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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 23, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Senate VP Election
Will Be Next Month
DISAPPOINTMENT
Aggie linebacker Mike DeNiro considers the score while taking a well-earned rest during
the second half of the A&M-Louisiana State University game Saturday night. An All-
Southwest Conference end last year, DiNiro received honorable mention this week in the
Dallas Morning News as defensive player of the week after his first game in his new
position. LSU outscored A&M in the contest 35-6. See story, page 4. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
CS Councilman Replies to
Criticism of Local Paper
By Jay F. Goode
Battalion Staff Writer
A lengthy rebuttal to an edi
torial by the Bryan Eagle was
given before the College Station
City Council Monday night.
Councilman James Dozier coun
tered the criticism by the Eagle
that a recent joint meeting be
tween the city council and the
zoning commission was not open
to the public.
Texas public laws do not re
quire staff meetings to be made
public, Dozier said.
No zoning laws were acted
upon during the meeting, he
added.
“I don’t think we have been
in violation of the laws of Texas.
I will publicly apologize if in
violation,” Dozier added.
“I will give my assurance that
it would be the last thing on my
mind to deny the public access if
actions the council takes concerns
the public,” Dozier said.
Dozier further challenged the
Eagle to sign its editorials “so
that we may know who wrote
them.”
“I would like to know who is
casting salt rocks in my direc
tion. The community would like
to know,” Dozier said.
The Eagle made its criticism
after the press was told by Col
lege Station Mayor A. D. Ander
son that the meeting was closed,
said Eagle reporter Kate Thomas.
In its monthly business, the
council approved an ordinance
which will allow mobile home
park owners to increase their
density of trailers per acre from
eight to ten. The size of recrea
tional areas in the parks was
raised from 100 to 400 square
feet.
An ordinance was passed call
ing for a public hearing on a pro
posed annexation of a 145-acre
tract east of Highway 6 and
south of a newly annexed area.
The fire code was amended
requiring gasoline stations to
post no smoking signs and have
fire extinguishers within 75 feet
of each pump.
The council also accepted a bid
to purchase 5,000 feet of fire
hose for 89<f a foot.
A Planning and Zoning Com
mission recommendation that the
deadline date for filing requests
with the commission be extended
from 10 to 14 days was set aside
and the council, on recommenda
tion by assistant City Attorney
Don Giesenschlag, extended the
deadline to 20 days prior to a
meeting. Twenty days would
more fully meet the state’s re
quirements for zoning commis
sion hearings, he said.
In other discussions, Council
man C. H. Ransdell requested
that the city recodify the city
ordinances and have copies avail
able to new citizens. The copies
should be written in a concise
manner, and be easy to under
stand, Ransdell said. This will
clear up many misconceptions by
new residents concerning College
Station ordinances, he said.
The council also passed an or
dinance to appoint a board of
equalization for 1970 and set the
date of the first meeting on
March 20, 1970.
A payment of $35,006 was au
thorized as payment to the fourth
estimate on the new city hall,
police and fire station. Work on
the new city building was report
ed to be 30 days behind schedule,
with the completion date planned
for next January.
By Steve Forman
Candidates for the office of
Student Senate vice president
must file their application be
tween Oct. 1 and 8, said Nokomis
(Butch) Jackson, Election Com
mission chairman, following an
Election Commission meeting last
night. He said the election will
be held on Oct. 23.
Other offices open in the elec
tion are representatives for the
new College of Education, and
sophomore representative for the
College of Architecture.
“The polls will be open from
7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election
day,” Jackson added.
The new commission, made up
of nine members, met to decide
on the date for the election and
to elect three vice presidents and
a secretary for the commission.
The election did not take place
since only seven members were
present at the meeting.
Other actions taken by the
commission last night involved
acceptance of a new filing appli
cation form, and the addition of
BULLETIN
The Election Commission met
this morning and elected Tom
my Henderson, executive vice
president; Mike Wiebe, vice
president for publicity; Steve
Clark, vice president for per
sonnel; and Mike Bell, secre
tary.
a memorandum to be attached to
the application reminding candi
dates that no campaign posters
may be put up in the memorial
area in front of Duncan Dining
Hall.
The application form must be
certified by the Registrar’s office
for grade point ratio and aca
demic classification, Jackson said,
adding the student’s dean must
then sign the application certify
ing that the student is not on
scholastic or conduct probation.
These measures taken by the
commission are designed to elim
inate problems encountered in
last spring’s election involving
the eligibility of A1 Reinert, who
was allowed to run with a defi-
, cient GPR by the Election Com
mission.
Reinert won the election and
was then ousted by the Univer
sity Appeals Committee when
petitioned by David Wilkes, then
Civilian Student Council presi
dent.
A new election was called for
in the spring semester and Gerry
Geistweidt defeated Gary Mauro
1,548 to 1,205. This left the vice
presidency to Bill Holt, who was
runner-up to Geistweidt in the
fall election for the post when
Reinert won the president. Holt
declined the position because he
wanted to be elected to the post,
not appointed. He said last year
that he would be a candidate this
fall. Kent Caperton, Memorial
Student Center vice president, is
the interim vice president for the
Senate.
By Robert E. Ford
Associated Press Writer
Texas colleges and universities,
watching the students pour in
this fall, are taking note of col
lege unrest over the nation and
some inside Texas, bubt say they
expect none of the so-called cam
pus confrontations.
At the same time, most are
gearing up to listen to the stu
dents in advance of trouble and
thus possibly forestall any that
could arise.
Thus appeared the picture from
a survey of several institutions,
large and small, by The Associ
ated Press. Some have had stu
dent troubles of varying severity.
Of the universities and col
leges surveyed, only the mam
moth University of Texas with
its 35,000 or so students said it
is beefing up its campus security
force and this largely is because
of the school’s growth.
And on the issue of more black
courses, a major point of dispute
in some colleges in the nation
last year, several Texas schools
surveyed say they have added
such studies.
Others are resisting separate
black studies, saying Negro his
tory and the like should be a
part of the total picture of Amer
ica—that is, they should be in
cluded in standard, general
courses.
The University of Texas at
Austin, which has its share of
unconventional students, has had
minor demonstrations, mostly pa
rades and picketing.
Austin police say that mili
tants on the university campus
there could could not mount more
than a couple of hundred seri
ous demonstrators.
Frank Erwin, chairman of the
regents, said, “These radical units
One such change is already in
the making. Tommy Henderson,
CSC second vice president, no
ticed that on page 30, paragraph
A (in the new Bluebook) that a
reference is made to Student
Senate positions when it really
means all elected positions.
Members of the Election Com
mission are: Jackson, chairman;
are too small to cause any real
trouble themselves without get
ting help from the big majority
of real, legitimate students, and
so far we have been successful
in preventing this.”
Student groups regularly ap
pear before Erwin and the oth
er regents. And President Nor
man Hackerman says he normally
has conferences with student
groups several times a day.
Southern Methodist University
at Dallas seemingly came close
to trouble last year when 34
blacks, their leader a non-stu
dent, pressed a set of demands
on the school. They remained in
the president’s office for five
hours emphasizing their stand.
One of these demands was that
SMU recruit 500 black students
for this semester.
There was some talk of re
ducing this to 200. '?Tien the
school announced recently that
50 had been recruited to add to
the 60 or 70 expected to return.
School officials said more could
not be obtained without raiding
all-Negro colleges.
A spokesman for SMU said,
“We are a little ahead of the
game now. Our student involve
ment policy dates back to 1962
when we anticipated some leg
itimate students complaints na
tionally so we were able to meet
them.” The school has set up a
grievance committee.
The most serious trouble last
year came at small Wiley Col
lege in Marshall. The Methodist
institution is all-Negro. Students
boycotted classes for several days
but there were no riots or dam
ages.
The demands at Wiley were
multiple and President T. Wins
ton Cole said the administration
Marc Powell, senior commission
er; Rusty Chandler, senior com
missioner; Charles R. Hoffman,
junior commissioner; Michael L.
Wiebe, junior commissioner;
Henderson, Student Senate junior
representative.
Other members are Joe Ander
son and Michael W. Bell, sopho
more commissioner.
met “as well as possible” all the
students’ demands. One, asking
that Cole be fired, was not met.
“We have improved the men’s
dormitory. Two present profes
sors have studied black courses
this summer and we will listen
to their recommendations,” Cole
said.
“The major lesson I learned
during the past years,” Cole said,
“is that we must all—administra
tion, faculty and students—accept
a practice of total involvement.”
The huge University of Hous
ton also faced black students’
requests last year.
As an outcome, the university
set up an Afro-American studies
program which may become the
core of a degree program.
Also set up in the Houston
school is a 10-member task force
appointed by President Phillip
Hoffman. It includes students.
The Houston university filed a
complaint against several apart
ment owners under the federal
open housing law, the school said
dormitory space would be assign
ed on a first-come basis, and
action will be taken against any
teacher practicing discrimination.
Texas Tech at Lubbock has had
no student trouble, and a spokes
man said any dialogue with mili
tants “will be on a constructive
nature.”
Officials of Trinity University
in San Antonio are not expect
ing difficulties. But it has set
up a “crisis council” to discuss
problems and the administrations
will meet with students to hear
any complaints.
President John J. Kamerick of
North Texas State University at
Denton says, “some people are
saying that they believe the peak
(See Texas, page 3)
Texas School Officials
Plan To Listen, Prevent
Will Contain Band Room, Food Services Storage
$1 Million Services Complex
To be Ready by Fall of ’70
Structural forms and concrete
are rising above ground-level on
the $1 million 12-dorm services
building and band room here.
Completion by Temple Associ
ates of Diboll is contracted for
next summer, according to Harold
C. Carter, A&M construction
manager.
The general outline of the multi
purpose facility east of Duncan
Dining Hall and H. H. Harring
ton Hall can be viewed from
Lewis Street.
Shaped like an elongated key,
the building has a semi-circular
structure on its east end that will
contain a 3,000-square-foot re
hearsal room, recording control
room, four ensemble practice
rooms and 12 smaller individual
practice areas for the band.
Also on the architectural draw
ing board for the interior of the
100-foot diameter building are the
band director’s reception and of
fice areas, instrument storage and
repair rooms and a music work
room.
Though sharing foundation
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L
—Adv.
works, the band room and services
building are self-contained units
separated by a 16-foot wide cov
ered breezeway, said Thomas L.
(Lew) Fields, construction in
spector on the job.
The services component base
ment will contain Food Services
Department refrigeration units
for cold storage and a large dry
storage area. The first floor will
contain dining hall employees’
lounges, Army and Air Force uni
form issuing stations and a laun
dry station.
Fields indicated the band sec
tion will be a “very striking
building.” Thirty-foot-high, win
dowless exterior walls will be
faced wtih a light-colored Art-
craft tile “that in the sunlight
will give it an almost luminescent
appearance,” he said.
The interior will incorporate
numerous ideas of Aggie Band
Director Lt. Col. E. V. Adams.
One is that music will be dis
tributed from the library via a
pigeon-hole arrangement that will
open into a hall.
Several of the individual and
ensemble practice rooms will have
non-parallel walls, preventing re
verberation. Practice and en
semble rooms will be on the second
floor, over the director’s office
and instrument repair and stor
age rooms.
The main practice room will be
a 50-foot radius fan-shaped en
closure with 24-feet overhead
clearance. None of its walls will
be parallel. It will accommodate
300 musicians, giving each man
10 square feet of working area.
Six six-nch elevated risers will
place the bass horn players three
feet above the conductor’s podium,
located at almost the exact center
of the structure.
“A bass horn player will be
able to stand up with his instru
ment in position and still have
10 feet clearance overhead,”
Fields added.
In the present band practice
room on the fourth floor of Har
rington Hall, base horn bells
almost touch the ceiling.
WEATHER
Wednesday — Partly cloudy.
Wind Easterly 10 - 15 m.p.h.
High 78, low 62.
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind Easterly 10 - 15
m.p.h. High 82, low 66.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
UP IT GOES
Construction moves along on the new two-story band re
hearsal area, part of a $1 million services building under
construction east of Duncan Dining Hall. When completed,
the facility will provide a rehearsal area and practice rooms
for the band, along with space for instrument storage and
repair. Food Services storage space, a laundry station, and
Army and Air Force ROTC uniform issuing stating stations
will also be confined in the structure, which is scheduled
for completion by next summer.