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D Jl Limited Coed Policy Reaffirmed (IE Y ■te locratic Pol, Adv, The limited coeducation policy now in force at Texas A&M was reaffirmed Saturday by the Board of Directors. The Board adopted recom mendations from a four-member committee studying a 1965 ruling of Texas Attorney General Wag goner Carr concerning admission of female students. The new policy is identical to existing rules with one exception. Females may now earn a degree from A&M for summer school work, on the same basis as other stu dents. Other conditions for female enrollment which remain un changed include limiting admis sion to wives and daughters of A&M faculty, staff, employes or students; girls pursuing a course of study not offered at any other state-supported college, or fe males who seek an academic goal which can best be achieved at Texas A&M. The Board committee, com posed of Clyde Wells of Gran- bury, L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth, and Sterling C. Evans and Gardiner Symonds, both of Houston, also gained approval for A&M President Earl Rudder to amend the admission policy to keep it in compliance with the Attorney General’s opinion. The study panel was named by Board President H. C. Helden- fels of Corpus Christi in No vember to report on a ruling re quested from the attorney gen eral. Carr ruled the board had “the unquestioned right” to issud regulations concerning admis sions but considered restriction of female enrollees to wives or daughters of university em ployees or students “a discrimi nation and an unreasonable class distinction.” In other action, the board: —Continued plans to expand A&M’s athletic field. They ap propriated $35,000 for engineer ing expenses to design the million-dollar enlargement of Kyle Field. A $30,000 fund was established to run a campaign to sell season options for choice seats. The redesigned stadium will provide 35,000 good seats be tween goal lines, using canti levered upper decks on east and west sides of the horseshoe. —Added $l>/2 million Services Building to house A&M informa tion activities, the Agricultural Analytical Service and Student Publications to the College Sta tion building program. Bids for the project are expected in April. —Rejected all bids for an office building for the System Physical Plant staff. Plans will be studied to reduce cost of the structure. —Ratified the contract to Casey and Glass of Corpus Christi to construct four varsity tennis courts at A&M at a cost of $33,227. —Approved two new degree programs: graduate-level bio physics and an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering, pending certification by the Co ordinating Board of Texas Col leges and Universities. Both programs would be firsts for the state. —Created America’s first In stitute of Tropical Veterinary Medicine at A&M to study exotic wildlife diseases. —Discussed parking lot im provements on all three campuses of the A&M System. A sum of $75,000 was appropriated for A&M to enlarge parking facili ties. —Accepted gifts totaling al most a million dollars, including funds for scholarships, research and salaries amounting to $981,- 359.13. Largest gift was 2,300 shares of stock, valued at $84,000, from Wofford Cain of Dallas. The grant was the first of three in stallments on the 1913 graduate’s pledge to give $250,000 to assist in construction of the new library. scholarships and fellowships and $64,470.44 in research funds for Texas A&M, and $242,042.90 in grants-in-aid for the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station. —Accepted a gift of land donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Montgomery of Overton in mem ory of their son, James Glenn, a student at A&M in 1955 when he died. The 4*4-acre block was con sidered particularly valuable since it joins the south end of the 22-acre East Texas Research Center deeded to A&M by the Bruce McMillan Foundation. The additional land will provide a level entry to the site, eliminat ing an alsess problem. James Glenn Montgomery was an honor student in petroleum engineering. He first entered A&M in the fall of 1952 and was a member of Phi Eta Sigma,, honorary scholastic fraternity. The board accepted the land in Rusk Connty for the use of the East Texas Research Center in Overton. Other gifts included $38,982 in Che Battalion £_ Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1966 Number 27^ Gives Administration Final Say Board Bypasses Action On Political Club Issue By GLENN DROMGOOLE The A&M Board of Directors refused to take action Saturday on a Student Senate resolution proposing recognized political clubs on campus, leaving the matter to the University Execu tive Committee for decision. The Battalion learned Monday night that Board secretary Rob ert G. Cherry has drafted a letter to Senate secretary Weldon T. Bollinger informing him of the Directors’ stand. “The board felt that this was a matter for administrative de termination,” the letter stated, “and not a matter for action by the Board of Directors. They reviewed action by the Execu tive Committee and the Board felt the present rules and regulations governing the matter were adequate.” Cherry wrote the letter in ab sence of President Earl Rudder, who left Monday for special gov ernment assignment to Viet Nam. The A&M president pre sented the resolution at Satur day’s Board meeting at the Sen ate’s request. Senate President Roland Smith and Dean of Students James P. Hannigan were not aware of the board’s decision when contacted Monday night. Neither expressed any great surprise at the announcement. Smith said he would work with Hannigan to prepare the resolu tion for the Executive Committee “at the earliest possible date.” The committee, which has final administrative authority subject to review by President Rudder, meets every Monday. The resolution seeks to reverse the Executive Committee’s un sympathetic attitude toward campus political clubs that was last confirmed April 20, 1964. Since then, applications by Young Democrats and Young Re publicans for campus recogni tions have failed to gain ap proval. Three students and their ad visor submitted an application and constitution of the Texas A&M Young Democrats early this year, but it was rejected Feb. 23 by Hannigan because they “appear to be a mere re statement of the application which was disapproved at the Executive Committee meeting April 20, 1964.” Hannigan has allowed students interested in forming recognized political clubs to conduct organi zational meetings in the Memo- General Luedecke R To Speak Friday The deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Cal ifornia Institute of Technology — Maj. Gen. Alvin R. Leudecke, USAF (Ret.) — will speak Fri day at Texas A&M. Luedecke, a 1932 chemical en gineering graduate of A&M, will address hundreds of Engineering Career Day students at 3:15 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. At 8 p.m., also in the MSC Ball- room, he will talk about “The Mariner IV Mission to Mars”. He *ill use color slides to illustrate bis comments. Luedecke was appointed to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Post in August, 1964, after six years as general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission. He »as promoted to brigadier gen eral at an early age. He was 33 in 1944 when he was appointed Deputy Chief of Air Staff of the Army Air Forces in the India- Burma Theater. He became As sistant Chief of Air Staff in the China Theater in 1945. The general’s association with MAJ. GEN. LEUDECKE the AEG began in 1949. He was appointed executive secretary of the Military Liaison Committee to the AEC after two years as USAF member of the Joint Stra tegic Plans Group in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 1966 COMBAT CUTIE 17-year old Sandra Sherman of Decatur was chosen Com bat Cutie at Friday night’s Combat Ball. The 5’ 3” blonde is a senior at Decatur High School. She was escorted by James Cartwright. (See more pictures on page 3.) Pulitzer Historian Nevins To Discuss American Press rial Student Center during recent months. Young Democrats have already met on campus for such pur poses, and Young Republicans are scheduled for a campus meet ing this week. The Senate resolution, if passed by the Executive Com mittee and followed by the clubs, would curtail club demonstra tions, on-campus campaigning and fund solicitation, but would allow them to meet on campus, host speakers not up for im mediate election and open meet ings to the public whenever de sired. Speakers would be subject to approval from the Dean of Stu dents, and campus clubs would be expected to affiliate with a na tionally recognized party. UT Professor To Present F orum Lecture “Making Marriage Meaning ful” will be tonight’s topic for the second of five Marriage Forums. Guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Ledbetter from the Uni versity of Texas. Ledbetter’s talk at 7 :30 p.m. in the YMCA will cover: 1. What are the significant emotional problems which de velop during the early period of marriage? 2. What are the more common conflicts? 3. Making adjustments—how to handle tensions. 4. How to spend money wisely; will budgets work? 5. Immaturity—the killer of romance. 6. What holds marriage to gether? 7. Why the “boom” in high school and college marriages? Ledbetter received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas, did graduate work at SMU and earned his Ph.D. at the Universtiy of Chicago. He is presently doing private marriage counseling at the UT Health Center and is a visiting lecturer for the Department of Sociology. Dr. Henry Bowman, also from the University of Texas and fre quent visitor and lecturer at A&M, will discuss “Sex in Human Relations — Premarital,” on March 15, and he will return again the following week to speak on “Sex in Human Rela tions—Marital.” World renowned historian- journalist Allan Nevins will dis cuss “Is the Press Properly Serving American Democracy?” at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Nevins, president of the Na tional Academy of Arts and Letters, will present the fifth in a series of University Lectures. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Nevins was chosen last year by Oxford University as the Harmsworth Professor of His tory. He has authored 30 volumes which have won many honors, including the Bancroft Prize, Scribner Centenary Prize, the Gold Medal for history and biography of the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters and the Gold Medal of the New York Historical Society. Perhaps best known for his works concerning the Civil War, he served last year as chairman of the U. S. Civil War Cen tennial Commission. From the royalties his books have earned, he presented Co lumbia University with a $500,- 000 gift to endow a chair. Nevins, a graduate of the Uni versity of Illinois, was a member of two New York newspapers before joining the faculty at Cornell University. In 1931 he became Professor of History at Columbia, a posi tion he held for 27 years. After retiring three years ago, Nevins has lectured throughout the world. He will be on a four- day lecture tour of Texas uni versities next week, speaking at North Texas State University, Baylor, A&M and Rice. ★ ★ ★ Board Appoints Geoscience Dean, Economics Head Selection of a new associate dean of geosciences and appointment of a new head of economics top ped the list of personnel changes approved by the Texas A&M Board of Directors Saturday. Dr. Earl F. Cook, executive secretary of the Earth Sciences Division of the National Academy of Sciences, will assist in admin istration of the College of Geo sciences, headed by Dr. Horace R. Byers. Dr. Melvin L. Greenhut, a pro fessor at Florida State Universi ty, will chair the Department of Economics. Both appointments are effec tive June 1. Cook completed three degrees at the University of Washing ton. He studied geology at the University of Paris and the Uni versity of Geneva, Switzerland and has held teaching positions at Stanford and the University of Idaho. He was named dean of the College of Mines at Idaho and director of the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology in 1956. He took his current post with the academy’s research council in 1962. Greenhut received his A.B. from Hofstra College and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. The economics professor taught at Auburn and Rollins College. He was associate dean of the School of Business at the Uni versity of Richmond before his 1962 appointment at Florida State. He has served as an economic advisor to the Florida Develop ment Commission and as a mem ber of the economic policy com mittee of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The board also approved pro motion of an Associate Professor of Chemistry, John B. Beckham, to assistant dean of the College of Science. Faculty promotions also ap proved and effective September 1, include: To full professor: Richard E. Thomas, aerospace engineer ing; A. H. Thompson, meteor ology; E. A. Meyers, chemistry; A. G. Kemler, veterinary anat omy; William M. Romane, vet erinary medicine and surgery; Charles F. Hall, veterinary mi crobiology, and R. R. Bell, vet^ erinary parasitology. To associate professor: Carl E. Shafer, agricultural econ omics; Z. L. Carpenter, animal science! N. M. Kieffer, animal and plant science; Page W. Mor gan, plant sciences; J. D. Dodd, range science; James G. Teer, wildlife science; Leonel D. Dur bin, chemical engineering; Dan D. Drew, industrial engineering; S. Z. El-Sayed, oceanography; William C. House, business (man agement); Lannes Hope, educa tion and psychology; Stanley P. Botner and Haskell M. Monroe, history and government; John B. Orr, philosophy; H. W. Harry and M. H. Sweet, biology; R. G. Greeley, veterinary anatomy; G. M. Gowing, veterinary medicine and surgery; J. W. Huff, veter inary microbiology, and M. Sza- buniewicz, physiology and phar macology. To assistant professor: Anton J. Bockhold and Lewis E. Clark, soil and crop sciences; W. L. Beasley, T. R. Burkes, C. H. Ray and D. L. Vines, electrical engi neering; J. E. Martin, veterinary anatomy, and A. P. Scott, vet erinary medicine and surgery. Instructor appointments in clude Allen W. Hathaway, indus trial engineering; Paul R. Corder and Lloyd Trainer, mechanical engineering; Nan E. Pryor, biol ogy; Alexander F. Kleiner Jr. and Jan P. McAnnally, mathematics; Donald G. Naugle, physics, and Charles A. Carson, veterinary medicine. New ranks also went to Asso ciate Professor Edward Chin, Re search Foundation; and Lecturer Bryan F. Williams, Maritime Academy. Other appointments were Lynn J. Bennett Jr., instructor, heavy equipment operator training; John Hislop and Herbert P. Yule, research chemists for the Engi neering Experiment Station, and William W. Scott Jr. and Hayes E. Ross Jr., research assistants for the Texas Transportation In stitute. Brazos County Poverty Program Gets Underway The nationwide war on poverty took a giant step toward local reality Monday night as a Town Hall-type meeting in the district courtroom approved a steering committee to begin work on pov erty programs for Brazos Coun ty- County Judge W. C. Davis was chosen temporary chairman of the overall effort to establish federal-local programs for the county under the Economic Op portunity Act of 1964. Several county business and civic leaders were appointed to a steering committee to name a Board of Directors to file ap plication for local anti-poverty programs. Included on the committee was Robert M. Logan, director of the Texas A&M Student Aid Office. Robert Watts, program con sultant from the Texas office of the Office of Economic Op portunity in Austin, explained various programs that could be adopted by the Board of Direc tors under the EOA passed in 1964. “These programs are designed to help people help themselves,” Watts noted. “They are not in tended to be welfare programs.” Watts said the steering com mittee should set up a Board of 60-65 persons. He added that membership, in order to meet federal approval, must contain representatives from all private and public agencies in the coun ty, all governmental agencies, all minority groups, representatives from the poor the programs will affect, and at-large representa tives. When formulated, the Board will have until June 30 to ap ply for some community action programs in order to receive the $155,000 allocated for the county for this fiscal year. All programs, which will be exclusively controlled by the local group, will be financed up to 90 per cent of the total cost by the federal government. Rudder Appointed To Presidential Viet Nam Mission Texas A&M President Earl Rudder is one of 15 educators and public officials appointed by President Johnson to visit Viet Nam to extend his battle against hunger, ignorance and disease. Only one other Texan was named to the task force, She is Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, chair man of the board and editor of the Houston Post. Leader for the trip, which be gins Saturday, is Francis Keppel, assistant secretary for education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The trip stemmed from the President’s February meeting in Honolulu with Vietnamese lead ers. At that time, Johnson and other leaders agreed to attempt to establish social and economic reforms while continuing the fight for peace. Rudder is a major general in the Army Reserve and a hero of World War II. President of A&M since 1959, he w^as promot ed last year to head the A&M System.