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Vol. 67 No. 185
College Station, Texas Friday, November 17, 1972
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Senate Asks Bike Fee Reduction
Requests Rack Priority For Dorms
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The Society of Automotive En-
ineers at A&M will host a 1926
onden Steam Wagon on one stop
a round-the-world tour Satur-
l
The steam truck and its three
tcupants are due to arrive on
A&M campus sometime to-
icrrow. Their arrival date and
are tentative due to a num-
of break-downs and slow
id.
The Britannia, as the eight ton,
ituminous coal powered steam
mck is called, left the London
lotor Show on Oct. 16, 1969 and
covered 17,000 miles. After
BUCKY SAMS takes a handoff from Fish quarterback Dale Ammons in route to a 52-
ard touchdown scamper. Sams rushed for 218 yards Thursday night as the Fish outlasted
ie Texas Shorthorns, 10-8. See story page 5 (Photo by Steve Ovalline)
Steam Wagon A&M Bound
traveling through 14 European
and Asian countries, the Britan
nia’s tour is now on its last stage
and it will be crossing the U.S.
from east to west for the final
6,000 miles.
Due to arrive last week for the
Texas 500 Auto race, the Britan
nia was delayed in Waco with
mechanical problems.
“We are hoping that it will ar
rive sometime Saturday morn
ing,’’ said SAE Chairman, Charles
Ursell. “We will act as ushers
and guides and provide the crew
with a place to stay and rest,”
said Ursell. “The only trouble is
that when they arrive, I’ve got
to find them 3,000 pounds of coal.”
The crew and truck will be on
campus for several days to effect
repairs and rest.
The Britannia is 25 feet long
and has a top speed of 30 miles-
per-hour. The two cylinder, 49
horsepower engine requires 12.5
pounds of coal and six gallons
of water for every mile it travels
Rebuilt in 1968, the 1926 truck
was fitted with a box van that
houses the crew. It also has four
beds, hot and cold water, a re
frigerator, a gas cooler and elec
tric services.
The Student Senate endorsed a
$1.50 bicycle registration fee
Thursday night with the stipula
tion that dormitories have first
priority in receiving bicycle
racks.
This proposal, accepted by sen
ators with a vote of 64 to 14 aft
er a one and a half hour discus
sion, will be presented to the uni
versity administration as a basis
for lowering the present regis
tration fee of $3.
“I propose we defeat plan A
($3 registration fee accepted last
spring by the administration) in
order to propose plan C of $1.50,”
said Cathy Schnatterly (at-large,
science). She went on to say all
bicycle racks purchased under
this plan should be placed at the
dormitories where they are need
ed to lock up bikes at night.
Only 890 bicycles have been
registered at this time. A Stu
dent Government survey showed
there may be as many as 2,673
bicycles on campus at one time
during the day.
“People are not going to reg
ister,” said Student Government
President Layne Kruse, “when
they don’t know what is going to
happen concerning the registra
tion fee.”
“The Student Senate should
consider what is going to hap
pen on campus in the future,”
continued Kruse. “The student
population is going to increase
and bike numbers will become
greater and greater.”
“The reason for the rush is to
get the decision to the Board of
Directors for use next semester,”
said Steve Wakefield, chairman
of the student services commit
tee, in response to a senator’s
question. “At this time 890 per
sons are registered unfairly in
that they don’t know what the
final fee will be.”
In other business a book ex
change program presented by
Ron Bento, chairman of the serv
ices committee, was accepted by
the Senate.
This pilot program will be in
operation Dec. 6-8, 11, 12 and
Jan. 15-19 as a service project of
Omega Phi Alpha. The program
will be organized in the base
ment of the Memorial Student
Center with two telephone lines.
Students may call in their
books they have for sale and
look for books at the same time.
The business transactions will be
handled by the students them
selves.
Fred Campbell, chairman of the
student rules and regulations
committee, presented a measure
to the Senate concerning the yell
leader committee.
This proposal provides that the
initial screening responsibility of
candidates be omitted, student
make-up of the committee be in
creased from two to four and a
yell leader cannot be removed
from his position without a two-
thirds vote from the Senate.
“This provision is to be substi
tuted in the existing yell leader
provisions under the section en
titled ‘Yell Leader Committee’,”
said Campbell.
In other action, the Senate ac
cepted the proposed Day Care
Center Board members. One com
munity member added to the list
presented last week is Rita Ke-
neipp, social worker in the Braz
os Valley Rehabilitation Center.
Allende Supported At ISA Debate
Chilean President Allende and
his Marxist regime were given
support following a debate by
the International Student Asso
ciation at the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom Thursday night.
The resolution debated was
“Chile’s Marxist experiment is
a successful model for develop
ment.” It passed by a vote of 15
to 11.
Debating for the resolution was
Stanley Moore and Friedrich
Mack while their opposition was
Shariq Yosufzai and Paulo De-
Castro.
“Capitalism has been a failure
in Chile,” said Moore, a graduate
student who has lived 12 of the
last 13 years in Chile. “Two per
cent of the landowners own 72
per cent of the land,” he said,
“and 47 per cent of the population
is undernourished.”
“The idea of democracy in Chile
has been thrown to the wind,”
said Yosufzai, a chemical engi
neering major from Bangladesh.
“Since Allende has gained power
Chile has been in a state of chaos,
confusion, inflation, unemploy
ment and a general reign of
terror.”
“Allende has faced quite a bit
(See ISA Debate, page 2)
‘Friends’ Of A&M Library Provide Funds
Noted Houston Lawyer To Speak At Midterm Commencement
Houston attorney Leon Jawor-
ki, immediate past president of
he American Bar Association,
be midterm commencement
peaker at A&M, announced
AMU President Jack K. Wil
ms.
The ceremonies will be at 9
m, Saturday, Dec. 9, in G. Rol-
lle White Coliseum.
Jaworski, senior partner in the
inn of Fulbright, Crooker & Ja-
orski, has headed a variety of
associations from the local
the national level. In addition
the ABA, he is past president
fthe State Bar of Texas, Amer-
can College of Trial Lawyers,
iouston Bar Association and the
'exas Civil Judicial Council.
He also is a fellow of the
American Bar Foundation, trus
tee of the National College of
District Attorneys and an hon
orary member of several other
legal groups, including the Cana
dian Bar Association.
Jaworski has served this year
as special counsel to the attor
ney general of Texas. He served
in a similar capacity from 1962
until 1965, along with service as
special assistant to the U. S. at
torney general from 1963 until
1965.
He was a member of the Pres
ident’s Commission on Law En
forcement and Administration of
Justice from 1965 until 1967 and
a member of the President’s Com
mission on the Causes and Pre
vention of Violence during 1968-
69.
In addition to his professional
activities, Jaworski has served in
key positions for numerous civil,
educational and charitable or
ganizations. He is president of
the Baylor Medical Foundation
and trustee of Baylor College of
Medicine, Texas Medical Center,
M. D. Anderson Foundation and
the Houston Symphony Society.
He is a past president and direc
tor of the Houston Chamber of
Commerce.
Born in Waco, Jaworski earned
his Bachelor of Laws degree at
Baylor University and Master of
Laws at George Washington Uni
versity. He holds honorary doc
torates from Baylor, Suffolk and
Washburn Universities.
Leon Jaworski
More than $110,000 support
was provided by Friends of the
A&M Library in the organiza
tion’s first year of operation.
Announcement of the funding
was made at the second annual
Friends meeting featuring Mrs.
Walter Prescott Webb of Austin
as speaker.
Guest and program partici
pants at the Thursday meeting
included Gus Wortham and John
Lindsey of Houston, book col
lector Jeff Dykes who has assem
bled range cattle and J. Frank
Dobie collections for the TAMU
library, Chairman Sterling C.
Evans of Houston and President
Jack K. Williams. More than
100 attended the meeting.
“I know of no other library
that has received this level of
support from such an organiza
tion in its first year,” Director
of Libraries John B. Smith stat
ed.
He noted that the $112,490.32
is incomplete, with several pro
posals possibly to be acted on be
fore the fiscal year closes.
Evans was presented a memen
to by Smith for his charter chair
manship of the organization
which provides for development
of library programs at TAMU.
It was a special facsimile edition
of “Prose and Poetry in the Live
stock Industry,” one of the “big
four” range cattle books in the
Dykes collection.
J. Harold Dunn, Amarillo busi
nessman and also a Texas A&M
graduate who served on the uni
versity’s Board of Directors, was
elected to succeed Evans as
chairman.
“I have a natural interest in
books and knowledge of a writer
and book collector,” Mrs. Webb
said in her remarks. She referred
to her first husband, the late
Cong. Maury Maverick Sr. who
was. San Antonio mayor, and
noted historian Walter Prescott
Webb, who was killed in an auto
accident.
“My first knowledge of Dr.
Webb was in 1937, while Maury
and I were in Washington,” she
related. “He brought home Dr.
Webb’s book, ‘Divided We Stand,’
one night. Maury called it ‘the
greatest writing I’ve seen. I’m
going to steal some of it for a
speech on the floor tomorrow’.”
Elected to offices in Friends
with Dunn were vice chairman
C. C. (Polly) Krueger of San An-
Antonio and executive commit
tee members Jeff Dykes, Dr.
George F. Carter of the TAMU
faculty and the outgoing chair
man.
Friends of the Library Keep
sake No. 2, “The Pleasure Frank
Dobie Took in Grass,” was pre
sented to members at the meet
ing. It consists of a facsimile
reproduction of Mrs. Bertha Do-
bie’s speech to the friends at the
1971 meeting with a brief intro
duction by Dykes.
Gomez Calls For ‘Day One’
Bilingual Language Program
The need for a bilingual lan
guage program from “school day
one” was emphasized by Dr. Se
vere Gomez this week.
Addressing the Association of
Mexican-American students, Go
mez said, “We are taught to read
English in the first grade as if
we knew English and taught
Spanish in high schools as if we
knew no Spanish.
“And usually these Spanish
courses are taught by teachers
who cannot converse in the lan
guage,” noted the Texas Educa
tion Agency assistant commis
sioner.
Mexican-Americans usually get
off to a poor start in school, and
in 25 years, 50 per cent of the
Texas school population will be
Mexican-American.
The goal of bilingual education
is successful achievement by the
student of the goals of the edu
cational processes using two lan
guages, developing proficiency in
both, he said.
“In effect, teaching begins with
refusal or inability to realize dif
ferences in our students,” Gomez
stressed. “It (teaching) would be
more effectual if on day one, a
child who could not speak English
was brought into a comfortable
school environment.
“One where he was not forced
to abandon the only language in
which he can communicate, thus
making the English-language
learning experience a painful
one.”
Gomez summed up his talk with
the thought, “Remember, because
we are different does not imply
that we are inferior.”
Symbolizes 6 Burning Desire’
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Aggie Bonfire Builds Toward Tuesday Climax
Vlon.
One of A&M’s oldest traditions
p taking shape on the south side
if the campus.
It’s the beginnings of an 85-
pot log bonfire, an emotional en-
{ineering feat involving thou-
»nds of students and fueling
^notions for the annual Thans-
tiving Day football game be
tween the Aggies and Texas
Longhorns.
When the giant structure is
tamed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
ies say it represents their
We for TAMU and the burning
desire to beat the Longhorns.
Head Yell Leader Hank Paine,
tanfire coordinator, said work on
tile second stack began Thurs-
morning. The centerpole was
set Nov. 9.
Paine estimated 3,500 students
ill be working on the structure
Saturday through Monday, with
ffer 5,000 individual students in
volved at one time or another.
Another tradition associated
with bonfire is dismissal of
undergraduate classes Monday to
allow students to work.
This year’s cutting area is on
Sandy Point Road 13 miles north
of the campus. The road is being
bulldozed for highway right-of-
way, Paine noted, and all logs
for the bonfire will be collected
from trees already knocked down.
Unofficially, the cutting will
begin Saturday morning, with a
break for attendance at the
A&M-Rice football game Satur
day afternoon. Activities begin
Sunday and Monday with break
fast at 5:30 a.m. and work in the
cutting area from dawn to dusk.
The stacking area is a 24-hour
operation, Paine pointed out.
The head yell leader said ap
proximately 300 coeds will serve
in first aid tents and serve cof
fee and cookies. The coffee and
cookies are provided free by the
Student Y Association, coordi
nated by Corky Honchard and
Coleen Bourland.
Paine said the bonfire has re
ceived a lot of support from con
struction companies working on
campus, and area contractors.
Logs used on the bonfire will
range from two inches to two
feet in diameter, Paine reported,
with the center pole actually two
60-foot poles donated by the In
ternational Paper Co. in Nava-
sota.
Company C-l splied and set
the pole.
Trucks to haul the logs were
donated by Dean Word Con
struction Co. of New Braunfels
and Don Richardson of Bryan.
Hard hats and rope for the stack
pullies were donated by H. B.
Zachry Co. of San Antonio.
W. R. McCullough of Bryan
told the students about the high
way project north of Bryan. Tex
as Highway Department District
Engineer Joe Hanover arranged
with the contractor, R. B. But
ler and Co. of Bryan, for the stu
dents to use the downed trees.
Paine said communications will
be provided by the local amateur
radio club.
Security for the project is very
tight, Paine added.
The bonfire tradition started
in 1909 when two Aggies gath
ered some trash into a pile and
burned it as a joke to create in
terest in the upcoming Aggie-
UT grid battle.
Over the years the size of the
trash pile spread, with people
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
saving old boxes and paper for erected in 1949 and the first all
months. Some trash was even
brought in from across the state
on railroad cars marked for the
College Station bonfire.
The first center pole was
log bonfire was built in 1952.
Only one time has the bonfire
been cancelled — in 1963 when
President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated.
Campus Briefs
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Homer
S. Hill will review Texas A&M’s
Corps of Cadets at the Saturday
march-in to the Aggie-Rice foot
ball game.
Gen. Hill, President Jack K.
Williams and Marine Corps Col.
C. E. Hogan, professor of naval
science, will take the Kyle Field
reviewing stand for the 12:20 p.m.
march-in to the 1:30 p.m. game.
★ ★ ★
Texas A&M cadets Leslie C.
Lyons of Honolulu, Hawaii, and
Edward P. Rumold of Phillips-
burg, N. J., will receive 1972
Army ROTC Leadership Awards
in Nov. 27 presentations at the
Pentagon.
Lyons and Rumold will be
among five Army cadets honored.
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams,
Army Chief of Staff, will present
the awards.
The citations, in recognition of
excellence in leadership, are given
each outstanding graduate of the
Army’s four Advanced Camps and
the Ranger Camp at Fort Benn-
ing.
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Leaders of A&M’s Association
of Former Students will elect of
ficers and set goals and budgets
for 1973 during the annual Fall
Council Meeting here Saturday.
Activities began with a social-
dinner Friday at the Holiday Inn.
Saturday morning there will be
a program-business meeting in
Zachry Engineering Center Room
102.
CORNELIUS BROTHERS and Sister Rose will spotlight
the stage with ‘looking Glass’ at tonight’s 8 p. m. perform
ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The latter is the tailor of
the hit song “Brandy.”