Che Battalion
Clear with
warming
temperatures
Vol. 66 No. 45
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 17, 1970
Wednesday — Clea* to partly
cloudy. Winds northerly 10-20
mph. Low 41°, high 58°.
Thursday — Clear. Winds
northerly 10-15 mph. Low- 36°,
high 64°.
Kyle Field — Friday night.
Partly cloudy. Winds southerly
5 mph. 48°.
845-2226
Bonfire duties
begin; pole up
AGGIE PLAYERS do a scene from Shakespeare’s “Much
Ado About Nothing:” which opened Monday night in Guion
Hall. The play runs nightly at 8 through Friday. (Photo
by Bob Cox)
Last Guion Hall production
Much Ado’ will run all week
The Aggie Players' swan-song
production in Guion Hall, William
Shakespeare’s satire “Much Ado
About Nothing,” opened Monday
for five nights on the old stage
loon to be scrapped.
"It’s probably the last produc
tion in historic Guion Hall,”
“Much Ado” director C. K. Esten,
who also heads the Aggie Players,
uid.
The English Department’s the
ater arts section will be dispos
sessed afterwards and Guion Hall,
constructed in 1918 at a cost of
(115,000, will be razed for Me
morial Student Center expansion.
“Much Ado About Nothing,”
after appearing each night Nov.
16-20, will go on the road for a
Saturday, Nov. 21, staging at the
Schulenburg Civic Theater. Cur
tain at Guion Hall will be at 8
p.m. each night.
A satirical approach to hyp
ocrisy in people, “Much Ado”
deals with the love of Benedick,
played by Pat Castle of Liberty,
and Beatrice, portrayed by Lucy
Gravett of Dickinson, compared
to the shallow artificiality of
others.
. . for man is a giddy thing,
and this is my conclusion,” com
ments Benedick in a late scene,
summing the central idea of the
transitional Shakespeare pliay.
"Giddy, as Shakespeare was
ising it in 1592, meant artificial
or deceitful,” explained Esten, as
sisted in direction of the two-art
H-member cast production by
Celia Williams.
"‘Much Ado’ stresses the arti
ficiality. of speech, the use of
too many words in an endeavor
to hide real feelings, and shows
People’s use of clothes as a fac-
«le,” the director added.
He said that observers laugh
it a person or situation in a com
edy, but in satire, the viewer
really laughs at himself, recog-
tizing that the gullibility por
trayed on the stage reflects the
fallibility of people.
Esten’s wife, Lugean, Jean
Linger, Rebecca Enloe and Sandy
Sheats made colorful costumes
to be used in the production. The
a typical balconied Shakes
pearean period structure, was de
signed by Robert W. Wenck, as
sistant Aggie Players director.
The cast includes as Antonio,
Paul Peterson; Balthasar, Carlos
Carranco; Borachio, Kurt Miles;
a boy, messenger and sexton, Ed
mund Arranga; Claudio, Donald
Daffron; Conrade, Bruce Baethge;
Dogberry, James Dennis; Don
John, Gordon Evans; Don Pedro,
Students will study
grade report effect
annual Highway
opens Tuesday in
By SUE DAVIS
Battalion Staff Writer
The Liberal Arts Student Coun
cil (LASC) voted Monday night
to consider proposals to study
the effectiveness of mid-semester
grades and to make mid-semester
and semester grades available di
rectly to students.
The council also established a
Luedecke keynote
speaker at session
The 44th
Short Course
the Memorial Student Center.
Jointly sponsored by the Texas
Highway Department and A&M’s
Texas Transportation Institute
and Civil Engineering Depart
ment, the three-day meeting will
include 12 technical sessions deal
ing with highway design, con
struction, maintenance and re
lated activities.
Keynote speaker will be Gen.
A. R. Luedecke, A&M executive
vice president.
The response will be made by
Dewitt C. Greer of Austin, chair
man of the Texas Highway Com
mission and former state high
way engineer.
TTI Director Jack Keese, short
course general chairman, said the
opening session also will include
presentation of the Gibb Gilchrist
and Dewitt C. Greer Awards for
outstanding THD service.
The awards honoring the two
former state highway engineers
will be made by John S. Redditt
of Lufkin. Redditt, former Texas
Highway Commission chairman,
is donor of the annual $1,000
awards.
format for submitting proposals
for study.
A proposal must be presented
typewritten to Vice President
Jerry Hogwood at least one week
before a scheduled council meet
ing. It must contain reasons why
the proposal should be considered
by the council. The proposal must
be in conjunction with the ob
jectives of the council.
These are:
1) to discuss problems concern
ing students in the College of
Liberal Arts and to recommend
solutions to the dean (W. David
Maxwell) of the college.
2) to provide students for stu
dent-faculty committees author
ized by the dean, and
3) to perform such other duties
as are agreed upon by the dean
of the college and the council.
The LASC Rules Committee
will then examine the proposal
to determine if it meets these
requirements. If the Rules Com
mittee votes no on the proposal,
an appeal may be made to the
council the night of the next
meeting, and a vote will be taken
to decide if the council wants to
work on it.
If the proposal is passed by the
Rules Committee, it will be pre
sented by its originator to the
entire council and voted upon.
If it passes, the originator will
head a committee of three other
council members who will re
search and make recommenda
tions on the proposal.
This committee will present a
finished report at the following
meeting. A vote will then be
taken. If the proposal fails, it
cannot be presented again that
academic year.
Audie Beeson; the friar, Mike
MeCaskill.
Also, as Hero, Mary Hanna;
Leona to, Alec Horn; Margaret,
Caroline Most; Ursula, Yvonne
Schmitz; Verges, Robert Ander
son; Watch 1, Stephen French,
and Watch 2, Paul Peterson.
Sets are the responsibility of
crew Rene Richardson, Melanie
Dennie, William Johnson, Lucy
Egg, Anderson, Peterson and Mc-
Caskill.
The sound is handled by Me
Caskill and Jean Linger, who also
heads the house crew. MeCaskill
also heads props and Miss Egg
and Miss Dennis handle lights.
By BRUCE BLACK
Battalion Staff Writer
Work is underway for the 1970
Texas Aggie Bonfire which will
burn next Tuesday night.
Company C-l and remaining
members of the now disbanded
Company D-l spliced sections of
the huge centerpole and raised it
last Wednesday.
Major work will officially begin
Saturday. Head yell leader
Keith Chapman, in charge of over
all operations, hopes to make the
first work day 12 hours long, with
Sunday and Monday reduced to
eight hour shifts.
Squadrons 3, 6 and 9, along
with Moses and Davis Gary Halls,
will work in the loading area.
Mitchell, Legett, Hotard, and
Companies A-2, C-2, F-2, K-l and
two other outfits will work in the
stacking area, while the Band
will unload the trucks. All other
units, including 12 halls and 21
corps outfits, will be at work in
the cutting area.
Tommy Butler will be in charge
of cutting, Barrett Smith will
head operations in the stacking
area and Mark Olson will be in
charge of overall civilian effort.
“The emphasis this year will be
on a sturdy, symetrical Bonfire,”
Chapman said.
“Safety will be the theme
while working on the fire,” he
continued. “Every outfit and hall
will appoint one junior to record
any accident and its cause, and
‘trouble shooters’ will be appoint
ed to head off any accident before
it can happen.”
All drivers and equipment op
erators will be thoroughly check
ed before working. An all-out ef
fort will be made to reduce any
chance of an accident, he added.
Speaking on ecology, Chapman
said that construction of the Bon
fire helps rather than hurts the
land.
“We can only use the large
straight trees in the area,” he ex
plained. “We leave the crooked
trees, which provide most of the
shade, and make more room for
grass to grow, thus aiding the
larger wildlife in the area.”
“We don’t use all the trees,” he
added. “Actually we use a lot of
the little ones that are getting
crowded out.”
As no underbrush is destroyed
in the project, no danger is plac
ed on the smaller wildlife, he
said.
George Boyett, general man
ager of Texas International
Speedway (TIS), where the cut
ting will be taking place, en
dorses the work, and says that
if the school does not thin the
forest in this way, the speedway
would have to.
This year tree limbs and other
scraps will be placed in large
piles and disposed of by TIS,
allowing more room for future
vegetation. Enough trees will be
left so that there is absolutely
no threat of erosion or nature un
balance, Chapman said.
In reply to the Brazos County
Environmental Action Council’s
request to put trash on the Bon
fire, Chapman said that the make
up of the fire made this danger
ous. He added, however, that trash
could be burned in the numerous
perimeter fires used in guarding
the stack.
Chapman said that there is not
enough equipment to collect the
trees from cutting areas.
Presently, there are only two
semi’s and two bob-tail trucks
and two cherry-pickers guaran
teed to the project. A total of 10
trucks are needed for total effi
ciency, Chapman said, and several
more cherry pickers are needed,
along with farm tractors, fork
lifts, and cranes. Chapman asks
students to obtain this equipment
by the end of the week.
The names of all donors will be
inscribed on a large sign in the
stacking area, Chapman said.
Alpha Phi Omega has donated
$500 for bonfire work which in
cluded purchase and transporta
tion of the centerpole.
Only juniors and seniors will be
allowed to drive their cars to the
cutting area, Chapman said. Then
there must be six or seven pas
sengers per car due to lack of
parking space. All other person
nel will be transported by truck.
Safety lessons this week
for bonfire workers
A program to promote safety
during Bonfire will be held to
night in room 210 of the Military
Science Building. Operating pro
cedures will be outlined for chain
saw operators and axe-handlers.
Also procedures for procure
ment of oil and gas for chain
saws, as well as sharpening pro
cedures for axes and chainsaws,
will be discussed, Sam Olivarez,
head of the Student ‘Y’ Associa
tion first-aid crew said.
According to Olivarez, safety
precautions this year will be
much more rigid than in years
past.
Olivarez urged all freshmen
and sophomores to attend the
safety film that is to be shown
Thursday night, Nov. 19, at 7:15.
After the film, Hughes Hall will
demonstrate how to lift logs and
load them on to a truck bed.
Other safety precautions in
clude having two ambulances for
the cutting area and one for the
stacking area. Two U - Haul
trailers, provided free of charge
by Andy Anderson’s Conoco Sta
tion on College Ave. will serve as
first - aid stations. Calloway-
Jones will be handling any emer
gencies that cannot be handled
by the First Aid Crew.
A separate safety committee,
under Mark Riser, will keep sur
veillance for accidents.
Coeds organize for Bonfire service
Co-eds interested in working
on this year’s Bonfire who have
not attended the University
Women Bonfire planning meet
ing should contact the Student
“Y” Association secretary in
Room 102 of the YMCA Build
ing.
Workers should leave their
name, phone number, and the
time that they will be available
to work. The work will consist of
handing out coffee and cookies
with the Student “Y” Associa
tion.
IT’S UP! The bonfire cen
terpole is in place. Bonfire
construction will culminate
with its burning next Tues
day night at 7:30. (Photo
by Bruce Black)
Environmental design group
to work on school not fire
h HAYDEN WHITSETT
Battalion News Editor
A group of A&M students will
ipend the traditional Monday
Bonfire holiday repainting a
tohool building rather than work-
on the Bonfire.
One of the buildings of the
tohool, Travis Elementary in
Bryan, is badly in need of re-
forbishing, according to David
Bacus, a freshman environmental
fosign major and group spokes
man. The group, hopefully to
number about 50, will scrape and
tyaint the building, now housing
‘cafeteria, reputty the windows
»ud repaint trash receptacles on
Hie grounds.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
“We are not attacking the
Bonfire,” said Dacus, “we are of
fering an alternative. We just
don’t think the Bonfire is a repre
sentation of the student Com
munity.”
The project is one of three be
ing worked on by students in the
College of Architecture and En
vironmental Design. The other
two are refurbishing the Brazos
County Girls Club and planting
trees in the area.
“The whole thing is being com
munity financed,” said Dacus.
“I’ve been asked not to say just
who right now. The paint is be
ing bought from Sherwin-Wil
liams at a reduced rate.”
About 30 people are sure they
are coming and 30 others have
said they would try to come,
Dacus said.
“We have Corps backing, but
we’re afraid they might not come
because they will be made to
work on the Bonfire,” he added.
The group, which is open to
anybody who wishes to help, will
wear T-shirts with “Good Guys”
stenciled in red on the back. Dac
us admitted that the shirts were
not so much for trying to put
across the idea of they being
“good guys” as for “making
things look good for TV people
who are supposed to be there.
“We think it is a very fine
thing for the young people to
do,” said A. O. Bowen, superin
tendent of the Bryan schools,
“and we commend them for their
constructive spirit.”
“They haven't asked for any
help but we will if they need it,”
he added.
THE FIRST EDITION performed last Friday night at
Town Hall. Players are Ken Vassey left), Mary Arnold,
Terry Williams and leader Kenny Rogers. Mickey Jones
is on drums. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)