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Vol. 66 No. 83 College Station, {Texas
Women’s dorm date
disappoints some
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
Battalion Assistant Editor
Disappointment is the key word
in student leaders' reaction to the
Board of Directors’ decision to
have women on campus in Sep
tember of 1972.
“I don’t see any valid justifi
cation for not putting them in
this fall,” Kent Caperton, presi
dent of the Student Senate, said.
‘‘They’re just putting it off
again,” he said. “They have a
realistic proposal setting before
them. There is no reason.”
Tuesday the board approved
the use of a 474-person wing of
the dorm currently under con
struction east of the Corps area
for women in the fall of 1972.
A&M President Dr. Jack K.
Williams said he felt “the board
did what they thought was best.”
‘‘The board made a personal
tour of the existing men’s dormi
tories and they felt they would
not be adequate for freshman
female students,” he said.
“I was disappointed it couldn’t
be done sooner,” he said. He add
ed that he was pleased that the
university can now say something
definite about the situation.
The proposal Caperton referred
to was one that would place co
eds in Schumacher or an equiva
lent dorm next fall. Though plans
An informational meeting to
acquaint students with summer
travel opportunities will be held
Thursday.
Memorial Student Center
Travel Committee chairman
Mina Akins said four cultural
exchange programs will be ex
plained at the 7:30 p.m. meeting
in the Basement Coffee House.
She said the programs are Ex
periment in International Living
(EIL), International Association
for the Exchange of Students for
had previously been discussed
about this idea by the administra
tion, nothing was said about it
at the board meeting Tuesday.
Schumacher has had women as
residents for the past two summer
sessions.
Caperton said the university is
carrying approximately 800 to
1,000 empty beds this semester.
“They won’t approve a coed
dorm but they will allow all this
space to go unused,” he said. “It
just doesn’t seem to make good
business sense.”
Caperton commented that if
enough pressure is brought to
bear upon the board—by students,
former students, and the adminis
tration — members might recon
sider the proposals at their April
meeting.
“I think it’s commendable that
they finally accepted some of the
responsibilities,” he said. “I’m
sorry they took so long to do it.”
“The only reason the board gave
was inadequate facilities,” Caper
ton said. “That seems a little off,”
he said, “there have been ade
quate facilities the past two sum
mers.”
Williams said that one of the
reasons the board decided to de
lay the program until the new
dorm was opened was to make
the situation for the girls “as
Technical Experience (IAESTE),
Amigos de las Americas and
Operations Crossroads.
EIL enables participants to
spend four to six weeks as a
member of an overseas family,
experiencing and appreciating
another culture by living and be
ing part of it. An informal tour
with “brothers” or “sisters” of
host families is also in the pro
gram.
IAESTE enables engineering,
architecture and science students
good as possible.”
“We can do two things in ad
vance,” he said. “We can get all
our furniture ordered early and
make any adjustments in the dor
mitories that must be made.”
“I was very disappointed with
the action,” Roger Miller, Student
Senate vice president, said.
“I honestly feel the board has
not taken into account its respons
ibility to the students,” he said.
“It seems they would put equal
emphasis on all students — not
just males.”
“They may have a valid reason
but I don’t know what it is,” he
added. “I feel if there is one, the
The Singing Cadets, one of
A&M’s most travelled groups,
will add 1,700 miles in the next
three weeks while carrying the
musical word to the state.
Performances by the all-male
choral group will be in San An
tonio, LaMarque, Bay City and
Gainesville and points between.
to obtain on-the-job training in
a foreign country. The Associa
tion is a private, non-profit in
ternational organization.
A summer Peace Corps - type
program, Amigos stresses work
programs in Latin and South
America. Col. Gilbert Mayeux,
local chapter advisor and mod
em languages professor, said
student volunteers innoculate,
teach, explain health and sani
tation possibilities and promote
inter-American good will.
Crossroads arranges participa
tion with African students and
villagers in urgent projects re
quested by African communities
or a government. Work is in
groups of 10 to 12 under a com
petent leader. The program is
financed by fees, contributions,
foundation grants and some gov
ernment contracts.
Miss Akins noted that limited
financial aid is available in loans
repayable after a program par
ticipant has completed his edu
cation.
Campus
miss L-l
Paula Robinson has been named
Miss Campus Chest for the 1970-
71 school year.
The 19 year old elementary ed
ucation major from Texas Wom
an’s University in Denton was
chosen by Company L-l, which
contributed more money to the
Campus Chest fund than any
other four outfits combined.
Miss Robinson will be the of
ficial representative for all the
activities of Campus Chest and
will be the guest of honor at a
party which L-l will be giving in
her behalf later this semester.
Contributions for the fund were
raised by L-l from proceeds from
a documentary on “Modem Man
and His Morals,” which was pre
sented by the outfit.
Another fund raising project
for campus chest is the “ugliest
senior” competition, which was
won by Tommy Girdner, the com
manding officer of L-l, when the
company contributed the most
money to that campaign, also.
In overall results, $1,300 was
raised in the campus drives, with
L-l placing first in every cam
paign.
Walton Hall was the leading
students should know what it is,”
he continued.
Clyde H. Wells, president of the
Board of Directors, said, “The
board felt it wanted to go with
new facilities so the girls could
do as good as possible at A&M.”
Patricia Self, A&M women’s
counselor, said that “anything is
good.”
“I am very disappointed by the
action, though,” she said. “If
there is no housing by this fall
it will be crucial.”
She said that she already has
a dorm the size of Schumacher
three-quarters full of applicants.
(See Women’s page 3)
The group, directed by Robert
L. Boone and accompanied by Mrs.
June Biering, will initiate the 12-
performance period Friday at La-
Marque High School’s American
Heritage Day.
The Singing Cadets so far this
year have performed 35 times be
fore 25,000 people and on two na
tional television shows.
“We expect to do over 60 con
certs in 1970-71,” commented Da
vid Kesey, publicity manager of
Pecos. It will require more than
10,000 miles travel but will put
the Aggie ambassadors in front
of 50,000 people.
The LaMarque trip will include
two performances, a 2:30 p.m.
American Heritage Day concert
for LaMarque High School stu
dents and a 7:30 p.m. community
concert. Dr. Frank E. Vandiver,
Rice University provost who mod
erated a SCONA XVI student
panel, also will appear on the
program.
Sunday, the cadets will be in
San Antonio for a sermon-in-song
at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
and a two-hour concert at the
Hall of Performing Arts, spon
sored by the San Antonio A&M
Mother’s Club.
Two performances Tuesday will
be for the Fort Hood Officers
Wives Club and troops at the
Central Texas post.
March 5, 6 and 7 apeparances
will be at Houston’s Jones Hall
for the Houston A&M Mothers
Club and Bay City, including a
sermon-in-song at the Bay City
Presbyterian Church.
The Gainesville Stage Associ
ation will sponsor the Singing
Cadets for a two-hour concert
March 12. Brownwood concert and
church performances are schedul
ed March 13 and 14.
Chest
choice
contributing dorm in the dorm
drive. Company F-l was runner-
up in the Miss Campus Chest
Drive.
Paula Robinson
Constitutionality of
dance questioned
HOUSTON (AP) — Asst. City Atty. Joseph Rollins said Tuesday a
female night club operator “is trying to make Houston a Copenhagen
on the Bayou.”
Naked people on water matresses, simulating intercourse, is not
protected by the U.S. Constitution,” Rollins told U.S. Dist. Judge Allen
B. Hannay.
Miss Sandra Montgomery, operator of the Seven Veils Art Club,
testified she guaranteed a male employee between $200 and $300 per
week to participate with her in a nude “Act of Love” dance on a water
mattress at the club.
Miss Montgomery, a brunette who said she studied drama at the
University of Houston, testified on her petition asking that the Houston
police be temporarily enjoined from raiding the club pending a hearing
on the constitutionality of the state law on indecent exposure.
She said the club cannot make a profit without featuring the
dance and other acts Rollins alleges are indecent.
Hannay took the case under advisement and gave lawyers on both
sides until Wednesday to file briefs.
1971-72 Review editor sought
Anyone interested can apply
for editorship of The Review,
Assistant Professor Howard Fil
ers, the magazine’s, technical ad
visor, has said,.
Applicants should contact Mrs.
Cecilia Prihoda in Room 216 of
the Services Building for appli
cation forms, Eilers said.
Applications are due before
March 15.
Eilers and Dean of Liberal Arts
W. David Maxwell will recom
mend a student for editor to Stu
dent Publications Board at their
March meeting, Eilers said.
The Review is the magazine of
the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Busi
ness, Education, Geosciences and
Science.
‘C’ assistant signup this week
Applications for 1971-72 Me
morial Student Center directorate
assistants are now being accept
ed.
University National Bank
‘‘On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Applications should be turned
in at the Student Program Office
by Friday, Mickey Wiesinger
said. The nominating committee
will interview applicants Monday.
Minimum grade requirement is
an overall grade point ratio of
2.4. The applicant cannot be on
any probation.
Travel group discusses
summer program
Texas tour to start
for Singing Cadets
Wednesday, February 24, 1971
845-2226
STUDENTS BROWSE, along with local residents, through more than $1,000 worth of
original graphics by classical and contemporary artists which went on sale Tuesday in
the lobby of the Architecture Building. The graphics were from the Ferdinand Roten
Gallery in Baltimore, Md. (Photo by Bob Cox)
A&M gains eco group
By STEVE DUNKELBERG
Battalion Staff Writer
Next time you hear the word
“SCOPE” around campus don’t
thing of a mouthwash.
SCOPE (Student Council On
Pollution and the Environment),
a student ecology group sponsored
by the Department of the Interior,
has a chapter at A&M.
Though membership is some
what small now, the group has
been active, and has many activi
ties planned and in execution,
Young said.
These activities, according to
Young, include lectures to local
Blues singer
will perforin
at coffee house
Popular Negro blues and folk-
singer Mance Lipscomb will per
form Friday and Saturday at the
Basemen Coffee House in the Me
morial Student Center.
A recording artist of Navasota
who has out several numbers he
composed, Lipscomb has played
on the West Coast, Detroit, Wash
ington, D. C.; Houston, Dallas,
Austin and San Antonio, among
others.
He has performed frequently at
the Coffee Loft in College Station
during the last six years.
“Most who have heard Mance
Lipscomb come back to hear him
again,” said Gary Reid, Basement
chairman of Stanton.
Reid said the Aggie coffee
house, located in the MSC base
ment, will be open from 8 p.m.
to midnight Friday and Satur
day. Admission is 50 cents per
person.
Basement publicity chairman
Sam Walser noted that Alan
Ramsey, national coffee house
circuit performer from Texas, has
been booked for late March ap
pearance.
community and school groups
about the environment, sampling
of water in and around the Bryan-
College Station area, and a pesti
cide analysis of its fields and
streams.
Other activities include spon
soring and helping a group at
Stephen F. Austin High School
in Bryan called HELP (Help
Eliminate Litter and Pollution).
HELP hopes to eventually become
a former member of SCOPE.
A&M's chapter is receiving
great support in San Angelo,
Young added, where there is a
critical water shortage.
SCOPE was organized in 1969
by the Department of the Interior
under former Secretary Walter
Hickel.
“The purpose of the group is
to communicate student ideas to
the administration,” Young ex
plained. “We are not tools of the
government. We feel that some
of our ideas are being listened to
by government officials.”
“The government,” he con
tinued, “has been very helpful on
the projects we have been enthusi
astic about.”
Money for SCOPE is furnished
by the federal government,
through regional offices. This
funding helps pay for lab work
carried out by the programs, as
well as films and programs.
The next meeting is March 3
in the Memorial Student Center,
Room 3B. Among other things,
plans for the upcoming celebra
tion of Earth Day on April 22
will be discussed.
Membership is open to both
high school and college students.
Dating topic today
‘how far to go’
“How far to go” is the subject
of the second “Man Your Man
ners” panel presentation Wednes
day sponsored by the Student
“Y” Association.
Publicity Chairman Dan Mc
Queen said the program begins at
7:30 p.m. in Biology Room 113.
“Last week’s attendance was a
capacity audience and a larger
turnout is expected for this topic,”
McQueen said.
Mrs. Patricia Self, A&M coun
selor for women, will moderate
the five-girl panel from Texas
Women’s University and A&M
coeds.
Among the speakers is 1970-71
Aggie Sweetheart Sue Binford.
Miss Binford will speak on Corps
trips.
Additional topics are interracial
dating, drinking, first dates and
transportation.
Other panel members are Car
olyn Wiley and Charlotte Gay,
both of Houston and Marilyn Os-
bern and Nancy Ondrovik, both
of Dallas.
The two remaining sessions are
scheduled March 3 and 10.
Bulb planting
talk Monday
Dr. Homer T. Blackhurst will
present a program on spring bulb
planting Monday during the reg
ular monthly meeting of the
Brazos Valley Men’s Garden Club.
The club meets at 7:30 p.m. in
the old College Station City Hall,
101 Church St.
Dr. Blackhurst, professor of
soil and crop sciences, will
explain the best spring planted
bulbs for Brazos County climate
and soils.
Dr. E. J. Dyksterhuis, professor
of range science, is program
chairman.
Hot check penalty increases
A new policy on returned
checks will go into effect on
March 1, Controller R. Clark Die-
bel announced.
Under the existing policy, an
automatic $3 charge is placed on
any returned check, increasing to
$5 after five class days.
If the check is not acknowledg
ed by the student after 10 class
days, or any student has three
checks returned, his check-cash
ing privileges are suspended for
as long as he remains at A&M,
Diebel said.
The same policy will hold after
March 1, except for an increase
in charges to an automatic $5,
and $10 after five days.
The new policy is being put
into effect solely to discourage
students from writing hot checks,
Assistant Controller Robert Smith
of the Fiscal Department said.
Any check returned due to a bank
ing falut will not penalize a stu
dent in any way.
The Fiscal Department receives
an average of 300-350 hot checks
each month, Smith said.
As of Feb. 8, over $15,000 in
hot checks had been received and
are now trying to be collected by
the university, he said. Of this,
$6,600 has been “charged off” as
uncollectable. Smith continued.