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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
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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<hr.
CINDY NEWELL
Army, Air Force ROTC sweethearts.
Boyd)
CATHY KNIGHT
(Photo by Robert
The Army and Air Force ROTC
segments of the student body
Friday night each selected a
blonde as its sweetheart for 1970-
71.
Cindy Newell of Pasadena was
voted Combat Cntie by Army ca
dets at the Combat Ball, and
Cathy Knight of Houston was
chosen Air Force Sweetheart at
the Air Force Ball.
Miss Newell is a freshman at
the University of Houston. She
was selected from seven other
women who were competing for
the title.
A junior art history major at
the University of Texas at Au
stin, Miss Knight was selected
from five finalists.
The two dances followed a
Town Hall presentation by Kenny
Rogers and the First Edition, and
began the Corps pf Cadets’ an
nual Military Weekend. A Satur
day afternoon review and the
Military Ball Saturday night
completed the weekend.
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