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Hillhoia ven innings ss in the eighth i ieved by Chi v 5-3 for thesa conference pli; nnesota Wedae ly in Travis Pas ormal wear styles I sessories I imical cost I UAL SERVICE ^T’S Gate » ■om her the Ing, ion. the the sof nth s of his mc- rent lity test our our du- his is a brk ake ;ion lira, t as ita- \NY 'oyer Louisiana Hayride Comes To Town Saturday Night v -- - JERRY LEE LEWIS CONNIE SMITH DON BOWMAN GEORGE JONES JOHNNIE AND JOANIE MOSBY ZI Cbc Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965 Number 157 Faculty Circulating Petition Opposing Coed Restriction By GLENN DROMGOOLE Managing Editor The Board of Directors gained an ally this week in its fight against legislative restrictions on coeducation. Faculty members are circula ting a petition which urges facul ty support for the Board in op posing the Senate measure limit ing coeducation. “We . . . deplore the interfer ence in the board’s efforts which is being exerted by certain in dividuals who, we feel, are not in a position to properly evaluate and direct the future of Texas A&M University,” the petition states. “We specifically object to Sen ate Bill 290 as it interferes with the right of the Board of Di rectors to chart the course of Texas A&M,” it continues. Circulation of 45 copies of the petition started this week among the 500 faculty members with about 200 signatures recorded. Wednesday night. An attached note states the petition will be presented to President Earl Rud der. The bill to prohibit complete coeducation here was approved by the Senate Committee on Mili tary and Veterans Affairs last week and is due for Senate action soon. Senate Bill 209, as amended by the committee, would allow A&M to continue its present policy of limited coeducation. Students Accepted For Summer Trips By Travel Groups In the spring a young man’s thoughts turn to foreign travel, among other things, and Aggies are no exception. Three students have been ac cepted to participate in the Experi ment in International Living, which includes home visits in for eign countries during the summer months. Charles S. Dendy, a senior math major from Monahans, will visit in Sweden. Frank L. Ray Jr., a junior pre- veterinary medicine student from Conroe, will go to Switzerland. Paul Bleau, from Boston, Mass., will visit East Pakistan. He visit ed Northern Rodesia two years ago in the Operations Crossroads Africa program. In addition, Edward Lee Walker of Bryan, has been accepted as an alternate leader for the Experi ment in International Living. As such, he could be assigned to any of 40 foreign nations. He is a graduate student in physics. Walker will attend a training school for leaders in St. Louis, Mo., in April. He visited Yugo slavia as an experimenter in 1963. Students and faculty members are eligible for a $300 chartered flight round trip from Houston to London. The flight will leave about June 6 and return sometime during August. Those interested in making the flight should make a $50 deposit with the Memorial Student Center Travel Committee before Apr. 15. The faculty petition is on line with recommendations made in 1962 by the Faculty-Staff-Stu dent Aspirations Study which proposed unlimited coeducation and non - compulsory ROTC. “The faculty is overwhelmingly in favor of coeducation,” the re port read. “The faculty considers the re fusal to admit women to the College to be contrary to the spirit of the land-grant idea and a handicap to the institution. This refusal leads to the loss of sup port and appeal for the College throughout Texas. In turn, it eliminates many students of high potential, and frequently is a factor affecting faculty and grad uate student recruitment. “The faculty’s training has led them to the philosophy of equal academic standards and rights for all students, and they believe the present negative poli cy toward coeducation constitutes a major obstacle to academic ex cellence and institutional stature. “It appears to the faculty that the admission of women need occasion no overwhelming prob lems of finance for the College, or at least this has been the ex perience elsewhere. “The faculty does not presently recommend any changes in cur ricula to accommodate women. Rather, they feel that the present offerings include many fields of study with value and opportunity for women. Thus, it seems that no objective arguments based on academic fact can be made against coeducation. The strong est argument in this matter seems to be tradition, and this does not appear to be a proper defense for a land-grant institution.” An enrollment projection by the study group estimated that 7,930 students would attend an all-male, military A&M in 1976 and that 16,002 would enroll that year if A&M adopted unlimited coeducation and non-compulsory ROTC. Coeducation at A&M has been a hot topic for several years. The latest crisis erupted Feb. 6 when the Executive Council of the Association of Former Students proposed sweeping changes in the university’s policies concerning Banquet Speaker Named By Arabs Dr. Khalid I. Bahaa, director of the Arab Information Center in Dallas, will be principal speaker for the annual spring banquet of the Arab Student Club Saturday night in the Memorial Student Center. Topic of his address will be “Arab-American Relations.” Bahaa has been director of the Arab Information Center for the Southwest since April, 1964, mov ing from his post as head of the office of the League of Arab States in Canada, which he had held for four years. Prior to that time, he was chief of research for the Arab States Delegations Office in New York. He was also chief clerk in the Jordanian Ministry of the Interior for four years. The speaker was born in Sa maria, Palestine, and received his early education in Palestine and Jordan. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and political science from Southwestern Uni versity in Georgetown, and earned his Ph.D. degree in international affairs and law at New York Uni versity. Bahaa is the author of a book soon to be published, “Positive Neutralism—Myth and Reality.’ He is a member of Pi Gamma Mu, national United States social science society, Alpha Chi, national scholarship society, the Interna tional Law society and the Ameri can Academy of Political and Social Sciences. coeducation and compulsory mili-4 tary training. It was further agitated by bills introduced in both houses of the state legislature seeking to re turn A&M to all-male status. A student body vote on Feb. 25 narrowly approved full coeduca tion and non-compulsory ROTC, and these results were presented to the Board of Directors Feb. 26. The Board ordered the ad ministration to undertake a study of the proposals. Meanwhile, Sen. Andy Rogers from Childress and Rep. Mack Edwards of Pattonville, two Aggie - ekes, were gathering strength for all-male A&M bills in their respective legislative bodies. Rogers’ bill was withdrawn from Bryan Sen. Bill Moore’s Education Committee and given a hearing in the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Be fore the hearing could be held, Rogers’ measure was revised to permit limited coeducation that now exists at A&M. Major effect of the bill would be to prohibit the A&M Board from approving full coeducation. Senate Approves Student Loan Bill AUSTIN UP) — Texas sena tors decided today the state should help students pay their way through college. By a 29-0 vote the Senate ap proved a proposed constitutional amendment that would author ize issurance of $75 million in bonds to finance loans to stu dents in senior or junior col leges, private or state supported. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Grady Hazlewood of Ama rillo, goes back to the House which originally approved a $100 million bond issue. The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International ABOARD THE USS INTREPID—Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young—fresh from mastering space for nearly five hours—just couldn’t take 45 minutes of bobbing and pitching at the mercy of the unkind Atlantic Ocean. Grissom and Young both became seasick Tuesday and Grissom vomited before the space twins were hauled up to the helicopter that brought them to the aircraft carrier Intrepid, it was learned Wednes day. National PASADENA, Calif.—Ranger 9, televising live to home viewers, slammed into the moon Wednesday after snapping 6,150 spectacular close-ups of never- before-seen cracks and pocks on the floor of a lunar crater. The major first in space provided a dramatic windup to the once-troubled $280-million Ranger series, designed to find safe landing sites for astro nauts later in this decade. ★ ★ ★ CORDOVA, Md.—A plane identified by state police as a Cl54 military transport exploded in the air near this rural community on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay Wednesday. The police report said there were no known survivors. Dover Air Force Base is about 40 miles away in Delaware. Texas AUSTIN—Two University of Texas football players, end Pete Lammons and tackle Diron Talbert, were granted an indefinite postponement Wednes day in a hearing on misdemeanor assault charges filed against them. Justice of the Peace Jerry Dellana delayed the hearing because one of the players’ three attorneys is a Texas legislator, Rep. Terry Townsend, Brady. Both players were starters on last year’s Long horn team and they also have eligibility remaining. Lammons, a junior, is from Jacksonville, and sopho more Talbert is from Texas City. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—A bill to provide treatment for sexual psychopaths went to a House Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday after one member said it might create a life sentence for persons convicted of a misde meanor. Rep. Dudley Mann, El Paso, spoke for nearly an hour and a half on his bill, HB406, relating the case of an El Paso youth who admitted he was sexually sick but couldn’t help repeating offenses against young girls. NEW THEATER-WORKSHOP . . . built by directing students in Guion basement. Shelter Converted By Theater Group Sixteen students wielding paint- brushes and splicing electrical wiring have converted an official Civil Defense fallout shelter into a new theater-workshop. First plays to be staged in the theater will be presented March 30 un der student direction. The students are enrolled in the theater arts course, “Tech niques of Directing,” taught by assistant professor C. K. Esten. Full credit for creating the 150-seat theater in the basement under the Guion Hall stage goes to the students. The area re mains a fallout shelter stocked with emergency supplies. “I said, ‘why don’t we make a little place down here for your use in staging these one-act plays’ . . . and the next thing I knew the students had painted the area, put up lighting, brought in chairs and put up the sign outside,” Esten said. The Aggie Players will con tinue to use the Guion stage for their productions. The Players annually present a variety of productions. Running this week is Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors.” Esten is enthusiastic about the students’ efforts, both in prepar ing the theater-workshop and in directing their plays. “A student will learn more di recting his own play than by hours of classroom lectures,” Es ten said. Robert W. Wenck of Midland, Esten’s student assistant and technical production director for the campus theater, is credited with an important role in pre paring the new facilities. Wenck returned to Aggieland after two years of service as stage manager of a play on national tour. Two or three one act plays or excerpts from longer plays will be staged at 7:30 p.m. March 30, April 8, 13, 21 and 30 by the directing class. Admission will be 50 cents. The new theater also is to be used April 23-24 when the John Avery Lomax Folklore Society presents an evening of folk songs by local and other folk singers. Car License Sales Run Until Friday A deputy tax assessor-collector from Brazos County will sell license plates at the Memorial Student Center through Friday. Mrs. John Rauch is operating the booth for Raymond Buchanan, county tax assessor-collector. The booth is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. near the gift shop. Cus tomers should bring last year’s registration receipt and the car title. Only license plates for automo biles are available at the MSC location. George Jones To Headline Entertainers The Louisiana Hayride, one of the largest shows of its type, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The show—which starts with the traditional “Come along, ev erybody come along. Come while the moon is shining bright. We’re going to have a wonderful time on the Louisiana Hayride tonight”— will be headlined by George Jones, country and western recording ar tist. The A&M chapter of Sigma Del ta Chi, professional journalistic society, is sponsoring the show as part of its 1964-65 activities. Advance tickets may be pur chased on campus until 4 p.m. Sat urday in the Memorial Student Center. Tickets are $2.25 for re serve seats, $1.75 for general ad mission and $1.25 for students. Only a few reserve tickets remain and these will go on sale at 8 a.m. Saturday in the MSC. After 4 p.m. Saturday, tickets will be 25 cents higher. Advance tickets may be pur chased at the MSC Finance Of fice, Student Publications Ofice, Exchange Store and the Depart ment of Journalism until 5 p.m. Friday and at Jarrott’s Pharmacy —Downtown and Townshire—until noon Saturday. Jones, “America’s No. One County Singer,” started h i s re cording career with “Why Baby Why.” He followed with “She Thinks I Still Care,” “The Win dow Up Above” and “The Race Is On.” Other stars scheduled for the show are Jerry Lee Lewis, Connie Smith, Johnnie & Joanie Mosby, Nat Stuckey, Don Bowman and the Louisiana Hayriders. Last year SDX sponsored the Harlem Globetrotters. Proceeds from that show and the Hayride will be used to improve the jour nalism program at A&M and also to provide scholarships to high school students interested in maj oring in journalism or agricultural journalism at A&M. The three and one-half hour show will be broadcast live over radio station KWKH in Shreve port, La., which has a coverage area of 31 states. Rusk Discounts Gas Charges In Viet Nam WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk denied Wed nesday that the United States is waging gas warfare in Viet Nam, and said nonkilling tear and nau sea gases will continue to be used as needed for saving innocent lives. Rusk sought to overcome a U.S. propaganda setback with an un usual personal appearance at the State Department’s daily briefing for newsmen. American strategists are sur prised and concerned by global repercussions over disclosure Mon day that South Vietnamese troops are using the U.S.-supplied gases in some actions against Red Viet Cong guerrillas. Even Britain’s foreign secretary and a group of House Republicans were among those joining the crit ical chorus Tuesday. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara also was questioned about the issue at a closed meet ing with the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee on Wednesday. Afterward, he told reporters the United States has no intention of using lethal gases, but use of tear nausea gas as a riot control agent would continue. He said it had been used only on three occasions—twice to res cue captured Americans. Rusk, in his comments at the State Department, described the third use. He said it was released on Communist terrorists after they had seized villagers and were shooting from behind them. The choice lay between using the gas and firing artillery shells or dropping bombs, Rusk said. “The issue that was involved here,” he said, “was that mini mum force would be used under the circumstances, whereas other wise innocent people might be in jured.” “We are not embarking on gas warfare in Viet Nam,” he said, adding: “The anticipation is that these weapons will be used only in riot control or in situations analagous to riot control.”