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Cbe Battalion
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 19, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
JERICHO SPEAKER—Kent Caperton, Student Senate vice
president, discusses student apathy at A&M during Wednes
day night’s Jericho session. (Photo by Jim Berry)
New Singing Group
Organizes Tonight
An organizational meeting for
tie formation of a new singing
froup on the A&M campus will
lie held tonight.
Robert Boone, Singing Cadets
factor and sponsor of the new
group, said Wednesday night the
meeting will be at 7:30 in room
119, G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Boone said that the main pur
pose of the meeting will be to
Spring Enrollment
1 Record 13,076
A record spring enrollment of
13,076 students at A&M has been
reported by Registrar Robert A.
Lacey.
Lacey said that A&M registra-
lion is up 1,029 students, or ap-
iroximately 8.5 percent, over the
same period last year.
Included are 1,096 women, rep-
ssenting an increase of 10 per-
<*nt over last spring.
Spring enrollment is tradition
ally lower than in fall, Lacey not
ed. Fall registration totaled
4,042, but 902 of those students
were graduated last month.
decide what kind of group the
students want to have, what kind
of music they want to sing, and,
most important, how many turn
out.
He also said that a committee
will be formed to begin selecting
music for the group.
The idea for the new group
came about last month when some
students decided that A&M need
ed a group that offered more
opportunity for participation than
the Singing Cadets.
Membership in the Singing Ca
dets is limited, and restricted to
male students.
The group will meet “once or
twice a week” in the evening
under Boone’s direction.
Any student interested in or
ganized singing can join the
group, regardless of previous ex
perience or actual ability. The
main requirement will be a desire
to sing.
The group has been granted
“temporary committee” status by
the Memorial Student Center
Council, and Bob Jarvis, fresh
man nuclear engineering major,
is temporary chairman of the
group.
World Attitude Towards War
Is Changing, Analyst Says
8) Pam Troboy
lattalion Staff Writer
War is no longer thought of
is an instrument of positive
tthority, a public policy analyst
laid Wednesday night in a Great
Issues presentation.
Herman Kahn, founder and di-
lector of the Hudson Institute at
Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., said
that evidence of this attitude
tould be found throughout the
World.
'The threat of deliberate ag
gression for positive gain has
almost disappeared in the western
hemisphere and Europe,” he said,
there is little seen in the Soviet
Union and we expect none from
the Chinese.”
He said the Chinese left Que-
Hoy and Matsu alone, not because
they did not want them, but' be-
tsuse they would be expensive to
take from the crack Formosa
forces.
The Russian border problem is
•nly minor, he said. The Chinese
•nly want a conference to adjust
a few minor details to save their
aational pride.
It’s actually a pretty calm
fee, he said, but contrary to
Popular opinion, the large popula-
It’s a Girl!
Mrs. Ruth Ann Stallings, wife
0 f head coach Gene Stallings,
&ve birth Wednesday night at
11:25 to their fourth daughter at
Ut. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan.
% Stallings also have a son.
The infant weighed 8 pounds,
1914 ounces.
The newest addition to the
Stallings family has not been
named.
Students’ Interest Must Be
Sought, Caperton Says
By David Middlebrooke
Battalion Managing Editor
It is the responsibility of stu
dent leaders to take student af
fairs and student government to
the students and formulate plans
with them, rather than for them,
Kent Caperton told Operation
Jericho delegates Wednesday
night.
“We simply cannot afford to
sit in our ivory towers, our con
ference rooms,” the Student Sen
ate vice president said, “and make
glorious plans for this student
body and then say ‘Well, look
what I’ve done for you.’ ”
Caperton stressed that student
leaders should do everything pos
sible to see that students are
provided every opportunity to
participate.
Speaking on the topic of cam
pus apathy, Caperton challenged
A&M’s campus leaders to “get
off your rears” and do something
about apathy.
Caperton cited two examples
of apathy on the A&M campus:
—In last spring’s senate elec
tions, “one of the most hotly con
tested in recent A&M history,”
only 3,500 out of a student body
of over 13,000 voted.
—The many “fine speakers”
brought to A&M by Great Issues,
Political Forum, and Contem
porary Arts are often attended
by a “handful of students.”
“I cite these situations to illus
trate that apathy does indeed
exist here at Texas A&M,” he
said, “and is present in many
different ways.”
Caperton said that many Ag
gies say that they are at A&M
only to get a degree in order to
get a good job. Their attitude
toward student affairs, he said,
is one of great unconcern.
“Many civilian students have
the attitude that ‘The Corps will
run student affairs anyway . . .
so why bother?’’” he noted.
“My friends, it is this type of
thinking that needs to be
changed,” Caperton declared. “It
needs to be changed in order to
have a better and more effective
Memorial Student Center, a repre
sentative and meaningful student
government. It needs to be
changed in order to have elections
that truly represent the will of
the Texas A&M student body.”
Caperton said that he believed
that those attending the Jericho
sessions were not among the
apathetic, but were “aware of the
needs and benefits of becoming
involved in student affairs.”
“By involvement, I don’t neces
sarily mean holding an office or
serving on a committee,” he ex
plained. “To intelligently partici
pate in student affairs requires
that the individual be informed
and aware of issues and activities
of the university.”
Caperton said students should
form their own opinions, and let
them be known through individual
acquaintances, discussions, and
voting.
“But the real purpose of my
comments tonight,” he said, “is
not to dwell on what apathy is,
and what the student in that dorm
or that apartment ought to do to
overcome it. I’ve come here to
ask that each of you, as a student
leader, take a long, hard look at
yourself, and your organization,
and your area of influence.
“I say that it is not enough
that you be aware of the needs
and benefits of student participa
tion,” Caperton continued. “It
is not even enough that you ac
quaint your friends and acquant-
ances with the needs and benefits
of student participation.
“Our overall goal,” he said,
“must be to make student activi
ties and student affairs impos
sible for the average student to
ignore.”
Student organizations, Caper
ton said, must offer ample op
portunity for any student to par
ticipate in some form. They must
be oriented, Caperton said, to
those issues and areas of interest
which affect and concern the stu
dents.
As an example, he asked the
group to consider “those individ
uals who, perhaps, couldn’t he
brought out for anything, say,
except a rodeo.”
“What is to prevent the Stu
dent Senate, for example, through,
perhaps its Student Life Com
mittee, to plan a rodeo week to be
included in intramural activities,”
he asked, “and pull in these in
dividuals to help with the plans?”
Caperton urged the 90 student
leaders gathered for the confer
ence to let students know that
they (the leaders) are interested
in the students’ ideas, concerns,
and opinions.
Caperton commented on a re
cent senate action combining the
usual three spring campus elec
tions into one. He said that the
action was designed to increase
voter interest and voter participa
tion.
“It is of little significance
whether you are a civilian, a coed,
or a member of the Corps of Ca
dets,” Caperton asserted. “What
matters is that you’re an Aggie,
and we’ve got 14,000, and that
you cast your ballot.
“It is true at Texas A&M,” he
continued, “as well as in any
other election, that when the ma
jority of voters fail to exercise
their privilege and responsibility
at the polls, then the highly-
organized, bloc-voting pressure
group has a heyday.”
Caperton said that the senate
wisely ignored an argument
against the new election proce
dure which held that losers in the
election would not have a second
chance to run. An abundance of
student leaders exists at A&M,
he said, and those now in power
must do all they can to encourage
these student leaders, and help
them overcome the discourage
ment they have experienced in the
past.
“For too long, far too many
offices have been filled by ‘elit
ists’ who fail to recognize and
respond to the wishes of the
student body,” Caperton said.
Nixon’s State of World
Talk Praised by Senate
By Walter R. Mears
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (^—President
Nixon’s first State of the World
message drew praise from Senate
leaders of both parties for its
stress on negotiation and shared
responsibility in foreign affairs.
“It’s almost a 180-degree turn
from the ‘let’s lick them before
breakfast’ attitude that we’ve had
in the past,” said Sen. George D.
Aiken of Vermont, the Senate’s
senior GOP member.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield said he was “pleased
that the President emphasized
negotioation, participation and
shared responsibility” but added
that the message seemed filled
with generalities. He said spe
cifics will have to be forthcoming.
Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark.,
said the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee he heads may hold
hearings later in the year on
issues raised by the foreign policy
report.
Mansfield praised the Presi
dent’s restatement and world
wide application of the so-called
Nixon Doctrine. The President
described it this way:
“Its central thesis is that the
United States will participate in
the defense and development of
allies and friends but that
America cannot—and will not—
conceive all the plans, design all
the programs, execute all the
decisions and undertake all the
defense of the free nations of
the world.
There was disagreement on
Nixon’s advocacy of an expanded
Safeguard antiballistic missile
system as the response to Soviet
intercontinental missiles.
Aiken said he had misgivings
about the ABM plan; Sen. Jacob
K. Javits, R-N.Y., said the Safe
guard proposal “will face great
opposition in the Senate.”
But Sen. George Murphy, R-
Calif., said Nixon “dealt in facts
rather than false hopes or fanta
sy to explain why we must have
the Safeguard antiballistic mis
sile system and why we cannot
permit the Soviet Union to be
come predominant in the Middle
East.”
Javits praised Nixon’s empha
sis on restoration of the Middle
East cease-fire and said he be
lieves Americans will welcome
the President’s pledge “to provide
arms to friendly states as the
need arises.
Sounding the only immediate
criticism of Nixon’s report on
Vietnam policy, Javits said he
sensed “a danger of complacency
which I do not believe is justified
by the situation. I think there
should be a much greater sense
of urgency about the need to
withdraw from the major combat
responsibility there.”
Rudder Reported
‘Making Progress ’
HOUSTON — A&M President
Earl Rudder was reported “mak
ing good progress” this morning
at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.
A hospital spokesman said that
Rudder, still in serious condition,
had been moved from the hospi
tal’s operation recovery room to
a regular room. The spokesman
also said that the retired Army
general was “responding much,
much better to treatment.”
Rudder had remained in the re
covery room since Feb. 6 when
he was operated on to stop bleed
ing from a stomach ulcer. The
day before, at Methodist Hospital,
he had had a blood clot removed
from his brain.
Rudder first became ill at his
College Station home Jan. 29.
For KAMU- TV
tion is not the strength in china.
“It is not really a poor coun
try,” he said, “but the huge popu
lation has degraded its natural
resources. The 800 million popu
lation is really a millstone around
China’s neck. A population of 400-
500 million would make it a very
strong country.”
He said that Japan was an
other case entirely.
By the end of the century,
Japan will be one of the three
super powers,” he predicted.
“Japan now has an economy of
$200 million. It has been predicted
that by 1975 it will have risen to
$400 million and by 1980 to $700-
800 million.
“Sometime in the 1990’s Japan
will pass the United States in
per capita income and by 2000
will pass America in gross na
tional product,” he continued.
“The U. S. should not try to
block the Japanese growth,” he
said. “We have to maintain a
reasonable attitude.”
He said that Russia has a
modest arms supremacy over the
U. S. that was increasing every
day, but that it was nothing to
lose sleep over.
There is very little concern
about the shift in balance of pow
er because it is hard to visualize
any result from this change, he
said.
“Very few military experts be
lieve the Soviets will try a pre
planned military strike,” he said.
“The problem will arise however
if the powers come to a show
down that one power must either
attack or back down.”
“We don’t want to be the
world’s policemen,” he said.
“We’re more of a riot squad or
national guard. The question is,
if not us, then who?”
Going ‘On the Air’ a Hectic Experience
By Bob Robinson
Battalion Staff Writer
“Earlier today, KAMU-TV’s
special reporter Bob Robinson
spoke to Shelby Metcalf in re
grads to the A&M win over
TCU Saturday night in Fort
Worth ...”
The monitors in the various
rooms of Bagley Hall blared out
Mel Chastain’s voice as I left the
studio and headed to the trans
mitter room to see the remainder
of the “Campus and Community
Today” broadcast on the color
monitor there.
Robert Wenck, theater arts in
structor and director of the Ag gie
Players’ coming production, “Un
der the Sycamore Tree,” was with
me. We had just come out of a
60-second live interview on the
play.
As Chastain finished his lead-
in for the audio tape, Steve Orth-
wein, news director, pushed the
button that switched the shot to
a color slide of Metcalf.
“Roll audio,” he said into the
mike - headphone combination
that’s used for communication
during a live production.
There was a second of silence
Teach-In Meeting Delayed;
Slide Show Planned Monday
Tonight’s meeting of the com
mittees of the Symposium for
Environmental Awareness has
been delayed a week, Bill Voigt,
student coordinator, said Wednes
day.
The meeting has been resched
uled for next Thursday, in room
206 of the Architecture building.
Monday, Dr. Richard J. Bal-
bauf of the Wildlife Sciences De
partment will give a slide show
entitled “Environmental Con
science.” The lecture will be held
at 5 p.m. in room 113 of the Bio
logical Sciences Building.
Voigt said that the meeting
was delayed so the committees
will have more time to organize
and plan their projects. He added
that the meeting will probably
consist of committee reports.
Each of the 14 committees has a
different function he said.
Voigt said the committees are
to arrange a TV panel, slide show
presentations, a lecture series, a
senate committee for assimilation
of environmental degradation,
displays in the Memorial Student
Center and downtown business
areas, a committee for action in
the Student Senate, programs in
local schools, a poster committee,
a committee to stimulate letter
writing to Congressmen and an
ad hoc committee.
There are three other commit
tees in the symposium. One of
these is to stimulate interest and
cooperation among the clergymen,
another will try to obtain a proc
lamation from the mayor of Col
lege Station to name April 22
Environmental Day, and a third
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
is to make bumper stickers and
reprinted article available to stu
dents.
Jim Crisp, publicity and bump
er sticker committee member,
said that the stickers will be
available to students for 25 cents
each and will bear the inscrip
tions, “Stamp out air pollution,”
and “Have you thanked the green
plant today?”. Crisp added that
only 50 have been ordered because
it is not known how well the idea
will go over.
Crisp also said that the sym
posium will probably start push
ing for student interest the week
before April 22. Literature,
speeches and panel discussions
will preclude the Environmental
Day program. Crisp added that
it was hoped the program would
create an interest in the local en
vironment that would stimulate
community members into action.
while the monitor showed the
smiling image in full color.
“We’re off the air! Someone get
the transmitter, we’re off the
air!”
Someone yelled from the VTR
(Video Tape Recorder) room, on
the other side of the master con
trol booth from the transmitter
room—“What happened?”
“I don’t know. The transmitter
shut down. Where’s an engi
neer?”
Wenck and I were still looking
at the monitor. The picture was
still there, because it showed the
picture after it left master coli-
trol and before it got to the trans
mitter.
I glanced at one of the moni
tors that was supposed to pick
up the transmitter signals. The
screen was covered with snow.
Wenck and I were still in our
seats when Tom Tcimpidis, one
of the engineers, arrived. Even
if we did know where the “start”
button was located, we wouldn’t
have known what to do with it.
Tcimpidis hit the button several
times, sending flashes of light
through several of the monitors
that were v in the room. In the
meantime, Orthwein had switched
back to the camera in the studio
and to Chastain.
The transmitter was re-started
less than a minute after it had
shut off and “Campus and Com
munity Today” was again on the
air.
“Mike and cue him,” the news
director ordered the cameraman.
Chastain finished the news
story with a synopsis of what
Metcalf had said in the taped
interview.
The rest of the live news pro
gram continued until 7 p. m. and
network programming was con
tinued until sign-off at 10 p. m.—
with no problems.
Sometime the next morning—
between midnight and 4 a. m.—
the engineering staff discovered
what caused the transmitter to
quit. The audio level going into
the transmitter had been too high.
It had caused an overload in the
circuits and the protective circuit
breaker was activated. The prob
lem was fixed.
Tuesday, KAMU-TV signed on
at 2 p. m. and the production staff
for “Campus and Community To
day” stayed busy in the news
room preparing for the evening
program. At 6:23 p.m., the trans
mitter again decided it no longer
wanted to stay on the air.
The studio was lighted and all
personnel stood by under over
10,000 watts of lighting, ready
to start the newscast as soon as
the transmitter was started.
It was almost 45 minutes, how
ever, before the problem could be
found and solved.
Wiring within the transmitter
had shortcircuited, causing an
overload of voltage to go to the
“final” tubes, the ones which boost
the power to the antenna, and
burned one of them out. It was
replaced.
The transmitter continued to
operate until sign-off at 10
o’clock that night. Lights were
on most of the night while the
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