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By Glenn Dromgoole
Don’t count Yetta out yet.
With Presidential elections more than two years away,
Mrs. Yetta Bronstein has started a rigorous campaign for
President.
Yes, President of the United States, that’s what.
It isn’t her first try. The Bronx housewife-mother
politician was the Best Party candidate in 1964 after
President Johnson rejected her offer to fill the number
two spot on the Democratic ticket.
Mrs. Bronstein’s platform includes lowering the voting
age to 18, fluoridation, national bingo, sex education and
better government. She believes the nation needs a strong
mother to run the nation’s affairs.
Her logical reasoning is best demonstrated in an
“Open Letter to the College Students of America” in which
she says:
“Soon it will be November, 1968, and time to decide on
your next President of the U. S. A. I, Mrs. Bronstein, urge
you to vote for me. and help put a mother into the White
House. I promise to run this great country with a strong
arm, the same way I run my home.
“Also, there will be no stealing, cheating or arguing
among my government officials in Washington. If politicians
want to insult each other and carry on the way they do
today, let them join the Army, Navy or Marines!”
(One of the most practical solutions to political problems
ever derived.)
“Now, students, I would like to take you by the hand
and explain some facts of life that aren’t in your books. Think
with me and together we will learn the right answers.
First, who is the only person in your life you trust? Answer:
your mother. Second, who really handles the money in
your family and makes all the important decisions? Answer:
your mother. Finally, if the Good Fairy gave you one great
wish to come true, who would benefit from such a dream?
Answer: your mother.
“Think of all the things your mother did for you: the
feeding, changing, washing, ironing, telling bedtime stories,
lying for you, crying for you everything to make you
big and strong. Now you can pay her back by putting me
in office. I will represent all your mothers and act in their
behalf for you.”
You get straight answers from 48-year-old Yetta and
her campaign manager:
How does she feel about the war on poverty? “She
thinks it should be won.”
Foreign policy? “She always says we should have one.
She is willing to meet with 'Mr. Johnson. She will talk
to him. She will hold his hand. She will do anything he
wants to her to . . . within legal and moral limits, of course.”
Free enterprise ? “Everything you can get for free you
should get.”
Government appointments ? “She would appoint persons
who have failed and learned to live with it.”
Financing the government? “One of her proposals is
to raise postal revenues by placcing Jayne Mansfield on a
postage stamp.”
Reynolds'
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By Mike Reynolds
It is a pathetic situation when you can’t think of any
thing to gripe about after three years of campus crusades.
I am known in some parts as the world’s only 21 year old
cynic. Any any cynic worth his salt should be able to
find something to gripe about at least once a week.
I could always say something nasty about the con
tractors that are presently trying to beautify our campus
with sparkling new buildings. Seems that the truck drivers
on those jobs must be getting paid by the weight of the
load that they can balance on the back of their machines.
They sit calmly under the dragline and allow the rear of the
truck to sink beneath a gargantuan load.
Then a louder grinding of gears and screeching of tires,
you never heard in your life. The truck roars off down the
street and runs right out from under the dirt. After a hard
day of excavation around the Moon Building, the streets
resemble ah acre of clods. The countless cars that pass over
these clods crush them into the pavement so that they become
good honest bumps. When it rains, the street is as slippery
as a greased pig. When it is hot, the street resembles a
dust bowl.
Now is the time for the administration to clap a fine
on these boys and distribute a rebate to all persons having
to drive over that mess so that they can afford to go wash
their cars.
* * » • •
Then, if that didn’t come out to be enough inches to
fill the space, I could always find a few harsh words to
say about every Ag’s whipping boy, the Student Senate.
The Senate is now poised delicately, examining its
navel. It is once again having to serve an outmoded constitu
tion and fill several positions in an election that nobody will
vote in (by now that should probably be past tense). As
It stands now, committee chairman have to run for their
position. Why not let the president of the senate appoint
some of those sit-on-their-hands-and-smile-for-Who’s-Who’s
that do nothing but take up space and let them be the
tommittee heads? The civilians could care less. The Corps
tould care less, except whether they have more people in
the Student Senate picture in the Aggieland than the
tivilians do.
The president of Campus Government Association at
IWU has come up with a splendid solution. Why not
abolish student government and stop pretending. If the
Students don’t care,, why should anybody.
Whatever happened to Frank Muller’s plan to revamp
the government? Has the fire gone out?
*****
One bright ray of sunshine shown into my life today,
f happened to pick up the Red and White Garble that the
t-H calls a daily paper.
A certain column saw fit to comment on some of my
comments and Aggies’ general lack of education and then
couldn’t even bother to spell Battalion right. That was my
first shock. Then, the writer saw fit to criticize a comment
that I made about the UH finally becoming a University.
^*11, he got most of the facts right and I just want him
lo know that I extend all kinds of congratulations to him.
My joy was not that some other person besides Aggies
fead my column.
May I be the last person to call the UH a high school,
^ith the deep insight and understanding that the columnist
Possessed, his education at UH must not have been in vain.
They really did teach him to read.
Ags Seek Share Of SWC Lead s p4'°r
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1966
Number 274
YMCA Marriage Forum
NTSU Prof
Speaks T onight
A member of the American Association of Marriagre
Counselors will speak on “How Can You Tell It's Love?”
in the first Marriage Forum program at 7 .*30 p. m. Tuesday
in the YMCA.
Dr. Sidney Hamilton, of North Texas State University,
who has come to A&M in the past as a discussion group
leader and counselor for married student groups, will discuss
the factors involved in selecting a mate.
He will attempt to answer such questions as “How can
I be sure of marrying the
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THE THREE WINDJAMMERS
Representing McMurry College in the Inter- and Jack Wilcox. The singers have appeared
collegiate Talent Show Saturday night will at the Six Flags Campus Revue, Talent ’66
be the Three Windjammers. Members of and were finalists in the Jackie Gleason
the group are Jerrel Elliott, Clark Walter Talent Hunt on KRLD Television in Dallas.
Council Names Roberts VP,
Appoints 8 Committee Heads
Scott Roberts, sophomore eco
nomics major, was selected vice
president of the 1966-67 Memorial
Student Council and Directorate
Monday night. The MSC Coun
cil and Directorate also selected
eight committee chairmen and
one vice chairman.
Roberts will serve under Steve
Gummer, who was recently elec
ted council and directorate presi
dent. Both will take office dur
ing the annual council and direc
torate banquet scheduled for
April 28.
The new vice president has an
overall grade point ratio of 2.44
and posted a 2.28 last semester.
Bob Heaton, a junior majoring
in economics with an overall
GPR of 2.19, will head the
twelfth Student Cenference On
National Affairs.
Other chairman selected and
their committees are Steve Ko-
vich, Great Issues; James Bald-
auf, Contemporary Arts; James
Segrest, Talent; Sammy Pearson,
Town Hall; Ken Reese, Camera;
Perry Kinder, Recreation and Ed
Campbell, Radio.
Freshman Elizabeth Tynan was
chosen vice chairman of the Con
temporary Arts committee.
Displays Readied
For Career Day
Here Next Week
Even the rats are getting ready
for the annual Career Day
March 11-12.
Part of the Psychology Club
exhibit is a “teaching machine”,
in which rats are shocked. By
trial and error, they learn to
depress a lever that cuts off
the current.
In a “dry run” club demonstra
tion recently, one rat learned to
immediately press the lever, pre
venting himself from being
shocked the first time.
Exhibits will be open from 1:30
to 9 p.m. March 11 for the gen
eral public and out-of-town high
school groups. Displays will be
operated March 12 from 7:30
a.m. - 4 p.m. for high school, jun
ior college and adults consider
ing A&M’s scholastic and voca
tional offerings.
Exhibits are being prepared
by all departments, schools, col
leges, Maritime Academy, heavy
equipment operators course, Elec
tronics Institute and James Con-
nally Technical Institute.
Also to view the 65 exhibit
booths in G. Rollie White Coli
seum are 4-H, Future Farmers
of America and members of the
Junior Engineering Technical So
ciety (JETS).
Campus departments plan spe
cialized tours Saturday afternoon
for prospective students.
Career Day is a function of
A&M’s student Intercouncil Com
mittee.
MSC Council and Directorate
committee chairmen are chosen
by three methods. The candi
dates applications are screened by
a special committee. Candidates
are then interviewed and finally
voted on by the council.
For the first time since the
Town Hall committee has been a
Council and Directorate Commit
tee, the council elected the chair
man. In the past, it has been
the practice to select the chair
man during the Student Senate’s
general election.
In other business John Rodgers,
present MSC Council and Direc
torate president, appointed five
committee heads for the council’s
Building Studies Committee,
which is presently engaged in
studying the facilities of the MSC
and making recommendations to
university officials on what is
needed to improve the present
facilities for later years.
Committee heads are Dr. W.
B. Ledbetter, former students;
Ron May, students; Ken Vanek,
special projects; Dr. John Orr,
faculty and continuing education,
and Dr. Carl Shafer, coordination.
Grad College
Enrollment Up
Graduate enrollment soared to
2,083 for the spring semester, re
flecting a 43 per cent increase
over the same period last year.
The 1965 spring graduate en
rollment totaled 1,453. Fall to
tals jumped to 1,884, a 31 per
cent increase.
Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall
reported the 430 student increase,
and revealed the present total in
cludes 1,843 men and 240 women.
The College of Agriculture has
the largest enrollment, 604, com
pared with 381 a year ago.
Other totals include:
College of Engineering, 486, an
increase of 54.
Institute of Statistics, 51, an
increase of 30.
College of Veterinary Medicine,
36, an increase of 3.
The newly established College
of Geosciences has 116 students
this term. Total enrollment for
the College of Science is 348. En
rollment for the College of Lib
eral Arts is 442.
Women ar« most numerous in
Liberal Arts — 171. The Col
lege of Agriculture lists 43 wom
en, College of Science 15, Insti
tute of Statistics 6, College of
Engineering 4, College of Vet
erinary Medicine 1. No women
are enrolled in geosciences.
56 Countries Represented
In Foreign Student Enrollment
COL. R. C. LEE
Aerospace Prof
Due Reassignment
Col. Raymond C. Lee, professor
of aerospace studies since 1964,
will be reassigned to a combat
flying unit in July.
The colonel will become vice
commander of the 27th Tactical
Fighter Wing at Cannon AFB,
N. M. The F-100 unit recently
returned from support duty in
Southeast Asia.
Lee flew fighter missions in
World War II and in Korea and
hopes to see action in Viet Nam.
The officer came to A&M from
the Air War College, where he
was an instructor. A native of
Philadelphia, he holds bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from Penn
sylvania State University and
served as a training instructor
at he Air Force Academy.
At A&M, the colonel directed
the Air Force’s largest Reserve
Officer Training Corps program.
His replacement will be an
nounced in the spring.
Fifty-six countries are repre
sented in the record foreign stu
dent enrollment of 523 for the
spring semester.
Foreign Student Advisor Rob
ert L. Melcher noted a 21.6 per
cent increase — 93 students —
over the previous high of 430 for
the 1965 spring term.
India heads the list with 70 stu
dents. Pakistan follows with 54.
Free China has 51, Mexico 47,
Tunisia 44, and the United Arab
Republic 24.
Countries with 10 to 16 stu
dents are Argentina, Canada,
Colombia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Ko
rea, Panama, the Philippines, and
Venezuela.
Graduate students hold the
dominant position with 294 en
rolled. Fifty juniors, 49 sopho
mores, 47 seniors, 55 freshmen
and 28 special students round out
the total.
Other countries represented
Pinkie Says . . .
February visitors to Texas
A&M totaled 3,881, Official
Greeter P. L. (Pinkie) Downs Jr.
has announced.
For the past nine months, the
total is 33,651. Downs added.
Downs noted that visitors at
tended short courses, conferences,
class reunions and other sched
uled meetings.
The greeter pointed out 23
groups comprised the February
total. He estimated that 1,025,664
campus visitors in the past 16
years and 9 months spent $21,-
538,944 in the community.
are Afghanistan, Algeria, Aus
tralia, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica,
Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecua
dor, El Salvador, France, Ger
many, Great Britain, Greece,
Guatemala, Holland, Honduras.
Also Indonesia, Israel, Jamai
ca, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Lib
ya, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pal
estine, Paraguay, Peru, South
Africa, Spain, Sudan, Syria,
Thailand, Turkey, United King
dom and Viet Nam.
sure
rig-ht person? Has sex de
sire influenced my choice?
Am I socially adequate?
Should time and distance
interfere with true love (or,
What am I doing in Texas when
my girl is in Tennessee) ?”
Hamilton is the author of
“Workbook in Marital Psychol
ogy” and co-author of “Workbook
in Adolescent Psychology” and
“Workbok in Adolescent Develop
ment.”
He received his B.A. and M.A.
degrees from NTSU in adminis
trative education and sociology,
and his doctorate in psychology
from New York University.
At North Texas State he
teaches courses in mental testing,
clinical psychology, projective
techniques, adolescent develop
ment, guidance and marital psy
chology.
Hamilton also does after-dinner
speaking at women’s and service
clubs along with consultant work
in areas of marital adjustments
and personality problems.
The series continues each Tues
day night through March.
“Making Marriage Meaningful”
is next Tuesday's topic by Dr.
Robert Ledbetter of the Univers
ity of Texas. A counselor at the
University of Texas Health Cen
ter, Dr. Ledbetter also lectures in
the Department of Sociology.
Another University of Texas
educator. Dr. Henry Bowman,
will speak March 15 and 22. “Sex
in Human Relations—Premarital”
and “Sex in Human Relations—
Marital” are his respective topics.
Bowman is a past president
of the National Council on Family
Relations and listed in “Who’s
Who in America.”
A Texas Christian University
professor, Dr. Paul G. Wassenich,
is to discuss “Marrying Outside
Your Faith” in the March 29
session. He has counseled college
students for 20 years and taught
courses in Marriage and Family.
YMCA Secretary J. Gordon
Gay said the forums give ade
quate information to young people
interested in the problems of
marriage. He noted the long-
range aim is to encourage more
successful marriages through ed
ucation programs.
Senate Posts Decided Today
Polls remain open until 5 p.m.
today in the Memorial Student
Center in the election to fill
five vacancies in the Student
Senate, according to Harris Pap
pas, chairman of the Election
Commission.
The positions to be decided in
the election are: chairman of the
Issues Committee, junior and sen
ior representative from the Col
lege of Engineering and the Col
lege of Geosciences, and third
year veterinary medicine repre
sentative.
ISRAELI CRAFTWORK
World traveler Richard Linde will show many aspects of
life among the Israelis and Arabs in his color film-lecture
“Middle East Tinderbox” at 8 p. m. tonight in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom. Ancient arts and crafts have
been revived in Israel, making use of native materials and
following traditional designs. Although peaceful pursuits
are everywhere, there are frequent clashes in this troubled
area.