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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1968
Telephone 845-2226
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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)