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/ i Cl)c Battalion VOLUME 64 Number 73 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 A&MBlack Students Form | Ad Hoc Affairs Committee | A&M officials and black stu- junior, Midland, Dorm 6, Room any situation on campus con- ent leaders have agreed on an 301. cerning black students,” he add- hoc operating Committee on lack Student Affairs. The committee, which has al- dy held its first meeting, lected senior Kenneth Lewallen, n education major from Wich- Kan., as its chairman. The committee is the result of recommendation by Robert urford of Columbus, a student nator, and Ed Cooper, director Civilian Student Activities, mmittee membership was sug- ested by Burford and approved iy administration officials. THE COMMITTEE is com- sed of both Corps of Cadets md civilian students with repre sentation from all four under- jraduate classes with a variety >{ academic majors. _In addition to Lewallen and sheUSS Burford, other members are Wil lie Cook, agricultural engineer- ng senior, Edna, Dorm 19, Room 108; Allen Giles, political science 'reshman, Waco, Dorm 20, Room 133; Shelton Wallace, mathe matics sophomore, Huntsville, Walton, J-4; Isiah Thompson, irchitectural construction junior, i 'ort Worth, Dorm 22, Room 124; md Nokomis Jackson, chemistry Burford, a political science sen- ed. 3 ter tK If eiid layed i ■court iWi Ills 151 most and i f tos ill Bllli ior lives in Walton, J-4. Lewal len is in Dorm 17, Room 418. Cooper said the primary pur pose of the committee is to have informal discussions of “matters of particular interest to black students enrolled at A&M.” Lewallen added it also will pro vide a “chain of communication between the administration and black students.” “It gives the administration every possible chance to discuss Lewallen called attention to several special areas of interest including athletic recruitment, li brary holdings and off-campus housing. The committee will meet on the call of the chairman and will in vite, on occasion, faculty and staff members as well as stu dents, to discuss special areas. Lewallen estimated there are between “40 and 50 black stu dents on campus.” Senate Opposes Move To Increase Tuition Shrubs Vanish From Campus As New Landscaping Starts our To Compete n Photo Contest Photographic color slides by our students go into competition rith the best of the Southwest the T? f s winners of a camera commit- j e j(j : ee contest. itilvl Winning slides are entered by falterf he Memorial Student Center short; 9-55Is louncil competition. buto' >9 left i a iad the best photo. Other prize icher. until! :et as 63-55, kAtitii .Ther he W the lub in Gulf States Camera Club Computer science graduate stu- ent Dave Karpinski of Detroit lides were taken by Greg Gray, ophomore wildlife science major f Houston; Douglas Wade, sen- 3 tto 1 or landscape architecture major )f College Station and e Tip izaro, soph in wildlife Robert science f College Station. Committee chairmen Bill Black f Pratt, Kan., said the next meet ing will be Monday in room 3-B ontkjlf the MSC. Junior Mike Welsh, M ^ of Houston, winner in past Inter- r 10 "' ^ ollegiate Photo Salons sponsored y the club, will give a presenta- ion on “Basic Black and White ’rinting” at the 7:30 p. m. meet ing. in tie 0 ar CIS jduls r all jary* 1 ess * • rail! , res: It. ■ceBs i & ship con;: the allyi jcerfc ayV By DAVE BERRY Battalion Staff Writer People around the campus are noticing that shrubs and hedges are suddenly being chopped off almost at the ground. Robert H. Rucker, the universi ty’s landscape architect, explains why this is being done: “The university’s original landscape,” he says, “served its purpose well; but its purpose has since change. Unfortunately, the landscape has remained the same. “Hedges and shrubs now are oversized, in many cases ob structing pleasant views. For in stance, the semi-circle of shrubs along the drive around the Ad ministration Building screens the open fields to the north and east of that building. “THE HEDGES on each side of its main walk and along its front,” he continues, “tend to shrink the building and enclose it to a depressing degree. “These hedges are being trim med this week to brighten it and make it much more imposing. Similar action is being taken throughout the campus, as can be seen by the numerous stubs.” “KEEPING the plants small — about 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide — will simplify mainten ance, cutting costs. I would say that once the trimming is com plete our maintenance costs should be about 40 per cent less. “Trimming hedges at intersec tions and along access roads eliminates traffic hazards by providing a clear view in all directions.” Rucker emphasized that the present trimming is a part of the total program to beautify the campus so that “all students will have a pleasant academic envir onment of which they can be proud.” Six Are Indicted In Shaffer Holdup Six persons have been indicted by the 86th district grand jury for the robbery-shooting of the Redmond Terrace Pharmacy in College Station. Clarence E. Jones, Carl D. Mc Donald, Melvin Smith Jr., and John Henry Brown were indicted on assault to murder charges in the wounding of pharmacist Joe Shaffer during the holdup. Two women, Lanell Marie Trimmer and Mary Johnson were indicted on charges of accomplice to robbery. All six list Houston addresses. Bond was set at $5,000 on each indictment. Jodie F. Valerian, 27, of Cald well was indicted on a charge of murder without malice and driv ing while intoxicated in connec tion with the death of Nancy Ruch, 15, of College Station who was struck and killed by Valeri an’s car last Saturday night on State Highway 21. Other indictments returned by the grand jury were Jack D. Boggan, sodomy; Steve Brown, theft; Daniel John Manthei, DWI- subsequent offense; Dal Estin Birdsell, theft; and George Marie Dyer, theft. All listed Bryan or College Station addresses. REINERT REPORTS Student Senator A1 Reinert, right, explains plans for curriculum review in the College of Liberal Arts which he asked the Senate to endorse Thursday. At left is Senate Vice-Pres ident David Maddox. (Photo by Mike Wright) Laundry Committee To Study Revising Bundle Allotments The Student Laundry Commit tee Thursday set up a subcom mittee to study revision of present laundry bundle allotments. David Middlebrooke, subcom mittee chairman, David George, A1 Reinert and Kirby Brown will look at present student bundle allotments with a view to bring ing them up to date. “All of us feel that present al lotments are not up to the needs of today’s student,” Middlebrooke commented. “We hope to do the updating, but we need suggestions from students concerning what they would like to see done.” x In other committee business, Howard Vestal, management serv- Flings Em At 30 MPH ‘Batt’ Girl Makes Job Easy By JANIE WALLACE Battalion Staff Writer You don’t have to have a mus- ular arm and a bicycle to throw ewspapers anymore. A 90-lb. freshman at A&M Con- olidated High School is breaking he mold of the conventional lewspaper boy. How? Because his newspaper boy is a 15-year- lS t Hi W girl, Martha Nemec. The blue- eyed blonde is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nemec. Riding in a white pickup truck she flings papers out of the truck window at the astonishing speed of 30 mph. Although her job isn’t as easy as it sounds, The Battalion is a difficult paper to throw because of its feather-like weight. ON WINDY days the “Batt” DELIVERING THE GOODS Kews(girl)boy for The Battalion, 15-year-old Martha N’emec, gets ready to make the rounds in the College View apartments. A freshman at A&M Consolidated High School, she handles a 391-paper route in 30 minutes. (Photo by W. R. Wright) just floats in the air, landing only a few inches away. With 391 papers to throw you could become very tired. Although Martha is well experienced in her job, her family has been connected with the route for 10 years. Her brother first had the route and Martha helped fold papers before he came home from his job. When he left to work in Houston, she kept the route. She also plays tennis for Con solidated which helps to develop a good throwing arm. “When it isn’t raining. Mother and I fold the papers in a special way so that they look like flying saucers when I throw them,” Martha said. Every day of the week except Monday she is busy with a paper route. Since her mother handles a Houston Chronicle route, (Mar tha helps her on Saturday and Sunday. “MY PAPER route doesn’t in terfere with my studies, although my extra-curricular activities have conflicted with throwing the papers,” she confessed. “I was on the pep squad and Mother had to WEATHER Saturday — Intermittent rain. Thundershowers. Wind South erly 10 to 20 mph. High 62, low 53. Sunday — Cloudy. Rainshow- ers in morning. Becoming part ly cloudy to cloudy. Wind Southerly 10 to 15 mph. High 68, low 58. finish the route when the team played out-of-town.” “Another time the route and I conflicted was the time I baby sat until 1:30 a.m. and I had to wake up at 2 to deliver the Chronicle on Sunday.” Martha has an established rou tine. After school she plays ten nis until around 5. Then she goes home and finishes folding papers (her mother already has half of them folded). AFTER ALL of the papers are ready, they put them in a big cardboard box and load it in the pickup. Martha makes two trips down each street, because the “Batts” are too light to throw over the truck. She can finish throwing 391 papers in 30 min utes. “I haven’t received any cus tomers’ complaints, but once a manager of an apartment com plex wanted the deliveries stop- ped. The only problem was the students in the apartment wanted the Battalion delivered. So we compromised, I don’t deliver at the door of the apartments, in stead I put the papers in a trough near the mailboxes,” she said. The only comment that Martha has heard about her unusual choice of jobs is “Here comes our newspaper boy, the hippie in dis guise without beads.” “I’m saving part of my earn ings for school, probably secre tarial school,” Martha said. According to Martha, paper routes are fun. Needless to say, she likes her job. ices director, said that students whose laundry day was Friday and who had turned their bundle in on Monday would now be charged only a 50 cent out-of- place charge. “Previously,” Vestal noted, “they had been charged both for an out-of-place bundle and an extra bundle for the week.” Vestal also said that students who had an excused absence for their laundry day would not have to pay the out of place charge. He noted that students on the university excused absence list could go by the laundry office and receive a refund. “I the case of a large group,” Vestal said, “such as a team, or the Ross Volunteers, they could write on their ticket ‘excused ab sence . . .’ and whatever the rea son. Dean Hannigan has agreed to supply George Hartsock, laun dry manager, with a list of the excused absences. The final item of business con cerned the staples used to fasten labels to students’ socks. “Many people have complained about the fasteners we use,” Hartcock said. “We just don’t know of a better way, or we would use it. “I was at a convention in San University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. Antonio recently and talked with at least 75 laundry managers. All those that handled any volume of socks all used the same method we do. Even the American Insti tute for Laundries doesn’t know of a better way.” NBC’s Corps Film To Air Next Week National Broadcasting Com pany executives informed uni versity officials Thursday a spe cial television report on the na tion’s ROTC program will be broadcast next week. “Personnel in the Huntley- Brinkley office said the report will be broadcast next week, though they couldn’t give the exact date,” Jim Lindsey, Uni versity Information and Publica tions director, said. The three or four-minute news spot on troubles besetting the United States’ primary source of military officers will be part of the 5:30 p.m. NBC-TV news com mentary team’s report. Newsman Bob Goralski and four crewmen were here two days last week interviewing uni versity officials, students and filming the campus for the spe cial report. They also visited Boston College and Northeast ern University to obtain infor mation on ROTC programs. By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Staff Writer The Student Senate voted last night to oppose the raising of tuition rates for state schools from a flat $50 per semester to $7 per semester hour. The Texas College and Univer sity Coordinating Board recently made such a recommendation to the state legislature. A committee of Bill Carter, Senate president, Tommy Hen derson, and Albert Reinert will write letters to the legislature and send them by the first part of next week. “The Board’s idea is to help build new schools in metropolitan areas,” said Garry Mauro, junior yell leader. “Why should I have to pay for a school in Dallas when A&M can accommodate an other 10,000-15,000 students?” SOME SENATORS believed the letter should be read before the entire Senate before being sent, but did not succeed in secur ing such action. Earlier in the meeting, the Senate heard Glenn Keim report on a newly-formed housing policy committee set up by A&M Presi dent Earl Rudder at Carter’s re quest. The committee will study the proposed one-and-one-half board rate for students wishing to live in a room by themselves. The committee will consider prob lems posed by the action and give people a chance to voice objec tions. The committee, with Dean of Students James P. Hannigan as chairman, will be composed of two members of the Corps, Civil ian Student Council and Student Senate along with one represent ative from the Graduate Student council, the Commandant’s office, and the director of Civilian Stu dent Activities’ office. Keim then moved that he and Carter be appointed the Senate representatives and be given the power to act on behalf of the Senate. “WE’RE TRYING to respond to the feelings of the students,” Carter said, after turning the chair over to David Maddox, Sen ate vice-president. “We need the power to speak for the Senate in order to effect changes in the next week or so.” Maddox told senators that a residence hall on campus had forwarded a resolution to the Senate concerning defacing of campus buildings. He said that he personally felt that painting such things as class numbers on the dome of the Academic Build ing are a disgrace. “I am ashamed to show people who visit this campus around, what with the dome, and symbols on sidewalks,” Maddox told the group as he presented a resolu tion proposing that the Senate oppose such defacing of buildings, and that it request the university to remove as soon as possible all (See SENATE, Page 2) Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. B B & L —Adv. WELCOME TO THE TOMB Ed Cooper, (left) director of civilian student activities, and Tom Henderson, civilian stu dent council member, inspect the old swimming pool recently uncovered by workmen ren ovating the YMCA. The pool was permanently closed years ago when builders decided to use it for the foundation of the Y building. (Photo by Mike Wright)