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VOLUME 64 Number 82
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
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By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Student Forum, a student- ideas the students have,
oriented gripe session, takes place
Mauro explained. “Then we’ll purpose of the Forum is to rep-
open the floor to questions or resent the civilian student body,”
Mauro remarked. “This type of
Any legitimate question will session can help student govern-
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tonight in the Assembly Room of
the Memorial Student Center, an
nounced Garry Mauro, junior yell
leader and chairman of the For
um Committee.
The 7 p.m. meeting, sponsored
by the Civilian Student Council,
will coincide with the annual
MSC personnel drive, Mauro not
ed. He added that students may
enter or leave the session at any
time.
“EACH OF the panel members
will first give a short talk on the
subject he has specialized in,”
be answered, or at least attempt
ed, by the panel,” he added.
Appearing with Mauro will be
Kirby Brown, freshman class
president, speaking on freshman
student problems; David Maddox,
Student Senate vice-president,
student-administration relations;
Ernie Godsey, Hughes Hall presi
dent, student laundry committee
and Andy Scott, the new resi
dence hall program. Mauro will
discuss the student menu com
mittees.
“The CSC believes the sole
Lawmakers Pass Disorder Bill
With ‘Hard Feelings’ Showing
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'AUSTIN (jP)—With hard feel
ings showing in both houses, Tex
as legislators completed action
Monday on a bill outlawing vio
lent disorders on private, public
school and college campuses.
Senate failure to give a two-
thirds majority vote to the con
ference committee report on the
measure means it won’t take ef
fect until 90 days after the legis
lature adjourns on June 2.
SPONSORS had intended for
the bill to take effect immediately
upon Gov. Preston Smith’s sig
nature so it would be available
Knapt To Speak
On Redistricting
State redistricting problems
will be discussed here Thursday
in a Political Forum noon lunch
eon.
Texas Rep. Walter L. Knapt
Jr. of Amarillo, Congressional
and Legislative District Commit
tee chairman, will be featured at
the Memorial Student Center
program.
Political Forum chairman Ron
Hinds of Midland said the pres
entation will be in Rooms 2A and
B of the MSC. Sack lunches and
a beverage are available at nom
inal charges.
A House member since he de
feated an incumbent Republican
in 1962, Knapt twice headed the
judicial redistricting committee.
He was on the conference com
mittee drafting the new Texas
Code of Criminal Procedure un
der which the state now operates.
He also is member of state af
fairs, revenue and taxation, oil,
gas and minerals and common
carriers committees.
The 36-year-old lawmaker
studied for undergraduate and
law degrees at the University of
Texas at Austin, completing
work in 1959. He served as a
commissioned officer with the
25th Infantry in Korea and is
now a reserve captain.
Knapt was first assistant and
chief felony prosecutor under
two Amarillo district attorneys,
entered private law practice in
1961 and taught government at
Amarillo College night school.
if nationwide campus disruptions
spread to Texas schools.
While the Senate was engaged
in a sometimes bitter debate over
the student disorders bill, Joe
Shannon, Fort Worth, was as
sailing Sen. Oscar Mauzy, Dallas,
for statements Mauzy made to
newsmen Thursday about the
conference report.
Mauzy was author of a Senate
amendment to the bill that would
guarantee students the right
to protest peacefully. Mauzy’s
amendment was discarded by the
conference committee and differ
ent language was substituted.
Mauzy claimed his amendment,
which incorporated a recent U.S.
Supreme Court opinion, was nec
essary to keep the bill constitu
tional. He told newsmen the three
senators who signed the confer
ence report had withdrawn their
names, and that Shannon, the
bill’s sponsor, and Speaker Gus
Mutscher knew it when the House
approved the report Thursday.
“AT NO TIME was I ever ad
vised that any Senate conferee
withdrew his name and I have
not been so advised even until
the present time,” Shannon said.
“Also, to my knowledge the
chair (Mutscher) was not and
even now has not been so ad
vised.”
“It is my feeling,” Shannon
continued, “that the offending
senator owes an immediate apol
ogy not to me personally, but to
the entire membership of this
House, for impugning the integri
ty of the man chosen by us all
to guide us through this legis
lative session.”
The measure makes it a mis
demeanor to participate in violent
campus disorders and provides
punishment up to a $200 fine and
six months in jail.
Later Monday, the Senate State
Affairs Committee approved a
bill by Mauzy incorporating the
Supreme Court language into as
yet unsigned law. Sen. Bill Moore,
Bryan, committee chairman and
one of the three conferees who
signed the report on Shannon’s
bill, said he felt Mauzy wanted
to give the House a chance to
pass his proposed safeguards.
This would give Smith the final
say-so.
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BASKETBALL BUMPER BANNERS
Student Publications secretary Charlotte McCarroll smiles
down at the latest in bumper stickers held by Charles Row-
ton, president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic
society. SDX is selling the easy-on, easy-off vinyl strips
in the Exchange Store, Memorial Student Center Gift Shop,
and the Student Publications office. (Photo by Bob Palmer)
ment channel its energies in the
directions that students feel are
most important.
“HOPEFULLY, he continued,
“this type of session will bring
some new ideas to the surface
that haven’t been brought out
before.”
Mauro also noted that the for
um “is not out to defend what
student government is doing and
has done, nor is it going to pat
the administration on the back.”
Its purpose, he believes, is to im
prove student government - stu
dent communications.
Mauro commented that he
hopes to see the forum become
a bi-weekly or monthly event.
He noted that it is an experiment
that may or may not work, “but
we want to try.”
“The Civilian Student Council
wishes to extend a personal invi
tation to anyone who has a gripe
or idea they feel student govern
ment should look into,” Mauro
emphasized.
Mauro noted that Ed Cooper,
director of civilian student ac
tivities, and James P. Hannigan,
dean of students, will be on hand
for the forum session.
RAY HILDEBRAND
Ex-Pop Singer,
Strongman To
Perform Here
An ex-pop singer and a region
al director of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes will appear
with the “world’s strongest man”
in the College Station area Fri
day, according to Jerry Campbell,
president of the A&M chapter of
FCA.
Ray Hildebrand, who wrote and
recorded “Hey, Paula,” appears
with strongman Paul Anderson
in a Friday night performance in
Guion Hall at 7:30.
Earlier the same day, Bill
Krisher of the FCA will speak
to the Businessman’s Prayer
Group at 6:30 a.m. at Swanzy’s
Cafeteria.
“The public is invited to at
tend,” Campbell said.
During the Friday night pro
gram, Anderson will lift a plat
form with eight people on it,
weighing well over 2,000 pounds.
He will also demonstrate some
regular weight lifting. In addi
tion, he will take a 20-penny nail
and slam it through two one-
inch pine boards with his bare
hands.
Hildebrand, national staff mem
ber of the FCA, is a former col
lege basketball player at Navar
ro Junior College at Corsicana
and Howard Payne College at
Brownwood.
Tickets for the program are
free and available at the. Ath
letic Business Office in G. Rollie
White Coliseum and at area
banks, Campbell said.
“I want to point out to peo
ple that a ticket, while free, is
necessary to get in,” Campbell
commented.
“We have a seating capacity
of 1,500. Those without tickets
will be turned away.”
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Association. Your Sav
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B B & L —Adv.
Aggies, Drake
Play Thursday
In Tournament
By JOHN PLATZER
Battalion Sports Editor
With an 81-66 victory over
Trinity behind them, the Aggie
basketball team now trains its
sights on the Drake Bulldogs and
the NCAA Midwest Regionals in
Manhatten, Kansas.
Drake gained the spot opposite
the Aggies with a 77-73 win over
Louisville last night that netted
them the Missouri Valley Confer
ence championship. The Aggies
and Drake square off Thursday
night at 7 while Colorado, cham
pions of the Big 8, tangles with
Colorado State, victors over Day-
ton Saturday, in the night’s
second game.
The two winners will then clash
on NBC television Saturday at
3:15 p.m. for the Midwest cham
pionship and a trip to the finals
in Louisville, Kentucky. The los
ers of Thursday night’s games
play for third place Saturday
at 1 p.m.
COACH Shelby Metcalf’s
cagers used great outside shoot
ing by Sonny Benefield, great re
bounding by Steve Niles and great
defense by Billy Bob Barnett to
carve out the victory over Trinity.
Niles, A&M’s seven-foot sopho
more from San Antonio, was the
whole story in the first half as
he dropped in 15 points and pulled
down 11 rebounds as the Aggies
took a 42-34 lead. For the game,
Niles had 17 points and 16 re
bounds.
Benefield ended the game with
25 key points while Barnett, who
scored 12 and got 11 rebounds,
did a magnificent defensive job
on Trinity’s ace, Larry Jeffries,
holding him to 14 points.
A great rally by Louisville last
night almost overtook Drake, but
the Bulldogs hung on. Trailing
70-61 with two minutes remain
ing, Louisville narrowed the
count to 75-73 with 16 seconds
left but a Drake basket put the
game out of reach.
MOST OF the Aggie players
felt that they played a good game
against Trinity but that it wasn’t
their best.
“I think we’ll play a lot tough-
(See Basketballers, Page 4)
PICKING UP TWO POINTS
Ronnie Peret make a two-point play despite Trinity’s Jim Bowles’ strong bid to stop him
during NCAA Regional playoffs at Fort Worth Saturday night. The All-SWC pivot man
finished the evening with 10 points. See game story, page 7. (Photo by Mike Wright)
MSC Council Chooses 14,
Elevates Political Forum
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Managing Editor
The outgoing Memorial Stu
dent Center Council Monday con
tinued preparations for the April
TO NO AVAIL
Much to the dismay of this young Trinity fan, it was the
Ags who did the sockin’, beating the San Antonio school
by a whopping 81-66. A&M advances to play Drake Uni
versity at 7 p. m. Thursday. See game story, page 7.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
transfer of power to the 1969-70
Council by electing 14 officers and
Directorate committee chairmen.
The Council also took Political
Forum from under the wing of
the Great Issues committee and
gave it full committee status.
Elected to the 20th MSC Coun
cil were Kent Caperton, vice pres
ident; Gregg Weaver, vice presi
dent in charge of programs, and
Jim Wiley, vice president, opera
tions. All are sophomores.
Named summer Directorate
president was senior Jerry Street.
Sophomore Don Branson was
named summer Council president
and also finance chairman.
ELECTED to the Directorate
were Paul Scopel, a sophomore,
chairman of the Travel Commit
tee; Rudy de la Garza, sopho-
Students interested in work
ing within the MSC Council
and Directorate should attend
the MSC’s annual spring per
sonnel drive between 6:30 and
10 p.m. tonight on the second
floor of the MSC, according to
Council president Benny Sims.
more. Chess; Jim Hill, junior,
Camera; junior Don Prycer, Con
temporary Arts; senior Franklin
Gertson, Flying Kadets; junior
John Otto, Leadership; graduate
student Jim Cain, Recreation;
Linda Nobles, junior. Basement,
and sophomore Jack Abbott, Film
Series.
Council president Benjamin
Sims noted that all 14 officers
and chairmen will assume office
along with president-elect Joe M.
(Mac) Spears, elected by the
Council in February, at the an
nual awards banquet April 24.
Political Forum chairman Ron
Hinds, citing the “strong young
leadership” developed within the
committee over the past year,
had urged the Council to grant
Forum full committee status.
THE COUNCIL had formerly
made Political Forum a subcom
mittee under Great Issues for
supervision and control until
such committee leadership was
developed.
Activities for the young com
mittee have included speeches by
U. S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough,
(D-Tex.), voting behavior expert
Richard S. Scammon, and LBJ
aide Clifton C. Carter. Political
Forum also held a campus presi
dential poll and sponsored an
“Election Night Special,” a night
long color television vigil of the
progress of the election returns.
In other business, the Council
approved a $1,880 budget request
from the Leadership Committee
to help finance the annual Spring
Leadership Trip to Houston.
The Council presented Augus
tin Fernandez with a $25 award
for the best photograph taken by
a student spending last summer
in Europe through a Travel Com
mittee-publicized program. The
award was donated by Dr. Wil
liam P. Fife, a faculty member
on the Council.
Spears reminded Council mem
bers to attend a fashion show
March 31 in Guion Hall sponsored
by the University Women. The
show entitled, “Spring Thing:
Some Celluloid, Some Chiffon and
a Little Skin.”
Johnson 9 s Speech
Postponed Tonight
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
Haynes Johnson postponed his
Great Issues presentation to
night, according to David Mad
dox, Great Issues chairman.
Johnson, scheduled to speak on
“Poverty — Is America Really
Poor?” was unexpectedly as
signed to the Middle East crisis
by the Washington Star.
Maddox said that Johnson
would likely be scheduled to
speak on the Middle East in early
April.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.