MSC Open House—New Faces, Places And A New Year
Oliphant Debuts
In Today’s Batt
An original cartoon by Pulitzer in his home newspaper, the
Prize winner Pat Oliphant ap- Denver Post. His art work is
Che Battalion
pears in the Battalion today on
page nine. The young artist has
also won the Sigma Delta Chi
award for editorial cartooning.
In the future, Oliphant’s work
will appear here on a regular
schedule.
Both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Sigma Delta Chi award came to
Oliphant in 1966. He garnered
his second Reuben Award from
the National Cartoonists Society
as Outstanding Cartoonist of
1972.
“The basis of my cartoon is
humor; there is no better vehicle
for satirical thought,” Oliphant
reports. “In those instances
where a particularly grim sub
ject might indicate a straight
approach, the contrast that humor
affords thrusts the message home
wtih fresh impact.”
Oliphant’s work has been ap
pearing since the middle of 1964
syndicated to more than 300 other
newspapers across the country.
The young artist was already
a cartoonist of note when he and
his family moved from South
Australia to the United States
in 1964. He had been with the
Adelaide Advertiser since 1965 as
the editorial cartoonist of the
state’s largest daily newspaper.
In 1958 Oliphant won one of
the two top prizes in London’s
“Great Challenge Editorial Car
toonist Competition,” an inter
national contest designed to find
the funniest editorial artist in
the world. All western nations
were represented in the compe
tition.
Artist Oliphant, in his pene
trating drawings, looks at the
world of politics, foreign affairs,
social attitudes and customs in
the tradition of European master
humorists but aims squarely at
an American audience.
Vol. 67 No. 275
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 4, 1973
Classes Cut into Frivolity
Fall semester classes brought
an end to a weekend of fun,
frivolity and the initiation of 18-
year-old rights.
On and off campus Ags were
experimenting with their newly
given rights while Fish were
being oriented to the social
aspects of campus life.
“Welcome - Wagon - Weekend”
was highlighted by the annual
Memorial Student Center Open
House and dance on the step of
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Open House began with a tour
Tropical Storm Threatens/
Upper Texas Gulf Coast
GALVESTON <A>) _ Tropical
Storm Delia, poised 140 miles off
shore here, gathered strength to
day and turned slightly north with
her ill-defined eye pointed once
again at the Louisiana coast.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see
it go ashore on the Louisiana
coast but right now I’m going to
hold off about where,” said Davis
Benton, chief meteorologist at the
Galveston National Weather Serv
ice office. “The thing is going to
find a more defiinte track and on
a more northerly course.”
Delia teased Texas coastal resi
dents through the night, hanging
offshore with a disorganized cen
ter and little movement, but pro
ducing swells and high tides from
Freeport to Cameron, La.
The 9 a.m. EDT advisory from
the National Weather Service
showed the storm, with winds of
65 to 70 miles an hour, had drift
ed very slightly toward the north
and was picking up strength.
At 9 a.m., the storm was lo
cated at latitude 27.8 north longi
tude 93.3 west, or about 140 miles
southeast of Galveston.
“If we can get a few more
fixes on radar in the next couple
of hours, we are going to be able
to come up with a prediction. This
storm is essentially in the same
location as it was at 11 o’clock
last night,” Benton said.
The advisory said six-foot tides
an rains or up to 10 inches would
accompany Delia when she finally
comes ashore.
The Upper Texas Coast area
began evacuations and prepara
tions for the storm Monday aft
ernoon when it turned abruptly
from the Louisiana coast and
pointed toward the Galveston-
Freeport area.
Officials hurried evacuation of
the Sabine Pass area near the
Louisiana line, and opened schools
and other public buildings to the
evacuees.
Other evacuations were from
Bolivar Peninsula, adjacent to
Galveston Bay, and from the
Brazosport area beaches around
Freeport and vicinity. The Texas
Department of Public Safety’s
highway patrol assisted sheriff’s
deputies in those areas.
As six-foot waves pounded the
beaches, some residents took a
dim view of leaving.
In Galveston, restaurant own
er Pete Cokins tied up his awn
ings and commented, “Seems like
everybody is taking precautions
this time, but I’m not going to
start boarding up until I get some
more definite information.”
At a fishing pier, Jack Mc-
Comb sold tickets to an increas
ing number of fishermen. The
fish, big ones, always bite better
when a storm is brewing he said.
“We’re going to stay open all
night,” McComb said late Mon
day. “Hurricanes don’t bother
us. It just cools the place off.”
Operators of other businesses
took the situation more seriously.
Crews along Galveston’s famed
Seawall Boulevard were busy re-
moving awnings, taking down
signs and boarding up plate glass.
The U. S. Coast Guard said the
situation appeared in “good
shape.” Lt. Robert Reichersamer
reported, “We have some ships
anchored outside Galveston in
Bolivar Roads, but to our knowl
edge, none are at sea in the path
of the storm.”
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm
Christine, which for a time
threatened the Leeward Islands,
became a tropical depression, and
all seemed well there.
About 10,000 persons fled in
land from Louisiana’s lowlying
coast as thundering surf pounded
the beaches Monday afternoon,
but most were expected to start
back home by today as the
Weather Service lifted warnings
for much of the area.
PORTABLE MOVIE HOUSE — Bobby Yeager of the
College Station police loads confiscated equipment from the
Adult Library Club into the back of a waiting pickup during
an Aug. 3 raid which stripped the inside of the business.
Yeager, along with almost all other College Station police
officers, was later named as plaintiff in a suit filed in U. S.
District Court in Houston. (Photo by David G. Landmann)
of the new University Center and
continued through to a reception
enabling students to meet in
formally with faculty and student
leaders.
Exhibits by 15 MSC commit
tees and other student organiza
tions gave the wagon-riders an
idea of the wide variety of activ
ities in which they may spend
their time during the next four
years.
The 15 MSC committees which
bring to the campus popular en
tertainment, cultural events and
provide hobby and leadership
opportunities are Aggie Cinema,
Arts, Basement Coffeehouse,
Black Awareness, Camera, Great
Issues, Host and Fashion, New
Tradition Singers, Political Fo
rum, Public Relations, Radio,
Recreation, Student Conference
on National Affairs, Town Hall
and Travel.
Wagon-riders also attended a
New Student Assembly Friday
night which was highlighted by
a speech given by A&M President
Jack K. Williams.
Williams pointed out that en
rollment had reached a record
high of 18,000 students includ
ing almost 4,000 female students
and 3,600 graduate students with
the highest ratio of graduates to
undergraduates in the state.
The fact that the cadet corps
was about 2,200 strong this year
and the largest corps in the
nation by more than 500 put
Cadet Fish in the position to
practice whoops in an audience.
“The minute you become an
Aggie,” said Williams, “you add
to the institution or detract from
it.”
Williams said that certain com
mitments went along with the
responsibility of being an Aggie
and included in these Ag tradi
tions, decency and dignity, edu
cation to leadership, love of man
kind and love to alma mater.
Also a part of Welcome-Wagon-
Weekend was the commanders
conference where Corps leaders
were told by administrators that
the strength and future of the
organization was in their hands.
President Jack Williams said
TAMU needs the assistance of
the student body, particularly the
Corps, to help the university re
tain during a period of change
the qualities for which Texas
A&M is known.
“The Cadet Corps program is
unique in our country,” said Dr.
John Koldus, vice president for
student services. “It has my total
and complete support.”
“The program you are in has
done more for the leadership of
the nation than any other I am
aware of,” the dean of students
successor remarked. “When I
went to ROTC summer camp at
Fort Sill in 1952, I wondered who
were the buys in the boots. Those
Aggies let me know in no uncer
tain terms. I hope you realize
the uniqueness of your position.”
Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com
mandant, also briefed command
ers on corps policy and reported
developments for the school year
that started Monday. He warned
the cadets that policy imple
mentation will determine the
Corps’ future.
“The Corps needs new strength,
and the university needs the
strength the Corps can give it,”
the professor of military science
said. He added that women will
not be admitted to the ROTC pro
gram this school year but “I
don’t know about the future.”
Col. Parsons noted that only
TAMU and two other institutions
still have all-male cadet corps.
All other college and university
programs have been opened to
women.
Bus Pass Needed
By Wednesday
Students on one of the four
Shuttle Bus routes have until
Wednesday to acquire a pass if
they wish to continue riding the
buses.
The pass is obtainable from the
University Police in Room 17 of
the YMCA. Students wishing to
pay for service may do so at the
Fiscal Office.
Eight diesel-powered, 44 pas
senger buses, provided by Trans
portation Enterprises, Inc., will
cover four separate routes from 7
a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through
Friday, not including holidays.
These buses will run approxi
mately every 15 minutes.
One bus will be available from
6 p.m. to 11 p.m. for late-night-
ers desiring transportation to or
from the campus on any route.
This bus will depart from the
intersection of Ireland and Ross
once every hour beginning at
6:10 p.m. and ending at 10:10
p.m.
Route services include each of
the following areas: 1. Highway
30-Plantation Oaks area, 2. South
of campus-Southgate to South
west Village area, 3. Northgate
area and 4. College View-Hensel.
Buses will temporarily be
orange and white due to a delay
in manufacturing and the more
appropriate maroon and white ve
hicles will replace them in one
week.
Passes are $9 per semester for
students, $12 per semester for
student husband and wife and
$11 per semester for faculty
staff.
For occasional riders, a coupon
book good for 10 rides may be
purchased at the Fiscal Office.
Prices are $1.50 for students and
$2 for non-students.
‘Skin Flick’
After Northgate
Future Doubtful
Club Raids
By STEPHEN GOBLE
The midnight “skin flick” will
evidently not be part of the tra
ditions of TAMU this year.
A jury of six men and six wom
en ended the long-time custom last
Thursday in 85th District Court.
They ruled Robert Mancil and
Burke Hargrove, “in business” at
the Adult Library Club, were guil
ty of knowingly displaying ob
scene films. The jury also found
six films taken from the club to
be obscene, setting the guidelines
for community standards of ob
scenity.
Although the Northgate club
had a membership estimated at
6,000 to 7,000 people, the films
shown there and films containing
similar material are now legally
obscene in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area.
Mancil and Hargrove have filed
a suit with the U. S. District
Court in Houston, however, ask
ing for $1.5 million in damages
and challenging the constitution
ality of Texas.
The suit also seeks for a ruling
on the validity of search warrants
used in the case, for a restraining
order which would put the Adult
Library Club back in business or
for the entire argument to be con
solidated with other cases, con
cerning police seizures of the con
troversial film “Deep Throat,”
currently before a three - judge
federal panel.
Federal District Judge Carl O.
Bue, who heard arguments in the
Mancil-Hargrove suit Saturday,
is expected to announce his rul
ing Wednesday.
It all began this summer when
Dist. Atty. W. T. (Tom) McDon
ald Jr., County Atty. Roland
Searcy and College Station Atty.
James Dozier obtained a tempo
rary restraining order from Dis
trict Judge W. C. (Bill) Davis on
July 20 prohibiting the club,
a “continuing public nuisance,”
from “exhibiting motion pictures
or literature which shows humans
engaged in coitus (and other
acts).”
Another court order required
Mancil and Hargrove to refrain
from removing anything from the
club which might later be held as
evidence in an obscenity trial.
The actions followed a U. S. Su
preme Court decision earlier in
the summer which ruled obscenity
is determined by “contemporary
community standards.”
McDonald said those standai’ds
could only be determined by a jury
in a state or federal court in a
given community.
Acting on the advice of Bryan
attorney Charles Gandy, however,
the club stayed open.
Mancil and Hargrove narrowly
escaped contempt of court charges
for continuing to operate the busi
ness when Davis ruled July 30,
during the hearing on the re
straining order, the order was il
legal, due to conflicting articles
in the state law.
Davis then issued a search and
seizure warrant for the club,
strongly on evidence of two S mm
films sold to an undercover man
after the temporary restraining
order was issued. Davis said the
films were “patently obscene.”
Armed with the warrant that
afternoon, police officers confis
cated about 500 books and maga
zines, about 122 reels of 8 mm
film and a feature film being
shown at the time.
Four days later, a few minutes
after a hearing concerning a sec
ond search warrant ended, Man
cil was arrested in District Court
and charged with 12 counts of
exhibiting and selling obscene
films and books.
At the same time, College Sta
tion policemen, acting on the sec
ond warrant (signed by Justice of
the Peace Michael Calliham),
raided the club again, confiscat
ing one of two films named in the
warrant. Also confiscated, al
though not named in the warrant,
were the club’s cash register,
eight theatre speakers, six 16mm
projectors, four floodlights, an
eight-track stereo, a stereo tape-
player phonograph and personal
property, books, magazines and
films locked in a storeroom.
Mancil was in custody approxi
mately 90 minutes before being
released on $6,000 bond.
The club remained closed, with
its screen down and wiring ripped
out, until the trial in 85th Dis
trict Court last Thursday.