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ICbe Battalion AGE^j 67 No. 146 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 12, 1972 When You Are Up To Your Neck In Trouble— Use Your Head. College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 12, 1972 Wednesday — Partly cloudy, afternoon thundershowers. South erly winds 10-15 mph. High 91, low 72. Thursday — Mostly cloudy, rain showers. Southerly winds 10- 15 mph. High 88, low 75. 845-2226 nation MSC Arts Committee dissolved By Council PP le 5c 511 TISA Will Attempt Lobby Group Formation As Conference Result mook lies , Off n Bro nes Off Cans 6 Pk. 6 Pk, 1 ^ame By MIKE RICE The Memorial Student Center ouncil dissolved the Contempo- ary Arts Committee from the ISC Directorate Monday night s a result of poor programming nd inactivity on the part of committee members. I Rochelle Lindsey, vice-presi dent of Issues for the Council, said the executive committee of ;he CAC felt it should be dis banded for at least one semester and possibly the whole year to eorganize. Lindsey said this would not af fect the CAC Film Series which lias been functioning autono mously as a subcommittee of the CAC and has operated quite smoothly thus far. “Programming was poor over the summer, said Lindsey. “The CAC never helped in the MSC Open House and went $500 in debt last year.” Lindsey said there are mixed feelings among the CAC in the disbanded organization about the dissolution, but the people sin cerely interested in getting the program going again will keep in touch with the council. “There has been a lot of dis agreement over the scope of the CAC,” said Lindsey. “Some felt I Students attending the Texas Intercollegiate Student Associa tion Conference this weekend in Lubbock decided to attempt for mation of a lobby group for Texas students this year, said Barb Sears, External Affairs Commit tee chairman. Sears attended the conference with Layne Kruse, Student Gov ernment president and Randy Ross, vice president for the A&M Student Government. “Occasionally issues that are important to students come about, such as tuition raises or giving 18-year-olds full rights as adults, said Sears. “Students should have a voice in these govern mental procedures. Sears said lobbies would also a protective measure for stu dent governments. “TISA is a non-profit organi zation and lobbying would cause ;he association to lose its tax- exempt status,” said Kruse. “However, a separate group is being formed that will actually be allowed to lobby.” A further organization of this group will be made at the Oct. 8 meeting of TISA in Austin. Three main sections composed the TISA conference. The first section was a workshop where ideas such as the automotive co op system of discount, now active at the University of Texas, were discussed. Business sections made up the second portion of the conference. During these sessions, the A&M students suggested the formation of a newsletter where communi cation between TISA members would become constant, leaving students better informed. Students from UT emphasized the advantages of a student law yer to handle all student legal problems. The final section of the confer ence was entitled “Academic Inno vation.” Kruse said this was a discussion of a process in which representatives from the stu dents, faculty and administration make up a senate which would run the university. “Shared Government” is pres ently active at the University of Houston, Southern Methodist University and under considera tion at Baylor. it should present only contem porary artwork while others wanted fine arts; some wanted a mixture.” Ted Coe, a faculty member on the council, cast the only dis senting vote against dissolving of the CAC. He said he felt activities still could be presented while the committee worked on restructuring. Lindsey said the group wanted to disband because of the bad image it had with the students as a result of waste and bad pro gramming; poor relations with the MSC Council; and its name being too narrow. She added that CAC Chairman Max Greiner told her a time lapse and change in name would probably spark student interest again. The MSC Council decided that $2,000 of the $3,500 previously allotted the CAC would be placed in the Council’s holding fund, while $1,300 would be placed in the MSC Directorate Reserve for allocation at a future date. The Council also allotted $200 to the Travel Committee from the $3,500 sum. In other action, the Council approved the request of the Mex ican-American Students Commit tee to invite John E. Serna to speak on “Legal Defense and the Mexican-American” in connec tion with the upcoming Mexican Indepednence Day. The MSC Council also tabled the resolution to allow the Ce- pheid Variables Science Fiction Club into the Directorate until the Executive Committee could determine where the club would meet and the conditions it should be allowed to join the MSC. A budget allocation of $14,500 was approved by the Council for 13 directorate committees while funds coming directly from the Student Services Fee were ap proved by the Council for Great Issues, Political Forum, Town Hall and The Rotary Community Series. : i '. '5>:' ■. DOUSE LIGHTLY with water then frost with shaving cream to start the weekend out right. Steve Miller of Law Hall and Pam Kosarek show how its done. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) «fc. QUARTERBACK LEX JAMES (10) gets his first taste back Mark Green (20), left tackle Mike Park (58) and right of Wishbone action as he skirts around left end for a 12- guard Buster Callaway. The Aggies took their season’s yard gain in the first quarter. Helping him along are half- opener against Wichita State, 36-13. (Photo by Mike Rice) Looking For Best In Texas Recruiters Start Trek For Seniors A&M’s traveling recruiting program will begin in Dallas Sept. 25 in an effort to bring the state’s best high school seniors to TAMU next fall. Gale T. Wood, associate direc tor of admissions, reported last year he and 17 TAMU deans, faculty and staff visited 3,250 students from 170 high schools, traveled more than 11,000 miles and worked with some 1,200 par ents. In addition, a number of for mer students presented informa tional programs in their home areas at times when the univer sity staff had prior commitments. Wood, who is responsible for coordination of the TAMU re cruiting program, said he works almost exclusively through high school college nights, where 30 to 40 state private and public schools schedule 30-minute ses sions for the high school stu dents. Last year he represented TAMU at 90 percent of the col lege night meetings. It puts Wood on the road almost every week night during the fall. A typical program, he noted, begins with a 10-minute slide- sound series, followed by an ex planation of application steps, en trance requirements, student costs, the honors program, ad vanced placement testing, schol arships and a question-answer period. “I also encourage the students to visit the campus on a week day to find out what Texas A&M really is doing,” Wood said. “If we get them on campus, they usually like what they see.” High school college nights are a coordinated effort. Each of the Texas State Teachers Associa tion districts coincide with the college admissions districts to improve communications. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Admissions directors or regis trars within those districts serve as coordinators between the school districts and the state colleges, both private and public. For example, Dr. Billy Gene Lay, TAMU admissions director, coordinates the local district and the Houston district. The school districts work through Dr. Lay to establish college nights that can be attended by all the uni- Insurance Plans Highlight Graduate Council Agenda The participation of graduate students in the faculty insurance plan will be a target of discus sion at Wednesday’s Graduate Student Council meeting. The open meeting will be held in the Memorial Student Center Art Room at 11:30 a.m. “A survey among grad stu dents will be conducted to deter mine whether grads prefer the faculty plan to the student Senior Class Officers Meet A meeting of the senior class officers is scheduled tonight at 7:30 in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. Plans for a barbecue to be held the weekend of the A&M- Army football game will be organized and discussed, said Hank Paine, senior class presi dent. The barbecue is slated for 1 p.m. Sept. 30 in Hensel Park. Tickets are $2 per person and are now on sale in the MSC Programs Office. All students, faculty, and guests are invited to attend. The senior class is the first class in the nation to sponsor a project for donation to cancer research, Paine said. Other officers for the class are Jimmy Green, vice-president; Jake Betty, social secretary; Robert Lee, secretary-treasurer; Nick Jiga, historian; and Jerry Elmer, MSC representative. plan,’’ CSC President Dick Ze peda said. An amendment to the Council’s By-laws has been proposed and will be voted upon at the meet ing. The amendment calls for the appointment of proxies to replace absent council members. Under the conditions of the amendment any CSC member, excluding the presiding officer, can appoint a voting proxy to represent him in a meeting if the absence is “due to just cause.” A Graduate Student Orienta tion Program is scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in Room 100 of the Chemistry Building, said Zepeda. Degree programs, course work, language requirements and thesis and dis sertation proposals will be among the topics discussed by Dr. George Kunze, dean of the Grad uate College. Zepeda said the CSC is look ing for departmental representa tives to act mainly as sources of information for the Council. He said the CSC has been 80 per cent successful in its search for representatives but would like to have all departments in volved. The representatives will have no vote on the Council as such but “they would be likely candi dates for voting proxies,” Zepeda emphasized. Interested graduate students can call Raiford Ball at 846-2757 or Dick Zepeda at 846-9743 for more information. versities. Wood said each night involves three sessions, giving the student the opportunity to meet with three different college represent atives. The trend to junior college be fore senior college studies has started a recruitment program in that area, Wood added. Only a handful of Texas junior colleges had college night programs last year, Wood said, but he expects more this year. TAMU staff members involved in the program will meet Sept. 21 for a dinner to organize for the 1972-73 school year, Wood said. Sweetheart Applications Available Applications for 1972-73 Aggie Sweetheart will be accepted be ginning 8 a.m. Thursday and continue through 5 p.m. on Sept. 20, announced Ron Bento, chair man of the Aggie Sweetheart Committee. Application forms may be picked up at Dean of Women Toby Schreiber’s office, Room 103 of the Academic Building. Applications are to be returned to Dean Schreiber’s office with a recent photograph of the ap plicant. The 1972-73 Aggie Sweetheart will set a precedent as the result of a referendum presented to the student body last spring by the Student Senate, limiting the ap plicants to A&M coeds. Any coed with at least 27 credit hours at A&M is eligible. She must also have an overall 2.25 grade point ratio. Bento said, “Since the Sweet heart is to represent the entire student body, she must not be formally pinned or engaged.” 'ttvV' Library Map Room Is Locator For Globe Travelers Need to know where Brushy Creek drains into the Brazos River, archaeological sites in Afghanistan or soil type of a particular location? It can be found in visual for mat in the map room, part of the fourth-floor Science and Technology Division of the A&M Library. Planned to serve the university community, the map collection currently consists of 25,000 maps and several hundred atlases. Additions were made this sum mer through Map Librarian Miss Lynda Reddout’s work in a Spe cial Map Processing Project, con ducted by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division in Washington, D. C. During a month in Washington, Miss Reddout participated in a program designed to asist libra rians in sorting, arranging, in dexing and filing non-current maps and charts received on transfer from various federal agencies and map libraries. “Seeing how they handle large numbers of maps was the best part,” Miss Reddout commented. “I learned several short cuts.” Initiation of an interlibrary map exchange may be possible through contacts she made. Duplicates of Library of Con gress holdings were made avail able to project participants. Fifty-six atlases and 3,000 maps were added to the TAMU collec tion. Additions range from archae ology to ocean surface tempera ture charts. Among the atlases are ecology of the Lower Mekong Basin, linguistics of Romania and one Mi-Ss Reddout was uncertain of until she could confer with a Russian translator. The latter is a multi-volume atlas “that shows all the bodies of water in the world including depths,” she said. A depository for selected U.S. Department of the Interior Geo logical Survey map publications, the map room holds all issues of the 7.5-minute topographic series for Texas, Arkansas, New Mex ico, Louisiana and Oklahoma. A 1 to 24,000 scale map (one map inch equals 24,000 inches on the ground), the 7.5-minute quad maps are most frequently used. Four cover the Bryan and Col lege Station area. Elevation, contours, drainage, vegetation and man-made structures are among information they reveal. USGS revises most of the series every 10 years. “Today’s information explosion has emphasized the need for maps, one of the most efficient and effective means of storing knowledge,” Miss Reddout com mented. The collection also includes the 1:250,000 scale National Topo graphic maps for the entire U.S., county road and soil maps for Texas plus a few other states, and atlases containing crop dis tributions, medical and veterinary schools and military installations, among many others. Information may not always be found on one sheet, the map libra rian added. “One professor wanted to de termine how a species of bird got to a cei'tain small island in the Pacific,” she explained. “We pulled together a variety of maps showing ocean and wind currents. An article was published on his hypothesis of how the birds lo cated on the island.” Another project for a history prof revealed how Texas’ current boundaries evolved through a chart series on territorial devel opment. Miss Reddout has traved trav els of characters in novels and tracked down a chart depicting Liverpool’s lock system in the 1800s, for a professor’s compari son with Melville’s description. “Our most common request,” she smiled, “is the location of a place.” Urban and city planners in architecture are the most fre quent map collection users, fol lowed closely by parks and recre ation researchers for feasibility studies. An eventual goal is a catalog of maps and atlases held by the various TAMU departments, such as oceanography, geology, civil enginering, wildlife and fisheries sciences, parks and recreation and geography. Meantime, if you are planning a vacation (“Camping Maps, U.S.A.”) or need the diameter and location of a lunar crater (“Photographic Lunar Atlas”), the library map collection can help.