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# •**> ■ • l> * f.\'r • WON ht 'ee secornk lit on a 12 ie right to ie at 70-58. Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 80 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 4, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 QQOO OQ BOO OOODO, I te ten. .Do- jars ibility. mt \ agent ;nts. ons d since )'s impus • Fact: ’s top g and college, aras you. iON :nt I LIFE I STUDENTS ‘GO ON STRIKE’—One of Dr. Leonard R. Burgess’ Management 422 class es stages a mock strike session Tuesday morning in front of the Services Building. The class is currently studying labor-management relations from the labor point of view. Later in the semester they will look at things from the management side, and compile a job evaluation manual. The name of the “union” is the United Management Workers, local 71. Parking Fee Increase Explained by Senator By Billy Buchanan Battalion Staff Writer Lack of parking spaces and building costs are two reasons behind the increase in parking fines and fees proposed by the University Traffic Committee, according to student member Rob ert Hase. The third-year veterinary med icine student said there are only 8,153 parking spaces on campus to accommodate the university’s 11,302 registered vehicles. This means that 3,149 spaces are need ed right now, he explained. Two parking lots are to be built in the future, he said. A 1,000-car parking lot will be con structed east of the Engineering building and is to be ready for use during the 1970-71 school year. Another lot is to be built west of the railroad tracks directly across from Kyle Field, Hase said. This lot should be ready for the 1971-72 school year and probably will be used by all resi dence hall freshmen he added. The cost of building these park ing lots is $300 per car space, Hase said. Money needed for just the 3,149 parking spaces needed at the present time, he added, is nearly $1 million. Rudder Gets Highest Award Given by Dominican Republic President Earl Rudder has been named recipient of the highest honor given by the Dominican Re public for service to the country in an international capacity. The award was announced by Republic President Joaquin Bala- guer. Rudder, currently hospitalized in Houston, was awarded the dec oration of La Orden Heraldica De Cristobal Colon (the Order of Christopher Columbus) in the grade of commander. A Dominican Republic spokes man explained the award can be sponsored by either the govern ment or the Catholic Church but must be approved by both bodies. Rudder has visited the Carib bean country several times in con junction with agricultural pro grams which the university has conducted there under contracts with the State Department’s Agency for International Devel opment (AID) and the Ford Foundation. Rudder also has invited numer ous Dominican officials to visit the A&M campus and meet with him and other university repre sentatives. gj(Pl I m ll W l E \ jMmm IpfP hi M Sc •: -s; CAC’s Festival 70 Will Begin Sunday W ' Wmm HI ’ • m is mm DRIVING FOR POSITION—A&M’s Pat Kavanagh jockeys for position against Rice’s Gary Reist and Steve Wendel. Kavanagh scored 12 points in last night’s season-ending victory over the Rice Owls, 91-86. See story page 7. (Photo by Mike Wright) This does not include approxi mately $2.1 million that will be necessary to build the 7,000 ad ditional parking spaces required in the next 10 years, Hase said. “Parking fines and fees are the only source of money for the parking lots, since there is a state law which states that all costs for parking facilities must be assumed by those using them,” Hase said. “This includes main tenance as well as the actual cost of building the lots.” The proposed $15 parking fee will be for the entire school year. Those leaving the university be fore the end of the year will get some refund, Hase said. Parking fine increases will be aimed at the more habitual vio lators Hase said. The committee researched the fine situation thoroughly and found that most violators have had several fines in the past with some having as many as 60 or 70 tickets he not ed. Hase said that parking tickets are sometimes given that are not actual violations and if those tick eted will approach the traffic judge in the basement of the YMCA “in a nice manner,” they will be given careful considera tion. Leftwich Head of Town Hall For 1970-71 William S. Leftwich of Dallas has been elected 1970-71 Town Hall chairman to round out key posts in the Memorial Student Center for the school year begin ning next fall. Leftwich will work with MSC personnel in bringing entertain ment to A&M through the Town Hall committee, which cooperates with the Rotary Community Se ries and includes the Artists Showcase Series. Board Installment Due by March 11 The second board installment for the spring semester is now due at the Fiscal Office in the Richard Coke Building. Last day to pay the fee without penalty is next Wednesday. Students on the 7 - day plan must pay $86, while those on the 5-day plan must pay $76. Offi- | cials emphasized that invoices [ will not be sent, but that students should go by the Fiscal Office and pay the fee. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer Students may take an in-depth glimpse of fine arts through Fes tival 70, a program sponsored by the Memorial Student Center’s Contemporary Arts Committee. The festival will begin Sunday and continue through March 20. “We on the arts committee feel like Texas A&M has been ‘con servative’ in its taste long enough,” Tom Ellis, chairman of the CAC’s arts festival subcom mittee, said. “We want to bring in a new means of communication and art that is now regarded as ‘liberal.’ Festival 70 is an attempt to expose the A&M student body to the new art and media.” “It is paridoxical,” Ellis said, “that A&M is located between two large cities and is not culturally oriented more than it is.” Art has always been the indica tor of the kind of society at a given period, Ellis said. It has also been the indicator of the social consience, he said. He added that by understanding art people hope to determine the nature of their social consience and find insights into their cul ture. People also hope to deter mine the direction of their soci ety, he said. Balancing the “now” arts will be performances by the Houston Ballet Foundation, and Misha Dichter, a pianist, in a Town Hall presentation. The Ballet will be directed by Nina Popova and will be per formed March 11 in the Bryan Civic Auditorium. Tickets for the Rose-Colored Glass to Play At Basement The Rose-Colored Glass will perform Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the MSC Basement. The combo, a member of the National Coffeehouse Circuit, will play from 8:30 to 10 each night. Admission will be 75 cents for singles and $1 for couples. The Basement, which began as a gathering place for local guitar players over a year ago, now serves A&M as a coffeehouse nearly every weekend. It became, a member of the National Coffee house Circuit last semester. The circuit, a New York-based enterprise providing professional entertainers to coffeehouses at reasonable rates, has been the starting point for many now fam ous performers. Peter, Paul and Mary, and Bill Cosby got their start with the circuit. Last semester the circuit team of Cheryl Dilcher and D w a i n Story was featured and another professional group is slated for Civilian Weekend. The Basement will be open from 8 to midnight each night this weekend. Cider, coffee, soft drinks, and popcorn will be served. program cost $2 and may be ob tained at the MSC Student Pro gram Office. Beginning the festival will be musical presentations by the Gypsy Moth and the Ghost Coach from 3-6 p. m. Sunday and Mon day on the steps of Guion Hall. Speakers scheduled during the first week of Festival 70 will dis cuss educational theater and me dia, along with graphics and their social implications. Ruth Denny, head of the Hous ton Independent School District’s basic skills section, will speak on “Comments on Educational Theat er” at 3 p. m. Tuesday in the Architecture auditorium. Samuel Maitin, head of the Graphics Department of the Ann- enburg School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvan ia, will speak on media and graph ics and their social implications March 12-13. His lectures will be supplemented by workshops in the architecture labs. Crawford Dunn of Dallas, a specialist in graphics, will be pre sented by the A&M student chap ter of the American Institute of Architects in a lecture March 20 in the lobby of the Architecture Building. Environmental multi-media will be discussed March 16 in the MSC Ballroom by Prof. Richard Byrne of the University of Texas. Sebastian Adler, director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, will discuss “Our Place” March 18 in the Assembly Room of the MSC. March 14 the Host and Fashion Committee will present the Fash ion Fair, a spring fashion show for women featuring styles from Neiman-Marcus. The Kenwood Theater from San Antonio, under the direction of Trinity University student John ny Guiterrez, will bring improvis ation theater to the MSC Ball room March 17. Students under the supervision of Mrs. Denny will write and act out character scripts during the program. The Aggie Players will be pro ducing Samuel Spewack’s play “Under the Sycamore Tree” in Guion Hall starting Tuesday. The play is a spoof on dealings in a giant ant hill as compared to human progress. Genesis II, a series of student experimental films from all over the United States, will be pre sented in the MSC Ballroom March 16. Tickets may be pur chased for $1 at the MSC Stu dent Program Office. A film seminar criticizing stu dents’ films’ technical quality and content will be held March 14 in the Architecture auditorium. During Festival 70, the Spring Film Festical will present Milos Forman’s “Loves of a Blopde” and an Japanese film, “Woman in the Dunes.” Battalion Women’s Page Begins Weekly Appearance The Battalion begins today a feature that has not been seen in its pages since the early ’50s—a women’s page. Cindy Burleson, junior journal ism major, is our women’s editor. Her page, entitled “Women Now,” will appear in The Bat talion every Wednesday. She will be bringing readers fashion news, activities of women at A&M, news of general interest to wom en, and anything else that she thinks will be of interest. A few articles on men’s fashions may even find theiy way into her page occasionally. Before coming to A&M, Mrs. Burleson attended the University of Miami in Florida, the Univer sity of Kansas, the University of Dallas, and the University of Tex as. She is a graduate of the John Robert Powers Modeling School in Dallas. She has done advertising work for Neiman-Marcus, and worked for about a year at KMID-TV in Midland, doing news and adver tising work. The attractive 23-year-old Mid land native is the wife of Doug las Burleson, an architecture stu dent here. Doug, 24, attended the University of the Americas in Mexico City for two years before coming here. The two have been married for eight months, and expect a baby in July. CINDY BURLESON In Artist Showcase Series String Quartet to Perform Chamber music in the classic Budapest style will he presented Thursday at A&M by the Guar- neri String Quartet. The group, formed in 1965 on suggestion of a member of the now retired Budapest String Quartet, will begin its Bryan Civic Auditorium concert at 8 p.m., announced Town Hall chair man Rex Stewart. The Guarneri String Quartet is a presentation of Town Hall’s Artist Showcase Series. Tickets are available at the Memorial Student Center Student Program Office. Composed of violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dailey, viol ist Michael Tree and cellist David Soyer, the quartet was founded at Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest’s own second violinist, Alexander Schneider. Budapest violist Boris Kroyt supplied the name, after the 18th century Italian violinmaker. They debuted in New York in 1965 and have made a rapid rise that surprised no one more than the quartet itself. Most such groups help support the organi zation with teaching, solo appear ances and freelancing. But the Guarneri had to reduce this ac tivity last year, when it played 100 concerts (at $1,200 each). They played only a dozen in 1965. Reasons for the success are the individual members’ resources and youth. Steinhardt, 32, was the 1958 Leventritt Competition win- Dalley, 33, and Tree, 46, were talented sons of well-known violin teachers. The quartet’s unoffi cial spokesman, 43-year-old Soy er, is the most musically sea soned. His experience ranges from dance bands to Toscanini’s NBC Symphony to solo recitals. Soyer says they prefer to do the masterpieces, hut occasionally play 20th century composers like Bartok and Hindemith. By the 1970 Beethoven bi-cen tennial, the Guarneri had record ed all 16 of his quartets for RCA Victor. WEATHER Tuesday — Cloudy intermit tent light rain. Wind East 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 68, low 56. Friday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Wind South 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 77, low 56. 8 New Flagpoles Flank Tallest Eight new flagpoles now flank the 101-foot standard that has stood for decades in front of the System Administration Building lawn at the end of the university’s main entrance. American flags will fly atop the new 40-foot staffs as well as on the center pole, believed to be the tallest in Texas. The Texas flag, university officials said, will continue to fly from the main pole in a position below Old Glory. On home football weekends, the U. S. flags on the new poles will give way to banners honoring member schools of rthe Southwest Conference. On a variety of special occa sions, including football weekends, the drive up to the campus is transformed into the “Avenue of Flags,” with more than 100 U. S. flags lining the route. A&M President Earl Rudder, prior to his current illness, sug gested the addition of the eight new poles to complement the “Avenue of Flags.” Design of the new display area was coordinated by Bob Rucker, the university’s landscape archi tect, and personnel in the College of Architecture and Environ mental Design. I ft 1 A k OLD GLORY ROW—A new set of 8 flagpoles has been erected in front of the System Administration Building', at the end of the main entrance to the university. Amer ican flags will fly from the poles, except for football week ends when flags of Southwest Conference schools will fly.