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Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1965 Number 220 Baylor Freshman Held After Painting Incidents Town Hall, Game Top Weekend A concert by The Lettermen spotlights the second big week end on campus, which also fea tures three dances, a cross-coun try track meet and a Saturday afternoon football clash with the Baylor Bears. The Letterman kickoff the weekend at 8 p.m. Friday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Date tickets are being sold in the Memorial Student Center for $1, and student activity cards will be honored. The Architect’s Tomb Boom will be from 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sat- turday at the Bryan Recreational Center in the Bryan Country Club off South College Avenue. Music will be provided by the Mach Schnitzels and admission will be $3.50 if bought on cam pus or $4 at the door. The Air Force Ball will be in Sbisa Dining Hall from 8-12 p.m. Saturday. Ray Coker and the Gamblers will play and Ralph Filburn, Cadet Colonel of the Corps, will crown the Air Force Sweetheart at 9:30 p.m. The girls running are Beverly Haveman, Cordy Homberger, Linda Moltz, Susan Smith, Su sie Vermersch and Darlene Yar brough. Air Force Cadets will be ad mitted free and Army seniors who desire to attend must pay $2 per couple. Dress will be semi-formal for the girls and Class A summer uniforms for the Cadets. The Baylor game 1:30 p.m. Saturday will match an Aggie team, newly-switched to a one- platoon squad, against an in jury-riddled Baylor group. The Aggies have been installed as three-point favorites to even their record at 3-3. The Aggie freshman Cross country team will open its sea son Friday night against Baylor, Texas Christian University and the University of Texas. The Planning Committee of the YMCA has announced a dance to be sponsored by the YMCA from 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. Saturday. The charge will be $1 per couple and stereo music and refreshments will be provided. The annual Explorer Vocation al Day will be hosting scouts from the local Sam Houston Area Council and the Heart of Texas Engineers Lead Departments As 3,212 Students Enrolled The College of Engineering with 3,212 students has the larg est enrollment of all the depart ments on campus, figures re leased by the Office of the Regis trar showed. The College of Engineering re placed the old College of Arts and Sciences with a 33.7 percent student body. The new Colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Geophysics have enrollments of 2,403, 1125, and 257 with percentages of the total enrollment of 25.2 percent, 11.8 percent, and 2.7 percent, re spectively. Total enrollment is 9,521. The single course with the largest enrollment is Electrical Engineering with 42 graduate students and 436 undergraduate students for 478. The College of Agriculture has an enrollment of 1,614 or 16.9 'ftercent of the enrollment. The College of Veterinary Medicine has 766 or 8.0 percent. The Institute of Statistics has 52 students for a 0.5 percent of the enrollment and the Maritime Academy courses offered on cam pus have 92 students for 1.0 per cent. There are 574 Ph.D., 1,071 Mas ters and 166 Special Degree can didates, or 19 percent of the en rollment. The breakdown for the Under graduate Curriculum is 50 fifth year students, 1,497 seniors, 1,425 juniors, 1,557 sophomores, 2,787 freshmen, and 404 special stu dents. These figures show an increase in enrollment of 15 percent, over the average enrollment increase of 13.8 percent for the 22 state- supported colleges and universi ties. Stephen F. Austin College in. Nacogdoches had the highest increase with a figure of 34.9 per cent and Arlington State College, which was recently separated from the A&M System, had the lowest figure of all—2.$ percent. The University of Texas had an increase of 2,229 this year, but the enrollment rise was only 9.3 percent, below the state fig ure by 4.5 percent. By TOMMY DeFRANK Battalion News Editor Campus Security officials were questioning Friday a Baylor Uni versity freshman taken into cus-. tody shortly after a rash of building defacements was carried out early this morning. The student was identified as Richard J. Ream, a Baylor fresh man apprehended on campus about 3 a.m. by Sgt. E. E. Fol som. Ream would not admit any con nection with the painting inci dents but did give Security of ficers the names of about 14 other Baylor freshmen whom he said were planning to make a trip for defacing purposes. The names have been turned over to Baylor campus police for further investigation. The pranksters painted “BU ’69” or “Baylor ’69” in green and gold paint on 13 buildings and also defaced the east gate mark ers, a storage cylinder, garbage disposal, a student automobile and various traffic markers. Buildings painted include the System Administration Building, Physics Building, Data Processing Center, Animal Industries Build ing, Keep Building, Agronomy Building, Agriculture Building, Chemistry Building, Cushing Li brary, Texas Engineers Library, Francis Hall, Campus Cleaners and several locations in Kyle Field. Campus Security Chief Ed Powell contacted Baylor President Dr. Abner McCall after Ream was taken into custody and the pres ident promised an exhaustive in vestigation. Baylor Dean of Men Travis Du- Bois and an assistant were en- route to A&M to return Ream to Baylor authorities for further questioning. “The boy won’t admit anything but he did give us the names,” Powell said, “and we have con clusive evidence on at least one - of them.” He pointed out that a final damage estimate would be well over $50, thus making the de facing a felony crime subject to a penitentiary sentence. The Southwest Conference al so has adopted a rule providing for indefinite suspension of any students caught on a rival cam pus with the intent of defacing or destroying property. A&M President Earl Rudder termed such incidents regretful “since they mar the fine com petitive spirit between South west Conference schools.” Dean of Students James P. Hannigan also deplored the pranks but urged A&M students to refrain from taking similar action. Telegram Endorses Stand In Viet Nam 2,148 Sign VtfS Ml®' Message WM To LBJ . • - ' •••••• :• • - y TELEGRAM SIGNATURES ROLL IN Battalion Editor Glenn Dromgoole practically covered by signatures. Viet Nam To Speak A strong backer of United States policy in South Viet Nam has accepted an invitation to speak at the eleventh Student Conference on National Affairs. Dr. Frank N. Trager, Profes sor of International Affairs at the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York Uni versity, will deliver one of five major addresses at the confer ence, scheduled here Dec. 8-11. SCONA XI will discuss “The Far East: Focus on Southeast Policy Supporter At SCONA XI Reveille Replacement Sought The Student Senate voted Thursday night to begin immedi ately seeking a replacement for Reveille II, spiking rumors that the 14-year-old mascot would be retired at the meeting. The Senate took the action aft er Andrew Salge recommended a new pup be located and trained so that the new dog could move into Reveille’s place when she dies. Salge, commanding officer of Company E-2, the military unit responsible for the mascot’s wel fare, said that action should be taken immediately to insure that there will be a mascot at all times. “If Rev wefe to die tonight we would have no idea for a replace ment or how we would go about obtaining one,” he pointed out, “and it could take up to a year- and-a-half to obtain another one. “She’s an old dog and we need to get it into our minds to start looking for another mascot,” he added. Gary Walker, Rev’s handler, said that the mascot’s biggest problem is a calcium deposit on the ball joint of her left rear hip.' “She can’t get around very AGGIE MASCOT NEARING RETIREMENT? . . Reveille with band at Saturday’s TCU game. well anymore,” he noted, “and the doctor said they could oper ate and remove the deposit on a younger dog. But it’s just not feasible for Rev.” Walker also said the deposit causes a grinding of her hip joint and causes a considerable amount of pain. “Every time I go out there to the vet hospital they tell me to start looking for another dog,” he added. Her advanced age has caused Reveille to curtail appearances at official functions. Concrete is painful to her paws and conse quently she did not march with her unit at last week’s parade in Fort Worth but joined the com pany just prior to passing the reviewing stand. In other action the Senate au thorized President Roland Smith to send a letter deploring the ac tions of a TCU fraternity at last week’s football game. The letter will be sent to the TCU administration, student body president and national headquar ters of the fraternity. A carbon will be sent to the TCU chapter. Sigma Kappa fraternity mem bers paraded around Amon Car ter Field with a sign titled “New Aggie Sweetheart” followed by a goat. The students displayed the banner twice, including once prior to the presentation of Cheri Holland as 1965 Aggie Sweet heart. Asia (The Challenge of a Dyna mic Region).” A distinguished author and lec turer, Trager was a Butler Fel low at New York University in 1927. He was also a Johns Hop kins University Scholar from 1928-31 and a Carnegie Research Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in 1957-58. He was a philosophy instructor at Johns Hopkins from 1928-34 and then was an executive in various government and non-pro fit agencies the next 17 years, with two years on Army Air Force duty. He was director of the Tech nical Assistance Administration in Burma from 1951-53. Since that time he has been associated with New York University in several capacities. Trager has also directed a Southeast Asia Project for the Rand Corporation in 1956-57 and a Burma project for the Council on Foreign Afairs in 1957-58. He was a visiting professor to the Southeast Asian program at Yale University in 1960-61 and gave the Southeast Asian seminar at the Army War College from 1959-62. He was a faculty mem ber at the National War College from 1961-63. Trager is the author, editor or a contributor to numerous publi cations dealing with Southeast Asia. They include “Furnivall of Burma: An Annotated Biblio graphy of the Works of John S. Furnivall”; “Southeast Asia: Laos a Pivot”; “Marxism in ★ ★ ★ SCONA Positions Still Available Interested students desiring to participate in committee work for the eleventh Student Confer ence on National Affairs are urged to attend the SCONA XI general meeting at 8 p.m. Mon day in the Memorial Student Center. All current members not previ ously assigned to standing com mittees will also be given com mittee assignments at the meet ing. Southeast Asia”; “Building a Welfare State In Burma”; “Bur ma”; “National Security, Politi cal Military and Economic Stra tegies in the Decade Ahead”; “The Strategy of Deception: A Study in World-Wide Communist Tactics”; “Southeast Asia: Prob lems of United States Policy”, and “Burma’s Role in the United Nations.” He has also contributed many articles on Southeast Asia and related matters to “Current His tory,” “Review of Politics,” “Or- bis,” “The New York Time Maga zine,” “Asian Survey,” “Journal of Foreign Affairs” and “Journal of Asian Studies and Foreign Af fairs.” One of his more recent works is an article in the August issue of “Vietnam Perspectives” titled “Back to Geneva ’54? An Act of Political Folly.” 6 Selected To Senate Thursday Six students were elected to the Student Senate in a special election Thursday. Joseph Weber was elected sophomore representative from the College of Liberal Arts, in a race which featured five candi dates. In the College of Sciences Thomas Moon was elected senior representative, while Kenneth Vanek was chosen to represent the juniors. The new College of Geosciences gained three representatives. Senior James Swope, junior Robert Houze and sophomore Richard Kuklinski are the vic torious candidates. Making the election necessary was the division of the College of Arts and Sciences into sepa rate colleges and the creation of the College of Geosciences. The election was held in the Memorial Student Center and voter turnout was light. A telegram signed by 2,148 Texas A&M students expressing support of United States’ in volvement in Viet Nam was sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson today. The message, approximately 60 feet long, was scheduled to reach the President at his John son City ranch Saturday morning. The text of the telegram reads: “We, the undersigned members of the student body at Texas A&M University, salute those men who are risking their lives in Viet Nam in the interest of freedom and peace for the entire world. “We furthermore offer our united support of the United States’ involvement in Viet Nam and encourage the leaders of this nation to take whatever steps necessary to insure victory for the free world.” Initiated by Battalion editors, the campaign was conducted Thursday night by representa tives of the Corps of Cadets and the Civilian Student Council. Battalion Editor Glenn Drom goole said the project was stirred by the nationwide student de monstrations last weekend pro testing American action in Viet Nam. “We felt that publicity the demonstrations received implied that most college students are critical of the war in Viet Nam,” Dromgoole said. “We hope this telegram helps erase such a blanket indictment.” The signatures were obtained in less than three hours Thurs day night after Corps and civil ian leaders pledged their co operation to the proposal earlier that day. The Student Senate, upon re ceiving word of the undertak ing at their regular meeting Thursday night, passed a resolu tion endorsing the move. Texas A&M has provided mili tary training for more than 50,- 000 officers in the Armed Forces, including many on duty in Viet Nam at the present time. The state’s oldest institution of higher learning, the school contributed more officers during each world war than any other college in the nation, including the service academies. Hamlet To Open Film Series The 1965-66 Film Classic Series makes its debut Monday night when “Hamlet” is shown at the Campus Theatre. Admis sion is 75 cents. Sir Larence Olivier produced, directed and stars in the motion picture, while Jean Simmons is among the co-stars. The movie which runs only one night, is co-sponsored by the English Society and Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor fra ternity. Dr. Stanley Archer is faculty adviser for Sigma Tau Delta while Dr. E. E. Stokes holds the same position with the English society. Two other motion pictures, “Tom Jones” and “Romeo and Juliet” are tentatively scheduled for showing later in the year. Past productions in the series include “Henry V,” “Richard III,” “War and Peace,” David Cooper- field,” and “Pride and Prejudice.”