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Battalion College Station, Texas Cloudy, rainy, windy Thursday, October 8, 1970 FRIDAY — Clear to partly cloudy. Winds from the North at 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 68, low 57. SATURDAY — Partly cloudy. Winds Southeasterly at 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 78, low 62. GAME TIME — Clear. 74°. 845-2226 , All-University night begins full weekend HART HALL PRESIDENT and civilian editor on the Aggieland Joe Arredondo (left, standing) explains to Hall presidents Aggie land ideas to incorporate civilian students in to the annual staff. Mark Olson (right) presides. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) All-University Weekend starts Thursday at Texas A&M with a variety of activities culminating in the A&M-Texas Tech football game Saturday at Kyle Field. Gov. Preston Smith, his wife, and other members of his family will be among a near-capacity crowd for the Aggies' SWC opener. Sharing the All-University spot light will be a Thursday yell prac tice, Town Hall featuring bal- ladeer Glenn Yarbrough, a dance at the Grove and introduction of Aggie Sweetheart Sue Binford. Also on the weekend agenda are an A&M-Tech soccer match, Career Day in the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering, a Cadet Corps march-in to the game and Basement coffee house enter tainment by Keith Sykes. Head yell leader Keith Chap man of Haskell said the All- University Night yell practice will be at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in G. R. White Coliseum. It will follow the format of previous All- University Nights. Comments by Student Senate President Kent Caperton of Cald well and Chapman will be fol lowed by remarks from Acting President A. R. Luedecke. Head Coach Gene Stallings will be in troduced and in turn will present team members. The Basement opens at 8 p.m. Thursday for the first of four shows by national coffee house circuit performer Keith Sykes. He will be in the spotlight again Friday from 8 to midnight, for a Saturday 2 to 5 p.m. matinee and postgame show from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Also on tap Friday is the 8 p.m. Town Hall in G. Rollie White. After the Glenn Yarbrough show. Legett Hall holds Wreck Tech bash CSC discusses hall conditions i By BILL O’CONNOR Battalion Staff Writer Residence hall living conditions, The Aggieland’s desire for civil ian staff members and the 1970 Bonfire were discussed at the Civilian Student Council meeting Wednesday night. Terry Van Dyck, Law Hall president, asked for a report about what improvements have been made on residence halls in past years and what improve ments are planned for the future. Mark Olson, CSC president, said corps dorms underwent major renovations during the fall of 1967, including construc tion of dividers next to sinks, a , lighting change and a change in the style of desks in the rooms. During the summer of 1969, civilian halls of he Davis-Gary and Moses type were renovated and repainted, Olson said. Howard Perry, civilian student activities director, said there are plans for the elimination of cer tain halls, but said he could not specifically state which halls or when the plans would be executed. Perry later said much depended on how filled halls would be in the future, and how much new Wichita sent plaquebyA&M The Texas A&M student body has extended its sympathy to the students at Wichita State Uni versity for the recent deaths of members of its football team and coaching staff in a plane crash. Kent Caperton, Student Senate president, Said a memorial plaque has been sent to the Wichita State Student Government Association, along with a personal letter from himself. The plaque reads: “The stu dents at Texas A&M dedicate this plaque to those players, coaches and friends of Wichita State University who lost their lives in the tragic plane crash on Oct. 2, 1970.” Game forecast: warm and dry Dry weather has been forecast for Saturday night at Kyle Field, when the Texas Aggies open Southwest Conference football | with a game against Texas Tech. “The weather picture is not too bright for any cool weather this week or for the game,” com mented Jim Lightfoot, Meteorol ogy Department weather station manager. He said Saturday and Sunday low temperatures will be near 70 degrees with the daytime high about 86. | For the 7:30 p.m. A&M-Tech kickoff, he said the forecast is for partly cloudy skies, southeast | wind 10 to 15 mph, 81 degrees and 75 per cent relative humidity, with the humidity higher during the evening. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. construction would be completed. A resolution calling attention to the fact that several halls on campus were substandard, includ ing Law, Puryear, Milner, Mitch ell, Hotard and Legett, was passed by the CSC. The resolu tion calls for the appointment of a special committee to research the situation and make recom mendations for improvements to the appropriate authorities. Olson then checked his watch before beginning a discussion of The Aggieland. Olson had earlier told the council that past meet ings had been too long and this one should take only one hour. “The Aggieland is willing to work with us (civilians) in any way,” Olson said. Olson ex plained that the primarily corps- staffed Aggieland is willing to incorporate civilians into its staff. Applications to become a member of the staff must be in to The Aggieland by Oct. 15, Olson said. Joe Arredondo, Hart Hall president and Aggieland civilian editor said applications may be obtained from hall presidents or at the Student Program Office in the MSC. Olso told hall presidents to find people who really wanted to work and make a good civilian section. “Get people that will work,” Olso told them. “You’d better go out and beat the bush to find these people.” A discussion on the 1970 bon fire followed. “We need semis, flatbeds, chain saws, axes, ’dozers, tractors, cranes and cherry-pickers,” Olson said. He said anyone having (See CSC, page 3) For 10 cents a swing, or the bargain price of three for a quar ter, you can vent your feelings for Texas Tech by sledge-ham mering an old car body. The residents of Legett Hall set a car body outside their dorm and are conducting a “Wreck Tech” car bash today and Friday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Proceeds from the 2-day car bash will go to Legett Hall proj ects. “A student, faculty-staff mem ber or anyone else can let out his tensions and anxieties this way. The student can pretend it’s his prof, or simply consider it good exercise, for which no extra charge will be made,” Hall Presi dent Bill Shaw of Ft. Worth said. Annual blood donations slated for mid-October, early spring BAC will try to confirm dialogue in Review story BY FRAN HAUGEN Battalion Managing Editor The Black Awareness Commit tee (BAC) will attempt to verify information in “Black Students Rap,” a dialogue of 15 black stu dents slated to appear in this year’s first issue of “The Re view,” the magazine of the Col lege of Liberal Arts, until Lib eral Arts Dean W. David Max well told Editor Janie Wallace Monday the story could not be run because some of the facts are unsubstantiated. Sidney Chacere, in charge of public relations for the BAC, said the committee will try to verify the facts. He said the ones not verified will be taken out of the story and the story will be re organized. The story will then be sub mitted to Maxwell or the Stu dent Publications Board, Chacere said. Chacere said the committee will check on a statement attrib uted to Dr. Kenneth Goode, Uni versity of California at Berkeley, made at a Memorial Student Center presentation last year, on expenses at Prairie View A&M; on a statement attributed to A&M Athletic Director Gene Stallings, statements about southern heritage attributed to history professors and state ments made by cadets in C-l, saying the outfit didn’t “cater to blacks.” Four or five members of the BAC will attend the regional National Association of Black Students (NABS) conference in Austin Oct. 22-24, Vice Presi dent Ray Jones said. Gwen Woods, national coordi nator of NABS, and James Fore man, author of “Black Manifes to,” will be speakers at the con ference. James Bradley said that little work had been done on a display of black art and life styles “to get the attention of both sides of the campus—the blacks and the whites.” He said he would set up a meeting the first of next week to begin work on it and anyone with ideas could work on the ex hibit. The Contemporary Arts Committee may help with the project, he said. The BAC will also have a rep resentative on the Senate’s Uni versity Police subcommittee, Jones said. The members were encouraged to attend the Great Issues Soap box Forum Tuesday. Jones urged the members to see the Supremes Oct. 16. “We griped about there being no black entertainers here,” he said. “Now there are.” Why should you go if you don’t like rock music, a member asked. Eighteen black students and six white students were present at the meeting. Alpha Phi Omega is out for blood . . . Aggie blood. The fra ternity is sponsoring its twelfth annual blood drive this year, and the dates for collections are October 14 and March 31. Students may register in ad vance today between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the post office area of the Memorial Student Center. However, advance registration is not necessary in order to donate blood. The blood drive is held annnual- ly with the assistance of Wadley Institute. The A&M drive is the oldest and largest of its kind to date. Blood from the drive is stored for one year at Wadley Institute. Eligibility is determined by the Student Senate’s Welfare Com mittee Chairman, Charles Hicks. Blood donated at A&M can be transferred to any hospital or blood bank in the United Staets which is a member of the Amer ican Association of Blood Banks Clearinghouse Program. After one year the surplus blood is given to the Morton Cancer and Research Hospital for the treatment of leukemia, hem- ophillia, or other cancer-related diseases. In an eleven year period, from 1959 through 1969, Texas A&M students have donated a total of 4,499 pints of blood, ranging from 200 to 600 pints per year. The value of the blood donated dur ing this period is approximately $134,970. Alpha Phi Omega is sponsoring an admission-free dance in the Grove. Campus Chest collections will be made at the event. Miss Binford, Texas Woman’s University student of Tucson, Ariz., will be introduced at half time of the 7:30 p.m. Saturday game. A&M and Tech also meet on the main drill field for a 2 p.m. soccer game. Kyle Field activities begin soon after 6 p.m. when a Ross Volun teer honor guard escorts Smith, Air Force Brig. Gen. James U. Cross, Luedecke and other digni taries to the stadium for a 6:20 p.m. Corps of Cadets march-in. The governor will be reviewing dignitary and Cross, 75th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Berg strom AFB, will take salutes. Agriculture and Engineering College displays will be exhibited from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in White Coliseum in conjunction with career day. 3 areas given extra parking The Traffic Committee voted Wednesday to grant extra park ing on campus. For special occasions at All Faiths Chapel, the north side of Jones Road will be open for park ing. This area will mainly be used when weddings or funerals are taking place at the Chapel. Patrons of the Memorial Stu dent Center may now park on the east side of Houston Road. The driveway into the Veteri nary College parking lot has been extended to Agronomy Road. This will make it easier to enter and leave the lot. Spring term graduate students should sign up for GRE now Students graduating in De cember and planning to begin graduate studies next semester should register today or tomor row for the Oct. 24 Graduate Record Examinations, announced Graduate Dean George W. Kunze. Texas A&M will be one of the national test sites for examina tions prepared by Educational Testing Service. The Oct. 24 testing date is the first of six for the 1970-71 school year. Other test dates are Dec. 12, Jan. 16, Feb. 27, April 24 and June 19. Kunze said registration this week is necessary to insure pro cessing of data in time for the first test. He said the Oct. 24 test is the only one which can be reported to graduate colleges in time for application next semester. Scores are usually reported five weeks after a test date. Kunze said additional informa tion may be obtained through Texas A&M’s Counseling and Testing Center. mm Fish Drill Team to march in Tyler Texas A&M’s 1970-71 Fresh man Drill Team will march as the featured unit Oct. 24 in the annual Tyler Rose Festival and Parade. The team commanded by Cleo D. Moore of Houston also will appear in an exhibition drill in Rose Stadium before an expected crowd of 15,000, announced J. Malon Southerland, team advisor. Appearance at the “City of Roses” festival will be the earliest performance ever by a Fish Drill Team, the A&M Commandant’s Office sponsor added. A December competition is usually the team’s only perform ance during the fall semester, with the regular drill season coming during the spring. The team that will defend three straight national drill champion ships next April in Washington received special invitation from the Rose Festival committee and Tyler Chamber of Commerce president. The Fish Drill Team will be hosted by the Tyler-Smith County A&M Club, chaired by 1956 A&M graduate Delma House. Bus transportation will be provided to get the 35-member team, upperclass advisors and sponsors to Tyler. In order to prevent the fresh men from missing the A&M- Baylor football game, the team will be taken from Tyler to Waco after performing. They will be bused to College Station after the SWC game. Senior advisor of the Freshman Drill Team is Richard A. Hanes of San Antonio. Sponsors accom panying 46 students on the trip are Southerland, Army Capt. Charles H. Briscoe and Air Force Maj. Harvey J. Haas. GREAT SAVINGS PLAN made even better by new legal rates at FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv. ONLY ONE IS GOOD and others should be removed Uni- confused by too many stickers, Powell said. (Photo by Mel versity Police Chief Ed Powell reminds students about park- Miller) ing stickers. Tickets may be given if campus police are