Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1970)
1M pluck- , Saturday :nce mark it a squab- ill of their If and the o make i ng all of •iod. .-ted on a irk Fisher yards for lyton add- the A&M •ed on two i;ame was the rainy s travel to e Houston eft on the barter bus team will he annual ournament ys. be Battalion Vol. 65 No. 87 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 17, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 Rules Panel Turns Down Senate Court Proposal ed by the , and the :«en teams play in it. joing with is invited $47-50 for ed persons act Greg r call 845- he Florida play in the ent in Au- ne scheduled loublehead- o complete e quarter- londay and als Thurs- m national ay. orth Caro- es Cincin- afternoon Duke-Utah hu setts at iSU plays iana meets A&M’s Freshman Drill Team ton the overall trophy for the ihird straight year here Saturday luring the university’s annual nvitational drill meet, retiring lie 48-inch master trophy. Sam Houston State University jlaced second and Texas A&I University was third. The Uni- rersity of Houston and Tarleton State also won trophies in the sine-team, three-event meet. A&M frosh took first place in inspection, second place in basic Irill and second place in fancy Irill. Sam Houston won a first tvn vised. n A&I ;ed Texas r re nee tea- re Thun- •umley de- r, 6-1,6-2] ited John e Mills de- 6-1; Law- don Buck- 1 Park de- id Smith, Carl Jae- lews and -Arlington the A&M Beaumont IWEETHEART — Blue-eyed Brunette Cheryl Maurine Spruce of San Antonio, junior elementary education major at Southwest Texas State University, was crowned Junior Class Sweetheart for 1970-71 during the class dance Sat urday night. By Dave Mayes Battalion Editor The university’s Rules and Regulations -Committee Monday turned down a Student Senate proposal to establish a student- administration Court of Appeals. The committee did recommend however, that the structure of the university’s faculty-staff Appeals Committee be modified, requiring the appellate panel’s two repre sentatives from the Office of the FDT Does It Again Places First for Third Time place trophy in fancy drill and third place in basic drill. Texas A&I took third in fancy drill, the University of Houston won a first in inspection and Tarleton won first in basic drill. The Freshman Drill Team, na tional champions for the past two years, became permanent owners of the master trophy after their third straight win. A meet rule states any team that wins the trophy three years in a row be comes permanent owner. Also entered in the meet were teams from Rice, Arkansas and the University of Texas. Fish Drill Team Commander Beverly S. Kennedy of Austin accepted the master trophy from A&M Academic Vice President Horace R. Byers, who represented hospitalized A&M President Earl Rudder. The sixth annual meet was sponsored by the commandant’s office and the Association of For mer Freshman Drill Team mem bers. Personnel from the U. S. Ma rine Corps Officer Selection Pro gram in Austin served as judges. Pianist,, Actors Here Tonight is Festival 70 Nears End The fields of music, film, the- iter and art will be covered dur ing the remainder of Festival 70, itwo-week art festival sponsored S anit ly the Contemporary Arts Com- tittee. Activities tonight will include i performance by concert pianist Ilfeha Dichter and an improvisa- lion theater by The Kenwood Theater of San Antonio. Dichter will perform at 8 in ibe Bryan Civic Auditorium and he theater group will begin its low at 8 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The Kenwood Theater is an im- irovisation theater composed of San Antonio poverty area people fhose aim is to promote com- nunity involvement among mem- ers of the poverty area and *ople outside of it. Through their appearances the Toup provides college scholar- hips for Kenwood youth. in investigating and developing their own mental processes and creative abilities.” Dichter, 24-year-old pianist who has earned world renown, will be performing under the sponsorship of the Rotary Community Series and Town Hall. Festival 70’s examination of the Scarpelli Lectures At Vet School Dr. D. G. Scarpelli, chairman of the Pathology and Oncology De partment at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is visiting the College of Veterinary Medi cine until Wednesday to lecture ,,, ... , and consult with the Pathology .J ^ Department. Dr. Scarpelli holds an M.D. de- TOduce their own plays, several bout themselves and their com arts continues Wednesday at 8 p.m. with an address in the MSC Assembly Room by Sebastian Adler, director of Houston’s Con temporary Arts Museum. Adler’s talk is on “Our Place.” Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. in Guion Hall the Aggie Players will stage the final three presentations of Sam uel Spewack’s play about ants and men, “Under the Sycamore Tree.” The play is a satire in which ants are the counterparts of man and exhibit Ijis activities and emotions. Festival 70 ends Friday with a talk by Dallas graphics special ist Crawford Dunn and the Spring Film Festival showing of the Japanese-made film “Woman in the Dune.” Dunn, presented by the A&M chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will speak in the Architecture building lobby. Showing at in the MSC aunity,” said Tom Ellis, commit- gree and a Ph ' D ' in P^ology. mar Tech 46 chairman. “They are opening His special interests are ultra- «w opportunities for themselves structural cytochemistry, carcino- - being actively involved in genesis and comparative pathol teating their own culture and ogy. Ballroom, “Woi^an^ in the Dune” is an allegory probing fundamen tal questions about existence and the meaning of freedom. The plot centers around a man who is held captive with a woman in the .bot tom of a sand pit. \ : ' : ' ' # VMM 1 II r 11; IK I m- : Sift k Villi/"' ■ ifliSi NEW HOME—Amid packing boxes George Eby, city planner, talks with Lynda Swove- land, city secretary, in the new College Station City Hall on Texas Avenue. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) Dean of Students be reduced to ex-officio (non-voting) status. The committee also recommend ed that the Appeals panel request the pair to no longer take part in court-like deliberations but to leave the room with the student whose disciplinary case is being considered. H. L. Heaton, dean of admis sions and chairman of the rules panel, said that the recommenda tions would be forwarded to the faculty-staff Executive Commit tee for approval. The senate’s plan was present ed to the rules committee by Sen ator Jim Stephenson (sr-LA), who told The Battalion Monday that he would seek approval of the court plan from the Execu tive Committee. Stephenson said he met with the committee for an hour and a half, presenting his case and an swering questions. He said he was not present when the com mittee made its decision. When he called Heaton late Monday afternoon, Stephenson said he was informed of the com mittee’s recommendations but not given any reasons why the sen ate’s proposal had not been ap proved. The senator said that during the committee meeting some members doubted whether a stu dent would be as fair as an ad ministrator in hearing student cases. They suggested, Stephen son said, that a student commit tee member would be too harsh a judge and would not accept the Appeals panel’s notion that it is a rehabilitative, and not a puni tive, body. Rules and Regulations Com mittee members are Heaton, Dr. Peter D. Weiner, mechanical en gineering; Felix Gibson, athletic counselor; W. H. Aldred, agricul tural engineering; Don Stafford, associate dean of students, and Civilian Corps Adviser IMalon Southerland and Senate President Gerry Geistweidt, both of whom were absent at Monday’s session. The court proposal was unani mously passed by the senate March 5, and, according to Ste phenson, was mainly an effort to get student representation at the Appeals Committee level. He said the senate had tried last year to simply have a student member place on the Appeals panel, but that this request was denied. “This year we’re attempting to do the same thing, only by a different method,” Stephenson said. Under the current proposal the court of appeals would have juris diction over cases involving stu dent disciplinary matters, and others concerning student affairs. Currently, these cases are han dled through the Appeals panel, which, according to the senate’s plan, would only have jurisdiction over student cases concerning academic matters. Members on the Court of Ap peals would be two faculty mem bers and two administrators— all four appointed by the A&M president—and three students ap pointed by the student body pres ident with consent of the senate. Student courts responsible to the Court of Appeals would in clude the Cadet Courts, Civilian Honor Council, Dormitory Judi ciary Committee, Election Com mission and Traffic Court. Ap peals could also be channeled from the office of the Dean of Students. Stephenson reported in last Thursday’s senate meeting that he had talked with Dr. Horace Byers, academic vice president, concerning the possible placement of students on more university committees. The student senator quoted Byers as saying that there were no students on A&M’s legislative councils and that he hoped that in the future this policy would be maintained. “There are certain social insti tutions which cannot be governed democratically,” Byers was quot ed as saying, “the family, the hospital, the army and the uni versity.” Some senators suggested that Dr. Byers or a representative from the president’s office be in vited to the next senate meeting to further discuss the role of the student on university committees. A motion to that effect was passed with a single dissenting vote cast by Charles Hoffman (jr-LA). A&M Supports Airport Board Battalion Sports Editor Wins First Place at AP Convention Richard Campbell, sports editor for The Battalion, has won a first place in sports writing in compe tition with state newspaper mem- CAMPBELL hers of the Associated Press. Campbell, 22, won an AP cer tificate and cash award for his story on the A&M-Army football game, judged best among entries submitted by papers serving cities below 75,000 population. It was the only award won by a college newspaper this year. Campbell is a journalism sen ior who last year was was editor of The Review, campus literary magazine. The Seguin native is also treasurer of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic profes sional organization. Battalion editor Dave Mayes won honorable mention in the short feature story contest for a piece written last summer as courthouse reporter for The Daily Eagle. Mayes accepted the awards Sunday at the annual Texas As?- sociated Press Managing Editors convention in Houston. f A&M’s Executive Committee Monday said the proposed airport authority is a workable plan and should be supported Saturday. The committee, composed of the university’s deans and vice presidents, said that Bryan-Col- lege Station deserves a first-class airport and that A&M will accept any legitimate community plan for financial support of Easter- wood. “Texas A&M has operated Easterwood for the community for 29 years,” the committee noted, “but can no longer provide all the finances for operation and improvement of the facility.” The university’s board of di rectors recognized the need for financial support by the commun ity as early as 1964 and restated its plea in a resolution passed in 1968, committee members said. Pointing out that other com parable communities find it ad vantageous to invest millions of dollars in airports, the A&M board requested that Bryan, Col lege Station and Brazos County contribute to the maintenance and improvement of Easterwood Airport. The board noted the airport must be entirely self-supporting, since the university is prohibited by law from using any state- appropriated funds for operation, maintenance or improvement of the facility. Revenue for, the airport is de- rived from sale of aircraft fuel and rental space in the terminal and hangars. Such revenue is no longer suf ficient to cover operating costs and also provide for required maintenance and improvements, the board added. “Easterwood’s present condi tion requires funds for major improvements in order for it to be maintained as an up-to-date, modern, safe and serviceable air port for the benefit of the entire community,” the 1968 resolution said. The Executive Committee said needed improvements include: —Strengthening and overlay of runways —Strengthening, overlay and widening of taxiways —Repair and expansion of park ing ramp space for aircraft —Addition of a fire and rescue building Committee members also point ed out the airport is technically being operated in violation of two Federal Aviation Agency regu lations. To conform to one of the FAA regulations, the group said, the airport must acquire the land for the “clear zone” at the north end of the instrument runway. Also, to meet federal regulations, the committee said the road at the south end of the airport should be relocated because it is too close to the runway. V-As At New CS City Hall Employes Enjoying the ‘Elbow Room’ By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer Elbow room seems to be the most enjoyed aspect of the new city hall, at least to the city employes working there. Chief Melvin Luedke of the College Station police department summed up the majority opinion when he said, “There is nothing to compare it to in size. After what we had been working in, this is great.” Despite the dedication date this Saturday, all of the city depart ments, with the exception of the still-organizing fire station, were moved to the new buildings two weeks ago. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the new twin building complex will be presented from a bunting decked platform in front of the city hall. Presiding over the cere monies will be Frank Anderson and Ernest Langford, past mayors of College Station, and D. A. (Andy) Anderson, the present mayor. C. H. Ransdell, assistant dean of engineering at A&M and a city councilman, will be the mas ter of ceremonies. According to Ran Boswell, city manager, the new city hall and police and fire station were first conceived about two years ago when it became apparent that the old building would not be enough to take care of the ex pansion problems. Boswell said that the contract for the buildings was set about a year ago and that the ground breaking was April 19, 1969. The white-concrete buildings cost about $346,000 and were financed by bonds, he added. The City Hall will house the offices of the mayor, city secre tary, planner, manager, and the utilities, public works, water and sewer offices, and engineering sections. The separate police and fire station building will house the police and fire departments and be a garage for the two new fire trucks. Boswell said that a list of telephone numbers from the new offices was sent to all citizens on the utility roles. Citizens who do have a problem reaching the city hall should call 846-7761. “In the old city hall we had one room for the entire depart ment and it was 10 by 13 feet,” said Luedke about how things used to be for the police depart ment. “Now, he continued, “we have a room that size for the sergeant, the detective, and myself, as well as one twice that size for the patrolmen.” He added that there is also an interrogation room, a room for the municipal court clerk, a wait ing room, dispatchers room and a record and supply room. The fire station segment of the building contains a kitchen, dor mitory space, a day room,, and the truck stalls. Luedke said that the station is presently empty because the crews for the trucks haven’t been organized. The city hall itself has a total usable space amounting to 9,700 square feet, the police and fire station 5,700. George Eby, the first full time city planner Col lege Station has had, said that the new building is large, beau tiful, and functional. “In the old building,” Eby said, “two people couldn’t pass by each other in the corridors without difficulty.” “Now,” he said, “you could march an army down one.” The hall is divided into three basic segments: the public area, the offices, and the work areas. The public area is comprised of the cashier’s collection window in the front of the building and the city council and municipal court room. The court room is a large oval shaped room with a nine person (See City Hall, page 3) SCONA XVI Meets Tonight To Organize, Consider Topics SCONA XVI will hold an or ganizational meeting tonight at 7:30, announced Dave Mayfield, chairman of the Sixteenth Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs. The meeting in room 3B of the Memorial Student Center will be mainly concerned with selecting a topic for next year’s conference, Mayfield said. He emphasized that any student wishing to sug gest a topic or participate in selecting one may attend the meeting, and is encouraged to. Mayfield also said that any one who wants to work on the SCONA XVI committee should also attend the meeting. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. v r