■ "'"'•Kn'-* •.•.w v • Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 83 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 10> 1970 Telephone 845-2226 MSC Elects Five To ’70- 71 VP Posts ini about 'e within ndom. ings; for nterested A&M’s Executive Committee londay encouraged more student md faculty organizations to join co-sponsoring the Symposium lor Environmental Awareness. Own MONDAY ‘HAPPENING’—The Ghost Coach, a rock band made up of A&M students, per forms on the steps of Guion Hall Monday afternoon as part of the Contemporary Arts Committee’s Festival 70, a two-week festival focusing on the different areas of art. Ap pearing with the Ghost Coach was the Gypsy Moth, also made up of A&M students. (Photo lyjim Berry) Executive Committee Urges Symposium Co - Sponsorship By David Middlebrooke Battalion Managing Editor Five vice presidents for 1970-71 were elected Monday night by the Memorial Student Center Coun cil. Council members also elected a chairman for Political Forum and a public relations director, a council comptroller and named a secretary for the MSC Director ate. Don B. Mauro of Uvalde, a sophomore marketing major, was elected executive vice, president for the coming year. Mauro is presently directorate finance chairman, a position he has held since the former chairman was forced to resign for academic rea sons. Mauro is chairman of the Uni versity Traffic Committee, a res- supervision of the Camera, Radio, Recreation, Travel, and the new ly-formed Mixed Chorus Com mittees. Junior architectural construc tion major Jack A. Abbott of Friendswood will be vice presi dent for entertainment. He was chairman of the summer Direc torate Film Series in 1968, and is this year’s chairman of the Ag gie Cinema. Abbott will be responsible for the Town Hall, Aggie Cinema, Host and Fashion and Basement Committees. John C. Dacus of Commerce, a sophomore electrical engineering major, will be vice president for operations of the 21st Directorate. Dacus has participated in intra murals, and has served on the MSC Travel Committee. This year he is a directorate assistant in the MSC. As operations vice president, Dacus will be in charge of special events, the annual MSC Awards Banquet, and the Association of College Unions-International con vention. Vice president for issues next year will be William (Bill) W. Weaver. The sophomore pre-vet- erinary medicine major from Corpus Christi has served on the Great Issues Committee and is a member of the Flying Kadets. Weaver, will be concerned with the Great Issues, Political Forum, SCONA and Leadership and Con temporary Arts Committees. Charles R. Hoffman will serve as Political Forum chairman again next year. The junior so ciology major from Kerrville served on the Student Senate for two years before serving as forum chairman this year. Coun cil members expressed their be lief that Hoffman’s experience will be beneficial to the commit tee next year when they reap pointed him. Junior marketing major Paul A. Scopel of Seguin was elected (See MSC Elects, page 3) Part of Festival 70 The symposium is a student- faculty group attempting to cre ate a general awareness of the iroblems of overpopulation and invironmental deterioration, and Jans to participate in a nation- ride “teach-in,” April 22, Na- lional Earth Day. The Executive Committee,” Ik university officials said, “en tourages other students and fac- ilty organizations to join in co- iponsorship of the symposium md suggests that faculty and ad- oinistrators who have expertise o problems of the environment end their support to the sym posium through assistance for tstablishing goals and a program tonsistent with these goals, by lairing part in appropriate pro trams of the Symposium, and by fending their knowledge to the discussion of facts dealing »ith the environment and the meaning of these facts for a uni versity community.” The Student Senate, the Civil ian Student Council, the Gradu ate Student Council, The Bat talion, the student chapter of the American Institute of Planners, and the Forum for Environ mental Studies have all endorsed the symposium Bill Voight, sym posium co-ordinator said. The Brazos County Institute of Architects, and the Brazos County Institue of Planners have also endorsed the symposium, Voight added. The Symposium, according to Jim Crisp, publicity chairman, will discuss plans for the teach- in at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in room 208 Architecture. tee appointed last week to plan and carry out a seminar covering environmental problems had named a sub-committee to work with the students and serve as a the co-ordinating committee of the symposium. Dr. Joseph Sonnenfeld, profes sor of geography, was named chairman of the sub-committee committee. Other members are Dr. William Davis, head of the Environmental Engineering Divi sion of the Civil Engineering Department; Jesus Hinojosa, professor of urban planning, and Dr. Perry Adkisson, head of the Entomology Department. ident adviser, and has served on the Student Senate, the Election Commission, Political Forum, and Great Issues. As executive vice president, Ballet Here Wednesday Mauro will be directly responsi ble for finances and freshman Open House operations. He will also serve as the president’s right-hand man, and will assume the president’s duties in his ab sence. Vice president for recreation for next year is Caren Conlee, junior finance major from Bryan. She served as treasurer for Great Issues in 1968-69 and is secretary this year of the MSC Directorate. Miss Conlee will have overall Contemporary dance by the Houston Ballet Wednesday will be part of the two-week Festival 70. The company will perform at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Civic Audi torium, announced Tom Ellis, Contemporary Arts Committee chairman. The Houston Ballet presenta tion is one of a variety of Fes tival 70 events through which students, faculty-staff and Bry an and College Station patrons Crisp added that any students or faculty members who were in terested in working with the symposium are invited to the meeting. He emphasized that journalism students are espe cially needed to write press re leases. The Committee also announced that the ad hoc faculty commit- Weekend In Effect ‘Open House 9 at Moore Hall can examine current develop ments in the arts. Ellis said that the Kenwood Theater of San An tonio, scheduled during the sec ond week of the Festival has been changed to March 17. Tickets for the Houston Ballet are $2 per person and can be purchased at the Student Pro gram Office in the Memorial Stu dent Center. The 15-memiber company under artistic direction of Madame Ni na Popova will perform five numbers. In the opening “Im pressions,” to music from Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee- Gunther-Schuller, six dancers will enact “Bird Drama,” “Abstract Trio,” “Arab Song,” “The Twit tering Machine,” “An Eerie Mo ment,” “Exotic’s Theater” and “Dying Plants and Grieving Child.” “Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux” will feature the company’s lead ing dancers, Judith Aaen and An thony Sellers. “Bachianas Brasilieras” and “Opus 65” conclude the contem porary portion of the program. The classical “Pas de Dix” from the Ballet Raymonda will com plete the program. By Pam Troboy Battalion News Editor Women will be allowed to visit Moore Hall on weekends, an- Urport Plan Debated it City Council Meet :as 1 ,0. vor IX Hy Dave Mayes Battalion Editor More than 100 College Station teidents crowded into city hall Honday to hear airport authority iroponents present their case— nit few people bought it, if the Hestion and answer session that allowed is any indication. Although most of those who ipoke out at the two-hour long DeBakey Talk Tonight to Be In Bry an Dr. Michael E. DeBakey’s Tues day lecture has been moved from Hie Memorial Student Center Ballroom to the Bryan Civic Au ditorium. Dr. DeBakey, world renowned hr his heart transplants and forgery techniques, will speak at p.m. on “Cardiac Replacement tod Experimental Surgery.” The Phi Zeta-sponsored lecture open to the public. Phi Zeta 's the honor society for veteri nary medical students at A&M. City Council meeting seemed to agree that improvements were needed in local airport facilities, a number questioned whether establishing an airport authority was the best way to accomplish the task. Speaking for the proposed au- Others wondered how much power the directors of the author ity would have, and how much control the voters would have over the directors. Still others expressed concern that there has not been enough information on the proposed air port authority made available for the people to vote intelligently on the issue March 21, the elec tion day designated last week by the Brazos County Commission ers. thority was M. L. “Red” Cashion, chairman of the Bryan-College Chamber of Commerce Air Trans portation committee, and Howard Vestal, head of management serv ices for Texas A&M Vestal said that although the university has operated Easter- wood Airport for the last 28 years, it can no longer afford to pay the maintenance costs necessary to keep the airport functional. Smith Assistant Will Discuss Goals for Texas’ Wednesday The governor’s assistant for Program development will speak W Wednesday on “Goals for Texas.” Vernon A. McGee will speak at ’??? and ? ? ? ? in room 309 of foe Architecture Building. The folk is sponsored by the Depart ment of Urban and Regional Planning, but is open to the public. McGee has general supervision of state employes working with financial planning, intergovern mental and community relations and evaluation of state programs and achievements. In 1935 he organized the Texas State Employment Service and served as its first executive head. Prior to that he worked for United Press International in Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth and Baton Rouge. The A&M Board of Directors, Vestal said, asked the two cities and the county in 1968 to col lectively contribute $750,000 over a 10-year period to help improve the airport. The county, he said, has chosen to go the airport authority route to try to accomplish this. He estimated that it would cost perhaps $1.5 to $2 million to ade quately improve Easterwood Air port, but added that the airport authority, if established could also choose to build a new airport else where. Cashion said he hoped that the citizens of the area would “get things underway, and do whatever is necessary” to improve Easter wood before a plane carrying family or friends crashes on an airport runway. The situation at the airport is critical, Cashion said, and he cited the A&M football team’s use of the DC-9 aircraft to illustrate his point = “When a DC-9 lands at Easter wood Airport with that much beef on it, it is in violation of Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) regulations.” “Last year,” he added, “the FAA issued an order which closed Easterwood Airport to commer cial traffic due to conditions which existed at the airport. Some very hasty, temporary modifications were made and it was reopened.” Cashion said that the airport runways are almost 30 years old, not designed for current high speed aircraft, and too short. “Within the last 60 days,” he related, one of our commercial flights landed and could not stop at the end of runway. The only thing that stoped him from falling off a 30-foot embankment into the dump was the fact that it was extremely wet and he buried the gears, doing aproximately $600,- (See Airport, page 2) ~ nounced Harry Need, hall presi dent, at a Monday night meeting of the Civilian Student Council. The council also heard a review of plans for Civilian Week-Week- end, April 20-26. Moore Hall will be open to women guests on Fridays, Satur days and Sundays from 1 to 4 and 7-10 p.m. as an experiment for the remainder of the spring semester, Need said. In the proposal submitted to the administration, the CSC vis itation committee headed by council secretary Don Bouchard said that the new policy will “aid in providing better environmen tal conditions for improved edu cational and social development and would greatly stimulate resi dence hall unity and pride.” Garry Mauro, weekend chair man, said that a car show is planned for the grassy area op posite Sbisa on Monday and that the Memorial Student Center will show the movie “The Great Race” that night. Tuesday, Aggie Muster, has been designated as Academic Day, he said, and “student-oriented” professors will be honored by a luncheon. He said that Residence Hall Day will be Wednesday. The dorms will “sell” themselves and recruit new members. The civilian stu dents will also participate in the Environmental Teach-In. Intramurals will begin on Thursday, he said, and Friday will be devoted to residence hall events and a grove dance. A barbecue, carnival, intramu ral finals and a Grand Prix Go- Cart race are scheduled for Sat urday, he said. Delbert Buchanan, race chair man, said that the race will be governed by rules used at Purdue and East Texas State and that a course has been tentatively ap proved around the drill field. There also may be a heat race that morning for pole positions. “The Corps of Cadets and any other university approved organ ization may also participate,” he said. Evening activities include a Town Hall performance by Tony Joe White and Smith and a sweetheart presentation ball at Sbisa, Mauro said. A church service will be held Sunday morning in the All Faiths Chapel, he said, and sometime during the week Andrew Fabach- er will make an appearance on campus. The rules were suspended to permit Reggie Major and Mike Jaynes, both students, to ask the council to turn the race over to (See Civilian Council, page 3) QUICK CONFERENCE—Mark Olson (left), Civilian Stu dent Council president, checks plans for Civilian Week with Garry Mauro, Keathley Hall president and chairman of the week committee during Monday night’s CSC meeting. (Photo by Jim Berry) During Army, AF Dances Cutie, Sweetheart Selected Rep. Atwell to Tak Thursday At Noon Forum “Who Wants to Tax Food?” will be the topic of a Wednesday noon Political Forum presenta tion featuring State Rep. Ben Atwell of Dallas. The discussion will be in Rooms 2C-D of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Sessions conclude early enough for students to at tend 1 p.m. classes. Admission is free and sack lunches will be available at nom inal charge. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —A