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Vol. 65 No. 24 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 23, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
Traffic Panel Asks
For 1,000-Car Lot
By Pat Little
Battalion Staff Writer
A 1,000-car capacity parking lot
was proposed at a Traffic Com
mittee meeting Wednesday, ac
cording to Don Stafford, assist
ant dean of Students and commit
tee chairman.
TOWN HALL OPENER
?he popular family singing group The Cows ills turn on entertainment Friday at 8 p. m.
n G. Rollie White Coliseum in the first Town Hall presentation for the 1969-70 season.
Season tickets are on sale through Friday in the Student Program Office in the Me-
norial Student Center for the performance and other outstanding entertainment brights
luring the year.
ONS
Ridgecres
Cowsills Will Be Opener
Friday for ’69 Town Hall
An optimist’s answer to the
eneration gap — the Cowsills—
uts its message on the G. Rol-
e White Coliseum stage Friday
Downtow i the first Town Hall presenta-
on of 1969-70.
The Cowsills family’s A&M ap-
sarance begins at 8 p.m., an-
uunced Town Hall chairman Rex
ftewart.
Barbara Cowsills heads the
Jmily entourage that is attract-
ig patrons from throughout the
uthwest. Ticket requests for
e Town Hall performance have
me from Tulsa and Oklahoma
fty, Okla., as well as Baytown,
Antonio and a number of
er Texas cities.
Also starring with their mother
•e Bob, 20, Paul 17, Barry 15,
dinny 13 and Susan 10.
The popular group made a TV
lecial last November, has ap-
red on the Ed Sullivan Show
out as many times as there are
rnily members and has been
inning a number of hit tunes.
“Silver Threads and Golden
Needles” is currently in the top
100. The Cowsills family hooked
the recording brass ring with
“The Rain, the Park and Other
Things,” its first million seller.
“Indian Lake,” one of 12 selec
tions on “The Cowsills” album,
was a smash hit.
The group that plays and sings
Vote Today
Polls will remain open until
8 tonight in the Senate elec
tions for vice president, sopho
more College of Architecture
representative, and sophomore
College of Liberal Arts repre
sentative.
Polling places are the guard
room in dormitory 2, the base
ment of the Memorial Student
Center, and the newsstand in
front of Sbisa Dining Hall.
Students must have identifi
cation and activity cards to
vote.
folk music, folk rock and popular
standards had its foundations for
success laid years ago when Bud,
the family head, who served 20
years with the Navy, started
coming home from various ports
of call carrying musical instru
ments as gifts for his children.
When he retired from the Navy
in 1963 the youngsters were per
forming for church benefits and
parties and headed toward pro
fessional status. Bud decided to
help, signed a recording contract
and the first disc, “Most of All,”
was cut.
It caused ripples, but no waves.
Bud tried harder for his fam
ily, borrowed a total of $100,000
to promote his kids and met only
moderate success until, late in
1967 when they were almost on
the ropes, “The Rain, the Park
and Other Things,” went over.
The touring family also does
“What the World Needs Now,”
“Consider Yourself,” “A Doodlin’
Song” and a best-seller, “We Can
Fly.”
oss Volunteers To Induct 82
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23pbrmer Corps Commander To Speak At B anquet Tonight
... Lb.-
j The Ross Volunteers will admit
J2 juniors into the elite unit to-
hight during their annual initia-
Cello l||Bon banquet in the Memorial
I^kgs.-L tudent Center.
LbsJ
The juniors, explained RV com-
landing officer Marvin Hoelting,
xecutive officer of the 4th Bat-
ilion staff, are selected by the
:V seniors on the basis of char-
jeter, military achievement, dis-
iplinary records, academic stand-
hg, and extracurricular activity.
The 113 - member unit is the
West campus organization,
ormed 11 years after the school
pened. RVs serve as honor
;uard for King Rex during the
mnual Mardi Gras parade in
few Orleans, La., honor guard
or the Governor of Texas, hon-
>r guard for distinguished guests
it A&M, and participate in the
iattle of Flowers parade in San
tntonio each April.
Keynote speaker at the banquet
vill be Paul Dresser, 1963-64
:orps commander. Currently a
iecond-year graduate student at
he Harvard School of Business,
ie is also a captain in the Army
Reserve and a former White
House military attache.
The Ross Volunteers are the
oldest campus organization, or
ganized 11 years after A&M
opened its doors.
Hoelting, executive officer on
4th Battalion Staff, said RV jun
iors are selected by the com
pany’s senior members on the
basis of character, military
achievement, disciplinary records,
academic standing and extracur
ricular activity.
The new members to be initi
ated tonight include:
Randall E. Betty, Francis S.
Conaty III, James F. Connally,
Melvin C. Hamilton, Albert E.
Kinkead, Van H. Taylor and
Myles A. Yanta, Corps Staff;
Frank D. McAllister, Joe A. Pen
nington, Charles N. Simon and
Charles L. Korbell Jr., 1st Bri
gade Staff; William S. Oeftwich
and Jeffery R. Schaub, Company
A-l.
In addition, Otway B. Denny
Jr. and Fritz Koehler, Company
B-l; Thomas D. Bonn, Company
C-l; Michael S. Bethancourt and
Henry A. Hansen III, 2nd Bat
talion Staff; Charles D. Nelson,
Company F-l; Malcolm F.
French, Gary L. Griffith and John
R. Stallings, Company H-l; Gar
iy L. Hall, Robert E. Smith and
Russell J. Wright, 5th Battalion
Staff; Michael P. Hancock, Com
pany 1-1; James D. Gras and
James M. Hackedorn, Company
K-l.
Also, Thomas P. Girdner and
Ronald C. Speer, Company L-l;
Joseph D. Blaschke, Company
M-l; Charles H. Herder and Wil
liam R. Stockton, 2nd Brigade
Staff; Michael D. Cristiani and
James C. Horne Jr., 3rd Battalion
Staff; Stephen W. Hughes, Com
pany A-2; Thomas S. Henderson,
Albert L. Reese Jr., Robert M.
Tramuto and Charles B. Williams,
Company B-2; James C. Andrews
Jr., William L. Braddy and Fred
M. Hofstetter, Company C-2;
Gary E. Madden, Company D-2.
Others include Robert A.
Harms and Roger W. Waak, 4th
Battalion Staff; Richard A.
Glomski, Tim J. Leftwich, Thom
as M. Rideout and Jeffrey L.
Baylor Weekend Weather
Forecast As ‘Favorable’
Freshman Class Is Largest
Percentage of Student Body
Weekend events including A&M’s home football opener
with Baylor and associated activities have a decent chance for
favorable weather.
Friday is expected to have some moderate to heavy
precipitation during the evening and night that will taper to
Saturday afternoon rainshowers, according to A&M
meteorologist Jim Lightfoot.
“Hopefully, we’ll be through with them by game time,”
he commented. A&M and Baylor kick off on Kyle Field at
7:30 p.m.
Lightfoot forecasts game conditions to be 70 to 72
degrees, 10 to 15 mph southerly winds and 65 per cent
relative humidity.
He said there is a god chance the next frontal
system—forming during mid-week off the Pacific coast—will
go through College Station and Bryan Saturday afternoon.
“If it does,” the Meteorology Department official
added, “the weather will clear considerably.”
The freshman class, numbering
3,827, makes up 27.2 per cent of
the student body this fall, accord
ing to Robert A. Lacey, registrar.
Only 2,355 of these are enter
ing the university for the first
time, however, Lacey said. Other
class enrollments and percentages
are: senior, 2,417, 17.2; junior,
2,616, 18.6; and sophomore, 2,246,
16. Thirty-six fifth-year archi
tecture students comprise 0.3 per
cent of the enrollment.
There are also 223 students en
rolled in extension courses off
campus.
Registration rose nine per cent
this year to a record high of
14,034. Last year’s fall enrollment
was 13,081, and the upward trend
is expected to continue next year.
Lacey said that the 1970 fall en
rollment is expected to hit 14,900.
WEATHER
Friday — Partly cloudy, wind
Easterly 10 to 15 m.p.h.
Saturday—Partly cloudy, after
noon rainshowers.
Kickoff — Cloudy no rain. 71°
cessitate removing a service sta
tion on the northwest corner and
a grocery store on the northeast
corner.
Another way of solving the
problem, Stover said, would be
to stagger the hours of the day.
This could include starting
classes at 7:30 a.m., he said, with
the secretarial staff coming to
work at 8. Two lunch periods
would also be scheduled, he add
ed.
The committee sent a letter to
Rudder requesting that a member
of University Planning be made
a regular member of the com
mittee, Stafford said.
Stafford said the new parking
lot will be located north of the
System Administration building.
In the letter of recommendation
to A&M President Earl Rudder,
he said, the committee will re
quest completion by Aug. 15,
1970.
The lot will be one of three
that will eventually be built in
the area of the civil engineering
surveying course. Stafford said.
He said a space will be left
between the lots and the system
building for future dormitory
construction.
Any parking lot plans made
now are of a long term nature
and include provisions for keep
ing the center portion of the
campus free from automobile
traffic and turning streets into
sidewalks, said Dr. Charles Pin-
nell, director of planning and
analytical studies.
The center part of the campus
will be for pedestrian use and
except for small feeders, there
will be no roads and no through
traffic, Pinnell said.
Another traffic problem will
confront A&M when the enroll
ment reaches 22,000, Dr. Virgil
G. Stover, transportation plan
ning program director, told the
committee: Streets leading onto
the campus will no longer be able
to handle the traffic.
Stover said overpasses may be
built at the intersection of State
Highway 6 (Texas Avenue) and
FM 60. This, he said, would ne-
Afro-Americans Ask
For On-Campus Status
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
Denied official recognition last
spring, the Afro-American So
ciety asked the university for a
second time Wednesday for per
mission to hold meetings on
campus.
Allen Giles, student chairman
of the society, told) The Battalion
that he submitted the society’s
request to Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan.
Dean Hannigan said that he
has referred Giles’ request to the
university’s faculty-staff Exec
utive Committee for considera
tion.
Weber, Company E-2; Richard T.
Miller and Ernest D. Wueste,
Company F-2; Mickey Calverley,
Company H-2; Charles V. Brown
and Lonnie D. Roberts, 1st Wing
Staff; Thomas C. Bain and Rich
ard A. Mallahan, 1st Group Staff;
Robert M. Haggard, Sqd. 1; Ed
ward E. Duryea, Sqd. 2; William
R. Mullener and Thomas V. Tam-
ez, Sqd. 3.
Also, Perry R. Miyauchi, 2nd
Group Staff; Joseph E. Settle-
meyer, Sqd. 5; William E. Shep
ard, 2nd Wing Staff; Steven E.
Clark and John A. Weimer, 3rd
Group Staff; Robert L. Keeney,
George W. Walton and David T.
Wesolka, Sqd. 8; Dennis K. Chap
man, Sqd. 9; Michael A. Zwartjos,
4th Group Staff; Roy E. Sewall,
Sqd. 10; Cecil L. Dukes, Samuel
E. Garcia and Dudley C. Wilson,
Sqd. 11; David E. Frost and Ste
phen K. Wesp, Sqd. 12; Sigurd S.
Kendall, John Vogelsand and
Gregory K. Weaver, Combined
Band Staff, and James Haw
thorne and Mitchell J. Timmons,
Maroon Band.
He added that he does not know
when the matter would be con
sidered by the panel. The Execu
tive Committee usually meets on
Monday mornings.
The Dean said that he could
make no predictions as to how
Giles’ request would be received
by the committee but noted that
the society “has some arguments
militating against it.”
“The organization’s name,
Afro-American Society, is identi
cal to the one that at this time
has fallen into disrepute nation
ally,” he noted.
Hannigan cited as an example
the 1963 riots at Columbia Uni
versity in which a group called
the Afro-American Society took
part.
There was also a local inci
dent last December, Hannigan
noted, in which Terry Lewis Ard-
ery, identified as a Houston
worker for the Student Non-vio
lent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC), was arrested for car
rying a pistol on licensed prem
ises.
students submitted a list of writ
ten demands to (A&M) Presi
dent Rudder,” Hannigan said.
“The list was signed, ‘The Afro-
American Society.”
He added that one of the de
mands submitted in the list was
the demand that the Afro-Ameri
can Society be an officially rec
ognized campus organization.
“Of course, arguments in fa
vor of the organization will also
be considered by the committee,”
Hannigan said.
“The main argument for recog
nition would likely be that an
on-campus club could assist new
black students in adjusting to a
predominantly white campus.”
Hannigan noted that the uni
versity policy on recognition of
campus organizations has always
excluded clubs of ethnic, .religious
or political nature.
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, head
of the Philosophy Department
and adviser to the society, said
that the society has tried to meet
objections to the organization
that the university voiced last
year.
“Previously, the university ad
ministrators objected to recog
nition primarily because they
said the society was an ethnic
and a political organization,” he
said. “But we feel that we’ve met
their objections; the society is
neither ethnic nor political.
“There are many more black
students on campus this year, and
they want a club to study Afro-
American culture,” Davenport
said. “Almost two-thirds of the
130 black students interested in
(See Afro-American, page 3)
China’s Asian Goal
Theme of GI Talk
Bryan Foye, a local member
of the Students for a Democratic
Society, was quoted in a story in
The Battalion as saying that Ard-
ery was to speak to the off-
campus group called the Afro-
American Society.
Hannigan added a third argu
ment against possible recogni
tion of the group.
“Last spring a group of black
Dr. Richard L. Walker, special
ist in Far East history, politics
and military strategy, will speak
on “China’s Goal in Southeast
Asia” here Monday.
The 8 p.m. Great Issues presen
tation will be in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, an
nounced chairman Tom Fitzhugh
of Waco. He said the public is
invited to hear Walker and ad
mission is free.
South Carolina University’s
Institute of International Studies
director, Walker has been con
nected with Far East affairs since
World War II. He was a Chinese
interpreter for U. S. Army Intel
ligence in the Pacific theater.
Walker travels extensively in
Asia for source materials on the
present regime on the Chinese
mainland and has been a govern
ment consultant on Far East mat
ters. His most recent trips, in the
summers of 1967 and 1968, in
cluded Korea, Japan, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Vietnam and the
Philippines.
The Great Issues speaker is the
Janies F. Byrnes Professor of In
ternational Relations at the Co
lumbia, S. C., institution.
A native of Pennsylvania,
Walker received his B.A. degree
at Drew University, Certificate
in Chinese Language and Area
from the University of Pennsyl
vania, <M.A. in Far Eastern and
Russian Studies and Ph.D. in
international relations from Yale,
the latter in 1950.
He served on the National War
College faculty, lectured at the
Foreign Service Institute and
speaks frequently at various U.S.
government service schools.
The consultant and member of
numerous organizations concern
ed with world afafirs and for
eign policy problems has written
extensively on the Far East. His
books include “China Under
Communism, the First Five
Years” and most recently “The
China Danger.”
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L
—Adv.
i?
.
More girls than ever before are
registered this fall. There are
1,138 coeds on campus compared
to last year’s 979.
Six hundred thirty-seven for
eign students representing 68
different countries are also regis
tered this year.
There are 2,892 graduate stu
dents, 1,033 of whom are working
on their doctorates. Doctoral stu-
(See Freshman, page 3)
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
DORM FOR 100 CADETS
Serving- as a dormitory for the first time this fall is the Texas Clipper, training ship
for the Texas Maritime Academy. Tony Rose, The Battalion’s correspondent at the acad
emy in Galveston, gives an account of lifeaboard the 15,000 ton vessel. See story, page
3.
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