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Vol. 66 No. 42
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 11, 1970
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Next century may bring
end to dark ages: Clarke
By PAM TROBOY
Battalion Staff Writer
Celebrated space and science
fiction author Arthur C. Clarke
told a standing-room-only-crowd
Tuesday night that “the year
2001 may be the final end of the
Dark Ages.”
Co-author of the book and film,
“2001: A Space Odyssey," Clarke
Jescribed 1 “Life in 2001” for the
largest Great Issues audience of
the year.
Clarke’s address was broad
cast in the lobby of the Memorial
Student Center to accommodate
the overflow from the ballroom.
He said he selected his topic
“for obvious reasons,” but also
because 2001 is the first year of
a new century and a new millen
nium.
Clarke predicted however that
celebrations will probably begin
a year early “when all those ze
ros come up.” He said the logical
solution would be to declare the
entire year 2000 a holiday.
“If the human race makes it
that long, I think a holiday would
be fully justified,” he said.
“The future isn’t what it used
to be,” Clarke laughed. “Concepts
of the future are continually
changing. This is the only age
giving any thought to the future
which is rather ironic since we
may not have one. Past ages were
not interested in the future be
cause they felt that life would
not change.”
Clarke said he would not at
tempt to predict or prophesy the
future but would describe pos
sible futures that could exist.
In the past, he said, chaos has
resulted when inventions appear
ed and society was not ready.
“By sketching the future, we
can prepare a receptive state of
mind,” he said.
Clarke did make two predic
tions, however. He said that man
would make contact with intel
ligent extra-terrestials and that
the future will see the rise of
Standing-room-only crowd fills the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom Tuesday night to hear Arthur C. Clark,
science fiction author, speak on life in the year 2001
(Photos by Hayden Whitsett)
Here Thursday
PF presents Thurmond
U. S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina will give his
views on “Current Events” here
Thursday in a Political Forum
presentation.
The noon series talk will be
made in G. Rollie White Coli
seum, Political Forum chairman
Charles Hoffman announced.
The public is invited to the ad
mission-free presentation. Hoff
man said that the open-door pol
icy is made possible through Po
litical Forum’s patronage - sub-
icription system.
Known for his history-making
predictions, his independence and
itrong support of military pre
paredness Thurmond, three-term
solon elected in a 1954 write-in
campaign, coined in 1961 the
phrase “no-win” foreign policy.
Thurmond said such a policy
is based on the fallacious notion
that Communist leaders are soft
ening.
In January, 1962, he warned
that Soviet missiles were in
Cuba, nearly a year before the
administration took action. The
following year he cautioned the
Senate that Russia was develop
ing an antiballistic missile de
fense system, four years before
the administration authorized our
own ABM.
Parking changes
told by Powell
University Police Chief Ed
Powell Tuesday announced sev
eral parking changes affecting
students and faculty-staff mem-
bs.
Powell said A&M students are
no longer permitted to park on
Houston Street, south of Joe
Routt Boulevard.
‘There is plenty of room in lot
18 behind G. Rollie White Coli-
leum,” he continued.
Reserved staff lot 52, a part of
the new golf course parking lot,
*111 be open next week with 36
Parking places, he said. Staff
members with lot 17 overlays
must arrange for the lot 52 over
lay this week.
Lot 17 is located behind the
Animal Industries Building and
Data Processing Center. It has
bn overloaded since construc
tion began on the 15-story Ocean-
ography Building.
Powell said lot 17 stickers will
Hot be allowed in lot 34 after lot
52 is open. Lot 34 is located be
hind Herman Keep Hall, Plant
Sciences and Dairy Products.
Lot 18, the Agriculture Build
ing lot, will be open within two
"'eeks, Powell said. Underground
Pipe construction has blocked the
lot for the past three weeks.
The police chief described the
Chemistry, Francis Hall and En
gineering Building lot as full
*ith many staff members now
Parking in lot 7, behind the Serv
ices and Geology Buildings.
Powell announced lot 11, the
Academic Building lot, will be
closed in February or March for
the construction of the office-
classroom highrise.
Academic Building parkers will
be moved to lot 7, he added, and
the lot will be expanded to han
dle the added vehicles.
Lot 50, the new 1,000-car lot
east of the Engineering Center,
will be ready about Dec. 1, Pow
ell said.
The giant lot will include space
for both student and faculty-
staff cars.
“There will be some staff mem
bers walking from lot 50,” Pow
ell stressed. He reminded the lot
is within 10 minutes walking
time to most campus buildings.
The majority of lot 50 will be
used by day students.
Five years ago, Thurmond pre
dicted the civil rights movement
would be distorted by militant
extremists which would cause
widespread riots and insurrec
tion.
A key member of the Armed
Services, Judiciary and Defense
Appropriations Committees, the
senator is known to have con
siderable persuasive authority in
the Nixon administration.
Thurmond, the first person
ever elected to major U. S. office
by the write-in, has been a farm
er, lawyer, school teacher, ath
letic coach, school superintend
ent, state senator, judge, gover
nor, U. S. senator and Presiden
tial candidate in his lifetime.
As a Democratic governor he
ran for President in 1948 as a
Dixiecrat. Since his 1954 Senate
election, he has been re-elected
twice as a Democrat and once as
a Republican.
Scheduled last year as a Po
litical Forum speaker, Thurmond
cancelled the appearance follow
ing a discouraging reception on
another campus. He was booed
and heckled during a speech in
California.
Thurmond delivered the long
est speech ever made in the U. S.
Senate. The 24-hour, 18-minute
speech in 1957 was in defense of
jury trials.
ultra-intelligent machines.
Clarke also said that agricul
ture as it is known today will
be phased out in the next cen
tury.
“Cattle produces food at an ef
ficiency rate of only 10 per cent,”
he said, “so new methods of meat
production must be found. We
must farm the sea as we have
farmed the land.
“Whale ranching is a distinct
possibility,” Clarke said. “Of
course by the time we have the
technology, we may have no
whales. One problem wall be that
whales are giant dolphins. Can
you imagine the public outcry
if we set up a ‘Flipper Farm’? I
still have reservations about the
intelligence of dolphins, though—
they’re friendly with man.”
He said that meat manufac
tured from petroleum could be
sold for as little as 15 cents a
pound, and added that the food
problem would be over if closed
cycle ecology used in space travel
were perfected.
Originator of the concept of the
communications satellite, Clarke
said man is on the verge of the
greatest communications revolu
tion ever.
He said satellites will soon be
broadcasting directly from space
and by-passing ground stations
entirely.
Satellites have already proven
their worth in hurricane predic
tion, he said. Early detection of
Camille saved 50,000 lives, he
said.
A central communications con
sole may also be a reality in the
homes of the future, Clarke said.
“By dialing a number you will
be able to get the local news or
the news from any other city in
the world,” he said. “Every paper
ever printed will be available. A
global electronic library will put
(See Next, Page 5)
Arthur C. Clarke
Rice’s head
resigns this
coach
year
HOUSTON, Tex. (A*) — Head
Coach Bo Hagan of Rice Univer
sity will resign at the end of the
current season, he announced
Tuesday.
Hagan made the announcement
public after the campus radio
station, KTRU, had broken the
story.
“I wish to announce that I
tendered my resignation as direc
tor of athletics and head football
coach of Rice University ... to
become effective at the conclu
sion of the football season,” Ha
gan said.
Rice has a 2-5 record this sea
son.
“We set certain goals for our
football program and they have
not been reached,” Hagan said.
“I have a strong desire for Rice
to be successful in football and
to have an outstanding all-around
athletic program.
“I hope the future will bring
about these aims and pledge my
support to help my successor in
any way I can in the future,” he
said.
“My future plans are indefinite
for this time, but my family con-
1
Nine nominated
for faculty office
Sen. Strom Thurmond
Faculty members have until
Nov. 25 to vote for an at-large
member to the Faculty Evalua
tion Committee of the Faculty
Development Leave Program.
Academic Vice President Hor
ace R. Byers has distributed bal
lots to department heads.
Nine nominees, one from each
academic college, are included on
the ballot. The person receiving
a plurality of votes will be elect
ed to the three-year term, Dr.
Byers pointed out.
All faculty members, instruc
tor and above, are eligible to
IBM cards are ballots
Election to fill 9 class posts
vote, except those having ap
pointments at 50 per cent or less
or those paid more than 50 per
cent by other parts of the Texas
A&M University System are not
eligible, he said.
Nominees are Dr. Kenneth C.
Brundidge, professor of meteor
ology; Dr. Robert M. Holcomb,
professor of civil engineering;
Dr. Rudolph E. Leighton, profes
sor of animal science; Dr. Her
bert A. Luther, professor of
mathematics; Walter S. Man
ning, associate professor of ac
counting; Dr. John C. Ramge,
professor of veterinary medicine
and surgery; Dr. Lester S. Rich
ardson, professor and head of
educational administration; Mel
vin M. Rotsch, professor of arch
itecture, and Elmore E. Stokes
Jr., professor of English.
siders Houston as home and we
would enjoy remaining here.”
Norman Hackerman, the presi
dent of Rice, said Hagan’s deci
sion to resign “is his own.”
The choice of the new coach
will be made by Hackerman with
approval by the board of gover
nors of Rice.
In a hurriedly produced state
ment, the three Rice football cap
tains this year, Bucky Allshouse,
Roger Roitsch and Brownie Whe-
less, said:
“All of us deeply regret the de
cision coach Hagan has made to
step down as our head coach of
football. He is a fine gentleman
who has worked extremely hard,
along with his staff, to help us
become better athletes and good
citizens.
“Certainly no one can fault
coach Hagan and his assistants
for a great effort to build a
strong program for the univer
sity and to try and have a win
ning team.”
Hagan said any decision about
his staff of assistant coaches
would rest with his successor.
Hagan had told his team ear
lier Tuesday at a practice ses
sion that he would not be back
next year. He told them then, he
said, because he was afraid the
story about his leaving was about
to leak out to the public and he
wanted them to know first.
Debate team
to compete
Texas A&M’s debate team will
compete this weekend at Con
necticut State Teacher’s College
in New Haven.
Sheila Wilson, psychology
freshman, Barbara Sears, zoolo
gy freshman, Robert Peavey, po
litical science senior and Scott
Scherer, economics sophomore
will represent Texas A&M. The
group is advised by English in
structor Robert Leitz. A&M has
neither a speech department nor
a full-time speech coach.
The team of Miss Wilson and
Miss Sears won three rounds and
lost five last Saturday at the
TCU Invitational.
Thursday’s Freshman Class
election, one which will select
nine office-holders from 63 can
didates, will be the first on the
Texas A&M campus to use IBM
punchcards for ballots, Election
Commission member Robert
National coffee house singer
to give 6 shows in Basement
Football weekend entertain
ment will be offered by the Me
morial Student Center Basement
Committee Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights.
Mary Smith, national coffee
house circuit singer who has ap
peared throughout the nation,'
will share nightly billing with
local groups at the Basement
Coffee House.
The Basement will be open
from 8 p.m. to midnight all three
nights, announced Chairman
Gary Reid. Admission will be 75
cents per person or $1.25 per
couple.
Miss Smith will go on at about
8:30 and 10:30 p.m. for two 45
minute shows each night, noted
Sam Walser, Basement publicity
chairman.
“There will be a constant flow
of music,” he added. “Local en
tertainment will fill in.
Walser said Keith Sykes, the
first circuit performer to appear
in the Basement this year, “went
over well.”
A contralto-voiced singer with
a “totally natural, honest” ap
proach, Miss Smith works out of
New York. She has sung at uni
versities from Rhode Island to
Washington and Montana. She
records on the Kapp and Decca
labels and has a Julliard Scholar
ship to her credit.
Riggs said Tuesday.
Polling places will be located
at the Sbisa newsstand and the
dorm 2 guard room, Riggs said,
and will be open from 7:30 a.m.-
7:30 p.m. To vote, students must
have activity and student identi
fication cards.
The punchcards are being used,
Riggs said, to eliminate the un
organized counting done by stu
dents and to prevent charges of
wrong totals.
Students will be given three
color-coded cards, Riggs said, one
for president; one for vice presi
dent, social secretary and secre
tary-treasurer; and one for the
five Student Senate positions.
Completed ballots will be
Correction
The Battalion last Thursday
erroneously reported that Jimmy
Laferney was running for Fresh
man Class secretary -treasurer.
Laferney is seeking election
Thursday to the office of class
vice president.
The Battalion regrets the er
ror and any inconvenience it may
have caused.
placed in locked containers,
Riggs said, and taken to the Data
Processing Center after the polls
close. Friday morning the con
tainers will be unlocked and key
punch operators will punch the
cards according to how they are
marked. Cards then will be sort
ed and counted on a machine.
Election results will be avail
able possibly by noon Friday,
Riggs said.
Riggs also noted election rules
which will be in effect:
—Campaign material within
the polls will be confiscated and
the person responsible barred
from voting. Campaign material
is anything bearing a candidate’s
name such that it is visible to
other voters.
—Campaigning, oral or writ
ten, is forbidden at the polls, and
violators will be barred from
voting.
—Write-in votes may be cast
for individuals whose names are
not on the ballot. Only official
write-in forms, obtainable at the
polls, may be used.
—IBM cards must not be bent,
folded or damaged in any way,
and damaged ballots wil not be
counted.
Nations remember de Gaulle,
France’s ruler in war, peace
PARIS (A*) — Leaders from
East and West moved Tuesday
to pay their final tribute to
Charles de Gaulle as the symbol
of France—its past grandeur, its
genius, it eternal contradictions.
The nation’s strong guide in
war and peace, just 13 days short
of his 80th birthday, died Mon
day night of a circulatory dis
order. He had walked with the
mighty, but his final companions
were his wife, a physician and
a Roman Catholic priest. Nearby
were a television set tuned to
the world news, and a deck of
cards used for solitaire.
Turning aside the tradition of
Napoleon and 1,000 years of
French kings, DeGaulle will be
buried Thursday in the cramped
churchyard in Colombey-lesdeux-
Eglises, the village where he died.
That is in accordance with his
handwritten order that the cere
mony take place “without the
slightest public ceremony . . ,
without bands, fanfare or bugles.”
But about 80 world leaders, in
cluding President Nixon and So
viet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin,
will attend a memorial service
in Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral
the same day.
The nation, which had rebuffed
him in a constitutional referen
dum that led to his resignation
as president 18 month ago, learn
ed of De Gaulle’s death about 12
hours after it occcurred. The de
lay was at the request of his fam
ily.
Frenchmen in large part re
member De Gaulle as the guard
ian of their honor through the
ignominy of Nazi defeat, and lat
er in 10 years as president as
the restorer of national prestige.
They took the news without mass
scenes of grief.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.