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APPEARANCES CAN be deceptive, particularly at the Basement outdoor concert Monday.
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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
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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.
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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