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Vol. 66 No. 49
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 24, 1970
Tuesday and Wednesday—Clear,
partly cloudy. Wind southerly
10-15 mph. Low 33°, high 67°.
Thursday—Wind southerly 10-
15 mph. Clear to partly cloudy.
Low 44°, high 72°. Austin at
kickoff, partly cloudy. Southerly
winds 10-20 mph. 72°.
845-2226
30,000 to see
Bonfire burn
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
Battalion News Editor
When the Bonfire goes up in
flames at 7:30 tonight on the
field south of the corps dorms
there will be approximately 30,000
people there to watch it bum. The
bulk of the people there will be
students, both Corps and civilians,
those who worked on it, those
who didn’t.
There will probably be a fair-
sized turnout of sweet young
things, former students, and Col
lege Station people. Mixed in
will be lost travelers from High
way Six who turned off at the
wrong place and then decided to
see what it was all about.
It is different to each.
To the old Ag it is assurance
that all those long-haired non-
regs he sees around the campus
haven’t totally ruined the place.
To the ecologically minded it is
a symbol of flagrant abuse of the
environment To the man who
built it, it’s something else.
“It’s supposed to symbolize our
burning desire to beat the hell
outta t.u.,” a chansaw operator in
the stacking area said. “But when
we're the doormat of the confer
ence, that reason seems sorta
ridiculous. I guess it is just that
we’ve gotta show everybody we
can do something better than
they can, something they couldn’t
hope to touch in a million years.”
"It’s fantastic,” another said,
"that big monster burning out
there, it’s just fantastic.”
“I don’t know what it is,” said
a civilian freshman,’ I’ve never
seen one before. But looking at
that stack, it makes anything else
look small in comparison.”
To a “head honcho” in the
stacking area “it’s hell man. Just
plain hell, don’t ask me any ques
tions ’til it’s over.”
The Bonfire originally began
5th Dimension
tickets to have
special selling
Special ticket office hours for
the 5th Dimension performance
after the Texas A&M Bonfire
have been arranged.
Due to the heavy demand for
tickets Monday, the Student Pro
gram Office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center will remain open to
5:30 p. m. Tuesday, announced
Hal Gaines, advisor.
Windows at G. Rollie White
Coliseum will open at 7 p. m. for
those unable to get 5th Dimension
show tickets earlier. Doors will
open for the 8:45 p. m. TAMU
Special Attraction at about 8:15
p. m., so students attending the
7:30 p. m. Bonfire will have a
chance for choice seats.
Town Hall chairman Bill Left-
wich said ticket sales for the post-
Bonfire special were brisk Mon
day. He pointed out that all per
sons admitted to the Coliseum for
the show must have 5th Dimen
sion performance only tickets.
in 1909 when two students set
fire to a pile of trash on the drill
field. It has kept up every year
since then, with the exception of
1963, when it was cancelled in
remembrance of President John
F. Kennedy.
The first Bonfire with a center
pole came about in 1948, it was
a telegraph pole from Missouri
Pacific. In 1949, the center pole,
and with it the world’s largest
Bonfire, rose to 65 feet.
In 1950, the completion of the
Memorial Student Center south
of the drill field forced move
ment of the Bonfire to the area
south of the Corps dorms. It has
been there ever since.
It was not until 1952 that the
first all log Bonfire was built.
The highest Bonfire built was
last year. It reached over 105
feet into the sky, from the ground
to the top of the traditional out
house.
This year’s Bonfire will reach
about 90 feet and contain about
3,000 logs.
According to Keith Chapman,
head yell leader, the emphasis
will be “on a sturdy, symetrical
Bonfire.”
Recently it has been hard hit
by criticism, mainly from those
concerned with ecology, and stu
dent apathy when it comes to
working on it.
“I don’t know,” said one senior
who has worked on it for four
years, “I doubt sometimes that
there will be a Bonfire next year.
If we have a bad accident this
year, or not enough people show
up, they probably won’t have one
next year. I hate to see this die.
To me it symbolizes everything
the Aggies are. Only true Aggies
work on the Bonfire and only
Aggies could build a Bonfire like
this. Times like this, I’m proud to
be an Aggie.”
LOADING LOGS is all a part of the bonfire and these
members of the Corps know it as they work in the early
hours of Saturday morning-. The loading crew had most of a
truck filled before the sun managed to get above the tops
of the trees. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
To Bonfire
Students discover alternatives
By FRAN HAUGEN
Battalion Managing Editor
Constructive dissent is surfac
ing as students search for alter
natives to the 61-year-old bonfire
or its more recent manifestation
began in 1952, the all log Bonfire.
Three groups of students this
year decided that instead of chop
ping and heaving logs, they would
do something which they think
demonstrates environmental
awareness.
About 25 students painted a
Travis Elementary School build
ing in Bryan. They scraped the
paint away Saturday and Sunday,
and will finish painting tomor
row.
The project was the brainchild
of a group of environmental de
sign students who read about the
school’s rundown condition in
The Daily Eagle, but students
with many majors participated.
Math, engineering and agricul
ture students alike were present.
“We didn’t want to work on
the Bonfire,” freshman Dudley
Anderson said. “It’s a waste of
time. But there’s a lot of energy
and material expended on Bon
fire. It’s emotional. Students are
going to do something. For us
this worked, but it didn’t exactly
make us think we were going to
beat t.u.”
As Drew Williams said they
didn’t want to just “go home”
because they were against Bon
fire, they wanted an alternative.
Many of those who worked,
worked on Bonfire last year.
“This was easier,” Steve Mc-
Clesky said, “and more construc
tive.”
Eric Opitz added:
“You can’t get poison ivy, and
there’s more spirit.”
Paint for the project was pro
vided by car dealer Harvey Wat
son. Travis provided the rest of
the material.
Bonfire tradition to continue:
30,000 are expected to witness the Bonfire burning tonight
at 7:30 on the field south of the Corps dorms.
Williams; no changes planned
President Jack K. Williams said Monday that, as far as he knows,
the Bonfire will continue as is, at least next year.
“There have been no official or unofficial decisions to change the
Bonfire,” Williams said.
No administrative studies are underway to examine the ecological
aspects of the project, he added.
Williams said he and the Board of Directors would attend his first
Bonfire today and have dinner after it. The board meets today and
Wednesday.
Williams said he was out looking at Bonfire stacking Sunday but
was chased out of the perimeter because he didn’t have on a hard hat.
“I think it (the Bonfire) is a good way to venture wrath on the
University of Texas and the timber that needs thinning out,” he said.
Williams said environmental projects conducted in lieu of the
Bonfire were “useful projects,” and that there is room for both these
and bonfire building.
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Ags challenge Texas streak
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sports Editor
In 1956 the Texas Aggies under
Coach Paul Bryant were 6-2-1
and the University of Texas
longhorns with Ed Price at the
helm were 1-8.
On Thanksgiving Day that year
the Aggies dealt the Longhorns
a34-21 loss in Memorial Stadium.
A senior and captain on that team
was Coach Gene Stallings.
The next year the Longhorns
changed coaches, they hired a
former Oklahoma All-American
quarterback, Darrell Royal.
Game to honor
POWs, MIAs
San Antonio (A*) — The Univer
sity of Texas and Texas A&M will
dedicate their traditional Thanks
giving Day football game in Aus
tin Thursday to Americans im
prisoned or missing 'n action in
Southeast Asia.
The decision to dedicate the
game to the men came after of
ficials of the Air Force Air Train
ing Command, headquartered
here, proposed it to the Univer
sity of Texas, military spokesman
said.
Since then the teams have met
13 times. Royal has been the
winning coach on 12 occassions.
Stallings was the head man
when the Aggies pulled the lone
victory over the ’Horns in 1967.
The 1956 game was the last win
for the Aggies in Memorial
Stadium.
Thursday at 2 p.m. the Aggies
will try once again to defeat a
Royal-coached football team on
the Longhorns’ home turf. The
task at hand is large and viewing
past performance doesn’t bring
the Aggies any closer.
The Longhorns, since their 31-
22 loss to Texas Tech in the
second game of the 1968 season,
have won 28 straight and that
includes 35-14 and 49-12 wins at
the expense of the Aggies.
Texas brings one of the most
awesome offensive units you can
find anywhere into the game.
Even though they’re averaging
a shade over 40 points and 445
yards short of last year’s pace.
That pace steered the Long
horns to number one ranking in
the country, a ranking which they
have maintained for a portion
of the 1970 season with Ohio
State and Notre Dame also shar
ing time in the top spot.
Fullback Steve Worster, a Heis-
man Trophy candidate, is the
heart of the Longhorns with the
second-best rushing total in the
history of the Austin branch of
the University of Texas.
Worster, with 2,217 yards and
34 touchdowns, has already been
named to the Newspaper Enter
prise Association (NEA) and
Football News All-American
teams, the only two thus far
announced.
His status for Thursday is not
known, however, as he was in
jured in the TCU game, a week
ago.
The Texas offense has scored
46 percent of the times it has had
the ball. The rushing offense is
the prime reason. They average
just under 70 plays a game and
just over 360 yards.
A&M quarterback Lex James,
who missed the Rice game with
an injured elbow, is expected to
be ready. If he is not, Joe Mac
King, who piloted the Aggies to
their third highest offensive pro
duction of the year against Rice
and engineered the drive for the
tying field goal late in the SMU
game, will again handle the con
trols. King was the leading rush
er in the SMU game and was one
of four A&M backs who gained
about 40 yards in the Rice game.
That improvement in the run
ning game -was a big boost to the
Ags, who had been forced to
throw the ball after their inabil
ity to run stopped them previous
ly. Going into the Rice game the
Aggies averaged only 91 yards a
game, one fourth of that for Tex
as. They gained 186 yards against
Rice.
The Aggie defense has also
picked up the last two weeks, al
lowing SMU only two field goals
and Rice 17 points.
The Texas defense has allowed
only 121 yards a game rushing
and 165 yards passing, but that
passing total includes super per
formances by Chuck Hixson of
SMU and Dennis Dummitt of
UCLA. This may be where the
Aggies will have to attack the
potent Longhorns, as they have
shown signs of being able to
throw the ball well.
James is one of the leading
passers in the league with 1,490
yards gained on 101 completions.
The Aggies will again be start
ing a lot of inexperience, as they
will have nine sophomores in the
starting lineup. The game will be
the final for four Aggie seniors,
defensive safety Dave Elmendorf,
defensive guard Winston Beam,
offensive guard Jim Parker and
punter Jimmy Sheffield.
Texas on the other hand will
start 10 seniors offensively and
four defensively.
STUDENTS PAINT Travis Elementary School and chat
with reporters Monday. (Photo by Patrick Fontana)
“The whole building looks tre
mendous, they’ve done a great
job,” Travis principal Roy Presley
said.
“I worked on Bonfire for three
days last year and was so tired
I didn’t even go,” McClesky said.
“Next week this will still be
here, and we can come by and
see it any time we want,” Sydney
Young added.
A group of 14 graduate stu
dents in environmental engineer
ing will sample stagnant water
and creeks in and around College
Station today to determine the
amount of pollution in the water.
Since all graduate students
can’t work on Bonfire, this was
chosen as an alternative, Pete
Sunsavage said.
David Zoellner, who is in charge
of the project said the collection
of the water was supposed to be
conducted Monday, but was un
feasible because of the wind. The
testing of the samples will take
a week to a week and a half.
Water from 12 sights will be
tested for fecal coliforms. Some
samples will be tested to see the
amount of dissolved oxygen and
the type of organic compounds
in the water.
Sights include Tarrow Road,
behind Carter’s Grove, beside
Redmond Terrace where in a sec
tion of the creek that runs across
the A&M golf course and a sight
behind Monaco Apartments.
Wild life students will clean up
a playground behind College Hills
Elementary school, today and
Wednesday, Doyle McKey said.
Students who wish to work to
morrow should meet in the park
ing lot between the Biological
Sciences Building and the Biologi
cal Science Annex at 8 a.m., Mc
Key said. All students are invited.
The students plan to pick up
paper, chop up already cut wood
that was cut down when a power
line right of way was built, clear
brush and build small erosion
(See Students, page 3)
Executives approve pass-fail
The Executive Committee of the
Academic Council passed the reso
lution on a limited pass-fail sys
tem, passed earlier this year by
the Student Senate and th© Lib
eral Arts council, with a few
minor changes Monday morning.
The resolution now goes to the
Academic Council for considera
tion Dec. 3.
Academic Vice President Hor
ace R. Byers said the committee
recommends unanimously to the
council the resolution in “essen
tially the form the Senate pro
posed it.”
He said he would not disclose
the changes made until the resolu
tion is accepted or rejected by the
council.
Kent Caperton, student body
president and Bill Hartsfield Sen
ate Secretary, who were present
for a portion of the meeting, pre
sented the Senate’s resolution and
answered questions.
Caperton said he talked with
President Jack K. Williams and
Dean of Students James P. Hanni-
gan Monday afternoon after the
meeting.
“As I understand it, there were
two major changes in the senate
resolution” he said. “Sections
stating, ‘Professors will not know
which students are taking a course
on pass-fail basis,’ and, “In the
event a student decides to major
in a subject in which he has taken
a course on pass-fail basis, the
college concerned will decide
whether the course can be counted
as part of the student’s major
requirements,’ were deleted.”
Caperton said committee mem
bers had discussed the first point
with him, stressing fair dealing
and honesty between student and
professor.
Other provisions of the pass-
fail resolution are:
—Only juniors and seniors with
an overall grade point ratio of
2.4 or higher be allowed to takq
courses on a pass-fail basis and
no more than six hours credit
may be taken on that basis.
—A student must have the writ
ten approval of his academic ad
viser or department head to take
a course on pass-fail basis.
—Thansfer students must have
earned at least 30 hours at A&M
to be allowed to take courses on a
pass-fail basis.
—Colleges may refuse to accept
students on pass-fail basis for
courses requiring a prior in-depth
knowledge of the subject.
—Hours for which a student is
given a pass (60 or better) grade
will not be counted in computa
tion of a semester or overall GPR,
but hours for which a fail (below
60) grade is given will count in
computation of a GPR as 0.0
grade points per semester hour.
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