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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
BROADWAY HIT
avid Atkinson is crowned with the golden helmet in “Man of La Mancha,” prize-win-
ling Broadway musical spectacular to take an 8 p. m. curtain Monday in the Bryan Civic
Auditorium. Patricia Marand stars with Atkinson in the Rotary Community Series per-
! ormance. Texas A&M student tickets for this performance only can be purchased at
;he MSC Student Program Office.
Smash Broadway Musical,
Man Of La Mancha, 9 Here
_ The Broadway hit, “Man of
ILa Mancha,” which won every
for best musical and five
B’ony awards, including “Best
Musical Play,” will be on the
^ Bryan Civic Auditorium stage
Monday. Curtain is at 8 p.m.
As a Rotary Community Series
3 presentation in cooperation with
^—~|jthe Town Hall committee, admis-
3-spi*Kon will be by series season
!46-21«
tickets or A&M student single
event tickets for this play only.
A limited number of student
tickets, at $2 each, are available
at the Student Program Office in
the Memorial Student Center.
The timeless, unembellished
story of Don Quixote and his
passionate idealism stars David
Atkinson and Patricia Marand
in the Albert Selden-Hall James
tale Liquor Laws No Control
ver Consumption-Sen. Bates
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ary l! K Texas’ present liquor laws do
of theiftot control consumption, declared
./alia* state legislator here Wednesday.
’ b and« u ^ are a means of “people who
Ateirfhave it denying it to those who
r of 'don’t.”
“Texans are sticking their
pinheads in the sand on liquor laws ”
k Bated Senator .Tomes S. Bates of
I Edinburg.
* I The author and proponent of
■quor by the drink and minibottle
ent* 1 ' 1 l|ill S a Pohbcal Forum noon
e iliscussion audience that his ef-
|orts are aimed at trying to
legitimatize use of alcohol as a
Irink since people use it that
Way. He believes a sizable tax
per drink will hcdp curtail use
best.
“PEOPLE ARE people,” he re-
minded. “Since man has learned
[to ferment and distill spirits, he
K going to drink it.” Texas’ pre-
Q&ent laws make it easier to obtain
[liquor in large quantities and al-
s A'f|low consumption in difficult-to-
force conditions, Bates ob-
erved.
He cited figures showing that
inters obtaining dry conditions
CUflfg 0 no, f control consumption. The
■13 Texas counties that are wet
i lude eight million persons. Less
JCE Rhan three and a half million re-
^^Bide in the other counties.
“There are 375 private clubs
Bn the 141 dry counties in Texas,”
Be stated. He proffered a list of
ia Ijf, the states private clubs.
I “IN DALLAS, one downtown
20' Brecinct including the hotels
Bhere tourists stay is wet. In the
purrounding dry precincts, there
E 70 private clubs doing a mil-
, uraifi^ 011 dollar a year business,” he
gerV0 |l Abilene is the location of two
Bhurch schools and is quite re-
IlgS ligious in nature. It has 37 pri
vate clubs,” he reported.
“Those that vote dry, drink
0 Jvet,” Bates observed.
AlK* summer of 1962 during
religious convention in Houston,
19 fB* liquor dealer told Bates that
WEATHER
_ Thursday — Cloudy, light rain,
rjfflr I Wind South 10 to 15 mph., be
coming Northerly 10 to 15 mph.
High 68, low 53.
Friday — Cloudy. Wind North
10 to 20. High 48, low 41.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
seven stores in the Shamrock-
Hilton Hotel area required a
truckload more liquor per day
than normal.
PRIVATE CLUBS circumvent
the “no open saloon in Texas”
law in Article 16, Section 20, of
the constitution and beat logical
tax requirements.
“We need legislation to cut the
hypocrites out of joining and hid
ing to do their drinking,” the
Waelder native said. “Either they
do it in public and pay the tax
bill, or don’t do it at all.”
“I don’t think a wet area should
have to pay—through taxes on
beer, whiskey and wine—for pol
icing dry areas,” Bates went on.
The ex-alcoholic and Baptist
Church member said dealers don’t
want people buying booze in small
amounts where they now must
buy it in large sizes.
“We’re not trying to put those
in business out of business,” he
said, “just legitimatize others who
are doing it illegally.”
Bates said he or Senator Joe
Christie of El Paso—whoever is
first recognized—will introduce a
bill next week in attempts to le
galize sale of liquor by the mini
bottle.
“I think we stand a 50-50
chance,” he claimed. “Twenty-
eight of the 31 men in the Texas
Senate voted dry in 1963. Only
15 voted dry last summer.”
Error Delays
GRE Scores
Scores on the Graduate Rec
ord Examinations taken last
December will not be available
until February.
The delay, said S. A. Kerley,
director of the Counseling and
Testing Center, is due to an
error by the Educational Test
ing Service.
Graduating seniors needing
their scores for admission to
graduate school can stop by
the Testing Center, room 107,
Academic Building. Arrange
ments will then be made for
a copy of the GRE scores to
be sent to the school requesting
them.
If the scores are not needed
immediately, seniors should
leave a stamped self-addressed
envelope at the center. Grades
will be mailed as soon as they
are received.
Educator To Address
Saturday’s Graduates
production. Also featured in the
cast are Louis Criscuolo, Seymour
Penzer, Ronn Carroll, Richard
Frock, Mark Ross, Lynn Carroll,
Marlse Counsell and Edmon Var-
rato.
The widely acclaimed musical
scored in theatrical history only
through the combination of Dale
Wasserman’s story, which puts
the character of Don Quixote in
tender perspective against the
harsh background of workaday
life, and the music of Mitch Leigh
and Joe Darion, including “The
Impossible Dream,” “Dulcinea,”
“Man of La Mancha” and “What
Does He Want of Me?”
Staging of the National Per
forming Arts tour production is
directed by Albert Marre. Chore
ography is Jack Cole’s responsi
bility; scenery and lighting, How
ard Bay, and costumes, Patton
Campbell and Bay.
Directors Uphold Decision
To Dismiss Yet Prof Gibbs
Ross Volunteers
To Guard Smith
At Inauguration
The traditional Texas gover
nor’s honor guard will be formed
on the steps of the state capitol
Tuesday by the Ross Volunteers
for the inauguration of Gov. Pres
ton Smith.
Noon formation of the historic
guard by 119 cadets will be the
Ross Volunteers Company’s first
official appearance of the 1968-69
school year.
As the Texas governor’s official
honor guard, the company will
march in the Tuesday afternoon
Inaugural Parade and attend the
Inaugural Ball that night.
RV cadets attended the Nov. 26
world premier of the Alley The
ater in Houston and will make
several other official appearances
besides the inauguration later this
year.
Commanded by Robert J. Foley
of Premont, the RV company is
the oldest organization on the
A&M campus. It was formed in
1887 and was known initially as
the Scott Volunteers. The com
pany was renamed for A&M
President and Gov. Lawrence Sul
livan Ross in 1890. It adopted
successive presidents’ names until
1905, when President H. H. Har
rington requested the company
be given the permanent name
honoring Governor Ross.
Degree Candidates
Urged To Note List
All degree candidates are urged
to check the list of candidates
meeting a 1 1 academic require
ments posted in the foyer of the
Richard Coke Building.
Each candidate, noted H. L.
Heaton, director of admissions
and registrar, should check today
or Friday to be certain he is eli
gible to participate in commence
ment exercises Saturday at 10
a.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Heaton also noted that a meet
ing of undergraduate candidates
will be held Friday at 5 p.m. in
the Coliseum.
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
Dr. Leon W. Gibbs, professor
of veterinary medicine, was dis
missed from the university Tues
day as the result of a hearing
conducted by a panel of A&M
professors last fall.
The action became official when
the A&M Board of Directors an
nounced that it supported the
faculty committee decision and
would not review the case.
GIBBS WAS charged April 18
with nine counts of misconduct,
an action he charged was brought
on by “marital difficulties.” Char
ges that the A&M administration
had denied Gibbs academic due
process resulted in censure by
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors April 26.
A faculty hearing was conduct
ed Sept. 24-27 and the findings
were sent to the Board of Direct
ors for consideration.
Among the charges against
Gibbs were that he made immoral
advances toward two female em
ployes, hampered activities in his
Add-Drop Plan
Explained By
A&M Registrar
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
The period for adding or drop
ping courses for the spring se
mester will run from Jan. 27 to
Feb. 7, announced Registrar R. A.
Lacey. No extra charge will be
assessed for the procedure, he
emphasized.
Lacey explained that the first
step for adding or dropping a
course from a student’s schedule
is to contact the adviser who pre
registered the student.
If the adviser approves the
student’s request to drop or add
the courses, he has him fill out
a form to be submitted to Room
212 of the Coke Building for proc
essing. The new schedule will be
ready the next day.
A student who needs courses
at specific times for work or for
other legitimate activities should
not contact his adviser but go
to the dean of his college, re
marked Lacey.
He cannot participate in the
add or drop procedure, Lacey
remarked, unless he has paid all
assessed fees and has received
the computerized class schedule.
A student should be sure before
he drops a course because once
he does, it becomes final, and
a new schedule is processed for
the student, Lacey said.
Courses can be added if space
is available and there is no con
flict in the student’s class sched
ule. If a course can’t be added
the student will keep his present
schedule.
Each student who desires to
add one or more courses should
make out a trial schedule to make
sure that at least one schedule
is possible, Lavey reminded.
A delayed registration period
will be held Jan. 27-31 to register
those who did not participate in
the computer registration pro
gram. No charge will be assessed
these students.
A late registration period will
be held for students who did not
participate in the delayed regis
tration period Feb. 3-7. A charge
of $4.00 will be assessed those
who register late.
Packets for students who regis
ter late or during the delayed
period can be picked up in the
registrar’s office in the Coke
Building, Lacey said.
He said that the last day that
a course can be dropped without
a grade is Feb. 7.
FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home
of the Super C D - 5% interest
compounded daily.
and other departments, made in
temperate remarks to students
regarding their religious convic
tions and tried to shock a female
co-worker. He was also charged
with a poor research performance.
GIBBS SAID Wednesday that
he would ask the AAUP to review
the procedures used in the faculty
hearing.
“It’s carrying the thing as far
as I can through legal channels,”
he said.
Gibbs said that the two most
damaging charges were those
concerning immoral advances
made to the female employes.
“This supposedly happened in
1954 and 1959; yet I received
promotions in 1957 and 1963 with
only passing reference to the
charges,” he continued.
Gibbs also pointed out that the
five-man faculty committee was
split with a 3-2 vote for dismissal
and that if he had been able to
produce witnesses on his behalf,
the vote might have been differ
ent.
“THIS SUPPOSEDLY hap
pened 14 years ago and the prin
cipals involved have scattered so
that I couldn’t find some of
them,” he concluded.
Dr. Manuel Davenport, head of
the Department of Philosophy
and president of the local AAUP
chapter, said Gibbs can still ask
the national AAUP committee on
academic freedom and tenure to
review his case.
“Gibbs hasn’t yet exhausted all
rights of review to which he is
entitled by due process accord
ing to the principles of the
AAUP. If he requests such a re
view, the AAUP must reserve
judgement until the review is
completed,” Dr. Davenport said.
DR. DAVENPORT emphasized
that the AAUP would consider
the procedures used in the hear
ing, not the decision rendered.
As the result of the Board’s
decision, the matter is settled as
far as the university is concerned.
Amnesty Declared
On Overdue Rooks
Monday has. been declared a
day of grace for all persons hold
ing books overdue at the library
announced Dr. James P. Dyke,
director.
No questions will be asked and
no fines charged on overdue books
returned to the circulation desk
between 8 a.m. and 12 midnight
Monday, he said.
“It is hoped this grace period
will prompt retui-n of overdue or
‘lost’ materials so they will be
available for other library pa
trons’ use,” Dyke added.
He stressed that the grace per
iod applies only to Monday. Ove: -
due materials returned on other
dates will incur the usual fine.
The question now is when it will
be possible for the A&M censure
to be lifted.
Dr. Davenport explained that
there was a good chance of the
matter being settled before the
national meeting of the AAUP in
May and that the censure on
A&M could possibly be lifted at
that time.
Joe Buser, special assistant to
A&M President Earl Rudder, ex
plained the university position
Wednesday.
“TEXAS A&M follows the rules
of the Coordinating Board of the
Texas College and University
System and the rules were fol
lowed in this case,” he said.
The regulations call for the
findings of the faculty committee
to be submitted to the university
(See Gibbs’ Page 2)
Flu Loosens Grip
On Brazos County
The influenza epidemic that has
enveloped Brazos County for the
past month is now loosening its
grip, according to the County
Health Office.
During the week of Dec. 28,
234 cases of influenza were re
ported. By Jan. 4, 342 additional
cases had been recorded and an
other 351 by last Saturday.
Dr. Kenneth L. Nelson, director
of the University Hospital, said
that the campus has been fortu
nate in the low number of influ
enza cases reported.
“Most of the students who have
contracted influenza did so while
they were at home over the holi
days,” said Dr. Nelson.
“We are reluctant to classify
a student’s symptoms as the Hong
Kong flu because of the wide
range of signs, such as a cold,
headache, or upset stomach.
Actor Adrian
To Perform In
‘By George’
A portraiture of famous play
wright - critic George Bernard
Shaw will be presented here Fri
day by TRW Systems Inc. and the
Aggie Playei'S.
British actor Max Adrian, in
whom critics see an uncannily
believable Shaw, will portray
GBS at three stages of his adult
career in the 8 p.m. staging of
“By George” at Guion Hall.
Adrian’s “painting” begins with
Shaw’s research as a vibrant,
waspish newspaper critic certain
of his own brilliance. The second
stage, Shaw’s arrival, reveals the
great writer at
his peak and
marriage to
Irish millionair
ess Charlotte
Payne - Town-
shend.
In the final
part of “By
George,” Adrian
vignettes
the white-beard
ed patriarch at
his eminence,
sounding
off with Shavian
candor on his
sex life, drama
and the aged’s
reconcil-
iation with God.
“By George”
parallels the re
cent CBS - TV
special featur
ing Hal H o 1 -
brook as Mark
Twain. Emlyn
Williams also
made a success
ful one-man
show with a
‘ ‘ reading ’ ’ as
Charles Dickens.
Adrian’s special
tour perform
ance for TRW
Systems rates
right with them,
according to British and U. S.
drama critics.
The program arranged by Mi
chael Voysey from Shaw’s letters,
critiques and interviews and tied
by selected biographical facts,
appeared at the 1966 Edinburgh
Festival, made a later triumphant
London engagement and a suc
cessful Broadway run in the fall
of 1967.
TRW sponsors the original pro
duction comedy hit as a new
approach to business-educational
relations. “By George” has been
staged at Harvard, Columbia,
Rensselaer and Princeton on the
tour. Adrian appeared at several
other Southwest universities and
will go to UCLA from A&M.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Dr. John C. Stevens, commence
ment speaker for A&M’s mid
term graduating class, will dis
cuss “Articulation and Involve
ment: The Educated Man’s Re
sponsibilities” at the 10 a.m. cere
monies Saturday in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Stevens is assistant president
of Abilene Christian College.
Admissions Dean H. L. Heaton
said 920 students have applied for
graduation. “Although past ex
perience has shown a large num
ber of mid-term students, partic
ularly on the graduate level, elect
to postpone completion of their
studies until spring,” Heaton
pointed out.
HEATON NOTED, however, the
January class this year will
almost certainly top the record
673-member class last year.
Military commissioning cere
monies will be held in the Coli
seum at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Air
Force Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Agan,
commander of the Aerospace De
fense Command at Ent AFB,
Colo., will speak on the changing
world and the challenges the new
officers must meet.
He will also discuss America’s
aerospace defenses with emphasis
on the need for more sophisti
cated defenses to meet the threat
of Soviet activities in space.
COL. J. H. McCOY, comman
dant, said 112 cadets are sched
uled for commissions, including
74 Army, 34 Air Force and four
Marine Corps.
Dr. Stevens, (a native of Rich
land), joined the ACC faculty in
1948 as assistant professor of
history. He was named dean of
men in 1950, dean of students in
1952 and assistant president four
years later.
The World War II chaplain re
ceived his B.A. degree from ACC
and M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of Arkansas. He also
attended the University of Colo
rado and was enrolled in the
Chaplain’s School of the U. S.
Army at Harvard during the war.
GENERAL AGAN, a graduate
of the University of Texas, has
served 31 years in the military.
The 53-year-old San Antonio na
tive was commissioned after
flight training at Randolph and
Kelly Fields in 1937.
He flew 45 missions and com
piled 220 combat hours as a
World War II fighter group com
mander in Italy before being shot
down over Weiner-Neustadt. He
later commanded various fighter
wings and air divisions.
First Conference
On Sea Resources
Convenes Today
Texas’ first comprehensive con
ference on marine resources open
ed here today.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, A&M vice
president and conference director,
said the two-day meeting includes
25 speakers discussing top
ics ranging from ocean technol
ogy to marine commerce.
Purpose of the meeting, Cal
houn noted, is to acquaint Texans
with a variety of marine activities
involving industry, government
and education.
One topic which will be covered
in detail is the Sea Grant Pro
gram, for which Congress ap
propriated funds to accelerate na
tional development of marine re
sources. The program is admin
istered by the National Science
Foundation.
A&M, one of six universities
chosen for major Sea Grant pro
grams, was awarded a $475,000
NSF grant last June for first-
year operations in a proposed
five-year program to develop ma
rine resources along the Gulf of
Mexico.
The conference is part of
A&M’s Sea Grant program, Cal
houn pointed out.
First-day speakers for the meet
ing include Dr. S. Fred Singer,
deputy assistant secretary of the
Department of Interior; Dr. Rob
ert B. Able, director of NSF’s Of
fice of Sea Grant Programs; and
John C. Fry of the National Coun
cil on Marine Resources and En
gineering Development, all of
Washington.