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Vol. 65 No. 98
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 10, 1970
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Senate Passes Parts
Of Rights Statement
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
Student Senators Thursday
adopted the first half of a pro
posed statement of student rights
and responsibilities and then, as
time grew short and tempers flar
ed, tabled consideration of the
rest of the 10-page document un
til next week’s session.
Later in the meeting the sen
ate refused to grant a seat to
University Women for the third
time in as many sessions. In the
next item on the agenda, how
ever, senators almost unanimously
agreed to allow A&M coeds to
compete with those from Texas
Woman’s University for Aggie
Sweetheart.
In other business, the senate
passed a resolution asking that
it be consulted in the selection of
the next A&M president, hut
turned down a request that it al
low students to miss a meal next
week to raise money to send to
civilians in Vietnam.
The senate also defeated a res
olution calling for a revision of
the university’s speakers policy.
Senators spent nearly two hours
examining the first four sections
of the statement of student rights
and responsibilities before pass
ing them by several large-ma
jority votes.
Introduced and explained by
Jim Stephenson (sr-LA), the sec
tions provide standards for ad*-
mission to the university, passed
present guidelines for student-
faculty conduct in the classrooms,
outline a disclosure policy for stu
dent records, and enumerate cer
tain freedoms in student affairs.
The senate agreed that the uni
versity should he open to all stu
dents “who comply with admis
sion standards regardless of race,
creed, sex or national origin. The
statement said A&M should also
use its influence “to secure equal
access for all students in public
facilities in the local community
without discrimination...”
In the section on classroom be
havior, the statement said that
students “should be evaluated
solely on an academic basis, not
on opinions or conduct outside of
class in matters unrelated to
academic standards.” The sec
tion also set up a procedure a
student could follow to protect
himself against unfair academic
CSC Names Honor Panel,
Discusses Fabacher Visit
By Pam Troboy
Battalion News Editor
Seven seniors were appointed
to the Civilian Honor Council and
final plans for Civilian Week-
Weekend were discussed during a
Thursday night meeting of the
Civilian Student Council.
Mark Olson, president, also an
nounced that Andrew Fabacher,
new promotion symbol for Jax
Beer, will be on campus April 17.
Olson named Pat Wertheim,
Chris Moser, Raleigh Lane, Jim
Finane, Tom Condry, J. E. Bird
and Alan Byrd, chairman, to the
honor council, the first to function
in two years.
The council, he said, will try
cases of student honor violations
and make recommendations to the
Dean of Students. Two cases are
scheduled next week.
Olson said that the council was
"powerful hut beneficial” and
cautioned the newly-appointed
members that its deliberations
must remain secret.
He said that Fabacher’s visit
had been approved by Clyde H.
Wells, president of the Board of
Directors, after the University
Executive Committee could not
decide whether Fabacher should
be allowed on campus.
On most campuses, Olson said,
Fabacher is followed on campus
by four or five beer trucks and
free beer is distributed to the stu
dents, but, of course, we can’t
do that here because of state law.
Instead the company will fur
nish free soft drinks and the
Ghost Coach will play from 12:30-
3:30 p.m. in the grove, he said.
In connection with Fabacher’s
appearance, Jax will present a 5-
foot mahogany bar stool to the
Aggie selected as “Rebel of the
Year,” he said. Each residence
hall selects its candidate by cast
ing votes for a penny apiece. The
hall contributing the most money
on a percentage basis will be de
clared the winner.
Olson said that Fabacher will
present the stool to the winner
after making a speech that “will
have them in the aisles.”
The CSC voted to sell beer
mugs with the slogan “May cool
heads always prevail — Andrew
Fabacher” for one dollar during
the afternoon.
The council also approved final
plans for Civilian Week—Week
end, April 20-26.
Garry Mauro told the CSC that
an auto show featuring all the
major car dealers will he in the
quadrangle opposite Sbisa on
Monday and that program resi
dence halls wil hold open house.
The Aggie Cinema is also spon
soring the film “The Great Race,”
in the grove that night.
Tuesday, he said, the CSC will
host outstanding faculty members
at an awards luncheon and partic
ipate in Aggie Muster. That night
four students, James Bradley,
Charles Castine, Andrew Callo
way and Shelton Wallace, will
participate in a panel discussion
of black student problems. The
Black Awareness Rap Session will
meet in Lounge A2 at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday the council will
participate in Earth Day activi
ties and an election rally spon
sored by the Student Senate, Mau
ro said. Intramural programs also
begin.
Thursday is devoted to student
elections and Friday the individ
ual dorms sponsor activities, he
said.
Activities on Saturday begin
with a barbecue at 12:30 followed
by a Queen’s parade and the go
cart race at 1:30, he said. The
rugby team also will play Texas
at 3 p.m.
That night at 7 p.m., he said,
Tony Joe White and Smith will
appear in a Town Hall perform
ance followed by the presentation
of the Civilian Sweetheart at the
ball in Sbisa. Z.Z. Top, formerly
the Moving Sidewalks, and Ghet
to Sounds will play for the ball.
Mauro said the only activity
scheduled for Sunday were serv-
(See CSC Names, page 2)
evaluation.
Senators balked at approving
all of the section on student
records. They sent back to com
mittee those items which dealt
with a student’s right to have
access to his own records, to have
his records kept confidential, and
to receive notification of all items
placed in his records.
They did pass, however, the
item which stated that no records
may be kept of a student’s race,
religion, social an political views
and membership in any non-edu-
cational organization without his
expressed written permission. The
senate added, however, that such
information could be recorded for
statistical purposes.
Under student affairs, senators
agreed upon standards for stu
dent organizations and conditions
for use of university facilities.
They also agreed that student
organizations should be allowed
to invite and hear any person of
their own choosing, provided that
regular operations, institutional
property, and personal safety are
not endangered..”
The procedures for approving
speakers, the statement said,
would be determined by a joint
student-faculty-staff committee.
Later in the meeting, however,
when Kent Caperton introduced
a resolution calling for the estab
lishment of such a speaker com
mittee, the senate seemed to do
an about-face, voting the resolu
tion down, 32-25.
Arguments against the estab
lishment of the committee were
that it would add a needless link
in the chain of speaker approval.
Tom Fitzhugh (Geos.) said that
the Executive Committee would
still maintain final authority on
approval of. speakers and that
another committee would only
slow the approval process more.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan added that the senate
would seem to be “shooting at
burglars under the bed” by adopt
ing Caperton’s proposal. He said
he could “count on the fingers of
his hand” the number of speakers
that have been disapproved in the
(See Statement, page 2)
SEEKING APPROVAL—Sandy Broder asks senators to
approve a miss-a-meal program during Thursday night’s
Student Senate meeting. Money from the program would
be sent to Vietnam for the relief of those widowed or
orphaned by the war there. (Photo by Jim Berry)
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Some 215 students have filed
for positions to be decided in the
April 23 general election, but two
positions remain unfiled for,
Election Commission Executive
Vice President Tommy Hender
son said this morning.
The count is unofficial, Hen
derson said, until the Registrar’s
Office can check each applicant’s
grade point ratio to make sure he
meets the requirements set forth
for the office he seeks. The
checking process should be fin
ished early next week, he said.
Henderson said that no one has
filed for the two College of Edu
cation sophomore representative
positions and that filing for the
posts will remain open until fur
ther notice. Applications, he
said, may be picked up at the
Memorial Student Center Pro
gram Office, and must be re
turned there.
Those filing for Student Sen
ate President, Henderson said,
are: Kent Caperton, Bill Maskal,
Jimmy Weaver; Senate Vice
President — Roger Miller, David
Moore; Senate Recording Secre
tary — Dale Foster, Bill Harts-
field; Senate Treasurer — Jim-
(See 215 File, page 2)
Overpopulation Causes
Exploitation of Coasts
Rainy, Cool Weekend Ahead
For State, Weatherman Says
By The Associated Press
Rain will be general across
the state today except in the
far western sections around El
Paso and Wink, the Weather Bu
reau said.
Temperatures are expected to
be somewhat cooler.
Rains are expected for the
weekend, decreasing Saturday
and ending by Sunday in all sec
tions of the state except for
isolated showers along the south
eastern and central Gulf Coast.
Heavy rains washed portions
of Central Texas late Thursday,
and before dusk motorists were
advised to use caution at low
water crossings east of San An
tonio.
A great rain area stretched
from 20 miles over the Gulf of
Mexico from Port Arthur to near
Corpus Christi and inland to the
Temple-Belton-Waco vicinity and
northeastward to Shreveport, La.
Radar showed showers and
thundershowers stretching from
the Big Bend country to the
South Plains across the Red
River Valley from Wichita Falls
to near Dallas, Greenville and
Marshal.
Big thunderstorms prowled the
area from southeast of Stephen-
ville to 40 miles southeast of a
line from Kaufman, southeast of
Dallas, to College Station.
By Chancy Lewis
Battalion Staff Writer
Over-population is causing the
exploitation of coastal areas
around the world, Dr. Richard A.
Geyer, Oceanography Department
head, said Thursday.
As final speaker in the Sym
posium for Environmental Aware
ness Lecture Series, the ocean
ographer told an audience of
about 100 that over-population is
directly related to the world
problems of hunger and pollution
and coastal area exploitation.
“With unger as the biggest
problem in this overpopulated
world, the sea is being looked to
as the source of food now that
the crowded land is unable to
produce enough for all,” Geyer
said.
“It isn’t that these people are
n’t getting enough bulk to fill
themselves, he said, but that their
consumption of animal proteins
is nutritionally deficient. We
must look to the sea to supple
ment this deficiency.”
In Peru, where fish meal has
become a major protein supple
ment, fishing and fish meal pro
duction has become a large in
dustry, but the need to keep up
Correction
The Battalion erroneously re
ported Thursday that civilian
residence hall students who de
sire day student permits for the
1970-71 school year should report
to Room 105 Military Sciences.
The story should have said
that civilian students desiring
day student status for the com-'
ing school year must initiate ap
plications with their hall coun
selor. Cadets desiring day stu
dent status must report to Room
105 Military Sciences.
the supply of fish meal has cre
ated the threat of overfishing, he
said.
Geyer said that several ocean
ographic i nstitutions, including
A&M, are investigating the ques
tion of whether the fish popula
tion can withstand this large
scale industry.
Some countries, such as Aus
tralia and New Zealand, are en
gaged in experiments to arti
ficially raise oysters to alleviate
this threat. Also the Bureau of
American Fisheries has many
stations located around the coast
of the United States doing re
search on this problem.
Pollution of coastal zones by
industry in an effort to keep up
with the needs of the population,
is the second major problem in
the coastal areas, Geyer said.
Oil leakage and unsightly oil
derricks offshore from pleasure
beaches has caused not only pol
lution but also friction between
the industry and tourists and resi
dents close to the drilling area,
Geyer pointed out.
“But I think that people and
industry can live together,” he
said.
To emphasize his point, Geyer
showed some slides of oil derricks
that had been “dressed up” to
resemble high-rise apartments.
The location of this operation is
in Long Beach, Calif., across
from several resort hotels.
Another source of pollution,
(See Over-population, page 2)
Blood Drive Nets 529 Pints;
Said Second Best in 12 Years
With several prospective don
ors turned away because of a
lack of containers, the campus
blood drive was termed as the
second best in its 12-year history.
John Cunningham, president
of the sponsoring Alpha Phi
Omega, A&M service fraternity,
said that 529 pints were donated
as compared to 605 in 1964. The
Student Senate administered the
drive.
He said that donations stopped
about a half an hour early be
cause the personnel from the
Wadley Foundation of Molecular
Medicine ran out of plastic con
tainers that the blood was put in.
About 60 students were standing
in line ready to donate blood
when it was found that there
were not enough containers, he
added.
Of the 752 that attempted to
give blood, 591 or 75.93 per cent
were corps members and 161 or
24.07 per cent were civilian stu
dents.
The reason for the percentages
being derived from the number
who attempted to give blood in
stead of those who actually gave
the blood was because the only
place that a count of whether a
donor was civilian or a cadet was
when the donors filled out a
form before it was determined
whether their blood was accept
able or not, Cunningham said.
Matthew R. Carroll, cadet
corps commander, had challenged
the civilians Tuesday to give the
same share of the blood as their
percentage of the campus popu
lation.
Fallout Presents Two Plays Tonight
TREE TRANSPLANT—A threatened Southern Live Oak tree is removed Thursday from
the construction site of the new engineering center and transferred to a safer location.
See story page 3.
By Bob Robinson
Battalion Staff Writer
The Fallout Theater-Workshop
opens tonight with two original
one-act plays written by James
B. Dennis, “Who Gives Charlotte
Headaches” and “Suicide.”
“Who Gives Charlotte Head
aches” is the story of a woman,
Charlotte, played by Lucy Grav-
ett, who begins to imagine that
her husband, Arthur, played by
Mitch Hall, is no longer in love
with her.
Her imagination runs wid and
she creates the “stranger,”
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played by Paul Peterson, who
makes every attempt to rein
force her fears.
Charlotte’s mother is played
by Sue Hachbold; Alice, the maid,
is played by Kay Slowey; Charles,
Arthur’s best friend, is also
played by Peterson; and Nancy,
Arthur’s mistress, is played by
Mary Hardeman.
Melanie Haldas is the director
of Charlotte.”
The second show, “Suicide,”
directed by L. J. Kolwalski, is
the story of a marine who is
back from the war after being
injured.
Billy Joe Cox plays John
Stephenson at a homecoming
party given by his parents,
George, played by Kowalski, and
Mary, played by Cecilia Loff.
John’s girlfriend, Linda Scott,
played by Sheila Ben, had spent
the evening trying to cheer him
up. She hadn’t seen him since
he went overseas and couldn’t
understand his mood.
Lee Perkins, a family friend,
played by Scott Wilson, finally
makes an attempt to find out
what was wrong.
John insists he’s going to die.
Perkins and John’s parents at
tribute the idea to the bad
dreams that soldiers always seem
to have after returning from
battle.
The part of Van Thy, the
enemy soldier, is played by Ab
dul Karim.
The stage manager and head of
properties for both plays is Alec
Horn. The light crew consists
of Mike McCaskill and James
Dennis. McCaskill will also
handle sound for both shows.
The set crew consists of Den
nis, Jeanne Linger, Mary Hanna
and Dennis Turner.
Tonight will be the second
Fallout production of the spring
semester. The Fallout Theater is
in the basement at the back en
trance of Guion Hall. Curtain
time is 8 p.m.
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