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Vol. 67 No. 20 College Station, Texas Friday, October 1, 1971
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SATURDAY — Partly cloudy
to cloudy, scattered afternoon
thundershowers. Wind south
15 to 20 m.p.h. High 89, low
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KICKOFF — 78°. Wind south
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST shapes up as many stu- the YMCA. The sign, covering a bulldozer parked in the
dents oppose the removal of trees and bushes to make way middle of the parking lot to be, was placed there early
for more parking spaces between the Coke building and Thursday evening by concerned students.
In Senate
Withdrawal amendment passes
Gus Mutscher
intends to stay
House speaker
WASHINGTON (A*)—The Sen
ate renewed Thursday its call for
total U.S. withdrawal from Indo
china, setting a six-month dead
line after Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield appealed for ac
tion to “bring this horrible war
to an end."
The vote was 57 to 38 in favor
of Mansfield’s amendment to set
a six-month deadline — which
would not be binding on Presi
dent Nixon — contingent on re
lease of American prisoners.
“To be alone is remarkably dif
ferent than being lonely,” said
Clark Moustakas, a noted author-
psychologist, to a large Contem
porary Arts audience Thursday
night.
Moustakas explained that to be
lonely is to be separated from
others in some way, while to be
alone is to be with one’s thoughts.
He described being alone as a
time for imagining, thinking, re-
living experiences, examining
concepts or merely staring at
cracks in a wall. One can feel
alone even though he is surround
ed by people, he stressed.
Moustakas is currently em
ployed by the Merrill-Palmer In
stitute in Detroit. He is the au
thor of “Creativity and Conform
ity,” and “Individuality and En
counter.” His books are con
cerned with principles involved
“You can’t stop the war by an
act of Congress of this kind," Re
publican leader Hugh Scott said,
expressing the Nixon administra
tion’s contention the Mansfield
amendment is a waste of time —
and potentially harmful.
Scott’s plea was echoed by
Chairman John C. Stennis, D-
Miss., of the Armed Services
Committee.
“Every time we pass this
amendment in this way we put
obstacles in our path, and lend
in humanizing, learning, encour
aging individuality and self
awareness, and the prospect of
enriching curriculums with art
and the creative process.
During the night Moustakas
played five records to relax the
audience and create the proper
mood. He asked everyone to close
their eyes and “feel” the music
with him. The first record
skipped several times and ham
pered Moustakas’ efforts to cre
ate a mood. All the lights in the
Assembly Room of the Memorial
Student Center were turned off
except a small lecturn lamp to
add to the effect.
Applause seemed inappropriate
in this atmosphere and the audi
ence, which was practically de
void of cadets, cooperated.
To be lonely is to face life’s
encouragement to the enemy,"
Stennis said.
Noting that Mansfield’s amend
ment to the $21 billion military
procurement authorization bill,
like one with a nine-month dead
line passed last June, faces House
opposition and a possible confer
ence stalemate, Stennis said it
would be better to pass it as sep
arate legislation.
The touchy issue of the Ameri
can prisoners swirled through
agony, according to Moustakas.
Loneliness, he feels, is living in
the moment and having only one’s
immediate feelings. “An inner
search is the first step back from
loneliness,” he said.
Moustakas went on to say that
being alone is necessary in this
violent, rapid-moving world. It is
a form of rest, he feels, and a
time to think out one’s thoughts
without any outside interference.
It is an encounter, “a meeting of
oneself with oneself," he said.
Moustakas criticized man’s
everyday social relationships.
“The awareness of what it is to
live does not come from others
but from oneself,” he said. He
called everyday conversations the
“everyday game" because words
are exchanged that do not say
what they mean.
the debate. When Scott said the
amendment would give up a val
uable U.S. bargaining card, Mans
field shot back: “What is that
card — the POWs?"
Dole, Mansfield and Sen. J. W.
Fulbright, D-Ark., argued over
whether the amendment sought to
place blame for the war.
“I’m not shifting the blame to
anyone," Fulbright insisted. “All
I want to do is stop the war.”
But Dole said, “what we do
effectively undercuts the Presi
dent.”
Prize given
girl wearing
best hotpants
A “Hotpants Contest and
Dance" will be held in the Grove
this Saturday night after the
Cincinnati game.
The dance will start at 10:30
p.m. and last until 1:30 a.m. with
music provided by “Southern.”
The girl wearing the “hottest
hot pants,” as judged by audi
ence response, will be awarded a
cash prize.
The price is $2 per couple with
a 50 cent discount for girls in
hotpants and men with residence
hall activity cards. Stag prices
will be $1 or 50 cents with a
residence hall activity card.
The dance is sponsored by the
Civilian Student Council. In case
of inclement weather, it will be
held in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
AUSTIN (A*) — Gus Mutscher
ended a week of speculation
Thursday by declaring he will
not step down as Texas House
speaker despite the bribery in
dictment against him.
“The decision I have reached
to stay on as speaker stems from
the fact that I have constitu
tional and statutory responsibili
ties I cannot delegate,” Mutcher
told newsmen.
Mutscher made his first public
appearance since the Travis
County grand jury here indicted
him last Thursday. He attended
a meeting of the Legislative Re-
districting Board, of which he is
a member. The board began
work on a new House reappor
tionment plan to replace the
Mutscher-engineered bill which
the Texas Supreme Court held
unconstitutional.
The speaker refused repeatedly
to discuss whether he would run
for re-election to the House in
1972.
“I’m going to put my political
plans for the future aside at this
time,” he said.
Despite his decision not to step
aside either permanently or tem
porarily as speaker, Mutscher
faces a probable effort to remove
him from the job when the legis
lature convenes — probably next
summer—in a special budget and
tax session.
Asked if there was a possibility
he might step down later,
Mutscher said: “I am giving no
consideration in that direction.
There is no real reason for it.”
Mutscher was 20 minutes late
to the board meeting, detouring
by the courthouse. He said Dist.
Atty. Bob Smith had told his law
yers to appear for arraignment.
But Dist. Judge Tom Blackwell
refused to hear the arraignment,
which previously had been sched
uled for Oct. 7.
Smith said he met with Black-
well and Frank Maloney, Mutsch-
er’s lawyer, earlier this week to
The seating arrangement of the
consideration section at football
games was changed last night by
the Student Senate.
schedule arraignment.
“It’s pretty obvious” why
Mutscher showed up a week
early, Smith said, evidently re
ferring to the speaker’s desire
to avoid newsmen.
Also showing up were Mutsch-
er’s two co-defendants on charges
of conspiracy to accept a bribe,
Rep. Tommy Shannon of Fort
Worth and Speaker aide Rush
McGinty.
“I am innocent, and I hope the
judicial process is given a fair
opportunity to work,” Mutscher
asserted.
He told reporters “some good”
might come out of his indictment
and trial because acquittal should
lay to rest the accusations that
he accepted stock profits from
A&M environmental engineers
will conduct studies in the Hous
ton Ship Channel-Galveston Bay
area under contracts awarded by
the Texas Water Quality Board
and the U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
A total of $158,000 was award
ed for two projects to be con
ducted by the Environmental En
gineering Division of the uni
versity’s Civil Engineering De
partment. The contracts will be
administered by the Research
Foundation.
Dr. Roy W. Hann, Jr., division
head, said the major contract
calls for an in-depth study of
methods for measuring aeration
of natural waters. A second
project involves studies of Gal
veston Bay sediments.
The two programs will make
extensive use of two research
vessels, the RV/Excellence and
the RV/Duet, operated by the
division and the Water Pollution
The consideration section, those
seats for students who wish to sit
at a game, is now composed of
the first six rows of sections 235,
Frank Sharp of Houston in re
turn for passage of two banking
bills in 1969.
Mutscher said he did not plan
to ask for Shannon’s resignation
as speaker pro tern, saying
Shannon is “an honorable man
who has done yeoman work.”
Mutscher issued a statement
saying he would continue on the
five-member redistricting board.
“I have never, nor will I now,
walk out on my colleagues in the
House or the people of Texas. I
will therefore sit on the redis
tricting board and am sure that
the board can draft an improved
redistricting plan for the house
of representatives consistent with
the guidelines of recent de
cisions,” he said.
Research Laboratory at Morgan’s
Point.
Project staff members include
Drs. Frank Slowey, Gary Kram
er, Richard Allison, J. M. Hughes
and Richard Withers and Mrs.
George Ann Davis.
The aeration project will in
volve the discharge, monitoring
and analysis of simultaneous re
leases of fluorescent dye and
radioactive krypton and tritium
to measure surface gas diffusion
rates. A second method will
utilize plexiglass chambers in
Galveston Bay to isolate com
ponents of the oxygen cycle and
permit continuous monitoring of
oxygen levels.
The sediment studies will place
emphasis on organic material
analysis and heavy metals and
pesticide determinations. Special
attention will be given to the
sediment distribution from spe
cific sources.
236, 237, 238 and 239 in the up
per deck.
The section had been all of sec
tions 238 and 239.
Moustakas says being alone
is different than loneliness
Student Senate changes
football seating sections
A&M engineers
study bay area
Single - member districts
preferred by large cities
AUSTIN (A») — Texas’ big city
areas pleaded with the state re
districting board Thursday to
give them single-member House
districts for better representation
in the legislature.
“I believe it will be taken to
court if you come up with any
thing except single-member dis
tricts,” said Rep. W. J. Blythe
°f Houston, where representa
tives are elected according to
congressional districts.
The single member district tes
timony was presented to the five-
rciember redistricting board in its
first meeting since the state Su
preme Court ruled that the board
had the authority to redistrict
because the legislative redistrict
ing bills passed by the 1971 legis
lature had been declared uncon
stitutional.
Hanking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
Blythe said the last legisla
ture gave Harris County (Hous
ton) a multi-district plan despite
the fact that the county Demo
cratic and Republican chairman
at a public hearing in Houston
recommended single member dis-
tricts.
Rep. Bob Gammage of Houston
said he and five other Houston
representatives now represent one
district that has 667,000 persons.
“My district has both blacks and
upper middle class," he said. “If
we had single member districts
we probably would have two Ne
gro representatives for that area.
Now we have none.”
Freshmen picture make-ups
to be Monday through Friday
iland picture make-ups for
in will begin Monday and
itinue through Friday. It
rative that any freshman
r a picture in the Aggie-
nort to University Studio
K one
day next week. , . ,
As of Thursday only 892 fresh
men have had pictures made as
compared to over 1,600 whose
picture appeared in the 1971
Aggieland.
Dress for civilians is coat and
tie. Freshman corps members
should have on class A winter
uniforms.
Aggieland pictures for seniors
and graduate students will also
be taken at University Studio
beginning Monday.
BAGGING IT on a warm September afternoon. The grass, the sun and the opportunity
proved too much for this student who could be found on the Acudemic building’ Iciwn
Thursday. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
The seats in these sections will
be sold on the same basis as the
regular student tickets are.
Dick Zepeda, Graduate repre
sentative, who presented the
resolution, said that the arrange
ment will be better this way be
cause it allows a full view for
those sitting and takes up fewer
seats.
The sections extend from the
35 yard line to the end zone.
“This way we leave open the
best seats for the regular stu
dents,” Zepeda said.
The senate also passed a reso
lution providing for the hiring of
a lawyer to be available for the
Legal Rights Commission. The
lawyer, who will remain nameless
to prevent students from going
directly to him with gripes, will
act only in an advisory capacity.
He has been hired to work only
one hour a month.
The lawyer is to help supply
advise and suggestions to the
Legal Rights Commission, not to
work as a lawyer for the stu
dents.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.