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Terry Hendrickson modeled the buttoned on belted up look of this madras patterned
iiiim pants suit during the “Fashion as a Living Art” presentation Monday night at
icMSC.
A plan to reopen Prairie View
A&M College was tentatively
made Monday night by college
administrators.
The administrators have agreed
to a recommendation that the
campus be opened Sunday and
classes resume on Monday, a
spokesman for the college said.
A final decision has yet to be
approved by the Texas A&M sys
tem.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, president
of the A&M system, was unavail
able for comment Monday night.
Classes had been suspended
Saturday by Dr. Alvin I. Thomas,
the president, after approximately
1,500 of the predominately black
school’s 4,000 students had dem
onstrated.
When he closed the college,
Thomas said he did so “with re
luctance, sadness and disappoint
ment, but I feel that we have no
other choice.”
The demonstrations began last
Wednesday night when the 1,500
students marched on Thomas’
home and presented him with a
list of 19 demands.
“Our students have been mani
pulated by a small band of pro
fessional agitators to the point
that it has been futile during the
past few days to reason with
them,” he said.
Thomas said the college “will
do everything within its power to
restore an atmosphere conducive
to teaching and learning as quick
ly as possible and reopen the col
lege.”
“How quickly this will be pos
sible depends on the students,
their willingness and ability to
disassociate themselves from the
professional agitators who insti
gated the disorder,” he said.
Demanded were a later wom
en’s curfew, better food in the
dining hall, freedom of speech,
freedom of the press—the campus
paper has been called a publicity
organ by Thomas—and the resig
nations of Thomas and most of
the colleges deans.
Failing to reach an agreement
with Thomas on the demands, of
which 16 have now been granted,
the students marched back to the
campus and set fire to the office
of the dean of men, destroying it.
Windows of the campus book
store were broken, some books
taken, and a campus patrol car
was overturned.
Early Thursday morning the
ROTC building was damaged by
fire, an act called arson by Thom
as.
Two students have been arrest
ed and charged with acting to
produce injury to property. They
were being held in lieu of a
$100,000 bond each.
Williams has said he is insisting
charges be brought against any
students known to have partici
pated in the disturbance. He said
he believed the destruction of
buildings and. a car took the ac
tions out of the prank category.
“We feel some outsiders from
the Black Panther organization
are in on this,” said Dr. T. R.
Solomon, dean of students. Solo
mon said the People for Afro-
American Life, an organization
outlawed on campus, are really
Black Panthers in disguise and
that the Black Panthers had
started their attempts to organize
on campus at the beginning of
the fall semester.
Thomas had said that screening
procedures would be instituted
before any students were allowed
readmission to the college. Stu
dents were to appear individually
for approval before being allowed
back in.
But Monday night Curtis Wood,
Director of Information and Pub
lications at Prairie View, said
that “the way it looks now they
know who will come in and who
won’t.”
“They will send out a letter say
ing they can come back and those
who can’t come back won’t get
one,” he said. “That letter will
be the admission slip.”
Wood said he understood that
the trouble started Wednesday
night when some male students
were speaking to coeds outside
the women’s dormitories. When
the curfew time arrived the coeds
were called in but would not en
ter. The matron of the dorm then
locked the women out.
Immediately after the doors
were locked the 1,500-person
crowd was formed and marched
on the president’s home.
MSC
elects
directorate
chairmen
raduate fellowships down, Kunze says
GARY AVED
ttalion Staff Writer
‘As far as the financial picture
concerned it looks like 1971 is
ing to be difficult,” Dean of
i Graduate College George W.
mze said in an interview Fri-
y of the prospects for fellow-
ip and traineeship support.
‘At the federal level the em-
asis has been shifted to loans
student loans—rather than sup-
through fellowships and
lineeships,” Kunze said. “There
still some chance that the state
pport will come through, but
of the moment it’s not there,
sheen taken out of the budg-
he added.
Kunze said traineeship support
the federal level has been cut
astically. The Atomic Energy
wmission (AEG) had eight new
lineeships in 1968-69, five in
69-70 and four this year, he
id, but only two have been al-
ated for next year (1971-72).
National Defense Education
Act (NDA Title IV) Fellowships
have been cut similarly. He said
there were 28 new NDA Fellow
ships in 1967-68, 15 in 1968-69,
14 in 1969-70, 11 this year and
there will be 10 in 1971-72.
“There is no new money,” he
said, “for NSF Traineeships for
1972 at this time. They are going
to carry through on their commit
ments. What I’m saying is there
is no new money for new trainee-
ships for 1972.”
This year, Kunze said, about
125 Graduate College Fellowships
were provided through A&M. He
said about two-thirds of these
were supported through a line
item in the state budget, and the
other third were supported by lo
cal University funds.
“So actually we ended up with
about $350,000 for Graduate Col
lege Fellowship support with
which we support about 125 fel
lows,” Kunze said. “For next
year there has been no state mon
ey appropriated as yet by the
state legislature for fellowship
support of graduate students. The
only money available is the money
provided by the Board of Direc
tors, which will be about the same
as last year, $115,000.”
“Actually,” Kunze said, “we’re
going to have about 30 percent
of the students on Graduate Col
lege Fellowships for 1971-72 that
we have this year.”
Kunze said graduate schools
across the country, particularly
private schools, are having to re
duce the size of their graduate
programs by as much as 40 per
cent because of a general lack of
funding. This lack of financial
support is not, he said, just from
the standpoint of fellowships and
traineeships, but general support
for graduate education.
“We haven’t had to cut back
like this at A&M yet,” Kunze
said, “I don’t know just what
we’ll do. This is a much tougher
decision for a public institution
than a private institution.”
Kunze said he expects the num
ber of applications to the A&M
Graduate College to increase this
year because of the cutbacks in
other universities. Others will ap
ply to A&M because they feel
their chances of getting into a
public institution are greater than
for a private institution, he said.
Some of the effects of the cut
backs in other schools have al
ready been felt. Last year there
was a 30 percent increase in grad
uate student applications over the
previous year. But Kunze expects
the real brunt of the financial
squeeze to be felt this fall.
“The federal support was al
ready cut back some this year,”
he said, “but we still had our
state support.”
“The shift is from fellowship
and trainee support to loan sup-
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
The Memorial Student Center
Council Monday night elected
chairmen to ten committees for
1971-72. Most of the meeting was
spent in closed session picking
award winners to be presented at
the annual MSC Awards Banquet
Apr. 6.
Next year’s chairmen are zo
ology sophomore Ben Thurmond,
Student Council on National Af
fairs XVII; environmental design
sophomore David Dacus, Contem
porary Arts Committee; electri
cal engineering sophomore Ver
non Lewis, Black Awareness
Committee; education junior
Milady (Bunny) Blaha, Host and
Fashion; electrical engineering
junior Larry Brown, Aggie Cine
ma ; finance junior Randolph
Freeman, Camera Committee;
physics junior Bill Lockwood,
Chess Committee; management
junior Terrell Rowan, Leadership
Committee; marketing junior Jim
Summers, Travel Committee; and
history junior Jan Bertholf, Radio
Committee.
Students can still apply for
chairmanship of the Basement
and Recreation Committees and
Directorate Assistantships, next
year’s President John Dacus said.
Filing for these positions is
open through March 5
After the Council meeting a
separate committee selected the
1971 winner of the Thomas H.
Rountree Award, awarded annual
ly since 1966 to “an outstanding
member of the Memorial Student
Center Council or Directorate who
has made a significant contribu
tion to the recreational, educa
tional and cultural programs of
the Council and Directorate and
whose accomplishment has
brought credit to the MSC Coun
cil or Directorate.”
The committee which selected
the recipient to be named at the
Awards Banquet consisted of,
Council Executive Vice President
Don B. Mauro, Vice President for
Operations John C. Dacus, Vice
President for Issues William W.
Webster, Vice President for Pro
grams Jack Abbot, Vice Presi
dent for Recreation James Col
lins, Directorate Faculty Advisor
D. Barbara Davis Coe, faculty
council members Dean John B.
Beckham and Dr. Claude H. Hall,
Student Senate President Kent
Caperton, and junior Kirk Haw
kins. Council Secretary-Treasur
er J. Wayne Stark was non-voting
chairman.
Laundry offering
fatigue
service
Living Art’ fashion presented at show
STEVE DUNKELBERG
ittalion Staff Writer
Fashion, as defined by Mrs. Jan
»ith, fashion expert and hostess
Monday night’s Contemporary
fts 1 Committee’s presentation
"Fashion as a Living Art,” be
lies a living art when it reflects
e harmony of a woman’s person-
omamentation, her immediate
Grid and the influence of tradi-
In.
The Living Art fashions were
troduced by a collection of the
’lit together, pulled together
ay of dressing: the co-ordinates.
The co-ordinates are for the
“man who is a do-it-yourselfer,
lf artist of her own clothing.
The parade of co-ordinates in-
uded: a chrome yellow skirt
•Pped off by a shirt of Mond-
dan blocks of color with puffed
aeves; a long-bodied, neutral
drt of quilted cotton and slit up
'a side, crowned by a brown pais-
shirt with matching turban
sad scarf; and a take-off on the
®temporary pantsuit with hip-
“Sging denim pants and a close
Dpped jacket, both a madras pat-
Univenity National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
tern, accented by a derringer cow
boy hat.
Co-ordinates also usher in the
return of the short shorts. In this
case they were faded denim with
spring patterns which were sep
arated from an orange checkered
top by a bare midriff.
The co-ordinate collection was
finished off by a knicker suit of
red, white, blue and turquoise,
with navy blue knickers; an an
kle-length “country girl” gown
of patchwork print, gathered high
and loose by a lacquer pink belt;
and finally a straw colored,
weather proof pants suit with
hooded cape of the same color,
underneath which there was a
black high top turtle neck and
belt.
The “immediate world of fash
ion” included fashions that indi
cate “fads of the moment and in
fluences of the times.” The “im
mediate world of fashion” focuses
on denim and polka dots for
spring wear.
A black polka dotted suit (nam
ed the “Rich Bitch and The Hot
Dot”) led the way in the imme
diate world of fashion. A two-
piece ensemble, the crop top jack
et stopped short at the waist,
where a lean knee-length dress
took over. The outfit was topped
by a black derringer cowboy hat
with a yellow scarf.
The denim side of the immedi
ate world of fashion was demon
strated by a smooth, straight fall
ing white denim dress topped by
a black T-shirt, trimmed in white.
The liberated woman was ex
hibited in a two-piece jump suit
cut and colored in classic Indian
style, accented by “bangles and
beads” and a head scarf.
Also included in the immediate
world was the ecology dress, an
kle length, puffed sleeves with a
rainbow print; an Oriental derived
high dress of dramatic black and
yellow paisly; a midnight black,
free swinging “milk maid” dress
of black with a white apron and
low neckline; an ankle length,
geometrically designed dress,
molded around the waist, copied
after the Aztecs.
The collection was completed
by a Jane and Cinderella outfit
of basic black, which experienced
a Cinderella-type change as a
vest, bordered in aluminum nail-
heads, and a white scarf with
black polka dots were added.
The show was concluded by a
show of historically inspired fash
ions, which had their origins in
past cultures.
The journey into the past was
led by “La Belle E Puck,” an an
kle length, side slit, evening dress
of evening brocade, from the By
zantine influence of the turn of
the century.
From the turn of the century,
the parade progressed to 1915,
with a floral striped commence
ment dress, quickly followed by
a swirl back into time to the Ren
aissance.
From these times of awaken
ing come the ideas for a black
velvet court dress with sequins
and beads of shiny black, and an
ankle length silk chiffon dress
topped with beads of gold and
brown.
A Fauvist inspired, floor length
dress of bright floral patterns
with a low black and boldly bor
dered in black followed the awak
ening.
The influence of the past and
the show was concluded by cubis
tic design. The outfit featured a
black jumpsuit topped by a soft
jersey skirt, and accented by a
marshmellow vest (designed by
Mike Myers an art student at
A&M), which drew amused ap
plause.
Models for the event were:
Terre Edwards, Liz Hartgrove,
Terry Hendrickson, Lois Wink,
Glenda Freeman, Susan Williams,
Jan Bowen, and Susan Lake, all
of the Mam’selles.
Dean George W. Kunze
port,” Kunze said. He said that if
Congress passes Nixon’s loan rec
ommendation, there will be ample
loan money available for students
for higher education.
“Hopefully the fellowship funds
can be restored by the state leg
islature,” Kunze said. “I am still
hoping we will get the money,
but as of the moment the picture
is glum.”
The university laundry is now
offering a new service to students
which allows them to have fatigue
uniforms laundered with heavy
starch and returned on a hanger.
Jimmy Ferguson, corps supply
sergeant and member of the uni
versity laundry, announced that
the cost for this service is 35$
for pants and shirt or 20 cents
for either of the items.
He said that a special laundry
ticket is required for the utility
uniforms to be laundered in this
manner. Students can obtain
these tickets at any of the sub
stations on campus.
While fatigues may be turned
in any day, without an out of
place charge, they still must be
turned in by 9 a.m. one day to
be picked up after 3 p.m. the next
day. Also, the fatigues are turned
in separate from the regular
laundry bundle, with the special
ticket attached.
Ferguson said that fatigue uni
forms still may be laundered in
the regular manner at no cost.
The regular service launders the
uniform with light starch and re
turns them folded with the regu
lar laundry bundle.
WINSTON BEAM, senior defensive lineman from Odessa, receives the five-foot high
“Aggie Heart Award” trophy from head coach Gene Stallings at a dance for the football
team held Friday night. The award, based on desire, dedication, determination and
attitude, was voted on by members of the A&M varsity. See story on page 6. (Photo
by Bob Stump)
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