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^Friday night to highlight talents of sophomore class tioned for the revue, the following talent was selected: Wayne Hughes and Judy Wilson, Wade Hodgens, Emily Braeswell, Elva Ann Flores, Theo Lane Moffet, Stanton Jones and Mary Jo Oisen and Marylou Syler-Roelon. Also Vito Ponzio, Kent Crank, Mark Williamson, David Anderson et al, Jeff Davis, Kathy Sullivan and Michael Nickerson. Although there are no reserved seats, tickets will be available at the door and at the Rudder Cen ter Box Office. Admission is $1 and 75c for children under 12. Cash door prizes of $20 and $25 will be awarded to members of the audience during intermis sion. Profits from the show go to the class treasury. According to the Aggieland Revue, “Have we got a show for you.” ■.ijTh® sophomore class has gath- ^;ped together 16 students who t j, lllectively will be the Aggieland r rJevue. A sophomore version of [the Aggieland Follies, the talent |how will be held on Friday night s [it 8 in the Rudder Center Audi- ’ e: |irium. JcaiMgen Downs will be Master of ^■eremonies for the scheduled eve- ^ ling of comedy, dance, vocal and d lit fcstrumental music, he h) I From over 30 acts which audi- fcbe Battalion I’ve got to run so far to find a clear spot—Don Van Vliet Vol. 67 No. 369 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 28, 1974 with Tn dent talion, exican group ill sponsor [speech tonight “Minorities and the Educational System” will be presented tonight ly Dr. Jose A. Cardenas under he sponsorship of the Mexican merican Student Association. Cardenas is Executive Director !or Educational Excellence. Aside 'rom publishing nine works, he las supervised and edited nine nore. Among his other activities, lardenas is consultant to the flearst Foundation, the National Urban Coalition, the Department jf Health, Education and Welfare ind the Office of Civil Rights. Cardenas will appear at 7:30 ».m. in Room 701 of the Rudder lower. Quartet and pianist make music tonight CAMPING OUT is the idea, but Larry Herring (left) is more interested in making a pitch than pitching a tent. Her ring is trying to revive the Outdoor Recreation Committee. The MSC committee has been languishing with most of its $250 budget unspent, according to the newly-appointed Chairman Herring. The committee’s main purposes are to provide fun and recreation and to teach people about the outdoors. Anyone interested in joining the committee or just getting outdoors with other students should attend the meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. in Room 504 of Rudder Tower or contact the Student Programs Office. Plans for the spring include backpacking down the Lone Star Trail on April 6 and 7, canoeing down the San Marcos River on April 13 and 14, and another canoe trip on the Guadalupe River April 20 and 21. (Photo by Steve Ueckert) Jollnid; The Lyric Art String Quartet and Albert Hirsh, pianist, will play chamber music tonight at 8 in Rudder Center Theatre. The quartet, 2 violinists, a vio list and a cellist, will perform Bedrich Smetana’s Quartet in E Minor (From My Life). The quartet and pianist Hirsh will play Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat Major for piano and strings. Mozart's Quartet in E-flat Major for piano and strings, (K. 493), will be perform ed by the violinist, violist, cellist and pianist. The musicians in the quartet r T^odciyr ^ Endorsements City election special p. 5, 6 Weather Partly cloudy and warm i:-: Thursday afternoon with iij: southerly winds 7-10 m.p.h. High today 83°. if Low tonight 63°. Weak fi cold front with accompa- if nying low stratus clouds fi and drizzle Friday morn- if ing. Becoming partly fi cloudy and cooler tomor- if row afternoon. High Fri- ijii day 74°. | are Fredell Lack, first violinist and founder of the group; Albert Muenzer, second violinist and as sociate concertmaster of the Hous ton Symphony: Wayne Crouse, violist, and principal violist of the Houston Symphony; and Shirley Trepel cellist, and principal cellist of the Houston Symphony. Albert Hirsh, pianist, is profes sor and head of the piano depart ment at the University of Hous ton. He has been a soloist with the Houston Symphony often. Hirsh, Lack, Crouse and Trepel are all artists-in-residence at the University of Houston. Each musician in a string en semble may be a brilliant soloist, but ensemble playing also re quires musicians who are capable of the give-and-take necessary to maintain musical balance in a small group. Smetana summed up the quar tet; “A work which, in a sense is private, and therefore written for four instruments which should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me. Nothing more.” The Lyric Art String Quartet is OPAS special attraction and everyone must buy a ticket. Senators whoop and yawn farewells By CLIFF LEWIS The last meeting of the Student Senate was filled with debate, yawning, and whooping. “It was a dismal way for the Senate to go,” said Barb Sears, the departing external affairs chairman. “There was a lot of trite stuff. It was disorderly, and a lot of the senators irresponsi bly left the meeting early.” Changes in several parts of the student life regulations were rec ommended. Student representa tion on the Student Publications Board was tentatively given an edge on the administration rep resentation by asking for five stu dent votes on the board to three administrative votes. Currently the ratio is reversed. Rod Speer, editor of the Bat talion, said “Student publications, along with student government, are the two ways in the system by which students can give feed back to the administration. If you want the student newspaper con trolled by a board of administra tors, then that’s up to you.” Senator Raifford Ball did not agree that switching the present faculty-dominated vote to a stu dent-dominated vote was entirely fair. “The Batt is a community and university paper, not just a student one.” The senate voted for the stu dents. The longest debate involved the allowing of use of tobacco in classrooms. “If we allow people to pass these foreign substances, like smoke or spit, out of their bodies, why not let them regur gitate or urinate in class?” de manded Chris Lawson. Whooping ensued from the senators. It was decided not to allow the use of tobacco in classrooms, mostly for health reasons, most senators agreed; after the motion to end the debate had been defeated four times. The entire student life regula tions proposal was then passed with no debate. A resolution was passed con cerning revisions of the pass-fail grading system. After debate, it was decided that the present sys tem of F being the only failing grade was preferable to the rec ommendation of the academic af fairs committee of having both D and F being unsatisfactory grades. The resolution also raises the minimum grade point ratio required for enrolling on a pass- fail basis to 2.500. The Student Life and Academic Regulations changes now go to the university Rules and Regula tions Committee for evaluation. At 10:30 p.m., when the sen ate started voting on its by-laws, a count of voting members was taken to ensure there was still a quorum. An election by-law states the date the student of elections must be announced in The Battalion 10 days before the election. The Bat talion failed to make the an nouncement, and the by-law was suspended temporarily in order to keep the election date on April 4. The senate voted to request the Residence Hall Association, Grad uate Student Council, and the classes of ’75, ’76, and ’77 to as sist in defraying costs of student elections. The resolution was quickly passed, and everybody left. More tapes Nixon wanted WASHINGTON <A>) _ The House impeachment inquiry’s staff has notified the White House it will ask for more of President Nixon’s tape-recorded conversa tions. This was disclosed Wednesday as the House Judiciary Commit tee’s two senior members put on headsets and listened for the first time to portions of tapes the com mittee already has. Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., and the ranking Republi can, Rep. Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, refused to give any de tails of what is on the tapes ex cept that there is some foul lang uage. “Was there a bombshell in the briefcase?” Hutchinson was ask ed. “It didn’t explode,” he replied. Asked if there was “a lot of cussing and bad language” on the tapes, Hutchinson replied: “No more than usual.” Hutchinson said he and Rodino did not listen to the disputed March 21, 1973, recorded discus sion between President Nixon and former White House counsel John W. Dean III on hush money to keep the original Watergate burg- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. lars quiet. Rodino and his chief counsel said the White House has turned 18 tapes over to the committee and Rodino said there were more tapes in the grand jury material turned over Tuesday. President Nixon said March 19 he had ordered 19 tapes turned over to the committee and news men asked Rodino if that means one is missing. “I’m not saying that,” Rodino said. “ . . . I know only that we have 18.” The request for more tapes of President Nixon’s recorded con versations was disclosed by spec ial counsel John Doar to all Judi ciary Committee members. Doar said he told White House lawyer James D. St. Clair last Friday, “We would have additional re quest for other presidential re corded conversations.” Doar quoted St. Clair as say ing he hoped any additional re quests could be made all at once but Doar said he had not promised that. He said he told St. Clair that “in a continuing investigation facts emerge which may make ad ditional requests necessary.” Doar quoted St. Clair as say ing the House inquiry’s present request for items relating to 42 (See IMPEACHMENT, p. 3) PV students lose vote Official blocks registration YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND was the message last night as Wayne Wilson and Pat Brown put a new finish on James Taylor’s song, backed up by the Elements of Sound during Wednesday night’s Black Awareness Talent Show. The en tertainment, part of Black Experience IV, played to a small but warm audience in the Rudder Center Auditorium. (Pho to by Rodger Mallison) By JULIA JONES Prairie View A&M University students can’t vote in area elec tions. Despite a Federal court ruling, which the 5th circuit court of ap peals upheld, students in Waller County are not allowed to vote there. In a recent test case, six stu dents tried to register. They were turned away by Leroy Symm, the Waller County tax assessor-collector. When approached about this situation, Tax Collector Symm hung up on the reporter after a brief conversation. Battalion: We notice that stu dents in Waller County are not allowed to register to vote, de spite the recent court ruling in the North Texas State case that students should be allowed to vote in the counties that they go to school. Symm: I don’t know anything about that. Battalion: Can you tell me why students are not allowed to register in Waller County, when they can in most counties in Texas ? Symm: Read the Texas Elec tion code. Battalion: What does it say? Symm: Read it and see. Battalion: How do you feel about the suit against the secre tary of state to force him to send out letters of instruction to the County Tax assessors to reg ister students in the counties that they go to school? Symm: Never heard of it. The Texas election code states that students must declare inten tions of future residence. How ever, that statute has been over turned by the courts, as similar statements are not required of other voters. Dave Richards, on behalf of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, has brought suit against Mark White, secretary of state. The suit asks that White be forced to send out letters of instruction to all county tax assessors to regis ter students according to law. That hearing was held Monday; a decision is expected later in the week. Richards said that the Prairie View situation is “an outrage. I am horrified.” Symm earlier stated he would continue denying the vote to stu dents till “we get some federal instructions; we’ll have to abide by them.” Prairie View has had problems in the past with student-faculty unrest. There has been recent agitation for a separate board of regents, apart from the TAMU system board. It is not expected to materialize. Darrell Dillard, spokesman for the student senate at Prairie View, said, “Our concern is unity in the student body. We feel that everything else will follow. Vot ing is a goal, but standing on our own feet and having unity is our main goal. I feel like in the near future we will be able to vote, if we have organization. Students can deal with anything if we have dedication. We are getting it all together.” To further complicate matters in Waller County, Symm is at the center of controversy over appointment of registrars. Texas law states that no applicant for deputy registrar may be turned down except on grounds of poor moral character, but the mayor of Prairie View, Eristus Sams, was turned down by Symm. Symm has appointed three black registrars. However, ac cording to Sams, they have no experience with voter registra tion. \Battalion survey | Candidates for student government or other leader- Iji: ship positions often reach only part of their constituency during the campaign period. Consequently, often students go to the polls •jjj uninformed as to a candidate’s positions on vital campus :j:j issues. •5 In an effort to reduce this problem, The Battalion requests each candidate for student office to answer by ijil Friday a 12-point questionnaire posted in the Battalion office, Room 216 of the Reed McDonald Services Building, ig Due to space limitations only “yes”, “no” and “no position rji- at this time” responses will be recorded. :j:j The results will appear in The Battalion April 2. g: •X 1 S •X