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Just Waitin’
The various pieces of equipment required Thursday in Guion Hall. The Shakespearian
by the Aggie Players stand idle awaiting play will run until March 26. Performances
the opening of “A Comedy of Errors” will start at 8 p. m.
Rice Editor Ousted
Students Protest Disciplinary Action
HOUSTON—A student com
mittee was scheduled to meet
with Rice’s President, Dr. K. S.
Pitzer, Tuesday morning in pro
test over the disciplinary proba
tion of Hugh Rice Kelley, editor
of the Thresher, Rice’s student
newspaper.
Kelley was placed on probation
Saturday for “flaunting admin
istrative authority” and failing
to speak with Dean of Students,
Dr. S. W. Higginbotham over the
phone Friday night and Saturday
morning.
Higginbotham had been trying
to reach Kelley
to find out why
the name of the
faculty advisor
had been left off
the masthead on
the editorial
page after he
had requested
that it be print
ed.
Probation is set 1
up at Rice so kelley
that a student on probation may
not hold an elected or appointed
office or graduate. Kelley, there
fore, is no longer allowed to hold
Guion Hosts
Public Hearing
On Watershed
A public hearing was held this
morning in Guion Hall concerning
the proposed Navasota River wa
tershed. Col. F. P. Koisch, dis
trict engineer of the Corps of En
gineers heard statements from in
terested groups in the area.
Representatives from the Texas
Water Commission, the Brazos Riv
er Authority, Millican Dam As
sociation, Texas A&M, Bryan-Col-
lege Station Chamber of Commerce,
Bryan-CS Jaycees and the cities
of Bryan, College Station, Hearne
and Navasota were scheduled to
be heard.
The Corps proposal as outlined
in past months include a prelimi
nary dam construction near Milli
can and a second dam at another
site north of the Old San Antonio
Road.
Construction costs were estima
ted at $57 million for the pre
liminary dam. Koisch estimated
cost for the second dam at $61
million and set completion for the
year 2000.
The dam must meet both Corps
of Engineers and congressional ap
proval before funds will be budget
ed for its construction.
Discussion of watershed develop
ment was planned for today’s meet
ing similar to those held in the
past.
Koisch was accompanied by Ker-
mit V. Speeg, chief of the Corps’
Basin Study Branch and John K.
Dixon, chief of the Brazos Basin
Study Section.
Koisch arrived *at 5 p.m. Monday
and left immediately following the
hearing to return to Fort Worth.
the position of editor. His term
of probation ends the day before
graduation ceremonies are to be
held, in order that he may grad
uate.
“The students feel that Kelley
wasn’t given a hearing,” William
Timme, Student Association pres
ident said Monday night. The
dean has the full authority to do
what he did to Kelley, but the
students feel that
he should have
been given due
process.”
The Students
Association held
a meeting Satur
day night con-
demning the
dean’s action.
They then went
into an “Ad Hoc”
session in which higginbotham
a demonstration was planned for
Monday morning.
Timme estimated that over 500
students and faculty members
were present Monday for the
march around the statue of Wil
liam Marsh Rice on the Rice cam
pus.
Kelley wrote a letter to Hig
ginbotham Sunday apologizing
for his actions; however, Higgin
botham told Timme that the let
ter would have no effect on the
action taken against him.
A statement was to have been
given to Pitzer that acknowl
edged that Kelley was discour
teous, but questioned dean’s ac
tion saying it has “indirect over
tones of suppression of freedom
of the press.” It also stated:
“We do not deny the adminis
tration’s prerogative to exercise
control over student affairs. The
arbitrary action taken Saturday,
however, is consistent with the
unsatisfactory pattern of the
past exercise of this control.
“When discourtesy by an indi
vidual student is taken as insub
ordination, it is time the students
expressed concern over the theory
and practice of discipline on the
Rice Campus.”
John Durham, associate editor
of the Thresher, will be in charge
until a new editor is appointed by
the Student Association. New
officers, including a new Thresh
er editor, will be elected by the
Student body in the annual gen
eral election April 5.
“I have no reason to believe
my decision will be changed (by
Pitzer),” said Higginbotham.
Regents Deny
Censers hip
AUSTIN (A 1 )—Three Univer
sity of Texas regents said Mon
day the regents’ order to stop
free off-campus distribution of
the Daily Texan was no attempt
to censor the student daily news
paper.
“The regulations do no more
than bring the fiscal affairs of
Texas student publications under
the effective supervision of the
regents,” said Frank Erwin, Aus
tin attorney who made the mo
tion Saturday.
Mrs. J. Lee Johnson, Fort
Worth regent, and Rabbi Levi
Olan, Dallas regent, said they
saw no invasion of freedom of
the press in the resolution.
Earlier Monday staff members
of the Daily Texan delivered
their personal copies of the Tex-
and to Gov. John Connally and
Legislators, saying their regents’
action prevented the legislators
from getting the papers that had
been distributed free in the Capi
tol in the past. The Sunday pa
per distributed contained articles
and editorials which contended
the free circulation ban was not
an economy move.
“The regents have not limited
the Texan’s right to speak, but
its right to be heard,” said Miss
Charmayne Marsh, Dallas, Daily
Texan editor.
Mrs. A&M Dance
Set For Saturday
Mrs. A&M will be selected
Saturday during the Mrs. Texas
A&M Contest and Dance at the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room from 8 p.m. until mid
night.
Twenty-three contestants are
entered in this year’s event.
All married students may at
tend the dance. Tickets may be
purchased at the main desk or
the cashier’s window of the MSC
for $2.50 per couple.
All-Male A&M Bill
Changes Committee
As Moore Resigns
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Staff Writer
AUSTIN — The Bill Moore-
Andy Rogers feud over an all
male Texas A&M erupted anew
on the Senate floor Monday as
Rogers succeeded in moving his
all-male bill out of Moore’s com
mittee.
The Senate voted 16-13 to refer
Rogerss’ bill to the Committee on
Military and Veterans Affairs
after Rogers charged that Moore
had refused him a hearing on his
proposal.
Moore immediately submitted
his resignation as chairman of
the Education Committee, where
the bill had been originally sent,
but not before denouncing Rogers’
measure.
“This is a simple bill, thought
up by simple people. This is an
attempt to return A&M to the
year 1900,” Moore fumed.
Rogers, a 16-year veteran from
Childress, answered M o o r e’s
charges and commented on the
morning’s proceedings in a tele
phone interview.
“At first Moore said he would
give me a hearing. Then he said
he was just too busy and the
committee couldn’t meet. He’s
been telling me that for three
weeks. He said he was on the
finance and redistricting commit
tees and was too busy. Well,
I’m on both those committees and
I’m not too busy.
“Three times I’ve asked him
and been refused. As late as last
Thursday he refused to call a
hearing and said his committee
couldn’t meet for a long time. An
hour later he called a hearing for
three bills at 9 this morning and
didn’t include mine. Two of the
bills were introduced within 10
minutes of mine and one was a
bill he introduced. That’s why I
felt it necessary to take action,”
he continued.
Rogers then charged Moore
with being unfair and claimed
that his resignation was an at
tempt for sympathy.
“He finds it convenient to call
hearings for his pet projects but
on those he doesn’t like he under
takes a dictatorial position and
seeks to deny other members a
chance for a hearing.
“He even tried to tell the
Senate I wasn’t at the committee
hearing this morning. He’s up
set and angry and has been
threatening members of the
Senate all day. He even threat
ened to filibuster against George
Parkhouse’s water commission
bill because Parkhouse voted
against Moore and told him so.
He just completely lost his head,”
he said.
Rogers was pleased with Mon
day’s vote and expressed cautious
optimism over the bill’s commit
tee chances, but he admitted that
he faces an uphill fight if it
Committees Okay
Office Seekers
Marriage Forum
Continues Tonight
Dr. Henry Bowman of the Uni
versity of Texas will discuss
“Making Marriage Meaningful”
at the second YMCA Marriage
Forum at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Topics to be discussed include:
significance of emotional prob
lems developing early in mar-
raige, common conflicts, tensions
and how to make adjustments,
wise spending and budgets, im
maturity, what holds marriage
together, what is needed to get
the husband through school and
the boom in high school and
college marriages.
The meeting will he held in
the YMCA Building.
Candidates for Yell Leader,
Memorial Student Center Coun
cil representative and Student
Entertainment Manager were ap
proved by the respective commit
tees for Thursday’s class elec
tions Monday.
The election will be held in
front of the MSC Coffee Shop
from 8 a.m. until noon and from
1-8 p.m. Voter’s cards will be
needed to vote.
Applicants for all other class
positions were accepted by the
Election Commission and an
nounced last week. The students
filing for the three offices were
also approved by the commission
but respective committees had to
ratify the candidates.
Students accepted by both the
commission and committees are:
Senior Yell Leader: Tifton
Simmons Jr., Ralph W. Mistrot
Jr. and Joseph K. Bush.
MSC Council representatives:
Roy L. May, Michael O. Beck and
Russel Stein, seniors; William R.
Hindman, junior; Clyde R. West
brook, Donald L. Allen and John
D. McLeroy, sophomores.
Student Entertainment Mana
ger: Robert W. Owen, Michael
Nabors and Mitsrot. (Mistrot
withdrew his name and will run
only for Yell Leader.)
The commission also added Ed
die Joe Davis to the list of ac
cepted candidates for junior vice
president. Others running are
Jack E. Nelson, Philip L. New
ton, Neal C. Ward, Joe D. Wood
ard, Cyrus R. Heaton, Gary W.
Foster and Gordon W. Bentzen.
Charles Wallace, chairman of
the commission, said that all stu
dents approved should not spend
more than $25 for campaigning
and that all candidates turn in
a financial report not more than
24 hours after the run-off elec
tion on March 25.
The top two vote-getters in
each position will vie for the of
fice in the run-off election, un
less one of the candidates re
ceives more than 50 per cent of
the votes. Yell Leader positions
will be awarded to the top two
with no run-off. The senior can
didate with the highest vote will
be head Yell Leader.
reaches the Senate floor for
debate.
“I was not surprised by today's
action, and I have hopes that we
will receive a favorable vote from
the committee. Most of the
senators believe in fair play and
in giving a man a chance . . . we
were denied the opportunity to
be heard, and to some extent I’m
sure that influenced some of those
who voted for the bill today,” he
explained.
Schwartz, who attended A&M
from 1944-47, explained that his
committee has nothing to do with
education but that Rogers’ bill
may still be heard there.
“Any committee can take up
any bill in the Senate. If we’ve
got a bill stuck in committee and
if we have enough votes to get
it out we can send it to one that
will act on it. Sen. Rogers said
he was unable to get a hearing
and I’m not going to argue why,
but with nothing pending, he can
get one in our committee and
I’m perfectly happy,” Schwartz
noted.
He also expressed skepticism
that Moore would go through with
his resignation.
“He didn’t resign; he’s just
acting like a senator. He’s not
quitting anything and the Senate
isn’t taking him seriously. He’s
not as upset as he acts, either,”
he contended.
Schwartz also explained that
he has not formulated a definite
stand, but he will not vote except
in the case of a tie. He also
admitted he has not voted for an
all-male A&IM: in the past.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—A powerful armada
of U. S. Navy and Air Force planes blasted the
Phu Qui ammunition depot only 100 miles south
of Hanoi Monday. It was the sixth and possibly
most punishing raid of a series launched against
Communist North Viet Nam since Feb. 7.
Results of the two-hour strike, intended to wipe
out one source of supplies fed to the Viet Cong
via the Ho Chi Minh trail, officially were described
as excellent.
★ ★ ★
LONDON—Queen Elizabeth II brought an end
Monday night to nearly 30 years of royal ostracism
for the American-born Duchess of Windsor. The
two women met in the privacy of the duke’s hospital
suite where the ex-king is convalescing from three
eye operations.
The meeting was the first time Elizabeth and
the twice-divorced former Wallis Warfield Simpson
of Baltimore, Md., had met since Windsor, as King
Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 to marry “the woman
I love.”
★ ★ ★
CAIRO—An estimated seven million Egyptians
started voting in Egypt’s presidential election Mon
day. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only candi
date, was expected to be re-elected to another
six-year term by an overwhelming vote.
National
WASHINGTON—President Johnson told Con
gress and the nation Monday night that the time
for waiting is gone and the time for action has
come to assure every American the right to vote,
regardless of race or color.
The chief executive said that on this there can
be no argument.
“Every American citizen must have an equal
right to vote,” he said. “There is no reason which
can excuse the denial of that right. There is no
duty which weighs more heavily on us than the
duty to insure that right.”
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—President Johnson got word
from his top military advisers Monday that prelimi
nary reports indicate the U. S. air strike against
an ammunition depot just 100 miles from the capital
of North Viet Nam was very successful.
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told
reporters, after a White House meeting, in which
the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in with the President,
that reconnaissance photos are not yet in, but every
thing points to a very favorable outcome to the
bombing, in which more than 100 Navy and Air
Force planes hit at Phu Quil.
★ ★ ★
SELMA, Ala.—Walter P. Reuther, president of
the United Automobile Workers Union, joined the
ranks of civil rights demonstrators Monday in this
west Alabama city, and spoke out for freedom in
the Negro right-to-vote drive.
“When you deny anyone their freedom, you deny
everyone their freedom,” Reuther said.
Texas
HOUSTON—The prime contractors completed
work Monday on Houston’s $31.6 million domed
stadium.
County Judge Bill Elliott signed an order at noon
and gave the keys to the huge rain-or-shine struc
ture to Roy Hofheinz, president of the Houston
Sports Association.
The association, owners of the Houston Astros
of the National League, holds a 40-year lease on
the stadium. The Astros and New York Yankees
are to open with an exhibition baseball game on
the night of April 9.
SCONA XI
Buck Selected
New Chairman
Craig G. Buck, a junior govern
ment major from Carthage, has
been named chairman of the 11th
Student Conference on National
Affairs.
M. Wesley Leftwich, a junior
from Lubbock, was also elected
chairman of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Leadership Commit
tee. Leftwich is an animal
science major with a 1.56 over
all grade point ratio.
Buck, vice chairman of SCONA
X, will announce his subcommit
tee chairmen at the annual
awards banquet of the Memorial
Student Center Directorate and
Council April 29.
A civilian student from
Carthage, Buck has worked on
SCONA committees since 1962.
He has a 3.0 grade point ratio
and was a member of Phi Eta
Sigma as a freshman.
The new SCONA chairman was
an A&M delegate to the Air
Force Academy Conference last
year and will represent the uni
versity atthe Foreign Affairs
Conference a Annapolis in April.
Hundreds of delegates from
more than 60 universities and
colleges in the United States,
Canada, Mexico and possibly
other countries will attend the
conference to be held in De
cember.
Buck will name finance com
mittee members soon in order
that they may prepare for visits
to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio
and Corpus Christi during the
Easter holidays.
“We are starting to work now
on SCONA XI,” Buck commented,
adding, “We want to have a wide
representation of students work
ing on SCONA in order to reflect
the true interest of the student
body.”
BUCK
Batt, Scribes Cop
4 High Awards
At SWJC Meet
The Battalion took three awards
at the Southwestern Journalism
Congress in Lubbock last week
end.
Dan Louis Jr., 1963-64 Battalion
editor, captured first place in fea
ture writing, followed by Mike
Reynolds, Battalion news editor.
The Battalion was awarded third
place in best single issue contest
for its Dec. 9, 1964, issue.
Louis, currently a reporter for
The Houston Post, wrote his win
ning article on an editor’s reaction
to Silver Taps. Reynolds’ prize
winner was a full-page story on
Houston’s domed stadium.
Battalion managing editor Glenn
Dromgoole was elected parlia
mentarian of the SWJC Students
Press Club during the weekend
meeting.
Members of the congress include
Arkansas, Baylor, University of
Houston, Hardin-Simmons, Louisi
ana State University, North Texas
State, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma,
Southern Methodist, Texas Chris
tian, Texas Tech, University of
Texas, Texas Woman’s University,
East Texas State College and
A&M.
A&M delegates to the confab
included Dromgoole, Battalion edi
tor Ronnie Fann and staff writer
Tommy DeFrank.