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ARY US 10 COPIES D NGi! Aggies Look For Fifth Straight Against Sips Tonight Che Battalion iVolume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1966 Number 258 or ES 5 ish Deserting Corps In Droves Housing Office Rushed S 'e inti* ore)» nz pi GMK : i pJetfj iww. postfii ; ch CMC ) deter: A.dmto Dominican Programs Head Claims No U. S. Resentment lm'i gave some thought to transferring out of second, I’ve gotta have something to blame jr he Corps, but decided to stay for two big my grades on.!” sons! First, I look good in uniform and he Disf id Ziitl V8l |abel To Address in “Indian Students “d 16 * iDr. Ludwig Fabel of Houston jLLEffjh'll be featured speaker as India H. Students observe Republic Day iy «i l S«] e l )ra tj on at Texas A&M Jan. leproiccte, 2:00J The celebration begins at 7:30 Sciel, 4,m., according to Shankar Ram- idiea ihandran, Association president. jjij Fabel is visiting professor in :erci3e fhe Department of Foreign Lan- lidute l 1 ! age S ^ of H. Finals Slow Down Batt Publication n kHjJThe Battalion will be published j. the this week as ff members start cramming the "Ifily once more J1 CHI® th * n 5‘fo r final exams. lidateJOnly one issue will appear ^‘fjuring final week and again dur- '.Jd? ing semester break. Publica- 0 bei-fttn dates are Jan. 24, Jan. 27 Feb. 3. Regular publication inuacy reS umes p e b. g. tor Dr. G. M. Watkins, program director of Texas A&M Domi nican Republic programs and on the scene in the country for the last three-and-a-half years, has found no resentment against U. S. intervention in Dominican affairs. He voiced the opinion after speaking at an international Semi nar, where he was introduced by Dr. M. T. Harrington, coor dinator of A&M’s International Programs, as “probably the best informed man in the U. S. on the Dominican Republic.” Watkins reported on an edu cational project in the Republic which involves about 30 A&M families. “First,” Dr. Watkins enumera ted the Dominican reaction,” was an emotional feeling that you or I would get if outsiders came in to direct us. “Then there was a second and studied reaction. The alternative to having U. S. troops present, they realized, was much worse.” Watkins, who expects 60 Domi nican students to graduate from the secondary school in May, lauded the U. S. 82nd Airborne’s actions in recent fighting in Santiago. “They did their job and nothing more. They are old pros,” he declared. Watkins said the average Dom inican “equates the professional military with the extreme right. “He has such a phobia about it, he becomes susceptible to ex treme leftism as he swings away from it.” He added elder Dominicans pass off their young people’s reckless actions as “inquietud,” which he translated generally as restlessness. Top members of the first graduating class from the school which A&M helped construct may be brought to the university in June for further studies. DOPE ADDICT IN AGONY leve Thurman, right, portrays a young dope addict trying 1 find a cure in “Dope”, a one-act play scheduled at 8 p. m. ednesday through Friday in the Fallout Theater in the ■ar of Guion Hall. Tim Lane plays the relentless pusher. TSee story on Page 5.) Graphics Course To Be Offered The engineering graphics de partment will offer a course in graphical computation devices during the spring semester. The course, Engineering Gra phics 403, was added after the schedule of classes for the spring semester was printed. Designed primarily for students in engineering and the natural sciences, the course meets twice a week for two credit hours. Meeting times will be arranged to suit schedules of enrollees as much as possible. The course will teach principles of graphical analysis and com putation which may be used to supplement and correlate more conventional analytic and experi mental methods. Background in basic graphics and calculus is recommended but not essential. Interested persons should con tact Michael Guerard in the engi neering graphics department. By DAN I PRESS WOOD Corps freshmen showed up en masse Monday as the Housing Office released unreserved rooms in civilian dormitories. More than 300 students are ex pected to transfer out of the Corps at the termination of the fall semester, Civilian Counselor Bill G. Presnal estimated. Corps and civilian students were lined up for more than nine hours as the vacant rooms were released on a first come, first served basis. “We haven’t had any problem yet,” commented Director of Stu dent Affairs Bennie Zinn. “Any man who has come in so far has found a room. We don’t antici pate any trouble housing these students.” Zinn said around 250 students were standing in line at 7 a.m., an hour before the office opened. “Some students actually spent the night here in order to be first in line,” he said. “They wanted to make sure they would get first shot at these rooms.” According to Zinn, 144 beds in Dorm 16 have been cleared in ad dition to the rooms of the 160 graduating seniors and the scat tering of empty bunks in civilian dormitories now. “However, we won’t know the exact number of vacant spaces until after registration,” he pointed out. Zinn said A&M expects approx imately 250 new students for the spring semester, including fresh men, transfer students and stu dents returning after layoffs. Although about 1,950 civilian students reserved their current rooms, Zinn said there are 300 more who failed to show up. “If a student didn’t sign up for his room, it’s too late now,” he added. “The first man that comes in and wants it can have it.” Students will be able to reserve rooms until the start of registra tion for the spring semester. EAGER BEAVERS FACE LONG WAIT . . . students anxious for spring room reservations. Corps Leaders Warn Freshman Dropouts By TOMMY DeFRANK An angry Aid Division Com mander Alan Gray warned pro spective freshmen dropouts in the Corps of Cadets Monday against using the Corps as a scapegoat for leaving “because nobody is naive enough to believe it.” Gray and Corps Commander Ralph Filburn asked freshmen to closely examine motives for leav ing but both emphasized the Corps is not interested in re taining fish unhappy with it. “If you want to work, we in vite you to stay; if you don’t want to work, we ask you to leave,” Filburn said. “I’m sick and tired of having to spoonfeed a bunch of babies while the men in your class take the responsibility for you,” Gray added. “We don’t need any ma ma’s boys and we damn sure don’t want you here. “But if you do leave, take a close, hard look at your reason but don’t ever blame the Corps,” he continued, “because the Corps has too high a reputation in this state for people to believe you.” Filburn noted that many fresh men are pointing to low grades in the Corps and reminded them aggregate civilian grades were lower than Corps grades at mid semester. He also revealed more civilians have dropped out of school since September than members of the Corps. “You picked Texas A&M in the fall because you heard of its reputation, its education and the men it has built,” he said: “That reputation has been built and maintained by the Corps of Ca dets. “Texas A&M is not Sully, or football games, and it is not the civilian students. Texas A&M is the Corps of Cadets. If you want a free ride on its reputation, then leave the Corps.” Filburn said the Corps makes its freshmen better men and any body that quits now is in the middle of the ball game. “We didn’t make any promises to you that it would be easy,” he added. “Most worthwhile things aren’t easy. You’ve learned about everything re quired of you as a freshmen; now all you have to do for the next four months is do it. The roughest part is over and the rest of the way is downhill.” Gray compared the Corps to a computer “that once it has been given something, it will produce more for you than you could pro duce for yourself in a lifetime. “The Corps gives you exper ience, knowledge, confidence and the realization to be a man,” he said. “If you aren’t man enough to take the Corps, then leave. And if you leave. Godspeed!” Filburn suggested that too many freshmen were letting in stincts make up their minds for them but both he and Gray em phasized they were not asking any freshmen to stay in the Corps. RANDY NAMED BEST Aggie superstar Randy Matson receives a plaque symbolic of his selection as Sport Magazine’s outstanding performer in track and field for 1965. The award, made by Sport representative Art Warwick, was presented during half time of the A&M-Baylor basketball clash Saturday. Some side thoughts conjectured during the A&M-Baylor basket ball game in Waco Saturday .... The Aggies brought more students to an out-of-town basketball game than Baylor brought to A&M for football . . . Thought football was the big sport in Texas .... Or maybe that’s just the way it is with sportsmanship winners . . . They don’t offend anyone because they just stay home . . . Unless, of course, they have a few extra paintbrushes lying around .... By the way, those SWC good sports had a huge “Cremate the Corps” sign displayed on court just before game time . . . An Aggie horse-laugh greeted it ... . Baylor freshman basketball player Richard McCall is BU pres ident Abner McCall’s son . . . But he didn’t get to play against the Aggie Fish Saturday . . . Maybe politics don’t matter much in college athletics . . . But anyway this in-training might be a pretty good thing .... Better start training Bob, Mr. President .... The Aggie Fish had a rough time of it, losing to the Baylor Cubs 87-73 and hitting only 36 per cent of their field goal efforts .... Cub coach Carroll Dawson was so well acquainted with the two officials (one a Waco insurance man and the other a coach at Waco’s Richfield High School) that once he shouted, “Hey, Lonnie (Horst- mann), he was charging” . . . Now maybe they weren’t partial, but it is kinda discouraging when the opposing coach and the refs are drop-handle buddies .... The Seniors finally got a Senior Line this year—they formed one for the basketball team after the first half of the Baylor game . . . One senior commented, “We won’t be able to kill any grass here” .... Coach Shelby Metcalf was quite pleased with the A&M turnout . . . He was lavish in his praise of the student body on his teevee show Sunday .... “I want to thank our fine student body for their support,” he said . . . “The whole state got to know what tremendous support our students give their athletic teams” .... “Incidentally,” he added, “we play in Austin Tuesday” .... By the way, did you see me on teevee ? . . . Se Ya ‘Round— Mortimer.