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'Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1965
Number 216
Discriminatory
Waggoner Carr Says
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MEETING OF THE MINDS
Baylor University President Abner McCall, left, huddles
with Texas A&M President Earl Rudder before delivering
the main address at the Town and Country Church Con
ference in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom Thurs
day night.
Wallace, Garza Appointed
For SC USA Conference
Tickets On Sale
For Ag Players
Advance tickets for the Aggie
Players’ production of “Death of
A Salesman” are scheduled to go
on sale Tuesday, at the following
locations: Aggie Players Pub
licity Office, Guion Hall; Student
Programs Office, Memorial Stu
dent Center; First Bank and
Trust, Bryan; Carroll’s Corner
(Ellison’s), North Gate; Levv-
Ann's, North Gate; and Gibson’s
Discount Center, Redmond Ter
race.
Arthur Miller’s modern classic,
the Players’ first major produc
tion for 1965-66, is scheduled for
Nov. 8-13 in Guion Hall.
Tickets are 75 cents for A&M
students with I.D. cards. Gen
eral admission is $1.
Forbes Lee Wallace Jr., of
Cisco and Pedro Garza of Santa
Rosa have been appointed Texas
A&M delegates to the Student
Conference on United States Af
fairs Dec. 1-4 at West Point,
N. Y.
Wallace and Garza will join
delegates from 100 American and
Canadian universities in discuss
ing “The National Security Policy
of the United States.”
SCUSA XVII, held annually at
the United States Military Aca
demy, was a model for A&M’s
Student Conference on National
Affairs.
A junior accounting major,
Wallace is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. L. Wallace, 706 E. 22nd,
Cisco. He is vice chairman of
SCONA XI, scolastic sergeant in
the Corps of Cadets, class editor
of A&M’s yearbook, The Aggie-
land, and was outstanding ROTC
cadet during his sophomore and
freshman years. Last year, Wal
lace represented A&M at the Pub
lic Affairs Conference at Principia
College.
Garza is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Guadalupe Guerra of Santa
Rosa. A junior government maj
or, Garza is a distinguished stu
dent with a 2.97 grade point
ratio out of 3.0 possible. He is
a member of SCONA, Polaris
Council, Student Senate, Russian
Club and Town Hall Committee.
Garza is scholastic sergeant of
his ROTC unit.
Alternates are Tommy De-
Frank, a junior journalism major
from Arlington and News Editor
on The Battalion; and Carlos M.
Silliman, a junior chemical engi
neering major from Miami. Fla.
AUSTIN Cff) — Atty. Gen.
Waggoner Carr ruled today
that the Texas A&M directors’
policy of allowing only student
and faculty wives and daughters
to attend the formerly all-male
college is discriminatory.
“There is a serious legal ques
tion as to whether, on a trial in
court, we could successfully de
fend an attack upon the present
classification established by the
board of directors for admission
of female students as being a
reasonable classification,” said
Carr’s opinion to H. C. Helden-
fels, head of the A&M board.
President Earl Rudder said
shortly before noon Friday that
there was nothing for him to do
until the Board of Directors
makes a ruling concerning admis
sion policy.
Heldenfels said the ruling will
be discussed at the November
meeting.
“I plan to appoint a committee
to study the ruling and make a
recommendation to the board in
February,” Heldenfels said.
The next regularly scheduled
meeting is Nov. 24.
A controversy has been joined
for several years over admission
of women to A&M. The problem
has been referred to the Texas
Commission on Higher Educa
tion, the A&M Board and the
legislature.
Attempts during the last two
legislatures to open A&M to all
women failed. A campus poll
given to legislators this spring
showed coeducation favored by
1,029 of 2,149 students polled.
Carr’s opinion to Heldenfels
also said:
—The 19i64 Civil Rights Act
does not apply to A&M’s admis
sion policies, insofar as sex is
concerned.
—The board has the right to
issue rules making the university
either all-male or all-coeduca
tional.
Carr told Heldenfels the only
solid legal basis for using the
current policy would be “a fact
determination on which to base
the underlying rules for such
classification. This is a function
which can only be performed in
a court of law.”
Baylor President Praises Limited LoedllCatlOIl
Work Of Rural Churches
I Baylor University President
l)r. Abner McCall praised the
I rork of the state’s rural churches
I 'hursday night, calling the rural
Ihurch movement “an invaluable
lind indispensable service to the
jural community.”
| McCall told nearly 200 repre-
jentatives attending the 20th An-
jiual Town and Country Church
jlonference banquet that small
own churches have improved
lespite the rise of urban churches
n large urban centers.
| “The rural and small town
hurches of this state have held
heir own and made much prog-
ess,” he said. “They have grown
n membership and the quality
if their programs have vastly
mproved.”
The Baylor president, a former
issociate justice of the Texas
Supreme Court and now presi-
tent of the Baptist Convention
if Texas, added that changes in
iconomic factors have been ad
vantageous to the rural churches
is well as larger churches.
"Good roads and automobiles
hnd new household conveniences
have shortened our work week
ind left more time for religious
ictivities,” he claimed. “Now
here is no reason why the rural
|hurch cannot serve a wider area
today than ever before.”
Rev. Bill Shibler of Fort
Worth received the Progressive
farmer Texas Rural Minister of
the Year Award for his work
» - hile pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Golinda.
Second place was awarded to
the Rev. Kurt C. Hartmann of
the Immanuel Lutheran Church
in La Vernia, while third place
winner was the Rev. Dalton E.
Fisher, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church of Meadow.
Pulitzer Prize Reporter
To Speak Here Thursday
Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer
Prize winning reporter and assis
tant managing editor of the New
York Times, will speak Thursday
at Texas A&M.
Salisbury will discuss Russian-
Chinese relations at 8 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom as first fall speaker in
the World Around Us Series,
sponsored by the MSC Great Is
sues Committee.
Excellence in foreign report
ing won Salisbury the Pulitzer
Prize in 1954 for a series of art
icles called “Russia Re-Viewed.”
The series was based on five
years as a Moscow corespondent
for the New York Times and ex
tensive travel in Soviet Central
Asia.
Soviet authorities barred him
from Russia for five years after
the series was publised. Salis
bury worked on the Times city
staff during this time, produc
ing articles on urban transporta
tion and juvenile deliquency.
Returning to Russia in 1959,
the writer visited Siberia and
Mongolia. His book, “To Moscow
— and Beyond,” is a report of
the Soviet Union and its rela
tionships with Red China.
Salisbury accompanied Vice
President Richard Nixon on his
visit to Russia, and Premier
Khrushchev on his trip to the
United States.
His books include “American
in Russia,” “The Shook-Up Gen
eration,” “A New Russia?” and
‘The Northern Palmyra Affair.”
Born in Minneapolis, Minn., in
1908, Salisbury attended the
University of Minnesota, where
he edited the college newspaper.
He joined the United Press in
1930 and covered prohibition gang
wars and the trial of A1 Capone.
In 1940, Salisbury moved to
the foreign desk in Washington,
D. C. In 1943 he became Lon
don bureau manager and directed
coverage of the war in Europe.
He became head of UP’s Moscow
staff in 1944, returning to the
U. S. at wars end to become for
eign news editor.
Salisbury joined the New York
Times staff in 1949.
Peterson Slates
Wednesday Talk
Dr. Glen E. Peterson, staff
consultant for biological sciences
curriculum, will speak on campus
Wednesday.
The 6 p.m. lecture will cover
the American Institute of Bio
logical Studies’ program to de
velop a new approach to high
school-level biology teaching.
Peterson, a former bacteriology
professor at the University of
Houston, served as a visiting
science lecturer for the Texas
Academy of Science through 1964.
He consulted with the Houston
School System in 1961 in a pilot
program of the new biology
teaching concept.
The free, public lecture is
scheduled for Room 401 of the
Academic Building, said C. M.
Loyd, National Science Founda
tion coordinator at A&M. He
added area science and biology
teachers would find the lecture
of particular interest.
Corps Representative Given
Voting Membership By CSC
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Battalion Staff Writer
The Civilian Student Council
gave voting rights to John Gay,
Deputy Corps Commander, Dar
rell Smith, Civilian Yell Leader
and the Civilian Chaplain who is
yet to be named Thursday night.
The CSC also revised its con
stitution to eliminate a voting
representation of The Battalion.
“I feel that this man (Gay)
represents a vital segment of the
student body and one that the
Civilian Student Council needs
opinions from,” said Smith refer
ring to the action allowing the
Corps a voice on the council.
In the past years, the council
has taken measures to keep mem
bers of the Corps of Cadets from
holding positions.
The council also adopted a re
vision that would set up a com
mittee to study freshmen appli
cations for a seat on the council.
Smith questioned the wisdom of
selection of a committee and ask
ed why the freshmen could not
be elected during the regular
freshman class elections.
Other members of the council
expressed the idea that a more
dependable and grade-worthy
freshman could be sought out by
the committee.
The constitution was changed to
give the Executive Committee of
the Civilian Student Council the
power to decide whether a sub
stitute delegate could be granted
voting power.
The constitution failed on a
question of ratification and was
placed in committee to rewrite it
including all of the council’s pro
posals. It will be presented to
the council at their next meeting.
A report was heard from a
committee appointed to investi
gate the possibility of reducing
the cost of date tickets. The re
port stated that the Southwest
Conference sets the price on the
tickets and that the administra
tion at A&M is powerless to re
duce them.
A committee was appointed to
study the new friction between
members of the Corps of Cadets
and the civilian student body and
to recommend any action that
the council might take to reduce
it to a minimum.
The dining hall committee ap
pointed to meet with Col. Fred
Dollar about the various dining
hall problems reported that civil
ians may waste as much as 25
per cent of the food served at a
meal. The average is usually
around 11 or 12 per cent and if
it could be cut, the quality of
food could be increased.
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'Candid Comments On Current Crises
Students Want More Seating Room For Future Football Games
Question: What suggestions do you have to improve the seating arrangement for future football games?
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J RONALD A. SMITH
IL Senior, Darien, Conn.
Inere definitely needs to be bet-
control over the ropes that
divide the sections. Last game
the ropes were dropped too early
••Bd the confusion started. The
ropes should be dropped when
all the students are seated. There
should also be a special section
for the grad students.
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KEN WEGENHOFT
Junior, Columbus
I believe that the present seat
ing arrangement could be im
proved. At the UH game every
one was jammed into the space
we had last year despite the in
creased enrollment. I think that
the graduate students should
have a section of their own be
tween the south 40-50 yard lines.
CHARLES R. SAFFORD
Sophomore, Englewood, N. J.
I think that there is a definite
need for some kind of control
over the seating arrangement at
Kyle Field. I had to sit at the
end of the Fish section and I
noticed that there were a few
seniors sitting further in the end
zone than I. We just need more
seating room.
THOMAS CILIO
Junior, Carrollton
I believe that there should be
more seats allowed for the stu
dents. We are the team’s strong
est supporter so we should not
be tossed into the end zone.
Everybody should remain in their
respective sections until the
ropes are dropped then the empty
seats can be filled.
JOHNNY COPELIN
Sophomore, Borger
I realize that not everybody
really liked where they had to
sit but I do not think anybody
could come up with a better
seating arrangement or they
would have already done it. I
think, though, that it would help
some, if our opponents were
moved down toward their end
DAVID H. KINARD
Junior, Reagan
We need to have everybody enter
the stadium more slowly. Not
trying to get into too much of a
hurry. If everybody would take
his time, everybody would get in
to his own section. Because of
the increased enrollment, the
same area that held 7,000 last
year will not hold the increase
this year. More area is needed.
KENNETH CLAYTON
Junior, Corpus Christi
Sometime before the Baylor
game, the administration, or who
ever sets up the seating, will
have to find more sitting room
for the students. The university
continues to grow but the sit
ting arrangement has not grown.
We still sit in same area that
we have for the past several
years. Increase the seating space!