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Vol. 65 No. 103
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 21, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
NICE AND EASY DOES IT—Interesting expressions prevailed among participants in
the egg toss held in the quad area between Sbisa Dining Hall and Davis-Gary Hall Mon
day as the Civilian Student Council-sponsored Civilian Week got underway. Tonight’s
activities include a Black Rap Session at 7 in Lounge A-2, between Moses and Davis-
Gary Halls. (Photo by Jim Berry)
Sen. Blanchard to Give
PF Talk on Pollution
“Pollution” will be the topic of
Political Forum speaker State
Sen. H. J. (Doc) Blanchard here
Wednesday.
The Lubbock attorney and
Texas legislative veteran will
speak at noon in Rooms 2A and
B of the Memorial Student Cen
ter, forum chairman Charles
Hoffman announced.
Admission to the Political
Forum presentation is free and
lunch will be available at nominal
cost, Hoffman added.
Blanchard, 46, was president
pro tempore of the senate in 1969
and served as governor on Aug.
16 last year.
His 14 years of legislative
service includes election to both
the house and, after two terms
in the population-apportioned leg
islative branch, to the senate from
the Lubbock district the first time
in 1962. He has been re-elected
three times.
Blanchard has served on every
major committee of the senate.
He chairs the nominations and
insurance committees and in his
first senate term headed the labor
and management committees.
Major legislation in which he had
a hand includes, among others,
the Tuberculosis Eradication Act
of 1967 and the Texas Water
Plan.
Blanchard is eighth of 31 in
senate seniority. If he is re
elected this year, the solon will
be sixth or seventh.
Admitted to law practice in
1951, he is a member of the firm
of Blanchard, Clifford, Gilkerson
and Smith in Lubbock. Blanchard
attended Sudan High School and
studied at Texas Tech and SMU.
Marriage Forum to Discuss
Premarital Sex Wednesday
A retired University of Texas
at Austin sociology professor
will speak here Wednesday on
premarital sex.
Dr. Henry Bowman will talk
on “Sex in Human Relations —
Premarital” at 7:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room. His presentation will be
the third in the four-part Mar
riage Forum sponsored by the
Student ‘Y’ Association.
Bowman will also speak at the
final forum, a week from Wed
nesday, on sex within marriage.
Nationally recognized as an
authority on marriage and fam
ily life, Bowman is a member of
the National Council on Family
Relations. He has written a
book, “Marriage for Moderns,”
which has been popular with both
marriage counselors and instruc
tors in family li!fe courses.
Bowman’s talk, according to
Ron Owens, special programs
chairman for the ‘Y’, will cover
such topics as whether present-
day standards make sense and
whether a sexual revolution
actually exists today, as well as
the pros and cons of premarital
sexual relation.
Bowman’s talks have been
popular with students in previ
ous years, Owens said, and stu
dents should come early to be
sure of getting a seat.
A question and answer session
will follow Bowman’s presenta
tion, Owens said, and as many
questions as possible will be
answered.
1970 Seniors
To be Inducted
By Aggie Exes
Texas A&M seniors will be in
ducted into the 50,000-plus As
sociation of Former Students
April 27, during a 6:30 p.m. steak
dinner in the Ramada Inn Ball
room.
Association Director Richard
(Buck) Weirus pointed out the
banquet is open to all students
who identify with the class of
1970, including summer and De
cember graduates.
The class agent will be elected
at the dinner.
Students must present their
identification card at the asso
ciation office in the Memorial
Student Center by noon the 27th
to receive a complimentary ticket.
Weirus asks students who have
tickets but are unable to attend
to cancel by noon banquet day.
Weirus also urged class of ’70
members to complete the associa
tion questionnaire for the for
mer students directory to be
printed later this year. The ques
tionnaire is being mailed to sen
iors.
Civilian Week
Activities
5 p.m.
1 p.m.
Tonight
Muster
Black Rap Session—Lounge A-2 (between Moses
and Davis-Gary Halls)
Wednesday
All Day
5 p.m.
5 p.m.
6 p.m.
8 p.m.
Environmental Symposium
Voter Rally—Drill Field
Mud Football, Horse Shoes—Intramural Field
Pool Tournament—Aggie Den
Spades, Chess Tournaments—MSC
$75 Per Semester
Tuition Hike Asked
By Robert Heard
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN—The College Coordi
nating Board unanimously pro
posed a tuition hike in state uni
versities Monday, heard a plea
for help from private schools and
squabbled over an enrollment ceil
ing from the University of Texas
at Austin.
The board said tuition in state
colleges should be increased 150
per cent, to $125 a semester.
Tom Sealy of Midland said tu
ition first was set at $25 in 1933.
It was doubled in 1957, and at
that time constituted 20 per cent
of the cost of education.
That same $50 a semester fee
now pays less than 10 per cent
of the cost, Sealy said.
Tuition should be raised to
$125 a semester for residents
and doubled to $500 for out-of-
state students, he said, adding
that most of the small core of
radical students are nonresidents.
“We can’t afford that kind,”
Sealy said.
The legislature turned down
board proposals for tuition hikes
in 1967 and 1969. If it rejects it
again next year, an estimated
$140 million in additional state
funds will have to be appropri
ated, while only $35 million more
will be needed if tuition is in
creased, board spokesmen said.
President Abner McCall of Bay
lor University said private schools
need the board’s support for state
aid; otherwise the state will have
a monopoly on higher education
by 1980.
McCall said Independent Col
leges and Universities of Texas,
Inc., in a report to the board
two years ago called attention
to the plight of private schools.
The board received the report
but did nothing about it, he said.
Now, the private schools have
specific proposals, he said. They
want state grants for the differ
ence between what their students
would pay in tuition at state
schools and what they actually
pay at private schools.
Also, they want the state to
pay the private schools for pro
duction of degrees: $1,000 for
each bachelor’s degre, $1,500 for
each master’s and $2,500 for each
doctorate.
Dr. John Moseley, president of
FDT Sweeps
5 Firsts at
Austin Meet
Texas A&M’s national cham
pion Fish Drill Team Saturday
won five first-place trophies at
the University of Texas at Aus
tin Scabbard and Blade meet.
The fish took first place
trophies in inspection, basic and
fancy marching phases and first
place averall. Team commander
Beverly S. Kennedy was awarded
the meet trophy for the best
commander.
Sponsor J. Malon Southerland
of the Commandant’s Office said
the team’s basic performance was
the best he had seen the FDT
put on, and that the fancy se
quence was better than in Wash
ington, D.C., the weekend before
last.
The fish were defending cham
pions at the meet, their first in
state appearance for 1970.
Sam Houston State placed sec
ond in the meet. The FDT also
outscored two University of Tex
as teams, as well as teams from
Tarleton State University, Texas
A&I University and Trinity Uni
versity.
After the meet, the fish held a
yell practice in front of the Uni
versity tower.
Kennedy also presented a let
ter of appreciation from the team
to Gen. Walter Staudt, Texas
Air National Guard air chief of
staff, for his assistance to the
team on its Washington trip.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Austin College in Sherman, said
the program would save the state
$204 million a year by taking
care of students who otherwise
would be crowding into state
schools.
The enrollment percentage in
private schools is declining, Mose
ley said. The deficits are rising,
and gifts are falling. They can
not compete with the state
schools, he said.
Newton Gresham, board mem
ber from Houston, asked Moseley
if he had any evidence of general
public acceptance of the need for
“pluralism” in higher education,
By Tom Curl
A presentation by an assistant
secretary and science advisor to
the U. S. Department of the In
terior will highlights the Sym
posium for Environmental Aware
ness as part of the Earth Day
activities here Wednesday.
Dr. Donald Dunlop, assistant
to Interior Secretary Walter
Hickel, will be in G. Rollie White
Coliseum at 1 p.m. that day to
present an overall view of the
University officials announced
Monday that classes will not be
dismissed for Earth Day activi
ties.
national pollution problem, ac
cording to Jim Crisp, publicity
chairman of the Symposium.
The all-afternoon program will
also feature panels and discus
sions on national and state pollu
tion problems. Four representa
tives of various state agencies
will each present a 15-minute talk
on state environmental problems.
At the end of the prsentations,
members of the audience will be
allowed to individually question
each of the spekers.
Charles Bardon, executive sec
retary of the Texas Air Quality
Board, will discuss problems deal
ing wtih air pollution. Howard
B. Boswell, executive director of
the Texas Water Development
Board, will talk on the pollution
of lakes, rivers and coastal wat
ers. W. J. Cutbrith, the Director
of Administrative Services of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart
ment, will speak on pollution of
the environment as related to
parks and wildlife in the state.
He will explain the agency’s pro
grams dealing with pollution and
conservation of natural resources.
A representative of the Texas
Water Quality Board will also
present a speech on that agency’s
activities in environmenttal con
trol.
In opening the afternoon Sym
posium, Dr. Dunlop will present
an overview of the environmental
problems on a national scale and
discuss the programs and policies
of the Department of the Interior
in addition to other federal offices
and agencies.
A special feature will be a
multimedia presentation entitled
“Have You Thanked a^Grqen
Plant Today” will be the th'^fhc
of a plant-in to be held at 4 phn.
Wednesday in recognition of
Earth Day.
An attraction of the plant-in
will be a race between Civilian
Student Council President Mark
Olson and Cadet Corps Com
mander Matt Carroll to plant six
oak saplings.
The plant-in, will be held near
the flower garden behind G. Rol-
especially since it calls for state
support.
Moseley said he had no polls
but that there were a lot of public
statements in favor of pluralism.
He said it is a reversal of the
situation that Texas had in 1876,
when private schools had a mo
nopoly and the question was
whether the state would get in
volved in higher education.
Gresham’s question is the cen
tral one, Moseley conceded, and
if the answer is no, “I hope this
board and the legislature will say
so, and we can have a nice orderly
funeral and get on with it.”
“Earth Day,” presented by the
slide show committee of the Sym
posium, according to Crisp. The
slide program will show the gen
eral problems of pollution, with
special emphasis on the problems
of Brazos County.
The Symposium will open with
a half hour of talent by a local
folk-singing group, The Joint
Commission. Crisp says the music
will deal specifically with the
pollution of our environment.
The Symposium for Environ
mental Awareness is a part of the
The Earth Day activities on
campus will include the showing
of environmental films in the
lobby of the Memorial Student
Center on Wednesday morning.
The films will be shown con
tinuously from 8 a.m. through
12:45 p.m. by members of the
Symposium for Environmental
Awareness, sponsors of the local
activities on Earth Day.
Plans call for the presentation
of four films running about 15-
25 minutes each, according to
lie White Coliseum, is the idea
of Reggie Majors, a senior busi
ness administration major, and
Robert Rucker, landscape archi
tect for the physical plants de
partment.
“The whole idea of the thing
is just to show that we recognize
the problems of ecology and that
there is something that each per
son can dO('tb help,” Majors said.
“This is a symbol of actual per-
McCall said private schools face
a major crisis and must have
help. “We are in dead earnest
in this,” he said. “We intend to
organize our constituencies and
move in the political realm.”
The board voted to name a
special study committee on the
matter.
Sealy spoke in favor of limiting
enrollment at the University of
Texas at Austin to 35,000, ap
proximately the current enroll
ment. The school already is over
crowded, and parking is impos
sible, he said.
Dr. Norman Hackerman, presi-
(See Tuition Hike, page 5)
Forum for Environmental Stud
ies, which is the work of the Stu
dent Chapter of American Insti
tute of Architects. The organiza
tion sent a member, Bill Voigt, to
an Environmental Teach-In last
fall in Washington, D. C.
The Forum for Environmental
Studies originated and planned
the Earth Day activities at Texas
A&M. Coordinators for the en
tire campus program on Wednes
day are Voigt, a fifth-year archi
tecture student and Don Coon, a
graduate student in wildlife
science.
Symposium publicity chairman
Jim Crisp. Titles of the films
include “Urban Sprawl vs.
Planned Growth,” “Mud,” “Con
servation and Balance in Nature”
and “Third Pollution.”
Several subcommittees of the
Symposium have indicated that
they will probably have exhibits
in G. Rollie White Coliseum
Wednesday afternoon dealing with
land, air and water pollution,
Crisp said.
sonal involvement in trying to
solve our environmental prob
lem.
“We would like to have every
one interested to come out and
show their support Wednesday.
We’ve contacted a lot of people
and a lot of campus organiza
tions who have promised to be
on hand. We would like for this
to be one project in which the
whole university can join hands
in a unity of spirit,” he added.
Earth Day to Examine
Environmental Tasks
Earth Day Events
8 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Continuous showing of films—MSC
lobby
8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Literature distribution—MSC
10-11 a.m.
12 noon-1 p.m.
1-4:30 p.m.
4-4:30 p.m.
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Lecture—Architecture Auditorium
“National Park Service—Resource and
Environmental Concerns”—Lon Gar
rison, National Park Service employee.
Political Forum—MSC second floor
“Air Pollution—What can Be Done
About It?”—State Sen. Doc Blanchard
Symposium for Environmental Aware
ness—G. Rollie. White Coliseum
Town Talk Program—KBTX-TV
Town Meeting—Bryan Civic Auditorium
Discussion of Bryan-College Station
environmental problems.
Carroll, Olson to Compete
In ‘Plant-In 9 Wednesday
Symposium Will Show Films
Wednesday Morning In MSC