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Vol. 65 No. 95
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 7, 1970
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Soapbox F orum Gets
MSC Council Okay
By David Middlebrooke
Battalion Managing Editor
A proposal for a “soapbox”
forum on the Texas A&M campus,
to provide students and univer
sity personnel an opportunity to
speak out publicly on any issue
they wish, was approved Monday
night by the Memorial Student
Center Council.
Council President Joe M. (Mac)
Spears III said no plans have
been made yet for further action
towards translating the proposal
into reality, but that he and other
councilmen will discuss the mat
ter with Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan soon.
The council also elected nine
students to committee chairman
ships for the 1970-71 school year.
The soapbox forum was pro
posed by Tom Fitzhugh, Student
Senate representative to the
council and 1970-71 council pres
ident-elect. He said that the for
um is intended to provide open
discussion ibetween A&M students,
faculty members, administrators
and others associated with the
university.
Fitzhugh said that information
had been gathered from other uni
versities which have had experi
ences with similar programs, and
that his proposal was the result
of much study and work.
The forum, as outlined by Fitz
hugh, would be under the sponsor
ship of the Great Issues Commit
tee. A moderator selected by the
Issues subcommittee of Great Is
sues and approved by the Great
Issues executive committee would
be in complete charge of the for
ums.
Two to four assistants, selected
in the same manner as the moder
ator, would assist him with crowd
discipline and help stimulate dis
cussion.
Forum speakers would be se
lected from the audience “in a
random and impartial manner,”
Fitzhugh said, and would be al
lowed 10 minutes to speak, with
a 5-minute rebuttal period, if de
sired. The moderator would en
force time limits.
House Speaker Elections
Subject of Wednesday Talk
Political aspects of electing
speakers to the Texas House of
Representatives will be presented
here Wednesday by Rep. Ralph
Wayne of Plainview.
The noon Political Forum pre
sentation will be in Rooms 2C-D
of the Memorial Student Center,
Election Filing
Ends Thursday
Filing for the April 23 general
elections will close Thursday at
5 p. m., according to Mike Wiebe,
election commission vice president
for publicity.
Wiebe said that students can
pick up applications in the Stu
dent Program Office in the Me
morial Student Center.
announced Chairman Charles
Hoffman.
Admission is free and lunches
will be available at nominal cost.
Hoffman said recent Political
Forum speakers have attracted
considerable attention, necessitat
ing additional audience facilities.
Audiences overflowed the 50-
chair meeting rooms for the last
two speakers.
A former television news di
rector, communications business
executive and insurance company
board member, Wayne was Lt.
Gov. Ben Barnes’ statewide cam
paign manager in 1968.
The 37-year-old legislator was
first elected to the Hosue in
1964. He chairs the House ad
ministration and federal relations
committees and serves on rules,
state affairs, banking, labor, state
schools and hospitals, urban af-
A Note of Thanks
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR FRIENDS:
Printed words are hopelessly inadequate
to express the feelings of the Rudder family.
In time, we hope to personally tell you of our
gratitude for the many acts of kindness and
thoughtfulness during our days of concern
and sadness. To so many people who did so
much, perhaps this will be our only way to
say thank you for sharing our burdens these
past days.
President Rudder loved Texas A&M as
only an A&M man can love his school. Its
ideals were his ideals. Its goals, his goals. Its
triumphs, his triumphs. And its failures, his
failures. Its students, faculty, staff and alumni
and, of course, board of directors were his
warmest friends, his abiding concern, his first
and last thoughts.
Anjd, in a very special way, he loved this
community and its citizens.
The outpouring of affection, concern
and tribute from campus and community
friends throughout his illness and during his
final hour gave us comfort and strength and
resolution to meet the days ahead. The special
services on campus were particularly meaning
ful to us.
The Rudder roots are planted deep in
Brazos County. Here we shall stay, to
continue in whatever ways are available, to
develop the dreams Earl Rudder dreamed.
Many times he said, “If we only had the
time, think of the things we could accomplish
here ...” While his hour is over, for us and
for you, time remains to continue the
development of our university and our
community.
God has blessed the Rudder family in
many special ways. Among the greatest of His
blessings is the rich, personal relationships we
have made with so many wonderful people.
With His help, we will continue to work
with you for a greater Texas A&M and a
greater community.
Mrs. Earl Rudder
and the Rudder Family
fairs and penitentiaries commit
tees, among others.
A native Texan, Wayne attend
ed schools in Shamrock, Happy,
Tulia—where his parents now re
side—and Canyon and graduated
from West Texas State in 1953.
The Political Forum speaker
was news director and operations
manager at KFDA-TV in Ama
rillo until 1962, is board chair
man of Texas Communications
Inc., and president of Panhandle
Broadcasting Inc.
He was “outstanding fresh
man” legislator during the 59th
session.
Wayne served on the House
Legislative Council during the
59th and 60th sessions and was
delegate at the National Legis
lative Conference.
The father of three has served
in numerous civic and profession
al capacities and was Plainview’s
“Outstanding Young Man of the
Year” in 1965.
Location of the forum, Fitzhugh
continued, would be in front of
Guion Hall until the open-air
campus mall is completed. Then,
he said, the forums would be
moved to the mall area between
the library and the Agriculture
Building.
Forums would be scheduled once
a week, Fitzhugh explained, and
would last about two hours, prob
ably from 11 a.m.-l p.m.
They would begin with the
moderator placing a soapbox in
the discussion area and announc
ing that the forum was open. He
would then begin selecting speak
ers. Speakers would be required
to present identification, Fitzhugh
said, and to prove affiliation with
the university.
Use of obscenity would not be
tolerated, Fitzhugh said. If a
speaker ignored the moderator’s
first warning he would be asked
to step down.
No limits would be imposed on
discussion topics, Fitzhugh said,
allowing anyone to talk about
anything he wished. He noted that
no campaigning would be allow
ed. Speakers could discuss cam
pus issues, he said, but would not
be allowed to campaign for speci
fic candidates.
If speakers got out of hand,
Fitzhugh said, the moderator
would have complete authority to
end the forum for the day.
When the forum was over, or
the moderator decided to end it,
he would announce the closing of
the forum, pick up the soapbox
and walk away.
In other business, the council
elected nine students to 1970-71
MSC Directorate Committee
chairmanships.
Otway B. Denny, junior politi
cal science major, was named
Leadership Committee chairman.
Denny has served as public rela
tions officer both for the com
mittee and the YMCA Cabinet.
Radio Committee chairman-
(See “Soapbox”, page 3)
Czech to Lecture
In MSC Tonight
A panel featuring Dr. Zdenek
Matejka will give Czechoslovak
ians’ views on whether the U. S.
can help the embroiled country in
a Great Issues presentation to
night.
The Czech Embassy secretary
and former Czech diplomat will
speak at 8 p. m. in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, an-
naunced Great Issues chairman
Tom Fitzhugh.
The admission-free address and
question-answer session is the
third segment of a four-part
U. S.-East European Relations
Seminar.
On the panel with Dr. Matejka
will be Dr. Edward Tobarsky, for
six years a personal aide to the
Czechoslovakian president, a for
mer Czech diplomat and now a
professor of government at the
University of Texas as Austin.
Matejka is third secretary of
the Czech Embassy, Governing do
mestic affairs of the United
States and international economic
policies of this country. The 34-
ytear-old official studied a t
Prague’s Economic School, the In
stitute of International Relations
in Moscow and is the recipient
of a doctor of international law
degree from Charles University’s
Law School in Prague.
He was with the American sec
tion of the Czechoslovak Foreign
Ministry two years and in 1963-
64 served with the Czech delega
tion to the Neutral Nations Super
visory Commission in Panmun-
jom, Korea.
‘Love’ the Topic Wednesday
As Marriage Forum Begins
Dr. Sidney Hamilton, professor
of psychology at North Texas
State University, will open the
YMCA’s four-part Marriage
Forum program Wednesday.
Hamilton will speak at 7:30
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom on “How Can
You Tell It’s Love?”
Talks on succeeding Wednesdays
will be given by Dr. Robert Led
better, practicing marriage coun
selor from Austin, on communica
tions in marriage; and Dr. Henry
Bowman, retired professor of
psychology at the University of
Texas at Austin, on sex in human
relations. Bowman will talk one
week on premarital sex and the
final week on marital sex.
Hamilton is a member of the
American Association of Mar
riage Counselors, one of five
Texas members permanently
elected to full membership in the
association.
He also serves as consultant
to U. S. Steel Corp., IBM and
other large corporations.
Marriage Forum, explained
chairman Ronald Owens of the
YMCA’s special programs com
mittee, is intended to provide
information on the many prob
lems and questions that arise
before and during marriage.
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BEHIND BUT GAINING—The second A&M runner in the mile relay, Harold McMahon
(right), receives the baton from leadoff man Don Keller and takes off in pursuit of the
Rice runner. A&M fought from behind to win the event in the 43rd Texas Relays last
weekend in Austin. The Aggies captured three relay events and the meet. See story page
6. (Photo by Mike Wright)
10 East Asian Students
Here for ‘Experiment’
By Hayden Whitsett
Battalion Staff Writer
Ten students from East Asian
and Pacific nations are sched
uled to begin an experiment in
international living here at A&M
today.
The students, of The Experi
ment in International Living, a
special foreign student exchange
program, were scheduled to ar
rive this afternoon at Easter-
wood Airport after a tour of the
University of Hawaii and the
University of California at Ber
keley.
The 10-day visit to A&M is to
give the foreign student leaders
an opportunity to get acquainted
with the American college and
university system and the values
and attitudes of their American
counterparts, according to Paul
Scopel, chairman of the Mem
orial Student Center Travel Com
mittee.
“One can best learn another
culture or language by living
within it,” Scopel said. “This pro
vides such an opportunity for
foreign students.”
The program, under the spon
sorship of the United States
State Department, picked A&M
because it is a large land-grant
college and because it will allow
the students to observe the cul
ture, industry and agriculture of
the area, Scopel said.
The students will continue a
tour of the United States by
leaving for New Orleans April
17.
They come from Australia,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan,
New Zealand, Philippines, Singa
pore, Taiwan, Thailand and Ma
laysia. They will be staying
with A&M student leaders dur
ing most of the stay.
During their stay on campus
the students will tour the cam
pus and outlying areas, attend
Great Issues, “The Spiral Stair
case” Town Hall presentation, be
guests of the corps at Duncan
Dining Hall for Faculty Night,
and attend a Rotary meeting.
On the weekend they will
travel to Houston. During this
period they will stay in private
homes and tour the city. An
old-fashioned barbecue at Wash-
ington-on-the-Brazos will round
out the two-day trip.
“I think A&M will give them
a full view of university life,”
Scopel said. “We have tried to
come up with a program that
will follow an interesting train
of events without the students
becoming too tired,” he added.
“We are at a time when under
standing of other countries is
very important,” Scopel said. “To
live in a world with many na
tions we must be able to under
stand all of them,” he said. “It
is very easy to think we are the
only nation in the world and
because of that we must keep
the lines of communication open.
These foreign students allow us
to do so.”
King Ranch Director to Speak
At Agricultural Convocation
A speech by a noted South Tex
as rancher and a western art
show by a former student will
highlight the 1970 Agricultural
Convocation here Wednesday.
The annual meeting of all fac
ulty, staff and students recog
nizes the outstanding , students
and faculty member, in addition
to providing a speaker on some
phase of Agriculture.
Belton Kleberg Johnson, ranch
er from La Pryor and a director
of the King Ranch Inc., will speak
at 8 p. m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, according to Dr,
R. C. Potts, associate dean of
agriculture.
The art show will exhibit the
works of Bill Leftwich, a 1954
graduate, who specializes in pic
tures carved in leather. The
leather and other paintings will
be displayed in the lobby of the
MSC on Thursday and Friday.
The convocation annually seeks
to recognize the outstanding stu
dents in the college, Dr. Potts
said. The fraternity Alpha Zeta
names the top underclassmen and
the college administration recog
nizes the top graduating seniors.
The Student Agricultural Council
presents the Honor Professor
Award to the agriculture profes
sor who serves as the greatest
inspiration to the undergraduate
student body.
Incumbents List Priorities
For City Improvements
By Bob Robinson
Battalion Staff Writer
Street and sewer improvements
are the main concern of incum
bents seeking uncontested seats
in today’s College Station City
Council election.
Mayor D. A. (Andy) Ander
son, Dr. C. H. Ransdell and James
H. Dozier listed streets, sewer and
water mains, development of a
park and zoning on the priority
list in separate interviews with
The Battalion.
Dozier listed the new sub-divi
sion and zoning ordinances as
primary on the list of jobs to be
completed this year.
“Over two years ago,” he said,
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“the city hired a firm to prepare
an up-to-date zoning ordinance.
Since that time, the Planning and
Zoning Commission has been ed
iting it to fit our community. It
was a prototype ordinance used
throughout the United States.”
Dozier said he hoped the work
on it would be done by this year
and brought before the council
for action.
He added that a revised and
up-dated sub-division ordinance
has already been completed by the
Planning and Zoning Commission
and brought before the Council
for action.
Dozier also said he preferred
the “pay as you go” plan in the
financing of city street improve
ments.
This plan allows for streets to
be paved and sidewalks put in on
a voluntary basis. A petition is
signed by 60 per cent of the
property owners along a street,
after which the street is paved
and all owners assessed $4 a foot.
A petition to put in a sidewalk
must be signed by 100 per cent
of the property owners.
In cases of extreme need for
paving or sidewalks, Dozier said,
such as the street being a safety
hazard for children, the city has
the power to complete the work
and assess the owners.
“This method is preferable,” he
said, “because you’d have to go
to the people for bonds every
year, otherwise, and there’s not
(See Council, page 3)
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