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vhen he,, !i ” High Self •>e would | r '^5 games !' Ret to ii Che Battalion Folks Never Doing- Any More Than They Get Paid For Never Get Paid For Any More Than They Do. Vol. 67 No. 245 College Station, Texas Thursday, April i&f 1973 Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy. Warm daytime tempera tures. High 76, low 59. Friday — Clear to partly cloudy. High of 79. 845-2226 ; being in s most of m 300,0^ m-ages 196, »y success fft-handed," MOVING IN is rapidly progressing for those setting up shop in the new eight-story office and classroom building near the Li- brary and Academic Buildings. Officials expect the complex to be fully ready by the beginning of May. (Photo by Gary Balda- sari) Environment Studies Option Offered In Fall ■yi ■ *jjKJ i&M’s Eco Impact On B-CS leaches $87 Million Mark s Students concerned about the ontinuing environmental “crisis” dll be given a chance to broaden heir knowledge with a new ptional course of study. Dr. Edward Doran Jr., head of e Geography Department of ’AMU’s College of Geosciences, as announced that an environ- lental studies option has just een approved for his depart ment. “Students who want to learn lore about how environmental roblems arise and how they light hopefully be solved should ind the course of special inter- st," Doran said. The program is based on multi- isciplinary course work designed ) make students knowledgeable bout those elements of the hysical and human systems rhich interact to produce con ditions such as overpopulation, resource depletion and pollution. To apply this information, stu dents will participate in a special workshop each spring semester in order to develop skills in the identification, analysis and solu tion of real environmental prob lems. A variety of local and regional environmental issues will be con sidered, one of which will be selected for detailed study each semester. Students will be in volved in the initial formulation of the semester project and will be responsible for developing and carrying out an appropriate strategy for its solution. Such workshop participation constitutes a degree of intern- ship-in-residence and is intended to integrate on a continuing and expanding basis field experience Texas A&M’s annual economic impact on the Bryan- College Station area totals $87,400,000, revealed a new survey conducted by the institution. TAMUP President Jack K. Williams noted the total represents an increase of more than $8.6 million over the previous year. The figures include a payroll of $56 million for more than 5,000 permanent Texas A&M University System employees residing in Bryan-College Station. The 1971 payroll totaled $50 million. Approximately 230 additional staff, research and support personnel joined the university during 1972. Students contribute more than $22.5 million to the local economy, up approximately $2,000,000. Food and housing account for the major expenditures, along with clothing, school supplies and recreation. The university spends about $3.3 million locally for utilities, services and supplies. Expenditures in the cate gory rose about $300,000. Visitors attending athletic events, conferences and short courses at the university account for approximate ly $3.6 million, an increase of about $330,000. Most expenditures in this category were food, lodging and entertainment. Humanities Films Start With ‘Hamlet’ Tony Richardson’s 1969 film version of Shakespeare’s “Ham let” will kick off the Humanities Film Forum at 7 p.m. on KAMU- TV, Channel 15. The film stars Nicol William son, Anthony Hopkins and Mari anne Faithfull and was filmed on the stage of the Roundhouse in London. Richardson is known for direct ing such films as “A Taste of Honey,” “Look Back in Anger,” ‘Tom Jones,” “The Entertainer” and “The Loved One.” The 10-part film series will present major motion pictures from Italy, Russia, France, Eng land and the United States. Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. Adv. Some of the nation’s leading humanists will discuss these films in detail upon their completion. The films will be presented every Thursday at 7 p.m. and repeated at the same time the following Saturday. The films scheduled include: April 19 and 21, Shakespeare’s Richard III, directed by and star ring Sir Laurence Olivier. This 1956 version also stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Claire Bloom, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir John Gielgud, Pamela Brown and Laurence Naismith. April 26 and 28, David Lean’s 1948 version of Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec (See Humanities, page 3) Car Makers Get Year To Meet EPA Rulings and related course work, The environmental studies op tion is a program designed for students who want to do more to counter the indifference, mis management and apparent value conflicts which constitute the sources of most environmental problems. Coordinating the new course of study will be Professors Joe Sonnenfeld and Clarissa Kimber in the Geography Depai-tment. Parents Day Set, Honors Nam Ex-POWS Parents Day activities Sunday will feature a Corps of Cadets review at Kyle Field honoring ex-POWS. Presentation of the Honor Mother award and announcement of top corps units for the 1972- 73 school year will also high light the annual event. The day-long program will in clude a special drill by the Ross Volunteer Company, a Student Senate program recognizing par ents and presentation of other corps unit and individual awards. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant, said the 2:30 p.m. re view was changed from the drill field to Kyle Field so visitors may view it in comfort. The Ross Volunteers will drill in the football stadium. Special reviewing dignitaries will include Air Force Col. Sam uel R. Johnson, seven-year POW and father of TAMU senior Bob Johnson, and Air Force Maj. Al ton B. Meyer, 1960 A&M gradu ate and six-year POW. Other Aggie POWs have been invited. Cadet Corps units have com peted all year for three awards given the best companies and squadrons. Flags, guidon stream ers and citation cords signifying the overall best unit and the best in military and scholastic achieve ment will be given at the review. Awards presentations begin at the unit’s first formation of the day. The Student Senate pro gram will be at 9 a.m. in G. Rol- lie White Coliseum. The successor to Aggie Moth er of the Year, Mrs. Ruth Hunt, will be named during the pro gram. Corps individual and unit awards will be presented at 9:30 a.m. in the coliseum. One corps unit will not be present. The Fish Drill Team will be in Washington, D.C., April 12-15 defending six straight na tional championships. Col. Par sons said the FDT is expected to arrive at Easterwood Field near the conclusion of the review. “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. WASHINGTON (AP)_The gov ernment Wednesday granted the auto industry an additional year to meet the tough 1975 exhaust pollution standards. However, it said it will impose interim restrictions on the amount of pollutants permitted to spew out of tailpipes of 1975 model year cars and apply sepa rate tougher standards for cars sold in California. General Motors and Ford Motor Co. said the interim restrictions will be difficult to attain. Consumer and environmental groups denounced the year’s de lay as action shirking a responsi- Fish Aim For Number 6 In Capital City National championship No. 6 forms the goal of Texas A&M’s Fish Drill Team this week. It will be decided among 19 teams Friday in Washington, D. C., at the National Intercol legiate ROTC Drill Champion ships. The FDT won its fifth title last year by six-tenths of a point. A team can score 1,000 points. The Fish, commanded by Joseph M. Chandler of San An tonio, will get their turn at 12 noon CST Friday, according to sponsor Maj. Harvey Haas. The last team will march at 1:30 p.m. College Station time. Entries in clude 13 women’s units. Rutgers University made the 1972 decision tight for judges from a Washington-based Army unit. Also , representing the Southwest will be men’s teams from Texas A&I, University of Texas at Arlington, UT-E1 Paso and Northwestern Louisiana State at Natchitoches. UTEP has also entered a coed team. Maj. Haas said the Fish will march 35 in the competition at the D.C. National Guard Armory. The team’s size was a factor last year. The Fish will leave Thurs day morning, quarter at Fort Meade, Md., and return Sunday afternoon. A White House tour is sched uled Friday morning, courtesy of Cong. Olin E. Teague. bility to the public. William D. Ruckelshaus, ad ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced the decision. “Compared with today’s cars,” Ruckelshaus said, “the reductions required in 1975 by this decision move us for the non-California market half the distance, and for the California market two-thirds of the way to the 1975 stand ards.” All domestic and most foreign car makers cited technical and production difficulties with the catalytic converter in asking for the delay. The catalytic con verter is a cannister-like device attached to the auto to insure cleaner burning. Ruckelshaus noted the reliance of most automakers on the cata lytic converter as the best means of meeting the 1975 standards. The Chrysler Corporation said the interim standards are “ex tremely severe and may be be yond our present noncatalytic capability.” It added in a state ment: “We continue to believe that catalysts are undesirable. However, to the extent they may be required, we are confident the performance of our catalysts will meet those of anyone in the in dustry.” The American Automobile As sociation also criticized the cata lytic convertors and what it called other “kitchen-sink” attachments. “Technology has long existed for building cleaner, more effi cient engines,” AAA said in a statement. The interim standards will re quire the installation of catalysts on all domestic cars sold in Cali fornia and on some models na tionwide in 1975, Ruckelshaus said. Editorial Opinions OKd By U.S. Court RICHMOND, Va. OP)—The 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that funds for operation of a campus newspaper cannot be cut off solely because college officials disagree with the newspaper’s editorial opin ions. The decision came in the case of “The Campus Echo,” student newspaper at North Carolina Central University, which edi torially opposed the increasing flow of white students into the predominantly black, state-sup ported university in Durham, N. C. State funds for publication of The Echo were terminated by NCCU President Albert N. Whit ing on grounds the editorial pol icy was racist and failed to “rep resent fairly the full spectrum of views” on the campus. Whiting said North Carolina Central, a 63-year-old institu tion with about 3,500 students, “is not a ‘black university’ and does not intend to become one.” But the 4th Circuit Court, re versing the decision of a federal district court in Greensboro, N. C., said The Echo editorial posed “no apparent danger of physical violence or disruption” at the university. Thus, it said in a 2-1 decision, state funds used to finance The Echo were not, as Whiting con tended, being spent to discourage racial integration in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Zinc, Copper Traces Link With Higher Grades: Gordus DALLAS (AP)—Students with higher grades have more traces of zinc and cop per in their hair than those with lower grades, a University of Michigan profes sor told the American Chemical Society national meeting Wednesday. Prof. Adon M. Gordus described how both present-day and historical hair sam ples are being analyzed for some 38 trace metals. The modern samples were obtained from men at two service academies, uni versity students and others. “By comparing historical hair samples with modern hair samples we hope to estab lish the extent of human intake of poten tially harmful elements as civilization has advanced,” Gordus explained. It was dur ing this work that the apparent correlation between academic grades and hair content surfaced. “It appears that those students with the highest gradepoint average frequently tend to have higher than normal zinc and copper content in their hair but lower than normal iodine content,” he said. “The re verse is true for students at the opposite end of the grade-point spectrum.” Gordus said his tentative finding does not suggest there is a direct cause-effect relationship between metal intake and high intelligence. He said it is possible that those of high intelligence “simply excrete more zinc, but only extensive study could ascertain this.” Gordus, who used hair clipped from such illustrious figures as George Wash ington and John Paul Jones among his 800 historical samples, suggested that hair might play a medical diagnostic role be cause of its unique ability to concentrate elements. The mercury content in hair, he said, is about 200 to 300 times that of hu man blood. All Grease, Rock ‘n Roll Here They Come: Flash & Kids A flashback to the ’50s that keeps on coming will highlight Civilian Week Saturday. Flash Cadillac and the Conti nental Kids will recreate the rock-and-roll, pompadour and grease, “hang loose,” “no sweat,” “made in the shade” of two decades past at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Series headliner is in cooperation with the Residence Halls Associ ation week. It also features “Gentle on My Mind” John Hart ford. Flash Cadillac and his group were the first at what was to be a nationwide phenomenon—-a return to the ’50s—and they have remained at the top. Featured in several national magazines, the entertainers are in the forthcoming movie “American Graffiti.” Film plans also in clude “Tommy Who?” a rock opera of the ’50s. Their Epic album carrying the name of the group is winning mass acceptance. The act has gathered mixed responses from college campuses. The Baptist College at Charles-' ton said “We would not have this group back on campus. Their material was crude and unneces sary. They ignored our school rider and their agent was un cooperative.” At the University of Wisconsin “the group was insulted by a small audience and put on a half rate show.” Flash Cadillac put on “a good act,” at the University of Montana, ‘the group was easy to work with and the students enjoyed the concert.” The Col lege of Idaho said the group gave a “fantastic show” and that they were “most cooperative.” Most of the six-man assem blage is from Colorado, but live in an old three-story house in Hollywood and drive a car with personalized plates that proclaim “GREASE.” Flash also goes by the name Sam McFadin. No one is sure of the color of his eyes, because he takes off his GI shades only when wrestling. Flash is known as one of the last quantity users of greasy kid stuff. With Flash are “Butch” (War ren Knight, bass) ; “Angelo” (Kris Moe, keyboard), and “Ed die” (George Robinson, sax) of Colorado. “Rockin’ Ricco” (John Masino, drums) comes from San Francisco. “Spike” (Linn Phil lips, guitar) allegedly was born in a Pennsylvania coal refinery. Hartford has been reviewed as “the only lyricist in current popular music who’s fit to be called a poet.” He can also answer to sophisticated word man, dry humorist, artist and riverboat hand. The banjo-picking musician went to Hollywood to work with the Smothers Brothers. It led to Hartford’s long association with the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. His first giant hit “Gentle On My Mind” came from it. The song won three Grammies and was the most recorded item in the world two years. His latest album, “Morning- Bugle,” underscores his musician- ship, lyrics and creativity. Tickets are on sale at the Student Finance Center in the Memorial Student Center new wing. Town Hall season tickets and student activity cards will be honored. DIFFERENT MUSIC is on tap Saturday when Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids make their 50’s style ap pearance in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Folk singer John Hartford is also appearing on the Town Hall billing.