Vol. 65 No. 17 College Station, Texas Friday, October 10, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
‘Official No’ Given On Moratorium
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
The Student Senate, after
lengthy debate and two roll call
votes, Thursday recommended
that the university not dismiss
classes officially or grant excused
absences for students wishing to
participate in the Moratorium, a
nationwide anti-war protest
scheduled for Wednesday.
The controversy, however, cen
tered not on these two points,
upon which most senators seemed
to agree, but on a third part of
the recommendation which, when
finally passed, stated “that we
(the senate) believe in the free
dom of expression guaranteed to
each individual in the First
Amendment of the U.S. Consti
tution.”
Some senators, led by Tommy
Henderson (vp-CSC) and Jimmy
Weaver (soph-LA), contended
that the senate should have been
more explicit concerning the
question of a student’s right to
express dissent on campus.
In earlier business, the senate
adopted a plan to allocate seats
at home football games that takes
into consideration both a student
ticket buyer’s academic standing
and his “tenure” at the univer
sity.
Senators also voted not to al
low three senate representatives
to be elected from the newly-
formed College of Education, at
least until enrollment figures for
the college were made known and
representatives were apportioned
by those figures.
The election for senate repre
sentatives from the College of
Education had been scheduled for
Oct. 23, when other senate posi
tions, including the office of vice
president, are to be decided.
Senate president Gerry Geist-
weidt opened discussion on the
Moratorium by reading a letter
from the university’s Executive
Committee which requested that
the senate comment on what po
sition the university should take
concerning possible student par
ticipation in the anti-war pro
test.
The letter said that three stu
dents had asked A&M President
Earl Rudder to dismiss classes
next Wednesday in observance of
the Moratorium. Rudder forward
ed the reqeust to the Executive
Committee and the committee,
“seeking more student reaction”
on the issue, asked the senate
in the letter for its comments.
Tom Fitzhugh (Geos.) introduc
ed the resolution that the senate
eventually passed, urging that
Laundry Panel Helps
Students, CSC Is Told
By Pat Little
Battalion Staff Writer
A student laundry committee
exists to help students who think
they have been wronged by the
university laundry.
Howard Perry, civilian student
activities director, told the Civil
ian Student Council (CSC)
Thursday night that students who
think a piece of clothing has been
damaged or lost by the laundry
should first take his laundry slip
and damaged article, if such is
the case, to the laundry office.
“If all they say to you is
‘we’re sorry,’ ” Perry said, “then
bring your case before the laun
dry committee and they’ll look
into it.”
This year’s committee members
are Alan Byrd, Allen Mikulencak,
Jimmy Alexander, Robert R.
Harding, Jack C. Hollimon, and
Albert Kinkead.
The laundry committee is one
of several committees set up by
*the CSC to hear student com
plaints and make suggestions to
the proper person or service, said
David Alexander, CSC first vice
I president.
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menu committee, which meets
monthly with Food Services Di
rector Fred Dollar to discuss
dishes and service in Sbisa Dining
Hall.
Alexander also told the council
that many complaints students
have about Sbisa are the effects
of a labor shortage.
He said that occasional messy
tables and the use of paper cups
instead of glasses, among other
things, are examples of effects
of the help shortage.
“Col. Dollar said he can only
hire people to work a 40-hour
week,” Alexander said, “and he
can’t pay them time and a half
because of state regulations. He
said he is trying to stay within
his budget, and if he hires any
more help the board fees will
have to go up,” he says.”
Sam Torn, head yell leader, told
the council that he had gone to
Texas Christian University to
apologize for the incident between
the Aggie freshmen and TCU
cheerleaders last week at the
game between the Fish and
Wogs.
The incident was during the
second half of the game when
several Corps freshmen picked up
the cheerleaders and started car
rying them off, but were stopped
by about 15 upperclassmen.
Torn said disciplinary action
will be taken by students and
assured the council it would not
be a “whitewash job.”
He said it hasn’t been proven
that there were upperclassmen
involved, but “there is a possi
bility and an investigation is still
underway.”
Perry told councilmen there
will be a dance in Fort Worth on
Oct. 18 at the Terrant County
Convention Center, sponsored by
the Fort Worth A&M Mothers
Club.
“There will be tickets sold at
the door and there will be set-ups
and popcorn,” Perry said. “Any
residence hall that wants to re
serve a table should contact me
before 4 p.m. Wednesday and tell
me how many persons will be
there.”
The Aggie Sweetheart semi
finalists will be here Oct. 25 for
the Baylor game, Alexander said.
He promised that the president
of the hall having the best spirit
sign and the most people out to
cheer as the finalists drive by
will have a date with the girl
chosen Aggie Sweetheart.
Alexander also told the council
that nominations for “Who’s
Who” may be put in boxes lo
cated at the Housing Office, the
MSC, the Military Sciences
Building, and Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan’s office.
HE WANTS TO BE A QUEEN
Mark Frantz, 19-year-old sophomore at Temple University, is running for homecoming
queen. Frantz, who has reddish-brown hair, green eyes, and a 42-34-37 figure, is one of
11 contestants for the title. All the others are girls. Frantz signed the application blank
“Margo.” He is sponsored by the campus radio station, where he works part time. (AP
Wirephoto)
the university not participate of
ficially in the Moratorium in any
way.
Henderson argued that wheth
er or not the university should
officially support the Moratorium
by dismissing classes or granting
excused absences, was not really
the issue in question.
“These students are asking for
the right to express a dissenting
opinion on campus,” Henderson
said.
He noted that according to uni
versity regulations, this expres
sion of dissent may get them into
trouble. Citing a regulation under
the university’s discipline code,
Henderson read that a student
may be dismissed or suspended
for not less than a semester for
“membership in any group that
might bring discredit to the Uni
versity.”
Henderson said he does not nec
essarily agree or disagree with
the Moratorium but believes that
the students have the basic right
to express dissent and that the
senate should make some state
ment to that effect.
Weaver agreed, saying, “there
is widespread desire on this
campus for assurances from the
Student Senate that students will
be able to exercise their rights
to freedom of expression.”
At this point, Henderson in-
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MAKING A POINT
Kent Caperton, Memorial Student Center vice president and Student Senate interim vice
president, uses gestures to help get his point across as he expresses his feelings on the
student moratorium resolution passed 45-10 during last night’s Senate meeting. (Photo
by David Middlebrooke)
At Exchange Store
40,000 Books Are Sold
By Gary Mayfield
Battalion Staff Writer
Book sales in excess of 40,000
yearly to students at Texas A&M
account for 40 per cent of the
Exchange Store’s sales—and at
least 40 per cent of the com
plaints.
Along with other student needs,
such as greeting cards, T-squares,
and class pins, there are books,
books, and still more books in
the store. To combat this army
of numbers, Store Manager Chuck
Cargill has six full-time and two
part-time employees in the book
department, with a force of 10
to 12 extra during rushes.
Opened in 1907 with a policy
of good-will and service to Ag
gies, the store faces its biggest
difficulty in making clear its book
policy, especially to students who
argue:
“They sell you books and they
won’t buy them back, even when
they’re going to use them next
semester!”
The truth is that perhaps the
school will use them next semes
ter, but the Exchange Store has
acquired a maximum of a particu
lar book it needs, Cargill said.
For example, suppose a student
finished a course and now would
like to sell his copy of The An
cient World by Scramuzza.
He walks into the Exchange
Store and drops the book on the
counter, telling the clerk he
wishes to sell this to her. That’s
simple enough, but first she must
check the requisition form (she
has it handy under the counter)
for that book to see precisely
the number of volumes of The
Ancient World that she needs on
the shelf.
Twenty volumes is the number
marked in red on the huge white
By Bob Robinson
Battalion Staff Writer
Robert Wenck, director of
“Dinny and the Witches,” the
Aggie Player production to open
Tuesday night in Guion Hall,
handed each person involved in
the play a sheet with dates and
comments for the last week and
a half of rehearsals. The last line
on the sheet: “Oct. 14—Was it
all worth it???? You figure it
out.”
On opening night, this is a
question that each student, pro
fessor and local performer asks
himself after three or four gruel-
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B & Li —Adv.
card; and to the right of that
number are, say, 16 volumes re
purchased. This means that she
needs four more copies of that
book.
He’s safe. The clerk takes the
book and hands him $5.75 cash,
which is actually a little more
than half of the list price he paid,
$11.25.
If he waits a few minutes, he
may even watch as she applies
the traditional red stamp on the
inside of the book signifying that
it is used, write $8.65 retail
(three-fourths of the list price),
and replace The Ancient World
on the shelf with its companions.
Now, let’s go one step further
and see what happens if he is
the 21st person who wants to sell
a copy of The Ancient World.
Wholesale price is 25 cents and
this is the best the clerk can do
for him. The Exchange Store has
no use for more than 20 copies
of the book; the publisher will not
buy it back; and the wholesaler
will give only 25 cents for it. The
best thing he can do is keep it
or try to sell to another book
store.
“How do I know I don’t need
it anymore?” he may ask. Or,
“why is the markup so high be
fore you put it back on the
shelf?”
Cargill explained that neither
he nor his employees nor the
other bookstore have any bearing
on the price of books in the Ex
change Store.
“The list price is set by the
publisher,” he said, “and to my
knowledge all bookstores follow
this policy.” He began to explain
how he purchases his books:
“About four to six months be
fore the new semester, we send
each department on campus a
ing weeks of rehearsing nightly,
studying lines every available
minute, building and painting
scenery, and, in general, living
with a book of make-believe char
acters and words. The answers
are generally the same, although
the reasons are different.
One student said he felt it was
worth the work because he took
a name and a couple hundred
lines and made a living charac
ter from it.
Since the founding of the Ag
gie Players in 1946, hundreds of
plays have been produced in
Guion Hall, G. Rollie White Coli
seum, and the Fallout Theater-
Workshop. Casts and crews for
each play have ranged from six
to over 100. In every case, several
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supply of book requisition forms
(similar to the ones mentioned
earlier) containing the number
of courses for each professor,
estimated number of students in
each, estimated number of titles
of books, and an estimated num
ber of volumes the professor will
need.”
Cargill explained further that
he then orders from the publish
ers a percentage of the number
of books requested by the profes
sors. This is due, he mentioned,
to the books he will not sell be
cause of student-to-student sales
and sales of other bookstores.
If there are already a number
of copies of a particular book on
the shelf, Cargill may not have
to purchase from the publisher.
This is where the book requisition
form handled by the clerk comes
in handy. Supposing that a pro
fessor needed 100 volumes of The
Ancient World for this semester.
If the Exchange Store had 80
already in stock, perhaps it could
gain the 20 needed with buy
backs from students. Thus, the
cycle of book buying and selling
Proposals for a new parking
lot, special parking permits for
three student presidents, and
raising the prices on reserved
parking spaces were items dis
cussed by the University Traffic
Committee Wednesday according
to Don Stafford, AssociateDean
of Students and committee chair
man.
The committee is an advisory
committee to A&M President
Earl Rudder that studies traffic
problems and recommends solu
tions to him.
A new parking lot was pro
posed for the space south of
Guion Hall, Stafford said, to re
place the present lot when it is
torn out for the expansion of the
Memorial Student Center.
He also said the new parking
lot will be for day students and
for special events such as foot
ball and basketball games and
Town Hall. He said the new lot
will hold “as many or more cars”
than the present lot.
The committee agreed to grant
special parking areas to the
presidents of the student body,
Memorial Student Center, and
Civilian Student Council adja
cent to the MSC.
“This special parking privilege
is in recognition of the presi
dents’ contributions to the stu
dents and their need for the spe-
is completed.
Again Cargill noted that he
has no control over pricing, either
of new or used books, and he
praised his employees for their
sincerity and patience in dealing
with students who sometimes re
fuse to understand.
However, he did not cover up
for errors. As books arrive in
largo numbers and new people
are hired for the semester rush
es, he said, “We have some pric
ing errors. Anytime we find some
thing wrong, we try to correct
it.
“Of course, we may have a
thousand things wrong that we’re
not aware of,” the manager said.
“If students will just come in and
tell us, maybe we can work some
thing out.
“I’d welcome any criticism on
a personal basis from anybody
who wants to talk to me about
any problem,” Cargill emphasized.
“Since I have been here, I have
felt that our very best operation
is to perform a service to stu
dents, which is our primary pur
pose.”
cial space, Stafford said.
There was discussion in the
committee about raising the
prices on reserved parking
spaces, but a study will be made
before any action is taken, Staf
ford said. According to Campus
Security Assistant Chief Morris
A. Maddox the present $3 fee
does not even cover the labor
cost of painting the reserved
spaces.
“Campus Security is checking
on the reserved space costs at
other colleges and' universities
before any recommendation is
made on this,” Stafford said.
Any student or staff member
having information that would
be beneficial to the committee
may contact any of the mem
bers, Stafford noted.
Members include Paul Scopel,
Keathley Hall, room 402; Don
Mauro, Keathley, 111; A1 Brad
ley, Keathley, 109; Jack Fergu
son, dorm 5 room 423; Steve
Cook, 1-418; or Bob Stanzel, 1-
401.
Day student representative is
Gary Anderson, 316 Redmond
Apt. 125.
Staff members may contact
Stafford in the YMCA Building,
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Work, Study A Part of Being
An Aggie Player Performer
Traffic Committee
Makes 3 Proposals