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By MIKE RICE
Editor
The control of an individual’s
behavior and the control of large
populations of people is a current
issue which is discussed by medi
cal experts, psychologists, poli
ticians and others.
The effects of such actions by
leaders in society will have sig
nificant and perhaps grave conse
quences with respect to human
value systems, freedom as now
enjoyed and future directions of
the countries in the world.
One week from today, students
from as far away as California
and Vermont will have converged
on A&M to look at these controls
and their related problems in the
eighteenth Student Conference on
National Affairs.
This year’s SCON A topic, “The
The Controlled Society: Realizing Future Effects
Controlled Society,” will offer
delegates and non-delegates an
opportunity to look at world is
sues while taking a break from
running their own schools and
affairs.
We need to get tomorrow’s
leaders introduced to tomorrow’s
problems so future generations
won’t run the risk of having
inept leadership in their time,”
says SCON A Chairman T. Chet
Edwards.
Edwards indicates that a three-
step process in his conference will
help students develop and work
on issues.
1. Identify the problem.
2. Find the issues involved
with the problem.
3. Go back home and try to
find ways to solve these
problems.
SCONA delegates will be re
alizing that no society can exist
without some measure of control,
which may be either “internalized
and subtle, or overt and external.”
Behind the challenge of the con
trolled society is the question of
who shall guard the guardians—
or control the controllers.
Broadly speaking, three types
of control may be distinguished
as exerted over individuals in to
day’s society — institutional, psy
chological and biological.
Under the institutional heading
one may find governmental, mass
media and big business controls.
These media and business inter
ests are subject to the control of
the government through its mul
tiple interests and vice versa.
Psychological controls, related
closely to biological controls, can
be the “most insidious” in their
possible misuse and at the same
time, “the most hopeful.” This
aspect of control reflects the
belief that “reinforcement tech
niques and environmental manip
ulation can alter individual be
havior so as to ultimately direct
the behavior of society as a
whole.”
Biological controls involve di
rect “manipulation of the life-
process itself of some social good,
and touch upon deeply-felt re
ligious ideals as well as an un
predictable area of scientific re
search.” “Genetic engineering,” as
an example, proposes to drive
“undesirable” persons into extinc
tion.
These ideas should pose a large
number of related discussions for
SCONA goers.
Che Battalion
For example, sociologists and
political scientists will argue that
Americans are basically controlled
by institutions and the environ
ment. In contrast, many psychol
ogists consider the question of
freedom and control as a struggle
of the individual over his own
fears and anxieties.
An important question is that
of who or what groups are re
sponsible for present-day controls
and what groups benefit from
them. Another one to consider is
the implication of controls con
cerning basic freedoms.
The word “control” implies a
loss of freedom. Thus, if society
is becoming more controlled, to
what extent is it losing the basic
freedoms for which the United
States was established?
That Man Is
Idle Who
Does Less
Than He Can.
Price control, wage control,
consumer control, etc. should
have implications to those at
tending SCONA 18 because our
nation has never seen these be
fore except in time of national
crisis.
“We’re not trying to come up
with the concensus report of the
answers,” says Edwards. “In fact,
it is our desire to resist the ten
dency among some students to
accept simple answers to the
vastly complicated questions fac
ing this country today.
“We feel that by furthering
students’ awareness of the com
plex nature of national issues of
importance, SCONA can effective
ly complement classroom instruc
tion in higher education’s attempt
to produce enlightened, responsi
ble leaders,” he added.
THURSDAY — Showers today
and very slight chance for
freezing rain. High 37, low 27.
FRIDAY — Clear. High of 51.
Vol. 67 No. 212
Shakespeare
Drama Is Set
For Monday
Shakespeare’s poetic drama “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” will
weave its medley of poetry, song
and dance Monday at the Bryan
Civic Auditorium.
A production of the National
Shakespeare Company, the “folk
lore and fairies fantasy” will be
presented through the Rotary
Community Series and Town Hall.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
This is the National Shake
speare Company’s 10th anniver
sary tour since artistic director
Philip Meister and his wife,
Elaine Sulka, co-founded it in
1963 with a $15 investment.
The NSC plays out of New
York City and in recent years
has brought “The Taming of the
Shrew,” “Much Ado About Noth
ing” and “Twelfth Night” to Bry
an and College Station.
In “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
the company presents what is con
sidered one of Shakespeare’s most
delightful light works which dem
onstrates that “reason and love
keep little company together.”
Plotted around the wedding of
Theseus and Hippolyta and the
love story of Lysander, Deme
trius, Hermia and Helena, it was
probably written for the wedding
of some great personage.
It contains a play within a play,
in which the story parallels the
main plot and Puck becomes the
instrument for solving the prob
lems of the earthly lovers.
NSC’s premise in staging
Shakespeare is that the audience
must understand the play.
The Elizabethan language
sometimes poses a language bar
rier,” Meister said, “but we can
compensate for that by the stage
action. We insist on playing our
Shakespeare straight.”
William Francisco, Yale Drama
School faculty member with
harles Playhouse, Ford Theatre
and TV special credits, directs “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Admission is by Rotary Series
season pass and separate tickets
available to TAMU students at
e Student Program Office in
th e Memorial Student Center.
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 8, 1973
845-2226
Ag Sweetheart, Shuttle Bus,
Housing Issues Face Senate
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Shuttle Bus financing arrange
ments and lower cost for women's
housing will be voted on tonight
by senators at the Student Senate
meeting at 7:30 in. Room 102 of
the Zachry Engineering Center.
Proposed service and financing
arrangements for the 1973-74
shuttle bus operation will be put
before the Senate for its approval.
“The senators may do one of
three things,” said Randy Ross,
Student Government vice presi
dent. “They may accept the pro
posal as is, with amendments, or
they may completely reject it.”
The proposal includes the use
of 10 buses on four different
routes including two buses on an
inner-periphery route.
A controversy over whether or
not there should be buses run
ning an inner-periphery route
developed at the Shuttle Bus Com
mittee meeting Tuesday.
“There is no system that can
be put on campus to save time,”
said Ron Holder of Texas Trans
portation Enterprises. “The only
thing they would do is create less
effort. These buses will not im
prove the on-campus situation as
they will still be in the pedes
trians’ and cyclists’ ways.”
The Shuttle Bus Committee is
asking for approximately $66,000
from Student Service fees to
combine with an $18 user fee to
finance the $120,000 operation.
The subject of removing the
Aggie Sweetheart from the list
of traditions will be raised to the
Senate.
“Because of the diversity of the
present student body on this
campus, it is no longer necessary
or feasible to have a position such
as Aggie Sweetheart in which a
single girl is honored,” said Ron
Bento, services chairman. “Also,
the position itself is no longer
representative of its original in
tent.”
Senators will continue their de
bate over women’s housing to
night and at the same time reach
some type of decision concerning
the proposal.
The resolution asks A&M Pres
ident Jack K. Williams to do all
he can to open up lower-cost
housing for women on the civilian
side of campus for the fall se
mester 1973.
“In all probability, there will
be a friendly amendment accom
panying the proposal to endorse
the concept of coeducational hous-
SKIES OPENED when Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe and
his wife arrived at Easterwood Airport for Wednesday’s
address for the County Judges and Commissioners Con
ference. Holding the umbrella is Dr. Jack K. Williams’
assistant, Robert Cherry.
Briscoe Outlines
Future’s ‘Roadmap’
Nader Coming Wednesday
Gov. Dolph Briscoe outlined a
“Roadmap for the Future” during
a talk here Wednesday in which
he repeatedly emphasized that lo
cal government is still the best
government.
Speaking to an estimated 600
persons attending the 15th annual
County Judges and Commission
ers Conference at the Ramada
Inn, he said he has long believed
that the county level of govern
ment can do a better job of de
livering programs and services to
the people.
He lauded conference members
as often the only “eyeball-to-eye-
ball” contact many Texans have
with the government.
The governor listed a number
of objectives for his roadmap, one
of them being the need for all
elements of state and county
governments to cooperate to as
sure maximum return of services
for taxpayers.
“Local problems should be
solved by local programs,” he
said. “But if they are not solved
locally, there is one thing we can
depend upon, and that is that the
power and control over those mat
ters will, like the Potomac River,
flow toward Washington.”
Another roadmap objective, he
said, is to provide “the tools” for
county governments to meet pub
lic needs for new services. Major
problems are urban sprawl and
(See Briscoe Outlines, page 2)
By LARRY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Consumer advocate Ralph Na
der will speak in G. Rollie White
Coliseum Wednesday in a special
program sponsored by Political
Forum and Great Issues.
Nader will present an examina
tion of the nature and extent of
big business’ control over the
consumer and political policy in
this country.
His 8:30 p.m. speech will cost
50 cents for students with I.D.
card and activity card and $2.00
for others. Tickets will be avail
able Monday at the Student Pro
gram Office.
Nader considers the corporate
institution to be the most endur
ing and coordinated institution in
the U. S.
He also believes that to keep
the corporation from becoming a
mindless production machine, “hu
man values and trusteeships for
future generations must be exert
ed on the steering wheel.”
Nader began his outspoken ca
reer upon his enrollment in Prince
ton University in 1951. He op
posed curriculum inflexibility and
the administration’s right to ar
bitrary suspension and expulsion
of students.
Majoring in Oriental studies,
Nader speaks fluent Chinese,
Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and
Arabic, which he learned in child
hood.
While attending Princeton, Na
der also engaged in his first ma
jor public controversy. He pro
tested the use of DDT in spray
ing trees, which was killing cam
pus songbirds.
Nader also protested the ex
ploitation of the American Indian.
After visiting reservations in New
Mexico, Arizona, California, and
Montana he wrote a paper accus
ing the Department of the In
terior, state governments, and
private industry of ignoring In
dian problems and stealing land.
After graduating Phi Beta Kap
pa from Princeton in 1951, Nader
received his LL.B. from Harvard
in 1958.
After a short term in the army
and a miniature tour of the world,
Nader got down to business.
The automobile industry was
the first to feel the pressure of a
Nader investigation. His effort
culminated in the book Unsafe At
Any Speed, the death of the Cor-
vair and national fame.
Nader, whose only goal in life
appears to be making the world
safe for the consumer, has found
ed numerous organizations for
automobile safety and public re
sponsibility.
Among these are the Center for
Responsive Law, Center for Auto
Safety, and Project for Corporate
Responsibility.
Nader summed up his work
when he said, “I place the needs
of our society above my own
ambitions; tthis seems to baffle
people. Is it so implausible, so
distasteful, that a man would
believe deeply enough in his work
to dedicate his life to it?”
ing as an alternative to evicting
the residents already residing in
the dorms in question,” said Fred
Campbell, chairman of Rules and
Regulations Committee.
The Resident Hall Association
and White, Utay, Law, Puryear
and Dunn have already approved
the resolution. It is expected that
(See Senate, page 2)
Rulings Affect
Students Put
On Probation
The Academic Council approved
more definite scholastic measures
for scholastically deficient stu
dents recently.
The council moved, on the mo
tion of Dean of Admissions Edwin
Cooper, to set the following re
quirements for probationary stu
dents :
(1) The student must complete
a minimum of 10 credit hours dur
ing the two summer sessions.
(2) The student must make a
2.0 GPA and have no failing
grades.
(3) Non-credit courses in P.E.
will not be used in computing the
GPA.
Students who apply for courses
of study in the College of Busi
ness Administration and do not
meet the minimum admission re
quirements may attend summer
school in a probationary status.
In order for them to be admitted
for the fall term, they must make
a GPA of at least 2.50.”
These measures are in addition
to the requirements set out in the
University Regulations Handbook.
The “Blue Book,” lists the “terms”
of a students’ probation as:
“ . . .they shall include the
maintenance of satisfactory class
attendance. Hour and grade point
requirements shall be made con
sistent with the student’s prog
ress toward graduation.”
Shield Bill Withstands
Proposed Amendment
CDO Changing Local Ghetto Image
AUSTIN, Tex. UP) — A bill
s lelding newsmen’s confidential
sources withstood its first major
V'allenge in the House Wednes-
ay ni^ht, with overwhelming de
oat of a Republican’s amendment
0 sharply limit the informants’
Protection.
Earlier, the House tentatively
approved a lobby control bill re
quested by Speaker Price Daniel.
he “shield” bill, sponsored by
£ep. Dave Allred, D-Wichita
a k’ sa ys grand juries or other
0 'eial bodies cannot force re-
Porters to reveal confidential
sources or information.
ouse members voted 101-41
a table an amendment by Rep.
Bob Maloney, R-Dallas. The
amendment would have allowed
a legally constituted body” to
oompel disclosure of confidential
®° u rces and information if this
shed light on a probable
“ ^ n * vers ity National Bank
0n the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
law violation, could not reasonab
ly be obtained by alternative
means and there was a “compell
ing and overriding interest in the
information.”
“The public’s right to know is
one thing but the public’s right
to be defended against crime is
another,” Maloney said.
“If a newsman witnesses a
crime, under this bill he cannot
obtain immunity. The only time
he can obtain immunity is when
he obtains information in confi
dence,” replied Allred. Rep. Matt
Garcia, D-San Antonio, said that
“in 98 per cent of the instances,
the public’s right to know over
shadows any other circumstances
that might arise.”
“I take it that if a newsman
had interviewed Lee Harvey Os
wald ... the night before he
killed President Kennedy, that he
would consider that privileged,”
Maloney said.
Garcia said Maloney was merely
trying to make “an emotional
appeal.”
By ROD SPEER
Prairie View Heights is a black
community that could well be
called the ghetto of College Sta
tion.
It is this area that is of utmost
concern to the Community Devel
opment Organization and its
bearded, black, environmental de
sign major leader, Vergel Gay.
CDO was organized last semes
ter as one of the Memorial Stu
dent Center committees and be
gan its existence with $250 and
10 members. Since that time its
members have designed two
homes, aided elderly couples in
obtaining loans to buy homes, and
have been remodeling a building
in the Prairie View Heights area
to use as a field house for future
operations.
According to Gay, the organi
zation is plagued by a lack of
manpower.
“People say ‘Yeah, I’ll help,’ but
when you really need them they’re
not there,” Gay said. CDO had
planned a house roofing as an
alternative for students during
Bonfire week but lack of interest
doomed the project. Manpower
and inclement fall weather com
bined to destroy plans for five
house paintings scheduled late
last semester.
To compensate for a manpower
shortage, CDO programs com
munity projects for other organi
zations. CDO created the Com
munity Improvement Organiza
tion, made up of College Station
citizens, which enables CDO to
keep abreast of community prob
lems. CDO then suggests proj
ects for campus groups like Alpha
Phi Omega and Phi Sigma Beta.
The 10-member organization is
working closely with the Black
Awareness Committee in attempt
ing to get local blacks examined
for sickle cell anemia. The two
groups need a mobile medical unit
that tests people for the disease
in the Houston area to make a
trip here. CDO helped the BAG
prepare an exhibit of black cul
ture at the People’s Cultural Fes
tival last fall in Manor East Mall.
CDO, along with the American
Society of Landscape Architects,
is studying the feasibility of mak
ing part of the A&M Research
Annex into a recreation facility.
The area is 17 miles from the
main campus and is partly used
as an autocross track. “We are
trying to replace recreational
areas lost to construction on cam
pus,” Gay said.
Future plans for the group in
clude establishing a low-cost day
care center, working through the
city to get streets paved where
needed, and improving the park
area behind Peyton Street. In
addition, Gay would like to or
ganize the community for obtain
ing federal funds for community
development through agencies
like the American Institute of
Architects.
CDO is the offspring of a group
called the Community Improve
ment Service Center Organization
(CISCO) which began in 1969 as
an architecture study project. The
members of CISCO designed
homes in the College Station area
and helped get loans for people
to buy them. CISCO graduated
from a study project to a campus
organization before being reor
ganized into CDO.
The group meets on Thursday
nights in Room 309 of the Archi
tecture Building at 7:30. Anyone
interested can attend, Gay said.
SUB-STANDARD FACILITIES typify the community
of Prairie View Heights in the eastern part of College Sta
tion where CDO does most of its work. (Photo by Wayne
De Vaughn)