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u M Che Battalion Life Is Not Really What Comes To Us, But What We Get From It. 67 No. 192 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 6, 1972 Wednesday — Clear to partly cloudy. Colder tonight. Low of 28. Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy. Continued cool. High of 58. 845-2226 HAS i\ Williams Hints At Lower-Cost nousing For Women In Future A&M President Jack K. Wil- hinted at the possi- ity that women may be living lower priced on-campus hous- in the future during his [yisory council meeting with ident leaders Tuesday. Williams said the matter may brought back before the board for further discussion, although a change in the housing policy probably would not come before 1974. “Two more dorms to be added onto the Krueger-Dunn Complex have been approved by the board and are in detailed planning now,” said Williams. “This will add al- MS AM ttom 1*0 M, 4i*m OUSTOK &M Sophomore Arrested On arijuana Possession Charge Felony charges for possession of marijuana have been filed on UjA sophomore Thomas J. Shuff Jr. after University Police Lehended him in Room 213 of Dorm 6 in the Corps area Friday. | Shuff, a second-year chemical engineering major from Dickinson, ijsaresident of Puryear Hall. I University Police officers Sgt. Emitt Rosier and Patrolman Winfred [pan were called to the room (113) of Mike Flowers, a resident of bom 6, after Shuff had broken into his room. I He was later locked in Room 213 by Flowers’ friends. The room p vacant and being used as a typing room. Officers said Shuff was barently under the influence of some type of drug at the time they Lehended him. Shuff was taken into custody by the officers and placed in the pads of the Brazos County Sheriffs Office. He was later transferred to the Brazos Valley Mental Health Clinic ler admitting he was high on two tabs of LSD and needed medical totment. I After treatment, he was released on bond from the sheriff s office. uhe Lion In Winter’ Now Haying Nightly In Bryan most 1,200 spaces on-campus.” “The possibility of moving all men into one of these dorms could give women students a flex ibility of price by opening more spaces on-campus on the other side of the campus.” “Due to inflation, the building of these two new wings will cost more to build than it cost to build the Commons and Krueger-Dunn together,” continued Williams. “Hopefully, we can keep prices on low-cost dorms as low as possi ble.” Student Government President Layne Kruse brought up the sub ject of the separation of the hos pital fee from the student services fee. “I am in favor of taking the hospital fee out and reducing the cost of the student service fee in order to allow a flexibility of these funds,” said Williams. “I don’t think we can increase or continue any student programs without this flexibility. The hos pital fee is about the last fee which can be removed from the student services,” continued Wil liams. “A fundamental point I would like to make,” said Williams, “is that there is going to be a bus system on this campus. It is es sential to this campus.” the ‘main drag’ will use the closer stores over there instead of the Exchange Store. He also said with an increase in enrollment, the Exchange Store will probably have nothing to worry about for business. “It is proposed that we remodel the old Exchange Store building with the money from the end of contracts to turn the building in to a good registration center where students can go get every thing done in one place,” said Williams. “There is not a single center like this in the entire state.” Host & Fashion Gif t Show Set For Thursday Host and Fashion Committee will sponsor a $10 and under gift show Thursday from 7-9 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Free refreshments will be served. Local merchants will be dis playing their wares at this sea sonal show, according to Bill Fore, Host and Fashion Chair- “I hope we can reschedule man. Ir VICKIE ASHWILL [Skill, perfection and humor definitely a part of the mrth presentation of “The Lion Winter” by the Stagecenter layers in the old Bryan Country portrayal totally captivates the audience as her satirical dialogue keeps the play alive and moving, yet down-to-earth. Second in performance is Carl Childress in his role as the “bos sy,” demanding King Henry II. A lover of beauty and power, Henry takes the stage with his typical father, mother, emperor and businessman images. Henry’s three sons, John, Geof frey and Richard, portrayed by Doug Matheny, Dick Taylor and Dana Roese, respectively, create the perfect generation gap and the typical brother-hate-brother relationship. All-in-all, the play pulled the audience into its action, feeling and depth, leaving one’s emotions both hot and cold as the play closed. “The Lion in Winter” will con tinue through Friday beginning at 8 each night. buses more and more to improve and increase thte service. I have never seen a large student body with a large campus without a bus system.” Also discussed by the council was the moving of the Exchange Store to the new Memorial Stu dent Center and the effects of this move. “Hopefully, once the new Ex change Store gets going they will make $100,000 a year,” said Kruse. “The argument I hear concern ing the move, is students next to Campus groups, clubs and dorms are urged to adopt needy families for Christmas, said Corky Houchard, president of the Student Y, Wednesday. The organization, sponsoring its fourth annual Christmas drive to aid needy citizens, acts as a clear inghouse for donators. “Groups who wish to brighten up a poor family’s Christmas Students have discretionary in comes in excess of several million dollars per year, and many stu dents have felt that they must wait until they return to their home towns to shop in order to have a selection of reasonably priced items from which to choose. “This display should help the individual’s Christmas budget and should also save time if he real izes that he can shop here ahead of time and avoid the last minute rush for picked-over merchan dise,” emphasized Fore. ‘SOCKED-IN’ by a cool mist and fog 1 , most construction work at A&M followed a slow pace around campus while the fog in the background made visibility troublesome for mo torists and grounded local aircraft. An overnight cool front promised to make life just as miserable Wednesday. Football Game Set Thursday The first University Intramur al Football Championship will be played Thursday at 4 p.m. at Kyle Field. The Corps champion, F-2, will square off with the Civilian Resi dent Hall Champion, Fowler Hall, in what promises to be an exciting flag football game. The game will feature F-2’s powerful ground attack against Fowler’s wide-open passing game. Aggies: Help A Needy Family Enjoy Christmas through food, gifts and other do nations can come to us,” said Houchard. “We furnish them with the names, addresses and back ground information on a needy family in the Bryan-College Sta tion area.” Presently, only 40 of the 110 families needing help have been adopted. “These have all been adopted by the Corps, but we hope to get other organizations involved,” he said. “Last year, 120 families were adopted. “The schools in Bryan and Col lege Station provide us with names of children they feel would not have very good Christmases. We screen these names through the Bryan - College Station Mis sions to make sure that the fami lies are poverty stricken and to make sure that no one is “mooch ing’,” said Houchard. “Any group on campus may do it. One year a few married stu dents got together and adopted a family,” he added. The purpose of the student project is to involve college stu dents in local community action. “The whole university has helped local families, not just the Corps or only a few organizations were involved,” he said. Gifts are left up to the discre tion of the clubs, but can range from Christmas trees and decora tions to toys and food for Christ mas dinners. Those wishing to participate in the project should contact Hou chard or anyone in Room 102 of the YMCA. The drive will end Dec. 19. F-2’s high scoring rushing game scored 112 points this sea son while giving up only 12. Both teams have strong kicking games. F-2’s season record is 8-0. Fowl er has compiled a 6-0-1 record. Leading F-2’s attack is quarter back Steve Eberhard. Also on the team is Buster Carmouche, Steve Broussard, Doug Bender, Greg Beanzinger, Larry Jackson and Walter Smith. Completing the team are Corky Ragland, Ed Thistlethwaite, Bill Becker, Barry Bowden, Richard Bergfeld, Goby Norton and Ken Cox. Fowler’s team is composed of quarterback Mike Ellerbrock, Gary Long, Tommy Hawthorne, Sandy Bate and Skip Murphy. Also on the team are Doug Laukhaf, Richard Trayler, Mitch Barker, Ronnie Loomis and James Long. Completing Fowler’s team are Ben Greathouse, Rick Shepard, John Woods, Cary Conklin, Jeff Martin, Mike Mohnkern and Le roy Collins. This is the first time a Univer sity Champion has ever been de termined. Admission will be free. American Obscenity Topic For Lincoln Union Debate Lincoln Union Debating Society will tackle “Is Obscenity as American as Mom and Apple Pie?” Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium. Lincoln Union utilizes the Eng lish style of debate, unique in Texas. Other top-rated schools which utilize this type of debate are Harvard and Oxford. Wit, sarcasm, slander and humor are brought to play in a light hearted examination of the topic. The audience may also ask questions, comment or otherwise contribute to the debate. The audience also votes to determine the winning side. Free surprise souvenirs will be given to the audience before the debate starts. Thus far this year, the Society has debated “Abor tion: Freedom vs Morality” and “Which Is the Bigger Ass—Nix on or McGovern?” The free debate will be the So ciety’s final presentation this se mester. Anyone interested in de bating next semester should call Harry Schroeder at 846-7503 or Gary Reger at 845-1515. Local Stutterers Help Themselves SANTA’S HELPERS are giving Ags a hand as the ‘Y’s annual gift wrapping service [Started this week in Room 107 of the YMCA building. Andy Loughborough prepares to Wrap a gift as helper Sally Slomer watches amidst ribbons, bows and wrapped presents. If people are helped most by helping themselves, members of a unique local organization have a distinct advantage. They are in the Bryan Council of Stutterers, one of only four such groups in the U. S. Similar councils are found in Washington, D. C.; Florida and Albany, New York. BCS helps stutterers overcome their problems, offers consulting help to form other councils and works to dissolve some of the stigma associated with the prob lem of stuttering. Veterinary medicine student Lee Reeves helped found BCS and became its first member. Key figures in the process are the stutterers themselves, who develop self-determination to deal with the problem and help other stutterers, according to Joann Bourgeois, an A&M doctoral can didate who has a degree in speech pathology from Texas Woman’s University. “Stuttering is so crushing, so totally debilitating,” commented the specialist who gives direction to council sessions. Estimates are that two million Americans are afflicted with stut tering, “a disorder of timing in Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. Adv. speech utterance which is then reacted to by the speaker.” With probably 500 stutterers in the Bryan and College Station area, chances of an encounter are likely, even if the average citizen doesn’t know a stutterer. What should a person do to help ? BCS members have agreed on some positive steps. “The thing not to do is supply the word,” emphasizes Ms. Bour geois. “The word a stutterer is trying to say may be obvious, but filling it in for him underlines the failure.” Continue doing whatever was being done when stuttering began and try not to react, she said. “If you have eye contact, main tain it. Don’t look away,” Ms. Bourgeois explained. BCS mem bers meet the problem head-on, and may open their conversation by saying they stutter and are trying to whip it. The problem is analogous to food addiction or smoking, and relapses may occur. Besides individual therapy with Ms. Bourgeois and council meet ings where members motivate and reinforce each other in improve ment efforts, the group takes on mountainous projects—to a stut terer—to meet the problem. They talk to local organizations and have been on television pro grams several times. In openly discussing stuttering, they devel op confidence and improved abili ty to speak and break down other people’s misconceptions about the problem. Public presentations have exceptional therapeutic val ue. “Most professionals say stutter ing is a learned behavior, ac quired when an individual first learns to speak,” Ms. Bourgeois said. “Most stuttering develops between ages three and five. Some cases, but a very small percent- tage, start in the teenage years. A very small portion develops as the result of a stroke or crisis situation.” Stuttering is a very social prob lem, she said. When speaking alone, the stutterer tends to be fluent. “The consonants p, b and m cause the most problems, in stress situations or when the stutterer talks to someone of authority,” she noted. Council memberships and ses sions cost $5 a year, which pro vides for acquisition of research findings, tapes and publication of the BSC Journal. Sessions in which members practice tech niques to modify their speech habits normally involve parents, family or associates of the stut terer, in order to train them how to react and reinforce the stutter er’s effort to do something with his speech. BCS does the job primarily on its own. Some support has been given by the local Kiwanis Club and Speech Foundation of Ameri ca, through its director, Malcom Fraser. Ms. Bourgeois has worked di rectly with more than 30 stutter ers since she came to TAMU in 1966 to begin work on the M.S. degree in counseling. Counseling and Testing Center Director Aus- ton Kerley asked her to help in speech therapy. Part of her work toward the doctorate includes clinical psy chology work with Dr. Albert Casey at the Outreach Center in Bryan. She taught school a year and said she hated the speech therapy work it involved. “That’s why I came to A&M for the master’s in counseling,” she noted. “The thing that at tracted me is the tremendous number of unknowns about stut tering and the way stutterers can be helped by getting into and changing their environment.” University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.