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Vol. 68 No. 132
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 21, 1976
37
Moratorium on new degrees
says Ashworth
-fo continue.
« rhe 18-member Coordinating Board of
I Texas College and University System
’ maintain its moratorium on new de-
ree programs until the group gathers
re information on the status of higher
education in Texas, the group’s top
spokesman said Monday.
Texas Commissioner of Education Dr.
Kenneth Ashworth said the Coordinating
Board will use the data to try to convince
institutions to withdraw some of the more
than 120 new degree requests now before
the board.
Ashworth spoke to administrators at
tending a Centennial Academic Assembly
on Higher Education sponsored by the
College of Education at Texas A&M.
H e said that off-campus teaching in
Texas is being expanded far too much, and
said that when funds are limited they
should he channeled into more traditional
approaches to education. Ashworth said
that the 4,000 off-campus courses taught
each year are equivalent to a floating uni
versity, and more than satisfy the need for
such courses.
Ashworth told the new and prospective
administrators to worry less about the end
product of education and to have more
faith in the process. He said that the
founding fathers of our nation were dedi
cated to process and not just the products
of government, and rejected the idea of
fixed leaders.
“Ours is a participating society, not an
exclusive one. Such a society is based
upon analysis of fact...not tradition,”
Ashworth said.
He said that to retain the ability to
analyze facts and make decisions top ad
ministrators should keep from losing touch
with reality. Ashworth said that adminis
trators often become isolated from the real
world since most of the news they receive
is filtered: nobody wants to take had news
to the boss.
Ashworth contrasted the courtier, who
seeks popularity by praising the boss, with
the adviser, who presents the boss with
honest information. Ashworth said cour
tiers isolate and capture leaders by pre
venting exposure to others.
“They are the employes that take very
short vacations,” Ashworth said. He
stressed that they want to “keep the boss
to themselves” so they can retain their
control over him.
Ashworth told the administrators that
they must make a distinction between the
problems facing them and the messengers
who bear the tidings, to avoid favoring
those that only bring them good news.
“If the individual loses his autonomy to
make moral decisions in a large organiza
tion, then we are truly lost,” he said.
A&M research
tops $40 million
this fiscal year
Support for Texas A&M researchers has
pushed past the $40 million mark for the
first time in a fiscal year, announced Dr.
Robert R. Berg, Office of University Re
search director.
The newest milestone came after the
University received $2,678,707 in support
during June, boosting the current fiscal
year’s total thus far to $41,807,696.
Last month’s dollar value total moved
the current year’s figure past the previous
record of $39,348,802 set in 1974-75.
Fiscal year research totals have estab
lished records each year since the early
1970s.
Support so far this year is more than
$8.82 million ahead of the same time last
year.
The College of Science received the
largest portion of June aid, $1,088,501.
The College of Agriculture and Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station shared a
$973,485 total.
Other support included a $296,064 total
for the College of Engineering, Texas En
gineering Experiment Station and Texas
Transportation Institute; $160,307 for the
College of Architecture and Environmen
tal Design; $86,000 for the College of
Geosciences; and $74,350 for the College
of Liberal Arts.
MSC dinner theater
to present ‘Fantasticks’
Tiday deadline
nnbr tickets
dinner
1,600 firemen to attend
Fire school gearing up
Good tickets are still available for three
of the four dinner theaters featuring the
Aggie Players in “The Fantasticks.”
The play is the world’s longest-running
musical and is Texas A&M’s second dinner
theater of the summer.
The Players began rehearsal Friday for
the July 29-30 and Aug. 3-4 production.
The director is Robert Wenck.
As of last Monday, the July 30 perform
ance was sold out.
“The Fantasticks” will be presented in
the round, in cooperation with the Memo
rial Student Center Summer Directorate
and Food Services Department. The mus
ical, a story about young lovers, parents,
the world and human nature, was con
ceived by Texans. Tom Jones, Harvey
Schmidt and Ward Baker were working on
it while they were still students at the
University of Texas at Austin.
“Fantasticks” is in its 17th year as an
off-Broadway show at the Sullivan Street
Playhouse. That makes it the world’s rec
ord running musical.
Wenck has five veteran Aggie Players
and three newcomers in the cast, with
“some good singers” to present the music.
The production has the well-known “Try
to Remember’ along with “Never Say
No,” “Plant A Radish,” “It Depends on
What You Pay,” “I Can See It” and “They
Were You,” among others.
The MSC dinner theater had four sold-
out performances of “Barefoot in the Park”
earlier. Tickets were going for “Fantas-
ticks” before the July-August show was
cast. They can he obtained at the Rudder
Center box office, open 9 a. m. to 4 p.m.
weekdays.
“A parable about love, the musical
with a blend of satire, romanticism, bright
comedy and serious verse takes young
lovers Matt, played by Brian McPherson,
and Luisa (Boni Petersen) in and out of
love through the planning of their fathers
Huckleby (Philip Hafner) and Bellomy
(Bruce Kates).
El Gallo, the bandit -narrator, is por
trayed by Michael Wilson.
New Aggie Players appear in the roles
of Henry (James Hall), Mortimer (Thomas
Owen) and The Mute (Vanessa Watts).
Piano and musical direction is provided
by Su Rudd, who first worked with the
Aggie Players in “Codspell. Assistant di
rector arid stage manager is Sanford
Russo.
The production staff under Wenck also
features a new theater arts faculty
member, Roy O’Valle, as designer.
Technical assistant is Mitchell Hall.
Costumes are the jobs of Nancye Gandy
and Shirley Kitzman; sets, Jane Vanorc
and Marla Hammond; properties, Jamie
Craig and Trish Morgan, and lights, Walt
Meissner.
Jones wrote the hook and lyrics of “The
Fantasticks,” which opened in May, I960.
Schmidt, a Bryanite, wrote the music anti
Baker provided direction.
The menu of the dinner will feature tur
key tetrazinni and shrimp creole.
itlay is the deadline for purchasing
ts for the Texas A&M University Sys-
retirement dinner honoring A. R.
edecke, Toni D. Cherry, John E.
tchisonandj. A. Amis, Jr.
he dinner, open to residents of the
iinunity as well as to faculty and staff of
B’ University and System, will be at 7
Monday in the banquet room of
as A&M’s Memorial Student Center,
ickets are available at all local financial
jablishments and at four campus loea-
ions. They may b e obtained on campus at
he University Center ticket office, the
MbC main desk, the fiscal office in the
Cfe iuilcling and the System Adminis-
njtion Building 012.
INDEX
Columnist Broder takes another
look at the Democratic national
convention. Page 2.
John Adams tells about early A&M
veterinary history. Page 4.
Prairie View A&M sends four
women tracksters to Olympics.
Page 8.
Preview of some A&M football
talent. Page 9.
Planning for the impending influx of
1,600 participants to the 47th Texas Fire
men’s Training School has reached a fever
pitch.
People in fire prevention, fire control
and safety from municipalities, industries
and the armed forces arrive Sunday, July
25.
They will participate in 20 courses, in
cluding two new offerings, on the Texas
A&M University campus and at Brayton
Firemen’s Training Field.
Chief Henry D. Smith and his Fire Pro
tection Training Division staff of the Texas
Engineering Extension Service have tied
together a gargantuan package that makes'
the school possible.
Instruction will he by 450 individuals
Energy seminar set
y ositions open;
'\G sells books
Student Government reports that there
two off-campus graduate positions and
|o graduate engineering seats vacant in
0 fi the Senate. Alsp, there are two sopho-
more, one junior, and one senior position
Ben on the Judicial Board. Anyone in-
^ pested in any of these positions should
go to the Student Government office in
1111 leniorial Student Center 216 during the
®®Lfirst week of fall semester classes for an
int ( . rv j ew ,
JnJ I Student Government is also continuing
to sell books through the Book Mart.
*“ J ™Dok S are not being bought at this time,
-—■it are being sold to deplete the in-
IHe ventorv. The Book Mart is located in MSC
■■'216.
Architects, builders, homeowners and
other interested persons can learn first
hand about solar energy equipment and
techniques at a free public seminar at
Texas A&M University Saturday, Aug. 7.
The applied solar energy seminar will
he in Rudder Tower 701 from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
All persons high school age and older
are welcome to attend, said Dr. Peter
Jenkins, University mechanical engineer
ing professor and seminar chairman.
The event is being sponsored by the
Energy Advisory Service for Texas, a new
program of Texas A&M’s Center for
Energy and Mineral Resources, and by
the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion.
Jenkins said solar equipment and
methods now available for this part of the
country will he emphasized.
We hope to give area residents an idea room.
of what solar energy is about and how they
might apply solar equipment to homes and
businesses,” he added.
Five or six university solar energy
specialists will speak at the seminar, in
cluding representatives from the Univer-
sitites of Houston, Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas A&M. Representatives from
several commercial solar energy equip
ment firms also will give presentations.
Jenkins said individuals will have ample
time to visit informally with the solar
specialists. Preliminary plans are to have a
two-hour lunch break in which persons
can view and examine solar energy collec
tors and related equipment displayed out
doors. Individuals also are welcome to
question the solar specialists at the end of
the program.
No pre-registration is required for the
free seminar. Individuals need to only sign
a register when entering the seminar
Williams remains
in critical condition
Dr. Jack K. Williams, President of
Texas A&M University, remains in critical
condition in Methodist Hospital in Hous
ton after undergoing heart surgery last
Wednesday morning.
The coronary bypass surgery was per
formed following cardiac surgery the night
before in Methodist Hospital. Currently
drug therapy and electrical pacing are
being administered in an effort to control
the persistent irregular beating of
William’s heart. Williams remains in the
cardiovascular intensive care unit in the
hospital.
Williams was admitted to Methodist
Hospital July 10 after suffering cardiac ar
rest the day before while resting at his
home in College Station. Williams was
taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan and
later transferred to Methodist in Houston
by helicopter.
Williams had been released from
Methodist June 18 while recovering from
a heart attack suffered earlier that month.
representing cities, industries, manufac
turers, state and federal agencies and the
armed services.
Cost of operation of the school would be
almost impossible to compute, Smith said,
because of the magnitude of materials and
supplies loaned and donated. He said it
would be financially impossible to attempt
the training without such support.
New courses this summer are Firefight
ing IV and State Agency Fire Prevention
and Control.
They join a catalogue that includes
three levels of firefighting, five fire pre
vention courses, officer training and
executive development. Also offered are
courses in pump maintenance and opera
tion, armed services and specialized fire
protection, fire service subjects teaching
methods, course making, training center-
classroom organization and management
and disaster rescue training.
Firefighting IV covers tactics and simu
lation of large-scale, multi-alarm fires.
Such fires would tie up all equipment and
firefighters of cities of 100,000 population
and more, requiring aid from other cities.
“It’s very seldom that officers get train
ing in coordinating resources of other
cities and communities,” commented
Hershel Sharp, division official and former
Lubbock chief. Bryan Fire Chief Keith
Langford will be the program chairman.
A&M enrollment
up 9.5 per cent
A second-session record 8,503
summer school students are en
rolled at Texas A&M University,
Registrar Robert A. Lacey reported
Tuesday.
He said this year’s total repre
sents a 9.5 per cent increase over
the same period last year.
Second-session enrollment is tra-
, ditionally lower than for the first
session, Lacey said. Enrollment was
9,602 for the first six weeks.
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The last of the Milner Roaches have moved out and the wrecking
crews have moved in. The 65-year-old Milner Hall is being
renovated into an office building. Some people view the work as
the cleaning up of a lot of junk; others see their home being
destroyed. For the story, please turn to pages 10-11.
Fare is short stories, poems
Nine lives of ‘Quartet’
Dr. Richard Costa (right) admires the latest
issue of his literary magazine “Quartet” as Luis
Jimenez looks on. Jimenez is an A&M student
who has a short fiction story in the issue which
began rolling off the presses Monday.
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Staff
Words spoken in unfamiliar tongues and
the intriguing sights and sounds of foreign
lands fill the pages of the latest issue of
“Quartet,” a literary magazine owned and
published by Texas A&M English profes
sor Dr. Richard Costa.
The first copies of the spring — summer
issue of the quarterly magazine rolled off
the presses late Monday afternoon.
Costa says that the 11 poems and 5 short
stories in this issue deal with exotic places
and follow the paths of innocents abroad in
foreign lands. Travelers in the short
stories in “Exotica: Incense Abroad”
realize that although the freshness and
flavor of foreign countries may be appeal
ing, they cannot escape the memories and
thoughts they carry with them. Some of
them are troubled by their memories even
while basking in the glitter and glamour of
their new surroundings. . Like Louise, in
Barbara Reid’s “Bird of Passage,” who
watches her shipmate Angelo drain his
martini on an oceanliner sailing out of
Naples...
“He’s a sweet boy, she thought, sim-
patico.
“ And then pity for him swept her, ming
led with regret, thinking that she never
got what she was looking for, something
always cheated her. Whether it was a
man, a job, a place she felt safe in, sooner
or later something came along and the
situation was spoiled. Happiness lasted no
longer, oh, than a good tan...
Costa said that Louise comes full circle
as a voyager and woman, recognizing that
no matter how exotic the location or how
exciting the company, there are few things
that are worse than loneliness.
Local talent featured in “Quartet” in
cludes Luis A. Jimenez, a graduate stu
dent in sociology whose short story
“Najib’s Monkey’’ takes place “where
merchants still appear mysteriously from
dark alleys every morning, covering the
sidewalks with an exotic and colorful as
sortment of mirrors, leopard skins, lottery
tickets, and even flying carpets. ”
“Beyond Reach,” in which Elizabeth R.
Turpin tells of a wistful longing for home
and the “yearling green of oleanders,” is
the Texas A&M Ph.D.’s first published
poem.
Texas A&M English faculty member
Dr. Paul Christensen spent much of his
youth in such exotic places as Beirut,
Saigon, and Hong Kong before moving to
College Station. In Christensen’s poem,
“Hotels and Boarding Houses,” he de
scribes “The long dark limousines and
immaculate back alleys, the tall carts
loaded with soap and toilet paper that
he remembers from his younger days.
Costa said that unlike the previous issue
of “Quartet, ” which featured work by and
about Texans, the exotica issue of contains
poems and stories by writers from across
the nation.
“Quartet” first appeared in 1961 and
Prof publishes lit magazine
today operates on the A&M university
campus. Costa bought the magazine in
1968 while a doctoral student at Purdue
University. He published “Quartet at
Syracuse University in New York before
moving to Texas. The magazine receives
no university subsidy and is supported by
gifts, grants, and subscriptions by various
libraries, including those at Oxford and
Cambridge Universities.
Costa said that each year he receives
more than 11,000 unsolicited poems and
manuscripts for the quarterly publication,
but can print no more than about 25
stories and 150 poems per year. This latest
issue of the magazine also features the
work of a local artist on the cover, an oil
painting by Joan Maffei of Bryan called,
“Plants and Insects. The painting,
printed in lime green and white, pictures
fascinating insect-like creatures and
ciliated organs.
Costa said that he enjoyed putting to
gether the tales of foreign intrigue but oc
casionally fears charges of nepotism — on
page 35 he printed a story written by his
wife, Jo Costa. The story had won acclaim
on its own, however, as one of “the qroup
of stories considered up to the last,” in the
prestigious annual Emily Balch Clark
short story contest, according to Charlotte;;
Kohler, editor of Virginia Quarterly.
Costa said that Jo “resurrected the story!
from the bin where she stores disappoint
ments, made some revisions, and with re
luctance allowed its publication in the “in
cense abroad” issue of “Quartet.