 300,(XX) acres. "At this time, it is shrink-
ing at the rate of 10t) acres per day under
the bulldozers and saws of six timber com-
panies," Mrs. Coomer said.
The RAP booth will sell the record and
take all other donations through Friday and
perhaps through the first part of next week,
she said
Whitney Says Americans
Must Pay for Clean Air
Dr William B Whitney of the TWIJ
chemistry faculty said Wednesday in a
seminar at North Texas that the American
public must be willing to pay the price for
a clean environment.
"Hnvironmental improvements cost
money, it’s that simpie,” Dr. Whitney
said “The public has not responded to
many of these developments, including low-
lead gasoline, which is more expensive.”
Although many people cry out for envi-
ronmental quality, their crusades often fall
flat when the new products are put on the
market, he added
Dr. Whitney spoke mainly on the subject
of air pollution from automobiles. He
quoted statistics that showed 108 million
cars in the United States for a population of
200 million people, or about one car for
every two people
There are two basic types of air pollution
in the United States,” Dr. Whitney said,
“The Fast Coast type, which is made up of
sulfuric acid compounds, and the West
Coast type, which is primarily from auto-
motive sources."
The most obvious results of air pollution.
Dr Whitney said, are the visual apects. In
addition, the eyes, nose and lungs are often
irritated by pollutants.
“Vegetation damage is also a result of
air pollution,” Dr. Whitney said “This is
quite extensive in California.”
Students Approve Officers;
Charter To Require Run-Off
By THERESA UDD
Daily Reporter
Students at North Texas now have offi
cers for a student government that does
not exist.
The results of the constitutional referen-
dum Thursday showed it will be necessary
to have a run-off Wednesday and Thursday
between the Student Government Associa
tion (SGA) Constitution as submitted by
the Constitution Committee and approved
by the administration and the People’s
Revised SGA drafted by Stephen Haile,
Fort Worth graduate student.
FIOWEVER, 609 students approved and
supported the officers elected last spring.
(Jut of 15,000 students, 1,232 decided the
fate of student government The SGA
Constitution fell 34 votes shy of a necces-
sary majority, receiving 589 votes.
The People’s Revised SGA received 223
votes and only seven votes behind it was
abolition.
GATHERED IN the student government
office awaiting the returns were four pro-
ponents of the six proposed constitutions
David Swaab, Dallas senior; Wes Spiegel,
Port Arthur junior; and Louis Swaab, and
Joe Burgoyne, both Denton graduate stu-
dents, waited quietly for the returns
Haile could not be reached for comment
Neither could Burgoyne, who left suddenly
when the results were announced
“Abolition has won no matter what
constitution wins,” Louis Swaab said
“More people show up at soccer games
than care about student government ”
ABOLITION ADVOCATE David
Swaab said that he would contest the elec-
tions on the grounds that they were illegal
Swaab contended that there were organized
illegal campaigns conducted by those in
favor of SGA and the retention of elected
officers.
Swaab cited the use of the walls of the
university's buildings and bulletin boards
as the use of state assets to influence legis-
lation
"I have possible intentions of going to
the courts and taking away the public status
of this school. Why should taxes support a
school that operates illegally by using its
assets and powers to officially help pass
legislation and help elect public officials,"
Swaab said
HE ADDED that if he were successful,
the Internal Revenue Service would no
longer recognize donations to North Texas
as tax deductible.
“Every person supporting a constitution
had the privilege of putting up a sign.”
L.insay Keffer, assistant to the dean of stu-
dents, said, commenting on Swaab’s pro-
'Tex’ Watson
Sentenced
To Death
Former North Texas student Charles
(Tex) Watson was formally sentenced to
death in Los Angeles Thursday the Asso-
ciated Press reported. Watson was con-
victed for his part in the seven Tate-La-
Bianca murders.
Watson entered North Texas after gradu-
ating from Farmersville High School in
1964. While at North Texas he listed his
major as business. He left in May, 1967,
asking that his transcript be sent to the
California State College in Los Angeles.
He was indicted Dec. 9, 1970
Watson, 24, was impassive and showed
no sign of emotion as Judge Adolph Alex-
ander followed the jury recommendation
that Watson be put to death in San Quentin
Prison's gas chamber.
Manson and five others of his hippie-
style followers also are under the death
sentence for murder
Watson was tried separately He testified
that in August 1969 he led members of the
Manson group to the mansion of actress
Sharon Tate. Miss Tate and four others
were slain.
The next night he said he accompanied
Manson to the home of grocer Leno La-
Bianca. La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary,
were slain
Alexander ordered Watson taken to
San Quentin within 10 days. Under Califor-
nia law, there is an automatic appeal to the
state Supreme Court of a death sentence.
Alexander could have reduced the jury-
recommended death penalty to life im-
prisonment.
Mariner Nears Mars
On Photo Expedition
PASADENA, Calif (AP) Mariner 9
sailed closer and closer to Mars Thursday
while scientists awaited first television
pictures that might further part the cen-
tury-old veil of mystery surrounding the
planet.
The 2,200-pound windmill-shaped space-
craft, a scant 350,000 miles remaining in
its 248-million-mile journey from earth,
took the last of 31 television pictures be-
gun Wednesday afternoon and stored them
in an on-board tape recorder.
TWENTY MINUTES after the pictuie-
taking session ended at 5:56 p.m. Thurs-
day, Mariner 9 was to begin beaming these
photographs through 76 million miles of
space to a 210-foot dish atenna at Gold-
stone, Calif. Seconds later they were to be
displayed on television monitors at the
California Institute of Technology’s Jet
Propulsion L aboratory in Pasadena
While the distance from Mars is now
about 76 million miles. Mariner 9 has been
chasing the red plane* on a course that has
taken it more than three times as far in
more than five months.
Scientists expect the photographs to be
the first to show the planet more clearly
than it can be seen through earth telescopes.
SOME MARS experts are concerned a
swirling dust storm that has covered the
planet since late September may interfere
with pians to photograph Mars’ surface but
another scientists whose specialty is study-
ing the Martian atmosphere says the storm,
the worst since 1956, presents a once in a
lifetime opportunity to study a dynamic-
changing event in Mars' atmosphere.
Three other U S. spacecraft have visited
Mars, but they got only a short glimpse as
they zipped bv on into a solar orbit Mari-
ner 9 will be the first spacecraft to orbit
Mars giving daily closeup looks at the
planet
The Soviet Union continued its 5-and-a-
half-month silence about its two Martian
probes. Mars 2 and 3. The Soviet space-
crafts launched May 19 and May 28 are
expected to reach Mars a few days behind
Mariner 9, launched from Cape Kennedy,
Fla., May 30
MARS 2 AND 3 weigh almost five times
as much as Mariner 9, which apparently
resulted in a lower velocity when they were
rocketed away from earth and, hence, a
later Mars arrival time. But the added
weight has led Western space experts to
believe that Soviets may attempt a Mars
landing, something that the United State-,
isn’t planning before 1976.
Manner 9 will circle Mars twice a day,
dipping within 720 miles at the low point
of each orbit During a basic 90-day mis-
sion, it will map 70 per cent of the planet's
surface, make detailed measurements of
radiation from the surface and study the
Martian atmosphere, including dust storm
and clouds that move over the surface.
If spacecraft systems hold out, project
officials say. Mariner 9 could circle Mars
for up to a year. It could map almost the
entire planet and allow periodic study of
the same points on the surface where fea-
tures seem to change with time
Thursday in Men’s Gym
SAU To Feature Association
By MICHAEL LOCHRIDGE
Daily Reporter
Seven hundred chairs will be set up on
the door of the Men s Gym, increasing the
seating capacity to 4,500 seats, for The
Association and Friends of Distinction con-
cert Thursday.
The 8 p m. concert will he staged in the
south end of the gym, Ron Blatchley, Stu-
dent Activities Union (SAU) director,
said The show is sponsored by the SAU.
TICKETS ARE available in the Uni-
versity Store for $2 for students and $4
for nonstudents. Faculty and staff will be
admitted at student prices with faculty-
staff ID cards
Lighting arrangements will be made by
Alex von Sahcr of Dallas, who was in
charge of the lights for the Al Hirt show
Both groups will use The Association's
sound equipment
Formed six years ago in Los Angeles,
The Association has received Gold Record
Awards for four single releases and three
albums. The singles include "Cherish,”
their second release which was nominated
for three Grammys in 1967 for the best
performance by a vocal group, best con-
temporary rock-and-roll recording and
best contemporary rock-and-roll perfor-
mance.
In November of 1967 the Bill Gavin
Radio-Record Congress voted them the No.
1 pop group in the nation.
THE ASSOCIATION began touring
in 1966, beginning at the Fillmore in San
Francisco. They were the first rock group
to play at the Cocoanut Grove They were
also the first rock group to play in the Blos-
som Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and
the Tanglcwood, home of the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra.
Paramount Pictures asked the Associa-
tion to write music for the movie “Good-
bye Columbus" in 1969 This musical score
received a Grammy nomination in 1970
for best song in a film
The members of the group are Jules
Alexander, Ted Bluechel Jr., Larry Ramos,
Richard Thompson, Terry Kirkman, Brian
Cole and Jim Yestei.
The Friends of Distinction were formed
in San Diego by Harry Elston and Floyd
Butler. In 1962 they met Lamont Md e-
more and Marilyn McCoo Davis in Los
Angeles. Calling themselves the Hi-Fis
and with Butler as the road manager, they
backed up Ray Charles in concert perfor-
mances and on nationwide television shows
THEY DISBANDED in the midsixt.es
with the two female singers joining the
Fifth Dimension, and Elston and Butler
opening a nightclub in Los Angeles
After deciding to try a performing group
again, they recruited Jessica Cleaves and
Barbara Love Jim Brown of the Cleveland
Browns football team then signed them to
the talent management company he had
formed
posal Keffer pointed out that Swaab would
have to contest the election under the laws
of whatever constitution is ratified
Swaab had still another point of illegali-
ty to stress about the voting process.
“People could vote without showing any
identification.” Swaab said He explained
that an Alpha Phi Omega member helping
with the returns asked Louis Swaab
whether he David or I ouis
When asked to comment on the results
of the referendum Spiegel, newly confirmed
SGA president, had only one statement to
make, “The final step is to make sure SGA
gets in”
Women Plan
To Caucus
At Austin
The Texas Women’s Political Caucus
(TWPC), open to all women regardless of
political affiliation, will be Nov. 19 to 21
at UT-Austin.
The six-workshop caucus’s main objec-
tive will be the examination of political
candidates' platforms, as they concern
Texas women, according to a TWPC bulle-
tin.
Registration is $5, but allowances for
financial hardship may be made if the com-
mittee is contacted Registration by mail
closes Tuesday. Interested women should
write to Texas Women’s Politic d Caucus,
PC) Box 133 3. Austin. Texas. /87I1. For
registration by telephone, contact Jude
Johnson, 512-345-2023, 3903 Fdgerock.
Austin, 78731.
Individuals attending the caucus will be
responsible for their own housing and
meals, however, a list of lodgings is avail-
able from the committee.
A delegation from Denton may be orga-
nized to coordinate transportation and
housing in Austin Susan Touchstone
should be contacted through Dr Elizabeth
Almquist’s office. Room 354 of the Social
Science Building as soon as possible,
All campus women, students, faculty
and employ.' are urged to discuss this and
other projects at the next meeting of the
Association for Women’s Equality (AWE),
a newly revived, campus-recognized or-
ganization, according to Miss Touchstone,
a spokeswoman for the group The next
AWE meeting is scheduled for Tuesday
at 3:30 p.m. in Room 310 of the Social
Science Building
Clark Hall
To Regain
Privileges
Clark Hall will get its visitation rights
back Saturday at noon, Jewell Manzey,
resident director, said at a dorm-wide meet-
ing Wednesday night
Manzey said the visitation was canceled
because of failure to follow the guidelines
providing for floor hosts, and a matter of
some people not being checked out on time.
“The system that Clark Hall set up to pro-
vide for floor hosts fell apart We are now
establishing a review board and another set
of guidelines for visitation policies."
Last Tuesday and Wednesday Bob Hal-
pin, dorm council chairman for Clark Hall,
and Dan Harris, a wing representative from
Clark, met with Richard Geer, director of
houssing. and Joe Stewart, associate
housing director, about the overall visita-
tion policy
Halpin and Harris tried to get the entire
host system abolished After meeting with
Stewart and Dr Rollin Sininger, vice-
president for student affairs, Geer said
that such abolition would be impossible at
this time
Geer proposed a system, currently used
at West Flail, that Clark will begin using
Saturday at noon, when their visitation
rights are restored Under this system the
first dorm resident to sign a guest in on his
floor automatically becomes the floor host
until the resident leaves Then the next per-
son on the list becomes host
"We think that this system will work out
better than the first one," Fialpin said
Harris added, “Under the original system
we had a hard time keeping track of our
hosts. Under the new system we shouldn’t
have this problem "
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