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Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 1976 mm mm m&m statesman SCONA speakers to include commander, political scientist Speakers at the 21st Student Con ference on National Affairs (SCONA) at Texas A&M next month will in clude Adm. Noel Gayler, comman der of U.S. Pacific forces, and Dr. Charles B. Marshall, Johns Hopkins University political scientist. The Feb. 11-14 conference will enable student delegates from around the U. S. to discuss world wide changes in power. Information they will use in con sidering “Global Power in Transi- PEANUTS AS LON6 AS UJE'KE SITTING AT THE SAME DESK, UE MI6HT AS WELL 6E A TEAM... 40ur hip is Touching m HIP, CHUCK/ tion” will be provided by key speak ers and other sources. SCONA 21 Chairman Joe Charter said Adm. Gayler, a veteran in U.S. foreign policy matters, will speak on “The Post-Vietnam Status of the U.S. as a World Power.” Dr. Marshall, holder of the Paul Nitze Chair of International Politics at Johns Hopkins’ School of Ad vanced International Studies, will provide the conference overview. His topic is “U.S. Power in Transi tion.” Other speakers, including repre sentatives from the Departments of State and Agriculture, are being con firmed. The conference is expected to draw 150 off-campus delegates. Several are expected from Mexico. The 30 A&M delegates will include international students from Bangladesh, Nigeria, Guyana, Au stralia and the Dominican Republic. Carter said the topic, centering on emerging international powers, ap pears increasingly appropriate. “The NBC-TV special Monday was almost the conference,” Carter said. NBC presented a White Paper report on “American Foreign Pol icy. ” “It looks like we re on target,” U.S. to suffer oil crisis By 1982-84 the United States will suffer an energy crisis worse than it has ever experienced. Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., Distin guished Professor of Chemical En gineering at the University of Texas made this prediction Jan. 7, at the Thermodynamics Research Center Data Estimation Workshop at Texas A&M. McKetta also predicted 15 per cent unemployment accompanied by the worst recession in 40 years. He said there is no way the U.S. can reach self-sufficiency in petroleum by 1985 or even 1990. McKetta said that political expe diency, empire building, extremist influences and selfish re-election concerns have all shaped govern ment energy regulations. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the university administration or the Board of Regents. 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Modern Furniture Rentals has it! 1816 PONDEROSA at the corner of Longmere College Station 693-1446 Modern _ Furniture him Rentals Committees questioned, writer seems confused Carter said. “SCONA 21 will have something an accounting major can relate on, as well as a political science major. ” Dr. Marshall has held the Nitze Chair since 1967. He has also served on the Foreign Affairs Committee staff for the U.S. House of Represen tatives. He worked for the State De partment’s Policy Planning Staff and was advisor to the prime minister of Pakistan. Adm. Gayler was formerly direc tor of the National Security Agency. In his present command, he also serves as U.S. military advisor to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, on the Australia-New Zealand-U.S. Council and U.S.-Japanese Consul tative Committee. He was the third naval officer to pilot jet aircraft and holds the record for the longest jet flight made from a carrier. Adm. Gayler was the first to receive three Navy Cross awards. Ag Players’ Bicentennial tryouts set Tryouts for Bicentennial-themed plays during Texas A&M’s Centen nial are planned for Monday and Tuesday. Conducted by the Aggie Players, the four plays are open for participa tion by the entire community, said Robert W. Wenck. Tryouts at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 and 20 will be in the Rudder Forum. The Bicentennial festival of plays, to be presented Feb. 23-28 at Texas A&M, include “Lamp at Midnight, “The Man Who Never Died,” “Coat of Many Colors” and “Harpers Ferry.” “The plays emphasize turning points in the lives of Galileo, Joe Hill, Joseph in Egypt and John Brown, men who shaped the de stinies of the Western world,” said Wenck, chairman of theater arts in the English Department. The Bicentennial festival of plays are written by Barrie Stavis, who worked in a textile house to finance his education at Columbia Univer sity. The plays require 110 actors and actresses in addition to publicity, house, set, lighting, prop, costume and sound crew personnel. By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK — This is the age of the study committee. In business, government and academic life the phrasing is similar: “The matter was referred to the committee for further study.” If after due study the committee fails to reach a conclusion, it might hand off the problem to a subcom mittee, from whence it might then be passed on for further “action” by a foundation or institute, where study is permanent. Name the subject and it is being studied, but name the subject and the chances are you won’t find the answers. Studies raise questions, like beating a rug raises dust, some times beclouding rather than clarify ing. And so, in the spirit of not expect ing much, a few unanswered ques tions are hereby cast into this murky oblivion, offered as subjects that might be studied somewhere, some time, without the least expectation of resolution. — Is a gentlemen’s club a social rather than a business establish ment? There is an intriguing tax angle to this. In some parts of exclusive city “so cial” clubs, in a taproom perhaps, you are forbidden from writing or shuffling papers on the surface of the table. Such conduct suggests busi ness rather than socializing. The rules are enforced too, and people so rude as to require remind ing are watched carefully and might find themselves asked to leave if they persist in such crude behavior. The line has to be drawn somewhere. Oddly, almost everyone at one such club on a certain day were gathered for the specific purpose of talking business. Their member ships, in fact, were obtained through business associations. Their firms paid the dues. When they were through, their checks were offered to the Internal Revenue Service as business lunch tax deductions, and the waiters who enforced the “no business” rule gladly provided receipts for that purpose. The questions for the study com mittee are many, of course, but an especially intriguing one is whether this cultural schizophrenia should be recognized by the IRS. — Who is the mysterious “they, ” perhaps the most widely quoted al leged authority on everything and anything but who nevertheless re mains unknown? A saboteur, perhaps? “They” always seems to have bad news. One effort to find the elusive “they” led only to more t suggesting the need for air) attack, such as can be launchej committee, rather than asolo^ Referring to the economy,a| informant commented,’ we re headed for more badtir .... ’’ The informant was| rupted by a question: we re headed for bad times'll answer: “Oh, they all say «e, Who is “they?” He or sheri found. — Do high interest rate|| cause inflation or do theyheltpi inflation? You think you know the a but can you prove it? Highr to the cost of doing businessj they? And we know that! passes on increased costs tot sumer, right? People buying peace with long drives Associated Press DALLAS — Many persons today are building their homes hours from work sites to take advantage of lower prices and peaceful surroundings, an official of the National Association of Homebuilders says. E. Don Dobson, a staff vice presi dent of the association, said homeowners don’t seem to mind the long drive from their homes, which can be built with more conveniences in a small community. “As an example, there are several families living on the Oklahoma side of Lake Texoma and driving the 100 or so miles to work in Dallas,” said Dobson, the man responsible for or ganizing the 32nd annual homebuil ders convention which begins Sun day in Dallas. 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