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Vol. 66 No. 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 9, 1970
Wednesday & Thursday—Partly
cloudy to fcloudy. Winds South
east 10 to 12 m.p.h. High 94,
low 72.
Saturday Kyle Field — Partly
cloudy 84°. Winds Southeast 5
to 10 m.p.h. Relative humidity
65°.
Telephone 845-2226
NEW FACULTY MEMBER Dr. Paul Lindloff and his wife are greeted by Acting A&M
President and Mrs. A. R. Luedecke Tuesday night during the president’s reception for
faculty-staff and their wives or husbands. Lindloff is on the Accounting Department
faculty.
‘C’ programs hopefully
personalized: Fitzhugh
By LEE DUNKELBERG
Battalion Staff Writer
The Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate is re
evaluating itself and its programs
this year, with the intention of
putting its programs on a more
personal basis, according to Direc
torate President Tom Fitzhugh.
The Council and Directorate is
striving for two goals, Fitzhugh
explained.
They plan to examine and re
evaluate the 17 current commit
tees, and perhaps cut out any
that have overlapping functions.
The second goal is to simplify
management so more students can
get involved in the Directorate’s
services. The purpose of this,
Fitzhugs said, is to allow the
MSC to “serve the part of a
student center, not a clan.”
Both of these goals are designed
to bring the MSC’s services to the
student on a more personal basis,
and to encourage more students
to participate, he added.
“We also welcome any ideas for
new clubs or organizations,” Fitz
hugh said. “Any student that
would like to form a new group
should contact a member of the
Directorate at the Student Pro
gram Office in the MSC.”
Fitzhugh explained the main
reason for the re-evaluation is to
gear the Directorate’s programs
for the planned MSC expansion.
He said the Directorate needs to
expand its programs to meet the
demands of the new facilities.
The directorate president also
said he favors a proposed pro
gram that would divide the activi
ties fund on a percentage basis.
This would allow the size of pro
grams to be determined by the
number of students, rather than
a fixed budget.
Perhaps the most popular ac
tivity offered by the MSC, accord
ing to Fitzhugh, is the Black
Awareness Committee. Made up
of all ethnic groups, the Black
Awareness Committee helps
blacks adjust to the problems of
attending a predominantly white
institution. It also hedps to gen
erate understanding between
UW to hold mixer tonight;
freshmen, coeds invited
Universtiy Women is sponsor
ing a mixer for freshmen tonight
at 7 at Hary Hanak’s apartment,
number 80 at the Travis House
Apartments on Highway 30. Both
men and women are urged to
attend.
An orientation for freshman
female students was held August
29. Representatives from every
aspect of student life at A&M
spoke to the new students. Hand
books prepared by the club last
year Were distributed. The hand
book explains Aggie facts and
traditions.
At a meeting last night, plans
"'ere discussed for activities dur
ing All-University Week. The
Mary H a n a k, university
Women president, speaks at
Tuesday’s meeting-. (Photo
by Mark Whitehead)
UW are also looking into the
possibility of co-sponsoring events
with the dorms or other groups
of male students.
Animals here;
each individual
must get own
1970 Aggielands have arrived
and are being distributed in the
Student Publications Office, room
216 of the Informational Services
Building.
Students who attended A&M
during the 1970 spring semester
are entitled to one annual apiece.
Plastic covers are being sold for
26 cents.
Each student must pick up his
own yearbook—friends and room
mates may not pick up annuals
for other students. Student hus
bands and wives may pick up
their spouses annual.
Jaycees, FHA
to sponsor sing-out
Bryan-College Station Jaycees
and the Future Homemakers of
America club of Stephen F. Aus
tin High School will sponsor
“Sing-Out Dallas” Thursday at
8 p.m. at the Bryan Civic Audi
torium.
The group, which is affiliated
with the National “Up with Peo
ple” program, sings pop, rock,
and country music.
Tickets, priced at $2, can be
obtained at First Bank & Trust,
Bryan Building and Loan, and
Bank of A&M.
blacks and whites.
Projects for this year include
tutoring, sponsoring a baseball
team, and other service projects
for the black community.
Fitzhugh commented that the
Black Awareness booth attracted
most of the attention at the re
cent Freshman Open House in
the MSC. He stated that its “new
accent” gave it an “enthusiastic
reception” and it “aroused the
most curiosity.”
The other programs offered are
divided into three committees:
Issues, Entertainment, and Recre
ation.
The Issues Committee is made
up of Great Issues, Political
Forum, and SCONA. These pro
grams concern themselves with
the politics and issues of today’s
society.
The Entertainment Committee
is composed of such programs as
Town Hall, Host and Fashion, the
Travel Committee, the Basement,
and the Aggie Cinema. This seg
ment offers a little bit of every
thing, from the roadshows spon
sored by Town Hall to the low-
budget tours offered by the Travel
Committee.
If the student is looking for
fulfillment of a personal interest,
rather than a service club, the
Recreation Club offers such ac
tivities as the Chess, Camera,
Radio, and Recreation Clubs,
Fitzhugh said. Also there is The
New Tradition singers for those
interested in singing. It is open
to all students. No try-outs are
necessary.
The ideal student center would
be a place where all of the col
lege community, students, faculty,
and townspeople, could meet and
get to know each other, Fitzhugh
said, “a place that would provide
as many good experiences as pos
sible.”
Signup possible
for language tests
Registration for Graduate
School Foreign Language Tests in
French, German, Russian and
Spanish to be given during the
1970-71 school year is now under
way through the Counseling and
Testing Center.
Tests will be administered na
tionally at centers established by
the Educational Testing Serv
ice (ETS) on Oct. 10, and Feb. 6,
April 17 and July 24, announced
S. Auston Kerley, counseling and
testing center director.
He noted graduate students
who must satisfy the foreign
languge test requirement must
submit registration forms and
fees directly to the ETS at
Princeton, N. J.
Exams will be offered at about
200 test centers in the U. S. and
Canada.
Information, a list of test cen
ters and registration forms may
be obtained at the A&M Center,
Room 107, Academic Building.
City’s suit delayed;
venue change denied
Action has been delayed until at least Thursday on a legal
battle concerning whether College Station city councilmen
who also are employed by Texas A&M may receive pay from
A&M.
Dist. Judge W. C. Davis overruled several defense
motions Tuesday morning, reported The Daily Eagle, Bryan
newspaper, and kept the battle in his 85th District Court
here. He then recessed court until 9 a.m. Thursday, The Eagle
said.
The legal battle began June 19, when 25 College Station
residents filed suit against six city council members, seeking
to prevent them from being paid by A&M.
Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson and Councilmen Clifford
; H. Ransdell, Cecil B. Ryan, J. H. Dozier, Dan R. Davis and
Joseph J. McGraw all are employed by Texas A&M.
A. P. Boyett, Jr., one of the citizens filing the action,
said in June the group brought the suit because “the council
has gotten to the point where it is dominated so thoroughly
by the university that the local resident and local business
man now feels he has only one representative on the
council.”
He was referring to Bill Cooley, the only councilman
not named in the suit.
Boyett said that too often decisions made by the
council were not in the best interest of the taxpayer but in
the interest of the university.
Boyett and his group filed their suit in Austin, since
they seek to enjoin State Comptroller R. S. Calvert from
paying the six councilmen, and all suits against the state must
be brought in Austin.
Last month, the City of College Station filed suit in
Davis’ court, asking Davis to declare Section 33, Article 16 of
the State Constitution, does not mean a council member who
is employed by A&M may not receive pay from the state in
the form of an A&M paycheck.
The suit also asks Davis to find Section 33 unconstitu
tional under the U.S. Constitution, should he find it does
prohibit a councilman from collecting pay from the state,
The Eagle reported.
Davis also is asked to determine whether council
members employed by the university are holding more than
one civil office for pay as forbidden by Section 40, Article 16
of the state constitution.
Since the suit in Davis’ court was brought by the City of
College Station, Boyett and his group are defendants in the
case. Defense lawyer Elmer Patman of Austin had filed a
motion to have the city’s suit moved to Austin, a move which
would allow him to argue both cases in the same court.
After he was denied the move, The Eagle reported,
Patman advised the judge that whatever action is taken will
have no effect on the comptroller, because he is not named in
the city’s suit.
Pateman also said the city cannot carry the case to the
U.S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the state
constitution section prohibiting dual civil office unless the
comptroller is a party in the city’s suit.
JUNIOR QUARTERBACK Kyle Gary finds the passing lanes a little clogged as Kent
Finley (60) and Todd Christopher (89) of the Aggie defense apply pressure. Gary was
able to get the pass off but linebacker Mike Lord intercepted and went in for a touch
down in a controlled scrimmage last week as the Aggies continued preparation for Sat
urday’s season’s opener with Wichita State. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
Senior line OK
Fans: remain in stands,
don’t tread on AstroTurf
APO begins
for weekend
A&M student service organiza
tion, Alpha Phi Omega, initiates
1970-71 service projects this week.
Xi Delta chapter activities be
gin in connection with A&M’s
opening football game and con
tinues throughout the school year
through a variety of projects,
President Vernon Bartle said.
The 100-member organization,
which holds its pledge smoker
Thursday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Assembly Room, will
have four projects underway for
the A&M-Wichita State football
weekend.
Projects vice president Warren
Faulkner said a ticket-exchange
booth for the 7:30 p.m. Saturday
football game will be operated by
APO members. The booth, located
across from the post office in the
MSC, will handle ticket exchanges
for persons desiring the service.
Bartle noted the two-phase
Campus Chest Drive will also be
gin this weekend. Co-sponsored
with the Student Senate Welfare
Committee, the drive raises funds
to aid students who encounter
unexpected financial hardships.
APO members including civilian
and corps students will place
American flags at the World War
I Memorial markers around the
drill field. The “Avenue of Flags,”
erected at the east university en
trance by corps units, and the
drill field memorial flags are
raised for each major campus
event.
The national service fraternity
chapter will also erect signs
around the MSC explaining the
memorial nature of the building
and its surrounding landscape.
Game collections will be ini
tiated Saturday. The “Ugliest
Senior on Campus” segment is
scheduled Sept. 20-Cct. 7. Miss
Campus Chest portion of the
drive will be Nov. 1-20.
“Sixty per cent of the money
raised will be used to aid stu
dents,” Faulkner said. “The other
40 per cent will go to Welfare
Committee activities.”
Bartle indicated other APO
projects this year will include the
Aggie Blood Drive, sale of per
sonal stationary and participation
in the December national APO
convention in Dallas, for which
the Xi Delta chapter has VIP
hospitality responsibility.
Traditionally conducted during
the spring semester, the blood
drive will be split this year and
held during the fall and spring
semesters. For the Oct. 14 drive,
APO will assist the Student Sen
ate co-sponsored endeavor by pro
viding personnel to set up equip
ment, help in collections and for
equipment take down and storage.
Measures to protect the Astro
turf playing surface and Tartan
track at Kyle Field during yell
practice and games have been
announced by Head Yell Leader
Keith Chapman and the yell lead
er committee chairman, J. Malon
Southerland.
Students participating in the
bi-weekly yell practices are asked
to remain in the stands and not
go onto the stadium surface.
“Only the Aggie Band and yell
leaders will be allowed onto the
track surface at any yell prac
tice,” Chapman emphasized.
As policy currently stands, the
head yell leader went on, there
will be no change in the traditions
of the senior boot line or fresh
men carrying the team off the
field at home games.
“It is requested by the Ath
letic Department that freshmen
use the track to leave the stadium
after the team has been carried
off the field,” he said. “The gen
eral public is also asked not to
go onto the Astroturf or Tartan
track after games,” Chapman em
phasized.
Yell practices normally are
held at 7:10 on Mondays and
Thursdays during weeks of out-
of-town games. For home game
weeks, yell practices are held at
7:10 p.m. Monday and at mid
night Friday. On occasion, 10:30
p.m. Thursday yell practices may
be held at Henderson Hall.
The first midnight yell prac
tice is scheduled this week, Chap
man pointed out. The Aggie Band
signals the start of the event by
striking up “The Aggie War
Hymn” after forming in the
corps area.
Students from the corps area
follow the band down the quad
rangle and on Lubbock, Coke and
Lamar Streets, Military Walk,
Main Drive and Clerk Streets to
the stadium, arriving at about
LSU quarterback
dies suddenly
BATON ROUGE, La. <A>) _
Harmon J. “Butch” Duhe, 21-
year-old junior quarterback at
Louisiana State University, died
suddenly Tuesday in the Univer
sity Hospital.
The 6-foot-2, 192-pound resi
dent of Kenner, La., had been
plagued with headaches since
early summer.
He had been withheld from
most of the fall practice sessions.
Team physician Dr. Philip J.
Castro, Jr., emphasized that the
cause of death was not related to
football.
midnight. Students in the mid
campus and west residence hall
areas join the procession at the
closest point.
Chapman emphasized that no
one should cut in front of the
band nor precede it into Kyle
Field for midnight yell practice.
He noted that visitors, married
couples, former students and
faculty-staff members attending
midnight yell practice may enter
Kyle Field by Gate 3 before the
band and student body arrive.
“This gate will be regulated
for use only by these groups,”
Chapman stated.
Southerland said numerous
complaints were made last year
about rough language, drinking
and other incidents at midnight
yell practice.
“These things must be con
trolled by the student body and
held to an absolute minimum,”
he added. “If the student body
cannot control them, then the
yell leader committee will have
to consider other means.”
“We’re not trying to curb the
display of spirit,” Chapman in
serted. “But it can be exhibited
in a proper manner.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.