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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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