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HERE TONIGHT—Shirley McMillan swings in a scene from “Opus 65,” to be performed
lere tonight by the Houston Ballet. The program, part of the Contemporary Arts Com
mittee’s Festival 70, begins at 8 in the Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Houston Ballet Here Tonight
\s Festival 70 Continues
Art displays went up early this
wk in the Memorial Student
Center as “Festival 70” gained
impetus.
The two-week, campus-wide
iiamination of contemporary art
lorms reaches its first plateau
Wednesday with the 8 p.m. Hous-
ta Ballet performance in the
8ryan Civic Auditorium.
Lectures by artist Samuel
Haitin, whose work is exhibited
inthe second floor of the library;
he Aggie Players’ “Under the
Sycamore Tree,” a film seminar
md fashion fair are on tap the
emainder of this week, reminded
tom Ellis, Contemporary Arts
lommittee chairman.
Highlights of next week include
he Monday showing of “Genesis
I," a series of student experi
mental films, and Town Hall
presentation of the outstanding
young pianist Misha Dichter and
the Kenwood Theater Tuesday.
Maitin, graphics department
head at the Annenberg School of
Communication, will speak on
media, graphics and their social
implications this Thursday and
Friday at 2 p.m. in the Archi
tecture Auditorium.
A library exhibit of Maitin’s
work from the Lane Epstein Gal
lery of Houston includes prints
and sculpture. Ellis described it
as social satire in graphics.
The chairman of the MSC com
mittee sponsoring Festival 70 said
a series of monoprints done by
students of the College of Archi
tecture will be on display in the
MSC for the remainder of the
festival. The monoprint technique
involves painting on a plate of
glass and transferring images by
pressing the glass against paper.
The Architecture Auditorium
also will be the scene of a 1 to
5 p.m. Saturday critique of stu
dent films. The MSC Host and
Fashion Committee meanwhile
will present fashions from Nei-
man-Marcus in its 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fashion Fair.
Tickets for the ballet, Genesis
II, Misha Dichter and Kenwood
Theater are available at the MSC
Student Program Office.
Festival 70 started Sunday with
music by the “Gypsy Moth.” The
band was joined on Guion Hall
steps Monday by the “Ghost
Coach” with music for a large
audience. Ellis said the three-
hour performance attracted up to
2,000 listeners at a time.
By Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON UP)—The Nix
on administration—still on record
in favor of lowering the voting
age to 18 — vigorously opposed
Tuesday doing jt by an act of
Congress.
And Magaret Mead, the na
tion’s foremost woman anthro
pologist, warned that any tech
nicality that blocks extending the
voting age to the nation’s youth
will be regarded by them as a
trick and as proof there is no
room for them in the political
system.
William H. Rehnquist, as as
sistant attorney general, told
senators studying the issue that
the Justice Department has se
vere doubts that lowering the
voting age by congressional vote
would be constitutional.
Such a move is the thrust of
an amendment offered by Senate
Democratic Leader Mike Mans
field to a pending voting rights
bill.
Two other senators, one of
them Republican Leader Hugh
Scott, have introduced a separate
bill which would do the same
thing but be detached from the
emotional debate which has ac
companied Senate consideration
of the voting rights bill aimed
at assuring minority group voting
rights.
Rehnquist cited Supreme Court
decisions to holster his argument
that high court approval of an
across-the-board lowering of the
voting age would be at least
dubious.
“No informed observer can af
firmatively state that the statu
tory approach would pass muster
with the Supreme Court,” Rehn
quist said.
He made these other points:
—“Doubt as to the validity of
the statute could create confusion
and uncertainty as to the out
come of a presidential election.”
—The longer process needed to
amend the Constitution—by win
ning House and Senate approval
and then ratification by three
quarters of the states—is neces
sary to build the popular con
sensus needed to bring younger
citizens into the ranks of voters.
The administration amendment
would lower the voting age in
federal elections only.
Chairman Birch Bayh, D-Ind.,
of a subcommittee on amendments
and other senators want to lower
the age in all elections—federal,
state and local.
Rehnquist contended the con
cept of federalism demands that
each state must decide voter qual
ifications for its own elections.
But he conceded confusion and
frustration might result if a
young voter were able to cast
his ballot for president, but not
for governor.
Dr. Mead joined several other
witnesses in contending extension
of the ballot to youth is a logical,
timely and a completely justified
action.
“We need them to ask the
timely questions, to release the
latent power and strength of this
country to deal responsibly with
the present and future,” she said.
Voicelessness, she said, breeds
desperation a distrust of the law
and action outside the law: “Lack
of political responsibility can put
the sanest men and women into
a rebellious and frustrated state
where they no longer trust the
political process on which our
freedom is built.”
DeBakey Tells Audience
Transplants Not ‘The’
To Heart Disease
Key
Treatment
By Jay F. Goode
Battalion Staff Writer
Heart transplants are not the
ultimate answer to treatment of
heart disease, renowned heart
surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey
told a large audience in the Bryan
Civic Auditorium Tuesday night.
“We need some form of pre
ventive approach to the problem
of heart disease,” DeBakey said.
Senate Considers UW Seat Thursday
The question of whether to al-
>w a representative of Univer
ity Women to have an ex-officio
eat in the Student Senate will
" «considered when senators con-
ene Thursday.
Also on the agenda for the ses-
ion, scheduled to begin at 7:30
i.in. in the Architecture Audi-
orium, are resolutions concerning
enate proxies, the Academic
Council and, possibly, a joint
Wement of rights and respon-
libilities of students.
Senate secretary Kirby Brown
aid he would introduce the res-
ilution calling for an ex-officio
Knate seat for UW, in practically
4e same form as the one he in
duced and the senate rejected
ast week.
Brown said his new resolution
tales the UW representative will
ie elected from all the women of
Hie university, the actual mem-
lership of UW.
Ex-officio status he said, would
still give women a “voice” and
a vote” in the senate not simply
a voice as erroneously reported
in last week’s Battalion senate
story.
Brown said that he thought the
senate’s refusal to allow UW a
representative last week was an
“immature” and biased” stand.
The senate, he said, busied itself
in finding faults with the wom
en’s organization, and ignored a
chance to hear a voice that was
new and needed on the senate
floor.
Jim Stephenson (sr-LA) said
he would report to the senate
concerning the Academic Coun
cil’s refusal to allow senate pres
ident Gerald Gestweidt to attend
a council meeting two weeks ago.
He added he was to meet with
Academic Vice President Horace
Byers on the matter.
Stephenson added that he may
also discuss with senators a state
ment of student rights and re
sponsibilities that he hopes to
see the senate pass at some later
date.
“These things ought to be in
writing,” Stephenson said. “Some
times student rights are uninten
tionally infringed on,” he said,
simply because there is no docu
ment that states them clearly.
Brown said the senate is also
scheduled to consider abolishing
the proxy rule, which allows sen
ators to send qualified substitutes
to meetings in their places, and
adopting a more stringent rule
on senate absences.
old to be eligible for transplan
tation or their hearts are not
healthy, he said.
Of the relatively few good
hearts available, fewer yet will
match the tissues of the recipient,
DeBakey noted.
“Some way must be developed
to have hearts available when
one is needed,” he said.
Rejection is another problem
yet to be overcome, he said.
“Transplant patients die from
out and out rejection or, when
the immune mechanism is sup
pressed, infection,” DeBakey said.
The mechanical heart promises
to solve the problem of rejection,
he said, but such hearts cannot
be used for long periods of time.
The major difficulty with the
mechanical heart occurs because
blood undergoes changes when it
comes in contact with alien sur
faces, DeBakey explained. A lay
er of tissue forms and eventually
blocks off the circulation
through the artificial organ, he
continued.
DeBakey used slides to dem
onstrate how vessels made of
Dacron, a synthetic material, have
proven to be the most feasible
method of combatting the tissue
formation.
The mechanical heart also re
quires a large synchronization ap
paratus that limits what the pa
tient can do while carrying the
artificial organ in his chest, De
Bakey said.
A double ventrical mechanical
pump is still in the experimental
stage, he said.
“We are still working with it
from an engineering standpoint
with our colleagues at Rice Uni
versity,” the surgeon said.
DeBakey also demonstrated
through slides how Dacron tubes
are used to repair parts of dis
eased arteries. In cases where the
arteries developed clots, and in
others where an aneurysm, or
“blooning” caused severe dam
age, the arteries were replaced
satisfactorily with Dacron.
Arteries in the heart also may
be replaced by artificial tubes.
However, DeBakey said, when
these coronary arteries cannot be
replaced, transplants or mechan
ical hearts become the only al
ternative.
WEATHER
Thursday—Cloudy in the morn
ing becoming partly ( cloudy.
Wind East 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
54, low 39.
Friday — Partly cloudy. Wind
South 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 68,
low 42.
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PANELISTS TONIGHT—Four Texas Woman’s University
students will give Aggies tips on dating and etiquette dur
ing tonight’s Man Your Manners panel, the second of three.
Susan Howes (left), Kada Rule, Karen Burk and (not
shown) Kathy Dunn will give the presentation at 7:30 in
Room 113 Biological Sciences.
Four Texas Woman’s Univer
sity students will talk tonight on
dating etiquette as part of the
YMCA - sponsored Man Your
Manners program.
The 7:30 session, second of
three being presented on consec
utive Wednesdays, will be in
Room 113 Biological Sciences.
Panel members will be Susan
Howes, senior clothing design
major and 1969 Best Dressed
Tessie; Kada Rule, senior cloth
ing and fashion merchandising
major and president of the TWU
Student Council of Social Activi
ties; Karen Burk, senior child
development and nursery school
education major and president of
the Student Finance Council; and
Kathy Dunn, senior social work
major and president of the TWU
Campus Government Association.
Included in the program are
discussions on dating activities,
how much to spend on a date,
Aggie weekends, whether a wom
an should ask for a date and the
question of necking.
The emphasis during the dis
cussion will not be on straight
answers to every s it u a c i o n,
YMCA President Ed Donnell
said, but will be more on general
guidelines and what the women
on the panel believe should be
done.
The women will also explain
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
the reasoning behind their be
liefs. Donnell said, something
that is being done at the request
of many Aggies who have at
tended previous panels.
The final manners panel will
be March 18.
DR. MICHAEL DeBAKEY
Spoke Tuesday night on
heart transplants. (Photo
by Robert Boyd)
“There are 15 million people suf
fering with diseases of the heart
and blood vessels, and some half
million die each year.”
One of the problems that make
transplantation a “very limited
approach” is donor availability, he
said. A donor’s heart must be
healthy and free of defects, but
relatively few people who die
have normal hearts, DeBakey
said.
Most people who die are too
1 Soviet Official Here Thursday
To Discuss U.S.-Russian Ties
The Deputy Ambassador of the
Soviet Embassy will speak here
Thursday on “Russian Foreign
Relations with the U.S.”
Yuli M. Vorontsov will speak
at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center. His
talk is the second in a four-part
U.S. - East European Relations
Seminar sponsored by Great Is
sues.
The first part of the seminar
dealt with the Yugoslav view
point. Future talks will be given
by a Czechoslovakian representa
tive and a member of the Insti
tute of International Affairs in
Moscow and has served as coun
selor of the Soviet mission to the
United Nations, adviser to the
Soviet delegation to Geneva dis
armament conferences and as
deputy director of the Interna
tional Organization Department
in the USSR Foreign Ministry in
Moscow.
Ag First Casualty
Reported in Laos
By Chancy Lewis
Battalion Staff Writer
A former Aggie yell leader has
been acknowledged as the first
American casualty of the fight
ing in Laos but denied to have
died in “ground combat opera
tions.”
Captain Joseph Bush, the 1965-
66 head yell leader, had his name
entered into controversy after
President Nixon said Friday in a
formal statement on U.S. involve
ment in Laos that “no American
Correction
The Battalion erroneously re
ported Tuesday that William
(Bill) Weaver had been elected
1970-71 Memorial Student Center
Vice President for Issues.
William (Bill) Webster was
named to the post.
stationed in Laos has even been
killed in ground combat opera
tions.”
A freelance writer, Don A.
Schanche, distributed a story on
the death of Bush on Feb. 10,
1969, to the Los Angeles Times
Sunday. Since then the White
House has been explaining the
term “ground combat operations.”
Capt. Bush was shot to death
during an engagement with North
Vietnamese guerrillas at a com
pound on the edge of the Plain
of Jars in Moung Soui, Laos
where he was a military attache.
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald
L. Warren said that the President
stands by his statement that no
American has been killed in
ground combat but that Bush was
killed while participating in the
repelling of “hostile actions.”
Warren explained that when
(See Aggies First, page 5)
TAKING PART—Mrs. Patricia Self, A&M’s new counselor
for women, takes part in a University Women discussion
group Tuesday night. See story, page 3. Photo by Hyden
Whitsett)