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BdttclIlOft College Station, Texas Cloudy, windy, warm Wednesday, March 31, 1971 Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Winds southerly 15-30 mph. Scattered afternoon thun der showers. High 81°, low 62°. Friday — Clear to partly cloudy. Winds northerly 15-25 mph. High 72°, low 54°. 845-2226 255 file for election to ’71-’72 positions SOPHOMORE CADET Keith Kaufman smiles at nurse Lowanda Hunter as he partici pates in the annual blood drive for the Wad ley Institute of Dallas Tuesday. The drive continued today. (Photo by Bob Cox) By MIKE STEPHENS Battalion Staff Writer Candidates for the Student Senate, class Civilian Student Council and University Women offices for the school year 1971- 1972 have been announced. The date of the elections has been tentatively set for April 28. A total of 255 students have applied for the offices, according to Dale Foster, publicity vice- president of the Election Com mission. The Sbisa Newsstand, the basement of the Memorial Student Center and the Guard Room in Dormitory 2 have been designated as election sites. A valid spring fee slip is the only qualification according to Foster. Foster said that a new loca tion for campaign signs has been established. The old Guion Hall corner which was used for the A&M-city delegation schedules Paris trip in May for POWs By JANIE WALLACE Battalion Staff Writer A&M students will be repre sented in Paris on May 17 in an effort to urge release of Amer ican prisoners of war. Student Senate President Kent Caperton joins Connie Eckard, Texas Aggie editor, Larry Locke, president of the Brazos County A&M Club, and Jack Cumpton, president of the Bryan-College Station Jaycees. “We will deliver letters asking for humane treatment of prison ers; try to see different em bassies asking for their support and try to see the North Viet namese delegation at the Paris peace talks,” Caperton said. "Philosophically, I am not at tuned to this sort of thing, but it is a valid cause,” Caperton continued. “The prisoners should be treated humanely—both sides, of course.” Project chairman James Jett explained that the requests of the delegation would not concern it- «elf with politics. The delegation will not condone or condemn the Vietnam conflict. Cumpton outlined the objectives of the “On to Paris” delegation as 1) fair and humane treatment of all prisoners; 2) a complete list of all prisoners and 3) even tually, total release of all prison ers. “We are firmly convinced that University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. this effort will awaken the North Vietnamese to our feeling that we care,” Cumpton said. He continued to say that he feels that the project is the most humanitarian cause a person can work toward. “We are not taking the ap proach that we aren’t going to succeed—not a defeatist attitude,” he said. He did elaborate on the ap proach he would take in present ing the letters to the North Viet namese: “I would let the North Vietnamese know that all Amer icans are concerned. They know the relatives (of prisoners) and the government are interested.” “Our hope is that we can see the North Vietnamese,” Locke said. “I don’t know how many groups have been successful.” “We want to show the North Vietnamese that we are different from them, Locke said. “I heard that their government isn’t in terested in their POW’s because they have ‘disgraced’ the coun try.” Both Locke and Cumpton said that Bobbie Meyer, whose hus band is a confirmed POW, has started her own project of writ ing various groups that have been to Paris. Each group completes a type of questionnaire which explains the “ins and outs” of receiving an audience from their experi ence. A recent Paris delegation from Houston will talk to the Bryan- College Station delegation which is a cross-section of the Univer sity and Bryan-College Station. “I believe that we are one of the first—if not the first— to send a student body president,” Cumpton said. “We aren’t trying to send a diplomat, a congress man, but a regular guy to prove all America cares.” Caperton said that the presi dent-elect of the Student Senate might be the most qualified per son, if he has to fulfill previous commitments during the summer.” The unique effectiveness of the delegation, all former A&M stu dents, can be attributed, accord ing to Caperton, to the heritage of A&M; to the number of gradu ates of A&M in Vietnam and to the concern for former class mates. “Maybe the North Vietnamese will be more responsive if they become knowledgeable of our par ticular situation,” Caperton said. As the representative for the Association of Former Students, Eckard agreed with other mem bers of the delegation as to the usefulness of going to try and talk to the North Vietnamese. “Perhaps we can be the drop of water to put out the fire,” Eckard said. He said that you never know how it will turn out. “You simply hope that the delegation will work. You don’t know how much good it would do, but it certainly can’t do any harm,” he said. Cumpton said that the delega tion would work eight to ten hours a day for a week to ten days to gain an audience with the North Vietnamese. “We are going to work, not to tour Paris,” Cumpton said. “Hopefully, we might have a pseudo-A&M club meeting there to enlist the aid of former stu dents in Paris or the Paris area,” Eckard said. To send the delegation to Paris is another project in itself. Each delegate is expected to have $1,200 for the estimated cost of a complete trip. Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, is conducting the fund drive for the campus. “In the April issue of the Texas Aggie, an ad calling attention to the MIA-POW problem will be accompanied by a letter to the North Vietnamese written in Vietnamese,” Eckard said. “When the readers sign the let ter, they are requested to send money up to a dollar for a repre sentative of the Association to go to Paris,” he explained. Eckard is now the representative. The Jaycees are using an en tirely different approach. For their part in the delegation, they want to say to the North Viet namese that every citizen in Col lege Station and Bryan con tributed to their expenses. “In my opinion, I want every one to give that nickel, dime or quarter, Jett commented. “We want community involvement. I’m sure we could receive the money from large donations, but that isn’t the point. signs has been replaced with an area directly across the street. The exact area is on a map in the Memorial Student Center Student Programs Office. The Sbisa area for signs will remain the same. Foster reminded candidates that a majority is required for the class office elections and a plurality is needed for the col lege representatives and Student Senate seats. Running for the Student Sen ate will be the following: Presi dent—John Sharp, Roger Miller, Bill Hamilton; Vice-President — Bill Hartsfield, Mike Essmyer; Recording Secretary — Dave Goodlin, Barb Sears; Treasurer —Spike Dayton, Sam Roosth; Parliamentarian — Tom Autrey, Lewis Zingery; Life Chairman— Mike Tiemann, Bill Darkoch, Layne Kruse; Issues Chairman— Kirby Brown, Wayne Edwards, James C. McLeroy; Welfare Chairman—R a n d y Ross, Dale Foster; Public Relations Chair man—Bruce Clay, Wayne Horn; Election Commission President— David Moore, John Dacus. Candidates for College Repre sentative are: Agriculture, two representatives per class, Senior —Greg Hodges, Bry Loyd, Steve Roper, Tra Lee, Kenny Hensley. Junior—Dan Newsome, Charles Lee, Calvin Ramage, Greg Rothe, Dave Kucherka, Mike Schlabach, Mark Kidd, Dennis Engelke. Sophomore—Phil Tuttle, Murray Edwards, James Goode, Homer Mills, Chuck Friesenhahn, Mark Dulaney, Mike Fields, Paul Gib son, Mark Hovenkamp. College of Architecture, one representative per class, Senior —Rob Lozano, Mike Tiemann, Ron Gafford, Derron Patterson, Ray Wenz, Andy Beck, Jerry Arterburn. Junior—N i c k Jiga, Tim Hill, Ronald Travis, Jim Later, Dudley Anderson, David Russell. Sophomore — Steve Wakefield, Randy Hagler, Buddy King, Bill Jung, Dave Goodlin, Doug Gauntt. College of Business, two repre sentatives per class; S e n i o r— Gary Singletary, Terry Rowan, Frank Richter, Kim Ratliff, El liott Orr, Tim Dunn. Junior— Mike Holley, Joe Carstens, Paul Nauschutz, Russell Phillips, Don Lawson, Lane Rees, Bob Lackey, Tim Coffey. Sophomore—Robert Vanrite, Carson Walker, Barry Bogart, Barry Bowden, Mark Mc- lean, Richard Wallace, Randy Ross. College of Education, two rep resentatives per class; Senior— Judy McConnell, Marilyn Mel- cher, Carl Richko. Junior—Son ny Stephens, Rusty Mclnturff, Bruce Brant, John C. Moore. Sophomore—Danny Holt, Kirk Chapman. College of Engineering, three representatives per class; Senior —J. P. Booth, Bob Chapman, Tony Best, James A. Carey, Mike Krenek, Alan Sims, John Dacus, Joe Nix, David Smith. Junior— Mike Slack, Jimmy Griffith, Mark Cuculic, Donald Spence, Jim Delony, David Stockard, Dan Zivney. Sophomore—John Willis, Jim Dennis, Robert Spearman, Bruce Mills, Gerald Stoermer, Fred Speck, Randal Carden, Steven Pargjans, Danny Fagan, Rudy Bernard. College of Liberal Arts, two representatives per class; Sen ior—James Spencer, Donald Kil- lingsworth, George Zahaczewsky, Michael J. Blythe, Scott Williams, Greg Eastin, Stan Friedli, Bill Hamilton. Junior—Hank Paine, Clyde Hays, Ty Griesenbeck, Sam Buser, John Keith Alaniz, Paul Turner. Sophomore—Dave Hig don, Steve Grayson, Randy Madi son, William Faber, John Rosen baum, Richard Welnack, Chet Ed wards, Gary Gooch, Marvin Bridges. College of Science, one repre sentative per class; Senior—rJohn Marrs, Mike Richardson, Mike Doan, Richard Hoyt, Danny Mil ler, Bruce Clay, Sam Dxmgan. Junior—Larry Roberts, Justin D’abadie, Brian Tschirhart, Steve Hook, Fred Campbell. Sophomore —Kent Hamilton, Darrell Griffin, Bob Stewart, Mark Lenneville, (See 255 file, page 4) Good poet relates reality, editor says By CHARLES MASTERSON Battalion Staff Writer “I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth I know not where.” “Damn careless,” John Ciardi, poetry editor for the “Saturday Review” and speaker for the Con temporary Arts Committee pre sentation, said Tuesday night in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Ciardi related his views on good poetry and on how the public school system is responsible to its students to develop an interest and background in the literary arts. “In art there is a natural truth,” Ciardi said, “I don’t think art is immoral or moral. I think it is identifying. Art helps to identify you.” Ciardi told how various centu ries of poetry succeeded or failed to meet up to his standards of good poetry. Ciardi felt the 19th century poets were too lofty and unreal in their approach of poet ry whereas the 17th century poets struck a happy medium between seriousness and humor to bring their points across. “It is the balance between these two aspects, seriousness and clev erness, that makes poetry inter esting and pleasurable,” Ciardi said, “Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Ciardi said anyone can spot a poem which is too lofty or un real. He said the truth of a poem is knowing when to say enough about your subject and relating its true qualities to the reader. “We are insulated against ex pressing our own emotions. We prepackage our emotions,” he said. “That is why art is constant ly revolutionizing because it re fuses to accept prepackaging.” Ciardi criticized Rod McKuen’s poems on the basis that they are prepackaged thoughts already present in everyone and tailored for sale to the public. Ciardi said that any good poet writes realistically allowing the reader the pleasure of recogni tion of reality in his subject. This would help the reader to sharpen his wits to the reality surrounding him, he said. Ciardi said this is where men tal contracts in the form of a poem form, rhythm, alliteration ad rhyme help the author present his picture of reality. “There is a moral obligation in poetry to not cheat on the con tracts you make within the poem with the reader,” Ciardi said, “Your character as an artist is determined by how well you meet these contracts.” Ciardi said some of the prob lems of understanding and writ ing poetry lie with the public school system. Ciardi cited too much rote learning in English, history and the social studies, as a partial problem. “There is no answer to a Shakespeare play or a poem,” Ciardi said, “We ought to be studying the questions to subjects instead of trying to fix rote an swers to them.” Ciardi said he feels the schools should limit discussion of poetry to the likes and differences of several select poems rather than trying to explain the various in terpretations in them. “I think our school ssytem is doing busy work and not devel oping criteria with which to make our personal judgments,” he said. Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. The inquiring Battman What’s your opinion on Galley’s conviction of murder? Jim Clark junior “He was not right in killing, nor did he truly perform a re quired duty. But Vietnam is a rotten war. If somebody honestly knew what we are trying to do there, a judgment could be made on Galley.” Tom McCullough senior “I believe that the verdict was obvious. It is unfortunate that the Army was caught in the cir cumstances of such a war.” Larry Hanes ' sophomore “I feel it is unfair for Lt. Gal ley to take the blame for all the war crimes going on in Vietnam. But I do feel if he’s guilty he ought to be punished as the jury sees fit.” Greg Martin junior “I think it was a mistake. I think the board yielded to public antiwar sentiment.” Sheryl Caronia freshman “I think it’s ridiculous. I don’t believe a man should be brought to trial for doing what he was sent to do in the first place. A military court, above all, should have known that.” Philip Elmore freshman “I think what happened to Lt. Galley was a result of politics. In my estimation he was doing his duty.” Rickey Smelley senior T believe Galley was wrong if in fact he did kill Vietnamese civilians and should be punished. His job was to fight the enemy not innocent civilians.” (Photos by Alan-Jon Zupan)