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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.
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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-
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&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.
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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
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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.”
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