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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.
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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
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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:
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By Charles M. Scln
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