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First Formed Last Spring ’onwiyli, the piesn ! Pilots,! in riglitj second Computer Registration Study Group to Be Revived By Dale Foster Battalion Staff Writer A committee set up last spring to study computer registration svill be reactivated during the icxt two weeks to study propo sals concerning the new system snd make recomemndations for mprovement. “(A&M) President (Earl) Rud- ler has asked for the committee ,o be reactivated so we can get kings going well in advance of spring registration,” said Regis- rar Robert A. Lacey. Computer registration was first used on a large-scale basis at A&M last January, Lacey noted. He pointed out that all enroll ment procedures were fully auto mated in May for pre-registration of students for the fall term. “We now have two registration periods to look at,” observed Dr. William R. Stewart, who served as head of the study group last spring. “There may be aditional prob lems that have come up which were not discovered during the initial period,” the agricultural engineering assistant professor noted. “Although we had recom mendations to make last time, a report was never submitted be cause we failed to meet the dead line for May pre-registration.” He added that, because the re port was not written up, the original findings will be reviewed at the first meeting in order to consolidate recommendations of various interest groups. “I’m very anxious to see the committee reactivated,” Lacey said. “We need a working com mittee to listen to suggestions and see what can be done about them.” He added that, although some wishes would be impractical, there would be many that could be in corporated into computer regis tration. Stewart and Lacey noted that several factors contributed to the stall in the committee’s assigned task last spring, including spring election problems, finals, and graduation. “Nothing could be done during the summer, either, because sev eral committee members were gone from the campus,” Stewart continued. “Also, I probably didn’t push the members hard enough for recommendations.” “Lst spring we got organized and were all present at a couple of meetings,” Lacey added, “but the big problem was that it was May before we started getting results.” The original committee, com posed of deans’ representatives, faculty advisers and students, was divided into three sub-com mittees, each representing one of the interest groups. The 27 members of the com mittee were appointed by Rudder on the recommendations of deans and student groups. Members included one repre sentative from each dean’s office, which in most cases was an as sistant dean who handled student affairs. There was also one fac ulty adviser from each college who was chosen from among the individual departmental registra tion representatives. Other members included repre sentatives of the School of Archi tecture and the Texas Maritime Academy, three students recom mended by the Student Senate, two by the Graduate Student Council, two from the Corps of Cadets, and two from the Civilian Student Council. Also on the committee, besides Lacey and those mentioned, was Systems Analyst Elliot Bray, who did the computer programming. Changes and additions will need to be made on the committee to accommodate two new academic colleges and to replace students who graduated, Lacey said. r . ' i ^ 111 'H * \ <£>• s ^ V ■ ^; a. Cbe Battalion Vol. 65 No. 16 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 9> 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Cuban Future Zero In Politics: Tarrab SAD, SO SAD , 'Members of the cast for “Dinny and the Witches” rehearse their parts in preparation [■I for the Aggie Players’ first production of the year. Performances will be Tuesday 'through Thursday Oct. 22 through 24. The play is a satire on man in the atomic age. |(Photo by Mike Wright) Voter Registration for 1970 Mow Under Way In Texas nt or* vocri cfvutirkYt T tVto IQ'Tfl T? ocri dyQtirvrt i a Hoirirr Vi o v-» rl 1 rvnxrvtc via a vi c: q i rl IT a o o i Hi Voter registration for the 1970 oting year is now under way. Registration began Oct. 1 and ill continue through January 31, 970, announced County Tax As- ^ssor-Collector Raymond Buch- nan. Buchanan urged all per ms who are eligible to register arly. Registration is being handled in the County Tax Assessor’s office in the Brazos County Courthouse, Buchanan said, not ing that persons must register in the county and precinct in which they reside. To be eligible to register a person must meet several require- Thundershowers Forecast Along CS-Lubbock Route Those driving to Lubbock Friday for the Saturday night \&M-Texas Tech game can expect thundershowers, forecasts Jim Lightfoot, A&M meteorologist. The thundershowers should move out to the east by Saturday, the weatherman said. Based on the weather forming Friday in the panhandle “moving rapidly eastward, as it should,” Lightfoot’s forecast for the 7:30 game is partly cloudy skies, no precipitation, southwest winds at 15-25 mph, and 40 per cent relative humidity. Lightfoot said that Aggie football fans returning to the campus Sunday should find scattered afternoon thunderstorms in the College Station area. ments, Buchanan said. He said a voter must be a citizen of the United States and be at least 21 years of age. Anyone who is under 21 now but will reach that age before the end of the voting year is eligible to register but will not be allowed to vote until he reaches his 21st birthday, the county official pointed out. A voter must be a resident of the state for at least one year prior to the election day and, Buchanan continued, local elec- See Application Form, Page 3 tions require the voter to be a resident of the county for at least 6 months prior to the election. The same six-month residence is required in city elections, he said. Those persons who have been committed to a correctional or mental institution, he added, are ineligible to register. A person who has not reached his 21st birthday but will do so (See Voter, page 3) By Clifford Broyles Battalion Staff Writer The future political possibilities in Cuba are “zero,” charged a Cuban political refugee here Wednesday night. Dr. Miguel Tarrab, who worked for Fidel Castro and Che Guevara before defecting, spoke to a crowd of about 250 people in a Great Issues presentation in the Me morial Student Center. Political rights such as voting and citizenship are not possible in Cuba, he said, because people are not allowed to voice their opinions. He added that it is a crime against the state for a person to express his disapproval of the regime in any manner. Punishment for a person ac cused of expressing disapproval ranges from being fired from his job or being put in jail or even being sent before a firing squad, Tarrab noted. A person may be sent to the firing squad several times with the soldiers using blanks, he said. The object of this, he explained, is to psychologically depress the victim. Tarrab noted that there are two ways a person can leave Cuba; he can leave illegally by boat and head for Florida, or he can apply to the government for permission to leave. Two things hinder escape by boat, Tarrab continued: sharks and Cuban gunboats under orders to shoot on sight any person trying to escape. Concerning application to the government, he said, during the past two years no applications have been granted. When an ap plication is filed, the government sends the person filing to a job while it is being processed, he explained, adding that processing may take three or four years. The applicant must also make an inventory of his belongings and state his financial status, Tarrab said. If the application is approved, a new inventory must be made, and must match the old one, he continued, or the applicant will not be allowed to leave. For example, he said, if a person has a television set and lists it on the first inventory, but doesn’t have it when the second inventory is made, his applica tion will be refused. Che Guevara headed the land reform program in Cuba when Castro took over power, Tarrab said. He noted that he (Tarrab) worked directly with Guevara in Europe, when both attended a United Nations trade and de velopment conference in Switzer land. While head of the land reform program, Guevara decided that the exportation of sugar cane to the United States was getting Cuba too involved with American imperialism, Tarrab said, so he stopped the shipments. Guevara also set up co-opera tives, he continued, which were operated by government-employ ed managers. The project failed, he added, and Castro replaced it by setting up people’s farms. This, Tarrab, said, meant that every farmer became a slave of the state. Another project of Guevara’s that failed, Tarrab said, was the issuance of the Cuban peso while he was president of the national bank. Worth $1 at one time, the peso is now worth only two cents, he said. The rationing of food is also a problem under the Castro re gime that was not present before it came to power, Tarrab claimed. He explained that the rationing includes 12 ounces of beef per week in Havana and eight ounces elsewhere; four ounces of fish, three eggs, one and one-half ounces of coffee, and three pounds of rice per week; two ounces of butter and six pounds of sugar per month; and three-fourths of a pound of bread per day. Chicken and milk are two com modities that are rationed differ ently than other foods, he said. Chicken is rationed only to per sons under five years or over 65 years of age. Those people, how ever, must have a medical certifi cate saying they need the items, Tarrab added. Milk, Tarrab, continued, is ra tioned on a similar basis to per sons under seven or over 65 years of age. Tarrab noted that Cuba is the world’s largest exporter of sugar and said that the country also ex ports eggs in exchange for mon ey. 1,700 Plus Ticket Volume Sets Record By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer A record number of more than 1,700 parking tickets has been given out since the first day of school according to Morris A. Maddox, assistant chief of Cam pus Security. As of Oct. 1, 1,245 of the tick ets had been paid by the stu dents, the YMCA traffic ticket 11 File For 6 Senate Posts Eleven students filed as candi dates Wednesday in the Student Senate election scheduled for Oct. 23, according to Tommy Hender son, executive vice president of the election commission. “Names of those who filed will not be released until Monday due to the regulation that a candidate must be cleared through the stu dents’ deans and the registrar,” Henderson said. “Also, we have to extend the deadline date of filing for the junior and senior representative for the College of Education until Monday.” office reported. The office said that 597 tickets were paid the first week, 580 in the second, and 248 for the first three days of last week. The ticket office esti mated that between 400 and 500 tickets are still unpaid. A spokesman for the ticket of fice estimated that 1,000 more tickets will be issued in the next few weeks if parking violations continue at their present rate. He explained that between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Cam pus Security has at least three men covering the 10,030 regis tered cars in the parking lots. Of these, he said, 7,026 belong to students, 2,775 to the faculty. There are also 229 registered motorcycles on campus. The total figure is expected to rise to approximately 11,000 as soon as all vehicles have been registered, said a ticket office employe. Those receiving tickets have 72 hours, excluding weekends, (See Ticket, page 2) Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L I ? Takes On New Look: Renovation Is The Clue iffc-', - > ■ - ' jiyi NEW INTERIOR . . . Housing office employes go about their daily work in their new first-floor YMCA office. The office facilities previous ly were located in the basement of the building. By Steve Forman Battalion Staff Writer and David Middlebrooke Battalion Managing Editor Gone is the YMCA Building familiar to so many Ags—at least the inside of it. Renovation has made itself known internally. The new YMCA should be com plete by the end of October, after a $480,000 remodeling job, ac cording to Howard S. Perry, di rector of civilian student activi ties. “This is the second major over haul of the building since the early ’50s,” Perry said. “They may even install a new elevator next summer.” The Political Science Depart ment, a former Nagle Hall resi dent, now occupies the entire sec ond floor of the YMCA. Their quarters were temporarily shared with Campus Security while the basement was remodeled, but the university police have now taken over their new home. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. The portion they occupy used to be a confectionary, where candy was made, Perry noted. The Texas Maritime Academy Office, located near where a swimming pool used to be; the Registrar’s Office, located near an area formerly used as a bar ber shop in the ’40s; and the Na tional Science Foundation, locat ed in what was once a bowling alley; occupy basement space along with Campus Security. Parts of the Fiscal Office, trans planted from the Richard Coke Building, will take up the base ment area once used as a pool hall. The main floor, formerly com posed of two conference rooms, a lobby, and a few small offices, now contains office space for the Dean of Students’ office, the Housing office, YMCA offices, the Director of Civilian Student Activities’ office, the Residence Halls Program Adviser’s office, and Student Affairs and Veter ans Affairs offices. The third floor, housing stu dents’ quarters and a radio sta tion back in the ’40s, now con sists of the Placement office, Stu dent Financial Aid office, and the Development office, along with the Student Employment office. All of these changes began last January. “The day before the Christmas holidays,” Logan E. Weston, gen eral secretary of the YMCA and religious life coordinator, said, “we were told that we had to vacate by Dec. 30, and move to the basement. “The eviction notice came so late that we couldn’t change the publicity we had out about our foreign student New Year’s Eve party,” Weston recalled. “The party went on as planned while the partitions were ripped down.” Weston said that all main floor offices had had to move to the basement until early August, when they moved back upstairs. Air-conditioned, the “Y” is now a cool place to go, and, with its recently-cleaned exterior, and new insides, is one of the sharper buildings on campus. FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super CD- 5% interest compounded daily.