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Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, October 12, 1973 TUP RATTAI ir^KJ SOUND W THINGS] Repair & Install Auto Radios, All Tape Decks. 503 E. 30th — 822-1155 When in Dallas/Ft. Worth It’s the TUPINAMBA Restaurant for ‘Mexican Food Supreme” Open 7 days weekly EDDIE DOMINGUEZ CLASS OF ’66 JOE ARCINIEGA CLASS OF ’74 3071 W. Northwest Hwy. Dallas, Texas Near Bachman Nationwide Survey College Campuses Back to Practicality By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An old image has returned to the nation’s college campuses this fall. Students are mainly concern ed about grades and jobs, and ad ministrators about maintaining standards and paying the bills. Three years into the 1970s, the flamboyance of the last decade has been almost completely shad owed by a spirit of practicality. But it is not necessarily a throw back to an earlier age. From Boston to Berkeley, un dergraduates are flocking to courses that look good to corpo rate recruiters. Many are grind ing for the grades that will open the doors of increasingly selective graduate schools. Hair is shorter, clothing dres sier and the days of protests con signed to memory. Off-campus apartments, pass-fail courses and out-and-out freakiness have lost some of their appeal. Beer bashes, business careers and backpacks are in style. Call it realism or call it cop- out, but there is a widespread feeling that the campus is not the place to right the world’s wrongs. The thought was anathe ma to activists of recent vintage. College presidents, recently wrapped up in building takeovers, now face increasingly severe mon ey problems brought on by low er enrollments, higher costs and diminished government and pri vate support. Many schools have cut faculty, dropped courses and reduced services to make ends meet. Associated Press reporters went D*V£ 7T)u///aj%. 8H-&-307Z 3*+£>-2.33^ after 6 rm Former Librarian To Judge Books Dr. Luther H. Evans, former Librarian of Congress, will judge a Student Book Collecting Contest at A&M this fall. Four $100 prizes will be award ed top book collections entered by currently enrolled students. The contest, sponsored by Friends of the TAMU Library, will accept entries until Oct. 26. Dr. Evans and two local judges will decide winners to be Announc ed at a Nov. 9 program. Dr. Evans will be the featured speaker. A Sayersville, Tex., na tive, he was Librarian of Congress in 1945-53. He was most recently NOW BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH THESE CARE FULLY PREPARED AND TASTE TEMPTING FOODS. EACH SPECIAL ONLY $1.19 PLUS TAX. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL BROILED BACON WRAPPED MOCK FILET STEAK GERMAN STYLE POTATOES Choice of one vegetable Rolls & Butter Tea or Coffee TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL FRESH CORN FED CATFISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Grandma’s Co'rnbread Choice of one vegetable Rolls & Butter Tea or Coffee WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL CHICKEN FRIED BEEF STEAK w/CREAM GRAVY Choice of two ^vegetables Rolls & Butter Tea or Coffee THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL ITALIAN CANDLELIGHT DINNER — ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot- Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee You cannot believe you get, “The Whole Thing,” for $1.19 FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL MEXICAN FIESTA DINNER TWO CHEESE AND ONION ENCHILADAS w/CHILI Spanish Rice Patio Style Beans Rolls & Butter Tea or Coffee Open Saturday from 7 a. m. to game time only on dates of home football games. Serving a great $1.19 Special for all fans. SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON AND EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce & Crabapple Cornbread Dressing Rolls - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable. ‘QUALITY FIRST” Newspapers: Your Foundation for a Free Choice director of international collec tions at Columbia University. TAMU Director of Libraries John B- Smith said considerable sudents interest has been shown in the contest. “Dr. Evans’ partici pation should help make this first contest a successful event,” he added. The contest is open to all un dergraduate and graduate stu dents. Contest leaflets are avail able at all service desks in the University Library and Veteri nary Medicine Library. Entries must be submitted - by Oct. 26 to Smith or Henry L. Alsmeyer Jr., library administrative offices; Evelyn M. King, special collec tions, or Eleanor H. Nance, gifts section. Dr. Evans has an international reputation, with formal recogni tion by the governments of Bra zil, France and other nations. He became director general of UNESCO after leaving the Li brary of Congress. Evans taught at Stanford, Dartmouth and Princeton, among others, and was delegation member or chairman to several international bodies. He completed undergraduate and master’s degree studies at UT-Austin and received the doc torate from Stanford. Several in stitutions have conferred honor ary degrees on Dr. Evans. to 20 schools around the country during the first weeks of class. They talked with administrators, drank coffee with faculty mem bers and interviewed students in classrooms, coffee shops, dorms and libraries. Among other things, they found: —Security has become a major problem even at the most ivory towered campuses. Bicycle thefts are rampant. Rape and the fear of rape are real concerns at some schools.—Dances and dating have reappeared as big time social ac tivities. At the University of Ken tucky, students gathered for a football rally complete with bon fire and cheers. Frisbees, films and pinball machines are prime pastimes. -—Dormitories, with much re laxed rules, are filling up again as students find it’s cheaper than living off-campus. “Economically it’s better,” explained a Univer sity of Wisconsin coed. “Besides, your sheets are washed for you.” Fraternities and sororities are al so faring better after a long slide in the 1960s. Booze is big and drug use has diminished. Many students are reaching for a can of beer instead of a pill or a joint when it’s time to relax. “It’s cheaper and it’s legal,” said Tom Helmer, a stu dent at Bowie State College near Baltimore. —The self-segregation blacks imposed on themselves at many schools appears to be waning. De mands for black-only dorms are few and all-black tables in cafe terias are less frequent. Howev er, the increasing minority enroll ment at large state schools has generated tension in some cam pus towns. —There is a more tolerant at titude toward the military’s Re serve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). ROTC buildings were frequent fire bomb targets during the antiwar program. Boston Uni versity this fall restored the ROTC program it dropped for two years. At Wisconsin, the ROTC military ball will be held on cam pus this year after several years in a local hotel. Marine Symposium Explores Careers An invitation to explore the world of marine careers has been issued by the sponsors of “Careers in the Ocean,” a special program for high school students and counselors. The program will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, in Houston’s Jesse H. Jones Hall. Sponsored by the Houston Underwater Club and the A&M Sea Grant Program, “Careers in the Ocean” is designed to inform students of the variety of career opportunities in ocean-oriented professions. A panel of speakers will give insight into the marine-related side of such careers as law, engineering, photography and the sciences. “Careers in the Ocean” is presented in conjunction with SEA- SPACE ’73, a two-day divers’ symposium sponsored by the Houston Underwater Club and The National Association of Underwater In structors. There is no charge for paticipation in the “Careers” pro gram and pre-registration is not required. Highlighting SEASPACE ’73 will be an underwater film festival featuring Stan Waterman, world-renowned photographer of “Blue Water, White Death.” Others on the program include underwater comedian Dick Anderson, a multi-media show by the Brooks Insti tute of Underwater Photography and Dr. Lee Tepley of Palo Alto, Calif., with “the ultimate diving experience,” a full color film with live sound of an underwater volcanic eruption. International award winning film selections will also be shown. The film festival will be presented at 2 and 8 p.m. Waterman will kick off “Careers in the Ocean.” Other speakers are: Wallace Klussmann, Texas Agricultural Extension Service; Dr. Alan Lohse, Gulf Universities Research Consortium; Harry Sloate, Platzer Marine; Capt. A1 Philbrick, Moody College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Resources, TAMU; Senator A. R. “Babe” Schwartz, Gal veston; Larry Cushman, director, special projects, Oceaneering Inter national; and Leatha Miloy, director of information and special serv ices, Center for Marine Resources, A&M. m ' ' ; ^ i «£f .# -'V | va ' V y ) y • } ft™ '- V aJ *t7 i J 3 ' r •O i 1 J * ZmJs? l ir wr- i vi \\i»i* | f j\f <Oi 1 i v >* JV J ' • # HAPPY HOUR — 25c BEER All-nite Sunday — $1.00 pitcher 6-8 Tuesday - Thursday 822-4512 Fashions also have changed. Blue jeans remain standard issue, often combined with a flannel shirt and hiking boots. But knit slacks and a pressed shirt no long er make a man an arch conserva tive. Some women have even been seen wearing skirts and dresses. Marijuana is simply a fact of life at most schools. It’s there, people use it, and that’s that. A certain percentage of students continue to use harder drugs, but widespread experimenting has de clined. Supplies are tight, quality poor and many students do be lieve that LSD causes births de fects and speed kills. Amphetam ine—“speed”— is popular at ex am time, for academic reasons. Alcohol has been restored to primacy. Beer is a daily staple, by the keg, the six-pack or the stein. On-campus bars have pro liferated as states lower the le gal drinking age. Bourbon, vodka and flavored wines have their adherents, but tequila has emerged as the new campus drink. “We can’t keep it on the shelves,” said a clerk in the Harvard Provision Co., a dispensary near the Cambridge campus. The present campus generation toddled off to grade school dur ing the civil rights movement and passed through high school dur ing the headline days of student activism. Most participated only via television, but they did react to those events. “I lived 10 minutes from Kent State and was a senior in high school when the shootings hap pened,” said Scott Anderson, stu dent government president at Mi ami University. “That changed my mind about a lot of things Kids are tired of beating their heads against the wall. “We want to do our thing, get our degrees and get the hell out of here.” TONITE AT 7:30 P. M. Chuck Conners in “POLICE CONNECTION” (R) At 9:20 p. m. “SWEET CHARITY” featuring FLORSHEIM, PEDWIN, PORTO-PED, ACME, CONVERSE 113 N Main -— 822-12 Downtown Bryan AM RU S NOW SHOWING 5:45 - 7:35 - 9:25 SIDDI1ARTII is an exquisite movies —REX REED, Syndicated Columnist A NOVEL BY HERMANN HESSE A FILM BY CONRAD ROOKS ^1ML"AC{ TODAY — 5:45 - 7:35 • 93! Mark Twain’s “TOM SAWYER” QUEEN TONITE — 6:30 - 8:15 -10 “TERMINAL ISLAND Skyway Twii WEST SCREEN AT 7:30 P,! “HONG KONG CAT’’ (E At 9:15 p. m. “TWITCH OF DEATH NERVE” EAST SCREEN AT 7:35 P. “BADGE 373” (R) With Robert Duvall At 9:30 p. m. Johnny Cash In “GUN FIGHT” (R) (S) mau HARRY DISHMAN Sales & Service 603 Texas Ave. C.S. across from campus — 846-3316 llfalt Gctrri/ autograph party for BB&L Junior Savers Tuesday/October 16 Walt Garrison, star running back of the Dallas Cowboys, will be in the lobby of Bryan Building & Loan Building on Tuesday, October 16 from 3-6 p.m. for a special Junior Savers Club party. Free refreshments and pictures. Feel free to bring your football (or what have you) for Walt to autograph. Dads are welcome, too. JUNIOR SAVERS -b p.m. BRYAN BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION 2800 Texas Ave/822-0181