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dCi archive BOX 211 F • £ • 3 C Best Hits ‘Unethical’ Doctors In Corps Resignations By DAN LOUIS JR. Battalion News Editor Sheldon Best, student body president, Thursday ni^-ht lashed out at “unethical practices of several doctors in the Bryan- College Station area.” Mid-way in a regular Student Senate meeting Best asked Gregg Laughlin, Senate vice president, to assume the chair manship so that he might “ad dress the Senate on a topic of major importance.” More freshmen than usual are getting out of the Corps of Ca dets with medical excuses this year, Best told the Senate. He added that a study had been made which showed that the in crease o-f such excuses is not the fault of the College Hos pital. Best charged: “There are several doctors in our own back yard, the Bryan- College Station area, who will give a freshman a medical ex cuse, at a fee of $5 to $10, simply because the freshman says “I just can’t take it.’ ” The charges were based on re sults of students who, posing as freshmen, have gone to doctors in the area and asked for med ical excuses, Best said. He said that the study group felt sure that this alleged viola tion of ethical medical practices can be found in areas other than those mentioned. The student body president said, “I feel that this is some thing that should be looked into, therefore, I move that the Stu dent Senate recommend that the administration of the? A&M Col lege of Texas make a complete study of unethical medical prac tices concerning freshmen resig nations from the Cadet Corps.” The motion was passed with out a “no” vote. In the discussion leading to the vote on the motion, Jerry Vion, chairman of the student life committee, explained that a medical history is required for each student entering the Corps of Cadets, but that this history is usually not taken into con sideration when an excuse is issued by a doctor other than the student’s regular doctor or a college doctor. James P. Hannigan, dean of students and advisor to the Senate, suggested that the body consider that the recommenda tion “might be jumping on a symptom rather than the dis ease.” Hannigan went on to say that while the medical excuse is a way out of the Corps for a freshman, it is not the reason for his wanting to resign. Burt Terrill, Senate' publicity committee chairman, said the Corps Staff realizes that there are some things wrong with the Corps. “Efforts are being made to correct the problems,” the senior said. More freshmen are getting out of the Corps simply because an avenue of escape is available than are getting out because they can’t make their grades, Terrill said. “Freshmen don’t have a real idea of what they can get out of the Corps,” said Reggie Rich ardson, deputy Corps commander and official representative of the Corps to the Senate. “We are looking into this problem and hope to correct it,” he added. “I feel that freshman should be required to follow the chain of cormnand when he wants to resign from the Corps,” Best said during the discussion. “In the course of such action the source of a man’s problem might be found corrected.” Che Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1962 Number 43 LBJ To Give ‘Policy Address At SCON A New Mrs. A&M Reigns Saturday The Mrs. Texas A&M Contest and Dance, annually sponsored by the Aggie Wives Council, will be held Saturday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom from 1:80-11:30 p.m. Baylor Halts ‘Excessively Profane’ Play WACO G 2 ?) — Baylor University ■fresident Abner McCall said the I Baylor theater production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” is being cancelled after Thursday night’s performances because “it is felt the language of the play is not in keeping’ with the univer sity ideals.” McCall’s order came 24 hours I after a delegation of Baptist pas- | tors protested and demanded that the play be cancelled. Baylor is a Baptist school. McCALL said he asked the drama department to cancel the six re maining performances because he received numerous complaints of the play’s excessive profanity and offensive words and phases. Baylor Theater had signed a con tract with the widow of author Eugene O’Neill which stipulated the play could not be cut or al tered. The play lasts nearly four hours. “The objection is not to the gen eral message of the play but to the excessive strong profanity profusely used to convey this mes sage,” McCall said. Chairman Paul Baker of the Baylor drama department ex pressed dismay and regret at the order. “NEVER before has my integri ty been questioned,” Baker said. I "About ‘Long Day’s Journey In to Night,” Baker said, “of course ’ it is a strong play. Never be fore have I put on a play with such language and atmosphere. But *t is the greatest play written hy the greatest playwright that America has produced. “Its is a morality play. Its theme is the understanding of the iiuman soul. Film ‘Code 30 9 Scheduled Monday A safety film Monday will kick-off Safety Week, sponsored jointly by the Insurance Society and The Battalion. The film, “Code 30,” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Guion Hall. There will be no admission charge. Also on the program Monday night is an address by Floyd Tippit, area safety officer from the Texas Highway Patrol. Mrs. Texas A&M, to be chosen from 32 wives vying for the title, will receive 50 silver dollars, a cup and a bouquet of roses from the Aggieland Flower Shop as prizes. The winner’s court will consist of a first runner-up and a second runner-up. The first runner-up will be awai’ded $30 in silver dol lars and a gift certificate from the Lady Fair Beauty Salon. The second runner-up will re ceive $20 in silver dollars and a gift certificate from the Beverly Braley dress shop. Music for the dance will be fur nished by. the Keynotes, a local dance band. Tickets for the dance are on sale at the main desk in the Memorial Student Center at $2 a couple. Door prizes will be given to those attending the dance. Gift spon sors are the Varsity Shop, Lester’s, Margolis Shoes and the Sew ’N Sew shop. Free baby sitting will be pro vided during the dance by the A&M Methodist Church. Judges for the contest will be Mrs. Beverly Braley, Mrs. Helen Snyder, J. E. Loupot, Gus A. Ellis and W. N. Colson. All contestants are married to students currently enrolled at A&M. Graduate Record Exams Tomorrow Seniors planning to finish in January and graduate students who have not already done so are scheduled to take Graduate Ree- oi’d Examinations Saturday in the Chemistry Building. Time of the testing and indi vidual seating assignments are posted on the bulletin board of each student’s major department. Balloon’s Release Due This Afternoon Test launching of the Strato- scope II research balloon has been postponed a second time due to weather conditions. The testing time has been set for 4 p.m. Friday at the launch site near Palestine. Carrying a load of 6,300 pounds and filled with 14,500 pounds of helium, the balloon is a project of Princeton Univer sity researchers and the Na tional Center for Atmospheric Research. Trustees of NCAR include Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice chancellor for development of the A&M System, and Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology. The Stratoscope II project is planned to put a 36-inch tele scope 15 miles up. Friday’s launch will be a trial run for the project. Grant Given To Academy Annual funds of $75,000 have been received by the Texas Max-i- time Academy to develop and fos ter its training progi'am, Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent of the academy, said Thursday. Funds are provided by the fed- ei’al government under the Mari time Act of 1958. This sum is in addition to state-appropriated funds of about $150,000, Dodson added. Federal funds will be used as follows: $55,000 for installation of electrical, turbine, and related labs at Galveston; $10,000 for the sum mer cruise; and $10,000 for in structional purposes, also at Gal veston. Dodson also added that he is still considering acceptance of ap plicants for the spring semester. V ice President Speaks Thursday Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will make a major “policy” speech when he addresses the eighth annual Stu dent Conference on National Affairs here Thursday. The four-day conference gets underway Wednesday. A member of Johnson’s Washington staff was oh camnus earlier this week to discuss final arrangements with SCONA VIII leaders and advisors along with college officials. The envoy said the vice president’s address “concerned U. S. policy.” Johnson is slated to arrive at Easterwood Airport be fore noon Thursday. He will be accompanied by Mrs. John son and possibly by his daughter Lynda. He will talk to a Junior A Chamber of Commerce group at a noon luncheon before his major address at 1:30 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. S'CHOOL authorities have okayed the suspension of classes Thursday afternoon to allow students to hear the speech. Classes will be made up Saturday morning. Following the SCONA address the Coi’ps of Cadets will hold a x’eview in the vice president’s hon or. Johnson is scheduled to leave by plane shortly after 5 p. m. WHILE THE vice president and his wife are on campus Mi’s. Eaid Rudder will host a luncheon for Mrs. Johnson in the Memoi’ial Stu dent Center. If Miss Johnson is able to make the trip she will be treated to a meal in Duncan Dining- Hall. She will be escorted by Corps Commander Bill Nix. The vice president’s aide and driver while hei’e will be SCONA vice chairman Paul Dx-esser. Mrs. Johnson’s driver and escort will be Gi’eat Issues Chairman Bob Wimbish. Elahoi’ate plans, including co ordination with Secret Service agents, local Democratic party brass, the Junior Chamber of Com merce and college officials are now being devised by SCONA committeemen under the direction of chief SCONA advisor J. Wayne Stark. Air Force Dance,, Sweethea rtCon test Tonight In Shisa The annual Air Force Ball, to be highlighted by the presentation of the Air Force sweetheart, will be held from 8-12 tonight in Shisa •' Dining Hall. SUZANNE HARPER ill A&M, Other Schools Plan Coordinated Alumni Drives A&M and 21 other colleges and universities in Texas and Arkan sas have confirmed plans to co- ox-dinate the annual Alumni Giving campaigns in 14 Texas cities dur ing 1963. There will be no pooling of funds. The colleges are uniting in a program called College Loyalty Alumni Support Program (CLASP). Confirmation of the program came at a special CLASP meeting held in conjunction with the American Alumni Council Dis trict IV conference, which ends to night. CHAIRMAN of the CLASP pro- gi’am for 1963 is Richard “Buck” Weirus, director of the develop ment fund of the A&M Former Students Association. Weirus said CLASP 1963 will begin with sixteen of the schools participating in a two-week alumni fund-raising campaign in Corpus Christi, Jan. 21-31. Other spx-ing campaigns will be held in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth and Tyler. Campaigns are planned for next fall in Wichita Falls, Midland, Odessa, Beaumont, Port Arthur and Lubbock. Slated to take part in the CLASP 1963 drives axe Abilene Christian College, University of Arkansas, Austin College, Baylor University, Edwai’d’s University, St. Mary’s University, Southern Methodist Unh-ersity, Southwestern Univer sity, Southwest Texas State Col lege, Texas Christian University, Texas Tech College, Texas Univer sity, Texas Woman’s University, Trinity University and West Texas State College. Objectives of CLASP accoi’ding to Weims are: (1) to dramatize to the public the value and needs of higher education; (2) to in crease the number of alumni do- nore and dollars for each of the participating schools; (3) to denx- East Texas State College, Hax-din- i onsti-ate that private and public Simmons University, Incarnate ; institutions can work together on Word College, Mary Hardin-Bay-■ a common problem; and (4) to lor College and McMurry College, stimulate a healthy spirit of com- OTHER CLASP participants are petition among the alumni of each Our Lady of the Lake College, St. I institution. Store Profits Of $28,400 Given Activities The transfer of $28,400 of the net profits of the Exchange Store for the 1961-62 fiscal year to 16 student body programs was announced Friday by the chair man of the Exchange Stox-e Ad visory Boax’d. He is college Busi ness Manager C. A. Roeber. The transfer raises to $190,000 the amount of profits allocated since 1952 to benefit various stu dent life programs, Roeber said. THE LATEST transfer recent ly was given final approval by the A&M System Board of Directors. The Advisory Board establish ed this distribution of $28,400 of the net profits fi’oixx the last fiscal | j|||, year: Student activities club aid, $8,-!||||' 350: bonfire, Student Senate, All ! | Colleee Calendar, veil leaders, and j ^ the Who’s Who Committee, $800; 1 |K| religious life program, $2,000; Hensel Park improvements, $500. Also Rifle and pistol teams, $1,800; Cadet Corps headquarters, $500; civilian student government, $500; dormitory athletic equip- I ment, $1,000; hand awards and trips, $2,100; Ross Volunteers and Freshman Drill Team, $1,800; Ag gie Players, $1,500; Rodeo Club and Quarter Horse Show, $2,000; phy sical tducation recreational clubs equipment, travel and supplies, $3,- 000; Singing Cadets, $1,650; “The A&M Review,” for competition prizes, $100; and Cadet Corps a- wards and trophies, $800. THE ADVISORY Board voted the retention of $27,347 by the Tickets are on sale at the cash ier’s window of the Memorial Stxi- dent Center for $2 per couple. All Air Force cadets and senior Army cadets may attend. *•? THE BALL will be a musical . . > double-header with two groups, ; the John Sullivan Orchesti’a and the Leo Baxter Band, providing music throughout the dance. Widely known for its decora tions, the Air Force Ball will have a World War II theme. Featured decorations will be A pax-achutes draped fi'om the ceiling U-,; of the dining hall and numerous mura ls depicting World War II J||i|§ aircraft. | 1 ONE OF five Air Force sweet s''''9 heart finalists will be named this ,'j year’s sweetheart and presented to the cadets and their dates at 10:30 p.m. The finalists and their escorts are: -JNi, Suzanne Harper from San An- tonio, escorted by Ray Jones, Class ’’ A of ’64; ■ JINGER LEWIS Jinger Lewis from Edcouch, es- skMh corted by Richard L. Burns, Class of ’66; Lynn Addison from New Boston, escorted by Fi’ank Cox, Class of ’65; Carolyn Fish from Nedexdand, escorted by David Minaldi, Class of ’64 and Jan Sharp from Sinton, escorted by Tex-ry Pxxllin, Class of ’63. A NINE-MAN committee of Air Force and Army cadets ai’x’anged details of the dance. Chairman for the committee is Reggie Rich- ai’dson. Committee mexxibers ai’e Randy Jones, Ceoi’ge Wiederaenders, Rob ert Thornton, Frank Townsend, Carl Vanderheider, A1 Simmons, Jimmy Johnson and Tim Jaeckle. LYNN ADDISON JAN SHARP Bryan Man Indicted In Wake Of SWC Basketball Probe A Bryan man who refused to answer investigators’ questions about alleged Southwest Confer ence basketball shaving was in- Exchange Store for operating and j dicted Thursday by the Travis further improvement of facilities. | < ^ oan ty s ra J 1 t J ui ^ It also voted to study additional space for the x-etail operation of the store. Pearson took the fifth amendment 44 times in x’efusing to answer questions in a hearing in Austixx last July. Travis County District Attorney Tom Blackwell told Associated He is M. D. (Duck) Mallax*d. Press newsmen that the case will He was indicted for contempt of be tiansferi’ed to the county at- the legislature along with M. C. torney’s office for prosecution. , Pearson of Austin and E. D. (Sig) ! Contempt of the legislature is Figures released by the Advisory 1 Dickson of Dallas. j a misdemeanor chax-ge in Texas. Board show this distribution of j Peareon and Dickson also re- j The contempt citations were for- profits during the nine fiscal years j fused to answer the House General j warded to the grand jury by Black- fronx 1952 until the last period: Investigating Committee’s ques- j well after he received them from Memorial Student Center, $40,000; , tions concerning point fixing and the house committee, student welfare and recreation, ; bookmaking. The General Investigating Com- $91,826; Ross Volunteers and, Mallard declined answers 125 mittee spearheaded the recent Freshman Drill Team, $8,350; Ag-' times in a hearing last May held probe into alleged Southwest Con- gie Players, $6,155; hand awards in Waco. Dickson refused 292 ference basketball gambling ac- and trips, $15,880. | times to answer questions and tivities.