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Committees tap
student interests
By PAM WHIGHAM
Battalion Staff Writer
From poetry to canoeing, from movies to Col
orado, and from science fiction to ballet, Texas
A&M students can find a place for their particu
lar interests. The Memorial Student Center di
rectorate committees were created by students
for students.
Aggie Cinema operates on funds received
from the movies it shows. The committee is re
sponsible for the popular movies shown on Fri
day and Saturday nights and the classical movies
shown on Wednesday night.
The committee also sponsors the midnight
movies and foreign films directed by well-known
Center and is responsible for programming.
There are only 15 student members, who con
duct the workshops. The fees charged vary de
pending on the materials used.
Kayaking anyone?
The Outdoor Recreation Committee or
ganizes and sponsors all outdoor trips. The
committee is open to kayaking, canoeing,
rockclimbing, backpacking, camping and tubing
trips.
Students as well as non-students can partici
pate in the trips and the cost varies with each
trip. Equipment can be rented for a small
directors. Mike Riewe, chairman, said the or
ganization shows only established movies and
does not use experimental films.
Membership is open to any interested stu
dents, but each member must work at the
movies to stay on the committee. Show tickets
cost $1 and students may purchase tickets in
advance for the weekend movies.
Behind the post office
The title of the Basement Committee is mis
leading because the Basement Coffeehouse is
not in the basement of the MSC hut behind the
Post Office.
The coffeehouse provides inexpensive enter
tainment to students and is mostly by students.
The committee is beginning to bring in outside
performers from Houston, San Antonio and Au
stin.
The coffeehouse programs traditionally have
been music but some other forms of entertain
ment such as juggling and magic acts have been
planned.
Political Forum has three main areas of prog
ramming: national, state and local levels. Both
sides of a political topic are presented within a
short time so people will be exposed to the whole
issue while all aspects are fresh.
The theme this fall is the American political
process. A political poll will he taken in a few
weeks to discover “what the students look at and
how they feel about issues,” John Oeffinger,
chairman, said. The goal of the committee is to
make students aware of politics making them
better voters and citizens.
The Crafts and Arts Committee is in its first
semester of existence. It is sponsoring an Art and
Craft Fair November 6-7 at the Rudder Center
for students and community residents to show
and sell their work.
There will also be mini-workshops between
Thanksgiving and finals to teach students how to
make Christmas gifts.
The committee works with the Arts and Crafts
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maintenance fee. Some ventures are only for
weekends while others are week-long trips.
The Arts Committee’s goal is to fill the need
for a fine arts department on campus. The prim
ary concern is to bring contract-type entertain
ment such as Rob Ingles of last year.
The committee is also a facilitator for student
artists, chairman David McKissack said. He said
the Poetry Contest last year drew more entrants
than the committee expected and that this year a
fiction contest will be added. There are 30 active
students on the committee and McKissack said
they “need more people to put ideas into effect. ”
Smiling and serving coffee is one of the impor
tant aspects of the Host and Fashion Committee,
Margaret Schlather, chairman, said. The com
mittee is responsible for hosting various groups
such as an Aggie Mothers Club and guiding tours
of the campus. They also host the President’s
Box at football games and receptions given by
the Lettermen’s Association and the Association
of Former Students.
Also, forty girls are selected each year to
model for the committee. The girls model
clothes from area stores in a fund-raising fashion
show. The models are chosen on the basis of
appearance, poise and confidence. The commit
tee is open to anyone interested and there 70
active members.
The Camera Committee is open to students
and nonstudents. Cost of membership is $15 for
the first semester and $10 each semester thereaf
ter.
Shooting the fire
The members will take pictures of the bonfire.
By ordering before bonfire, the cost will be $3.50
for an 8 x 10 color photograph. After bonfire the
cost will be $4.
The committee also sponsors three photo
graphy classes in the Free U. program. By the
end of the semester the committee hopes to have
completed the darkrooms in the basement of the
MSC. They will have five black and white film
darkrooms, two color darkrooms and a studio.
The Travel Committee plans trips that stu
dents can afford. The committee planned the
trip to LSU in September and is planning a trip
to the Arkansas game in December.
Tours to London, Paris, Italy and Switzerland
are planned for the Christmas holidays. Several
snow skiing trips to Colorado are planned. There
will also be trips for foreign students who want to
see Texas while they are in the United States for
study.
The Travel committee also sponsors the Over
seas Loan Fund which is an interest-free loan for
students to go overseas for educational purposes.
The Radio Committee is for students with
hobbies in amateur radio. The members work
with civil defense in cases of emergency and with
the bonfire committee.
The committee is sponsoring a chess tourna
ment over amateur radio. One-half of a chess
table will be in one place with the other half in
another place; with chess notations made over
radio. This project is in conjunction with the
Chess Club.
Membership is open to anyone.
The Committee for the Awareness of the
Mexican-American Culture (CAMAC) is
foremost a committee for Mexican-American
students but is also open to non-Spanish speak
ing or non-Mexican-American students, Robert
Hinojosa, vice-chairman, said.
The purpose of CAMAC is to expose the stu
dents to the Mexican-American culture and raise
awareness of the Mexican-Americans.
The committee is sponsoring a program in
which the members are recruiting prospective
students from their own high schools. The mem
bers are also preparing a brochure for students
from the angle of minority students.
Awareness found
The Black Awareness Committee s purpose is
to present the Black culture and experience to
the campus as a whole. The committee is able to
work with other committees to reach a greater
number of students.
Sudan Arts, a Black theater group from Hous
ton, will perform October 22 and an art exhibit
will be co-sponsored with the Arts Committee
for November 9.
Greg Martin, chairman, said the committee
wants to better relationships between races
through education, understanding and exposure
to the Black culture.
Cepheid Variable is a star that oscillates bet
ween dvdl and bright; it is also the title of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Committee.
The committee sponsors speakers and movies
dealing with the future on the premise that those
issue’ of the year. Crime is the issue this fall. ^
Lawrence Schumann, chairman, said the
programs cater mostly to liberal arts students.
He said he feels the campus is apathetic, “If
there’s no interest, there’s not much we can do
about it but try to do a better job.”
Students interested in joining the committee
are interviewed but Schumann stressed that it
was not a screening process. The interview is
designed to answer questions and share informa
tion.
OPAS (Opera and Performing Arts Society)
began as a community-wide organization but is
now student oriented, said Cathy Wilcox,
chairman. OPAS handles all publicity and trans
portation for performers and ushers at concerts.
OPAS is not responsible for every-day type of
music entertainment but deals with classical
music, opera, orchestra, ballet and piano. Mem
bers are chosen by interviews in the spring.
Criteria include enthusiasm, a love for classical
music and liking people. Applicants must have at
least a 2.5 grade point ratio.
Crime’s the issue
The Student Conference on National Affairs
(SCONA) is held each spring but the committee
is active throughout the year. Student can get
involved in SCONA by becoming a member of
the committee, being a delegate to the confer
ence or by acting as host or hostess to the confer
ence.
Members and hosts and hostesses are inter
viewed and chosen by the committee while the
delegates are chosen hy the University Presi
dent’s office.
The conference has been held for the last 20
years; only three other universities have similar
conferences: West Point, Air Force Academy
and the Naval Academy.
The theme for this year’s SCONA is “Shifting
Patterns of-World Power. Included in the dis
cussions will be the effect on the United States
and the changing status of the U.S. as a world
power. The conference involves 200 students
from across the United States and Canada and
Mexico; it lasts four days.
The Town Hall Committee has lour areas of
programming including the series, attractions,
young artists series and the university variety
series.
The Series is free to students with activity
cards but they must pick up tickets in advance. A
Town Hall Attraction is not free and features
such talent as Linda Ronstadt. The young artist
series is also free.
The variety series will feature such produc
tions as the play “1776” and "Up With People.
There are 60 students on the committee
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who dealt with the future in the past were sci
ence fiction ists.
The 80 member organization also sponsors the
Free U. science-fiction writing course.
The Free U Committee offers courses of study
that are not available through the university.
Students and non-students can participate inf
Free U.
The program covers a wide variety of people
because different courses are offered each
semester. The only cost is a materials fee. Re
gistration is held three weeks after each semes
ters starts.
Great Issues avoids the political arena but
deals with what the committee chooses is a ’great
Members are selected by interviews in the
spring. Freshman are interviewed in the fall.
The committee is divided into sub
committees; poster, newspaper, host and recep
tion and stage crew.
The Recreation Committee is currently un
dergoing reorganization and is developing prog
rams for off-campus students.
The purpose of the committeeds to share fun
and games among off-campus students as a social
contact. Sub-committees include billards,
bridge, backgammon, chess, bowling, foosball
and dance.
The committee also sponsors such events
gold-fish eating and car-cramming.
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCT 15. 1975
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‘Feets don’t fail me now’
Sidewalk surfers and skateboard riders, listen up: a skateboard contest is scheduled for
this Saturday — registration begins at the Grove at 10 a.m. Sponsored by the A&M Skate
board and Surf Club, the all-day affair will feature a freestyle event (two minutes of
stunts and form), a downhill speed run on the Wellborn Road pedestrian ramp and a down
hill slalom event at Bryan High School Stadium. A $3 entry fee gets a rider into one or
all three of the events; female and 15-or-under categories are included; and each
winner takes home a prize.
Staff photo by Steve Goble
“Sri Lanka” (Ceylon), narrated by C. P. Lyons
is the first of the 1975 - 76 wildlife film series. It
will be shown at the Bryan Civic Auditorium,
Thursday. Call the Junior Museum of Natural
History for further information.
“Knife in the Water” is part of the Interna
tional Series. The movie explores the lives of a
couple who pick up a hitchhiker. Competition
arises between the two men over the woman.
The stress becomes too much and the boy pulls a
knife; he is left with a very uncertain future. The
film will be shown on Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. in the
Rudder Theater.
Four Barbra Streisand movies will be shown
this week-end. On Friday "For Pete’s Sake” and
"Up the Sandbox” will show and “The Owl and
the Pussycat” and “Funny Girl" will play Satur
day.
In “For Pete’s Sake” Barbra goes from smug
gling to being a high priced call girl to save
her husband from a gambling debt he doesn’t
even know about.
“Up the Sandbox” is about a somewhat mad
Upper “West Side" housewife who discovers
herself experiencing an acute identity crisis. To
cope with the threat of a breakdown she creates a
souring fantasy life that ultimately preserves her
sanity.
Barbra co-stars with George Segal in “The
Owl and the Pussycat", a comedy about an inhi
bited young bookstore clerk, hired to be a wri
ter, and a prostitute.
The academy-award winning“Funny Girl” is a
musical biography of Fanny Brice. The moviesl
will be shown in Rudder Auditorium with admis
sion $1 for each night.
“Voyage to the End of the Universe” involves
the adventures of a group of astronauts who,
after finding a deserted spaceship, set out to
contact other intelligent life forms.
The special effects in the film are well-
reputed. The movie will show 8 and 10 p.m. on
Thursday in Rooln 601 in the Rudder Tower.
Admission is 50 cents.
“The Hollow Crown” will be presented by the
Royal Shakespeare Company Tuesday at 8 p.m.
in the Rudder Auditorium. A&M student/date
tickets are $2.50; general public, $4.50.
“The Hollow Crown” is composed of the let
ters, speeches, poems, songs and music of the
kings and queens of England. The audience is
guided through a historical retrospective fro in
William I to Queen Victoria.
“The Women,” a satirical study of the charac
ter weaknesses of the female sex, will be pre
sented Oct. 21 - 23. The play explores the effect
of a stereotyped female role in society and how it
affects all women.
The play will be performed as part of the 6:30
p.m. Dinner Theater series. A $4.50 ticket enti
tles the student to the show and a buffet dinner
in the MSC Ballroom. General admission is $7.
The 35 roles are portrayed by 22 female Aggie
Players under the direction of Eileen Wenck as a
contrast to the Players’ “Scratch" a serious all
male drama.
Call the MSC Box Office 24 hours prior to
performance to make reservations.
Johnny Rodriquez and “Asleep at the Wheel"
will appear Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Reserve tickets will be $3 - $3.50 for
A&M students and $4 - $4.50 for general public;
general admission is $2 for A&M students and
$3.50 for general public. Tickets are available at
MSC Box Office.
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