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VICKIE ASHWILL
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week for TAMU.
;es are attending the National Stu-
Lobby’s third annual conference
this week.
Conference activities began Saturday
at the downtown Ramada Inn in a scur
ry of confusion. More delegates showed
up than were expected, and no rooms
were available for them. Students have
had to double up in rooms and form
long lines for room and conference reg
istration.
Ten students, from TAMU, Texas
Tech University, the University of Tex
as and Texas Women’s University, are
representing all Texas universities and
secondary schools at the conference.
Willis Edwards, chairman for the
1973-74 NSL board of directors, said
students were here to lobby for educa
tional issues and to take needed funds
back to campuses, in his welcoming re
marks to the delegations.
“We know that what happens here
in Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill
and in the White House affects our
lives daily,” said Edwards. “NSL has
been and will continue to be effective
in Congress. NSL seeks to make you
(the students) very well-known.”
First priority issue in NSL for the
coming year include abolition of the
“means test”, which bans students from
families with more than $20,000 ad
justed income from getting Guaranteed
Student Loans; an increase of college
work-study funds up to $420 million
authorized level without depleting the
funding for other student assistance
programs; and the maintenance of low
or no tuition at public two-year and
four-year colleges.
NSL also lists stand-by discount
fares on air, bus and train transporta
tion for persons over 65 and under 22
years old and the concept of full mini-
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among its priorities.
and youth
Major speakers during the first three
days of the conference noted a feeling
of apathy among students nationwide.
These speakers included Rep. Paul Mc-
Closky (R-Calif.), Bob Woodward of
the Washington Post, CBS White House
correspondent Dan Rather, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Heather
Booth, director of the Midwest Acad
emy, Inc. a school for organizing stu
dents into groups for social reform.
McClosky said students were facing
a challenge in order to get rid of the
apathy and despair.
“Most congressmen hope students
never will learn because they are the
most numerous, cohesive group in
America,” said McClosky. “There seem
ingly has been a reluctance on the part
of students to organize. Apathy on col
lege campuses is probably greater now
than it ever has been.”
Rather said than even with the 18-
year-old vote most students did not do
anything in the 1972 election to make
any great difference.
(See STUDENTS, p. 4)
Che Battalion
Secret meeting
Charles Powell, dean of men, met with
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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 26, 1974
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tertainer of the Year, their
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the side of Texas A&M."
SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S story came to
life Monday night as “Rain” opened at the
University Center Forum. Kent Brown, as
Pvt. Hodgson, seems to be contemplating
Aileen Wenck, as ex-prostitute Sadie
Thompson, in a scene from the modern
tragedy. “Rain” plays for $1 at 8 p. m.
every night through Saturday. (Photo by
Kathy Curtis)
ouse leader predicts
spring Nixon resignation
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. </P> — Rep.
lomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., said
otiday he thinks President Nixon will
sign in April or May.
“Prom what I've seen, the evidence is
|ry damaging,” O’Neill told students at
[arvard University’s John F. Kennedy
fstitute of Politics.
Later, Gary Hymel, an O’Neill aide
Washington, said O’Neill called “com-
[etely and absolutely false” the report
his prediction of Nixon’s resignation
(id possible indictment.
O’Neill said earlier at Harvard that
Jatergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
luld have sought the indictment of the
President. But O’Neill said he is glad
Jaworski didn’t try to do so.
“I’d hate to see the President of the
United States indicted,” said O’Neill,
blouse majority leader.
O’Neill said at Harvard he expects
Judge John Sirica to transfer the evi
dence on the President to the House
Judiciary Committee. Once that happens,
in April or May, “rather than see the
evidence made public, I think the Presi
dent will resign,” O’Neill said.
He said he thinks Vice President
Gerald Ford as president would “give
stability to the country” and that he
would be hard to beat in the presidential
election of 1976.
ACTOR’S VIEW of the new 2,500-seat auditorium looks out upon
at seems to be an endless sea of empty seats. The stage is 130 feet
eand 52 feet deep; a 13 by 60 feet platform in front of the stage serves
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Kalmbach pleads guilty
in Watergate follies
WASHINGTON <A>)—Herbert W. Kalmbach,
a corporation lawyer who handled President
Nixon’s personal legal affairs, pleaded guilty
Monday to two charges stemming from his politi-
• il fund-raising in 1970.
One count was a technical violation of the
Federal Corrupt Practices Act. The other accused
Kalmbach of promising an ambasador a better
post in return for a $100,000 contribution.
Kalmbach could be sentenced to a maximum
3 years and $11,000 on the two charges.
In return for the guilty pleas and Kalmbach’s
pledge to testify against others, the government
promised not to prosecute him in the Watergate
coverup or in future political contributions cases.
The 52-year-old Kalmbach admitted to the
Senate Watergate Committee last year that he
raised $220,000 that was then passed to the de
fendants in the Watergate break-in. But he
denied any knowledge that the money was to
buy the conspirators’ silence.
Kalmbach lives in Newport Beach, Calif., and
practices law there and in Los Angeles. He told
reporters he still performs legal work for the
President. The White House said Kalmbach’s
firm “continues to do some work on the Presi
dent’s tax matters,” but would not discuss Kalm
bach’s personal role.
The charges to which he pleaded concern fund
raising activities in 1970 when Republicans were
making a major effort to elect GOP senators and
representatives.
Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor
Charles Ruff told in court about a committee,
established in March 1970 by three members of
the staff of the President, to raise and distribute
campaign funds.
Ruff said Kalmbach raised $2.8 million in
pledges for the committee out of a total $3.9
million distributed “for the purpose of influ
encing the election of candidates of the Republi
can Party” in 19 states.
One count against Kalmbach, a felony carry
ing a maximum two year prison term and $10,000
fine, charges he worked for the committee which
was operating without an elected chairman and
treasurer as required by law at the time.
The committee referred to apparently was a
once-secret fund-raising effort called “Operation
(See KLAMBACH, p. 4)
MSC talks
Beginnings of TAMU about control
of programs
linked to Corps’ story
By WILL ANDERSON
This is the first of a four part
history of the Corps of Cadets.
The Batt will focus this week on
the Corps in recognition of Mili
tary Weekend.—Ed.
The histories of Texas A&M
and the Corps are actually one
common tale; they are insepa
rable.
When the act that established
the college, the Morrill Act, was
passed in 1861, Texas as a state
of the Confederacy was not under
the jurisdiction of the U.S. Con
gress. It was ratified by the state
in 1866 and construction began
on the college in 1875.
The presidency—originally of
fered to the former president of
the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis,
who refused it—was accepted by
Thomas Gathright.
When the college finally opened
Oct. 4, 1876, many Texans voic
ed a fear it would be the begin
ning of a military aristocracy.
Only 40 students appeared for the
opening day but the number had
grown to 106 by the end of the
year.
The college consisted of Old
Main, the first building which
was on the site of the Academic
Building, Gathright Hall, a com
bination dorm and mess hall and
five professors’ homes.
The school was a community in
itself because of its isolation.
The military began its influence
early at A&M since many of the
instructors were soldiers of the
Confederacy and the cadet uni
form was the traditional gray.
Living conditions were so rough
that in its early years its main
use was as a reform school.
The Corps began to form in
1887 when the Scott Rifles, fore-
(See TAMU, p. 3)
Today
Streakers speak out p. 2
Hearst food plan p. 3
Elephant Bowl p. 5
Ags sweep 4 p. 6
Weather
Continued fair and cool
Tuesday. Maximum tem
perature today in the low
60’s. Tonight’s low 40°.
Partly cloudy to cloudy
and turning warmer
Wednesday. Wednesday’s
high should be in the low
er 70’s.
Control of programming was the basic argu
ment during the Memorial Student Center Execu
tive Committee meeting Monday evening.
Ultimate judgment of what is proper for the
students to see became the axis of a new sug
gested policy for film selection and review.
Tim Manning, art films series chairman, pre
sented information about his sub-committee’s
budget and structure to demonstrate the legiti
macy and trustworthiness of his committee’s
choices of films.
Earlier, LaTonya Perrin had been dismissed
from her position as Arts Committee chairman
because of an alleged inability to communicate
this information.
The Executive Committee will now be faced
with the question of criteria on selecting a suit
able and representative film, if their recommen
dation is accepted.
The resolution suggests the Student Program
coordinator (Hal Gaines) order those films he
has no objection to and send those questionable
back to the chairman, rejected. The chairman
can appeal this decision to the Executive Com
mittee with film descriptions and other pertinent
information.
If the executives find the film unsuitable, the
rejection can be appealed to the Council.
Manning proposed a slightly different resolu
tion putting no review boards above the com
mittee, but Bill Davis, president-elect of the
Council, disagreed.
“We cannot self-legislate the ultimate decision
making duty of the Exec Committee out of
existence. A certain amount of control must be
had, so that if a committee gets into trouble, we
can defend it.”
New auditorium
one of the best
By VICKIE ASHWILL
“In the center of Texas, at the very heart of
the 5,200 acre Texas A&M University campus, is a
unique place—a complex called the University Cen
ter,” reads an architect’s pamphlet.
It is within this center that one of the best
auditoriums in Texas, if not in the southwest, is
located, said Steve Hodge, technical manager of
thee theatre complex.
Designed by Jarvis Putty Jarvis Inc. of Dallas,
the 2,500-seat auditorium in the Rudder Center
Theatre Complex is surrounded by an exhibit hall,
a 750 seat theatre and a 250 seat forum.
“It’s a very good hall,” continued Hodge. “It
is the best equipped in Texas and in many respects
unique.”
Hodge said they added “reverb” electronically
with speakers but did not want to make an issue
of the acoustics in the hall.
(See RUDDER CENTER, p. 3)
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facility was modeled after Jones Hall in Houston, and is considered one of
the best auditoriums in the southwest. (Photos by Gary Baldasari)
oter registration Tuesday, Wednesday at MSC, library, Commons, Sbisa