Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1966
Number 305
Davis Named Corps Commander
Beene Selected
New Deputy Chief
SCHADE
MILLER
ESQUIVEL
Corps Housing Setup
To Remain Unchanged
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Editor
The Corps of Cadets will con
tinue to be housed in both the
Duncan and Sbisa Dining Hall
areas next year, A&M President
Earl Rudder told about 75 stu
dent leaders Wednesday night.
Rudder named Corps Com
mander Ralph B. Filburn, deputy
commander John Gay, and newly-
appointed commander and deputy
Eddie Joe Davis and Robert
Beene to decide with Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan, Col.
D. L. Baker and Col. Raymond
C. Lee which cadet outfits will
be housed in the Sbisa area.
The president said present
plans call for completion of air-
conditioning and renovation pro
jects in the Duncan area by the
fall of 1967. Until then, he add
ed, air-conditioned rooms must be
made available for cadets desir
ing them.
Results of a poll conducted by
unit first sergeants last week re
vealed that 1,184 cadets preferred
to live in the Duncan area, with
257 choosing the new and reno
vated dorms.
Several students present said
single-area housing for the Corps
Singing Cadets
Face Busy Slate
The Singing Cadets face a
whirlwind closing schedule for
the spring semester.
The 55-member glee club sings
at 3 p.m. Friday for an assembly
program at Caldwell High
School. Then it’s back to A&M
Friday night to perform for the
Sul Ross Group Banquet.
The A&M Federation of Moth
ers’ Clubs will then hear the
Cadets May 7.
Five days later, the group will
present a program for a finan
cial management conference at
the Ramada Inn.
Friday the 13th holds no fears:
for the Singing Cadets. That’s
the date for their annual free
public concert at Guion Hall. The
family show is scheduled at 8
p.m.
The following day is reserved
for the Singing Cadets’ Picnic
at Hensel Park. An awards ban
quet and dance is slated in the
evening at the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Director Robert L. Boone an
nounced the Cadets will record
an album of show tunes before
disbanding for the summer.
would enhance unity and reduce
Corps-civilian friction that re
ceived blame for last week’s
Sbisa water fight. Others be
lieved cadets deserved housing
choices — air-conditioned or not
— that presently prevail.
“If we’re paying the bill,” said
Larry Heitman, sergeant major
Sul Ross Group
To Induct Class
Of 1916 Friday
The Class of 1916 will be in
ducted into the Sul Ross group
here Friday.
Approximately 275 persons, in
cluding wives of class members,
are expected to represent classes
from 1896 through 1916, Mrs.
Willie M. Sheperd, class secretary
for the Association of Former
Students, said.
The 1916 Class, totaling about
75, and their wives will observe
its 50th anniversary with a dinner
Thursday night at the Memorial
Student Center. Development Di
rector Dorsey E. McCrory will
speak.
Initiation of new Sul Ross
memlbers is set for 2 p.m. Friday.
A tea is scheduled concurrently to
honor wives of new members.
The Sul Ross Banquet is sche
duled at 6:45 p.m. Friday in
the MSC, with the Class of 1916
as honored guests. A&M Pres
ident Earl Rudder will present
Golden Circle certificates to new
members. Richard L. (Buck)
Weirus, executive secretary of
the Association of Former Stu
dents, will speak.
A performance by the Singing
Cadets will precede the dinner.
An 8 p.m. Saturday breakfast
will conclude the reunion.
T. L. Smith Jr. of Houston
heads the Sul Ross Class. Joe
Mogfold of College Station is
local chairman for the 1916 Class
Reunion.
of First Brigade, “I think we
should have the say whera we
live. It seems to me the majority
want to live in the Duncan area
I feel we can have a better Corps
of Cadets when it lives as a
unit.”
“I’ve noticed a lack of com
munications (in the Sbisa Area),”
Bob Lackland, first sergeant of
Company A-l, commented.
Cyril Statum of Squadron 3
asked if non air-conditioned hous
ing could “go along as a pack
age deal with the non-compulsory
Corps.”
“The administration would
have difficulties denying air-con
ditioned rooms to students be
cause they are in the Corps,”
Rudder answered.
“To keep our Corps alive,” said
Troy Myers, first sergeant of
Squadron 12, “we need to offer
the freshmen optimum choices. If
we can give them the choice of
either area, it would be to our
advantage to do so.”
Warren Smith, first sergeant
of Company D-2, said he had
lived in the Sbisa area and had
not encountered any serious dif
ficulties with communications.
Rudder also informed the stu
dents of the Executive Commit
tee’s latest action on political
clubs.
“We don’t feel that political
clubs belong on anybody’s cam
pus, especially this one,” Rudder
said. “In order that we can
study politics, our history and
government department has
agreed to sponsor a political for
um where they may bring in
speakers from various parties.
The entire executive committee
believes in people participating
in political parties. If you want
a political education, I’ll get you
some money and we’ll bring in
the best politicians available.”
The committee’s recommenda
tions concerning a political forum
organization should be given to
Student Senate President Roland
Smith early next week, Rudder
noted.
Eddie Joe Davis, a junior agri
cultural journalism major from
Henrietta, was selected Wednes
day as Corps Commander for the
1966-67 school term.
Other major commanders an
nounced by Corps Commandant
Col. D. L. Baker include Robert
A. Beene, Deputy Corps Com
mander; Harold C. Schade, First
Brigade Commander; Robert M.
Miller, Second Brigade Command
er, and Arturo Esquivel, Air
Division Commander.
Baker said new Battalion and
Wing Commanders may be an
nounced by Friday while appoint
ment of unit commanders will
follow soon after, possibly next
week.
Davis, first sergeant of Com
pany C-l, has been a member of
the Student Senate for two years
and is co-managing editor of The
Agriculturist.
He is a member of Alpha Zeta,
honorary agricultural society, and
was recently named outstanding
junior in the College of Agri
culture. He also is a member of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalism society.
Beene, junior electrical engi
neering major from Joshua, is a
member of the Ross Volunteers
firing squad and Corps Staff.
He is also a member of Cadet
Court, Phi Eta Sigma honor so
ciety and is chairman of the
Public Relations Committee of
the MSC Council.
Schade is a junior journalism
major from San Antonio and a
member of the RV firing squad.
He is also a member of Town Hall
Staff and the MSC Public Rela
tions Committee.
He also holds membership in
Tau Beta Bi and Eta Kappa Nu
engineering societies and has
been awarder an Air Force
ROTC scholarship.
Miller, operations sergeant on
Second Brigade Staff, is a junior
English major from Colorado
Springs, Colo. He is a recipient
Council Banquet
Slated Tonight
New officers will be installed
and outgoing members honored at
the Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate Banquet
tonight.
The Thomas H. Rountree
Award will go to the outstanding
member. Fourteen Distinguish
ed Service Awards and 23 Appre
ciation Awards also will be made
to members and faculty advisors.
President John Rodgers will
review the 1965-66 program and
Steve Gummer will take the gavel
as 1966-67 president.
Thomas Rountree, Class of ’52,
was killed in an auto accident in
1955. At A&M, he was a direct
orate member and chairman of
the Dance and House Committees.
He is credited with greatly im
proving cultural and recreational
programs.
Deadline Monday
For Senate Filing
Filing will remain open until
Monday for 18 college represent
atives to the Student Senate, ac
cording to Election Commission
Chairman Harris Pappas.
Positions open for filing in
clude sophomore, junior and sen
ior representatives to the Col
leges of Veterinary Medicine,
Engineering, Geosciences, Sci
ence, Liberal Arts and Agricul
ture.
A grade point ratio of 1.25
is required.
The election is set for May 12,
with no runoff scheduled.
AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE OPENS
of an Army ROTC scholarship
and is a member of the Ross Vol
unteers. He is also a member of
the student Liberal Arts Coun
cil and Sigma Tau Delta, the
English society.
A junior business management
major from Eagle Pass, Esqui
vel is sergeant major of the First
Wing and a member of the Ross
Volunteers. He is also SCONA
XII Program Committee chair
man and chairman of the Town
Hall Finance Committee.
DAVIS
BEENE
Noted Law Authority Says
War Preparation Paradox
By ROBERT SOLOVEY
Battalion Staff Writer
“There has never been a period
before where countries have been
preparing for war more vigor
ously than now,” Dr. Quincy
Wright, author and authority on
international relations, said Wed
nesday.
In the last of the University
Lectures, Wright said it is a
parodox that countries consider
war both obsolete and mutual
suicide with atomic weapons.
A visiting professor at Rice
University, Wright discussed
“Foreign Policy in the Atomic
Age.”
He said in the past countries
felt in order to serve national
interests, a power position must
be maintained to insure sov
ereignty.
Many feel the struggle for
power is the only type of policy
which can exist, he added.
He described the world today
as:
—A shrinking world — where
there have been great advance
ments in science, transportation
and communication to facilitate
the rapid movement of people
and goods.
—A dangerous world — where
advancements have created new
dangers and where with atomic
power and weapons there is no
distance too far and no place safe
to hide.
—An interdependent world—
where countries are extremely
dependent on each other through
imports and exports, and where
the need for trade will surpass
political considerations.
—An accelerating world —
where changes take place faster
and faster and within less time.
It’s like a mathematical progres
sion where fewer and fewer years
are needed for the same amount
of progress.
He then noted three revolu
tions which had taken place in
this century.
1. The Communist revolution
—Russia changed her govern
ment and with it established new
values and presents a new ideolo
gy-
2. The colonial revolution —
The empires of Spain, France
and England have given way to
new, free nations, especially in
Africa and Asia.
3. The democratic revolution
—Most nations of the world
aspire to establish a democratic
style of government, and this
goal constantly influences for
eign relations.
★ ★ ★
Wright Expresses Opinions
On International Affairs
The Aggie Blood Drive began Wednesday
with 269 pints collected in the basement of
the Memorial Student Center. Shown pro
cessing donations are, from left, Guy Mark,
member of Alpha Phi Omega; Paul Jones
from the Wadley Research Foundation in
Dallas, and James Morris, chairman of the
Student Senate Welfare Committee. The
blood drive closes today, and officials are
predicting the goal of 550 pints will be
reached.
Dr. Quincy Wright conducted
an informal press conference
Wednesday, covering a wide
range of foreign affairs.
Following are excerpts from
his remarks on the major sub
jects :
VIET NAM: “I agree with
Robert Kennedy—to have a viable
form of government, a coalition
of Buddhists, Catholics, and Viet-
cong would have to be formed . . .
Ho Chi Minh thinks he was sold
down the river when the French
tried to recolonize Indo-China,
and again when the Geneva con
ference divided Viet Nam. He’s
probably afraid of being sold
down the river again at the con
ference table.”
RECOGNITION OF RED
CHINA: “From any rational
point of view, Mao is the ruler
of China. As the late John Foster
Dulles wrote, before he became
secretary of state, ‘The govern
ment that governs is the govern
ment’.”
RHODESIA: “Rhodesian
Prime Minister Ian Smith seems
very confident that he’ll win out.
So is Prime Minister Wilson. I’m
very interested to see how it turns
out.”
EASTERN EUROPE: “The
predominant attitude in Eastern
Europe is one of nationalism.
The satellites are moving farther
and farther away from allegiance
to the Soviet Union.”
THE DOMINICAN REPUB
LIC: “The thing to do is hope
for a fair election and get out.
... If we could get a force from
the Organization of American
States into the Dominican Re
public, it would improve matters
First Bank & Trust now pays
414% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
considerably. . . . Our interven
tion there is creating a bad repu
tation for the U. S. and aiding
Communist propaganda claims
about ‘Yankee Imperialism’.”
INDIA: “India, like many other
undeveloped countries, might
seem to be moving toward Com
munism in its economic policies.
What we fail to understand is
that these nations care little
about the ideological side; all
they want is a way to boost their
economy, and Communism looks
good to them.”
“Today there is a greater in
terest among students and the
general public in foreign policy,
and increasing influence by in
ternational organizations and
public opinion,” Wright said.
He added there is also a very
important change in internation
al law, where war is outlawed
except in defense.
There is also recognition that
the individual is a subject of
international law and, in princi
ple, individuals have rights which
ought to be protected — although
this hasn’t been very successful.
He said the objectivity which
science demands does not exist
in the images nations have for
each other and forming their in
ternational policies.
This century has brought new
and widespread frustration and
anxiety toward the future, he
added.
Frequent revolutions have
pointed out there is also a lack
of stability in government, and
Wright believes there can be no
cessation in the arms race until
political problems and the areas
of tension and conflict can be
relaxed.
He also believes the efforts
made to improve the economic
conditions of the poorer coun
tries is essential, but political
considerations and playing one
power off against the other
should cease.
Wright said an answer to a
world which is neither dominated
by one power nor many different
countries in constant conflict
would be a world where there is
mutual respect and a maintain-
ence of peace through the princi
ples of law and a strong interna
tional peace-keeping force such
as the United Nations.
One of the biggest problems is
civil strife. Wright believes out
side powers should be prevented
from intervening in civil conflict
and that a cease fire should be
initiated and maintained by the
United Nations.
“We don’t understand the world
we live in, nor have we adapted
our thinking or institutions to
this new age,” he said.
WRIGHT DELIVERS LECTURE
law expert speaks on atomic age policy.