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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1968
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Civilians Lay Plans Automated Registration
For Bonfire Work I ^
Draws Senate Criticism
Senators Object
To Method, Timing
approval on his appointments to
a dress regulations committee,
The Civilian Student Council the group that hears cases of
last night discussed topics that clothing violations. Those ap-
nged from civilian participa-
lion in the bonfire to day stu-
lent organization.
Civilians will be working on
infire this year in force, accord-
g to Garry Mauro, civilian Yell
«ader and Civilian Bonfire Com-
ittee chairman. He reported
at many halls were now getting
rganized, and that equipment
'as being obtained.
“CIVILIANS WHO have, or
now of equipment that might
eused should contact Ken Hub
er, at 5-1057,” he told the group.
Joe Tijerina, Day Student Ac-
m Committee chairman, re-
orted that the day students
ould be having an organiza-
onal meeting next week. He
oted that the girls on campus
ere already getting together,
nd will be serving refreshments
the stacking area during the
uilding of the bonfire.
Earl Roddy of Davis-Gary hall,
d Donnell of Legett hall, and
ndrew Scott of Walton hall, all
sported that their dormitories
ad activities planned for the
irkansas weekend. Mike Dur-
of Crocker hall reported
lat a hall hockey tournament
as being held, with entry fees
oing towards the Campus Chest
ind drive.
THE STUDENT laundry com-
iittee will tour the laundry plant
ext month, and hopes to work
at a new laundry slip for next
ear. They will also serve as a
eviewing board on special cases
(lost items or bundles, “so the
Indents won’t feel that the
istablishment’ is being arbitrary
ith them,” said member Ernie
Msey.
The committee is composed of
ith Co’-ps and civilians, and co-
ponsored by Ed Cooper and Ma-
Solymosy. Members are Da-
id Ge'orge, Godsey, and David
iiddlebrooke, civilians, and Phil
iallahan, A1 Reinert, and Rodd
liver, cadets.
LARRY SCHILHAB, Weekend
ommittee chairman, reported
at plans for an All-University
ance after the Rice game were
oing well.
The dance will be open to both
ivilians and cadets, and will cost
1.50 per couple. Civilians with
ormitory activity cards may ob-
dn their tickets free from their
nil president.
The band will be The New
teed Soul. “I have had very
tvorable reports on this band,”
aid Schilhab. The dance will be
i Duncan Dining Hall.
DAVID WILKS then asked for
JwEATHER
Tiday & Saturday—Cloudy to
artly Cloudy. Winds South 10-20
iph. High 76. Low 46.
aco—Kickoff: Cloudy. Winds
oath 10-15 mph. Temperature 74.
dative Humidity 40%.
pointed were Lome Davis, chair
man, David Gay, Ray Cohen,
Denny Kniery, and Joe Hartman.
Mauro then introduced the two
civilian fish Yell Leaders for this
year. They are Richard Suga-
reik, a mechanical engineering
major from Dallas, and Gary
Jones, a nuclear engineering ma
jor from Lamar.
Wilks complimented Moore and
Schumacher halls on their spirit
activities, saying “they’re doing a
great job, and deserve to be
commended.”
Two Capture
Senate Seats
In Run-Offs
Robert Edgecomb was elected
senior representative from the
College of Business Administra
tion, and Tom Henderson was
elected sophomore representative
from the College of Veterinary
Medicine in elections last night.
Edgecomb defeated Arthur
Erickson 51-35 and Henderson
edge Mitchell J. Timmons 22-18.
Gerald Geistweidt, president of
the election commission, an
nounced that an error had been
made in a previous announce
ment that Sam Torn had won
the post of junior representative
of the College of Business Ad
ministration. He said that a
nm-off election will be Wednes
day between Torn and Jack Mc-
Gillis for the Senate seat.
“This year’s turn out was
heavier than in past years, but
I was disappointed that more
people didn’t show up for voting,”
Geistweidt said. He noted that
of 250-300 eligible to vote in the
B.A. representative election, only
86 voted.
The reason for the change ac
cording to Geistweidt, of polling
places from the Memorial Stu
dent Center, the usual election
spot, to Francis Hall, was to lo
cate the voting site as close to
the potential electors as possible.
The election commission will
vote Monday on a new revised
election guideline for candidates.
This is the seventh revision of
the election rules since last
spring, noted Geistweidt.
If the rules are approved by
members of the election commis
sion, it will be sent to Student
Senate for approval.
The only major change in the
latest revisions say that a can
didate can campaign any way
he wishes as long as he stays
within the election commission
guidelines. The guideline, says
Geistweidt, “is not as strict as
past guidelines in the wording
on how candidates can conduct
elections.”
COFFEE BREAK
Registrar H. L. Heaton, center, talks with Senators Gary Anderson, left, and Tony Bene
detto during a break in Thursday’s called Senate meeting. Heaton was one of several
spokesmen for the automated registration system being prepared for the spring semester.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Aggies To Go
In Waco For
B ear-Hunting
Third Victory
By JOHN PLATZER
Battalion Sports Editor
Amid gala homecoming celebra
tions, the Baylor Bears will be
officially welcomed into Waco for
the first time this season Satur
day night at 8 p.m.
Coach Gene Stallings hopes the
festivities will further serve to
welcome his Aggies back into the
thick of the Southwest Confer
ence championship race, however.
BAYLOR ENTERS THE GAME
with 0-4 season and 0-1 confer
ence marks after opening the
year with four straight road
games. The Bears lost to Indi
ana, 40-36, Michigan State, 28-
10, Louisana State 48-16 and Ar
kansas, 35-19.
The defending champions have
posted a 2-3 record on the season
and 1-1 in SWC play. A win is
essential if they are to repeat.
A lot of scoring has been a
trend that has marked the Bay
lor games throughout the sea
son thus far and has caused
Stallings his major worries.
“BAYLOR HAS THE BEST
offensive team this year that
they’ve had since we’ve been at
A&M,” Stallings said Tuesday.
“They really block and do things
well. They get 10 starters back
from last season and they have
had a week to rest and get their
injuries well. Its their first home
game and it’s their homecoming
so you can see why I’m scared.”
The key to Baylor’s success or
lack of same this season may
be the quarterback slot and the
Baptist think they may have
found the answer in Steve Stuart
against Arkansas.
ARKANSAS LED THE Bears
21-0 in the second quarter when
Stuart came off the bench and
rallied them to a 21-19 deficit
while completing 16 of 23 passes
for 200 yards.
Richard Stevens, a 6-5, 2 3 5
pound tackle from Dublin, and
Pinky Palmer, 6-0, 186 pound
fullback from Olney, are other
of the Bear’s offensive stars
while linebacker Randy Cooper,
halfback Steve Lane and safety
Jackie Allen star for Baylor on
defense.
A&M enters the game in better
physical shape than last week
with three starters listed as ques
tion marks. Larry Stegent and
Bob Long may miss the game
with shoulder injuries while Gary
Gruben is a questionable player
because of a hurt foot.
JIMMY SHEFFIELD, THE ex
plosive sophomore, will take Ste-
gent’s place in the lineup at tail-
(See Aggies, Page 4)
By TOM CURL
Several members of the Stu
dent Senate expressed opposition
Thursday to the system of com
puterized registration proposed
by the university administration.
The special meeting was called
to allow representatives of the
registrar’s office and the presi
dent’s office to explain the sys
tem, scheduled to begin prelimi
nary operations Nov. 4.
THE SENATORS WERE gen
erally opposed to the plan—not
because of the mechanics of the
system, but because the students
had not been consulted and in
formed of the new system while
it was in the planning stages.
Senator Gary Anderson asked
if any student group had been
consulted in the two years of
The Battalion will present a three-
article series next week explain
ing the automated registration
system.
planning that preceded the deci
sion to try the system on a uni
versity-wide scale.
“I guess through our neglect
we didn’t (consult the students),
but if the students had real con
cern, they would have come to
us,” said Dr. Charles Pinnell, as
sociate dean of the graduate col
lege and one of the spokesmen
for the planning committee.
“WE WOULD LIKE A group
of students formed to study the
system this next semester and
report back so we can decide
whether to continue the system,”
he continued.
Senator Ron Hinds asked if
the system would go into effect
even if the Student Senate op
posed it.
“This system has been approved
by the (university) Executive
Committee for the spring semes
ter,” Joe Buser, assistant to Pres
ident Earl Rudder, replied.
“However, I don’t think this is
a system that is permanent and
can never be changed,” he added.
Political Forum Will Present
Yarborough Speech Wednesday
Euripides ’ ‘Trojan Women ’
To Open Monday In Guion
v INTERNATIONAL DELIBERATIONS
j°mig Isamu Ohta, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiroshi Ohta of
a P&n seems to have reached a plateau of understanding
j^th Marce Puleo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Puleo of
dorado. Both were at the international students’ annual
Option Thursday night. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Euripides’ statement on the af
ter-effects of war, “The Trojan
Women,” starts a one-week run
Monday on the Guion Hall stage.
The Greek play written 435
years before the birth of Christ
is the Aggie Players’ first pro
duction of 1968-69.
Curtain for the hour and 50
minute classic drama directed by
C. K. Esten will be at 8 p.m.
The presentation will run through
Saturday, Nov. 2.
“EURIPIDES’ play, the rug-
gedest ever written on the ef
fects of war, is an objective
study of the after-effects on the
survivors, in this case the Trojan
women and children,” Esten com
mented. “The Greeks killed all
the men and took the women into
abject slavery.”
“Our production has not dis
torted Euripides’ views on war
either through direction or stag
ing,” he added.
The Trojan War was fought
around 1,200 B.C. The only ac
counts of it are preserved in
Homer’s poetry, penned about
1,000 B.C. Euripides wrote his
play 800 years after the conflict,
during the Golden Age of Greece,
Esten noted. At the time, the
nation was at its most advanced,
under the rule of Pericles with
Aristotle and others achieving
new heights in the arts and sci
ences.
THE AGGIE Players’ predomi
nately female cast features Ai-
leen Wenck as Hecuba, Barbara
Karpinski as Andromache, Thel
ma McGill as Athena, Brenda
Hathaway as Helen and Virginia
Parker as Cassandra.
Other cast members are Mike
Link as Menelaus; Travis Miller,
Talthybius; and Jim Weyhenmey-
er, Poseidon, a chorus of Candy
Yager, Jane Mills, Kay Slowey,
Melanie Haldas, Irene Fazzino,
Karen Buchland and Irene Wood
ard and soldiers Marc Fleishman,
Robert Graham and Robert Cour-
tin.
Crews under stage manager
Darwin Link have assembled
Greek costumes from scratch, ar
mor for soldiers and officers, a
large - scale imitation masonry
wall and more flexible Guion Hall
stage lighting.
Tickets for the Aggie Players’
first of eight major productions
will be available only at the door,
with box office opening at 7:15
p.m. All seats for students, facul
ty-staff and community patrons
are $1 each. There will be no re
serve seats.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L
Ralph W. Yarborough, in his
12th year in the U. S. Senate,
will examine “Election Year:
’68” in a Political Forum presen
tation here Wednesday.
The 8 p.m. talk just a week be
fore the general elections Nov. 5
will be in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, announced For
um Chairman Ron Hinds of Mid
land.
A Liberal Democrat and former
assistant Texas attorney general
and state judge, Yarborough will
be the first Great Issues forum
speaker of 1968-69 and the last
before election day, 1968.
Hinds said the Political Forum
schedule of eminent spokesmen
on political issues, processes and
personalities on the national
scene are provide to acquaint
A&M students and the university
community with part of the an
swer to the “why of what’s hap
pening.”
Mayor Announces
Special Election
A special election to fill the
unexpired term of T. R. Holleman
has been set for Saturday, De
cember 7 by the College Station
City Council, Mayor D. A. “Andy”
Anderson has reported.
Deadline for filing for the
council position, the Mayor said,
is November 7.
Absentee voting will commence
November 17 and will be con
tinued through December 3.
Filing for the position to date
are Cliff H. Ransdell, Assistant
Dean of Engineering here, and
Joseph J. McGraw, Head, City
and Regional Planning of the
Architect Department.
Season Great Issues ticket for
35 scheduled presentations in the
forum, seminar series, speaker
series, urban crisis seminar and
issues series are available
through the Student Program
Office of the MSC.
Community patron season tick
ets are $5 each, high school stu
dents $3.50, Hinds said. Single
admissions for faculty, staff and
community are $1.50 with A&M
students admitted by activity
card.
Yarborough has been a teacher,
lawyer and soldier in addition to
serving on the state bench. Since
his election to the Senate in 1957,
the Chandler native has given
special efforts to education, con
servation and agriculture legisla
tion.
The 65-year-old lawmaker au
thored such acts as the Cold War
GI Bill and Bilingual Education
Act of 1967.
He has sought to preserve full
benefits to rural and small town
schools systems under federal
programs, and to make a quality
level of education available to all
qualified Americans without re
gard to income,” observed Hinds,
a senior finance major.
Yarborough serves on the Sen
ate appropriations, labor and
public welfare and post office
and civil service committees,
chairs labor and postal affairs
subcommittees and has assign
ments on many others.
He is co-sponsor, with majority
Leader Mike Mansfield, of the
constitutional amendment for
lowering voting age to 18 years.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
DEAN J. P. HANNIGAN said
that he considered the experi
mental program “essential” in
view of the continually increas
ing size of the student body and
the growing problems with the
present system of registration.
“No senator here tonight is
unreasonable enough to complete
ly reject this idea (of automated
registration),” said Senator Char
les Hoffman.
“We’ve made no attempt to
do this on the sly. Perhaps we
have been remiss in getting the
students involved,” commented
Dr. Pinnell.
“THESE MEN WILL TAKE
full responsibility for the chan
ges; and if they can iron out
the kinks, then we should try
it,” was the opinion of Senator
W. D. Redding.
Senate Vice - President David
Maddox said that he and Presi
dent Bill Carter, along with sev
eral other students, have spent
severay hours meeting with Reg
istrar H. L. Heaton, R. A. Lacey,
coordinator of the program, Dr.
Pinnell and other representatives
of the administration.
Maddox emphasized that he
supported some form of “auto
mated registration” but was dis
satisfied with the methods and
timing used by the planning com
mittee to inform the students of
the workings of the new system.
HE FURTHER URGED the
student senators to speak out for
their constituents.
“It’s the job of the Senate
representing the student body to
present the opinions of the stu
dent body,” he said. “If we have
an opinion, let’s push it upstairs.
If they don’t do their job at
least we’ve done ours,” he con
tinued.
“It might be good if we backed
off and took a look at the sys
tem (automated registration)”,
he said.
MADDOX AND Senator Phil
Callahan had drawn up a resolu
tion urging senate opposal to the
system until it could be studied
by a committee composed of ad
ministration representatives, fa
culty members and students.
In view of the fact that com
puterized registration is scheduled
to begin soon, the resolution pro
posed that registration next sem
ester be conducted as before, ex
cept that registration appoint
ment times be based on student
academic classification rather
than the first letter of the last
name.
The procedure for adopting a
resolution at a “called” meeting
is to suspend the rules, an action
requiring unanimous approval of
the senators. The motion to sus
pend the rules failed to receive
the required unanimous vote.
Tentative plans call for Presi
dent Bill Carter to designate a
committee to study the plan.
BIDDING BEGINS
Even as Olympic Gold Med
alist Randy Matson was
leavingr the shot put ring-
in Mexico City, two pro
teams were drawing up en
ticing contracts for him to
sign. See related story,
page 4.