Ags’ Ace Defense Digs In For
High - Scoring Hogs
VOLUME 64, Number 29 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1968 Telephone 845-2226
Senators Hear Reasons
For 4 No-Speaker’ Policy
Baser Cites Laws
On Use Of Funds
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
An administrative explanation
of the A&M speaker policy high
lighted a marathon Student Sen
ate meeting that lasted three and
one-half hours Thursday night.
Joe Buser, special assistant to
President Earl Rudder, spoke on
action by the university Execu
tive Committee that defeated a
resolution which had received
unanimous Senate approval Oct.
3. Buser spoke in place of Presi
dent Rudder, who had been in
vited to the meeting but was in
Washington, D. C. on business.
The administration explanation
of the speaker ban was based
on a section of the appropria
tions bill passed by the Texas
Senate. The law says that state-
appropriated money cannot be
used to influence the outcome of
an election or decision on an ar
ticle of legislation.
“SOME SCHOOLS in Texas
flagrantly ignore that rule,”
Buser said.
“The fact that this statute
isn’t adhered to by our competi-
tion should perhaps be an in
centive for us to adhere to it,”
he continued.
Buser pointed to “A&M’s uni
que heritage” as a factor in the
speaker policy.
Presidential Poll
To Be Conducted
The Political Forum will con
duct a student presidential poll
Tuesday.
The poll will be held in three
places: the Academic Building,
the library, and the Memorial
Student Center. Activity cards
must be presented to vote in the
poll.
An election center will be set
up in the MSC ballroom for those
interested in the results of the
election. Colored televisions will
be hooked-up to all three net
works so that students can see
varying views of the election
from different commentators.
The center will open at 7:30
p.m. Informal discussion of the
election returns will be presented
by the commentators of the Poli
tical Forum as they come in.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
provided at election headquar
ters.
bb&l.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
“Texas A&M University has
never made a case of the fact
that we are unique,” he remarked.
“The university believes that
to become involved (in political
campaigns) is an abuse of its
privilege,” he continued.
BUSER EMPHASIZED that
the administration does not want
to stifle student interests in poli
tics. It just believes that any
political activity should be con
ducted off campus, he added.
“You need to go where the ac
tion is. There are no votes on
this campus, no voting booths
here,” he commented.
“I think this is a very naive
viewpoint,” said junior senator
A1 Reinert.
“I can take no pride in foster
ing a politically-ignorant student
body,” he continued.
“We’re not attempting to dis
courage you,” Buser answered.
Graduate Student Senator John
Harris pointed out that a mem
orandum recently circulated to
the faculty urging them to vote
for two of the proposed amend
ments in next Tuesday’s general
election. The two amendments
concern retirement programs for
Texas teachers.
HARRIS ASKED Buser if this
was not a violation of the approp
riations bill that said state funds
could not be used to influence
the decision on a piece of legisla
tion.
Buser answered that several
former students had contributed
money as an expression of in
terest in the amendments and
he supposed the memorandums
were paid for with the contribu
tions.
Ron Hinds, Po’itical Forum
chairman, commented that any
speakers who were presented as
part of the Forum would be
financed by profits from vending
machines on campus.
“ALL MONIES at this univer
sity are regulated to one extent
or another by state laws,” re
plied Buser.
One Senator pointed out that
U. S. Senator Ralph Yarborough
had spoken at A&M Wednesday.
“The man who was here the
other night (Yarborough) was
not a candidate so the rule did
not enter into it,” answered Dean
of Students J. P. Hannigan.
Senate Vice - president David
Maddox said that he and other
members of the Senate appeared
before the Executive Committee
to discuss the defeated resolu
tion and be told why the commit-
(See SENATE, Page 3)
SPEAKER STAND EXPLAINED
Joe Buser, assistant to President Earl Rudder, explains the administration’s policy pro
hibiting the inviting to A&M of political candidates to members of the Student Senate.
Seated are Senate Vice-President David Maddox, left, and President Bill Carter. (Photo
by Bob Hal tom)
Campus Chest Fund
Tops $1,400, Seeks
Drive
More
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Approximately $1,400 has been
collected for the Campus Chest
Fund, announced John Cunning
ham, drive publicity chairman-
He added that the program is
moving well and that collections
at the Arkansas game this week
end will probably really boost the
drive towards its goal of $7,500.
The latest tally of contributions
can be checked on the fund-drive
board located between Guion Hall
and the Memorial Student Center.
ABOUT $1,200 has been re
ceived at the first two home
games with two games left to be
played. Large barrels are placed
at each gate, and donators are
given a note thanking them for
their interest and explaining the
purpose of the drive.
Squadron 9 of the Corps of
Cadets is presently leading in
the second part of the drive, col
lection among students. The out
fit has collected 83 per cent of
its goal, based on $1 per member
of the unit.
“As an additional effort to get
more students to participate,
special collection booths for ci
vilian day students will be set up
next week in the Memorial Stu
dent Center and the new library,”
Cunningham continued.
THE CAMPUS CHEST Sweet
heart will be the nominee of the
BODJ
Kerri and Michelle Martin appear a little surprised by one of the more distinguished mem
bers of “The Great Pumpkin Patch,” a student architecture project exhibited in the Ar
chitecture Building. (Photo by W. R. Wright)
winning Corps unit or civilian
residence hall. The nominee who
receives the title will appear in
Civil Disorder
Cure Cited By
Lawyer Here
By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff Writer
Gail Whitcomb, head of the
Houston Police-Community Rela
tions Program, said here Wednes
day that both police and citi
zenry must co-operate to prevent
civil disorder.
In the second presentation of
the Great Issues series “The Peo
ple and the Cities,” Whitcomb
spoke to an audience of 100 in
the assembly room of the Me
morial Student Center.
Whitcomb, a prominent law
yer in the Houston area, was ap
pointed by Mayor Welch to head
the program after the rioting on
the campus of Texas Southern
University two years ago.
“We initiated a program that
would bring the patrolmen into
intimate contact with the citi
zens they were to protect,” said
Whitcomb. “Through the efforts
of the commission, we brought
together small groups of police
men and members of the Negro
community to air all grievances.”
He related how the members of
the force were able to gain in
sights into the problems of the
minority groups, while the people
could realize the problems en
countered by the police.
“By bringing the problems out
in the open, we were able to
bridge the communication gap,”
Whitcomb said. “In the past bru
tality of language was used as a
weapon, but we encouraged it to
give vent to the built-up pres
sures.”
In his discussion, Whitcomb
stressed the need for the citizen
to want to help his community.
He explained how the problems
of today’s urban areas related
to a lack of foresight in providing
for the development of the nation
as a predominantly urban civiliza
tion.
“The minority groups turned to
the city for jobs, housing and
education, but our cities were not
prepared,” said Whitcomb. “It is
the duty of the citizens to solve
their problems through under
standing and justice.”
the “Vanity Fair” section of The
Aggieland along with the band,
class, and civilian sweethearts.
The winner and her escort will
be given 50-yard-line seats to the
Nov. 16 Rice football game and
tickets to the Sam and Dave
Town Hall presentation and the
Alpha Phi Omega “Street Dance.”
One of the most important
beneficiaries of the money col
lected is the Aggie Emergency
Relief Fund. It gives money to
Aggies with an extreme financial
burden that is the result of an
emergency situation.
IN THE PAST, money has gone
to Cuban students stranded when
Castro took over their native
land, civilian students whose off-
campus residence burned with all
their clothes, and to married stu
dents that had impossible medical
expenses due to the serious ill
ness of their children.
On another occasion the fund
helped the family of an Aggie
date killed in a car accident. She
was the sole support of her two
sisters and invalid mother, and
the fund paid for funeral costs.
RainShowers
For Kickoff
Rain showers hover in Texas
A&M’s football weekend weather
picture, according to a revised
forecast from the Meteorology
Department weather station.
The possibility of scattered, in
termittent rain showers Friday,
Saturday morning and Saturday
afternoon is the result of a new
development in a Pacific cool
front.
Jim Lightfoot, station meteor
ologist, said the front is on
schedule but slowing down and
may not push through College
Station and Bryan until late Sat
urday or early Sunday.
Rainshowers associated with its
passage could develop into thun
dershowers later Saturday, he in
dicated.
A&M and Arkansas meet at
Kyle Field in a 1:30 p.m. contest
Saturday.
Game-time conditions under the
revised forecast include mostly
cloudy skies, scattered rainshow
ers, winds southeast 5 to 10 mph,
a temperature of 78 degrees and
70 per cent relative humidity,
Lightfoot predicted.
L T niversity National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Arkansas Kickoff
Set For 1:30P.M.
By JOHN PLATZER
Battalion Sports Editor
When the Southwest Confer
ence’s highest scoring offense
runs up against the circuit’s top
defense against scoring, some
thing is bound to break and
Coach Gene Stallings would just
as soon it breaks in favor of the
defense Saturday in Kyle Field.
The Aggies have allowed only
12.3 points per game as they en
ter the 1:30 contest while the
Porkers of Coach Frank Broyles
have lit up the scoreboard with
31 points per game. A&M has
averaged 19 points per outing
while Arkansas’ defense has al
lowed 18.
BOTH TEAMS enter the game
in a “must win” situation as the
defending SWC champions have
posted a 2-4 season and a 1-2
conference mark and the Hogs
have a 5-1 season and 2-1 SWC
record.
In the past the game has tra
ditionally served as a spring
board to the conference title.
A&M ruined Arkansas’ homecom
ing with a 33-21 verdict last sea
son on their way to the Cotton
Bowl and the Razorbacks have
begun November drives against
the Aggies that resulted in cham
pionships five times since 1959.
As a rookie coach in 1958,
Broyles brought an 0-6 team in
to College Station and left with
a 21-8 victory. Since that time
his teams have posted an overall
30-5 record in the month of No
vember.
A PAIR OF record shattering
quarterbacks will duel in the con
test as A&M’s Edd Hargett
throws against sophomore Bill
Montgomery. Hargett will prob
ably emerge from the game as
the greatest passer in SWC his
tory while Montgomery is on his
way to etching his name in the
University of Arkansas single
season record book.
A nine-yard pass will give
Hargett the all-time SWC lead
(See AGGIES, Page 6)
Serendipity Singers, Rodeo
Highlight Weekend Activities
By JANIE WALLACE
Battalion Staff Writer
Starting the ball rolling for
A&M’s third football weekend
will be the Serendipity Singers
in a Town Hall performance at
8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
Other events planned for the
night are the continuation of the
Aggie Players’ production of “The
Trojan Women” at Guion Hall,
an All-Aggie Rodeo held at the
Aggie arena, a free APO dance
at The Grove with “The Gypsy
Moth” band, and midnight yell
practice at Kyle Field.
A CORPS of Cadets march-in
at 12:20 p.m. Saturday will pre
cede the A&M-Arkansas game at
Kyle Field. During the game, 36
A&M students will act as “Big
Brothers” to orphans from Faith
Home in Houston.
Other activities include a folk
musical, “Good News,” at 7 p.m.
in Guion Hall, followed by the
“Trojan Women” at 8 p.m.
REPLACING the Four Seasons,
the Serendipity Singers will pre
sent a sound that has “the harder
quality and more meaningful lyr
ics of today’s popular music.”
Town Hall Chairman Louis
Adams noted A&M student ac
tivity card-ID and Town Hall
Series season tickets will be hon
ored for general admission- Date
and reserve seat tickets are on
sale at the Student Program Of
fice in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
The All-Aggie Rodeo is set for
Friday and Saturday with each
performance to start at 8 p.m.
PRECEDING Saturday’s game,
Lt. Gen. Harry H. Critz, com
manding general of the 4th Army,
will review the Corps of Cadets
graded march-in.
With the three-star general on
the reviewing stand will be Army
Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant;
Air Force Col. Vernon L. Head,
professor of aerospace studies;
and President Earl Rudder.
In the march-in, the Fish Drill
Team will make its first appear
ance. Thirty-five fourth class
cadets, representing 140 on the
team, will be commanded by
George Barrietos of San Antonio.
Also, three companies of the
Texas Maritime Academy mid
shipmen will participate in the
march-in.
The Student Senate Welfare
Committee will sponsor 36 or
phans from Faith Home in Hous
ton, so that they can attend the
Arkansas game.
Climaxing a week-long Chris
tian ethics program, “Good
News,” a folk musical, will fea
ture “The Expressions” from
Texas Tech.
TICKETS may be purchased
at the Baptist Student Union, or
at the door. Adults pay $1; stu
dents, 50 cents.
The new coffee house, “The
Basement,” in the Memorial Stu
dent Center provides a romantic
atmosphere with blue and black
lights and will feature John Roby
and Paul Northcut as live enter
tainment. The Basement will be
open 9-11:30 p.m. Friday and
7-12 p.m. Saturday.
★ ★ ★
University Dance
Set After Game
The junior class will present
an All-University Dance this Sat
urday after the Arkansas game,
announced Class President John
R. Gingrich.
The dance will be from 8-12
p.m. on the second floor of the
Memorial Student Center. The
band will be The U. S. Males,
formerly known as The Coast-
liners, from Houston.
Tickets are $2.50 per couple
and may be purchased from Rick
Risinger, 433 Keathley (dorm 16),
Ron Smith, dorm 5, room 407, or
any junior council member. They
may also be obtained at the door.
SERENDIPITY SOUND
The evolving sound of the Serendipity Singers will prevade
G. Rollie White Coliseum Friday in a Town Hall presenta
tion. The 8 p. m. performance replaces the Four Seasons.