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cWaete ? “Phi 1 bjiil isn’t | ard.” be Battalion Partly cloudy. warm Vol. 67 No. 43 yed College Station, Texas SOItil school, jj his hontj il throujll Preshnuii the tnid|| PositioJ 'e ?uan]. , | i >( Thursday, November 11, 1971 Friday — Clear to partly cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 78°, low 54°. Saturday — Partly cloudy. Southerly winds 10-12 mph. High 78°, low 61°. Houston Kickoff time — Partly cloudy. Southeasterly winds 10-12 mph. 76°. 60% relative humidity. 845-2226 ‘Compromise’ resolved on student vote VE VE Trying to reach a compromise on A&.M students voting in the Dec. 14 City Council elections are (left) Raymond B. Buchanan, Brazos County tax assessor-collector, and John HHMHRb Sharp, student body president. Please see accompanying article. (Photo by Joe Matthews) \During pre-registration Student Senate to use | By JOHN CURYLO An eight-question survey taken Jbythe Student Senate will be part | of next week’s pre-registration 1 procedures, Public Relations I Chairman Bruce Clay announced | this morning. Approved by Robert A. Lacey, I University Registrar, the survey jwillbeused to decide further ac- | tion in matters such as laundry, I Bonfire, selection of the Aggie I Sweetheart and singing both vers us of The Aggie War Hymn. The War Hymn issue involves I the two verses written by J. V. I 'Pinky” Wilson. The first is ori- lented toward A&M, while the sec- Jond downgrades the University of I lexas. “We ought to sing about our- |ielves instead of telling about some other school,” said Richard C. “Buck” Weirus, executive di rector of the Former Students Association. “It’s silly to talk about beating Texas when we aren’t even playing them.” The unused stanza, written by Wilson specifically for use at events other than those with the University of Texas, is as fol lows: “All hail! to dear old Texas A&M. Rally around maroon and white; Good luck to the dear old Texas Aggies, They are the boys who show the fight. That good old Aggie spirit thrills us And makes us yell and yell and yell; So let’s fight for dear old Texas A&M. We’re going to beat you all to Chig-ga-roo-gar-em! Chig-ga-roo-gar-em! Rough! Tough! Real stuff; Texas A&M.” “WeTl use this survey to deter mine what the students want in all these issues,” Clay said. “It’ll be part of pre-registration to pick up a survey sheet at the housing phase of the registration process. These will be turned in at the front door of the YMCA building, where the student finishes pre registering.” Clay added that the students will indicate whether they live on campus or off for such questions as laundry, the opinion concern ing the shuttle bus system and \kggie Players to perform n first major production The Aggie Players, observing 25 years of activity at A&M dur ing 1971-72, opens the first maj- or production of the school year Monday. Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” Jill play every night except Tuesday next week at the A&M Consolidated High School audi torium. Curtain will be at 8 p.m. and Emission will be $1 per person, according to C. K. Esten, director °f the A&M student theater com pany. Playing in Coward’s sophisti cated comedy will be Eva Gram- “crg, Susie Aufderhaar, Alec Horn, Mike McAleer, Cindy Reese, ay Slowey and Mary Hanna. The Aggie Players trace begin- " ln ^ s to Feb. 5, 1946, when University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. A&M’s first all-student dramatic group was formed under F. L. Hood of the English Department. The 45-member company received funds through the Student Activ ities Department. Though working on shoestring budgets and with limited facili ties, the early groups managed many well-known shows for en thusiastic audiences. The Players joined with the Singing Cadets for several Gilbert and Sullivan shows. Campus-wide efforts went into the Aggie Follies. Now the pro duction company of the English Department’s Theater Arts Sec tion chaired by Esten, the Play ers have provided a variety of entertainment, from comedy such as “Mr. Roberts” and “Harvey” to tragedy (“Antigone” and “Oedipus Rex”), military (“Sta- lag 17” and “Command Deci- survey day care babysitters for married students. Laundry presently costs $25 per semester, or $1.49 per week for 35 items. President Jack K. Williams has said that if this service is not wanted by the stu dents, it will be done away with as soon as laundry employes can be relocated in other positions at the university. Other questions include prefer ence about whether the Aggie Sweetheart should be chosen from A&M coeds only, preference of having a bonfire or not, satisfac tion with the hospital service and use of a credit union, if estab lished. M sion”) and Shakespeare (“Mac beth” and “The Tempest.”) Theater interest led in 1949 to addition of two drama courses in production and stagecraft to the English curriculum. Today, 51 credit hours of courses are avail able to students interested in theater. Aggie players directors preced ing Esten were Hood, Arthur An- grist, 1946-47; George Dillavan, 1947-48, and Garvis Little, 1948- 50. Working with Esten over the last decade is Robert W. Wenck, who also directs, handles techni cal aspects of staging and pro vides a vital skill in scenery building. The Aggie Players earlier this fall did a children’s play, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” seen in several local schools. The second major production of the fall se mester will be Moliere’s “The Misanthrope.” By SUE DAVIS News Editor Students who want to vote in the Dec. 14 special election for a College Station City Council po sition must register to vote in Brazos County today or Friday. According to Raymond E. Bu chanan, Brazos County tax asses sor-collector, students who have already registered to vote at the booths on the A&M campus are registered for ’72 elections only. They must register again to vote in December. However, if a student registers for ’71 elections only, he must re register again for ’72 elections. Because of the small amount of time before the special election, Buchanan said, the registrations cannot be processed and renewed for ’72. “I have to have separate regis trations,” Buchanan said. Booths have been set up in the Memorial Student Center and the Academic Building to register students for the ’71 election. Gregory W. Holman, who brought the voter registration conflict to the attention of the local government and press, was in Austin late Wednesday talking with lawyers about a possible suit or injunction. “It’s a workable compromise ill -t * 5, & i *11111®® A but still not fully complying with the law,” Holman said. Buchanan had originally said that students would not be al lowed to vote in the December election at all. His reason was that he did not have the person nel or supplies to process regis trations in time. Early Wednesday Buchanan changed his mind and said he would allow students to register if they did it in his office. Holman suggested setting up the booths on the campus to take the ’71 registrations at a Wednes day afternoon meeting with Bu chanan, John Sharp, Student Sen ate president, and Layne Kruse, chairman of the Senate Life Com mittee. After considering Holman’s compromise for several minutes, Buchanan agreed to set up the booths on campus. “If you’ll get me typewriters and tables set up, I’ll have some one there at 8:30,” he told Sharp. Sharp felt that Buchanan should have accepted the ’72 reg istrations for the December elec tion because, according to law, people who register to vote are eligible 31 days to vote after they register. Holman added that Buchanan was required to accept registra tions sent through the mail. Buchanan said he did not care what the law said. He complained about the “stupid” law’s passed by legislators who did not know what it was like in his office. “I’m doing everything I can,” he said. “The last thing we want is trouble between the university and the community,” Sharp said. Buchanan said the reason the ’71 registrations will not be auto matically renewed for ’72 is lack of personnel to process them. The ’72 registrations will be proc essed through computers. Freshmen elections result in run-off for two positions Freshmen elections held Wed nesday resulted in run-offs for the class president and vice presi dent positions. In the run off for president are Terry Brown, receiving 338 ROBERT GUTHRIE, CLASSICAL GUITARIST, performs in concert in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom Wednesday night. The one-time A&M student and former resident of Bryan-College Station played the return engagement under an Artist Showcase billing. (Photo by Joe Matthews) votes, and John Bullock with 145 votes. The run off for vice president is between Jess Bowman with 153 votes, and Lisa Lanier with 175 votes. Missy Leonard was elected sec retary-treasurer and Jeannie Pa- leta was elected social secretary. Student Senators elected were Beverly Barnes, Debi Blackmon, Steve Eberhard, Kay Seidel, and Randy Gillespie. About one-third of the fresh men class, or 1,141 voters, turned out for the elections. All the winners of the election must submit an itemized budget to the Student Programs office by 5:00 p.m. Monday. Locke will speak on black liberation Gene L. Locke, one of the mov ing forces of the group Africans in America for Black Liberation, will speak tonight in the As sembly room of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30. Locke, whose topic is “Which way to black, liberation?”, is be ing sponsored by the Black Awareness Committee. A 1969 graduate of the Univer sity of Houston, Locke is current ly a graduate student at Texas Southern University. He is also coordinator of a program on black radio station KYOK “Mo ments in Afro - American His tory.” The inquiring Battman Should A&M students vote locally or at their home? jpilli || Mm* ^ Steve Marzec John McNevin nt/ruSter ,n Bra- Braaos! I X ST And thft i = s o, this more) and we need to get county peita liberal voting block in ’ollege Station, K -'fj/ Ronald Janak junior I don’t think it makes a differ ence as long as everybody regis ters some place or another. 1 Stephan Higgs junior I feel each individual should register in the county where he or she feels they can contribute most to political issues. Thus, if one is more familiar with poli tics and political candidates in his home county, he sould register there. My ■2* William S. Edmonds freshman Home county, because there would be a better distribution of philosophy. This would allow Uni versity thought to reach all coun ties. \ 9 I { Rainey Bingham junior Here, because this is where they will be living for three- quarters of the year and if they vote they will be here at the time of the elections. Mark Richardson sophomore I think that students should register here, for convenience’s sake.