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BATli William F. Buckley Discusses Free Market, Abortion And War By ROD SPEER News Editor #•0 “I don’t know any society dom- A U inated by economic motivation,” ; laid William F. Buckley Jr. Wed nesday night in defense of cer- A&PeSij tain liberal claims about the ooperw United States. S events,*, a Great Issues crowd of about 08 MdAlIoOO was on hand in G. Rollie inst Te ^hite Coliseum to hear the elo quent conservative and his en riched vocabulary. Buckley attacked the concept that the Free Market encourages aggression as in the case of the U. S. role in Indochina. Buckley believes there is wide spread hostility in the U. S. to ward the free market. “The tar get of the season is the price system,” he said. J “While we are here tonight, others meet elsewhere to deplore the free market,” Buckley said, not altering his voice from his characteristic low monotone. He added that in Russia the only free market is the black market and people can only listen to cer tain radio programs in secrecy at a tremendous risk. Concerning the cease-fire, the 48-year-old lecturer and author said, “We have aquitted our selves honorably. I can’t project if South Vietnam will be free but we have gone as far as we can go with realistic moves.” Buckley admitted the war was badly executed and felt it could have been finished eight years ago. In a televised press interview earlier in the evening at KAMU- TV, Buckley said he was “suspi cious” of the peace agreement and it will take a “certain amount of good faith” among constitu ents to work. “We have put pressure on the Soviet Union and China and the pressure was passed on to North Vietnam,” he told newsmen. He added that there has been a prob lem with the succession of power in Hanoi since the death of Ho Chi Minh and he feels the North Vietnamese would rather “freeze” the situation rather than risk in ternal conflict. Buckley said the U.S. would ignore a “trivial” breach of the cease-fire agreement, but he doesn’t know what would hap pen if a major breach occurred. “I’m sure Nixon and North Vietnam don’t know either at this time,” he confided. During the question - and - an swer session following the lec ture Buckley criticized the Su preme Court for taking a liberal stand on the abortion question. “I don’t know who conferred theo logical powers on the Supreme Court to decide at what time a fetus is entitled to certain rights.” Buckley, a Roman Cath olic, said the high court was not acting within its constitutional limits. “A free press is the primary bastion of human liberty,” Buck- ley said in reference to the im prisonment of reporters for not revealing private sources in court. Buckley did not attempt to defend a reporter’s right to secrecy but admitted that, un fortunately, “we can’t have a per fectly free press and perfectly free trial. No doubt it will hap pen again.” The nationally-syndicated col umnist believes an all-volunt r army could work in the U. S. it has worked for centuries,” he said. “In fact, Europe has had only a few conscription armies.” Buckley, who was dressed in a grey suit and white shirt, fin ished his lecture with a biblical quote. His religious philosophy was evident throughout the pres entation. Concerning the un known in science, he said, “I have to lean toward a religious expla nation of things.” Buckley In Wednesday’s Presentation Che Battalion Buckley Pondering Question For Press lites Held It A&M or LBJ he late Lyndon Baines John- Was honored by students and j|ty of Texas A&M Thursday Bing with a memorial service ft Rollie White Coliseum. Be service, held in conjunction i the national day of mourn- Bor the late 36th president, fcimple and brief. Ipropriate music was pro- I by the Texas A&M Singing et , and the eulogy was de- red by Dr. H. Bailey Stone, ■r of the First Baptist m h of Bryan. Many people recognized in his sing his desire for excellence m’vice to his country and his Rev. Stone said. “President on described Lyndon Johnson ; man with a fantastic devo- Vol. 67 No. 206 College Station, Texas Friday, January 26, 1973 845-2226 8 (j to his country. Eiirty of his 64 years were nt on Capitol Hill, and he was lister of person-to-person in- Bce. He would draw opposing IF together with his familiar Rst, ‘Come, let us reason to- fir.’ History has yet to make its Bnent on Lyndon Johnson,” ■lev. Stone continued. “But now say that back on that P day in November of 1963, ijlon Johnson stood tall and let erica know that we as a nation going to continue. Lyndon Baines Johnson is now Wf to meet the Lord in whom professed a devout trust. We . offer to his memory the words (See Rites Held, page 3) Bus Proposals Passed To Senate For Action A SHORT AND BRIEF ceremony was held Thursday morning for A&M students and faculty for the late Lyndon B. Johnson in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The simple rites saw the Ross Volunteers give a 21-gun salute, Dr. H. Bailey Stone deliver the eulogy and Silver Taps sounding by the Aggie Band. Town Hall To Host Ballet Houston Ballet, featuring a larger company with an expanded repertory, two exciting new prin cipals in Soili Arvola and Leo Ahonen and a new staff will appear Feb. 1 at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. A TAMU Special Attraction of Town Hall Committee, the Hous ton Ballet performance will begin chumacher Hall Captures Top >PR Ranking Among Civilians Schumacher Hall was the first iliun resident hall in the tory of A&M to top the 3.0 rk taking the first place posi- n away from Moore Hall with y 0.1727 grade points, an- inced Mark Blakemore, Resi lt Hall Association president. Moore Hall came in second on r list of Civilian Resident Halls Rdemic Achievements with a OSa GPR for the hall. In com- |rison, the total hours attempted Schumacher were 2558 while oore managed 3715. pi fall 1971, Schumacher Hall in third place with a 2.8699 §1 and 1891 total hours. At Ifl same time Moore Hall came ■first with an over-all GPR 6-9076 and 3659 total hours. While Schumacher climbed the t&demic scale 0.218 grade points ihier managed to drop 0.2695 (pde points. This took Milner 11th place to 20th place ^ith a 2.3928 GPR and a total f 2047 hours. Jrueger Hall came in third Jjfcce wtih an over-all GPR of ^P97 and a total of 6878 total Brs. Dunn Hall, on the other Wd, had a total of 7047 hours only made seventh place with ^2.7823 GPR. fft is interesting to note that ■ first floor of Dunn with a |P69 GPR and the fourth floor j’^lKrueger with a 2.8057 GPR the lowest GPR areas in the ° rr n complex. At the same time in Dunn the boys GPR was 2.7942 while the girls only had a 2.7700 GPR. The rest of the floors are as follows: Krueger, first floor with 2.9077, second floor with 2.8475, third floor with 2.9328 and Dunn, second floor wtih 2,8475, third floor with 2.8171 and fourth floor with 2.7720. Utay made the biggest grade (See Schumacher, page 2) India Group To Celebrate The A&M India Association will celebrate its annual India Night at 7:30 tonight in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom. This celebration falls on the 25th anniversary of India’s inde pendence. Jim Holman, editor of the “Bryan Daily Eagle” will speak on the “Press Today”. There will also be a short Indian dance and music program, displays of na tive handicraft, and a social hour following the program. The Silver jubilee will celebrate India’s independence in 1947 un der Mahatma Ghandi and its achievements since them. Despite overpopula- at 8 p.m. The 1972-73 touring company will offer a totally different look than the 18-member group that danced here last spring. New talent and polished, sea soned artists have joined the company. The latter bring ex perience gained from such com panies as the American Ballet Theatre, Royal Winnigeg, San Francisco and Finnish Ballets and the National Ballet of Wash ington. A new staff is headed by Gen eral Director Henry Holth. It includes Charles Rosekrans, to direct the company’s own orches tra. The Houston Ballet this sea son has conducted a regular and’ continuing series of performances at Jones Hall. A Christmas spe cial was the full-length “Nut cracker Suite.” Four works are to be staged for the Bryan program, announced Town Hall Chairman Philip Good win of Midland. They are “Through A Glass Lightly,” a surrealistic drama performed to a taped musical collage; “Capri- chos,” a ballet in four episodes based on Goya’s commentaries to his “Caprichos” etchings; the “Pas de Deux” Tchaikovsky wrote for but never used with “Swan Lake,” and the standard “Pa- quita,” first seen in Paris in 1846. Goodwin reminded that sepa rate admissions are required for TAMU Specials. No season passes are honored. Tickets are on sale at the Student Program Office in the Memorial Student Center. Miss Arvola and Ahonen, both of Finnish birth, danced with the Finnish Ballet and most recently with the San Francisco Ballet. The duo gave their own dance concert at the Seattle Playhouse in 1970, dancing six different Pas de Deuxs. Miss Arvola received the Bronze Medal in the sixth Ballet since its formation; Leslie Peck of New York, Anthony Santiago from seven years with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet’s School and company in New York, and Jerry Schwender, New York- trained Houstonian and husband of Leslie Peck. The enlarged company toured with the Houston Symphony in South Texas, gave public-free performances in the Miller Out door Theatre and went back on the road to Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas before opening “The Nutcracker.” Now back in Jones Hall for repertory presen tations, the group will join with the San Antonio Symphony for a week South Texas tour in the spring. BY VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer Proposed service and financing arrangements for the 1973-74 Shuttle Bus operation have been accepted by the Shuttle Bus Com mittee and will now be forwarded to the president of the university and the Student Senate for their approval. The proposal includes the use of 10 buses on four different routes including two buses on an inner-campus periphery route, one bus to Hensel-College View, five buses on Route 2 (Monaco, Barcelona, Tanglewood, Planta tion Oaks, etc.) and two buses to the North Gate apartments. The 10 buses will total 55 hours per week per bus. Approximately $120,000 will be needed to support the nine-month operation with an estimated $66,- 000 coming from the Student Service Fee. A user fee of $18 per year would be combined with the Student Service Fee to help fund the bus operation. “It could occur that the $66,000 would not fit into the 1973-74 budget,” said Layne Kruse, Stu dent Government president. “The Senate will also decide if an inner-campus bus is feasible at this time.” “The concept is that we pro vide some type of inner-campus service in order that some aspect of the service be available to all students,” said Kent Caperton, committee chairman. Any student with an I.D. would be able to ride the inner-campus periphery route while buses go ing off-campus would either re quire the $18 user fee or a sep arate coupon. A coupon book would be available for occasional student riders at 10 rides for $1.50 and non-student riders for $2. A faculty-staff bus pass would cost $22 for the nine-month per iod. It was also proposed and accepted at the meeting that a husband and wife family unit could buy a bus pass for only $24. “It is only logical that this type of a family pass be applied to other immediate family rela tionships such as a brother and s i s t e r,” said Fred Campbell, chairman of the Student Senate rules and regulations committee. “There is an added convenience in riding a bus if the husband and wife arrive at the campus at different times,” said Ron Holder of Texas Transportation Inter prises (TTI). “People just don’t realize it costs 11 to 15 cents per mile to run a car,” said Jim Behling. A final decision concerning whether or not the university takes over the total operation and ownership of the buses in the future is between the vice presi dent of business affairs and the president said Caperton. Free University Night To Be Held In DeWare Gym The Free University will once again be offered to the students of TAMU this semester as well as the residents of Bryan-College Station. Courses offered this semester will cover a wide range of topics from Life Drawing to Chemistry; Bioengineering to Gourmet Cook ing and Automobile Economy to Urban Planning. For those interested, Free Uni versity Night will be held on Jan. 31 beginning at 8 p.m. at Deware Field House. The purpose of the night is to allow potential partici pants to meet the instructors of the courses offered. It will also allow people to get an idea of the scope of a course they might be interested in. The TAMU Free Universtiy is an educational experience organ ized by students and faculty for the benefit of the community. The primary objective is to offer an understanding of unstructured education to the student and allow him to acquire knowledge for the sake of learning in courses not offered at TAMU. Dallas-FW Airport Nearing Completion The $700 million Dallas/Fort Worth Airport is nearing comple tion and scheduled for opening in early fall 1973. Destined to become the na tion’s largest and most sophisti cated jetport, it measures more than, 26 square miles and covers A TEXAS-SIZE superport is scheduled to be completed in Dallas-Fort Worth for open- serious problems of International Ballet Competition ingTn early fall, 1973/Conveniently located 17 miles from both Dallas and Fort Worth, tion and pover y, " 18 the at Varna, Bulgaria, last summer, the new airport is designed with the passenger in mind. Drive to gate boarding, close-in aged to remain com ^ ^ ^ McMillan> parking and s i mp iified terminal procedures are only a few of the ultra modern features ularism 68 a Houstonian with the Houston designed into the unique facility. an area larger than Manhattan Island. The airport will begin opera tion with four terminal half-loop superstructures and a total of 66 passenger gates capable of serv ing the 10 million passengers ex pected during the first year. Eventually, the airport will have 13 terminal half-loops with more than 250 gates to care for an estimated 200,000 passengers each day by the year 2001. Runways, taxiways and apron areas will have enough room to provide even the jumbo jets vir tual freedom of movement on the ground. Aircraft will be able to move through taxiways into term inal areas without interference. The terminal loops will com prise a series of modular “mini- terminals.” Each of these small independent areas will serve pas sengers for one airplane, with the air traveler able to park his car directly opposite his particular flight gate. An automated system will pro vide the link between the termi nal half loops, remote parking areas, an on-site hotel and the Federal Aviation Administrative control facility. Electrically-pow ered vehicles will move passen gers, baggage, mail and refuse throughout the complex. The airport will be served by a 450-room hotel, to be located (See Dallas, page 2) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.