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Vol. 65 No. 113
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 7, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
But Senators Don’t Lower Flag
Violence Deplored,
Sympathy Expressed
LAYERS PERFORM—With a triumphant look Corie Bratter (center), played by Kathy
Maxwell, makes a point during the Aggie Players’ production of “Barefoot in the Park.”
ler husband Paul, played by Pat Castle, and mother, played by Kay Slowey, listen. The
)lay’s final three performances are tonight through Saturday night at 8 in Guion Hall.
Admission is $1. (Photo by David Middlebrooke)
Fish Drill Team to Perform
At Maroon - White Halftime
Performance by the Fish Drill
ream of the sequence that won
[he national championship the
third straight year will highlight
lalftime activities of the Ma
roon-White football game Sat-
irday at Kyle Field.
Kickoff will be at 2:30.
The halftime show and a Sun-
iay performance after the Moth-
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Hart Hall Freshmen Assaulted,
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ers Day review will be the team’s
only campus appearance since
winning the national competition
at the Cherry Blossom Festival
in Washington, D. C.
Malon Southerland, team spon
sor of the commandant’s office,
said the FDT’s performance at
the spring football contest last
year was the best he had seen.
Two freshmen were assaulted
and their hair was cut in two
separate incidents early Thursday
morning as they returned to their
dorm.
Joe Arredondo Jr. and Paul
Kennedy, both residents of Hart
Hall, said they were returning
from the Northgate area when
they were assaulted.
Arredondo said that as he was
going by Mitchell Hall at 11:30
am. he met three men who spoke
to him. After they had passed by
him, he said, they turned and ran
after him. Arrendondo said they
tried to tie his hands, but that
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
people in the Y who had heard
him yelling arrived in time to
chase them away. He said that
very little of his hair was cut
before help arrived.
Kennedy said he was walking
from the Academic Building to
Hart when three or four men
came up behind him. He said that
they bound and gagged him and
cut “a lot” of his hair.
Kennedy said that they moved
him to a dark spot in front of
Nagle and when the gag slipped,
he yelled for help.
Several men from Hart chased
his assailants away, he said. Ken
nedy said the incident occurred
about 1:15 a.m., but University
Police said they were not sum
moned until 2 a.m.
“The higher angle of view from
Kyle Field seats really shows off
the team ot its best advantage,”
he commented.
The team’s National Intercol
legiate ROTC Drill Meet win in
early April and subsequent vic
tories at the University of Tex
as at Austin and Trinity Uni
versity concluded 14 straight tri
umphs by the unit.
It amounts to three straight
undefeated seasons, a monumen
tal feat considering that the team
starts over with all new mem
bers every year, Southerland as
serted. %
Senior advisor Richard Gon
zalez of San Antonio, junior and
sophomore advisors are due a
majority of the credit, Souther
land added. Woi'king with Gon
zalez are juniors Richard A.
Hanes of San Antonio and Rob
ert M. Patten of Houston and
sophomores David R. Calvert,
Shreveport; Larry L. Larsen,
Dallas; James A. Lincoln, Hous
ton; Carl L. Olson, Panhandle,
and Louis B. Ullrich, San Anto
nio.
Beverly S. Kennedy of Austin
is commander of the team. Ex
ecutive officer and guidon bear
er is Leonardo G. Hernandez of
San Antonio and right guide is
David A. McClung, Shreveport.
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
Reacting to the recent student
slayings at Kent State University,
student senators Wednesday
agreed to deplore campus vio
lence and send letters of sympa
thy to the families of the stu
dents killed, hut refused to mourn
their deaths by defeating a re
quest that a flag be lowered to
half staff Friday.
Meeting for the last business
session of the year, senators
balked at lowering the flag in
front of the Academic building
because, as some said, the action
might be interpreted on campus
and across the state as a show
of support for student disruption.
The flag-lowering resolution,
introduced by Jimmy Weaver
(soph-LA), stated that the sen
ate is “in sympathy with the
families of those students who
lost their lives at Kent State
University and will lower the
U.S. flag ... to mourn this trag
edy.”
Before a roll call vote was tak
en on the issue, senators, with
Weaver’s consent, tacked on a
statement to the effect that the
flag lowering did not signify a
protest of any kind.
Nevertheless, the resolution
failed 33-18.
Leading debate against the
measure, Head Yell Leader Sam
Torn said that the flag should
only be lowered to mourn the
passing of some national figure,
and that most people would take
the senate’s action as a condem
nation of the Ohio National
Guard.
Senior Class President Jimmy
Dunham argued that the honor
should be reserved for A&M stu
dents, adding that he doubted
whether the “lowering of a flag
at Texas A&M will bring these
Kent State students back.”
David Carwell (sr-Sci) and
Mel Hamilton (jr-Arch) added
that if the flag were lowered for
these students, it should be low
ered every day for those killed
in Vietnam.
A number in the gallery, com
posed largely of members or sup
porters of the Campus Committee
of Concern (OCOC) shouted
agreement.
Hamilton said that the point he
was trying to make was that
lowering the flag too often would
make a mockery of what should
be an honor.
Dennis Flannigan (vp-MSC)
countered arguments that the
senate could be destroying an
A&M tradition by saying that
lowering the flag to half staff is
not an Aggie tradition, but an
American tradition.
“What’s the problem here?”,
he asked. “We’ve got an American
flag, not an Aggie flag, and these
students were Americans.”
Roger Miller, senate vice presi
dent-elect, said that he hopes that
when people see that the flag
has been lowered, that they will
realize that A&M students abhor
what happened at Kent State.
“Anyone who doesn’t abhor the
tragedy there should be suspect
ed of being mentally unbalanced,”
he said.
Senate president-elect Kent Ca-
perton added that if the senate
failed to adopt the resolution, it
could be interpreted equally well
across the state that the Student
Senate doesn’t care what took
place at Ohio university.
(See Senate, page 2)
Student Asks ACLU Aid
To Stop Ant Spraying
By Pam Troboy
Battalion News Editor
An A&M student has request
ed help from the American Civil
Liberties Union and the Envir
onmental Defense Fund to ob
tain an injunction against the
further spraying for fire ants in
Brazos County.
Don Coon, wildlife science
graduate student, said that he
will ask for an injunction against
the aerial spraying of Mirex un
der the Federal Environmental
Policy Act of 1969. This law
Polls Open Until 8
For Runoffs Today
has been interpreted to mean
that the spreading of pesticides
may be enjoined until their ef
fects on the environment have
been studied.
Coon said he was doing this as
a private citizen and his views
in no way reflected on his de
partment or the university.
More than 5,200 acres, most of
them in the Bryan city limits
were sprayed Monday over Coon’s
objections.
A twin engine plane loaded
with Mirex had already taken
off from Easterwood Airport
when it was called back at Coon’s
request.
Coon objected to the indiscrim
inate aerial spraying of the area
with the chemical which, he said,
was possibly dangerous to hu
mans.
He said that the plane’s crew
told him the only person who
could stop the Mirex application
is the director of the plant pro
tection division of the United
States Department of Agricul
ture in Hyattsville, Md.
A government release said that
Mirex leaves no harmful residue
and has ho harmful effects on
human beings, domestic animals,
fish or wildlife.
“Mirex is bad stuff,” Coon
said. “It’s not at all what they
make it out to be.
“The sole purpose of Mirex is
to kill,” he said, “and it stays in
the eco system. It is a chlori-
(See Students, page 4)
Polls will remain open until 8
p.m. in today’s runoff elections.
Polls are located in the base
ment of the Memorial Student
Center.
Students will need identifica
tion cards and student activity
cards to vote.
Offices to be decided are:
Class of ’71—concessions man
ager, Steve Clark and Joel Koe
hler.
Class of ’72—secretary-treas
urer, Laura Sorensen and Rich
ard Tillman.
Class of ’73—president, Nick
Jiga and Mike Milliner; secreta
ry-treasurer, Rush Crocker, Lar
ry M. Moore, and John Rasch.
College of Business Admini
stration — junior representative
(two), David Berend, Spike Day-
ton, Sam Roosth, and Gary Sin
gletary.
College of Liberal Arts—sen
ior representative, Rick Briscoe
and Kent L. Smith.
College of Science—senior rep
resentative, Mike Barrett and
Randy Shephard; sophomore rep
resentative, Steve Hook, John W.
Jerymn, and Michael Lindsey.
San Antonio Theater Dedicates
D-Day Film Showing to Rudder
A San Antonio theater is dedi
cating a return engagement of
the movie “The Longest Day” in
honof of the late A&M President
Earl Rudder.
Ceremonies honoring Rudder
will be conducted at San An
tonio’s CinemaTex Friday in con
junction with the movie’s revival.
The movie is based on the
World War II D-Day invasion, in
which the former university pres
ident played a key role while
serving as commander of the
Ranger Battalion which scaled
the cliffs at Normandy.
Rudder died March 23.
Richard (Buck) Weirus, execu
tive director of the Association
of Former Students, will repre
sent the university along with
Forrest Jordan, president of the
San Antonio A&M Club.
150-200 Students ‘Rap’ On Cambodia, Kent State
FACULTY PARTICIPATES—Math Instructor Bruce Mc-
Quarrie talked with students most of the day during
Wednesday’s informal rap session in front of the Academic
Building.
The hand-lettered sign paperclipped to the trunk of the tree
proclaimed “Rap Session,” and that’s what happened Wednesday as
some 150 to 200 students peacefully discussed recent events in
Cambodia and Kent State University all afternoon on the lawn in front
of the Academic building.
The scene was virtually a smaller scaled re-enactment of last
October’s Moratorium day activities here, as students, some of them
wearing black armbands, spontaneously clustered into three or four
groups to hear and discuss the issues of the day.
There were no uniformed university police officers at the session,
and there was no attempt made to disperse the gathering.
Morris A. Maddox, assistant chief of University Police, told The
Battalion as he momentarily observed the discussion session that as long
as events remained peaceful there would be no need for police action.
Although discussion centered upon the questions of U.S. involve
ment in Cambodia and the deaths of four students at Kent State,
students also debated other topics, ranging from the war in Vietnam, to
student rights and black studies at A&M.
Perhaps if there was one point on which a number of students
seemed to agree, it was that student discussion sessions were useful for
relieving tensions.
The local chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom
circulated petitions through the crowd endorsing President Richard
Nixon’s stand on the Cambodia issue.
Mike Carpenter, YAF secretary, said that more than 600
signatures have been collected since Tuesday. Another YAF member
estimated that more than 2,000 have signed petitions in Bryan-College
Station.
Carpenter said the petitions would be sent to Nixon Friday.
John Blake, a member of the Campus Committee of Concern
(CCOC) which initially started the “Rap Session” at midmorning, told
The Battalion Wednesday night that a march was scheduled for 6:30
tonight.
He said the march, planned to begin at the old College Station
city hall and proceed along FM 2154 to the Unitarian Fellowship Hall,
and was to be held to memorialize the students killed at Kent State.
AFTERNOON DEBATE—Senior history major Russ Mason (second from left) and sopho
more psychology major John McAuley, Campus Committee of Concern member, discuss
issues during the informal rap session held Wednesday in front of the Academic Building.
(Photos by Robert Boyd)