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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1968
Number 601
A&M’s Housing Shortage
\\ orst Since
350 Students Wait
ForCampusRooms
FISH WELCOMED
John Strom, G-l freshman from Dallas, has Corps brass
pinned on by Corps Commander Hector Gutierrez during
All University Night. The ceremony symbolized the wel
coming of the Class of 1972 into the Cadet Corps. (Photo
by Mike Wright)
1300 New Students
Tour ‘Living Room’
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Special Writer
More than 1300 freshmen and
transfer students were guests of
the Memorial Student Center Fri
day as they were conducted on
a guided tour of student facili
ties available in “the campus liv
ing room.”
President Earl Rudder, Con
gressman Olin E. Teague, Aca
demic Vice President Horace By
ers, and Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan received students in
First Silver Taps
ScheduledTonight
Silver Taps, scheduled for
10:30 p.m. tonight, will honor
five Aggies who died during
the summer.
According to tradition, stu
dents will silently gather at
the appointed time on the
mall in front of the Academic
Building to hear a 21-gun sa
lute by the Ross Volunteer
Firing Squad and then taps
sounded three times by bug
lers from the Aggie Band.
During the ceremony, lights
throughout the campus will be
turned out.
The dead are:
Glenn Curtis Graham of
Houston, civil engineering
graduate student, who died in
a traffic accident Sept. 4;
Air Force Capt. William O.
lehle of Villas, N.J., meteor
ology graduate student, who
died of a heart attack Aug. 13;
Joe. S. Carter of El Paso sen
ior veterinary major, who died
in a traffic accident Aug. 12;
DeFrank Howell III of Fort
Worth, junior electrical en
gineering major, who died in
a traffic accident June 1;
Richard L. Black of Fort
Worth, sophomore liberal arts
major, who died in a traffic
accident May 27.
Bryan Buildihg & Loan
Association, Yodr Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
the MSC ballroom. Also present
were faculty and staff members
and their wives.
Sponsored by the MSC Direc
torate and headed by Vice Presi
dent-Operations Harry Snowdy,
Freshman Open House gave stu
dents an opportunity to sign up
for any of 14 Directorate com
mittees.
Information booths were also
set up by the Corps of Cadets,
Freshman Drill Team, Singing
Cadets, Alpha Phi Omega, and
Civilian Student Council. Displays
included trophies of the national
champion Fish Drill Team.
Don Branson, sophomore Di
rectorate member, termed the op
en house “very successful; the en
tire evening went well.”
New students were served re
freshments and made to feel at
home by 70 local high school and
college girls.
Grouped by dorms and corps
units, students began tours every
five minutes that started in the
bowling alley and ended in the
ballroom. Facilities toured in
cluded meeting rooms, gun room,
barber shop, gift shop, browsing
library, and student and business
offices.
Group guides were selected by
Corps Staff and Civilian Student
Activities Director Ed Cooper.
By DAVE SMITH
Battalion Special Writer
Texas A&M is suffering the worst housing shortage
problem in its recent history, Bennie A. Zinn, director of
student affairs, declared Monday.
“We have a waiting list of 350 students that’s 350 more
than we have room for,” Zinn said.
The waiting list is made up primarily of students who
applied for rooms after Aug. 15.
“The freshmen and upperclassmen who applied last
year got rooms. The trouble is in finding places for the men who
applied after Aug. 15,” Zinn said.
There are 369 students living three to a room.
“The third men in these rooms will be moved as we find places
to put them,” Zinn said.
Other students without rooms are staying with friend,s, staying
at motels or camping out. A few have gone home.
The student enrollment may be
‘A&M Will Be
No Berkeley,’
Rudder Says
“Texas A&M will not submit to
tyranny, regardless of its guise,”
President Earl Rudder declared
Saturday.
“Nor will we turn this institu
tion into a battleground,” he as
sured the Executive Board of
Texas A&M Mothers’ Clubs.
“In short,” he continued, “there
will be no Columbia, no Berkeley
here. Our students will not per
mit it. Our faculty will not per
mit it. I don’t think you want
your president to permit it.”
Rudder told the club leaders
from over the state that “we will
maintain a healthy environment
for education ... a climate that
fosters the free exchange of ideas
in the orderly democratic way
that has its roots in the Constitu
tion of the United States.”
Attempts by the Students for a
Democratic Society to organize a
chapter at A&M turned up less
than five members, he said.
“Texas A&M students do not
have to resort to beards or riots
to attract attention and gain dis
tinction,” Rudder went on. “Our
students have overwhelmingly
rejected bearded, dissident, revo
lutionary elements.”
Air Force Tests
Slated Saturday
Texas A&M students interested
in joining the two-year Air Force
ROTC program in the fall of
1969-70 must take the officer
qualifying test Saturday.
Col. Vernon L. Head, professor
of aerospace studies, said the
AFOOT will be given at 7:30 a.m.
in room 321 of the physics build
ing. The test lasts eight hours.
In order to register, students
should report to Capt. J. L. Gal
lop in room 310 of the military
science building.
Gallop said further information
about the advanced course, and
summer camp will be available.
as many as 900 more than the
12,000 who registered last fall, he
added.
“We saw this coming two years
ago. We have 6,400 beds and we
don’t have any reason for enroll
ment to go down,” Zinn said.
The Housing Office and De
partment of Student Affairs are
trying to find spaces for those
students on the waiting list by
easing the off-campus living re
strictions.
Students resigning from the
university are also opening up
some spaces.
“WE’RE HURTING, no ques
tion about that; but if these kids
without rooms will come back,
we’ll try to fix them up,” Zinn
noted.
The Housing Office attempts to
place the students on the waiting
list in the order the names ap
pear. These students must con
tinue to check with the Housing
Office to see if a room is avail
able.
Off-campus living has been re
stricted to married students and
graduate students, but Zinn ex
plained it has been necessary to
liberalize the restrictions.
ZINN HAS issued more day
student permits than the normal
number.
“I approved about 100 day stu
dent permits, and I guess many
just moved without telling us,”
he said.
Students who are not married
or graduate students are supposed
to apply to the Department of
Student Affairs for permission to
move off campus before making
the move.
THE UNIVERSITY has ap
pealed to the residents of Bryan
and College Station by radio and
newspaper to rent available rooms
to A&M students.
“The people here have been co
operative. We have had many
calls from people who will rent
rooms,” Zinn said.
A&M has had worse housing
shortages in the past. In 1946,
there were three students in al
most every dormitory room when
6,600 veterans entered A&M after
World War II.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
FARMERS FIGHT!
Row on row of Aggies “hump it” in the first official yell practice of the year at all Univer
sity Night Monday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Sales Brisk For Full Slate
Of Rotary, Town Hall Shows
Season ticket sales are brisk
for both the Rotary Community
Series and the Texas A&M Town
Hall Series, reports Lewis
Adams, chairman of the Town
Hall Committee.
Andre Previn will conduct the
Houston Symphony Orchestra in
the 7:30 p.m. Monday perform
ance at Bryan Civic Auditorium
in the first of five Rotary Series
presentations.
Also included in the Rotary
Series are two Broadway produc
tions, “Cactus Flower” Nov. 18
and “Man of La Mancha” Jan.
20, along with performances by
violinist Pinchas Zukerman Feb.
17 and Metropolitan Opera bass
Jerome Hines March 19.
The Series was initiated last
year by the Bryan Rotary Club
in cooperation with Town Hall to
complement regular Town Hall
presentations.
TOWN HALL swings into ac
tion Oct. 11 with a performance
by singers Anita Bryant and
Leon Bibb. The Four Seasons
moves in Nov. 1, followed by the
Romanian Folk Ballet Dec. 6, the
Norman Luboff Choir Feb. 20
and a special April 25 attraction
to be announced.
The Artist Showcase debuts
Oct. 29 with the Hungarian Quar
tet. The Houston Chamber Play
ers are scheduled Dec. 16, pian
ists Jeffrey Sigel Feb. 27 and the
Houston Brass Ensemble March
26.
Town Hall also has lined up
several “special attractions” for
which extra tickets will be re
quired. First on the agenda is
ID Cards Available
At Sbisa Newsstand
Students may pick up 1968-69
identification cards at the Sbisa
Dining Hall newsstand until 5
p.m. Friday.
A spokesman for the Regis
trar’s Office said Monday that
new ID’s will be issued daily
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., including
the noon hour. A student must
present either the 1967-68 card
or the temporary card issued last
week at registration to receive
the new ID.
Only new ID cards will be
honored by the university after
Oct. 1.
TROOPS LEAVE PRAGUE
Soviet troops march across bridge on road near Prague’s Ruzyne airport. Reports are that
troops and armor of the Warsaw Pact countries which invaded Czechoslovakia are now
withdrawing from the Prague area. (Photo by Mike Wright)
the Danish Gym Team Sept. 27,
with soul singers Sam and Dave
Nov. 15 and the “Union Gap”
musical group Nov. 26. The Na
tional Players will present “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” Dec.
3, followed by the Harlem Globe
trotters Feb. 4 and the Roger
Williams Show Feb. 15.
Rotary Series or Town Hall
season tickets may be obtained
personally or via mail from the
Student Program Office in the
Memorial Student Center. Rotary
tickets also may be obtained from
club members.
Season Rotary tickets are $15,
while Town Hall tickets vary in
price from $6 for the wife or date
of an A&M student to $11 for a
patron.
ADAMS, A SENIOR chemical
engineering major from Kings
ville, notes that season ticket
holders for either of the series
also will be admitted free to the
four Town Hall Artist Showcase
performances.
A&M students possessing uni
versity activity and identification
cards will be admitted free to
regular Town Hall presentations,
with reserved seats available for
$2 or $3 for the season, depend
ing on seating zone.
Students with cards and Town
Hall season ticket holders will be
admitted free to the Rotary
Series presentation of Jerome
Hines, while holders of Rotary
season tickets will be guests for
Town Hall’s Romanian Folk Bal
let.
Individual tickets will be sold,
if available, for Town Hall pres
entations, but not for the Rotary
Series, Adams points out.
“Admission to Rotary Series
presentation is by season ticket
only with exception of 200 re
served seat tickets being retained
for A&M students and their
wives or dates,” notes Adams.
Clubs May Reserve
Rooms In Center
Student applications for Mem
orial Student Center meeting
rooms may be made in the MSC
Social and Education Office to
day through Friday from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. All recognized organ
izations and clubs are eligible to
make requests for rooms.
Student groups are allowed to
use meeting facilities free of
charge. Approved applications
are filled on a first come, first
served basis.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
“Holders of valid student activ
ity cards may purchase these
tickets at the MSC Student Pro
gram Office at $2 each with a
limit of two per student,” he
adds.
W/J Heads List
Of Film Classics
Scheduled In MSC
“8%”, an Italian film direc
tor’s autobiography famed for its
image, visual ingenuity and sar
donic humor, will be the first of
18 movie classics scheduled for
1968-69 at Texas A&M’s Mem
orial Student Center.
The opening Fall and Spring-
Film Festival presentation will
be screened Friday in the MSC
ballroom, announced Mark V.
Schumann of Dallas, chairman of
the Contemporary Arts Commit
tee film festival.
Outstanding Academy Award
and Cannes Festival winners have
been selected for the popular
MSC series. Included are “Ma-
rat/Sade,” in which director
Peter Brook and the Royal
Shakespeare Company portray a
play inside a play; Carl Dreyer’s
37-year-old German classic of the
macabre, “Vampyr;” Japanese-
filmed winner “Rashomon” and
“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,”
Cannes grand prize winner.
Schumann said season tickets
are available at the Student Pro
gram Office, in person or by
mail. Semester ducats are $3
per student and $5 date, with no
single admissions available.
“The series was a sellout last
year,” he pointed out. “Only 400
seats are available and another
rush on them is expected. If a
student wants tickets, he’d better
get with it.”
Except where noted otherwise,
films will be shown Fridays at
8 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. The
schedule:
Sept. 20, “SVz”; Sept. 27, “Le
Bonheur”; Oct. 2 (Wed.),
“Breathless”; Oct, 11, “Red Des
ert”; Oct. 18, “The Seventh
Seal”; Oct. 25, “Marat/Sade”;
Nov. 1, “King of Hearts”; Nov.
8, “Vampyr”; Dec. 18 (Wed.),
“The World of Apu”; Feb. 14,
“Yesterday, Today and Tomor
row”: March 7, “Rashomon”;
March 14, “The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg”; March 21, “Knife in
the Water”; March 28, “L’Awen-
tura”; April 11, “How I Won the
War”; April 18, “The 400 Blows”
April 25, “Arsenic and Old Lace”
and May 9, “The Virgin Spring.’