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Vol. 66 No. 78 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 16, 1971
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Cloudy to partly cloudy after
noon rain and thundershowers.
Winds Southerly at 10 to 20
m.p.h. High 77, low 64.
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SCONA activities
will begin Thursday
NEW BAND SWEETHEART Karen Litzmann of Columbus dances with Lt. Col. (ret.)
E. V. Adams, band director, during' the annual Aggie Band Dance Saturday night. A high
school drum major, Miss Litzmann was selected from five finalists. Adams was hon
ored by bandsmen for his 25 years as band director.
Student inputs and effects on
society through politics, educa
tion, economics and social points
go under the microscope of the
16th Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs here this week.
Focus on “Student Responsibili
ties in the 1970s” will be obtained
through mind-to-mind contact be
tween students of the U. S., Mex
ico and Canada and eminent lead
ers in government, business and
scholarly fields.
More than 200 conferees from
71 U. S. colleges and universities,
eight in Mexico and one in Canada
register Wednesday morning for
the four-day SCONA XVI.
SCONA Chairman Dave May-
field said the time-tested method
of key speakers’ and panels’ ideas
being elaborated and and ex
panded in roundtable discussions
cochaired by prominent national
civic and foreign government of
ficials and educators will be em
ployed.
Keynote and plenary session
addresses are open to the public,
said vice chairman Ben Thurman.
He added that the Saturday morn
ing wrapup presentation by ad-
ministration-bucking former New
York Sen. Charles Goodell is
jointly sponsored by SCONA,
Great Issues and Political Forum.
Progressive philanthropist H.
Ross Perot, who was named one
of the top Freedom Foundation
honorees Monday, will speak at
1:30 p.m. Wednesday. An 8 p.m.
Wednesday session will present
Health, Education and Welfare
youth and student affairs official
Stanley B. Thomas in the second
keynote address.
Sen. Birch Bayh, Indiana Demo
crat known for legislative work
in foreign policy and environment
improvement, will speak at the
third plenary session Thursday at
1:30 p.m.
A Thursday night panel con
sisting of student body presidents
John Gaventa of Vanderbilt Uni
versity and Kent Caperton of
Texas A&M, and David A. Ifshin,
National Student Association
president of Washington, D. C.,
will be moderated by Dr. Frank
E. Vandiver.
The Friday schedule features
former astronaut and airline
executive Frank Borman and Dr.
Allen B. Mandelstamm, Michigan
State University economist, at
11 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.
Goodell’s 10:15 a.m. Saturday
summarization of SCONA XVI
also will be held in the MSC Ball
room.
Mayfield said that more than
10 hours of roundtable sessions
are scheduled. Thursday activities
will include a 5 p.m. Corps of
Cadets review, smorgasbord and
Singing Cadet performance. Dele
gates, including 70 from Texas
A&M, will dine with the Corps
of Cadets Friday evening.
‘Experienced’ schools said
they could not afford trip
New professor evaluation near
By FRAN ZUPAN
A number of nationally known
schools which have experienced
student unrest turned down invi
tations to the 16th Student Con
ference on National Affairs be
cause they couldn’t afford to send
delegates, SCONA Chairman H.
Davis Mayfield III told The Bat
talion Monday night.
Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard,
Yale, Kent State University and
the University of Wisconsin,
among others, all refused invita
tions to the conference on “Stu
dent Responsibilities in the Seven
ties” which starts Wednesday,
saying, “the trip is too far to
send delegates,” Mayfield said.
Mayfield said there have been
budget cutbacks at many schools
due to financial problems.
The SCONA Planning Commit
tee invited twice as many schools
as accepted, Mayfield said. He
explained:
“Schools were invited on more
or less two bases—schools which
have been invited in the past and
other schools which would send
delegates with meaningful contri
butions. We aimed for a geo
graphical cross-sdction outside
Texas.”
He said the number of students
from a school in Texas is based on
the enrollment at that school and
its distance from A&M.
Mayfield said schools sending
delegations to the conference that
did not send one last year includes
San Francisco State, Jackson
State, Davidson, Vanderbilt, Uni
versity of North Carolina, Uni
versity of Georgia and Mary
Baldwin College.
Mayfield said schools were sent
a letter of invitation from A&M
President Jack K. Williams re
questing that they send student
body presidents or students in
student government since the con
ferences is “aimed at this type.”
He added that there would defi
nitely be a “balance of view
points” at the conference.
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
The computer and a more ana
lytical set of questions may be
the tool for evaluating A&M
teachers in the not too distant
future, a Liberal Arts Student
Council senior on the Teaching
Excellence Committee told a
group of liberal arts students
Monday night.
The technique was tried on over
500 students in the College of
Liberal Arts last semester, John
ny Smith of sociology said, and it
will be offered to all colleges for
their classes at the end of this
semester.
Smith has been working on the
project with Dr. Anthony E. Bour
geois, head of the subcommittee
in charge.
The test, in which the student
would give teachers, textbooks,
environment and facilities ratings
from one for a high evaluation to
seven for the lowest, was cut from
63 to about 40 questions in the
trial run. Questions are valued
differently, depending on prede
termined importance of questions.
Waring’s
here for
The computer tabulates the re
sults.
The difference in this method
and the questionnaires now used
is in the type of questions. There
are two sections of the evaluation.
In the first part the student gives
his ratings on course work, teach
ers and facilities. These questions
range from, “I would not recom
mend this teacher to a friend,” to,
“This course has required a great
deal more time and effort than
other courses at the same level.”
In the second part of the evalu
ation, the student gives the in
structor information about him
self such as his grade point ratio
and sex. This is to help the teach
er evaluate the evaluation, Smith
said.
The teacher would be given the
completed evaluations and results
for his own use and would not
be required to show them to any
one, Smith said.
Approval by the Liberal Arts
College faculty would make the
method a reality, ,Smith said.
In other Liberal Arts Student
Council business, the council voted
to submit a recommendation to
Liberal Arts Dean W. David Max
well, requesting that grade slips,
both midsemester and final ( be
sent to the student, in addition
to his parents.
The recommendation, written by
Dean Boyd, junior in economics,
states that six copies of grade
slips are made. The sixth copy
is sent to the student’s high
school his freshman year, but is
not after that, the recommenda
tion says.
“Since these grades are wholly
the result of his (the student’s)
effort,” it states, “he is most en
titled to them.”
Rebecca Kirby, modern lan
guage senior reported on the Lib
eral Arts Faculty Advisory Coun
cil meeting over semester break.
This council approved course rec
ommendations for independent
study programs in the English
and Philosophy departments. The
courses numbered 497 in both
departments, could be repeated
once for credit.
Curriculum changes must now
Pennsylvanians
concert tonight
be approved by the University
Curriculum Committee, the Ex
ecutive Committee, the Academic
Council, the Board of Directors
and the Co-ordinating Board.
If the head of a student’s de
partment approved, the student
could take these courses and prob
lems courses (485), Miss Kirby
said.
There was no report from the
committee appointed to explore
possibilities for improvement in
teaching methods and facilities
of the Modern Language Depart
ment, Michael Hardin history
junior said.
Corps march honors guests
Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets will go on review
Thursday before delegates to the 16th Student
Conference on National Affairs.
The 5 p.m. event on the Memorial Student
Center drill field will be the 2,343-member corps’
first review of the spring semester.
Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant, and
Air Force Col. Keith C. Hanna, professor of aerospace
studies, will review the troops.
Requested by SCONA XVI leaders, the review
ties in with the 1971 conference, “Student Responsi
bilities in the ’70’s” said chairman Dave Mayfield.
Topics to be discussed during SCONA XVI are
student roles in politics, education, economics and
society, he said. Military aspects will be naturally
infused through the review and delegates taking the
Friday evening meal with the corps.
Corps Commander Van H. Taylor will lead
units from the 12-dorm area at 4:40 p.m. Adjutant’s
call will sound at 5 p.m.
“Weather played a major part in cancelling the
SCONA review when conference was held in
December,” McCoy said. “At this time of the year,
we look forward to having the review after the
planning that goes into it.”
Rain rubbed out the SCONA XV review in
December, 1969.
Vice presidents announced for MSC
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
Accounting junior A1 Bradley
was elected executive vice presi
dent of the 22nd Memorial Stu
dent Center (MSC) Council and
Directorate Monday night.
Other vice presidents elected
for 1971-72 are Vice President for
Operations—Sam Walser, history
sophomore; Vice President for
Recreation — Wade Seidel, man
agement sophomore; Vice Presi
dent for Issues — Patricia Lucey,
marketing sophomore; and Vice
President for Programs — Keith
Kauffman, electrical engineering
sophomore.
suit personalities and problems”
of various committees, MSC Pres
ident Tom Fitzhugh said.
The Black Awareness Commit
tee (BAG) now will be categor
ized with the issues committees—
Great Issues, Political Forum and
SCONA. The BAG was under pro
grams. The Contemporary Arts
Committee and Leadership Com
mittee have been placed under
programs with Town Hall, Aggie
Cinema, the Basement and Host
and Fashion Committee. The
Travel Committee has been moved
from programs to recreation,
which includes Camera, Chess and
Radio Committees and New Tra
dition Singers.
g.p.r. of 2.40 or have a g.p.r. of
2.65 for the two previous semes
ters.
The Council also approved a
measure which will reduce the
number of awards presented at
the Awards Banquet.
Only one outstanding class
award will be given per class
(freshman, sophomore and junior
classes only). Previously three
awards could be given per class.
Only five distinguished service
awards, instead of 12, can be
given. Appreciation awards will
be given at the committee level
rather than at the banquet.
In addition, the Council will
give one Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Award, one Thomas H. Rountree
Award, and one Elizabeth Todd
Chapman Award. The Chapman
Award will be given this year
only to a person who has made
an outstanding contribution to
the MSC in the spirit of Elizabeth
Todd Chapman.
Fashion show set
The Fred Waring-Pennsylvani-
ans Show comes to A&M tonight.
The show will go on stage in
G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8 in
a Rotary-Town Hall crossover.
Town Hall Chairman Bill Left-
wich said Rotary ticket holders
will have reserved seats in rows 1
to 15 on the coliseum floor and
row 1 to 15 in west balcony sec
tion 107.
Town Hall season tickets and
student activity cards will get
unreserved seat admission at no
extra charge.
Fred Waring, stricken recently
by heart attack and in recupera
tion at home, has the Pennsyl
vanians in their 55th year of
tours. The current concert tour
is hailed as one of the freshest
and most appealing attractions.
“The people who remember us
from our radio-TV days of the
30’s and 40’s will always be with
us,” commented the 70-year-old
musician. “I’m grateful for that,
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
but to look out on a sea of faces
belonging to the teens and young
adults means that we’ve hit a
vital nerve with the kids of to
day.”
Most often, Waring added,
they’ve come to see “how we
treat ‘their music’.”
“Most go away surprised and
become our greatest disciples,” he
noted.
The Fred Waring Show com
pany’s ability to keep young and
adapt to changing musical trends
of any given era lies behind this
cross-generation appeal.
Famed Pennsylvanian concert
presentations feature music from
popular standards and contempo
rary songs to Broadway show
tunes, chorales and folksongs,
vignettes and the latest novelty
tunes.
“We never back away from
singing a current ‘pop’ tune.
Actually, so much of today’s
music is honest and basically
sound,” Waring said. “We take
that type of material and shape
it to our style. The result is
usually pleasing to the young. But
more than that, we make their top
tunes not only recognizable but
acceptable to their parents and
grandparents.”
Waring’s versatility can be
traced to his boyhood, when the
Boy Scout Fife and Drum Corps
of Tyrone, Pa., was to parade but
the drum major—Waring—didn’t
have a baton. He solved the prob
lem with showmanship flair, bor
rowing a brass-knobbed rod on
which his mother’s lace curtains
hung.
Unforgettable Fred Waring-
Pennsylvanians concerts—includ
ing several in recent years at
A&M—show the verve and versa
tility are still there.
Leftwich said it is still in doubt
whether Waring’s physician will
okay the recuperating director’s
joining the tour for the Rotary
show. If not, the host and director
will be Richard Arlen, motion pic
ture actor and regular on the
Broadway stage, television and
radio.
The concert, however, is a War
ing designed and rehearsed pro
duction.
Junior accounting major Mickey
Wiesinger was appointed public
relations director and psychology
sophomore James Collins was ap
pointed finance chairman. Math
freshman Shirley Kotara is the
new Council and Directorate sec
retary.
MSC directorate structure was
changed a bit for next year “to
Meeting for the first time
Monday night, the International
Student Association’s General As
sembly ratified a proposed con
stitution, but postponed election
of officers until Monday at 7:30.
The delegates ratified the con
stitution with a few amendments,
among them being: the executive
vice chairman would be the Stu
dent Senate representative for the
group, elections would be held at
the end of the spring term and
quorum requirements.
The Council voted to change
the grade requirements for Coun
cil officers and committee chair
men. Under the new method the
president and vice presidents
must maintain a g.p.r. of 2.50
overall or 2.75 for the two previ
ous semesters. Committee chair
men must maintain an overall
Fernando Giannetti, one of the
group’s founders and acting chair
man, presided over the meeting.
Before debate began, Giannetti
introduced Kent Caperton, presi
dent of the Student Senate, and
Caperton spoke briefly.
Giannetti then thanked those
who had helped set up the group.
He urged the group to have faith
so the Association could work.
Adreas Borona, the Mexican
delegate, presented the constitu
tion to the group.
Men and women’s spring fash
ions will step front and center
here Wednesday.
Styles, colors and fabrics will
be exhibited at the Memorial Stu
dent Center Host and Fashion
Committee’s “Fashion Function.”
The 8 p.m. show in the MSC
Fernando Giannetti
Ballroom is open to the public,
announced Laura Sorenson, com
mittee chairman. Admission will
be 75 cents per student and $1
for public patrons. Refreshments
will be served.
Miss Sorenson said the Coun
try Squire and Beverly Braley’s
are sponsors and providing ap
parel, being brought in from Dal
las.
Men’s fashions will be mod
eled by several Texas A&M stu
dents including Kent Caperton,
Student Senate president. Mam’-
selles of the Host and Fashion
Committee will show distaff
styles.
Rusty Rush of Country Squire
said spring men’s fashions to be
shown will run the gamut “from
swim wear to dressy street
clothes. The styles will be more
contoured, such as a pinched-
waist coat.” New bright colors
and fabrics also will be featured
in both women’s and men’s fash
ions.
The Host and Fashion Commit
tee, a part of the MSC Council
and Directorate, regularly holds
fashion events and serves campus
social events with hostesses.
International Association OKs
constitution, postpones election