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ahze; - the 251 ivid % for 1| ?lay, t cautii- firei ddle »1 1 alone Jnaltiei Pt, Mi; ie fish] icordj come t yne Vi}. ae act Che Battalion Number COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 SC ON A Announces Speakers, Chairmen e Fish n Lubi h Picai n how gainst m t The Fourteenth Student Con ference on National Affairs (SCONA XIV) will host a variety of internationally known person alities Dec. 4-7 at the Memorial Student Center. This year’s guests include CBS television newscaster Harry Reasoner, who will be round-up speaker- Other widely-known speakers include Walt Whitman Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs; Gen. Harold K. Johnson, retired Army hief of Staff; Edward Marcus, executive vice president of Nie- man-Marcus, Dallas, and first president of the National Asso ciation of the Partners of the Alliance, and Dr. James M. Buchanan, UCLA professor of economics. Thirteen Round-table co-chair men to date have been named, including the Hon. Yaacov Hess, Israel Consul General, Houston, and Dr. Otakar Turek, Third Sec retary, Embassy of the Czechos lovak Socialist Republic, Wash ington. SCONA was organized at A&M in 1965 to bring together out standing students from schools of the South and Southwest to discuss current issues of national and international scope. It has been expanded to include repre sentatives from colleges and uni versities throughout the U. S. and from Mexico and Canada. Theme for SCONA XIV is “The Limits and Responsibilities of U. S. Power.” Topic material will include the American commitment abroad; exercise of American political power; U- S. military programs in foreign countries and U. S. and Third Seminar fill Consider Urban Housing Minority housing will be dis cussed Thursday by Houston at torney Jackson C- Hinds as the third part of the Great Issues “People and Cities” Seminar. Hinds is chairman of the Hous ton Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Housing and is expected to approach the minority housing topic through discussion of Hous ton’s development of an urban plan for housing. Houston has rejected urban re newal plans in referendums and las had to rely on other methods for financing public housing, ac cording to Tom Fitzhugh of Waco, Seminar Series chairman. Hinds’ 8 p.m. presentation will ie in the Memorial Student Cen ter Assembly Room. Executive vice president and director of Houston Natural Gas and subsidiary companies, Hinds has seen Houston problems from various viewpoints. The Univer sity of Texas and Harvard Gradu ate School of Business graduate is a bank director, member of city, state and national bar as sociations and partner of a Hous ton law firm eight years. He has resided in the city the majority of his life and chairs the Southern Gas Association committee on regulatory informa tion. The seminar series provides op portunity to examine one of the nation’s most crucial domestic issues, the cities. Previous speak ers have discussed community re sponsibility and police-community relations. Future topics include media responsibility and factors of unrest. Fitzhugh said A&M students are admitted free to the seminar presentation. Faculty - staff and community patron admission is $1.50 or by $5 season ticket, good for all Great Issues programs. WEATHER Wednesday — Cloudy, winds Northerly 15-25 mph. High 61, low 48. Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, winds Northerly 10-15 mph. High 63, low 38. Dallas—Partly cloudy to cloudy, winds Southerly 15-25 mph. 67°. Humidity 47%. World Economy, plus an overview of the limits and responsibilities of U. S. power. The conference provides for student-conferee exposure to a variety of opinions with an op portunity to present and defend their own views. New Grad Seating Plan Announced For Rice Game GATE TMA To Give 30-Foot Log For Bonfire The Texas Maritime Academy will contribute a log to bonfire this year for the first time, in what they hope will become an annual practice. The log, said Charles E. Rus sell, TMA sophomore, is 30 feet long and about as big around as a telephone pole. The TMA students were on their annual summer cruise a- board the Alaminos when they docked in Oslo, Norway. There they had an opportunity to buy a log, and decided to bring it back for the bonfire. “We felt it would be a good thing to do,” said Russell, “and we got a kick out of doing it.” After purchasing the log, they lashed it on board the ship, near the starboard bow. From Oslo, the log went with the students on the rest of their cruise. From Oslo, it went to Amster dam, Lisbon, Gibralter, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, Corpus Christi, and finally to Galveston. The log is still aboard the Alaminos awaiting transportation to College Station. The students are hopeful that some Aggie-exes may help them with the transportation, but no thing is definite as yet. “This is the first time the TMA has participated in bonfire in this way,” said Russell, “and we hope it won’t be the last.” “We are thinking about bring ing back a log from the Mediter ranean for next year’s bonfire.” ★ ★ ★ Bonfire Meeting Set Wednesday By Day Students Day students will organize for bonfire work Wednesday, an nounced Joe Tijerina, chairman of the Day Student Action Com mittee. The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biologi cal Sciences Building. It is pri marily for males, but girls may attend if they desire. “I was really disappointed at last week’s turnout,” said Tijeri na in reference to last Wednes day’s meeting, where 50 people showed. “I’m hoping for a much better response this week. I urge anyone who is at all interested in working on bonfire to be sure to attend.” GATE GATE GATE 1 128 . . 129 CM 130 r 131 1 132 133 134 r 135 1 136 137 138 139 GATE Sections Allotted For 6 Consideration 9 I — in d 110 109 LJ 108 107 id 106 105 id 104 103 ;d 102 101 100 1 ?& X II ?o° 6 X 1 ?0°4 X y| pi k i k fi l 216 215 214 213 212 211 210 209 208 207 206 205 204 203 202 201 NEW SEATING ARRANGEMENT The diagram of upper-level seating on the east side of Kyle Field shows the new section designations for graduate students. Area A will be reserved for standing graduate stu dents, and Area B is to be used only by those students who want to sit down. New Registration Termed Not So Cold, Impersonal 9 Computer registration is not so cold and impersonal as some stu dents think it is, Dr. Charles McCandless, associate dean of liberal arts, told the Liberal Arts Council Monday. McCandless said that as a re sult of the new registration sys tem, every student now has an adviser with whom to discuss his course selections. “The only real drawback to computerized registration is that students will have no choice of professors,” he said. McCandless noted that some students would feel they de served better professors than the computer had scheduled for them. Councilman Geof Shoot sug gested that class schedules be changed from one hour classes meeting three times a week to hour and a half classes meeting twice a week. Shoot and Ron Hubert were ap pointed to study possibilities of class hours changes with H. L. Heaton, university registrar. Heaton will address the council Dec. 2 concerning the feasibility of longer classes in connection with computerized registration. The council chose Hubert and Richard Dubois to represent them on a February leadership trip sponsored by the MSC Leadership Committee. The committee is sending two members from each college on a cultural excursion to Dallas. John James, council member, mentioned that the suggestion box where Liberal Arts students could voice suggestions or griev ances will probably be placed next week in the rotunda of the Academic building. Computerized Housing Plan Begins With Pre-Registration Texas A&M students began registering Monday for spring semester housing during the uni versity’s computerized pre-regis tration and will continue until Dec. 6. Housing Manager Allan M. Madeley said spring semester housing arrangements will be made at the Cushing Building, between the new library and Academic Building, when the stu dent turns in his registration card packet. Spring semester classes begin Feb. 3. “Because pre-registration is taking place well in advance of the beginning of spring classes, all residence hall students will pre-register for the rooms they now occupy,” Madeley noted. “Rent and board fees will be as sessed on that basis,” he added. Procedures for changing rooms or residence halls for the next semester will be given at a later date. The housing manager said a student who pre-registers for a residence hall room but does not attend A&M next semester must cancel the room reservation by Jan. 15 in order not to forfeit room deposit. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. AND ANOTHER AGGIE BITES THE DUST David Hammitt “bails out” at the end of his competition in the bull riding event of the annual Aggie Rodeo here Saturday. One of the rodeo clowns moves in on the scene at right. (Photo by W. R. Wright) Menu Committee To Meet Thursday The Civilian Student Menu Committee will meet with uni versity food service officials Thursday at noon for its regular monthly discussion of Sbisa din ing operations, announced Edwin H. Cooper, director of civilian student activities. Cooper said the group will meet in the cash cafeteria and have lunch together. Any civilian student desiring to offer suggestions about the din ing operation is invited to con tact one of the committee mem bers and attend the luncheon meeting as his guest. Cooper said. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ings Centoi*. since 1019. BB&L -Adv. By DALE FOSTER Battalion Staff Writer A new ticket distribution scheme for graduate students at future home games has been an nounced by Graduate Student Council member Tony Benedetto. A three-man committee, com posed of Head Yell Leader Bill Youngkin, Student Life Commit tee Chairman Phil Callahan, and Benedetto, met Friday with Ath letic Business Manager Wally Groff to develop the new system. “AS PART of the plan, Sec tions 234 and 235 will be reserved for standing graduate students,” said Benedetto. “A special ‘Con sideration Section,’ Sections 236- 239, will be only for graduate and other students who wish or need to sit down.” The action grew out of a Wed nesday proposal by the Graduate Student Council which was passed Thursday in the form of a resolu tion by the Student Senate. Be cause of the change in seating arrangements, graduate students will be able to choose whether to stand or sit during the football game, effective the Rice game, Nov. 16. THE RESOLUTION read, “Sec tions 236-239, hereafter referred to as the ‘Consideration Section,’ shall be set aside for any student who wishes to sit down during the games. No distinction shall be made as to classification of the student or as to his reason for wishing to sit in the Consideration Section. “Sitting in the Consideration Section shall be added to the pres ent ticket distribution scheme as an option, i.e., any graduate stu dent who wishes to stand may still obtain tickets in the same manner as for the previous games, with ticket distribution moving south only from a point to be de termined by a committee com posed of the Head Yell Leader, a representative from the Graduate Student Council, and a member of the Student Life Committee.” ACCOMPANYING the resolu tion were three justifications for the Senate action. “Many graduate students who received baccalaureate degrees at other institutions do not wish, and should not be forced, to observe the Aggie tradition of standing during the game. This plan places all people who wish to sit during the game in one area of the upper deck where they will have the minimum number of people stand ing in front of them and blocking their view.” “BY PLACING the people who wish to take an active part in the Aggie football traditions in a physically smaller area, the yell leaders’ job of controlling the stu dents is made much simpler. In stead of being responsible for the control of people extending from behind the north end zone, the yell leaders would now assume responsibility only north of Sec tion 236 (approximately the south 15).” “The Consideration Section is not restricted to graduate stu dents for three main reasons. First the many undergraduates who are older people should not be expected to stand for the length of a football game. “SECOND, many students have pregnant wives who should cer tainly not be forced to undergo the strain of standing for such an extended period of time. “Third, students with older chil dren find football games a trying experience because the children are not tall enough to see what is going on, so the parents have the tiring task of holding them so they can watch the game.” Along with its recommendation to the Student Senate, the Gradu ate Student Council sent a letter commending Texas A&M and the student body and offering an ex planation for the Council’s action. THE EXPLANATION pointed out that the Graduate College has a current enrollment of about 2,650, of which approximately 1,600 or 60 per cent received their baccalaureate degrees at schools other than Texas A&M. It said that these people have come to A&M for the primary, and in some cases sole, purpose of ob taining an extremely high-quality graduate education. It added that while fully ap preciative of the value of Aggie traditions, most do not care to participate in many of these tra ditions and none cares to be forced into participating in any of them. The Graduate Council acknowl edged and acclaimed proud heri tage of A&M, which perhaps makes it the most tradition-rich school in the Southwest Confer- SPURRING UP Fish Rusty Mitchell of Squadron 9 and Fish Richard Till man of Company C-l adjust their bottlecap and coathanger spurs before jingle-jangling off to class. Corps freshmen are wearing their homemade spurs all week to prepare for the rough riding ahead when the Aggie football team tangles with the Southern Methodist University Mustangs in Dallas Saturday. (Photo by Bob Haltom)