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Vol. 65 No, 62
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 28, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
Only Student Member
Geist weidt Appointed
To State Committee
Gerald Geistweidt, president of the student body, has
been appointed to the newly created Crime and Narcotics
Advisory Commission by House Speaker Gus Mutscher.
Geistweidt, senior political science major from Mason, is
the only student appointed to the nine-member statewide
committee.
Members will serve two-year terms on the commission
established to advise the Texas Education Agency in develop
ment of units of study on the dangers of crime and narcotics.
The commission was created at the last session of the
Legislature.
Active in numerous campus projects at A&M,
Geistweidt also was president of A&M’s Election Committee
and Advisory Council and is listed in “Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Universities.”
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Geistweidt, he was
graduated with honors from Mason High School, where he
was student body president.
Geistweidt was one of three appointments made to the
commission by Mutscher. The other two appointees are
Houston Juvenile Judge Wallace R. Miller and Irwin Miller,
also of Houston. Irwin Miller was recently named Texas’
“pharmacist of the year.”
Gov. Preston Smith and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes also are
allotted three appointees each.
Globetrotters Here Tuesday
For Town Hall Performance
One-of-a-kind basketball of
the Harlem Globetrotters’ pat
ented style will get laughter go
ing Tuesday in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Meadowlark Lemon and a tal
ented band of court jesters get
the ball rolling — or twisting, or
disappearing, or going through
the hoop — in their inimitable
style at 8 p.m.
All patrons must purchase
tickets for the event, pointed out
Town Hall chairman Rex Stew
art. The Globetrotters are pre
sented as a Town Hall Special,
for which season tickets and ac
tivity cards are not accepted.
Tickets are on sale at the
Memorial Student Center Stu
dent Program Office and local
banks.
Innovations by the talented
cagers who have been seen by
more than 60 million fans in 87
countries are combined with a
topnotch variety show.
“On the heels of our greatest
season in history, we have exer
cised extra care putting together
the 1970 package,” says general
manager George Gillett. “Our
team, we believe, is the best ever
and entertainers for the pre
game and halftime shows have
been selected to please every
member of the family.”
The huge two-in-one program
pits the Globetrotters against
the New Jersey Reds.
LEGISLATORS TOUR A&M REACTOR
Dr. John Randall (right), director of Texas A&M’s Nuclear Science Center, explains re
actor operations to (center) Sstate Reps. Bill Presnal of Bryan, Hudson Moyer of Am
arillo and Dave Finney of Fort Worth. The legislators were accompanied on the uni
versity tour by several top A&M officials. (See story, page 4.)
DeNiro Killed in Accident;
Going into this season, the
Globetrotters played 9,851 games.
The Trotters have won 9,529.
Sabicas to Give Concert Monday
Silver Taps Set for Monday
Flamenco music’s most elo
quent spokesman, Sabicas, will
make the strings talk Monday at
A&M in an Artists Showcase
presentation of Town Hall.
The Spanish guitarist will per
form at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, an
nounced Town Hall chairman Rex
Stewart.
Sabicas’ program of Spanish
and Latin American folk music
will include 16 selections com
posed by the son of Pamplona
gypsies. Sabicas, then known as
Augustin Castellon, was playing
the guitar at the age of five.
He made his performing debut
at the age of nine and at 11 won
first prize as best guitarist at the
Monumental Cinema Theater in
Madrid. Sabicas was ranked with
the great Spanish guitarists in
another nine years. During the
many years of his distinguished
musical career, the S. Hurok-
managed virtuoso has been ac
claimed over and over as the
“king of flamenco.”
Rich sounds that pour from his
fingers in full, precise fashion
make it “difficult to believe this
man is playing only a stringed
instrument,” a review stated.
Sabicas’ A&M concert will in
clude “Granadinas,” tribute to the
beauty of Granada; “Soleares,”
original flamenco music; “Tien-
tos,” song and dance of the Span
ish gypsies; Siguirillas y Saetas,”
music played during Holy Week
in Seville, and “Costa del Sol,”
Malagueno folklore, among oth
ers.
Student activity card and Town
Hall season ticket holders will be
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‘Players’ to Hold Tryouts
Tryouts for the mid-March
Aggie Players production of
“Under the Sycamore Tree” will
be conducted Feb. 2 and 3 at Tex
as A&M.
Aggie Players director C. K.
Esten said the 7:30 p.m. tryouts
will be in Guion Hall.
Parts for six men and six
women will be read. Rehearsals
for the March 11-13 and 19-21
presentation begin Feb. 4, ac
cording to Bob Wenck, who will
direct the production.
A satirical look at humans
from the alien viewpoint of an
ant, “Under the Sycamore Tree”
was written by Samuel Spewack.
The entire story takes place in
an ant hill, which will be created
in paper mache on the revolving
stage built by the Players for the
1968-69 production of “Arms and
the Man.”
Wenck said the stage will be
revolved in full view of the audi
ence during the course of the
play.
“The play concerns a bunch of
ants trying to figure out people
and what makes them tick,” he
said. “By the end of the show,
through imitation and improving
on human activities, the ants dis
cover the secrets to war and
peace and all of living.”
He noted the viewpoint has its
objective qualities.
Wenck said tryouts are not
limited to members of the Play
ers and that anyone interested
in hard, serious theater work is
welcome. He pointed out that
parts in “Dinny and the Witches”
and “Tobacco Road” were ac
quired by students not taking
theater arts courses.
Color slides of the latter pro
duction will be shown at the first
tryout session Feb. 2.
SABICAS
admitted free. Single admission
tickets at $2 per adult and $1 for
other students are available at
the MSC Student Program Office.
There are no reserved seats.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday in Youngstown, Ohio,
for Mike DeNiro, who was killed
Friday in Metairie, La., when the
car in which he was a passenger
veered off a roadway into a canal.
Silver Taps for the junior All-
Southwest Conference defensive
end on the Aggie football squad
will be held Monday.
Coach Gene Stallings and 14
members of the team attended
the services and burial in De-
Niro’s hometown.
DeNiro, 21-year-old physical
education major, was trapped in
the submerged auto and drown
ed, Jefferson Parish sheriff’s dep
uties said.
The driver, Stanley Broussard,
was not injured. He was booked
with driving while intoxicated and
reckless operation of a motor ve
hicle. He is a student at the
University of Southwestern Loui
siana in Lafayette.
DeNiro was in the suburban
New Orleans community to at
tend Broussard’s wedding, sched
uled for last Saturday.
Stallings issued a statement
Friday saying, “It is a terrible
shock to all of us here at Texas
A&M. Our main thought at this
time are with Mike’s mother and
dad and family. He was certainly
a credit to everyone who knew
him and not only was a great
competitor but he stood tall for
the things he believed in.”
A spokesman for A&M’s ath
letic department said DeNiro was
considered a good professional
prospect despite his seemingly
light weight for defensive end.
“He was strong and quick and
could have played several posi
tions,” said the spokesman.
He was named conference de
fensive player of the week after
the Southern Methodist Univer
sity game last fall.
He was an all-conference fresh
man and made the all-conference
teams both his varsity years.
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DENIRO
Supreme Court Rules Against
Some Draft Board Practices
By Barry Schweid
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (^ > )—The Su
preme Court ruled 6 to 2 Monday
that draft boards cannot take a
college student’s deferment away
because he turned in his draft
card to protest the Vietnam war.
Justice Hugo L. Black said
neither the President nor local
boards can set conditions for stu
dent deferments that are not in
the 1967 draft law.
Black, speaking for the ma
jority, said Congress intended to
spare students from induction as
long as they remained students.
There is no indication in the law,
he said, that the deferment can
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This sidewalk snowplow operator in Rochester, N. Y., bucking - drifts from heavy over
night snowfall, would probably willingly trade places with the miss on a downtown bill
board. (AP Wirephoto)
BB&L.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
be taken away because the regis
trant failed to keep his draft
card.
Last week the court ruled 5 to
3 that draft boards cannot ac
celerate the induction of war pro
testers already in 1A as punish
ment for giving up their draft
cards.
Monday’s decision prohibits the
reclassification to 1A of students
or any other men Congress in
tended to protect from military
service.
Together, the rulings mean
protesters cannot be called up
solely on the judgment of their
boards that they are “delin
quents.” Both rulings went
against the Justice Department
and the Selective Service system.
In the civil rights area, mean
while, the court ruled 5 to 2 that
a park deeded for white use in
Macon, Ga., by a segregationist
can be turned back to private
heirs to keep Negroes out.
Justice Black, for the majority,
said the Constitution guarantees
Negroes the right to use public
parks. But he said, there is noth
ing in the Constitution to bar op
erators of the estate of former
Sen. Augustus Octavius Bacon
from taking the park back and
keeping both Negroes and whites
out.
Black said “there is reason for
everyone to be disheartened”
when a city park is destroyed.
But, he said, the responsibility
of Supreme Court justices “is to
construe and enforce the Consti
tution and laws of the land as
they are and not to legislate so
cial policy on the basis of our
own personal inclinations.”
The court in other actions:
—Unanimously rejected a re
quest by Gov. Claude Kirk of
Florida for reconsideration of the
Jan. 14 decision ordering desegre
gation of public schools in 14
Southern districts by Feb. 1.
—Turned down, 6 to 2, an ap
peal by publisher Ralph Ginzburg
from a $75,000 judgment that he
libeled Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-
Ariz„ in Fact magazine by sug
gesting that Goldwater had a se
verely paranoidal personality and
was unfit to be president. The
article appeared in 1964 when
Goldwater was the Republican
candidate for president.
—Dismissed, 5 to 2, an attack
by three Romanians on a New
York law that permits state judg
es to restrict transfer of money
or property to residents of Com
munist countries.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
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