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iaiders built they started cy from tie Aggie zone, :ep the pace Che Battalion College Station, Texas >ser than 1J tinued their Thursday. February 5, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 hed with 2! ggie scoring i adding Steve Nilej pulled down Smith led in re- leRaiders. with 23 in- om the field >uted 17, H , half. Steve ood each had added 11 ler cause, 1 senior vrbt lits of great e termination field and in PER page 1) ■ok. mr dressing the scorer's Bas talking ler the has- jw what he and asked now what 1 ut I really was talking al disagree- doubt about tinued,” but ind I didn't own knowl- swinging KBTX if the student-faculty group will ie held at 7:30 tonight in the hchitecture Auditorium. The group is working toward l&M’s participation in a National at Environmental Teach-In, tenta- ively set for April 22, he said. Voigt said that plans for lec- ures, slide shows and panel dis- aan (trim letra toear 713/846-27^ 'exas 77840 , some* IMCOI BARBERS ON A BIKE—When business gets a little slow, these five barbers take a turn around the parking lot at a Miami, Fla., shopping center on a double-decker bike, which all three riders pedal. (AP Wirephoto) Ags Planning A&M Action During National Teach-In A call for personal commitment » solve environmental problems wsbeen made by the Symposium 'or Environmental Awareness at texas A&M. Coordinator Bill Voigt has an- lounced that the second meeting cussions focusing attention on the teach-in will be made final at the meeting. See column, page 2 The teach-in, sponsored nation ally by Sen. Gaylord Nelson and Dr. Paul Ehrlich, population bi ologist, is being sponsored on campus by the Forum for En vironmental Studies, an organiza tion in the College of Architec ture, Voigt said. Participation must be approved by the Univer sity Executive Committee which meets Friday. “Only 15 or 20 students and faculty members attended our first meeting,” Voigt said, “but KAMI/: From Textile Mill To Finished TV Station ly Bob Robinson Battalion Staff Writer There’s a building on campus hat used to be a textile mill. When the building became too )ld and outdated, it was remod- iled and given to the engineers b a library. When the building was no anger deemed suitable for use K a library, part of it was giv- m to the Education Department ind the rest was given to educa- donal television. The building is Bagley Hall, Mated between the water tow- tr and the new library. Since that time, full-time ed ucational TV staff members and a band of slaves known as stu dent assistants have torn down tails, built new ones, moved doors, built new ones and rejuve- aated thousands of dollars worth of equipment to build a televi sion studio. The outside of Bagley Hall still looks the same; dull, red bricks interrupted occasionally by window frames painted a fad ing gray or tan and surrounding blacked-in windows. It is doubtful, however, that the architect who designed Bag- ley Hall, if there was one, would recognize the interior. Rooms have been enlarged, new ones built, and everything painted. For several years, educational Productions were limited to dosed circuit viewing on the U’M campus only. A control van was purchased Used from KTRK, Channel 13 in Houston. The van has facilities enabling it to tape complete re mote productions. Three used General Electric color cameras Were purchased. University and Federal approv- •1 was received and Dec. 15, less than 90 days later, was set as the broadcast date. Student assistants and staff members alike began work on the impossible, transforming a hlack and white closed-circuit TV station into a color broadcasting TV station ... in less than 90 A transmitter was ordered through General Electric Corpor ation, an IVC 100 color film chain camera was purchased so film and color slides could be inserted into a production, a broadcast antenna was ordered and the search began to find suitable call letters that weren’t already in use. Chances for meeting the dead line looked good. The main bulk of the trans mitter arrived in November. Parts needed for its operation were promised within a few weeks. The antenna was completed on the water tower Thanksgiving Day. The black and white Video Tape Recorder (VTR) was “col orized” and made operational by Dec. 1. Federal Communications Com mission assigned the call letters KAMU after they were released by a radio station in Alaska. Then there was a strike at General Electric. Vital trans mitter parts got as far as the loading dock and remained there. Phone calls did no good, and it was finally conceded that broad cast day would have to be post poned. The new air date was set for Feb. 16, 60 days later. In the meantime, work con tinued at Bagley Hall. Construction of a new studio began. One complete wall was knocked down between two rooms leaving an area almost the size of a basketball court. Air con ditioning ducts were built into the ceiling from the two rooms above. Part of another wall was knocked out and replaced with two phone booth shaped doors, each 10 feet high. Lighting for the news program, “Campus and Community Today,” was set up in one end of the studio, and construction on the set started. Program Director Norman God win began work on the Febru ary program guides now avail able to the public. Work started on the master control, designed to intergrate closed circuit, video tape record ing, and on-the-air broadcasting into one unit. Dies to Speak At Ramada Inn Fete Tonight 97 Delegates Named Jericho Talks the list has been growing every day and every department now has 4 or 5 profs interested in it.” Ideas to be discussed at to night’s meeting include an ap pearance on the “Town Talk” show, presentation of the slide show “Murder of Silence,” lec tures on ecology by Dr. Richard Baldauf, distribution of reprints of articles, formation of a student committe for the assessment of environmental degradation in Brazos County, environmental displays and establishment of a committee for action in the Stu dent Senate, he said. And slowly, piece by piece, transmitter parts arrived. Cavities, which surrounded large tubes and act as tuning apparatus for them, arrived just before Christmas. More cavities arrived the sec ond week of January. The crystals needed just to make the transmitter operable finally arrived two weeks ago. Student assistants and full time employes alike have been working days, nights and week ends to put these delayed parts together and get them working. So far, no major problems have been encountered, and each employe expresses no doubt that KAMU will go on the air as scheduled Feb. 16. George Shearer, senior engi neer, has been working mainly on the transmitter but also has had to devote time to coordinat ing the other technical prepara tions being made at the station. “I foresee no problems which would delay broadcast,” he said. “The one final hurdle we have is readying the transmitter for the FCC proof of performance test.” This test, which checks mini mum requirements on the qual ity of a transmission, has to be conducted satisfactorily at least (See From Textile, page 3) Texas Secretary of State Mar tin Dies Jr. will speak at a 7 p.m. banquet tonight at the Ramada Inn, concluding a three-day con ference of county judges and com missioners. The annual conference is spon sored by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service of A&M and the County Judges and Commis sioners Association of Texas. By Tony Huddleston Battalion Staff Writer Ninety-seven delegates were chosen Wednesday to head A&M’s “Jericho” Leadership Conference which will open new communica tion channels among students, faculty and administrators. The conference will be held Feb. 18-20 in the Memorial Stu dent Center. “If the administration doesn’t adopt any of the solutions to problems at A&M suggested at the conference, we will still have established a line of communica tion from the student to the fac ulty and on up to the administra tion,” James R. Hawthorne, chairman of the project, said. Hawthorne added that the con ference was also established to help increase the leadership on campus, and bring about a great er understanding of campus prob lems and seek ways to solve them. The conference is spon sored jointly by the MSC and the Student Senate. Hawthorne said that five prob lem areas have been selected for discussion at the conference. He added that these five areas will be broken down into separate parts so that more solutions can be suggested for each part. The first area of discussion is the allocation of money, with Dean of Students James P. Han- nigan speaking on the uses of student service fees. Hannigan will be followed by Chief of Uni versity Police Ed Powell, who will discuss the uses of that de partment’s funds. R. Clark Diebel, controller of accounts, will speak on Exchange Store funds, and concessions funds will be discussed by Rich ard Bernard, assistant to A&M President Earl Rudder. The last speaker in this area is Associate Dean of Students Donald R. Staf ford, who will discuss parking fees. Campus apathy will be dis cussed by Kent Caperton, MSC vice president. Hawthorne said that Caperton will be the only speaker in this area of the con ference. He added that Caperton will discuss the effects of apathy on the Student Senate, the MSC and student elections. The third area of discussion is academic excellence with Assist ant Dean of the College of Busi ness Administration Dan C. Lowe speaking on the proposed pass- fail system. He will be followed by Barbara Davis, assistant pro fessor of marketing, who will discuss the quality of instructors at A&M. Academic Vice President Hor ace Byers will speak on the rele vancy of certain courses in a stu dent’s curriculum. Dean of Edu cation Frank W. Hubert will close with a discussion of examination procedures and dead week. Part four of the conference is a discussion on intrastudent rela tions, with Student Senate Presi dent Gerry Geistweidt speaking on corps - civilian relations, the role of the female student, politi cal minority groups and social fraternities on the A&M campus. The fifth area of the confer ence will be a discussion of A&M’s future growth and image, by Ford D. Albritton, member of the A&M Board of Directors. Hawthorne added that a room would be set aside each day in the MSC for students to come by and voice their suggestions at the close of each discussion with the speakers. Dean Hannigan said that the administration will be observing the conference and listening to solutions to problems, and will act upon any suggestion which has merit. After the speakers have made their presentations, the confer ence will divide into roundtable discussion groups to talk over the problems, Hawthorne said. The members will be joined on each roundtable by members of the administration and faculty who will comment on discussion participation after the groups have completed their talks. The size of the groups has not been determined yet, Hawthorne said, but the groups will be as large as needed to discuss the problems adequately. Discussion groups will be picked at random daily to insure that no two roundtables have the same membership, Hawthorne added. Delegates to the conference were chosen for displaying out- standing leadership qualities while at A&M. The 97 delegates selected are: Jack Abbott, Aggie Cinema chair man; Ronald Adams, senate par liamentarian ; David Alexander, CSC fall vice president; Cathy Alford, SCON A XV; Larry Alt man, Singing Cadets business manager; Thomas Atlee, Leggett Hall vice president. Merle Beeson, Aggie Band; An thony Benedetto, Graduate Stu dent Council president; Gustavo Berges, CSC foreign student rep resentative; Randall Betty, sena tor; Donald Bouchard, CSC sec retary; Al Bradley Jr., MSC di rectorate assistant; Craig Brad ley, senator; Larry Bragg, Corp of Cadets. Gerald Bramlett, Senate Wel fare chairman; Charles Brown, menu board; Kirby Brown, sen ate recording secretary; Samuel Buser, hand; Kent Caperton, sen ate vice president; Matthew Car- roll, corps commander; Otis Car- roll, off-campus student repre sentative; John Clader, SCONA XV; Glenn Clark, Hughes Hall. Arthur Collier, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi neers; Elizabeth Colorado, SCONA XV; Caren Conlee, MSC Directorate; Oscar Contreras, Schumacher Hall president; Mike Cunningham, SCONA XV; Mi chael Cunningham, corps; James Collins, Leadership Committee; William Darkoch, freshman pres ident. Edward Donnell, YMCA presi dent; Rene Ffrench, Polaris Club president; William Finane, MSC Council; Thomas Fitzhugh, Great Issues chairman; Dennis Flanni- gan, MSC vice president; Dale Foster, senate; Glenda Freeman, SCONA XV; Tommy Henderson, senator; Kenny Hensley, senator; Charles Hicks, Political Forum; Michael Holley, freshman vice president; and Jack Hollimon, SCONA XV. Gerald Horak, off-campus stu dent representative; Douglas Howland, Political Forum; Phillip Hudson, YMCA; Edward Jame son, Hart Hall president; Mark Jarvis, senator; William Jermyn, Pre-Medicine Society; Albert Kinkead, SCONA XV vice chair man; Charles Korbell Jr., Town Hall; Pat Lucey, Great Issues; Gary Martin, Travel Committee. Also Don Mauro, MSC Council; Garry Mauro, Keathley Hall pres ident; Virgil Mayabb, freshman council; Davis Mayfield III, SCONA XV; Roger Miller, sena tor; Michael Moseley, Junior Council representative; Charles Mueller, Walton Hall president; (See 97, page 4) Rudder Still Listed In Serious Condition HOUSTON —A&M President Earl Rudder remained in seridus condition at 1 p.m. today in Meth odist Hospital. A hospital spokesman said Wednesday that the 59-year old general had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He remains in the neurological intensive care unit the Academic building and was to continue until 1 p.m. At 12:30 p.m., Brown said, approximately 1,500 signatures had been col lected. The Student Senate today so licited signatures from students for a telegram expressing sym pathy to be sent to President Rudder this afternoon. The signing, according to Kir by Brown, senate recording sec retary, began this morning at both dining halls and in front of of the hospital. The spokesman added that the hospital would issue news bulle tins should Rudder’s condition change. Rudder became ill at his home Thursday night and was admitted to a Bryan hospital. He was transferred to St. Luke’s Episco pal Hospital here Friday and was moved Monday to the adjacent Methodist hospital in the Texas Medical Center. He was first believed to be suf fering from a heart ailment but tests at Methodist Hospital re vealed the brain condition, a hos pital spokesman said. A spokesman at A&M said Rudder suffered no heart damage. His wife, Margaret, and his two sons and three daughters are at the hospital with him. Rudder is in his eleventh year as president of the university. He was appointed A&M vice presi dent in 1958 and named president in July, 1959. In 1965, the board of directors named him president of the entire Texas A&M . System, 30° University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. I00‘ 80‘ PROPOSED DRILLING SITES—Map shows sites to be Project, in which A&M, along with other schools and or- probed during the Leg Ten cruise of the Deep Sea Drilling ganizations, is participating. See story, page 4. : : . . . . . ■. ■: ■- > r.» f