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's Che Battalion '84 achine 3r n efficient Jndence. it s lre v s Perfect • Y ou'll like an d many ^gnetic tape , a utomat- 3 co 84 can VOLUME 64 Number 128 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 te 'ravel t-M. ■•Hf* Vernon g. Young | A&M Board Of Directors Dies Saturday Funeral services for Vernon G. Young, assistant director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service who died Saturday, were conducted Monday at the First United Methodist Church of Bryan. Burial was in College Station Cemetery under the direction of Callaway-Jones Funeral Home. Young, 56, received a B.S. de gree from Texas A&M in 1934 and immediately joined the Ex tension Service. He served as an assistant in cotton adjustment in Borden, Scurry, Dawson and El Paso counties before being named county agricultural agent in 1937 in Glasscock County. He was transferred to the same position in Midland County in 1940. Young was called to active duty in the U. S. Army in April 1941 as a 1st Lt. and was dis charged in 1946 as a Lt. Colonel. He saw extensive duty in Europe and served with distinction in the Field Artillery. He returned to Midland County in 1946 and the next year was transferred to the headquarters staff as a district agent. On Sep tember 16, 1957 he was named state agricultural agent and on October 1, 1965 was named as- Batt Changes Day Beginning Wednesday, July 2, The Battalion will switch publi cation days during the summer months. In the past, the weekly newspaper has always been print ed on Thursdays but will switch to Wednesdays. This will offer exti’a conven ience to grocery shoppers wishing to take advantage of weekend sales at stores which advertise in The Battalion. sistant director. As assistant director, a major responsibility was administrative services, including agricultural in formation, liaison with other agencies and organizations, coun ty officials’ programs, property and space and special progi’ams. Young was a prime mover in establishing the very popular Conference for County Judges and Commissioners and Tax As sessors - Collectors which meets annually at Texas A&M Univer sity. He also played a major role in developing program plans for the screwworm eradication pro gram in the Southwest. One of his most appreciated efforts, es pecially by county Extension per sonnel, was the program dealing with surplus equipment for Ex tension use. Extension Director John E. Hutchison said Young was one of the hardest working members of the administrative staff and was widely recognized for his knowledge and devotion to agri culture and for his concern for his fellow workers. Young was a native of Bexar County, a graduate of Laredo High School and Texas A&M Uni versity with a B.S. degree in marketing and finance. He com pleted graduate work at A&M, Colorado State, Louisiana State and Michigan State Universities and the University of Wisconsin. Young is survived by his wife, the former Mildred Stokes of Snyder, a son, Vernon Jr., a daughter, Anna Bell, both stu dents at Texas A&M University, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Yeung, also of Bryan. The Youngs reside at 807 Broadmoor in Bryan. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Bryan. To Convene In Galveston Complex Contract Award Expected CAMPUS SAFETY EXPERTS Taking a coffee break during the 16th National Conference on Campus Safety are, left to right, Dr. Ralph Vernon, Texas A&M associate professor of Industrial Education and conference program chairman; Dugald Piny an, 1969-70 chairman from the Lawrence Ra diation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore; Albert Orsborn, 1968-69 chair man from the Michigan Department of Labor, Lansing; Jack Green of the National Safety Council, Chicago, and John W. Hill, insurance and safety director at A&M and conference host chairman. Philosophy Prof Feels Youths Need Guides Memorials May Be Rededicated Here Rededication of Texas A&M memorials to Aggies who died in World War I is contemplated by the university. The proposed project would permanently replace markers, plates and some live oak trees of 53 commemoratives around the drill field and enable addi tional recognition of the war dead on special occasions. It was initiated by Physical Plant Director Walter H. Par sons as the result of an editorial in the Battalion, student news paper. Several of the trees planted 49 years ago became diseased and had to be removed. The 6 by 6- inch stone markers bearing the name, site and date of death of FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super C D - 5% interest compounded daily. the deceased have become dis placed due to loot growth and deteriorated over the years, Par sons noted. “A new type of stone marker (See Memorial, Page 2) Fish Pre-Register Summer school students who plan to enroll at Texas A&M in September as freshmen may pre-register for the fall semes ter, Registrar Robert A. Lacey announced. The new students should re port to the Counseling and Testing Center to receive card packets before 5 p.m. Monday. Pre-registration must be com pleted by Monday, June 30. Additional information may be obtained at the center, first floor Academic Building, or by phoning 845-1651. ■ mm ’ All’IB -is* IIP’* FIRST HOWDY Freshmen-to-be listen intently as Buddy Mason outlines the kind of life they can expect as members of the Corps of Cadets. Mason, deputy commander of the Corps for 1969-70, addressed the future students at an orientation Wednesday night. (Photo by Monty Stanley) A Texas A&M philosophy and humanities professor believes recognition of the “new genera tion’s” lack of motivation is the starting place for attempting to solve one of society’s most acute problems. “There’s no simple answer,” asserts Dr. Manuel M. Daven port, Philosophy and Humanities Department head. “The prob lem is very complex.” A popular prof to whom A&M students frequently turn for extracurricular talks, Davenport is one of the Peace Corps found ers and a former Colorado State University professor. He is A&M’s campus repre sentative for Volunteers in Serv ice to America (VISTA) and the local Peace Corps advisory coun cil chairman. The official of A&M’s rapidly growing Liberal Arts College be lieves values and ideals that in spired previous generations are not acceptable to today’s young people. “They’ve been around long- enough to see that just making 30 Seniors Here For NSF Course Thirty high school seniors will attend the eight-week National Science Foundation Student Sci ence Training Program in Engi neering Science at A&M starting Monday. Dr. J. George H. Thompson, professor of mechanical engi neering and program director, said the 26 boys and four girls were selected from a field of 500 who took examinations for the summer NSF program. The students are from high schools in Texas, California, Min nesota, New Jersey and New York. Dr. Thompson called the 5-year old program “fantastic.” He said 20-25 per cent of the students return to A&M for their college education. During the program, students will review math, review the me chanics that determine forces in trusses, study calculus and dif ferential equations, the theories of elasticity and photoelasticity and work with the digital and analogue computers. Dr. Thompson said each stu dent will have an individual proj ect in some laboratory on campus during the eight-week course. The department heads in the Deparment of Engineering co operated to plan suitable proj ects. The program ends Aug. 15. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. money isn’t all that rewarding,” he theorizes. “Not so long ago, most men had to work hard all day just to put food on the ta ble. Their motivation was pros perity and plenty.” Abundance has been achieved. Most young people — the ones of the upper middle class of so ciety who have turned to drugs, hippie ways and ‘turning off’ so ciety — have grown up in an age of plenty. Keniston refers to them as the “uncommitted gen eration,” Davenport observed. “There is less disparity be tween values of A&M students and values of their parents,” he inserted. ON THE AVERAGE, he says, today’s dissident young are bet ter educated. “They’ve assimilated more facts, know more about the sci entific nature of the world,” the professor explained. “Socially, they gain maturity and poise at an earlier age.” Hidden signposts of progress is another factor he mentioned. “We’ve got society set up now where it is difficult to see the payoff,” said the graduate of Bethany Nazarene College of Oklahoma, Colorado College and University of Illinois. Davenport indicated the hu man need to see guideposts en- route to attaining goals also is intermeshed in the problem. “It may be that we’ve about reached the limits of mankind’s physical development — going west, industrialization, making- money, putting man on the moon,” he commented. Without values that inspire effort, what’s the alternative ? “ ‘LIVE FOR today’ is their answer,” he remarked. “Adop tion of a life-style that provides day-to-day pleasure.” It’s something sufficiently val uable for which to sacrifice pleasure, not laziness nor incap ableness of work, Davenport re iterated. Hypocrisy has its role too, he adds. “That’s knowing something is wrong but going ahead and do ing it anyway,” the prof recalled a recent church group talk. “I told them teachers practice hypocrisy. We are very good at telling students about the ideals of education, but we don’t prac tice them very often, even in the classroom. Parents are hypo critical too, declaring their chil dren must have an education but ridiculing ideas the kids produce from it because the thinking dif fers with their own,” he said. “The students really lapped this up,” Davenport smiled. “Then I told them students are guilty of the same hypocrisy.” Davenport said he was im mediately turned off. “STUDENTS claim to want a better world, where man lives at peace with man,” he explained. “Yet when it is suggested they get active, go out and hustle votes to institute change, that won’t do either.” Though It may be intangible, incentive must be provided, the philosophy teacher believes. “This is why it is so important that we listen to young people,” he advocated. A busy schedule faces the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors which meets Friday in Galveston. Board members will conduct their regular business meeting at 2 p.m. at the Flagship Hotel. Earlier, at 9 a.m., they hold a joint meeting with the University of Texas System Board of Re gents to sell Permanent Univer sity Fund Bonds totaling $12 million. Later in the morning the board will conduct a bidefing for several Galveston civic leaders on the university’s Mitchell Campus de velopment on Pelican Island and other A&M projects in the Gal veston area. Among the agenda items for board consideration are bids on several construction projects to taling more than $8 million. In cluded are the new engineering complex here and the first project for the Mitchell Campus, the uni versity’s new marine and ocean ographic facility. The Mitchell work involves construction of docking installations for the “Texas Clipper,” Texas Maritime Academy training ship, and the R/V Alaminos, Oceanography De partment research vessel. The board also will consider bids on a recovery boiler for the central utilities plant, remodeling a portion of the Agronomy Field Laboratory, parking facilities lighting, a grounds maintenance greenhouse and conversion of a Plant Sciences Building room into a laboratory. Appropriations also will be.con sidered for detailed design of the oceanography - meteorology com plex, preliminary design of a new office and classroom building and conversion of a Research Annex hangar for use a a flight me chanics laboratory. In other business, the board will consider establishment of an Institute of Food Science and Engineering and adoption of the Legislature - authorized facilities use fee for all academic institu-, tions within the system. The new institute is designed to coordinate academic activity in food science and be a point of contact for interested individu als and commercial and govern mental agencies. If approved, a $10-per-semester facility use fee — authorized at the recent session of the Legis lature as an alternative to a tuition increase — would go into effect this fall, pending action by Gov. Preston Smith. The fee would apply to undergraduates registered for 12 or more credit hours and graduate students en rolled in nine or more hours. Dance Tonight In MSC Ballroom Dancing to soul and “Top 40” (hard rock) music by the 9th Street Bridge heads the Memorial Student Center summer director ate program tonight. The 8-12 p.m. dance will be in the MSC ballroom, announced Jerry Street, summer chairman of Jasper. The Bridge is a six-piece band of Houston. “All university and high school students are welcome,” Street said. Admission will be $1.25 per couple and 75 cents stag. At Texas A&M Benson Talks On Safety Assigning qualified instructors to laboratory courses and giving a safety officer responsibility for lab safety have prevented serious accidents in Texas A&M’s Col lege of Engineering, Dean Fred J. Benson says. Dean Benson spoke on “Safety as it Relates to the College and University from an Administra tor’s Point of View” at the 16th National Conference on Campus Safety, which ended here Wed nesday. Benson told the 100 delegates an administrator must consider the safety of his staff during travel as well as in the classroom. “We have an engineering staff member who is lab safety officer. He carries out these duties ac tively,” Dean Benson said, “and it has been very successful.” The dean said the “safety offi cer is our best watch on acci dents.” He said there are only quali fied instructors teaching lab courses in engineering. The safety officer and a safety committee also review improve ments to old labs or construction of new ones. Closing a campus to traffic will eliminate on-campus traffic hazards, he said, and warning students and staff of traffic haz ards can play an important part in off-campus traffic safety. In another speech Tuesday, A&M radiological safety officer Dr. Richard Neff told the dele gates that safety from exposure to ionizing radiation produced in research and industrial uses of radioactive materials may involve controls by several local, state, and federal agencies. “All controls — whether local, state or federal — are based on Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. rigid regulations set by the Atomic Energy Commission,” ex plained the two-hat A&M profes sor, who also teaches nuclear engineering. They apply equally to univer sity, industrial and governmental applications. Radiological safety was one aspect investigated in the four- day conference at A&M. Partici pants from throughout the U.S. and several foreign countries heard safety presentations on en vironmental health, student safe ty as viewed by a student, fire protection and tornado forecast ing by radar. Neff noted radiological safety is based on the same premise as other safety programs, prevention of injury to personnel, “in this case through radiation exposure.” “It has subtle aspects,” he re marked. “Results may not be observable for from five to 20 years after exposure. Because (See Benson, Page 3) BB&L COLORS PRESENTED Retired colors of the 420th Engineer Brigade were present ed last week to Army Brig. Gen. (Ret) and Mrs. Spencer J. Buchanan. The Bryan-headquartered reserve unit’s com mander, Brig. Gen. Joe G. Hanover, made the presentation at Camp Bullis.