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OLUME 64 Number 85
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Apollo 10 To Hover Over Moon;
July Landing Set For Apollo 11
Senate Considers
Appeals Board
LUCE ELUCIDATES
'wmer Maoist Progressive Labor Party member Phillip Abbott Luce explains a point to
tudents at a reception following his Great Issues speech Tuesday on the New Left. Form-
r editor of “Progressive Labor” Luce later defected to the FBI. (Photo by Bob Palmer)
New Left Smacks Of Nazism,’
ix-Communist Luce Charges
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y DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
“Fascism is what is on too
y campuses today—the New
lit itself smacks of Nazism.”
Phillip Abbott Luce made that
bservation Tuesday night in the
[emorial Student Center as he
poke on “The New Left” during
|D Great Issues presentation.
Luce, a consultant for the
oung Americans for Freedom
YAF), is a former communist
foo wrote articles for the com-
mnist Worker and served as an
i'tor for the magazine Progres-
ive Labor, before defecting to
le FBI. He has written three
tks and numerous articles in
agazines on his experiences in
New Left.
“Some groups refuse to listen,
ie id allow you to listen, to things
chant!) le y disagree with,” Luce noted
s he addressed a standing room
nly crowd. “Pve been speaking
» over four minutes, and not
nee has anyone rushed up to
itin ttack me, jumped up and scream-
d obscenities at me, or thrown
nything at me. It’s something
Ve come to expect in California.
“When the Mayor of San Fran-
isco can’t speak at Georgetown
diversity because the SDS (Stu-
ents for a Democratic Society)
ittacks him, when the president
f San Francisco State is attacked
t the University of Colorado,
Mngg are out of hand,” Luce
bserved.
“WHEN YAF members are
hreatened, and some are at-
icked, something is wrong.”
“School administrations need
» stop coddling student revolu-
ionaries and the students need
o say ‘no’ when the New Left
s [_|pf r ' es to start something,” he
tile. They play at being intellec
tual, but they're not — they have
no idea of what Marx had to say.”
"The New Left is composed of
a bunch of angry young people,”
Luce noted. They don’t believe
in freedom, or democracy; they
have no love. They believe in
violence. They are out to pit
student against student, student
against faculty, everyone against
everyone. When they have de
stroyed the present system, they
will decide what they want to do
with the remains — they have no
set plans now.
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“The New Left thinks it has
all the answers,” Luce explained.
"They possess the truth, so they
think, but they can’t convince
anyone of this. It’s very frustrat
ing to be an 18-or 19-year-old
with all the answers, yet you
can’t convince people of it—not
even high school students.
‘ THE NEW Left believes that
democracy doesn’t work,” Luce
continued, "and for them, it
doesn’t. Since they possess the
truth, they feel justified in using
(See New Left, Page 3)
★
★ ★
YAF Founded To Counter
Radicals, Jones Explains
•oted.
“Students need to become less
imid,” Luce continued. “If two
oftists come to the door of a
lassroom with 30 students and
nnounce that a student strike
till be held tomorrow, and 30 stu
nts get up and head for them,
hose two will leave in a hurry.
When students do go out on
'Wke, it’s great for the first
reek,” Luce added. "Then, they
^gin to think: T paid money to
that school, and I’m not going to
] let it back. In fact, by skipping
kss, I might not get a grade,
^ith no grade, Gen. Hershey
"right take a personal interest in
Then the student goes back
class.
‘SELF-INTEREST is a great
otivating factor. It overcomes
*ar, which is the way the left
orks. At Berkeley a student
-trike totally failed, although stu
dents were beaten trying to go
to class.”
“Their task (the left) would be
helped,” Luce observed, “if they
»ouli read their pretended lead
ers— Marx, Lenin, Mao. Lenin,
tor instance, called the type of
iction used by the left as infan-
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav-
ings Center, since 1919.
&B&L. —Adv.
(Editor’s note: Phillip Abbott
Luce, an advisor to Young
Americans For Freedom, has
described YAF as "the major
national student organization
opposing New Left activities.”
The following report is based
on an interview with local YAF
organizer Charles Jones.)
By TOM CURL
The Young Americans for
Freedom, started by William F.
Buckley Jr. as a counterforce to
left wing movements, now claims
more than 30,000 members in 400
student chapters, according to
Charles Jones, student and YAF
member at A&M.
Jones, a freshman aerospace
engineering major from Florida,
is attempting to organize a chap
ter at the university. He started
last semester in an effort to off
set plans to organize a local chap
ter of the Students for a Demo
cratic Society, one of the New
Left organizations.
“YAF began as a counterforce
for what they saw was coming
from the New Left,” Jones said.
HE CLAIMS that the YAF
wants some of the same changes
called for by the New Left groups,
especially the SDS, but seeks to
accomplish the goals through
existing channels and patterns
rather than resorting to dissent
or even violence.
"If you don’t like a law, you
change it, you don’t ignore it,”
Jones emphasized.
He compared student dissent to
a curse word and said that both
can be used to emphasize a point
but if they are used too often,
they become commonplace and
thus ineffective.
“I’ve seen enough and been
through enough turkey eggs to
know that you can’t win friends
by resorting to violence,” he com
mented.
JONES ATTACKED statements
by leaders of the New Left calling
for destruction of “the system.”
“Y'ou can’t call for destruction
of everything because you would
destroy the good along with the
evil,” he emphasized.
“It’s the responsibility of the
student to go through existing
channels,” he added.
Jones also commented on state
ments by local SDS organizers
that they were mainly concerned
with problems at A&M and chose
to affiliate with the national or
ganization of SDS to get power
behind their action.
"You can’t buy a piece of an
organization; you’re either in or
out. These groups (like the SDS)
count you as a member,” he com
mented.
Jones also answered charges
that YAF is only a mouthpiece of
the federal government. He said
that YAF filed suit against the
U. S. State Department in 1962
for refusal to allow Moise Tshom-
be, prime minister of the Congo,
to enter the United States to
sneak at a YAF meeting in New
York.
“\Ye have several more in
stances to prove that we aren’t
punpets of the government in this
country,” he said.
Jones also claimed that actions
(See YAF Founded, Page 3)
By PAUL RECER
AP Aerospace Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston,
Tex. bT) — High level space offi
cials have decided to send Apollo
10 around the moon for 63 hours,
but man’s first landing there will
have to await the flight of Apol
lo 11.
A source at the Manned Space
craft Center said the space agency
officialsi adopted this course at a
meeting Tuesday.
Apollo 10 will be launched
May 18, the source said, and fly
into lunar orbit. Two of its crew
will then fly the landing module
to within 10 miles of the lunar
surface, leaving the third crew
man behind in the command
module.
The lunar module descent stage
will be jettisoned at 10 miles
above the moon and the ascent
stage flown up to a rendezvous
with "the command module. The
ascent stage will be left in lunar
orbit and the crew will return to
earth in the command module.
A successful flight by Apollo
10 will virtually assure a moon
landing attempt by Apollo 11,
now scheduled for a July blastoff.
The reported decision appeared
to end speculation that the first
moon landing attempt would be
made by Apollo 10, without wait
ing for the Apollo 11 launch.
Football Players
Will Be Judges
At Scout Fair
Six Texas A&M football players
will serve as judges for the 1969
Scout Exporama Friday and Sat
urday, announced Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan.
Dean Hannigan, chairman of
the Exporama Judging Commit
tee, said judges for the Friday
night exhibits will be Bill Seely,
Lynn Odom and Robert Cortez.
Saturday night judges will be
Buster Adami, Rusty Stallings
and Jack Whitmore.
Exporama, scheduled from 6:30
to 9 each night at the Texas Na
tional Guard Armory, is similar
to a county fair, Hannigan noted.
The event will feature various
type booths depicting different
aspects of Cub, Scout and Ex
plorer programs.
Some 25 units will have dis
plays at the armory.
The dean said the Aggie grid-
ders will pick the three best ex
hibits each night. Nightly win
ners will receive paper ribbons,
while combined winners for the
two nights will be awarded cloth
ribbons.
Exporama is open to the gen
eral public, Dean Hannigan
stressed.
Tickets are 50 cents per person.
They may be purchased from
Cubs, Scouts and Explorers or at
the armory door on show nights.
Pre-school children will be ad
mitted free.
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
President Nixon conferred earlier this week with Dr. S. I.
Hayakawa, acting- president of San Francisco State Col
lege. Afterwards, Hayakawa reported that Nixon favors
withdrawal of federal aid from students convicted of cam
pus disorders. (AP Wirephoto)
According to one source, astro
naut Thomas P. Stafford, the
commander of Apollo 10, had ac
tively campaigned to have his
mission attempt the moon land
ing.
But, a source said, officials
judged it would be more prudent
to use Apollo 10 to gather more
information about the moon and
make the big try later with
Apollo 11.
One concern is accurate track
ing and orbital altitude determin
ation. Engineers learned during
Apollo 8 that differences in the
gravitational pull of various
areas of the moon cause altitude
changes for orbiting spacecraft
greater than had been noted on
unmanned lunar arbiters.
The crew for Apollo 10 will be
Stafford; Navy Cmdr. Eugene
Ceman and Navy Cmdr. John
Young, all veterans of the Gemini
space flight series.
Casting Begins
For‘Everyman’
Morality Play
Casting for "Everyman,” a mo
rality play with parts for 11 men
and five women, will be conducted
here Monday by the Aggie Play
ers.
The 7:30 p. m. tryouts will be
held in Fallout Theater of Guion
Hall, announced Aggie Players
director C. K. Esten.
"This is not a closed shop,”
emphasized Bob Wenck, assistant
director. “We’ll take anybody
who wants to work in theatre.”
The play, fourth major Aggie.
Players production of 1968-69,
will be staged May 5-10 and 14-
17.
Casting will be to fill types, not
personalities, Wenck added. In
the allegory, players will repre
sent death, conviviality, fellow
ship, worldly goods, knowledge,
beauty, good deeds, discretion and
the five senses, among others.
"In the man for ‘Everyman,’
we’ll be looking for an actor to
represent all humanity,” Wenck
explained.
Written in 1498, the medieval
moral allegory has a 450-year
production history but “is as time
ly now as it ever was,” the assist
ant director observed.
"We will give it an up-to-date
treatment and people who think
God is dead will have something
to think about,” Wenck said.
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
A Student Appeals Committee,
giving students a voice in cam
pus disciplinary action, will be
proposed to the Student Senate
Thursday by the Bill of Rights
Subcommittee of the Issues Com
mittee.
Paschal Redding, subcommit
tee chairman, explained recently
that the proposed panel would be
composed of both faculty and
students. Its purpose would be
to review disciplinary action tak
en by the dean of students. In
cases it deemed proper, the com
mittee could reduce the punish
ment of the offense, but could
not reverse the decision of guilty.
“The idea behind the entire
bill of rights thing,” Redding ex
plained, “is to spell out exactly
what the student’s rights are.
This makes things easier for both
the student and the administra
tion: the student knows where
he stands and the administration
knows just what it can do in a
given situation. They can then
act quickly and decisively.”
THE SUBCOMMITTEE, Red
ding noted, is a little over two
weeks old. It was formed By the
Senate to look into the possible
implementation of a bill of rights
here. Since then, the committee
has been contacting other
schools to learn their experi
ences and suggestions.
Redding noted that his sub
committee was working on ideas
in a number of areas which in
clude:
Freedom of association, in
quiry and expression: This area
includes the right to petition, the
idea that students should be free
to form any association which
they believe will advance their
common interests, and the right
to have questions answered.
Freedom of assembly: A guar
antee to the right to peaceful
demonstration, provided no ad
vocation of violence, or destruc
tion to any person or property
is made.
RIGHT OF PRIVACY: Pro
vides for presence of two per
sons in a room while a search
is being conducted, and an item
ized list provided of items taken
from the room by searchers.
Student organization: Would
set up a committee on student
organizations composed of fac
ulty and students to determine
which organizations should be
allowed on campus. This com
mittee would also rule on viola
tions of regulations by these
organizations.
Student publications: Would
provide for freedom of the press
from censorship and copy ap
proval in advance. A committee
would also inquire into the hir
ing and firing of newspaper edi
tors.
Procedural guarantees: Would
provide that a person must be
presented with a list of charges,
persons accusing him, penalties,
stating the right of appeal and
would provide students the right
of counsel.
Panel To Discuss
Autoreg System
At Issues Meet
"The Student Body vs. Auto
mated Registration” is the "main
event” scheduled for panel dis
cussion at 8 tonight in the Mem
orial Student Center ballroom,
according to Ron Tefteller, Is
sues committee chainnan of the
Great Issues committee.
Questions posed to the panel
will include: Does the student
have the right to select profes
sors for his courses? Can such
a right be realized under A&M’s
present automated registration
system ?
The 7-member panel will be
composed of Dr. Charles Pinnell,
automated registration program
coordinator; R. A. Lacey, regis
trar; Elliott Bray, program de
signer; Drahn Jones, civil engi
neering professor; Albert Rein
ert, Student Senate committee
chairman; David Maddox, Senate
vice president and Ron Tefteller,
moderator.
Tefteller noted that each pan
elist will be given five to seven
minutes to present his views
concerning automated registra
tion. A question and answer
session and reception will follow
the panel discussion.
‘Not Even Hugh Hefner Knows’
^Sex Revolution 9 Doubted
By DAVE BERRY
Battalion Staff Writer
Is there really a sexual revolu
tion in America?
“Concerning American sexual
behavior, no one knows anything
for sure, not even Hugh Hefner.
So how can we talk of a sexual
revolution?”
So questioned Dr. Henry Bow
man of the University of Texas
at Austin last night during the
third in the series of five YMCA
marriage forums.
"This is a question which
should be of importance to all
sexually mature people,” the so
ciology professor and nationally
recognized authority on mar
riage and family life said.
“If there is such a revolution,
then everyone might as well get
on the bandwagon and enjoy the
‘new’ sexual freedom. If not,
then it is up to the individual to
decide how much freedom he
wishes to enjoy; he does not
have to feel that he has to fol
low any tide-like movement.
“STATISTICS on pre-marital
sexual intercourse disproves any
tide-like movement,” he added.
"The last 40 years’ statistics are
impossible to fit into a trend —
there is just too much variation.
“In addition, statistics are too
unreliable. Their method of re
search is often haphazard and
their results are cumulative.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
This means that by the time the
statistics become available they
no longer indicate the current
trend.
“In short, we know very little
about pre-marital sexual rela
tions.”
The question, then, according
to Dr. Bowman, is whether the
“revolution” is one of behavior,
attitude or discussion.
"Kids today talk more freely
on their first date than did our
grandparents after their first
baby. But this indicates to me
a revolution in attitudes or dis
cussion rather than in behavior,”
Dr. Bowman said.
“THERE ARE as many points
of view relative to sex as there
are people and this is the way
it has always been. SucK varia
tion is not indicative of a trend.”
March Review
Now Available
The March issue of The Review
is now available for students in
the Colleges of Liberal Arts,
Geosciences, Science and Business
Administration, according to Rich
ard Campbell, editor. It may be
picked up in the Memorial Student
Center, Academic Building, Fran
cis Hall, and the Geology Build
ing. This month’s cover was pro
vided by Mort Walker, the car
toonist who draws the Beetle
Bailey comic strip, Campbell
noted.
Dr. Bowman, having disproved
the existence of a sexual revolu
tion, explained his views on pre
marital sex relations.
“You come to A&M for one
reason — to leave,” Dr. Bowman
said. “This is your goal; and to
attain this goal you must behave
accordingly. You must read and
study for your lessons and tests
to get your degree.
“So too must you behave ac
cordingly before marriage so
that your behavior won’t harm
a desired happy marriage.”
There are several arguments
for pre-marital sex, Dr. Bowman
said.
“One common argument for
pre-marital sex,” he said, “is the
male’s need for sexual inter
course. Contrary to popular be
lief though, college men are not
three-letter men — they do not
need sex in order to live.
“MAN CAN live with sexual
frustration. This is the case with
the man whose pregnant v^ife
has been told that she cannot
have sexual intercourse after her
pregnancy; or with the man who
is in Vietnam and who loves his
wife enough not to shack out
with some prostitute.
“If a man really loves a wom
an,” Dr. Bowman concluded, “he
should be willing to stand up and
assume the other responsibilities
of marriage; only then can he
have all the sex he desires.”
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