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February 29 | Eat In Peace, Fish
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1964
Number 99
By CLOVIS McCALLISTER
Night News Editor
EDITORS NOTE: This is the fourth of a series concerning poli
tical clubs on state-supported university and college campuses.
Of the 18 four year state-supported colleges and universities in
Texas that recognize political clubs on campus, several are governed
by one board of regents.
The schools, state teachers colleges, received the green light for
political clubs on February 29 of this year.
The board voted to allow political clubs on campus but listed 17
stipulations which these clubs must confer to exist on campus.
The procedure to be followed in the organization of political
groups on campus are:
No. 1. Membership must be open to all students within the
criteria and the identity of each member known. There can be no
secret roster. Also, all groups must; have national, regional and/or
State affiliations.
No. 2. Parent organization must have a definite policy charter,
stipulating for what it stands and its ultimate purpose for the benefit
of society.
No. 3. Parent political organizations must qualify under the ex
isting laws of the State of Texas to put candidates on the ballot.
This would eliminate extremely controversial groups and pretty well
confine the formation of political group to Democrats and Republicans.
No. 4. All political groups must conform to the same restrictions
that regulate all other groups on the campus.
No. 5. Political groups may submit the names of at least three
faculty members, or more at the request of the president, who have
previously accepted to serve if appointed by the college president or
dean of faculty. The president pr dean of faculty would then appoint
one of the three, depending on teacher load, personality, etc.
No. 6. Faculty sponsor must approve and attend all meetings.
No. 7. All activities must be approved by school officials.
No. 8. Groups may not endorse individual candidates during the
primary elections, or hold on campus rallies for any one individual
candidate.
No. 9. All speakers must be approved by school officials.
No. 10. Political debates between non-candidates may be held
provided all participants are alloted equal time.
No. 11. Political clubs may join community organizations in
sponsoring off-campus rallies for the general elections.
No. 12. Disciplinary rules which apply to other campus organi
zations would apply equally to political clubs.
No. 13. The Board of Regents may from time to time add or re
move restrictions regulating political groups on the campus.
No. 14. Political organizations may not participate in campus
politics. (Student council elections, queens, etc.)
No. 15. Each request from students will be considered on its
own merits.
Dean of Men George L. Morton at Sam Houston State Teachers
College said, “Political clubs can be and are usually an asset to the
institution when the political groups feel the institution is generally
favorable to their operations.”
Mess Hall Harassment Forbidden
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Presidential Campaign Tonight
An order from the Department
of Military Science giving fresh
men in the Corps of Cadets modi
fied sophomore privileges in
Sbisa and Duncan Mess Halls
was scheduled to go into effect
Tuesday morning.
The new order forbids the
asking of campusology or “Fish
Knowledge” questions in the mess
halls and allows freshmen to use
the back of their chairs and to
rest their hands and forearms on
the table while eating.
Lt. Col. Thomas A. Hotchkiss,
executive officer to the Comman
dant, said that the new order
was issued because freshmen
have not been given time to eat
in many cases because of cer
tain harassing incidents. He
added that the order was not
because of any specific incidents
but was the result of numerous
complaints from parents and
from observations of military
officers.
Maj. Wiley W. Bell said that
the Department of Military Sci
ence was not trying to destroy
traditions but was trying to give
freshmen time to eat in the mess
halls, pointing out that the mess
hall was not a training ground.
The purpose of the order is to
eliminate those tactics sometimes
used in the mess halls for harass
ment of freshmen, Bell said.
Corps Commander Neil Keltner
that the changes were an attempt
to correct a measure which ad
ministration feels has gotten out
of hand.
“It was either this or moving
the freshmen out of the outfits
and having them sit together,”
Keltner said.
He also added that the changes
also stem from camplaints on the
part of freshmen as well as com
plaints from parents.
The changes were scheduled to
go into effect Tpesday morning,
but they are not expected to be
completely in effect until later
in the week.
Two Houston newspaper
men will review the Presi
dential campaign at 7:30 p.
m. Tuesday in Room 3, Nagle
Hall.
Gayle McNutt, an A&M
graduate and former state
editor for the Houston Post,
will tell of his experiences
following both President Lyn
don Johnson and Senator
Barry Goldwater. Jim Hyatt,
Houston Chronicle reporter.
will relate his story as seen
from the Goldwater camp.
Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalistic society, is
sponsoring the event which
is open to the public. No ad
mission will be charged.
The reporters will cover
the backstage functions of
political machinery under
control of the candidates, and
will describe the candidates’
private lives.
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Lecture Series Attracts Top Speakers
Cooperation Among Colleges Spells Program’s Success
By DAVID RISINGER
Sepcial Writer
Ever wonder how A&M gets
such distinguished speakers for
its two-year old University Lec
ture series when it is seemingly
isolated from the routes taken by
touring lecturers ?
It started two years ago when
President Earl Rudder got a let
ter from a professor at Baylor
suggesting that A&M meet with
about two dozen other Texas
schools to discuss sharing speak
er expenses. This would mean
getting top men to speak at sev
eral of the colleges at the same
time.
A&M’s representative met with
about 12 schopls and the group
decided that each school would
contact one or two speakers about
lecturing for several schools. Then
the speaker’s time would not be
wasted by flying from his home
just to speqk at one school and
go right back, which would in
cur a lot of expenses.
Dr. Robert Barzak, associate
dean of the Graduate College,
was put in charge of A&M’s
participation in the lecture co
op. He selected a committee con
sisting of representatives of col
leges within the university.
They decided that the Universi
ty Lecture series would compli
ment the already existing Grad
uate Lecture series whose speak
ers give highly technical talks.
They began writing well-known
speakers. By the start of the
1963-64 school year the coopera
ting colleges had four speakers
lined up.
Barzak said of last year’s lec
tures, “The turn-outs for the lec
tures were disappointing except
Music Hall Plays Last Tune
A campus landmark is in the
process of being razed. It’s the
old Music Hall, original home of
the A&M Consolidated School
System.
Wrecking crews of contractor
Cyril N. Burke began work last
week after erecting a restrain
ing fence around the site. How
ard Badgett, director of the A&M
Physical Plant, said the site will
probably be cleared by the first
The World at a Glance
INTERNATIONAL
KARLSRUHE, Germany—Dr. Henrich Jaqusch,
a West German Supreme Court judge, admitted
Monday he lied about writing two magazine articles
critical of the federal government and his own court.
★ ★ ★
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Vietnamese mor
tar fire called up to raze a suspected Viet Cong
emplacement landed instead on a U.S.-advised Viet
namese infantry patrol Sunday night and killed
three officers, including an American Army captain.
★ ★ ★
ROME—A Communist-led strike spread chaos
across Italy’s state railway network and labor un
rest hit other sections of the country’s shaky
economy Monday.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—Eisaku Sato took over as prime min
ister Monday, retained the old cabinet and pledged
his government to take the road of cooperation
with the West.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW—Lenoid I. Brezhnev proposed a toast
to the unity of the Communist world at a dinner
Monday night attended by Premier Chou En-lai
and other top-ranking world Communist officials.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court denied
Monday a request for an expedited decision on an
appeal involving constitutionality of the public
accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
WASHINGTON — The Castro government of
Cuba now has antiaircraft rockets capable of shoot
ing down U.S. U2 reconnaissance planes but evi
dently is restrained from using them by an agree
ment with Russia, U.S. officials said Monday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The Fidel Castro regime in
Cuba now has at least partial control over Soviet
antiaircraft missiles on the island, a State Depart
ment spokesman said Monday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The 512th Troop Carrier Wing
Reserve Unit now assigned to Willow Grove Naval
Air Station in Pennsylvania will be assigned to
Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth shortly
after Jan. 1, the Pentagon said Monday.
TEXAS
JOHNSON CITY, Texas—President Johnson
jumped Monday into a round of Cabinet level con
ferences—the first with Secretary of Defense Rob
ert S. McNamara—on trouble spots around the
globe, national defense and the budget.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN — The Texas Board of Education,
placed in the center of a controversy over the
teaching of the theory of evolution, rejected emo
tional warnings Monday against selecting biology
textbooks discussing the theory.
of the year.
Built in 1920, the building hous
ed A&M Consolidated High
School. It was organized by Mar
tin L. Hayes, dean of the school
of vocational teaching at A&M.
Hayes was especially interested
in the school as a traniing cen
ter.
Several hundred teachers were
trained in the building through
the years.
The two-story plaster structure
housed about 300 high school and
elementary students that first
year. W. L. Hughes was the first
superintendent.
The high school was transfer
red to Pfeiffer Hall about 1935,
then early in the 1940s the ele
mentary school was also moved.
'Tickets, Tickets
Everywhere
Aggies in Houston for the
week end will have a chance to
see the new movie, “My Fair
Lady,” thanks to television sta
tion, KPRC, Channel 2. They
have bought out 60 seats on
opening night and will hold them
for the Aggies.
Those wishing tickets should
contact Cris Chandler, Channel
2, Houston. The tickets are $3
a person.
Student and student date
tickets for the A&M-Rice game
will be on sale at the ticket
windows of G. Rollie White Coli
seum until 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Student tickets are $1 and stu
dent date tickets are $4. Stu
dents are required to show their
activity books and identification
cards to purchase tickets.
A new home for the school sys
tem was built in the present loca
tion.
Sometime after that, about 1943
or 1944, the building became
known as the Music Hall. It was
used as a recreation facility, a
reading room and for other uses
until the various music groups
on campus made it their head
quarters.
The building then was divided
into rehearsal rooms and practice
rooms for the Aggie Players and
Singing Cadets. A liberal arts
class was taught in the building
which also housed a couple of or
gans and a large piano. It even
included a room for the pickup
of laundry and a shop area for
the repair of musical instru
ments.
One observer said the building
had been condemned several
times, but was repaired to meet
specifications. It was finally
closed for good during the sum
mer.
for the time when Mark Van
Doren spoke and then we had to
turn people away. Part of this
was caused by conflicting sched
ules and inexperience.”
This year, besides four speak
ers scheduled in cooperation with
other schools, the A&M lecture
series will include two speakers
frorn the Danforth Visiting Lec
ture Program, a pre planned tour
for speakers as well as musi
cians.
Barzak said, “We chose two in
teresting speakers from the Dan
forth program but we didn’t think
that A&M was quite ready for
the ballet.”
As for the success of the lec
ture series Barzak remarked, “If
it had not been for the co-op pro
gram, A&M would not have had
as many interesting lectures, and
relationships with the co-opera
ting schools have been quite good.
The most active schools involved
in this program besides A&M
are Baylor, University of Hous
ton, Trinity of San Antonio and
Rice.
“This year, we hope to have a
better program since we have
more experience in scheduling the
dates and handling the publici
ty.
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