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RE ON )OD SEE’S VING tURY IONS Che Battalion Clear, warm, windy Vol. 66 No. 50 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 1, 1970 WEDNESDAY — Cloudy after noon rainshowers and thunder showers. Winds Southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 78, low 64. THURSDAY — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds Southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. Higli 76, low 66. 845-2226 VING table Fee, rent hikes get board OK 1*SS I mM m - 1 u I ' . ^ ■■ TEAK 1AVY Texas A&M’s board of directors Wednesday approved increases in room and board fees and univer sity apartment rents during a regular board meeting. The increases are effective be ginning with the fall semester of next year. The room and board boosts had been outlined to the Student Sen ate Nov. 19 by Director of Man agement Services Howard L. Vestal. Vestal at that time termed the increases “cost-of- living” hikes and said they were needed to combat inflation and help Texas A&M comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act. The last increases in room and board were made in November 1968. No increase was made in the laundry fee. The increases mean a student on the seven-day board plan liv ing in Mitchell, Milner, Legett or Hotard Halls will pay $405 a semester for room-board-laundry, a $35 increase. Students on the five-day plan living in one of the !es Minister-columnist to address grads JGHT mi Sauce le lad ssing d ■ ING Dr. Charles L. Allen, minister of the First Methodist Church in Houston, will be commencement speaker for A&M graduation cer emonies Dec. 12, President Jack K. Williams has announced. Commencement exercises will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A record 1,166 students have applied for mid-term graduation. In addition to his Houston pas torship, Dr. Allen writes a col umn which appears in several large newspapers. He also is the author of 20 books which have been “best sellers” in the relig ious field. He is a graduate of Young Harris College, Wofford College and Emory University’s School of Theology. He also holds Doc tor of Divinity degrees from Em ory and Piedmont College and the Doctor of Laws degree from John Brown University. Dr. Allen is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and listed in “Who’s Who in America.” Prior to moving to Houston, he was pastor of The Grace Meth odist Church in Atlanta. He is a native of Georgia and the son of a minister. halls will pay $352, up $31. Students on the seven-day plan living in Hart, Law, Puryear or Walton Halls will pay $424 a semester, a $39 boost. For the student on the five-day plan liv ing in one of the halls the cost will be $396, an increase of $35. Students on the seven-day plan living in Hughes, Fowler, Keath- ley, Moses, Davis-Gary, Mclnnis, Moore, Crocker or Schumacher Halls or in the cadet area will pay $483 a semester, a $44 boost. For students on the five-day plan living in one of these halls, the increase is $40 to $455. Rents in the university apart ment area were increased to help meet the rising cost of mainte nance. Old College View, un furnished, will rent for $45 a month instead of $40; furnished dwellings in the area will rent for $55, a $7 increase. Southside apartments will rent for $60 a month instead of $52.50, and the New College View apart ments will rent for $125, a $10 increase. Hensel rent will stay at $85 per month, a figure set only last year. An $8,754,000 contract for con struction of a new auditorium and conference center at Texas A&M was awarded to Manhattan Construction Co. The project will include three auditoriums — with seating capacities ranging from 250 to 2,500 — and an 11-floor continuing education tower. The board also awarded three other contracts totaling $246,616 and appropriated $123,500 for nine additional projects. Included was a $30,000 appro priation to finance detailed design for proposed renovations at Eas- terwood Airport in the event a grant application is approved by the Federal Aviation Administra tion. The board also appropriated $5,000 for design of additional hangar facilities at the municipal airport owned and operated by the university. Other Texas A&M contracts were awarded to Loyd Electric Co. Inc. of San Antonio, $84,500 for electrical feeder for the ocean ography-meteorology building un der construction; Anthony Me chanical Inc. of Lubbock, $82,600 for relocation of utilities at site of a proposed office and classroom building; and Sentry Construction Co. of Bryan, $79,516 for renova tion and modification of an ani mal science meat laboratory. A $25,000 appropriation was approved for preliminary design of a new health center for Texas A&M students. Other appropriations included $10,000 for a program of require ments of an animal science com plex at Texas A&M and $11,000 for preliminary design of an audi torium and addition at the agri cultural research and extension center at Weslaco. The board also initiated action for the formal inauguration of Dr. Jack K. Williams as president of Texas A&M with plans to establish a date at the February board meeting. ■11 | j I 111 Ilf - ’ if if ii' llill ■§>■ ‘:: ■, ".vs*.: For 2 productions National Players here Nutrition topic of Wednesday National Player productions of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and George Bernard Shaw’s “Anns and the Man” will be pre sented tonight and Wednesday night, respectively, at Bryan Civic Auditorium through Town Hall TAMU Special Attraction book ing. The Players, longest-running national classical repertory com pany in America, was arranged as a separate-ticket cultural bonus this year by Town Hall, Chair man Bill Leftwich said. “They’ve played 39 states, over seas, on network TV and at the White House by special invita tion,” he added. “They’ve gotten good press every time.” Curtain each night is at 8 p.m. The company that has gone on the road every year from October to May since 1949 works out of Washington, D. C. Through the years, it has offered more than 3,000 performances of classical and modern masterwqrks of the stage. Works of Shakdspeare, Sopho cles, Shaw, Aeschylus, Aristoph anes and Moliere are standard for the group. They’ve played in Canada and, under Department Campus Chest drive underway LIED ;ables ■ ■ IAL Students who have not made contributions to the Campus Chest this year will have a chance to do so as the Campus Chest Dorm Drive gets under way today. The dorm drive, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega and the Stu- University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M." —Adv. dent Senate, includes the annual “Miss Campus Chest” campaign, as each corps unit and civilian dorm nominates a sweetheart to be chosen by the group contrib uting the most money percent age wise. The drive will be conducted through first sergeants and dorm councils, who will be collecting the money. It will last through Dec. 15. of Defense arrangement, in Ko rea, Japan, Italy, France, Ger many and the Arctic Circle. Distinguished directors known for Broadway endeavors have guided National Players presen tations. They include Alan Schnei der (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”); Walter Kerr, now New York Times drama critic, and Robert Moore (“The Boys in the Band” and “Promises, Promises.”) Players have helped launch many actors into successful Broadway and regional theatres, films and television. Recent appearances of the group were at Scranton, Pa.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Clark Uni versity in Worcester, Mass., and Marshall University. Aggie Players patrons saw “Arms and the Man” by the Texas A&M theatre company last year. Shaw’s play uncovers some un usual viewpoints among soldiers and how people identify with them. “Twelfth Night” concerns the escapades of Viola, a high-born young woman who enters the service of a duke disguised as a boy. lecture at ‘C’ Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, author of the nationally syndicated newspaper column, “Food and Your Health,” will be guest speaker for a University Lecture Series presentation here Wednes day. The lecture, entitled “Nutrition and Your Health,” will be held at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. Dr. Wendell A. Landmann, chairman of Texas A&M’s Uni versity Lectures Committee, said the admission-free talk is open to the public. While best known generally for his writing, Dr. Stare has served as chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1942. In addition to his newspaper column, Dr. Stare is the author of a book, “Eating for Good Health,” and former editor of “Nutrition Review.” He also has written more than 300 technical publications and 60 articles. NOW YOU SEE IT. Now you don’t. The Aggie Bonfire as it appeared Tuesday afternoon and Thanksgiving Day. (Photos by Alan-Jon Zupan) CIH helps Internationals Christmas International House (CIH), which is a group of ecumenical sponsoring committees in host communities, will again be providing hospitality for international students during the coming Christmas season. With 45 host communities in 24 states, CIH provides an alternative to an empty dormitory on a deserted campus. CIH works this way: the communities make housing arrangements for international students as guests in homes or in church educational buildings which become temporary dormitories. The students finance their own way to and from the host com munities, and everything else is provided as a free service to the internationals. CIH offers a way to enjoy the Christmas season with a local community and other international students. Activities vary according to the host com munity, but usually include tours to local attractions, visits with city leaders, parties, opportunities for dialogue, and just plain rest if the student wants. Open to all international students regardless of race, nationality, or religious background, CIH for 1970 has new host communities on the East and West coasts as well as in the South. For additional information and apphcation forms, interested students should contact the Foreign Student Advisor in room 108 of the YMCA as soon as possible. Aggies open with tough Lumberjacks tonight By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor Since a basketball game can’t end in a tie, tonight’s battle be tween the Texas Aggies and the Stephen F. Austin State Univer sity Lumberjacks in G. Rollie any )n we h and nment James Silas White Coliseum will be a mile stone victory for the winning coach. Coach Shelby Metcalf will be seeking his 100th victory as head coach of the Aggies in the game that opens the 1970 season with an 8 p.m. tipoff. Metcalf has a record of 99-73 in seven years as the head man of the Aggies, which is the most victories ever recorded by an A&M cage men tor. Coach Marshall Brown of the Lumberjacks will be in pursuit of his 200th win for SFA, as he has won 199 and lost 86 in the 11 seasons he has handled the Nacogdoches-based school. The Lumberjacks will be a tough opener for the Aggies, with one returning All-American from the ranks of a 29-1 team and another who was named to All-America honorable mention. The Aggies will counter with four returning starters who will line up with junior Bobby Threadgill as the Aggies bid for the Southwest Conference title. 7-0 Steve Niles, 6-5 Chuck Smith, 6-0 Pat Kavanagh and 6-2 Bill Cooksey will start alongside Threadgill. The Lumberjacks will have the advantage of having played two ^ m m Pat Kavanagh games this season. Also the ad dition of sophomore Pete Harris has made them partially forget about the loss of seniors George Johnson, Surry Oliver, Ervin Pol- nick, Marvin Polnick and Narvis Johnson all of which were draft ed by the pros after last year. Harris, who has been the spark plug for the Lumberjacks, had two outstanding games in his first starts for the Purple and White of SFA. In the opener with Henderson State College of Arkadelphia, Ark., Harris drilled in 25 points and pulled down 17 rebounds de spite his team's losing effort in overtime, 88-83. There were reasons for that SFA loss, and the main one was the fact that 6-7 Harvey Huff- stetler, who averaged 15.8 last season and was named honorable mention All-American by United Press International, was not at full strength. Huffstetler was limited to three points as he bat tled a throat infection which sent him to the hospital for three days last week. Last Friday, the Lumberjacks gained revenge with Harris scor ing 26 points, grabbing 21 re bounds and blocking at least 6 shots. Huffstetler scored 10 in Pete Harris the game which SFA won 92-85 over the Reddies on Harris’ home court, their 46th straight win in Shelton Gym. Their All-American returnee is junior James Silas from Tallu lah, La., who scored 23 points in the opener and 27 in the victory. Metcalf says he’s the best guard in Texas. The other Lumberjack starter will be 6-0 Terry Brown, who is the team’s quarterback and 6-4 Jerry Meador, a transfer who scored in double figures in the first two games, will be at the other forward. Meador is a high- scoring transfer from Jackson ville Baptist College. Kavanagh, a senior who trans ferred from Hill County Junior College will be back to operate the vital point position for the Aggies. He averaged 10.3 but is more valuable with his ballhan dling and passing than his point production. Niles will start at one of the post positions as the key to the Aggies hopes. He finished sec ond last year in both field goal shooting and rebounding for the Ags. The other postman will be Smith, who is called by Metcalf as the best athlete on the squad. (See Ags open, page 6) Steve Niles