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vid P ete into; ' Posses ■6 while! 5 -3. Ej|j rov eniet; i red 15. f ■■ then everalti; beared j | vest Coi'l st year. ar e en|J | es withil time of 1 a 53,(, ^ --- Outdoor coffeehouse music provides APPEARANCES CAN be deceptive, particularly at the Basement outdoor concert Monday. Students, in reality, performed a detailed study of the value of sunshine and music. (Pho to by Rodger Mallison) ■rticle Ull Ution, Tn rtque Lo W The sunshine melted like butter into the music, and the flavor of the afternoon was mellow. Scattered across the lawn were contented students without shoes and shirts, and under the trees were some with all their clothes on. Kathy Sullivan was singing, . . sunshine—sunshine. . . Larry Walker, entertainment director for the Basement Com mittee of the Memorial Student Center, was happy the music agreed with the outdoor coffee house. “This is the only coffeehouse we’ve had this year,” said Sulli van, explaining that neither the MSC nor the old Exchange Store could operate as a student lounge during either semester. Frisbees were flying, cokes were being sold for a nickel. There was singing about love, and Jesus, about dope and a gay rooster, about sadness and joy. The communion’s meaning was caught in listeners’ words: “This is relaxing. It gets me thinking about things other than what’s going to be happening the next couple of weeks.” “It’s going to be hard to go to class.” “This is A&M?” “I like to sit in the sun and listen to music at the same time.” Bob Barbier was singing, “I dare a man to say I’m too young— 'cause I’m going to try for the diversion - mm ? Zr'- Che Battalion Vol. 67 No. 386 College Station, Texas Friday, April 26, 1974 $ Students evaluate faculty Pre-registration survey set E ter Box Singing YOU :are- >ting $1.29 lY CIAt beef AM % CIA1 NINU inner abappl® n £ or Tc* any A SWITCH from classroom rhetoric was offered by faculty member Bruce Wooden as he performed beneath the trees near the Academic Building. (Photo by Rodger Mallison) Republicans must ‘bite bullet and go’ By VICKIE ASHWILL A Student Government faculty evaluation survey will be taken during preregistration. Survey sheets will be available at preregistration headquarters, said Tom Taylor, SG executive director. Results from the survey will be published with the $1,000 approved by the Senate last semester for the tabulation and publication of professor evaluations, said Taylor. Student Body President Steve Eberhard researched published evaluations while Academic Affairs chairman. Taylor said they had initially planned to use the Liberal Arts survey form but felt it would be a conflict of interest between the administration and the students. The publications will be done entirely by students except for some consulting with persons in the market ing, psychology and statistic profession, said Taylor. “The survey will consist of 17 objective questions but a person may make subjective comments on the back of the survey,” said Taylor. Taylor said they had no problem with the admin istration although some professors did not want the results printed. The surveys will allow students to plan ahead for the semester if they are printed in time, said Taylor. Plans are now to have the publication ready for the first two weeks of school but if the date can not be met, the publication will be handed out before spring registration next year. Taylor said students would also be able to add or drop courses until he got a professor he liked or got rid of one he didn’t. Survey results will be sent to professors before they are published, said Taylor. This will allow the professor to reply to comments about him. Questions on the poll center concerning a student took the course, expected grade, quality of the lectures, outside work, major exams and covering course material. Assessment of effects of the Watergate break-in and Senate hearings led Attorney Fred Thompson to say that Republi cans have had “to bite the bullet and go on.” Thompson serves as chief minority counsel to Senator Howard Baker on the Select Committee on Presidential Cam paign Activities. The committee is in the process of phasing itself out of existence. His reference to the anesthetic use in the Old West for treatment Today^ Women’s PE mandatory in fall of ’75 Movie review p. 4 Briscoe endorsed p. 4 Weather Partly cloudy and con tinued warm today and tomorrow. Today’s low 59° and a high today of 89°. Winds out of the SE at 8-12 m.p.h. Beautiful weekend! Women will not be required to take PE until the fall of 1975, but credit of one hour will be given for it starting this fall. The Academic Council voted Thursday to postpone a policy making PE mandatory. Credit will be given for those who sign up for the courses, however. When the requirement goes into effect, the individual colleges will have the option of either adding four hours to the needed number to graduate or dropping four and adding the PE to replace them, said John Calhoun, vice president for academic affairs. Final grades will be turned in later by professors as a result of a ruling by the council. The council ruled that the grades will be due at 5 p.m. on the Satur day following the last final given. Students who have not gradu ated from high school and wish to take courses at TAMU will be given the option of either en rolling for college credit by pay ing the usual fees or for no col lege credit without paying tui tion. These options are referred to as The Enrichment Program. The students participating in The Enrichment Program will have their SAT requirements changed as a result of action tak en by the council. In the past, these students have been required to have an SAT score of 1100. Under the new rule, they will need a SAT score of 1200 and a verbal score of 600. Graduate students may have the option of getting a M.S. and M.A. without writing a thesis. A proposal was presented to the council to allow departments who wished to give this option to their students. The resolution was ta bled. In other action, the council ap proved several new courses. Many of the new courses are in the area of safety education. This area is a new program within the Department of Industrial Educa tion. President Jack Williams told the council the Coordinating Board would have to approve the new program. He pointed out that if the board chooses, the courses might be listed as indus trial education instead of safety education. sp| ^ Vr:L,.. ' John Tower: inflation danger if wage-price controls stay WASHINGTON (A>)_Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., said Thursday the Senate Democratic majority was “shadow-boxing with itself and dragging the American public in to the fray” when it suggested that wage and price controls be continued beyond next Tuesday. Tower, chairman of the Sen ate Republican Policy Committee and ranking member on the Sen ate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said the pro posal Wednesday by the Demo cratic conference to continue the controls past their April 30 dead line ignored labor and manage ment pleas that they be dropped. “Inflationary fires will be fan ned by the spectre of a possible reimposition and continuation of controls past April 30,” he said. “The action of the Democratic Conference thus serves as a cat alyst for increased inflation. Tower told reporters that the Democratic maneuver struck him as being political. The Texas Republican has long advocated abandoning the con trols, asserting they create dis tortion in the economy and are counterproductive. As an example of problems re sulting from the controls, he cited the shortage of tubular steel need ed in drilling for oil. Tower said the controls brought about the shortage because prices for the steel products were too low. He claimed that 200 possible oil sites had not been drilled be cause of this shortage. He noted that on March 26 the entire Banking Committee— including nine Democrats—voted against an administration propo sal to extend controls. He said he had to question the Democratic Conference when the Banking Committee, “com prised of a majority of Demo crats, previously voted unani mously against any further con sideration of control authority.” Tower suggested that rather than impose controls, the gov ernment should “let the market mechanism work for a while and see if that stabilizes wages and prices.” “Short of some world-wide wage-price fixing mechanism, there is nothing we can do” to stop inflation, he said. On other matters, Tower said: —He opposed a tax cut “when you consider the fact that we are facing a deficit budget;” —In the past three weeks his office has received 400 letters regarding the possible impeach ment of President; 59.6 per cent supported the President and 40.4 per cent favored his resignation or impeachment. —The prospects of deregulat ing natural gas were “fairly good.” He said removing price con trols over gas would increase supplies and “will eventually mean lower prices for consum ers.” Tower also said he opposed a bill pending in the Senate Inte rior Committee which would des ignate most of the Big Bend Na tional Park as a wilderness area. The measure would set aside 79 per cent of the park land as wilderness, prohibiting its devel opment. Such a move, he said, would discourage tourists from visiting the park. “The fragile economy of the area surrounding the park de pends on the tourist industry at tracted to the park,” he said. “There are fears that the desig nation of 79 per cent of the park as wilderness might decrease vis itation to the park and be detri mental to the area’s economy.” He said he would encourage the National Park Service to desig nate a much smaller section as a wilderness area. Tower said he would continue to support inclusion of portions of the Rio Grande in the Na tional Wild and Scenic River Sys tem and designation of certain lands in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park as wilderness ATTACKING IMMORALITY in La Grange and the nation, Marvin Zindler praised citizens willing to fight it. He ap peared in College Station Thursday to recognize a Hearne secretary fired after she exposed a scandal in the city gov ernment. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) of painful wounds was made twice in a Political Forum ad dress at Texas A&M University. Thompson said he believes historical treatment of Water gate will reveal the U. S. has the enduring institutions and will power to carry through the ordeal. “There are so many ramifica tions to what has happened,” Thomposn said. “The single most amazing thing to me is that there are so many questions still un resolved.” “I’m not sure that many of them will ever be resolved,” he added. The former campaign manager for Senator Baker called the present period an “era of con frontation, at personal and legal levels. The most important, at present, of course, is over posses sion of the Watergate tapes.” Thompson said we could not be irresponsible when making a de cision on whether or not to im peach President Nixon. “We must have set standards that apply not only to Richard Nixon but succeeding presidents,” said Thompson. “We must have a president not subject to the whims of congress.” Thompson added that if “we act in the heat of the moment, we’ll probably do the wrong thing.” Thompson claimed the courts and Congress have responded well. “Congress is doing some thing about meeting the charges that it has been docile and sub servient to the administrative branch,” Thompson said. In discussing the effects, the TAMU speaker stated that “our institutions are more important than any single individual—more important than the President or an individual newsman.” Steve Taylor 9 74- 9 75 Head Yell Leader Steve Taylor, not Charlie Scott as earlier reported, has been named Head Yell Leader, 1974-75. He was selected by a majority of the Yell Leader, Bonfire and Reveille Committee Thursday night. Taylor will head the Aggie spirit squad of Senior Yell Lead ers Charlie Scott and G. II. Las- seter; and Junior Yell Leaders Jim Bob Mickler and Chuck Hinton. The selection committe is made up of faculty-staff members Gary Halter, Sanders Letbetter, and Marvin Tate; and student mem bers Randy Ross, Steve Wake field, Skip Hefferman and Shariq Yosufzai. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. Annual Maroon-White game, 1:30 p.m. Saturday