^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
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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.
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