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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 19. 1963
Number 83
Head, Huddleston Given Top
MSC Council, SCONA Posts
The Memorial Student Center Council filled two big
campus jobs Monday night when it elected Howard Head
president of the MSC’s governing body for the next vear and
chose Russell Huddleston as chairman for SCONA IX.
Head, a junior veterinary medicine major from Richard
son, is presently serving as council vice president.
Huddleston, a junior chemical engineering major from
San Antonio, is a three-vear veteran of the Student Con
ference on National Affairs.
OTHER COUNCIL action selected next year’s chairmen
for five other MSC Directorate committees. Named were:
Bridge Committee—Danny Parker, junior mathematics
major from Center.
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Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
SAN JOSE, Costa Pica—Presi
lt Kennedy pledged Monday
ikt to isolate Castro’s Cuba and
ttk infiltration of Communist
uts into the rest of the Ameri-
s.
We will build a wall around
ia-not a wall of mortar or
ft or barbed wire but a wall of
felted men determined to pro-
it their own freedom and sov-
tijnty,” he declared.
(lathe heels of what security'
Seials called ■. die greatest ,;wel-
%ovation. in Costa. Rica’s ^H'is-
fy,Kennedy opened his three day
Ktfe.witb tihe..pa'esidents;of six'
i America - nations vowing
fee and unyielding resistance”
‘lie spread of “foreign tyranny”
H Western, TT emi sphere.,
★★★
GENEVA — The Soviet Union
ill Monday that Western , in-
fence on more than three on-
inspections a year will iri-
ty lead to a breakdown of
Nuclear test ban negotiations.
oieSoviet disarmament nego-
fer/Semyon K. Tsarapkin, al-
"amed the.neutral bloc at the
'Ution talks against bringing
^sure on the Soviet Union.to
fe inspection quota offer.
U. S. NEWS
YORK — The 3,000 strik-
I Jew York printers were con-
"W'Monday with the prospect
life it alone in any continua-
II the city’s 101-day newspa-
’Wackout. Their own interna-
^ union threatened to pull the
but from under them.
y printers Sunday overrode
; r leadership and rejected a
a week settlement proposal
^1 to by publishers of eight
^ New York dailies.
TEXAS NEWS
HST1N — Backers of a bill
trf ate a four-year college at
Angelo won tentative Sen-
Pproval of the measure after
®l J 5ling a B'/i-hour filibuster,
afters of the measure won
approval 20-11 but
11 to get the required two-
^ vote to consider the. bill
'^al passage.
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.‘-UN — Texas senators took
d 1 c Keck Monday on the long-
loan shark debate.
Bruce Reagan, Corpus
failed by one vote to get
“Wessary two-thirds vote for
^iate arguments on a so-
* compromise loan regulation
Commended by the Senate
^ Committee.
an alternative, the Senate
to take up the loan bill at
a.m. next Monday.
Pan American Committee—
Alvero Restrepo, junior an
imal husbandry major from
Colombia.
Flying Kadets — M. R. Miller,
junior pre-med major from Dal
las.
Radio Committee — Terry Grif
fin, junior electrical engineering
major from Mt. Enterprise.
Talent Committee — Mike Use,
junior landscape architecture ma
jor from Corpus Christi.
BILL ADAMS, chairman of the
Creative Arts Committee, told the
group he is trying to build mem
bership with hopes of expanding
the hours which the crafts shop
is presently open.
Adams said the shop, closed
about two years ago, has been
re-stocked and is now open Mon
day and Friday nights and Wed
nesday afternoons. He said mem
bership is restricted to students,
and a $2 fee is required .
The Council instructed President
James Ray to appoint a committee
to purchase and sell a limited
number of tickets to the Metropoli
tan Opera’s May concert in Dal
las. The move was in line with the
culture program the MSC sponsor
ed last fall.
Gifts to the Center amounting
to $230 in cash for various pur
poses were also formally accepted
by the council.
No Reasons Given
For Abrupt Move
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion Editor
Basketball coach Bob Rogers definitely did not resign
voluntarily, The Battalion learned Monday from two reliable
athletic department sources.
Instead, Rogers was told to either resign or be fired
without subsequent recommendations, both sources said.
Rogers submitted his resignation at 11:30 a. m. Thurs
day, but news of the move was not confirmed by Athletic
Director Hank Foldberg until early Friday afternoon. Fold-
berg immediately elevated former assistant Shelby Metcalf
to the position.
Rogers, Foldberg and Metcalf were all out of town and
unavailable for comment Monday, but Dr. Chris H. Groneman,
chairman of the athletic coun-
Student Positions
■ iA-' >r' £ v % w *• r>
Open For Filing
On Wednesday
Students interested in becoming
members of the student govern
ment or the civilian yell leader
for the 1963-64 school year can
begin filing for the positions Wed
nesday.
Wayne Smith, election commis
sion advisor, said Monday that
candidates may register in the stu
dent programs office in the Mem
orial Student Center between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. each weekday until
March 27.
The four student bodjA positions
open to students and classification
necessary to hold the office are
president, senior; vice president,
junior; parliamentarian, senior; and
recording secretary, sophomore. A
student must have a 1.5 grade
point' ratio to the eligible for any
one of the positions.
Posts in the Student Senate open
to either juniors oY seniors with a
1.25 grade point ratio are chair
manships on the issues committee,
the public relations committee, the
students life committee and the
student welfare committee.
Civilian yell leader candidates
must be either a junior or senior
with at least a 1.25 grade point
ratio.
The date selected for the general
election has been announced as
April 4. Runoffs which might
arise will be decided on April 24.
Sexual Aspects
Of Married Life
Is Forum Topic
Dr. Glenn V. Ramsey will speak
on “The Sexual Aspects of Mar
ried Life” Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in the YMCA. This will be the
third lecture in the current Mar
riage Forum series.
Ramsey will discuss the im
portance of sexual compatibility in
the total marriage relationship,
pre-marital sexual relations, sex
ual relations in marriage as factors
affecting marital adjustments and
what religion says about sex.
Whoop It Up
Helping the Department of Agricultural Economics and
Sociology celebrate its annual Spring Round-Up are Joan
Payne, left, as Two Gun Sal, and LaJean Cates as Calamity
Jane. The affair was held Monday night in the Memorial
Student Center. -
Nine Students Get
Annual Ag Awards
The Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology honored
nine students at its annual Spring
Roundup and Awards Banquet
Monday night in the Memorial
Student Center.
Dr., Tyrus Timm, head of the
department, presented the follow
ing awards: ■
Branson Award to Wayman L.
Thurman of Colorado City.
Freshman Student Award to
Michael Hereford of Houston.
Sophomore Student Award to
Billy B. Jarvis of Stinnett.
Sociology Award to James E.
Johnson of Bellaire as the out
standing senior student , in so
ciology.
Sociology Award to Harold M.
Clements of College Station as the
outstanding graduate student in
sociology. ■ . ■ .
.Wall Street Journal Achieve
ment Award to Robert L. Degner
of Malone, oustanding senior in
agricultural administration.
Bankers School Scholarship
($200) to Charles D. Spillmann of
Buda, outstanding student inter
ested in banking or related work.
Department Head’s Award fo Ro
bert B. Carter of Decatur as the
senior student showing greatest
academic improvement during his
junior and senior years.
J. Wheeler Barger Memorial A-
ward to George McWilliams of
Texarkana, outstanding senior in
the department.
cil, refused to comment on the
new development. Groneman
explained:
“THE MATTER was
handled by Foldberg and the ath
letic department, and nothing came
to the council but Rogers’ resigna
tion.”
Foldberg’s home and office both
said the head coach was out of
town and couldn’t be reached un
til Tuesday afternoon. Rogers left
College Station by plane early
Monday, while Metcalf is on a re
cruiting trip and will not return
S|j until Friday. The date of Rogers’
™ ! return is unknown.
No reasons have been given for
Rogers’ dismissal, but it is a well-
known secret that Rogers and Fold
berg didn’t see eye-to-eye on sever
al matters. Also Rogers was re
portedly in the dog house because
of an accused recruiting violation.
However specific charges have
never been made public.
IN HIS RESIGNATION, Rogers
said he was leaving “for the good
of the A&M basketball program.”-f
Foldberg countered by saying, “I
compliment him (Rogers) on his
outstanding record of success at
A&M, and all Aggies wish him
success in any futui’e endeavors.”
Rogers has yet to disclose any
future plans, but has told report
ers that he wants to stay in coach
ing despite several business offers.
Rogers will leave behind a 92-52
coaching record, the second best
in the history of A&M basketball.
He had only one losing season here,
his first, and during the final four
years of his stay, the Aggies fin
ished second once, tied for second
twice and finished third the other
year.
BEFORE COMING, here, Rogers
served as an assistant to Hank
Iba at Oklahoma State and guided
East Texas State to the NAIA
championship in 1953.
New coach Metcalf both assisted
Rogers and coached the freshman
squad. He played for Rogers at
East Texas State.
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BOB ROGERS
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Registration Ends Monday
For Grad Record Exam
Graduating seniors may register through next Monday
for the Graduate Record Examination to be administered in
April.
Registration will be at the Counseling and Testing Cen
ter.
The examination will be held all day Friday, April 19,
and absence from classes will be authorized by seniors regis
tering for and taking the tests.
Seniors are not required to participate in the Graduate
Record Examination program as part of qualifying for grad
uation. The Academic Council has encouraged seniors grad
uating this May to take the tests. The tests will be required
next year.
A&M Fish Cop
Drill Honors
In LSU Meet
The Freshman Drill Team took
top honors for the second year in
a row in the fourth annual South
ern Invitational Drill Meet Satur
day at Baton Rouge, La.
In scoring 550 ^ points out a
possible 575, the Aggies were first
in basic drill, precision drill and
overall performance.
THE 39-MEMBER group com
peted against the following 10
teams from three states: Spring
Hill College and Florence State Col
lege in Alabama; University of
Southern Mississippi, Louisiana
State University, Loyola Univer
sity, Northwestern State Univer
sity, Tulane University, McNeese
State College and the University of
Southwestern Louisiana.
Capt. Calvin Reese, team spon
sor, said the contest judges com
mended the Aggies for their “dis
cipline, conduct and overall mili
tary bearing.” • ->
“THE JUDGES told me they had
judged' ‘several .•competitions, and
the A&M team was the best they
had ever seen,” Capt. Reese said.
Kenneth J. Koch of San Antonio
is commander of the drill team.
Elgene Pearce of Fort Worth is
executive officer, Pat Smith of
Houston is guidon bearer and Nar-
ciso O. Cano of San Antonio, right
guide.
The drill team will perform and
compete next in San Antonio’s
Fiesta Flambeau April 27.
HARRINGTON ANSWERS HIS OWN QUESTION: MONEY!
What Makes Great Institutions Greater?
DALLAS — “The one thing,
more than anything else, that
makes a great institution of
higher learning- great is money,”
Chancellor M. T. Harrington told
a session of the College Loyalty
Alumni Support Program
(CLASP) Monday night.
While being “utterly candid
and coldly realistic” Harrington
stated, “If you want the best,
somebody’s got to pay for the
best.”
Harrington was the principal
speaker at the CLASP banquet
at the Southern Methodist Uni
versity Coliseum Monday night.
The organization was started
three years ago to encourage
greater financial support to
schools by its alumni.
Twenty Texas colleges and uni
versities and the University of
Arkansas were represented by
more than 1,000 alumni chair
men and 14 college presidents
who heard Harrington appeal for
renewed efforts to gain financial
support from alumni.
Harrington told the group that
an awareness has developed in
the past two years “that the
road to economic strength and
to the highest kind of security is
paved by the quality of the out
put of our educational institu
tions, particularly in the quality
of education beyond the high
schools.
“Educationally backward states
are backward economically, and
if they stay that way, their out
look becomes worse. The top
states in higher education are
those that the nation looks to
for industrial leadership and
innovation, that precursor of any
progress. Or, in a word, that’s
where the real money and the
real brains tend to . gravitate.”
To illustrate the economic loss
Texas suffers in the area of gov
ernment contracts, Harrington
pointed out that California re
ceives 41.3 per cent of the con
tracts for defense and space re
search, 12.1 per cent goes to New
York and Massachusetts gets
5.7 per cent, while Texas re
ceives only 2 per cent.
He then posed the question:
“What have they got that we
haven’t got?”
“Plenty,” he offered as an an
swer to his own question.
“They’ve got better colleges
and universities than we have.
“And they’ve got them be
cause, generally speaking, they
have more and better teachers
than we have.
“And they’ve got more and
better teachers than we have
because they pay them more.
“And, in addition to pay, they
give these teachers and resparch-
ers more and better facilities to
w r ork with.”
The California Institute of
Technology, for example, has
4,000 scientists that are the best
in the nation, and possibly the
best in the world, Harrington
said. ,
“Defense Secretary Robert Mc
Namara has stated that the de
fense department seeks the best
brains and goes where they are,”
said Harrington.
“The nation’s four top fellow
ship programs awarded 5,470
fellowships last year, with only
15 per cent going to students in
the 15 southei-n states. The total
number of fellowship awards in
the U. S. increased by 300 last
year, yet decreased in the south
by 100.”
He added that of the 50 Amer
ican Nobel Prize winners, not a
single one is from a southern
institution. Here again, Cali
fornia excels, having 20 lauriets,
with 11 from the University of
California alone.
The Texas Commission on
Higher Education’s statistics
show that Texas ranks 101 out
of 153 comparable schools in the
nation, with the University of
Texas, the top paying institution
in Texas, ranking 85th, he said.
The Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare says that for
1961-62, Texas annual school
salaries for full professors were
$972.00 less than the average for
the entire U. S., Harrington said.
“Legislators say that they
have given all they can afford
to schools. But what they give
is not enough to support the type
of educational qualities desired.
It is therefore necessary that
some finances come fro m
CLASP.
“CLASP’s policy,” he said, “is
not just to ask people to give
to their alma mater with the
idea that if they give $10 to $20,
they are paid up. It is a program
to recommend that they make
the best investment they can
possibly make for themselves
and particularly for their chil
dren.”