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Che Battalion HE inch Ige I Volume 60 acU hi] i-aU ito^ Wicis ‘Wayfarers’ Win 1st Place In Talent Show A crowd of about 1,300 watched a four-man group called The Way- farers take first place in the 1962 Aggie Talent Show Friday night in fluion Hall. L> lit >en! Nekt M Barrows was the runner-up in [last year’s Aggie Talent show when he gave several solo renditions of folk songs. Winning over nine other acts, the group played and sang their way through three folk-song num bers including “Johnny Booker,” ‘Bevond These Mountains” and “Going Away For To Leave You.” The students making up the group are Olvn Barrows, Bill Sturgeon, Mack Moore and Louis King. Second place winner Friday night was a folk song duo of Jimmy Post and Barry King. The third place winner was Sal Marquez, a solo trumpet player, who plays in both imIi the Aggie Band and the Aggieland Orchestra. ite« uctil! Guess nlii Veteran radio and television per former Tom Martin acted as mas ter of ceremonies for the Show. Martin used sleight of hand along with his comedy routine to keep the audience laughing. MARTIN, WHO has made ap pearances in Las Vegas, New York, London, Rome, and Spain also pre sented the feature act of the show. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1962 Students’ Gift to TB Drive Ronald L. Mull, ’68, gives Mrs. W. E. McCune, chairman of the Brazos County Christmas Seal Drive, $195 which is the student body’s donation for this year. The money is 10 per cent of that collected by the Campus Chest. Campus Chest Winners Ken Stanton, chairman of the Student Welfare Committee, presents Jim Nance, first sergeant of Squadron 1, a plaque for Squadron 1, the unit which gave the most per man to the Campus Chest. INSIGHT INTO ISSUES. . ii- / Looking Back At SCONA Other acts which were included in the show were The Avantes, a four-man combo; Jose Antonio Na- Naver playing the flamenco guitar, Darrell Carr as a piano soloist, Eddie Bale and Larry Ewers in a guitar duet and Melvin Beyer and his combo. The Wayfarers won $25 for their first place effort. Second prize was $15 and the third place winner received $10, according to Ed Dun can, program chairman. As the winners of the Aggie Ta lent show, The Wayfarers will compete with college talent from all over the southwest at the an nual Intercollegiate Talent Show here Friday, March 8. The nine acts which made the show Friday night were selected from 16 hopefuls who auditioned for a place on the show. By KENT JOHNSTON Battalion Staff Writer Students and officials of A&M and other state-suported Texas colleges may see some important changes made to courses, degrees and tuition in mid-January as the 58th Legislature and two other state agencies meet to settle edu- dational matters. The Texas Legislature will de cide whether or not to increase tuition by $100 per year, the State Commission on Higher Education may allow A&M to offer three more degrees and the Legislative Budget Board will recommend that colleges not receive money to teach courses labeled “high school- ish.” The question of raised tuition is a complicated one, and will be one of the stickiest fiscal problems facing the legislature. Inflation, Texas pride and gen eral economic conditions are three factors in the issue which will in fluence lawmakers’ decisions. The raise would mean an ad ditional $11,000,000 in higher edu cation funds, would mean that some students on the financial borderline could no longer attend college and would also determine how much more tax money Texans ttill be asked to divy out in fu ture years. RIGHT NOW, students at state schools are paying only one eighth of their educational costs, and if they were to transfer to private Schools, they would have to pay fees from five to eight times big ger, point out those who favor the fee hike. By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion Managing Editor Can withdrawal of U. S. aid from a foreign country help rela tions with that country? Is socialism the answer to help young, independent, but underde veloped, nations get off on the right foot? Is education a pre-requisite to a solution of the population ex plosion ? These were some of the many questions on the tongues of dele gates to the eighth Student Con ference on National Affairs. The conference, which ended Saturday, brought together representatives of about 65 schools in the United States, Mexico and Canada. About For instance, Austin College charges $800 for tuition; Trinity charges $820; Texas Christian, $600; Baylor, $600; and South ern Methodist University charges $750. In addition, most of these schools have other required non tuition fees. Although these comparsions may or may not be revlevent, the real problem facing the decision-makers is this dilemma: SHOULD TEXAS have inexpen sive schools on a less than first rate level, supported by the taxes of all Texans, or should students pay more in order to raise school standards and lighten the tax payer’s load ? The powerful Legislative Budget Board will recommend to the Leg islature on Jan. 15 that low-level courses taught in state colleges be abolished because they feel that institutions of higher learning are not the place to give students a second chance at high school cours es in which they were weak. The boai'd wants to get rid of courses in “remedial reading,” “advanced arithmetic” and “begin ning algebra” which earned stu dents a calculated 73,041 semester hours of credit last year. THE UNIVERSITY of Texas, West Texas State College and Texas Tech were the only state- supported colleges from a total of 20 in Texas which were not blam ed for offering the courses. A&M was named for “giving away” 2,577 hours last year to students taking remedial algebra and other high-school level courses. 150 delegates attended the foui’- day exchange of ideas. High points of the conference were major addresses by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who drew more than 9,000 persons into G. Rollie White Coliseum last Thursday, and other top spokes men of the free world. WEDNESDAY, retired Gen. Frederic H. Smith, who was vice chief of staff of the Air Force until last June, and Mason Will- rich, advisor to the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency spoke. Smith said that the answer to nuclear weapons is to find new weapons that will neutralize power of so-called “ultimate” weapons. . The board feels that Texas is paying twice for teaching some students reading and math, and particularly criticized college cours es with the titles “Study Tour of Europe,” “American Theatre Tour” and “Literary Tour of Eu rope.” A&M has asked the State Com mission on Higher Education to allow it to grant bachelor and master of arts degrees in govern ment when the Commission meets Jan. 14. Permission is also sought by A&M to conduct a program in lab oratory animal medicine leading to a master of science degree. Rudder To Speak In Chapel Series President Earl Rudder will speak at 7 a.m. Wednesday in the All Faiths Chapel in the final program of the current series of the Faculty Christian Fellowship. His an nounced topic is “The Idea of a University — in a Christian Sur rounding.” The Faculty Christian Fellow ship has met each Wednesday since the first week of November with a different faculty or staff mem ber speaking briefly. Coffee and doughnuts are served at the YMCA Building following the program. A vote is scheduled Wednesday to determine the future of the Fa culty Christian Fellowship. Music for meditation will be played from 6:50 a.m. until the program begins. The West Point graduate said: “This is not senseless exten sion of the arms race. It is, in stead, a reasoned and natural ef fort to bring the defense into bal ance with the offense. And, in fact, to provide a new way to prevent wars.” Smith said that in 2,500 years of recorded military history there had been no “ultimate” weapon. Willrich, 29-year old ex-delegate to the 18-nation disarmament talks in Geneva, said: “The issue before us is whether the leading powers in the world today will be able to effectively deal with the crisis in human his tory which the revolutionary de velopments of modern weapons has produced.” HE SAID the U. S. must meet two challenges which might well decide the survival of this country as a nation. The two hurdles are the challenges of communism and the challenges of the arms race, he explained. The second day of the conference was loaded with food for delegates’ ears. Vice President Johnson, in his address that afternoon, said that a solution to world tensions involved more than “pills, payrolls, presitge and peace talks.” He said: “If we are seriously to under take the relieving of world ten sions, a greater degree of politi cal courage, political imagination and political innovation will be required — in both developed and underdeveloped worlds.” Thursday nght the president of the council of the Organization of American States, Ambassador Gon- zalo J. Facio of Costa Rica, told the delegates that Castro was ready to be knocked over by an internal rebellion. Facio, whose brother Alvero was a star swimmer and diver at A&M in the early ’40s’, said: “AT THIS moment Castro is dis credited among his own people. His precarious hold on his fol lowers can be easily broken, pro vided we do not give him time to recuperate. A few, but immedi ate, blows by the partisians of freedom can turn the tide and bring him down.” Facio, Costa Rican ambassador to the U. S., said he felt an in vasion of the Cuban island by A- merican forces was unneccesary because of Castro’s internal con dition. Friday night former United Na- S tions Ambassador James J. ,Wads- j worth, perhaps the most impos- i ing and glib of the conference i speakers, said the world will never i have permanent peace as long as a “playground” attitude among nations exists. He said that countries talk past each other and make propaganda speeches at the conference tables. SATURDAY THE featured and final speaker was Felix R. Mc- Knight, vice president and execu tive editor of The Dallas Times- Herald. McKnight summarized the conference’s high points and told delegates that the United States and the free world had been vic timized by “a monumental bluff.” , Drawing on experience from a trip to Russia and an interview with Khrushchev, McKnight said: “Don’t give Khrushchev ‘little compromises’ to take him off the hook with his own people, who have heard him boast many times that he would run up out of Ber lin .. . “Give him nothing. It is that sort of diplomatic finagling that would kill us.” But while the delegates and ob servers agreed that the speeches were informative and highly worth-while, it was the round table discussion sessions that brought the highest praise. In these break-down groups eight in all, students presented their own comments and ideas on the points covered by the speakers. With leaders from edu- ation and business to provide di rection in case the discussion got off the beaten path, students me thodically examined every facet of possible sources of world tension, the conference’s main topic. The students were not trying to come to any conclusions about the problems, but rather to gain an understanding of them. Gen. Smith, the first SCONA speaker, hit the nail on the head with his description of the con ference: “An intellectual smorgas bord.” Battalion Holiday Starts Day Early The Battalion will begin the Christmas vacation one day ear ly, with our last edition before the holidays scheduled Wednes day. Our annual safety edition will be published Wednesday, while no paper will be published Thurs day when classes are recessed for the holidays. The first 1963 edition is sche duled Friday, Jan. 4, with regu lar publication to resume the following week. Classes will resume after the holidays on Thursday, Jan. 3. Big Changes In Making From New Legislature Number J8 Fish Election Protest Heard By Commission A tie vote for secretary-treasurer in the freshman class run-off election Friday prompted a protest before the election I commission Monday night and a recommendation from that group for disqualification of a candidate. Kn other results from the election Charles W. “Bill” Mil- ; likin defeated Michael D. Ashworth for class president; Rich- ! ard M. “Tom” Dooley heat Michael E. Denney and Ellis C. Gill for vice president; and in the run-off for social secretary Early B. Denison defeated Elliott L. “E. Lee” Higgins. In the protest Harris Pappas charged that his opponent, Miro Pavelka, violated campaign regulations on the day of the run-off. In his formal complaint Pappas stated, “My opponent passed out hand"* ■ cards in two areas which are off limits according to regu lations. The areas were the voting line and the grounds of the Memorial Student Center.” Pavelka told the commission, “I have no defense other than the fact that I didn’t know I was violating a regulation.” HE STATED that he would not have been eager to “throw two weeks of hard campaigning away by knowingly violating a regula tion.” A1 Wheeler, election commission chairman, told the commission that he had explained the regulations to the freshman candidates prior to the opening of campaigns. The question was raised as to how the regulation reads. Shelton Best, student body president, said that the regulation was not a written one, but a “rule of prece dent.” Pavelka told the commission that an upperclassman had told him that campaigning in the MSC was illegal. He said that he went to the advisor to the commission, Wayne Smith, who also told him that campaigning in the MSC was illegal. HOWEVER, Pavelka said he left the conversation with Smith under the impression that cam paigning outside the MSC would be legal. He said that he cam paigned a short time outside the MSC, but that he “felt so bad” about the error he had made that he went back to his dorm. Pappas said, “If I had lost by 50 or more votes I could be com pensated by the fact that Pavelka quit campaigning. But, because it was a tie, I feel that the illegal campaign made the difference in the vote.” The vote by the commission which recommended that Pavelka be disqualified, places the matter before the Student Senate for final action. Pavelka may protest be- * fore the Senate if he elects to do so. FOLLOWING THE vote on the regulation the group began to discuss the "vagueness of the elec tion regulations. It was suggested that steps should be taken to set the regulations down in writing. James Carter was appointed by Wheeler to work as chairman of a committee to study the present regulations and to write a com plete set of regulations to be con sidered for acceptance. Pavelka said that he did not know whether or not he would protest before the Senate. He did say that he would be present at the next Senate meeting to en courage that some definite election regulations be established. “I hate to get off to a start like this,” Pavelka said. But he said that he has not lost his interest in campus politics and that he will definitely be trying again. Louisiana Clubs Schedule Parties During Holidays The South Louisiana and Shreve- poi't Hometown Clubs have slated two dances during the coming holiday period. The New Orleans Aggie. Exes and South Louisiana club will spon sor a Christmas dance Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the Loyola Uni versity cafeteria in New Orleans. Music will be furnished by the Matadors. Admission is $2 a couple. The Shreveport club will hold its annual New Year’s Dance Mon day, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m. in the P&S Hotel party room. Danny Harri son and the Impacks will furnish music. All Aggies and their quests have been invited to both parties. Senator Calls Tuition Hike Anti-Educational, Absurd’ HOUSTON <2P) _ Sen. Ralph! Yarborough, D-Tex., warned Mon- j day America is putting a money i tag on* college education when the proper unit of value should be the brain tag. “Texas suffers from a lack of j college trained people, yet we hear absurd proposals now to hike | college tuition rates even higher j at the next session of the legis-1 lature,” he said. . 5 I “This is equaled in shortsight edness only by a proposal at the federal level that college students finance their college educations by bank loans guaranteed by the fed eral government.” Yarborough termed both propos als anti-educational saying tuition is too high now. THE SENATOR said the loca-’ tion of space exploration activi- ' ties in Houston will prove a great i stimulus to education in the South- j west. “But if Texas is to profit by i this stimulus, it must have direc tion and support,” Yarborough j said. “That support must come ' from the public treasury, state | and national.” , \ The senator spoke at an appre ciation dinner given in his honor. He said peace in our time is possible if we work hard for it! and spend money to prepare for | it, as we prepare to spend money for war. “In an alternating hot and cold war, we speak of education for peace. Here at the beginning of the Christmas season, it is not too much to hope that some day peace will break out, as we now fear war might break out,” he said. Annual Service For Christmas Set Wednesday The annual Christmas service will be held Wednesday, at 8 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. Dr. Guy Greenfield, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Col lege Station, will deliver the Chris tmas message. The program will include the following: invocation — A1 Hugh- lett, chaplain of the 1st Brigade; scripture reading by Bob Snedaker, chaplain of the 2nd Wing; prayer by Don Whitehall, civilian chap lain; and introduction of speaker- by Paul Smith, hand chaplain. Special music will be provided. This annual event is being pro moted by the YMCA and the stu dent chaplains.