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Aggie Sweetheart
Set To Perform
At Hayride Show
By DANI PRESSWOOD
Texas Aggie Sweetheart Cheri
Holland will perform in the 1966
Louisiana Hayride Saturday,
Sigma Delta Chi president Glenn
Dromgoole announced Tuesday.
Dromgoole said she would
'sing a few songs,” adding her
talents to the previously-an-
wunced country and western
itars entertaining in G. Rollie
White Coliseum at 8 p.m. Sat
urday.
Miss Holland, from College
Station, will attend the junior
ball and banquet, making an ear
ly appearance at the Hayride.
A sophomore voice major at
Texas Woman’s University, she
sang a few folk songs at the
recent Intercollegiate Talent
Show.
Miss Holland has had several
minor roles and has sung in the
thorus of two summer musicals
here. She also had a more major
part in “Bye, Bye Birdie” last
summer.
Previous performances include
“Bloomer Girl” in 1964 and “Any
thing Goes” the summer before.
A graduate of A&M Consolida-
ter High School, she reined as
bmecoming queen, Miss Con
solidated High School and most
representative girl her senior
year.
She was also chosen semifinal
ist in the Miss Teenage America
Mane Professor
To Give Lecture
At Literary Fete
Dr. Philip M. Griffith, associate
professor of English at Tulane
University, will be guest lec
turer for the Texas A&M Lit-
srary Festival March 21-26.
Dr. John Q. Anderson, head
of the sponsoring Department of
English, said Griffith will pre
sent programs and lectures on
Eighteenth Century English lit
erature.
Griffith’s free public lecture,
“Samuel Johnson and the Meta
physical Poets,” is scheduled for
< p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial
Student Center.
A native of North Carolina,
the speaker earned degrees from
the University of North Caro
lina and John Hopkins Universi
ty. He has published numerous
ttticles and reviews on Eight-
teenth Century literature, and is
author of a book soon to be pub
lished about a periodical — “The
Adventurer.”
Theme of the festival is “En
lightened England — Eighteenth
Century Literature in the Age
of Pope and Johnson.” Lectures
hy the A&M English faculty,
Feadings by oral interpretation
students, the movie “Tom Jones”,
and displays of books and prints
*ill be featured.
of Houston contest and was edi
tor of Tigerland 1964 (high
school annual), a medal-winning
majorette, alternate in the all-
state choir and member of the
National Honor Society.
In addition to Miss Holland,
the Louisiana Hayride features
such widely-konwn country-west
ern singers as Lester Flatt, Earl
Scruggs, Little Jimmy Dickens,
Debbie Day, Nat Stuckey, Archie
Campell and Wilma Burgess.
Flatt and Scruggs, veteran en-
tetrtainers, have developed a
unique banjo style known as “the
sound of Americana.”
They are long-time stars of
the Grand Ole Opry and have
appeared on television’s Hooten
anny, The Beverly Hillbillies, The
Tonight Show, The Tennessee
Ernie Ford Show and Folk
Sound-USA.
Dickens, acclaimed “Mr. Per
sonality of Country Music,” be
came the first country music
star to completely circle the
globe on a world tour in the
spring of 1964.
His most recent hit, “May the
Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your
Nose,” gained Dickens the unique
distinction of owning a best-sell
er in both the country and pop
markets.
As a result of this recording,
he has performed on six major
network television shows includ
ing Hullaboloo, The Jimmy Dean
Show, The Lloyd Thaxton Show,
The Johnny Carson Show, 9th
St. West and Hollywood A Go
Go.
Campbell, another Opry vet
eran, is regarded as one of the
top comedians in the country
western field.
His recordings of “Trouble in
The Amen Corner,” “Kinder
Rindercella” and “Beeping Slear
Sleauty” have become country
music faovrites.
His album, “Bedtime Stories
For Adults,” hit the top in
comedy album sales in the coun
try and remained number one
for almost three months.
Advance tickets for the Hay
ride are selling for $2.25 in the
reserved section, $1.75 for gen
eral admission and $1.25 for stu
dents.
Advance ducats go off sale at
5 p.m. Friday on campus and
noon Saturday at Jarrott’s Phar
macy in Townshire and down
town Bryan .
They will be on sale at the
ticket booth in the Memorial
Student Center Saturday from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Doors open for the perform
ance at 6 p.m. Saturday with
tickets selling for 25 cents more
at the door.
Sponsored by Sigma Delta
Chi, the professional journalistic
society, profits from the Hayride
will go toward A&M journalism
scholarships for high school and
junior college students.
latts Area Of Los Angeles
Scene Of Fresh Race Riots
LOS ANGELES <A>) — Fatal
toting erupted Tuesday in the
*outh Los Angeles area wracked
“I a racial explosion last August.
We hours later National Guard
•tticials said they had been
Verted to the situation.”
A white truck driver was shot
10 death in the first hour and
‘Ftother death was reported
toirtly afterward.
Police said that at one time
tore than 600 Negroes were ram-
^Sing through the streets,
"tooting, stabbing and throwing
tocks and bottles.
They rushed in a force of sev-
■hl hundred officers. Shortly
! ^torward police issued a state-
! tont that the disturbance seemed
^ be at least temporarily under
totrol.
Tuesday’s rioting erupted
■tout 3:20 p.m., when a Negro
tot threw a rock at a car driven
* a white man, slightly injuring
■to. The white man, a school-
toher, stepped out of his car,
police arrived and arrested the
Negro.
Teenage students of Jordan
High School, let out for the day,
collected and began accusing of
ficers of brutality, an officer
said.
As the crowd grew, rocks,
bricks and bottles began to fly.
Groups of angry Negroes began
overturning cars and setting
them afire.
Reports of looted liquor stores
and acts of violence to passing
motorists, mostly white, multi
plied rapidly within the first
three hours.
More than 20 persons were re
ported taken to nearby Oak Park
Community Hospital. They had
been stabbed or beaten.
Against a canvas of increas
ing violence, police said, Law
rence Gomez, a water truck driv
er unaware of the rapidly spawn
ing riot, stepped from his truck
to make a delivery and was quick
ly surrounded by more than a
dozen young Negroes.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1966
Number 283
CHERI HOLLAND
.. . Aggie Sweetheart to perforin at Louisiana Hayride Sat
urday.
YMCA MARRIAGE FORUM ,
Sociologist Says
Premarital Sex
Always Risky
By ROBERT SOLOVEY
“The pill does not give the green light to intercourse; someone
first has to swallow it.”
Dr. Henry Bowman, noted sociologist from the University of
Texas, told a capacity standing, sitting, hanging from the rafter
crowd that the human factor always makes premarital sex risky.
In the third of five marriage Forums in the YMCA, Bowman
explained the birth control pill, although effective, must be taken
with religious regularity if it is to be completely effective.
“Some girls can miss one pill, some girls can trap men by not
taking it, and many cannot get the prescription needed from their
doctor,” he said.
Bowman emphasized that there were no cut and dried answers
about premarital relations, and that he wanted only to present
one viewpoint as food for thought.
He asked the audience to think, and then to examine their
own assumptions.
He said many people had asked him about a sexual revolution,
and if, in fact, one had occurred.
“No. The new and the old ideas are still with us. The fact
that people are still discussing sex means that they are still in
terested in, and working with, the older ideas on the subject,” he
said.
Bowman noted some of the numerous attitudes that prevail
on sex in this country. He grouped them as follows:
—Those who believe sex is sinful and unclean.
—Those who subscribe to promiscuity.
—Those who believe in the institution of prostitution.
—Those groups who believe in permissiveness.
—Those who think sex is good, but only within the frame
work of marriage.
He noted that men historically sought premarital relations with
women who belonged to a group from which they did not intend
to choose their wives, but he said that today men carry on rela
tions with women who belong to a group from which they do
intend to make their choice.
“Today you are called upon to make your own standards and
set your own patterns. There are less pressures. You can make
your standards whatever you want them to be,” he noted.
“There is natural tendency for men to exaggerate their exper
iences and for women to play them down,” he contended.
“The ones who know the least are the students who generalize
on their own experiences or their friends,” he said.
“We have no way of knowing how much sexual intercourse has
occurred nor what the college population is doing presently, but I
am convinced that not all students of either sex have had pre
marital intercourse,” he added.
He felt that today we are making sex more prominent before
the wedding than during marriage; and thus sex is out of proportion.
He pointed out that when we are in school we evaluate what
we are now doing in terms of an eventual degree, and he added
that in sex we must also evaluate what we are doing now in terms
of our future goal, a happy marriage.
“I believe that most young men will abide by the line a woman
draws. But why doesn’t the man draw the line? Why don’t men
respect girls enough to respect them?”
“A girl wants security. She wants a boy who won’t take
advantage of her even if she gets aroused.”
He noted that premarital “testing” disregards the nature of a
girl. He said that girls aren’t really responsive until a few years
after they are married.
“Most married men encounter numerous sexual frustrations.
A marriage license doesn’t always mean sexual intercourse whenever
the male desires it. The man whose wife is ill or away doesn’t
go to the girl down the block for satisfaction he noted. “Sure,
there’s frustration, but he can live with it.”
He guessed that more than 500,000 women annually suffer
premarital pregnancy.
“Most intercourse is initiated by the boy. It’s like playing
Russian roulette with the gun pointed at the girl’s head. Would
you play if the gun were pointed at yours?” he queried.
Bowman would not make a moral judgment of a new student
movement on the University of Texas campus for the medical
facilities to issue free contraceptives, but did say he thought such
an operation would be impossible with the present facilities.
“The pill only increases male vulnerability and his lack of
responsibility,” he said.
“Are the young men who argue for sexual freedom in love
or heat?”
“As emotion rises, reason declines. Petting isn’t all safe, either.
There’s always alcohol; if there’s a lot they’re safe, if there’s a
little they’re not,” he quipped.
Next week Bowman will return for the fourth Marriage Forum.
His topic will be “Sex in Human Relations — Marital.”
General Election March 24
97 Candidates Apply
For Class Offices
By MIKE BERRY
Battalion Staff Writer
Almost 100 students filed for
class offices before Tuesday’s
deadline, announced Election
Commission Chairman Harris
Pappas.
Ninety-eight juniors, sopho
mores and freshmen are candi
dates for the class elections
March 24. Pappas said Voter
Registration Cards will be dis
tributed Thursday in the Memo
rial Student Center in front of
the Gift Shop.
Pappas was pleased with the
“good turnout” and expected a
“vigorous race and close election.”
The distribution of Voter Regis
tration Cards will be slightly
different from last year. First
Sergeants will collect identifica
tion cards in Corps units.
Civilian Dorm Presidents will
collect registration cards in
civilian dormitories.
A tentative list of candidates,
pending final approval, includes:
Senior President—Louis K. Ob-
dyke, Ken N. Vanek, Arturo
Esquivel, Terrel S. Mullins and
Jack H. Pybum. Vice president
—Layne H. Connevy, Larry P.
Heitman, G. Neal Patton, Don A.
Houston, Edward G. Worrel,
Michael A. Calloway, Joel'Aldape
and Kenneth A. Lamkin.
Secretary-treasurer — Dennis
N. Hohman, Charles M. Martin,
Patrick K. Gamble and Melvin W.
Cockerell. Social secretary —
Harry E. Stengele Jr. and Joe
McNabb. Historian—Thomas M.
DeFrank, John P. Tyson, Terry
C. Aglietti and Jack M. Crook.
MSC representative—Fred James
Wright, William C. Haseloff Jr.
and Robert A. Beene.
For senior yell leaders (3) —
Bob Lackland, Edward M.
Schulze, J. Donnie Rehmet, Tom
my Stone, Eugene L. Riser II,
and Michael G. Bryan. Senior
class election commission posts
(5)—Dwayne Scarlett, Richard
Kardys, Jerry Stevens, Jack E.
Myers, Edward L. Moreau, James
Halpin and Ribert P. Welsh.
Junior president—Donald L.
Allen, Ronnie Coleman, Fred
May, A1 Allen and Gerald Camp
bell. Vice president — Clarence
Daugherty, Maurice V. Main, L.
Steve Melzer and Darrel A.
Struss. Secretary-treasurer —
Kerry C. Williams and Charles
A. Joyner Jr.
Social secretary — John Daly,
and Carl Feducia. For MSC
representative—Ronald D. Zipp
and Charles P. Stewart.
Junior yell leaders (2)—Dewey
E. Helmcamp II, Michael R.
Beggs, Eldon G. Tipping, Rick
Pazderski, John D. McLeroy,
Jerry A. Ferguson, Neal W.
Rockhold and Loren J. Parsons.
Election commission representa
tives (5)—Howard M. Hensel,
Auston B. Cron, Peter J. Insani,
Robert F. Gonzales, Walter L.
Cloyd and Michael D. Noonan.
Sophomore president—Harry
Roberts, Larry Henry, Russel L.
Bogess, LeRoy W. Edwards Jr.,
Kenneth Hensel and Robert N.
Reinhardt. Vice-president—Rob
ert E. Glazener, Bill Carter,
Roger Engelke, Harvey Cooper,
Scott Spitzer, Robert E. Wareing
Comic Chemist
To Speak Monday
A comic chemist, Professor
Hubert Alyea of Princeton, gives
a free, public lecture at Texas
A&M Monday.
“Lecture Demonstration Tech
niques” by the world-traveled!
“mad scientist” will be presented
by the Department of Chemistry
at 7:30 p.m. in the Chemistry
Lecture Auditorium.
He received his undergraduate
degree at Princeton in 1925 and
after a year at the Nobel Insti
tute in Stockholm returned to
Princeton for his Ph.D. Follow
ing years were spent at a Rocke
feller Foundation Fellow study
ing chemical effects of radium at
the University of Minnesota and
researching gas kinetics at the
Kaiser-Wilhelm Institue in Ber-
lin-Dahlem.
Alyea has been professor of
chemistry at Princeton since. He
served with the Office of Sci
entific Research and Develop
ment in Washington and the
Pacific during the war.
He has lectured in 40 foreign
countries including six months
each at World Fairs in Brus
sels and Seattle.
A Department of Chemistry
open house will precede Alyea’s
lecture from 4-6 p.m. He is to
lunch with Academic Year Insti
tute personnel at A&M.
and James H. Willbanks. Secre
tary-treasurer—Robert J. Foley,
Jerry Keys, Len R. Hamer, Steve
Bourn, G. Allen Eliff Jr. Social
secretary — James A. Mobley,
Richard K. Newman and Jack J.
Jumper. MSC representative —
Thomas A. Luhr, Davis G. Mayes
and Charles H. Rowton. Sopho
more election commission (5) —
Gary L. Davis, Robin Young,
Stephen Collins, Walter Riggs,
Garland Clark, Larry G. Parsons
and Robert Segner.
Further screening of candi
dates to determine their eligi
bility will be done before election
day.
The yell leader race will differ
slightly this year due to a change
in the 1965-66 University Regu
lations that allows the Yell Lead
ers Committee to choose the head
yell leader.
Paragraph d, article 65, states:
“The Yell Leader Committee con
sisting of three University staff
members and two members of the
Student Senate shall be respon
sible for approving candidates for
yell leader positions, as well as
the supervision of yell leaders
and yell practices. The Commit
tee may, at any time, remove yell
leaders from their positions for
cause.”
Sub-paragraph (b) continues:
“The head yell leader shall be
designated by the Yell Leader
Committee.” The Committee is
composed of Bill C. Presnal,
Chairman; Spec Gammon, Uni
versity sports publicity director;
Bill Lancaster, assistant director
of the MSC; John Gay, vice presi
dent of the Student Senate, and
Dan Fischer, chairman of the
Senate Public Relations Com
mittee.
“You could have a situation
where a real good man, a likely
choice, might not receive the
majority of the votes. In that
case, it would be very difficult to
set up a run-off election where
a large number of candidates
might split up the vote with the
result being that the best man
doesn’t get the most votes,”
Presnal explained.
The proportion of classes repre
sented as yell leaders will remain
the same, that is, two juniors and
three seniors. However, the posi
tion of head yell leader would not
necessarily be filled by a Corps
representative.
Religion On Campus
Area Clergymen Divided
Over Recent Developments
By DANI PRESSWOOD
Battalion News Editor
(Editor’s note: The following is
the first of a two-part series
examining the role of area
churches in the life of the Tex
as A&M student.)
Commenting on such timely
topics as the morality of college
students, A&M’s abolition of Re
ligious Emphasis Week and de
accreditation of religion courses,
area clergymen have expressed
differing opinions and a variety
of views.
The trend seems to run in
favor of the previously-employed
Religious Emphasis Week but
not, as you might expect, with
out opposition.
Rev. E. George Becker, of the
University Lutheran Chapel,
feels the abolition w-as wise be
cause “Religious Emphasis Week
w r as never really fair to all
faiths.”
In opposition, Rev: Lloyd Eld
er, of the First Baptist Church
in College Station, favors such
a period “to let each group do
what they wish wdth it.”
“It would leave a helpful spot
for local churches,” he said.
A&M Presbyterian’s Rev. H.
Bruce Fisher commented, “I’m
sorry Religious Emphasis Week
was changed because there are
a lot of advantages to it. I un
derstand it was very affective in
creating an interest.”
Rev. John Frizelle of St. Mary’s
Chapel believes Religious Em
phasis Week could have been
improved had students been
granted time off to attend.
“Students had regular classes
and were probably a little tired,”
he remarked.
Religious Emphasis Week, nor
mally conducted on the A&M
campus, was done away with this
year. In replacement, a program
has been instigated whereby one
speaker each month presents an
address on a religious note.
Concerning the poor turnout
at the new program’s first lec
ture, A&M Church of Christ
minister Thomas J. Seay con
siders it a “communication break
down.”
“You’ve got to actually con
tact the student,” he said, “You
have to make him realize the
need for such a lecture.
“Even if the man is outstand
ing, such as Reagan Brown is you
have got to offer a challenge to
the student to make him come.”
However, Elder expressed no
surprise at the poor showing.
“We had about 50 at the Bap
tist Student Union the other
night to hear a lecture,” he not
ed. “This indicates that some
times if you spread your target
you won’t hit anything.”
Ministers were relatively even
ly split on the subject of religious
importance to today’s typical col
lege student.
“As a casual observer,” Fri
zelle commented, “it seems to me
there is a definite decline of re
ligious emphasis on the part of
the college student. He is liv
ing in disturbed times, and these
disturbances have reverberated
down to him.
“He seems to be pampered
more,” he continued. “There has
been a breakdown in family life,
that is, a lack of discipline at
home and, as a result, a lack of
self-discipline later in life.”
Expressing a differing view,
Seay termed his outlook “opti
mistic.”
“Morally, there is no better
strata in our society than the col
lege student,” he opined. “To
day’s student is demanding reali
ty instead of hypocrisy; he wants
more than just talk.”
In regard to A&M’s action of
taking away credits previously
granted for religious courses,
Frizelle was the most outspoken
objector.
“Since A&M has taken away
acceditation I’m lucky if I have
12 students,” he said. “Most stu
dents won’t take these courses
now because his day is pretty
well filled with credit courses.”
Some ministers believe this de
accreditation “hurts the school’s
image.”
However, Becker feels the ad
ministration made a wise decision
because “some of the teaching
wasn’t done on an objective bas
is.”
He and Fisher consider the
Dept, of Philosophy a more de
sirable substitute.
(Tomorrow: Programs and
activities directed toward the
students)