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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
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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.
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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)