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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1969
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By DAVE BERRY
Battalion Staff Writer
Texas A&M has an informal
philosophy discussion group which
operates on the principle of ulti
mate democracy; thus it works in
“ultimate disorganization.”
According to Jim Turley of Col
lege Station, the group’s informal
leader, this is the way the group
likes it. The senior philosophy
major explains that the discussion
group has no officers or leaders.
“I act only to get the meet
ings rolling,” he said. “I introduce
the topic and the speaker, then
let the group go its own way.
Generally, we branch out from
the original topic into other
topics. We might start by dis
cussing free will and determinism
but end by discussing some aspect
of Vietnam.
“WE MAINTAIN a completely
informal atmosphere — any stu
dent is free to speak up any time
during the discussion,” Turley
continues. “Similarly, the stu
dents are free to leave at any
time; there is no fixed stopping
point.
“Meetings usually begin at 7:30
every other Tuesday night. Dis
cussion on the prescribed topic is
generally finished by 9:30; in
deed, we may already be one or
two subjects beyond it.”
This philosophy discussion
group began during the fall of
1967 when several students taking
philosophy courses talked with
Dr. Manuel Davenport about their
interest in extending their class
discussions.
DR. DAVENPORT, head of the
Philosophy and Humanities De
partment, suggested that they be
gin informal “bull sessions.” So
the students called a meeting for
November of that year and have
been meeting regularly ever since.
‘Although we originally had no
specific purpose other than to
discuss philosophy,” Turley says,
“it has turned out that we are
accomplishing two things.
“First, the group is acquainting
people who are interested in phil
osophy with each other so that
they might continue discussions
personally; second, the discus
sions are supplementing classes
by expanding on their content.”
Turley emphasizes that the
group is not solely for philosophy
majors—it is for anyone who
wishes to participate. “Anyone
interested can learn when and
where a meeting is to be by
looking for announcements posted
in the Academic Building or ask
ing in the Philosophy Department
offices there,” he says.
‘Lower Depths’
Production Set
In Guion Hall
Man’s duplicity as seen by
Maxim Gorki in “The Lower
Depths” will be portrayed here
by the Aggie Players.
The third major production of
the fine arts group will open
March 17 at Guion Hall and run
six nights, announced Director
C. K. Esten.
The Russian morality play orig
inally titled “At The Bottom of
Life” conveys its message through
the actions of four former jail
birds and their conscientious, up
right, hard-working counterparts.
It is set in a Volga town at the
turn of the century.
“ ‘The Lower Depths’ is a par
able of life that bares the truth
and shows the value of illusion
to people whose lives seem to
have no worth or meaning,” Esten
said.
The Baron, portrayed by John
Friedrick, Satin by Travis Miller
and Peppel by Marc Fleishman
are former prison inmates. Luka,
played by James Dennis, also was
imprisoned but apparently re
formed.
Klestch, Screwy and the Tartar
played by George McCoy, Bill
Hobgood and Don Henry typify
the other end of the spectrum.
Cynical Bubnov, with Bruce Mc-
Kenty in the role, is honest in his
peculiar way.
Other cast members include
Lucy Bishop as Nastya; Thomas
Emshoff, Actor; Irene Fazzino,
Knashnya; Dodger Kloppe, Alesh
ka; Mike Link, Medvedev; Ann
Martin, Anna; Carl Masterson,
Kastylev; Michell Mayeux, Nata
sha, and Ruth Reeves, Vassilisa.
The play was first produced on
the Moscow Art Theater stage.
Under auspices of the Stage
Society of London, it was pre
sented again less than a year
later. Arthur Hopkins produced
the first English version on
Broadway in 1919.
| Study Of Ocean Presents
Promises, Problems: Geyer
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
“The study of the sea provides
both promises and problems for
the earth’s future,” Dr. Richard
A. Geyer, head of the Department
of Oceanography, told the Apollo
Club Thursday.
“The sea’s largest contribution
is minerals, especially petroleum,
from which it produces 16 per
cent of the free world’s total
production,” the committee mem
ber of the Academy of Science on
oceanography noted. He added
that within the next 20 years,
the sea will probably produce 30
per cent of the world’s total.
“The sea on a limited basis
is also providing gold from the
coastlines of Alaska, diamonds
from the coastlines of Africa, and
tin from the coastlines of Bo
livia,” the New York State Uni
versity graduate pointed out. “As
the demands for these items
grow,” he said, “mining opera
tions in the sea will increase.”
SAND IS another product the
sea contributes to industry. He
said new methods are going to
have to be found for obtaining
sand if found in large enough
quantities.
“Hydro-electric power is an
other field in which the potential
of the sea is increasing,” Geyer
said. He noted that France was
the first nation to build a hydro-
«lectric plant to obtain power
from tidal waves. Geyer said that
*hen electric power was needed
more than at the present time,
more nations will probably de-
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velop their own electrical plants
from the sea.
“Pollution and priority conflicts
are two problems that we must
solves if we are to use the sea
to our advantage in the future,”
the former chief oceanographer
of Texas Instruments pointed out.
“POLLUTION is largely due
to the dumping of city wastes
into the ocean, and the discharg
ing of hot water from nuclear
reactors, a special problem be
cause it lowers the temperature
of the ocean and causes changes
in its environmental processes,”
Geyer explained. Shrimp spawn
ing in the Gulf areas are now
having to find new areas due to
this discharging, the oceanogra
pher added.
Conflicts in the use of the sea
is an increasing problem, the
internationally-known researcher
said. “We must find ways of
solving the problems of commer
cial developments interfering
with coastal residents, he added.
As an example, he cited the Cali
fornia coastline where oil wells
distracted the residents’ view of
the ocean.
He said this had been partly
solved by building artificial sand
bar islands for the derricks.
Geyer noted that A&M’s Ocean
ography Department has a mod
ern laboratory, and in the future
plans to build a new complex in
Galveston on Pelican Island, with
a $1 million Moody Foundation
grant recently awarded the de
partment.
He added that the Navy plan
ned to donate another ship before
1972 to go with the Alaminos,
the vessel presently used for re
search by the department.
Senate Calls Referendum
On Voting Age Measure
Changes Proposed
In University Regs
REGULATIONS CHANGES EXPLAINED
Student Senator Collier Watson, left, explains one of his committee’s proposed University
Regulations changes to Public Relations Chairman Bob Burford, right. At center is Wel
fare Chairman David Howard. (Photo by John Fuller)
House-Senate Battle Looms
Over Campus Disruption Bill
By LEE JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN tTP)—A House-Senate
battle shaped up Thursday over
a bill outlawing violent campus
Youth Drugs Use
Topic Of Seminar
Use of drugs among teenagers
will be discussed here Tuesday in
a Health Education Seminar.
Dr. Joe Tupin, psychiatric re
search director and associate dean
of medicine at the University of
Texas Medical Branch in Galves
ton, will make the 4 p.m. talk in
the library seminar room, an
nounced Dr. Carl Landiss.
The Health and Physical Edu
cation Department head said in
terested 1 students and faculty are
welcome.
A 1955 University of Texas at
Austin graduate, Tupin received
his M.D. at Galveston and in
terned at the University of Cali
fornia in San Francisco.
He was resident in psychiatry
at Galveston two years and
served as clinical associate at the
National Institute of Mental
Health at Bethesda, Md., from
1962 to 1964.
Nominations Open
For Vanity Fair
Nomination forms for Vanity
Fair semi-finalists will be avail
able until through March 31 at
the Student Publications Office,
Information Services building,
according to James Creel, Aggie-
land editor.
Creel said that any member of
the senior class may nominate a
girl for the honor.
A 5-man selection board will
narrow the nominations to 12
finalists who will be invited to
the Student Publications banquet
May 16. Guests at the banquet
will then vote on six girls for
the honor.
Members of the selection board
are Edwin Cooper, director of
civilian student activities; J.
Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center; Gene
Stallings, head football coach and
athletic director; Dr. William C.
Gibbons, head, department of
Political Science; and Gene Sut-
phen of Aggieland Studios.
disruptions as Sen. Oscar Mauzy
of Dallas accused Rep. Joe Shan
non of Fort Worth, the sponsor,
of “trying to demagogue it.”
The House did all of Thursday’s
legislating, including final pas
sage of a bill raising benefits for
injured workers, as the Senate
failed to muster a quorum.
Shannon got quick approval,
136-7, of a conference committee
report on his bill making it a mis-^
demeanor to take part in violent
disorders at private or public
schools or colleges. But Mauzy,
one of two Senate conferees who
refused to sign the report, pre
dicted the Senate would reject it
and call for a new conference
committee.
MAUZY said the three senators
who signed “withdrew their sig
natures last night” and both
Shannon and Speaker Gus Mut-
scher knew it.
“He’s just playing games. He
is just trying to demagogue it,”
Mauzy said.
The bill went to conference be
cause Shannon objected to an
amendment by Mauzy that re
placed a House provision guaran
teeing students the right to pro
test peacefully.
Mauzy’s amendment incorpo
rated language from a U.S. Su
preme Court decision issued last
month in the case of a Des
Moines, Iowa, school girl who was
disciplined for wearing a black
armband as a protest against the
Vietnam War.
THE MAUZY statement said:
“This act does not apply to any
person who expresses his opinion
without materially and substan
tially interfering with appropriate
discipline in the operation of any
private or public school or insti
tution of higher learning. This
act does apply to any person who
materially disrupts or involves
substantial disorder or invasion
of the rights of others.”
The conference committee
changed this to: “Nothing herein
shall be construed to infringe
upon any right of free speech or
expression guaranteed by the
WEATHER
Saturday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind Northerly 10 to
20 mph. High 54, low 37.
Sunday — Partly cloudy. Wind
Easterly 10 to 15 mph. High
61, low 34.
Constitution of the United States
or the State of Texas.”
All House conferees and Sens.
William Moore, Bryan; David
Ratliff, Stamford; and H. J.
Blanchard of Lubbock signed the
report.
MAUZY said the three signers
had come around to his point of
view that the only way to guar
antee the bill’s constitutionality
was to retain the Mauzy amend
ment. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes said
he would talk to the Senate con
ferees Monday. None of the three
could bo reached for comment.
Shannon’s bill would make it a
misdemeanor to participate in a
violent campus disruption, includ
ing occupying buildings, breaking
up classes, blocking campus gate
ways and preventing passage
through corridors. Penalties in
clude fines of $l-$200 and-or jail
sentences of 10 days to six
months.
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Student Senate voted
Thursday to allow women visita
tion of men’s dormitories, and will
send the recommendation, along
with other proposed regulation
changes, to the University Rules
and Regulations Committee for
final action.
The Senate also empowered
Senate President Bill Carter to
speak on its behalf favoring a
lower voting age in Texas and
called for a student referendum
on the issue by March 18.
Most of the regulation changes
were in the form of rewording
existing sections to update the
bluebook and enumerate student
rights. Some changes, however,
will significantly alter student
campus life.
WOMEN in men’s dormitories
was one of the bigger issues. The
proposed change allows women in
dormitories from 9 a.m. to 7:30
p.m. on weekends, in addition to
special occasions. It was passed
after much debate by a 4-vote
margin.
“I feel this is in the poorest of
taste,” stormed Robert Edge-
comb, College of Business senior
representative. “It will give Ag
gies a bad image. We have more
noble and glorious things to de
vote our energies to than this.”
Dormitory room search was an
other proposed change. The
change requires that one occupant
and the unit commander or resi
dent adviser be present whenever
a room is searched by a univer
sity official. Despite a small mi
nority, the senators believed this
was protection for the student.
“THIS protects both the stu
dent and the university from ac
cusations concerning a room
check,” noted Collier Watson,
chairman of a four-man subcom
mittee studying regulation revi
sion.
A third change proposed by the
Senate concerned the activity
points system, designed to keep a
student from becoming involved
in more extracurricular activities
than he can handle.
At first the Senate was content
to reclassify some campus posi
tions. Then David Howard, Sen
ate Welfare committee chairman,
and others noted that the list
failed to include some offices.
Others wanted to reclassify the
reclassifications.
Marriage Counselor To Talk
At YMCA’s Forum Tuesday
A University of Texas at Aus
tin lecturer whose interest in fam
ily and marriage counseling took
him back to school for advance
studies will address A&M stu
dents Tuesday.
Dr. Robert Ledbetter, the sec
ond in a series of four Marriage
Forums’ speakers sponsored by
the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation, will discuss “Making
Marriage Meaningful.”
Editorships Open
For Applications
Applications are now being ac
cepted for 1969-70 editorships of
six student publications, an
nounced Jim Lindsey, Student
Publications Board chairman.
Lindsey said application forms,
available in the Student Publica
tions Office in the Services Build
ing, should be completed and re
turned by April 10.
New editors will be formally
announced at the annual Student
Publications Banquet May 16.
The positions include editor of
The Battalion (also summer edi
tor), Aggieland, The Review, the
Texas A&M Agriculturist, The
Southwestern Veterinarian and the
Texas AM Engineer.
Ledbetter will speak at 7:30
p.m. in Room 321 of the Physics
Building. Questions to be an
swered include “What are the
significant emotional problems
which develop during the earlier
period of marriage?;” “What are
the more common conflicts?;”
“Immaturity — the killer of ro
mance,” and “Why the ‘boom’ in
high school and college mar
riages ? ”
A graduate of UT, Ledbetter
did graduate work at SMU and
earned his B.D. and Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago.
Since 1961, Ledbetter has been
engaged in private marriage coun
seling, counseling at the UT
Health Center and visiting lec
turer in the Sociology Depart
ment.
Logan Weston, YMCA general
secretary, said the association,
being a Christian organization,
places great “value on marriage
as an institution.”
“It is hoped that better mar
riage education programs will re
sult in more successful mar
riages,” he said. He pointed out
the purpose of the weekly series
of Marriage Forums will provide
“adequate information to young
people who are interested in the
many problems of marriage.”
Gary Martin, sophomore class
president, advocated awarding
band members two activity points
due to their heavy load in after-
hours effort on behalf of the
school. The end result was a rec
ommendation by the Senate that
the entire section be stricken from
the regulations.
Carter told senators that he
would be before the State Legis
lature March 18, and he asked the
Senate for power to speak for the
A&M student body in favor of a
lower voting age in Texas. A
storm of protest followed, with
some senators claiming that with
out some sort of poll Carter
could not speak for the students.
OTHERS retorted that, as rep
resentatives of the student body,
a vote by the senators would give
an accurate reflection of student
feeling on the campus.
Paschal Redding, senior College
of Science representative, moved
to empower Carter to speak for
the Senate in favor of a lower
voting age. James Stephenson,
junior Liberal Arts representa
tive, then moved that the Elec
tion Commission hold a poll to
discern student opinion on the
issue. He chastised the Senate for
“shaking it off” in regard to
taking student opinion when the
chance presented itself. Both mo
tions passed.
Howard told the group that the
(See SENATE CALLS, Page 4)
Freshman Dies
While Taking
Exercise Test
An 18-year-old freshman in the
Corps of Cadets collapsed and
died Thursday afternoon while
undergoing physical training with
his unit.
The youth was identified as
Lyle Thomas Stein, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey A. Stein, Route
1, Hondo.
Air Force Col. Vernon L. Head,
professor of aerospace studies,
said Stein collapsed about 5:25
p. m., just as he and several
other cadets completed a one-
mile run. The run was part of
the prescribed and closely super
vised Air Force 5BX training
program, the colonel noted.
Fellow students said Stein
“just stopped breathing.” He was
rushed to the university hospital
before being transferred to Bry
an’s St. Joseph Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead. He was
given mouth-to-mouth resuscita
tion enroute to the hospital. Col.
Head said.
Justice of the Peace Jess Mc
Gee ruled death due to natural
causes.
Stein, a graduate of Hondo
High School, was majoring in
agricultural engineering. He was
a member of Squadron 6.
Funeral arrangements are
pending at Callaway-Jones Fu
neral Home in Bryan.
Commission Posts
WithoutCandidates
“Sophomore and junior posi
tions on the election commis
sion still need candidates to
file for them, according to
Gerald Geistweidt, commission
president.
Deadline for filing for any
class office is 5 p.m. today.
Applications are available at
the Student Program office in
the Memorial Student Center,
he said.
Geistweidt added that at
least one person had filed for
each of the other positions on
the ballot.
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