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WEDNESDAY—Partly cloudy.
Increasing cloudines tonight.
High 79, low 57.
THURSDAY — Considerable
cloudiness with chance of a
few showers. High of 79.
Vol. 67 No. 227
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 7, 1973
S4&-2226
UT Editor Not Worried
About Future Of Texan
A REAL GULLYWASHER made driving quite hazard
ous along Old Main early Tuesday. But what seemed like
Performances In New Auditorium
Opera, Ballet Are
a tremendous amount of water totalled only seven-tenths
of an inch, according to the weather station on campus.
Slated Next Year
Means of bringing opera such
as “The Marriage of Figaro” and
prominent artists like Van Cli-
bum to Brazos Valley residents
has organized at A&M.
The Opera and Performing
Arts Society (OPAS) also has
booked the National Ballet of
Washington, violinist Itzhak Perl-
pian and guitarist Christopher
Parkening for 1973-74 presenta
tion.
A non-profit foundation of
more than 200 people, OPAS has
raised $10,500 through guaran
tors and $4,000 cash contribu
tions toward the season. Perform
ances will be in the new Univer
sity Center 2,500-seat auditorium.
Organized last summer, OPAS
was created to make outstanding
opera and classical artists of in
ternational prestige possible to
a wide range of Brazos Valley
residents. Performances during
the coming season will set the
scene for outstanding presenta
tions during A&M’s centennial
celebration in 1975-76.
OPAS will operate as part of
Town Hall, a Memorial Student
Center committee. The organiza
tion will replace the Artist Show
case series for classical perform-
Students To Evaluate, Design
Bryan City Mission Facility
A joint effort by undergraduate
students from A&M’s Environ
mental Design, Geology and So
ciology departments has started
to evaluate and design a new
Bryan City Mission facility.
The facility will include a chil
dren’s home, housing for 15 adult
males in the City Mission pro
gram, a factory for work reha
bilitation, a kitchen-dining hall
facility and 30 cottage type emer
gency shelters for indisposed
families.
Students from Rodney Hill’s
Environmental Design 404 class
will submit proposed design
drawings for the buildings to be
located on the grounds of the new
facility. Four landscape architec
ture students are working jointly
on a plan for land use and land
scaping, and two geology students
and a sociology student complete
the team concerned with evaluat
ing the site and making recom
mendations on building design.
The new facility will be located
about nine blocks west of down
town Bryan on a 9.5 acre plot
donated to the Bryan City Mis
sion by Mrs. G. F. Vance. The
long range development plan calls
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
for the erection of some 35 build
ings, approximately 1,200 feet
of streets, utility lines, landscap
ing, garden area and recreational
areas for both adults and chil
dren.
The children’s home will house
14 unwanted children from the
area and two adult supervisors.
The emergency housing will be
made available to families who
lose their homes from fire or
other catastrophies and to fam
ilies stranded in the area due
to lack of funds or auto repair
problems.
The structures are being de
signed so they can be built by
unskilled labor at a very low
cost. Most of the construction
work will be carried out by par
ticipants in City Mission work
rehabilitation programs.
Tentative plans for construc
tion call for a receiving and ship
ping area, a storage center, a
distribution center, and an area
for storing large and small ap
pliances prior to repair. These
buildings will make up the fac
tory area in the compound.
The factory area will also in
clude a dismantling shop, rag
sorting, baling, and storage shop,
furniture repair and upholstery
shop, appliance repair shop, and
a maintenance shop.
ances, announced Town Hall
chairman Philip Goodwin.
The Town Hall series will be
come entirely “pops” this fall
under Tim Clader, the 1973-74
chairman. He assured there will
be “no watering down” of this
segment of the committee’s pres
entations.
A&M’s professional concert
management staff, one of the best
in the South and Southwest, pro
vides know-how in budgeting,
advertising and promoting ex
pensive major events.
Like SCONA and the Rotary
Community Series of Town Hall,
OPAS will operate on separate
funding with no monies from
student fees nor the university.
The society, chaired by Walter
H. Parsons Jr., has representa
tives from surrounding cities, in
terested A&M faculty-staff and
students and townspeople in its
membership. It is structured
along lines of the Rio Grande
Valley International Music Fes
tival, which will present 22 smy-
phonic concerts this spring, and
Houston’s Society for the Per
forming Arts.
Funds assembled during OPAS’
first six months of existence ac
count for one-third of the opera
and performing arts budget.
Guarantors and contributors, who
will have first opportunity for
tickets, include many local citi
zens and people in London, Mexi
co City, Maracaibo, Venezuela,
and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Assistance also is expected
from the Texas Commission on
Arts and Humanities, the Cor
bett Foundation of Cincinnati and
San Antonio Symphony and
Opera.
Advance funding is required
because, on a national average,
ticket income accounts for only
55 per cent of the nation’s 1,200
symphonies. The foundation ap
proach was taken in order to keep
tickets moderately priced so ev
eryone has opportunity to attend,
according to Goodwin.
OPAS organization includes a
series of committees for reaching
all Brazos Valley population seg
ments. Mrs. John C. Culpepper
Jr. is vice president for Brazos
Valley membership; Dr. Haskell
Monroe, A&M faculty, and Dr.
J. P. Abbott, retired persons,
among others.
Gwen Flynt, OPAS vice pres
ident and Town Hall vice chair
man, said student leaders favor
OPAS presentations, because they
feel expanded opera and perform
ing arts presentations will be
good for the university and be
cause some students follow opera.
“It is primarily a project that
will bring together students,
faculty-staff, Bryan, College Sta
tion and people of surrounding
communities,” commented Wayne
Stark, MSC director. “It will take
all of them working together.”
Situational Satire
Dave Powell, editor of the Uni
versity of Texas’ Daily Texan
said Tuesday that he is con
vinced that the threat of a suit
against the System’s Board of
Regents for his newspapers’ pol
icies will not hurt the future of
the paper’s existence.
The student paper is often a
target of criticism by university
officials, but it had a different
foe at the regents’ Monday meet
ing in Houston.
A senior law student, Jack Gul-
lahom appeared before the board
representing the Young Ameri
cans for Freedom and a group
called RIGHT-ON. Gullahorn
said he and other conservatives
object to being forced to pay for
a newspaper that “uses our
money to champion such causes
as homosexuality, abortion, am
nesty and legalization of drugs.
The regents voted to seek the
attorney general’s opinion on the
legality of the system’s support
ing the paper. The YAF organi
zation, which also publishes a
paper, protested the mandatory
fee charged all students to sup
port the more liberal Daily Tex
an.
“We feel the attorney gener
al’s office will practically turn
down consideration of the mat-
teer,” said Powell. “It’s really been
pretty quiet here and we’re con
vinced that not much will hap
pen. The YAF seems to be giv
ing no indication of when or if it
will definitely file suit.”
Students at the Austin campus
are charged $1.65 a year, or
about a copy, for the campus
newspaper which is distributed
free on campus.
The regents will ask the attor
ney general whether it is legally
necessary for the board to with
draw financial support from the
paper and require the Daily Tex
an to move its operations from
the campus.
The Texan is scheduled to
move into new offices provided
by the system and start publish
ing on a new 36-page press next
year.
The question prompted the re
gents to postpone until April 24
action on all student fees at Aus
tin.
Regent Frank C. Erwin Jr.
told the board that the attorney
general traditionally does not
render opinions where litigation
is pending. The board then voted
to levy the mandatory fee which
would yield $136,650 for the
Texan, if the attorney general
declined to rule on the issue.
The YAF group is expected
to file suit against the university
system if the mandatory fee is
levied. The group is also threat
ening to file suit against the re
gents of the University of Hous
ton for the Cougars’ newspaper
policies.
Student Candidate
Wouldn’t Serve UT
Dana Copp, nominee for Stu
dent Government president at the
University of Texas in Austin,
feels he can serve students best
by not serving.
“I’m giving the students an
Dana Copp
alternative—to elect an unpresi
dent,” Copp said.
“If I’m elected, I may call the
first meeting to order and then
dismiss it. I’d cut out one or
more organizations on behalf of
the students.
“The mood of the students is
for no government, and they
don’t care who wins. Students
will organize if there is a cause,
therefore they have no need for
a student government.”
Although Copp plans not to
win, he hopes his campaign will
accomplish two things.
In announcing his candidacy,
Copp pledged his salary to
NORML. “I hoped at the time
others would take my campaign
seriously and other candidates
would pledge their salaries to
worthy organizations.”
The senior architecture major
also thinks his candidacy may
force Student Government to tell
students what is good about their
system. “But the farther they
(Student Government) lay it on
the line, the more students will
(See Student, page 2)
Ode To A Tired Housing Office Head
By MIKE RICE
Note: The following is not intended to be taken seriously by readers or
those mentioned in the story. Past events and letters only inspired its
writing. — Ed.
Oh—loathe to be a lowly housing office director on a campus
where one’s efforts only result in pleasing practically none of the
students all of the time.
With letters to the editor being printed in The Battalion for the
record and his position being associated with housing students with
A&M’s only year-round residents, the cockroaches, life just can’t get
much worse and it probably won’t ever get better until people decide to
quit attending college or trying to live on campus.
Allan Madeley, seems to be the man whose name is most likely to
be kicked around the campus for plotting, shuffling and re-shuffling the
housing of male and female students—and his job isn’t getting any
easier.
With the advent of each day Madeley must face complaints and
questions about housing for this summer and next fall from both old
students and interested parents of incoming freshmen. What’s
particularly difficult for him to understand is how he is getting blamed
for deciding where students can and can’t live, especially when he
hasn’t made the decision.
After reading the letter in Tuesday’s Batt regarding the Housing
Office, Madeley’s first reaction was to request Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan for a raise after unknowingly becoming an expert at
“screwing people around”—a position of real power at A&M.
Unfortunately for Mr. Madeley, Dean Hannigan hasn’t wished to deflate
his ego by telling him that he can’t have the job since it’s already
taken—by the Dean himself.
But since Mr. Madeley won’t be changing his nameplate to “Alan
Madeley, Room 101, Screwing Around,” he will have to be facing the
likes of opinion polls taken by concerned residents of Krueger-Dunn to
determine their feelings on the housing situation, which he realizes
won’t necessarily have any effect on the outcome of an already settled
housing question.
At least he’ll be aware of the fact that “real people” and the
“almighty Maggie” are keeping an eye on him and his managers of the
different “roach manors” strategically located near convenient dirt
paths to Sbisa Dining Hall, and needless to say an Exchange Store
building that won’t house the Exchange Store anymore.
The Battalion hasn’t been able to force Mr. Madeley into making a
comment on the subject, but Batt staffers feel that he would secretly
like to keep housing the Board of Directors in its old house for the
remainder of its tenure, but since the Board might complain he’ll let
them live coeducationally in the new MSC Complex as soon as the
bathrooms are finished for both women and men.
Neither has Mr. Madeley told the Batt staff that he is looking
forward to complaints from residents of Crocker Hall after they
realized they would be moving out to make way for athletes who will
be moving there and leaving after only one semester. It might be worth
at most one letter to the Batt and at least one highly spiced statement
to one’s roommate if they are among the lucky.
So what does one Allan Madeley do if he has a Dean over him
telling him where students can’t be housed, who can live with the
cockroaches and what not to say to keep his Housing Office from being
blown up on the first day of the fall semester when some students
realize they’re sleeping three to a room instead of the customary two?
That is a question not yet answered. Maybe the cockroaches of
Leggett Hall have the answer, but they’ll never tell.
E.D. 404 Students
Give Water Tower
Ideas To Williams
Environmental Design students
at Texas A&M met Tuesday with
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams to exhibit water tower de
signs that could be an alternative
to two tentative designs chosen
by TAMU system officials.
The students, members of Lar
ry Priesmeyer’s Environmental
Design 404 class, designed water
tower structures that take aes
thetic qualities as well as func
tional design into consideration.
“We wanted to show Dr. Wil
liams that a water tower has the
capability of being utilized for
many purposes besides a tech
nical displacement of water,”
Priesmeyer said. “We also wanted
to show that, if a multi-purpose
structure is built, the present site
for the water tower might not
be ideal.”
The students, according to
Priesmeyer, designed structures
that would not only serve as a
water tower, but would also be
come a trademark of Texas
A&M; something that people
would identify Texas A&M with.
Designs ranged from a multi
story parking garage to a “sculp
tured” tower resembling the St.
Louis Arch. One design incor
porated a large glassed-in area
that would house test plants for
agricultural and agronomy re
search. Another offered a win
dowed viewing area around the
outer edge.
Several of the designs incor
porated classroom and office
space within the lower levels be
neath the water tank, and all the
designs shown would compliment
the new high-rise structures near
ing completion on the A&M
campus.
“The tentative plans call for
a metal structure that will be
painted baby blue to blend in
with the sky,” Priesmeyer said.
“This brings us to wonder why
the meteorology building or the
office complex was not also
painted baby blue.
“Our designs were made on a
short notice,” he continued, “sev
en days, to be exact. But we tried
to retain aesthetic sensitivity in
the designs, and the students did
a good job in building their
models in such a way that the
finished structure would fit in
perfectly with the high-rise con
cept currently being used in cam
pus construction.”
Dr. Williams said all the sub
mitted designs were quite attrac
tive and that university officials
had not taken multi-use struc
tures into consideration.
Priesmeyer said his students
were not proposing a change in
university decisions, nor were
they competing with tentative
water tower designs approved by
university officials.
“We just made a quick study
of the situation,” he emphasized,
“and evaluated both site location
and design possibilities. We just
wanted to show Dr. Williams
there are other alternatives to
water tower design than those
designed strictly for water con
tainment.”
Dr. Williams Eyes Dual-Purpose Water Tower