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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, December 10, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
On Open-Air Campus Mall
Work Under
Way
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iHayden Whitsett
lalion Staff Writer
|ffork on the new open air mall,
located between the Aca-
nic Building and the Agricul-
Building is under way,
Irding to Harold C. Carter,
lager of construction at A&M.
Liter said that recent rain
[delayed construction on the
|,000 park, but that it
ildn’t extend work past the
Ble of the summer.
uina?
The mall project was designed
to produce a more academic en
vironment in the area extending
from the Academic Building to
the Agriculture Building.
So far shrubbery between Nagle
Hall and the Library has been
removed and Roberts and Hub
bard Streets, flanking the Library,
have been ripped out.
According to Robert H. Rucker,
A&M landscape architect, a pedes
trian plaza will be constructed
ish Place 5th
t UH Contest
m
kM’s defending national
lipion Freshman Drill Team
experienced its first front-
action and come out better
its predecessors.
e team commanded by Bev-
S. Kennedy of Austin placed
in the annual University of
ton competition last week-
It was the FDT’s first corn-
ion as a unit and only ap-
nce other than football game
h-ins and the Veterans Day
|ie finish was a two-place im-
lement over that by the 1968-
Eani, which went on to cap-
an unprecedented second
ght national title.
their performance was as
as any fish team I’ve seen
JH,” commented J. Malon
Iherland, advisor of the com-
Tdant’s office.
wasn’t spectacular,” he
id, “but the consistency was
and the experience was
lutherland said the upperclass
sers headed by senior Richard
zalez of San Antonio did well
the first meet of 1969-70, by
WEATHER
sdnesday — Partly cloudy to
udy. Wind Northeastly 8 to
m.p.h. High 60, low 49.
ursday — Partly cloudy to
udy. Wind Northerly 10 to
m.p.h. High 65, low 47.
having the team organized and
ready to go.
Tarleton State College’s Wain-
wright Rifles won the Houston
meet. The Marion Guard of St.
Mary’s University took second.
Both units, unlike the A&M team,
march upperclassmen.
Southerland, who noted the
UH meet experience definitely
contributes to the Fish Drill
Team’s later performances, said
the freshmen will not compete
again until late February.
between the Academic and Cush
ing Buildings and the library and
Agriculture Buildings. Roberts
and Hubbard Streets will be re
placed by 24-foot-wide sidewalks
and the existing sidewalks will
be removed.
Rucker said that lights, benches,
flowerbeds, new foliage and plant
ers around the existing trees are
part of the mall project.
He added that no trees will be
removed or transplanted and that
all existing plants that can be
salvaged will be saved and re
planted. An automatic irrigation
system will be installed.
“We realize that the work will
cause inconvenience to students,
faculty, and campus visitors,”
Rucker said. “But we hope every
one will be patient with us for the
next six months.”
Major changes in the area will
be the closing and removal of
vehicular traffic and parking
from the turn-around and block
of Coke Street east of the Aca
demic Building, plus Hubbard and
Roberts Streets between the Aca
demic Building and the Agricul
ture Building.
Coke Street will be used only
as a service and emergency
vehicle route to the library.
Christmas for the Poor Is Aim
Of Ags’ Family Adoption Plan
A&M students have begun their
annual project to bring Christmas
to the poor before leaving for
their homes for the holidays.
Sponsored by the YMCA, stu
dents have annually “adopted a
family for Christmas,” declared
Ed Donnell of Jones Creek,
YMCA Cabinet president.
Donnell explained that the
YMCA receives a list of needy
families in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area. Individual students,
cadet units, civilian residence hall
organizations and campus clubs
select a family to help.
The YMCA serves as a center
and clearinghouse for clothing
and non-perishable food items.
“Used clothing for adults and
children can be used,” Donnell
noted, “we only ask that the
clothes be clean and mended.”
Canned foods also are impor
tant to the project, he added.
Students normally visit the
family and find out what their
specific needs are before buying
any merchandise. Christmas box
es of fresh foods, canned foods,
clothes and gifts are presented to
the family just prior to the stu
dents’ leaving for the Christmas
holiday^ on Dec. 19.
“We find this annual project
usually makes Christmas more
meaningful to the students who
participate,” Donnell maintains.
Persons wishing to donate
goods or help a needy family
may contact the YMCA office
in room 102 of the YMCA Build
ing.
. SKI STUNT
P tne sun slowly sets, a silhouetted skier soars in a somersault stunt to start the season
F a ski school near Toronto, Canada. The skier, Dan George, is the assistant director
fithe school. (AP Wirephoto)
Nagle will continue to dead-end
either side of the library.
Architects for the project are
Jarvis, Putty and Jarvis of Dal
las. R. B. Butler and Sons of
Bryan is the general contractor
with Charles W. Scott and Son
of San Antonio is the contractor
for the landscape work.
Voting Today
Will Decide
10 Positions
Elections for freshman class
executive and senate positions
and a junior business adminis
tration senate post are being
held today.
Polls will be open from 7:30
a. m. - 8 p. m., according to
Mike Wiebe, Election Commis
sion vice president for pub
licity.
Freshmen may vote at the
dormitory 2 guard room, the
basement of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, or the newsstand
in front of Sbisa Dining Hall,
Wiebe said.
Junior BAs can vote in room
102 (typing room) of Francis
Hall, he said.
The first-year students will
be electing a class president,
vice president, secretary-trea
surer, and social secretary,
along with five senators-at-
large.
The third-year BAs will be
voting for one senate repre
sentative.
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MALL PLAI
Here is the proposed long-range plan for a central campus mall extending from the Ac
ademic Building to t&he System Administration Building. A&M landscape architect
Robert Rucker has said that the area between the Academic Building and the Agricul
ture Building (not shown) should be completed within six or seven months.
YMCA Yule Celebration
Planned for Next Week
Performances by Singing Ca
dets and the A&M Consolidate!
High School Choir along with the
lighting of a string of lights
shaped like a Christmas tree will
highlight a community Christmas
program on the campus Dec. 18.
The annual YMCA Christmas
Program will begin at 7:30 p. m.
on the east steps of the System
Administration Building, reports
YMCA Secretary Logan E. Wes
ton.
Christmas carols will be sung
by the guests, with song sheets
provided by the Y.
The Singing Cadets, under the
direction of Robert L. Boone, will
sing four numbers from their
specially-designed choir shell.
Frank Coulter will direct the
A&M Consolidated High School
Choir in four numbers and a mem
ber of the A&M student body will
give a short Christmas message.
Logan pointed out the Lighting
of the Christmas lights is an
addition to the annual program.
The light will be strung in the
outline of a ChristmaiS tree from
a 35-foot pole and illuminated at
the end of the singing program.
The program is open to A&M
students, faculty, staff as well as
the general public.
And It Never Ends
SCONA: Hard Work
Today is the beginning of four
days of discussion and debate for
the delegates to Texas A&M’s
15th Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs, but for the A&M
students who make up the
SCONA XV Committee it is the
end of 10 months of planning and
hard work.
For others, preliminary plan
ning for SCONA XVI will soon
begin.
A year-round schedule, includ
ing fund drives during holjjiay
periods, is necessary to insure a
well-organized meeting of 162
scholars from 58 universities.
SCONA was begun in 1954 by
two A&M students, John Jenkins
and Herbert Whitney, who had
attended a similar conference at
West Point, said Harry Kay Les-
Corps Review
Thursday Will
Honor SCONA
More than 200 delegates and
participants to the 15th Student
Conference on National Affairs
will be honored Thursday by the
Corps of Cadets.
The 2,800-member corps will
pass in review for SCONA dele
gates at 5 p.m. on the Memorial
Student Center drill field, an
nounced Col. Jim H. McCoy, com
mandant.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan will be the reviewing
official.
Among honorees here for
SCONA XV will be 115 students
from colleges and universities
throughout the U.S., Mexico and
Africa. In addition, 30 speakers
and round-table co-chairmen will
view the Cadet Corps’ third for
mal review of 1969-70.
A&M designated 50 regular
delegates to SCONA and for the
first time qualified 40 sopho
mores and freshmen to partici
pate in the annual conclave that
examines issues of national and
international concern.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B L —Adv.
ser, chairman. The other major
conferences of this type are held
at Principea and the three mili
tary academies, he said.
The conference was begun to
bring together outstanding stu
dents to discuss current issues of
national and international scope,
Lesser explained.
SCONA attempts to create in
telligent interest in the complex
ities of the policies of the U.S.,
he said, rather than to sugegst
solutions or accept ready-made
answers and, thereby, to develop
enlightened, responsible leaders
from among the students.
Of the five such conferences
sponsored by American colleges,
Lesser pointed out, SCONA is
the only one for which students
raise the entire operating fund,
which this year totals over
$21,000.
A&M students also secure
speakers, panelists and chairmen
for round table discussion
groups, with help from Congress
man Olin E. Teague of the Bry
an-College Station district.
Teague suggests names of pos
sible speakers on conference top
ics and encourages Washington
authorities to accept SCONA in
vitations. For this year’s topic,
Friday Last Day
To Pre-Register
Friday is the deadline for pre-
registrating for spring semester
courses, reminded Registrar Ro
bert A. Lacey.
Students should pre - register
through their major departments,
Lacey emphasized. He said they
must also obtain fee data cards
at designated area^ and then
turn in both the pre-registration
card packets and fee data cards
at registration headquarters on
the ground floor of the YMCA
Building.
Lacey said that any student
who fails to pre-register may
not be able to enroll for all his
desired courses during delayed
and late registration.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
“Black Africa: The Challenges of
Development,” he has had a
background paper drawn up by
members of the Library of Con
gress staff.
A&M students began planning
for this year’s conference in Feb-
i-uary, when the SCONA Commit
tee met to evaluate SCONA XIV
and offer suggestions for im
provement. Lesser took over
leadership of the committee, or
ganizing a new membership drive
and calling for suggested themes
and topics for SCONA XV.
“Letters were sent out to all
the previous speakers and chair
men asking for suggestions for
topics,” Lesser said. “The plan
ning committee culled these sug
gestions down to 10-12 and then
the advisers and executive com
mittee narrowed the choice to
four or five. The planning com
mittee then researched available
material and speakers for each
topic and Africa was chosen as
our topic before spring vacation.”
“We went through the same
process to find speakers for the
topic,” he said. “We divided it
into five or six sub-topics and
researched each for appropriate
speakers.”
The SCONA finance committee
sent out letters early in March
asking past sponsors and pros
pective sponsors for appointments
to allow SCONA workers to talk
with them.
The students gave up their
Easter holiday to contact poten
tial donors in Houston, San An
tonio, Tyler, Fort Worth, Dallas
and Corpus Christi. The 40 stu
dents were divided into teams of
two and three to call on the spon
sors, the majority of whom are
former students.
Temporary office space was
acquired in each city and the
teams, armed with a copy of the
past conference’s brochure and
the agenda to the next, contacted
corporations, endowment agencies
and individuals.
“More than $18,000 was col
lected in this and a second fund
drive the first week of June,”
Lesser said. “The last two weeks
of August, Mexican students con
ducted a fund drive in Monterrey
and other major Mexican cities.”
Basic planning for the confer
ence began after the Easter holi
days. Meeting rooms were re
served, dates were placed on the
official University calendar, and
a list of schools to be invited
was drawn up.
“We invited schools that had
attended in the past and pulled
enough names out of the hat to
invite 145 schools,” Lesser said.
“Three African and one Mexican
university have accepted as well
as 54 others.
“Letters were sent to the pres
idents of all the universities re-
(See SCONA, page 6)
SCONA XV
Tonight
Plenary Session — 8 p. m. MSC Ballroom
“Building of African Nations”
—Dr. Gwendolen M. Carter
Thursday
MSC
Roundtables — 8:30-11:30 a. m.
“Building of African Nations”
Panel Presentation — 1:30-3 p. m. MSC Ballroom
“The Role and Objectives of Industrial Develop
ment in Black Africa”
—E. Jefferson Murphy
Arthur N. L. Wina
Paul S. Slawson
Roundtables — 3-4:30 p. m. MSC
“African Society and Social Changes”
Corps of Cadets review — 5 p. m. Drill Field
Plenary Session — 8 p. m. MSC Ballroom
“African Society and Social Changes”
—Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein
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