Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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xv ll!-,,-,-,F . V . Orientation, Increased Book Prices Freshmen Learn First Lessons Fall semester classes started Aug. 27 with most students settled in Kirksville by Aug. 26-particularly the freshmen who gathered at 9 a.m. for the first orientation session. The formal program, in Baldwin Auditorium, featured Student Senate President Rod Libby who in- troduced the academic division heads and various administrators. Also welcoming the freshmen were President Charles I. McClain and Dean of Student Affairs james R. Ritter. Representatives of the larger campus organizations-including members from Mens' Dorm Council, Womens' Dorm Council, Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and Student Activities Board-spoke to the freshmen. After the program freshmen gathered in Red Barn Park for a pic- nic featuring roast pig and fried chicken. Servers for the meal were administrators, division heads and faculty members, giving freshmen an opportunity to interact with other members of the University com- munity. Survival played during the picnic, and later that day at the street dance behind the SUB. In between sessions, the freshmen were free to look over the campus and join the majority of other students ins the Campus Bookstore purchasing books and supplies. As students bemoaned the book store prices, Paper shortages, sugar shortages and textile shortages were the reasons for the inflationary prices in the university owned bookstore, said Harry Baldwin, bookstore manager for the past nine years. The Campus Bookstore is the only place students can purchase their textbooks. In February, the Stu- dent Senate Inquiry Team started an investigation of the Bookstore. Team members met with Dean of Ad- ministration Ray E. Klinginsmith, as a first step. The profits of the bookstore are used to pay off the interest and in- debtedness of the SUB, said Baldwin. Ninety per cent of the textbooks sold shows a 20 per cent gross profit. This profit is used to pay all salaries, a percentage of utilities, and freight and postage costs in and out on all books. Price increases are due to the paper shortage and a 10 per cent labor increase, said Baldwin. Prices are still expected to go up four or five per cent and level off by summer. Candy and soft goods both went up 33V3 per cent this fall. We try to carry besides re- quired textbooks and school supplies, items that students need and like to see in the bookstore, said Baldwin. ks N item ' C rd- s.. ' 'vga ff - ' s.: va Q - 31,5-,E 5' . xv,,x 5 , W.-M, X Q -A X Q x X is Nix 1 'r Fifi t Ar, t mrs as 4 - fwiwwm fl'5'1'iii M1 'Jef . .ff 'W 3 A W, 2 , 4 ,. l ' lf I I t I H. Et I W 1 1 L aston theyl dinne pape note IABC

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C I L QQ session of imed he to finding isible for in to the loud of -up. pe recor- or in the by both This was tance the the other mation to Jn, events I by judge 55White Special e took the irt. Nixon ly became 1 8-0, that t keep the y must be vorski. r. Nixon tancies in of non- involvement. Portions of tapes were made public, showing fully and clearly that Nixon had not only known of the cover-up, but had ac- tively participated in its operation. Suddenly some of his staunchest supporters, such as Barry Coldwater, john Rhodes, and Charles Wiggins, gave calls for Nixon's resignation. Although the House by now was preparing to vote on the question of impeachment, it soon became ap- parent that there would be no need to. Nixon called for television time for the evening of August 8. Rumors and speculation swept the capitol. Would he resign? What would he say? Would his guilt be admitted? The night of August 8, 1974 may be forever remembered in American history. For the 37th time, Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the U.S., spoke from the Oval Office in the White House. As he spoke, the tension seemed unbearable. He talked of his base of support in Congress eroding, of how he had helped to fulfill the con- stitutional processuuntil now, when that process no longer needs to be fulfilled. Then came the words: I hereby resign the office of President, effec- tive noon tomorrow. And suddenly the spectators may have felt themselves caught in an uncomparable, almost unnerving point in history, for Richard Nixon became the first president in this land's history to resign, forced out by a nation which could no longer tolerate the twisting of the political knife symbolized by the word Watergate. And suddenly Richard Nixon, master of political comebacks, a voice in American politics for 28 years, winner of one of the greatest landslide elections in history in 1972, was gone. The Watergate fire had con- sumed the top floor of government. Richard Nixon, Bob Haldeman, john Mitchell, john Erlichmann, L. Patrick Cray, john Dean, Charles Colson, Robert Mardian, jeb Magruder, Cordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, Maurice Stans, Spiro Agnew, Richard Kleindienst, Dwight Chapin, Donald Segretti, john Connally, james McCord: these and many other lesser known figures had been touched by scandals which, if not directly related to Watergate, were lumped together in an overall view of an Administration considered to be perhaps the most scandalous in American history. Enter Cerald Ford. The man chosen to replace the fallen Spiro Agnew as Vice President. Never seriously considered Presidential timber, to this man the task had fallen of uplifting a morally shaken nation. He became, on August 9, the country's first and only un-elected President. The nation needs action, not words, said Ford. In his first week, he tackled the economy, delved into the crisis on Cyprus, entertained the King of jordan, and began to organize his administration. One of the first acts of his ad- ministration was the initiation of a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam deserters and draft dodgers in September. This may have been overshadowed by a previous act of Ford. This was the granting of a Hfull, free, and absolute pardon for Richard Nixon for all criminal offenses he may have committed while in the Presidential office. That solved most of Nixon's legal problems, but left hanging in the air the question-had justice been done? To many, perhaps, it had not. Seemingly lost in the shuffle created by Watergate were other events that in another time would be considered major happenings. All phases of life, as usual, were at one time or another brought into focus as the year passed. The economy, dominated the Ford Administration from its earliest beginning. To many Ford seemed to be standing still, as the recession grew deeper and inflation climbed higher. His Whip Inflation Now program drew many snickers and not much in the way of results. But by the time january rolled around, Ford seemed in command, presenting a highly complicated plan of tax rebates and increased foreign oil prices. Congress complained, but had no alternatives. Meanwhile, unemployment stayed near eight per cent and con- sumer prices were predicted to soar another 11.3 per cent in 1975. America is still thought of as a land of plenty and may still be so, but in November delegates from 130 nations gathered in Rome to try to answer the question: will man win the race against hunger? That ques- tion didn't seem to be answered among the politicking of the conven- tion. Later on, Pope Paul VI criticized rich nations who would try to impose birth control on poorer nations without practicing it themselves. Earl Butz, Ford's Secretary of Agriculture, was heard to have responded to that with, He no playa the game, he no make-a the rules, a crack soundly criticized. And in the Middle East, friction between Israel and the Arab states continued. For Israel, there was the added com- plication of the United Nations recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organization as spokesman for the homeless Palenstinians of the Middle East. And Vietnam reared its head once again, as Ford requested that Congress for half a billion dollars in aid for the area of Southeast Asia in early 1975. But Ford was dealing with the 94th Congress, a legislature quite different from its predecessor. This Congress, elected in November 1974, housed in both the Senate and House a two-thirds Democratic majority, a Congress said to be more liberal, more challenging than the previous one, a Congress born perhaps of the dying sparks of Watergate. It is to that President, that Congress, a nation wails to lead it from the thrones of scandal, reces- sion, and inflation. Only after the year ends may a judgment be made as to how well those men and women have succeeded.

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