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dents interested in drama, were
destroyed Monday.
Witnessed by hundreds of stu
dents, the Olshan Wrecking Com
pany pounded away at the build
ing Monday and Tuesday backed
up by the sounds of an audience
which didn’t quite know what to
think.
Ah’ing when the massive steel
ball crashed into the side and
made no more than a dent and
then spontaneous whooping when
a wall would finally fall was the
general crowd reaction. But there
was unmistakable undertones in
the crowd.
“I hate to see it finally go, but
it is old and outdated. It needed
replacing. It wasn’t big enough
for adequate service to Theatre
Arts students,” Steve Swanner
junior History major, said.
“I don’t think it should have
been tore down. It is one of the
older buildings on campus. It’s
always been here. It is a tradi-
(See One, two, three, page 2)
Students watch nostalgical
ly or gleefully as Guion Hall
tumbles Monday. Above,
the cornerstone is saved.
(Photos by Hayden Whit-
sett and Alan-Jon Zupan).
Che Battalion
Mild
and
Wednesday — Clear. Winds
northerly 10-15 mph. 37 0 -68°.
Thursday — Clear to partly
cloudy. Winds easterly 10-12 mph.
breezy
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Vol. 66 No. 66
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, January 26, 1971
845-2226
45 to confer Friday
for idea exchange
SOPHOMORE CLASS fund raisers Debbi Drashpil, left, Pam Schiefelbein and Nancy
Evans display the Texas Aggie patches now on sale in the Memorial Student Center.
The patches are maroon plastic on white felt and sell for 75 cents each. The drive,
sponsored by the Sophomore Class, will be its only fund raising project before the Soph
omore Ball Feb. 6.
Student government structures,
services and effectiveness and
other topics will be “rapped” Fri
day and Saturday in the third
Idea Exchange Conference here.
Student legal rights, college-
community relations and educa
tional alternatives and reform
also will be discussed by 45 dele
gates to the student conference
at the Memorial Student Center.
Defeat revolutionaries,
former FBI agent says
By LEE DUNKELBERG
Battalion Staff Writer
Appealing to Americans to edu
cate themselves in order to take
legal action against the “top and
bottom revolution,” former FBI
undercover agent Gerald W. Kirk
cited four major barriers which
stand in the way of the Com
munist-led war against Ameri
cans.”
He defined the “top and bot
tom revolution” as the Commun
ist plan of revolt which utilizes
street revolutionaries supported
and aided by statesmen and poli
ticians in federal and state gov
ernment.
Speaking to an overflow crowd
in the auditorium of the Archi
tecture Building, Kirk began his
talk by warning any would-be
hecklers that attempts to inter
rupt his talk would be unsuccess
ful and would not be tolerated.
Belief in one God, the family,
the constitutional republic, and
an independent police force were
the four barriers Kirk said would
lead to the eventual defeat of the
Communist revolution in the
United States.
“The independent police force
is the most important factor,”
the former undercover agent
stated. “This will prevent a fed
eral dictatorship which will de
velop into Communism.”
In explaining the “top and bot
tom revolution” further, Kirk
said that the public demand for
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suppression o f revolutionaries
supported by high-ranking gov
ernment officials who stand to
benefit from such a revolution
would lead to a federal dictator
ship.
This dictatorship, he said,
would be taken over by the Com
munist inspired politicians and
statesmen, who would make a
token effort to prosecute the
revolutionaries while setting up
a communist-socialist state.
“Belief in one God hinders this
revolution,” Kirk said. “The
United States is based on the
belief that everyone has certain
God-given rights. Communism
destroys the belief in one God so
your rights can be argued. If
there is no God, you have no
rights.
“The family unit,” Kirk ex
plained further, “is something
else that someone can have al
legiance to, and therefore it
stands in the way of international
proletariot Communism.”
He said the “constitutional re
public” of the United States is
the last main barrier, for it pro
tects the minority against the
majority and the majority against
the minority.
In speaking of his personal ex
periences, Kirk told of his activi
ties with the Students for a Dem
ocratic Society and the DuBois
Clubs — which he said were both
Communist fronts — and with the
Communist party itself. He re
lated that during his training he
met many of the American Com
munist Party members and Amer
ican Communist revolutionaries.
At one time he was a body guard
for the outspoken Dr. Benjamin
Spock, he said.
“Spock admits there are com
munists in the ‘peace movement’,”
Kirk said of his former trust,
“and he laughs at the public that
won’t believe him!”
Kirk blamed public ignorance
of the problem of the Communist
movement to suppression of the
truth by “spineless” government
officials — he named former at
torney general Ramsey Clark as
an example—and the news media.
The conference, expanded over
its predecessors, will seat dele
gates from the eight Southwest
Conference schools, Texas Wom
an’s University, Southwest Texas
State, the University of Houston
and Prairie View A&M. Only
SWC schools participated previ
ously.
Each institution will send three
delegates, announced Texas A&M
junior John Sharp, Student Sen
ate life committee and conference
chairman of Placedo.
Delegates will register at the
MSC from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday and
be welcomed by President Jack
K. Williams and Kent Caperton,
A&M student body president.
Also attending from A&M will
be the Senate executive commit
tee consisting of Caperton; Eddie
Duryea, treasurer, Abilene; Jim
my 0’Jibway, PR chairman, Lub
bock; Roger Miller, vice presi
dent, Hamilton; Mike Essmyer,
parliamentarian, San Antonio;
Kirby Brown, issues chairman,
Houston, and Charles Hicks, wel
fare chairman, Brownwood.
Sessions at the MSC begin at
10 a.m. and will continue through
Saturday afternoon. In the lead-
off plenary session, Tommy Hen
derson, Texas Intercollegiate Stu
dent Association president of
A&M, and three student body
presidents of delegate schools
will panel discuss four topics.
They are student government
services, administrative effective
ness, communication with stu
dents and in state affairs.
Following a noon luncheon, the
delegates will separate into three
groups. Each will consider stu
dent government structures, col
lege-community relations, student
legal rights, student government
communication with all segments
of a university, student govern
ment services and educational al
ternatives and reform.
Sharp said the topics were
drawn from a list suggested by
participating institutions. A Rice
University administrator will par
ticipate to present both sides of
all topics.
University of Texas at Austin
(See 45 confer, page 2)
A&M boosts city
economically in ’70
Strategy expert
to speak Friday
Frank R. Barnett, president of
National Strategy Information
Center, Inc. (NSIC), in New
York, will address Army and Air
Force ROTC cadets Friday at
Texas A&M.
“Survival in the ’70s“ will be
discussed by Barnett, noted Col.
Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
The speaker, at Texas A&M for
the 19th Executive Development
Course of the College of Business
Administration, will be intro
duced by Gen. A. R. Luedecke,
executive vice president of the
university.
Also attending the presentation
will be Col. W. E. Duren, chief,
ROTC division, 4th U. S. Army.
Barnett is a veteran Executive
Development Course instructor at
A&M. The former Wabash Col
lege professor is an internation
ally known expert on Communist
strategy.
' Gerald W. Kirk
He has spoken before the Na
tional War College, NATO De
fense in Paris, the Armed Forces
Staff College and national con
ventions of the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce, National Associa
tion of Manufacturers and Re
serve Officers Association.
The World War II veteran be
came a Russian interpreter for
the 69th Infantry Division, the
first American unit to meet the
Red Army on the Elbe River in
April, 1945.
Barnett earlier studied geo
politics, Russian language and
history at Syracuse. His activi
ties since have included, among
others, military government offi
cial service in Berlin, a summer
political science seminar at the
University of Zurich and inter
viewing of exiles from the Com
munist empire who crowded into
London after the fall of Czecho
slovakia and purges in Poland,
Hungary and other Iron Curtain
countries.
The president of NSIC, a non
profit educational corporation,
also is program manager for a
standing committee of the Amer
ican Bar Association which en
courages education of Communism
and its contrast with liberty
under law.
The economic impact of Texas
A&M on the Bryan-College Sta
tion area totaled $76,605,000 last
year, announced President Jack
K. Williams Friday.
Dr. Williams said the total
increased more than $6 million
over the previous year.
The figures, part of a univer
sity survey, included a payroll of
$45 million for more than 5,000
permanent Texas A&M Univer
sity System employees residing in
Bryan-College Station. The pay
roll totaled $42 million the year
before.
Texas A&M added approxi
mately 90 faculty members in
1970 and 180 staff, research and
support personnel.
Students contributed more than
$22 million to the local economy,
up over $1 million. Major ex
penditures included food and
housing for the increasing num
ber of graduate and married stu
dents, as well as clothing, school
supplies, recreation and miscel
laneous expenses for all students.
Student enrollment increased to
14,316.
The study also indicated the
university spent about $2.7 mil
lion locally for utilities, services
and supplies. Expenditures in
this category rose about $200,000.
An additional $3 million was
brought into the Bryan-College
Station community by visitors
attending athletic events, confer
ences and short courses at the
university, the survey revealed.
Most expenditures in this cate
gory were for food, housing and
entertainment.
Manson, 3 of clan convicted
LOS ANGELES OP)—Charles
Manson and three women mem
bers of his hippie-style clan were
convicted yesterday of first-de
gree murder and conspiracy in the
savage slayings of actress Sharon
Tate and six others.
Manson was the only defendant
to speak out. After the jury was
polled he shouted to the judge:
“We’re still not allowed to put
on a defense. You won’t outlive
that, old man.”
The same jury at a separate
trial will fix the penalty, death
or life imprisonment. The judge
set next Thursday for the penalty
trial to begin.
The prosecutor said he will ask
for the death penalty.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.