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Vol. 65 No. 37 College Station, Texas Friday, November 14, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
Dave
Mayti
A&.\l
Ark,
Tech
Texas
TEXAS TICKETS UP FOR GRABS
'icket sales for the A&M-TU game on Thanksgiving Day day juniors and above may do so. Wally Groff, athletic
egan Thursday, and lines like the one above seemed to business manager, has said that tickets for the Turkey
ea fact of life for many Ags. Thursday was the day for Day game will positively end Wednesday at 5 p. m. (Photo
enior and graduate students to pick up tickets, and to- by David Middlebrooke)
Why the Sparse Audiences?—Some Answers
Ags and Cultural Activities
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j^Bittalion Staff Writer
[Why don’t Aggies attend the
N D-i ltural or i n f° rma ti ona I activi-
s offered on the Texas A&M
Ohioimpus?
This has long been a topic of
scussion among members of the
culty and student body who
ive spent days, weeks or months
eparing for an event or activi-
HonsK i only to be disappointed by
3 student response.
Cries of apathy have been
lard probably for as long as
iople have been putting on pro-
ams designed for public enter-
inment or information, but on
e Texas A&M campus at least,
any of these “whys” may be
stifled.
■The Aggie Players, performing
fcinny and the Witches” last
Ictober, had audiences ranging
Miami
from 36 to 181 nightly.
The Singing Cadets, the offi
cial A&M glee club, performs at
home to an average of 50 to 100
people.
Stage Center, a community
theater supported by A&M stu
dents and faculty, as well as citi
zens of Bryan-College Station,
performed “Dark of the Moon”
last month to audiences as small
as 26.
Most reasons given for lack of
attendance by Aggies seems to
be centered around the student
not having time for anything but
studies, and the lack of effective
advertising by those involved in
the activity.
Robert L. Boone, assistant pro
fessor of humanities and direc
tor of the Singing Cadets, said
the average 16 hour load an
A&M student takes is similar to
21 to 24 hours at another univer
sity due to the technical nature
of the work, as well as the labs
and outside assignments required
here
Joe M. (Mac) Spears, III,
president of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Council and Direc
torate, said students are in
volved in so many things that
they don’t have time to partici
pate in things outside their im
mediate interests.
Harvey Nachlinger, a member
of the public relations committee
of Great Issues last year, said
publicity is important in getting
Aggies to attend the different
activities.
“At A&M,” he said, “so many
things are going on that unless
you impress the date and hour
$844 Collected by Students
For Biafran Relief Fund
py Pam Troboy
attalion Staff Writer
More than $844 has been col
lected for the Biafran Children’s
elief Fund, according to Rich-
d DuBois, organizer of the fund
jdrive.
1 The money will be used to help
fcmbat starvation conditions in
Biafra caused by its conflict with
(Nigeria.
“In terms of statistics, loss of
|ife, and displacement of per-
ons,” DuBois said, quoting from
n article in the Oct. 4, 1969 is-
ue of “The New Yorker,” “ ‘the
far has already taken a greater
oil than the Vietnam conflict’.”
Last month, about 10 students
nanned a booth in the Memorial
Itudent Center for two days and
ollected over $300. Then the
;roup conducted a door-to-door
Irive in residence halls.
“We collected in all but about
five civilian dorms,” he said.
“We didn’t have enough people
to reach all the dorms, but we
collected $400.”
Deans and faculty members
have added about $50 to the
total and a door-to-door drive
will soon be conducted in the
corps area.
DuBois said that a lady from
Trinity saw an article in the
Houston Post about the drive
and sent in a $10 contribution.
Students and faculty members
who still wish to contribute may
do so in the Student Finance
Office at the MSC.
The money will be sent to the
United States Committee for the
United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), DuBois said.
He said that he had thoroughly
investigated the committee and
was satisfied that the money
would be effectively used.
“I want to emphasize that the
money we collect will be used
only for food,” DuBois said.
“None of it will be used for war
supplies of any kind. We are
not war-oriented, but a humani
tarian-minded ad hoc committee
of students who want to do some
thing to help those people.”
on students, you won’t get at
tendance, even with the best
topics.”
Maurice Sonner, freshman elec
trical engineering major from
Sherman, hasn’t attended any
activities other than those re
quired for freshmen in the corps
since the beginning of the school
year.
“Fye been kept busy with my
studies,” he said. “I’m behind
now,” and the corps has taken
up a major part of my time.”
He also said there were several
activities he would have tried to
make time for if he’d known
about them.
R. W. Gaines, adviser for the
MSC Council and Directorate,
said groups aren’t very success
ful in informing the people. Ade
quate information needs to be
given so that the student can
decide what he would rather see,
he added.
Dr. Harry P. Kroitor, professor
of English and adviser for the
Contemporary Arts Series last
year, said the Film Festival had
very poor turnouts one semester
because the assigned publicity
wasn’t being done. All other se
mesters, due to proper publicity,
the films were almost sellouts,
he said.
Other ideas were given as pos
sible reasons for the so-called
“Aggie apathy.”
Kroitor said he thinks full-time
people, paid by the university,
are needed for a good fine arts
program. These people should be
(See Cultural, page 3)
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Batt Man to Cover
Flight of Apollo 12
PEEK
With a little luck the moon
svill seem a little closer next
<veek for readers of The Bat-
iilion.
Battalion pho-
trapher - column
ist Bob Peek has
landed a week-
long job with the
Associated Press
news team cov
ering the Apollo
12 moon shot from the Manned
Spacecraft Center in Houston.
We say “with a little luck” be
cause Bob’s official job title is
“copyboy”, a position which, as
Bob says, will involve doing
everything — beginning with go-
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
Rb”&L. — Adv,
ing out for coffee — and often
on a round-the-clock basis.
But hopefully he will have
some time to write a few lines
(he’s shooting for a story a day)
to provide us a glimpse of what
it’s like to work within the
nerve center of this gigantic
space operation.
Bob will call his stories in to
us as soon as he gets them writ
ten. He’s also planning to mail
us film of pictures he takes at
the space center.
Bob is a journalism senior
from Jacksboro and besides his
work at The Battalion, he finds
time to be managing editor of
The Review.
He was recently chosen to be
listed in the 1970 edition of
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universi
ties,”
PROVIDES ENLIGHTENMENT
Howard DeHart, business manag-er of The Exchange Store
bookstore, explains book buy-back and resale policies to
members of the Civilian Student Council Thursday night.
Members also heard about a few of the problems faced
by DeHart. (Photo by David Middlebrooke)
Students Give
Forms to 475
In Vote Drive
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
About 475 applications were
picked up in the first day of a
community-wide voter registra
tion drive, according to Bill Mas-
kal, student participant in the
drive.
“The first day went real well,”
he said. “Almost all of those who
picked up applications were
young people. It seems that stu
dents want this opportunity.”
“This was about what we ex
pected for the first day,” he
added, “but we hope to do better
Friday.”
The drive is a four-day effort
to make “voter registration pos
sible for everyone on campus and
in the community.”
Volunteers are handing out
registration forms to eligible
voters from a booth in the Mem
orial Student Center, and an
other booth was to have been set
up in the Academic building to
day, said Robert Sabin, another
student participant.
Organizational meetings for
drives in the community will be
held tonight from 6 to 7 and from
9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Hen-
sel Park under the dome, said
Maskal.
“The meeting tonight will be
to give everyone instructions on
how to fill out the registration
forms,” Maskal said. “Specific
procedures have to be followed
and explained to those who will
be registering.”
The purpose of the meeting
Saturday morning, he continued,
will be to assign teams to peo
ple with automobiles so that the
whole Bryan-College Station area
can be covered.
All weekend, teams of two will
be knocking on doors and talking
to community residents about the
privilege and responsibility of
using their right to vote, he said.
They will be able to explain the
stepr necessary for registration
and give residents the proper
forms, he added.
“We have at least 200 volun
teers for this weekend,” Maskal
said, “but it’s up to the students
how effective this is going to be.
We need more people.”
“We would especially like to
get as many girls on campus in
volved as possible,” he said. “We
know there are 1,100 here and
we would like to get them in
volved in the drive.”
“The more people we have, the
more area we can cover,” com
mented Sabin. “We’d like to get
a record number of registered
voters this year.
“We’re going to particularly
concentrate on low income
areas,” he continued. “We want
to contact those people who have
the right to vote, but never
have.”
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan approved the student
registration drive as long as the
booths were run by A&M stu
dents for non-political purposes.
Hannigan requested that the
group only pass out the registra
tion forms. The responsibility
for getting them to county tax-
assessor-collector offices lies with
the registrants.
He said that Maskal, Sabin and
Christina Alvarez requested per
mission Wednesday to conduct
the campus drive.
Hannigan added that he was
very much in favor of the idea
of encouraging students to reg
ister.
REGISTRATION DRIVE BEGINS
Students man a booth in the post office area of the Memorial Student Center Thurs
day as a student-organized voter registration drive gets underway. Goal of the four-
day drive, which will reach its peak Saturday and Sunday, is to register as many eligible
voters in Texas as possible, thus helping the “silent majority” in America to be heard.
(Photo by David Middlebrooke)
Civilians Hear Explanation
Of Bookstore Procedures
Howard DeHart, new business
manager of the bookstore in the
campus Exchange Store, explain
ed some of the operating proce
dures concerning the sale and re
sale of textbooks to members of
the Civilian Student Council dur
ing the regular CSC meeting
Thursday evening.
“Perhaps our biggest problem
has been the resale of used books
by students,” DeHart said. De
Hart explained that the book
store’s current policy is to sell
new books at the retail price plus
10 per cent to cover the cost of
handling and freight charges.
“We buy back the books at half
the price the students paid for
them and resell them for 75 per
cent of the original cost,” De
Hart said.
DeHart said the bookstore has
had many problems concerning
new editions of texts and of the
discontinuance of others.
“We have each department list
the name of the book, the pub
lisher, the edition, and the num
ber of books they want and we
calculate the demand from that
figure,” DeHart said.
DeHart said that if the demand
for a textbook was 40 books, the
first 40 students to sell the book
back to the bookstore would re
ceive approximately half of the
amount they paid for the book.
“All of those past the demand
(40) would receive the current
wholesale price,” DeHart said. He
added that the wholesale price is
fixed by the publisher.
“For instance, the first 40 stu
dents might receive $5 for their
books, while all students past the
first 40 might only receive $1 for
their books, depending on what
ever the wholesale price is,” De
Hart explained. He said the
wholesale price might be only 10
cents or 25 cents in some in
stances.
“However this does not mean
the bookstore makes a tremen
dous profit off of resales. Quite
the contrary; we have thousands
of textbooks in storage across the
street from the Exchange Store
which we bought back and
couldn’t resell because they were
discontinued or the publisher
wouldn’t pay a wholesale price
for them because there was no
demand for them,” DeHart said.
DeHart said the bookstore has
already lost thousands of dollars
this year due to discontinuance
“A Critique of American Dem
ocracy” series of Political Forum
presentations begins Monday at
A&M with a talk by Mrs. Walt
Rostow.
Wife of a former special as
sistant to former President Lyn
don B. Johnson, she is an asso
ciate professor of history at the
University of Texas at Austin.
Mrs. Rostow’s talk will be at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Eallroom, announced for
um chairman Charles R. Hoff
man
Hoffman said the series is one
of the general topics of the for-
of textbooks or the refusal of the
publisher to offer a wholesale
price for them.
DeHart explained that the
bookstore, being operated by the
state, could not deduct the losses
as tax deductions.
“We also enlist the cooperation
of the other area bookstores in
the area, Loupot’s and Shaeffer’s,
to supply the required amount of
textbooks to meet the demand by
the students,” DeHart said.
“Right now, we only supply
textbooks for the students be
cause we are shackled by a lack
of space, but plans have been
drawn for a new bookstore,” De
Hart said.
“The new bookstore will be an
extension of the Memorial Stu-
(See Bookstore, page 3)
um this year “in view of the
growing concern for a more par
ticipatory democracy.”
“Mrs. Rostow’s talk Monday
will be the first in the series of
lectures on this subject,” he add
ed.
Admission is free but patron
age contributions by participat
ing faculty-staff members and
townspeople are requested, Hoff
man said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Wife of Former LBJ Aide
To Talk at PF Presentation