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Che Battalion rnian: Garltf ’ points, ■ standings;J Vol. 67 No. 253 earn standi s; (2) Pury (4) Moore, Unhappiness Is The Hunger To Get; Happiness Is The Hunger To Give. College Station, Texas Thursday, April 26, 1973 THURSDAY —D ecreasing cloudiness later today. Fair & cooler. Very slight chance of showers. High 74, low 51. FRIDAY — Fair and cooler. High of 72. 845-2226 Bill Asks Fee Increase Delay For Semester INTERESTING ENTERTAINMENT was provided by Connie Stephenson and a questioning A&M coed at the Memorial Student Center’s “Make Your Own Sundae” af fair held on the Academic Building lawn Wednesday. Stu dents had their choice of flavors to be topped with chocolate syrup. (Photos By Steve Krauss and Gary Baldasari) M M OMBtNI OTAMPtl OPKKN STAMP* H Aggie Band Makes Fiesta March Event The “thunder and blazes” of ihe Aggie Band will add to the !olor and excitement Friday at ;he Battle of Flowers Parade in San Antonio. One of the 10-day series of events highlighting San Antonio’s annual Fiesta, the parade will be a 1:45 p.m. event. The Fiesta has been a regular Appearance for the Aggie Band. The 1973 performance will be wmecoming for 32 members of the 252-cadet TAMU organiza- ;ion. The Aggie Band has 32 nusicians from the San Antonio irea, noted Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, Aggie Band director. Fiesta will be the Aggie Band’s last 1972-73 school year appear ance, except for Final Review here May 5. Drug majors Alan d. Gurevich of Valley Stream, N. Y., and Richard W. Minix and Richard B. Stone of Houston and band commanders turn the ireins over to the 1973-74 leaders at Final Review. The 1972-73 band commander is Paul C. Herrington of Pales tine. Gilberto Rodriguez of (See Aggie Band, page 3) ‘No Way To Beat Odds 9 Survey Shows Mail Delivery An Unpredictable Sure Bet About one time in every six that you put a letter in a U. S. Postal Service mailbox, an As sociated Press survey shows, you run the risk that its delivery will be delayed several days. Worse yet, there is no surefire way to beat the odds. The sur vey shows that air mail, zip cod ing, or a morning trip to the mailbox won’t guarantee your letter an earlier—or even pre dictable—arrival. The survey, conducted the same way that the AP conducted surveys in 1971 and 1972, in volved a total of 792 test letters mailed from six cities over five days. The new survey found the Postal Service has improved mail delivery time on the average in many cases, but about 16 per cent of the time—roughly one out Of every six letters—it re mains unable to lick problems that appear to be growing worse. Suppose you try air mail to beat the odds: —Six times out of 10 air mail Taxpayer Champion Gonzales Hosted Friday In Forum m M Congressman Henry B. Gon zalez of San Antonio will discuss relative powers of Congress and the President Friday. The Texas Democrat will ap pear at noon in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom through Political Forum. Chairman Ed Jarrett said ad mission to the final Forum lec ture of the school years is free. Gonzalez’s talk, “Who Shall Rule?” is the third of a three- part series on “Nixon’s Four More Years,” Jarrett said. A veteran of the Washington scene more than 11 years, the 20th District congressman is a m respected politician throughout Texas, especially in South Texas and Austin. He became in 1956 the first Mexican-American to win a seat in the Texas Senate in more than a century. Cong. Gonzalez had earlier lost a race for a Texas House seat by a slim margin. He entered the campaign with only $300 and his “exuberant personality.” The San Antonio Light also called him “the champion of the small taxpayer and (exposer) of whatever had been swept under the rug” as a city councilman. Gonzalez made his reputation there. He first went to Washington in a special election of Nov. 4, 1961, to fill the unexpired term of the late Paul J. Kilday, who had resigned to become a judge. Cong. Gonzalez was re-elected a year later and has been suc cessful in subsequent campaigns. His Congressional committee work has been in house banking and currency, housing, consumer affairs and international finance. Cong. Gonzalez’s efforts have gone toward liberalizing immi gration laws, for the food stamp program, the Economic Oppor tunity Act, the model cities pro gram, Medicare, improved mini mum wage and civil rights. The U. S. representative’s at tendance record for house ses sions is near perfect. letters in the survey beat their first - class counterparts. But three times out of 10 they ar rived at the same time, and one time out of 10 they arrived later. How about zip coding? —On the average, zip-coded letters spent 2% hours less— 49 1 /i hours vs. 52 hours—in the postal system than their non- Eberhart Lists Corps Officers For 1973-74 A 14-member Cadet Corps staff will assist the 1973-74 command er, Scott Eberhart of Dallas, in various operational activities of the A&M military organization. Melvin P. “Slim” Noack of Georgetown is second in com mand, as deputy corps com mander. Eberhart and Noack selected the staff, with approval of the commandant, Col. Thomas R. Parsons, and other TAMU offi cials. The staff will consist of ten seniors and eight juniors. Noack will be a cadet colonel wearing three - diamond insignia. The other seniors except the programs officer will wear two diamonds as cadet lieutenant colonels. Corps adjutant is William J. Faber, political science major of Mendota 111. Alan Aertker, ac counting major of Fort Worth, will be operations officer; Thad- deus E. Paup, finance, Midland, scholastic officer; James T. Leo pold, engineering technology, San Antonio, inspector general. Also, Samuel W. Turner, ac counting, Giddings, supply offi cer; Robert R. Heffernan, elec trical engineering, Irving, infor mation officer; James E. Whit worth, animal science, Bastrop, corps chaplain, and Stephen C. Waring, zoology, Houston, pro grams officer. Waring will be a cadet major. John D. Chappelle of Dallas will be the ranking junior on the corps staff. The electrical engi neering major will be sergeant major, which will be his rank. Personnel sergeant Daniel P. Gibbs is an engineering tech nology major of Houston; scho lastic sergeant, Steven J. Eber- hard, math, New Braunfels; operations sergeant, Rickey A. Gray, journalism, Dallas; admin istrative sergeant, Terry W. Rathert, petroleum engineering, St. Louis, Mo., and supply ser geant, Frederick Martin, environ mental design, Houston. The staff will form out front of the corps the first time May 5, for Final Review. The cadets will be sworn in as officers next fall. zipped companions. But in eight out of every 12 tries the zipped and unzipped mail arrived to gether, in three out of the 12 tries the zipped mail arrived sooner, and one time in 12 the zipped mail was later. How about morning vs. after noon trips to a mailbox? —On the average, intercity let ters mailed in the morning reached their destinations in 52 hours, while those mailed in the afternoon arrived in 49. All the destinations in the survey had afternoon mail deliveries not available in residential sections, however, and 19 per cent of the test letters were delivered in the afternoon. Participants in the survey were AP bureaus in six cities— New York, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston and Los An geles. A staff member in each bu reau went to an outside mailbox six times — Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. local time and the same three days at 4 p.m. Each time 22 letters were de posited. Two were addressed to the bureau itself — one without a zip code and one with a zip code. Each of the other five bu reaus was sent four letters—one first class with a zip code, one first class without a zip code, one air mail with a zip code, and one air mail without a zip code. Each letter was coded to indi cate the time of mailing, and each bureau promptly sorted its mail deliveries to assure an ac curate recording of the letters’ arrival times. By GREG MOSES A resolution asking for a post ponement of rooms and board in creases until the spring term will be presented to the Student Sen ate tonight at its 7:30 meeting in the main lecture room of the Zachry Engineering Center. The “Room and Board Increase Resolution” sponsored by David White says that since “the pro posed room and board increases were not announced until after a majority of students were regis tered for housing,” the increase should be “deferred” until the 1974 spring term. The resolution claims that “many students would not have registered for housing” if they had known of the proposed in creases. “Many apartment com plexes have long waiting lists which make it inconvenient for students to now move off cam pus,” said White Randy Ross, president of the student body, agrees that “this is a valid resolution, since many students signed for rooms on the basis that the rates would re main the same.” Another resolution, presented by Don Hackler, will ask that Milner Hall not be used as a residence hall next year. “Milner Hall is grossly below the standards now in effect and projection for residence hall ac commodations as indicated by the TAMU self study program and is not conducive to a desirable atmosphere,” the resolution states. Because of its undesira bility, the resolution “strongly urges that Milner Hall not be utilized for student occupancy for the academic year 1973-1974.” “As it now stands the Housing Office will not open Milner ex- Handbook Head Needed Applications for editor of the 1973-74 Student Handbook are being accepted at the Student Government Office in the Me morial Student Center through Wednesday. The editor, which would have normally been picked several weeks ago, should have some journalism experience as well as some practical background. Funds amounting to $5,000 were recently allocated for the project which will have to be completed near the end of July. The money will be used to pay for printing and editor and staff salaries. Killed By Committee Student Directors Legislation Fails AUSTIN (A*)—Conservatives lined up firmly behind Chairman Bill Moore of the Senate State Affairs Committee Wednesday and killed a bill to put students on college regent boards. “As a student I don’t think you should be on the board,” Moore told TAMU students Mark Blakemore and Tom Locke, who testified for the bill, sponsored by Sen. Bob Gammage, D-Hous- ton. “When you get to be a good friend of the governor’s I’ll vote for you.” Moore provided the tying vote, 4-4, to send the bill to a “super deep-freeze” committee, tanta mount to killing it. “My opinion on the position of a student ... is to gain an edu cation and not run the univer sity,” said Sen. Peyton McKnight, D-Tyler. Gammage’s bill would have re quired each state college to ap point one student to its govern ing board. A student may now be appointed but is not required to be. Three colleges in Texas have student regents, and Gov. Dolph Briscoe has indicated support of such a program, Gammage said. Moore said if the governor thought appointing students was a good idea, he should do it and send their names to the Senate. A student regent for the Uni versity of Texas was rejected when nominated by Gov. Pres ton Smith. After the committee action, Mark Perlmutter of UT-Austin said, “That’s it. It’s done for.” Asked what students might do now to secure regent representa tion, Perlmutter shook his head, “I don’t know. I just don’t know now.” Two student leaders at the committee hearing left when Sens. Mike McKinnon and Mc Knight agreed that students are mostly interested in “drinking” and “finding dates.” Other stu dents booed at the remarks. Gammage defended his bill, saying “Students are the focal point of our entire education sys tem.” In spite of that, he said, students have no voice or input on policy determination. McKinnon said if students were given a place, why not “the State Bar” or “Communists” or other groups. cept on an emergency basis,” said Ross. “There might be an emer gency with next year’s housing shortage.” Ross said that the dorm “is not kept up and it is a firetrap. But there are people willing to live there for economic reasons.” The Senate will also vote to approve Ross’ Executive Com mittee appointments. Merrill Mitchell, recording secretary; Sandy Aboud, corresponding sec retary; Barry Bowden, election board chairman; Ron Bento, pub lic relations chairman and Jim Cunningham, campus projects chairman. In other business the Senate will vote on several resolutions. The radio station resolution re quests the Student Government to establish a radio station in connection with the Midwest Video Corporation. A married students’ resolution calls for a revision of outdated leases which Barb Sears, spon sor, said are too restrictive and legally binding. An optional laundry proposal by John Nash would ask for an endorsement of such an optional system. Sears also introduced two reso lutions last week concerning mid term grade reports and class at tendance which will be voted on. A mid-term grade resolution suggests that mid-term grades only be sent to students on scho lastic probation or those failing a course and possibly retaining freshman reports. The non-compulsory class at tendance resolution asks that class attendance no longer be left to the discretion of the in structor. MSC Goes BackTo Nature In Summer ’73 The Memorial Student Center Summer Directorate has formed an Outdoor Recreation Commit tee to help students “get back to nature” with canoeing, hiking, packing and related activities. “The groundwork is finished,” said Greg West, a graduate stu dent in Recreation and Parks who presented the idea to the Summer Directorate Committee. “All we need now is people.” Plans are in the offing for a couple of trips each semester with more trips planned for the fall. A workshop in outdoor recrea tion is being considered for fledgling canoeists. A membership drive is being conducted on campus and anyone interested in joining or partici pating can contact the Student Programs Office at 845-1515. Takes Practice, Coordination Flint Knapping: Stone Age Art Flint knapping, the art of making tools and utensils from flint, is an all but forgotten craft being practiced mostly by stone age tribes living in the deepest jungles or people with an interest in that aspect of history and don’t want the practice to die. Harry Shafer, A&M arche ologist, falls into the latter category. “I was never shown flint knap ping,” he said. “I just learned from reading material on it and studying Indian tools. “It’s really a simple process. All it takes is practice and de veloping muscle coordination.” Crouching on the grass outside his office, he pulled a large piece of flint out of a bag loaded with more flint, other stones, bones and pieces of wood. “Flint is a glassy material,” he said, “and when you hit it, it’s going to shatter.” He pointed to flint chips scat tered in the grass, obviously from prior efforts. “Each of these chips has a razor sharp edge,” he said. “These edges will not be dulled by time. We’ve found tools of the Neanderthal man that date back 75,000 years and the edges are just as sharp to day as the day they were made.” He reached into the bag and pulled out a large stone. “This is called a hard hammer,” he said, “the most primitive of tools. “A hard hammer is just a stone that is used as a percussion de vice. It is usually of a harder material than flint because if you hit flint against flint you are liable to have chips flying into your face.” He slammed the stone down onto the flint, chipping off a sizable piece. “The trick to flint knapping,” he said, “is to strike the flint so that you know which way it’s going to chip. You have to guide the force of the fracture.” reached into the bag and pulled out a large bone. He continued chipping off small pieces until he had fa shioned a stone ax blade. He “To refine the edge you have to use what is called a soft ham mer. This usually is just a bone or a piece of wood. “A soft hammer will absorb some of the blow so that you can control the direction of the chip better.” He chipped off a few pieces of flint with the bone and then picked up the hard hammer to knock off a lump on the side of the flint. He hit it and the flint split cleanly into two pieces. He chuckled and said, “Well, I blew it. The flint had been frac tured before and I didn’t notice. “You find mistakes like this all the time. Sometimes they would make something smaller, like an arrowhead, out of pieces like this. In fact, arrowheads were often made from the bigger chips.” He picked up a small chip and pressed the bone against it until he had fashioned a sharp point. “We often find awls and sharp points made out of flint,” he said. Shafer often teaches his stu dents the art of flint knapping. “There are a couple that have been working at it for about a year who are getting pretty good,” he said. “You’ll see them walking around on campus with bandages on their fingers.” “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv.