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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1974
Page 3
KT By COLLINS CROZIER
y f Have you been disappointed
J ; with Town Hall performances this
year? Before criticizing too heav-
°t polif, ily, think of some of the problems
that the selection of popular en
tertainment involves.
Doug Thorpe, Town Hall chair
man for next year, will head the
new Town Hall selection com
mittee of student representatives.
The Memorial Student Center
Council, Student Senate, Corps,
residence halls and other organ
izations will be represented on the
committee.
“The residence halls will have
the largest number of representa
tives,” says Thorpe.
Applications for the 1974-75
committee are available in the
Student Programs Office. They
must be in by 5 p. m. on March 1.
Interviews will be held the fol
lowing week. Town Hall is seeking
those interested in public rela
tions, advertising and art.
The committee will have its
first meeting at the end of March,
after the new Town Hall members
have been chosen. All applicants
will be asked to survey 200 stu
dents and find out what groups
I aid the y want -
"We believe this will give us an
Ml’USSD over all view of the groups pre-
was w ferred by the students,” explains
Board d Thorpe. “The applicants will have
: at-lugi) the spring break to organize their
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starring
PETER FONDA • DENNIS HOPPER
JACK NICHOLSON
directed by Dennis Hopper, written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern,
produced by Peter Fonda, Executive Producer Bert Schneider
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Corps history brought up to mid ’60s
surveys, and then a week of school
to poll the students. It is from
these surveys and not from the
personal opinions of the commit
tee that groups will be chosen.”
“The big problem is not choos
ing the groups, but getting the
groups we choose to come here”
continues Thorpe. “Last year for
Bonfire the committee named five
groups as possibilities. Because
of schedule conflicts we were
turned down by Emerson, Lake
and Palmer, Logging and Messina,
America and Blood, Sweat and
Tears. We finally got Billy Pres
ton, but then he cancelled.”
H. W. Gaines, Student Program
Coordinator, also feels schedul
ing is the hardest part of getting
good groups.
“Our fall program next year is
built around five home football
games and Bonfire. If we can’t
get the groups we want, when we
want them, then we can’t use
them. We just can’t afford any
additional concerts, and the stu
dents get tired of so many,” says
Gaines.
“Our spring program this year
is built around Military Weekend,
RHA Weekend and one special
attraction. Any other concerts
seem to conflict with other inter
ests,” explains Gaines. “Last
spring we brought in Elton John
and lost money. Believe me, it’s
hard to blow an Elton John con
cert, but we were just competing
with too many other interests. We
have to keep the business side of
this in view. We need to keep in
the black.”
Gaines, who has been working
with Town Hall for nine years,
has only seen the organization go
in the red two years.
“Last year we lost $1,600. That
means that we had $1,600 less to
start out with this year. Town
Hall received $32,500 this year
from student fee supports. With
this money we run a $200,000 pro
gram, which is one of the largest
in the country. The rest of the
money comes from ticket sales or
underwrites from various groups,”
explains Gaines.
The new Rudder Complex may
help improve the variety of groups
next year.
“A&M is a large school and no
matter who we bring for shows,
not everyone is going to be
pleased,” says Thorpe. “However,
next year we are going to try
something new. We have two nice
auditoriums in the Rudder Com
plex, and we could have smaller
concerts in them. We intend to get
people like B. W. Stephenson,
Michael Murphy and others who
are popular, but would not draw
a large enough crowd to fill G.
Rollie. We would charge just
enough money to cover the ex
penses. This would improve the
quality and variety of talent that
visits our campus.”
By SALLY HAMILTON
Tomorrow is the final install
ment of a four part history of the
Corps run by the Batt to show
the significance of Military Week
end—ed.
The end of World War II mark
ed the beginning of an era of
great changes for the Corps of
Cadets.
An explosion in size of the stu
dent body caused Bryan airfield
to be changed to “the Annex,”
housing the overflow of students.
The Gibb Gilchrist administration
said moving the entire freshman
class to the Annex would simplify
teaching and provide a solution
to an old problem, hazing.
The other classes were housed
on the campus 12 miles away
while the freshmen were content
with their new environment; the
upperclassmen were angered. A
typical sophomore considered that
he had traded his one year of
slavery and being hazed for three
years of the reverse.
Incidents of protest began. A
few unknown persons turned a
fire hose onto the Dean of Men’s
house while he and his wife were
there. Trouble increased and
Pres. Gilchrist suggested Mrs.
Gilchrist leave the campus, but
she refused.
On the night of Jan. 28, 1947,
President Gilchrist was awaken
ed by a knock on the door. He
opened the door to a seething
mass of man power and a spokes
man told him all commissions re
ceived under his administration
were being returned.
Gilchrist replied he would re
ceive the commissions with pro
found regret but if the students
were determined, he’d accept
them. These commissions had
been earned the hard way but
they were returned. At the end
of the meeting the Aggie Band
played the “Spirit of Aggieland.”
It was not until the administra
tion of Dr. H. H. Harrington in
1950 that freshmen returned to
the campus. Thus, the classes that
had been hazed were all graduat
ed.
Batt review
‘Rain’ performed competently, smoothly
By TED BORISKIE
W. Somerset Maugham’s classic
heroine Sadie Thompson, springs
to life in the Aggie Players’ pro
duction of “Rain.”
Skillfully directed by Robert
Wenck, “Rain” transcends the
aura one would expect of a college
stage production in the the play
ers handle the characters with an
incredibly empathetic feel.
Ailee Wenck and Paul Bleau are
masterful in the lead roles of
Sadie Thompson and Rev. David
son. Both have a history of par
ticipation in the Aggie Players
dating back to the middle ’60’s.
Bleau uses his wonderfully rich
voice to bring out the best of
the fanatical missionary while
Wenck’s Miss Thompson would
probably have brought tears
of recognition to Somerset
Maugham.
The most relaxed members of
the cast, the scenes which feature
just the two of them are the high
lights of the night.
Holly Faison is jolly and in
nocent enough as the Polynesian
Ameena, Jim Marks Dennis turns
in a professional performance in
his role of Marine Sgt. O’Hara
and Fran E. Beckett, the only
Campus Briefs
Student radio
Student Government Radio will
be on the cable seven days a week
now, according to John Herndon,
station manager-program direc
tor.
The cable-cast radio, on Mid
west Video Cable, operates from
2 p.m. until 2 a.m. at FM 107.5.
The programing is mostly pro
gressive rock, with Sunday’s hav
ing progressive jazz from 5 to 8
and classical music from 8 to 10,
and “leftover radio” Wednes
days from 5 to 8.
Herndon said the station has a
“new, clean sound.”
Country concert
Country musician Roy Clark
and The Sound Generation will
perform in G. Rollie White Coli
seum Friday at 7:30 p.m.
General admission is free to
TAMU students with activity
card, date tickets $2.50, and $3
for the general public. Reserved
seat tickets are $3 for TAMU
student and date, and $5 for the
public.
Tickets are on sale now at the
University Center Box Office be
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Aggie parents
Parent(s) of the Year nomina
tion forms may be picked up in
the Student Government office,
Larry McRoberts, campus proj
ects chairman, said yesterday.
Students may nominate any Ag
gie’s parent(s) until the April 1
deadline.
The award is an adapted form
of the traditional Aggie Mother
of the Year.
Government openings
. Five senate and two judicial
board positions are open for filing
in the Student Government.
The five seats include at-large
senators from the colleges of edu
cation, engineering and geosci
ences. A seat is open for one
sophomore from the college of
Agriculture and one for an off-
campus graduate student.
Both of the Judicial Board posi
tions are graduate positions.
Applications are available in
the Student Government office on
the second floor of the MSC. Fil
ing for all positions will close at 5
p.m. Thursday. All positions re
quire a 2.25 grade point ratio.
Rummage sale
A rummage sale to benefit
girls’ clubs in both Bryan and Col
lege Station will be held this
weekend.
The Officers’ Wives Club hosts
the sale, at the Old Woolworth
Bldg, at 204 N. Main St. in Bry-
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freshman in the cast, is so plain
in her portrayal of the colorless
Mrs. MacPhail as to be totally un
appreciated for her efforts.
Lynn Lawhon plays Dr. Mac
Phail, Davidson’s aesthetic op
posite, with an easygoing, doctor-
ly finesse. He turns in far and
away the best performance apart
from the two leads.
Robert Hulett fits perfectly in
to the role of the slovenly cynical
Trader Horn but suffers from
forced and mechanical movements
on stage.
Julia Jones is prim and proper
in her portrayal of Mrs. David
son. She manages to convey the
loneliness of the sexually repress
ed woman tthroughou the play,
only rarely breaking character.
Overall, “Rain” is a very im
pressive production. All parts are
performed competently and the
players work well with each other,
never disrupting the flow of the
script.
The Aggie Players are rapidly
becoming a theater troupe of far
greater stature than the limited
Theater Arts department would
seem to produce. This production
can compare favorably with al
most anything some of the more
respected drama departments
around the state could turn out.
In 1947 the freshman class be
gan its own drill team led by offi
cers elected by its members. They
simply decided to call themselves
the First Drill Team.
The Corps awarded its only
known honorary 1 Colonelcy of the
Corps to the most decorated in
fantryman of World War II, Au-
die Murphy, in 1949.
In 1953, the Legislature began
persuading Board of Directors to
accept coeducation. On April 27,
1963, the board voted to allow
coeds to attend A&M on a full
time, day student basis.
Petitions went through the
Corps against the resolution. The
cadets felt coeducation would de
stroy many of the traditions, mas
culinity and military character of
A&M. Squadron 11 fish shaved
their heads in protest.
Tomorrow: A&M in the modern
world.
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First Prize—Best Social Documentary, Mannheim Film Festival; Film as Art Award,
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“The acid-age Heidi” (San Francisco FilmFestival).
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Friday March 1
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