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.1. .i!:*' < i' •. .'A 1 .''.".'.'';.’. 1 ,' j&rv.v -• mm cial tastes once }itten List. lave a wife, ing financial ; thing to ! house, i for it now, iSurance pands as ’he earlier ss it costs, curity ince 11. Or stop ;'ll give lancial ’ll never i the dust RDSON Tt ENT LIFE »HILAOELPHIA IAN’S SHIRT •nee '8 war 3/846-2706 l 77840 Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 76 College Station, Texas Wednesday» February 25, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 $9.5 Million Sold for Construction Board Sells Bonds By Dave Mayes Battalion Editor Revenue bonds valued at $9.5 million were sold by the A&M System Board of Directors Mon day. Board president Clyde Wells of Granbury said that funds from the bond sale will be used to fi nance future A&M construction projects. The bonds were sold to Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc. of New York, and associates, at an effective in terest rate of 6.9958. One board member said he was very pleased that the university had managed to “break the sev- ven per cent interest barrier” in making the sale. Four firms participated in the bidding. In other business, the board said that coeds will not be living in the $3.2 million dormitory com plex soon to be constructed be side the A&M Golf Course. Responding to a question from The Battalion, director H. C. Hel- denfels, chairman of the board’s building committee, said that the board would follow the existing policy concerning coed housing on campus, which states that the university will not provide such housing. The Battalion asked if the board anticipated any increase in A&M student fees for the fall se mester. Wells replied that the board “has approved no increases” to date. Near the end of the three-hour session, Heldenfels questioned Adm. James D. Craik, superinten dent of the Texas Maritime Acad emy, concerning the sewage dis posal capabilities of the TMA training ship, Texas Clipper. He asked the admiral what steps were being taken to stop the flow of pollutants that the ship’s sewage disposal pours into the ship channel. Craik said that this was a problem common to most ocean vessels, and that it would take about two or three years for the Clipper to accommodate its wastes in some other way. To build an internal waste treatment system would cost about $160,000 he said. He added that most ships had been allowed five years in which to remedy this problem. Heldenfels said that there was no time to waste, that some im mediate way must be found to keep pollutants from being drop ped into the channel. He added that he wanted the board to go on record stating ex plicitly that it did not want pol lutants from the ship flowing in to the channel. Board members asked system vice president W. C. Freeman and academic affairs vice president Horace R. Byers to huddle with Craik in an effort to solve the problem and report back to Pres- *586,000 Allocated for Astroturf Installation ident Wells as soon as possible. Directors attending the session were Wells, Heldenfels, Ford D. Albritton, Jr., A. P. Beutel, and L. F. Peterson. ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE—Civilian students crowded into the MSC Assembly Room Tues day night to witness Civilian Student Council action concerning what the council believed to be bias and misrepresentation on the part of student publications. (Photo by Jim Berry) Allocations totaling $586,000 for installation of artificial turf and track surface in Kyle Field were approved Tuesday by the board of directors. The Monsanto Company’s As- troTurf was selected for the foot- Travel Show Thursday In MSC The Memorial Student Center Travel Committee will present a multi-media travel show on Europe at 7:30 Thursday night, announced Paul Scopel, commit tee chairman. The program, which will be held in rooms 2A-B of the MSC, will feature film slides of Europe and Russia simultaneously flashed on one screen from three pro jectors. A rock music sound track will accompany the slides. Thet purpose of the presenta tion, Scopel said, is to make stu dents aware of the opportunities available to them in the field of travel. Topics covered in the film will include European job pro grams, inexpensive charter flights to Europe, and international stu dent service organizations. There will also be information on the international student iden tification card and various tours designed specifically for students. The show was created by Dr. Richard Byrne, a professor in the Radio, Television, Film Depart ment at the University of Texas at Austin, and members of his film classes. It will be shown under the sponsorship of the American Student Travel Associ ation. ball field and adjacent practice area. Minnesota Mining & Manufac turing Company’s Tartan surface will be installed on the track circling the Kyle Field playing area. University officials said instal lation of the bright green grass like carpet will be ready for the start of the fall football season. A&M will be one of only a few institutions in the nation with artificial turf on its practice field. Leslie L. Appelt, president-elect of the Association of Former Stu dents, said last Thursday that the artificial turf will aid in the re cruitment of football players for A&M. He explained that A&M needs the turf to keep up with schools in the Southwest Confer ence and elsewhere that have the turf, thus “keeping up with the Joneses” as far as what A&M has to offer athletically. University officials said the new playing surfaces will be used jointly by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Department of Health and Physi cal Education. They also added that the prac tice field will be used for such activities as intramurals, Corps of Cadets drills and Aggie band practice. The practice field will be stroped off for soccer and speedball as well as football drills, similar to the multiple markings on the G. Rollie White Coliseum floor. “Both Kyle Field and the prac tice football field will be used for practice or laboratory por tions of Physical Education Class es 211, 255 and 317,” Dr. Carl W. Landiss, head of the Health and Physical Education Depart ment, said. Landiss noted the all-weather track will be utilized for the intramural track meet attracting 700 to 800 students annually. “Another advantage of a Tar tan surface on the track will be the reduced number of abrasions received by students who fall while participating, particularly in the hurdle events,” he con tinued. Landiss said a large number of faculty members participate in the faculty fitness program and use the track for jogging. “Since a Tartan track is easier on the legs and feet, this improve ment should be an added attrac tion and cause an increase in the faculty program,” he said. Synthetic surfaces tend to be wear resistant and they could be made available for general re creational use by the student body as a whole, Landiss said. Rudder: Condition Still Satisfactory A&M President Earl Rudder continued “to improve slowly,” the public relations office at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston reported Wednesday morning. The office quoted an attending physician as saying General Rud der “is able to sit up from time to time.” President Rudder is expected to fully recover barring new set backs, University directors were told here Tuesday. Some board members conferred Saturday in Houston with Rudder’s doctors. The A&M leader has been hos pitalized since Jan. 29 when he suffered a partial stroke here. He subsequently underwent three major operations in the Texas Medical Center at Houston. Civilians Criticize Censure Battalion Review, Coverage By George Scott Battalion Staff Writer The Civilian Student Council unanimously passed two resolu tions Tuesday night highly criti cal of two student publications. One resolution censured The Review and the other expressed dissatisfaction of news coverage of The Battalion. The council’s censure of The Review, passed before an audi ence of 100, concerned coverage of the 1969 Texas Aggie Bonfire in an article published in Janu ary 1970. “The . . . article failed in all of its context, both verbal and Campus Chest Nets $1,400; F-2 Sweetheart Given Title The A&M campus chest col lected a total of $1,400 during last fall’s drive, John Cunning ham, president of Alpha Phi Omega, announced. Bramlett said that the welfare committee uses the money to aid A&M students in need, and sup ports charitable organizations. Debbie Real of San Antonio, sweetheart of company F-2, was selected Miss Campus Chest. Miss Real was selected because F-2 collected the most money on a per capital percentage with $100 of any corps company or resident hall. Cunningham said that the money, collected at APO booths during home football games and from the resident hall drives will be presented to Gerald Bramlett, Student Senate Welfare chair- Bramlett added that last year’s funds were used to contribute aid to wives of students who had emergency operations, the sup port of the United Fund, the sup port of 38 orphans at Faith Home in Houston, and two In dian children at the Cherokee In dian reservation in Vain, Okla. He noted also that flowers were sent to parents of deceased students from the fund. m DEBBIE REAL photographical, to present an ac curate view of participation in this endeavor by all Aggies but rather connoted the image of a bonfire built entirely by the Corps of Cadets,” the resolution read in part. “This is an obviously fallacious representation of the actual im- put of effort, equipment and enthusiasm into this project,” the resolution continued. “Be it resolved that the Civil ian Student Council, in behalf of our constituency, censure the edi torial staff of The Review as a show of our extreme disapproval of the handling of an issue which has such an important impact on the pride and attitude of the civil ian segment of the Texas A&M University student body,” the resolution concluded. The Battalion was not cen sured by the council but was challenged to become in both theory and fact the student news paper, according to the second resolution. The council’s dissatisfaction with The Battalion was outlined by the resolution to be in four main areas: The frequent misquoting of students, student leaders, faculty, speakers, and administrators. The practice of “editing” and deleting portions of letters sub mitted for publication in the sec tion known as Listen Up. The failure of allowing student organizations an opportunity to offer some input into the Bat talion as to events at their meet ings which they feel are of inter est and importance to their con stituents. The frequent presentation of news in such a manner that mis understanding results between the civilians, the Corps of Cadets and the administration. Dave Mayes, Battalion editor, was present at the meeting at the invitation of the council. A representative for The Review was not present. Editors of both publications are civilian students. Both resolutions passed with little debate or discussion. One amendment to the censure of The Review was accepted, substitut ing the phrase “all Aggies” for “Civilian Students” in The Re view resolution. Several of the council members said that they thought the phrase “all Aggies” would better de scribe the cooperation between civilians and members of the corps in building the bonfire. Gary Mauro, Keathley Hall president, told council members that negotiations to have Smith and Tony White perform April 25 at the Sweetheart presenta tion dance during Civilian Week end are now in process. They are already contracted to play for Town Hall during the weekend, Mauro said. Mauro also confirmed that there will be a “Grand Prix Go- Cart Race” the Saturday after noon of Civilian Weekend. Plans are not final yet but students can contact their dorm representa tives for more information Mauro explained. A civilian information agency will be established in the old intramural office in front of Sbisa, according to couricil secre tary Don Bouchard. Coed Life at A&M—Part I Non-Acceptance by Student Body a Problem, Girls Say By Pam Troboy Battalion Staff Writer (EDITOR’S NOTE: This ar ticle begins a three-part series by Battalion staff writer Pam Troboy on what coed life at A&M is like. “Every time I walk across the campus, I feel like I’m in a zoo.” “What’s even worse is walking into a basketball game. The Ag gies go completely wild. They net like they’ve never seen a girl before.” “The thing I hate is when you speak to someone on campus and he stares right through you.” Although coeds at A&M can not agree what is the most un pleasant aspect of being a girl Aggie, all of them agree that after seven years of limited co education, there is a problem. A. majority of coeds on cam pus came to A&M because of their major, but many came here just because they wanted to be an Aggie. Several said that they SC0NA XVI Meets Tonight To Plan Easter Fund Drive Plans for the Easter fund rais ing drive of the sixteenth Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs will be developed in a gen eral meeting tonight Glenn Head, chairman of personnel, an nounced. The meeting will be held at 7:30 in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center and is open to all students interested in helping with the drive. Head said that students will collect funds in Dallas, Fort Worth, Hauston, San Antonio and Midland-Odessa during the Easter holidays and in Mexico during the summer. first visited the campus during the National Science Foundation program in the summer and liked the school so much that they came back. “I had been told that the cam pus looked like a prison,” one coed said, “and I was surprised at all the flowers and trees here.” “I couldn’t believe how green and neat it was,” said one blonde. “It’s not all trashed out like some campuses.” Despite their surroundings, however, most coeds termed their first week as “difficult.” One coed admitted that she was hopelessly lost for the first three weeks of classes because she was “too embarrassed to look up from the sidewalk til then.” “At first, out of complete fear,” added another coed, “I said ‘Hi’ to every girl I saw. It’s not so bad now, at least the campus doesn’t terrify me.” “It was weird the first few days,” said one coed, “because everyone spoke to everyone else but me. It’s like you aren’t part of things, you can look on and see others having fun, but you’re not a part of it.” “It’s a tradition around here that everyone says ‘Howdy’,” she added. “That’s what gives A&M such a reputation for friendliness, but the ‘student leaders’ say one thing about tradition and do an other. If you see a senior in the corps, particularly corps staff, you might as well forget it, he’ll never speak to a girl. Instead they give you T hate you’ looks.” “The language that the boys use is unreal,” said one senior. “They know that you’re sitting beside them in class but they go ahead and say anything.” The girls were about evenly divided on the who-ahs, bird calls and other noises that greet a girl’s appearance on campus. Some termed it as “repulsive”, “awfully childish” and “gross” while others thought it “original”, “expressive” and “ego-building.” A College Station coed said that she and her friends used to walk across the campus every day when she was in junior high and high school as a “quick ego- builder.” “Now I realize that it’s not really a compliment,” she said, “because the boys will yell at anything.” One coed said that she had gotten used to the who-ahs and that was what “makes Aggies different.” Most girls were quick to point out that the situation was get ting better every year. “It’s just a matter of waiting til ‘Old Army’ dies out,” another sophomore said. “Somebody has to stick her neck out.” In addition to the difficult ad justment to a predominantly male school, the coed at A&M finds that she must find housing and a roommate. The university provides no housing for women students, al though the housing office has a list of apartment complexes and realty agents in the Bryan-Col- lege Station area. The office also had a card file, recently taken over by University Women, which listed rooms and roommates. University Women is a campus organization devoted to helping women students adjust to univer sity life. One sophomore said that she went through the file in the hous ing office and still spent a week calling before she found an apart ment. “Several people asked us if we were waitresses,” her roommate said, “and wanted to know what our majors were. They didn’t seem to believe that we really went to school at A&M. They gave us the impression that if you’re not mar ried you’re nothing. They don’t seem to think that a single girl can be respectable.” Girls who had participated in NSF said that they considered themselves lucky, because a geol ogy professor helped them find their apartments. Many complained that it was very difficult to find a room mate. Several of the girls found one by writing to other girls who had left their names in the hous ing office and others had room mates suggested by apartment managers. A common complaint was that unlike in a dorm, if you don’t get along with your roommate, it’s al most impossible to find a new one. “The main problem with living in an apartment,” said one soph omore, “is that if you and your roommate don’t get along, you’re tied down with leases and de posits.” The girls agreed that some type of university-approved housing was necessary. Many girls felt that they were “missing out on something” by not living with a lot of girls. They added that it was difficult to find out what was going on because they were scattered all over town. Several said that A&M could never be truly coeducational un- (See Coeds, page 4) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. .- w.*iV vv.r. *.v