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• Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion Pag , e2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 12, 1965 Brothers Four: Entertainment The BOB FLICK MIKE KIRKLAND By LANI PRESSWOOD The word for it is entertain ment. And if anyone’s putting on a better show than the Brothers Four do—see it. Two years ago the group’s per formance was hailed by many as the finest in Town Hall history. Friday night the foursome re turned to the A&M campus and didn’t have a bit of trouble fol lowing in their own footsteps. A near-capacity crowd in G. Rollie White Coliseum laughed, applauded and cheered as the en tertainers ran through a quick- moving slate of folk music, pop ular songs and comedy. The show started about 15 minutes late and up to intermis sion the group went over well if not overwhelmingly. “G r e e n Leaves of Summer” and “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” were two early crowd-pleasers. Intermission was spiced by the introduction of the ten Aggie Sweetheart finalists, who each had a moment under the spot light. The Brothers Four, decked out now in red instead of blue sports shirts, then returned for the show’s second half. And with the change to a racier color came an immediate step-up in the show’s tempo. After a brief but funny bout with one of the microphones, the quartet swung into three fast tunes, including an updating of “John Henry” which finds John pitted against a computer. A pair of popular slow ones, “Green Fields” and “Michael” fol lowed, and then came a satire on rock-and-roll which nearly brought the house down. This number rivalled a later one in- which each performer imitated a different musical instrument in producing' the most enthusiastic crowd reaction. Ringing applause brought the group, which has played nearly 1500 college dates, back on stage twice. A moving rendition of Gerald Garcia Semester Plan Lauded Southern Methodist University will start a new semester time table in the fall of 1966 which should be adopted by all the ma jor colleges and universities, in cluding Texas A&M. The plan, which is already being used by Boston University and the University of Michigan, will allow students to take their first semester exams before Christmas vacation. SMU’s Faculty Senate approved the plan which was submitted by Dr. William Ayers, an SMU official, after he had attended a convention of officials from the seven Methodist universities in the United States. The plan reads: Start of Fall semester, 1966— Sept. 2. Fall semester exams—Dec. 22, 1966. Register for Spring semester— Jan. 17, 1967. Spring exams and senior com mencement will be approximately on the same dates as previous years. One consolation, though, is that Easter vacation will start on March 17, 1967, and end 11 days later. “We like to think of SMU leading the procession of colleges which might be considering the amended semester schedule. SMU’s action should be encourag ing to other Texas schools,” Ayers told the SMU Campus, stu dent newspaper. The plan will help all. The stu dents wil not have to worry about exams after Christmas. The fac ulty will not have to prepare exams during Christmas vaca tion. The staff’s only worry would be the coming registration. A student might argue and say the plan will not give him enough time to study for finals. You will have ths same amount of warning as you do for majors. A prof will say that he uses the vacation to grade term pa pers. Ask students that turn in term papers before vacations if they get their grade the first day they are back. The answer is “no.” I hope that someday a story will appear in The Battalion similar to the one which appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of the SMU Campus. It read: “More than three weeks of Christmas vacation without the dismaying prospect of exams afterward will be the university’s Yule gift to SMU students be ginning next fall.” “Try To Remember” and the most hilarious comedy of the night highlighted the encores. In a dressing room interview, bass fiddler Bob Flick praised the audience, saying: “It’s made up mostly of guys, and it’s a good audience, responsive . . . what we like.” Dick Foley, another member of the foursome, touched briefly on the future of folk music after first labelling the group ‘con temporary’ rather than folk singers. “The field of folk music sort of burned itself out after the hootenanny craze,” he noted, “and a lot of people jumped off the bandwagon. But that era has passed and I think the wind kind of blew the chaff away.” Do the Bothers Four enjoy per forming as much as they appear to onstage? “We have a ball ... a special kind of enjoyment. In fact, our formula for success is to visibly enjoy ourselves and to try to com municate the fun we’re having to the audience.” Most of the nearly 8,000 who turned out Friday night would likely agree that it’s a formula which works just fine. Mortimer's Notes FOR THE RECORD: There has been an increasing demand for copies of the Daedalion, TWU yearbook, since the boxmate craze struck A&M and TWU simultaneously a couple of weeks ago The Browsing Library and The Aggieland offices possess the cherished volumes, The Battalion office does not And speaking of The Daeda lion, the report from TWU is that Tessie freshmen first re ferred to the yearbook as The Dandylion A notice in the MSC post office tells Aggies to write Box 2701, TWU station, in Denton if they haven’t found a box- mate The holder of that box will arrange correspondents from Tessieland Cheri Holland was crowned Aggie Sweetheart Sunday morn ing, succeeding Johanna Leis ter The new sweetheart is certain ly no stranger around Aggieland. She’s lived in College Station all her life, and has participated in the MSC open house for fresh men, several hootenanies and a campus production of “Bye, Bye Birdie.” Cheri is a sophomore music major at TWU The Battalion started the week end off with a rather ridiculous seating chart It was meant as a joke, as anyone who seriously tried to follow it discovered Some people didn’t think it was very funny, though, to mislead the troops that way A spokesman for The Battalion said that if the cartoon led any one astray, that he just couldn’t care less. He said they ought to reexamine their logic and sense of humor FACTS AND FIGURES. To day we celebrate the 25th an niversary of the legend of The Snake Never heard of the legend of education of this era is written,” it anyway OFF THE RECORD: An op timist is a person who knows that the world is gobbled up but doesn’t worry about it See Ya ‘Round — MORTIMER. JOHN PAINE Education Danger Signs By SHERRY HAUG The Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON—The chairman of the House special subcommittee on education says there is still not federal control in education but that there are some danger signs. Rep. Edith Green (D., Ore.) and the ranking Republican on her committee, Rep. Albert H. Quie (R., Minn.), held a special press briefing on the problems of education early this week (Oct. 5) during the Education Writers Association meeting here. Mrs. Green said she is concerned about “the ability of an administrator to run his institution as he thinks best with federal aid.” As an example, she cited what federal matching funds have done for education. A School might feel it needs a new humanities building, she said, but find matching funds avail able for a science building. So the school takes what money it has, gets the matching funds, and builds the science building. Rep. Green said there is always a phrase in every education bill that says no federal agency will have control over the curriculum of any institution getting federal funds. “It is a nice phrase” she said, “and schools need to see that it is enforced.” Mrs. Green disagreed with “some colleagues in the House who want to investigate local school situations.” She said she would not feel that she should even go to the school board in her home community and demand as a member of the House to investigate local problems. Along the same lines, she said she felt the statement this summer by Commissioner of Edu cation Francis Keppel that discrimination in sororities and fraternities could be grounds for schools losing federal monies “went beyond the federal interest.” Mrs. Green said she felt the language of the Higher Education bill, now in a Senate-House conference committee, “reflects the feeling on this.” One of the points of contention on the bill in committee is just how far discrimination in Greek letter organizations will affect a school’s federal aid funds. The progress of the bill itself is in doubt, Rep. Green said. “It depends almost solely on what happens with the legislation to repeal section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act that’s now on the floor of the Senate and whether there is a filibuster.” Rep. Quie noted that the gofernment is now providing a broader scale of aid to junior colleges and Rep. Green cautioned that junior colleges might become the “pork barrel of the future because it’s much easier for a congressman to know the needs of a junior college in his hometown than those of a four-year school 500 miles away. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student xvriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences ; Dr. Frank A. Mc Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call 846-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE State Capitol Roundup By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association Campaigns now are underway for and against the 10 proposed constitutional amendments to be voted on November 2. However, little is being said on behalf of per haps the most controversial of all the proposals— extending the terms of office of the governor and other statewide officials to four years. Gov. John Connally promised an all-out drive for it. Or ganized labor strongly opposes the term stretch out. A 46-member committee of leading citizens, headed by Dallas banker Ben H. Wooten, is push ing Amendment 1 to increase the state college property tax levy for college building purposes from five to 10 cents. Opposition to the tax in crease is developing in San Antonio. State Bar Association is battling for Amend ment 8. It provides for automatic retirement of over-age judges and sets up a commission to recom mend disciplinary action against misbehaving judges. A variety of groups have kind words to say for Amendment 2 to increase the Veterans’ Land Fund to $200,000,000 and revive the program of long-term, low interest loans to veterans for farm- ranch land buying. But there is opposition here, too. Other amendments proposals: Permitting Texas’ participation in cooperative federal-state programs of assistance to and medical care for aged, needy and handicapped; clarifying investment authority for the board of trustees of the teacher retirement system; authorizing the Legislature to set up an $85,000,000 student loan fund; exempting certain hospitals from local prop erty taxes; permitting the Legislature to raise salaries of Speakers of the House and Lieutenant Governor and to increase lawmakers’ expense allowances from $12 to $20 a day; and lengthening terms of state representatives from two to four years. Many observers have expressed concern that opposition to the four-year-terms amendments may spread over to other less controversial measures. A light voter turnout is forecast. Draft Talk Young men who married before August 27 may be called for physical-mental examinations by some Texas draft boards in November. This, to help fill the Ttxas quota of more than 6,000 men. Col. Morris S. Schwartz, state Selective Service director, said the decision was made because some local draft boards may not have enough men otherwise. Order doesn’t pertain to married men with children. Draft-age men are warned by Selective Service that it’s a criminal offense to mutilate draft cards and subjects draftee to five years imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000, or both. Destroying a card can speed up induction, warning said. Illness Strikes Governor On advice of his doctor, he cancelled speeches last week. been completely reconditioned and equipped with in El Paso, Paris, Houston and Dallas. He’s taking no chances on a relapse, since he is scheduled to leave the country for Japan and Viet Nam on a State Department-sponsored tour for governors late this month. Texas Buys State is buying, for $85,000, a used, 11-pas senger twin-engined airplane for use of the gover nor and other state officials. Legislature this year appropriated $275,000 for purchase of the plane and allotted another $150,000 to maintain it. But Connally elected to save money and invest in a time-tested used model which has been completely reconditioned and squipped with latest safety and communications equipment. PEANUTS PEANUTS OH. 6000 GRIEF !Y0U WOULDN'T LISTEN, WOULD VOU? • Opinions |jfHE • Cartoons Features CADET SLOUCH by Jim Eori “Tremendous game! Ten points, ten kisses and we woi besides!” Mike Reynolds Problem Occurs Again: Where To Eat After Game ||k There were two things evident after the first home game of the season last Saturday night. There was no place to go before the game and no place to go aft er the game. Those unfortunate students that got to the game just a few minutes late know full well that there was no place to go inside the stands. The newly expanded student body of some 9,000 must have all turned out for there were far more people in the stu dent sections than the seating planners counted on. The biggest trouble stems from the fact that we do something for visiting students that they very seldom do for us—we give them good seats. Cougar Hi’s seating section started on the 50 yard line. How many people can remember, or even better, how many people can forget where our seats were in Houston last year? The Aggie section started somewhere near the 30 and ended up on the cinder track in the end zone. We also had to pay extra. Last year’s move by the Stu dent Senate to give the grad stu dents a section from the 50 yard line to the south 40 was a step in the right direction but evi dently somebody didn’t want to see the idea through, for when this term started the seating ar rangements were already final ized and the grad students were back with the seniors. There is hope for better seats in the distant future and all we need is the consistent team to bring in fans and money. It wouldn’t surprise this writer to see the announcement of the dou ble decking of the rest of Kyle Field if the crowds keep coming and the team makes even a half decent showing. It is well known that nothing brings Aggies out faster than the prospects of a winning team. All right, suppose the people keep coming to the games. Sup pose that people decide that the 90 mile drive from Houston is short enough. Suppose the 100 miles from Austin and the 180 from Dallas is worth it to* an Aggie football team, 1 are they going to do after, game ? Every other school in | Southwest Conference is suppt: I ed by a city of metropolitan st I Every other school has moretlf i enough extra-curricular activitif in the surrounding cities to fe 1 the people busy and happy. Yet, the growth in the Bn; * River has been short. There; two exceptions and both s' members of nation-wide chat ' There seems to be no gn;; competition for the dollar of® folks of Aggieland. Every hf ; ness seems to be content m the buck they get from the Frt Ag- wa dent body. How many were op Saturday night to serve the at I ed guests in the city of Colit I Station ? What would it have takea stay open and serve visit* Certainly not more than | have been returned by the 5 tomers and that doesn’t # | just one night. They would t returning and keep returning Why do Houston exes havij ^ wait until they get to Hot | stead to get a bite to eajS that cup of coffee they nes f Why is it asking too much I I businesses to stay open ft I nights out of the football ?- | son? It would seem that please customers would be '■ chief aim of the city’s eati establishments. The growth is coming, !> ahhhh, how slowly. Short Snorts Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr; ruled a Commissioners Court it not lease a county hospital iff least allows the lessee to encE ber the land, buildings and e# ment. The court may not cre> debts in any manner other time warrants or bonds duly vc: upon by the property holders the county. In other rulings, Carr said: • Tabloid “National Inforn* and “National Tattler” pubkj tions meet test of “weekly vd papers.” Ye the By Charles M. Scln stay up there ! stop FALL INS! STOP FALUNS, I SAV! STAY UP THERE! N0U), it'll be the RAKE AND THE BURNING PILE...