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Vol. 65 No. 29
College Station, Texas
Friday, October 31, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
enate To Initiate
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Feedback’ Project
ly Dave Mayes
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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.”
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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
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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,
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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.