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Vol. 67 No. 175
College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 1, 1972
Thursday — Partly cloudy.
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POTENTIAL YELL LEADERS? Not really, but Tuesday night. A good time was had by all, amidst flying
Phyllis Grimes, Debbi Schreiner and Ardel Waller undoubt- shaving cream, toilet paper, candy and balloons. (Photo
edly fooled many while ‘trick or treating* at Dunn Hall by Mike Rice)
Laundry Committee ‘Takes Action’ Tuesday On Judo Gis
The question of what to do
with Darryl Baker’s judo gi was
solved Tuesday in what turned
out to be a rather humorous
meeting of the University Laun
dry Committee.
The first half of the meeting
was devoted to the ‘gi* discus
sion. Baker is an A&M student
not serving on the committe, al-
Tryouts for 10 one-act plays
to be staged by A&M students
will be held Thursday.
The plays will be directed by
students in an advanced direct
ing class and produced through
the Theater Arts Section of the
English Department. Tryouts
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
though he was allowed to speak
at the meeting.
Baker questioned the laundry’s
policy concerning charges made
for cleaning the unusual item
after spending ‘considerable time
trying to determine the reason
for the charge.’ Discussion en
sued over the status of the gi
on the laundry slip, also.
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room
205, Building J.
Productions, to be announced
later, will be presented Dec. 7
and 8 in Lecture Room 2 of the
Zachry Engineering Center, ac
cording to C. K. Esten, theater
arts chairman.
“We’ll need between 40 and
50 actors and actresses,” an
nounced Bob Wenck, “and any
one who wishes to participate is
Since the gi is not included in
allowable laundry, the commit
tee decided to allow a substitu
tion. Baker suggested that it be
allowed as a gym suit.
Hartsock, however, contended
that the gi was much harder to
handle than a gym suit. The
committee finally decided to al
low the pants as one pair of reg-
welcome.”
He noted that the one-act
plays will require less work than
regular Aggie Players produc
tions. Staging will be simplified
with emphasis placed on quality.
They will be professionally-writ
ten.
Rehearsals for the 30-minute
plays will require six hours a
week, to be arranged to suit the
cast and director, Wenck said.
ular permanent press slacks.
The jacket of the gi can be
substituted for a regular jacket,
which costs the same as two
shirts.
The committee also decided to
allow the substitution of cut-offs
for gym shorts as long as they
are not pressed.
The final item discussed was
western shirts. John Nash, Sen
ate committee member, men
tioned a complaint that western
shirts were returned improperly
folded.
Western shirts were not wash
ed by the laundry, because the
buttons often break, Hartsock
said.
According to Hartsock, the
laundry handles 80,000 pounds
of clothes per week. This
amounts to 20,000 pieces.
The next scheduled meeting of
the Laundry Subcommittee will
be held Nov. 28.
One Act Play Tryouts Slated Thursday
Proposed Yell Leader
Policy Changes To Be
Considered By Senate
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Suggested changes in the exist
ing yell leader election provisions
will again be a main topic of dis
cussion at the Thursday Student
Senate meeting.
“The Senate rules and regula
tions committee was charged by
the executive committee to look
at the existing yell leader provi
sions, making any changes the
committee thought would be ben
eficial that were progressive in
light of the changing campus and
changing ideas,” said Fred Camp
bell committee chairman.
The provisions for electing the
yell leader were accidentally
omitted from the 1972-73 full
printing of the rules and regula
tions handbook. The yell leader
election provisions, with changes
suggested by the committee, were
presented at the Oct. 19 Senate
meeting.
The three major revisions sug
gested by the committee include
the omission of the initial screen
ing of prospective candidates by
the yell leader committee, letting
all students vote for yell leaders
and the deletion of the word
“male” from the provisions.
“The omission of the initial
screening by the yell leader com
mittee leaves the ultimate deci
sion up to the students,” contin
ued Campbell.
“The idea of deleting the word
‘male’ does not denote that the
opinion of the committee was to
encourage female yell leaders,”
said Campbell. “In fact, none of
the ten committee members were
personally in favor of female yell
leaders.”
The committee took two strong
positions in favor of the deletion
of the word ‘male’ from the pro
visions.
“We believed that keeping the
word ‘male’ was unconstitutional
in that it was discriminatory as
to sex,” said Campbell in defense
of the decision. He also pointed
out the committee had more than
one lawyer agree with the uncon
stitutionality of the word ‘male.’
“Our second reason is because,
although it appears the majority
of the student body at this time
does not favor female yell lead
ers, the attitude of the campus
might change in the future and
this change would allow the ma
jority of the campus to decide
upon who they wanted as yell
leaders,” said Campbell.
“The committee has met four
times to deliberate over proposed
revisions,” continued Campbell.
“We feel this is a progressive
step, making the process of the
election more democratic.
“None of the revisions we pro
pose actually encourage the elec
tion of female yell leaders. We’re
not out to destroy any Aggie tra
ditions.”
The Senate rules and regula-
(See Yell Leaders, page 2)
Campaigners To
Make Local
TV Appearances
Mrs. Barefoot Sanders and
Mrs. Lucy Johnson Nugent will
be the guests on the Political
Forum Show, Midwest Video’s
Channel 9, Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Nugent is the daughter of for
mer President Lyndon Johnson,
and Sanders is the wife of Bare
foot Sanders. He is opposed in the
Texas U.S. Senate race by John
Tower.
U. S. Senator John Tower will
make one of his last campaign
appearances before the election
at noon in the R a m a d a Inn
Thursday.
County Republicans are honor
ing Tower at a luncheon. Per
sons desiring to attend may pur
chase tickets at $2.50, according
to Sam Sharp, chairman of the
Brazos County Committee to Re-
Elect John Tower.
Soapbox Forum Slated For Thursday
On West Lawn Of Academic Building
Soapbox Forum will feature an
all-new look tomorrow in its sec
ond presentation on the west
lawn of the Academic Building
from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Each student will be given 10
minutes to present his views,
with five minutes for rebuttal, if
needed or desired. The purpose is
to give students an outlet to let
them speak their minds on cur
rent issues.
The idea behind it is to have
Soapbox during the middle of the
day so anyone having some time
off and some gripe or just feel
like a good discussion can express
themselves to others. There is a
set of rules which includes two
moderators, no public address
systems and no profanity.
Topics to be discussed could in
clude yell leaders, bonfire — pro
and con—the feasibility of bring
ing political speakers on campus,
bicycle registration (and the
paths, racks etc. that go along
with the controversy), the elec
tions, Vietnam peace settlement
and any other topics. There are
no set topics.
A list of suggested topics is
often presented to help things get
started, but students who show
up have a right to speak on any
issue they choose.
Another forum will be spon
sored in conjunction with Presi
dent Jack Williams’ presentation
of future plans for the Univer
sity in his speech “TAMU: 2001”
Nov. 7.
CENTREX System—The Basis For Campus Telephone Service
its
By LARRY THOMPSON
When you make a phone call,
do you know what happens?
If you are on campus, the call
is processed by the Central Tele
phone Exchange, better known
as Centrex.
Planning for the system began
in 1966, with the equipment to
be located behind the University
Library. The Physical Plant op
erates the dialing system.
Centrex has several functions.
It has eliminated most of the
small switchboards on campus.
This makes the telephone more
readily available to students and
departmentst.
Centrex also provides confer
ence calls, transfer calls to other
departmentts and simplifies bill
ing. The system as installed has
an expansion capability of 12,000
phones.
The biggest advantage of Cen
trex is probably the Wide Area
Telephone Service.
A&M currently uses two
WATS boards with 10 long dis
tance lines. There are seven Texas
lines and three U.S. lines, but
they are only available for of
ficial university business.
Acquisition of an additional
board with two lines is planned
for Jan. 1. This will aid in han
dling the 600 daily calls presently
handled.
Leroy Johnson, physical plant
office manager, estimates that
the university spends $15,000
monthly on toll calls.
The WATS boards are rented
from General Telephone on a
monthly basis. It costs $2,600
monthly regardless of the number
of calls placed.
Centrex employs 13 operators,
headed by Dorothy Heine, chief
operator. Johnson emphasized
that no additional operators will
be hired to run up the cost. In
formation operators can be moved
during peak periods.
Information service, also run
by Centrex, receives approximate
ly 1,000 calls daily. Student phone
numbers are processed from in
formation provided by the Hous
ing Office.
Cards containing student phone
numbers are sent to Centrex af
ter registration and, supposedly,
whenever the student moves. This
could explain the delay in avail
ability of student phone numbers.
All repairs and maintenance of
Centrex is handled by General
Telephone. Rates are fixed by
contract with General Telephone
and, therefore, will remain con
stant at least until the expiration
of the contract in Sept. 1973.
Anyone having troubles with
phone service should contact
Heine at 845-5171. If there is no
answer, call the Physical Plant
at 845-4311.