H Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 112
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 6, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
WORK CONTINUES—Air conditioning ducts Tuesday await installation as construc
tion moves along on A&M's new Engineering Center. Located east of the Cyclotron
Building, the center is scheduled for completion in September 1971. (Photo by Robert
Boyd)
Police Use Tear Gas
To End Austin Rally
By Robert Heard
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN — Tear gas and clubs
have been used for the first time
in the state capitol building to
break up an antiwar demonstra
tion, and police braced for anoth
er demonstration today.
An unplanned demonstration
by several hundred protesters be
gan on the University of Texas
campus Tuesday, then surged to
ward the capitol six blocks away.
“This was an impromptu dem
onstration,” Police Chief Bob
Miles said.
The Student Mobilization Com
mittee previously announced a
march on the federal building to
day.
Asked what the police would
do, Miles said: “We’re going to
take action. We’re going to be
better prepared. We just didn’t
have enough manpower today.”
Anti-war parades have been
permitted on Congress Avenue
in the past, but recent requests
for parade permits have been
turned down by the city coun
cil, and an application for a
permit today was filed too late.
Miles said the police did not
fire tear gas until the demon
strators stepped into the street
and began throwing rocks and
bricks.
Two reporters for the student
newspaper said the police start
ed it. They said the leaders of
the crowd stopped and sat down
on the curb when they got to
the street. An officer maced one
of them, who threw books back
at the officer, and then the tear
gas was fired, they said.
Miles confirmed that mace was
used.
The officers pursued the crowd
back up the hill to the capitol.
Some of the crowd went around
the building, many went back
through the rotunda. Two large
glass panes in capitol doors were
broken.
Another tear gas cannister was
fired in the north wing of the
capitol, and at least two officers
used their clubs as they drove the
crowd out the north door toward
the university.
The officers followed the crowd
back to the campus, where more
cannisters were fired and more
rocks thrown. The crowd finally
retreated to the main part of the
campus and broke up.
Miles said about 50 tear gas
cannisters were fired in all.
(See Campuses page 3)
Ohio Slayings Spawn
Nationwide Reaction
Singing Cadets to Perform
Friday In Bryan Auditorium
Four policemen and one pro
tester suffered minor injuries and
were treated and released at a
local hospital.
Four demonstrators were ar
rested and charged with failure
to obey the lawful order of a
police officer to get out of a
street.
By Jeffrey D. Alderman
Associated Press Writer
Many students across the coun
try responded Tuesday to the
deaths of four students at Ohio’s
Kent State University with can
dlelight services, marches, strikes,
sit-ins and, in some cases, rocks
and fire bombs.
A variety of music from the
"Hallelujah Chorus” of Handel’s
"Messiah” to “San Antonio Rose”
and “Aquarius” performed in the
Singing Cadets style will be of
fered Friday during the all-male
glee club’s annual local perform
ance.
The music directed by Robert
L. Boone and accompanied by Mrs.
June Biering begins at 8:15 p. m.
in the Bryan Civic Auditorium.
“It’s not a concert, if that
term bugs you,” a Singing Cadets
spokesman said. “We dislike the
word ‘concert.’ Our performance
will be more relaxed and offers
an audience - participation type
program.”
The opening event of A&M’s
Parents Weekend climaxes the
1969-70 school year and is the
Singing Cadets’ only two-hour
performance open to the local
public.
One of A&M’s top public rela
tions organizations, the Singing
Cadets this year sang at more
than 20 conventions, conferences,
short courses and campus organi
zation events, made seven out-of-
town appearances and one—the
Miss Teenage American Pageant
—on national television.
The program concluding the
Singing Cadets’ 75th year of
existence will be varied, accord
ing to 1969-70 president G. T. Hill
of College Station. It will include
religious and inspirational, light
classical and popular music.
“There will be something for
everyone,” commented David A.
Kesey, 1970-71 publicity manager.
Senate to Consider Resolution
On Kent State Deaths Tonight
A resolution condemning the
national guard for its part in the
deaths of four students at Kent
State University in Ohio will be
presented to the Student Senate
tonight at the senate’s last meet
ing of the year.
David Reynolds, junior agri
culture representative, said he
agreed to present the resolution
after attending a Campus Com
mittee of Concern (CCOC) meet
ing Tuesday night. Reynolds said
that he supports the resolution.
The resolution reads: “In light
of the recent deaths of four stu
dents at Kent State University,
be it hereby resolved that the
Student Senate of Texas A&M
University strongly condemn the
national guard units responsible
for the unnecessary killing of
these students.”
Reynolds said that his purpose
in presenting the resolution was
to force the senate to take a stand
on the issue.
‘T am insistent that the Stu
dent Senate take a moral stand
one way or the other on this,”
Reynolds said. “I will fight any
move to water down or postpone
the resolution.”
The meeting, which begins at
7:30, is to be devoted mainly to
committee reports summing up
the senate’s work in the past
year, said Kent Caperton, senate
vice president and president-elect.
Gerry Geistweidt, senate presi
dent, said the agenda has been
left open for new business, and
Reynolds plans to introduce the
resolution at that time.
Reynolds said that the CCOC
called for the resolution Tuesday
night and that he volunteered to
present it to the senate. He added
that members of the CCOC indi
cated to him that they would be
present at tonight’s meeting to
see how the motion fared.
The CCOC has asked students
to wear black arm bands today
in protest of the Kent State inci
dent.
Finals Schedule
Final examinations for the spring semester, 1970, will
be held according to the following schedule:
Date Hour Series
May 25, Monday
May 25, Monday
May 25, Monday
May 26, Tuesday
May 26, Tuesday
May 26, Tuesday
May 27, Wednesday
May 27, Wednesday
May 27, Wednesday
May 28, Thursday
May 28, Thursday
May 28, Thursday
May 29, Friday
May 29, Friday
8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF8
11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 12
2-4 p.m. Classes meeting TThSFl
8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWTh2
11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF9
2-4 p.m. Classes meeting MSTThlO
8-10 a.m. Classes meeting TF2 or
TWF3 or TThF3
11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 10
2-4 p.m. Classes meeting TThl2
8-10 a.m. Classes meeting M4TThl 1
11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWThl
2-4 p.m. Classes meeting TTh9F2
8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 11
11-1 p.m. Classes meeting TF1
“There will even be some popular
western tunes, such as ‘Ghost
Riders in the Sky’.”
Accenting the first half of the
program will be the selection from
Handel’s “Messiah” and “O Happy
Day,” a popular spiritual.
The second portion will include
“San Antonio Rose,” “This Guy’s
In Love With You,” “Aquarius,”
“Let the Sunshine In,” and num
bers by Sigmund Romberg, Burt
Bacharach and arrangements by
Norman Luboff.
Members of the 51-voice glee
club accompany special numbers
with the guitar, bass, drums and
clavietta.
Tickets—at $1.50 per adult and
75 cents for children under 12—
are available at the door, Student
Program Office in the Memorial
Student Center or from any Sing
ing Cadet. All proceeds go to the
group’s scholarship fund.
Members of the Host an Fash
ion Committee of the MSC will
greet the public and provide
ushers. The committee, made up
of men and women members, do
nates its time and services for
such university functions. Others
interested in such arrangements
should contact Miss Mina Akins,
845-1515.
The crowd marched into the
capitol despite pleas by some
leaders to stop. They shouted
anti-war slogans in the rotunda
for a couple of minutes and then
moved out the south door and
down a broad walk to the head
of Congress Avenue, Austin’s
six-lane main street where pa
rades are held.
Preregistration for the fall se
mester will be held today through
May 15, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
according to Don Carter, direc
tor of registration.
Preregistering students should
secure their registration card
packets at their major depart
ment, where they will register
for their courses. They should
then report to the Housing Of
fice representative to secure a
fee data card.
Women should report to the
Housing Office in the first floor
of the YMCA, cadets to the Dun
can area to Loung B between
dorms 2 and 4, civilian students
to Hart Hall lounge and all day
Student reaction, sparked by
the deaths and the Southeast
Asian situation, was predomi
nantly peaceful, but many cam
puses were tense as the protests
spread.
The four were killed when Na
tional Guardsmen fired into a
group of students during an an
ti-war demonstration Monday.
students to the Legett Hall
lounge.
After securing their fee data
cards they should report to reg
istration headquarters, Room 001
YMCA to complete preregistra
tion and turn in his card packet.
No fees for the fall semester
will be collected this semester.
Fee statements will be mailed to
students at their permanent mail
ing addresses on or about June
15. Fees must be paid to the Fis
cal Department by Aug. 1.
Class schedules, fee receipts,
and identification cards will be
mailed to students at their per
manent mailing addresses, Carter
said.
May 16 Deadline
To Preregister
Brigade, Wing, Band
CO’s for ’70-’71 Named
Major unit commanders serving
under Cadet Colonel of the Corps
Van H. Taylor of Temple in the
1970-71 Corps of Cadets will be
Charles V. Brown of San Antonio,
Charles H. Herder of Weimar,
Sigurd S. Kendall of Houston,
Fritz Koehler of C u e r o and
Michael A. Zwartjes of Alex
andria.
The five will command the
corps’ two brigades, two wings
and Texas Aggie Band,
announced Col. Jim H. McCoy,
commandant.
They were recommended by
Taylor, interviewed and selected
through the commandant’s office
and approved by A&M Acting
President A. R. Luedecke.
Brown, a finance major, will
command the First Wing. He is
presently cadet sergeant major
of the wing, composed of two
groups made up of eight cadet
squadrons.
A history major, Zwartjes will
head the Second Wing. He is a
cadet staff sergeant in Squadron
7 this year.
Koehler will command the First
Brigade. First sergeant of Com
pany B-l this year, he was the
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
unit’s outstanding freshman and
also received the honor .in his
battalion. Koehler is studying for
a degree in finance.
Second Brigade commander will
be Herder, a chemical engineering
major. He is cadet sergeant major
on the Second Brigade staff this
year.
Kendall will wear the two-
diamond insignia of cadet lieu
tenant colonel as band command-
The Civilian Student Council
awards banquet will be Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly
Room of the Memorial Student
Center, according to Mark Olson,
CSC president.
Awards to be given include the
president’s award, outstanding
councilman award, participation
key and plaque awards, service
awards, appreciation awards, and
the presentation of the outstand
ing academic, intramural, and
overall residence hall, Olson said.
The president’s award is given
to the council member who, in
the opinion of the president, has
er. A pre-dental major, he is
sergeant major on combined band
staff.
Koehler, Herder, Brown and
Zwartjes will officially take their
commands and don the three-
diamond insignia of cadet colonels
on Aug. 31, the first day of class
for the 1970-71 school year. They
will first step into the positions
May 23, however, for the second
circuit of Final Review.
been the most help to the council
and especially the president, he
said.
The outstanding councilman is
selected by secret ballot of the
council members and the partici
pation key and plaque awards
are given to council members for
their service to the council.
About 100 members and guests
are expected at the banquet which
will conclude with the president’s
final address to the 1969-70 coun
cil and the introduction and in
stallation of the executive com
mittee of the 1970-71 counqil.
CSC Will Present Awards
During Thursday Banquet
Kent State was evacuated after
the deaths and was virtually de
serted Tuesday.
At some schools the response
was a call to shuti down the cam
pus and in many cases admini
strators cooperated. At others
there were marches with partici
pants wearing black armbands or
carrying black wooden coffins.
The presidents of 37 Northeast
schools sent a petition to Presi
dent Nixon criticizing his Asian
policies. The White House ac
knowledged receipt of the com
munication but said Nixon has
no immediate plans to meet with
them.
“The President, of course, un
derstands the feelings of many
students and faculty members
on the war and he respects the
right to express those feelings,”
Ronald Ziegler, the President’s
press secretary, said.
Many schools were quiet. No
demonstrations were reported on
most Oklahoma campuses or at
the University of Wyoming.
Clemson, Citadel, East Carolina,
Wake Forest, University of
North Carolina in North Caro
lina were reported quiet. Most
schools in Texas reported no pro
tests, a situation also occurring
elsewhere around the nation.
The Iowa College Young Re
publican Federation executive
board announced support of
Nixon’s Cambodian policy.
There were no antiwar demon
strations at Northern Arizona
University in Flagstaff, but seven
male students were arrested there
when about 350 made a spring
time panty raid.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Warren P.
Knowles called up the National
Guard to deal with antiwar dis
orders on the University of Wis
consin campus in Madison. The
mobilization came after a night
of violence during which hundreds
of students set fires and smashed
windows.
The National Guard was also
on duty in College Park, Md., in
case trouble again broke out at
the University of Maryland.
About 3,000 students there lis
tened to Dr. Benjamin Spock
denounce the war.
In Washington, D. C., antiwar
(See Kent State, Page 5)
Beckcom Fund
Collection Set
For Saturday
Spectators at Saturday’s Ma
roon and White game will have
the opportunity to donate to the
Gary Beckcom Fund, according to
Lee Crawley, Student Senate
Issues Committee chairman.
Collections will be accepted
throughout the game and an an
nouncement at halftime will ex
plain what the fund is for,
Crawley said.
Crawley said that he contacted
associate athletic director Marvin
Tate who cleared the project with
head coach and athletic director
Gene Stallings.
Collections made at the game
will be added to those collected
Thursday during Gary Beckom
Day, Crawley added.
Contributions to the fund can
be made at Sbisa and Duncan
Dining Halls, the library en
trances, and the Memorial Student
Center on Thursday, he said.
Off-campus persons wishing to
help should call 845-1515 or 845-
1516 to make a pledge with Stu
dent Program Office personnel.
Checks should be made payable to
the Gary Beckom Fund and may
be mailed directly to the MSC.
DEEPER AND DEEPER—Work continues Tuesday on
the site for a new chiller unit for the power plant. The
construction, being carried on across from the Exchange
Store, is part of a planned expansion of power plant facili
ties. (Photo by Robert Boyd)