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Cbt Battalion B Vol. 66 No. 46 College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 18, 1970 Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy. Winds southerly 10-20 mph. Low 44°, high 76°. Friday — Partly cloudy. South erly winds 10-20 mph. Low 58°, high 78°. Kyle Field — Friday evening. Cloudy, rainshowers in the area. Winds southerly 10-15 mph. 68° 845-2226 WILLING TO GIVE and receive but often at odds in Shake speare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” are Benedick, played by Pat Castle, and Beatrice, by Lucy Gravett. The Aggie Players’ production continues in Guion Hall through Friday. Freshman voting for runoffs set Freshmen go to the polls again Thursday to decide four class of fices they weren’t able to in last Thursday’s class election. Runoffs for class president, vice president, social secretary and secretary-treasurer will be held from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Fresh men may vote either at the dorm 2 guard room or the Sbisa news stand. Activity and student identification cards are needed. Randy Maness, Pampa journal ism major, and Mark Brakemore, Richmond geology major are run ning for class president. Long view pre-med major Jim Lafer- ney and Arlington accounting ma jor Don A. Webb seek election to the vice presidency. Political science major John Rosenbaum of Alvin and agricul ture education major James K. Goode of Weimar make their sec ond bid for secretary-treasurer. Dallasite Chris St. John, recrea tion and parks major, seeks elec tion over fellow Dallasite Rich ard Chaplin, an electrical engi neering major, for the office of social secretary. Last week’s election, aside from selecting runoff candidates, elect ed the five at-large student sen ators for this year’s freshmen. Balloting Thursday will use the same IBM punch-card method employed in last week’s election. Ags charged $190 for parade permit AUSTIN <A>) _ The cost for the Texas Aggies for their tur key day parade up Congress Ave nue is $190 — charged by the home of the Texas Longhorns, their football enemies. About 3,000 uniformed cadets march up the avenue each Thanksgiving before the Texas- University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M." —Adv. A&M football game when it is played here. The $190 charge is imposed under a parade ordinance adopted by the city council last year in what many view as an attempt to prevent peace marches. The cost is computed on the basis of police expenses to super vise traffic during the parade. And Austin still has peace marchers, too. Miss Teenage America at All Faiths Thursday Debbie Susan Patton, 1970 Miss Teenage America, will be featured at a nondenominational service from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in Texas A&M’s All Faiths Chapel. Miss Patton, 18, is a native of Odessa and a 1970 graduate of Permian High School, where she held a straight “A” average. She will play the piano, both religious and popular music, and share her Christian testimony during the A&M campus appearance. Also on the program are Dr. William B. Tolar, professor of Biblical history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, and Jack Kay, minister of music at First Baptist Church, Chatanooga, Tenn. The program is sponsored by Bryan’s First Baptist Church. Tolar, a native of Louisiana, was pastor of the Wellborn Baptist Church from January, 1950, until May, 1953, his first assignment. He also has served churches in Speegleville, Hillsboro and Waco and was an instructor at Baylor University. Dr. Tolar has been a guest lecturer in the Holy Land for two Survey shows around-the-world study tours on world civilizations. His travels have taken him to 28 countries on four continents, including a week in the Soviet Union. Debbie is a green-eyed beauty with light brown hair. She wants to do educational research after majoring in education and psychology in college. When asked why she would like to become Miss Teenage America, Debbie said: “The teenagers of America are the most aware, the most expressive, and the most intelligent collective group of young people in the world. Representing these people—the core of America’s productive future—would be one of the greatest honors imaginable.” Miss Patton’s other Bryan-College Station appearances include attendance at the First Baptist Church Woman’s Rally at 10 a.m. and a 7:30 p.m. appearance at their revival service in Bryan. Following the evening service an autograph party is planned for Debbie, local teenagers and university students. t Debbie Susan Patton miss free speech idea Young SAN DIEGO, Calif. <A>>—A na tional task force said Tuesday that a majority of American young people lacks “any con sistent understanding or convic tion about the exercise of free speech.” The results of year-long sur veys of about 90,000 persons up to the age of 35 were made pub lic by the Education Commission of the States a nonprofit organi zation set up in 1964 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation. Later financing has come from the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Office of Education. In a random sampling across the nation, those interviewed were asked if they would permit Amer icans to hear these statements by radio or television — “Russia is better than the United States,” “Some races of people are better than others,” “It is not necessary to believe in God.” Sixty-eight per cent of adults from 26 to 35 said they would re fuse to permit the broadcast. So would 94 per cent of boys and girls 13 years old and 78 per cent of youngsters 17 years old. A separate “national assess ment” of the ability of young people to write and understand was made public as 140 national educational leaders and U.S. gov ernors, including Delaware Gov. Russell W. Peterson, chairman of the commission, arrived for three days of meetings of the commis sion’s steering committee. Besides Peterson, the governors were Harold LeVander of Minne sota, Tom McCall of Oregon and Calvin Rampton of Utah. How the nation progresses in education is the major study of the publications and research per formed by the commission’s staff. The first cycle of “national as sessment” ends in 1975. The writing tests were given By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Editor University of Texas at Austin students seeking to file suit against their board of regents for violation of the Texas open meet ing law have, for the time being, dropped their case. A special meeting of the board last Saturday is a determining factor in the decision, Daily Tex an Editor Andy Yemma told The Battalion Tuesday. The stage was set almost three weeks ago, when the Texas Union Board, a student-faculty group, voted to reopen the Chuck Wag on — an on-campus eating estab lishment — to non-students. The facility was closed to all but stu dents a year ago after a disturb ance on the premises brought po lice to the scene. The board of regents Nov. 16 overturned the Union Board’s de cision during a meeting over the telephone via a conference call. The telephone meeting is what the students are upset about. A group of law students and Yemma began plans to file crim inal and civil suits against the regents, naming each of the nine to students in 2,500 schools and to nearly 8,000 adults interview ed in their homes. They chawed marked improvement in writing through the years—until their for mal schooling ended. Sixty per cent of young adults said they read books regularly, as defendants. The criminal suit was to pun ish the regents (they could be fined up to $200 and convicted of a misdemeanor), and the civil suit was to obtain permanent court orders against the regents, prohibiting them from holding meetings by telephone again. Travis County Attorney Ed Granger Thursday had advised the students to strengthen their complaint and resubmit it Mon day. The regents met for 90 seconds Saturday, Yemma said, during the halftime of the Texas-TCU game in Fort Worth. They again overturned the Union Board de cision, Yemma said, and repealed their own special meetings rule. The rule said the board was to give a five-day notice of the time, place and reason for spe cial meetings. Regents Chairman Frank C. Er win Jr. Saturday — contrary to his former stand — said the Mon day conference call had simply been a poll of the board, Yemma said, not an actual meeting. Yemma said he and the law stu dents felt the Monday meeting compared with 95 per cent who read newspapers. Seventy-eight per cent read magazines. “Though they read a lot, they cannot compete with 17 year olds when it comes to writing some thing themselves,” the summary said. had been a legal meeting, one violating the open meetings law. The Saturday action makes the case difficult to press, he said, and Granger has refused to take -the case anyway. The civil suit also has been dropped, Yemma said. The students will keep a close watch on the board, Yemma said, and will be ready to file suit if future violations appear to have taken place. He said the Satur day meeting was a “victory” for the students, and an indirect ad mission by the regents they had been wrong and were guilty. He said he believed the suit prompted the Saturday meeting, since it was without precedent. A record 1,166 students have applied for mid-term graduation at Texas A&M, Registrar Robert A. Lacey announced Tuesday. Commencement exercises will be conducted Dec. 12. Talk scheduled by minister on origin of rights A member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship will speak on women’s rights, civil rights and the right to dis sent Thursday night at 7:30 in All Faiths Chapel. James Spencer, C. S., of De troit, sponsored by the Christian Science College Organization at Texas A&M, will speak on “Where Do Our Rights Come From ? ” “Recognition of the source of our divine rights enables us to experience a greater sense of hu man freedom in every area of our lives,” Spencer says. Spencer will relate spiritual experiences in overcoming loneli ness, sickness, prejudice and re strictiveness. Spencer, a graduate of Prin- cipia College, Elsah, 111., was a lieutenant in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Later he served for three years as Chap lain with the United States Army, and then for ten years as Chris tian Science Minister for the Armed Services. Lacey said this year’s mid-term class represents an increase of 87 over last year, the previous high. Included in the totals are 333 students applying for master’s degrees and 139 for doctorates. UT students halt suit action Record mid-term graduation has 333 masters, 139 PhD’s The inquiring Battman Do you think A&M should get a new Keith Stephens senior , ‘‘I don’t know. Coach Stallings ‘s a fine person, but the football team doesn’t seem to be motivated enough. Something definitely is wrong.” Chuck Cogswell senior “I still have faith in Stallings. After all, he’s the same coach who won the conference and the Cotton Bowl in ’67.” James Borders senior “I don’t know all the facts, but I think a change is needed some where. We are capable of having a much better team that the record shows.” Judy Brown freshman “A&M has the material to make up a good football team but doesn't have a coach to hold it together. We could definitely use a new one.” Smith Comielle senior “It’s not for me to say. No coach is ever very popular when his team is losing. In ’67 they were putting Stallings up for president.” football coach? Joe Phillips junior “There seems to be a good deal of concern over our team’s record. I don’t know if a new coach is the answer, but it is quite possible.” (Photos by Patrick Fontana) Dan McQueen junior “No. I believe Gene Stallings is as fine a coach as A&M has ever had. Our only problem is some young, inexperienced sopho mores who should make a great football team next year.”