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Vol. 65 No. 4
College Station, Texas Thursday, September 18, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
“LET ME SAY RIGHT AT THE START ...”
Gerry Geistweidt, Student Senate president, addresses the larg-est senate ever at its first
meeting of the school year. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Room Squeeze Eases;
75 Now Await
By P. Harrison
Battalion Staff Writer
The number of students with
out a room has dwindled to be
tween 50 and 75, according to
Housing Manager Allan M. Made-
ley, and more rooms are gradually
becoming available.
Students who reserved a room
this fall but failed to pay their
fees and have not shown up are
the primary source for additional
space, Madeley said Wednesday.
He added that more should
crop up in the next few days.
People who have paid their fees
but have not shown up consti
tute another source of rooms, but
Madeley expressed his reluctance
to fill these until the housing
office learns the whereabouts of
the persons who reserved them.
According to Associate Dean
of Students Don R. Stafford, 169
people have not claimed their
rooms. Of these, 33 are known
to have not paid their fees and
will not be returning to school,
which leaves 136 still in doubt.
Stafford said the decision on
what to do with these remaining
“no-shows” will be made today.
University Women to Meet,
Discuss Plans For Year
The University Women of
Texas A&M have set Oct. 7 in
the Memorial Student Center As
sembly room as the date and
place for their first meeting of
the year, announced Coordinator
Gloria Shone.
It will be primarily an organi
zational meeting, Miss Shone ex
plained. She went on to say that
suggestions for activities during
the coming year will be submit
ted to the girls for their com
ments and consideration.
Presently the University Wom
en have tentative plans for a
faculty-student tea so the coeds
may become acquainted with some
of the outstanding women of
College Station such as the wives
of the deans and board of di
rectors members, as well as the
members of the A&M Mother’s
Club. Also planned is the girls’
Outlook Promising on Tickets,
Weather For LSU Game
Prospects for the A&M Louisiana State University game
appear good as availability of tickets in Baton Rouge is
coupled with predictions of fair weather for the game.
The Baton Rouge A&M Club is making available game
tickets for Aggies who have been unable to obtain any. They
may be obtained, the club has announced, by contacting
Skipper Post, 8935 Brookwood Drive in Baton Rouge, or
calling him at 926-8634
The Baton Rouge Hometown Club has invited Ags to
their open house at the Bellemont Motor Hotel Saturday.
Activities begin at 2 p.m. when the bar opens. Drinks will
cost 85 cents and a buffet supper prior to the game will cost
S3 per plate. A dance, from 10:30.p.m. —1:00 a.m. follows
the game.
Weather between here and Baton Rouge late Friday and
early Saturday should be passible, according to Jim
Lightfoot, A&M meteorologist. He said some scattered
rainshowers along the road are forecast.
Lightfoot added that a trough line drifting to the
southeast should pass through here sometime late Wednesday
or early Thursday.
“There will be nothing heavy with it,” he commented.
“We’ll have gradual clearing on the back side of the trough
and by game time Baton Rouge will have partly cloudy skies,
easterly winds five to ten knots, a 75 degree temperature, and
60 percent relative humidity.”
‘Legal Commission’
Proposed To Senate
Space
He commented that the main
concern right now is moving the
40 people in Hotard Hall who are
presently tripled up into the 33
remaining vacancies as quickly
as possible.
In addition to the initial hous
ing shortage, almost 125 students
showed up this fall without re
serving a room, and many of
these were also put on the wait
ing list, Madeley said.
In the meantime, 50 to 75 stu
dents are running up bills at
local motels, hunting apartments
and imposing on relatives while
they wait for their room key.
traditional help with the bonfire
built prior to the Thanksgiving
Football game with the Univer
sity of Texas, Austin.
Earlier in the month the or
ganization sponsored an orienta
tion session for the new girls on
campus and followed it with
an informal get-together last
Sunday to answer questions the
girls had and provide an oppor
tunity for them to get to know
each other.
Another project in the offing
for the coeds this year will be
the organization of a woman’s in
tramural program with the help
of Raymond L. Fletcher, intra
mural director.
Members of the University
Women have also volunteered to
assist the MSC Fashion Commit
tee in planning and presenting
their upcoming fall fashion show.
Officers for the year in addi
tion to Miss Shone are Dianna
Hanna, new programs; Mary
Hanak, old programs; Judy
Guogh, communications; and
Nancy Stone, secretary-treasurer.
WEATHER
Friday—Cloudy with afternoon
rainshowers. Easterly winds
5 - 10 m.ph. High 84, low 68.
Saturday—Partly cloudy, east
erly winds 10 - 15 m.p.h. High
82, low 66.
Baton Rouge Kickoff—Cloudy,
easterly winds 10 m.p.h., tem
perature 77, 60 per cent relative
humidity.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
A Legal Rights Commission
that would aid A&M students in
trouble with the law and check
into reports of student “harrass-
ment” by local police was pro
posed to the Student Senate
Wednesday by Gerry Giestweidt,
president.
Geistweidt told the 75-member
body, largest Senate in the history
of the school, that because this
was the first meeting of the school
year he was not asking for any
action on his proposal that night.
He indicated, however, that he
would appoint a committee later
to study the need for such a com
mission.
The student body president
himself believed there is a “real
need” at A&M for the legal coun
sel the commission could provide.
“Every weekend, about 15 or
20 students are arrested in
Bryan-College Station on charges
of either minor consuming or
minor in possession of alcohol,”
he began.
Though many of these students
were arrested legally, Geistweidt
continued, there are cases where
they are not, and all, regardless,
should have a chance to confer
wtih a lawyer or get some kind
of advice before they go to court.
The Senate president noted,
however, that most students
charged wtih offenses don’t even
go to trial because either they
have to attend classes that con
flict with the time court is in
session or they have no money to
pay a lawyer to represent them.
“So they usually wind up for
feiting a cash bond that is con
verted to a fine when they fail
to appear,” Geistweidt explained.
“A Legal Rights Commission
composed of professors, students
and others who have a knowledge
of the law, could give students
legal advice or provide loans to
pay lawyer fees.”
Geistweidt criticized Bryan-Col
lege Station businessmen for
“making money off the lack of
recreational facilities for stu
dents.”
He said that students did not
have much else to do on weekends
but head for the nearest carry-out
store to buy beer.
And he wondered if this situ
ation were not created on pur
pose. Geistweidt said he knew of
instances where police arrested
students outside carry-out stores
wtih beer they had just bought,
yet did nothing to the store clerks
who sold it to them.
“Selling beer to a minor is just
as much against the law as a
minor buying it,” he said.
“A Legal Right Commission
could assure that students get
equal protection under the law.”
SingingCadet
Tryouts Now
Being Held
Singing Cadets tryouts will be
held in G. Rollie White Coliseum,
Room 119, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
this Thursday and Friday and all
of next week, announced John
Roby, public relations officer.
Roby said there will be 30 ap
plicants chosen. Any student who
has a schedule conflict for the
tryouts should contact Robert L.
Boone, director of the Singing
Cadets, in the Memorial Student
Center Student Programs Office,
Roby added.
The Singing Cadets have been
asked for the sixth time to sing
at the Miss Teen-Age America
Pageant in Fort Worth on Nov.
15, he said, noting that CBS tele
vision network will televise the
pageant.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Geistweidt added that he has
received several complaints that
Campus Security officers stopped
students in their cars for no other
reason than for the way they
looked.
He told the Senate that several
students who had made this com
plaint believed that they were
stopped because of their race.
“This is no gossip, either,” the
president said. “A good friend of
mine rode in a car one day with
one who had complained about
this and they were stopped twice
by Campus Security for ques
tioning because they looked sus
picious.”
He cited another time when an
A&M student was fined $50 after
he was arrested by a Bryan
policeman for “suspected attempt
ed burglary.” Geistweidt said the
officer apprehended the student
as he was trying to get the atten
tion of a clerk inside a carry-out
store that had just closed.
He said a Legal Rights Com
mission could look into incidents
such as these also.
Geistweidt urged senators to
think about his proposal and to
look into the need for such a
commission.
In other business, the Senate
passed a resolution requesting
A&M President Earl Rudder to
take $5,400 from the student ac
tivity reserve funds to pay for
the Aggie Band trip to the A&M-
Texas Tech game in Lubbock
Oct. 11.
Head Yell Leader Sam Torn
introduced the measure, explain
ing that plans for the band to
attend the West Point game Oct.
4 had fallen through and that the
band members, head football
coach Gene Stallings and the
Aggie Exes in Lubbock all wanted
the band to be there for A&M’s
first Southwest Conference game.
Several senators objected, say
ing that the request was for more
money than that of the entire
Senate budget, which Rick Reese,
first treasurer of the Senate had
reported earlier at $4,500.
Torn said that about $100,000
was coming into the activities fee
fund and that the money taken
out for the band would be put
back into the fund later.
Geistweidt reported that Presi
dent Rudder seemed to be in favor
of spending the money on the trip,
if the Senate requested him to.
A spokesman for the band said
the money would be used only for
transportation expenses incurred
by eight 39-passenger buses.
Torn’s resolution passed by a
vote of 35-8.
Nokomis (Butch) Jackson,
chairman of the reorganized 9-
man Election Commission, re
ported that the commission will
meet Monday to attempt to set
a date for the election of a
Senate vice president.
The office became vacant last
spring when Geistweidt, elected
vice president in an earlier race,
was voted in as president after
the first presidential election was
tossed out due to the scholastic
ineligibility of the winner, A1
Reinert. Kent Capterton (vp-
MSC) is serving as interim vice
president until another is elected.
Jackson noted that other offices
to be filled are Senate seats from
the newly formed College of Edu
cation and another Senate post
from the College of Agriculture.
Senators heard introductory re
ports from permanent committee
chairmen to help hem decide by
next Senate meeting which com
mittees they want to join.
Committee chairmen include
Lee Crawley, Issues; Jerry Bram-
lett, Welfare; Collier (Doc) Wat
son, Student Life, and Marc
Powell, Public Relations.
Sec. Hardin Notes Needs
Of Farm Programs of 70’s
Farm programs must be devel
oped in the 1970’s that will ef
fectively serve the farmer’s needs
and still be acceptable to nonfarm
people, Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin said here to
day.
The secretary made the state
ment in opening a “listening con
ference” with farm and rural
leaders from five states meeting
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
“Future programs must recog
nize the need for farm producers
to increase their net incomes to
the end that they will be able
to share more equitably in the
nation’s economic progress,”
Hardin said.
“They must enable U. S. farm
products to compete effectively
in export markets.
“And, they must reduce the
costs of production adjustment.
“Next week my staff and I will
begin presenting recommenda
tions to the Congress on a long-
range resource adjustment policy,
as well as on modifications of ex
isting commodity programs,” he
continued.
“Because at this point in time
we believe there is more than
one way the overall objectives
can be served, our recommenda
tions will take the form of a
series of possible courses of ac
tion.
“There is still time for you here
in the Southwest, as well as for
people in all other regions, to
contribute ideas,” Hardin added.
Gov. Preston Smith and A&M
President Earl Rudder also made
brief remarks this morning to
open the conference.
Hardin was scheduled to hear
at least 32 speakers on agricul
ture topics that ranged from
farm credit and policy to crop
land problems and human re
sources. In addition, he was to
hear numerous unscheduled
speakers from the floor in the
one-day session.
Dr. Kunkel said the conference
is open to any person who has
an interest in agriculture and its
economic well-being.
In a news conference before
the listening session began, Har
din said that food prices had not
risen as fast as the increase in
the consumer’s disposable income.
He said that consumers this
year are spending 17 per cent of
their income on food, the same
percentage they spent as last
year. The secretary added that
this percentage of income spent
on food was the lowest ever for
persons living in the United
States, or in the world.
The A&M conference was the
fifth in a series of regional farm
policy meetings designed to ob
tain the viewpoints of agricul
tural and rural leaders. It was
attended by representatives from
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Louisiana, and Arkansas. Dr. H.
O. Kunkle, dean of the College of
Agriculture, Texas A&M Univer
sity, presided.
Previous conferences have been
held at Lincoln, Neb.; Pullman,
Wash.; Fresno, Cal.; and Athens,
Ga.
HARDIN ARRIVES
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin, center, talks with A&M President Earl Rud
der, left, and Dr. H. O. Kunkle, dean of the College of Agriculture, at the Briarcrest Coun
try Club. The secretary arrived here last night for a “listening conference” today.