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Che Battalion Copyright (c) 1975, The Battahon College Station, Texas Friday, October 17, 1975 Jimmie Lacewell gives a pinch of Indro-mulch the once-over. The green, fiberous pulp was being sprayed yesterday afternoon on the dirt mounds near Walton Hall, and attracted many curious stu dents. \ crew foreman for L,ew Staff photo by Steve Goble Hammer Co. of Denver, Col., said the hydro-mulch is a combination of wood fibers, Bermuda grass and rye seeds, fertilizer and green color. The green color will fade in a few days, he said. Campus In Tnesdax s editorial, ‘Dislrilm- liou slill unjust, it \Vas slated lhat the student senate will conduct a sur\e\ on the current football ticket dislrilm- 1 lion s\stem in du* spring. That is incorrect. The article shonld have said that the snnex will be eonclnctecl at s]tring preregislration in December, not in the spring. • Filing began >estercla\ for li\ e freshman it-liirge senate positions and tresbman class iHicers. There also is an opening for a senate post from the Aston-Krueger-Mosher living areas. Filing will close Oct. 22, at 5 p.m. Voting will he Oct. 30. Three other senate posts also have been vacated and will be filled by appointments. Interested students must file by Monday at 5p.m. for the sophomore corps, offcampus undergraduate, Or graduate positions. Freshman candidates must have a 2.25 mid-term GPR. Those running for the other posts must have a 2.25 overall. Peti tions mav be picked up in room 216 of the MSC. Candidates running for elective senate seats must have 15 signatures on their peti tions before filing closes. Candidates also are required to attend an orientation meeting Sunday at 7 p.m. in room 601 of the Rudder Tower. Polling places will be the Old Exchange Store, first floor of Zachry, the guardhouse, the Commons and the first floor concourse at the MSC. The polls will be open from 8 a. m. until 6 p.m. Students will need ID and activity cards in order to vote. The extension of dorm visitation hours was recommended by the visitation com mittee of the Residence Hall Association last night. The visitation committee recommended the hours be changed to 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and changed to 10a.m. to 2 a.in. on Friday and Saturday. That would extend weekday visitation by three hours and weekend visitation by 30 minutes. The proposal will be sent to Dr. Charles Powell, director of student affairs for consideration. A student survey will be sent to dorm residents to study the laundry facilities. City Texas World Radicals claim freeing Leary An RHA-Wheelman bike race will be held Oct. 26 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. All students are invited to compete in sprints and long distance events. The entry fee is 50 cents and trophies will be awarded. A quonsett but at Easterwood Airport has been obtained and members discussed renovating it themselves as opposed to hav ing the University do the work. Starting Tuesday, The Battalion will begin a series of articles dealing with the ambulance service currently provided in Brazos County. The College Station City Council on Thursday will consider an ordi nance that will, if passed, regulate the con ditions under which Sherrill Ambulance Co. of Bryan may operate the city’s new modular ambulance. Governor Dolph Briscoe came under fire yesterday from several top state offi cials, including Rep. Joe Allen (D- Baytown) who called for bis resignation, after Briscoe expressed his opposition to the proposed state constitution. National The Labor Department has begun a pre liminary investigation of a $1.4 billion Teamsters Union pension fund amid criti cism that the department is not enforcing a new pension reform law. • A power struggle among inmates re sulted in the stabbing death of one man and injuries to six others at Trenton, N.J., State Prison yesterday, authorities said. Three American scientists were named in Stockholm yesterday as winners of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They were cited for research into possible links between viruses and cancer. Dr. Renato Dulbecco, who works at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laborat ory in London, will share the $143,000 award with Howard Martin Temin of the University of Wisconsin and David Balti more of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Helping Timotlw Lean break out of prison was a “wonderful experience even though the LSD Guru later turned govern ment informer, a member of the fugi tive Weather Underground sa\ s in an unreleased documentan film. Bernardine Dohrn and four other radicals long sought In the FBI also sax there max be more such prison breaks and disclose that the March 1971 bombing of the U.S. Capitol fol lowed an abortix e first effort, accord ing to the three film makers who make (be documentarx . An account of the filming and quotations from the soundtrack appear in the Nox . 6 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Director Emile de Antonio said in the interxiew that Miss Dohrn, Jeff rex Carl Jones, kathie Boudin, William Charles Axers and Cathlxn Platt Wil- kerson gathered in a Weather Under ground safe bouse for the film, scheduled for release Nox . 7. The radicals baxe eluded the FBI for xears, and last spring the govern ment subpoenaed de Antonio and fel- loxv film makers Haskell Wexler and Marx Lampson. The subpoenas later were withdrawn, and the three baxe x owed thex will not cooperate with anx goxerninent inquirx. In the Rolling Stone account, Jones is quoted as saxing that sex eral Weather Underground members bad x ohmleered to earn out the bombing of the Capitol on March 1, 1971. He gax e these details: T he x ohmteers carried explosix e materials on their bodies to get past seeuritx and assembled a bomb in a small room inside the building. The terrorists called police and media that night to sax the bomb was planted. T he dex ice, howexer, rolled off a slanted ledge and did not explode. Rut it was found bx authorities, so mem bers of the organi/ation returned to the Capitol to plant a smaller bomb next to the first one — “sort of like a little starter motor — xvhich ex enln- allx detonated In another excerpt from the sound track. Miss Dohrn said of Lean s es cape, It was a lot of fun. To free anx- bodx from prison is a xvonderlul ex perience: it is our intention to hax e the capability to do that a lot more After the 1970 escape from a minimum seeuritx prison at San Luis Obispo, Lean took asylum in Algiers, fled to Europe, was later recaptured and turned goxerninent informer. Staff photo by Glenn Johnson B-CS Chamber Orchestra The Bryan-College Station Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Charles Johnson, played selections from Beethoven, Stamitz, Chopin and Schubert at its performance in Rudder Theatre last night. The orchestra, an arts committee presentation, is one of the few local groups brought bx the University. (See review, p. 3.) Trees saved by students By RAY DANIELS Battalion Staff Writer Determined students saved two trees destined to be removed to make way for a parking lot. John Stewart and Karen Albright, resi dents of Dunn and Mosher, respectively, noticed a bulldozer ramming a hackberry tree in the corner of the parking lot behind Mosher Hall Wednesday. They soon discovered two other trees bad been taken out and two more were to be removed. Albright, sophmore forestry major, contacted Robert L. Meleher, ad ministrative officer for the Student Ser vices Division, who agreed to meet her at the construction site Thursday morning. Albright also tried to organize a7 a.m. sit-in at the trees. “I looked over the plans for that parking lot last spring,” said Dan Darbyshire, a member of the campus planning commit tee, “and at that time the trees were to be left. Fie said he would not participate at the sit-in. Stewart and Albright waited under the trees early Thursday morning without the “dozen or so friends and supporters they had expected. “If it (taking the trees out) is in the con tract, we just want to try and change that, Stewart said. An oak tree in an adjacent parking lot was used as an illustration ol a tree left growing in asphalt. Meleher arrived shortly before 8 a.m. He indicated that Charles E. Brunt, man ager of construction, had contacted the contractors to stop the tree s removal until everything could be considered. The construction crew failed to show and Meleher said after calling his office that Brunt had met with the contractor at the University architect s office and the pecan and mesquite trees in question would stay . Proposed bonds to provide funds for new buildings The A&M Consolidated School Board will decide, Monday night, the date of the bond election approved by the board on Sept. 23. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the board room of the Special Services Build ing at 13(X) Jersey St. The bonds, if approved by the voters, will provide funds mainly for a new school, a vocational building for the high school and new or remodeled administrative of fices. The board also will discuss what grades will be included in the proposed new school and where the school xvill be lo cated. Plans for building the additional facilities called for by the proposed bond issue also will be discussed. Also on the agenda for the meeting is a review of laws governing the sale or leasing of property owned by the school district. The board is considering the sale or lease of six pieces of school property including the old Middle School at 13(X) Jersey St. The board also will hear a report by the curriculum committee on the district’s goals and philosophy. The goals and philosophy , once agreed upon the board, will be presented by the Texas Education Agency' Accreditation Committee for consideration. Y . •- L -tatty About 1450 Brazos Valley first graders were shown around the barnyard Thursday and Friday as Texas A&M’s animal science soci ety, Saddle and Sirloin, sponsored a day of tours. Baylisa (left) is hold ing one of the piglets that received plenty of cuddling and hugging through the two-day event. Tracy (above) found the swine center s kittens were more inviting than the piglets. (See related storv, p. 3.) Staff photos by Jack Holm