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The activities are kicking off this semester with the Chess and Bridge Clubs organizational meet ings tonight in rooms 3-B and C Fee OK’ed To Stop Services Fund Tap GUITARIST FEATURED Francisco Espinosa, one of Spain’s most celebrated flamenco guitarists, will be featured Tuesday in G. Rollie White as part of the Memorial Student Center’s Summer Directorate, Jack Abbott, chairman of the action committee, has an nounced. “Lean and mean” concisely de scribes Texas Aggies in Army ROTC training at Fort Sill, Okla., according to Col. Jim H. McCoy. The A&M commandant, Liberal Arts Dean Frank Hubert and Prof. W. E. Eckles of the College of Business visited the encamp ment and talked to A&M cadets over the weekend. Summer training at Camp Ea gle near Fort Sill will conclude Friday. A&M has the largest con tingent of cadets—281—among 2,300 at Sill. Hubert and Eckles were among representatives from each insti tution in the Fourth Army area. They observed training and dined with A&M cadets Friday evening. “Aggies, as in past years, were making their presence known at summer camp," McCoy said. “Mor ale was high, spirits were high and everybody seemed to be do ing fine. They are getting plenty to eat.” The colonel chatted with Aggie footballer Buster Adami of Freer who had lost some weight during the six-week camp. “I think I’ll gain it all back before practice starts in late Aug ust,” commented the linebacker who made a key interception in the late stages of the A&M-Texas game last fall. Adami, a cadet major in the corps, will be commander of Com pany H-l during 1968-69. McCoy said cadet reactions to camp centered on the value of leadership training the students are receiving. Vet CoUege Holds Honors Ceremony Texas A&M’s College of Veteri nary Medicine will conduct its annual Honors Convocation at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Memorial Student Center, announced Vet erinary Medicine Dean Alvin A. Price. Dean Price said the program will include presentation of a- wards to approximately 20 stu dents and faculty members and “diplomas” to the wives of grad uating students. The Honors Convocation is traditionally held just prior to University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. veterinary medicine graduation, which this year is scheduled Aug. 2. The College of Veterinary Med icine conducts its graduation sep arately from other divisions of the university because it oper ates on a trimester basis. Kirby J. Warren of Fort Worth, candidate for the Doctor of Vet erinary Medicine degree this year, will serve as master of ceremon ies for the Friday evening pro gram. Douglas Matthews of Waco,al- so a candidate for graduation, will conduct the invocation. Dean Price will handle the welcome and introductions. Texas A&M student leaders have requested an increased building use fee to service bonded indebtedness for new student seats in expanded Kyle Field. Student action was initiated by David Maddox of College Station through A&M President Earl Rudder. Maddox is vice president of the Student Senate. Joining Maddox in the building use fee endorsement were Student Senate President Bill Carter of Library Move Begins Monday The Texas A&M library will begin moving into its new build ing Monday, announced Dr. James P. Dyke. The Cushing Library director said the change to new quarters will be made by sections so that the regular library schedule can be observed. “Curtailment of use of certain parts of the collections will be necessary at various times,” he pointed out. A four - story airconditioned structure with shelf capacity of one million volumes, the new, $3.8 million library adjoins the pres ent building and incorporates the previous Texas Engineers Li brary. Largest building on the cam pus, the library contains about four acres of floor space. It will provide open stacks, lounge and study areas and study car rels. Dyke said collections now in the Cushing building plus the en gineer, business and chemistry li braries and materials in storage on the campus and at the Re search Annex will be moved into the buildings. More than 500,000 volumes plus certain furnishings will be moved. Automated checkout equipment will eventually be transferred and internal changes in all but one level of the book stacks will be made, the director added. “The entire building will not be open for several weeks,” Dyke went on. “This depends upon how long it takes to get everything situated.” Decatur, Civilian Student Council President David M. Wilks of Pampa, MSC Council President Benny Sims of Kingsville and Graduate Student Council Presi dent Mitty C. Plummer of Cun ningham. “This action was taken to in sure the quality of student ac tivities at A&M,” Maddox noted. “Student activities are supported through the services fee. We pre fer addition of another building use fee to prevent loss of support for student programs and ac tivities.” The A&M System Board of Di rectors has approved the levying of a building use fee for the renovated stadium. Student services provided by the $30 per fall and spring se mester fee include hospital and medical service, student aid, ath letic event admissions, intramural program, Town Hall, Great Is sues, MSC facilities, student pro grams, summer MSC and Grove Theater activities and publica tions including the Battalion, Aggieland and college magazines. Registration costs presently in clude a $16 per semester building use fee for MSC expansion, Coli seum air conditioning, the library and Guion Hall renovation or replacement. Eager Freshman Registers Early Freshman Camp sponsored by Texas A&M’s YMCA grows in creasingly popular with new stu dents each year. The 1968 camp at the Methodist Assembly Grounds south of Pal estine may be the biggest yet. New students are oriented on college life and A&M customs, swim, fish, play intramural ath letics and hear inspirational talks by faculty leaders. Jim Summers of Shreveport, La., sent his registration extra early for the Sept. 6 camp, noted J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary. July 10 is the earliest a student has ever signed up. “Invitations t o prospective campers aren’t even in the mail yet,” he said. “Someone really convinced Jim he should attend.” and 2-A and B in the MSC tonight at 7 p.m. respectively. Approximately 15 softball teams will begin play Monday in the intramural sports activities. Bowling and golf will also begin next week in the intramurals. Interested students are asked to stop by the intramural office in DeWare Fieldhouse to sign up for the teams by noon tomorrow in order to participate. No charge is made for any of the intramural sports, Ray Fletcher, director of intramural sports, says. ★ ★ ★ Francisco Espinosa, one of Spain’s most celebrated flamenco guitarists, will be featured at a July 23 Summer Town Hall pre sentation sponsored by the Sum mer Directorate. Jack Abbott, chairman of the Directorate’s Action Committee, said the performance is set for 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Tickets, which go on sale Fri day in the MSC Student Pro grams Office, are $1 each for students with university identifi cation cards and $2 for general admission. Espinosa, 36, made his profes sional concert debut at the age of 15. Last year, after completing three seasons of extensive tour ing with the Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles as principal guitarist, he made his U. S. solo concert debut in Denver and won quick critical acclaim. Previously, Espinosa traveled throughout Europe and North America on the annual tours of the Jose Greco and Jose Molina Spanish Dance Companies. He comes from a guitar-play ing family, in which his grand father, father, and brother are all noted for their musical talents. He also is married to one of Spain’s foremost flamenco dancers, Carmen Dominiguez. One of Espinosa’s proudest possessions is the Grand Prix du Disque, France’s equivalent of a “Gold Record.” This was awarded to him by the Academia du Dis que Francais for having made the best record in the popular music field during 1956-57. He is said to be equally at home in the field of blues and jazz, as well as flamenco. ★ ★ ★ A “groad hole” tug-of-war is slated Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. next to the Cyclotron building just off University Avenue. About 20 men per team will compete. Lists of rules and further infor mation may be obtained in the Directorate office. ★ ★ ★ Next Thursday will be one of the biggest parties planned at A&M, John Bendele, chairman of the recreation committee said. Under the dome in Hensel (See MSC Page 3) Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. B B & L —Adv. Editorial Long lines and short tempers make registration one of the most anticipated events of the school year. From stand ing in line to pick up the card packets to standing in line to hand in the card packets, the expressions in the crowd re flect much. If all goes well with the new “pre-registration’ system, this pictorial essay will go down in A&M history as one of the last of its kind. Freshmen got a taste of five-minute registration this summer as they were speeded through the new system in the basement of the Services Building. Although final figures for the second term of summer school at A&M will not be complete until Friday, enrollment for this semester is expected to be traditionally smaller than for the first summer term. Could the long lines have something to do with the dip in enrollment? Or is it a way of resting up for the fall se mester registration? «'m ^^ (Batt Staff Photos)