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Davt Way} Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 29 College Station, Texas Friday, October 31, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 enate To Initiate •V.;J Feedback’ Project ly Dave Mayes Colo, Battalion Editor (Seeking ways to be more re- onsive to the student body, the udent Senate Thursday adopted LSI I “feedback” plan to begin dormi- Jry surveys and agreed to study Hojs b need for a committee to hear p-academic grievances. [Senators also heard a status rt on a proposed Legal Rights omission, designed to aid stu- ts in trouble with the law, d approved a resolution calling the university to adopt a lited pass-fail grading system, he Senate’s “feedback” proj- passed with little opposition, II be initiated in every campus ^mitory Wednesday. Teams of lators will distribute question- ires to dormitory residents in effort to learn what issues icem the student body. Senate Vice President Kent perton introduced the project, ;ing that the Senate should not ve to take these steps to com- nicate with students, that the ators should do this them- ves. 'Nevertheless,” he said, “criti- m that the Student Senate does relate to the student body has been without foundation, is situation does exist, and this Rvhy we need this project.” v jture. ? and NCE "t Proposing the establishment of a student grievance committee, Life Committee Chairman Collier (Doc) Watson said that a panel is needed to look into student problems of a non-academic nature. When several senators objected that there were a number of com mittees already established to hear grievances, like the laundry, traffic, menu and residence hall committees, Senate President Gerry Geistweidt replied that the Senate had no control over any of these panels. He also noted that the griev ance committee could handle prob lems of a campus-wide nature, many of which could not be re ferred to any single committee. As an example, he said, the com mittee could have met with the Afro-American Society, recently denied on-campus recognition by the university. Garry Mauro agreed, noting that even if the committee helped only five people, it would be worthwhile. Senators passed with few dis senting votes a motion to author ize Watson’s Life Committee to study the need for a grievance committee. David Zoellner, a member of the Life Committee working to ionfireCenterpole roes Up Nov. 17 establish a Legal Rights Com mission, reported to the Senate that in a recent meeting with A&M President Earl Rudder, the president’s initial reaction to the idea of the commission had been “favorable.” The Legal Rights Commission was first proposed by Geistweidt in September to provide counsel for A&M students in trouble with the law and check into student reports of “harrassment” by local police. Zoellner said that Rudder had asked to have a written statement of the policy of the commission explaining how the proposed panel would operate. Zoellner said the policy, to be drawn up by he and seven others, would be submitted to the president within two weeks. Rudder told him, Zoellner said, that he would appoint legal coun sel for the commission, pending approval of the commission policy. Scheduled in the near future, he said, is a meeting of the com mission with the mayors and police chiefs of both Bryan and College Station. Zoellner said the Legal Rights Commission could serve both as a buffer between the university and the community and as a liaison between students and law officers. He said that this year the maj ox- work of the commission would likely be the compiling of case histories to serve as a basis upon the Bj David Middlebrooke Iaho r l ttalion Managing Editor he centerpole for the 1969 gie Bonfire will go up Nov. The pole will be put into posi- by company D-l (Spider D), lead Yell Leader Sam Torn said ursday, and will extend to 105 et above the ground. I'We hope to have the core gs for the first stack done by e 21st,” Torn said. “Juniors seniors will work on it dur- aftemoons the week of the (j£(6'7th. I want to emphasize, C<\ nigh, that they will not be ex- ied from class to work.” 1 The core logs are those logs ich are stacked upright around centerpole and bound to- ther with heavy rope. Torn said that in order to ich this year’s goal of 105 it, five stocks, or levels, of s will be needed. ‘I don’t know if it’s been done are,” he commented, “but we 11 have five stacks without a ubt.” Due to the planned height of the Bonfire, Torn said, he is looking for a crane that will ex tend to a height of 100 feet or more. He noted that enough cranes are available for Bonfire work, but none that will reach to 100 feet. Torn also noted that Guy Pickett, owner of Pickett’s Tex aco Service on FM 60, is donat ing some gasoline to the project, although the exact amount has not yet been decided. Pickett is also urging other service station owners to do the same thing, Tom said. Chain saws and pickup trucks are still needed, Torn said, along with jeeps. Those having or knowing of vehicles that may be used for Bonfire work should contact Chuch Hollimon, Torn explained, while those with in formation about chain saws should contact Ray Dabney. Those providing equipment will be allowed to operate it, Torn_ said, and all gasoline and oil will be provided free to the operators. CS Post Office Scheduled To Open Monday The post office in the Redmond Terrace shopping center will be open for business at 8 a.m. Mon day. Ernest Gregg, postmaster of College Station, said there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the long-delayed open ing. The new station has suffered from labor and construction prob lems since July which have caused several postponements, Gregg said. College Station Mayor D. A. Anderson will be present for the ceremonies, Gregg added, along with Ernest Haertig, a postal service officer, and several city councilmen. The new office will be serving residents and students in the southeastern portion of College Station. NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS RECEPTION yed Sami Mustafa of Pakistan, one of 164 foreign students attending Texas A&M for le first time this fall, is greeted by President and Mrs. Earl Rudder at a Thursday ight reception sponsored by the university’s Hospitality Committee. Mustafa is a feshman majoring in architecture. Miss Sadie Hatfield (partially hidden behind Mus- &fa) is chairman of the Hospitality Committee. which future commission decisions could be made. The pass-fail resolution ap proved by the Senate was identi cal to that passed by senators last spring. Mauro, chairman of the Pass-Fail Committee ex plained that last year’s resolution was never taken through admin istrative channels for adoption by the university. Briefly, the resolution, ap proved by a wide majority, asks that a student with 30 or more semester hours of credit be allowed to take as many as 16 semester hours of elective courses not in his major under the pass- fail grading system. These hours would count as part of the hours required for a degx-ee but would not be used in determining grade point ratio. The professor teaching the class (See Senate, Page 3) MAKING HIS POINT After turning the chair over to Kent Caperton (left), Student Senate vice president, Senate President Gerry Geistweidt explains to the senate his ideas concerning a stu dent grievance committee and how they could be put into effect. (Photo by David Mid dlebrooke) Yet Profs Culture Horse Virus For First Time Anywhere Research microbiologists at Texas A&M have successfully cultured the infectious anemia virus in horses which has eluded scientists since its discovery in 1901. Dr. Richard W. Moore, profes sor of microbiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and co workers Dr. H. E. Redmond and Dr. Masami Katada report that the virus for the first time has been cultured in a laboratory cell system with a detectable and reproductive effect on the cell. The virus has been character ized and has reproduced the dis ease in susceptible horses. Efforts to culture the virus in a detectable laboratory system were unsuccessful until about five months ago, when it was first grown in the A&M laboratory, the Virus Research Lab director said. “The virus is extremely small, rather heat-stable and stable to most of the materials used as common disinfectants,” Dr. Mooi-e revealed. “With this system a diagnostic test which may be highly accurate is now being tested.” Dr. Moore pointed out that re search has been conducted for a number of years. It was first shown to be tx-ansmitted by fil tered serum in 1901 by workers in France. One of the first reports con firming the French work was published in 1908 by Dr. Mark Francis and Dr. R. P. Mansteller, both deceased foi-mer deans of veterinax-y medicine at Texas A&M. Dr. Moore said i-esearchei’s at A&M and in Japan have shown progress into the diseases since 1954. He has been researching Fallout Theater Performs Tonight The Aggie Players open their second performance tonight of “Guess What’s Happening To night, Dear?”, the Fallout Thea ter-Woi’kshop’s first production this year. Curtain time is 8 p.m. and admission is 50 cents. The play, written by Bob Rob inson, is a satire on the daily lives of seven people; two ac countants and their wives, the daughter of an accountant, the daughter’s boyfriend, and a bill BULLETIN Raymond V. Audette, an A&M freshman, has been charged with possession of marijuana after Campus Security officers found a small quantity of the narcotic in his dormitory room Thursday night. Audette, 18-year-old pre-veter- inary medicine major, was being held in the Brazos County jail this morning in lieu of $2,500 bond. The youth was graduated from high school in Schenectady, N. Y., but his father now resides in Dallas. Campus Security Chief Ed Powell said that officers searched Audette’s Puryear Hall room and found a small bag which they believe contained marijuana. The contents of the bag have been sent to Austin for official analy sis. College Station Justice of the Peace A. P. Boyette Jr. issued a search warrant authorizing the officers to enter Audette’s room. The youth also appeared before Boyette before being transferred to county jail. collector. It seems the Ander sens and the Johnsons don’t like to pay their bills, and Mr. Taft is just the man to collect the money from them, or so he thinks. The play has a romantic side, also. Laura, the Anderson’s 16- year-old daughter, after plan ning to tell her boyfriend to get lost, decides she wants to elope with him secretly instead. She hurries home to make the an nouncement. Her boyfriend, Joey, is all for the idea. In fact, he wants to elope that very weekend because he just got his allowance and it will be spent if they wait. In the midst of the confusion, does Mr. Taft collect his money ? Do Laura and Joey elope? The Aggie Players answer that ques tion tonight at 8 p.m. Also scheduled for the evening are “The Wanderers.” They perform in the field of contempo rary folk music, commenting on hatchet murders, hangings, the country-western set, airplane dis asters, and “Love.” The Fallout Theater-Workshop was built by students for stu dents in January, 1965, with the idea in mind of showing one and two act plays that were put to gether by students only. Since that time, over 100 plays have been performed, many of them to capacity audiences. Several more Fallout productions are planned for the 1969-70 school year. Entrance to the Fallout Thea- terworkshop is in back of Guion Hall. the virus for seven years, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that horse owners became con cerned. “Additional support resulted when a major outbreak of the virus hit all except one major U. S. race track, which stimu lated considerable interest in sup port of research for the disease,” he recalled. The research is currently fund ed by the American Quarter Horse Association through the Morris Animal Foundation of Denver, Colo., the Animal Re search Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture and by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. Moore said the disease is transferred to the horse by mos quitoes, body flies and syringes. The Lamar, Mo., native ex plained the virus will have one of four effects on the horse: In the acute phase, the horse may die in five to seven days. The subacute phase will give the horse the clinical signs, but he will appear to recover. After nine days to one month, the horse may again shown clinical signs, and may recover. The horse may go through this phase five or six times and eventually die. A majority of the horses in fected ai-e classified chronic, where they may appear normal for a long period of time, then have an acute attack and die. Or, the horse may recover and stay in the chronic stage for another long period of time. Dr. Moore said the most dan gerous phase is an inapparent carrier phase. The horse never shows clinical signs, yet has the virus in his blood and the ability to transfer the disease at all times. The horse appears normal and he usually causes the outbreaks. Infectious animia virus symp toms start with a rise in temper ature, drop in the red blood cell count and gradual decrease of red blood cells, bringing death or, in chronic cases, the decrease will occur with each attack. Other signs include fluid swell ing of the lower abdomen wall, brisket and legs, along with mi nute blood spots on the eye lids and base of the tongue. In later stages, the horse will show signs of a loss of w'eight, despite excellent appetite. Dr. Moore emphasized that once a horse is infected he re mains a carrier for life. A large number of horses live a normal life as carriers, he said. A 1955 DVM graduate of A&M, Dr. Moore also heads research into scrapie of sheep and several diseases of swine, n , , < mnii DR. R. W. MOORE Arab Official Will Talk Here Monday University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. “The Arab View of the Middle East” will be presented here Monday by Richard I. Babaa, di rector of the League of Arab States Information Center for the Southwest. A former Palestine govern ment and Jordanian Ministry of the Interior official, Babaa will speak at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, an nounced Great Issues chairman Tom Fitzhugh. Babaa, 45, headed the Can adian League of Arab States four years before appointment to his present position. He was born in Samaria, Palestine, and started law studies in Palestine and Jordan. They were com pleted at Southwestern Univer sity in Georgetown. The official then was employ ed four years by the government of Palestine under British man date, followed by four years in the Jordanian Ministry. In 1957, Babaa serwed as chief of research in the Arab States delegation to the United Nations. From there, he went to Canada. He authored “Positive Neutral ism — Myth and Reality.” Fitzhugh noted that the Great Issues series, like MSC Political Forum and Contemporary Arts presentations, is subscription- supported and no admittance is charged. BB &L Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv.